row passengers had “seen the ele I teenth street, opposite Willard’s J. II. PAYNE. phant,” and armed with tickets for THE BAD BOY jury that will bring tears to their j Hotel, and but a few rods from Penn- Victoria, Portland or San Francisco, , . „ eyes and they will clear the murderer, I sylvania avenue. I passed many B«t»”» I , ot »!>• Norlbwe»t®rn Arcbl- retnrnea by the same steamer that Unci® Eera’ll Visit—The Boy Instructed kueer, ain’t it? And say, how is it ■l” S""*.H»rr‘»b“r« “nd I»«“1“«” - ? Ple«u*ant hours with him in this room, brought them. They were thorough Ilia Fattier Nut to Flay Jokes on at we send missionaries to Burmah, ■pjl»«“- cliU Government. I .whe™ 1 was not only entertained by by ly disgusted. Others more timid .»uni.. .. w',ui,iL mP°* ‘ convert them from heathenism, I his delightful conversation, but fre His I ncle. Is J ■ >«el »• “ al the same vessel that takes the never gave up their state-rooms; while quentlv by an examination of his rare others still would gladly have clung Late in the afternoon of June 9th, treasures of literature and art. the ^vionaries there carries from Bos- T' June 3, 1883. ' m J I I The course C hilka of the average ocean to the boat until she had borne them the dust of John Howard Payne, the chief of which were a volume of let­ “ I hear yout Uncle Ezra is here on toL. cargo of tin gods to Bell to the a risit,” said the grocery man to the he^en* Why wouldn’t it l>e better oct of the country forever, but, alas, I nner on th® “inland passage” to they were “dead broke,” and must I author of “Home, Sweet Home,” was ters addressed to him by the noted bai boy. “I suppose you have been to BM the missionaries to Boston? men and women whose acquaintances I? \a is abont as crooked as tbe stay awhile longer at all hazards. laid away in its final resting-place in he had formed many years before, a havtig a high old time. There is 1 tbfc til© inoic a boy learns the gets mixed.” fastidious could wish For in- •ftyi; •»» OTHER MINES. a vault in Oak Hill Cemetery. Above large album enriched by original nothng that does a boy more good “ "1, how’s your theatre? Have ’“‘in*; 1 e we called at Victoria for ship’s sketches from Allston, Leslie. Hayden, home of our gold hunters pushed the vault stands an appropriate mon than ti have a nice visit with a good 8ny °khe great actors supported Fn and for discharge of freight, on for the Chilcat country, landiug in ument, surmounted by an excellent West and other famous painters of uncle, »nd hear him tell about old you later* Haid the grocery man, to tnc detained thus for twelve hours. Pyramid Harbor and packing across marble bust of the poet. The spot their times, together with many au­ times wben he and the boy’s father change l, subject. tograph letters, including several portage to the interior. In about “No, w are a]j on vacations. reu\e steamed up the gulf of the from Charles Lamb. In the volume were boy» together.” thirty miles they reach the Yukon where the monument has been placed________________ Booth amBaj-rpff, and ]ots of the Who Iwrgi« directly on our Way f°r n'Di" tributaries. Some good prospects | is the most beautiful in the cemetery. I were also letters from Washington “Well 1 don’t know about it,’’ said stars, are one fo Europe, and the r to Nanaimo, where we coaled have been found in the interior, I am It is in the midst of a magnificent' Ifving. Thomas Moore, Talma, the the boy, at he took a stick of macaroni rest work )wn ]ess high-toned [Jer difficulties from th« great told, but nothing seems to last. Mines] grove of oak tn«. It is an interest I John Philip Kem- and begaL to blow paper wads places. So«, of the theatre girls , . ,, L , | ble, Edmund Lean, Geo. Crolly, suddenly “ pinch out ” or wash out. le through it at a woodsawyer who was are waiter» aj Summor resorts, Langton mines. Across the little "»111 J Some good claims which for two ing fa«t that forty years ago, when he • \ya]ter Scott, Lord Byron, Percy Kepartnre Bay, little more than a years were known to pay |60 per day was living here, this grove of oaks ' Bysshe and Mary Shelley Curran, filing a saw cutside the door. “When and lots ar yjgiting. relatives on a boy who hie been tough has got farms. I tel.yQn ¡j makes a differ­ Ltol shot from the chute of the to the man are now entirely aban­ and the high bluff overlooking the i Daniel O’Connell and many others his pins all s»t to reform, I don’t ence whether relatives are visit * fall J S’,1, Wellington mine, we observed doned. There are also said to be deep valley of Rock Creek was the whose names have pawed from my think it does him any good to have a ing you or yi are visiting them. t M>I J Firoun of deserted . , T. .. ¡memory. Jadging from the teuor of real nice uncle come to the house Actors and acug8e8 and weather some good prospects on Admiralty r.,.’ -x awfully a onte resort of Payne. It was his i these letters, Mr Pay ne was Lten cabins on the point of tho Island, but on the whole I am con­ delight visiting, Anywtv, that’s my expe when an old ginger comes to the to take his intimate friends to I Lautiful li‘tla New Ccstl° inland, vinced that the mining outlook in this spot, and, lying beneath these rience. I have backslid ___ the __ worst town where the. are playing and ’ IN UIOH ESTEEM thence was quarried the fine build- this part of our great Northwest Ter­ splendid trees, he used to break forth ! By the IIELI distinguished writers. Mr. way, and it’s geing to take me a wants to see them.phey are ashamed | , stone for the San Francisco ritory is not such as to encourage any into enthusiastic praise of the pic. Payne sought but little society at this month, after Uncle Ezra goes away, of his homespun ethos and cowhide fcranchMint. Putting off from this great rush. Indeed, 1 am inclined to turesque and attractive scenery snr time, but on the contrary, seemed to to climb up to the jrace that I ____ have boots, and they walto meet him out i tho* Lme point of land is the wreck of a utter a kindly word of warning to rounding him. This was many years shrink from observation, and confined fallen from. It is darn discouraging, in an alley some\ere, or in the r,r beaching back into the bluff and young men of small means against before the oak grove became Oak Hill | bis visits to a few chosen friends. He said the boy as he lcoked up to the basement of the thea,., 8O the other losing itself in the cloud of smoke coining to Alaska for any business Cemetery. was much in the society of Win. W. ceiling in an innocent sort of way, actors will not laugh t their rough Lhich dav and night lingers in eddies just yet. For men of ample means The pageantry of the funeral cor Corcoran, who saw and admired him and hid the macaroni under his coat, relatives, but when thh„aKon is over, [ver tbe same spot There, we are and energy there are no doubt some tege and ceremonies of the occasion as an actor many years before, and when the wood sawyer,who had been an actor who can remei,er a relative ‘<«14, t,]d was the famous New Castle coal fortunes up here, but under the most were a tribute to the genius of John whose name is now so honorably and hit in the neck, dropped his saw and out on a farm is tickleorfc aDlj / iiiM I md corridors with death, and thus questionably rich in fish and furs. columns, and a distinguished follow­ where he was always a welcome guest when they get away from home. Does things and “support” the at,)r ^jy Uncle Ezra is pretty roug, anj it shutting down one of the finest coal »doujl ing of notable men, representing all Mr. Corcoran often met him on these he drink?” Quines on the coast. But I am imi-. HOW ALCOHOL AFFECTS THE HEART. honorable walks of life, the funeral occasions, and now relates with evident “No. he don’t drink, but as near as makes me tired sometimes wtn j am Itating the digressions of our steamer. ] Dr. N. B. Richardson, of London, ' procession passed through the streets pleasure many interesting incidents I can figure it he and pa were about down town with him to have jm gO rough troiu Nanaimo we returned over the I the noted physician, says he was re­ of the national capital to the silent of his life at this period. One day the worst pills in the box when they into a store where there are girrierka tame course by which we came from I cently able to convey a considerable resting place of the dead. All the last Autumn, as Mr. Corcoran was were young. I don't want you to re­ and ask what things are for hat I [Victoria, to Port Townsend. This] amount of conviction to an intelli­ pomp and circumstance of human slowly riding by the Ebbitt House, peat it, but when pa and ma were know he don’t want, and maf the voider, doubling on our course cost us nearly gent scholar by a simple experiment. grandeur contributed to this final his eai was suddenly greeted by the married they eloped. Yes, sir, astu girls (blush,- but he is a good-hcrted ;o cub two hundred miles extra travel, and a ! The scholar was singing the praises honor . paid by . the living to the dead. music of "Howe, Sweet Home,’’ which ally ran away, and defied their par­ old man, and he and me are goi^ to kery annoying delay. Packed with of the “ruddy bumper,” and saying I The Government was represented by the Marine baud was playing in honor ents, and they had to hide about a make a mint of money during \ca. . Mfr peight, we left Port Townsend at he could not get through the day j its chief executive end his council of of Lieut. Melville of the ill-fated week for fear ma’s father would fill tion. He lives near a Summer rqjrt Lidnight, and in the forenoon of the without it, when Dr. Richardson said I constitutional advisers, by the United Arctic steamer Jeannette, who had pa so full of cold lead that he would hotel, and has a stream that is fulof ud, but start i wants. He should do all in his knowledged tbat this was perfectly the District of Columbia, and many . HARRISBURG AND ITS MINES. r to j, other8 tbrougb tbe would fall down at 2 a . m . the first ling All day yesterdayshe was sing true. He began to reckon up those At Harrisburg many of’ our pas- figures, and found what it meant lift­ other distinguished persons. troubles of this life, and should never night, and then I retired At two lag, and, when attemping to speak, All along the whole course the can(je othprs to fiafler in orJer tbat o’clock I heard the awfullest noise in her words would followthe tune, or I sengers found their destination, at ing up an ounce so many thousand m BUCCee» I climbing through the dripping, mos­ just to take the opposite side of the procession were Rev. Mr. Lequerand If tbe ¿¡ngy work shop. He is not spare room, and be said no, that pa other in almost a scream. A convulsive flinging about of the sy, muddy town, we found the whole question into consideration and see wife of Bedford Station, Ni Ythe asbame<( of honestlabor,whichisal- and ma was in there and he slept in a latter being a niece of layne; Mr. O. way8 benebcjai to man, even in the their room. Then we went in the hands and arms is another symptom, of it mapped off in mining claims, how the two positions fit together. N. Payne of Brooklyn, who was ac -( bi Jbe8t rallks of life. Wb,,re Can spare room, and you’d a dide to see and in this she manifests surprising while through the centre a sluice was A companied by Gabnal Harrison, an bnj a healthful and honest pa. Ma had jumped out when the strength. The action, like her words. running full ot muddy water. Some HE DIDN’T LIKE IT. intimate friend of Payne, and author occu fion than in the corn and slats first fell, and was putting her Booms to be entirely involuntary, of the miners gave uh good reports k - r- — — • ■ how many are hair up in curl papers when we got hardly ever being under her control. One of our acquaintances from the of a book of reminiscences; another grainfield? from their diggings, but there was Yet, what at first seemed to us a puzzling Del Valle settlement does not come intimate friend, Mr Joseph De Sha there that shun such lalxir as the in, but pa was all tangled up in the She frequently slaps the faces a’ her reticence and half-lieartedness about to Austin very often, but not long Pickett of Frankfort, Kv., was also deer shuns the viper! They say it is springe and things. His head had attendants, and has manifested a dis down firBt, and the mattiess and position to bite her near relatives, sven the best reports, by which the since he attended a theatrical per­ present. degrading, because one canDot wear gone L quilts rolled over on him, and he was though not in a violent wanner. formance for the second time in his THE MONUMENT. hurrying stranger would be easily good clothes, and cannot associate in d almost smothered, and we had to take When spoken to, it is evident-hat she u deceived. But if you could get into life. He was very indignant next Before the procession reached Oak the highest circles of society. In fact, the bedstead down to get him out, understands clearly all that is said; day, and we asked him what was the the confidence of one of these same I. | Hill, the holders of tickets had be- they are ashamed of the hard hands, men. you would readily have solved “ “I’D never go to another theatre as I ^n’to^rrive and take their positions seared with services more honorable the way you have to unharness a but it is only with the utmist effort when he runs away and falls that she can make even a slort intel k the whole puzzle, and you would be those of war; ashamed of their horse as I live’’ : on tbe platform> which had been than down, before yon can get him up. l*a ligible answer. prepared better to estimate the 1 no- soiled and weather-stained garments, ••\Vhy, what's occurred to prejudice built around the monument, a shaft mad, but Uncle Ezra laughed at The case is a very siigular one, miner's confidence in his mines. I you against the theatre?” which Mother Nature has em­ was of white marble, surmounted by a upon him, and told him that he was only and it seems to be the elimination of found the absence of civil govern­ broidered, mid sun and rain, mid fire •‘Well, I liked the first act first bust one-half larger than life s.ze, and steam, her own heraldic honors. foundered, and all he wanted wrb a a series of low nervous troubles. It ment a serious barrier to all the mash and some horse liniment is allied to chorea, onty in this in­ but when it was nearly through ] supported on a base of soln gray mining and industrial interests of rate, who is ashamed of all these to­ bran 1 read on the plav bill that the next granite six feet square. The height He and he would come out all right. stance the loss of coitrol is chiefly Alaska. Men, as a rule, are a little act kens and titles is not an honest man, take ¿lace in New York, of the monument is fourteen feet and I for he despises honesty, which is one Uncle Ezra went out in the hall manifested in the vodd organs. Her afraid to say ¿hey have a good mine and would I just up and left. Do the its general design is Roman of a . of the virtues of true labor. The to get a pail of water to throw sleep is fitful and seldom exceeds or a good business of any kind, lest fools think I got going to New York , pure classical type. The inscriptions on pa, ’cause he said pa was twenty minutes in itiration, while the some adventurer in the absence of to hear them am laborer is honest and manly afire, spout when I need all: and designs on the shaft are simply ■ true when pa asked me why in ailment of her th-oat precludes the human law, and regardless of all the money I can with his fellow-beings; he opens his rake and scrape for . On the front is the following lirief bn | purse to the needy; he pities those blazes I didn't fix the other lied slats, taking of anythin/ but liquid food. higher human law, should dispute other things? They played pretty I sufficient inscription: John Howard who need pity; he is kind and chari and I told him I didn't know as they I The case is und»r the treatment of their right by superior force, cunning ranch that ^ame game on ¿e down at | Payne, author J‘Home Sweet Home i were going to change beds, and then | Dr. Robert H. Pirter, the well-known or downright meaness, and thus in­ 1 a « it-« v-«Uv.u T huil Born June 9, 1792; died April 10, table to all; he seeks not after vanity; said don’t let it occur again. Pa nervous sjiecialst, who pronounces it directly rob prospectors of all they SSdv'paid my admission when I 1852.” On the back is the inscription j he lalxirs not for himself alone, but pa everything to me. He is the one of the tnoit remarkable he has have found or can hope to find. I found out by the playbill that th« which was on the tombstone that for the benefit of mankind; nor does lays most changeable I ever saw. He over met in the course of a long was shown what I am convinced is a last act came off ten years afterward, ■ marked his grave in Tunis. It is as he labor because he must, but be­ told me to do man everything practice. cause he wishes to enjoy an energetic Ezra wanted me to do, and Uncle valuable quartz mine, one of the lar­ then, when I kicked they refused to follows: gest in the world, I was assured, and and healthful life. — [Pittsburgh when I helped Uncle Ezra to play a nav me mv money back, and fired I “Sure, when thy gentle spirit fled which would long ago have been fully pay j Traveler. .<,.77. J To renlms above the azure dome, Let not y>ur thought of yesterday 1 joke on pa, he was mad. Say, I don’t ------------------ » !♦» «-------------------- With arms outstretched, God’s angel said, developed but for this uncertainty. I me out. —[blltings. bind yor.r tnonght of to dav. Life is think this world is| run right, ------- -*•*■■; ----- 7 _ ,| 'Welcome to Heaven ’ s home, sweet home. ’ ” As it is the proprietors are simply The modern postage stamp was do you? I haven’t got much time to always a development, and the con- holding it and waiting tho dawn of ; A Texas paper tells this cheerful ■ REMINISCENCES. used in England about the year 1842 to you to day. 'cause Uncle Ezra | sistency of life is the bravest, trust the light of civil government. But | tale of the experimental school of i Charles H. Brainard of this city. I or 1843. In 1845 E. A. Mitchell, then talk and me are going fishing, but don’t it I voice yon can utter to day without i medicine: “ A woman came to a [ >n spite of all their rights and their who was an intimate fiiend of Payne, i Postmaster of New Haven, taking strike you that it is queer that parents 1 going back to measure yourself, to prominent physician and asked for a vigilance, large sums have been taken contributes to-day to the Star many I advantage of the English idea, made 1 bov» for what they did them [ see if you measure monotonous, from the “placers” that cover the I remedy for her husband’s rhetima ! interesting reminiscences of the poet. | use of a postage stamp of his own, | trounce selves. Now, I have got a friend 1 square trimmed uprightness to the tism. The doctor gave her a pre lock above, while hundreds of thou­ which he continued to use nntil 1847, whose father is a lawyer. That law eye of some looker on. A tree does Among other things Mr. Brainard scription and said: ’ Get that pre sands of dollars, I was assured by | says during his last sojourn in W ash when the Government of the United would warm his boy if be should not grow backwasd to measure its the Superintendent of the mine, have pared at the drug store, and rub it ington, which covered a period of States issued the first American i 1 yer tell a lie, or associate with anybody ' growth of to day with the growth of i well over your husband ’ s back. If it ■ been wasted through careless and postage stamp. more than a year, Mr. Payne received that was bad, and vet the lawyer will i yesterday. It simply presses on to- slovenly mining by those who have does any* good, come and let me | much attention and kindness from ] __ _ of j ward the stars, and its outcome is defend a _ man __ he knows _ is guilty no right to a foot of it. Miners are know, I've got a touch of rheuma I his old friends and from many others “I haf only von brice for ray goods,” j stealing, and get him clear and take symmetrical, and proves that it was tism myself.' ” . — _______ • __________ » v • > a • I » —A — — a * x a . a — * 1■ A I. *.^1. . vv 4 now scraping up the “tailings” on whose knowledge of his early history | 1 said one of the “clodink” merchants the money he got from the thief, who i consistent with^ itself thriitlghont. the beach hundreds of feet below the I to a customer, the other day, and stole it, to buy the same boy a new And such must be the growth of our The stables of Jesse Holbert, near , and eventful life made him an object ■ claim, and washing out in rockers to wear to church, and he will thought, of onr character, if it would of more than ordinary interest. He then in an aside to his head clerk he coat Goshen. N. Y , were burned and V • 1 a man _ __ who 1 committed ... «AA 1 mnr _ I a take _L_ — upon — ¡A it AV.A good wages. By the time we were the rviawi giant vmiivhi might rtf of ♦no the lodged in a small but comfortable . added, with a wink, “and dot vas te defend ready to leave Harrrisburg at mid- forty-four valuable cows and two and we!l-furT.i«L‘ d .•oom in Four- [ , brace he is willing to gif.” der, and make an argument to the oak. | Williamsport Gnt night. many of our gold-hunting fel horses perished. ■TRIP ALASKA.