> Deuoceatic:Allatcmin Bellefonte, Pa, December 19, 1890. THEY VOTED STRAIGHT IN KANSAS. What Mary Meant When She Said “Rats” te John. Kansas, NOVEMBER, 5, 1890. (“The Women Did It.”—JoHN SHERMAN.) Twas one of them “fool farmers ;’* yes, I'll own it like a man ; ‘There was plenty of us fashioned on the same eculiar plan ; And I’ve lived out here in Kansas more than five and twenty years, y A growin’ poor and poorer as it certainly ap- pears. 1 seldom read the papers; I worked too hard for that ; : And never knew why I got lean while other men got fat ; I didn’t fool with polities; I had too much to o ’ But I always voted as Ishot and as they told me to. The day before election, jest imagine my dis- tress When I ketched my wife areadin’—now, whatever would you guess ?— A free trade publication, and, to make it worse she said She'd read it regular each night before she went to bed. And, do you know, that wife of mine jest faced me up and down That farmers slave to make a few monopolists in town? I always try te get around these warm domes- tic spats, But when I praised Rrosegiion, she laughed and answered “Rats,” 1 bristled oF ; it kindled all the sentiments of strife : To think this free trade stuff should be cor- ruptie’ of my wife. I quit herithen and there before her argument was through, As every good protectionist makes ite rule to 0. That night we had a camp-fire and our con- gressman was there ; We gave him “John Brown’s Body” when he went to take the chair ; I wore my old blue uni.orm to spite the Dem- ocruts, But all the time I wondered what my Mary meant by “Rats.” Our congressman was eloquent, he made a stirrin’ speech ; I could dlmost see the battle smeke and hear the bullets screech ; And when he bade us vote as we had shot at Malvern Hill, We rose with one accord and cried with one acclaim, “We will.’ We sang the good old war songs and we ate a mess 0’ beans, And we passed the evenin’ pleasantly, recallin’ bloedy scenes; And we took ihe straightout tickets and we Gg em on our hats, Butall the time I wondered what my Mary meant by “Rats.” When I reached home I noticed that my Mary wore a smile, Which seemed to me as indieatin’ storms ahead or bile ; . To head her off I said: “You'll call me early mother dear, For to morrer’l be the liveliest day free trade will have this year. Next mornin’ jest at sun up, :es I woke and rubbed my eyes, A wonderin’ what she meant by “Rats,” I saw to my surprise My clothes and hat and boots all ranged in order en the floor, And bearin’ each a card I'd swear I never saw before. My flannel shirt displayed this sign : “Taxed 95 per eent :’’ My trousers “Taxed 100”—so this was what “Rats” meant . My vest said “Taxed 100,” and my shoes “Paxed 25: My coat and hat “200,” with “Protection makes us thrive.” I went to :fill the basin and I noticed as 1 came, “Taxed 45 per cent’—Great Sectt! the towel said the same. The soap was marked at “20 ;” as. dropped it on the floor, I chanced to see a scuttle full of coals, chalk- ed “24.” I passed into the kitchen and it gives me pain to state That my wife had on a woolen dress stamped “only 58: And in shooing out a guinea hen she made a little dive Which showed a pair of stockings with a card marked “35° The baby in hislittle bed was lyin’ fast asleep : I always held the little chap as most uncom- mon cheap; But when I saw them cards on blanket, pillow, crib and sheet, I felt a lumprise in my throat ; I knew that was beat. ! No matter where I went I struck them pesky little signs ; The stove, the plates, the knives, the forks, the window sash aud blinds, The seissors, needles, thread, all&ore that terrible per cent ; Bigosh,T didn’t dave te ask what card was on the rent. That was the soberest meal I ever a te in all my life ; And as I left the table, in remarkin’ to my wife That I was goin’to the polls, she helped me with my coat, And said : “I reckon, John, [ needn't tell you how te wote.” [walked down to my votin’ place; it looked like every yard “ Was full of farmin’ implements which bore a little eard, And seemed:to say from. plaugh to spade, from thresher.down to axe: “Good mornin’, John, and don't forget the tariff is a tax.” I voted straight—0, yes ne <oubt of that; I voted straight, But not exaetly in the way expected of my | State ; And 1 showed the boys the little cards provid- ed by my wife ; —That night eur congressman took formal | leave of publie life. I was one of them “fool farmers” durin’ five and twenty years ; But I've learned a little commen-sense, as doubtless now appears. : You can run and tell McKinley, and say— don’t forget to state That we've voted out in Kansas, we've voted darned near straight ! —Kansas City Star, A Bigamist Bird. A Scranton man who gives his atten- tion to raising pigeons suys that the only bigamist he has ever seen among pigeons is a male now owned by him. During the breeding season the bigamist maintained two separate wives and households, devoting just about as much attention to one as to the other. He helped raise the broods of each female, and his affection tor each was equal. The double duty kept him very busy, but he seemed to take pride in having so much responsibility. —————— ——More than one-fifth of the land ot the world has no outlet for drainage to the sea, and in all that area evapora- tion is greater than precipitation. —— ——A. Mussachusetts lady, who has re- cently died, left a bequest of $50,000 to the Society for the Prevention of Cruel- ty to Children in her State. -christian age. ORATION. Delivered by Rev. Dr. R. A. McKinley at the Unveiling of the Clara Price Monument, Saturday, November, 29 1890. We live in a most wonderful age. As compared with any that has preceded it is far in advance in every respect. It has taken a long time to reach our pre- sent position. Progress has been ex- ceedingly slow. The study of the rocks has demoustrated that time is long and that, man has been upon the earth many ages But he has not yet attain- ed unto perfection. What has been accomplished is only prophetic of what yet may be attained. The great epochs of humanity are the stone, the bronze, and the iron ages. Ours is the age of iron. It is an age that covers the entire written history of mankind. We know very little about man in the age of stone. We have no written histories about him then. But we have found imbed- ded in the earth some of the tools with which he worked. He used arrows of flint and axes and hatchets of stone. He chipped these rude implements into shape and with them managed to win some victories over nature. That was in the morning time of the Human Race ; mankind was yet young in the world. Theroad that led upward to an enlightened civilization was long and difficult. But even then man began to struggle with nature and to fight his way up out of igmerance. He thus showed that he possessed capacity for improvement, and that he could win by the exercise of his God-given powers. Stone was cheap and plenty and prehis- toric man made wse of it to advance himself. After this age of stone came an age of bronze. We do not know how or when man discovered the art of mixing tin and copper and thereby making bronze. But we do know that this was the next step in advance because im- plements of brenze are found in the earth immediately above implements of stone. We may well wonder at man making the discovery of bronze. But it was the starting point of present en- lightment. It was a harbinger of bet- ter days. It was the apening up of the inexhaustible mineral stores of the earth. It was far reaching in its effects upon society, commere and govern- ment. Th~~ge of bronze was succeed- ed by the age of iron. We do not know when or how man learned to make iron out of the natural ore. He must have found it out very gradually and perhaps accidentally, So far back as we have any written history of man we find him in possession of iron. Itis still the age of iron in which we live at the very height of this iron age, when man’s mastery over all nature is most complete. He has belted the world with fron rails and wires. He has spanned the rivers with iron bridges. He rides in an iron carriage behind an iron horse. Ile crosses the ocean in ships of iron. Man’s advancement has been in proportion to his ability to work metals, This time of mastery over metals and over all natare by means of them is also the time of the highest civ- ilization and government, and of the purest and most spiritual religion. It is the time of the happiest and most comtortable homes and of the most re- fined and elevating society. We call it in one sense the age of iron, and such it is as compared with the ages that preced- ed it. But in another sense itis the It is on'y that part of the age of iron ‘that is most truly and most universally christian, that is so re- splendent with noble achievement. Babylon and Egypt and Greece and Rome, all belonged to the iron age. But none of them can compare to Eu- rope and Ameriea under the influence of a pure christianity. Culture and wealth are now more generally diffused. Government 1s mow far more forthe good of the governed. Invention never was so fruitfdl as now. The world has never possessed so many comfortable, pure and happy homes as to-day. Among all the achivements of the age in which we live none is better and brighter and more prophetic of good for the future than the position accorded to woman. Itisexceedingly interesting to trace the history of woman, and to fol- low her up from a degraded and inferior condition to the proud and eommanding position she now occupies. The ancient civilization of Greeee and Rome were jthe flowers of heathenism. They were the best to which man eould attain unaided speeially by God. They have been the delight and admiration of students in all subsequent time. The Greek philospher Plato approached the nearest to Jesus in his conception of the renovating and reforming power of love. But Plato spoke with despaicing sadness relative to the virtues of humanity. He regarded man as superior to woman. He advocated a community of wives. He would have been glad, however, to have done much to equalize’ the condition of men and women but was powerless to do sn. Moral conditions made any true reverence for woman impossible. Greek culture was directed to political interests and scientific occupations. Women were far from keeping up with it or purticipating in it. The society of ancient Greece was exclusively mascu- line. The pulsatsons of life were only in the assemblies, of men. Women lived in domestic seclusion subject to burdensome supervision. The Greeks obtained nothing from woman’s mind and looked down with insulting con- tempt upon woman themselves. Aris- totle pronounced women to be beings of an inferior kind. Socrates said there was no human Beings with whom a man would talk less than with his wife. The Reman people were able to conquer and govern the world a long time. They made great advancement in law. But there was little advancement for woman in the Roman world. She was anything but the equal of man. She could not govern in her own family. She had no power over her own child- ren. Her father could sell or kill her. Her father-in-law could divorce her. Her life also was at the mercy of her husband. Her personality was lost in his. The most largely prevailing form of marriage regarded woman as a thing, and it was a very feeble band. Divorce was easily obtained. There were distinguished Roman women who reckoned the years by the number of their husbands. Juvenal te'ls of a woman who had eight husbands in five years. Seneca tells of a distinguished Roman who had been married a thous- and has been climbing ever since. Cicero, the famous Roman | began by raising Cain but she has been and times, She orator, repudiated one wife after anoth- learning to raise everything true,beauti- er. Feetullion represents divorce as the | ful and good. The time was when girls very purpose and end of Roman ‘mar- did not amount to much. Man was riage. proclaimed their degradation. was stigmatized as a foolish wild creature unable to coatrol herself. Underlying all this was a deep contempt for woman ! intellectually and morally. The phil- | osophy of the stoics was a splendid dis- | cipline, They possessed a stern regard ! for law. ® Their influence was whole- ! some and powerful on the decaying heathen world. But a noble Stoic phil- osopher could say no more than this for women : “In every kind of affairs women are prohibited having any con- | cern.” | There was notking in ancient philoso- | phy that tended to elevate women. ! Slavery largely abounded in the Roman Empire and terribly debauched society. | Immodesty was considered a necessity | in aslave. Slaves furnished the victims | for licentious shows and games. The abandonment of very young children prevailed to an almost incredible ex- | tent in the Roman Empire. Some of | these little creatures were mutilated that | there might be the more excuse for their abandonment. Persons made a business of hunting up these abandoned children at night to supply houses ofill- fame and the ranks of slavery, or to use | their brains and marrow for medicinal purposes. Man was then more cruel to children than he was to animals. There were many persons who deplored all this, but they were powerless to pre- vent it. In all the institutions of splendid Greece and powerful Rome there was nothing to elevate the character and position of woman. Among our Anglo- Saxon forefathers and among the wild tribes of northern Europe the position and character of woman were higher than under even Greece and Rome. In ancient Germany woman occupied a peculiar and revered position. The purity of German women was in strik- ing contrast to the impurity of the Romans This enabled the Germans to retain their physical vigor and gave them the necessary bodily force to over- whelm the Romans and to keep their descendants at the head of the affairs of the world even until this day. But even in ancient Germany man was the tyrant of the family, and often most cruel and oppressive, He could buy or beat or sell his wife. Woman was often rated atso many pieces of silver. She satat man’s feet and yielded to his every whim. It is well known that tha Roman Empire went down be- fore the march of the ancient Germans. And in the presence of Roman corrup- tions the purity of the Germaus came very nearly being forever lost. And it would have been lost had not the new conserving force of Christianity been exerted upon them. And if we go back from Europe to Asia—to the cradle of the Human Race —to the very oldest civilization—we do not tind any improvement in the posi- tion and character of woman. Her inferiority is characteristic of all orien- tal lands, The patriarchal systems there ; prevailing gave all; authority and im- | portance to man. Lhe ancient Hindoo institutions were exceedingly harsh to- ward woman, A Hindoo wife was re- garded as having no will of her own, as entirely unfit for independence, and could be beaten orsold. The virtnous Hindoo wife was expected to regard her husband as her God. She was unfit to eat with him. Her home was so close as to forbid healthful ventilation. When the husband died his widow was buried with him, Under such circumstances true love was’'a rarity. In China a wife can be sold and woman has little social, political or moral influence. In Turkey woman is in almost as degraded position. Mohammedanism permits poligamy. The Mohammedan bible teaches wife- beating. Men in conversation shum all allusion to women. In Arabia there is weeping in the home for four days when a girl baby is born. The position and character of woman in the whole Pagan world ever have been pitiable in the extreme and ut- terly hopeless. Woman has had no opportunity for even intellectual cul- ture. Her mind has been a blank, her heart has been hungry and her life has been weary, monotonous and vacant. Heathen wise men have doubted even woman’s possession of a soul. The only bright spot in this darkness of the long past was among the Hebrews. A Jewish woman, like Sarah, Miriam, Hannah or Esther, was very much likea lady of our own times. Many heroic and no- ble Hebrew women won for themselves a name and shed the light of a good ex- ample upon all succeeding generations. And yet even among the Hebrews the estimate of woman was such that pious Jewish men were in the habit of devont- ly thanking God because he had not made them women But the influence of the son of Mary has changed all this. He has done the most for women and is destined to do much more for her. Un- der christian civilization the greatest progress has been made. Christianity has touched the source of character. It has reformed the individ- val. [It has demanded the utmost puri- ty. It has thrown a halo of glory around woman. It has softened, refin- ed and made her the equal of man. It has lifted her into a higher sphere and put a crown upon her head. It has brought her emancipation and elevation. It honors, exalts and blesses woman- hood. Wherever the pure Gospel holds sway woman is loved as a daughter, cherished as a wife, and honored as a mother. Mental culture, social freedom | and domestic pre-minence afford a heri- tage of usefulness, honor and joy. In the home woman is supreme. In ail the relations of social life she is mighty for good. As Queen Victoria, she has ruled all England for more than 50 | gut, Sex years and has done it better than any | man ever did. As Mrs. Cleveland, she | was a royal queen of the White House, | gharm of woman. 1 Romsn ladies of rank publicly ' everything and woman nothing. And Woman | such is still the situation in a very large part of creation. All Pagan nations still greatly ignore and oppress woman. But among all christian peoples the grandest, sublimest, divinest object on the earth is a loving, warmhearted chris- tian woman. Her presence is a benedic- tion and her example a stimulus, and her influencs a power for good. A well trained highly cultured christian lady performs an angel ministry on earth. But this exalted position has not been attained at a single bound. Even under christianity it has been a growth. Greece was gone and Rome was too far gone in moral corruption for christianity to gain the Empire. Butit influenced Roman society and government for good. The religion of Jesus caused the laws of the Roman Empire to be modified in wo- man’s favor. It gradually substituted affection and moral influence for pater- nal tyranny. Every where it exerted an influence to protect woman in every way. It set the drift steadily and sure- ly toward equality between men and women. Christianity created a new conception of the position of woman. It so affected Roman legislation as to greatly advance women to equality with men. The marriage tie was strengthen- ed and deviations from virtue were made punishable by law. Christianity soon made a Roman Emperor declare that nothing in human affairs is to be so venerated as marriage. The effect of christian ideas was the beginning of a great reform in social life. Under all the subsequent changes of society wo- man has never lost the halo which the new faith threw about her. Christianity has steadily carried for- ward a series of reforms that have ele- vated woman. It has delivered the world from vices the very names of which are lost to modern ears. It has squared itself like a wall against all im- purity. It soon exercised a healthfulin- fluence upon slave marriage, and ame- liorated slavery itself. It struggled against immodest and licentious games and shows. It created an altogether new sentiment of purity. It stimulated the conscience and sympathies. It aim- ed at the reformation of individuals as the true way to get at society in general, to change the affectional and moral tendencies. It taught the profound sacredness of human hfe and thus pre- served children from abandonment and also protected and sheltered the unfor- tunate. The respect for ard value of children is one of the most important changes effected by Christianity in the world. The purity and elevation of the nature of Jesus tended mightily to sweep away unnatural passions. Stern Roman law soon came to take on gen- tle humanity and sweet compassion. The early Christians, to their everlasting honor, were reproached by the great world because they placed woman on so high a position. The example of Jesus and His Apostles has given the key note to all modern civilization in the tender respect and dignity thrown around wo- man. Her character arose with the in- creased respect accorded to her. Many women became martyrs for Jesus and are enshrined in the memory of the church. Christianity taught the Ro- mans that marriage: was a bond of equal | union and a high spiritual partnership. It demanded of Roman women faithtul- ness, virtue and propriety, and gave to them dignity. And when Rome was taken possession of by the wild tribes of the North, christianity took posses- sion of them and purified many of their customs, When it could do no {better in the dark middle ages it produced the chivalry of Europe. In those jarring, clashing times the best men had to live in castles and defend them with their might. Home life was thus developed as never before and gave to woman a charm till then unknown. Christian chivalry gave protection to all fair la- dies and treated them with delicate and decorous deference. Devotion to ladies was its crowning grace. It paid the greatest respect for modesty and virtue. To chivalry woman is indebted for a position never before enjoyed in history. Chivalry was the combined result of German and christian notions. While the modern position of woman owes much to ancient German customs, it owes still more to the influence of chris- tianity. The German ideal would have been lost had it not been for the con- serving force of christianity. Its influ- ence has been to raise woman to an equality with man in all personal rights and to make her his superior in morals. Our idea of woman is both chivalric and christian. From the days of chivalry forward woman has been advancing rapidly until now she is held in purest honor and is recognized as the moral leader and inspirer of society. And there is progress yet to come. Men may carp against the emancipation of woman from the narrow bounds of the past, but in vain shall be their cry. The unfold- ing ot the purpose of the Eternal God cannot be stayed. The world’s history travelsin only one direction. There have been some in every age that have protested against the advancement of woman lest a man should be made of her. But it bas been only the weakest of men that have been afraid of making men out of women. It never can be done! God hasdone His work too well for that. And yet every step of ad- vancement had been considered a devia- tion from the proprieties of the sex. What we now consider as perfectly pro- per in woman would be regarded as monstrous in Turkey. Every step of advancement has been made in the face of the cry ‘‘she’s stepping bevond her sphere!” But there are no external oc- cupations that ean change the nature of woman. The colors of God never wash isdyed in the wool. The more power that can be given virtue the better. Weakness can never be the Purity, love, wise- and as Mrs. Harrison, she is not very | 4om and sympathy are her most queen- much behind although more advanced | Jy qualities. Too much power cannot be in years. As the American girl, she is keeping step with the American boy | and even going beyond him. In 1875 | Miss Chipman won an oratorical prize | in a contest between representatives of eight lowa colleges, her competitors he- ingsix young men and one young lady. ! A few years ago a girl carried off a Harv- ard University prize for an essay on a given topic, all her competitors being young men. Woman began at zero given to these. The more power they have the more noble womanhood will become. ; The education of woman only adds [to her charm and usefulness. The time has passed when the frailty of the fair can be the theme of deriding poets, and when sex presents any barrier to genius. Few things are more remarkable during the last twenty-five most remarkable years than the new avocations opening | EA rr NE I ag up to woman, Law, medicine and “it- erature are securely within her grasp. Her voice is everywhere heard from the platform. The majority of the teachers of free and enlightened America are young women. Temperance, Missions and all kinds of charitable work now feel the power of women. Everywhere they are coming to the forefront. The childhood of thesex belongs to pagan- ism and the past. Henceforth a matu rity of culture, responsibility and influ- ence is destined to characterize woman- hood. The age is forever gone when man shall ride in the saddle and woman trudge along behind on foot carrying theluggage. Ours is an age that smiles most auspiciously upon woman. It is an age also that requires of her some- thing more than pounding piano keys and daubing canvas, or embroidering heads of poodle dogs, pansies and tulips so that nobody can tell one from anoth- er. It is an age that insists upon wo- men knowing the principles of good housekeeping, how to take care of mon- ey, and how to cook something digesti- ble that won't give men the dyspepsia and make them cross. It isan age that expects young women to get married and have homes of their own. Some young women, however, do not get married because no young men ever ask them, and some others because those who do ask are not quite the right kind. I hope none of the young ladies present will every get such a husband as a cer- tain strong-minded woman possessed. He was decidedly wanting in energy and in fact quite lazy. On waking up one morning he found his wife in tears. “What's the matter,!love?” “Oh, I've had such a dreadful dream.” “Why, what was it?” “Well, I was goingdown street and saw a sign ‘Husbands for sale.”’”” Many women were rushing in and T went along. Just then they were selling a splendid specimen for $1500.” «Well, did they all bring so much ?” “Oh, no, they went at $1000,$500, and so on down.” “Well, did you see any there that looked like me?’ “Yes, in- deed ! but they were tied in bunches like asparagus and sold for 10 cents a bunch.” I sincerely hope that no young lady here to-day wiil ever get a husband like that, but one that shall be worthy of her. Remember that the home is the high- est and most influential sphere that any woman can ever occupy. Remember, also,that all women are not permitted to preside over, to adorn and to beautify homes of their own, and should be pre- pared for some other noble and useful sphere of activity rather than to remain an useless and undesirable appendage to the home of their childhood or some rela- tives abode. But whatever shall be your sphere of activity, adorn it. Be attrac- tive, be interesting, be sunshiny, be cheerful and sympathetic. Be pure and good. Remember that even your silent influence is a mighty power, as mysteri- ously exerted as the flower sheds its perfume. Refine and soften the severer aspects of life. Do not make pleasure the chief aim of your existence. What is known as the society girl is not the highest type of womanhood. This world is something more than a play- ground. The quiet girl in the corner is often times the most interesting of all. Modesty is a magic circle and a sceptre of power. Believe in and be loyal to that great Saviour of mankind under whose influence woman has been so gloriously transformed. Christianity is the great reforming power of the world. It is at the basis of all great progressive movements in human history. It came a new moral force among men. Jesus presented old moral principles with new simplicity and earnestness. He illustrat- ed them by a life and character of un- exampled elevation and purity. It has greatly reformed social habits and prac- tices. It has made a tremendous change for the better in the position and character of woman. It demands mas- culine as well as feminine purity. The strongest safe-guard to a young man to-day against vice is the influence upon him of Jesus and the chivalric and christian idea of woman. Jesus is still in advance of our age. All are not yet up to His level. All do not yet permit themselves to be sufficiently influenced by Him. But all that has been won is a fruit of His’ blessed influence. Take away His religion and woman would soon sink back to an inferior and de- graded position and virtue would cease from the earth. But under the noble inspiration of Jesus we expect the world to continue to become brighter and bet- ter and purer. To secure this result, however, there must continue to be con- fidence in Him and loyalty to Him. There are now some who refuse to sub- mit themselves to the ennnbling and uplifting influence of Jesus. Conse- quently passion continues to run wild to some extent and to find expression in crime. Those who have the disposition to be pure and good are often enticed into doing wrong or made to suffer in resisting the encroachments of evil. We have a mighty illustration of this in the occasion which has brought us together. It brings to mind prominent- lv one of the foulest of crimes, the devil- ishness of man when not controlled by the Gospel. It causes us to reflect upon the depravity of fallen human nature and to perceive its great need of a Sav- iour. There is not a man here but might have been capable of the mani- festation of such depravity but for the influence of christian civilization. The occasion reminds us that law is master of the criminal—-that vengeance pur- sues the offender. Death, shameful and ignominious has overtaken the outrager and murderer. His spirit ha: passed in- to the presence of Him who will see that eternal justice is done. His name is in- scribed upon that monument butonly to proclaim his infamy. It publishes to the world the utter detestation in which this community holds such character and conduct. But our thoughts turn more particularly to the young girl of sweet sixteen, who was waylaid and murdered by that beastly form. In im- agination we can see her a year ago walking quietly along from a neighboi’s to her own home with a basket upon her arm. She was young, promising and pure. No thought of evil wasin her mind. No app:.ehension of danger was present to her. But behind her came the beast disguised in manly form, and made to her most disgraceful over- tures. And Clara Price disdaintully and successfully resisted them but only to be shot to death. She gave her voung and beautiful life for her honor. That monument voices her purity and courage. It proclaims to coming gen- erations the value which the people of this community put upon pure woman- hood. It appeals for maaly as well as womanly, virtue. It is a matter of con- gratulation that we live in #n age that has the disposition to build such a mon- ument for such a purpose. Bat in this age when woman is hcnored as never before she must be pure to receive such honor. Impure woman was never held in lower esteem than now. And let im- pure man be equally execrated and abominated and cast out, and then shall virtue be exalted. “Grant Rode Like a Demon,” “Speaking of General Grant's fine horsemanship,” said General N., P. Banks, “reminds me of an incident that occurred soon after the battle of Port Hudson, in which he gave me the race of my life. General Grant paid the army under my command a visit at the period mentioned and was asked to review it. Ie brought with him no horses and I loaned him for the occasion the magnificent bay pa. rade horse which the patriotic citizens of Massachusettes presented to me when I went to the frontin 1862. All of my old soldiers will remember that bay horse. I rode on the review a thor oughbrea black mare, and I was in a constant state of anxiety lest she would run away with me when warmed. Well, the troops were drawn up in line and we rode down the front lines at a slow pace, but when we reached the rear lines Grant would put the bay at his utmost speed, and as he was nearly thoroughbred he could run. Grant sat on the bay as if he were part of him, but the difficulty 1 found myself in was not to keep up at the regulation distance but to prevent my animal from distanc- ing the general and running off with me. Grant rode like a demon and I after him until the review was finished, the troops in the meantime watching the scene with interest mingled with astonishment. For some days after. wards the troops were heard discussing the event, and, as far as I can learn never seltled the question as to wheth- er it was a horse race or a military re- view." As Others See Us, A funny story is told at the expense of Sir Richard Moon, chairman of the board of directors of the London aud Northwestern Railway company. Sir Richard is one of the most energetic railway magnates known, and is the terror of the employes of the company, for they never know when he is about to pounce upon them. He makes a point of visiting every station on the line at least once a year, and has an odd habit of overhauling the books and accounts of station masters at in- convenient times. He knows the price of everything, and is «aid to have row- ed au unfortunate freight agent for giv- ing too much for a packet of carpet tacks. One day he dropped in at Crewe sta- tion about 5 a. m., and saw a couple of porters hard at work cleaning up things generally. Sir Richard was de- lighted. “This is the right way, men,” he exclaimed. “I like to see such painstaking industry begun so bright and early in the morning.” “Industry be blow!” said the man addressed, tartly, who of course did not know who the fussy old gentleman was. “We don’t commence work at thisunearthly hour,but we've just heard that that old nuisance, Moon, 18 on the road some- where and we're just getting ready in case the old hunks should drop in on us unexpected.” In justice to Sir Richard be it said he took no notice ot the opprobrious remarks, but quietly slipped away and gave the men the go- by that time.—Philadelphia Inquirer. Growling about City Hunters. “The game laws,” says an old sports- man who is inciined to be a growler, “all are made by city men who want about six weeks in the year to them- selves, just when the farmers are busi- est with their fall crops. A city sportsman who doesn’t know anything about farming will put on a pair of breeches that reach to his neck and wade all over a new wheat field with- out thinking of the damage he does. 1 was brought up on a farm, and I tell you these celluloid clay pigeon killers are a nuisance. If I werea farmer I would raise a crop of bulldogs and feed them on raw beefsteak for amonth pre- vious to the opening of the season, and when these city jays swoop down and take possession of the farm I would turn them all loose. —New York Tribune. How They Do It in Dublin. Ap Irishman who had just come to New York and was not remarkably well pleased with the weather last week or with anything else in America, was belittling everything he saw to his friends, who were showing him the sights. They visited Eden Musee and he had his picture taken by the nickle- in-the-slot camera. “Well, Patsy, did ye ever see the like of that, now, be- fore?” he was asked. ‘Did I ever see the loike of that?” replied Patsy in great disdain. “Bedad we have one 1 Dublin that, if you just squint into it and drop in a farthing, will take your picture in three differerc positions—sit- tin’ down, standin’ up and wid yer ba- by on yer koee.” Wife (looking up from a book)— “This writer says that half the miseries of married life come from the fact that wives do not have a certain, regular sum per week to spend as they please.” Husband--“True; and the other half of the misery comes from the fact that husbands do not have a certain, regular sum per week tospend as they please.” A —— ——Carmen Sylva, Queen of Roum- ania, is forty-seven and still beautiful. She and the Princess of Wales, who is also forty-seven, are two of the prettiest women in Europe. sm “al © -
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