NEWSOF THE WEEK
~The Georgia Senate, on the 18th,
by a vote of 24 to 14, passed and sent
to the House a bill to amend the Rail-
road Commission act, The bill repeals
the arbitrary powers of the Commis.
sioners, giving them the right to hear
compiain's only, It authorizes the
railroads to make their own rates,
the courts,
~—A convention of the Young Demo-
of électing officers, was in session on
the 18th. The nomination of Henry
F, Donovan tor President was opposed,
on the ground that his election would
interfere with the Civil Service rules,
he beg Superintendent of Carriers in
the Chicago Post-office. Finally Post-
master Judd endorsed the nomination,
and Mr. Donovan was elected by a large
majority,
—A terrible prairie fire was raging
west and north of Steele, Dakota, on
the 17th.
west, the farmers lost everything,
their losses in grain ranging from 1000
to 3000 bushels each, At Buffalo,
farm: on another, 150 acres of wheat
were consumed. A few miles from
ing the fire,
critical condition.
—**Bishop"” John Sharp, the Utah
director of the Union Pacific Railway,
the 18th, and pleaded guilty to the
charge of “unlawful combination.”
any statue against it, in good faith, ac
cording to his religion, but he recog-
nized the supremacy of his
He was fined $300,
it of
them henceforth.”
and was discharged upon paymen
that sum.
— Archdeacon Farrar, whois now mn
Montreal, has accepted an invitation
from the Bishop and Catholic clergy to
visit the Catholic colleges and convents,
— A passenger train on the Hannibal
and St. Joseph Railroad collided with
a special engine and pay car, near SL
Joseph, Missouri, on the 17th. Both
engines and the baggage car were
wrecked. Supply Agent Hamilton, of
the Rock Island Road, who was on the
special, had a leg broken, and Engineer
Black was dangerously, if not fatally,
scalded.
~The race of the Commodor’s cups
over the ocean course from Sandy Hook
New York, took plac on the 18th. The
Douglas cup was won by the English
cutter Genesta and the Bennett cup by
the schooner Grayling.
~]It is announced that Imperial silver
medals will be conferred on the troops
recently engaged in surpressing the re-
bellion in the Northwest Territory,
~{3eneral Miles on the 20th, left
Sante Fe, New Mexico, for Leaven-
worth, after making the following
statement: ‘‘I have put additionel
troops in the field, equipped in such a
way that they can go wherever miners
or Indians can, and it will be their duty
to hunt the latter in places where they
may seek shelter. Colonel Bradley
agrees with him in the belief that, with
the present disposition of the troops,
they will give protection to settlements
and make this Territory uncomfortable
for any hostile Indians. My object is to
make New Mexico untenable for the
Indian and restore confidence to its citi-
zens.”
~ Andrew Coringe, a farmer, was
murdered near Marion, Indiana. en the
19th. A verdict of parricide was ren-
the deceased, Samuel and Ira, were ar-
rested. Their mother was to have been
arrested in the evening.
~The President on the 19th appoint-
ed Anthony F. Seeberger to be collector
of customs at Chicago.
that city, ‘a man of wealth and high
social standing,” and
Democrat who has never been promi
nent in political affairs.”
~The Board of Naval Officers ap-
pointed to confer with the Secretary of
the Navy regarding the new vesssels to
be constructed finished its labor- ip
‘Washington on the 13th and adjourned.
The report will probably be submitted
to Secretary Whitney this week.
~The subscriptions for the Grant
Monument Fund in New York up to
the 19th reached $79,915. Madison
Square Garden has been leased for
three months for the purpose of hold-
ing a fair in aid of the fund.
~Princton college will open this year
with about 550 students on the roll,
«It is estimated that the losses by
the prairie fires in Dakota will reach
several thousand dollars, The loss by
gan Company
the 18th, is estimated at $100,000,
A fire near Kildare Texas on
day, destroyed A. T. Ander-
Ne Yiaining mil and 1,600,-
,000.
"same
«A car full of Hereford cattle was
burned while in transit from Lesueur,
Minnesota, to Dakota,on the 23d, Two
men who were in the car jumped off
and sustained severe injuries. The car
was fired by a spark from the Shp.
~ Our numerous pensioners
their avarerly To
! -'I'he threatened tronble in the Cone.
stitutional Convention of Dakota has
{ been settled by the aqoution of a bill of
rights which declares *=all political pow-
er inherent in the people; all free gov-
ernment founded on their authority,
| and that they have a right to alter the
forms of government,’ and declares the
| State of Dakota inseparably a vart of
i the Union.and the Federal Constitution
{ the supreme law of the land,
~(ienerals Schofield, Tompkins and
i Sanger passed through Omaha on the
20th, on the way to Rock Springs, Wyo-
ming. General Schofield was met at
the depot by General Howard and sev-
eral officials of the Union Pacific 1iail-
road, with whom he had a loag confer
ence, The Chinese miners and such
| white men as were willing to work with
them were put to work at Rock Springs
on the 21st ander military protection.
The white coal miners who declined to
work were paid off. No more trouble
! is expected.
—The President on the 21st, appoin-
ted James F. Giffen to be Assistant
Appraiser at New Orleans. The Sec-
retary of the Treasury on the same day
appointed John W. Roberts to be Su-
perintendent of the Federal building ut
Denver, Colorado, in place of Peter F,
Barclay, suspended, and Thomas Mum-
ford to be Clerk of the local Inspectors
of Steam Vessels at New York city, mn
place of William Tobin, suspended.
The office of Chief of the Post-oflice
Inspectors has been offered to William
A. West, a planter, living near Oxford,
Mississippi. Mr, West, who is now in
Washingion, holds the offer under con-
sideration.
—At Bevier, Missouri, early on the
21st, an air compressor, to be used in a
was blown to pieces on the
car from which it was not yet unloaded.
It is supposed dynamite was used, and
strikers are suspected of the deed.
~The Canadian Pacific Railroad is
about to call for tenders for the build-
ing of a bridge across the St. Lawrence
river to connect its system with the
American railroads at St. Johns and
Southeastern Chambly. The length of
the bridge will be 3000 feet and ils cost
is estimated at $1,500,000.
—Sgeretary Eodicott returned to
Washington on the 20th and was at his
desk on the 21st,
Secretary Lamar has been confined
to his house for several days by a severe
influenza, He was reported somewhat
better on the 2ist,
— Archdeacon Farrar arrived in To-
ronto on the 224, He will be the guest
of Cyrus W. Field at Irvington, New
York, on October 23d. Dr. Farrar will
deliver three lectures in New York city
and will preach at Trinity and Grace
churches,
—The annual Convention of the Or-
i der of United American Mechanics
met on the 22d in New York. Forty
delegates were present, representing
New York, Connecticut, Massachu-
ts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Dela.
ware, Maryland, Virginia, West Vir.
ginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Iowa and Cali-
fornia. J. F. Kimball, of Massachu-
| setts, presided, Secretary N. Caley, of
Philade slphia, read reports showing an
past year, the total being 19.992. Dar-
ing the past year the receipts from sub-
ordinat e Councils were $141,291; paid
in bene and relief funds, $05,015;
now in the treasury, $305,210,
~The New York Republican Stale
Convention met on the 22d in Saratoga,
it
Miller as chairman. James W. Husted
was chosen permanent chairman, and
nominations of candidates for Gover.
nor were then made, One ballet was
| takea without result, Carr receiving
205 votes, Warren 137, Davenport 105,
Seward 57, Bliss 53, Morton 42, Drexel
{ 37, Swinburne 32, Low 16, Cornell 4
and 3 scattering,
choice, 347.
~The Secretary of the Treasury has
| directed the suspension of George H.
Sterling, recently appointed Weigher at
{ of Captain George B. Bacon. ‘The
suspension
based on information that the appoint
ment 18 an improper one,
— A manifesto from the Riel Defence
Fund Committee has been published in
Montreal, in which the aid of the press
is asked. The manifesto says *‘the
Government is perhaps disposed to pay
the costs of the appeal, seeing that the
question of constitutional right, which
interests the nation at large, is on the
tapis,
— By an explosion of natural gas at
Sharpsburg, Penna., on the 224, Wil.
ham Schwartz, aged 40) years, and a boy
| named Beck were dangerously if not
| fatally injured. The explosion was
| caused by a leak in the main which
Schwartz was repairing.
~The boiler in Fabel's soap factory,
at Loulsville.exploded on the 22d killing
Edward Earnest, the Engineer, and dame
| aging the building to the extent of
$15,000. A boiler In the same factory
exploded a year ago, killing two men.
~The Secretary of the Treasury has
asked for the resignation of Martin L.
Noerr as Chief of the Division of
tured and abandoned lands, r.
Noerr was appointed from the District
of Columbia, and is one of the oldest
the service, It is sald
-~- Near Seattle, Washington Territo-
ry, on the 21st, a mob of masked men
went to the quarters of the Chinese
k Diamond Mine and
fting machine in New
isposes of 140 tons of rubbish
One hundred ton: fa found to
be valuable,
Dr, Jaeger, of Munich, Wkiataing
ts | that those
never cateh cold.
BUMMER COMPANIUNS
"Mid the flowers and the brakes,
In the sun, in the shower,
One with insect and bird,
Children born for an hour;
They pitched their white tent
On my wild blooming swird,
Contented with summer
And nature unbarred,
One morning when storm-wind
Bwept over the land,
And the fog-bell was tolling
Blind ships from the strand,
I sought my green pasture
And sall-sheltered birds,
There was silence for Inanghter
Aud sadness for words,
Nor again with the season
When soft waves return,
God's sweetness of sunshine,
And lilles that burn,
Do they pitch on my green sward
Their white-wingsd tent,
Nor dance in cool sunshine
When clover is bent.
Then come, mighty storm-wind,
Companion thou me,
For in dark and in tempest
My spirit is {reel
The summer may go,
And the flowers they may die,
On thy wing to my dearest
Ever nearer I fly.
ARO SRS.
CATHARINE’S PRIZE STORY.
ne summer not very long ago 1 was
spending the warm months at a North
ern resort noted for its salubrious cli
mate and beautiful surroundings.
While there I made the acquaintance of
a talented young artist and his wife, He
was fair, tall and slender, while she
was a dark-eyed little woman of the
dumpling order. The med eminent.
ly fitted for each other. om re being ev-
{dently a perfect sympathy between
them. She studied art for his
and bad acquired a fine critical
One day
sake.
tasie
ing me
at
“i
when she was show
her husband's pictures I was much
tracted by the portrait of a young
beautiful girl: but the face bore a cer-
tain undefinable expression that baled
me. It was not hope, neitl was It
utter despair; but rather a blending
of the two combined with a certain
mournful resignation. 1 felt the tears
start to my eves as [ gazed.
*“You are attracted by the expression
of that portrait,” said Mrs, Shel
“It isa picture of a relative of ours.
My husband painted it from a photo.
graph taken in her girlhood. It does
not resemble this, does it!” and she
handed me a pi wotograph of a handsome,
matronly woman, whose face bore =a
peaceful, happy expression, much un-
like the other.
“*The features are thesame,” I an-
swered, bul the fairy godmother has
touched her with her magic wand.”
“Since you are so interested, I will
tell you her story,” sald my friend.
“As to the fairy godmother and her
wand, you shall judge for yourself,
“When I was a little she be-
gan, “my parents lived in the country,
in the suburbs of a small village. 1
was but 12 years old when Catharine
Hawley came to teach our school.
She was an orphan and had the care of
ber brother, a delicate child about my
but lame. He had to be
They board-
and
125
ton.
girl, ’
ticular that Merlin should have plenty
of fresh air, good food and milk fresh
from the cow. He was wheeled to
school by us children, and then home
again at night,
“We became very much attached to
him after a while, He had such shy,
wentle wavs, and though sickly and of
ten suffering great pain, he was a bet-
ter sobolar than any of us, and used to
hel the older ones with their lessons,
and tell stories and draw funny pictures
ones for hours together,
In return we would do anything in our
power for him,
“Miss Hawley had the finest percep.
tive faculties that I ever saw in a teach.
er. She could tell if a pupil was guilty
of any misdemeanor by instinct almost,
Her eyes penctrated all disguises of
look or tone or action. The boys
$
i
their wrong doings, There was a sus.
“My brother John, though not a
quarrelsome boy, caught one of them
calling Merlin a ‘white-faced tell-tale.’
The boy was larger than John, too, but
indignation had made my brother
brave.
“Merlin felt very bad when he heard
of the quarrel, and he never rested un-
til he got the two boys together and
too, that he disliked tell-tales as much
as they did, and he didn't blame them
for getting angry when they thought
him one. After that any of them
would have fought for him
“One day a celebrated lecturer
came to the village. He and father
had been old schoolmates together and
he took tea at our house, He was
much interested in Merlin, and told
Catharine of a famous physician who
he thought could cure him.. Catherine
was very much excited over it. That
evening, I remember, she was sitting
on a low stool by Merlin's chair, and
2 was smoothirig her hair. She
took both his hands in hers and said:
* What would you rather have, Mer-
** You know, Catnarine,’
‘She cried a little quite softly be
{ fore she said, almost as were
! talking vo herself;
# +God will jurely open the way.
| will surely help us,’
“A day or two after that I saw her
| with a paper in ber hand. She seemed
| very much interested in something she
i seemed read in it. slept in the room
| next hers, and I noticed that she sat up
{quite late that night. She was very
thoughtful and absent-minded for a
week or two; then she seemed
| Seized with a mania for writing.
| She was always writing nights
mornings and saturdays. There
| BO more cozy evenings now,
arine laughing and giving us riddles to
;juess, as we once had, She had a
beautiful voice, as you might know by
if she
were
in the portrait there, Her sin
| been one of our greatest
“Child as 1
pleasures,
Was,
| She didn’t love us as she used
thought, Oue day I said
| her. She took my face
! hands and kissed me.
bs
fo, 1
between
an you keep a secret, Nellie?’
she said,
“Then told me,
prize offered for the best
was trying to win it.
money to send Merlin away to the doe-
tor Prof. Jordan had advised, so that
he might have the chance, at least, of
being cured, And I must be her little
said, and do my best 10
take her place with Merlin and to the
children, so that they should not
think
her as neglecting them,
she
story, and she
friend, she
r that she would read me the
tow pages at A time,
ldish
the
And wii 1, ili IYy ¢ hi
«I would laugh
#
i
the story
iy, 48
" i
her 1:
Was,
lighten
would beautifully,
. 1 us fyss ie s fu tx}
would be quite hopeful.
and
“After a while the st
nd I took it to
ihen came A trying
Catharine,
ory was finished
the of her.
for
for poor
Ce
time
uble work, teaching
strain,
As the
to be an-
the
both.
the woods
-a beatiful place in
mer--and talk sbout it,
“Oh, if I fail,’ she would say
il 1 boi next? The Lord will
me! But he ca
iy the lack of
had been a
her weal
i
and writing,
and left
great
and nervous,
time drew near for the decision
nounced in regard to the stories,
painful to us
pense
re used to walk
k of the hi
LAG
together in
wie wei in
LSE
‘what
surely
n't be expected (0
suppose,’
lips was
capacity, i
on her white
than any tears,
hers di
then as
the smile
in’t get suct
and Catha-
to clothe and
brother,
wer only chance,
Wages
rine barely made enough
board berself and
really seemed to be }
“Merlin
Catharine would
they do DOW,
NO
Knew noth
it.
hopes EX
would ,
ng about
have his
cited, sie said, for fear
not be realized. Bat sometimes she
wonid sit and look at him as, cheerful
and patient, he wheeled his ehair about
the porch, with such an agony of sus-
pense in her face that a lump would
rise in her throat and I would go away
and cry.
they
to the postoflics for the masl, I wanted
destroy them. One day among the
letters was one addressed to Catharine,
and 1 knew by the postmark that it was
the one. My feet scarcaly touched the
ground on the way he
atharine’s room she nearly always
ed me
her hand
“For a few minutes
the letter with th
me,
to ©
%
thrust the let.
there—und
ter into
she sat holding
if
feared to know her fate. Then,
i Lhatl trembled so that
could scarcely control them,
the seal. A bank note fell out on
| lap. She gave one loud, joyful ery,
| then fainted dead away.”
Mrs. Shelton paused in her narrative,
ostensibly to loop back the curtain,
¢ seal unbroken, as
she
with ghio
she broke
her
| posed when she resumed.
* Well there was quite an exciting
time. Mother came running np with
the camphor bottle, in answer to my
aistressed call for help, and the children
| formed a frightened group outside the
door. When Catharine regained con-
sciousness she looked about for Merlin;
then remembering where she was, she.
| just swept us all aside and was down-
stairs and by his chair in a moment.
“Mother kept us all away for a long
time; but when I did creep out on the
porch the brother and sister had their
arms about each other, and Catharine’s
face shone like an angel's,
“Well, Merlin went away Oatha.
rine stayed with us and taught. She
could not give herself the comfort of
being with him, for fear her money
would not hold out. There was a very
difficult operation to be performed, and
such things ar. expensive, as you know,
It was during those days of suspense
that Catharine’s face took on the ex
pression in the portrait there. The
other was taken since ber marriage.”
“But Merlin-~was he cured after
all?” I asked,
*“There is no trace of his lameness
except a slight himp, as you may see for
Avy
“But 1 thought you said nis sister s
name was Hawley?’'
‘She is my husbands half sister,
They are children of the same mother,
By the way, Catharine is cowing to-
morrow, 1 should like you to be nace
quainted,
Afterward when I had the pleasure
of counting Catharine among my
friends, I did not wonder at the de-
vosion with which her brother and his
wife regarded her, for she was truly one
of the noblest women I have ever
Euown,
m————_ sne———
Diving with Aloxiz Soyer.
Another “male dinner’ of which I
the 01
Conk
ivate room of Soyer,
of the Reform club. A
ity at **The Club,” and he
me
frie;
of
he would
parity pres
eight—just
that can oce upy
the privilege
ids, while
the
number of
inviting
make up
number
ant,
he
ach other. A perfect
Dariy
wuld not exceed eight
short of
it
the autumn,
persons,
fall BiX.
when game
lant in the markets,
¢ partly consisted of a dis
artist, of The Pu
a clerk in foreign office, a
hman of hires
named Friends
sposed to be ¢ eerful and
became fr end The
from begin g to en
Ul VAI Viv¥a~
but the style of dinner was
giooekt ive
suggesti
tor, an
a OF
one
the
letiers,
and the
Teas a “3 wv
Viduais Boye,
ad
S00n
self
dish came
There
teat, the fish
at the
BO
€xqguis
seasoned t
was necessary than
the meorceaux w
Vo
ith a
here was a different wine
Germany, France,
} *orineal eo ntribu tend a the res
ad
8 10 whet the
il vid
Hrs
ppetite i
Conviviall
we had fou
e., from 8 p. m,
midnight—and then,
ment, the butler
bam and a pheasant. With
we protested against such a
ment afte:
which
was absolute,
the talk.
10
its hight when
hours at the table--i.
until
tonish
one vi
the numerous
had partaken
“Cut the
cates of
But
ham,
we
mt
to me. 1 obeyed
wilh the sharpest of knives, brought in
for the occasion, when, to my surprise,
the simulated bam proved to be a sort
of pound-cake with a mass of fruit-ice
in its center. The imitation was so
perfect that Soyer was quite justified
in calling it a *jambon in a surprise,”
The pheasant was a similar imposition.
In fact, it was nearly all jos‘cream ing
very solid condition, covered with a
very thin paste colored to resemble a
a roasted lard,
While we were at dinner a servant
brought in another specimen of Soyer’s
taste and ingenity; this was what
» “bouquet de gibier?
quet of game, It
ght, shaped like
cher ami,” he said
he
called ¢ toh
was foot
three
an ordi
i evergreens lay I
pheasant in its gorgeous plum
upper corners by
and on either side of the center
heads of and rabbits,
whose feel projected below, the bodies
being concealed Ly the leaves. Two
woudcocks, gracelully arranged, formed
of the bouquet. The whole
AY HOSBEaY,
then
er a
danked at
tridges,
lay ihe
the pars
hares
of Sutherland, the queen
A Gorgeous Cathedral,
“The gold and scarlet of the sun” is
rivaled in the cupolas of St. Peter's
Cathedral, just finished at Moscow.
There are five of the cupolas, and no
less than 900 pounds of gold were used
in overlaying them. The doors of the
temple cost $310,000, and upon the
floors were expended $1,500,000, Ten
thousand worshipers can be comfort.
able if their souls les them within this
$12,500,000 temple,
i,
Three Old Counties,
The three original counties estab
lished at the first settlement of the Pro-
vinee of Penn in 10682 were Chester,
Bucks and Philadelphia. Lancaster
county's organization dates from May
10, 1720 It was formnd from Chester;
aud the counties of York, Cumberland,
Berks, Northumberland, Dauphin and
Lebanon were constructee wholly or "
art from this county,
Rose fg fF has ie
otal Wh
“Then,”
- dob
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
relf.reliance
telf-ansertion,
18 quite distinct from
Fancy runs most furiously
science drives it.
Better free in
y
slave at howe,
when cone
and than a
a foreign
future of
the mothers
hands
gociety is in the
ik is cheap, but
costs something,
A fruit.
Virtues are
The mer
examipe
bearit sr the
lowly
tree end
The BOE 08
idleness wastes ;
industry improves |
People’s in
ied by the
Faults are the
I brothers and sisters
idleness wasts
industry improves him.
Three things t
frankness, and freedom.
The ingredients
tor
Ir conduc
ake us
a man as sensibly a8
gu! »
delight
n—-teauty,
of conventions
are
Be anc wil,
Three things t«
y and gracefuin
Many live miserab)
to die magnificently
The man who feels
succeed is seldom
ntellect,
ot
Love, faith. patie 4
three essentials of a ha
Experience
4
Mean
i
experiments
He wWio
neck of rehg
is more honora
. 3
Mi Lhe
It
always
lawyers alway:
ia ws
yYE&is al
are
. 5
nd i upiving
better
ipon being
nly wild
When earth
refuge in
The bay whose highest
ambition i
8 father, =e {
to equal b om mou
anything.
Anger is blood, poured anc
into a frothy but malice
of our wrath,
We measure minds by
it would be better 1
their beauty.
How can we expert to
peighbor’ character,
know it himself.
There is nothing that refines the
face and mind as the constant presence
of good thoughts,
The idle should nol be classed Among g
the living; they are a sort of dead men
that can’t be buried,
A great part of our
po other purpose than
us to enjoy the rest,
Peopie s my )
they have no better model tha
seives to copy after,
perplexed
i5 the wisdom
their stature;
esteem them by
know our
when he doesn’t
80
existence
that
RerYes
of enabling
TOVE
Fortune does nol mn Blerial 3
men: it only unmasks { 1
their true cham
It is easy to vick out flaws in other
people’s work, bul far more protitableto
do better work vous
Misery must follow sin, at a distance
more or less near, evitably as the
needle points to the pole. .
Intelligence tests iguorance and wis.
dom tests foolles, But who are the mn-
tellizent and who are wise?
The application of common
matters of belief or business
our best guide and monitor.
Less titre spent in idle dreaming and
devoted to the duties of lite would give
us wealth and contentment.
Truth sometimes forces the vicious
and depraved to recoguize and honor
the virtue they cannot corrupt.
Only the power and potency of na-
ture’s laws are manifested to us when
we come in contact with them.
Whether zeal or moderation be the
point we aim at, Jet us keep fire out of
the one and frost out of the other.
Zealous men are never ing to
you the strength of SYS! Jfiaping to
judicious men are howling you the
grounds of it.
The intellect bas only one faili
which, to be sure, isa very consis
one. It has no conscience. Napoleon
is the readiest instance of this,
T'rue dignity abides with him alone
who, in the sient bour of mward
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