* NEWS OF THE WEEK. — President Cleveland on the 1st gave a contribution ot $100 to the Grant Monument Fund. ~All the finishers in the hat factory of Kessler & Sons, at Reading, Penna., struck on the 1st, because of the proprie- tors advancing to the finishing depart- ment a boy who had been an apprentice for the past iive years, so that he could | complete his trade, The finishers de- | clure that the hatters’ union would not aliow more than one apprentice to every ten en. —At 1 o'clock on the 3d Gustave and Herman Knoch were arrested at Spring Wells and taken to Detroit to answer | the charge of having murdered their mother, Elizabeth Knoch, who died on the 1st from the effect of a blow on the head, ~The Chamber of Commerce of Mil- | waukee on the 3d adopted resolutions | for the suspension of silver coinage. Governor Pattison on the 2d ap- pointed Lemuel Amerman, of Scran- ton, to be reporter of the Supreme | Court, mn place of Charles RK. Duckalew, feclined. — The heaviest rain of the season in Easton and Central Mississippi fell during the 3d, There were washouts on several railroads, delaying trains. One train was wrecked, and an express- man was dangerously injured.——There was a heavy snow storm at St. Paul, Minnesota, on the same day, and throughout the Northwest. —The Ohio vegslature met on the 4th. In the Senate O'Neill, Democrat, was elected President pro tempore. In | the House the Democrat members from | Hamilton County, whose titles are con- | tested were sworn in upon presentation | of their certificates, John C, Entre- | kin, Republican, was elected Speaker. —A. Boynton, a member of the Dem- | yeratic Territorial Committee of Da- | kota, has written a letter to Mr. | Harrison, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Territories, ) rotesting | “against the action of the lat Legisla ture of Dakota Territory in appropri- | ating the Territorial revenues, assessed upon all the counties in the Territory, for the expenses of a convention com- posed of delegates from only a portion f the counties, and against the action f a convention held at Sioux Falls, n the southeastern part of the Terri- tory. and the assumption of power of a so-called State Legislature sonvened at Hamilton, —In the Superior Court at Atlanta on the 4th Judge Clark dismissed the petition of the liquor men for a manda- mus to compel the Orinary to hear the ontest over the prohibition I'he case will now go to the Court, ~The Supreme Court of the United States on the 4th rendered its decision upon the petition of Paymaster General Joseph A. Smuth, of the Navy Depart- ment, “that a prohibition be issued re- straining the Secretary of the Navy from further proceedings against him by court-martial for offenses alleged to | have been committed In connection | with the administration of his actions as Chief of a Bureau of the Navy De- parument.”’ -A severe storm of snow and sleet raged in portions of the Northwest— | prioeipally in Iowa and Nebraska—on the 2d and 3d. From the Missouri river | to points about one hundred and eighty | miles west the snow has drifted over the fences and in the cross cuts is twenty-five feet deep, Owing to the | comparatively circumscribed area in which snow fell, four blockades on the | railroads are reported. The tempera- | ture has not yet fallen very low, the minimum being 15° above zero. A telegram from Kansas City, Missouri, reports a blockade of trains on the | Santa Fe and Union Pacific lines In | Western Kansas, ~The President will probably nomi- nate an Assistant Treasurer for New York at an early day, with the view of | having him, if confirmed by the Senate, | take charge of the sub-lreasury. It is believed in Washington that | General Miles will soon supersede Gen- eral Crook in command of the troops | operating against the Indians in Arizo- | na. { —The Pratt Free Library in Balti- | more was inaugurated on the 5th with i appropriate ceremonies in the Academy i of Music, --At Jersey City, on the 5th, the | jury in the case of Am Ende, the drug. gist, on trial for causing the death of | Marguerite Holtz by putting up mor- phia instead of quinine in {illing a pre- scription, returned a verdict of *‘not | guilty.” There is another indictment | against him for also causing the death | of Miss Ella Holtz, ~ While working in a ledge pit at Waterville, Maine, on 'the 5th, James | Freeman was killed and two other men were severely injured by the fall of an gpverhanging rock which bad been | loosened by the rain. A beading joint- or in the box *factory of Schloe & Stephan, at Buffalo, New York, burst on the 5th, injuring four employes, one | fatally, John F. Vogeler, aged b5 years | was fatally injured near Camden Sta~ | tion, Baltimore, on the 4th, by crossing | the track in front of an engine after he | had been warned not to do so. ; ~The President has withdrawn the nonination of Dr. John G. lee, of | Philadelphia, to be Secretary of Lega- tion at Constantinople. The with drawal is at Dr. Lee's request, w= Profersor W. H, Ruffner, Principal of the State Normal School of Virginia, has written to Secretary Lamar, with- drawing his application for the position of United States Commissioner of Edu- cation. —Jt 18 belizved in Wnshington that Mr. Cannon will soon resign the Comp- trollership of the Currency to accept a position in a New-York bank. ~The New York Legislature met on the Hth and organized, Mr. Pitt being lected President Fre tempore of the Senate, and Mr, Husted of the House. The message of Governor Hill was read, =The Mississippi Legislature met and organized on the 5th. In the varity receniy election, Supreme : i 3 House a colored man was elected door- keeper. » " ~The police of Victoria, British Columbia, report that one thousand Chinese are suffering for bread in that city. ~Colonel Irvine, of the Northwest Mounted Police, reports that the Indi- ans in that region are behaving better than they have done for the last two years, His interviews with the Bloods and Piegans were “‘particularly satis- fa~tory.” ~A telegram from Montreal says ‘4t is understood that the United | States Commissioner has issued war- | rants for the arrest of a dozen Montreal furriers, jewellers and tailors who are suspected of smuggling goods nto the United States. Sbould any of these men cross the border they would be ar- | rested.” —The Executive Committee of the Trustees of Cornell University on the 6th, appointed Dr. J. G. Schurman to the new chair of Ethicsand Philosophy, in memory of the wife of a $10,000 building, to be erected on the | campus. Dr. Schurman is now I’rofes- at Halifax, He is 32 years of age. —The Maryland Legislature met on | the 6th and organized. E. Warleld | was elected President of the Senate, | and J. B. Seth, Speaker of the House, ~The Connecticut Legislature met | on the 6th and organized by the election | of Republican officers, John A. Tib- | bits, of New London, was chosen Speaker of the House, | —A snow storm of unusual violence, | with a temperature of 20 to 30 degrees below zero, is reported in the moun- tains of northern Colorado. It 1s feared that large numbers of cattie have perished. ~The Secretary of the Treasury on to be Inspector of Foreign Steam | Vessels at the port of Philadelphia, vice James H. Hand, removed. —Colont! Henry L. Scott, U.S. A,, died on the 6th in New York, aged 71 years He was Inspector General on retired from active servica after the general'sdeath, in 1862. co A ir FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. SENATE In the Senate on the 6th Mr. Morgan ordered a resoluton, which was adoptle directing the Committee on lundi Affairs **to consider and report whetl a wise policy in the civilization of Indian required the establishment of a school west of the Mississippi river based on the princip ilitary enlist. ment, instructio: line of In- dians youths, with a view of qualifying them for service in the United States.’ Mr. Blair, from the Committee on Ed- ucation and ator, reported favorably the bill to aid in the establishment of common schools—the same Will passed by the Senate last year. Adjourned. Ia the Senate on the 5th the creden- tials of John Ww. Daniel, SEAR LOT # lect frem Virginia, were presented and laid on the table. Mr. Edmunds called up | the Utah bill reported by him from the Judiciary Committees. Mr. Hoar moved | to strike out the seventh section, pro- After discussion, the bill went over. A message was re. ceived from the President transmitting | the draft of a bill to provide for the | allotment of lands in severalty to the Indians, It was read and referred. The Judicial Salary ull was taken up. | went into executive session, and when the doors were re- opened adjourned. The Senate spent | an hour and a half In executive session | considering nominations of minor post~ | masters, chiefly in Kentucky and Ten- nesses, but did nbt reach action on any | HOUSE Inthe House, on the 5th, Messrs Laird, of Nebraska, and McAdoo, of | New Jersey, presented bills to prevent the acquisition of property for aliens; by Mr. Buchanan, of New Jersey, for | the retirement aod recoinage of the York, proposing a constitutional | amendment establishing uniform: laws of marriage and divorce; by Mr. Barks. dale, of Mississippi, to remove the re- strictions on the coinage of the Bland dollar; by Mr, Johnson, of North Caro- lina, to abolish internal taxation, and by Mr. Reid, of North Carolina, to re- | duce the duty on steel rails to seven dollars per ton. After 790 bills and resolutions had beeu introduced the | House adjourned. In the House on the 6th, the call iis ar i i 3 of | il resolutions was re- | sumed, Among the measures intro- duced were the following: by Mr. landall, of Penna. , to provide for the | Presidential succession, and proposing | a constitutional amendment giving the President power to veto specific items Treasury *‘to call $50,000,000 three per | in coin of | regulate inter-State coramerce § and by Mr. Tucker, to establish a Court of Avpeals. In all 8532 bills were intro- duced, when a motion was adopted to adjourn, leaving two States and the Territories to Le called, — Hearty Women. The German, *¥lemish and Dutch women who help husband or father in his fields, are strong, hearty women who rear a stalwart race. Half the fine ladies who now find a few turns on the plazza almost too much. for them, would be all the better for a graduated scale of garden work, Reginning with a quarter of an hour a day they would find at the close of a month that they could easily do their two hours, and that they ate and slept us they never had done before, while they forget that such evils as blue devils and nerves ever had any existence, Emerson says in his last essay, “that cannot be good for the bee that is bad for the swarm.’ This is a true proverb which will not wear out with a tion or two of use. to Inthe Gray Days, Evermore the days are long, and the cheer- less skies are gray, Restlessly wander the bafiling winds that scatter the blinding spray, And the drifting currents come like serpents across my way. and go Wearily fades the evening dim, drearily wears the night, The ghostly mists and the hurrying clouds and the breaker's crest of white Have blotted the stars from the desolate skie have curtained them from my sight. counters no passing sail, Welcoming friend nor challenging foe an- swers my eager hall wind’'s unceasing wall, Hopefully still my sails are bent, my pilot is faultlessly true, He holds my course as though the seas and the mirrowed skies were blue, For * over the spray and the clouds shines the eternal sun; dome still gleam when the day is dows, laughing skies when the port of rest is won a —————— DRIFTING, ‘The b is trimmed wit And all prepared 10 guit i hen off we go, with wind and tide, Across the suuny waves Lo glide Then row! row! row! 14 waves we go! ral 1 Baki And ORY, ihe shore Merrily overt The words of the boating-song float ed lightly over the waters, and died in many echoes among the trees on the river-bank. They brought a smile to the lips of Grant Clayton, artist and idler, as he lay under the shadow of those same trees, Lazily he lifted his handsome head, looked for £§ 3 iis resting it « hand, and Hn the singer, There she was in her light little skiff, just “‘feathering’® the oars, seemingly as happy as a child, with her bare brown graceful and pretty, muslin she wore and the dark uncovered arms showing, $ v oh from the lig sunset slanting on her head. “A perfect picture I'* the young man “1 to make a sketch artist-eyes kindling » Litoe I might call it ‘Drifting.’ ”’ if} ib i of her? He was ¢ took out us pencil and paper, and 3 n The girl noticed i work. him as she passed, and at (rst seem wd oJ as i surprised, then laughed softly and has- tily “backed inti] the skiff | water," 1 she called. “Come show I I'l] never again you Come and row me home; I'm | a Te Rex yourself openly, sir believe you when gay you cannot | sketch. tired.” Grant sprang uj a tall, but rather shame-faced young man—and approached the bank. The | girl eyed him with perfect com posure. “JI beg your pardon [” he stam- | mered, very much confused by those | calm, dark eyes. “I am not Rex, who- | ever he may be.” “So I see,” she replied calmly. And with a motion of her slender | wrists, she sent the skiff out again from | the shore; then bending gracefally to | the oars, she seemed fairly to fly over | hand. hen -— some, pled. “Jove | what a face!” the young wan | thought again, remembering all its] calm, dark beauty, as it had shone on | the shadows, *‘I will see it | this river for ever.” The dark, glowing face went with | him the whole night long; it haunted | the reception rooms of Mr. Nettleby, whose guest he was, during the follow- rain, and kept him indoors. He made a half dozen copies of his | hasty sketch, but not one of them did | justice to the face of his “lady of the He tore them up in despair, | and wondered what ailed him, as many | wiser men bave done before him, and | probably will do after, when the first | light shaft has flown from the bow of | Cupid, and the little god laughs to see | When the sun came out on the third day, a very handsome young artist might have been found in the very spot | from which he had seen the small boat first; but, although he watched for it until he almost lost his dinner, It never came, “1 am a masculine Mariana,’ he told himself in disgust, ‘‘She cometh not, and I'm making a fool of myself.” So he went back to Mr. Nettleby’s and found the daughters of the house ready to remind him of an engagement which had complety escaped his mind =a lawn dance, to which he was to es- cort them, given by a Mrs, Langton, “You have never seen Inez, or you would have remembered,” Miss Nett- Joby told him, and he latighingly de- clared he had not. They arrived rather late at the ple- turesque house of the Langtons, and found the merriest party possible dancing and laughing, and ‘‘turning all things to mirth’ in Mrs. Langton's grounds, “If I should meet ber here I" Grant thought, as he bent’ over the fair hand of his hostess. And the lady, as if conscious of his prayer, led him across the sward and hued light, The light came from a colored lan- tern suspended from a branch above her, but to the dazzled eyes of the ar- tist it seemed to come straight from heaven; for, at the word, “Inez, my daughter, I wish to present Mr, Clay- ton to you,” the dark eyes turned in his direction, and they were the same calm, magnificent ones that had looked up to him through the shadows of the sunset, He was stammering forth some com- drowned his voice, and in another mo- Langton toward the platform, which had been erected among the trees of the Jawn. the river; but her beauty had taken captive his artist soul, He found her a very queen of society, possessed of every grace, when he met night was over be knew that he had found his fate at last-—he loved her ! After that, there were no more hours of idle dreaming on the banks of the river; no more dallylng with brush and just at straight up to a stately figure which was heiress of Leighton. Once, as she allowed him to row her which song. on he lay and $ i 8 Of “1 thought of all the old legend the sirens that sang the German Lorely,” chain fell on me in have under he said, “but the that hour, I if enchant which in death for me, 1 wonder’ L000, been a spell « ment since. Is it one 8 + The girl's eyes softenea, as they went dreamily over the waters, and her lips became tremulous. Ch, to me 1” she pleaded; they are fo bear. When -you joined in my so hat | day—you remember it 7—I1 thought you were-——were another, Ah, Heaven, how we have drifted, you and 11" sig ill do not say such things 50 hard % YO ne t HE to something new and strange, sweet a dream of the L he said, softly, laying his han Hut GLOR ~ Lt as eater,” on hers, 1 She drew her hand from him with a st] You have took tell she said. ‘Rex’ asked me you." “1 did not think a friend ?v A fnend? Ah, no! a—a lover—the man who-—who is to be-—my husband.” Startled and white he sat there, look- at her fixedly, balf-despainingly. She gave him one swift glance, then shrank back, a look of keenest suffer- ing on her face. At last he broke the silence, **1t was the song of the Lorely, then!" he said bitterly. But that was all, Tne yon," that day. for whom I mis to ask. Was it not in her face; her hands trembled. “1 can say nothing to you,” she fal- | tered. ‘Do not think me weak or-—or wicked, Only—only it is sometimes | too late when we learn to read our own | “Was it so with you ?'' be questioned, his hips very white, She bent her head, and a sob broke from her. i “Oh, do not remain here I” she cried, | i He is noble and true, and ey ~and he loves me “Heaven help us both I'' the young | man prayed, reading the full meaning Then he lifted the oars, and shot the | boat shoreward. As it touched the | bank he sprang from it, “Farewell, Inez,” he said simply. And in a moment the trees had hid- den him from her, Five years later, a party of strangers were going through one of the galler- ies of St, Petersburg, and halted before | one picture “Inez.” somebody called, ‘‘come here! This is surely your face on the canvas. Who can have painted it ?*° A stately dark-eyed woman obeyed the summons, and turned deadly pale as she gazed. “It is a masterpiece I" criexl, But she did not heed, did not bear. She had gone back to the sunset hour which a hand she knew had portrayed her. Her own voice echoed about her as it had that day, until another took up the strain, and mingled with its swedtness a stronger melody, She almost felt the last touch of sun- set on her face, as it lay in the picture; for, as she had gone idly through it that summer day, so he had painted her-the man who bad loved her, whom she had sent from her, “Drifting,” he had called it, And the dark eyes of Inez filled as she looked at the calm face of the girl, who, she told herself, had died long since leaving a woman, sad and sore row~worn in her place, She found bis name—Grant Clayton and with a hand that trembled, somebody An hour after he received her note he stood before her with outstreched { hand, and a face which the years had scarcely touched in passing. | “I know how great a foily I commit- face again,” he sald to her; “but I could not help it —1 came, In an | will again bid each other farewell; but | 1 had such a yearning for sight of your face, sound of your voice, touch of your {hand ! I did not mean to say this to | you,” he broke off, suddenly; “but for five years I have been as the starving, | as one dying of thirst! | may bave much bitterness in it, but | ‘twill cool my fevered lips. As for that | other, to whom you belong—"’ She lifted her shaking hand to silence him. “My husband bas | years,"’ she said, softly. i Grant uttered a low cry. “And for two years you have been [ free! Why did I not know! Why did you not send me word to come to you? Dd you i been dead two ! Did you forget? me?’ riedly over her heart, “l did not know you come,’ “Oh, Inez! would care to again, my beloved 7’ 1 strove But I have pered. “‘I loved you then! against it, Heaven knows | fy loved you ever since ! er GR ps Spectacles Fewer Inventions have conferred a greater blessing on the human race than that which assists impaired vision, It is impossible to say how many there are at would be almost valueless were for the use of spectacles, Indee Johnson rightly expressed his surprise the present day tL not 1 Ay that such a benefactor as the discoverer of spectacles should have been regarded with indifference, and found no worthy biographer to celebrate his Unfortunately, however, his name is a ingenuity. matter of much uncertainty; and hence, prevented 18 Ine has so richly a grateful posterity have been m bestowing h wr which it i it may be noted that popular opi fon bas long ago pronounced in favor of Spina, a Florentine monk, as the rightful favor Spoon, ry merited, fre upon hon X $ ¢ AA ae " claimant, although some of Roger Bacon. 1 d’Antiquite,” i a i ir 8 “Researches ( ‘ the dats fixes ti vention of spectacles belween 1280 and 1 Alexander de Spina, some other person who was of { the years 1 +3 $ "hi, WEIL and says having seen a pair unwilling ¥ to communicate the secret v struction, ordered a pair for himself, and found them so useful that he cheer- public. According to an Italian anti quary, the person to whom Spin indebilad { he quotes from a manvseript in his “Here lies Salvino Ar- tor of spectacles, sins. The year 1518.” Coffee Houses in Germany During the three years following the of temperance work In Ger- many there has been a great deal of talking, arguing and preparing for been done, the time for organized action had come, and one large town after the other has i seen the opening of coffee houses on country. “The largest of these “puble writer has ealled them, has recently cess has been such that, notwithstand- must appear ridiculously low. Thus, a large cup of coffee, with milk and sugar —the latter a luxury generally only indulged in by the well to do—is charged a balfpenny, while a cup of tea, chocolate, or beef tea costs a pen- ny. That Hamburg, the German Liver pool, takes the initiative in the tem- perance movement is highly gratifying, and the success of the first German coffee house of ths kind will no doubt be a great stimulus to other large towns to follow suit, And how dire the need for such institutions 1s throughout the country must be apparent to all who have any personal knowledge of the German nation. Is, Astle of Patmos. The church of St. John the Divine is on the Isle of Patmos off the west coast of Asia Minor, It was built in the twelfth century by the Byzantine em- The building has the appear. ance of a Middle Age fortress, Not far distant is the famous cavers or where the Apocalypse is said to him a line, “I remain a week in the city. 1f you have not forgotten an old friend, I will ha glad to see you at"? have been written by St. John. II OS : He whose only be careful as to Dig a well before you ure thirsty. The ripest fruit will not fall into your mouth, Worrying will wear the nchest life to shreds, Better to tnink and not say than to say and not think, Did you ever benefit yourself by los ing your temper? It requires an abler man to take ad- vice than to give iL Words are oftener the substitute than the vehicle of thought. i { ! | | | Keep clear of a man who does not | value his own characler, 1 | Happy is the man who has neighbors willing to forgive his mistakes, The pleasure of doing gond is the only one that does not wear out. To be dumb for the remainder of life | 1s better than to speak falsely. It is upon the smooth ice we slip; the { rough path is safest for the feet, No one needs so much watching as { he who is always watching others. Water does not remain in the moun- tains, nor vengeance in great minds, There is only one way to be happy. | and a thousand ways to be wretched. The wisdom, the bLlessedness, comes through loving not through being loved. Be careful in little things; it is the straws that show which way the cur rent runs, It is not after all so much what we enjoy as what we expect to, that makes us happy. The red man may ‘‘scorn your prof- | fered treaty,’ but leave off the last syl- } lable and try him. It is easier to enrich ourselves with a sand virtues than to correct our single fault, The increase of knowledge includce the increase of sorrow; but the know- ledge of the depth of sorrow is the gate of a divine joy. Faults are pliable in infancy; change- » in childhood; more resoluie in y rooted in manhood; and Oo oid age, pin our sleeve, and ty, deprives subjects us faith on another man’ independence, anc to just contempt. beliefs queslion Fear and laziness i only trust and courage will them, To reject secrated demands a consecrated mind. Women a are cowardly fect them can accept Col opinion $4 when olh Tobe been wile and 1o be poor have always reproaches, and therefore men seek werty {rom and rom themselves | Live within your means and will know how much you have but the moment borrow people know how poor you are, il excel in his elf 1 it flor others yobody ahead cent you a NO man inks merce will ne | where comrLerce Men are every day saying and doing from the power of education, habit and imitation, that which has no root what ever in thelr serious cony We should | duty by success. The of assails us in the course of obedienee iu | no eveadence that we are mistaken. No man is worthy of laboring for the { highest and purest whose hand and heart | are pot pure. There 18 no greatness i which does not rest on true morality. Love may be blind, as they say, but it can be noticed that in all th of the ages it has never kissed the girl's | mother by when it reached w profession if it; and com irish in any countr) 8 not respected, . { he t above it iid ictions, learn not to iterrupt pposition whick il +5 % id Tin POL rie mistake | after the girl. We aim at great things and pass by | the little. We are continually « the | stretch for splendid opportunilies and | neglect those which are within our every-day reach. Beautiful souls often get into plain | bodies, but they cannot be hidden, and tiave a power all their own, the grealer for the consciousness of the humility which gives it grace. The earth is a great factory wheel, | which, at every revolution on its axis, | receives fifty thousand raw souis, and turns off nearly the same number work- { ed up more or less completely. A Bible and a newspaper every house, a good school in every district, all and appreciated as they merit, are the principal support of vir tue morality and eivil liberty. Every good and bely desire, Llhough | it may lack the form, bath, in itself the substance and force of a praver with God, for he regards as prayer the moan: ings and sighings of the heart. A religion that never suffices to gov- | ern a man will never suffice to save him, studied from a sinful world will never distin. guish him from a perishing world The great art of conversation consists in not wounding or humiliating any one, In speaking only of things that we know, in conversing only of subjetos which may be of interest fo them. A good book and a good woman are excellent things for those who know how justly to appreciate their value. There are men, however, who judge ol both from the beauty of the coveriag. Mind what you run after, Never be content with a bubble that will burst, por with a firework that will end in smoke and darkness, Get that which is worth keeping and that you can keep, Dean Swift said that the reason » certain university was a learned place was that the most persons took nome learning there, and but few brought any away with them, and so it accumulated. Things are saturated with the wora law. is no escape from it. Vie jets and grass preach it; rain and snow, wind and tides, every change, even) course in nature, is nothing but a dis No secret sin cught to have a doors, To wicked A
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