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facing Tip and down the room, apparently
dazed.
" 'Hawthorne,' I said, 'how are you?
"Where is Ticknor?'
" 'They have taken him away,' said he.
" What do you mean?' I asked. 'I don't
Understand yon.'
"'Well,' he said, it is too bad. He was
ay best friend; I depended on him, and he
came to please me.'
" 'I could make nothing out of it at all.
He seemed to me bewildered. I feared for
his mind, and going down to the office asked
the clerk, Mr. Duffy, what it all meant
He thru staggered me with the information
that Ticknor was dead had died that morn
ing. " 'Where is his body ?'" I asked.
" 'It was taken early this morning to the
tindertaker's,' " he said.
BATVTHOEN E'S- DEATH.
"I was astounded, bat, hastening' back to
Hawthorne, comforted him as much as I
could, implored him to keep quiet, and at
last succeeded somewhat in calming; him
down. I then Went to the undertaker's,
took charge of Ticknor's body, saw that it
was"properly cared tor and embalmed, and
, telegraphed to his partner, my old friend,
James X. Fields. One oi Ticknor's sons at
once came on to Philadelphia and took his
lather's remains to Boston.
"It was a deplorable and distressing event;
a very fatal journey. Hawthorne lingered
here in Philadelphia whh me for a few days,
and then I placed him in the keeping of the
cood Bishop Howe, of Pennsylvania, a com
mon friend, who accompanied him to Bos
ton. There he passed the night with James
T. Fields, who says they sat up late talking
about Ticknor, and that Hawthorne was in
a very excited and. nervous state, recalling
incessantly the sad scenes he had been pass
im mg luronzn id -ruuaceipnia. an me morn
ing ae returned to nis old home in Concord,
t and stortly alter ne died at Plymouth, N.
of his lite-long friend, ex-President Frank
lin Pierce.
"X nave still in my possession the touch
ing letter written by President Pierce to
Mr. Fields, in which he describes the peace
ful death of Hawthorne. It was painly
penned under the greatest excitement and
distress ot mind. It contained a note an
nouncing to Mrs. Hawthorne her bereave
ment, and was carried to Mr. Fields bv
Colonel Hibbard. ' 'Oh, how will she bear
this shock?' the note says. 'Dear mother!
dear children! When I met Hawthorne at
Boston a week ago, it was apparent that he
was mnch more leeble and more seriously
diseased than I had supposed him to be.
We came Irom Senter Harbor yesterday
aiternoon, ana j. thought ne was, on tbe
whole, brighter than he was the day before.
He retired last sight soon after 9 "o'clock,
and soon fell into a quiet slumber. In less
than half an hour he changed his position,
but continued to sleep. I lett the door
'open between his bedroom and mine,
our beds being opposite to each other.
I was asleep myself before 11 o'clock.
The light continued to burn in mv room.
At 2 o'clock I went to H.s bedside. He
was apparently in a sound sleep. I did not
place my hand upon him. At 4 o'clock I
vent into his room again, and, as his posi
tion"was unchanged, I placed my hand upon
him and lound that life was" extinct. I
went immediately for a physician, and
called Judge Bell and Colonel Hibbard.
who occupied rooms on the same floor and
sear me. He lies upon his side, his posi
tion so perlectly natural and easy, his eyes
closed, that it is difficult to realize while
looking upon his noble face that this is
death. He must have passed from natural
slumber to that from which there is no
waking without the slightest movement. I
cannot write to dear Mrs. Hawthorne, and
you must exercise your judgment with re
gard to sending this and the unfinished note
inclosed to her.'
"the scaelet letteb."
"It was a beautiful death, but a sad event.
Hawthorne X shall always hold vividly in
remembrance. I have the original manu
script of his 'Consular Experiences, and a
copy of the first edition of the 'Scarlet Let
ter,' brought to light so wonderfully by .Mr.
Fields. Hawthorne wrote to me, soorr after
its publication in 1851, that he was much
gratified by my favorable opinion of the
charming romance, and that I might be
interested to know 'that it was so far
9 founded on fact that such a symbol as the
f " 'Scarlet Letter' " was actually worn by at
1 least one woman in tbe earty times of New
I England.' Whether this personage, he'
added, resembled Hester Prynne in any
f other circumstances of her character, he
, could not say, nor whether this mode of
I ignominious punishment was brought from
beyond tbe Atlantic or originated with the
f New England Puritans. At any rate, he
said, the idea was so worthy of them that he
t felt 'piously inclined' to allow them all the
t credit of it."
Alter a few remarks on Longfellow, Mr.
f Childs resumes:
L "I prize very much the note he sent me
!. March 13, 1877, apropos of his 70th birtb-
, day. 'Yob do not know yet,' it reads,'what
it is to Dtf o years old. will tell you, so
that you may sot be taken by sarprise when
yoor turn comes. It is like climbing the
Sips. You reach a snow-crowned summit,
and see behind you the deep valley stretch
ing miles and miles away, and before you
other summits higher and waiter, which
you may have strength to climb, or may
sot- Then yon sit down and meditate and
wonder which it will be. That is the whole
story, amplify it as you may. All that one
can say is, that life is opportunity.' How
aj true this is I know full well. My ex- j
perience enables me to perceive tne wisdom
of the poet's words.
"There is a curious incident in my ac
quaintance with James Bussell Lowell. It
fr happened lately that he was in Philadelphia
slight attack of sickness, and he came
promptly and kindly to call upon me and
pass tbe afternoon. One of the treasures of
xoylibrary is the manuscript of Lowell's
poem, 'Under the Willows." which, accord
ing to a marginal note, was begun in 1850
and finished in 1868. We spent a quiet,
pleasant afternoon together, and he seemed
to be much interested" in my collection of
original manuscripts, which included 'Our
Mutual Friend,' by Dickens, Poe's 'Mur-
. a t. r S J .t
s. oers in tne xiue juurcue, ana many omer
t precious writings. Finally I surprised him
K. with a glimpse of his own poem. He had
half forgotten it, and at my request took the
volume away with him, returning it in a
few days with the following explanatory
note: 'Ajjartof this poem (as the sole on
the margin opposite says) was written in
1850 as an introduction to the 'Nooning,' a
projected volume ot tales in verse. By
changes and additions I tried to make asell
subsidentpoem out of material already pre
pared for another purpose. Old and sew
are so interwoven that I cannot now, after
an interval of 20 years, distinguished be
tween them.'
OLIVEE TVEKDEI.Ii HOLMES.
"About 25 years ago I was in Boston one
day, in a bookstore a wretched day, rainy,
sloppy and muddy when I saw the striking
figure of a little man, wearing a slouched
bat, his pantaloons rolled up, dashing along
tbe street. He looked as little like a poet
as a man could. I turned to the bookseller
and asked him who that was. 'That is
Oliver Wendell Holmes,' he said. 'Well,
2 want to know that man;' and I got to
know him, and we have been the best of
lnends ever since. A more genial, genuine,
delightful man, and a finer conversational
ist, I never knew. A copy of 'The Autocrat
of the Breakiast Table,' which he sent me,
contains an interesting letter giving me his
reasons for beginning tbe papers in the
Atlantic Monthly, which magazine he says
lie named.
"At I speak a thousand faces pass before
tne. None more gentle and kind than that
of Emerson. He visited me with his
daughter; a tranquil, livable man, and he
wrote me letters. It is a pity, by the way,
that I tailed to preserve my correspondence;
much of it, doubtless, would be now ot con
siderabls interest."
Following recollections of John Lothrop
Motley, W. H. Prescott, George Bancroft,
G. P. . James and T. Buchanan Bead, he
says of James Gorden Bennett:
".He was a quiet, unobtrusive, forcible
zoan. For years, he told me, he had his
office a few doors from the Brooks' Erastus
nd James, of the Evening JEzpass and
had never met them. We often talked
her in reflective moods. He was emi
nently practical 'Childs,' he once said,
'how unfortunate it is tor a boy to have rich
parents! If vou and I had been born that
way, perhaps " we wouldn't have amounted
to much.'
"It is a pleasure for me to recall the my
riad faces of my guests during many years,
here in Philadelphia, at Wootton, and at
Long Branch Besides those I have men
tioned, there was tbe great and good George
Peabody. We were very clow to each
other. "He had his portrait painted for me
by the Queen's artist, and there it hangs on
tbe wall, one of the most valued of my pos
sessions. His name recalls that of "Peter
Cooper. These two were considerate and
broad-minded philanthropists. Iwent with
Mr. Cooper on his ninetieth birthday to
Baltimore during the sesqui-centennial cel
ebration. He there told me an interesting
story of his early life in that city when he
had'become manager of the iron works at
Canton. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company had built their road beyond Point
of Bocks, but no engine could get round the
curve. Cooper, then, with 50 gentlemen,
embracing tbe directors and others inter
ested in the road, improvised an engine
built of gun barrels, and successfully
rounded the curve. When we were in Bal
timore together, only one man, J. H. B.
Latrobe, besides himself, was left of the
original 60."
SOME NOTABLE GUESTS.
It is a brave array of names, the guests of
Mr. Childs: Generals Grant, Sherman,
Meade, Sheridan, Hancock, McDowell and
Patterson, Edmund Quincy, Chief Justice
Waite, A. J. Drexel, Asa Packer, the
Astors, Cadwaladers, Prof. Joseph Henry,
Hamilton Fish, BobertC. Winthrop, Charles
Francis Adams, Presidents Hayes, Arthur
and Cleveland, Chauncey M. Depew, Cor
nelius Yanderbilt, Thomas A. Edison,
Simon Cameron, Henry Wilson, William
M. Evarts, James G. Blaine, John Welsh,
August Belmont, Alex. H. Stevens, Samuel
J. Tilden (one of his last requests was to
have Mr. Childs visit him at Graystone),
Cyrus W. Fied, B. J. Lossing, Mrs.
Grover Cleveland, Charlotte Cushman,
Christine Nilsson, Harriet Hosmer, John
Bigelow, Thomas A. Bayard, Parke
Godwin, Edwards Pierrepont and many
others. Mr. Childs does not hesitate to say
that one of tbe chief pleasures of his life has
been the keeping of an open house to worthy
and distinguished people. The reception
he gave to the Emperor and Empress oi
Brazil was perhaps the most notalile gather
ing ot people ever assembled in any private
house in America. There were over 600
fuests, and Mr. Childs' was the first private
ouse at which the Emperor and Empress
had ever been entertained. But one must
not overlook in this incomplete list of visi
tors the names of the Duke and Duchess of
Buckingham, the Duke of Sutherland, the
Duke of Newcastle, Lords Dufferin, Bose
berry, Houghton, Ilchester, Eoss, Iddes
leigh, Bayleigh, Herschell, Caithness and
Dunraven, Sir Stafford Northcote, Lady
Franklin, Dean Stanley, Canon Kingsley,
Charles Dickens, George Augustus Sala,
Joseph Chamberlain, M. P.; J. Anthony
Fronde, Prof. Tyndall, Prof. Bonamy Price,
Admiral Lord'Clarence Paget, Sir Philip
CnnliffeOwen, Col. Sir Herbet Sanford,
Charles Kean, Marquis de Bochambeau,
John Walter, M.P.; Sir Charles Reed,
Herbert Spencer "(who was sadly afflicted
with insomnia while visiting Mr. Childs),
Tnomas Hughes, M. P.; Sir John Bose. Sir
Edward Thornton and Robert Chambers,
D. C. L.
For the next paper in the series Mr.
Childs has revised and enlarged his enter
taining recollections of General Grant, and
one of its interesting features will be an
engraving of a picture painted by the Gen
eral and now in the possession of Mrs.
Grant,
2I0N0TONI IN MUSTACHES.
HOME-flROWfl FISHES.
There is Pleasure and Profit in a
Parlor Goldfish Hatchery.
WATCHING WATER BABIES GfiOW.
John Chinaman, at Home, Is Something of
a Goidfisherman.
THE TUMBLES AND THE FBINGE-TAIL
rwniTTEN fob'the pisfatcr.1
Three glass jars in a local, naturalist's
study the other day were labeled respect
ively: "Gold Orfe," "Fringe Tail" and
"-Tumbler." Ite
'HrvSS'
An Englishman SIcbs for a Chance In Facial
Ornaments.
London Troth.
When mustaches and shaven cheeks were
few in this country I held my peace, but
now that they have become universal I
venture to propound the respectful inquiry
whether this be a kind of facial decoration
which really suits the Anglo-Saxon coun
tenance? My idea is that a thin, pale dark
man looks well with mustaches and shaven
cheeks, especially if he have a nose of some
sort. But as a nation (there are, of course,
honorable exceptions, as for example, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer) we have no
noses to speak of, and our cheeks are, for
the most part, fat and red, and our eyes are ,
not at all nerce and romantic, but light
colored and usually meaningless.
Now, wbether this cast of countenanceis
suitable to the brigand style of facial hair
growing in a serious question. I venture
to suggest that a jury of matrons, or, rather,
of maidens, should forthwith be impaneled
to try tho matter out. Of course, if Ange
lina and her mother really think that Ed
win, who is a bank clerk, looks his best dis
guised as a desperado there is an end to tbe
matter; still, I can't help that this univer
sal fierceness is becoming monotonous.
jars each contained
about half a gallon
of clear water, in
which were floating
a number of twist
ed brown threads.
An uneducated eye
could distinguish-
so difference be
tween the jars and
their contents, and when I asked the nat
uralist to point out for my edification the
orfe and the fringe-tail and the tumbler,
he smiled the smile of superior knowledge.
Bnt all the same he pointed them ont.
"This is one of the fringe-tails," he said,
directing attention with the point of his
pencil to a whitish globule adhering to one
of the threads in the water. "There are 40
or 50 more in the (jar, as you will notice
upon looking closely. And here in this jar
is the tumbler (it, too, was a whitish
globule, precisely like its confrere), and in
the other the orfe.
"Without making any mystery about it,
tbere are the eggs of the goldfishes whose
common names are written upon the labels.
I have prepared them for a little girl I
know who wants to see them grow un
der her own eye from the egg into big,
bright, crimson-coated fishes."
WATCHING THEM GBOW.
"And can she have her wish?"
"Nothing easier. Almost every member
of the human family is interested in seeing
a fish swim about in water, and with reason,
as there is no more beautiful or trracelnl ob
ject on earth; and it has always been a
source of wonder to me that so tew people,
comparatively, in this country know any
thing about the habits and characteristics
of the fishes, which in older countries
are almost indispensable to tbe adorning ot
the home. If you were to ask the average
middle-class Chinaman, for instance, the
question you have just asked me, namelv,
"Is it possible for a little girl to see fishes
grow under her own eye at home from the
egg to maturity?" be would laugh
fish dealer almost in any city, and if the
business is conducted in a systematic way
many a dollar can be pleasantly earned in
this manner by ladies or children who have
a love for natural history. When a con
servatory is available with .sufficient
space for the building of three
little ponds, say about four
feet each in diameter, the parent fish may
be secured from "the dealer and gold fish
culture be entered upon in earnest, Tbe
eggs continue to make their appearance
throughout the summer, and as there is a
constant succession of little Josephs, with
their coats of many colors, a careful and
successful gold fish culturist may take some
hundreds of dollars' worth offish out of the
ponds, which may find shelter in a moderate-sized
conservatory.
"But the beginner must not be too san
guine at first. While gold fish are very
hardv animals, like everything bavinc life.
they are mortal, and subject to accident and
disease: I have a fish here which has the
consumption. It was brought to me this
morning by its owner, who had but just dis
covered that it is unwell, in hopes that I
might be able to suggest some remedy for
its cure; but tbere is no cure for it"
He led the way to a glass tank containing
about two gallons ot water, in which a sincle
fish was resting, with its head held much
lower than its tail. To the most casual eye
it was a very sick fish. Its body, instead of
being plump and of an even contour, was as
emaciated as a dried herring, and the rich
Vermillion color of the average goldfish had
faded into a sickly pink. Its fins were half
drawn in toward the fish's body and seemed
to be glued into fixed position by a slimy
substance which covered them.
"Do you see it cough?" asked the nat
uralist "No."
"Well, watch it closely for a minute or
two, and you will see, what I mean."
The fish began moving about slowly and
feebly, occasionally stopping to brush its
gills against the stock of a plant growing in
the water, us though endeavoring to brush
awav some obstruction. At these pauses a
convulsion sometimes shook the fish from
head to tail, and this the dealer declared td
be occasioned by a cough.
That fish is a warning to carejess people.
Those who purchase gold fish should follow
the dealers' instructions to the letter in the
matter of food and changing the water. Im
pure water affects the fish's gills first. The
gills are the fish's lungs, and consumption
of the lungs is as certainly fatal in the fish
tribe as in the human tribe. H. A. W.
WE AKE SETTER NOW.
Bessie Bramble Says George Wash
ington Are Plentiful and That
BISHOP POTTER IS A PESSIMIST.
All the Churches Are Growing in Bnmhers
and Influence and
PATEIOTS AEE JJ0T SCARCE H0WADATS
JIMMI'S GENEROUS FRIEND.
at you, because the homes of
tbe Chinese are gay with goldfishes
swimming in china bowls in the houses and
in porcelain tanks everywhere out of doors;
and tbe Chinaman, like his cousin the Jap
anese, is a cunning fish culturist The tum
bler fish, whose eggs are in the jar here, is a
variety which came to us originally from
China, and while, as its color is blue,
tinged with orange, it cannot properlv be
called a goldfish, it ranks with them, being,
like them, a member ot the family of orna
mental fishes. But a peculiarity greater
than the oddity ot its color possessed by
this fish is a habit it has when swimming of
throwing itself over and over in the water,
as a tumbler pigeon does when flying.
"Now the fringe-tail is a member of the
Japanese branch of the goldfish family, and
as his colors are Vermillion and white he is
a true goldfish. In some the back and sides
are a deep Vermillion, the throat and belly
gold and the fins and tail a pure white. As
the tail is larger than the body and grace
fully floats through the water in the wake
of the gorgeous body, like the tail of a
comet, it is by no means the mean organ
thnt the caudal appendage is usually sup
posed to be and deserves to give the little
swimmer its name as it does. Bnt here is
the fringe-tail's portrait judge for yourself
on that point:
j
.'-'"""sfifck-ssMsMiSi
Fringe-Tail Goldfish.
CONSUMED BT ALCOHOL.
by
A Victim of Drink Utterly Destroyed
Spontaneous Combustion.
Kcir York Graphic.
The startling .story told in the medical
journals from the pen of a Dr. Booth of
England of the spontaneous 'combustion of
an alcohol consumer suggests the pos
sible necessity of protecting property from
conflagration by confining drunkards in fire
proof jails. The victim of this combustion
was an old man of 65, a thoroughly pickled
whiskey bibber. His remains were lound
propped against a stone wall. A small
piece of adjacent woodwork was consumed
just above the man's head.
The body, however, was almost a cinder,
retaining the form only enough to recog
nize the.jnan. Both hands and 'one foot
were burned off and had fallen into the
stable below. Tbe soft tissues were en
tirely consumed. When moved, the re
mains collapsed., He had evidently died in
a stupor.
MATHEMATICAL SHOOTING.
How Georsia Ilnnter DInnaeed to Kill
Five Squirrels With Ono Bullet,
Esvannxh Hews. J
There is an. old gentleman in Forsyth
county who is very fond of hnnting. When
ever he walks abroad his wife always bears
him company. Kecently he went out to
drive the cows. During his walk he dis
covered five squirrels up one tree and also
discovered that he.had lost all ot his bullets
but one. He sat down, drew out his pencil
and day book, and, carefully surveying the
distance up to the first squirrel, began: If
six grains of powder will move a bullet
three inches, how many grains will it take
to carry it up to the squirrel, a distance of
about 30 feet? made his calculations, put in
the required amount of powder, just enough
to kill the squirrel and for the bullet not to
pass through.
He banged away and down came bushy
tail. He took his knife out cut out the ball,
loaded up again and fired until he killed
tbe five squirrels with one bullet and loaded
his rifle with it the sixth time."
Mining- In a Sinn's Bend.
PnnxsnUwney Spirit. J
Tne Hungarian who was brought to town
one day last week and placed in the lockup
for mistaking another Hungarian's head for
a coal mine and proceeding to dig holes in it
with a pick, was given his liberty, no one
appearing auaiusb mui. j.ue man upon
whom he used the pick was not hurt much.
He had only five holes punched through
his skcll.and tbe pick did not penetrate his
liver more than once.
Sprlns; Styles In Ponx'y.
Fanxsotawney Spirit.
The spring style of ladies' hat most in
vogue, resembles a clam shell covered with
water moss and sea weed. A lady who ob
jects to being thought a clam should keep
jrom, in uuuer its sncii.
"Now as to the gold orfe. Tbere is a fish
which is my own importation irom Europe.
It is as fine a food and game fish as any
sportsman need want, and at the same time
is a bright Vermillion from the tip of its
nose to the end of its tail. It is as big when
full grown as the largest trout, and as know
ing as a fox. It is pre-eminently the aris
tocratic game fish of the world, and is to
be found in the private fish pond of every
German nobleman. Swimming, as the
members of this family do in schools near
the top of the water, and being hardy
enough to remain out of doors all winter
the gold orfe is particularly fitted for
fountiins and ponds. And right here let
me say a word, please, about the apathy of
the average American in this matter -of pri
vate fish ponds.
THE FISH POND.
"In Europe one of the most important
features of a country establishment is the
fish ponds. How many private fish ponds
will you find in the grounds of suburban
residences here? Comparatively iev; and
yet I do not hesitate to say that nothing is
better calculated to give pleasure and profit
than a private pond. It may serve the
purpose of a flower bed, by being planted
with lilies; it can be boated through in
summer and skated upon in winter; in
spring and summerit will afford fresh fish
and the sport of catching them, and on the
first winter after it is built enough ice may
be cut from its surface to pay the cost of
keeping it in order for a quarter of a cen
tury." "But about the little girl, when she gets
the fish eggs home, what will she do with
them? What artificial means are required
to make them bloom into fishes? Will she
put them into an incubator or the oven?"
"Neither, my dear sir; neither. All that
is required is that they be kept in a room
where tbe temperature is equable, ranging
between 60 and 90 Fahrenheit, and in
such a position that the morning sun shall
shine upon them if possible. Sometimes
the eggs will break out into little fishes' in
two days alter being placed in the jar, some
times in six days; but always immediately
after coming into the world the little fish is
sluggish and misshapen. It is not strong
enough at the beginning to forage for itself,
and it has no parents to work for
it. So Mother Nature fastens a two-days'
supply of food, in the shape of a yolk bag
to each little fish before she launches it.
But at the end of two or three davs the volk
bag is absorbed, and then the youngster
really a -little fish now, but as dull coated as
any common minnow swims freely about,
eating the microscopic food germs which are
to be found in the clearest water. In the
course of eight or ten days they will be from
half an incb to an incfi long, and will be
strong enough to be transferred to the aqua
rium. iut j. wouia recommend tbat the
little ones be given an aquarium to them
selves for the first lew months in
order to make sure of their not being
eaten by the larger fishes, as well
as to 'facilitate the watching of their
gradual change from dull-colored
minnows into the most gorgeously clothed
of all the little water people that I know.
Some precocious specimens will come out in
all tbek finery within six weeks after leav
ing the eggs and others not for six month.
depending upon varions circumstances
such as the variety of the fish, the qualitx
of the water, season when hatched, etc
- A. FISH'S COUGH,
The eggs can be procured from any gold
Evidence of Mnnllncis and Honesty Among
New York Newsboys.
Youth's Companion.
A gentleman in New York hailed a
bootblack for a shine. The lad-came rather
slowly for one of that lively guild, and be
fore he could get his brushes out, another
larger boy ran up, and pushed him aside,
saying, "Here, you go set down Jimmy!"
The gentleman was indignant at what he
deemed u piece of outragequs bullying,
and sharply told the new comer to clear
ont.
"Oh, that's all right,boss," was the reply,
"I'm only goin' to do it fur him; you see,
he's been sick in the hospital for mor'n a
month, and can't do much work yet, so us
boys all turn in and give him a lift when,
we can."
"Is that so, Jimmy?" the gentleman
asked.
"Yes, sir," wearily replied the boy; and
as he looked up, the pallid, pinched face
conld be discerned even through the grime
that covered it. "He does it fur me,lf you'll
let him."
"Certainly; go ahead," and as the boot
black plied the brush, the gentleman plied
him with questions.
"You say all the boys help him in this
way?"
"Yes, sir. When they ain't got no job
themselves, and Jimmy gets one, they turns
in and help him, 'cause he ain't very strong
yet; "you see."
"What percentage do vou charge him on
a job?"
"Jtteyy queried tbe youngster. "Idont
know what you mean."
"I mean, what part of the money do you
give Jimmy, and how mnch do you keep
out ot u
"You bet I don't keep none; I ain't no
snch a sueak as that!" "
"So you give it all to him, do you?"
"Yes, I do. All the bovs give up what
they gets on his job. I'd like to catch any
feller sneaking it on a sick boy, I wouldl
The shine being completed the gentleman
handed the urchin a quarter, saying, "I
guess your a pretty good fellow"; so you
keep 10 cents and give the rest to Jimmy
here."
"Can't do it, sir; it's his customer. Here,
Jim." He threw him the coin, and was off
like a shot after a customer of his own.
Without knowing it, he had preached a
good sermon from the text, "Let brotherly
love continue."
No Female Humorists.
New York Sun. J
We have a swarm of great American hu
morists; but how are we to account for the
fact that there is not a female humorist
among them? We have female poets, preach
ers, philosophers, politicians, historians,
artists and doctors; but where have we any
great American tunny writer of the sex of
Mother Eve? If it be true that even one
cannot be found, the fact is queer, if not
funny,
4. Cat Turns Trump.
Savannah News.
Somfe time ago Hr. Tillery moved from
TyTy to Sparks, on the Georgia Southern
and Florida railroad, the distance being
about 28 miles, carrying with him a good
and faithful old house cat. It seems that
the old cat did not appreciate hisnew home,
as about two or three weeks since "Tom
made his appearance back at the old place
and still remains there. -
All Boys Again.
WHEATS
- v
- -!! bjmt "V1PSE-!
Produce Exchange Broker (to Brindley,
who has just joined) We've two cliques
here, you know the whites and the blacks.
Which do you think you'd preler?
Brindley What's the matter with belong
ing to both?
rototfir
Chorus All right! Judge.
WEITTEir TOE THE DISPATCH.!
Judging by their printed utterances it
seems pretty plain that a large number of
the leading divines of the day are fully of
the opinion that the people of this country
especially, and the world generally, are go
ing to the bad. The great virtues that were
inherent in the men and women of a hundred
years ago are, as they think, hardly to be
found in this day and generation. The pa
triots of a century ago, whose hearts and
souls and mind and strength were devoted
to the good of their fellow citizens and the
advancement of the country are dead and
buried, and all their noble qualities with
them. Their sins have been visited upon
their descendants to the third and fourth
generation, but their greatness, honesty and
magnitude of mind have died out, and the
management of affairs has thereby fallen to
tricksters, plutocrats and vulgar politicians
whose highest aim is to make money and
purchase power at the expense of both prin
ciple ana patriotism.
Ideas the people of to-dav have, accord
ing to" Bishop Potter, but" thev are mer
chantable ideas, and opinions as to affairs
of State are for sale to the highest bidder,
while offices go to market like pigs ih a
poke. Fitness and capacity and character
are no more considered the essentials of can
didateswhile party fealty, fat fryings, per
sonal favoritism and nepotism are the prin
cipal features of politics to-day. Bishop
Potter meant all this in his Centennial ad
dress in which he gave Harrison, the ad
ministration and the political leaders such
a going over on the anniversary of Wash
ington's inauguration. His idea seemed to
be that the Presidents in these latter days
were vastly inferior in principles and pa
triotism to the Father of his Country and
his cotemporaries.
A SLAP AT THE PRESIDENT.
This was a direct slap at Harrison, and
yet, as reports go, the President is a most
devout Presbyterian and a much respected
deacon in the church. The Bishop's re
proach that high officials nowadavs boneht
their offices was a cut for Wanamaker, who J
is a good cnurcn man, and an eminent Sun
day school Superintendent, his arraignment
ot proiessional politicians was a direct dig
at Blaine, who is a good Presbyterian and
member of the church. Suchremarksbythe
worthy Bishop would seem to throw dis
credit upon the church, and to give strong
indication, not so much tbat patriotism was
decaying, as that the chtirch had not suffi
cient influence to make its adherents live
up to their professions. If great danger
to the country exists,when the highest offices
of the Government are in the hands of good
church members and notable Christians,
it is hard to see wliat is going to be done
about it If a good man who goes to church
every Sunday and fills the honorable
position of a deacon, and passes the plate,
and has patriotic blue blood in his
veins, and a martial hero and President for
a grandfather is not a fit successor for the
"immortal George" who, in Bishop Potter's
opinion, could better nil bis shoes?
Washington, by all accounts, was a
saintly man so is Harrison. Washington
regularly attended church so does Harri
son. Washington was distinguished for
political wisdom, superior tact, successful
sagacity, and courage beyond tbe common
with all such is Harrison credited also.
In -what lies the difference? The only point
to be, made, as ontside surface knowledge
goes, seems to be that in tbe case of Wash
ington the office very decidedly sought the
man, wniie in wese tatter aays tne
WAV SEEKS TkE OFFICE
with untiring zeal, unconcealed self inter
est, and with plain, ambitious, selfish intent,
not with an eye to the cause of the peo
ple, the country, the ideal of humanity, but
to the furtherance of party ends, the preser
vation of party power and the promotion of
personal and factional interests. Washing
ton was a patriot Harrison is a politician.
Tbat a wide distinction can be made nat
urally follows. Still even in Washington's
day real patriotism was as rare a virtue as
to-day among those in power. Benjamin
Franklin, one of the greaf men of the times
then, writes, "Tbat very few in publio af
fairs act from a mere view of the good of
ttieir country, wnatever they may pretend,
add though their actions may bring real
good to the country, yet men main
ly act on the idea that their interests
are those of the country and from motives
of self interest, rather than from any prin
ciple of goodness or motive of benevolence
just as men do to-day. And the wise old
philosopher goes on to sav that fewer men
still in public affairs act with a view to the
good of mankind.
From this opinion of a wise man concern
ing the public officers of 100 years ago, and
from the history of the times, it may be seen
that those so lauded by the Bishop for purity
and probity beyond any shown in the
present, were not a whit better than
the public men of to-day. Party spirit
seems to have been even more viru
lent, more 'bitter, more bigoted, more
rancorous and given to mudthrowing than
even in these days. It would be hard to
find a public man as much abused, maligned
and vilified as our beloved Washington
himself, who, by the friends of the opposi
tion, was treated to sucn vile moutbingsand
writings as shock the readers of political
history in these days. Jt Would be bard to
find in the campaigns of. the present as
much of political bitterness, factional
hatred and
MAMOITANT PAETT SPIBIT
as are shown in tbe history of the -past. The
world has processed in the matter, of
sweeter manners and purer laws, though
Bishop Potter seems to doubt it, and fancies
that politics now arcin a state of wicked
ness far exceeding that of the forefathers
day, and that the world groweth in wicked
ness. It is a little strange that Bishop Potter.
Brother Morgan Dix and so many other
distinguished divines should take such
dark and pessimistic views of this country
and its people. Do Ibey not remember that
such dire forebodings and such sorrowful
statements as to increasing, evil are likely
to discount and discredit the teach
ings of the church? Is it not
Elain that if men and manners
ave grown worse; if society has become in
creasingly wicked; if the people have grown
indifferent to the evils of politics, as shown
in a Government whose offices are bought
and sold as merchandize to the highest bid
der; if the Vice President has reached bis
high position by virtue ot his cash, and the
Postmaster General secured his by boodle,
as is so freely charged and asserted; it the
offices and their emoluments are peddled
around to those whose money or influence
are prime factors in their ap
pointments; if the Government as
to purity, honesty and capacity
is away below that of Washington's day,
then the church must have failed in its
teachings of morals and its inculcation of
whatsoever is pure, honest and of good re
port. It is a sad commentary on Sunday
schools, churches and orthodox teachings if
it be true that governments and people ore
worse than those of a centurrago that peo
ple are less inclined to thepeaceable fruits
of righteousness, less devoted to worksof
humanity, and less given to the' daily
practice of the golden rule than
A CENTUET AGO.
If Ingersoll had made such statements if
he had asserted that owing to the great
growth and manifold multiplication of the
means of grace and knowledge of tbe gospel
that the Government of the "United States
had grown more corrupt, more debased,
more given over to the lust of power and
mammon of unrighteousness that the peo
ple had grown indifferent to the evils of
nepotism and bribery and boodlerism by
reason of public school and Sunday school
'and primary meeting teachings, what a
howl of contradiction wonld have gone up
from every pulpit and every platform? How
the religious papers would have teemed
with figures and statistics to the contrary?
The colleges, tbe schools, the hospitals, the
works ot charity, the grand achievements of
the church in tbe redemption of the world
would have been cited as proofs of the op
position irom every stump ana puipit in tne
land.
And yet this is just what Bishop Potter
has done, and has been backed up in by
hundreds of pulpits all over the land. In
the corruption of the present as compared
with the past they, iu sober reality, pro-
A'BEAUTIFUL ISLAND.
The Spot Where the Atlantic Cables
ToncH the European Shore.
0NC& A HAUHT FOR PIEATES BOLD.
claim the failure of Sunday schools, relig
ious institutions, church enterprises and all
others that have been established for the
promotion of piety and the spread of gospel
ideas. If the Government of this country
to-day, which is in the hands of professing
Christians, such as Harrison, Blaine, Wana
maker. Attorney Miller and such other
subsidiary good men as "LIge Halford,"
Brother Quay et al is worse, vastly worse,
than that of a century aeo. as Bishop Potter
asserts, when many of the magnates who filled
high positions in Washington's day were
tainted with Tom Paineismand Yoltairean
ideas an inference may be drawn in favor of
n usmugiuHjuu uijcHitjr uuu uvuersouiuu
simplicity that would hardly find favorable
recognition by the clerical brethren of the
present age.
ODIOUS COMPAEISONS.
When such comparisons 'are drawn as
those by the good Bishop Potter .they are
apt to stir up controversy and provoke in
quiry. If, after a hundred years ot Chris
tian teaching, gospel evangelization, pulpit
propounding, and Sunday school education
of the masses, the Government is more cor
rupt, public Men are less honest, pure and
patriotic, does not the inference follow that
something is very wrong in the system of
education, the code of morality, the creed of
public opinion?
In convicting the public men and society
of the present of being behind those of a
hundred years ago the worthy Bishop throws
a shadow in the church he represents, dis
counts its enectiveness in the matter ot re
fining mankind, and gives the whole system
of Christianity a setback as a means of civ
ilization, a prime agent in making men
honest, truth-loving and given to growth in
all that is good and pure and true.
The year book of every religious denom
ination that publishes such record, shows
growth in numbers, churches, power, money
and influence. The Methodist Church
boasts of building a church every day in
the year, and of furnishing fabulous sums
for evangelization and Christianization.
The Baptist denominatfon finds encourage
ment in ever growing numbers and spread
ing ideas as to immersion. The Presby
terians record growing churches and in
creasing members, who believingly and
humbly accept the doctrines of foreordina
tion and total depravity and original sin.
The Episcopalians, whom Bishop Potter
represents so ably, report a vast increase in
numbers, a greaf advance in church
growth.
AN AMAZING SHOWING
in the way of reaching the masses and the
aesthetic classes; tbe Roman Catholics who
pride themselves upon their union of moral
and religious teaching are reported, to be
growing as never before, and of showing un
precedented advancement in the way of ac
cessions to the church and added power,
and in addition, all the minor sects are re
ported as increasing in numbers and erow
mg in influence, and yet withal, Bishop
Potter makes a prognosis est pessima and
proclaims the wickedness ot this generation
as compared with the sinners of a century
ago. It is really sad and rather tends to
weaken the idea that civilization is advanc
ing in all that tends to the best interests of
mankind, and that the course of the church
is ever onward and upward in all that re
lates to morality and the happiness and
sweetness of life.
It is sad to know that in the opinion nf
Bishop Potter and others of high note and
position that the tendency of American in
stitutions is downward from Washington's
day; that public men are degenerating; that
society is becoming more wicked; that
women are becoming demoralized and un
womanly in their demand for higher educa
tion; that public men, who are professing
Christians, are not to be trusted, and are
away off from Washingtonian examples
and Jeffersonian ideas. It is dreadiul to
think that notwithstanding all of tbe glow
ing and encouraging statistics of the church
that the world still lieth in wickedness, and
tbat in reality it has down-graded for the
last hundred years. If Brother Bishop Pot
ter has given a real picture of the decay
and demoralization of the people oi the
United States and their government, it
would predict the failure of the church.
Bnt such pessimistic ideas cannot be entertained.
Faints of Historical Interest in the, Imme
diate Ticinity.
i TBI? TO THE GKEAT SKELHG EOCK
THE tVOBLD GEOWS,
ideas germinate, and ultimately dominate.
Every reform, every advance, has been
pushed, crowded and finally forced by public
opinion, when backed by truth and the logic
of events. It is hardly creditable to the
church that skepticism is usually the motive
power in effecting great reforms in society.
It is a matter of sorrow and regret to many
that Bishop Potter has exposed the weak
ness of the religions forces he so ably repre
sents. If good Presbyterians like Harrison
and Blaine et al, aided by extra good Meth
odists like Wanamaker and others,
cannot establish an administration free
from reproach and odium, then "Jeffer
sonian simplicity," with radical accom
paniments, may become popular. If the
good deacon of the Indianartolis Presbyte
rian Church falls short of his high calling
in the management of the Piesidency it
will tend to weaken reverence and trust in
righteous men. If Brother "Wanamaker
does not run the Postoffice better than less
pious men it will have a tendency to weaken
laith in Sunday school ideals.
The fact of the matter if Bishop Potter
could only realize it is that Washingtons
nowadays are not so rare as of old, and
would not be so hard to find if demanded,
and that the mass of mankind is growing
better rather than worse. Evolution tends
to excellence. The world is growing
out of ignorance, hypocrisy and supersti
tion and toward sweetness and light.
Washington in his day was pre-eminent for
virtue, publio spirit and integrity thou
sands ot such could be drummed up to-day
on demand. The patriots of the past could
be duolicated by millions to-day, if need be.
Bishop Potter in his sermon showed him
self more as a pessimist than a patriot. That
so many churchmen agree with him seems
to show that the brethren have not the faith
they profess in the power of the chnrch to
reform mankind and establish righteous
ness. Bessie Bbamole.
rcoEKisroxDENCE or Tits dispatch. 3
Kkightstowx, Ieelakd, May 6. If
anyone ever heard of Yalentia Island, Ire
land, the thought concerning it is likely to
have only taken on tbe commercial form of
its being a bit of land off the southwest Irish
coast to which and from whence the needs
and news of the new and the Old World are
day and night flashed over the Atlantic
cables, the successful laying of Jhe first of
which was accomplished in July, 1866. But
no spot within the myriad entrancing
places provided among the natural beauties
of Ireland, can be found more enjoyable
from its own winsomeness andgrandeur.
It is an emerald gem cut out of the north
western corner of the peninsular barony of
Iveragh", in county Kerry, with the sea ever
thundering against the sublime cliffs of its
southwest and northwest faces, and sloping
to verdure-clad beaches, kissed by silvery
waters which, land-locked, wimple along
its northeast and southwest shores.
The entrance from the northwest to the
sunny roadstead and harbor behind it, is
narrow and picturesque indeed. It sweeps
past the Island headland that frowns above
the ocean at the south; furnishes to the
north the grandly beautiful perspective of
Doulus' Head, overhung by the mountains
of Kilane behind; divides past misty nd
mystic island and islet; stretches one shin
ing arm between purple heights to the north
east; and lays another lovingly back to the
southeast harborward, over against the
beautiful Kerry shores and along the low
lyin edge of tbe island's upland-creeping
swells. Here sleep village, hamlet and
clustering cabins in a setting and scene of
somnolence and nature's luxuriance, which
recall the dreamful atmospheres and envi
ronment of the semi-tropical nesta along the
quaint Riviera.
A PIBATES' BENDEZVOUS.
The island has a Spanish instead, of an
Irish name. All the western and south
western portion of Ireland, from its discov
ery until as late as the year 1200, was occu
pied by Spaniards; and Yalentia, named in
honor of the fine old Spanish town of Va
lencia, on the Turia, near its'mouth in the
Mediterranean, was especially beloved by
tne ireebooters ot tbat nation. Tbe harbor,
with a noble entrance from the sea, at both
the northern and southern extremities, was
particularly adapted for a rendezvous of
this sort. The pirates set their watches
apon the headlands and promontories.
These readily gave notice as to which end
of the harbor any ship of war directed en
trance. No sooner was this known than
the privateer gaily sailed out at the other:
and if chase was made in that direction, the
flying cralt frequently saucily sailed in at
the other again.
Among the fishermen, some of whom, as
at Gal way, show traces of their olden Span
ish extraction, are found the queerest tales
of specter pirate ships; and of one in partic
ular which, at certain seasons of the year
and turn of the tide, sails thrice 3round tbe
island at night in search of its skipper bold,
who lost his head in an engagement here
with one of Queen Anne's ships of war.
Singularly enough this phantom ship is
manned by hobgoblin dullaghans. These
are the spooks you are likely to come upon,
if you are a little soft upon "the subject of
fairies, who carry their heads under their
arms, in their pockets, oreyen leave them
behind altogether if in a great hurry. They
are solely ol Irish extraction; and the so
perstition belies even the ancient Irish peo
ple, fairies included, who never furnished
pirates for any craft orjseas. But Cromwell
in 1649 put an end to the French as well as
Spanish pirates of this lovely retreat, and
built two stone forts, one at each entrance
from the sea, where lighthouses now stand;
and where among the ruins ot the ancient
fortresses may be found many of the queer
old world cannon of 250 years ago.
A CABLE CENTER.
pushing skyward stupendous, irregular,
groups, terminating in two lofty pinnacles,
the highest of which, reaches an altitude ot
710 feet.
A WILD SPOT.
It is said that the ocean soundings
around it are far deeper than those in any
' part of the English Channel; and at no
other point upon the Atlantic are witnessed
such awful battles between wave and stone.
The base ot the only lighthouse now in use
upon Great Skellig stands upon a leveled
rock 140 feet above the sea, and the roof of
this lofty structure was a few- years ago
crushed in and partly carried away by the
assaults of the waves, which must have been
lifted upward of 180 feetabofe the sea level
to have been dashed ppon it.
The only human beings now" living upoa
Great Skellig are those having charge of the
lighthouse. But more than a thousand
years ago hundreds, if not thousands, passed
their entire lives in religious devotions
upon this wild sea mountain, for this place
was then the St. Michael's Mount of Ire
land. Its history was luminous even ia
the earliest days of Christianity in Erin.
A majestio monastery once stood in the
little valley between the two lofty peaks of
the island. From the single landing place
620 stone steps, many portion of which re
main, led to the monastery, the great
cashel, the oratories, the stone cells, the
ancient burial place, and many unrecorded
structures which the incalculable toil
and zealous consecration of a remote
ago grouped within this sacred spot. Easily
traced remains of nearly all these structures
still exist; and fragments of gigantic crosses
here and there push through the strange
debris, whose contemplation cannot but send
a tnrm through the least impressive heart.
Par, far above this tens of thousands ot
pilgrims in the intervening centuries have
climbed. Near the top ot tbe highest pin
nacle one must squeeze through a narrow
orifice called the Needle's Eye, in order to
follow their olden painful way. Just beyond
this is a narrow ridge or saddle of solid ,
rock. One must get astride this and work
along with legs and hands until an ascend
ing shelving rock is reached.
BETWXEN SEA AND SKT.
The danger here is terrible. One falsa
movement, and yon are plunged headlong
into the sea from either aide. From this to
the highest point any fairly sure-footed man
may pass securely to the slender yard-wide
summit, along which are found rudely
sculptured crosses, or stations. I have been
in some eerie spots in my travel, but never
before have I stood wliere such sense of
sublimity mingled with awe-inspiring inse
curity possessed me. On three sides yon
lookdown a black straight line of over 700
feet into the ocean. Behind and below vou
are the solemn ruins of remote ages.
Par to' the north and east is the weird, sea
walled coast. Your own land is 2,000 miles
beyond those white specks of fisher-boats to
the west. Around and above you are only
the palpable clonds, and ghostly whistle of
darting sea-bird's wing. The solemn gran
denr and awful impressiveness ot the place
are apalling.
The descent was more dangerous than the
climbing; but we accomplished it safely,
xc-cuicrcu me Doai ana maae lor iron Ala
gfe. I never wish to see Great Skellig
again unless from the deck of an Atlantic
steamer, when a sight of it as the first
glimpse of Enrope is occasionally had ; and as
,we rounded the reef into tbe safer channel,
while night was softly descending, and the
lights from a thousand mackerel-fishers
boats gleamed along the western horizon, I
turned with a sigh of relief from this tre
mendous and desolate terror of the deep, to
welcoming land, as from some hideous
phantom of unhappy dreams.
Edgar L. WAKEaiAir.
CAPTURED BI ADMIEAL P0ETEB.
We Cheerfully Comply.
Atchison Globe.
A woman writes the following note to
this office: "Last Sunday a gentleman
and his wife called at my home, and during
their stay the wife was so mean to her hus
band that I resolved to behave myself bet
ter in future to my own husband. Please
print this for the benefit of other wives who
are at times thoughtless and ba,rsh."
No Home Runs Blade.
Chicago Times. J '
Funny business in Washington.
One Msn Harrison loves baseball.
Other Fellow Yes. He loves to see office
seekers make a home run.
First Man But the office seeker never
makes it,' He holds his base until he is
struck out
.Chimes!
Iiove Can Go Afoot. 4
Lafayette (Ala.) Sentinel.
Henry Moreman and Miss Elizabeth
Castleberry walked to town from the north
ern part of the County last Saturday to be
made mau and wife. Judge Bell performed
the ceremony Saturday night and they
started on their return trip.
Coming as a tourist to the Island of Ya
lentia, you would ride 45 miles by "long
car" from Killarney, and make yonr head
quarters at Cahirsveen; or cross the little
ferry three miles below, where the harbor is
but a half mile wide, coming directly into
the chief island hamlet ofKnightstown,
where tbere is more than one quaint- little
Irish inn; a few cottage homes where
wealthy English and Irish families pass
Earrofeach summer for the magnificent
oating, bathing, fihing and scenery of the
locality; and an isolated group of unpre
tentious buildings at the southern edge of
the hamlet, is the working headquarters of
the Atlantic Telecraph Company. Three
cables are now operated at this point, one of
which is 'in direct communication with
Embden, in North Germany. . Messages
from all parts of America are sent direct
via New York, Cape Breton, Newfoundland
and Yalentia, to Embden and all portions
of Uontinental Europe;
The operating rooms are only two in num
ber. In one of these, operators are ex
clusively at work upon the Embden cable
messaees. As the instruments spell out the
American message under transmission from
Newfoundland, it is so promptly forwarded
from Yalentia that the first half ot the dis
patch is at Embden before the last half has
wholly left Newfoundland. Tbe other room
is exclusively devoted to stock exchange and
ress messages; from six to ten operators
eing thns employed. Tbese messages are
wholly transmitted in cipher; and some
idea of the rapidity and promptness of tbe
work may be formed from the fact that a
New York, Boston or Philadelphia broker
feels verv much aggrieved if he cannot
secure a London answer to a cable message
inside 01 3U minutes. Xhere are altogether,
perhaps, two-score men employed in various
capacities by the cablecompany at Knights
town, and with their families they form a
most pleasant little colony in this remote
and unfrequented corner of Ireland.
A LITTLE KINGDOM.
The area oi Yalentia Island is a trifle over
6,000 acres. It is about five miles long and
but two in breadth. The Knight of Kerry
is its titled owner. His lodge is a most
picturesque structure overlooking the bay
and magnificently environed. Agriculture
is carried on to a considerable extent; some
of the finest caUle of Ireland are bred and
grazed here; the island contains one of the
most splendid slate quarries of Europe, pro
ducing slates of such remarkable size that
four will form the walls, and a fi th the
roof, of a fairly-sized cottage; and the huts
of many of the fishers of the southwest coast
in delightful picturesqueness dot the entire
reaches of both the island and mainland
shores.
I determined before departure from the
southwesi coast to perform the dangerous
feat of a trip to the Great Skellig rock, and
an ascent of its loftiest and most inaccessi.
ble peak. The Skelligs are the most south,
westerly extensions of Ireland. They are
properly three in number, lying in a direct
line southwest from Port Magee. The first
and the least, is called Lemon Bock. It is'
a round solid mass rising only a few feet
above the wafer. The second and next
larger is called Little, or Lesser, Skellig,
and is a craggy grouping of rocky pinna
cles, standing grim and black against the
sky; as though some city of ojiurches with
wondrous steeples had been submerged,
rearing above the waves their mighty Gothic
spires, among which millions of sea birds
had found their desolate "homes. The third,
the Great Skellig, is precisely nine miles at
sea Irom Port Msgee. It is an enormous
and precipitous mass of jock rising perpen
dicularly at nearly all ancles to the heizht
'of several hundred feet, and from thence I
Story ora Stencil Flats Tbat Made Fan for
tho Soldiers.
Hew York Graphic.
A story is told about Admiral Porter in
the Southwest, which has been revived bythe
Butler-Porter controversy and was told me
by a gentleman from St, Louis. Iswas an
occurrence of the Vicksburg campaign. The
rebels had fortified the Yazoo river sjk that
it had resisted all of Porter's sfLoks
jopqn HaineJslufFanoTothBr-.points. But
wueu xrui tuicw cuji rsy across tne .oils
sissippi below Vicksburg these Yazoo river
torts were rendered untenable, and there
was nothing for the rebels to do but to
move out, leaving their heavy siege guns
behind them. As soon as the rebels had
evacuated Admiral Porter moved up and
took possession. He had a stencil made and
branded each siege gun, "Captured by the
United States Navy under command of
Admiral David D. Porter."
The boys in the army were greatly amused
at this when they heard of it. They thought
it a good joke for the navy to take credit
for what had been done by the army. So
at one place near the Yazoo, finding a lot of
old trees that had been cut down, they
shaved the trunks a little and put upon the
flat surface ot each the identical words that
Porter had put upon tbe rebel guns, "Cap
tured by the United States Navy under
Admiral David D, Porter." It made great
fun in Grant's army at the time.
A 3I05KEI UMBRELLA.
It Was Carried by Man at the Baeaa oad
Slade Lots of Sport
New YorkSon.J
Clarence C. Irish, the well-known sport
ing man. who is better known by his nick
name of Cal, 13 the owner of the oddest um
brella in town. It made the biggest sort of
sensation at the big Brooklyn handicap at
Gravesend yesterday. He grasped' it as he
sauntered about the betting inclosure so
that the head was on a level with the faces
of the crowd. The head represented a mar
moset monkey. Every time anvbody spoke
of sure tips the monkey opened Its mouth
in a grin and rolled its eyes, looking ex
actly as if it were alive. Cal had a crowd
following the monkey head wherever he
went.
"Where on earth did you get that?"
asked Tim Flinn.
"It came from Paris," Cal replied, "and
it is the only one in the country. I carry
it tor a mascot."
Tbe head is worked by a silver spring
concealed in the handle. The mouth and
the eyelids are of rubber, welded on to the
silver of the head so ingeniously that the
illusion of a live marmoset is perfect when
the silver spring is pressed.
Whltelaw Reld's Father's Piety. '
Glasgow Christian Leader.
Whltelaw Beid, the distinguished Amer
ican journalist who has been appointed am
bassador to Paris, is the son of a Scotchman
who purchased several hundred acres where
the city of Cincinnati now stands, but
abandoned the property on discovering
tbat a clause in the deed of sale obliged
him to send a boat across the river Ohio
every day of the week. His conscience for
bade him doing so on the Sabbath, and bnt
for this fidelity to principle Whitelaw Beid
might have been as rich as the Duke of
Westminster.
Tmprovrd Snake Stories.
Wllllamsport Gazette.
The style of snake stories thes year is re
plete with, new and refreshing ornaments.
The artists who devote themselves to build
ing these fairy fabrics are a credit to their! t
profession and deserve a high place in the' "
rank of snake literature producers. '
He Wanted to be no Angel.
Housewife Go away! you're too impn-5 ",
dent. .
Tramp That's because I'm holIow;Jf
ma'am. A feller can't be amiable' whenfc
he's hollow Fill me up, please, and PiakeK
an angel out of me." - 'v?L
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the slander, that be spent five of-.
running after his hat
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