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lERCHAIT TAILOR
TO MY ANONYMOUS FRIEND.
BV IlLIZABHTH IlliYNTOS IUBPERT.
Sine "advice" is the coin you deal in,
I've a littli! advice for you ;
When you "feel like speaking In meeting,'
SjR-ak out honest, brave, and true.
Don't hide like the coward, refusing
To show your face or your name";
Be sure you are right in thinking
Then bravely your thoughts proclaim.
You object "in behalf of some women,
And of gentlemen, also a few,"
To my somewhat old-fashioned garments.
And would have me replace them with
new.
The fact is, a financial depression
Hath obtained in our part of the town.
Which has somewhat a tender relation
To lr.xh bonnets, gloves, ribbons, or gown.
S 'n ''e" ,llnrc elegant new ones,
Whit'h doubtless "ilo trive one an air,
Fearing debt or a rare-burdened husband,
I have chosen the old ones to wear.
A certain white dres, was arinkled,
I am sorry i: troubled yon, when
Those wrinkles to me were more precious
Than an unereascd robe would have been.
Since u. .t n. we paused nt the threshold -Of
our r'odest but happy home nest.
Four bonnie brown eyes opened widely.
And niiither.i can guess at the real
'Twas four dimpled arms made the wrinkle.
As they gave me a double can w,"
Mv thought was. "God cuard our two
darlings,"
You were thinking, "Oh ! my, what
dress."
"Wearing flowers." yes, now I plead guilty :
I am only a woman, you know, 4
Loving music, and flowers, and children,
June roes, birds, sonshine and snow.
Our motto i?, "E'er catch tbe sunshine,"
Wed to music every day's prose.
And so when "my loved" brings a flower,
I wear it, bad, blossom, or rose.
That one little spray on my shoulder
Was brought by our five-year-old son,
"To remind me the children were waiting
For mamma to please hurry home."
It pains me to grieve e'en a sparrow,
Many mii against "style" I confess,
And if it won id add to your pleasure,
You mnv send mea black velvet tftess.
riain,
yet rich (if you please ' ; though I
warn yot
lire a week, "Arthur," "Corinne," und
'T.-s," ;
Would sigh for their old-fashioned mother,
Who was never afraid of her dross.
Far better for mother and children,
For husbands and homes not a few.
If cvmfort and iWr were not eft enviled oui
Through fear of a wrin kle or two.
m'rr-'.Vraa
A "V1KE TO LOVK HI5C.
"I declare, Robert, I don't know
what you will do, unless you get
married yourself."
Robert Ackerman - looked at his
sister in mild remonstrance, as he
said gently :
"Marry ! I ! You forget, Doro
thy." Dorothy's face softened. Under
the daisies in the village cemetery
slept a blue eyed girl who had been
betrothed to her brother eighteen
long years before, and died one week
oelore the wedding day.
"It is so long ago," she said in a
tone of ajKlogy.
"Yes." her brother 6aid, sighing,
uand I am too old to begin a new
life. Forty -three in December. Dor
othy." '' Well, said Miss Dorothy, tartly,
ul am five years older, and I intend
to marry John banderson in thiee
months as soon as his new houe
is finished. Now, Robert" thi
very coaxingly "there is Martha
Gaines."
"Don't trouble yourself to pick
out my wife," her brother said, in a
tone of decision his easy-going, gen
tle nature rarely permitted to be
heard. "I have no intention of mar
rying, and certainly no desire to
marry Martha Gaines."
He left the brcakfist-table abrupt
ly as he spoke and went to his
study. Mi3 Dorothy rubbed her
nose vigorously.
"Men are so unreasonable," she
thought "Robert must have some
one to keep house for him when I
go. And Martha Gaines is the best
housekeeper in Meadowville."
The idea of Martha Gaines pre
aiding over the china-closet and linen-chests
that had been her heart's
delight until Cupid came to win
awav the old maid's attention, be
came more and more agreeable to
Miss Dorothy as the morning wore
awav.
"I'll just give Martha a hint," she
finally concluded. "Anybody can
twist Robert around the finger if
they only half try."
They were people f position in
Meadowville, oeing wealthy ; and
owning several of the largest farm-'
in the vicinity. With good servants
well trained under her own severe
discipline, ample means, and a
brother who never found fault; Miss
Dorothy's housekeeping had certain
ly had few thorns.
But when she consented to be-come-the
wife of the minister ol
Meadowville, the transfer of her
power and privileges became a
weighty burden.
Iiutonc solution seemed possible.
Her brother mwt marry some
6teady, middle-aged spinster who
would keep up the prim neatness
and the hundred little details ol
Miss Dorothy's domain.
Miss Martha Gaines, a vinegar
faced, 6h;irp-vo5ccd woman, of lim
ited income, and unlimited energy
and temper, proved to be smilingly
willing to take Miss Dorothy's hints
in good part
It had been a very satisfactory af
ternoon to Miss Dorothy, and she
came home to tea in n placid frame
of mind.
Her brother in the meantime, af
ter the noonday dinner had found
himself unequal to his usual after
noon's rending, and strolled down a
shady lane in the direction ef the
church.
Was it his sister's suggestion that
had so brought back to his memory
the sweet baby faco of his young be
trothed that he sought her grave ?
Many a Jong summer afternoon
he had passed in the early days of
his bereavement, but time closes the
worst wounds, and of late years be
had not been very often to the ee
Bomerset
SOMEKiJKT,
f eluded
corner
where Susie Dent
slept, in the shade
l tree.
of a great oak.
He walked slowly, musingly, his
eyes on the ground, till he was close
to tbe grave.
Then he looked, and
reeled back
as if he would fall.
Close to the grave, one little han
resting on the marble head-stone,
was a little girl of eeventeen or eigh
teen, dressed in white, with a wide
straw hat that shadowed Susie'u
great blue eyes, Susie's long, fair
curls.
Robert Ackennan felt as if he had
lost his reason and this was a vision
of a disordered brain. His voice
was hoarse and strained as lie said
"Who are you, child ?"
"I am Susie Dent" said a low
sweet voice. "It is the name on th?
stone here. That Susie Dent was
my aunt, who died when I was
baby. Papa thinks I look like her."
the explanation was given with
childlike frankness and simplicity,
and gradually the sullocating throbs
of Kobert s heart became quiet, and
Ins voice was natural, and had its
habitual gentleness as he said:
"I knew your father before he left
Meadowville, and I knew your aunt,
You may have heard of Robert Actt-
erman."
"Who was to have married Aunt
Susie?"
"Yes, dear child. You are like
very much like her. Are you
staying in Meadowville"
"Yes. I have been ill. Not verv
sick, but" and she cave a little
gleeful laueh "the doctor says
won too many school prizes last
term, and that I must go to the
country, and not open a book for
three months. So I am boarding
with papa's cousin, Miss Martha
Gaines."
"Ah, yes. Well, you must let me
come to see you sometimes, for your
lather s sake.
"I shall be verv glad to see you,"
said busie, frankly, thinking this
was the dearest old gentleman she
had ever seen.
He chatted with her a little longer,
and then walked with her to the
gate of her cousin cottage, but
would not then go m.
"I will soon come to see vou " he
praised as he left her.
i,-1 he said nothing to Dorothy of
this encounter, feeling that a sacred
chord of memory had been touched
and shrinking from commonplace
remarks upon it
1 He next day Miss Dorothy went
to the city to attend to her wedding
purchases, and to visit a relative.
Kobert was a man of sensitive re
finement, a gf ntleman in the truest
sense of the word, a scholar and a
philanthropist, while his sister, with
out beinj: vulgar, was what the
Meadowvillciaiis called a "stirring
woman, lull ot We and bustle, ot
overflowing energy, and an inces
sant talker.
Mis Dorothy had been in the
city but a few days, when a letter
from Meadowville filled her heart
with elation.
It was signed "Martha Gaines "
and that maiden wrote:
"Your brother comes over nearly
every day. 1 suppose he's lonesome
while you are away, and he mostly
stays to tea. I ve got a boarder th u
summer, a daughter of a cousin of
mine in the city. She's only a little
girl, but she plays and sings a little,
and your brother likes to hear her.
She's been sick, and he's sent the
carriage over for us to drive every
pleasant day."
Every week there came a long ex
ultant letter from Miss Gaines to her
dear friend Dorothy till the time was
drawing near for the elderly spin
ster's wedding.
All her wedding garn.ents were
made, marked, and neatly packed,
when she received a letter from her
brother.
"Wait until Wednesday, and I
will be your escort to Meadowville."
This curt epistle had been written
after a day of great moment to Rob
ert Ackerman.
He had gone quite early in the
morning to the- postoflce, and re
turning passed ,the cottage of Miss
Gaines. He had sometimes loitered
a little at that hour to chat with the
ladies as they trimmed the garden,
and .'aught his breath as an excited
voice rang out upon the air the
voice of Martha Gaines, saying:
"You are an impudent little thing,
and I'll send you home to-morrow.
How dare you set up to teach me
how to to treat my husband."
A low sweet voice answered:
"You need not be so angry, Cous
in Martha. I only said I thought
Robert Ackerman deserved a wife
who loved him."
"Fiddlesticks love! You senti
mental school girls talk such arrant
nonsense. Robert Ackerman is a
mooning, dreamy old bachelor who
wants a wife to manage him and
keep his house.',
"Robert Ackerman is a noble, true
gentleman a man to honor, a man
to love! And if he marries he wants
a wile to love him, to give him ten
der service, to make his life elad and
bright" .
"My good gracious," gasped the
astonished old maid.
"You think more this minute "
continued Susie, "of his house, his
money, his carriage, and his table
linen than you do of him."
"Well, suppose I do. Perhaps
you would like to marry him your
self" "He would never think of such a
tiling; I am just an insignificant
school girl, to whom he is kind. But
if 1 did marry him, it would be for
love, and not for his money or his
house."
Here the sweet but excited voice
broke in a sob, and Susie evidently!
1 0 . .1. 1 . . 1 -ll -.
ueu lruui uie uaiue-ueiu.
Robert Ackerman walked home
very slowly.
For many weeks, ever since that
meeting in the cemetery, he had felt
as if bis lost love, the hope of bis
young manhood, bad been restored
to him. Every boar's intercourse
with Susie brought back tbe long
buried dream ot happiness more
vividly. But be bad crushed down
all hope. Never could he link that
bright, just dawning life with his
sad memory freighted one.
Bat this morning's experience
gave him new hope a hope that
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PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1881.
1 made his breath come quickly, his
heart throb suffocatingly. i
He could not bear such suspense
long, and in the afternoon he wan
dered to a spot in the woods where
Sui-ie had often brought her daily
s needlework, and where Mi.-s Mar
tha s keen eyes had never fallen
upon the two as they chatted by the
hour of b.ooks, of travel, even of
little Susie's school cxjcrienees.
As he expected he found Sasie
there, but she was pale and shy, had
evidently been weeping, and shrank
from him as she had never done be
fore.
Y-t gently, very tenderly, he
wood the sweet bluc-eytd child,
till her golden head rested on his
i breat, and she wniepcred
"fcannot imagine greater hanni-
ness than to be your wite
Miss Dorothy Ackerman was all
readv to return to Meadowville
when her brother presented himself
m the parlor of the house where she
was visiting.
lie surveyed the ancient garments
in which she had arrayed herself for
travel witch 6uch manifest disgust
that it wuketit-d her indignant sur
prise. Never before had I!ol ei t no
tieed her dress.
"What are vou looking at me in
that way for?" she asked 6harply.
"This dress is good enough to spoil
with railroaid dust and cinders
Come to look you are wonderfully
spruced up yourseu. hy, your
suit ia new; new gloves, too."
"I wish vou to dress vourself
handsomely, Dorothy," her brother
said quietly, "to attend mv wed
ding." "You can't bo married till we get
to Meadowville. Miss Martha sure
ly never came here with you.
"I told vou some time ago, Do
rothy, that I had no intention of
marrying Miss Gaines."
"Then who are you going to mar-
"Susie Dent."
Miss Dorothy simply stared, with
a creejHng horror that her brother
was going mad.
"Mie 13 Philip Dents daughter,
mv busies niece.
What are you talking about?
Philip Dent has been married but
"Twenty years. Susie is
cigh
dead teen, just the age of my dear
darling !"
Miss Dorothy had a soft place in
her heart, hard as she seemed, and
she had loved her brother's betroth
ed in that long ago when they were
all young. Her voice was very gen
tle as she asked :
"Are you sure she loves vou, Rob
ert .' She is very young."
"F.ut she loves me, Dorothv ! Do
not fear for happiness, sister.
And Miss Dorothy meekly select
ed the richest costume for her trous
seau to attend the wedding.
It was not until the party return
ed to Meadowville that Miss Martha
Gaines realized how vain a castle in
the air she had built
Xcw Marrictl Couple.
Newly married people are always
a source of great amusement They
try so hard to look as if they had
been married all their lives and fail
so utterly, Their looks of beaming
happiness are tell-tale enough eveu
if they did not sit always so remark
ably close together. If it were not
that it is rather nice to sec them so
del ghtfully happy, I think I should
compile a little code of rules for
their guidance, such as Elderlv
married couples do not as a rule con
verse entirely in whispers: nor press
each other's hands under the table ;
nor sit irr a dark corner of the boat
by moonlight, with the gentleman's
arms around the lady's waist, and
the lady's head on the gentleman's
ulster ; nor this is very important
nor do old married people find it
necessary, in ordering dinner or
lunch, to say to each other : "Do
you like soup ?" or, "What i3 your
favorite soup?" These questions
have been asked and answered years
and years ago, under probably very
similar circumstances. Who but a
bride, for instance, ever travels in
new boots ? and what bride ever
traveled in an old pair ?
Tha Memory of a Lion.
Charles K. Wood, who for forty
years was a manager in Van Am
berg's and other menageries, has just
returned, says the Brattleboro I'hoe
nix, from a virit to the first named
show, and relates a circumstance
showing the wonderful memory of
animals. Mr. Wood was conversing
with the showman, when an attache
said: "Go over and speak to Mose,
he hasn't taken his eyes off you
since you came in more than an
hour ago.' Mr. Wood went at once
to the cage and said: "Hello,
Mose I whereupon the old lion
turned a somersault, wheeled around
and manifested a desire to IL-k his
hand.
Mumc Hath ChAi-ni.4, etc.
One of tho great manufacturing
interests of Boston, is the Emerson
Piano Company, whose pianoes are
used with high appreciation and
satisfaction throughout the world.
In a recent conversation with Mr.
Jos. Cramer, one of the proprietors
that gentleman remarked : I have
used that splendid remedy, St Ja
cobs Oil, in my family, and found
it to be so beneficial that I will nev
er be without it It has cured me
of a severe case of rheumatism, after
other remedies have failed. HL
Loui Wedern Watchman.
Solomon's Temple.
The ruins of the Temple of Solo
mon, in Jerusalen, are to be restor
ed, by special order of the Sultan,
without further delay. They have
long been in an extremely neglected
condition, and almost buried from
sight beneath all manner of debris
and refuse. Directions to put them
into as presentable a shape as prac
ticable, were given by the late Ab
dul Aziz, at the time of the Aus
trian Emperor's visit, and the work
was actually begun, but it was soon
abandoned.
Peruna had a remarkably good
effect on my daughter's Paralysis.
W. E. Duncan, Sewickly.
nron Stent n.
; T,IL keiormed church snori.n imx-
on ms MEMony.
Wo believe it
niour who first
was Horatio Sey
suggested that it
would be eminently right and Kron
er to invite ttie fcleubens as well as
the Lafayetts, to the centennial an
mversary of the surrender of Corn-
wail 13 at lorktown. We are glad
that the suggestion was carried' into
practical efi'tct, no matter whence it
came.
Years ago, Mr. Seymour pro
nounced a glowing eulogy on Gener
al Herkimerand the sturdy German
colonists who fought and fell with
him on the bloody field ofOriskany.
The orders of the day and battle cry
of Herkimer, so full" of inspiration
to his yeoman, rang out the rich
round accents of the German tongue.
remaps Mr. beymour s residence
at Utica, the old Fort Schuyler, in
Oneida aounty, N. Y., so near the
manor and last resting place of the
gallant old Baron, has caused him
to take special interest in what even
concerns the memory and fame of
Steuben as well as other heroic Ger
man spirits who bore an honorable
part in the war of American Inde
pendence. But this as it may, he
deserves our grateful thanks for
helping to do justice to the German
and Dutch elements of Colonial and
Revolutionary days. Too often
have Yankee historians ignored
these important factors in our na
tional history, and alas ! we who
ought to have embalmed their mem
ories by recording their worthy
deeds, have neglected to perform the
sacred duty.
1- redenck llliani Steuben was
a leading spirit in our war of Inde
pendence, one who did efFectivc ser
vice in the darkest hours of the
struggle, one who above all others
brought order and discipline out of!
confusion, and not only paved the
way to hnal victory, but hunstll:
cammanded in the trenches of!
Yorktowu tvhen the proud CornwaJ-
lis was forced to surrender his armv
of veterans.
Ml descendants of German ances
tors, and we ot the lielormed Church
in particular should beinterested in
all efforts to,honor the memory of
Steuben. He has of old Reformed
stock, and was himself a ruling eld
er of our church on Nassau f-treet
New York, when ho died in 189-1.
His noble ancestors were identified
with the Reformation from the be
ginning. One of his grandfathers
was au eminent theologian, and
wrote an "able commentary on the
New Testimentand the Apocalypse."
His lather was educated at Halle,
ind with two elder brothers cctcre'i
the military service of Prussia and
served with distinction as Maicr of
Engineers for forty-seven -years. 1
Our newspapers talk as it the
Sleubcns recently in this country as
the honored guests oi the nation,
were the descendants of the distin
guished Baron. But this a mistake.
The Baron was never married and
left no descendants. The guests be
long to the other branches of the
Steuben family. It was in response
to the advice otSt Germain, French
Minister of War, tha Princ de
Montbarey and Prince Ixmis Will-
itm of Baden, who was then a Lieu
tenant General in the service of IIol-
and. that Steuben decided on offer
ing his services to the strugggling j
colonies in order to give the citizen
xoldiery that efficiency of discipline
without which they could never oope j
with the British regulars.
Before leaving for America, he se
cured the consent of Frederick the
Great to transfer to one of Steuben's
nephews (the Baron von Canitz) his
canonry ol lioweioerg, which
brought him annually, an income ol
AGO1) livres. and which was regarded
as a sort of pension for services and
wounds received in the Prussian ar
my in that momentous period when
old Fritz laid the foundation of his
country s greatness.
Steuben left a brother and sister
besides the two uncles already men
tioned as his father s elder brothers
in Prussian service. St Germain
and Count Vergcnnes felt that with
out reform in the organization of the
American army, the money and
tores of France would le given in
va.n to help the struggling colonists
against the mother country and
powerful rivai of France. And
Steuben was the man to whom they
turned and whose services in this
important capacity doubtless aided
greatly in the end to secure the
much needed help ot the rrench
army and navy to wind up the war
in the capture of Cornwallis.
The German population in Ian-
caster and other parts of Pennsylva
nia, gave bteuben a grand ovation,
and his heart was cheered to hear in
the new world female voices shak
ing in the sweet accents of Father
land. The army was in sorry
plight when Steuben appeared at
Valley Forge, and began the duties
of Inspector General. Out of the
original force of 17,000 there were 3,
081 without clothes enough to
mount guard or appear on parade.
Through desertion and disease only
5012 were fit for duty. Muskets,
fowling pieces and rifles were found
in the same company, many of them
too rusty for use.
May 24th, Steuben began work
by seiecting 120 men with whom he
performed the duty of drill sergeant
until each of them could serve in
that capacity to other squads.
April 2'Jth, the army for the first
time since the war executed grand
military manoeuvres. On the 5th
of May, Congress appointed Steuben,
Inspector General with the rank
and pay of Major General. The ef
fects of system and strict discipline
were soon apparent In times past
from 5000 to 8000 muskets were lost
in a campaign. Under Steuben's
management only ' 3 were missing,
and these were duly accounted for.
Not less than 8000,000 were saved
thus to the public treasury by his
system of drills, reviews and inspec
tions. Well might Congress vote
him $2500 annuity after eight years
of weary waiting, and well might
New Yoik, New Jersey, Pennsylva
nia and Virginia, gave him largo
tracts of land for what he did to se
cure our liberties.
It was Steuben who took the half
S; ;;-. -: ti
- . ... ; i .
naked and half-starved militia at
alley Forae and drilled them into
au efficient body of troops. A new
era dawned upon the army of Inde
pendence when bteuoen was ap
pointed Inspector General. At Mon
mouth, when a good part of the
army seemed involved in iuextrico-
ble confusion, owing to the captious
conduct of General Lee, it was Steu
ben who by a few energetic and sa
gacious commands set things to
rights and saved the American cause
from disaster. When Steuben rode
down the line looking, as one has
said, "like the god of war himself,"
and giving orders with as much
self-possession as if on dress parade,
the soldiers who had been drilled so
effectively amid the snows of Valley
Forge, responded with an alacrity
and precision that made men like
Alexander Hamilton confess that
never till that hour had they under
stood what discipline could do for
an army. With General Greene he
was a member of the court martial
which tried and codemned to death
the unfortunate Major Andre. Oth
er very difficult and delicate duties
he discharged from time to time. He
enjoyed the affectionate esteem and
confidence of Washington, Greene,
Knox, Laurens and Hamilton, yea,
of all the noble and patriotic spirits
with whom he came in contract in
those days that tried men's souls.
From intriguers like Conway and
Gates be stood aloof. With Greene
ho repaired to the South after the in
glorious t areer of Gates had fearful
ly demoralizetl the cause of Inde
pendence in that quarter. It was
his province to organize and hastily
forward recruits from Virginia, which
was very arduous work owing to the
inefficiency of the provincial authori
ties and the dejection from previous
defeats. With a body of these new
levies he headed off Benedict Ar
nold and prevented him from doing
much meditated mischief in one of
his marauding expeditions into Vir
ginia. Lafayette's success in baffling
Cornwallis, after the confident Eng
lishman had exclaimed, "The boy
cannot escape me now," and after
wards in cooping up his pursuer at
Yorktown along with the flower and
strength of the British army, was
largely due to the preliminary work
of Steuben.
And when the siege actually be
gan, Steuben was the presiding geni
us. He was tho only American
officer who had ever been present at
a siege, and his services were in
valuable in that closing climax of
the Revolutionary war. Prompt
and decisive work had to be done
before thn English army should be
relieved or reinforced. Steuben had
been at tUe siege of Prague when 14
years oJ L He had learned the art
of war inder Frederick the Great,
fre of-wswwe troete4ffiera ami ef
ficient aid de-camp3 he had been du
ring the Seven Years War. Work
in the trenches was nothing new to
him. So vigorously did he push
the enemy, and so gallant liad the
outworks of the British been carried
by the French, that Cornwallis, de
spairing finally of relief and escape
offered to surrender just in time to
escape a general assault from the
combined armies of Washington and
Rochambeau.
Well may the Government invite
the Steubens of Germany no lees
than the Lafayettes of France to be
present at the great centennial cele
bration of the surrender of C-ornwal-lis
at Yorktown.
Well may our civic and military
authorities do honor to the Steu
ben representatives, who, after a
'lundred ycara of national progress,
have come across the ocean to take
part in the festivities that commeno
rate the closing scene in the great
drama of the American Revolution.
And passing strange it is that none
of our Church papers have yet re
ferred to the relations of tho noble
old Baron to our Reformed Zion.
Kuros in Reformed Messenger.
Knslixh and Preuch Draft Horse-.
Replying to an American criti
cism as to the relative merits of
English and French draft horses
the Mark 1xne Express says : "It is
not the opinion of horse buyers in
this country that the French breeds
of draught horses are superior to the
English and Scotch breeds in point
of vigor, hardness of muscle and
density of bone, These qualities are
exactly those which are tested to
the fullest on- the London stones,
and it is here that the French hors
es, heavy and light, at work in vans
and omnibuses in Ijondon, for the
simple reason that about two of
them can be bought and worn out
at less cost than it takes to buy and
wear out English horses to do the
same claas of work. This is pretty
generally understood to be the fa
tiu 'juo of French horses in our large
towns, and in agricultural districts
the same rule will apply ; they are
used on account of their smaller
cost"
In the United States the matter of
a smaller cost makes littlo or no
show, for both English and French
draft horses, imported for breeding
purposes, sell for about the same
money. The fact of the matter is
they are both good, and tho pity is
that more are not being used on
Western farms for the improvement
of farm and draft horses. There has
been for many years past a good de
mand for produce of both Percheron
and Clydesdale sires and a reasona
bly good price has always been paid
for them. Me believe that a pair of
four-years-olds of either breed, if
well developed, would readily bring
from four to five hundred dollars in
St. IiOuis or any similar city where
omnibuses, transfer wagons, mer
chant's teams and drays are numer
ous. On the other hand ordinarily
bred teams are not worth one-third
of that amount Again, then wo
say we want more of both English
ind French breeds.
Battle Ceekk,
Mich,
Jan. 31.
Gentlemen: Having been afflicted
for a number of years with indiges
tion and general debility, by the ad
vice of my doctor I took Hop Bit
ters, and must say they afforded me
almost instant relief. I am glad to
testify in their behalf.
Thos. G. Kxox.
LL. O
WHOLE NO. 15S7.
OCR PARIS LETTK.n.
From oar Special Correspondent
Paris, France, Nov. 14, 1581.
Prince Frederic Charles of Prus
sia, the celebrated Red Prince of the
Franco-German war, i3 now in Paris j
incognito, and a guest of Prince Ho-'
hevelohe at the German Lmbassy.
A marriage is arranged between
M. Buffet, nephew of the former
President of the National Assembly,
and Mdlle. Do Bosisguilbert Sir
Walter Scott's admirers will take a
certain interest in this announce
ment, as the lady claims to be a lin
eal descendant of the famous Tem
plar who plays so prominent a role
in lvanhoe.
I hear that the King of Greece ha3
just conferred on General Merdith
Read the Grand Lordor ol the Or
der of the Saviour, an honor which
the American diplomatist has well
deserved. General Read was seven
years Minister at Athens, where he
won golden opinions not only
among his brethren of the diplomat
ic corps, with whom his open-hand
ed hospitality rendered him highly
popular, but also among the states
men of the little kingdom to whose
interests he devoted himself with
self-sacrificing spirit. Greece has in
these latter days not had a truer
friend.
An address lately delivered by
Mgr. Duquesnay, Archbishop of
Cambria, 19 attracting some atten
tion. After celebrating Mass the
prelate, in the course of a short ser
mon, said : "I honor and respect the
lay teacher as I do the congregation
al teacher, provided that he under
stands the sublimity cf his duties,
and joins example and practica to
the imparting of the truth of our
holy faith. But if God be driven
from the school, I give France ten
years to sink to the lowest place
among civilized nations."',
A man of about fifty year3 of age
threw himself this afternoon from
the top of the Vendome Column.
Strange to say, he still breathed
when he was picked up. He was
immediately borne to a police-station
in the Rue St. Roch, where he
expired. His identity has not yet
been established.
Mdlle. Sara Bernhardt' success
increases from day to day. "Frou
Frou" and "Adrienne LfC jiivreur"
at the Ring Theater of '.'iennt will
rank amongst the rrr -t brilliant
stage triumps hitherto . ..iioved by
that highly-gifted actress. Af'er the
performance of "Adreinmy' Mdlle.
Bernhardt wa3 congra'- 'ate i by
Duke Ludwig, of Bavari th- Em
press' brother, an honor t . !ch mem
bers of the Imperial family seldom,
if ever, confer upon native dramatic
talent. The papers arc full of mi
nute details of her acting and dress
es. Jiverv seat in the house was dis
posed of long before she arrived, and
a box on the lower tier was purchas
ed at the fabulovs price cf 2$ flor
ins, about SS0. 40 florins were of
fered for a seat, but not a single one
wa3 to be had. I hear that Mr. Jar
rett, Mdlle. Bernhardt's agent, has
signed a contract with the Pesth Na
tioal Theater for a series of perform
ances at about $2,000 a night Yes
terday the exhibition of Mdlle.
Bernhardt artistic productions was
opened in the foyer of the Ring '
1 heater. A limited number of spe
cial invitations were issued. The
honors of the exhibition were done
by the artiste herself. The place was
crowded all the afternoon, the aris
tocracy and the Corps Diplomataquc
being largely represented. Among
the first to arrive were Count An
drassy, Count, De Robillants, Bar
roness ' Bourgoing, and Countess
Monturaein. Mdlle. Bernhardt will
perform here again on her return
from Russia next January.
A Substitute for the Dncl.
A substitute for the duel, which
will doubtless be welcomed by high
tempered men who are poor marks
men, has been found in Italy. The
editor of an Italian paper is said re
cently to have received from a fellow-citizen,
to whom he had given
offence, the following letter : "Sir, I
cannot send my seconds to such a
scoundrel as yourself. Hereby,
therefore, I smite you. That is the
sole object of this letter. It conveys
to you on my behalf a sound slap
on either cheek. Be thankful for
my moderation, which has spared
you a postal consignment of hearty
thwacks with my favorite walking
stick I 1 remain, etc." The next
morning the editor printed his ad
versary's letter together with this
crushing rejoinder : "Inimitable ad
versary : In compliance with your
request I hasten to thank you for
having sent me only a couple of!
AnfTa lnaranrl arT ft QArrn tKruriinrf '
You have struck me in writing.
Similarly, I hereby discharge all the
six barrels of my revolver at your
head and kill you by letter. As soon
as you shall have perused this note,
you may consider yourself a dead
man. I salute your corpse with the
highest consideration. Yours, etc."
This expeditious and bloodless
method of avenging one's wrongs
ought to prove an acceptable substi
tute for the "code" among tho Vir
ginia gentlemen of the old school.
lawles Doing in WiM-vnainw
A communication, signed "The
Voice of Justice," from Pepin coun
ty, Wisconsin,the scene of the lynch
ing of Ed. Maxwell says that four
men have been lynched and nine
tarred and feathered, four of the
latter lying from their treatment.
An appeal is made to the governor
for the punishment of tho murder
ers of Maxwell, with a threat that if
he fails there is a band of eighty de
termined men who will doiit with
out his aid. A thrcat"is also made
that they will "burn the County ( ioW
many children are pumsl.td
Court-house, jail, and every build- oT being uncouth, wilful, indiffer
ing in the village f Durand that i eTli t0 instructions r rewards, sim-
shelters one of the alleged mob. As
lor under sneriu nnigni, we win
, ... .... . - . :n
take care of him ourselves. Ixu
Williams is now on his road to Du
rand to meet ti e same fate of his
brother, but he will not be the only
dead man there on thtt day."
My daughter's defective vision
was much improved by Teruca.
James Cook, Bakerstown, Pa.
Iverv once in a while a nuvspa-
! per breaks into declamation over the
periu ot arctic naviguion. i.eierr
ing to the fact that it is now ttvo
years t'mre the departure of the
Jeanette and that nothing has been
heard of her, the Springfield 7?jk4
Ikan remarks : "The search lor the
golden fleece fades into flat proso
Seddes the daring and futilo Frnti-rncntnli.'-ni
which eustiijis tlie r-
I pcatcd and perilous assault3 on the
; great mysteries of geography." In
Itbrt d eat. Tlnrft ,f. slmira t trmlr flflll
...... ....?w J J . v . I.w , a. .....aw .-...-..
to assume yet that an evil fate has
befallen tho Jeanctte. She wa3 pro
visioned for three years and other
supplies were r elied at St Michael's
to provide for the emergency of the
abandonrr.vnt of the vessel and the
return of her cre7 upon the ice to
that point. It is hardly to bo be
lieved possible that tt.u vessel and
her entire company should disap
pear and leave no trace. Only once
in modem times has a whole expe
dition been lost, and the fate of Sir
John Franklins companions was
due to the fact that the art of travel
ing on the ice had not then been re
duced to the perfection -vhich the
genius of Sir LcopoM McCSiato'ik
afterward develops i. T'4, !. under
the improved cor.cL.; ,:i of later d-iy
Arctic explorations, it may be ques
tioned whe'.htr there is anything
more perilous in undertaking a
voyage in search of the pole than in
embarking in the fall of the year on
an overland wheat-carrying schoon
er at Chicago for Buffaio. Nor
denskjold made his great voyage
from sea to sea without losing a lite.
Even on board tbe Polaris, a vessel
ill-prepared for everything except
mutiny and disorder, with two rival
captains who were sailors and a
commander who was not, the only
man who came back safe and sound
after all these adventures wa3 the
chief. During the search for the
Franklin expedition, which was car
ried on by a large fleet first and lat
and was kept tip for many yean, al
though several vessels were aban
doned very few lives wcresacrificcd
probably no more than would have
been lost in an ordinary naval ser
vice covering an equal period of
time. Neither the ice, nor the cold,
nor the sea, nxs beca the explorer's
worst enemy, but tliescurvy, and tin
process of canning meat and vegeta
bles offers an excellent means of de
fense against this scourge. It is
said that Nordenskjold bids defi
ance to the disease. As it i too
soon by a year to give up tho Jean
ttte, so long .13 anything remains
unexplored, it is too soon to talk
about the futility of exploration.
Weknowr.0 more what wc may
find or to what vao we may put the
knowledge to be gained than Chris
topher Columbus knew of America
when he sailed from Palo9 to find a
new passage to the East Indies.
A Wonderful Story ofCrime ia Sicily.
In the city of Palmero, Sicily, an
extraordinary criminal trial is now
exciting public interest. In March
last a number of needy medical stu
dents there conspired to carry off
one of their fellow students, named
Pizzo, the son of a wealthy land own
er, and to extort for hi3 ransom the
sura of 2x000 from hi3 father after
! ihn rviotVirwl rf tfl f .rp.k hrirrfirwl n f
to-day. These young men, howev
er, did not i.itend to keep faith after
the money had beer, paid for tho
life ef the hostage, but it was their
plan to murder their victim, and af-
! ter cutting his body into pieces, to
secrete th-3 remain.?.
Their reasons for coming to this
sanguinary determination were that
they feared that Pizzo, in spite of
all "the oaths thy could extract from
hi:D, would ultimately denounc
them by name to the police, and.
moreover, that, as the whole scheme
would have to be carried out in Pal
mero itself, where there are no
mountains or ravines, as in the inte
rior, favorable to the concealment
of lawbreakers, it would be the saf
est way to remove all evidences of
their guilt.
A house was hired for thepuqwse
and Mercadante, the chum of V'w:.t
and his fellow worker in the hospit
al, who, although his most intimat?
friend was foremost in the conspira
cy, was selected to lure the victim
thither under the pretence that an
important surgical operation requir
ed his attention. But Piz-'.o"s father
and the police had received informa
tion of tho contemplated crime, and
all was arranged so the agents of the
law could surprise the students just
as they were abont to consummate
their wicked purpose. This the po
lice were enabled to do through the
co-operation of young Pizzo, who,
forwarned, had the nerve to enter
the retreat of the dandits on the arm
of hi3 would-be betrayer, Mercan
danti, and witness there the prepa
ration for his death. The cabineer-s,
however, intervened in time, and ar
rested the whole party.
One of the accused is :t rich stu
dent named Martinna, hitherto of
good character, who is supposed to
have joined the plotters from persor!
al enmity toward Pizzo.
Thirty Tons of Human Iloucs.
Thirty Ions of human Loncs have
just been landed at Bristol from Tur
key. Picked up in the immediate
neighborhood "of Plevna, carted
thence to Rodcsto, they now go to
enrich English soil. To those who
do not give to such a matter much
consideration, it may be well to
mention that thirty tons of bcr.es
mean the skeletons of 30,000 men.
They do not include, probably,
many stones or pieces of wood, but
in all likelihood are the actual bones
of the gallant men who from the
inside and outside of the wonderful
earthworks which Osman Pasha
made fought a hard as they could
for the nations to which they be
longed. The battles cf September.
1377, alone contributed nearly all
Ithis number of skeletons ; but there
! were other terrible fights, in July
'.ind Anmist and ncain when the
place surrendered. Each contest
furnished its quota of bones, and of
these a large proportion now comes
o England. It is appalling to think
what was the actual loss of human
! life in the space between the Danube
and the .Egean. But one thing is
certain : the thirty tons of skeletons
int landed at Bristol do rot at ah
, . 1 lt,n uto.lr.1
the slaughter
auequaieiy repievoi.
that took place.
Mother Don't Know.
1 t,ir twausc thev are out of health .
1 ' - . . ... . t
An intelligent lady saui 01 a emm
of this kind: ".Mothers should
know that if they would give the
little ones moderate doses of Hop
Bittera for two or three wcek, the
children would be all a parent
could desire "
Hope i.i a dream of the?4 who arc
awake.
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