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THE STATESMAN.
AUSTIN TEXAS.
The estimated deaths by the earth-
quate at Ischia are 5000.
Ox the 14th comes an election in
which all the tax-payer3 should cast
ballots. Vote them solidly against
higher taxes.
Judge David Davis besides being
a good flutist is said to be fond of
piscatorial sports. lie has lately
taken to using the rod.
The murder of James Carey the
informer might have be.;n expected.
McDonald is said to be a relative of
Brady one of the Phoenix Park raur
derers.
Ontario pays S3uU00 a year for a
school for the practical education of
farmers. Quebec pays 83000. The
state of Texas pays more than Onta
rio for an agricultural college and
does not turn out a single practical or
theoretical farmer.
There is yet hope for some of Aus-
tin's old inveterates. Steve Ilolcomb
one of the oldest gamblers in Louis
ville has reformed and is now s
zealous city missionary. At least one
OI our CHV warua iieeua a icmucuh
a . 1 . 1 .
missionary who knows the ropes
The president of the United States
the secretary of the treasury the sec-
retary of war the postmaster-general
and the lieutenant-general of the army
were all present at the opening of
the Louisville Southern Exposition
Mr. Auther pulled the chord that
opened the throttles of all the engines
and thus inaugurated the great expo
sition.
The conviction of innocent men
upon cnarges oi crime n.w oeen m
such frequent occurrence ol late in
Germany that the press is calling ear
nestly for the passage of a law to
secure indemnification at the hands
of the government in such cases
There la uothiug-more than supreme
justice in such a proposition. The in
demnification- uliould not be partial
but full and complete.
The differences between the board
of managers of the lunatic asylum
and the superintendent resulting in
the removal bv the governor of two
of the managers are to be regretted
The charges made against the super-
in-endent should certainly be investi-
gated by the board and if found to be
true he should be removed at once. If
there Is no foundation for them the
removal of the two managers is a
y-verv arood thing.
The Abyssians have a tradition
showing how mentally deficient was
our common ancestor. They say that
when Adam found the body of the
murdered Abel he carried it about on
hia shoulders for twenty days not
knowing how to dispose of it. The
Almighty took pity on him and sent
forth a crow with a dwid young one on
its back. The crow flew before Adum
until it came to a tract of sandy
ground in which it dug a hole with
its feet and there buried its young
one. When Adam saw this he dug a
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boy In it. And that was the institu
tion of the grave.
rUKDEB the protective system
through which the treasury obtained
$200000000 of revenue last year more
than $550000000 besides was drained
from the taxpayers of the country. If
none of this 8550000000 went into
the treasury it was not the less surely
paid in the enhanced cost of domestic
products through the protective tariff.
It has been shown that for the $30'
358936 of revenue last year from du
ties on foreign metals the consumers
paid $2091015112 as a bounty to manu
facturers on the domestic metals that
they used for every dollar of rev
enue from iron and steel that went
into the treasury four dollars besides
were wrenched from the people by the
protective screw.
From sugar and molasses the reve
nue last year was $49210573 on a val
uation of $94540209 or 62 per cent
duty. The incidental taxation of con
sumers was about $6000000 a year
under the old law. Under the new
law reducing the duty on sugar from
abojlf cents to about 2 cents per
Found this taxation will of course
beless while the revenues of the
treasury will probably be increased.
The sugar duties are for revenue in-
jddentally for protection while the
duties on iron and steel woolen and
cotton goods and earthenware are for
protection incidentally for revenue.
For a long time the protectionists
have been looking askance at the
sugar duties. They produce too much
revenue and if repealed the protec-
tive duties would be more secure from
assault.
The Philadelphia Record says
there is no obscurity about the issue
between protection and tariff reform.
It is easy enough to understand that
a tariff could be framed that would
produce as much revenue as is now
derived from imports with little or no
incidental protection; but such is not
the immediate aim of the advocates
of tariff revision. A "sudden with-
drawal of all protective duties would
cause among some branches of manu-
facture serious mischief that might
react upon the whole Industrial aYSTprHneBfr-Kepublican journal pufc-
tem of the country. "Wise statesmen
like wise physicians 4ealing with the
human body proceed cautiously in
removingthe'disease engendered in
thejpelitical system by a mischievous
policy. While the aim of the pro-
tectionists 's to nurse the disease by
maintaining the protective system in
its utmost rigor the opposite aim of
the advocates of tariff reform is to
gradually reduce protective duties
until the plethoric and diseased con-
dition of the political body disappears.
A tariff for revenue taxe3 the people
only for support f the government.
This tariff for protection is cunningly
deviled so as to make the tax-payers
put from $2 to $3 into pri-
vate pockets for every dollar
that gees into the treasury.
One of the first acts of the ways and
means committee of the next house
on its organization in December says
the Record "will doubtless be a bill to
reduce - the enormous taxation that
brings small revenue to the govern-
ment. When such a bill is passed by
the house it will probably be accepted
by the senate and the president is
committed to it- by his last message.
Hut should the senate reject the bill
it will form a clear and definite issue
before the country in the election of
president and congress. There can be
none of the misconstruction of such a
measure that would be made of a
loose and general declaration in a
party platform. The bill will speak
for itself. It will then be for the peo-
ple to determine whether the enor-
mous incidental taxation which op
presses them shall be reduced or
whether the cost of living shall be
maintained. If they decide adversely
they will go on bearing their burdens
while longer and a few thousand
Dem)crats more or less will miss
what chance of office the new civil
rvice system has left them. That is
U1.
From wool and wooiens the reve
nues last year amounted to $29254234
on a value of $47679502 or upward
of 61 per cent dutv. The home pro-
ducts of wool and woolens amounted
to $267182914. upon which Mr.
Springer's table shows that the con
seiners of the country paid taxes
amounting to $106873165 estimating
at the moderate rate of 40 per cent the
enhanced cost through the tariff.
There were $30000000 of taxes for
revenue and upward of $100000000
for protection. A slight reduction of
11 per cent is made on wool in the
new tariff and the duties on woolens
remain about as they were before.
The duties on blankets flannels and
coarse woolen goods are almost pro
hibitory. The poor are heavily taxed
for them but the taxation is without
revenue to the government. By low
ering the rates of duty on woolens to
a revenue standard the receipts of the
treasury would be increased and the
taxation of consumers from which
there is no revenue would be propor-
tionately diminished. But the pro-
tectionists prefer to distribute the
enor.nous surplus in the treasury
among the states or to waste it in ex-
travagant expenditures. When Mr.
Wharton Baker promulgated this
grand idea it became evident that the
protectionists on the line of argu-
ment had been driven into the last
ditch. ;
The Baltimore Day which has
taken great pains to become informed
on th3 subject thus sums up Mr.
Randall's chances for the speaker-
ship: "Delaware and Maryland are not
conceded to Randall; he will probably
get two out of four of the members
irom Maryland and lose the represen-
tative from Delaware. In Virginia
Wise of the Richmond district is an
avowed protectionist and will vote
for Randall; but Barbour is about as
certain to vote against him as will
of course Cabell and Tucker. In
West Virginia which ias three and
not two Democratic members it is
conceded that Randall will have all
threeincluding Snyder who is a pro-
tectionist. Dowd of North Carolina
with the rest of the delegation will
vote against Randall. Dibble of
South Corolina will be supported in
his advocacy of Randall by Till-
man the gentleman who wants
a senate of 3000 and a house of repre-
sentatives of 500. In Georgia
Nicholls is the only man out of ten
who will vote for Randall. David-
son the solitary member from
Florida is opposed to Randall so we
hear. In Alabama Randall has more
strength than in any other Southern
state his friends claiming four
Hewitt Forney IShelly and William
though the latter is doubtful. If he
has a solitary supporter in the re-
maininir states of Louisiana f except
King) Arkansas (except Dunn)
l ex as Mississippi lennessee Ken-
tucky an Missouri his friends have
made no claim so far as we know
and his opponents no concession. We
figure up til teen Randall men in the
Southern state out of a Democratic
delegation oi 102; it he had twice as
many he would have only about one-
third and he needs forty-two more to
make up a majority in that section. If
his friends will come out frankly and
say how many more supporters he has
South and who they are we will
cheerfully give him credit for it. But
he fares no . better in any other sec-
tion. There are Democratic mem
bers from Massachusetts (three) Con-
necticut (three). New York (twenty-
one) New Jersey (three)Pensylvania
(twelve) Ohio(eleven) JLncuana(nine )
Illinois (nine) Michigan (six) Wis-
consin (six) Iowa (two) Nevada (one)
and California (six). Leaving out
the vote of Nevada which we know
nothing about he cannot have a ma-
jority except in Connecticut Massa
chusetts New Jersey and Penn
sylvania. Giving him the entire
twenty votes in these states
his own excepted he has
including the fifteen Southern
thirty-five votes. The extract from
the Herald gives him three votes
from New York. To that we are will-
ing to add three from Ohio three
from Indiana and perhaps two from
California making forty-six in all.
We do not think he will get a single
vote from Illinois Michigan Wiscon
sin or Iowa. The vote of forty-six
leaves about 144 to be divided among
other candidates. This is a perfectly
fair stat' ment and is the best that
Can be said for Randall; but to give
him all the gains possible we will in-
crease his strength over twenty-five
and bring it up to seventy leaving 120
against him. It is said however that
the opposition cannot unite upon any
one candidate but that enough from
cie defeated aspirant or another will
drift to him and insure his election.
This might be so but for one fact
that Randall is the only protectionist
who is a candidate. His opponents
vote against him on principle and
can never support him as long as they
have an opportunity to vote for an-
other men may drift from Randall
they never will to him. It would
please us greatly for Randall news-
papers to make as frank and compre-
hensive statements as this but we
are afraid they will continue to brag
and blow and give no other sign."
POLITICAL NOTES.
Up to date the Massachusetts Re-
publicans have not found the some-
body to beat Butler.'
Mr. Passmore wanted the Republi
can nomination for state treasurer of
Pennsylvania. Ihj didn't eet it. -A
lished at Potts ville Avhere Pissniore
resides now declares that the conven-
tion afforded an admirable specimen
of boss rule.
The Washington Post rises to em-
phasize the fact that the Democrats
are in no special need of carrying
Ohio but the Republicans are painful-
ly conscious of their need of electing
Foraker.
Iowa Republicans want a depart-
ment of industry. . Anything to swell
the army of placemen suits the aver
age Republican but just now the peo-
ple are preparing to turn the rascals
out and will not be likely to put any
more in.
Gov. Foster was interviewed in
Washington on the German vote in
Ohio and delivered himself to the
effect that outside of Cincinnati and
Cleveland the Republicans never had
10 per cent of it. He said : "In those
two cities about one-third of the Ger-
mans have voted with us sometimes.
A German Catholic Republican is a
great rarity. I do Hot know that I
ever saw one. The saloon-keeping
Germans have been against us for
years and I believe we will get as
many votes from Germans who are
not in the liquor business as we have
in previous years. The importance of
the German defection by which term
it is described in Democratic papers
is greatly exaggerated and overesti-
mated. The defection is imaginary
in great part. We didn't even have
the German vote to' begin with and
they can't take from us something we
didnthave."
official.
1.1 H r OF LETTEIW.
List of letters remain ine uncalled for and
advertised in the Postofflce at Austin Tex.
for the week ending SATURDAY. August 4.
A.
Arthur J P
Ansley A N
Aeff Ciirl
B.
Ben? George H
Brenhan Daniel
Brown O S
Bodemnn May miss
Kutler Mattie miss
Bennett Henry
I'-ett Ida mrs
Bradly Allen
Barnev Bobert
Baeot T W
Blu'by G X
Balton E A
Blackwt-ll mr
Itirde Mattie miss
Bailv F M mrs
Brown H C
Kaily John A
Berris James
Berchard Joe B
Renten Kob
Black Thomas
Clay Thomas
Cousins John W
ravins hllis
Conway James h
f!le:ure Sallie miss
Cavines James
Canipbed Henry
C'ason B M
Carpenger J P
Cunningham L W
Craigin Margaret miss Caiubelf Bell miss
D.
Daniel C B
Drenman Frank J
lavis K W
Dunn M
Disetta Giosippe ()
DeMoss James D
Donnell Mary
Doyle Barbara mrs
E.
Elen Mary E miss
Edholm E O L
Fanes D C
Eplin Mary
Edwards Monrowe
Elley Delplius mrs
Emigration Bureau
Fairris T L
Fisher Mary S
Ferri'.l Addele mrs
Gasia Ferdinando
Gordon Louisa K mrs
Gilbert Lou miss
Fry Pusan mrs
Fowler M mrs
G.
Gasless Tlios W
Greene mr
Gardon Columbus
Green 0 A
H.
Hill Verge
Hood Sofia miss
HotehkissC A (2)
Howard Fred
Hunt J D judge
Hightoner Moses
Hubbard C G
Harris Kitcliel miss
Hornsby :-niitli
Huey R A
Hoffman Robert
Hallan Polly mrs
Hegau John C
Hodgson J 1'
Jette Paul
Johnson W
Johnson Fannie miss
Johnson T J L
John J L
Johnson Chas
Jones Altie miss
Jackson Anna mrs
Jenkins D rev eld
Jenkins Hendly S
Johnson James Q
Jones Cappie miss
Johnson A K
Kirkendall Ruth miss Kendall Win
L.
Lee Willis (col)
Lawrence H R
Lee Kittie mrs
Leno Joe
Leech Amanda
M.
Moore Treasle
Myers Mathew W
Miller Henry
McGahv Dora miss
McCoy lilton E
Mkldlt'ton James
P.
Peace T L
Parker Mary miss
R.
Reed S C
Roberts Chas A
Reader W J
Raiuey Frank
Robertson Leroy
Rogers John
S.
Swanks Win
Shade Mary
Schmidt Leopold
Stromba Charlotta
Smith H T
Shehan Win J
Smith Silma miss
T.
Thompson Wells hon
U.
V.
Vincense Lucia
W.
Weslev Geo J
Wait John
White Lewis master
Vyatt G W
Moore H W
Maloue Thos II
McMeans J M
Morion Frank
McFarland M D L
Murphy luge
Pane Robert
Peoples Margaret
Phillips A C
Rohman 1 M
Robinson Mary J
Roberson Elibeth
Rayey Faney mrs
Rimdablud G A
Rogers James
liayniohnd Jack
Botes Jasus
Swancoat J D
Shannon L A
Smith Dugles
Simnis Annie
Stratton Geo dr
Stanly F L
Thompson Nannie
Urhahn Albert
Veglia Z B )2)
Warshauer Sam
Wheeler A G (2)
White Joseph
Washington Lucy
Wilklns Charlie
FOREIGN LETTERS.
Paddock C H
Muller Henry J
Jerassmisen Tel
Jennie Chas
Pingetore Jelia
Sc'-rader Henry J
Ccusol Gen Italia
FOREIGN DUE LETTERS.
Swen T J Patterson Fina
Ware Joseph Lunberg P G
DOMESTIC DUE LETTERS.
Penn Carrie Miss
To obtain auv of these letters the aDDlicant
must si y " advertised" and give the date of
the list If not called for within one mouth
they w 111 be sent to the Dead Letter Office
wasnii gion u. u.
J. O. DkGRESS. Postmaster.
RIALDSTATK rilASI'KKS
Abstract Title Office )
Of Ziinpelinan & Bergen Austin I ex. S
Transfers of real estate recorded in office of
countv clerk for week ending August 4. 1883 :
J.C. Wilson to bner Taylor right-of-way
ui uu lu raiiroiiu irdvis uuunty. ciw.
Chas. Pace to Abner Taylor rk-ht-of-way to
build railroad Travis county. 550.
J as . B. Smith to Abner Taylor right-of-way
to uiuiu raiiroa iravis couiuy.
B. F. Stanley et als to Abner Taylor right-of-way
to build railroad. Travis county.
james K. Hamilton et als to Amy J. Knott
Hamilton rasiure iravis county. i5boo.
Asenath Hamilton to Amy Knott Hamilton
rasinre iravis countv. si.
Mary J. Durst to Wi'liam Mosps. lots 3 and 4
block 96. Austin. 7500.
Carl Lundgreu and wife to A. von Rosen-
oerg part ot oiock 4t division t Austin.
S2500
S. T. Hoagarand wife to J. J. Gregg R. T.
Coudon survey No. 653. Travis county SU 00.
J. K P. MeFall and wife to P. C. Taylor 10
acres u. w. peir league iravis couuty.
S300.
Jno. R. Peel to Wm. Henry Thaxton lots 3
and 4 o ock l division D Austin. $200.
A. H. Wilkins to Amelia Brass. 500 acres
Muney and Morales survey Travis county
$3000.
Jas. Broun to John Turner part of lot 7
Chambers 8 league Travis couuty. $350.
Jas. Broun to John Turner part of lot 2
Chambers 8 league Travis countv. 400.
Jas. Broun to John I urner lot No. 6 Corbin
tract iravis county ssjoo.
Jas. A. Thompson and wife to Jas. P. Rog-
ers et al 10 acres of land Travis countv.
James A. Thompson and wife to Lavina H.
Rogers. 50 acres. Travis countv. S833.33?4.
L. I Ro'iertson et al to M. F. Loekridge
one-half of lot 3. block 1. division B. Austin.
W. J . Thompson to Mrs. Fannie Wavland.
property in various counties iu the state of
lexas. Si so.
M. C. Hamilton to M. A. Hamilton et als
Pecan Grove lann. Williamson county. Ham
ilton pasture Travis county. Two 640 acre
surveys in W illiainson county and other per-
suiihI uronertv.
Calvfu S. Knott and wife to Morgan C. Ham-
uiou et ais. Hamilton pasture i ra vis county.
H. & T. C. R. R. Co. to J A. Puckett lot 7
block 29. Manor. J75.
Rebecca Brltton to Kalman Sendrey lots 4
5 l' and 7 block 5 division Z Austin. $700.
Rebecca Britton to Wm. A. Barbee lot 3 in
block 5. division Z. Austin. 9300.
E. F. B. Alley and wile to A. O. Duty 1E8
acres Jose .Navaruo survey. Travis comity.
E. P. B. Alley and wife to B. B. Templeton
part ot jose jNavarro survey iravis county.
$1300.
A. O. Duty to B. B. Templeton Jose Navarro
survey Travis and Basirop counties. 1920.
F. P. Hetlington and wife to J. "W. Kay part
of G. F. Lunsford survey Travis county. $500.
a. w. lerreu to oames w. Jay io acres E
M. Hurst survey Travis county; 160 acres.
aitto iravis comity; iuo acres auto iravis
county. $500.
L. Fellman and wife to Edw. Christian part
of outlot 25 division C Austin. 1000.
Edw. Christian and wife to L. Fellman part
of outlot 2. division C. Austin. $3000.
C. S. West to Loomis & Christian part of fair
gnmnci iraci iravis county siuo.
Jos. Brown by attorney to Mrs. Emma
Achilles one-fourth of one-half of lot 7 block
u Aiiutin SfKnn
ilqses Rayuer to Aug. Fuhrmann part of lot
Oi U1V1S1U1I AUSI111. - eiWO.
H. J. Doughty and wife to W. H. Randolph.
lot 17 block 20 or 21 division D Austin. Siooo.
L. L. Robertson to Leonard Dill lot 4 block
2. division B. Austin. $225.
Carl Lundgren to Ludwig Dushek et al vvt
oi jonn aicLougai neaangnt one-rnini ioague
Travis county. 2oo.
John R. Peel to Robt. Wood" lots 10 11 and
FROM TAYLOR.
" Special to The Statesman. I
' Taylor Ausrust 4 Fourteen
bales of new cotton have been re
ceived to date. They sold at good
nirures ana were snipped to Galveston.
The prospects are good for an aver
age crop. iate cotton is needing ram.
Eighty-two buildings are in course
of construction at Taylor. Carpen-
ters and brick masons.are in demand.
L. M. Oppenhimer arrived to-day
from an extensive sojourn in the
North and East and i3 receivine his
new 810000 building from the con
tractors. Mr. Oppenhimer let his
building to Messrs. Kelly and Tomlin-
son tne contractors and nad no su
perintendent nor has he seen his
ouiiaing iroin tne time tney com
menced until completion and they
have finished up the contract more
complete than the spe ifications re
quired showing them to be honest
conscientious ouuaers.
A drunken Irishman ran against the
United States postofflce yesterday and
peeled several square inches of skin
and hair from his cranium by striking
a heavy beer mug. The postmaster
was holding the mug in his hand.
Euel for ueating his wife has been
in limbo for the past day. Our mayor
will have the offender of woman's
rights under his motherly care to-day.
The trustees of our public schools
have secured the services of Prof.
A. L. Hill of Bastrop as principal of
the school. lie is recommended as
being fully competent to assume the
duties as professor.
The Georgetown and Taylor papers
are getting into quite a local war "of
words. From the present outlook
nothing M ill be left but tails.
Oh Jeaulousy! where is thy sting?
Oh vlitjrvt tklmt A-ill it lw nr(.h"
OUR DOCTOli'S ADVICE.
Don't.
Don't go to bed with cold feet.
Don't sleep ia the same undergar-
ments that are worn during the day.
Don't sleep in a room that is not well
ventilated. JJon t sit or sleep in a
draught. Don't lie on the left side too
much. Don t lie on tne oacK to Keep
from snoring. Don't try to get along
with less than seven or eight hours'
sleep out of t wentv-four. Don't jump
out of bed immediately on awaking
in the morning. Don t forget to rub
yourself well all over with a crash
towel or hands before dressing. Don't
forget to take a drink of pure water
betore breakiast. uon t tase long
walks when the stomach is entirely
empty. Don't start to do a day's
work witnout eatiug a gooa
breakfast. Do not eat anything but
well-cooked foods. Do not eat what
you do not want just to save it. Do
not eat between meals nor enough to
cause uneasiness at meal-time. Do
not eat the smallest morsel anless
hungry if well. Do not try to keep
up on coffee or alcoholic stimulants
when nature is calling you to sleep.
Do not stand over hot-air registers.
Do not inhale hot air or fumes of any
acids. Do not fill the gash with soot
sugar or anything else to arrest the
hemorrhage when you cut yourself
but brine the parts together with
strips of adhesive plaster. Do not wear
t hin hose or lignt-soled shoes in cold
weather. Do not strain your eyes by
reading on an empty stomach or when
ill. Do not ruin your eyes by reading
or sewing at dusk by a dim light
or nickering candle or when very
tired. Don't sing or holloe when
your throat is sore or you are hoarse.
Don't drink ice water when Vou are
very warm and never a glassful at a
time but simply sip it slowly Don't
take some other person's medicine be
cause you are similarly amicted
Don't bathe in less than two hours
al ter eating. Don't eat in less than
two hours after bathing. Don't call
so frequently on your sick friend as
to make your company and conver
sation a bore. Don't make a practice
ot relating scandal or stories calcu-
lated to depress the spirits of the sick
Don't forget to cheer and gently
amuse invalids when visiting them.
Don't call on your sick friend and ad-
vise him to take some other medicine
get another doctor eat more eat less
sit up longer go out more frequently
stay a week or talk him to death be
fore you think of leaving.
In walking or other exercise learn
to keep the mouth hrmly closed and to
breathe entirely through the nos
You can walk as far again with less
fat'gue and without getting out of
breath than when you breathe through
the mouth. Try it.
Stomach ache from indigestion
may generally be relieved by lying on
the back and rubbing the abdomen
with the hands pressing and rubbing
downward.
The Art oi the Horse Tamer.
Turf Field and Farm.
A writer in the Sporting Magazine
of 1828 draws attention to James Sul-
livan the Whisperer a horse breaker
at Cork "an ignorant awkward rus
tic or the lowest class. it was
claimed for him that he possessed
the art of controlling I y some secret
influence any horse or mare that was
notoriously vicious lie practiced in
private and would not reveal his
method. "When employed to tame
an outrageous animal he directed the
stable in which he and the object of
the experiment were placed to be
shut with orders not to open the door
until a signal given. A iter a tete-a-
tete between him and the horse for
about half an hour during which lit
tle or no bustle was heard the signal
was made and upon opening the dorr
the horse was seen King down and
the man by his side playing familiarly
with mm HKe a ciuiu with a puppv
dog. From that time he was found
perfectly willing to submit to any dis-
cipline "however repugnant to his
nature before." Sullivan could not
be persuaded to practice his art
abroad Ho was wedded to
locality and so his triumphs were
witn ssed by only a small circle. It
is sale to affirm that he did not con
trol horses by talking to them in
whispers and by a magnet touch.
His practice was different from his
pretensions. When Rarey a son of
an inn-keeper in central Ohio went to
England in 1858 he claimed to have
psychological power over horses and
after he had brought Cruiser under
control his praises were sung by two
continents. The truth of the matter
is that llarey like those before him
and those who came after him ob
tained obediance through force. He
practiced the leg-tying-up system
which he had learned at Georgetown
Ky from Denton Off utt. Make the
vicious horse feel that you are hisj
master and then soothe him with sott
caresses and gentle words and you
will accomplish all that Whisperer
Sullivan accomplished. Mr. Magner
in his forthcoming book gives the full
history of the Cruiser case. The facts
were furnished by Mr. Goodnough
who took Karey to England. Cruiser
was owned by Lord Dorchester
and had been vicious from a colt. He
was kept for breeding purposes at
Morrell Green forty-one miles from
London. A watering-bridle was kept
on him continually. To it were at-
tached two chains each about twelve
inches long with a buckle at the end.
The door of his stable divided in the
center and when it was desired to
lead him out for use the lower half
was opened and a bucket of water put
in. When the horse plunged his nose
in the water to drink a strap twenty
feet long was quickly fastened to each
bit of chain. In this way two men
could lead the animal without getting
in range of his teeth and feet. Cruiser
never wore the big iron muzzle which
Rarey exhibited with the horse.
That was a little advertising trick.
Cruiser was not subdued by ordinary
methods. As a last resort his fore
legs were tied up a collar put on and
his hind legs drawn up and tied to it.
In this utterly helpless condition he
was left all night in a solitary stable.
In thd morning he was watered
caressed fed and groomed. Then he
was led behind a dog cart - to.
London and tied down again the
following night. His spirit was
broken and after this Rarey could
handle "him with comparative ease.
In London and New York wondering
crowds flocked to see the vicious ani-
mal which the magic touch of the
horse tamer had ma le as gentle as a
lamb. After Rarey's death Cruiser
was treated inhumanly and he again
grew sullen and vicious. He was con-
tined in a small paddock at Grove-
port near Columbus Ohio his feet
seldom trimmed never carefully
groomed and his food pitched at him.
He had no love for man and the face
of every prying intruder threw him
into a rage. He was a horse of fine
grain with well proportioned head
and rather wide between the eyes. He
was bred to a few mares in Central
Ohio and left there some colts of
more thiin average merit. The suc-
cessful horse tamer must have firm-
ness excellent judgment and control
over his temper. Intuitively and
after much experience he will learn
to read the character of an animal
and know what steps to take to ren-
der him submissive. Mere lip and
hand mummery is a waste of time.
Father Riordan of Chicago who
has been appointed a bishop and
coadjutor of the Archbishop of San
Francisco is only thirty-eight and is
thought to be the youngest Catholic
bishop in the worldL Ue was born in
New Brunswick but was taken to
Chicago when quite young.
The United States now holds gold
to the amount of $198000000. N ext
comes the Bank of France with $193-
000000. At the same time American
credit ranks above that of England.
Of 400 white shoemakers in San
Francisco nearly one-third are Ger-
mans. Very few are English or na-
tive Americans. Germans are said
to like the craft because the princes
of the fatherland who have to learn
some trade prefer to serve appren-
ticeships either at shoe-making or
book binding.
PERSONAL
Rosa Bonheur in the sixty-lirst
year of her age paints incessantly
and still dresses in male attire.
Gov. Hamilton of Illinois has de
clared that the military companies of
that state shall not parade on Sun-
days. Field Marshal Von Moltke was
taken for a tramp recently and or-
dered out of one of the German in-
land villages.
Peter McGeoch the lard man is
said to have sacririced everything to
his creditors even his wife's property
at Milwaukee.
Ex-Senator Thurman of Ohio.likes
his glass of whisky and takes his
snuff and appreciates young people
and general society.
Lord Beaumont a Roman Catholic
and seventh in the roll of English
barons is said o be anxious to wed
the California heiress Miss Flood.
Mr. Wm. C. Elam the wounded
duelist writes that he is doing well
but suffers an occasional attack from
neuralgia in the region of his wound.
John Barnett the first railroad
conductor employed in passenger
traffic died lately in England. He
accompanied the old No. 1 engine in
its trip with George Stephenson.
Jennie June says: If the women
would only dress more simply the
men might be tempted to get them-
selves up more picturesquely in knee
reeches slashed double and such."
The civil servant under the crown
longest in harness in England is Earl
Granville. He has held office even
longer than Mr. Gladstone his present
chief whose record is so long and
varied.
Hon. George W. Julian says of Mr.
Tilden that "he is the ablest leader in
the Democratic party" and would be
a good candidate for the presidency if
not too old and feeble to accept the
responsibilities of a nomination.
Archbishop Bourget who is now
completing his forty-sixth year in
charge of the see of Montreal is
ninety years old and still strong and
vigorous. He is the oldest wearer of
the mitre in America and has only
two seniors in the world.
The president was accompanied to
the Yellowstone Park by Senators
Wade Hampton of South Carolina
and vest or Missouri. He has in
vited them because of their ability
with the rod and line and expects
them to keep the family in hsh meat.
Henry Labouchere the editor of
the London Truth never writes at
night not being a believer in the mid
night oil as applied to the journalistic
machine. His working hours are
from 10 o'clock in the morning till 3
o'clock in the afternoon after which
comes recreation.
1 . 1). .1 ones or D urham N . C owns
a large black whisky bottle out of
which it is said Generals Johnston
and Sherman took the last drink after
signing the articles of the surrender
on the 26ih of April 1865. The bot
tle was left with Mrs. Bennet who
lived four miles of Durham where
Johnson surrendered.
The pathway ot Denis Kearney is
not strewn with roses. He has been
jeered at by the Central labor union
"sot down on by the New i ork park
commissioners and as a last insult
has been challenged by Wong Chin
Foo of the Chinese American to a
mortal combat for remarks deroga
tory to the Chinese people.
T. V. Powderly the grand master
workman of the Knights of Labor is
mayor of Scranton Pa. an office that
he has held for three terms. He has
been grand master workman for three
years. He is a typical American and
is torty-three years old. in person
he is tall and commanding and wears
a long and nowing mustache.
Lord Chief Justice Coleridge of
Euuiaud Hill reach New York the
last of August. He will be the guest
f E. F. Shepherd son-in-law of W.
H. Vauderbilt who will place at the
visitor's disposal three elegant cars
lor extensive traveling. Lord Cole-
ridge will pay a special visit to Wil
liam F. Evarts at Windsor Vt.
Japan loses in Mr. Iwakura third
president ot the council ot State one
of its most distinguished men. He
will be remembered as the head of the
embassy sent to the western powers
in 1872. Upon his return he became
the leader of the progressive policy
since followed by his country. He
was a member of the old court no
bility and was an actor in the reyo
lution of 1868 which restored the Em-
peror to power.
In the Tiger's Lair.
Long Branch N. J. Letter to Boston Herald.
Gambling has long been a feature
of lite at this resort but it has been
exclusively ot the male gender. Now
the trap is opened for the other sex
and it is an interesting question
whether anything feminine wul be
caught. The bait is alluring and it
is made up of the choicest viands
served in the handsomest imaginable
restaurants. The Pennsylvania club
is an old-time gambling house the
West End but new capital has been
put into it the main building is de-
votedin its lower story to eating and
drinKing and an enlarged room con
tains the gambling hell which is said
to be the most luxurious one in
America. Phil Daly is the manager
He don't see why American women
shouldn't gamble as the fashion is at
some of the European watering
places. It is with a view to enticing
them that he has given up so much
separate space to the restaurant
branch of the business. He hopes
they will be charmed with the beauty
of the grounds than which none at
the Branch are better and thus be led
to try the gastronomy of the estab-
lishment. Thence their way would
be easy to the adjoining gorgeous hall
in which laro roulette and other
games go on. Several women have
taken this route to the green tables
but it is guessed that they were mere-
ly stool-pigeons whose employment
by the concern removes them from all
danger of being plucked. Gaming re-
mains unfashionable for ladies in
snite cf Fiiil Daiy:s extravagant ef-
forts. There are several new hills includ-
ing one fully as large as tin Pennsyl-
vania and quite as pretentious. This
stands near the Ocean Hotel and the
front piers Its ostensible owner is
Charles Ransom a New York gam-
Dler and the rumors as to the rest of
the ownership are too unsubstantial
for publication. It is certain that a
capital of not less than $200000 is
requisite to cover the property and
make a solid backing for the bank.
The house is big and of ornate archi-
tecture. No structure in the place
makes a better show of exterior. At
night when the brilliant lights shine
out through an abundance of stained
glass the building looks like an enor-
mous lantern of variegated colors.
The interior is as handsome as the
outside. A spacious hallway runs
clear through the centre to a leaf y
porch at the back. On the right are
supper rooms including an open large
one where a table is heavily la len
with cold delicacies for a midnight
free luncheon. On the left all of the
floor space and a height . of ; two
stories are given up to a grand halL
The sides and ceiling are cherry wood
elaborately carved and decorated. At
one end is a fireplace of brass and
bronze with immense figures in wood
and metal over the manteL The floor
is softly carpeted. The - gambling
tables and appurtenances are of the
costliest description; particularly cost-
ly to the players who in the end
have to pay for them many times
over.
Gaming has always been a feature
of the 'place; now it has suddenly
gained extensive and glittering pro-
portions. This is in part due no
doubt to the fact that the business
has for a year been hampered in New
York city by Comstock'a society and
the professional gamblers sought the
nearest place of a moneyed crowd.
There are three of the so-called club
houses. Some exceedingly heavy
playing is done in the places besides
much that is so only relatively in
view of the inability of the players to
bear the losses. : The jockeys and
other employes of the Monmouth
Park race course pretty regularly de-
posit their wages in these banks and
don't often draw anything out. The
butlers and coachmen of wealthy
summer residents are also to be seen
at the tables. But the heavy play as
a rule is by Wall street men who
have not left their love of chance be-
hind in the city. Faro is the favorite
game for these chaps and for the
time-seasoned old gamblers among
the abounding turfmen; out roulette
has attained popularity with inex pe-
ri' need and uncalculating fellows to
whom the payments of thirty-six to
one when a wager wins are so daz-
zling that they fail to see the clear
and sure percentage of advantage
which the game affords the banks.
The handsomest apartment in all
Long Branch is very spacious con-
sisting of two octagonal ends with a
corridor-like connection. The roof is
high trussed and over the two octag-
ons it extends u.t 1 jf ty domes. This
architecturally varied roofing is made
further ornate with elaborate paint-
ing in oil colors. I know of no finer
decoration of the kind anywhere. The
floor is covered with Wilton carpet of
the most delicate hues. The furniture
is of the heaviest mahogany in pieces
and shapes to gorgeously lit out a
gam ling hell.
The house much enlarged for this
season was built by two members of
two great political rings Peter B
Sweeney Tweed's first lieutenant
and Mackey once state treasurer of
Pennsylvania. Of course these men
were not at the time known as the
owners and the concern went in the
name of their trusted partner and
agent Phil Daly a Philadelphia gam-
bler and then of John Chamberlain
the widely known sporting man and
husband of Emily Thorne.the actress.
Chamberlain ruined himself in the
proprietorship of the Long Branch
race course and retired. Plunger
Walton attempted to get possession
by acquiring Mackey's interest after
the death of that financial politician
but was beaten by Daly who formed
the combination now owning and
managing the property which con
sists of about the finest building and
grounds along the shore. But for a
Hag floating the name "Pennsylvania
Club" this would be mistaken for the
summer residence of a millionaire.
"Our expenses are $500 a day" said
the gambler "to say nothing of the
capital invested. This room and
what's in it cost $40000." And then
he affably added: "You are not play-
ing to-night."
"No" I replied "your expenses and
investment are too heavy." But
there were one hundred men or so
present who had no such scruples
against remunerating the gamblers.
Two games of faro were going on
and a white black and rouge et noir
table was in active use but interest
centered at one of the four large rou-
lette apparatuses where uncommonly
heavy play was in progress. Stacks
of ivory disks "chips" in gambling
parlance ranging in value from white
at $1 to blue ones at $10 and red at
25 were in front of the players in
one instance to the extent of more
than $10000. This particular
operator was a Wall street broker
and all but $500 of the pile
represented winnings since he had
taken his seat. As to his previous
luck accounts differed. The gambler
told me that the bank had lost $30000
to hira in a week. Somebody else said
that he had put half of that sum into
the bank. As every winning chip
multiplied itself by twenty-eight and
the turn of the wheel occupied less
than two minutes it will be seen that
a man might make a big fortune if he
only had enough good luck but as the
chances are thirty-one to one against
hiin in every wager it can easily be
figured up that his luck must average
nearly 10 per cent better than that
of the bank to put him on an equal
footing.
One player was filling a sheet of
foolscap compactly with figures appa-
rently keeping a record of the win-
ning numbers and conducting his
play in accordance with some elabo-
rate system. A very small portion of
the cyphering directed by common
sense should have convinced him of
the follv of attempting to get the
best of professional gamblers.
A Possibility of the Future.
fSt. Jame's Gazette. J
On more than one occasion during
the last three thousand years the bar-
baric hordes of the East have over
flowed their boundaries and have
swept westward overwhelming the
young civilization of Europe and ob-
literating nearly all the landmarks of
Western art and pragress; and at the
present time if we may credit the
Pekin correspondent of one of the
Calcutta papers there is in China a
powerful and rapidly growing party
that advocates the making of yet an
other gigantic excursion toward the
iauu oi me aeiLiLig ttuii. j.ue voeiesuiai
Empire is no doubt immensely over-
populated and will probably ere long
seek some new outlet for her surplus
citizens; but is difficult to believe that
she will attempt save by peaceful
means to attain the desired result.
The great unknown country has been
quiescent for so long that it is almost
impossible for a European to con-
template the sleeping myriads should
ever again put iorth their herculean
strength. Yet if China were to
awake; if she were to look westward
with covetous glance and were once
more to burst her bounds in response
to that mysterious impulse which in
the East occasionally seizes upon a
whole people how could she be re-
sisted ? According to the last edition
of the Revolkerung der Erde she has
a population of 434000000; and sup-
posing that estimate for it is only
an estimate to be even approximate-
ly correct China could put into the
field more soldiers than there are souls
in Germany; and if she so willed
could with a host of .80000000 tram-
ple all the civilization of Europe be-
neath her feet.
It was for many centuries the pop-
ular belief among the Jewish people
themselves that they should be gath-
ered out of all lands and taken back
to the land which Joshua conquered
for them and which had been prom-
ised to Abraham Isaac and Jacob. It
cannot be said that this belief and
hope is yet wholly -abandoned. It is
generally admitted however that the
land of Palestine would require to
undergo some very radical changes
before it could be regarded as a
tempting or desirable home for the
now scattered race. According to
our authority the Jews are to become
masters of the world and Palestine i3
to become co-extensive with the
lobe. They are declared to be the
most vital of the races. They can
live in all climes and in all latitudes
Their energy is irrepressible. Their
faculty for money making is un-
equalled. They are the great bankers
of the world. During the last ten
years the Rothschilds alone have fur-
nished loans to the amount of 500-
000.000. It is claimed that they in-
crease faster than Christians and
that of every 100000 persons the Jew-
ish death rate is 89 the Christians 143.
The Irish churches hold their an-
nual meetings a little later than the
churches in England Scotland and
the United States. The synod of the
Episcopal church the assembly of the
Presbyterian church and the confer-
ence of the Methodist church haye all
been held since the assemblies and
conferences in the countries referred
to. The Irish meetings spite of the
trouble through which the country
has passed ' have been wonderfully
successful all of them reporting gen-
eral progress. In the general assem-
bly of the Presbyterian church a reso-
lution was passed to the effect that
the friendly relations which have ex-
isted for so many years between the
Presbyterian church in Ireland and
the Free church of Scotland be ex
tended t: the Established church and
the United Presbyterian church.
Since the times of the disruption the
Irish assembly has been strongly af-
filiated with the Free church of Scot
land. The new movement shows a
desire for larger union for a more
generous and extended fellowship. It
is a move in the right direction. The
old cause for quarrel is no more.
MteCELLAXEOl'S AOTtS.
Moulting. The annual moulting
season of fowls is now at hand which
is sometimes a critical period with
them. This transformation of the
feathery covering is a great drain
upon the system. They should be fed
liberally at this time with a varied
supply of food and allowed an ex-
tended range to wander over.
Wide Tires Best. A farmer who
claims to have tested the matter says
that upon soft ground he can draw
two tons with wheels that have a
four-inch tire as easily as one ton
upon those with a two and a half inch
tire. As farmers wagons are used in
crossing meadow lands and plowed
lands as much as for any purpose it
will be well to bear this in mind when
ordering wheels for farm wagons.
Stubble Land for Wheat. Stubble
ground intended for wheat should be
plowed as soon as possible after the
rop is removed. With early plowing
an oat or barley stubble may be made
almost equal to a summer fallow by
the time the ground is wanted for
wheat seeding. There is usually a
period of six weeks between harvest
and wheat sowing. In that time
thistles and quack can be greatly
checked if no spear of either is al-
lowed above ground.
Don't Feed Musty Meal. Experi-
ments have proved that musty meal
is not wholesome food for any of the
domestic animals. Disease and death
have beeii directly traced to its use.
When fed to poultry chicken cholera
or some disease resembling that was
the result. Cows to which it was fed
gave bitter milk and ceased to thrive
as well as those in the same pasture
which had no grain; swine fed upon it
failed to grow or fatten; only horses
were not injured by it and they es-
caped because they would not eat it.
To Make Shingles Durable. Shin-
gles are said to last much longer and
are prevented from warping in tlry
weather thus causing a leaky roof if
they are covered with a whitewash
made by adding slaked quicklime to a
moderately strong brine; some would
add sand or whiting to the whitewash
but the advantage of doing so is
doubtful. If the white color is ob-
jected to for the roof any painter can
give instructions for changing to any
tint desired from a flaming red to a
delicate stone color. Some prepare
the shingles by dipping them in the
wash before laying but this entails
extra labor and is but little if any
better as all that is needed is to pro-
tect that part which is exposed to the
weather.
Care of Wagon Wheels. The sever-
est strain in the cart or carriage comes
upon the wheels. The felloes espe-
cially are exposed to alternate mud
and drouth according to the prevail-
ing weather. The paint soon wears
off and the wood absorbs the water
from every mud puddle through which
the vehicle is driven. In a dry time
the wood shrinks and the tire gets
loose. The remedy is a new setting of
the tire and a bill from the black-
smith. It is much cheaper to clean
up the carriage occasionally and give
the wheels a dressing of linseed oil as
hot as it can be put on. The wood
will absorb a good deal of the oil and
will swell the rim so as to make the
tire tight. It will prevent the rotting
of the wood and make long-lived
wheels. When the wheels have soaked
up all the oil they will take put on a
good coat of paint.
Clean Money The Atlanta Consti-
tution truly says that the money
made by farming is the cleanest best
u oney in the world. It is made in
accordance with God's first law un-
der honest and genial influences
away from the taint of trail e and the
fierce heat of speculation. It fills the
pocket of the farmer at the expense
of no other man. His gain is no
man's loss; but the more he makes
the better for the world at large.
Prosperous farmers make a prosper-
ous people. W hat ever benfits our ag-
riculture benefits the commonwealth.
Alcohol and Fowls. A French doc-
tor has experimented on the influence
of alcoholic drink on fowls. He ad-
ministered to them brandy and ab-
sinthe and found one and ail to take
so kindly to their unwonted stimu-
lants that he was forced to limit each
one to a daily allowance of six centi-
meters of spirits or twelve of wine.
There was an extraordinary develop-
ment of cocks crests and a rapid and
general loss of flesh. The experi-
ments were continued untd it ap-
peared that two months' absinthe
drinking sufficed to kill the strongest
cock or hen while the brandy drinkers
lived four and a half and the wine
bibbers held on for ten months before
they died the drunkard's death.
Simple Cure for Gapes. Under this
heading F. D. C. writes to the Country
Gentleman that the "easiest and best
remedy for gapes in chickens is caus-
tic lime either air or water slaked. It
should be dry and powdered. Take
the chicken in the left hand and open
the mouth keeping it upright and
then drop a pinch of the dry lime into
it. Hold in this position a few sec-
onds until it is oblighed to breathe
when it will inhale some of the lime;
then let it go. One application of the
lime in this manner has cured in my
experience every case of gapes some
of them in the last stages. After
trying a number of remedies I find
this the best of all as it is simple and
sure and does not injure the chicken.
The lime kills the worms."
Last Battle of the Civil War.
A letter dated Gregory's Hill Ala.
July 9 says: "An article on the 'Last
Battle of the Late War' from the
Albuquerque Journal is such a tissue
of misrepresentation that I cannot
permit it to go on record as true.
There was but one battle fought at
the time mentioned and that was on
May Id 1865 known as the battle of
Casa Bianca (white house) on the Rio
Grande about fifteen miles south of
Brownsville Tex.
The Federals had about 1500 infant-
ry and dismounted cavalry; the Con-
fedates two squadrons of poorly-
armed cavalry and Jones' light bat-
tery (six guns) total strength
about 325 men. The Federals left
Brazos Santiago island at the mouth
of the Rio Grande to capture Browns-
ville. ...The- cavalry picksC -jeprted
the ' advance of the Federals and
on the morning of May 18 Gen.
Slaughter commanding the line on
the Rip Grande ordered Capt. O. G.
Jones to take command of the two
squadrons of cavalry and Jones bat-
tery; and to go down the Rio Grande
and meet the enemy ; that he (Gen.
Slaughter) would overtake the com-
mand before the enemy could be
reached. But Gen. Slaughter did not
reach the field till dark and that after
the Federals had been routed and
driven back to the island ; hence he
was not in the battle and did not com-
mand. On coming out of chaparral
thicket Capt. O. G. Jones saw the
Federals about 1200 yards distant ad-
vancing in line of battle and driving
back the pickets. The only thing
to be done was for the Con-
federates to fight or run. Capt.
Jones prom pi ly decided to fight and
there was no time to wait for Gen.
Slaughter. The fighting began about
3 p. m. and lasted till dark. The
Federals were defeated and complete-
ly routed many of them jumping
into the Rio Grande and swimming
to the Mexican side.' The Confeder-
ates captured as many if not more
prisoners than the entire strength of
the Confederate force.
Capt. O. G. Jones of Jonea' battery
who commiided in the fight charged
the Federal foot with artillery and
kept up a running fight for nine
miles and he it was who gave the
last command to "ceae firing."
Lieut. J. Mayrant Smith (reared in
Galveston) of Jones' battery fired
the last gun of the war.
The education of dogs was a com-
mon difersion in early times. In an
engraving of 1344 to be seen in the
Bodleian Library a dog is represented
as sitting on his haunches and in Ben
Jonson's play of "Bartholomew
Favre ." acted in 1614. he mentions
"dogges that dance the morrice." In
the last century a theatrical troupe
composed entirely of dogs appeared in
England.
THE COWBOYto BOWK-AKKAi
BY P. W. IJT NBW TOKK STAB
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The cowboy mounted hie mustang
And o"er the prairies rode.
Awav in tm?-wits ofTexas.
Remote from human abode.
Through jungles-mid' tangled briars.
And grasses tht dripped with dew.
Through (orests. gavaunahs and pampas
Th? cowboy and niustang. Hew
But why hath the mustang halted?
And why doth he shiver and shake?
And why doth he rear on his binder legs.
And shudder and tremble and quake?
For conduct so strange and unequlne
Some cause there surely must be.
But what is the matter with Hannah?
What doth the mustang see? .
He sees and do doth the cowboy
A sight most uncommonly rare:
He sees Ave skeletons silting
Upright ill a carriage there!
Five skeletons solemn and silent.
Their bonea bleached in the sun
A sort of skeletou family.
Rusticating aloue.
He sees two skeleton horses
Standing silent and glum
Like a couple of megatheriums
Iu the Briiish Mu-se-um;
Two stately skeleton horses
Under a big oak tree.
Standing erect and defiant
As skeleton horses can be.
The cowboy Jumps .down off his mustang
And going over to them
Begins in coroucr fashion
To hold a post n or-teni.
He enters the skeleton's carriage.
And there v-ith hia skeleton keys.
Contrives lo open the rusty lock
OI the skeleton's big valise.
What treasures the cowboy found there
The telegram does not say.
For cowboys are not the sort of boys
For giving such things away.
But he saw now a bolt of thunder
Had riven the giant oak.
And surmised that the whole caboodle
Had been stunued uv the one tierce stroke.
And tliis is the tale of the cowboy
And cowboys are not marines.
Although you may think that this story
A little bit thai way leans.
And when Baruuin comes here next winter
You'll all have a chance to see
The skeleton team and carriage.
And the skeleton family.
HISTORICAL.
The inauguration of Constantino-
ple as the capital of the Roman em-
pire took place 330.
Under the old English law a judge
could carry a jury with him on cir-
cuit until it agreed or until he
reached the borders of the country.
So great was civic disorder in the
reign of Edward IL that for a whola
year the mayor of London did not
dare hold its hustings.
The first in France to employ com-
pressed air for glass-blowing was
probably a workman named Baccarat
who in 1824 invented a small me-
chanical blower.
Mary Stuart planted trees about
all her residences and taught her
son the same habit which descended
to his daughter Elizabeth and his
granddaughter Sophia. . . :
The reason that Kent Cornwall
Suffolk Essex Norfolk Cumberland
and several other divisions of Eng-
land do not have the termination
shire is that they are ancient king-
doms and never were "sheared" off
from a greater whole.
After the battle of Lutzen Wallen-
stein distributed 85210 gulden among
officers who had behaved well; but
he executed as cowards eleven om
cers by the sword he han-ed others
some had their swords broken by the
hangman under the gallows and the
names ot many were nailed in intamy
on the gibbet. . ......
Henry the Third began to rebuild
Westminster Abbey in 1245; his work
ends with the first pillar ot the choir
Edward the First's closes with the
first pillar of the nave which was
first used for the TeDeum in honor of
Henry the Fifth's victory at Asincour
The west window was built in the
reign of Henry the Seventh.
ihe navigation of the air was a
rthing to which men aspired long be
fore the days of the Montgolfiers
Simon Magnus according to Sueto-
nius met his death in Rome during
tne reign oi jn ero in an attempt to
fly from one house to another. Roger
Bacon had some idea of a flying ma-
cnine wonted oy wings and in the
latter part of the fifteenth century
Dante a mathematician of Perugia
is said to have risen above Lake
Thrasimena by means of artificial
wings attached to his body.
The coronation hall which narrowly
escaped destruction when part of the
Hott-1 de Ville Aix la Chapelle was
burned last month is 162 feet. long.
sixty feet wide and twenty-eight and
a nan ieet nign. in it tnirty-two
kings and twelve queens have feasted
during their coronation festivities.
The principal objects of interest in
this hall are the frescoes of Alfred
Rethel which were executed between
the years 1846 and 1859 and take first
rank in the iresco art of the German
Empire. They portray eight of the
most famous incidents in the life of
Charlemagne. Fortunately this room
is protected by an arched iron roof
which withstood the shock of falling
debris and thereby saved the frescoes
from the fate which seemed inevita-
ble. m .
Against the Farmers.
Philadelphia Record. " '.
The vast majority of the American
people are engaged in farming and
the farmers export wheat corn sheep
cattle butter and cht ese. The prices
at what the farmers sell at home and
what they send abroad are regulated
by the prices in the Liverpool Ant-
werp and Havre markets. There are
"protective" duties it is true on
wheat corn and other . agricultural
products but these duties are inoper-
ative. They are put into the tariff for
a mere blind to persuade the farmers
of the country that they too are in
the protected ring. It would make
no practical difference to the farmers
of the United States if the duties on
their wheat or corn were one dollar or
one cent a bushel. The duty whether
high or low can obviously
have. no effect on . the for-
eign demand .. by which - the
prices are governed.' But it . does
make a great deal of difference to the
farmer whether or not he shall pay
high protect ive taxes on his clothing
blankets salt iron nails grain bags
and farm implements. Under this
protective system he must pay pot
only high taxes on nearly everything
that he is obliged to import' from
abroad but high taxes on domestic
products enhanced in toys by the
tariff In the former case the taxes
go into 'the treasury for support of
government; in the latter into the
pockets of other people a chosen few
who enjoy the especial favor of the
state. Since the farmer must sell his
grain and cattle in Liverpool or must
take Liverpool prices for what he
sells at home why should he not have
the right to buy his clothes his salt
and his farm implements at Liver-
pool prices? The enormous incident-
al taxation of the people through the
tariff system must be reduced.
. An Eelskin Bathing Dress. ;
Correspondence Chicago Tribune.
But intakes an actress to keep con
spicuously ahead of the styles in any
d epartment of dress. Etelka Borry
of the German theatres and whose
venture in English as Camille at the
Fifth Avenue was an event in last
winter's dramatic season in New
York has audaciously outstripped all
competition on the Long Branch
beach. 1 beg you (tobeliev that I am
accurate in describing her. attire be-
cause I had ample time to- note it at
my leisure. To : begin with Mme.
Borry is as beautiful in form as she
is ugly in features. She therefore
shrewdlv shaded her face from the
searchi jg glare by means of a hat
with a wide brim tied down while
baring her arms their entire length
to the suil. Her body was snugly
incased in bright blue of a woven
fabric and a red belt girded her slen-
der waist. - There was not a square
inch of skirt but short ' blue trunks
instead. ' lied stockings ot. the finest
silk embroidered in blacky. completed
the costume. JS6 eeL Was. ever . more
closely fitted try' its skin than' this
woman by her ' single thickness of
clinging materials. Thus attired
Mme. Borry emerged from' the West
End bath houses sauntered into a
throng of not less than 200 men and
women airily carrying a red velvet
parasol over her head. Throwing
aside her parasoL she plunged into an
incoming wave came up beyond it
swimming easily floated at wilt and
periormed other teats of accompiisneu
swimmers. i She. was in the water.
however only about a quarter as long
as she had been on the sand and on
emerging though there was about
her nodrapery to lose grace with
wetting she at once retired.
RELIGIOUS NOTES AND CHURCH
CHIXES.
An' Iowa woman who had been
blind for three years suddenly recov-
ered her sight and declared she had
been cured by prayer. The Boston
Transcript considers it strange that
she should have gone without prayer
for three long years.''1 '
The Montreal nun who applied to
the Pope to be released from her
vows taken when she was very
young has obtained her request. She
is free and living again with her
parents. The bishop of Montreal
told her there was no nope of release
but the Pope has responded more
liberally than had been expected.
The question of removing the time
limit of Methodist ministers is being
tested by the Central Christian Ad-
vocate of St. Louis." Out of 250 circu-
lars thirty-seven responses have been
received twenty-two being in favor
of the removal ' eleven against and
four doubtful. Eight were in favor
of extension of the time seven op-
posed t ) both extension and removal
and two in favor of removal and op-
posed to extension. '
The remains of George Whitefield
are beneath the pulpit of the old
Presbyterian church at Newburvport
Mass. Probably none of Mr. White-
field's relatives had ever visited the
tomb until the week before last when
Mrs. Walsh of. Savannah Ga. a
grandniece of the distinguished divine
went to th i church handled rever-
ently the Bible" from which her an-
cestor preached and visited the tomb
where his remains lie.
The Archbishops summoned to
Rome are: Archhishops Corrigan
of New York; Gibbons of Balti-
more: Williams of Boston ; Freehan
of Chicago; Elder of Cincinnati;
Heiss of Milwaukee; Percheof New
Orleans; Segbers of Oregon City;
Kendrick of St. Lo lis; Alemany of
San Francisco; and Lamy of Santa.
tt. if . i . i . ; . i w. l
re yjL meat) vrcnuisuopa i ercno
of New Orlans; and Kendrick of SU
Louis will be represented by their co-
adjutorsBishops Lerray and Ryan..
The rector of Christ's Episcopal'
church Indianapolis gave a sermoni
on the subject of choirs the occasion
being the introduction -of surplicedi
boys. He took for a text "The Le
vites the singers with their sons and
their brethren arrayed in white lin-
en stood at the altar with the priests."
A - procession was formed .and as
the line of little robes entered a hymn
was sung. : The rector said solemnly
"I .receive you as choristers in the
church of God. See to it that what
you say from this book and sing from
this book you believe in your hearts
OUU IflUtUV All JlUl UDUJ fAVB.
faithful unto death that you may
come at last to stand in the heavenly
temple and praise your God forever."
Lord Shaftesbury is president of a
society for colonizing Jews in the
Island of Cyprus. Then after awhile-
he expects like another Moses to lead!
them all into the promised land in.
order to fulfill certain alleged scriptu-
ral prophecies. He makes the follow-
ing statement of hid plan: "We guar-
antee 52 for Bupport this year of
each family in Cyprus' and theBritishi
government take them under their
protection and will allot to them suit-
able land. We ask immediate help
in providing this sum for their set-
tlement in the island. That primary
lufv fnlftllaH vn Inr.orirt tn fnnHmiA
the work in the land of promise at
Jerusalem and elsewhere of helping
Buffering Jews to settle in honest in-
dustry." ' Prof. Andrew P. Peabody says in
the Unitarian Review: "If professed
farsees Buddhists or MobammedanH
should ask a place on our list of
preachers room would be made for
them at once and pulpits thrown open
to them." The good doctor iiddst
"If men have outgrown all need ol
Christ and of the sacraments they
ought to quit preaching; they have
no rightful place in a christiab
church." Still better he says: "No
man was ever made lietter 'by argu-
ments against the trinity or the di-
vinity 01 Christ or the personality of
the holy spirit or the vicarious atone-
ment. The entire motive power of
religion lies in its positive beliefs in
those few vast truths into which one
may grow for a lifetime."
. Mayor. Ewing of St. Louis is be-
ing held up as a frightful example by
Rev. Father i'helan editor of the
Watchman because he being of Cath-
olic birth and eiucation had con-
sented to be married by a Methodist
minister. The reverend editor de-
votes a column and a half to an exe-
cration of the mayor who is declared
to have "sacrificed his religious prin-
ciples" and "crowned a course of re-
ligious indifference by an act of apos-
tasy." Untoward events such as this
will occasionally happen within the-
most carefully guarded fold but it is
seldom indeed that the shepherd lifts
up his voice in vociferous complaint
because one of his stock has strayed..
To indulge in vituperation when con-
trol is no longer possible is not the:
policy of the church whose founda-
tion is peace and good will toward!
men.
. Theoretically we all grant to
everyone the right of opinion. But
practically very few do i There are
probably as many ill-feelings arout ecf.
as many hot words and unjust
thoughts generated and even as many
friendships broken simply because of
differences' of opinion as from any
other cause. - And yet to insist on
another thinking precisely - as we
think is the baldest unreason and the
most inexcusable lack - of-' common
Christian charity. The- right of
opinion is a God-given right. To deny
it or to restrict it is a violation of
divine law. Common as it is it yet
always ' remains a sign of -a narrow
mind a mean heart and a tyrannical
so! T-worshipping disposition to think
less of another for thinking differently
from us. Therefore don't only say
"Every man has a right to his
opinion" but live up to it in deed.
Moravian. -; i -
If the clergy and the religious press
could give the doctrine of future pro-
bation a rest for a little while and
devote themselves to a consideration
of these more - practical questions:
What 'is the "Sabbath? What ought
it to be V How shall we preserve it?
the change would be grateful to the
great body !ot the laity. ' Nothing is
more certain than that a definite doc-
trine . is essential ' to a wholesome
practice; and respecting the Sabbath
there is in America no definite doc-
trine. The Puritan conception has
been definitely and in our opinion
finally abandoned. By the Puritan
conception we mean the doctrine as
defined in the Westminister Confes-
sion of Faith that the Sahhnth is to
be "taken up the whole time in the
publieand private exercises of His
(God's) worship and in the duties of
necessity and mercy." This concept
tion was never truly realized; but
there was an honest endeav.-r to real-
ize it.-MJhristian Union.
. The Brutalizing System.
'Memphis Avalanche.
The custom of farming out con-
victs is too brutalizing to be called
barbarous. Uncivilized people have
too; much humanity and common
sense to thus deal . with their crimi-
nals. It-is-n4y -enlightened people-
vhn hand nvsr t.hnir nriminula In tKu
scourge of cupidity the most cruel
and remorseless of tyrants. The hu-
mane people should he aroused to the
iniquities of this degrading convict
farming- system and- they 'Should
make their influence felt in our state
1 r. . . ..
legislatures xne recent nomine ai-
fair in Desha county. Ark. furnishes
an illustration of the abuses prac-
ticed under this odious system.
Foraker says everybody knows
that there was no theft of the presi
dency in 1876. This assurance will
ease Hayes' conscience if he has any.
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