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THE GALVESTON DAILY NEWS. MONDAY, JONE 3, 1839.
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MONDAY, JUNE 3, 18b9.
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Galveston, Tex.. May 10. 1SS9.
HISTORICAL SKETCH of GALVESTON
To-morrow (Tuesday) morning, June 4,
The News will publish a carefully compiled
HISTOHICAI, SKETCH OF GALVESTON,
which will contain a resume of events oc-
curring on the island provious to its settle-
men t by Americans; the locating and found-
ing of the city by Michel B. Menard and his
associates; organisation of the county and
city governments, together with a complete
list of all the principal officers; church, ed-
ucational and postoffice history, growth of
the commerce of the port, old hotel and
steamboat days, war experiences, a list of
the first residents of the place now living
and many other matters of interest to all
Ualvestonians. The article will be the most
complete nistory of galveston ever
printed, and will well be worthy of perusal
and preservation by all who have over lived
here. There could be no more appropriate
time to present this historical sketch to the
public than on the eve of the semi-centen-
nial of the Gem of the Gulf. Orders for
copies of The News containing this sketch,
done up in wrappers ready for mailing,
should be left, at tlie counting-room between
now and Tuesday morning.
.J i—A -j i;1 )
Btratod by bis conduct in office that after a
campaign ho will reward with official sala-
ries those who 3tood with him during the
campaign. He can bo depended on as a
spoilsman, and If the battle is to be fought
on the principle that the victors shall be en-
titled to loot, a looting leader like Grant is
preferable to 12111, who, ft quite as sincere,
is less brilliant as a looter.
EXERCISED ABOUT CLEVELAND.
The speech of Cleveland at the banquet
given him by a democratic club of New
York naturally provokes universal com-
ment from the republican papers. AIL view
it as an evidence that Cleveland considers
himself the democrat upon whom the eyes
of democracy rest and consider bis remarks
in their nature nothing less than outlining
the policy for the party. Ab Mr. Cleveland
indorses aod uigcs the "reform" idea thoy
conclude that his party will make the light
on that idea. But some of them prophesy
a failure by the party when it starts out in
that line, as witness the following from the
Inter Ocean:
It is not likely that olther the preaching of
Mr. Cleveland or the professsd conversion of
Taramnnv and Its allies will draWrepnbiicans
astray. The republican profession of desire for
reform is earnest, and is manifested in the ap-
pointments mado by a republican president.
Mr. Cleveland can not make unotber canvass as
a civil service reformer. If presented as a can-
didate at all he will havo to bo presented as an
anti-tariff candidate. And therefore we think
that his adroitness overshot Its mark when it
used none but tbo pointless arrows of pretended
zeal for a reform which is not endangered by
the success of the republican party.
If the mere assertion of the Inter Ocean
that the republican profession of a desire
for reform 13 earnest, as proved by the con-
duet of Mr. Harrison's appointments, were
conclusive, then indeed the democrats had
better seek some other line on whtch to
mako their fight. Bat the assertion has so
little foundation that so far the democrats
have no reason to abandon the line they are
pursuing. Harrison's selection of public
servants is quotod to show the good faith of
the republican party in its desires. There-
fore it is presumed thathis party is pleased,
and is willing to stand or fall by the evi-
dence. Mr. Harrison has not declared that
his ambition Is to satisfy the American
people. He has emphatically announced
that thotonly thing he will try to do as
president is to so act that when his term
expires he can say, "Thank God, I have
satisfied myself." lie may have ideas of
"reform." In following them ho may be
able to return the thanks which he is am-
bitious to return. In the line of his ideas
he has made a cabinet officer of a man
whoso only claim on him was tho expendi-
ture of a great amount of money to secure
Harmon's election. He has rewarded in
the most markod manner other dispensers
of boodle. He has appointed to public
office his brother, his son's father-in-law,
the brother of tho husband of his daughter,
the husband of his neice and a cousin-in-
law. Tills Is a sample of Harrison's mani-
festation of earnestness in his desire for re-
form.
OPEN TO SPECULA TIVE PURCHASE
The land act passed by the Twonty-first
legislature contains in its closing section a
very clever little amendment to section 32
of the act of 1887, which by tho addition of
three words opens up about 5,000,000 acres
of school lands to speculative purchase.
The latter part of section 32 of the act of
1887 reads: "And all sections and fractions
of sections in all counties organized prior to
the first day of January, 1875, except El
Paso, Pecos and Presidio counties, which
sections are detached and Isolated frnm
vTmo«r, except; to a corporation, at not loss
than two dollars par acre under such terms
as the commissioner of the general land
office may prescribe." Tho amendment
simply inserts the words "without actual
settlement" between the word "corpora-
tion" and the word "at," so that the school
lands in all counties organized since Janu-
ary 1, 1875, and in a'l unorganized counties
are required to bo occupied and improved
by the applicants to purchase, while in the
counties organized prior to that date the
school lands are subject to purchase on
speculation and without settlement or
occupancy. This act takes effect ninety
days after the legislature adjonrned, and so
it is not yet known what particular laudp
were wanted by those parties who in-
serted tho little amendment. In duo time
this will appear. Possibly tho land com-
missioner, under the authority to prescribe
terms of sale conferred in the soction noted,
may have deemed it within his power to
waive the general requirement as to actual
occupancy of the lands specially referred
to, but there must have been serious doubt
with the prospect of future validating leg-
islation, or else the re-enactment of the sec-
tion with the designated amendment was
unnecessary. At any rato, now that the
lands are to bo placed on the market with-
out condition or limitation, it is proper that
all persons who may desire to invest shall
have due notice and equal advantage with
those who amended the law.
not only will iron be further reduced in
prico even if tho tariff Is not touched, hut
the protective tariff generally will run it-
self out. It can not any longer pro
tect well in some lines unless thorfi are ex
plicit agreements and combinations made
Later on the appliances will bo so extensive
that combinations to restrict production
must give way. They will burst by compe-
tition. and Texas manufactures will do
their share of tho bursting. A tariff has not
aided these manufactures, but has impov
erished tho people who are nevertheless
saving, painfully as they must, to make
their beginning in manufacturing. If it>
were a matter of indifference to oudure
spoliation for another quarter of a century
to the extent of several hundred millions a
year in law-made profits paid by the masses
to the classes, the country might be content
to wait and see the protection monster
devour himself,
Mb. Gilkerson qualified as second corap
trolier of the treasury in five minutes after
his appointment. Mr. Gilkerson had re-
ceived tho promise of the offices of solicitor
of revenue and United States attorney lor
the northern district of Florida. Just as
he started to sit down in each place it was
pulled from under him. When he got to
tho socond comptrollership he became quick
and avoided the delays that cost him both
the other places.
While the president is putting his rela-
tives in soft places his secretary of state,
Mr. Blaine, is not idle. He has just secured
the position of deputy collector for the city
of New York for his nephew, William S.
Searing. At no time and under no circum
stances has the active Mr. Blaine been left
when tho procession moves.
Mrs, Langtby is going to quit the stage
because she is tired of being talked abirat.
The truth is that if she quits the stage she
quits because the papers are gradnallyccas-
ing to talk aboilt and advertise her.
The Consumer Is the Ultimate Viotim.
We have qo doubt that some, perhaps
many, in the importing business have been
so unfairly dealt with by the customs
authorities that they wre ready to retaliate
by gaining every possible advantage they
can secure, even by unworthy means, in the
entry of goods. Bi)t as far as downright
hotestv is concerned, a careful examination
of all tii6 facts within our reach has satis-
lied u9 that importers are as clean in their
dealings as exp'orters, and that foreign-born
merchants, many of whom are not yet
naturalized, atf> as scrupulous in all their
business relation's as an equal number in
atiy trado uorn on this side of the water.
And this brings us to the main objeettif this
article. Wo do not think it is a disreput-
able thing for a dealer to purchase aoods
abroad for sale in this country, or to serve
In the commission business hero for the sale
of foreign products, and we think the whole
system of treatment applied to the importa-
tion of foreign materials and manufactures
unworthy ot a free and enlightened govern-
ment. With here and there an oxceptiou
the entire forte in the customs servico treat
the holder of a foreign invoice as i£ he had
no rights they wore pound to respect. The
ordinary relations of fair dealiug are sus-
pended in all the processes applied to the
landing of foreign goods from the day the
vessel touches the dock until the ultimate
filing away of the liquidated entry. If ho is
not sharp the consignee's packages of
merchandise aro seized on the dock and
held subject to labor, cartage and half a
month's storage beforo be can take them
away. It is a lierco struggle, even with tho
permit in hand, to find the goods after they
havo left the ship's tackle before the ware-
bousing grab reaches them, and to avoid
the levying of these additional hnrfl*?*
- > •- part or which Is really
rendered. In the appraisal the general
assumptionseems to be that the receiver of
the goods is a rogue, to be treated as such
without, upology. In the application of the
H'WW W3a JU\P pot, as it should
bo wtidreyer there is o question, to give
tha tiixijd product the benefit of the
doubt; but the utmost that cau be levied by
any possible construction of the law, is the
rato applied. Tho victim, in most cases,
has no redress. It will not pay him to bring
suit, even where he is sure of a verdict in
his favor; and unless there is a large inter-
est that can unite in employing counsel and
paying legal expenses, ho mustsubmit to
the extortion.
Great as may be the frauds on the reve-
nue at tho hands of dishonest importers, we
believe that the total amount that is ille-
gally exacted by overestimates of value and
unwarranted applications of high rates, ex-
ceeds tho sum that is lost through the
knavery of the dealer. [New York Journal
of Commerce.
Legal Remedy for Sea Sickness.
Going down the Chesapeake bay on an
excursion, when the wind was fresh and the
white caps tumultuous, Judge Hall of
North Carolina became terribly sea-sick.
"My dear Hall," said Chief Justice Waite,
who was ono of the party, and who was as
comfortable as an old sea-dog, "can I do
anything for you? Jnst suggest what you
wish." "I wish," groaned the sea-sick
jurist, "that your honor would overrule
tiiis motion." [Buffalo Courier.
THE PUOJAC REGISTER.
The dis
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respcctib
tie on the
thing pec
the spoils
an all-woi
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for Mavoi
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CHEAPENING UNDER PROTECT/ON
A protectionist finds cause to taunt an
eastern tariff reform paper with tho re-
minder that iron is lower although the
tariff reformer somo time back said that it
could not decline to a reasonable prico till
the duty was reduced. Tho duty remains
tho Bamo and iron has fallen, therefore the
freo trader was wrong In his assertion. Just
so, as clearly wrong as a doctor who said
that a patient would die of consumption
whereas the patient was killed next day in
a railroad nccident. It was not owing to
any lack of combination among Pennsyl-
vania iron bosses that tho price failed to
keep up. It was not owing to the protective
tariff that richer deposits of iron
were found in the impoverished south.
It ia not owing to the protective
tariff that tho south has advanced so far in
railroad building that tha buried mineral
treasures can bo made available for compe-
tition with Pennsylvania. Practical politi-
cal organs with a smattering of freo trade
arguments superadded to an intenso desire
to catch votes for their party are pretty apt
to be as unconditional in their statements
as Hie protectionists themselves. A good
many errors on that side should not be al-
lowed to prejudice the truth which is clear,
and this is that the high tariff was meant
to keep up prices of certain articles, that it
does keep them up, and that where it fails
to enable the producers to add tho full
amount of tho duty that is because
tho prica is fixed In this country
by an extent of production rendering
tho protective principle more or less inop-
erative. For example, a duty on wheat or
cotton can not amount to anything how-
ever high for a country which produces
these articles cheaply eiough to export
them. The name conclusion will apply to I She not only Is
' any mineral as soon as fresh deposits art
made accessible, so that production becomes
cheaper than was known before. Tiff
will i
and hai
lemon- I cry;
th broader
protections
statement.
It is that
Mrs. Cleveland is soon to bo tha recipient
of an elegant souvenir in tho shape of an album
containing tho autographs of the iuombers of
the Authors' club of New York, spread upon
leaves of the finest parchment. The signatures
were collected through the efforts of Dr. Kd-
ward Eggleston.and the book has been artis-
tically bound by one of the most skillful book-
binders in tho country. It is to be presented to
Mrs. Cleveland In remembrance of tho courte-
(ilea she extended to Uio authors while she was
1 ivinx in the wlilte-house.
Among John Bright's sincerest mourners
In this country was Edward Finch, a mulo spin-
ner at Providence, ». I. While a corporal in
a British rogiment Finch felt under tho dia-
pleasure of a superior o(fleer, a vindictive young
Sprig of nobility, who finally had h'.m tried by
court martial and sentencol to ho flogged.
Finch's brave young wifo hurried to London
and told her story to Mr. Bright, who used his
influonce with tho war department so success-
fully that the soldier was released. Later Mr.
Bright furnished him the means for obtaining
his discharge, and Finch and his family came
to this country.
Among tha visitors to New York during
the centennial celebration' was Hannibal Ham-
lin of Maine, who was vice-president of the
United States with Abraham Lincoln as presi-
dent thirty years a.'o. Mr. Hamlin is now
nearly 83 years o : age, but has changed vory
little in h!s anpoarance of late. Ho etill wears
at all hours of tho day what is usually regarded
lis an evening dress suit. No weather is cool
enough to induce him to woar tinder-flannols,
overcoat or gloves. Mr. Hamlin doesn't dis-
turb himself any more with public affairs,
though l.o takes a gre.it interest in them. "My
health Is splendid," he sayr, "and I enjoy tho
quiet of my country life."
Tho lato Mary Crawford was sexton ot St.
Barnabas chapel, New York, for twenty years,
and died at the age of 81. Her position was no
since ire. Hlie had to put on the chancel beforo
and take off after every service the altar fur-
nishings, lecterns, carpet, and all the books for
I a servico of ax> people, ahe oared for and kept
clean the holy vessels and priestly vestments.
She not only kept the missionary's room in or-
der, but also prepared his lunch and fei, and
helped him distribute the book a from the libra-
ry, and visited the sick. It was Villi great re-
luctance that She gave up any of her duties
j when compelled to do so by falling health and
I 10S3 of sight.
THE STATE PRESS.
{That the Papers Throughout Texas Are
Tulhina About.
Tbo Brownsville Cosmopolitan says:
It is thought that at least 4000 bales of
cotton willbo ralsod in this county this
year, and fully 3000 bales on the Mexican
hank of tho liver.
The Van Alstyne News says:
Wo noticed four carloads of dehorned cat-
tle being shipped last week. They were fivo
and "six-year-old steers, and were fat and
comfortably situated in the cars, while the
long horns were knocking one another
around with their Uprns. We learned that
these cattle were dehorned last fall and suf-
fered no inconvenience.
Tho papers of Fannin county print an
old ticket voted In Texas during the late
civil war:
For president, J«ff Davis; vice-president, A.
H. Stephens; presidential eleotors, state at
large, E. E. Lo*t and H. P. Bsc; First dis-
trict, John Ireland; Seeond district, A. M.
M. Upsbaw; Third district, M. M. Potter;
Fourth distsict, 2J. B. Charleton; Fifth dis-
trict, Wm. Stedman; Sixth district, H. R.
Latimer; for congress, W. B. Wright.
Tho Floresville Chronicle prints these
Wilson county statistics:
Last year there were 17,236 acres planted
in cotton, from which was gathered 6211
bales, valued at 8340,887. There were 17,310
acres in corn, yielding 315,775 bushels,
valued at $101,558. There wero 516 acres in
sweot potatoes, yielding 56,773 bushels,
valued at $14,967. There are 1366 stands of
bees, from which there was taken 34,136
pounds of honey, valued at £2481. The face
value of chattel mortgages reported is
$3006.
The Huntsville Item prints a long report
of tho commencement exercises of Sam
Houston Normal school:
In Professor Pritehett's room mathemat-
ical problems occupied the nt tentip'n of the
students; in Professor Estill's department
language claimed attention, being a knotty
Latin lesson, which was ably bandied; with
Mi6s L. W. Elliott literature was tnught;
Miss I.ulu McCoy, elocution and drawing;
Professor Coleman, physical ^cience; Miss
Lulie Sexton, music and gymnastics; Pro-
fessor J. L. Pritchett, natural history.
The exhibition is aaid to haYe been highly
satisfactory and honorable to both teachers
and students.
The Floresville Citizen has a delicate,
roundabout way of saying a thing. For
example:
Why don't the citizens of Floresville
arouse from their apparent lethargy and go
to work to build up and eulivon tho town?
Don't sit around whistling on empty good
boxes and growl all the time be-
cause trade is a little dull. Be lively,
boom your town, talk business, then
you cau do business. No oho cares to
settle in a place where the business men
wear long faces and a fuheral-liko appear-
ance. Help every enterprise you can, and
encourage everything that Will bring your
town into notice. Wake up, go to work,
keep at it, and all work together. Give
your business a boost by letting the people
know what you have to sail and how choap.
We are ready and willing to holp you to
the fullest extent.
In a word, advortiso. Wilson county is ad-
vertised at tho spring palace as containing
512,000 acres. Amount planted in cotton
20.000 acres, in corn 18.090, oats 2000, amount
in pastures 270,000 acres.
The La Grange Journal savs:
It was tho rule in ante-bellum days at the
south to elect the ablest men to be found to
congress and then keep them there as long
as they would consent to serve. It was
this policy which enabled tho south, though
lareeiy in the minority, to shape and con-
trol tho legislation of tho country. Her
stateshieu by long servico naturally became
experienced parliamentarians and were
more \lian a match for the representatives
of tho north, who were, as a rule, men
fresh from the ranks of the people. Never
tiefore since the war has the south been
Hentativrij in congress than'she is now, and
it is to be hoped that there will be no at-
tempt to change our representation from
Texas until after tho state is redistricied,
which will occur soon after the census is
taken, which will be next year.
The Journal says:
Fort Worth's spring palace and Gal-
veston's semi-centennial celebration are the
principal attractions this summer. South-
ern Texas will send a largo delegation to
the latter, but we are Inclined to think tho
spring palace will not attract a great many
from this section.
The Watchman says:
Madison county will havo no exhibit at
the Fort Worth spring palace, which is
rather hard on the palace, eh?
Tho Wills Point (Van Zandt county)
Chronicle says:
The Galveston semi-centermial will be a
great exhibition. This will be a good timo
to visit the city by the sea and enjoy some
of thoso luxurious sea baths.
Tho Laredo Times puts a limit on the
idea that trado follows the railroads. It is
willing to take the trade of Sun Antonio,
but objeots to the idea that it should go on
to Mexico. Tbo Times quotes a remark of
a gentleman who was raised in San Antonio
and who has recently cast his lot with the
futuro of Laredo, "that there is such a
thing as trado leaving a place, and that it
goes west; that trade can not go west of
Laredo without leaving the stars and
stripes behind. Therefore I feel that this
city has a bright future." The Times, how-
over, does not think the old fing a sufficient
talisman, but urges Laredo merchants to
renewed efforts to retain and increase their
trade with Mexico.
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY.
It Is Nov/ Thought She !Ius n Slight Chanco
for Itecovcry.
iVtticA, N. Y., May 24,—Mrs. Emma Alt-
house, whose continued trance during the
last two years has attracted so much atten-
tion, has taken a change for tho better, and
there is a chance that sho may entirely re-
cover, though it is very slight. For the
last month her condition has gradually im-
proved, until now sho can again partake of
somo nourishment; her breathing Is more
natural and her trance periods are less fre-
quent and shorter. Two months ago she
was given up for dead and her vitality be-
came so low subsequent to her rallying on
that occasion that ail of her relatives be-
come convinced that she could not live.
Mrs. Althouse partakes of small quanti-
ties of nourishment, is able to movo her
hands and seems much stronger, but she is
wholly powerless to sit up in bed, where she
has lain during the two years of her illness.
Sho has had no medical attendance and stran-
gers have been more rigidly excluded from
the house than over before. Her last trance
lasted only a week and she lias had several
short naps of three or four days. In one of
them she plainly saw tho scenes attending
tho inauguration of President Harrison,
but her strength was not sufficient to fully
describe them. She also knew about other
events which had transpired and which
were not mentioned in the sick room. Tha
longest trance which she had was tho first
of the year and lasted thirty-live days. An-
other continued thirty-three days, but tho
average until lately was between fifteen and
twenty days.
Very Significant.
A press dispatch from Chicago, in refer-
ence to ono of the most Important interstate
commerco hearings yet held at that city,
says: "While the railroads aro tbo nominal
defendants, tho only real defense will bo
made by the Iowa and Missouri river pack-
ers, whose Interests are at stake." Avery
large proportion of railroad prosecutions
could be described in similar terms. Al-
though of vital consequence to shippers, tho
carrier may have little interest in the mat-
ter in dispute and view with indifference
any decision reached by the commission.
This is undoubtedly true in a large propor-
tion of the cases in which the railroads nra
arraigned as oppressors, while in fact they
have yielded to circumstances which they
could not control, aud aro perfectly willing
to make any change of praetico which the
commission or other competent authority
will sanction. [New York Commercial
Bulletin. _
MONEY IN BEARDS.
Ilttir and Btalure Hring lloturns of
Gold.
"Oh for a shaggy, tawny beard and six
inches more of stature!" sighed a diminu-
tive medical practitioner, as he paced along
beside a tall, portly, full-bearded neighbor
yesterday, vainly endeavoring to regulate
his strides to those of his towering compan-
ion. "Such a board as yours would mean
great money to me," he continued, "and
each of your surplus inches would bo worth
Its weight in gold. Ob! that tho wind
might blow through my whiskers!" and
the M. D. fell a musing, and meditatively
stroked the scattering bristles that formed
a scanty frlngo about his chubhy chin.
Ho had practiced medicine for a dozen
medical student, and had received high en-
cominums from old and wise heads. But
ho Was in appearance such a very youth
that people were afraid to trust their bodily
ailments to his hands, and as year after year
dragged by and his boyishness continued to
repel moro than his shingle attracted, lie
yearned to adopt a false beard, dye his hair
gray or walk on stilts.
"I>oeB a beard actually increase a doctor's
usefulness?" he said repeating his compan-
ion's quei ry. "Why, there is no such price-
less jewel. When people summon a physi-
cian they don't want to place their life in a
boy's hands. They want a man of.years and
evident exporienco, aud their judgment of
those things is most superficial! I was,
once roused in the dead of night to attend
a case of pneumonia, but was sent skurry
ing homeward almost p.s soon as I reached
tho patient's chamber, because, as sha ex
pressed it, sho had thought I was a great
pig man With a bsarri. I stepped out with
dignity, and a great big man with a board
stepped in. He didn't know baans from
belladdnno, but that made no ditferertoe.
He had landed the good woman in a better
world before tho day was far spent. There
have been similar occurrences in my office.
Persons step in <o ask for Dr. So-and so,
and when I walk into the room twirling
my boy's moustache they suddenly cbango
their minds arrtl decide that their health is
excellent.
"Paucity of inches or of whiskora does
not necessarily imply scantiness of brain.
There are innumerable proofs of this; but
the laity is slow to catch the Idea. A young
medical graduate, fresh from tho lecture
and dissecting room, is apt to bo much moro
careful of bis pationts than an old practi-
tioner who has fallen luto a rut and rele-
gated his books to tho library's dusty
shelves. And yet it is an herculean task for
even the cleverest young medico to attract
enough patronage for his support. A fair
average weekly incomc for the lirst year out
of college is $40 or $50. The man who makes
$150 is doing remarkably well, and is re-
garded among his confreres as a very Croasus.
Eight or ten years must pass before a young
doetor can acquire a decently remunerative
practice. This period is shortened if a man
has whiskers as a recommendation, but it
is miserably protracted if the bristles re-
fuse to grow. It Is not only tho poor or ig-
norant who have this prejudice ngainst
beardless youths. Among the wealthy it is
oftentimes much accentuated. If they em-
ploy a young physician they must needs
call in a handful of differing doctors to
By
grows
ake assurance of cure doubly sure.
this means tho patient naturally gi
worse. Too many doctors spoil the broth
and the youngest ono tumbles Into it head
foremost. Garfield might have been alive
to-day if he bad been tended by one single-
purposed country doctor instead ol' a squad
*?• 1 f r .ww..ut wa. IJL MllUUVUpUiU
Record.
IN THE TOWER OF LONDON.
A Ceremony that Has fleen i"limited Every
Night for 800 Years.
Your hansom is allowed to drive in after
hailing the gate, but you will notice that a
soldier marches in front, partly as a guide
and partly because It is a fortress into which
you have penetrated, and past 8 o'clock.
You go at almost a foot's pace down the hill
and then to the left along the inner road par-
allel with tho Thames, between grim gran
ita walls where tbo gloom grows darker,
through grim gates,beneath grim arohways,
tho burden of this mass of masonry lying
heavier on your soul at every step, the
shadows weighing on you, and the .sky on
this clear night—for itfs clear on the out-
side—seen by glimpses, looking infinitely
more remote than the usual London heav-
ens, which are for the most part a canopy of
smoke, ns it were, just over your head.
Presently out you coma Into tlie barrack
yard and a blessed expanse of air and even-
ing light.
Three hours later, as I said good night,
my host stopped me. "There is something
you would like to see, aud it ia just time.
Como along." As wo Went out an officer of
the guards rushed by in full uniform,
sword ringing against the stone steps, huge
bearskin helmet and all the rest, aud cried
out to us: "You will bo late if you dou't
hurry," and away he went at the double-
quick across the moonlit parade. It was
rather soon after dinner for a constitution-
al, but wo found the guards already turned
out under the gallery of the Bloody Tower.
A moment later appeared a little squad of
men, one of them in a flowing scarlet robe
with a lighted lantern, coming up the steep
slopa that leads from Traitors' Gate. The
sentry challenged sharply:
"Half! Who froes there?"
The warder halts and answers:
"The keys."
"Whoso keys?"
"Queen Victoria's keys."
"Pass Queen Victoria's keys." Tbo
warder in the flowing scarlotrobe, with the
lighted lantern, followed by his little squad,
starts off again, but halts again and cries
aloud:
"God save Queen Victoria!"
The guard comos to tiie present, the
officer brings his sword to tho salute, officer
and men ruspond In chorus threo times with
a kind of cheer:
"Amen, amen, amen."
Again tho warder sots out, passes, turns
square to tho left and vanishes, he and his
flowing scarlet, and his lantern, and his lit-
tle squad. He is carrying the keys of tho
tower to the governor of tho tower. It was
but a minute. Tlie guard are dismissed,
the officer marches leisurely off. My friend
and I aro left there. Only a minute; yet
that selfsame ceremony has been transacted
on that same spot at that same hour every
night for something like 800 years. Back
through all those crowding centuries of
English story you hear nightly that chal-
lenge ring out; nightly that messing in-
voked on kiug and rjuoen, with, I suppose,
an interval when Oliver Protector got tha
benefit of it; nightly the clash of steel
which tells the constable of tho tower that
all is well, and nightly those keys havo
made their singular journey into tho hands
of the king's lieutenant. ]Now York
Tribune.
Youthful Innocence.
"Pa, did you over light?" asked littlo
George.
"No, my son; why do you ask?"
"Becauso I heard ma tell Kitty's music
acher that you could give Bluebeard points
and then lcnocicthim out." A siieuce so loud
that it could bo felt settled over tho family
group. [Texas Sittings.
They Will Win Anyhow.
The cartilage of tha nose of Corbin of tho
Yale crew has been perforated to allow him
to breathe bettor. Three others of the crew
will undergo tho same oporatiou. [New
York Herald.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
Stisnn n. Anthony Tolls of tlie Frogreas It
Ifl Making In ThU Conntry.
Miss Susan B. Anthony is in the city,
guest of Mrs. May Wright Bewail. Misa
Anthony has just returned from Kansas,
and her conversation with the reporter yos-
terday was, of course, upon tho theme of
woman suffrage. "The work," said she, "la
going on in Washington territory very
earnestly, our endeavor being to get dele-
gates elected to tho constitutional conven-
tion of a character to firmly establish wo-
man suffrage in the state's constitution.
They had woman suffrage in that territory,
but the democratic judges appointed by
Cleveland deelared that the legislature had
no right to extend suffrage to women. Thf»
was on absurd decision, but it seirved to
keep the women from voting. We wan#
the adjectivo 'male' left out so that any cit-
izen 21 years old may exercise the right of
suffrage.
"During the past winter there havo been
municipal suffrage bills beforo tho legia-.
latures of nine different states. Somo of
these came near passing, but not quite. 4
havo not dono much traveling during the
past few months. I have been in Arkansas.
I Had a series of meetings there last Febru»
ary. The suffrage quest ion is almost en-
tirely new there, but I felt that nil tlie peo^
pie there needed was speakers to enlighten
them, and that when they had know ledge of
the subject the people in time would be with
t>s. The legislature of Missouri hasjuat
given women school suffrage. This make?
sixteen states where women have a right to
vote on school questions. Indiana and Illi-
nois have not come into line: neither has
Ohio. In nearly all tlie states women may
be elected to the school boards, and in many
of the northern slates they are elected. In
Kansas the counties have women on such
boards. I left Leavenworth last Saturday
night. I was there through the city elec«
tlon— tho third election at which women
have had an opportunity to vote. Nearly
all over the state it was tho law-ar.d-ordet
ticket -whether the prohibition law should
bo enforced.
"There are 2S3 places called 'citics' in
Kansas. In 1S67 the legislature passed a
law giving women the right to sign or with-
hold signature from liquor dealers' petl-
The liquor interest went to work
a law passed that in cities of the
tions.
and had
first and sscond class it would not be neceg'
sary to get women's names to the petitions.
After tlris they again went to tha legisla-
ture and had settlements of 250 and hi ova
made cities. Now the whole state is undef
tho rule of women, aud they hava the abso-
lute control of all law.i for tlie suppression
of the social vices. They hold the balance
of power aud aro learning to uso it. Thoro
are three cities where women havo full ofU»
cial boards, absolute control, mayor and
common cbuncil, etc. These places are Os-
kaloosa, Cottonwood Falls and Rossville."
[Indianapolis Journal.
He Remembered David.
A good 3tary is told of Rev. Canon Mel-
ville, who has just resigned the rectory ot
Great Witlay, Worcestershire, which was
presented to him by the late ear|.of Dudley
in 1857. At tho time the living becivne va-
cant Mr. Melville was attached to the house-
hold of tho deceased nobleman in tho capac-
ity of chaplain, and having to preach at
Witley before hi.s noble patron he boldly
declared his desire to becoino rector of l(i»
parish in a sermon founded on the text:
"Lord, remember David." David is thti
canon's christian name. Lord Dudley at
once gavo him the living.
Not Playing.
"I guess I have played nearly every game
that there ever was," remarked a whito
whiskered man with a straw hat on to ai
traveling man on tho cars. "Ever play
bunco?" asked the traveler in a spirit oj
mild jest. "Well," returned his new ac-
quaintance, "I wouldn't hardly say that X
played that game; I went at it in such dog-
gohed earnest that It wasn't what yon
would call playin'." [Merchant Traveler.
HMxILBB OHINS.
Burglars entered a house In Detroit,
Mich., the other night and carried off a
bathtub. This looks like pure wantonness,
aud is calculated to bring the name of tha
burgling profession Into disrepute. -[Boston
Trunscript.
Winks—Has your wife a cheerful dispo-
sition?
Minks — Oh, yes, very cheerful. Last
night, when I was dancing around the room
on one foot, after having stepped on a tack,
she laughed till her sides ached. [Boston
Gazette.
He had rung a door bell on Case avenue,
and a woman had opened the door, spit out;
half a dozen words and shut it against hia
toes, when ho calmly proceeded to ring
again.
"Didn't I tell yon I didn't want to buy ft
hat ruck?" she exclaimed as she opened the
door again.
"Yes'm, but you don't suppose I would
have the impudence to ring'your doorbell
simply to ask you if you wanted a 2-shilline
hat rack? I should consider it trifling witK
you."
"Well, what do you want?"
"In addition to hat racks I havo tin-lifters,
stove handlers, chimney-cleaners, fnrniturg
polish, silver paste, sham-holders, the best'
cement in the world, feather dusters,
babies' bibbs,napkins,course and fine combs,
hairpins, lemon extract, insect powder, fae6
powders, cures for corns, pins and needles;
gold and silver thi.ru ——"
"No!" ehe shrieked as soon as sho could
interrupt him.
"Ah! very well, madam. Good day. lain
satisfied now that you do not desire any
goods in my line." [Detroit Frea Press.
Editor (to boy with note)—Well?
Boy—A letter for ycu, sir.
Editor (opens and sees tailor's bill)—Bad
manuscript; very bad indeed—handwriting
illegible. Sorry, very sorry—shall be obliged
to return it." [Epoch.
If tho umbrella is at the "other end of ths
line," bear it patiently. Somo other um-
brella will do just as well.
Be sure and inform every ono yon meet
that "it rains." Otherwise they might re-
main in ignorance of the damp tact.
Waterproof garments may bo depended
upon to sljed water npon other folks. That
seems to be tho chief object of their exis-
tence.
Do not allow any ventilation in a horse
car op araiuy morning. It might exhila-
rate the passengers to deads of violence.
Carry your nmbrella very carefully, and
you can just manage to drain ono quartet
section of it down the neck of the person
who is so unfortunate as to bo ahead of von.
He will appreciate this. [Hartford Post.
DANDELIONS.
His feet, that long havo known tho heat
And hardness of tho oltv street.
Feel soft and cool beneath them viuld
The greensward of his nativo field.
And while with lingering stopa ho strays
Along the un forgotten ways/
lie hoars the brooklet laugh, and lol
A sinuous bank—a golden glow
Of dandelions overcast
Thicklv, us if some envious blast
Had burst the far horizon-bars
And emptied heaven of its stars!
lie fit0*111=—with sudden, muto caress,
Ili.i bearded lips tlie blossoms press,
And vainly, though a mist of tears.
Ho woos the dreams of other years.
" O visions sweet! O fair and fleet!
rurn iMokwisrd with relenting foot.
Meet, me but once, as long u:- >,
Here, where tho dandelions growl"
The sighing breeze alone reniies—
lint, brlrdit before bin yearnintt eyes,
A wii.'te I seed float's far and free.
Plumed like a Bhip of faery.
" O spirit of the ffowerot gay,
?.!lut b oomed," lie cries, "but yestcrdayl
V fiat maitor if it withered lie,
feince lb :u art free ot' air and sky?
" 4."d shall I grievo that shapes ns fair
i :i 1 be march of years and care? '
I m , fade tho hone; my bovhood knew,
A lie (ileum withlu tuodroaia b trnel"
[The C'ritlo.
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