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MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 29, 1890.
1HX KBWS fAST T&AUT 87BYICK.
The special Galres-
ton Nfw» train, rnn-
nlng over tie OalTes-
ton, lioaatoa aud Hen-
derson division of the
International and
Great Northern rail-
nay, Iran s Galveston
for Houston at 4 a. m.
each day. It mukei
frllowlep o«r.BeJllOM mt Houston: Oal.
««>ton. Ifarrltburg »od f-on Autonlo rail-
way, leaving Monstoa at 7.40 a. m., atrlv-
Itig at San Antoalo at 1.40 p. ui. Texaaaod
Hew Orleans railway, leaving Houston at
0.05 a. m.. arriving at New Of lean, al 7.45
p. m. Houston East aud Well Texa* rail-
way (Uremond'.), leaving Houston at 8.30 a.
m., arriving at Shreveport at 10 p. m, San
Antonio and Aransas Fas. railway, leaving
Heuston at 7.4S a. m., arriving at San .* n-
tonlo at C..4B p. in. lloo.ton and Tela. Cen-
tral railway, leaving Houston at O.HO a. in.,
arriving at Ilenlsan at 10.46 p. m. The
prliae object of The X.wi train Is to plare
the paper over a considerable portion of
Tesas before breakfast aud It does It.
lteeognliiug Its great eonvealenee to tl.e
traveling public, a passenger coacli Is at-
tached for tbelr accommodation, by shicli
means those desiring nay spend the night
InOalveston and vat make connection eltti
all the earlx trains out »f Mniulwii.
THE NEWB'TBAVELINO AGENTS.
The following are the traveling reprentn-
tatlvee Of lltOALTWToX KrWf and Tan
Dalli# News, who are antboriied to aoli-
cit and receipt for subscriptions and adver-
Haementa for either of the publications:
Jt. p. Eojle, W. D. Carey, Joe Lee Jameson,
J. D. I.inthicnm and H. P. Slmonds.
a h. Be lo & Co., Pablirhers
Calveat -n, "1 ev., September 1. 1W&
counts perhaps for ita languid Interest In
the whole subject. It is a bad sigL, how»
ever, for the game in general that money
has bad so much to do with it and in it.
How much money has been taken
in and what deals are being made
have been the Inquiries. Such matters
are not of any proper or lasting inter-
est. Betting will not sustain a came, for
where that becomes too prominent there is
a premium upon false practices. Itisques
tionabie whether%orse racing would have
maintained its high position if horses had
not beea more honest and incorruptible
than mon. The closing remark of the Her
aid may, be quoted as something not alto-
gether the "esuit of disappointed looal am-
bition. but containing some sound sense:
There will be no more of the good, genuine
baseball excitement until each city concen-
trates affection and admiration on lta own one
club, nor until tlio people are kept in the old-
tline blissful ignorance of the money affairs of
tho base ball nutgnates.
Were it possible the real friends of the na
tional gamo wouid wipe tho season of 1880 out
of memory. May we never see its liko again
It Is perft !y evident that the game is off
its base. Really as an all-professional affair
it. is worthless. The use of professionalism
in games is to afford a good standard for
amateurs to strive after—modes for them to
emulate-instructive examples by which
they may prosress iu skill. Tho real use of
baseball is or should be as an atliletio exer-
cise for city yountf men, that they may ex-
pand their chests and strengthen their mus-
cles, and traveling professional clubs able
to give flne exhibitions would be right in
the proportion of one to fifty umateur clubs
for healthy practice.
Speaker Reed prefers negro congressmen
because he knows where to put his linger on
them.
A WARNING FROM CHILI.
The president of Chili is defying the con-
gress of that country by taking charge of
$7,000,000 government money on deposit in
the banks, presumably with the view of
using it without the formality of a con-
gressional appropriation, and that to main-
tuin himself in power by the aid of the
army. Heuco a revolutionary struggle Is
expected, which must result either in the
defeat and probable exile of the president
or Izi the establishment of a dictatorship.
Small as is the fund whioh the president of
Chili has it in his power to take from the
treasury for r.n illicit use as com-
pared with the accumulation at
Washington, it is large enough to bo a
serious menace to the existence of
the Chilian republic, but the peo»
pie of Chili are intelligent and be-
lieved to bo £s much devoted to their repub-
lican form of government and liberties
thereunder as are the people of the United
States to the institutions under which we
live. Why then should the present danger
to the republic of Chili bedeemed onewhich
can never be paralleled in the fortunes of
the great American republic? Here the ex-,
ecutlvo has under control hundreds of mill-
ions of coin and is furthergettlng possession
of $4,000,000 worth of silver bullion monthly,
for which the peoplo hold mere paper.
Should there ever be a great contention be-
tween parties, with an unscrupulous execu-
tive on one side, can it be doubted that the
possession of several hundred millions in
gold and silver would be a tremendous
veapon against the constitutional party of
the time, which the presldentor a dominant
faction might seize and pervert to unlawful
usee? Is it a sufficient answer to say that
doubtloss the majority of the people could
Anally recapture the otllcej of their govern-
ment, even fighting against all the spooie of
tho country or the mercenaries that
money would bribe? The majority might be
opposed by a considerable party moved by
soi)5e influence other than patriotism ot
honor. Looking at this subject as hopefully
as one may, it is undeniable that by placing
all tbe coin and bullion of the country in
tbe bands of the executive the situation
here depicted has been m&do ready so far as
it was in the power of legislation and popu-
lar confidence or thoughtlessness to prepare
it. It seems monstrouu that all tho most
conveniently transferable wealth of the
country—such ns will buy supplies for war
or other purposes in any part of the world-
should be deliberately put out of their own
keeping by the poople, and into the keeping
of their servants who might some day
betray the trust and use this money
to coerce the people, and by corrup-
tion to purchase a popular vote con-
doning their usurpation and modifyiug
the constitution, which would of courso be
for centralization, after which no further
use of the now existing machinery of gov-
ernment would bo allowed, that they might
ever be openly reproved. There are still
voices heard calling upon the people to
make tho government poor and keep it poor
that the people' may have more wealth.
There is equai need of a demand that the
custody of tho people's wealth in the shape
of coin and bullion be in the owners and
not in a department of the government.
This should be one of the highest party
questions. Admit that there is one possi-
bility in a hundred that the United States
may expeiience a revolution through usur-
pation or violence to suffrage, and it is too
clear to require argument that the plan of
storing ail tho coin of the country in vhe
treasury is political lunacy for the people.
The chief trouble in American politics
is that voters are tco indifferent and candidates
not enough so.
It is to be hoped that Superintendent
Porter will not let the census of the United
States drop below the figures of ISfiO.
The only way to get up a racket is to raise
it.
TnE world has in it a world of rivals.
Running a newspaper in a dead town is
like running a sawmill in hard timber.
Wm v asked the meaning of stockholder
little Willie's father, who holds only ten shares,
explains to his son that he is the man who
holds the bag.
Witen the Chicago gallant bows at the
1 feet of beauty he lias to look eirefully to the
| rear and not back off into the lake
Hox. Webster O'Klanaoan will not
I get there, but ha will get somewhere.
Agoacs would have divided the
bit Ion into two parts but the national com-
ionars objected to a space of five miles be*
a. The local authorities then devoted two
j the use. Tbe site fixed upon is pro-
nounced very g od. There is plenty of room.
C hicago can be relied upon to erect baildings
which will be a credit to tbe country
and a trocder to the wor
The
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As the bast-ball ee.
made the sabject of
toe northern papers,
championship the New ^
ask what championship, f
represented in two com I
baseball.
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observations in
peaking of tbe
rk Herald has to
or New York is
ations. New
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THE STATE PRESS.
Are
Tork has not "got there," which faat ac
and
havi
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freight Iron
What the Papers Throughout Texas
Talking About.
Tbe Crockett Economist adopts the vac-
ular atyle and says:
Beware of the song of the siren. It adapts
Its notes only to lull and deceive. The peo-
ple are studying the footprints in the sand.
They find many of them quite plain and
well defined. The people are thoroughly
awake to their rights and interests and do
not propose that any mau shall beguile
them.
In the following tbe Economist speaks in
pleasant truth plalnlyt
When the news was received in Galveston
that the president had signed the river and
harbor 'bill, the most exuberent emotions
of joy filled the hearts of tbe people of that
fortunate city. There was abundant cause
for rejoicing, as Galveston's future
hung largely upon tbe passage
of tbe bill. With the complete and
ample harbor that the appropriation
will give the Island city will soon become
the most Important city on the gulf. Texas
will now have a city of which sbe may well
be proud. In addition to tnis tho eyes of
the world will now be turned to Texas, and
as the teeming thousands Dour into her
borders sookiug homes many will no doubt
avail themselves of the advantages
offered by Houston county. Oaken ail
In all we bave one of tbe best
counties in Texas, and the home seeker
can not so far ignore bis own Interests as to
pass us by. Galveston has gone stark mad
over the event, and we can well afford to
join in the jubilation. We have anjplo
cause for rejoicing ourselves, and now is
the time to turn our attention to the emi-
grant. We must induce people to come.
The Austin Globe, a Hogg paper, wants
voters to go the entire servloe. It says:
If you eat the devil you should not re-
fuss to drink his broth, remember that
Hogg and a commission are synonymous
terms and are inseparable. Bome papers
that claim to be all-wool-and-tblrty-six-
inches-wide democratic are reluctantly
supporting Hogg, but swear they will
oppose the sixth plank in the platform,
while we who havo never claimed to be a
democrat, can and will support not only
Hogg but the whole ticket, including tho
sixth plank in the platform.
The Austin Globe says:
Well may Galveston rejoice, for she has
ior Texas and the great west that this appro-
priation ha'sbeeu made. Colorado andKausn i
for once drawn the capital prize, which will
indeed make her rich, for nothing short of
the sinking of the island can prevent her
growing into a great city. But witn Gal-
veston the entire stotealeo rejoices, for it is
have worked as hard for it as Texas, and
haae probably done as much to secure it,
hence the rejoicing will go on until it
reaches the great mountains tb&t divide the
west from the east, for it is truly a great
triumph, and deserves to be celebrated.
The Menardrille Record says:
Turkeys, ducks and quail are getting
plentiful around town, and our sportsmen
a.e having gay times Pecans are selling
at 5 cents oer pound, and the boys are tak-
ing advantage of the opportunity. We are
informed that the yield is going to be finer
this year than It has been for some years
past.
The Brenham Banner closes the season
with this snake story:
A gentleman who for a week or mora past
has indulged more or less freely in llthian
waters of fiery hue, saw snakes at the Pon-
nington hotol table a day or two ago. Some
of the boys laid a green rubber
snake near his plata, and as ho
took his seat he kinked his chair
from under him, threw his napkin at
the snake, beat a hapty retreat from the din-
ing room, and for two or three days Mr.
Pennington was of tho opinion that the
joke was on him as he had lost a good pay-
ing boarder. However, by considerable per-
suasion, be has been induced to return, but
nobody dares say "snakes" in his presence.
The Banner says:
Deep water at Galveston means prosper-
ity for tbe state at large.
The Mountaineer says:
Twelve bundled bales of cotton have been
sold in Goldthwai^e this season, as against
450 bales to the corresponding time last
year, an increase of 750 bales. The number
shipped has been about 800, making the to-
tal receipts at this point to date 1500 bales.
The Cleburne Chronicle says:
Deep water moans a great deal for Texas,
and every patriotic citizen of tho state will
rejoice with Galveston on tbe piospect of
her promising future.
The Uvalde News hopes the Island city
will secure deep water, but it also detires to
see other points procure deep water whero
the engineers have reported that it may be
procured, etc. Galveston will cast no im-
pediment in their way. She recognizes
their claims and will aid them whenever
she can. All she has ever asked was that
the driblet system should be dropped and
the first adequate effort to secure a deep
water port should be made where it ,vas
most needed.
The Cuero Star says:
The president hns signed the river and
harbor bill, which will be a good thing for
Galveston. Texas and the southwest in gen-
eral De Witt offers very fine in-
ducements to the right kind of farmers and
in fact indusU-ious citizens of all (.vocations.
We have railroatl facilities that are unsur-
passed and our markets for all kinds of
produce are always as good as can be found.
The Alvin Naws says:
The celebration at Galveston mil!', have
been grand anil imposing. A distinguished
citizen of Alvin remarked on his return
that it was simply "Grand, magnlticcnt and
terrific." The Alviu normal school and
business college is growing steadily as tte
days roll by. Tho attendance this week
scores over 100. Students from a distance
are arriving daily. All the departments
are represented. The normal so far is in
the ascendant, with the commercial close
iu its wake.
The Jasper News Boy says:
Tho building boom at Jasper was thought
at first to be a terapo.-nry affair, baying be-
come necessary from the old Houses rotting
down. But the boom continues after a
two year'c run, and three sawmills are kept
busy furnishing the lumber.
The Jasper News-Boy reports au insect
plague in that region:
Tho worms have eaten all the le ives from
the red and b ack oak trees aud are now
crawling on the ground in countless mill-
ions. A tiny beetle not larger than a flea
is killing the pines by thousands. They
bore Into the bark and the sap is soon de-
voured. Large numbers of cattle, hogs and
other stock bave been killed by screw
worms.
The Enterprise says:
San Angelo, the county seat of Tom
Green coonty, is located at the terminus of
the Lamoasf.s branch of the Santa Fe rail-
road and has a population of over 3400. For
four months during the prosent year 104,-
449 sheep, occupying 396 cars, wcr • shipped
from San Augelo. At least U.SOO.tt'O pounds
of wool will bo shipped this year, mak-
ing San Angelo the second wool mar-
ket in tbe state. It Is the second mutton
market in the United Staies, being only
second to Miles City. Mont., and is the
largest stock shipping point in Texas. Dar-
ing tbe quarter ending May 31, 1890, }061
cars of stock, wool, cotton, etc.. were ship-
ped from San Angelo, and during the same
period of time 037 carloads of freight were
shipped in.
The San Antonio Express says:
Mr. Walter Gresham was chiefly instru-
mental iu securing the passage of the bill
vhich carries the Galveston deep water ap-
propriation. One result of :t is the devel-
oomest of quite a gubernatorial boom for
perlty to the entire state. All other deep
water ports that may be opened means that
muoh more prosperity to Texas. Galveston
and Houston bave joined hands over what-
ever little differences may have hereto:
fore existed, and are now kiSBing and em-
bracing liko two long separated sisters.
Houston will remain the railroad center,
while Galveston will be the port of Texas
and the southwest.
Tho Rush Standard-Enterprise says:
Galveston has aspiritof enterprise and no
doubt they wonld have carried things
through anyway, but deep water is assured
them as well as others who have been boom-
ing the move.
The Belton Journal says:
Belton has health, a college, a compress,
an oil mill, three banks, an oculist, a brass
band, electric lights, six churches, two rail-
roads, a kindergarten, a high school, public
schools, a preparatory sohool, five mvi)c
schools, three art schools, a fire depaitment,
au opera house.a Chautauqua circle, a broom
factory, a merchants' exchange, a planing
mill, an express office, a cotton gin, a daily
paper, three weekly papers, a waterworks
system, an artesian well company, tbe
county court house, a telephone exchange,
many elegant private residences, between
seventy-five and a hundred merchants, a
good wholesale and retail trade with the
surrounding country.
This is only a part of tbe advantages
named.
A Hemarkable Fish Story.
Sometime ago a remarkable story was
sent out from Sibley,'la., of afall of thous-
sands of fish In a cloudburst. The sup-
posed fish were of a kind known only to
abound in a lako near tbe City of Mexico,
and this added to the wonder. Four speci-
mens were secured by a business firm o^
Sibley, and have been on exhibition ever
since. They are something like a lizard,
have four legs, same number of fingers and
toes as an alligator, equally happy in water
or out of it. One ot them walked
across the store floor as lively an a
oricket, and on being returned to the water
swam equally well. Another thing about
them, they are obangiug their persoual
appearanco. When captured each had a
row of feathers, or something like it,
nround the throat, or where the gills ought
to be. These have disappeared, and they
havecbanged or shed their skins, aud are
now becoming spotted. As Artemus Ward
said, one of them is an "amoosin' little
cuss," having swallowed whole bis little
brother or siscer, and the twin thus swal-
lowed was only an inch shorter than the
Bwallower. Live flies and chopped livor
are the chief of their diet.
FAIR AMELIA'S SISTER.
CASTLE
HILL AS IT APPEARS
PRESENT.
AT
"Old Exception."
There is an aged business man In Atlanta,
Ga., with snowy hair and beard, whom
everybody calls "Old Exception." When
Sherman invested Atlanta be issued an or-
der that all non-combative confederates
should leave the city within thenty-four
hours. This man, who was a founder,
called at Sherman's headquarters. "I
want," be said, "to remain in Atlanta. I
am a business man and bad no band in the
hostilities." "Didn't you cast guns for the
rebels in your foundry?" General Sherman
Inquired. "Ves," was tho reply, "I did,
but I had to do it. 1 have large Interests
here, general, and I wish you would make
me an exception; I'd like to stay to look
after my property." "Yes," said Sherman,
grimly, "I'll make an exception in yonr
case," The Atlanta man's face brightened
and he started to leave. "Orderly," Gen-
eral Sherman called, "I'ye concluded to
make an exception In this man's case. The
orders are that all citizens shall leave At-
lanta within twonty-four hours. This man
must leave here within an hour. If he
doesn't, shoot him." Ever since the war
this old man has been called "Old Excep-
tion."
Jarrah Wood.
Tbe Kew Bulletin contains an interesting
section on tho properties and uses of the
jarrah wood, a species of eucalyptus native
to western Australia. Tbe main difficulties
in connection with its use in this country
are tbe cost of freight for such heavj tim-
ber from Australia and its Intense hardness,
which makes it difficult for ordinary car-
penters' tools to work it. The tree which
produces it grows generally to a height
of 100 feot, and sometimes 150 feet.
According to Baron Mueller, when selected
from hilly localities, cut while the
sap is least active, and subsequently cares
fully dried, it proves Impervious to the bor-
ings of Insects. Vessels constructed solely
of It have, it is claimed, after twenty-five
years' constant service remained perfectly
sound, although not coppered. It has been
tried at three places in tbe Suez canal, and
after having been down seven years the
trial samples were taken up in order that a
report on their condition might be sent to
Paris. ^
personal.
The'e are over 10,000,000 fruit trees in Los
Augeles county, Caf., one of the largest in-
dividual farms being owned by Mme. Mod-
jeska.
Prince Bismarck can afford to take his
ea'oin bis inn. His aunual income is aboil*.
$17s,(xa
Colonel Jacob T. Child, late United States
minister to Siam. will return to htm old home in
Missouri.
"Gail Hamilton" (Abigail Dodge) con-
ducts "a bible talk" every Sunday afternoon at
Secretary Blaine's.
Professor Charles 1'. Holder hns written
a life ot Charles Darwin, It is to be ths first of
a series on the leaders in science.
Tbe first volume of tbe famous Talley-
rand Memoirs, over which there Is much
curiosity, is shortly to be published.
A neat, unadorned marble c.-oss has been
erected over the remilns of Wllkle Collins in
the northern part of Keusal G reen cemetery.
Douglas Siaden, the Australian poet, is
spending the present month in >epigon. Ont.
Next month he will visit .Montreal anu Itoeton.
Gen. Fltz I-ee has consented to make
several speeches in the Eighth Virginia diatriat,
where his cousin. Gen. W. U. F. Lee, Is thedem-
occatic nominee for congress.
Pasteur Is a small, solidly built man, very
pale and rather sickly in appearance. He
limps when he walks. His face shows in every
lineament a high order of intellect.
Colonel Lebel, the celebrated inventor of
the French magazine gun. is 5- years old and
has retired, on accouot of ill health, after
thirty -five years of tervice in the army.
Senator Edmunds Las attached to his
handsome residence in Washington an outside
stairway, built on I urpose for his favorite dog,
which is not allo wed to meander through the
main hall.
It is announced in Chicago that young
Marshall Field Is abnnt to wed Miss Alberttne
Buck, tbe danghter of a wealthy mal.ter, and
that Mr. Field's sister is engaged to tbe son of
ex-Minister Lambert Tree.
Tolstoi at 04 is a rugged looking man
with iron gray hair and sunburned face set la
a frame of gray beard and mustache. Ills broad
brow is d< eply farrowed and his small eyes
gleam out from beneath bnshy brows.
The lady who lately has been making a
sensation in Vienna by her poems, Si lonie
(irunewald ZerkoviU. Is still yonng and has a
charming, soft Madonna face, with short, dark
carl? Lair and fascinating anci rallicr mdsuoui
ltemlnlseences of the Quick and the
Dead - A Groat ^Many Untruthful
Talos Circulated — Riding
by Moonlight.
Not alone because of the brilliancy of her
genius, nor the beauty of her person, was
the attention of tbe entire reading world a
little while ago directed to the yoUDg Vir-
ginia girl who signed the name of Amelia
Rives, soys the Washington Post, but be
cause of those errant things which go to
make tip the infirmities of genius, and more
than aught else make it a thing for the
world to watch and wonder at.
When the Brother to Dragons appeared
anonymously in the Atlantic magazine, all
literary America was set guessing at the
identity of its authorship, and when a little
while later the sonnet came out iu the Cen-
tury signed Amelia Rives, and then was
followed quickly and raBhiy by all that im-
mature atock and store, the faxie of tbis
brilliant young woman was at its height,
and the next thing which appeared there-
after was to decide whether it should live or
perish.
It did not perish when the Quick or the
Dead made its appearance, and now we
bave In its stead but the memory of its
fungous growth, and the pity for things
which might havo been.
Liviug iu Paris, married, settled down to
her estate of glory, exciting no particular
interest, calling forth no criticism, no com-
mendation, seldom indeed heard oft except
as making a frantic effort now and then
to regain what was lost, is the fair Amolta
she who not long ago was written of
in every daily newspaper, whose com-
ing and going was heralded eagerly from
place to place, whose midnight message
would have reopened any hotel in America,
whose passage along a railway turned out
the populace at every stopping, whose
name was sweet and musical on American
lips aud to American ears, and whose be-
ing, thought tbe people, must have been as
fair as any the God Sun shone upon.
Castle Hill, Va., is the former home
of Mrs. Chandler. Everyone knows
who knows aught of her where it is
and how beautifully it lies in the valley
back aga'nst the Albcmurle mountains.
Everyone, too, Is familiar with those pic-
tures of her girlhood here—lying out upon
the long lush grass, writing notes to God
to send her down a real fairy, tying leaf-
chariots to the legs of katydids and send*
ing them "scuttling" off: wondering if she
drank a cupful of warm "bubbly" blood
she could see a real fairy; aud suffering
much pain, indeed agony, we wore assured,
that tbe devil should have been shut out of
paradise—all of which many believe were
concoctions meant to make us romance-
mad.
But every one Is not familiar with the
picture of Castle Hill as it is to-day—as it
is with the great warm sun shining over-
head, tbe clatter and cackle of tbe poultry-
yard, tbe hum of bees, the singing of birds,
and all those things which goto make up
qulei country-side, quiet this one indeed.
At present Castle Hill owns some twelve
or thirteen inmates.
Miss Gertrude, a lass of some two or
three and twenty, soon, it is said, to be
wedded to Mr. Allen Potts of Richmond;
Daisy, the youngect and most promising
perhaps of all, a butler, a maid servant, a
cook and an overseer aud his family, aud
among nil these people the crowing of
cocks ushering in the day, crickets calling
there around under the broadest sun, and
night shutting down and the house iu dark-
ness, is all that characterizes these un-
eventful days at Castle Hiil.
Toward the middle of tbe night, perhaps,
Gertrude may mount a steed and ride
whithersoever the moon might lead, but
that is all there is unusual during the
twenty-foar hours of the day at Castle Hill.
Not long siuce. It will be remembered,
Mrs. Chandler was quite ill at Paris. Mr.
and Mrs. Rives sailed thither, whence they
have not yet returned, and now the mice
ah, the mice—will play.
By the way, it was this same Gertrude
who did, and does yet, all :hat romantic
a^id reckless riding with which tho papers
were teeming about the time of the Quick
or the Dead, aud for which Amelia got.
both tbe credit and the discredit.
Said a gentleman, an old Virginian and
a neighbor to Castle Hill—one, too, who
doubtless knows:
Every one of those yarns—the White
Sulphur affair, the story that the first
fortnight of her married life was unhappy;
that tbe first stories which marie her repu-
tation were the product of the pen ot Mrs.
Sigourney-every ono of those, sir, are fic-
tions. Don't believe any of them.. Amelia
was a little given todoing irrational things,
but none of those hard things were so, sir,
none of theml Why, sir, it was a scamp
who wrote them! sir, a scamp—a rascal—a
grand rascal, sir! Why, why! he deserves—
ho dessrves—" (shaking ins cane omijously
'why—why I'd thrash him to within an
inch of his life, sir-bis life sir, egad! if I
was tbe father of that young girl!" aud he
would bave donu it. and would it not bave
been right? I say to geutlemeu would it
not bave been right?
with the wits.
It looks funny, but a siuking fund is the
meaus raising a debt, [Boston Gazette.
Tbe directory ruled all France at one
time. It wasn't merely a city directory.
[Texas Sittings. _
Grace: What air was that you were
playing last eight? Laura: A million,
aire, aud 1 lauded bini!
CURRENT COMMENT.
iwa b:
tbe pos
r Texas
iraiog
ibould
« for
tbe island statesman. There an
men who say that he deserves
ward, and two years hence, wbei
bave grown tired of Mr. Hogg w
tics, Mr. Gresham may be a
candidate.
The East Texas Pinery tays:
Deep water at Galveston will
plenty of
inch a re
the people
id bis poli-
formidabie
can proe-
Dr. W. M.
fiMOOayear,
i a salt
Taylor of New York ia paid
|tbf largest palary paid to any
nai minister. Three in Brooklya-
rroan Abbott- Stom and Behrends
Weacb. Dr. Gnasaalus of Chicago
of |-09j and Dr Gregg of Boeton
If there is one phrase that provokes a
smile more than another, it is: "I>et's go in
and have somethlug." [St. Joseph News.
"Why is she so cold toward you?"
Well, you see sbe was my summer girl.
She couldn't change !o an autumn girl
without cooling off a little."
She (at the ball): Are yet) fond of danc-
ing tbe german, Mr. McDermott? He: Ol
am not! Sure, tbe Dutch baytben ought to
be suppri&sed. [American Grocer.
"What is that curious sound the wind
I makes, father?" "That, my son, is the
! sign of relief Tom Reed is heaving away off
j in tbe distant state of Miane." (Jester.
Wibble: There's gees a man that makes
! his living off other peoples bad habits.
Wabble: Keeps a saloon does he? Wibble:
No; be deals in second-hand clothes. [To-
j ronto Mail.
Tomps (to Pomps, with wbom he was out
; the uigbt before): Ha, my boy: get home
all r.ght* Pomps iglooniily): Yes; but
i my wife w.mldn't speak to me. TompsJen-
viously): Lucky fellow; mine did. ~
Miss Passe (examining the medal of a re-
cent graduate): I bave a medal' too. Yonng
Friend: Yon bave? Why on earth don't |
you wear it? Miss Passe (with a sigh;: I |
wonld bat I can't get the date off of it.
Batcher: What can I send yon ap to day,
Mrs. Styles? Mrs. Styles: Send m« up a
lej of mutton, and be sure it is a from a
black sheep. Butcher: A black sheep! I
Mrs. Styles: Yes. we are in uiourn'cg. you
j know. '
Mr. Buckingham: Doesn't Miss State j
street lore Mr. Lakeside?
Mies Palmerhonae: Yes—devotedly.
Mr. Buckingham: Then why does she in-
sist upon such a long engagement?
.Miss Palmer house She wants to postpone |
ber divorce aa long as possible. [Epoch.
The senate and house has each appointed
seven members a6 committees of conference
to adjust the differences between the two
houses on tho tariff bill. The committees
ore made up of eight republicans and six
democrats; but the democrats have no p irt
in the performance of the duty for which
thee were selected. The republican com-
mitteemen flock by themselves, hold secret
consultations with persqr.c whose interests
are to be advanced by tariff legislation, and
finally decide upon what action shall be»
taken. This is not legislation; it is lnero
barter and sale. Tbe interests of the mass
of tho people of the country are entirely un-
considered. [Philadelphia Record.
When the party controlling the houso
undertakes to turn otic members whoso mo*
jority is counted by thousands, there is not
much faith left in the stability and fairness
of that body as arepresentotive institution.
The constitution provides that the mem-
bers of the house of representatives shall
be elected by the people; and by virtue of
that provision it stands as the type and
bulwark of popular government. Bat such
cases aB that decided yesforday locates tbo
electing power in the bands of the com raitte&
on privileges and elections, and tends to
make the bouse tho type and bulwark of
government by partisan oligarchy regard-
less of tho rights of the people. Every such
act to maintain a party In power by deny-
ing the right of the people to fair represen-
tation must weaken it. If the republican
party meets defeat this year, or in 1892, it
will be due to just such acts of recklcss par-
tisanship as that committed yesterday*
[Pittsburg Dispatch.
It is utterly futile for ultra republican
organs to waste their energies in bitter de-
nunciation of tbe democratic minority. Tho
atter are simply pursuing] with cousistent
firmness the course they have taken from
the beginning, that of exhausting all their
parliamentary rights in opposing the tariff
legislation proposed by the'r political oppo-
nents. If the bill fails the responsibility
will not rest with them, but en-
tirely upon the republican majority
in the house and sonate. The republic
can party has complete control of tho
federal government In all its departments,
and if it can not pass a great economic
measure like this, it must nnswer to tho
country for its de.eiiction. It is to-de,y tho
victim in the house of less than a dozen
men who have beeu honored by it, some of
them far beyond their deserving. It is
political childishness to donounce the dem-
ocratic minority as ''bushwhackers," as th®
New York Tribune dooB to-day in tho faco
of the facts which are so notorious. [Phila-
delphia Telegraph.
We quoted tbe other day a decision of tho
New York court of appeals that tho legis-
lature can not delegate legislative power in
such a fashion as congress proposes to dole-
gate the taxing Dower to the president
through tho reciprocity amendment to tho
tariff bill. An equally significant decision
by the supreme court of Delaware has been
brought to our notice in the cuse of Rico
against Foster. "The powers of govern-
ment," said the court, "aro trusts of tho
highest importance, on the faithful and
proper exercise of which depends tho wel-
fare and happiness of society. These trusts
must be exercised In strict conformity with
the spirit and intent of the constitution by
those with whom they are deposited, and in
no case whatever can they be transferred or
delegated to any other body or persons —not
even to the whole people of the state, and
still less to the peoplo of a county. * » *
The making of laws is the highest act of
sovereignty that can be performed in a freo
nation, and therefore the legislative power
may truly be said to be the supreme power
o! a slate. If the legislative power can be
transferred to the peoplo so can the execu-
tive and judicial power." [New York Even-
ing Post.
No Man's Lancl.
Island No. 74, on the Mississippi, has an
owner, but belongs to no state, county or
township. From a paper read before tho
Engineers' club of this city it appears that
according to the enactment whereby tho
states of Arkansas and Mississippi wero
created the river boundary of the former
extends to midBtream; that of tho latter to
inldchannel. Herein is the difficulty. A
dissipated freshet turned the current
against tbe Mississippi bank and shifted
the former position of uiidchannel many
rods to t>ie eastward, so that the fortunate
or unfortunate owner found his possessions
lying beyond both the midriver point of
Arkansas and the lnidchannel line of Missis1
sippi."
Tho Mind Reader's Foat,
Alexander Paul Johnstone's accurate de-
scription of a photograph last Saturday
night at Central Music hail was tbe most
remarkable act that he did, says the Chi-
cago Tribune. A gentleman in the au-
dience selected a photograph from an album
be brought with him to rnako this test, ond
standing iu the rear of the hall pictured it
in bis mind. Johnstone remained on tho
stage nnd from his position described tho
photograph without a failure in any par-
ticular. "The HUdience was inclined to bo
incredulous, but after tho first test was ap-
parently converted and became apprecia-
tive."
the neighbors.
KeM'le the deep, green rh er.
Here in the lower lands.
My bouse, low roofed and humble.
In modest quiet stands.
A moss-grown, rude log cabin,
Closu by a brawling rill;
A rood of ground nround It—
1 tave no time to till. - «
Across tbe deep creen river.
Whose waters flow bo free,
A proud and stately mansion
Hegirt with trees I see:
And through the leafy branches.
At day's departing rays.
Catebing the cri nson sunlight.
Its many windows blaze.
Tbe owner of that palace
Roasts ot bts lineage high.
My father was a woodman,
A woodman, too, am I.
I earn by constant labor
Mv plain and scanty fare;
My neighbor over yonder
Is called a millionaire.
When toil at night is over.
Tired witt. the ax's stroke,
I sit here at the doorstep,
M y corn- cob pipe to smoke,
I watch him slowlj-pacing
Before his house of pride.
Beneath the clustering vine leaves
Un you veranda wide.
At times, this side ths river.
He canters slowly by;
Absorbed int'.ought, he never
I'pon ine casts an eye.
He Is not old. but wrinkles
His pallid features seam:
He looks as though existence
Were but a troubled dream.
If he. with gold and acres,
I'onld have my rugged health.
Or I, with hnppv slumbers.
Had nly halt his wealth.
Than life wore better balanced
Frr both of us to-day.
And each, pel haps, more cheerily
Woold travel on his way.
But. as it is, no envy
Within my hreast can be;
With all his state and riches,
'Vis his to envy me.
Pale face and careworn spirit.
Eye. sunken, shrunken limbs—
With these to burden riches.
Waal man would share with him?
Deep green is yonder river.
Its waters faintly gleam;
For us in time fast coming
There is another stream.
We both will lose our burdens.
My tolling «nd his drose:
When over the mystic rivar
Oar sr IriU freed shall croas.
■Thomas Dunn EoclUfc.
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