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THE QU: ■ KEYS,
A Ceremony Which Has Been Pen
formed for Eight Hundred Years.
More Americans, it is said, than
Englishmen of this generation have
visited the Tower of London, but how
many hav e idsited it by night, asks a
London letter to the New York Tribune.
It is by night that it is really impres-
sive—so much more so than by day that
if it was not for distressing the hun-
dreds of thousands who think they know
•how it looks, I should say they have
never really seen it. I went there to
dine a few evenings since, notAvith the
ghosts who haunt the place, but with
a number of young warriors Avho are
altogether alive, and long, I hope, may
be; gallant sons of gallant sires. The
battalion of guards noAv in possession
are there for a year, and every visitor
will remember the spacious barracks,
which are, I suppose, the most modern
of all structures within the ancient moat
and walls, and there they make their
home.
Your hansom is allowed to drive in
after hailing the gate, but you will no-
tice that a soldier marches in front,
partly as guide and partly because it
is a fortress into which you have pene-
trated, 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
parallel with the Thames, between
grim granite walls, where the gloom
grows darker, through grim gates, be-
neath grim archways; the burden of
this mass of masonry lying heavier on
your soul at every step; the very shad-
ows weighing oil you; and the sky on
this clear night—for it is clear outside
—seen by glimpses, looking infinitely
more remote than the usual London
heavens, which are, for the most part,
a canopy of smoke, as it were, just
over your head. Presently out you
come into the barrack-yard and a
blessed expanse of air and evening
light.
Three hours later as I said good-
night my host stopped me. “There is
something you would like to see, and
it is just time. Come along.” As we
Avent out an officer of the guards rush-
ed by in full uniform, sword ringing
against the stone steps, huge bear-skin
helmet and all the rest, and cried Out
to us: “You will be late if you don’t
hurry,” and away he went at a double-
quick across the moonlit parade. A
moment later appeared a little squad
of men, one of them in a flowing scar-
let robe with a lighted lantern, com-
ing up the steep slope that leads from
Traitors’ gate. The sentry challenged
sharply:
■“Halt! Who goes there?”
The warder halts and answers:
“The keys.”
“Whose keys?”
“Queen Victoria’s keys.”
“Pass, Queen Victoria’s keys.” The
warder in the flowing scarlet robe,
Avith the lighted lantern, followed by
his little squad, starts off again, but
halts again and cries aloud:
“God save Queen Victoria!”
The guard comes to the present, the
officer brings his sword to the salute,
officer and men respond in chorus three
times with a kind of cheer:
“Amen! Amen! Amen!”
Again the warder sets out, passes,
turns, square to the left, and vanishes,
he and his flowing scarlet and his lan-
tern and his little squad. He is carry-
ing the keys of the tower to the gov-
ernor of the tower.
It was but a minute. The guard are
disstnissed, the officer marches leisure-
ly off. My friend and I are left there.
Only a minute; yet that selfsame cere-
mony has been transacted on that same
spot at that same hour every night for
something like 8Q0 years.
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ALBANY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 27,1889.
VOL. 6. NO. 13
MBS. CORPORAL TANNER.
A POET LAUREATE
Of the New Administration—Beauty
of Havinga Husband who Can
Make Himself Handy.
G-eologic Ages.
Geology teaches us that In the
successive ages of the earth—ages
covering, perhaps, most incredible
time-spaces, each distinctive geologic-
al condition has developed distinct
characteristics of organization in
matter. Thus, one geological age
developed gigantic ferns; another
quadrupeds of monstrous size; and
the latest of all, man, the intelligent
being. But, regardless of time and
circumstance, ' wherein and under
Avhich the several distinctive genera of
vegetable and animal existence have
been developed, we must deduce from
the geological lesson the constant in-
ference; that the creative principle at-
tends on matter; awaits the necessary
conditions, and inevitably develops
organized forms.—St. Louis Maga-
zine.
Recommended It
L Two men, seated together on a rail-
way train, fell into a pleasant conver-
sation.
“Speaking about books,” said one of
the men, a tall fellow with red hair,
“have you read that wonderful novel,
‘Sedge-Grass Ranch ?’ ”
“No; is it good?”
“Finest thing I over read in my
life.”’
“Indeed.”
“Yes, .sir, one of the finest things in
the English language.”
“That’s saying a great deal for an
American novel.”
“Yes, but I’m justified, by the excel-
Lience of the book, in making the asser-
tion; and, as you are a reading man I
would advise you to buy it as soon as
possible. Only cost you fifty cents.
XThe train boy has the book, I think.
Well, I must get off here. Good-bye.”
“Good-bye. Say (addressing the
conductor), who is that red-headed
mam?”__
"vl don’t know his name,” the con-
ductor replied. “He is the author of
a book called ‘Sedge-Grass Ranch.1
Arkansaw Traveler.
An Impending Circus.
“Ma., may I go to the circus.
“What circus, child? I didn’t know
there was a circus.”
“You said a while ago there avou1 be
a circus when pa came home.”
Pa, after “cussing” over several
tractable pieces stove pine
left home in a ragf ;g to
up a stove man ant k
The administration is to have a poet lau-
reate—Mrs. “Corporal Tanner,” the wife
of the sturdy and widely known commis-
sioner of pensions. Ever since she gradu-
ated at Charlotteville, N. Y., she has writ-
ten verse, but during the last year this has
bourgeoned into a stately and ambitious
form that may be said to be unique. She
has now three finished lectures written in
verse, which she has delivered since inaug-
uration day—one as her husband’s substi-
tute in Connecticut, when, in the middle
of the campaign in Washington, she tele-
graphed him:
“James Tanner: Do not come. I will
take your place.”
And she did, reading a new lecture in
verse on soldiers, and especially the duty
of the government towards them. Mrs.
Tanner has four children, ranging from
10 years old to twice ten, but she finds
some time to give to the G. J R., and to
her other friends, the woman suffragists.
I heard her lecture this Aveek on this lat-
ter queston—it was a rhythmical and
rhymed argument, in the dialect of an old-
fashioned New England farmer, a contro-
versy between John and Betsy, after the
fashion of Lowell or Carlton. Betsy’s
grammar was sometimes out of joint, but
she had lots of facts and a shrewd wit and
sarcasm that turned to derision John’s
ridiculous claims to superiority.
I have heard her lecture to the grand
army of the republic, too. It is a heroic
didactic verse, and the memories of war
time are emphasized by the scream of the
old eagle. Corporal and Mrs. Tanner
eeem exact counterparts, like their prede-
cessors, Gen. and Mrs. Black.
Gen. Black is one of the most eloquent
of orators, and his wife an accomplished
reciter and each is proud of the attainments
and ability of the other. Corporal Tanner
is an eloquent man, facile and vigorous of
speech. Careful and precise of articula-
tion, and with a rich and ringing voice
capable of pathetic modulations; and Mrs.
Tanner seems likely to win distinction in
current polemics and dialectics. Mrs. Tan-
ner has a comely and attractive personal- „ ,,
., , , . _ . . , SENATOR INGALLS A GOOD PACKER,
ity, a large head firmly poised upon ample \ th do Rf)t
shoulders, and a square face in which
away again and wait till the address
wa* corrected. When Mr. Ingalls
came up from town I told him about
it and wondered whose they were. I
got them and exhibited them to him—one
a rich gray silk and the other a lovely lace
robe. He acted puzzled about it, but said
I had better try them on and if they fitted
me keep them till called for. I did. They
fitted like a glove. The outcome the
inquiry was that he had voluntarily got
them for me when he was in Washington a
month before. He selected the silk and
the lace and all the materials and carried
them to the modiste, who had my measure,
and there they were! The lace dress I
have on this minute is one of the trophies
of that occasion. I tell you a man who
can do such a thing is a poet. I have ar-
rived at that pitch that I wouldn’t give a
cent for a mere statesman.”
FeAv cities in the Avorld can boast a larger
number of public parks than Washington;
in fact, it is said to lead them all. But
many of these parks are mere small tri-
angles of green at the junction of streets
and avenues. These, of course, all belong
to the United States, and are cared for at
government expense, and the expense is
expensive.
Passing one of these diminutive parks
the other day where eight men were osten-
sibly moAving, I halted and spoke to one
of them Avho was leaning on his SAvath and
looking at the sparrows in the trees.
“I sohuldn’t think it would need so
many of you to mow one little spot of
ground that scarcely needs mowing any
how,” I ventured.
“Deed it do sorr,” said he. “What else
wud we be doin’?”
About twice as many unskilled people
are hired by the government as the work
requires. I have often seen one man
pushing a lawn mower on a public park
and another drawing it with a string, and
I do not doubt that two supernumaries
may be found sweeping with one broom.
Now remember that there are thousands
of those unskilled clerks, messengers and
laborers in all parts of this city paid at
least twice as much as similar service de-
mands anywhere else in the country, and
then imagine what effect the spectacle
must have on the population of a city.
The result is palsy. Every trade in the
district is demoralized and paralyzed by it.
Everybody is waiting to be employed by
the government, and private industry is
almost at a standstill. Thousands of me-
chanics are made loafers by the fact that
Of the Twenty-First Legislature
Convened at the City of Austin,
Jan. 8, 1889, and Adjourned
April 6, 1889.
earn as much as government
employes. John does not want to work
for $1 a day when his brother James, “who
has got infiooence,” receives $2.50 a day
for doing half as much.
I know a poor family named Burrows,
on one of the back streets. They all
worked when and as they could, and man-
aged to keep together the souls and bodies
of rather, mother and eight children. In
a hapless moment I took one of the daugh-
ters out of a candy factory where she was
earning $2 a week standing before a roar-
ing furnace all day, and got Benedict to
give her a place at $2 a day in the govern-
i ment printing office. From that moment
every member of the family knocked off
work and sat doAvn to be supported by her
—father, brothers and sisters. She stood
it for two years, but when they had all
settled thoroughly down to indolence, she
resigned her position as bread-winner and
ran away and got married, and the indig-
nant family of loafers execrated and
abused her.
I sent for a tinker to repair my roof. He
promised to come next day. He failed and
I went after him. He promised again.
Again he did not come. I sent once more
to knoAV the reason, and got the following
note:
“Mb.
i ges i doo not care for
strength of purpose and decision of char-
acter are conspicuously marked. She
wears her iron-gray hair brushed back
from a high forehead in a style of which
Madame Pompadore’s coiffure was an illus-
trious example.
Commissioner and Mrs. Tanner are
going next week to GeorgetoAvn to live,
and there they will take the boys and girls
and household pets and penates to a
great, stately old mansion in the middle of
two acres of lawn.
* *
*
One of the prominent figures in the ver-
nal hegira was that of Senator Ingalls,
who has at last pulled up his lares, etc.,
and gone to Kansas with his wife and
seven children.
I made a neighbor’s call and spent a
pleasant hour the other evening at their
castelated home opposite the capitol. The
senator was away making the last arrange-
ments, and the pretty little girls swarmed
over the house, exhilarating over the home-
ward journey next day.
“Noav, Mrs. Ingalls,” said a iady of the
party, “we must not stay a minute, but
say a hasty good-by for yon are doing your
last packing.”
“No, I am not hurried,” she said, “and
have next to nothing to pack. Everything
is packed. Mr. Ingalls did it. I tell you
it is a great thing to have a husband who
is so helpful and effective as mine is.”
“How does he get time for everything?”
I asked.
“It puzzles me,” said Mrs. Ingalls, “but
he does. I am glad every day of my life
that I married a good packer and a good
buyer,” and she laughed with us at this
characterization of the leader of American
legislation.
She went on: “Mr. Ingalls has fairly
spoilt me by his universal usefulness. He
can do just anything. He can buy a horse
shrewdly, and he can build a house as it
should be built, and he superintends the
cutting and sale of our wood at home and
the running of a farm. To be an editor
and a lawyer is commonplace, but James
can be trusted to select buttons and match
a ribbon. What do you think of that? He
buys our carpets and curtains and por-
tieres and they harmonize. He can do the
marketing. Now and then he picks out a
bonnet he n town and fetches it home to
me. He ca select the girl’s clothes as well
as 1 can. One day when I was at home
v. , , , BIG PAY AND LITTLE WORK.
sd Atm son, a big box came to me by , . „ „
^ I OY1/I fintillv ttioT law iri wait, fnr fh« little
., .i,u ug-o.^ i p Jti it | girl of ten, poured their griefs into her ear
-vo dresses—handsome dresses,! and induced her to pray to me. The im-
that u mistake portur.iiy. intoleiabla.. It ms a
»to ottt of uu-k of U -,t
'** v-s -fa
the roof gob i hev a Bout giv up setch gobs
i am a waiting for a gob in the Intear de-
potmit. ’ ’
So on all sides. Everybody is waiting
for a government job and neglecting work.
The life of an office-holder in Washing-
ton who has the power of appointment, is
scarcely worth living. Public Printer
Benedict says to me “When unsuccessful
at my office they called at my house. They
way-laid me when I went home, and I
found them sitting on my doorsteps in the
morning. They made my sister miserable.
OENERAL TEXAS LAWS examining court, parties brought before
them on such examining court, charged
MASSED AT REGULAR SESSION Tf “ °*T “*ata9t “J6 '”S 0f U’e
state, shall be bound over by them to the
county court of the county in which said
offense is alleged to have been committed,
or to the district court, as the case may be.
Sec. 2. Whereas the necessity for the
preservation of law and order in the towns
and villages of this state, provided for in
the first and second provisions of the fore-
going section, creates an emergency, and
an imperative public necessity exists that
the constitutional rule requiring bills to be
read on three several days be suspended,
and that this act take effect and be in force
from and after its passage, and it is so en-
acted.
[Note.—The foregoing act originated
in the senate and passed the same by a
Arote of 24 yeas, no nays; and passed the
house by a vote of 77 yeas, no nays.]
Approved, Feb. 13, 1889.
[Note.—Publication of these laws will continue
from week to week until completed.]
Amendments to Revised Civil Stat-
utes.
CITIES AND TOWNS.
Sec. 1. Amends Revised Statutes, Article 486, as to
publication of ordinances. Sec. 2. Emer-
gency clause.
Chapter. 6. [S. H. B. No. 15.] An act to
amend Article 486 of the Revised Statutes
of the State of Texas.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Legis-
lature of the state of Texas: That Article
486 of the Revised Statutes of the State of
Texas be so amended as hereafter to read
as folloAvs:
Article 486. Every ordinance imposing
any penalty, fine, imprisonment, or for-
feiture shall, after the passage thereof, be
published in every issue of the official
paper for ten days; if the official paper be
published weekly, the publication shall be
made in one issue thereof; and proof of
such publication shall be made by the
printer or publisher of such paper making
affidavit before some officer authorized by
laiv to administer oaths, and filed with the
secretary of the city or town, and shall be
prima facie evidence of such publication
and promulgation of such ordinances in all
courts of the state, and such ordinances so
published shall take effect and be in force
from and after the publication thereof, un-
less otherwise expressly proATided. Ordi-
nances not required to be published shall
take effect and be in force from and after
the passage, unless otherwise provided.
If any town or city shall desire to publish
its ordinances in pamphlet or book form,
it shall not be necessary to republish such
ordinances as have been previously pub-
ished.
Sec. 2. The fact that many cities and
towns wish to publish their ordinances in
convenient book or pamphlet form, and
the further fact that existing laws cause
great and unnecessary expense in doing so,
create an imperative public necessity and
an emergency authorizing the suspension
of constitutional rule requiring bills td be
read on three several days, and said rule is
hereby suspended, and this act will take
effect and be in force from and after its
passage.
[Note.—The foregoing act originated in
the house, and passed the same by a vote of
94 yeas, no nays; and passed the senate by
a vote of 23 yeas, no nays. ]
Approved, Febr uary 23, 1889.
COUNTY FINANCES.
Sec. 1. Amends Revised Statutes, Art. 975, relat-
ing ti accounts to be kept by treasurer, etc.
2. Emergency clause.
Chap. 8. [II. B. No. 633.] An Act to amend
Article 975, Title 24, of the revised Civil
Statutes of the State of Texas.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the legis-
lature of the State of Texas: That Article
975 of the Revised Civil Statutes of the
State of Texas be amended as hereafter
to read as follows:
Article 975. The county treasurer shall
keep accurate accounts showing all the
transactions of his office in detail, and all
warrants by him paid off shall be punched
at the time he pays them, and the vouchers
relating to and accompanying each report
shall be presented to the commissioners
court with the corresponding report, when
it shall be the duty of said court to compare
the vouchers with the report, and all proper
vouchers shall be allowed and the treasurer
credited with the amount thereof.
8ec. [2.] The near approach of the
close of the session creates an emergency
and a public necessity that the constitu-
tional rule requiring bills to be read on
three several days be suspended, and that
this act take effect and he in force from and
after its passage, and it is so enacted.
[Note.—The foregoing act originated
in the house, and passed the same by a
vote of 83 yeas, no nay; and passed the
senate by a vote of 24 yeas, no nays.]
Approved, April 5, 1889.
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TOWNS AND VILLAGES.
Sec. 1. Amends Revised Statutes, Article 507, as to
incorporating towns and villages—Regulates
examining trials and appeals from the courts
thereof. 2. Emergency clause.
Chap. 7. [S. B. No. 69.] An act to amend
Article 507, Chapter 11, of the Revised
Civil Statutes, so as to provide for the in
corporation of towns and villages situ-
ated on both sides of a line dividing two
counties.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature
of the state of Texas: That Article 507,
Chapter 11, of the Revised Civil Statutes,
be so amended to read as follows:
Article 507. If the inhabitants of such
town or village desire to be so incorporated,
at least twenty residents thereof, who
would be qualified voters under the pro-
visions of this chapter, shall file an appli-
cation for that purpose in the office of the
judge of the county court of the county in
which the town or village is situated, stat-
ing the boundaries of the proposed town or
village and the name by which it is to be
known if ic be incorporated: Provided,
That if any town or village be situated on
both sides of a line dividing two counties,
application may be made to the judge of
the county court of either county in which
a portion of saicl town or village is located,
in manner and form as is hereinbefore pro-
vided: Provided further, That in towns
and villages that may be incorporated on
.territory in two counties, in the trial of
offenses before the mayor or lecorder for a
violation of the laws of the state or the
ordinances of the corporation, an appeal
shall be to the . county court of the
county in which the offense may have
been committed; and in cases in
which said nu-yor or recorder have not
flfta] jyals
SUPREME COURT AND COURT OF APPEALS.
Sec. i. Revised Statutes, Article 1006—Counties re-
turnable on appeal and error to Tyler, and
cases to bo transferred thereto. Revised
Statutes, Article 1008—Counties so return-
able to Austin. 2. Emergency clause.
Chapter9. [S. B. No. 68.] An act to amend
Articles 1006 and 1008 of an act passed
by the Twentieth Legislature, approve 1
March 25, 1887, entitled “An Act to amend
Articles 1006 and 1003 of an act passed
by the Nineteenth Legislature, approved
March 26, 1885, entitled ‘An Act to amend
Articles 1006, 1007 and 1008 of an act
entitled “An Act to amend Articles 1003,
1007 and 1003 of the Revised Civil
Statutes of the State of Texas,” approved
February 21, 1879,' passed by the
Eighteenth Legislature, and approved
April 9,1833.’ ”
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature
of the State of Texas: That articles 1006
and 1008 of the above recited act, sought
hereby to be amended, be and the same are
hereby amended so as to hereafter read as
follows:
Article 1006. Appeals and writs of
error from the counties of Anderson,
Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Delta,
Ellis, Hopkins, Franklin, Gregg, Har-
rison, Henderson, Hunt, Kaufman, Marion,
Morris, Nacogdoches, Navarro, Panola,
Rains, Red River, Rockwall, Rusk, Sabine,
San Augustine, Shelby, Smith, Tarrant,
Titus, Upshur, Yan Zandt, and Wood
shall he returnable to the term of said
courts held at Tyler; and all cases from the
The Truth About Herbert Beech-
er.
The second week in April the east-
ern papers were made sensational by
dispatches from Port Townsend, W.
T., and that vicinity. Those dispatch-
es talked about Captain Herbert
Beecher, the youngest son of the lato
Henry Ward Beecher. They said
that he had been indicted, and they
overflowed with unfriendly and incul-
patory allusions to the man. Com-
ments corresponding to these dispatch-
es, which were accepted as true, were
made with the customary morality and
with more than the wonted positive-
ness of newspapers. The facts appear
to be that Captain Beecher has some
very active political enemies out there.
He has made himself a thorn in their
side, first as collector of Port Town-
send, and secondly as Special agent of
the treasury, when he ceased to be
collector. He broke up a ring of
“high toned” opium smugglers who
had their residences in San Francisco
and their field of operations all along
the northern Pacific Coast. They
tried very hard to break him down,
and laid charges against him before
President Cleveland on four occa-
sions. On each occasion, Captain
Beecher confronted the accusations,
demolished the alleged evidence in
support of them and would have been
glad to face his accusers, hut, they
never once came to the front, prefer-
ing to run away or to keep in hiding.
With a change of political administra-
tion, political enemies have secured
his indictment by a bare political ma-
jority of a local grand jury, but ad-
vices to the Eagle, straight from the
place of indictment and from well in-
formed and respectable parties, de-
clare that there is nothing in the in-
dictments; that it is doubtful they will
ever be tried, and add that three of
the best men on the grand jury at
once offered to give bonds for Ca.pta in
Beecher’s appearance; a]so that the
Oregon Navigation Company imme-
diately gave to him responsible and
lucrative employment, as a proof of
his capacity and of their confidence in
him.
These facts will be gratifying to the
county of Tarrant pending in the supreme
court and court of appeals at Austin, and friends of the Beecher’s, who comprise
undetermined at the adjournment of the the whole citizenship of Brooklyn, and
term of said courts commencing on the
first Monday of April, 1889, shall be trans-
ferred to Tyler, and entered upon the
dockets of said courts at Tyler, and shall
be tried and determined in the same man-
ner as if said cases had originally been
made returnable to the term of said courts
at Tyler.
Article 1008. Appeals and writs of error
from the counties of Andrews, Archer,
Armstrong, Atascosa, Bailey, Bandera,
Bastrop, Baylor, Bell, Bexar, Blanco,
Borden, Bosque, Briscoe, Brown, Burnet,
Caldwell, Callahan, Carson, Castro,
Childress, Collingsworth, Comal, Com-
anche, Concho, Cooke, Coryell,
Cottle, Crockett, Cochran, Clay, Coleman,
Collin, Crosby, Dallam, Dallas, Dawson,
Deaf Smith, Denton, Dickens, Dimmit,
Donley, Eastland, Edwards, El Paso,
Erath, Falls, Fannin, Fisher, Floyd, Frio,
Gaines, Garza, Gillespie, Gray, Grayson,
Greer, Guadalupe, Hale, Hall, Hamilton,
Hansford, Hardeman, Hartley, Haskell,
Hays, Hemphill, Hill, Hockley, Hood,
Howard, Hutchinson, Jack, Johnson,
Jones, Karnes, Kendall, Kent, Kerr, Kim-
ble, King, Kinney, Knox, Lamar, Lamb,
Lampasas, La Salle, Lee, Limestone,
Lipscomb, Live Oak, Llano, Lubbock,
Lynn, Martin, Mason, Maverick, McCul-
loch, McLennan, McMullen, Medina, Men-
ard, Midland, Milam, Mitchell, Montague,
Moore, Motley, Nolan, Ochiltree, Oldham,
Parmer, Palo Pinto, Parker, Pecos, Potter,
Presidio, Randall, Reeves, Roberts, Robert-
son, Runnels, San Saba, Scurry, Shackel-
ford, Sherman, Somervell, Stephens
Stonewall, Swisher, Taylor, Terry, Throck-
morton, Tom Green, Travis, Uvalde,
Wheeler, Wichita, Wilbarger, Williamson,
Wilson, Wise, Yoakum, Young, and Za-
vala, shall be returnable to the term of
said courts held at Austin.
Sec. 2. The importance of the amend-
ment sought to be engrafted on the law by
this bill creates an emergency and a public
necessity that the constitutional rule re-
quiring bills to be read on three several
days be suspended, and that this act take
effect and be in force from and after its
passage, and it is so enacted.
[Note.—The foregoing act originated in
the senate, and passed the same by a vote
of 28 yeas, no nays;"and passed the house
by a vote of 74 yeas, no nays.]
Approved, February 21, 1889.
will serve as an offset to unjuSfc and
injurious expressions which the im-
proper understanding of the matter
has anywhere occasioned. All of
Henry Ward Beecher’s children have
uniformly proved to be honorable and
aggressive people, and it is gratifying
to believe that the youngest son is
just like the rest of them in these re-
spects.—Brooklyn Eagle.
The Refining Inflnenc3 of the
Revolver.
It is not exactly fashionable in the
east to talk about the civilizing and
refining influences of the revolver and
bowie-knife, but it may be permitted
to people who come here from Texas
to ask humbly whether the influences
are not worth considering. The leader
of the Four Hundred out on the border
would hardly refer to another gentle-
man in good society as a liar and as
“this man-Fish,” or if he did, he would
not be likely to repeat the offense.
Certainly the other gentleman would
not respond by calling the other a
caterer and a servant. He wouldn’t
have time. And a police inspector
and a state assembly man wouldn’t call
each other liars and thieves and things,
at a distance of some 200 miles apart.
They would meet half way as quick as
they could get there, and all such dis-
graceful talk would stop at once. There
is a great deal of good music in a re-
volver if a man knows how to play on
it, and its staccato notes sometimes
drown out the discords of fashionable
society very suddenly and effectively.
—Texas Siftings.
Cause and Effect.
Enamored Youth—“Your father seems
worried about something to-night.”
Sweet Girl—“Yes, poor pa, has so many
business cares.”
Little Brother—“That ain’t it. He’s
mad because the big dog he bought didn’t
come.”
Successful Physicians.
Doctor’s Wife—“I understand that Dr.
Cureall confines himself strictly to office
practice.”
Old Doctor—“Yes; that is why he suc-
ceeds. People who are able to walk to an
office are generally strong enough to get
well without help.”
Wonders of Science.
Blinks—“If you have so much trouble
with your teeth, why don’t you get artificial
ones? The idea of being bothered that
way in this marvelous age of scientific and
mechanical progress! 1 got a full set only
a few months ago.”
Jinks—“Indeed! Are they a success?” j
Blinks—4‘Success? I should i
J fO,
but whea sltjftgg u Ic-stt
Eide-Tracking the Old Men.
It is not wise to believe in old things
or to put one’s implicit trust in old
men simply because they are old; nei-
ther in men nor institutions do mere
multiplication of years prove merit.
But on the other hand, it is no less un-
wise to side-track men or repudiate in-
stitutions or methods solely because
they are grown aged.
The latter error is one into which
the young Emperor of Germany seems
to have fallen; and it will not be in
the least surprising if his Empire is
yet called upon to pay disastrously for
his seated prejudice against age.
During the year 1888, for example,
the young Kaiser in his overhauling
of the German army, summarily dis-
placed eight corps commanders, twen-
ty-one commanders of divisions, twelve
brigadiers of cavalry and forty briga-
diers of infantry simply because he
wanted their places for younger men.
Age, he is frank enough to admit, has
no claim to consideration in his eyes;
and soldiers he insists, “must be young
and vigorous.”
It is well to “give the young men a
chance,” but it is not well to assume
that hard-earned experience is a dis-
qualification for service, public or pri-
vate, or that gray hairs are the badge
of abated force.
Some of the world’s strongest men
are its oldest men; and this is especial-
ly true within the German Empire.
The impetuous young William will be
older and will know more when he
has lived longer. Meanwhile his “old
men must go.”
By the way, why ilosenO he “lira”
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oonnet. Xt is muds wiiolly ox .uv.. ou t...
the cork tree and is Very light.
There is a southern superstition, that w
one who digs into an Indian 1 iai mound
is sure to meet with quicK a summary
vengeance.
...
Cooking dandelions in a frying pan with
a lttle water and a thin slice of paeon is the
latest recommended way f r making s*
healthful spring dish.
Minnesota has passed a law p
for executions before sunrise, a id allowing
the condemned to invite three parsons to
witness their execution.
The largest circulation on record is that
attained by the volume “Hymn's, Ancient
and Modern.” Twenty million conies have
been sold in the eighteen years of its exist-
ance.
There is in the poor house at Albany,
Ga,, a negro who says he is 122 years old,
and that he used to see Georg? Washing-
ton often, and “hist my hat an say howdy .
to him.”
It is alleged that the United States
all the cheap teas grown in China,
the best grades go to England and Fran cs
In return, however, we send t
the poorest and cheapest cannec
The average woman walks
week than a drover, she stand
more than a blacksmith, she belies . laws
of health more than the Indi m, and then
wonders why she “isn’t well like, other
folks.”
In a case in a Rhode Island court the
other day it was shown a farmer wanted a
tramp to saw three cords of wood as pay
for lodgings and breakfast, and 'when uu:>
man refused he was set upon and badly
beaten.
Miss Kate Drexel, who was left a fortune
of $3,000,000 by her father, entered the .-on-
vent of the Sisters of Mercy at Pittsburg
recently. She was received as a novice,
and at the end of two years will Receive the
black veil.
Some recent experiments mat e in Fr nca
prove that a person sitting in a t iraught, no
matter how warm the wind, will atc-h cold
in from three to ten minutes. Even a
change of neckties gave one subject a cold
in the head.
Two families living in the sai
St. Louis buy a keg of beer at the t:
the keg is tapped at both ends,
family draws from a separate spi
this way, as they figure, neither
more than his fair share.
The ravages of the birds in the co;
of Barnwell county, South Carol!:
most without precedent. In m
the fields have been planted
time, and now the birds are devour!;
young corn as fast as it appears
Hattie Clark and Fannie Penr iiig
young ladies of Lincoln, Neb.
their friends recently by elop:
party of Gypsies consisting of t
one old woman. The girls are
teen years old and quite handso n
Some essential oil distillers at
Pa., are now busily extracting bi
birch, which is very plent
vicinity. The oil is used for mei
fumery and candy flavoring. T
article is a favorite with country j
masters.
London has fifty-nine fire eng: e s
to about one hundred and eighteen
miles in the metropolitan area, Caotain
Shaw has asked for means to provide
efficient protection against fire
metropolis, his chief complaint bei
of lack of water.
The importance of the study of hygiene Is i
becoming recognized each year moi
more. One gentleman has offered t
$25,000 toward the endowment o
hygene in the University of Pe
on condition that a like sum. be raised to
complete the sum of $50,000.
A cow belonging to Isaac WhitesibSjS of
Jeffersonville, Ind., was bitten by a rapid
dog and showed symptom of hydrophobia
She broke out of her stable a:
everything in sight, several per
very narrow escapes. A darin
tercepted the animal and cut he turoat.
The greatest harvest reaped by New
Yorkers during the centennia was J&bm
window lettings and the next b
trade. The hotels and restaura
an immense business. The : ni aable
stores, on the other hand, were
serted. No one wanted to go a
such a time.
Woman’s right to clothe horse! i i;
culine garments is fast being rec~~-J
Paris. Formerly it was prosec.
now tolerated by the police, am:
nized as permissible in high so
One well-known authoress is said ___________
herself almost every day on the boulevard:
in the disguise of a man.
Instead of encouraging ^migration, as!
hitherto, the authorities of Ireland are dis-
couraging it, the people are leaving the
country so fast. At Limerick the matter
is creating much attention. So many emi-
grants for the United States are passing
through the town that there isalmos a fear
that the country will be depopul tod,
It is said that once in every tv jars
the common swamp cane of s Georgia
blooms. W. H. Carpenter, of Ell rt county,
says that in 1859 all the brakes were abloofil
in that county, and that now, in 1839 the,y|
are again in flower. The bloom as blue
as indigo. He also says it is as: : sign of
a good crop year, for in 1869 it bloomed and?
it was the best crop year ever known, in.
that section.
Many cruelties are said to b
on the Indians of the Flathead reservation
in Montana by the native police The re-
ligious and moral teachers are said to en-
courage the savage in these custom s Eas-
ter Sunday is made a grand wh
at the mission, and the women a
ly chastised. An Indian woman
centiy whipped with her hands tied
her back and then thrust into jpris
while imprisoned the unfortun:
gave birth to a dead infant, aceo
the Portland Oregonian. An inves
by the government authorities at \\
ton might develop some startling fa
A nephew of the great Agassiz af
Curtis, of Boston, will make a tr
fifteen-foot boat down the Grand,
Colorado, through the canon. Ti
started on the same expedition about ■■
ago, but by the time the3^ reached the
rado they had had all they wain
scending rapids among the canons. [
a man named White passed alo, ?.
the whole series of Colorado Riv-
but he was nearly dead when 1
smooth water below the catai
twice he was without any food F
five days. The trip that Profess
made down the Colorado later was one of
the most exciting episodes in American ex-
ploration.
What are known by the name of iron
bricks have been satisfactorily introduced
as paving material in some parts oi Ger-
many. These bricks are made by mixing
equal parts of finely ground red argiliac©
ous slate and finely ground clay, with the
addition of 5 per cent of iron ore. The in-
gredients thus mixed together are then
moistened with a solution of 25 pe .* confcof
sulphate of iron ore, to which fine
iron ore is added, until the mass
shows a consistency of 38 degrees,
Baume. After this the compound teAibapod
| in a press, dried, dipped once or u ore in a
] ly concentrated, solutiv -
r >v.; . ■ ji iron ore and then uaked / O'
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