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__r.Sir~ ________________________ --. "The World is Governed Too Much." IIE.RY L. BIOSAT, I BsineM Manager. ALEXANDRIA, LOUISIANA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1887.OL RESIGNATION. I do not care If I may never climb the heights of fame, If I may never win a glorious name, Nor hear, with well-pleased oars, the world's acclaim, I do not care. I should not care Though all obscure and lowly be my lot, Thrugh men pass idly by and know me not, Though I should die and straightway be forgot, I should not care. I would not care Though all the world should shun the path I tread, Though words of shame and scorn of me were said- Why, when the grasses waved above my head, I would not car 1 I would not care a ,ent Were I a pious hermit, most austere, Living, in lowly hermitage severe, On thirty thousand dollars, say, a year, I would not care. -Burdette, in Brooklyn Engle. SWISS HOME LIFE. Beautiful Children Who Are Lin guists and Merchants. Their Rude Valley Schools-Industrious and Cheerful Lace Makers - The Long, "Gay" VWinters-Farm nlag on the Sides of Mountains. . Every Swiss child, no matter what his or her position or condition in life, knows how to read and write-if he is capable of learning how. I have been surprised to see how rapidly many of of the guides and donkey boys can read any handwriting, or how quickly they will spell or write the name of any place or mountain inquired about. I have been frequently assured by our drivers and guides. that allchildren must go to school three months in a year. The law they said was sehr, sehr strong (very strict) about that; none could be ex cused. I have been told; too, that now every Swiss child was required to learn German, whether it was the language of the canton in which he lived or not, and nearly all whom I have met could speak either French or German, or would answer in the language in which I addressed them, unless, quickly per ceiving by my accent thatI was English or American, they would answer a question put to them in French or Ger man in English. In one of the deepest of these valleys, into which the sun can only send its rays a very few hours in the longest days of summer, and in winter scarcely at all, I went into the little school house of the valley. It was a chilly, cheerless place, but there was a black board, and maps were on the wall. The narrow straight-backed seats, of the cheapest construction, seemed such a contrast to those pleasant, com fortable desks and seats with which nearly all our little country school houses are now furnished; such a con trast to our bright school-rooms fur nished, often, with globes and pict ures, many of them with flowers, that I could not but with little vanity con gratulate myself with having at home, in our country, the best schools in the world. Only that a terrible scarifyer of statistics which I found in a French magazine, comparing our own reports as to the numbers who could not read and write in some of our so-called most enlightened States that boast of a won derful school system, with like reports of various countries in Europe, quite took a boastful spirit out of me. School houses are not schools, and the latter must be estimated according to what they do for the people who are taught in them. Every little toddling in Switzerland must also earn its living as soon as it can lisp its own name, either in some work on in taking care of one younger than itself. All along the roadside through the valleys are little board shelters where, on shelves thus protect ed, wood carvings and Swiss lace are offered for sale, or a little bright-'eyed, slender-limbed chamois, tended by some child, is to be seen for a few cent imes to be added to the store, which is to keep these people from starvation during the long winter, for which they must look out with care. Under one of these sheds to-day I saw two little girls, who had it in charge, and stopped to speak with them. Both were making lace, their little fingers flying so that I could hardly see them, as they handled the bobbins, any more than the spokes of a wheel in full motion, and the smallest of these children was no larger than are most children at five years old in our country, though she told me she was eight. When I patted the little head and expressed surprise that such a lit tle thing should be able to make lace so nicely, the older sister told me with loving pride, that Anniahad earned her own living by lace-working already for two years. They begged me to buy the piece I saw her making, "for there are five of us," they said; "two younger than we are, and we are sehr arrme, tres pauvre, very poor," they said, trying, in three languages, to make me com prehend the situation and induce me to buy. Both could read and write, they told me. "'And where is your motherP" I asked. She was in the field, and their father was a "trager," i. e., one who stays about the hotels and gets any job that comes to hand of carrying people, afraid or unable to go up the mountain on horseback or on mules, up in a chair set upon a litter, borne by two such men for exactly the same price as is paid for a horse and the one man who leads him up with the man or woman on his back. Or a "trager" calTies up their trunks upon his shoul deos while they thus ride up, borne by other "tragers." The sisters begged t me to buy, assuring me again that they f: were very poor; they wanted to get h some breakfast, they said. a "And have you had no breakfast r yet?" I asked, for it was now past a twelve o'clock. tl "Schr wenig," they said; very little. a The mother could not give them any f: any this morning; she must go to the p field. The elder seemed, mother-like, n most anxious that the little one should n make a sale of her lace, though little j: Anna said: "You see hers is nicer than ti mine, for she is older, you see, and can o make much nicer lace than I can; of fi course, my lady, it is better that you u buy hers than mine." t I thought of Wordsworth's idyl, h "We are Seven." The beauty of their li kindliness and love for each other in h their poverty, if not of face or feature, t "made me glad." Both were ex- a quisitely clean-face and hands and f hair. This was also neatly combed. r There were no bangs falling over their d foreheads, but every hair was drawn t back and fastened, as though not a stray hair should blind their eyes or hinder them in their work. We drove i hack through this valley, and the sun had long been out of sight behind the t high western mountains when we ¬ passed their little stall. But both I were there still at work, their little lingers flyingno less nimbly than in the t morning when I first saw them. They i recognized me and bowed and smiled I gratefully for the poor, small pur chase I had made of them. I dare say i it was the only sale they had made during the day. Dear little Swiss lace makers, in the valley of Lauterbrnnnen! obu gave me far more than I did you in the few francs I paid for your lace. Your lives shall henceforth be a part of mine, and the red threads in your lace will signify to me the life-blood 1 of two of my little sisters. I am sure I shall find you again some where, sometime! It was not chance 1 that led me to your little stall to day. Your paths in life crossed mine, to teach me a broader, tenderer hu manity. I was never so thankful for my very imperfect understanding and use of the French and German lan guages (over which I have spent months and years of late night and early morning study. I did not know why, only that I was irresistibly drawn to read and know them), as Ihave been for their help to get at the heart of these poor people's lives-their homes; to find out how they lived, what sun shine came into them. "And how do you live in winter?" I asked of the guide who was leading my horse through one of these passes the other day. "0' sehr gemuthlich," he replied, which means both kindly and cheerily, and he explained to me that the people in these valleys were very "freundlich mit einander," they visited each other a good deal; in short were "sehr munter" -gay in the long winters. "And what do these people live on?" I asked. O, they had potatoes, he said, and the vegetables that they raised in summer, 1 and they had their goats, and they had bread-a few had a cow. They could i get wood from the mountains, they t made their houses warm, and they lived gaily. s "And what do you do all the long e winter when you can not work in the fields and when the sun scarcely shines r on you for months?" t The women, he said, spun the flax t that I saw them spreading and turning in the fields; they made the lace that I I saw them selling; they embroidered the t handkerchiefs I saw in the shops. The e men got the wood and they carved the r articles that I saw in shops in all Swiss Stowns, and that I saw in all these places Salong the road. They were very indus trious, and skilful, and ingenious. The e latter traits I could well believe they , possessed when I saw them with a y sharp-pointed knife slone turn a small - block of wood into a deer or a chamois s that really seemed alive and leaping n from crag to crag of the mountain y heights. o "Do you ever have meat to eat?" I I asked. a"Gar keinfleisch," was his reply. h "Ever have coffee or tea to drinkP" ir "Nothing of that kind," he said, and yd et like Wordsworth's little maid who e ate her supper on her sister's grave, a "he had his way" and insisted that t they lived comfortably, though "sehr e arme"-very poor-and were gay dur ring the long winters. S "Do the slides of snow-avalanches d Iever come down here?" I asked. "Yes, sometimes they did," he said, e and he pointed out a lplace where one Id fell three years ago, burying a man and t four children, the mother~was out and r escaped. "And have the people never a warn e ling of their fall," I further inquired, . "so that they could escape to a safer r place?" es"They were more likely to fall in , the spring," he said, but they never - knew when or just where they would tofall. And so they lived on. That they y could have their joys, gather some sun shine into their lives, live "gemuthlitc" I and "mnuter," as he said they did in r the long, sunless winters, I was glad o and thanked God. I was glad-more b than glad-thankful with the deepest , religiousness of my heart that by these a simple and sincere revelations of their a lives I could bring them nearer my own ro life, and without loving nearerneigh I bors less, love my most distant ones the In more for these glimpses, if they some r times make my eyes hot and my head " ache with weeping over their hard - lives.. ,y Shall I tell aou how the 8wi~ of these valleys make land and get their farms? Passing along, I see on some high, steep mountain slopes which have a sunny exposure row after row of what resembles the milestones along our rail- Ier ways, only these stones are not more Re than three or four yards apart. Neither of are they all stones, but slabs of wood fri fastened in the crevices of the rock or chl propped up in some way. As I came vic nearer to some of them lowest on the ca mountain side, I noticed that they were po joined one to another by platted or in- no terwoven withes and supple branches vel of trees, making a fence of a couple of to feet in length. These rows extended vic up the steep rocky sides of the moun- th tains to dizzy heights that one can N hardly look up to, nor could I imagine re how people had climbed up these steep St bare rocks to fasten the posts, and then sa to weave and twist the withes that to united them. On inquiring what these fences were for, I learned that they go were made with great difficulty and fr danger to make a lodgment for the par- mi ticles of rock that scale off and are of washed down the sides of the mount- m ains by the heavy rains. In time a soil w is formed upon the top of these narrow, fic sloping beds thus made, on which po- a tatoes and some coarse grains are la' grown. But it must be a trade, dread- to ful as thatt of gathering samphire, to m make these little farms, and then to till fit them and gather the crops. One can I not but ask what will not a man give c for his life? or what not do to forestall pt starvation?-L. H. S., in Detroit Trib- 18 une. B rb BUSINESS AMIABILITY. m Courteous Treatment of the Rich and Poor, and Its Commercial Value. Bishop Ames, of the Methodist Epis- Y copal Church. once delivered a sermon in Washington in the presence of mein bers of Congress, the President and a le large number of other Government offi- I cials on the subject of amiability in cc business. His text related to the per- a sonal characteristics of the prophet Daniel, the leading characteristic of a whom was amiability of deportment, S winning to Daniel by his traits, nearly ti all with whom he camr in contact. b From this starting point the Bishop proceeded to sum up some of the oh servations of his own long life, show- C ing how men of his acquaintance had ti succeeded in their several occupations o by the practice of habitual courtesy without insincerity, this trait, of course, d accompanied by honesty and in- t dustry. "Other things being equal," t said the great preacher, "I al- h ways prefer to buy my goods t at the store from that clerk who a has a friendly word and a kindly look t of recognition. So, too, I prefer to deal with that business man who has a pleasant demeanor, and treats me like a brother. Other things being equal, i such a clerk and such a business man will win where others of differentsocial q qualities will fail." The good Bishop long since passed to final rest, but the lesson he sought to l impress upon the young, on the oc- t e casion of which we speak, is as im portant now as it was then, and em I ployer and employed in all branches of i I trade and industry could heed it with y profit. In politics, the lack of amia bility has sent many a candidate to the 1 rear, and in business depending upon the voluntary favor of the public (and what business does notP) it marked the s line between success and failure for many a firm. Courteous treatment of the rich and poor alike thus has not g only a commercial value above-esti I mate, but it comes very near to the ful e fillment of a divine command.--Laun dry Journal. Ati OLD SOLDIER. SHigh Political Honors Declined by a Great-Nephew of Washington. e An octogenarian, formerly a Colonel y in the United States army, and brother a in-law of General Robert E. Lee--both I of whom married sisters, nieces of Mrs. is Washington-lives at St. Louis, and is g now the oldest surviving graduate of l West Point. "In a recent letter to one several years his correspondent, he I writes: "A late number of the Boston Herald contains, in an article headed, 'In These Now Quiet Times,' the error that President Pierce alone had the I honor, of the twenty-two Administra 0 tions, of having retained his Cabinet in , tact throughout the four years he was t in office." Colonel E. G. W. Butler, r the writer of the letter, who was a - great-nephew of General Washington, sa's: "In order to vindicate the truth - of history, I will state that I, a stranger to President Pierce and Secretary-of , War Jefferson Davis, declined the e offlice of Secretary-of-War in the d Cabinet of President Pierce, tendered me by Mr. Davis." With hiseyesight impaired and for the mostpart confined - to his house, Colonel Butler retains all , his faculties:in all their pristine vigor. r He is an interesting link of connection between our own day and Washing in ton's, whose life was ending as his own r began. It may be interesting to.recall d that his father was one of the four y fighting brothers, so called, memora i- ble in the revolution and our early ' wars, while his own maternal grand in father was Colonel of the British grena Id I diers at Bunker Hill. He says modestly, re in his letter,.that President Pierce and st Secretary Davis appeared to':have se placed too high an estimate upon his rl abilities; but he had laid dowarn his a I sword and embarked in sugarplanting, h- and was unwilling, to resume publip c e office. Though his letter is writteni e- with his own hand; he says, he .can not d read it, for he is still siffering from his id wounds, and nearly blind, but contin.: nes to take a deep interest in. ptibi~c 1of vents.--RQto7 fran.crint. STILL QUARRELING th The Republicans of New York and Mr. Blaine Cutting One Another's Throats. Ci A recent interview with Senator Mil- tii ler has stirred up a hornets' nest in the of Republican ranks, and in the judgment M of many of the Herkimer statesman's is friends he has seriously impaired his th chances for a re-election. In the inter- v( view in question Mr. Miller took' oc- cc casion to defend his mistakes as a party leader. He declared that he was hI not responsible for the Republican re- hi verses in this State since his elevation B to the Senate five years ago. His ad- sI vice had been disregarded. He charged ai the defeat of Mr. Blaine in 1884 to the be National Republican Committee. It C refused to accept the advice of the ci State Committee last year, which, he ti says, was controlled by his friends, and n took the counsc; of Thomas C. Platt. The interview has brought forth a good deal of vigorous denunciation T from the members of the National Com mittee, in particular from B. F. Jones, of Pittsburgh, the chairman of the com- tl mittee, and from Stephen B. Elkins, ii who was the committee's executive of ficer. Mr. Elkins. in conversation with a friend, said: "Warner Miller is the last man to impute the defeat of Blaine to the National Committee, and you n may put it down for a fact that the in fluence of that committee will be used against Miller in the coming Senatorial contest. We have direct proof that previous to the National convention of a 1884 Miller worked secretly to prevent t Blaine's nomination, with the idea of bringing himself forward as a compro mise candidate. Then, after Blaine was nominated, Miller and his friends d made no special effort to carry New York. "The organization of the State Com mittee here was the most serious prob lem that confronted Mr. Blaine's friends immediately after the Chicago convention. The National Committee" and the New York State Committee r were called together on the same day h at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. In the State Committee there were three fac tions about equal in strength--the half- 1 breeds, who were controlled by Miller r and his friends, and the Arthur and the Platt stalwarts.' The Platt men had earnestly supported Blaine's nomina tion, and they were unqualified in favor of his election. The Arthur men were 1 disgruntled and sore. Mr. Miller in duced his half-breed friends to place the organization of the State Commit tee in the hands of men who had been bitterly opposed to Blamine's nomina tion. We thought then that Miller's action was prompted by his opposition to ex-Senator Platt. " The Utica convention of 1884 was largely 'against General Arthur and could have been controlled for Blaine by any sort of skillful management. Mr. Miller refused to consult 'with the leaders of the Republican party there, and so dallied with his negotiations with the Edmunds men that he was beaten. The National Committee took the ground that its duty was to consult with all leading Republicans. Platt, Cornell, and other men of' their follow ing were constantly in consultation i with Mr. Jones and his committee. Miller demanded that the committee take no advice but his. They did not regard that as a wise policy and Miller L sulked in his tent. Chairman Jones 3 has a right to feel indignant when r charged with infidelity by a man in f Miller's position. No man ever worked t harder or more faithfully in any cause than Jones did for Blaine. He worked - like a hero, and if he had received'the vast co-operation of, all Mr. Blaine's supposed friends in New York Blaine would have been elected i' spite of Burchard." Mr. Elkins and other prominent Re publicans allege that Miller schemed in an underhanded way for the nomi nation at Chicago and was deeply mortified 'at the miscarriage of his plans. His recent attack' on the Na StionalCommittee isi said to have been s actuated by the direct refusal of the committee 'to help him in his Sena e torial contest.--Chicago Newsos HAS HE FORGOTTEN? r What mWill Kl An of Mr. Evart' Presil S identsial Asplrritions. tA I dinner consisting in part of Boston - rown bread, Boston baked beans and Boston crackers w's lately eaten in St. Louis by the members of the New En Sgland Society of that town. This some what arid diet, it appears from the published reports, was relfeved and be Sdewed by the eloquenep of Senator SEvarts, and by. copious draughts of crab-apple cider. 'The occasion was also enlivened by the nomination of Mr. Evarts for President of the United States. M.IrJames Richardson, of St SLouis, introduced the New York Sen ator as a statesman who had "filled the 1 highest offlice in the land but one. The : people of the ',united States," added Mr. Richardson, "are waiting his will and pleasure to. adorn and exalt the Executive ehair." Therie was a good Sdeal of applause: and 'considerable Slaughter when the waggish;gentleman reversed the general understanding of Mr. Evarts' positioni in rega ,to the Executive chair, namely; that it is' he who is waiting the will andi pleasure of the people .-f thbUifted States before 4esting ·imself therein. e Mr. $vart;o;Frever,:seeis thave taken the omin ation .in e-zi- et, . Bie proceeded to develop his theories io : popilar4goveofrnment and made an un mizstable bi forthe Westerni ote, .His remas-were excellent, and there is of hiiipseeh whlich weido nort qitionn dent, wd infern 9Je rdWtrirn dilbrie the inviolability of American suffrage. Every man is free and equal. Every citizen has an equal voice in the Na tion's councils. "What an upheaval It of society there would be," exclaimed use Mr. Evarts, "if any man lawfully a cit- but izen by the laws and constitution of e the country should be prevented from voting or told that his vote when re- Mar ceived would not be counted." fro Has Mr. Evarts already forgotten he f how he happened to occupy " the amc highest office in the land but one?" sert Has he forgotten two very ingenious thai speeches which he delivered on Febru ary 5 and February 15, 1877, before a body known to history as the Electoral uses Commission, in which he told certain 12b citizens of Louisiana and Florida that of t their votes, although received, ought tim not to be counted?-N. Y Sun in AN ABUSED MAN. era] - othe The Republicans Now Admnit That Secre. th tary Bayard Is No Hot-Headed Blun derer, But a Wise Statesman. sto( While the Blaine organs, inspired by feet the arch-disturber himself, were abus- pig ing Secretary Bayard for what they stre termed his cowardly policy in relation .a di to the seizures of American fishtng ves- hos sels by the Canadian authorities, he thr was pushing forward with skill, judg- reti ment and vigor the American side of the the question, and manifesting a spirit and and determination worthy of the great trai country he represents. Blaine, Frye are and other demaz ogues'accused him of disi truckling to England and sacrificing for the rights of our fishermen by not pro- abl yoking a rupture with the British Gov- tru ernment. Mr. Bayard remained silent wit under this fire, quietly attending to his Th duty in a far more practical and vigor- or ous mamier than his detractors recom- bec mended. pla When the proper time came he laid for the matter before Congress and cov- Th ered his detractors with shame and con- are fusion. .There was an instantaneous cal reaction in his favor, even on the part the of those who most violently abused ca him, and it is now universally acknowl- the edged that the course of the State De- fea partment all through this fishery dis- its pute has been eminently wise and pat- we riotic. Even the New York Tribune, ge' which most fiercely assailed Mr. Bay- so ard, is forced to acknowledge: "The an State Department has argued various phases of the fisheries question with ca lucidity and logical acumen during the jPi year. It has had a strong case, and mi with the powerful aid of Mr. Phelps has TI forcibly presented it." This is:a change all of heart from an unexpected quarter is. and shows that truth must prevail even so where falsehood is most cultivated. th But the Tribune'might spare its ad- tO vice to the Administration in urging m commercial retaliation against Cana- til dian vessels jn American ports. It re criticises the Administration for pre- th ferring diplomatic method $t aggres- fiu sive action. Fortunately for the C country, the Administration does not propose to use such iian extreme policy, unless as a last resort, and selects the st safer and more satisfactory method of conciliatory argument. The State De partment does not intend to submit to 01 the Canadian Government's arbitrary St interpretation of the treaty of 1818, the vi only agreement on which the question tl can be discussed. ti SThe only treaty that had brought w peace and prosperity to her fishermen cl was deliberately abrogated by the. li Republicans, aid when Mr. Bayard en- t deavored to serve the interests of Amer- te ican fishermen, by making an arrange- ti ment with the British Government, tl e by which the fishermen should have a the spring and summer fishing and 5 e enjoy privileges and _opportunities a without expense, he received only P abuse for it. The Republicans irefused b to entertain his project for a joint com- o 1 mission to settle the points in dispute h and Mr. Bayard could only fall back on g this treaty of 1818. The beneficent d Streaty effected by Hen. Wm. L. Marcy, o in 1854, brought about a peaceful set- ' Stlement of difficulties similar to those a which now confront Mr. Bayarld. The a Republicans chose to abrogate this 1 treaty in order.to place -a grievous bur- a den on the shoulders of the incom- r ig'Admiinistration. Mr. Bayard is I making a bold stand for the ihterests i i1 of our fishermen, -but a great deal depends upon Congress. If that body n refuse to consent to a commission to I Sget at the damage incuerred and oplen the way to reminove all difficulties, itis 1 Snot'rMr. Bayard's fault. He hais proved Shimself one of the , ablest statesmen that ever. guided the affairs of the - department, and.he disregalds attacks ar nd slander, his whole mind being absorbed in the faithful fulfillment of Shis duty.-Albany Argus. . ed -- -Mr. Blamne seemed fated to have ita Rev. Burchard. He spoTeto to he a- Congregational Club mieting of minis he ters i ' at Boston... Among the other he speakers -was Ieir. Dr. Herman· Lin ed coln, of Newton. -Dr. Lincoln, by an ill historical. allusi6n, recalled the episode he at President - Arthur's funeral, and >d wound tup his discourse by saying: Ae "There is still enough energy here to an sweep heresy from the face of the of earth, though the Boston of the Col he linmes and the O'Brien is fiot tie Bos h ton of, the rWinthrops and the Pil of grime.." ommenting upoli this the ite Boston Ie;aiupt says "It is some what remarkable. that the -'h~resy'l r. which Dr. Lincoln thinks sitains the Re Collitises aild thie O'Birens here is-just of that senthient upon whickh Mr.Bliae i- nd his friends irely to mak him nPresi ui dent two yesars hence. -.And" to speak is slightingly or itt ywheirme wts api rt tid blunder oni Dr. lincoln's part. Bnut bn 'ylCtt canfyou expect when intelligent .. .'- ·-:." . . . " JCARRIER PIGEONS. . Where They Were First Trained for MWa. - a xLong Journeys. bro It is not known with what nation the of s use of the carrier pigeon originated,, Cut but.there is no doubt that the customis lad3 very ancient. The Romans used the birds for this purpose, and Sir John soul Mandeville, one of the earliest travelers fly 1 from Europe to the Orient, states that you he found them used in the same way among the Asiatics.' We have the as- illw sertion of the poet Tasso for believing Woi that they were so employed during the how siege of Jerusalem in 1099, and it is an undoubted historical fact that they were used during the crusade of St. Louis in 1250. The, most remarkable instance new of the use of carrier pigeons in modern eno times, was during the siege of Paris kno in 1870. They have been more: gen- wli erally used in Turkey than in any - other country for many centuries, and lad; the "art of training them is under. ligi stood to be carried to its greatest per- but fection there. The trainer takes the get pigeons when they have acquired full strength of wing in a covered basket to "Ni a distance of about halfa mile from their inr home; here they are.set at liberty and que thrown into the air, and ifnany fail in '*IS returning home from this short distance Yoi they are regarded as naturally 'stupid, que and no time is wasted inendeavoring to train them.. Those that do come-home inm are trained by being taken to greater ma distances, progressively increased to ne forty or fifty miles. When the bird is is' able to accomplish this flight he may be ech trusted to fly. any distance over lands to within the limits of physical power. h This drilling mustibe begun very early, or even the best breeds of birds will not become good carriers. It is the general mU plan to keep the birds in a dark room yo0 for some hours before they are used. jus They are sthen "fed sparingly, -but the 'are given'+. all; the water I they s" can drink..- The paper :on which the message is .written is then er carefully, tied round the'upperpart of' - the bird's .leg or to one*of the large cci feathers of the tail, so as-not to impede Sep its flight in any way.. The_ feet. are inf washed in vinegar to keep them from tlu getting too dry during the bird's flight po so as to tempt it to descend to water ca and run the risk of getting -its message re Wbt. The ordinary rate of flight fora m carrier pigeon is from twenty to thirty, piles an hour, though instances of N much more rapid flight are on.record. ke The pigeon, when thrown up into the - an air, at first flies round and rou~nd. This qu is evidently for the purpose of sighting ka some landmark that it kgqows. When mi this is perceived the bird instantly flies t toward it, and as other familiar land- 1l mkrks come gradually into sight, con- so tinues its journey on till its home 'is t reached. " If no landmark is perceived 21 the -bird . is bewildered and lost and finally returns to the earth' again. Chicago Inter-Ocean. . MUSIC'S CHARMS. Staid Seotehmen Whose Indignatton al s cc Soothed by a Tenor Voiee :' . Here is a story of a meeting of credit- di Sors.- The place was :an old-fashioned in Scotch borough, fast- dwindling into a to village, and the meeting was held in in the, smoke-room of the largest inn, the p time being an hour in the. evening j when every one's work was dohe. A . chairman was appointed, the usualpre- 4 liminaries were gone through, and then. i the statement of affairs was read. Sad .sid to say, there were. no assets.. By this , time most of those present _ had filled their pipes and ordered comforting t and soothing drinks. The debtor's .c i solicitor had no offer to .make g and for a time there was a dead . pause, and every one loioked ;very I blue indeed. 'But presrently One of ther company remembered that the'debtor g e had a capital tenor voice; and he sug-r a gestedto the phainrman that, as he.(the Jg t debtor) could make no offer tohis creditt , ors, he codidat least give thema:song. SThe suggestion was met with consider- o e able approval, andT was at onc acted + e upoen. The n"fortunate gnan was called s :into the room, and, very much to his .astonishment, was asked ,to singt to the - meeting. .He gavethiem: "ThenYou'll, s Remember Me,!' and several other ap Spropiiate songs,whiceh metwith raptur y broke up they bnanimiously vote~l him t o his immediate discharge. 'Who $i1 say n dfter this that the art of singing should is not lbe cultvated'-C--i5iiflh Utinti, n aleys of the Atlantic. h In'the repot eoLon G don Geo s graphical Society on the deep-sesa x Splorations of the Atlantic b~el previous statements coneerning its configuration areiverified, na,. mely, that the bottomof , the North Atlantici is occupied by tw e valleys, the east extern extending from ten . to thirty degrees west lotigitude l and I ir traceable as far sthe equator, with an - extreme depth 0of lss than 2thirtee . thousand .teet, whle theiwesterin iley e reaches froin the thirieth t the fiftieth'tk Id- degree of :iwestlongitmde. T'Jhehtwoeiar g. separated by a ridge in thiirt degre to wi~etlongitude, aloungwich the"averge' he depth isonly one thousand fatho:ns, i. 'and wh'ich traced northwarrd .to s- Icelanid, an if rwrd to- the Azores; II-. It Ig' f o n icharacter atboth er he ;tre extrineebreadthis some, e. what five -hundred- miles,° the y1 d'ept .tW rnreaSing on boit.sides he of i arding to the distatce of itW i pi- truie. 'tismid toi h:+itei n -thIlm mri+i int iuiti~'edi af non afldblue at night, nd itsfurther credited with g: o Ws: .o.a tre:: of A: l1-#. Tohuatisee~nn PITH AND POINT. T--errapin, canvasback duck, and brook trout, chopped flue, with plenty of seasoning, make a very nice hash. Cut 'this out and pasta it on your land lady.-Puck. -Jakey-Fader, dere's a fly in der soup. Mr. Cohn-Yell, eat all but dier' - fly before you showit toder vaiter; den you can get some more.-Rarbler. ' -It costs twelve dollars a night to illuminate "Liberty Enlightening the World." This is another evidence ofi how costly it'is to make a woman look attractive.-N Y. Graphic -"Smile when you can," warbles a: new-fledged poet. We can do that easy,: enough, but what we are anxious, to know is how a fellow is going to smile when he;cae't'--Warrefn (Pa) -Mirror.' -Holding a skein of yarn for a young lady is universally considered one of the"' lightest and pleasantest of occupations, but "holding yarn" for afellow's sister. gets awful tiresome. -Anastasia (about to be'marrled): ' "Ned, see if this reads all right for the invitationsi: 'Your presence is re quested - ' " Devoted brother: - "Stop there, sis! Itisn'tgrammatical. You mean: 'Your presents are re quested.'.'--N. Y. Independent. -Thirty-two hundred babies are born in the United States every day, but a,, man never thinks -of the other thirty one hundred and ninety-nine when he is confined in a railroad car with a cherub that wants to see if it is possible to howl louder thlan the engine can."4 whistle.--Boston Budget. --'Oh, my dear, generois lisbiand!' murmurs the f6nd wife. "How grand - you aret I only wish:I could be you for' - just one day." "Why, dearestP" aslks the unsuspecting man. "-Because then.' I would buy a new bonnet for my lov . ing little -wife," replies =the designing- : ereature.--. Y. Ledger. --First Omahi mnan Have any sue css. on your hunting expedition?:, Second Omaha :man-Yes, consider ing the weather, I did admirably. By the way, you remember Simpkins, the poet; ie lives near where I was and.I called on him. "Weill Wellt Did he read any of his poetryP'' "0no! I had my giin along."-Ornaha World." :-'Dere am t'ree t'ings," says Unele Nied, "w'icheibery young, pusson mus' keep In mind good, an' dem t'reet'ings am dese: De wise mad an' de fool doan quarrel, but two fools or two wise men - kain't get along so well. De man what marries a 'omau-'case she's got more . Sense den he has ish eber. aidlowed ter lose sight o' dat fack. De chile dat too soon shows "signs- of- smartness dean turn 'out' to-lie de smartest man." Toledo Blade. - SOL)AR ENGINE.; An x vniton odtto Whoste Impowib e *Can No(t'. o Yet a!e apthmsted. The telegraph reAntly meJtioned the completion ofCaptain ,Ericsson's im-, provement pn his solar engine. Fora .a dozen years or more thls incomparable;. inventor has devoted hlis geius mainly. , tothe perfection of this engine, although , inthe meantimbe he has invented a tor pedo boat that 'iromises to revolution- ' ize once more the methods of navals : warfare .and coast defense. tidead, a ldozeinyears ago he had a solar .ingtie in practical operation, but it was not hiMs " design that itshould be able to compete .with engines:using orinary fue.intem- . perate regions. His -purpose lhas been . to invent for the future when the supply of fuel shall have become depleted in the great aixnanufapturing regions of Ku famrope. "hDu consideration c i he.has said 'ssan not i lto conint e aothat tuher ppi:ro·. tintr ew,: p~o, w flnthe curse of i few arlc es,' derive signal 7 I 'advadntai afdl attain- a-higixyolitieal i psition.on accoun tof her perpetual' of unipinlted motile fqree. The tiuae . wodome whenEngl d nelst ,sp he mls fran oomilaslr ape e ogpoa ppr . then, with her .unlesitng ....ut..njw,.. o" remoVr his achin ,ery ag eet .. is , mills oin th ilrm gi 'oind a t:+ .he sides . _o I-at coi t I am o.t . Tris Captad Ericssonhaes c pede tahe a dfrom uthi th e h agrheate lenagt 3n of land exceeding 8,000d1lek5, accessible :y' by water aommunieation. On- a ah - thi strip 22,000,009 polar epngies equal to re 100 hiorse-powereagb, could beept in oe 'op e rt ine niap hours ayby id utilizing pe only theheat nqwwesbtdowthe watei as, frqnts of these naburat regions. . achievements of the wonderfal geniu ao. who geiv us the "'en1$or" i n t h o he try ig period of our Nationalt le Lesl iedrrote. ere ishiartily &e osia it~f1i paftai n uI rcflitean when bl o b~:~' ~l achfldo`niney izedeled as e i'~h is 4vnhalr yethe~~ii~li·~~i;:iB~ ~Wos 7 4en. horadya.s rbaielh ~r ~nmn 'upes eI h#uie