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The World is Governed Too Much.' IIEl BT, Bsiness Manager. . ALEXANDRIA, LOUISIANA, WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 22, 1890, VO.X . ,, .,, .. . .,. . . . . .,:. . "YES, LITTLE DEAR." pil 3Ass weqt to church one sultry day, ha 6 ,hept awake, I'm glad to say, "fourthly" started.on its way. a e oments into hours grew; bu e O dear! what should she do? . she glided from the pew, it lnd the aisle demurely went, . on a absorbing mission bent, h ped and said in plaintive tone, i hhd uplifted toward the dome: "'Please,lireacher man, can I go home?' ge The treble voice, bell-like in sound, Disturbed a sermon most profound; A titter swelled as it went round., A smile the pastor's face o'eripread- Sie paused and bent his stately head: St "Yes, little dear," he gently iead, .. -Christian Advocate. ta SPHINXY. sa She Looks After the Welfare of the ye Unfortunate .ronaut. sk or A balloon descended one day in the. re cornfield of a farmer on the banks of at the Ohio, in that region of Southern di Illinois locally known as "Egypt." cc The aeronout, a slight, serious-looking young gentleman with spectacles, ex tricated himself from the balloon just th as the farmer came running from the ol next field to the scene of thedescent. "Reckon you lit suddin, didn't you?" ci said the farmer. "Glad to see you, sir, S on my property, though folks, does h. gener'ly come in by the front yard when tI they're comp'ny. Much shook up, do w you find?" "No, I thank you," said the balloon- d, ist, "I'm very comfortable. When I pi saw the 'chute was bound to come down 1 anyway, I steered for a cornfield. It's lucky you didn't have the river run t through this field." tl "You mought have got some wet, p that's a fact," said our farmer with an I appreciative grin. "Sphinxy says the N. Nile don't never drown folks." si "Sphinxy? The Nile? Where am I v anyway?" p "In Egypt." p "In Egypt! Impossible. Why, I only d left Cincinnati day before yesterday!" "Yet here you be, said the farmer. ri "My name's Shelby, and my folks will t1 be tickled to death to have a ballooner a to dinner. They's yellow-legged chicken p fried, too, to-day. I see Sphinxy and her ma fixing it when I was to the a pump, a spell ago." "But what do you mean about the Nile?" persisted the stranger. "My o name ris Sewall, and I'll be much obliged for a dinner, but I don't under- t stand. That's the Ohio river, and I must surely have come down in Illi nois." "Shucks, now," laughed the farmer. "Reckon you've lost your bearings, ca reering and shassaying up 'round in the clouds in that machine o' yourn. In Egypt you be, and I reckon you won't a find a peartor section of country nowhur you'll look for it. Come onin, and have some dinner. 'Taint dinner-time for half an hour, but I reckon you'll want to rest'up some, before you explain your o star-cart to an old fellow like me." "Oh no, Mr. Shelby," said Mr. Sewall, "your hospitality shan't run away with your curiosity in that way. Let us spend C the half-hour with the balloon. I'll be I delighted to tell you any thing I can r about it. c "'hey were still looking at the balloon I ;,: talking it over when a tall, young girl, wearing a green gingham sunbon- V net and a freshly-starched pink calico a frock, came out across the corn-field a from the farm-house. She walked up to her father and, without looking at g the balloon or the balloonist, said: "Paw, come to dinner. Maw says it's spiling N polwerful fast for lack of eating." 'i i en she turned and walked away to- I ward the, house. c "'1 at's Sphinry," said her father, in I a tour, of pride. "Most women folks would have stood around and pestered us to dath asking questions: 'What is 1 that?' 'How did it get here?' and all the like of that. But Sphinxy, if you notice, ttendws trictly to her own busi- i ness. 'L'aw,' si:' she to me, 'come to I dinner,' says 'hc. That's enough for Sphinxy, ad rvo 'uestions asked. It's always her 'ay. "Why, one they vas a cyclone come sudden one a t ; t st one eversheard of in this part . th.e ountry. Sphinxy, she was milkin:. hr : iecklod cow when it struck the mi .ig-- hed. It took the cow and her both. righl up, whirled 'em round and whiskled 'ed : off and landed 'em both on that thur istnd out yander S in the river. I had to fetch 'em both off in a flat-boat. "Sphinxy scared? Not a bit of it! "'Paw,' said she. 'I'm sorry I spilt all that good fresh milk,' says she, 'but it don't seem to be Sp,1 klo's fault no more nor mine,' says she. Nrver asked once what struck her. ' phlinxy never asks no questions. a :frward she knew the Nile wou J 'ownd no body." "Do you really call the Nild down in this Egypt?" . SewalL. "I remember now he , t South ern Illinois is Egypt." "Shucks, now, you'r : T your wits back, aint you?" la . Shel by, as they walked ton farm house. "YWe call it the ". ,ro on our farm. Well, 'this is n' d o' corn and wine,' and they a., Iller corn than mine." Mrs. Shelby sat down to · er table with her husband and . t, whom she welcomed cordial ,, and con - ing whose adventures she jsked a -,hu" d n-estions. She was a small, - " nus wom .. .etil S:L -ance to,: ' her .uc - . rapkaly w< w , nwhile, s ,i . gr,.. sunbonn iin th,: t, s sliced a c' 'r. h Sina pail weii i 11 r. Senall s with S :li lr. .ir it him a pie ,e. S !:aI0 not seen the f he gi i::r. xtraordinarv n , was hidden from observaror sunbonnet. Her figure was slender, and graceful in her clean pink f . hands were singularly nice han , drl who washe4 tJdis~es three L_ After dinner Mr. Sawell sat upon the piazza with his host and hostess for by half an hour while the daughter cleared lii away the dinner things. They could rn hear the rattle of dishes in the kitchen, m but no sound of Sphinxy's voice. SI M~Ir. Sewall asked after awhile how far wi it was to the railroad station. se "It's a matter of seven miles," said gi Mrs. Shelby. "Be you going right back to Cincinnati with your balloon?" a "I think I shall. It's badly out of ye gear," said Mr, Sewell. "I shall know p, how to arrange it in better shape next st time. tc "And you think you must be leaving eo us right off ? That's too bad," said Mr. ol Shelby. "Well, if you must go, I'll w dý.ve you over to town in time for you to take the eight o'clock train this even- a: ing for Cincinnatah." n "I shall be very much obliged to you," g said Mr. Sewall, "and if I could offer el you -" I "Don't mention it. Proud to have g sky-scrapers come to visit us. Drop In on us whenever you feel like dropping," ti returned cordial Mr. Shelby, laughing ri at his own wit, "and next time you c, drop, we'll have a feather-bed out in the d cornfield all ready for you, eh, mother?" c Sphinxy came out on the piazza. "Paw," said she, "the cat's fell down g the windless into the well, the bucket's F off and the cat's squalling." ii Mr. Shelby disappeared in great ex- t citement, followed by Mrs. Shelby. Sphinxy turned to Mr. Sewall, looked at a him with a frank smile, then ran out to 1' the well to aid in rescuing the cat, I whose accident she had announced with t much calmness as she had announced a dinner, in the usual and unexpected i presence of a balloon and a balloonist. I Mr. Sewall had smiled in return. Her look bad expressed the most in- t tense admiration. It was evident that r the descent of the balloon and the ap pearance of the young stranger at din ner had touched Sphinxy's imagination. f Mr. Shelby was clambering down the s stones within the well-shaft when his visitor reached the curb. It was a perilous descent, and a still more slip pery ascent after he had sent the drenched cat up in the rescued bucket. At six o'clock Mr. Shelby brought a rickety old buggy and a lean horse to the front gate, called "Hello the house!" and announced his readiness to take a i passenger to town. Mr. Sewall, who had spent most of the afternoon in a sound sleep on the lounge i in Mrs. Shelby's best parlor, making up for sleep lost while in the clouds, came out refreshed and ready to go. They were to drive to the cornfield fence and take up the broken balloon. Mrs. Shelby shook hands heartily, and stood on the piazza smiling and speeding the part ing guest. Sphinxy came around the corner of the house, and walked across the gric'l" to Mr. Sewall. Half-way down the front yard, midway between her father at the gate and her mother on the steps, she stopped beside him. She had left off her sunbonnet, and he saw a bright, girlish face She held out a small parcel. "You might need it. Don't open it till you get to town," said she, blush ing with timidity. Then before he could thank her or say good-bye she had put the parcel into his hands and had run away. Her pink frock whisked out of sight around the corner of the R house directly. "What did Sphinxy present you with?" asked Mr. Shelby, as his guest o got into the buggy beside him, looking I at the parcel with much curiosity. p "She said I'm not to open it till we t get to the town," replied Mr. Sewall. "It was very kind of her, I'm sure, g whatever it is." "Sphinxy's a girl of few words. Never º- spoke to you at all till you was leaving, did she?" said Mr. Shelby, touching the a lean horse with his hickory switch. s "Not once," answered Mr. Sewall. At the railway station in the village 5 he opened' the parcel containing 11 Sphinxy's gift. It was a little old faded a red silk purse, netted in an old-fash i- ioned form, and gleaming through it Mr. o Sewall could see two gold pieces. ir "Why, this is very kind of your 5 daughter!" he exclaimed, astonished, "but really I can't accept her money. * The purse looks like a keepsake, a d treasure of her own, too!" S "It is. It belonged to her grand n mother, who left it to her when she e died, with them two five dollars," said n Mr. Shelby, in low tones of much sym d pathy and tenderness. "Sphinxy thinks r the world and all of that money. I reckon she thought, being as you'd come by balloon, going home by train with car fares to pay and so on might come a Slittle awkward to you." '"But you will take it back to her, and o explain that I have more than enough 0 to pay my fair to Cincinnati, won't you?" Ssaid Mr. Sewall. "And tell her how e much I thank her. She is very good and Sthoughtful." "Sphlnxy is a good girl," said her father, "and she's one that's wonderful set in her own way, two. I don't think," he added, thoughtfully shaking his Shead, "I don't think she would, to say, r- eally stand it if I should take the Spurse back to her. No." he said, with determination, "I can't take it back to on Sphinxy, Mr. Sewall. She'd take on and r cry if I should do such a thing. I know just how that girl thinks, though she Snever says much. t, "She always feels as though nothing's a too good for any body that comes to see a us, and when any body comes, so to say, 1, right out of the sky, her granny's pres j1 ent's got to go, or Sphinxy wouldn't be r Sphinxy. She has had son" notion of ._ ~ving up her chicken and egg money to put with it and buy her a melodeum, . but, laws! she'll never do it. She'll )f just spend all she gets alon', for pink h calico dresses for every day md white ; Swiss for Sundays, and t: ere that i purse'll lie in her trunk. Tak it along, ?' iir. SewsaL, (a it along, do. I really ho couldn't takJit lbk to her, nu oW.'" S "Well," said Mr. @iwall, relh0tantly; e hen, as a thought cane into his mind, hc smiled, and put it catefully into his large pocket-book. \ "How did you happen toin e your/ , daughter Sphinxy?" he aesker "' a her my best theaks, won'tr/ "Yes, rather odd," admitted Mr. Shel by. "But I niotieed when she was a little bit of a slip of a thing that she N' never asked no questions the way. her mother does. Perhaps you noticed Mis' Shelby's way. She's a powerful good a woman, my wife is, but she can't never seem to stop asking questions, and my tl girl's just the other way. "We n smed her Maria when she was E a baby, but when she was about three a years old a man come through these parts, peddling reaping-machines. He C staid to my place over night, and he b told me that he heard say that in the h early original Egypt, back there in the old country, there was a race of women what never asked no questions. "Now them women is called sphinxies, d and I says to my wife right off we'd r name our little girl that. 'If she'll t grow up to be one of them kind of wom en,' says I, 'that's the best kind of luck U I can wish to her husband when she 1 grows up.' "My wife says- Oh! there's your V train, Mr. Sewall. Got your check all right for that balloon? good! Now do come and see us sometime, and drop down on us whenever you feel like it. Good-bye." Mr. Sewall wrung Mr. Shelby's hand 1 gratefully, then hurried into his car. From the window he saw the tall figure in blue jeans, the kindly, smiling face, the gesture of affectionate farewell. About a fortnight later, the young aeronaut, whose regular occupation in life was in a large Cincinnati banking. 1 house, where he held a responsible posi tion, received a letter, which he put away, after reading,with two gold pieces 1 in a faded silk purse. It was written on I blue-ruled paper with pale ink and signs of a spluttering pen, but it seemed to please Mr. Sewall very much as he read it. This was the letter: DEAR SIR-Your letter came duly to hand, also the box with the music instrument by frate, which I took home and unloaded, and set it up in the parlor before my wife and Sphinxy see ine. And then in comes Sphinxy and sets down and played a piece she learned of her school-teacher, who has got a melodeum, and she says, as she played her piece: Paw, says she, this is an organ with thirteen stops. and I never sposed I'd everhave a melodeum like teacher, says she. And as to where I' carme from or any thing about it she never asked no questions. So no more at present from yours respect I fuly, JOSEPH SHELBY. P. S.-My wife presents her compliments and says tell you we are all very much obliged, and so we are. Sphinxy went to town and bought a piece of sheet music with a song about a balloon man on it, and she sings it every night when she plays on the instrament. The purse and its contents found their way back to Sphinxy the next summer, but Mr. Sewall keeps the letter.-Min na C. Smith, in Youth's Companion. EXPLORER STANLEY. i His Latest Achievement Even Grander Than HIs First Successes. r In the history of exploration and ad venture few things are more memorable than the dispatch lately received from Stanley, announcing that he and Emin j Pasha are well advanced upon their journey to the east coast of Africa. It t Is almost a quarter of a century since, to the amazement and admiration of the world, a man previously unknown un dertook to find Livingstone, and found i him. Of the career thus begun it was a Sfitting crown that Stanley should deter mine to rescue Emin, and should tri umphantly fulfill his purpose. We had learned from former dis t patches that when Stanley, after accom plishing the long and difficult ascent of the Congo and one of its main affluents, first encountered Emin Pasha, the lat ter was unwilling to forsake the equa torial province 'which his self-devotion had carved out of the heart of Africa. Although cut off from Europe by the capture of Khartoum, Emin Pasha continued faithfully to humanize and civilize the people committed to his care, and he had up to that time suc ceeded in protecting them from hIahdist aggression. Should he abandon them, B he knew that they would speedily re d lapse into savagery and be asiew sub Sjected to slave-hunting devastation. He ' would stay at his post, therefore-so he told Stanley-as long as there was work r for him to do. SIt is fortunate that Stanley did not * take the man, whom he had come to arescue, at his word. Had he done so, and returued to Europe by way of the SCongo, we now know that Emin must e have shared the fate of Gordon. He re d traced his steps, however, only as far as " the place where he had left a large de s posit of arms and ammunition with his I rear guard. Once possessed of these re Ssources, Stanley hastened back to the h last surviving representative of the SKhedive's authority in Central Africa, but found that in hiS absence Emin had id been made a prisoner by some of h his own men, and that the ferocious M" ahdists were advancing up the Nile. W From the meager news thus far forth id coming, we know not what measures were taken for the liberation and es Scape of the heroic Governor. But the Smeasures must have been effectual; Mr. Herbert Ward, who was. -for several years Stanley's companion, in Africa, " has no doubt of the correctness of the e information. h Both rescuer and rescued deserve the O homage of the world. The high aim of Emin's self-consecrating labors and the W brilliant gallantry of Stanley's achieve e ment will shine forth on the dark back ground to which, it is too probable, the "s heart of Africa is now condemned for e many years.-N. Y. Ledger. .- The Man Who MHarries Money. e The man who seeks a wife for the pur of pose of securing the means of living y without working does not merit the re n, spect of the meanest person on earth 11 His intentions are so manifest that they k deceive no one. He plans his attack t with the ingenuity of a General. His is at an aggressive courtship, and a hypocrit g, ical one as well. Be can not afford to ly let the flame flicker for a moment. He must act the role of deception contin y; nally. If there should ever come the d, moment when a feeling of self-inde it pendence and self-respect enters the young woman's mind, his hopes in that l v nt may be shattered beyond re n. There is the necessity of -ut caution and a constant re' SOUTHERN RACE WARS. Nature Itselt Has Set Up a Barrier Be- Wh tween Whites and Blacks. There is probably nothing worse 1 about the little unpleasantness reported ent from two or three counties in Georgia reI than a more or less natural outcome of a g the holiday customs which have long oul prevailed among the Southern negroes. an Even in the old slavery days almost the the entire black population was allowed on some days of absolute idleness at the th, Christmas season. With emancipation of better facilities for getting whisky sal have come, and drink breeds quarrel- chi someness and stimulates murderous in- de: clinations, as..a matter of course, in a ru] race so excitable. Under such con- lic ditions the riot at Jesup was easily ev raised. A diunken negro was sent to ref the lock-up; a mob of drunken negroes str attempted to release him; half a dozen lai officers and citizens were killed or fatal- foi ly wounded; the blacks of the surround- the ing region, half or wholly drunk, were sic wrought to frenzy, and the white peo- no ple were forced to arm in self-defense. m: Disturbances in other parts of the State me were doubtless provoked in the same mi way. in These things are deplorable, certain- me ly, but are they not inevitable when two fil distinct races are occupying the same gt region, entitled to equal rights, and ar forced by uncontrollable circumstances co into constant contact that must excite ab almost constant hostility? If the blacks tr were insignificant in numbers their ul timate absorption by an unnatural and tb repulsive "bleaching process" into the hi t mass of the population might possibly F 5 be expected, but they breed too rapidly hi A for that. The theory of the law makes pi 3 the two races equal, and prescribes that at I they shall live together peacefully and w 9 without friction. The facts of nature it indicate that the law's prescription is cc 1, nonsensical. ti In order to avoid present collisions tr and future calamities beyond calcula- el tion the policy of restoring the colored fc race to its old home in Africa ought to li be favored by intelligent men of both tl races. The colored leaders who think V s that the spread of their people through it n the North and West might solve the ti problem are short-sighted. The North 'i and West are in no need of and can not p be expected to welcome such immi- i grants in large numbers. There is hardt lv a colored colony of a score or two fam- p o ilies in any part of either section, in a h town or community, that. is not consid- w 1e ered rmore or less of a nuisance. Few if ti 1e any such colonies can be found.the ex- ii istence of which has not the effect of I greatly depreciating the value of prop- d erty in their vicinity. Nature has set p up a barrier between the two races a which is apparently impassable. There ii is a whole continent waiting the infusion d of such civilization as our colored people fi r could give. They might work out a e grand destiny in that cradle of their b 1- race. No such destiny is or ever can be a .e open before them here.-Chicago Globe. I n f, n WORDS OF WISDOM. b The Common-Sense Views of a Negro Who Understands the Race Problem. A' A letter written by John T. Shufton, a e of Orlando, Fla., which has been exten- t sively published, has attracted attention c by its extremely temperate treatment a of the race question in the South. The t r writer is a colored man who has ob- " tained a collegiate education by his own efforts, and who is much respected for his merit and good sense. He thinks that the negro is subjected to no disad vantages in the South that any other I people would not be subjected to who 3 keep themselves poor and dependent C upon a more progressive and thrifty . n race. Even their disadvantages, he a. says, are more imaginary than real. I >' Every avenue of employment is open to I `a them, and they have the same chance to i become prosperous and happy through is industry and economy that their white c- neighbors have. Equally to the purpose is what IMr. 0, Shufton has to say of the conduct of Sfanatical leaders, pretended preachers I and politicians of the North who are [e trying to bring on a war of races in the 0e South. He regards them as the worsti k enemies of the Southern negro, and begs them to desist from their "diabolic al attempt to invite defenseless people 1 to attempt their own destruction" O, After speaking of the efforts of mis e guided members of his race to force st themselves into positions of social e- equality, which it is hopeless for them as to seek, he sums up his views of what is le. best for the negro in these words: is "Let the colored man turn from all of his e- imaginary social happiness of mingling with he another race of people, who show in every'con le ceivable way that they do not wish his com pany, and get to work in earnest in acquiring Sthe more permanent and substantialthngs of d life, a~nd the great problem is at- bnce soled. of The colored people want new teachers down us here-teachers and leaders who will point out and instruct them inathe way of peace, prosper ity and happiness; teachers who will disabuse h- their minds of this political vanity, farce and es humbug that'are fast leading them blindfolded . 'into an indolent 'shiftlessniess the 'result of. which is now being manifested by every crim inal court's record." r. There can be no question that the :al Southern negroes would be vastly bet ' ter off if they would follow the leader he ship of such men as the writer of this letter. He apprehends clearly enough he the only effectual means of elevating of his race to a sure position of respect he ability and usefulness. His advice is e- less flattering than that of self-seeking k- demagogues, but it is far more salutary. he -Louisville Courier-JournaL for A lisfortune to the Union. The death of Henry W. Grady is a misfortune to the entire Union, and a ur- loss 'to the South, in which the section ng he loved has the sympathy of the entire re- North irrespective of locality or parti th sanship. Mr. Grady was an able, frank eo and generous type of the New South, ck loyal to his convictions and loyal t'o his is country. His fellow-citizens join in the it tribute of Mr. Chaun oyfM. 'eyew'to his to memory: "His dea fin the meridian He of his powers and th hopeuluness of his ini mission, at the criti "~0i&Id of the re he moval forever of all nisunderstandiSs de ond differences bet- lentI l aeetioo ihe the republic, is a Naional- lazity. mat New York mingles uertea' h those re- of his kindred, and oftel~9t his memory of the tribute of her profoundest admira PROSPECTS ARE BRIGHT. Why the Spirit of iuocraey Will "Carr3 '4 C theCountry in .1899. The. Demooratio party has developed T' enormous strength since its temporary Lie, repulse at the polls, in 1888, when it won chi a grand popular victory, but w~~ cheated pre out of it by the abhorrent forces of boodle ig a and intimidation. ',The people who gave the the party a popular majority, of 100,000 req on that occasion are more convinced, the than a year ago that, the adininstration hot of their affairs rean be entrusted .with hel safety only to clear hanlds, such as wh characterized the last 'Democratic Presi- nol dent. As the fruits of the seeds of cor- ins ruption, sown a 'year ago ly the' Repub- nal licans;"begin to appear and to" poison cia every department of 'overniment,' the ad regret of the people for :the: honest,' of straightforward course pursued by the ca, last administration: becomes more .pro- po found and lasting. The honors pai4 to p. the ex-President on every publicq oca-- pro sion where he has been the most promi- we nent personage, the broad, vigorous ba manner in which he has handled the col most vital public questions, the undi- of minished, nay, vastly increased, respect th in which he is held by his -party, the in modest and retiring manner in which he an 1fills. the position. of the most distiu- fo: guished private, citizen of the republic, an and the coqmplete vindication of the in- ni corruptibility of his admnistration all of show'that in him breathes the spirit' of h true Democracy. ' ' er Mr. Cleveland is, justly regarded 'as m, the leading advocate of reform in the at highest and truest -sense of the word. as The tributes of esteem and respect-paid 0i him, even by political opponents, as a :.b private citizen are far more significant A' and .grateful than: those he receivid do when he occupied the highest position in the Government. They are the best .o I commentaries' on the purity of his mo- gi tives and the granideur of his adminis- m tration. They tell the story-in the most . eloquent termnis of his disinterested ef- in forts in the cause of reform. ; His pub-. flu lic utterances in Boston; when sat at E 1 the same table with the lamented Henry i W. Grady, showed that he was entirely al 1 in accord with the trend of piblio sen- tl timent and was, as ever, the foremost e 1 'in the lines of reform. The Democratic , t party, ever the party' of reform, grows ti immeasurably stronger and more popu- m lar in the light' of the reactionary L policy of corruption 'and spoils d 1 now in operation in Washington, c1 - which has already disgusted the coun f try and even brought about dissensions 0 in the ranks of the Republican party, iý f It is only by steadfast and unswerving tl devotion to the cause of reform that the tl t Democracy may hope to otercoine the s abhorrent forces that: would wreak 'our o institutions and -set back the natural a development of our country. Tariff re a form and ballot reform should be a earnestly pushed to practical fullfilitent r by the Democratic party in Congress , e and in every State. The spirit of true Democracy will yet put to flight those foul elements, so graphically described i by Grover Cleveland as "vile, unsavory forms which rise to the surface of our agitated political waters, and gleefully anticipate in the anxiety of selfish in terest their opportunities to fatten upon a n corrupted and, debanched suffrage.", l Wt With tariff reform and ballot reform as n e their watchwords, the Democracy Will i move to an asshred victory.-Albany~ n (N. Y.) Argus. a ir POLITICAL COMMENTS. S - The unanimity' with which the a r .Republicanleaders do not admire Ben- :f o jamin Harrison has become conspicu-. it ously 'observable since. Congress con- 1 y vened. -Kansas City Times. a e - The complaint that Vice-President a 1. Morton's' liquor is not first-class comes 1 ; from a United States Senator. M. Mor- c o ton will speedily call the gentleman .to t h order.-Louisville Courier-Journal. to --Mr. Cleveland is a strong, fibrous i man, physically, mentally and morally, I r. and his countrymen know that he is. f Their regard for him is quite as credit rs able to them as it is honorable to him.- I e Philadelphia Telegraph (Rep.). 1 -e - In spite of the Northern section- i it alists of the'Clarkson stripe, the South Ld is on the spot, so to speak. It is a part' c- of the comtmon country, and in the mat le ter of progress and development' it is cutting out work that the most favored s- cections will findit impossible to equal -e -Atlanta Constitution. . al -Mr. Robert P. Portr describes m himself as "waist deep in Congress-. is men," who are soliciting places in the Census Bureau for their constituents. is As he was instrumental in having the thi appointments taken from the'Civil Serv ice rules he can' only blame himself for ng the annoyance.-Providence Journal. 'of -There is 'no law Which compels Democrats. to. submit to Republican Sstealing. This may be news to a great or- many people, but it is the truth, never so theless. The Montans trouble would na be n6 troiible at all It the Republicans" od. would recognize the :truly Demi~cratie na- principle that elections elecdt.-Chilcago Herald. he --.Mr. Harrison's District Attorney at- in Indianapolis says: "Ishall not, by ar- my aid, permit Co~lpnel Dudley to be is worried.' Of course not. Mr. Harrison gh cahnot afford to worryj Dudley or to al. ag low the evidence back of the blocks-of. it- five letter to get into coiurt. It would: is not be in accordance with his "judicial ng policy.".-St. Loui Republio, 3* - It is stated that Senator Sherman is at the head of the movement to have Governor Foraker: appointed Minister to SRussia. Thepublic can well understand that Sherman would like to hal ve lior ker sent out of the country. He doesn't want Foraker to make any more speeches inhis favor at Republican National con nk ventions.--Savannah News. th, The TariffGoing Up. is There a~re many iidiclations that the he committee op ways aid mheans'of the us preieit Congres', wvbhh cominittee is an headed'b ~wr.'M6einley, U r eporta xis tart'bill increasitg the'customs, atiee re on many important articles ando gi~ag cgs no relief:. tSothose tha utacturers, mh6 hive appealed to'it.fo the free import )l7 j ad eksra4'. IT'ilaie B lw itiswoantig gi ra- a long way. owTard re-electing that" able s" Demoerai the Whie House V~ir GROWTH OF BABIES. 'A Common-Sense Home Talk to Mothern a and Fathers. aba The maternal physiquebas some sub- xa Lie, indefinable influene"a over young children, a health*giving power not at present well understood. The new baby . is still in a sense a part of its mother, though a separate unit. Its well-being requires close contact witl her during the greater part of the twenty-four hours. A bed by itself is an injustice to helpless infants. It is paterfamilias. wh who should seek another resting -place, wa not the new life that is yet. so frail-and - insecure.- Only those who have tried this all natural method can thoroughly appre- ott ciatb its advantages and realize how admirabiy it insures "the' happiness all of three - persons. The child can be de cared for during the night without ex- at posure or' any Budden' chill. Al • ays .warmed and protected by lovipg feu presence, the little one sleeps long and hip well.. After the weaning period the tar baby has its own bed as. a matter of course. Until then an undispited half hi of the maternal couch is a'necessity to wl the embryonic citizen, if he is to grow; be into that relative perfection of health and-strength which nature has intended ot for him. The human mother is the only fo animal that. puts away its young at j night, probably because the right kind pr of reason.has' not taken the place of half eradicated instinct. The bengath- p ers her brood under her wing; the m Imother bear forms herself into a sort of aninihte' wooly nest about her cubs, jist bb as the cat's body embraces her kittens. Our cousins of the lower orders maynot' .be such bad examples to follow after all; At any rate why not give those "won derful weans" the benefit of the doubt? i The slaughter of the innocents goes .on is different. ways. Emotional prodi- m gality is a most efficient means of re. moving the joys of the household. "Died of too much granidfather, grand- t mother, uncle and aunt" would be a tl fitting.epitaph for many a bright child. Emotion is the most exhausting of the 01 r mental attributes. What children do, P and how much, is of far less importance t1 Sthan the way in which they do it. The h evils of premature mental activity are 1I o without doubt very great; but to prema- t s turely and unduly excite emotional manifestations is tenfold more hurtful. p In this regard there seems to be the 9 densest ignorance, the fact that young children's only business in life is to de- n velop slowly-to eat, sleep, and play in d childlike fashion--is too often forgotten in the home circle. On the contrary, o they are often supposed to attend to P e their own work of growing and devel* n e oping,.and afford fun for the family at b r the same time. Our. tender little ones e are made the playthings of the house- P hold-hugged, kissed, talked to and e made to talk for the pleasure and grati fication of the parents and friends. Their callow brains are overworked by P e exciting and intense emotion. What wonder they have big heads, little bod ies, and hardly any degestion.-Phreno logical Journal. y Habits of the Salamander. 1- Considerable ignorance exists, even n among persons of education, as to the I ;"t habits of the salamander. The. mere e 6s mention-of this harmless little betrach- b li ian re,calls to the minds of most people a ) mystic ideas with respect to fir-eating i and fire-inhabiting reatures, which' f have probably caused many of the poor a little brutes to be 'brnt by experiment.' ise al philosophers who should have: been f- far above a belief 'in- such absurdities, . u- The spotted.salamander is the color of 1- lamp-black, withnumerouslarge yellow I spots and;stripes, and is very common t all over Southerni Europe, as well as, irn a Northern Africa. It haunts all manner i r- of dark and cool places, such as cavities 3 to under logs of wood, and holes" in ld walls, where they can find a supply of 6 ie insects, worms or slugs. All the salam r, mander's movements are performed i s, with such absurd solemnity that the c t most hardened reptile-hater could not 4 - be uninterested. Sometimes the opera tion of swallowing a worm will last . twenty minutes.-c-Soince. Longevity 'in Norway. t The :Norwegians, it seems, 're.the longest-lived, people under the sum So we learn from an elaborate '"Lirvs og Dodstabeller for def Norske Folk," just published by the Norwegian Oflclal Statistical.Bureau, or tables of life and' es death among the Norwegian people, SThe average duration of life in Norway he is 48.33 for the men, 1.30 foe the women ta. ana 49.77 for bIoth sekes .The director Li of the bureau also shows, by comparl ' son with earlier decades, that the aver age longevity of the Norwegian folk has considerably increased. "if the mor Is tality in Norway," .e writes, "is seven .i teen per cent. mhore favorable than in at Central and WestenimEurope,it is greatly ar due to the comparatively slight mor id tality'amonge oulr youngerrchildren. To s- rhat particulAr causes ~this compara bi tirely slight mortality amongchitldren go is- due we are not: told, but probably anxious parents in warmer climates may ey take a hint from it and make inquirieas, by -Pall Mall Gazette.. on interesting Legal Deelsion. al. A woman agreed .prith her grandson of. that She would give him 500 if hewould ld not: take anoth~r chew of tobacco or ial smoke another cigar from that time till her death; and on his parthe agreed to a give r erouible that; aidoutif 'he vi o~at ve edthe agreemelt. Seven years after to she died, but he'had not been paid, and nd though he had' kept'the agreementishe r. hidl'paid him' nothing, nor lihad she. pro n't rvided for payin hii. He seued her ex met ecutor for' the amount, but was defeated n, on the .ground that the condition was notsuchas.tomake the contract bind. ing. The. Kentucky Court of'ppeals as recently decided that the grandson I t fulflledn a plain and valid Contract, and the is eittled'to the mont. Talbit vs. Clay. . " -__'_ _ " le -A young.lady of Carlisle,. Pa.,re O4 eived a till amountihte to bver one th hnn~itCdollarI5 that tells a littlerhil t i ty, The bill canirfrom a jilted man, alQ snd il :it she -is bhagibd with tw.enty StwO yardsofsilk a rEis: goos,tw ~ _~Si bieless worth 'forty dollate '4lia* ble mond ring, a hat' ad se% ''lhe PITH AND POINT. -The innocence of .the intention abates nothing of the mischief of the -example.-The Southern Star. -Not to enjoy life, but to employ life' ought to be our aim and inspiration. Macduff. -Many a man makes a good reputea tion on what is not found out about him. -SarFrancisco Bulletin. ' -How much more agreeable the man who-wants to- sell-than the-m-anwha.. wants to buyl-Atchison Globe. -Human nature is so constituted that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own. -Happy the bride who does not. hest all the comments and criticisms of her dear friends who make up the audience at the wedding. --Remember, if you lot your chickens feed front your neighbors flower b~d, his pig will probably get fat in your.po tato patch.-Texas Siftings. -Every man ought to be as good:as his word. Nothing is expected of those who never have a good word for any. body.--N. 0. Picayune. ' -Wit is one thing and wisdoni is an other; when they unite a Franklin is formed.. In. such instances wit -ipakes wisdom pleasing, and wisdom makes wit profitable.-.John Leland. -You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people; why .not i make earnest effort to confer that pleas- . - uro on others? You will. find half the battle 4is8 .gined If you-g. eplo - yourself to say asy, thing gloomy.' -Much learning and little sinse make a very bad mixture. ''he man who is thus fitted out is like ai lengine carry ing a high head of steam with no one to manage the lever, or with the lever gone. There is nothing'before him but: disaster.--United Presbyterian. -If one can not seriously and soberly:: think of his own life, and of .the issue thereof both here and hereafter, with-. out being miserable, he may set it down as a certainty that there 'is some radid Cal fault in that life. Sad, inhdeed 'it the condition of that man who can li happy no longer than he can be thought. less. If he were right himself, then :to think of himself would be a source of.- :.. pleasure rather thai of pain.-Rural : New Yorker. -It is not: the chipping of of the 415.* mond's surface that polishes the dina . mond, but it is by the ,wise use of, the diamond dust or chipping, in the iands of a skilled lapidary, thatthe dispnond'A polish is finally secured. It is nit the making of mistakes that makes a man, but it is the wise use of mistakes that enablesa' man to be made-to become a polished man in hisbest sphere. When-.,. ever we see the light and glow of a beaun tiful character, we may know that.its ll luminating power camethrough its slow, polishing by its own diamond dust, at the hands of the Great Zfapiddary.-R. t Clay Trumbul~ HISTORY OF PENS. The niblieal Iron Pen Not Identleal!with the Modernm Artlel. n The "iron pen" is mentioned in:the e Bible by Job; the Biblical pen is, how. e ever, supposed to have been a chisel of' t- bronze used for cutting hieroglyphics e on stone or otherhard substances. Who g invented the first flexible Iron pens, h' fashioned after the style with which'we )r are so familiar, is'not certainly known. t- Prior to the advent of steel or iron pens, n quills or.reeds were used for. writing on 8. skins 'or parchment for centuries. if The English, word pen is from the" w Latin pepn., a feather; becuuse quills' a were psed for pens. al. The firsetistande of niron pes bMitWg er used on paper or parchment is '.ted- B5 ashaving occutrrd inIO68 `:Thibfirstat; A tempt was a rude imitation- of .agsgil-U ot and its use very limited., Crude ..nim a: perfect as this embryo pen was, othes d fashioned after, the- saume ,,mode,,: , te clumsy iron quill, were the best"' Pt one could affqrd up to' about' the begin . ning of the present century. Iji 1;· st Wise made the steelelbire pen, whioh' besides being very clumsy was alto ex pensive-consequently it was nevernse z to any great extent. ]b 1890 -Josph e Gillot, an ingenious English -mariat nrer, who had, up to the date give.. been.epgbged in the manufaoture of a. Sbarrelpen, made a lucky hitwhereby he' idco!ld manufacture the steel pe h ina* most exactly the same istie in whteh it is used to-day. These he made In SBirmingham, England. and sdld at wlit Sseems to us of- the prsents day an enor,, mous fgAie, $886 per' gross. Improve. ment.and competition soon reducethe. Sprice. In 1880, ten years later, thegyold for $ per gross, and in 18600fop lcent, n At the present time a steel pen,bettl. than the Gillotof 1820, on:bei bought' Sfor less than. 5 cents per gross.-Bt. IE Louis Republic. S The New President bf sil.u Senor Fonseca, the hew 'tresident of nBrazil, is thus descrled'by one whohas 1 n known hih well in South Amer~io s :1, is rathber fatr,.and his eyes-aregray. U* is now-sixty-two or sixty-three years of. age; his.hair and beard show agood deal of gray. He is about are feetten inches high and weighs about one huPnred and a sixty-five pounds., He is.portly ad al. ld getber a man of flne physique. '-He has ora well-developed forehead, wears a full ll bearnid, and hasauncesiihtlyinclinedtO Sthe aquilinebtnit not utall prominent. SHis'face is fail, but not flo~ld. Though tr a lawyer, he bhas bien a planter and ,n slaveholder. IHe-was st .ime time tem ihe poralily.- in obaiget.of: an Amerioep ogoo,-Alban- y (N. Y.) A.gs. en- -spaker o lthe ouel . a Although there a·re only two e, -. nd. [dents living--Hayes sod .levelal.- i" a nd butoneeice-esntHl l -ther are Seyen 6x-Spehkert. Thee d are Robert C. Winthrop, N; P. BanksE Galusha A~.. Q~ Jautes G 315 1 Samuel J. )tnai/JV W *e Ke t and John 4.arl Whisi ntdpreadlt Ys the Spos a ipfHhly r;yesrs 4,lo non duriingthe presidency ofJamSie K ,pk, s in'renot nes.of date of.. -o:. ity' the post'hw i p n fl1*ou f of ja - beater certainly * fitauAn wlb ~ it - its ~t'4 Q01gbu.uagg'ts