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T. H. BEAUL1ETJ, Editor.
VHITfi EARTH. MINT*
Epitome of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
CONGRESSIONAL.
THE bill for the admission of Dakota into the
Union and for the organization of the Terr tory
of Lincoln was considered in the United States
Senate on the 9th, but no action as taken
Bills were introduced for a permanent court
of arbitration between the United States end
Great Britain and France, and for the comple
toon of the direct tax (S21/00,000) of 1881 In
the House the deadlock ovei the DhectTax
bill still continued, with no prospect of coming
to an end
IK the Senate on the 10th the bill to author
ize the sale to aliens of certain mineral lands
was passed, and the 11 to provide for the ad
mission of the State of South Dakota and the
organization of the Territory of North Dakota
was further considered. In the House the
entire session was devoted to filibustering
over the Direct Tax bill
ON the 11th the bill for the admission of the
State of Dakota and for the organization of the
Territory of North Dakota was further consid
ered in the Senate Bills were passed to pur
chase of the widow and children of the)ate
General James Shields certain swords at a sum
not exceeding $10,000, the Military Academy
Appropriation bill, and the bill for the erection
of a monument to the memory of General
Joseph Warren, who fell at Bunker Hill Sen
ator MOITIU (\i) spoKe in opposition to the
President's tariff policy and the Mills Tariff
bill In the House the deadlock over the Di
rect-Tax bill still continued
Is the Senate on the 12th the bill for tho ad
mission of the State of South Dakota and for
the organization of the Territory of North Da
kota was further considered, but no action was
taken Adjourned to the iota In the House
the opponents of the Direct Tax bill succeeded
In breaking the deadlock and in postponing the
further consideration of the bill until the De
cember session
THKBK was no session of the Senate on the
18th In the House numerous repoits of a
prh ate character were submitted and i bill for
the payment of a claim of seveial hundied
dollars for the occupation of certain propei ty
in Memphis by United States troops in 18M
was discussed at great length At the evening
session nfty-fiv pension bills were passed
DOMESTIC.
IH a quarrel on the 10th at Om aha, Neb,
a German named Damke killed his wife
and fatally lnfured his daughter-in-law
A IL the bridges in Dakota County, Minn.,
had been washed away by freshets on the
10th, and in the towns of Waseca, Shako
pee and Vaterville much damage had also
been done
A BOILER exploded at Fink's saw-mill at
Baldwin, 111 on the 10th, killing four men
Mas. LUCY LESTEK, of Frederick, one of
the wealthiest ard most prominent ladies
Maryland, committed Buic.de on the 10th
by hanging Domestic troubles weio the
cause
GFOBGE K. AMOUB and his fifteen-yeai-old
son were burned to death in their house
near Cedar Gap, Mo on the 10th.
THE Leader and Sunday Dispatch offices in
Binghamton, N. were destroyed by fire
on the 10th, the total loss being $73,000
DAMAGES to the amount of $10,000 were
on the 10th awarded E. A. Lewis his libel
suit against the News and Herald of Jack
sonville, Fla.
A MOVEMENT was begun in New York on
the 10th to send to France a statue of
George Washington as a present from the
women of America.
A COMPANY with a capital of $1,000,000
to manufacture aerial ships was organized
in Jersey City, N on the 10th
IN Union County, S a girl of eleven
years and a boy of nine quarreled on the
10th, and the boy plunged the blade of his
pocket-knife into her heart, killing her in
stantly.
A FIBE on the 10th did great damage
the business part of Austin, Miss.
IN a fight on the 10th between striking
railroad hands and new employes of the
Powell Valley Bailroad Company at Cum
berland Gap, Tenn, five men were killed
and twelve others were wounded.
A CXCLONK passed over the southvv estern
part of Washington County, 111, on the
10th, demolishing houses, barns and
fences.
THE authorities of Castle Garden, New
York, dec ded on the 10th to send back to
Italy twelve boys who were sent over in
destitute rcumstances
THE Kootenai Indians in Montana were
committing depredations on the 10th, and
the Governor had been asked for troopa
IN an interview in Cmcago on the 10th
with Chief Arthur, of the Locomotive
Brotherhood of Engineers, he said the
strike on the Burlington road would not be
declared off, and said the engmeeis were
willing to wait for five years, if need be,
with the convichon that the Buihngton'
road could not be successfully run and
equipped without drawing on the Brother
hood for engineera
Ax ATCHISON, Kan,, the last brewery in
the Btate to hold out against the Pro
hibition law was closed on the 11th by the
United S ates Marshal.
A QUABTEB of the business section of Fair
field, Neb, was burned on the 11th.
THE feud between the Banks and Monroes
broke out afresh on the 11th in Wirt Coun
ty, W. Va,, and in thu fracas three of the
Monroe family were killed
THE employing brewers of Chicago and
Milwaukee decided on the 11th to ignore
the Brewers' and Malsters' Union as an .or-
ganization and hereafter to make contiacts
with their workmen as individuals only
A. L. BECKER, a wealthy saw and flour
mill owner at Crandali, Ind., was caught
by the shafting of his mill on the 11th and
crushed to death.
AT the annual session at the A. De
partment of Iowa, on the 11th in Cedar
Rapids it was shown that the organization
In the State had 17,646 members, again of
870 daring the past year.
IN all probability the oldest pony in the
United BtateB, if not in the world, died on
the 11th at Chili, Ind, from old aga She
was owned by Mr Harrison Gilbert and was
fifty-one years old.
THE barley crop in a number of Ohio and
Indiana counties was reported ruined on
the 11th by the winter and farms were be
ing plowed under Clover and winter
wheat were also injured.
THE walls of a burned building at Pitts
burgh, Pa collapsed on the 11th, crushing
an adjoining house, killing a servant girl
and wounding several persons, some fa
tally
HIGH water in Minnesota was still doing
great damage on the 11th At Hastings,
Bed Wing, Montevideo, Wabasna, Cannon
Falls and Jordon families had been driven
from their homes, bridges were gone and
railways washed out. causing suspension of
travel
SAMUEL BBOWEB, of Wabash, Ind injured
the bones of his hands some months ago
while practicing on a horizontal bar, and
on the 11th both of his hands had to be
amputated to save his Ufa
JOHN DODSON died on the 11th at Mount
Vernon, IB., his being the twenty-third
death resulting from the cyclone which oc
curred there some time aga
FOBTT saloon-keepers at Lincoln, Neb.,
had on the 11th taken out licences and the
""fe?
forty thousand dollars so raised would be
used in building a needed school-house.
A FIRE on the 12bh destroyed tho William
Anson Wood leapei and mower works at
Youngstown, O, involving a loss of $250,-
000 and throwing five hundred men out of
employment
MB. NAT ELLIOTT, a wealthy bub eccentric
old farmar livrng near Lawiencebuig, Ind.,
who had no faith banks, was knocked
down *n the 12th withm a lew bundled
yards of his home and robbed of $1,500
Two HUNDBED people living on the flats
on the west bank of the Mississippi at St
Paul were driven from then homes on the
12ih by a rapid rise in the river
As rat resn of an extensive bhut-down
on the 1*2 by the coke-pioducers ot the
ConnellsYllle (Pa region six to seven thou
sand men were thrown out of woric Low
prices for coke caused the suBpens.on of
work.
THAT paib of Oconto, Wis, known as
"Fienchtown," situated upon the flat, was
under water on the 12th, and many fami
lies had been forced to move
EIGHTEEN bnildings were burned on the
12th at Wilmington, Del, at a loss of $75,-
000
DAVE WALKER, the "Bald Knobbei" chief,
was convicted of murder in the first degree
at Ozaik, Ma, on the 12th, and sentenced
to be hanged Mav 18
NEVB Bradford, Pa early on the morning
of the 12th a passengei train and a freight
train collided, two engines an I one hun
dred and twenty cars being wrecked and
several passengers were injured
THE ice carried away a lailroad pontoon
bridge at Wabasha, Wis., on the 12th, and
about one million lees ot luml er belonging
to one of the Eaii Claire companies
DETECTr\E3 who had been investigating
the matrimonial record of W Blown, of
Detroit, stat3d on the 12th that Biown had
no less thjn twenty living wives in differ
ent portions of the country
AT Montevideo, Minn tLuty families weie
diiven from the I homes on the 12th by
high watei
SIXTEEN passengeis on a schooner rrom
Liverpool weie prohibited from landing at
Boston on the 12th under the provisions of
th" Contract-Lalor law
WILLIE GRADY, aged seven years, shot his
sister Ella, aged three yeais, in Chicago on
the 12th while playing with a piBtoI sup
posed to be unloaded.
IHIBTT-EIGHT monuirent8 tor Pennsyl
vania soldiers were located on the held of
Gettvsburgh, Pa on the 12tb
E A. CONSIGNY was elected Depaitment
Commander of the Iowa A It at its ses
sion in Ceclir Rapids on the 12&h
THE New York Boaid ot liade and Trans
portation i isseel a resolution on the 12th
asking the Legislature to appropriate $1,-
000,000 to improve the canals ot the State
THE village of Massoys, M&, was de
stroyed by fare on the 12fch, only one
bui ding being lett standing
THE employes of the seveial brewerits
Chicago btiuck on the 12th because the
propnetois claimed the right to employ
non-union men if they desned to
S 8IMO\T,
the defaulting ex-treasurei of
Darke County, O, was on 12bh sen
tenced to six cars' imprisonment in the
penitentiaiy and to pay a fine ot $48 000
AT the annual conf eience in Salt Lake
Cit\ on the 12th of the Moimon chuich
Wilford Woodruff, in behalf 0.. the twelve
apostles, read an epistle urging the people
to ceabe practicing polygamy and to lead
pure lives.
FOREST hies near Falmouth, Mass., had
done much damage on the 13 JJ, andtbreat
ed destruction to villages the vicinitj
MRS. BESSIE H. BULKLEY, only daughter of
Judge J. Hillyer, of Washington, whose
recent elopement with young Bulkley
caused a sensation in that city, committed
suicide on the 13th.
THE California House and twenty other
buildings were burnei at Depere, Wis., on
the 13tb. Loss, $75,000.
FOUR persons ware killed and ten injured
in a railroad wreck on the 13th ne-r Bir
mingham, Ala
THE Legislative, Judicial and Executive
Appropriation bill, as agreed upon the
National House committee at Washington
on the 13th, appropriates $20,472,394
BURGLARS effected an entrance into the
First National Bank at St Johnsville, N Y,
early on the morning of the 13th and plun
dered the vault of $10,000 in cash.
NEAB Canton, O John Brothers, a farmer,
was swindled out of $2,000 on the 13 th by
bunco men
THE bill for closing saloons on Sundays
and taking from municipal authorities the
power to permit saloons to be open on the
Sabbath passed the Ohio Legislature on the
13th.
AT Florida, N Y, Joseph Bird's dwelling
was burned on the 13th, and his wife and
infant child perished in the flames.
THE Governor of Nebraska issued a proc
lamation on the 13th organizing Grant
County
AT Warsaw, N Robert Van Biunt was
hanged on the 13th tor the muider of Will
iam Roy, October 6, 188G, at Tergus Falls,
Minn NelB Olson Holong was hange 1 for
the murder of Lilly Field May 28, 1887,
and Chillers Banks (colored) was execu ed
at WalliBVilie, Tex for the murder of Mar
tha Penderson June 19 last
DURING the seven days ended on the 13 th
there were 162 business failures the
United States, against 199 the pievious
seven days. The total failures from Janu
ary 1 to date were 3,362, against 3,492 in
the same time last year.
MRS. JOSEPH FBANCHT committed suicide
by hanging on the 13 th after a quarrel with
her husband at Lima. O
THE ice was solid at Buffalo, N Y, on the
13th, and vesselmen not expect to get
out before May 10
THE condition of tiade throughout the
country was reported fairly active on the
13th.
JUDGE GORDON, Chief Justice of the Penn
sylvania Supreme Court, decided on the
13th that saloon-keepers were lesponsible
for the safety of their customers, and that
if a man was injured or Insulted by any one
a saloon, or roughly handled by the bar
tender or proprietor, he could recover dam
ages.
IN Illinois Aiboi Day was geneially ob
served on the 13th. At Springfield eight
hundred trees were planted, Governor
Oglesby assisting, and at Normal the pupils
of the Soldiers' Orptlan Home planted sixty
trees
THE Red river in Dakota was on the lam
page on the 13 th At Wahpeton the water
was running through the mam streets,
while Breckinridge, just across the river,
was completely inundated, and gieat dam
age had been done at both places
DURING the fourteen days ended on the
13th. the American donation to the Learoe
fund in Ireland was $10,000
FORTY houses at New Londou, Wis., were
surrounded by water on the 13th, owing to
a freshet in the Wolf river, and the country
roads were washed out and otner damage
had been done
THE village of Attica, N Y, was greatly
excited on the 13 th over the case of Emma
Toms, a young woman who goes into
trances, the length of which she foretells.
She had up to date been in a trance sine i
March 11
AT Emeryville, CaL, on the 13 Lows
Hansen shot and killed his lecently
divorced wife and J. C. Garoner, whom she
had married, and then kdled himsalt
THE wife and five-year-old daughter of
Thomas Bakc,. living near Welhmlle, O.,
were Jnunect to death on the 13tb i'h
mother was trying to save her little ones,
who had fallen into a burning 1 ius -he in
and both perished
ON the 13th two boilers used fcm \mii
stead Lumber Company at Palahalheo,
Miss exploded, killing foui men
AT ForD Wayne, Ind tine? Dolan went
into the dry-kiln at Hoffman'b an ng mill
to sleep Steam was turue i on, tt 1 hs was
found on the 13th toasted to i
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
MRS AZULIA DOUCTL^SS died on the 10th
at the residence of her danghtei in Oruaha
Neb Had the lived until her next bnthl
dav, May 8, she would have boon 102 years
old. She was twice mairied and both hus
bands died old men Her mind was dear
to the last
THE Michigan Gieenback State umven
on will held at Lans ng on the Sth of
Mav
Bom branches of the Iowa Geneial As
sembly adjourned stne die on the 10uh
THE Insh-Amencan Protective^ Tai if
League of New lork on the 10th issued a
manifesto against the adoption ot tae frt e
tiade principles end calling on all ioreign
born citizens to oppose frei
trade
THE Arkansas Republicans met on the-
10th at Little Rock and elected delegates
to the National convention in Chicago
HON EZRA TAYIOR wasienommatod
tor Congress on the 11th by the Republic
ans of the Nineteenth district of Ohio
HON CARL SCHURZ and family staited
from New York tor Euiope on the 11th
THE Oregon Republicans met in conven
tion at Portl md on the 11th and elected
delegates to the National convention Tae
atfoim favors a tree ballot and a fair
count, protasts against further Chinese im
migration, favors liberal pensions, de
nounces Cleveland's action in returning the
rebel flags, and denounces the tariff policy
of the Demociatic Administration as a
piece of unr-aialleled poetical dishonest}
IHE illnss ot Roscoe Conklmg, ,n New
lork, took an unfavorable turn on the llth,
and his recovery was considered sxtiemely
doubtful.
HON JOSEPH CANVON waB lenommated
for Congress on the llth by the Republic
ans of the Fifteenth district of II inois.
THE lower House ot the New York Legis
latuie on ihe 12th adopted a lesoiution
providing for submitting to the people a
piohibition amendment All the Demo
crats voted against it.
IWENTY FIVE jears ago, at FiankEort, N
William Gates, ot Chic go.and Geo*ge
T\ Gates, of Oshk03h, Wis., (bro hers), were
married On the 12 th they celebiatod tbeir
silver wedding at the Rame place, the clei
gyman who mained them b^ing in attend
ance
I HE Kentucky Prohibitionists me5 at
Louisville on the 12th and elected delegates
to the National convention who favor
Gieen Ciay Smith for President
THE Republicans of the E eventh district
of Ohio on the 13 th renominated 1. C.
Thompson for Congressman
AisOTHER change tor the worse in the con
dition ot ltoscos Conkhng was lepoited
irom New Yoik on the 13bh, and theie was
great anxiety among his fi lends and the
doctors in attendance
FOREIGN.*
A ITBE on the 10th devastated thi^o
large estates at Matanzas, Cuba.
"WILLIAM MILLMAV, for the rnurdei of
Mary Tuplmg, was hanged on the 10th at
Charlottetown, E I
IT was reporte I on the 10th that the late
Emperoi William, ot Germany, lett the sum
of thirty mtrks to every invalid soldiei of
the war ot 1870
AN exp os on in a dynamite factory at
Grenoble, Fiance, on the 10th killed nine
persons and others were seriously injured.
THE first execution in Madrid, Spam,
hve years took place on the llth, when a
girl, hex lovei and an accomplice weie gar
roted for murder
CANADIAN farmers were on the 11th emi
grating to Manitoba in large numbers
BY the burtmg of a boiler on the llth on
the San Lorenzo estate, province ot Havana,
the engineer and fireman were killed and
sixteen othei persons were injured
AN explosion on the 12th in a powder
mill near St Petersbuig, Russia, killed
seven men
THE American Exchange in London, with
a capital of $5,000,000, was closed on th*
13th by order ot court
LATER NEWS.
AN tne nouso on tne mn, jar. rvandall,
(Pa. frem the committee on appropria
tions, reported the legis ative, executive
and judicial appropriation bill, and it was
i eferred to the committee of the whole
The committee on election, by unanimous
vote in the contested election case from the
Ninth Missouri district, Fr^nk vs. Glover*
decided in favoi of Glover, the sitting mem
ber
Iv a case of damages for personal injur
ies against a raih\ ad company the Iowa
railroad commissioners decide they have
pow ei to grant a money judgment
Twixai membeis of the Chicago board
of trade were suspended on the 14th for
tiadmg after hours.
THE tell of the Union bank of Winni
peg has fled to the United Stites, the
amount of his defalcation being $38,000.
JLDUELO(HRE:N denied the motion for a
new trial in the case of the Barrett broth
eis, convicted of murder at Minneapolis.
WILLIv\t O'BRIEN., P., was anested on
arriving at Kingston on the 14tii in conse
quence of a speech at Longhrea the previ
ous Sunday.
V\ ILLIAM WARD, a well known foreman of
lumber camps, on the 14t took a drink of
whisky at Dulutb, Minn sat down on a
door step and expired
SM VX POX was discovered in the steerage
of the steamer Italy, which arrived at New
York on the 14to The steamer carried 516
Italian immigrants.
AT Ashland, Wis ,on 14th a judgment
for $914,544 was enterad against the Atian
tic Iron Mining company and one $610,526
aga nst the Bourne Mmin? company.
Miss SARAH CHELLIS, aged 40, sue 1 John
Chapman, aged 73, for breach of prom
ise of marriage, at Watei town, N and
a jury the supreme court on the 14th
leudered a verdict of 8,000 in her favor.
THE President has designat Col Oyrus
Byrovs, of the U. S corps of engineers, as
president of the Mississippi i\ver comnus.
Bion v.ce Col. Grilmore, deceasel.
HtAPY GILLIG, manager of the late
American Exchange in Europe, sailed Irom
New Yor^ on the 14th.
ON the 15th Roscoe Conkling lay in a
state of coma, and it was thought that he
could live but a few hours. His doctors
were still issuing hopeful bulletins,but they
were contradictory and unsatisfactory
AT Philadelphia, Pa on the 15th, the
Washington express on the Pennsylvania
railroad co'hdei with an engine, and four
cars were upset and badly broken. A
large number of people were injured,
though it was not possible to learn how
many.
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THE NORTHWESTERN FLOODS.
Wost s% Paul Surrounded ly Water
People forced to Leave Their Homes
Railroads Lose Heavily Wisconsin
Streams Out of Their Banks and Doing
Much Damage.
ST PAUL, Minn., April 14The wa'er
rose about two feet on the flits on the
upper levee during last evening Most of
the shanties there have been vacated, theii
occupants seeking shelter with friends in
other parts of the city or in other houses
on the bluffs, oi in the few houses that
stand on ground that has not yet been in
undated This morning the flats present
the appearance of a lake bordered by the
roofs of houses. Small outbuildings
have been lifted from their founda
tions and, floating against the fences,
have toppled over Occasionally one
might see a man rescuing his family
and household effects from the upper story
of his shanty, whither he had le
moved them in the hope that the
water would not rise to the second floor.
Should there be heavy rains, however, the
water would be still higher and extreme
IOSB and suffering would ensue West St
Paul will sufter in any event, as the banks
are likely to give wiy as soon as they are
filled and ciuse much loss to property-own
ers in that vicinity
The situation in that part of West St
Paul east of State street is much woise than
anywhere else, because the land lies lower
and there aie more numerous sloughs
through which the water find
easy access to the more thickly set
tled portions of the flat The oc
cupants of a good many of the houses
in that neighborhood have already
Vacated them, and more are pieparmg
to do so as the river still rises. Already the
water stands several feet above the hist
floor many houses and is fast encroaching
on others At the St Croix Lumber Com
pany's mill, which is situated on Florida
street, the water is nearly up to the plat
oiins on which the lumber has been piled,
and workmen are now engaged in temov
ingit to higher grounds, as well as the sash
and doors from the mill All that ground
east of State street and south of Plato av
enue is entiiely covered with watoi and
looks like one vast lake The soil
of the flats is of such a sandy
and porous nature that the water
percolates through it readily, and as a re
sult many of the cellars the blocks
along Dakota avenue are lull of water
Much fear is felt lest the watei should un
dermine the ground to such an extmt that
the foundations ot the build ngs will s.nk
and cause much damage to the different
blocks. The houses just undei the bluff at
the west end ot the ward are surrounded by
water and reached only by boats.
At other points up the r*ver the water is
falling slowly Fiom St Peter comes the
information that a fall of ten inches was
observed during the last twenty-four hours
Hamilton repoits a stand-still since Thurs
day At East Henderson there was a fall of
one foot during Friday, and the wat is
RESCUING PEOPLE FROM THEIR HCM S
stdl falling At Redwing the Cannon river
is nigher than it was evei before, the fiats
of the Cannon va'ley, which range from
three-quarters oE a mile to a mile in width,
being nearly entirely inundated
The greatest loss is sustained by the Min
neapolis & St Louis railioad, whose tiack
is submerged for more than a mile The
greater part of the track is completely torn
away The telegraph wire is also down
along the line, and one bridge is gone.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul branch,
running to Cannon Falls, has been damaged
sufficiently to suspend tiaffic tor a few
davs, two bridges having been carried off
Otherwise little injury is done to the track.
THE FLOODS IN WISCONSIN.
GRAND RAPIDS, Wis., April 14.The great
est ice-jam ever known th part of the
W sconsm river passed out yesterday with
out doing any damage Another ice-jam
extending miles up the river, above Bar
ron's mills, four miles north, cleared there
at 6 o'clock last night and was two hours
in passing here A raft of lumber valued
at $50,000, owned by John Farrish, was in
the jam, and part of it passed here and will
be a total loss.
MAUSTON, Wis., April 14The river here
is higher than it has been Bince 1870
The bridge near Lyndon, built last season
at a cost of $1,500, has been carried away.
The bridge at New sbon also went out
yesterday morning Travel on the Ne
cedah branch railway is suspended. A
great deal of the track is under water
SEYMOUR, WIS April 14 The ram has
raised the water here higher than ever
known Tan Vassalere's shoe store in the
S cond ward is afloat, the flood having
raised it from its foundation. The water
is also withm a few inches of thefloorof
the city hall. The track of the Gieen Bay,
Western & Sti Paul railway as well as the
roads on both sides of the city are sub
merged.
NEW LONDON, WIS April 14 New Lon
don is experiencing a flood Forty houses
are already surrounded by water All of
the country roads leading to the city on the
north side aie flooded and washing out,
and both the Wolf and Embarrass rivers
a
still rising.
ICE .TAM IN THE ST LAWRENCE
MONTREAL, Can., April 14 The river St
Lawrence is rising steadily opposite the
Cxty anoVshows signs of a general break-up.
The people in the low-lying districts are
already removing their household effects,
anticipating a flood, which, it is expected,
will be higher than tor many years. A big
Jam is reported above the Victoria bridge
Husband (at dinnei)"Yes, my
dear, we've got to (hie) begin to econ
omize." Wife "I think so, too, John,
and I Mill make an agreement with
j-ott I will get along with one pair of
gto\ es each month if you will promise
to ilde home etery night from our of-
fice."# Y. Sun.
An exchange wants to know "why
it is, with so many negroes d} ing, no
body ever sees a black ghost?" It is
for the same reason that, with sd many
white people dying, nobody ever sees
a white ghost. Nornstown Berald.
FAILURE IN LIFE.
ft Is Due in Most Instances to the Aboenca
of Application.
Well now, the failure of many jonng
men iu life is distinctly due to the ab
sence of application. I could easily
give you not a few instances that have
come under my notice here lads, not
deficient in ability, not addicted to vice,
but so destitute of the power of appli
cation* that, no matter what line of
business the} enter on, they could not
stick to it. A young fellow enteis a
merchant's office good opening excel
lent prospects but before a twelve
month is out, ho finds he has made a
mistake. He no determines to be a
doctor starts a course of medical
stud} but in a fe\r months get*, lieai tiiy
wearied of that, a6d is persuaded that
he is cut out for Ihe law. So he sets
forth on a fresh I|ne of rails, only to
discovei that ajuofessional life will not
suit him at all his ambition now is to
be on the Stock Exchange. Bat the
work there soon proves equally dis
tasteful, and he throw it up in disgust
and unless he mariies a rich wife
(which such a man often contrives to
do), he hangs about a penniless good
foi-nothing to the end of his days. I
is an excellent thing for a 3011th,
almost as soon as school-days aie over,
to have to depend to a gteat extent
upon his own exeitions. If he is saved
from the efforts of making his own way
in the world, and the recossity of
establishing a position for himself, he
is denied a powerful stimulus to toil
and pere\ erance. The late Pi evident
Gaiiield. who ro^e by his own exertions
from the humblest to the highest
station in his own countrj, once ob
sen fd: "I nine times out of ten, the
best thing that can happen to a young
man is to be tossed oveiboaid, and
compelled to sink or s.\vim for himself.
In a'l m}- acquaintance, I never knew
a man to drown who was worth saving."
There is now an honoied and le
spected member of the Hou- of Com
mons who wras
once a working stone-
mason, and he says: "In my opinion,
truthfulness, sobriety, absolute punctu
ality and self-ieliance are indispensable
factors to success A oung ma i liould
never be afraid of woik, however haul
or common it may seem to be. The
men who in my trade or occupation
have risen to the top of the tree, 1 ave
generally been men who, to use Pi evi
dent Lincoln's favorite expression,
"kept pegging a'v ay," and were never
in the habit of shelving their own work
upon other persons. There is a pioverb
I used to meet with in Turkev, which
advises, \o nevci to do to-day what can
be left off till to-monovv, and never to
do ourself what you can get another
to do for you. I hope jou will go as
much a-, possible iu the teeth of such
degiadmg counsel. The advice Genei al
Goidon ga.e is ineompaiably more
worthy yoiu a vept a ice The occasion
I allude tow as the iir.t day on l.ich
fire was opvned a1-
Sebastopol from tho
twenty-one gun battery, and when the
sand-bag-^ toiming one of the embia
sures taught fire. A corpoial and a
sapper of the Engineers were told off to
repair the damage. The corporal
oideied his companion to mount tho
embrasure, undertaking himself to
hand up the fresh bag* to him The
firing was heavy at the time, and the
tapper demuited to this auangement,
suggesting that the corpoial should get
up, and that he would do the handing
up business. Thcie was a bit of wrang
ling over it. Geneial Goidon, healing
the dispute, came to the spot, mounted
the pile of bags himself, and whilst a
sturm of bullets swept aionnd him coolly
performed the task. Thereupon he
quietly descended, and looking sternly
at the corporal, said: "Never order a
man to do a thing you are afraid to do
ourself."J. Thain Davidson.
Switzerland's President.
William Fiederick Heitenstein, re
cently elected President of SwiUeiland,
-was Vice President last year. He be
longs to the canton of Zuuch, tho
second in importance 111 the Confeder
ation, Bern being the fiist. President
Heitenstein is about sixt}-thiee years
old. He was born at Kyburg, canton
Zurich. After receiving a good aca
demic education, he entered the sen ice
of his native canton as forest officer,
whence he was promoted, after some
years, to be inspector of the forests of
Zurich. Dm ing the nine years from
1870 to 1879 he was a member of the
government of that canton. Since the
second of those dates he has been a
member of the National Assembly and
of the Council of States, also Vice Pres
ident, as previously stated. Since 1872
Mr. Hertenstein has been a Colonel of
artillery. He has been head of the
Military Department 111 the Swiss Coun
cil.Chicago Inter Ocean.
Tact in Leap-Year Matters.
It is seldom necessary for a bright
girl to take advantage of the preroga
tive leap year gives her, for there are
so mauy more ingenious and satisfact
ory means at her disposal. For several
,weeks a group of young people in Al
bany been devoting themselves to ama
teur theatricals, paying paiticular at
tention to the presentation of a drama
which has its culmination in a pro
posal and acceptance by the leading
actors. In this case the heroine was
even more deeply interested in the hero
than the exigencies of the play re
quired, and in accepting the offer of his
affections was so ardent that it set the
young man thinking, until he decided
that he would like to make the stage
scene real. This he effected just after
the last rehearsal a few evenings ago,
and his prospective bride will take care
that he never learns how artfully she
set his mind moving in the direction
she desired.Albany (N, T.J Journal,
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
Tin Horn"Hello. Dinm, I hear
that you've been n? Dunn
"O, 5rou
be blowed!"Life.
There is moi difference between
cheap talk and fiee speech than some
people seem to suppose.Tio-Btts.
You can't insult a man when your
feet are under his mahogany. He has
tho dead wood of hospitality oa you.
Puck.
At the employment bureau: "An
now, what is your position in society,
sir?" "Ahem! I am one of those who
only stand and \vrait."
In Paiis there are said to be people
who make a living by waking people
up in the morning. Thev must do a
a rousing business -Boston Bulletin.
A writer insists that American
girls are "too giddy." He mii3t have
met some of our girls who have been
going round a good deal. Xorrtslow7i
Herald.
Maiion Harland sa}^s the coming
woman will have her own bank ac
count. She needs to have it if she ex
peets to support the coming man who
will be her husband. X. O. Picayune.
There is no use in a man trying to
be more stubborn than a joint of stove
pipe, or a gate that won't latch.
can not compete successfully in that
line.Philadelphia Inquirer.
Shakespeaie's immortal sentence,
"He who steals, my pure steals trash."
would indicate that in his dav, as in
modern times, the poetry business
didn't pay. Washington Critic.
"I see a buttonless shirt advertised
here, John," sail a wife, looking up
from a paper "What kind uf a shirt
is that'
1 "Just like mine," was the
repl}. And the wife lesnmetl her read-
ing.A*. Y. Graphic
There is a great deal of talk just
now about the (Ldini ig power of the
pulpit The fact is, it isn't tne pulpit
which is declining but a great many
people aie declining to listen to it The
pulpit, probably, was never stronger
than it is to-day.N. Y. Tribune.
Collector for the heathen"Is Mr.
Jones at home?" Mrs. Jones"He is
down in the cellar tiving to iix the fur
nace. It won't draw. Shall I call him
up'" Col'eetor (hurriedlv)"O, no,
I'll call some other tune."Boston
Coui ier.
"Poor fellow, he died in poverty,"
said a man of a person lately deceased.
"That isn't any thing," exclaimed a
seedy bystander, "D}ing in poverty
is no haidship it's living in poverty
that put- the thumb screws on a fel-
low." Texas Siftmgs.
He was fcveiishly awaiting her
answer. I have spoken to your
father, Miss Clara," he added, by way
of a clincher, "an he will gladly wel
come me as a son-in-law." hi a low,
sweet tone the answer came: "If you
had spoken to me first. Mr. Sampson,"
she said, "it would have saved }ou the
trouble of speaking to my father."
And then she said something about the
weather, which Mr Sampson found
cold and bleak a few moments later.
SOCIAL VAMPIRES.
Detective Agencies That Are Nothing
More Than Blackmailing Concerns.
"Something ought to be done to con
trol these piivate detective agencies,"
said a police officer of lank to a le
poiter. "They are a nuisance, and
woik moic harm than any one im
agines. I don't refer to the stiaight
agencies, but these concerns that do all
the dirty woik are the ones I refer to.
Anybody can start a detective agency,
and some of the men who work for
many of these in Chicago ought to be
in the penitentian. Many private
detectives make their living by black
mail, and it is easy to see that they
have a fine held to work in. Take, for
instance, a case of a woman, or even a
man, who has some standing. Some
oneit may be a husband or wife, or
even an outsideipats 1 detective on
the track of the one he wants to find
out about, and the victim is followed
eveijwheie. Suppose something ia
found out and there's nobody but ha*
a little dark spot that shouldn't be ex
posedand here's where the chance for
blackmail comes in. The detective
makes his report and receives his pay,
but doesn't let the matter rest there.
He has a hold on the one he'd been
shadowing, aud when the proper time
comes he works tne racket for what it's
worth. He wants a loan after letting
the victim know, of course, what
know ledge he possesses, and nine to
one he gets it. The one affected knows
that he can't afford exposure and he is
willing to pay for scciecy. Mind you,
all private detectives don't work this
snap, but many of them do.
I know of a voting man who robbed
his employer. The latter kuew some
thing was wiong, so he hiied a shad
ovver. Proof against the young mau
was complete, and when he was
confronted with it he confessed
every thing. He begged not to be
exposed, and the employer consented
to his remaining, provided he made up
the shortage. This he did and after
wards regained his employer's confi
dence. Then he married a fine girl
and was happy. The world smiled on
him and he was getting along as nicely
as any one could wish when one day
he was called on by a strange man,
who soon let him know that he was the
detective who had done the shadowing
He didn't say that he would expose the
young man, but the latter knew what
thcmitter was and readily conceited
to ike a small loan. Instead of tell
ing his wife and emplov er about it lie
struggled on, meotinir demands made?
on him, and finally took to dnoki'ig.
His emplo3-er dischaigel him he wont
low er and lower, and when ae -ot o'car
into the gutter his wife left lum be
cause he couldn't support her. Th
othei iv, 1 see by the pipers, she sued
foi a divorce, and she'll get ii."--(JAh
tfiqo Tribune.
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