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THE "STORY OF IDA." [Whittier in The Manhattan.] Weary of jangling voices never stilled, . The skeptic's sneer, the bigot's hate, the din Of clashing texts, the webs of creed men spin Round simple truth, the children grown who build With gilded cards their New Jerusalem, Draping the awful mystery of the soul With sacerdotal tailoring, alb and stole, I turn, ■ with glad and grateful heart, from them To the sweet story of the Florentine, Immortal in her blameless maidenhood, Beautiful as God's angels and as good; Feeling that life, even now, may be divine, With love no wrong can ever change to hate, -for sin make less than all-compassionate! WOMAN AND HOME. Hints for the Household and Helps Hints for the Household and Helps for the House-Mother. Clara Belle Concerning Courtship--. Charmins Women—Scrap Bass and Old Papers—A Fine Complexion. £Dio Lewis' Monthly.] fDio Lewis' Monthly.] To soften and whiten the skin there is noth ing more beneficial than oatmeal, taken in ternally and used externally. As I have no •wish to encroach upon the housewife's do main, I'll simply give directions for its ex ternal use. After a warm bath it may be used dry, or pour boiling water over a few spoonfuls '■* it, and let stand a few hours. On going t, bed, wash the hands and face freely in the . rrchy water, and diy without wiping. Bran .-.nd Indian meal may be used instead, with -early the same effect. For the sun bath pat the' bran or oatmeal into email bags, otherwise the difficulty of remov ing the particles whicli adhere to the skin is eonsid rable. Instead of poultices of bread and asses' milk which the Roman ladies found so effi cacious for softening and whitening the face, we may use a mask of quilted cotton or chamois s.i, wet in cold distilled water. This will not be the most comfortable in the world, but no great excellence is ever at tained without labor and care. Many ladies, whose complexions are the envy of all their friends, acknowledge that they owe it all to distilled water, which they use for their face and hands. Queen Victoria is to be envied for one thing, if nothing else, for she has the delightful comfort and luxury of having dis- til! water for ail her baths. Ladies with oily or greasy skins may use, sparingly, a few drops of camphor in the bath. Borax and glycerine combined, are used with good effect by some people, while thoroughly disagreeing with others. Glycer ine alone softens and heals, but in time will darken the skin and make it over-sensitive; the borax obviates this, and has a tendency to whiten. No toilet table is complete with- out a bottle of ammonia. A few drops of this in the bath, cleanses the skin and stimu lates it wonderfully. It is especially valua ble in removing the odor from those who perspire fre-h-. To remove tan and sun-burn, cold cream, mutton tallow an ! lemon juice may be used; f-n- freckles, apply the latter with a tiny camei's-hair brush The country girl, de prived of many things which her city cousin finds indispensable, discovers that she can re move the tan from her face with a wash made of green cucumbers sliced into skim milk, or, failing in this, she makes a decoc tion of buttermilk ami tansy. A well-known writer on feminine beauty recommends the use of finely-ground French charcoal for the complexion. A teaspoonful of this, well mixed with water or honey, should lie taken for three consecutive nights, followed by a simple purgative, to remove it from the system. The aperient must not be omitted, or the charcoal will remain in the system, a mass of festering poison, with all the impurities it absorbs. None of these tilings will bring about the desired result unless the foundation is fir-si laid by proper food, exercise and bathing; above all things, do not neglect the bath. Cleanliness is one of the cardinal virtues, and a woman fresh from the bath feels a good deal like an angel. -Clara Belle" Concerning Courtship. **Clara JScllc*' Concerning; Courtship. [Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer.] Let us return for a moment to the subject of marriage, for the sake of a little moraliz- ing. Raskin is out with condemnation of what he calls mob courtship, and I agree with him. It is greatly to be regretted that of paying court in the old-fashioned way to a lady, with expectancy that it will take time for acquaintance to blossom into friendship and friendship to ripen into love, there is not much iv our days. Inst ad we have the mad "falling in love," for which our novels ate partially responsible, which have much mar rying in haste aud repenting in leisure to an swer for because of their false teaching in ex alting impetuous passion above calm, patient, intelligent love. Ruskin is of ths opinion that if a youth '3 fully in love with a girl, and feels that lie is wise in loving her, he shouid at once tell her so plainly, and take his chance bravely with other suitors. No lover should have the inso lence to think of being accepted at once, nor should any girl have the cruelty to refuse at ■ ouce with ,ut severe reasons. If she simply doesn't like him she may send him away for id him seven yoars or so, he vowing to ': -.-.-•■ . cresses and wear sackcloth meanwhile,, or the like penar.ee: if sh j likes him a little, or thinks she might corns to like him in time, she may let him stay near her. putting liim always Oil shar]) trial to see what, stuff he is made of, and requiring, figuratively, as many lions' skins or giants' heads as she thinks herself worth The whole meaning and power of true courtship is probatiou; and old man Raskin thinks that it. ought to be fixed at seven years. But;;- precipitate process is now in vogue We learn our lessons of love and wedlock from the novel and the drama, Charming Women. [Atlantic Monthly.] When it was all over, my friend said, "Now, that is a woman in earnest. Do you suppose it is her earnestness that makes her so unprepossessing"" That is my perplexity reduced to its last equation: Was it her earnestness! My friend hold that it was. "If you have observed," said she, "women with aims are always lilte that. They are too superior to condescend to mako themselves agreeable Besides, they haven't- time. Then they never can see but one side of a question—the side they are on They are always dragging their own bpir.lons to the front, and always running lull tilt against every one else's. That is where tiiey differ most from womeu who haven't purposes and who have seen a gocxl deal of the world. It is the business of a woman of the world to be agreeable, irfhe snares no pains to make her- self just as good looking as possible and just as charming. And she is always tolerant. She may think you a fool for your beliefs, but she doesn't tell you so bru tally, or try to crush you with an avalanche of argument She tries to look at the matter from your point of view; iv short, she feigns a sympathy if she has it not. Your women with a purpose think it wrong to feigu anything. They won't preten-1 to be sympathetic any more than they will powder their ices, or "let their dress- maker improve their figures. That's why they are so boring; they are too narrow to be sympathetic and too conscientious to be polite. It is earnestness does it; earnestness is naturally narrowing. It is earnest- ness, to sets their nerves in a quiver and makes them so restless. They can never sit still; they are always twitching, don't you know? That's earnestness. It has a kind of electrical effect Women in earnest have no repose of manner. But a woman of the world feigns that, just.. as she feigns sympathy, because it makes her pleasant to Other People. - Oh, there's no. doubt *of it; women in earnest, have a noticeable lack or charm. And I regret to say that the nobility of the purpose does not in the least affect tho quantity of charm. Very likely, their busy lives and the hard fight they have had to wage ,with social prejudices and moral anachronisms may have something to do with it. Buc after making all deductions, I wonder if my friend'^ theory does not hit soma whero near the mark. . An Epidemic or Scrap-Baza. [New York Post.] One of the fancies of the day is to have in- numerable scrap-bags and work-bags scat- tered through the house. This should, and probably will become something more than a fancy, for after one has become accustomed to the convenient practice of putting away things in them it will be difficult to give them up. They are made in every style and of every kind of material. If for bed-rooms, they should match in color with the other bright or sombre colors used there. One very simple and pretty way to make them is to make the bag of white butchers' linen; cut it square and have it about fifteen inches each way. Across the top and bottom put on a strip of Canton flan- nel three inches wide; sew this to the linen with fancy stitches, then draw three circles at equal distances apart and about the size of a half-dollar. Work these, commencing at the centre and going up in straight lines to the circumference, with three or four shades of yellow embroidery silk. The bag is not gathered at the top, but has two blue strings attached to tho corners to hang it by. The bottom of the bag may be ornamented by a strip of butchers' linen fringed out, or by a row of torchon across the bottom, slightly fulled on, or it may bo left plain. Another way is to have the bottom of the bag of a band of silk, sateen or velvet, five inches wide, and the rest of the bag, which should be ten inches or more long, of one kind of material. The top should be faced for about five inches and a shir be stitched there and ribbon run in. Aida canvas bags, made in the shape of the first one mentioned, are very pretty. Embroider some showy figure or pattern on the canvas, and have the upper part of silk with very narrow ribbon to hang it by. The canvas so extensively used by tailors in gentlemen's coats - make nice and serviceable bags. This may be used in place of butchers' liner- Still another style is to take a piece of silk three-quarters of a yard long and twelve inches wide, line it with silesia, sew it up in a long and narrow bag, leaving an opening in the centre large enough to insert your hand, gather the ends and finish with a tassel, slip two small rings of bone or of brass over these ends up to each side of the opening. These are made up especially to hang over a rod oi the knob of a door that is not used often, and made very ornamental. Outline work shows to good, advantage en brown canvas, and cashmere is pretty for the upper part of tht bag. Chiliaahiinn Women. Chihuahuan Women. [Wheeling Register.] Chihuahua is innocent of sidewalks. Mud is scare* known, as rain falls only suffi ciently to moisten the earth, except in the month of June, when as if to make up for its feebleness at other times, it almost deluges the town, falling to the depth of thirteen or fourteen inches. It rushes down the moun- tains in a torrent, floating off carts, barrels. chairs and chicken-coops, if the latter are sufficiently modern to be made of wood. The coops are usually mod and stone, hastily thrown together. The Mexican women are wonderfully graceful. This is partly due to the mannei of carrying baskets or bundles, begun in early childhood. I watched a Mexican girl carry an immense basket of clothes home tc be laundried. First she selected from the basket a towel, and twisting it tightly wound it round and round until the circum ference was the size of her head, on whicfc she placed it; then, helped by a companion, she Uf ted the basket, weighing at least thirty pounds, on top of the roll She balanced it by touching it lightly, first with one hand and then the other. After she had gone a short distance she folded her hands in her shawl, walking with the greatest ease and unconsciousness. She looked back smilingly at me, showing her pretty white teeth, still amused at seuora, who thought her tMi difficult. I-ou.seh.old* Hints. Household* Hints. ["L. L. L." in Detroit Free Press.] To keep knives and forks in goo J condition when not in use, dust the blades and prongs with finely powdered quicklime and keep them wrapped in flannel. To clean straw matting, boil three quarts of bran in oue gallon of water an I wash the matting with the water, drying it well. To wash castor bottles, put them one-third full of rice and fill up with water; shake thoroughly. To remove fruit stains from linen, dip in sour buttermilk and dry in the sun; wash i in cold water and dry two or three times a day. Mildew is easily removal by rubbing com- mon yellow soap onthe article and then a little salt and starch on that. Rub all well on the article and put in th 3 sunshine. To extract ink from wool, scour with sand wet with water and ammonia. Then rinse with strong saleratus water. To clean door plates use a wet solution of ammon in witter applied with a wet rag. Clothes pins boiled a X..- minutes and quickly dried once or twice a month become more durable. —lodes of Bread *-_.assias." [Scientific American] _ Good cream tartar bread is perfectly whole- some, bat it lacks the alcohol, and can com- monly be distinguished from yeast bread even by the taste, and this mode of "raising" used chiefly for those forms which we will so unwisely persist in eating hot. i For herein comes to light the most import- ant distinction betweeu the two modes of raising dough. As formerly remarked, hot bread, biscuit, etc., ought never to be eaten by any one. But if we are bound at any rate to do it, there is much greater safety . and much more ease of digestion secured by the 1 use of tha cream tartar. The biscuit, etc., mads with it can within a very few minutes . after baking pass through all the changes I which in the other case requires five or six , hours. And until these molecular transfor -1 mations have ceased, the bread is a fearful bur , den to a weak stomach But where it is to ; be eaten cold, as it shoal l always be, yeast fermentation is what it has in all ages been, ! the oue way to raise bread. ""tome-Mag Sew and Sice, [Inter Ocean.] Pancaktrs are easier to '--i' when prepared in a tin kettle with a spout. A small one can ■be purchased "the purpose. When peeling onions place a pin tightly be i tween the front teeth. This prevents the , tears from coming. I A very palatable dish can be made of i I mashed potatoes and a little finely chopped ' meat of one or more kinds, mixed together, I flavored with ■ salt and pepper, and fried in | small flat cakes. j { It is said by a butter-maker, who ought to ' I be authority, that if rancid butter is worked j over thoroughly in sweet milk, every suspi • cioa even of unpleasant flavor will be re- I moved. The caution is repeated that this | must be .thoroughly dene. ! Beef talis are very nice fried in suet I Round steak can be used for these. Chop the j meat fine, season well with pepper and salt • and any herb '. you may choose, shape them i like fiat balls with your hands, dip in egg and j fine cracker or bread crumbs, and fry in tho 1 hot suet -• - - ' Fiction for Children. ' [Harper's Bazar.] _. . Feed your clii on pickles and sweetmeats, . allow ncr to wear. paper-soled shoes and an insuirlciency ?of flannel, ' and .we all know what the consequences ■ will " be—dyspepsia , ,: and hectic cough. r Does itnever occurto_yc_ THE ST. PAUL DAILT GLOBE, SATUKDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 8. 1883. that tho analogy applies - to her mental sus tenance and equipment?— if we feed her unformed and emotional nature with high-spiced, morbid, unreal- fiction she will become incapable of digesting better 'literature, ; and that by the time she is a woman anything solid will be rejected by the pampered appetite? Have you never seen this, you mothers? Good fiction is truly a legitimate, healthful, and improving means of pleasure and profit. By the perusal of clever novels, of real and idealized pictures of human life, our meutal range of vision is extended, the focus of our intellectual glasses is truly adjusted, our sympathies enlarged, our prejudices driven away, our knowledge of and regard for the just value of life increased and verified; we aro amused, improved, touched, warned, helped, and urged to help others. There is no better means of impressing on our minds the facts of history or the qualities and val ues of human nature than by the historical or critical noveL But such are not the re- sults which usually follow from a perusal of "the light literature of the day,". which library people prove young girls devour yearly in unlimited quantities. Save the Old Paper. [Inter-Ocean.] - Never throw away old paper. If you have no wish to sell it, use it in the house. Soule housekeepers prefer it to cloth for cleaning many articles of furniture. ', For instance, a volume written by a lady says: "After a stove has been blackened it can be kept looking very well for a long time by rubbing it with paper every morning. Rubbing with paper is a much nicer way of keeping a tea-kettle, coffee pot, and tea-pot bright and clean than the old way of wash- ing them in suds. Rubbing with paper is also the best way of polishing knives, tin- ware and spoons; they shine like new silver. "For polishing mirrors, lamp chimneys, etc., paper is better than dry cloth Pre- serves and pickles keep much better if brown paper instead of cloth is tied over the jar. Canned fruit is act so apt to mold if a piece of writing paper, cut to fit the can, is laid directly on. the fruit Paper is much better to put under a carpet than straw. . It is warmer, thinner and makes less noise when one walks over it. Icnlt and J>an;rero_s. [The Continent] It is only a few years since the "fifteen puzzle" was the favorite pastime. It con- fronted ua on all sides, besieging the study, the home circle and drawing-room. More lately a new enigma has been propounded, which novelists are bandying in every form. It is the enigma of the human heart, which, finding wedlock unsatisfactory, fixes its de- votion on another than the legal husband oi wife. Are tho days of innocent young love fast passing away It needs little reflection to show that thfi theme of cross-love between the married is not only difficult to manage but dangerous. It cannot possibly be wholesome as a topic either for idle amusement or close and fre quent study. For many reasons its habitual use as the motive of a story is something to be greatly deplored. Are we, who have lifted our skirts at the prurience of French novels and plays, now to draggle then through American renderings of the same naughtiness? .Blase and miserable. [St. Louis Republican.] There are women in our midst who have looked forward all their lives to a possible time when they might own a plain, lady like costume of elegant materialsay a good black silk. To have such a one would make them perfectly happy, while their neighbors are women who have worn nothing but silken gowns and velvets all their lives. But the first is the happier of the two. She hop?s on—still looks forward to the superb possession, while the other has nothing to look at through the lens of futurity. The future, when the rosy curtain rolls away, can show her nothing she has not known in the past—only newer silk gowns.others like what have gone before, and which have fallen to the lot of the poor relative. She can still feel an enthusiasm while looking at painted satins and brocaded velvets, but her expectancy is blunt at the point. What can the woman know of the genuine happiness who does not remember the first day she wore a sealskin pelisse, trimmed with natural otter?* The fortunate she, born to sealskin, is blase and miserable. The Workmanship of the Universal Father. [Cor. Philadelphia Journal.] A few days since, a learned physician, with much pride, told me how his reading of a costly work on the structure aad functions of woman had been delayed. His daughter, 14 years of age, had got a glimpse of the volumes as soon as the express left them, and wished to read. He readily granted permis sion. "But, father," added the witty girl, "this is all about mother and me. May I also read of you and Charlie (a brother) "Why, certainly," responded the doctor. "It is only an exposition of the workmanship of the Universal Father, whose will is perfect". His voice, he thinks, grew reverent. Such truly was his state of mini Dewy tears came into t_ eyes of this daughter, —ready noted for her grace, beauty and intellect, and sha put her arms around her father's neck, auJ most tenderly kissed him. Parlor Furniture. [New York World.] Fashion requires that the modern parlor shall avoid all appearances of uniformity m its furniture. Iv a word, every piece is expected to have some characteristic not posse— dby its neighbor. What is known nowadays to dealers and manufacturers asa "parlor suite' consists of one sofa, one arm-chair, and a side chair or two. These may be uniform in style and upholstery. The remainder of the furniture is contributed in odd pieces, differ- ing in style, color, and upholstery, yet in harmony with the furniture proper. ' Coffee Caps. No two after-dinner coffee cups should bo the same, says an exchange, and t_!s will en- able china collectors to show what they have got that is old, new, odd, unique, exclusive, and pretty. tinnntlet doves. The gauntlet glove is coming into fashion for morning use in quiet gray, tan, and wood shades. They are made in four different lengths, a—i the longest cuffs reach nearly to the elbows. Don't strain your eyes by reading on an —upty stomach or when iil- An Unostentatious French Knlcr. [Dernorestr. Monthly.] The president of the republic, M. Grevy, is or.c of the most modest rulers known to his- tory. He lives in a large house, the Chateau ' of '.";•.::••. as Vandray, which has twenty-five guest rooms, to which, however, nostra— are iuvited. His daughter is married to a Mr. Wilson, an Englishmai_ Their child is the j delight of the domestic president of the re j public. M. Grevy rises at S, works until i the afternoon, fishes for an hour or two oa I the banks of the Loire, which is famed for its j abundance of the finny tribe. After dinner, ■ he plays billiards and enjoys his family life. ; At twenty minutes past 10 all the lamps in the chateau are extinguished. M. Grevy is I not a very brilliant man, but he is a good and | solid one, and while he may not be a second Washington, he has many of the good traits tf character .which have given such an en viable fame to the first American president inter Ocean: Ttie last aoage or cue uu- fornia murderer to escape hemp is to appeal to the United States supreme court and die a natural death before a decision is ever ren dered. _ . ■'' .. ■ ■-. '-.'■'■ . " Kissing : babies ■ and making churcn dona- tions are obsolete political practices.X ASHBY AND STUART. How the Confederate Cavalry Lea- ders Fought and Died. Stuart, the Cavalier of the Month— AsliSiy. Stonewall Jackson's i-i-lit Arm-.-The Raid ' on Pope. [M. Quad in Detroit Free Press.] . While Stonewall Jackson was retiring upon f Harrisonburg, pushed by Fremont and watch- ing out for Shields, the rear of his army was j defended by Gen. Ashby, of cavalry fame. ■■ His immediate command numbered less than : 1,000 horsemen, and, until the last few miles _ of the march, he checked all assaults with cavalry and artillery. It was a highway ad- j mirably laid out for ,' the 'defense by a rear j guard. Always narrow—full of sharp de- i scents and sudden curvesnatural ambus j cades at every mile—it needed " only a dozen men at certain spots to ". hold a regiment at. j bay for a quarter of an hour. Jackson pushed ahead at a famous rate, and the roar , of the guns of the rear guard was ever in his : ears. Atone point nine dismounted cavalry- men held the narrow road until th? Federals j-had advanced two full regiments, and iOO ] men had worked their way up the sides of the j mountain to flank , the little band. These j nine men killed and wounded twenty-three | men before they were pushed back, and, | though a dozen shells were fired at them as : they retreated along a straight stretch of : road, not a man was injured. -. • . THE CAPTURE OF WYNDHAM. j During the afternoon of the last day of the ; retreat, the Federal Gen. Wyndham, who I had command of a full brigade of cavalry, , ! was pushed to the front to drive through the j Confederate rear guard. The spot chosen i was where the highway stretched, across a j level, giving the cavalry room to deploy and ! manoeuvre. Not quite half a mile beyond, : the Confederate rear guard was holding the | hill over which the road wound. Two pieces j of artillery were posted in the road, and dis- : mounted cavalry supported them. When it I was seen that Wyndham's brigade was mass- j ing for a charge, Ashby hastily collected j about seven hundred of his men and massed . them in the highway. The guns were then [ drawn aside, and the cavalry carbines slung j and depending upon the sabre alone, rushed i down the highway in a mighty mass. Wynd- | ham was struck in the centre, and the Con- ; federates passed clear through his lines, | wheeled at the call of the bugle, and, ■ dividing to the right and left, i they fell upon the two wings with i such fury as to route both It was sabre j work almost entirely, and in that fifteen j minutes' fight 150 men were tiled or | wounded, Wyndham . and six officers cap- i | tured, and two flags, thirty-two horses and ' forty prisoners taken. Ashby led the charge, and men who followed close. after him aver '■ that he struck as many as six different men ; with his sabre. In that fight a Confederate, ' I now living on a farm near - Glendale, Va., ! I had his right ear , sliced off close to his head, j ' and the sabre sunk into his shoulder in a way ' |to forever disable his arm. The wound in • his shoulder was felt at once, but the loss of j his ear was not noticed until the fight was j over. Wyndham sought to excuse his disas- ,' ter by talking of the cowardice of his troon- ; : ers, but his own sabre was without a stain, ! ! and men who hear no orders of command j i cannot be blamed for falling into a panic. ! ! The Confederates rode right at solid lines and I j the shock of meeting knocked down numer- j : ous horses and disabled a number of men. | CHAR INFANTRY. '* Half an hour later Fremont's advance of ! ; infantry was pressing so closely that infantry ■ had to be sent back to oppose them. Ewell i ambushed three or four regiments in the j j woods and fields at a turn of the road, but ' j the advance scented the trap and deployed j right and left, and advanced to the attack in | two lines of battle, most of the force being j composed of Pennsylvania Bucktails. To i : reach the Confederates, the blue hnes had to j : cross wide, open fields, and, as they left their j S shelter, they received such a fire that all '! further advance was checked. The men were seeking the cover of rocks and ditches and holding their ground well, when Ashby thundered down upon them with his cavalry. ■ There was no time to form squares, and the charge resulted in a rout. The infantry j j were driven back upon the reserve, horses j and men; Federal and Confederate inter- i mingled, and again the sabre and bayonet ; inflicted terrible work. Almost every ! I cavalry horse was wounded, some three or j I four times, and many of their riders were ! i thrust with the bayonet and pulled out of j < their saddles. ' j How strange so few of the cavalry leaders ! ; on either side died as they might have wished \ j to dieleading their commands in some , : glorious charge! Ashby had-courted death a i j hundred times as he rode at the head of his I I men Here on this lonesome road as night \ ' came down he formed another ambush with ' infantry. The trap was well set, but, a3 its ! jaws were about to spring, a shot fired at : random by a Federal struck one who had ; risked his life dozen times that day and laid him low. Jackson was Lee's right arm. i Ashby was Jackson's right arm. The tribute paid him by the eccentric warrior was not lengthy, but it outweighed the' boom of can- non, the long processions, the burdens of flowers, and the efforts of orators. When a courier rode up to Jackson and announced j the sad news, he dropped the reins, his head j bent low, and he whispered: "Poor Ashby! lam grieved STUART AFTER POPE" Th"? cavalier of the south was Stuart. He j was bom to the saddle. He looked upon in- fantry -as a sort of necessary evil, and when j ever he attempted to handle them in conjunc tion with cavalry he was worsted. Had there been no army regulations, Stuart's men would have been dressed more like knights than dragoons. Rough old fighters smiled at his plumed hat and his dandy ways, but Stuart was a fighter. Had he worn a ruffled shirt and a velvet cloak, he would still have | been the dashing cavalry leader that he was, '. counting olds as nothing, and ever fighting !to win. When Gen Pope had his headquar | ters at Catlett's station, Stuart one day paid j him a visit of inspection Pope didn't care I particularly to see Stuart, but Stuart had a • longing to see the man whose headquarters • were in the saddle, and who wanted his men to forget the word retreat With about j three hundred men Stuart one day made a | hard ride and a sadden dash But for a Fed- : eral forager, mounted on a thoroughbred running horse, Pcpe would have been taken I in his tent. As it was, he had about tea | minutes' warning and got away, leaving be- I hind nil his papers, clothing and baggage. I Stuart captured the station and all left. be- i hind, an.l one of the prizes was a new suit of ciothes for Pope which he had not yet stepoed. ; into.' His supply of liquors included whisky, i brandy, cognac, champagne, port and sev- ! eral other brands, and were use i to wash the ! dust oat of the throats of' the - Confederates. ; Pope's razor, looking-glass, bedding, fine : shirts, and other articles of toilet were di- ; vided as souvenirs, and a gilt-edged testa- ! m«nt with - his" name in was pocketed by i Stuart Orders had been issued to treat Pope I «_-itii tenderness and resnect in ca«« nf <—.»_ - ore, bat it may oe imagined that his ride to j Richmond would have been a fast gallop and full of dire '. reflection- It has been as- ! serted that Gen. Lee reproved Stuart for try- ing to capture him. saying: - "If you catch him, the Federal army will have a new'-,conunander, and he must cer tainly be a better one."l Stuart died like a hero, but it was hot while leading—his plume waving .to match Custer's yellow curls, his sabre gleaming in answer to Kilpatrick's. Before : his sun* had reached its zenith, and before, the: hero that - was in him - had been fairly ; developea, ■he died in the swirl and smoke and cla— of a • [ cavalry fight— down .by ono who knew uiia hot and was never known TEE'MOSJ-ON TABESUACLE. Its Whispering Gallery— Seat in r_ Ca pacity— The Self-Sapportins Koof. ["Emile" in St. Paid Pioneer Press. " The tabernacle is really a wonderful build- ing in several respects. With a weary auto- matic sort of action the guide began to rattle off the dimensions and qualities of the build- ing. I was not specially interested until he said: "... "This room is the most wonderful whisper- ing gallery, in the world. When everybody is quiet the faintest whisper is audible in the remotest part of the house. You can" liter-: ally hear a pin falL Try it once." So I went to the further end of the room, 250 feet away, and standing on the speaker's platform, he addressed me in a whisper. I had no difficulty in understanding, and re- plied also in a whisper. Then he . took a pin and dropped it into bis straw hat. I was go- ing to say the report was like that produced when a crowbar falls over a washboiler. Certainly the noise was very distinct It was a matter of keen regret to me that I could not hear the great organ played upon, knowing that it was inferior only to the Cincinnati and Boston instruments. Suddenly the guide turned and observed in a doubtful sort of way: . "But you have not asked how great a seat- ing capacity the building has." "No," I answered, fervently. -"I do not profess to be perfect, but I will never tempt a man to he in that way." . He thanked me warmly, and then' remarked: .[*■'. "Since you will excuse me from the cus tomary hes to the effect that this ■ will seat 20,000 people and is full every Sunday, I don't mind saying that there are "about 8,000 seats in the house, and that the galleries are only thrown open in times of conferences. There is no method of heating the building or of lighting it save by the introduction of elec tric lights, which was, done in the case of Theodore Thomas last season In winter, Mormon general services are held iv the as- sembly room, which will seat about one-third as many people as the tabernacle. I can hold up my head and boldly announce that this is the largest self-supporting roof ever con- structed by human ingenuity, and you will doubtless assent to that proposition. This festooning has been here some of it eight and some ten years." I was interested in these decorations that have stood the test of time so remarkably. The elaborate centre-piece over the fountain must have occupied a good deal of time in its construction lEye-Water and Lonvsomeaess, [Detroit Free Press.] ."'Lonesome up here" lonesome, did ye say? said a tall, bronzed guide who had just lighted an afternoon pipe in the camp on Lake Utowana, in the Adirondacks. "Why, gentlemen, you're joking. A man kin never get that feelin' here, not if he's got any of the poetry of nature in him, and I hope that man ain't living. Why look round here. Here are lakes that can't be matched in the world. See how they reflect the trees, the ; flowers and vines. For- a background you ; have over yonder the blue mountains, and : close in the pines and spruce, their dead ! limbs Lm.- with ' moss, and pointing i all about like arms a-beckonin' you | and pointin' out game. Down by the shore you have to push into the wild rosebushes, ; and when you do reach the water there are i the lily pads, and altogether there rises such i a smell of roses, spruce pine and water lilies ■ that the very fishes jump out of the water to i get a whiff of it At night you hear the does | sighin' for the bucks, the splash of the trout, 1 and perhaps the yell of a panther way back in the woods. Get lonesome here? No, sir-e-e." "You did not preach that last fall, when the eye-water gave out," said another guide, who had been a listener to the oration, "and I tell you, gentlemen, this poetry of natur' and snuffin' o' rose bushes never put shoes fon them six . children o'.-. mine. When I'm I guidin' at ?5 a day, I'm chock-full o' poetry, ; but when it comes winter, and the city folks i gets out, as they do in November, I'm for lightin' out, too." A. Phenomenal Maine tiirl. [Lewiston (Me.) Journal.] The antagonists of modern advanced educa tion, if there be any, should have heard a lit ; tie lecture that a gentleman gave on ' the : street Wednesday morning. The question ■ had arisen as to the tendency of modern ad | vanced education to create a disgust for man i ual labor. The gentleman told an anecdote. i A young lady who is very well known in j Lewistown and Auburn, and who has had a j liberal education in America, a course of j study in the German schools, and who has i since taught in some of the leading schools of ' this state and others, came home to her father's ! farm this summer. Tbe hours hung rather | heavily. "Father, your office needs shingling," I she said one day. The next day the shingles I were on the spot, and the young lady pro j posed to have some fun and' combine it in a legitimate way with solid work. She built the stagings geometrically, ran the lines after Euclid, and shingled the office as neatly and expeditiously as the village professor of shing- ling himself could have dune. She pulled down the staging and erected it again over the ell of the bouse, and, in spite of parental injunction, shingled the ell and a sloping shed attached. She practiced music for pleasure in the meantime, however, and read German for a pastime. "Nothing," added the gentle- man, "wool; be ftirther from her own inclin ation •-! ... notoriety." Current Journalistic —.\a_reerations. [Detroit Free Press.] The great American liars from Erie, Pa., and Texas have evidently formed a partner- ship and established branch offices in ell the chief towns and cities. They are turning out copy fast. We have only time to note the story of a sparrow which catches six ducks every day, taking hold of them with its bill, shaking them as a dog does a rat, and then throwing them over its head; of a young - man in Alabama, who for several years bemg destitute of. beard had a hard knot in his neck cut open and found a beard. all rolled up and nicely packed away in this wen; of a Bridgeport (Conn.) "professor" who has in- vented a brass belt with a nipple from which he noiselessly projects a pellet, and which, in the presence of a witness, killed a dog in fif- teen minutes without the animal's knowing it was hit, and finally of . a St Louis man, who, by means of two plates of . glass one- thirty-sixth of an inch apart and filled in with glycerine, has made a telescope ' with which he is able to see a carmine sea, strange bat-like birds, and insect men with rudimen tary arms ani wings- or antenna?, who were fishing in the sea- He was telling the story in the billiard room of a Denver hotel. Sail he: "There were three of us, you see, and Ne vada was a r.i climate for us. We were dead-broke, half-starved, and clear discour- aged, hen Dug came a New Yorker. He wouldn't play cards, wouldn't be robbed, and we couldn't stick him with forged land patents or bogus pre-emptions. One day we trailed out and dug a hole into a hill and salted it a bit. and rushed back and offered the New Yorker the big discovery for £3,000 cash down. •■'•.-."!• '"'■' "And he bit?" ' "Took right hold like a pair of pincers. Why, he never even stopped to beat us down We got a cool thousand apiece and made for Trisco." . \^^^^SB3^___l . ' "Purty cool that was." ' ..' "Well, I dunno If. there was anything cool in that transaction it was the /.way that New Yorker hunted up a pard, set miners to work, bought machinery, and took over $750, - 000 out of that 'ar hole inside of eight months! Maybe we've got over feeling flat, but 1 guess _o.."! Official Pub ication ofa Resolution Passed . by the Common Council of the City of St. Paul, Dec 4,1883. ': In the matter of the report of the Board of Pnblio Works dated Nov. 20, 18S3: It is hereby * ordered ,by the Common Council of the City of at. Paul:. That: the Board of - Publio Works of -said City of St. Paul, cause the followinsr improvements to- be made, to- wit: Grade Fillmore avenue, formerly Mc- Carthy street, to a" partial grade and - full wid.h, from Bertha street to the proposed levee in said city. That said Board cause said work to be Ie v. by contract, as provided by law, without one-half the estimated cost, being first piid into the Oity . Treasury, and after said work shall be placed under con- tract, said Board shall . . proceed without delay to assess . .the amount as nearly as they can ascertain the same, which will be required '. to ' pay the costs and ' necessary - - expenses of such improvement upon the real estate to be benefited by said: improvement, as provided by law. It being the opinion of the Counoil that real estate to be assessed for suoh improvement can be found ben- efited to the extent of the costs and expenses necessary to be incurred thereby. Yeas—Aid. Dowlan, O'Connor, Robert, Fischer, Otic, Smith. Cornish, Johnson, Van Slyke, Starkey, St. Peter, Mr. Presi- dent— Approved Dec. 6,1883. A. Allen, President of Council. Thos. A. Pbesdebg_9t, City Clerk. Cold Outlook for a Panic. , [New York Graphic. ] Mr. Carlisle's speech on taking the chair Mr. Carlisle's speech on taking the chair yesterday shows him to be a conservative, sensible man. The Republican press is working hard to get up a business scare, but the foolishness will fail. Tiien Why All Hits Raektt. [Cincinnati " Commercial Gazette.] The Democratic House will no doubt propose mischievous schemes, but it will be defeated by the Republican senate, and behind all stands a Republican President. The business interests of the country will \ not be disturbed." Confirmation of Assessment for Cliange of Grade oa Pleas- ant Avenne. Office or the Board of Publio Wobkb, ) Cits of St. Paul, Minn., Dec. 4,1883. J The assessment of benefite,damages, costs and expenses arising from the change of grade on Pleasant avenue from Third (3rd) street to Ramsey street, in the city of St. Paul, inn., having been completed by the Board of Pablic Works, in and for said city, said Board will meet at their office in said city at 2 p. m., on the 17th day of December, A. D. 1883, to hear objections (if any) to said assessment, at which time and place, unless sufficient cause is shown to the contrary, said assessment will be confirmed by said Board. The following is a list of the supposed owners' names, a description of the property benefited or damaged, and the amounts assessed against the same, to-wit: '■'. -*.. *:■ ' " r Irvine's Enlargement to Rice and Irvine's Addition to St. Paul. Supposed owner and description. Lot. Block. Benefits. Damages. Balance Peter Berkey, N. 40 feet of ';. 6 88 $15 00 $0 00 $15 00 W. H. Grant, E 40 feet of 1 68 10 CO 0 00 id '•(. M. Walter, W 20 feet of 7 63 5 00 0 00 5 00 Same 8 63 15 00 0 00 15 00 Partly in Irvine's Enlargement to Rice and Irvine's Addition to St. Paul and partly in Dayton . and Irvine's Addition to fit. Paul. Supposed owner and description. Lot. Block. Benefits. Damages. Balance. W.H.Clulds 9 68 $15 00 $0 00 $15 00 Same, for raising house on 9 63 000 50 00" 50 00 Alex. Walls... 10 63 15 00 85 00 70 00 Anton Bettengen.... 11 63 15 00 0 00 15 00 Irvine's Enlargement to Bice and Irvine's Addition to St. Paul. Supposed owner and description. Lot. Block. Benefits. Damages. Balance. G.A.Nash 1 64 $15 00 $0 00 $15 00 Partly in Irviue's Enlargement to Rioe and Irvine's Addition to St. Paul and partly in Dayton and Irvine's Addition to St. Paul. Supposed Owner and Description. Lot. Block. Benefits. Damages. Balance. W. S. Combs... 6 64 $15 00 $0 00 $15 00 Dayton and Irvine's Addition to St. Panl. Supposed owner and description. Lot. Block. Benefits. Damages. Balance. W.S. Combs, (except N.W.'ly 57 fe-t)..... 7 64 $15 O'J $0 00 $15 (0 C.E.Leslie ...8 64 15 00 0 00 15 00 Same, N. Ely }£ of 9 64 760 000 750 John Farrington, SW'ly hi of ....9 6* 750 000 750 5ame........ 10 64 15 00 0 00 15 00 Henry Fandel.".'.'.' 1&2 65 80 00 0 00 30 00 Same, for raising fence on ' 1 65 000 75 00. 75,00 WACulbertson 4 65 15 00 000 ". 15 00 Same 5 65 15 00 0 00 15 00 George Pulford, NE'ly 40 ft of .....6- 65 10 00 OCO 10 00 Same, for raising house on NE'ly 40 ft of 6 65 003 75 CO 75 00 Same, for repairing house on NE'ly 40 ft of 6 65 000 .25 OS 25 00 C 8 Drake, NE'ly 40 ft of SW'ly 80 ft of 6 65 10 03 000 10 00 Same, for raising house on NE'ly 40 ft of SW'ly 80 ft of. 6 65 000 50 CO 50 00 C S Drake. For repairing house on NE'ly 40 ft of SW'iy 80ftof !7... i. 6 65 000 25 00 25 00 Franc's Birgham. SW'ly 40 ft of. 6 65 10 00 000 10 00 Same. For raising house on SW'iy 40 ft of 6 65 000 160 00 160 00 Swine. For rawing fence on Sw'ly 40 ft of 6 65 000 15 00 15 00 CD Greene : 10 70 15 00 0 00 15 00 Fame. 11 70 15 CO 0(0 15 00 Mary Mitseh :...12 70 15 Oil 000 15 00 Same.. 13 70 15 00 0 01 15 00 Ss Brisbine 14 70 15 00 0 00 15 00 Same ....15 70 15 00 0 00 15 00 JH Breidert 1 06 25 00 0 CO 25 00 Same. For raising house on 1' 66 oOd 175 00 175 00 Henry Hatchman.. 4 66 15 CO 000 15 03 Henry Hutchinson.' 5 63 15 00 ' 000 15 00 B Smith, Ely 40 ft of 0 66 10 00 010 10 00 Thomas Bower, S W'ly B*ft of 6 66 20 00 OCO 20 00 Same, for raising house on SW'ly 80 ft of 6 66 000 150 00 150 00 Same, f..i repairing house on S W'ly 80 ft of 6 66 0 CO 25 00 25 O'i Board of Education, St. Paul '.' 1 67 23 00 •0 CO 23 00 Same..... 4 67 1500 .000 15 00 Lfleiss 5 67 15 00 0 00 15 00 F A Mead, N Ely }£ of 6 67 15 00 0 00 15 00' Adam Ran W'ly %of ' 6 67 15 CO OCO 15 00 , (' J Thompson. Ely % 0f.... 1 63 20 00 0 00 20 00 F J Wilcker, W'ly }£ of ..... 1. 68 : 10 00 000 10 00 Same, N Ely 80 ft of 5 68 7 50 0 00 7 50 Jacob Mannheimer, S Wly 30 ft of 5 68 750 000 750 HG.-eve 6 68 15 00 0 00 15 00 Same. '. 7 68 15 00 (100 15 00 J B Sanhorn.. 8 68 15(0 0 00 16 00 JPeterson 9 68 15 CO 0 00 15 00 John Wallace 10 68 16 00 0 00 15 00 Wmßown.... .."..11 68 14 00 0 00 14 CO KCNeilson .- 12 68 10 00 0 00 10 00 HenryEichorn. 13 68 900 000 900 Same, lor raising and repairing houses on 13 68 OCO 100 00 100 00 Alexßamsey ....14 68 15 CO . 000 15 00 Adam "•ink...... 53 86 25 00 0 00 25(0 Same 5. 86 15 CO 0 00 15 00 FTheobald '. 51 88 15 00 0 CO 15 00 Same ....£0 86 15 00 0 00 15 CO CDodge ./." 49 86 15 CO 000 15 CO FA Mead. .....". " 48 86 14 00 0 00 14 00 Snpposed owner and description. Benefits. Damages. Balance. Wm W Ely. Commencing at SE corner of lot 47, in block 86, Dayton <_ Irvine's addition to St. Paul: thence NW'ly along the W'ly line of the alley to an intersection with a line drawn 150 It N'ly of ».nd parallel with Pleasant avenue; ' thence W'ly along said lino to a point half way between said abey and the W'ly line of lot 46, in said block 85. thence Sly to the SI" cor- ncr of sid lot 46; thence Eto beginning $14 50 $0 00 $14 £0 Patrick Egan. Commencing at SW corner of lot 46, in block 83, D.iytou& Irvine's addition to St. Paul, thence NW'ly along , W'ly lin *of said lot 46, 166 fr;thebce Ely parallel with Pleas- ant aye .no to a point half way between W line of said lot 46, ar.d the alley running N'ly and Sly through said block 86; ' thence Sly to the SE corner of snid lot 4€; thence W'ly to be- ginning $15 00 $0 00 $15 00 Dayton and Irvine's Addition to St. Parol. Supposed owner and description. Lot. Block. Benefits. Damages. Ba'ance. IdaDMGroff.-. .45 83 $15 00 SO CO $15 00 Same. ..:44 83 15 00 0 CO 15(0 J W Richardson ....43 83 15 00' 0 00' 15 00 5ame............. 42 86 15 00 0 00 15 00 M0'Dav.'......... 41 86 13 CO 0 > 0 I.i Oo" S Cummings.... 40 £3 13 00 000 13 03 Alexßamsey.. .....33 80 15 00 0 CO 15 00 Sam».... ... 33 "86 - 15 00 ' 000 15(0 PH-ellv .... 87 86 15 00 0 «0 15 00 Sam-....' : 36 86 15 00 ' 000 15 0) 5ame.........'. ...35 85 15 00 0 00 . 15 CO Kam-.-... . ;. 84 86. 13 00 0 00 13 00 WRBown.. ......33 86 13 00 0 00 13 00 5ame.......... '. ..".........32 86 15 CO • 0 00 15 00 5ame...... .......;........".., 31 • 86 15 00 000 15 00 Chas E Flandrau ?0 83 15 CO 0 00 15 00 5ame.......:........ .....v.... 29 83 15 00 0 00 15 00 Geo W Patridge 1..1.. ................ 28 86' 15 CO 000 15 00 MaryL King.............'. : ...97 86 13 00 000 13 00 Alexßamsey ...51 86 600 000 6CO - All objections to said assessment mnst be made in writing and filed with the Clerk of nil Boar at least one day prior to s_id meeting. JOHN C. TERRY, President pro tern.. , " Official: B. L. Go___s, Clerk Board of Public Works. - • " 340-43 j Q_AT_!___-CO_aORTIHa. EPPS'S; COCOA! BHBAKFAST. "By _» thorough Knowledge of the n-ttnral lawe which go-vfiru the operations of dige&tion and nutrition, and by a <'arefaiappiicat;'..n of the fine propertiea of wml-smliscted Cocoa, ilr. Kppe has provided our. breakfast tables with a deli- cately flavored beverage whicn may save as many heavy doctors' bills. r It is by the j ndicioas use of such articles of diet that a constitution may bo gradually built up until strong enough to resist every tendency of disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating around us ready to attack wherever there is a weak point. ' We may esca^ many a fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified with pure blood and a properly nourished frame-"—Civil Service Gazette. Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold in tins only (&-lb. and lb.) by Grocers, labeled thus: JAMES EPPS & m^sssXZSS"" - LOFFICIAL PUBLICATION.! Vacation of Alley in Crocus Hill Re- arrangement of Bloct One, Wrignt's Aifiiim to St. Panl A-iiiionto St. PanL Crrr Ckebk's Office, ) Crrr Clerk's OrncE, > St. Paul, Minn., November 17,1883. J .Whereas a petition has been filed in this office, by order of the Common Council of the City of Saint Panl, aid as provided by law, asking foi the vacation of the Alley in "Crocus Hill re-ar rangement of Block one (1) Wright's Addition to the City of Saint Panl," and Whereas the petitioners state that they are owners of all the property on the line of the va- cation asked for, and that the object of said va- cation is that the petitioners have re-platted said block "one," and the said alley is of no further convenience or use tc the public, etc.; Now, therefore, notice is hereby given that eaid petition will be heard aud considered by the Common Council of the City of Saint Panl, or a committee to be appointed by them on Tuesday, the first day of Jannary, A. D. 1881, at 7:30 o'clock p. m., at the Council chamber, in the city hall. By order of Common Council, THOS. A. PfiENDEBGAST. r.020-tne-_* City Clerk. ii