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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY. AUGUST 5. 1888 TWELVE PAGES.
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bvlnes into eircuit the machinery which control
the balL The adjustment of that machinery Is
uch that a smg!o impulse will release the ball.
At Wood's IlalL .Mass., at Newport, U. L. at
Vw Orltans. Saranah. Kaltimore. rhiladelohia.
Ilamnton Roads and Washington the operators.
In charge 01 tnutne-Daus swucu iubumui u
circuit For this brief ten seconds the Naval
Observatory haa control of the Western Union
wire and they are absolutely idle. The minute
wheel turns on its pinion. Aa the last hun
dredth of the last second of the fiftr-ninth min
ute of the eleventh hour expiree, the wheel's
single tooth comes in contact with the eprinp
In the instant of that contact the circuit is
tlosed, with the swiftness of lightning bottled
go do men's bidding the impulse beats over the
wire. In that instant, responsive to it, the
time-bails drop, the bells in hundreds of spots
far and near ring out and hundreds of clocks
In this city and hundreds moro at distant points
thange their indication automatically, so that
hour, minute and second hand alike point to
exactly high coon. How little time is lost in
transmission may be judged from the fact that
signal was sent from Boston to San Fran
tiseo and back 7.000 miles in half a second.
The extent of the distribution of time from
observatories in this country may be seen from
the fact that 124,000 miles cf railway are thus
supplied 29,000 from the naval obiervatory
here. 24,000 from Allegheny, Pa., 22,000 from
St. Louis and 49,000 miles by nineteen other ob
servatories, two of which are in Canada. The
system osed by other observr cories differs in
one of its minor details fr jra that adopted
here.
Eipriments m the distribution of tima have
been in progress ff-r a great many years. Dr.
John Locke, of Cincinnati, in 1849 devised the
first apparatus for transmitting time signals
automatically. Congress paid him $10,000 for a
clock, which to this day stands in the naval ob
servatory. Its only duty cow, though, is that
of common timepiece.
The latest phase of scientific development in
this direction is the invention of Mr. Gardner,
the electrician of the observatory. It is the
smtomatio clock which hangs in the White
House and in the rooms of the various depart
ments of the government. This clock being
being placed on the time circuit as are the time
tails, is corrected automatically. The same
impulse which drops the time ball pushes down
ft lever in each of these clocks. The lever
Striking the cam which controls the hour,
minute and second hand, throws them back to
the perpendicular where they mark the exact
hour of 12 o'clock. Thus at coon of each day
00 elocks in the publio departments are made
automatically to coincide with the big tine-piece
at the naval observatory.
Mr. Gardner, who had just returned from the
Cincinnati exhibition, where ho had.
been arranging the clock connec
tion with Washington, referred to the
awkwardness of the different times kept
In different Western cities. 'T-iink of there
being two or three 12 o'cloti in one city," he
f aid. "Take Pittsburg, for .nstance, the point
where Eastern standard time ends and Central
standard time begins. One man can claim that
it is 11 o'clock, another that it is only 10, while
the chap who earries the real local time of the
city can assert that neither of the other fellows
U right. This, I think, ought not to be. There
should be but one time in each city. The rail
roads, of course, must note the diereneo, but
the citizen need cot be worried."
Mr. Gardner went to Cincinnati for the pur
pose of setting up, at the Exposition, five clocks
Representing the time in the different time di
Tisions. Whatever section of country, there
fore, a visitor to the Centennial Exposition may
belong to, he can look on one of these clocks
and know what time it is at home. And these
docks are regulated by the big time-piece at the
naval observatory. O'Brizx Bain.
SUMMER FASHIONS.
Bonnets. Gowns and Jewelry and How They
Should be Worn.
JSrw Tort Evening Poet. ,
Draperies continue long, and in arrangement
appear simple, but this very simplicity requires
ft Siil'.ed hand. Dress collars are far less high,
some going to the other extreme, and on many
new bodices end wbere the high military collar
formerly began, and ths line of the throat is left
uncovered. A full Stuart frill of rich, wide
lace falls over the edge of the corsage. It seems
almost needless to add the caution that this
style of bodice is on!y becoming to women who
have round, white and well-shaped throats a
charm sufficiently rare, after the twenties are
past, to warrant this hint. But even if
possessing a pretty throat, the style is more
suitable for young girls. However, maturer
women need not bide this gift of nature under
the high officer's collar, for Medici collars that
are high in the back and open slightly in front,
falling back from the neck, are admirable for
revealing a pretty one to advantage, and as
thoy may be lined, color, a great aid to the
complexion, is thus as disposal. Dress bonnets
are cow really nothing more than dainty head
dresses a bit of crowning nnish to the toilet
so email have they become. Hats, on the con
trary, are spreading, the brims wider, the
crowns constantly growing lower. While tulle
is used with a lavish hand on aummer hats, and
hazel nuts, green acorns, and trails of hops are
very fashionably worn. Bonnets of natural
Cowers are increasing, worn at weddings and
garden parties, and these are charming. One
composed of pale pink rose-buds over
lace, with a coronet of black velvet
was very elegant. Flower bonnets are invari
ably worn without strings, and carnations, four
o'eloeks, roses and buds, daisies, and geranium
blossoms are chosen for these, for the reason
that they are not to ephemeral a3 many of the
more delicate flowers.
.With the still growing fashion for round
waists and their si'h belt adorning, Duckies
and clasps are in great demand. Some of the
old Norwegian huskies are very handsome, but,
alas! very expensive. Suit the first case is the
only one, for a clasp of this kind is a possession
for life, and one that is sever really out of date.
Very many of the more stylish summer
dresses owe their elegant effect to the careful
blending of harmonious colors, or otherwise to
delightful contrasts of color. Women who
aspire to be counted exceptional in the matter
of fine dressing make a close study of good
pictures and minutely observe the color-blend-ings
of the hand of artistic genius, noting cot
only the colors intermixed, but the shades and
tmes and the quantities used in conjunction.
No mixture is more effective for a full
dress toilot than certain shades of pink
and , blue, but to be a success these are
most carefully chosen. It must be pink in one
place and blue in another, cot pink and blue
everywhere. Moss green and rosy heliotrope
re effectively blended, and palest Persian
mauve and maple leaf, or lime green, but it is
indispensable that these combinations shall all
be of the exact artistie tint. Shot silk and rib
bons to match are appropriately added. There
are many striking admixtures of colors of a
most vivid description noticeable in many of the
lately imported French casino and coaching
gowns that do cot at all suit the tastes of re
fined American women.
The lace pics of enameled gold in pretty
flower devices, delicate and dainty in pattern,
being made only large enough to eatch together
the airy folds of lisse or mnll at the throat, are
much more fashionable than the heavier bar pins
that have been popular so long. With dressy
evening toilets, a number of these flower pins
are used here and there upon thecorssge, thrust
in, in an irregular way, to hold the scarf dra
peries, or to confine a knot of ribbon or spray of
Cowers. Bangle bracelets to match are very
frequently added, with a rose, violet, pansy, or
shaded rose petal, with. diamond dew-drops
upon the top of the slender gold cord forming
the bracelet. Ear-rings en suite are, however,
emitted, and but few earrings are seen, ss it is
the present taste to dispense with these orna
ments, except in cases where precious gems are
worn in full dress. The velvet dog collar is still
a chosen ornament, especially popular this sum
mer for the reason that a little of ,the throat is
revealed by the V-shaped arrangement of the
bodice. A jeweled pendant is generally added to
the velvet band.
Papa a Pet Name.
Albany Journal.
A teacher in one of the publio schools says
that it Is sometimes extremely difficult to obtain
from young children the names of their parents.
In one instance a little boy was asked what his
fathers came was. and gave the surname. He
was asked what toe rest of his father's came
was, and he said he did cot kcow.
Well,' said the teacher, "what does your
mother call himP
The boy promptly replied, "She sometimes
calls him an old crank."
They All Got Some.
Eoetoa Transcript.
"Sin, my dear pupils," said Deacon Barnes to
his Sunday-school class, is the legacy of Adam."
And the bright boy in the class remarked that
that was probably the first case on record where
a will was cot broken.
"Yes. said the deacon, "but it should be re
membered that there was enoueh to go round.
I don't remember hearing of anybdy who didn't
receive his share of the inheritance."
A Dream of Bliss,
f S3 Francisco Wat p.
"Are yon as'.eep, Ed die H
No, Bobby. Wbyl
"111 tell you what I wish. Eddie."
'What do you wish, Bobby T
I wish we kept a strawberry shop and
couldn't sell em."
"Fob curative effects one bottle of Ayer's Sar
cijiriJla Ls worth three of any ottr name.
SUMMER CORRESPONDENCE
ME MID-SEASON IN PARIS.
TJeleo Campbell's Fictnre of Snmmer Paris
ian Life Clay Attractions.
Correspondence of the Indianapolis Journal.
Paws, July 1,8. For one cafe at lesst
among the hundreds lining Paris boulevards,
summer life beean in February. A sunny
day, the wind less determined than csual
to blow from all points at once,
and the arbor vitas in the green tubs
forming a cheerful row in front of the little ta
bles, and dexterously placed so as to shield from
currents at the side. The proprietor eyed his
arrangements with some anxiety, for January
had been obstinate and February much the
same, and who should say whether the hour
would end withont come sudden freakish gust of
wind or raint His customers were equally
skeptical, and the tables, fresh from their retire
ment in the cellar, waited in rain till from a
side street, a thoroughfare for Parisian journal
ists, issued suddenly a pair, in the characteris
tic fur-bordered overcoats, dear to this class,
and bats phenomenally shiny as to cap and
curly as to brim."
Enfin!' cried one, ''Voila le printemps qui
s'approche!'' and both took their places tumult-
cously and called for something mysterious in
tali glasses. Half an hour later, as I passed,
they still sat there sipping, shivering a little,
but oblivious of this and of the occasional flake of
snow which descended and lay lightly, on the
shining tables. The proprietor came to the
door at intervals, rubbed his hands softly, as if
his faith had been justified, and went back,
smiling to less adventurous customers. Later
on, an energetic old gsntleman sat down and
ordered coffee, which he eventually finished in
side, but from this time on, save when rain
poured steadily, one or two were always in
place, and by late March there wero doz
ens. An thus is is evident that the summer
tendency to live as much of the daily life as pos
sible before all eyes and under as full sunshine
as th6 weather bureau supplies loses none ef its
force in winter, and that the Parisian shivers
willingly if only it may be in good company.
The' foreigner puzzles long over two facts
which confront him immediately and which re
main to the end absolutely true and as absolute
ly irreconcilable. The one is that the Parisian
ia essentionally an out-of-door animal, and sub
mits to cold and damp, or even an occasional
wetting, with entire disregard of ordinary de
mands of comfort, quite content if only he may
watch the shifting throng with no window be
tween. The other is that this same Parisian
goes home to a room in which every crack is
stuffed with cotton, winds his or her head in
flannel, and turns pale if the suggestion of a
draught makes itself felt In omnibus or car,
in publio hall, or theater, or church, ventilation
is the cardinal crime and air a terror, and the
unhappy foreigner gasps and rapidly asphyx
iates where the Parisian rejoices.
It is cot, then, the air and the sun that is
craved; it is the nearer contact with his kind;
and thus winter is regarded with resentment
and the first breath of mildness hailed as the
resorreetion of the only life worth living. And
certainly as one comes and goes in the beautiful
Champs Elysees, with its long lines of people
sitting on either side, absorbed in watching the
myriad occupants of cab and carriage, and the
whole shifting scene gayer and more brilliant
than anything outside of Paris has ever known,
there is small wonder that the Parisian, no mat
ter at vahat extremity, refuses to emigrate.
Semi-starvation and Paris rather than a fall
stomach and any other quarter of the globe,
and many a foreigner comes to be of the same
mind, and submit to any privation rather than
lose the foothold from which 5a surreys the
panorama.
The axiom of Napoleon III, that to keep the
French people quiet they must be constantly
amused, has borne fruit in a thousand devices to
this end. A crowd is the first necessity. Hap
piness depends upon numbers. The Parisian
declaims on every subject, and demands his au
dience, yielding place readily enough when his
own need has been satisfied and applauding un
grudgingly whoever has the floor. There is but
one unforgivable offense, and that i3 dullness,
and thus each one studies effects and seeks to
bring all experience into epigrammatio form.
Nothing could foster and develop this tendency
more thorouehly than this life perpetually in
public, and thus every point where people ere
to be seen, from cafe to garden or boulevard, be
comes on the instant a theater, a Chinese play,
whose action is for a generation and in which
each takes as many parts as he will
Every inch of open ground in Paris is made
available, and the tiniest park has its benches
free, and tho more aristocratic chairs, which
may be had for two or three sous an hour. The
beautiful Bois de Boulogne, rapidly recovering
from the destruction and desolation of the last
days of the commnnal war, has its groups scat
tered in the shade of thicket or tree over all tho
2,700 acras, while a constant stream of carriages,
in the main roads and of bicyclists wherever
they are allowed pours through it all day long,
though notably larger and more brilliant in the
afternoon. Here, as everywhere else, every
possible provision is made for enjoyment. The
cafes plan ingeniously to make the most of the
plot of ground at side or front, and the little
gardens are marvels of art. A glass of sugsr
water or cup of coffee gives right to space as
long as a drop lingers, and by early
evening every place is filled. That there is a
working Paris is very certain, but the fact
is so disguised that playing Paris seems the only
tangible thing, and watching these throngs that
come and go one wonders when and how the
work is done. Wandering acrobats, who lay
their1 strip of carpet in any vacant space, and
are instautly surrounded by a' group eager to be
entertained; jugglers of all grades. Punch and
Judy shows, puppet shows, trained dogs and a
thousand other varieties of amusement are be
fore one at every turn, and when these lesser
means fail, there is the Trocadero, with its
enormous concert hall, its beautiful corridor,
where one may walk or linger to gaze at the
rushing cascade, the innumerable colored lights,
and the gay throng which pours through it till
midnight. The lower end of the Champs
Elysees and the gardens of the Tuilleries are
lined with attractions less pretentious but. ap
parently as popular, and turn where one will,
from the stately Odeon to the smallest cafe
ehantant on the narrowest and roost obscure
streets, it is always Paris, amusing itself to its
utmost bent, and well content so long as the
stimulus continues.
Beyond the city walls are attractions hardly
less potent The Seine is covered with brisk lit
tle steamboats plying swiftly to many favorite
points beyond the seven miles included in the
city limits. The local trains to Fountainbleau,
Versailles, and the innumerable villages about
Paris are provided with two-storied cars, always
crowded with excursionists; often whole fami
lies, but as often groups of young fellows, who
seem emancipated from any compulsion as to
getting a living, ani who sing and shout all day
long with inexhaustible energy. A bottle of
via ordinaire and a yard or two of bread and
sausage are the staple refreshments. The daily
worker half starves tbrongh the week in order
to make such an excursion on Sunday, and the
grisette. who is also a worker, breaks the six
days' routine whenever possible, and if a formal
excursion is out of the question, finds the next
resource in the cafe or promenade in the
Champ Elysees. Paris goes to bed reluctantly
and under protest, and having sacrificed thus
far, spends as little time as possible in sleep.
When the waiters and other officials of the cafes
rest is a problem still unsolved. They are al
ways visible and always alert, joining in the
conversation on all possible occasions and serv
ing a glass of eau sucre with as cheerful a flour
ish as they giro to an order for Lafitte.
There are two sides to this question of Parisian
cut-door life, one full of charm, the other as full
of danger. In fact, the characteristics of the
people could be snmmed up from the specimens
gathered before any cafe. The charm lies in
the eapaeity for enjoyment of very small things,
the general good-fellowship, and tho frugality
which declines extravagance and has no shame
in showing itself publicly. On the other hand,
a week's wages will often be mortgaged in a
single excursion, and the work-people often do
cot look an inch beyond the present hour, while
for all classes is the one constant and imperative
demand for distraction. Restless, fickle, unsta
ble, excitable almost to madness, and ruled al
ways by the last speaker. Pans is never of the
same mind two days together. She accepts the
gospel of revolt as readily as the gospel of sub
mission, avowing faith in whichever has been
most tellingly declaimed, and at any moment
raady for a change of base and an onslaught on
every one who may chance to turn too slowly.
Underneath the light-heartedness and apparent
good fellowship ' certain brutal elements are
plain. Not an inheritance from the past, but
a direct result of a materialism which is the
prevailing atmosphere of Parisian life, percep
tible at every point, and discovering its taint in
life, in manners, in art, in literature, in every
form in which a people can voice itself. A re
deeming feature for such tendency is certainly
out-door life, but as it is not nature that the
Parisian craves, but simply as many people as
can be massed at aoy point and as many words
as mouths can utter, oue may question how far
their habits mean any mental regeneration.
This is not the point for discussion of such ques
tion. At least we may follow their methods in
degree and learn the fact that pleasure in small
things is moro possible than we have believed,
and that here at least the Celt has the advantage
over the Anglo-Saxon, who, to day, as in the
past, must receive the old chronicler's verdict,
'They take their pleasure sadly as their manner
is." Helen Campbell.
THE MAYOR'S FROLIC.
Ills Honor at Iluronla Beach Fishing In the
Flats and Itiver Politics la Michigan.
Correspondence of the Indianapolis Journal.
Hckokia .Beach, Mich,' Aug. L This
place is cot unknown to you, but since
yon were here a few years ago the surroundings
have so chanced that you would scarcely recog
nize it. There is but one thing that has cot
ehanged: that is the grand old lake itself. None
of our great inland seas is grander than Huron.
Indeed, none is quite so grand, for no other is
so turbulent. As its waves roll op the sandy
beach below me, with its refreshing breeze from
the northeast, I wish that every tired man and
woman in Indianapolis could be here, if bnt for
a few days, like myself. I never left home feel
ing the ceed of rest more than I did a week ago,
and I never felt better able to go to work again
than I do cow.
In the summers past I have visited several of
the resorts in Wisconsin and Michigan, but I
have no hesitation in saying that Huronia Beach
excels them all in the beauty of its location and
attendant attractions, particularly to the per
son who is in search of health and beneficial
recreation without reference to fashion. A
large cumber of cew cottages have recently
been erected here, and a commodious hotel has
been added since you were here, a short distance
up the beach. There are cow between four and
five hundred persons at Huronia, all the cot
tages but one or two being occupied. The place
has been very properly called the ''Children's
Paradise." Here they can live with all the
amusements of home, with many comforts that
cannot be supplied them in their hot city abodes.
Boats have multiplied amazingly alone the
beach since I visited here three years ago.
Small children can row up and down the
beach for two miles with perfect safety,
the water being less than four feet
deep for a distance of a hundred yards out, from
end to end of that distance. Rarely a day pass
es that scores of them do not go in bathing, al
so, without adult attendants. One of the prin
cipal attractions to the majority of visitors is tho
sight of passing vessels. Every water craft ply
ing the lasesmust pass this very point, Huronia
being within one mile of the mouth of the St
Clair river, where the clear, bine waters of Lake
Huron pour into it from its south end. I have
counted thirty-four steam and sail vessels ap
proaching and leaving the mouth of the river at
one time. I have no doubt more sails can be
sighted from the porch on which I sit in a single
day than would be seen in dozen trips across the
Atlantic. The man who cannot find pleasure in
the sight and contemplation of-a score of full
rigged sails, as they plow through the rolling
waves loaded with their freighted treasures, has
little poetry in his soul. When one gets tired of
bathing, boating, reading, playing base-ball,
romping through the adjacent for
ests, etc., he can go fishing. And
this leads me to say a word
for the benefit of those who may come here
after me. If you want to go a-fishing to catch
fish, get a common cane pole, a 5-cent line and
an ounce of lead; take tho electric street car at
the back door of vour cottage, go down to Fort
Gratiot or Port Hnron (the furthest point only
four miles distant), and catch all the perch and
pickerel in two hours that you can carry home.
You can get affidavits from John Pearson and
Horace Smith to the truth of this statement
By modifying? it just a little, I will give a cer
tificate (not under seal) to its correctness. If
you want to be scientific and stylish about it,
get a $20 Frankfort reel, a $25 split bambao rod,
take the morning boat for the Star Island House
at St Clair flats, spend $20 for' boata,
rowers and board for two days, and
como back with three or four small
bass. You can't get an affidavit from
Pearson, or Smith, or myself, that we have
had such an experience ourselves since we cams
here, bnt we have watched our neighbors.
I have seen a large cumber of enthusiastic
Cleveland men since I came North, bnt they all
live over in Canada. Across the river in the
Queen's possessions they think our President is
a great man. But I am glad to inform you
and the readers of the Journal that the reason
which makes our President so great in the eyes
of the Queen's subjects, dwarfs him in the eyes
of our people this side of the river, and places,
our future President, General Harrison, at tho
head of the column. The tariff issue is goiog to
gain a Congressman for our party in this dis
trict. At least, so say the Republicans with
whom I have talked here. Unless all the men
who read and seem to understand the situation
in Michigan are sAdly mistaken the State will go
Republican by an increased majority. Repub
licans are enthusiastic for the presidential tick
et. Even those who were the most earnest for
Governor Alger admit cow that the comination
of General Harrison was the very best that
could have been made. They tell us here what
many of us at Indianapolis have predicted from
the time our candidate was nominated, that ho
will carry ersry Northern State.
G S. Den-xt.
SUMMER KESOKT NOTES.
New York Mail and Express.
The echoes of the belle of the seaside hotel hop
are very rarely heard in town.
Impure water is declared to be the cause of
much of the illness at summer resorts.
It seems to be a season for wonderful, if cot
suspicious, discoveries in the Catskills.
There are more loud and offensive people at
Saratoga than at any other resort on tho entire
list.
Jubilee Park, Niagara, which is free to the
public, has become a very popular place of re
sort. Asbury Park has had more notoriety this
year thau is healthy for the "good-goody" re
sorts. It is to be hoped August will cot burst, so
filled is it with hotel men's hopes and expecta
tions. The reason there is so little of the light fan
tastic at Sharon is because "aged couples" pre
dominate. About as many cows as usual have fallen vic
tims to the amateur sportsmen around and
about the Adirondacks.
Cool weather temporarily drove away the
mosquito from the Jersey coast resorts, but
he has come back again for business.
Everybody knows everybody else at Richfield,
ana what everybody says not always accurate
is duly recorded in the local papers.
It is the popular impression that most of the
Long Branch hackmen graduated from the
school of Niagara that was broken cp.
Absolutely hot days are unknown at Long
Beach, and cool nights aro the rule. This alona
is sufficient recommendation for any place.
Those men and women of college tendencies
who wait on table at White mountain hotels
make the average visitor exceedingly weary.
Rivalry between the Catskill hotels is taken
up by the boarders, and "partisan feeling" is
now running many "feet above the level of the
sea."
Lenox has quantities of socially distinguished
visitors, all of whom are charmed with the
Elace and postpone leaving until the eleventh
our.
Women who "dress up" for exhibition on the
piazza of summor hotels are deserving of sym
pathy, for they seom to be so much lite Robin
son Crusoe.
One of these days, if tales are ever told out
of school, it may be known why the vile gam
bling houses at Long Branch are not closed by
the authorities.
Lake Memphremagog has a fair number of
visitors, but the season is not uo to the old time
standard. A better condition of things exists at
Manchester, Vl
The season around and about the Thousand
Islands progresses about as usual, and if the
hotels are cot crowded, the people who go out
to fish do not have to resort to falsehood.
. As a general thing, the tone of the Saratoga
hops is socially democratic enough to please all
who "go in" for Jeffersonian simplicity and are
in no wav prejudiced against paper collars and
way-back "butterfly" ties.
The Fable of the Dog aud the Shadow.
iEsop'B Fables.
A dog crossing a little rivulet with a piece of
fleib in his mouth, saw his shadow represe nted in
the clear mirror of the limpid stream, and, believ
ing it to be another dog who was carrying a
larger piece of flesh, he could not forbear catch
ing at it, but was so far from getting, anything
by his greedy design, that he drooped the piece
he had in his mouth, which immediately sunk
to tha bottom and was irrecoverably lost.
MORAL.
Our home markets now eonsume ninety-two
per cent of our productions, while only eight
per cent, is exported. Is it not better for Amer
ican manufacturers and American labor to sip
ply onr home markets, than for foreign manu
facturers and foreign labor to do our manu
facturing? In short, is it not better to bold on
to the meat we cOw have, and let the shadow
alone!
Wlitten for the Sunday Journal.
Garfield at Chlckamauga River.
AN OLD MAN'S STOUT.
"Whence came this broken sword blade, siret
Its stained hilt makes me shiver."
I found it 'mid the battles' fire
Of Chickamauga River.
'I mind the day, the mock birds sang,
Where lithe the pine trees quiver;
'On to the front!' the bugles rang
At Chickamauga River.
The brave were there, the Bine and Grey,
Each at his best endeavor;
O blood to Lookout paved the way.
At Chickamauga River!
The Right was marching on that day,
Fond xnem'ry keeps it ever.
The cannon-mouthinirs shrouding play
By Chickamauga River!
One I saw there, a warrior bold,
Whose good right arm flamed ever.
He was the Prince of Victory
At Chickamauga River!
On, on he strode through sulphur-smoke!
Pack turned his footsteps never;
Until the tide of glory broke
O'er Chickamauga River.
On Ileav'n born splendor of his brow
Fame set her stars forever;
From Valor springs ten thousand flow'rs
By Chickamauga River!
The gory fibres ne'er may ring,
Nor blood-stained sword-blades shiver;
For Blue acd Grey have met in peace,
Bj Chickamauga River!
Across the yawning gulfs of Hate
Are angel hands stretched ever.
One Flair, one heart, one Land have they
Of ChJek&manga River!
E. S. L. Thompson.
The rocky and sterile soil where the battle of Chick
amauga was fought was entirely destitute of bloom
until after the famous baptism of blood. Riding over
the ground in the early spring of 1883, we found
amid acres of azaleas, many a broken sword point
and many a battered canteen.
Written for the Sunday Journal.
A Prairie ItoatL
The early aster's purple mist
Upon the dewy wayside lies,
And through their clouds of amethyst
The yellow sunflowers rise.
Like candelabra, tall and bright.
The silver-clustered mulleins show.
Till tipping every branch, like light,
Their burnished blossoms blow.
Beneath the briar's scented screen.
Where shining spider-nets are strung,
The nesting turkeys, brood and preen
And hide their callow young:.
And circling lo7, the crested jays
Adorn the sunny roadway fare.
And feast f rem oft the trailing sprays
The will blackberries bear.
While thrusting back the leafy shields
The green mock-orange hedges hold,
A troop of sparrows seek the fields
To rob them of their gold.
And yonder through the plumy weeds.
Where tufted cornflower buds are blue,
A little russet raobit feeds.
And drinks the morning dew.
On either side, on level sweep
Of boundless, glowing, golden miles.
The summer sky bends blue and deep,
And summer sunshine smiles. v
Evaleen Stein.
Written for the Sunday Journal.
Colombia Land.
Air Heulah Land.
Oh, C'lumbia land, from bondage freed!
Witiiout a kin?, without a creed,
Save that thy freedom be maintained.
And be from treason all unstained.
Chorus
Oh, C'lnrabia land, dear C'lumbia land!
Home of the free, by Justice planned;
To Harrison our honor's due,
Because to thee he's good and true;
We, spotless, eau our leader hand
Up to the throne of Freedom's land.
Wo love thee for thy many parts.
And wish to guard against the arts
Of those who would t by int'rests break
And from thee many powers take.
Then from thy mountains to thy teat
Unfurl thy banner to the breeze.
And may thy sons right loyal oe
And vote the vote that kept It free.
Arranged by A. 1. Martin.
Palestine, 111.
"7rora Atlanta to the Sea.
The Seventieth Indiana trod
In its march to save the land of the free,
'Neath Sherman's command and the eye of God,
From Atlanta east to the rolling sea.
The sun from the glass? sky burnt down,
. TLe gulf-wind seemed from an oven whipped,
.'And the dust arrayed the troops in brown
r Till they seemed like monks in search of a shrift.
Fatigued with the lorg and weary tramp,
And sick unto death, as one could see,
Trudged wearly on, with longings for camp,
One Private Snow, of Company D.
"Dress ranks!" the command went down the line;
But Private Snow was sick and sore.
And his sallow face gave out no sign
Of the soldier's thrill in the battle's roar.
What, ho, my man!" bis colonel cried.
As he came along the ragged line,
"It's a weary tramp," and the private sighed.
And thought of his home, with his eyes ashine.
"It's a weary tramp! Hand your knapsack here!"
Cried the colonel grand in his noble way;
"The end of our march is very near.
When we reach the sea and a better day."
'And the colonel carries, all day leng,
The knapsack of Snow, of Company D;
And not a roan in the dusty throng
But cheered in their weary march to the sea.
Brave Colonel Harrison! General now
Where heroes group, come thou to the van!
. When nature gave thee a hero's brow
It did not forget the heart of a man.
The soldiers rugged, the soldiers old.
With the dust of the day now the dust of years,
Will Quicken at heart as the story is told,
Ana blur the page, mayhap, with tears.
And Colonel Harrison! General now
Will anon be raised to a higher grade;
And the throng will say. as they crown his brow,
"Though proud, of humility not afraid."
Earl Marble, in San Francisco Wasp.
The Quest.
There once was a restless boy
Who dwelt in a home by the sea,
Wbere the water danced for joy
And the wind was glad and free;
But he said, "Good Mother, Oh! let me go;
For the dullest place in the world, I know,
Is this little brown house.
This old brown house,
Under the apple-tree.
'I will travel east and west;
The loveliest homes I'll see;
An when I have found the best.
Dear mother, I'll come for thee.
Ill come for thee in a year and a day.
And joyfully then we'll haste away
From this little brown house.
This old brown house,
Under the apple-tree."
So he traveled here and there,
But never content was he.
Though he saw in lands most fair
The costliest homes there be.
He something missed from the sea or sky,
- Till he turned again, with a wittful sigh,
To the little brown house,
The old brown house.
Under the apple-tree.
Then the mother saw and smiled.
While her heart grew glad and free.
"HaUthou chosen a home, my child?
Q Ah, where shall we dwellf" quoth she.
And he said, "Sweet mother, from east to west,
The loveliest home, and the dearest and best.
Is a little brown house,
An old brown house,
Under an apple-tree."
Endora 9. Bumstead, in August St. Nicholas.
The Fate of a Fiddler.
He was young, he was fair,
And he parted his hair
With elaborate care
in the middle.
He wai youthful and gay.
But it grieves me to say.
He thought he could play
On the fiddle.
He played every night
Till the neighbors, mad quite,
Rose up in their might
With a club.
And with one awful yell
They jumped at him and well!
Will he die? ah can't tell;
There's the rub!
San Francisco Wasp.
Abou Ben Harrison.
Abou Ben Harrison may his name increase!
Awoke from a deep dream of H cosier peace,
And saw within the moonlight in his room.
Making it rich, like lilies all in bloom.
An angel writing in a regal book.
Greut courage made Abou desire to look.
And to the Presence in his room he said,
"What writest thou!" The vision raised its head,
And with a look composed of best intents.
Replied, "The names of all the Presidents."
"And is mine one?" said Abou. "Nav, not yet,"
Replied the angel. Abou spoke: "Well met;
Write me as one who, spite of all the storm,
Will give the government a true reform."
The angel wrote and vanished. In November
He came, as blazed each dying bonfire ember.
And showed the names whom people's rote had
blessed,
When lo! Ben Harrison's led all the rest!
San Francisco Wasp.
It was Heine's Poem.
To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
Under the caption W. D. He wells' Poetry, I
read in to-day's Journal an article credited to the
Chicago News, in which the writer, among other
poetic specimens by Howells, gi this:
Beautiful fisher-maiden.
Drive the light boat to land
Come to me and sit down beside me;
We whisper, hand in hand.
Rest on my heart thy head, love,
Nor tremble for fear of roe
Thou trustest thyself without trembling
Still to the stormy sea!
Mr heart is like the sea
Has storm, and ebb, and flow.
And many a beautiful pearl sleeps
In its calm depths below.
And then proceeds to make the following com
ment: "This gem was originally written in Minnie Beall's
aibum. Her father ran a saw-mill on the Sandusky
river. The only fish in this river are bullheads and
snapping-turtles. Still we all know that the poet is
I)rvileged to call a creek an ocean, and a syoimore
eg raft a light boat, if he feels like doing so."
The writer is wholly mistaken in assuming
that Howells transformed and exalted Minnie
Beall's environments under the poetic license.
As a matter of fact, tho above stanzas did not
originate with Howells at all, but were written
by a poet greater and more famous than be
ohe whose poetic fancy, it is safe to say, was in
spired by some other than Minnie BealL The
verses quoted are, line by line, as will be seen,
an almost literal translation of the following
poem by Henri Heine, which may be found in
any edition of his "Bueh der Lieder."
Da schoenes Fischermaedchen,
Freibe den Kahn an's Land;
Komm zu xnir und setze dich nieder,
Wir kosen Hand in Hand.
Leg' an me in Ilerz dein Koepfchen,
Und f uerchte dich nicht zu sehr,
Vertraust da dich loch sorglos
Taeglich dem wilJen Meer.
Mem Hers gleicht ganz dem Meere,
Hat Sturm und Ebb and Fluth
Und manche schoene Perle
In seiner Tiefe ruht.
Emanuel Marquis.
GnEEXCASTLr. July 29.
THE GROWTH OF CITIES.
Remarkable Progress that Has Been Made In
Iialf a Century.
Mr. H. W. S.. Cleveland, in an address on
"The Esthetic Development of the United Cit
ies of Minneapolis and St, Paul," rhich has
been issued in pamphlet form, gives some strik
ing instances of tho remarkable growth of cities.
He says:
"I find in conversation even with men who
are sanguine of the future growth of St Paul
and Minneapolis, who talk vaguely of their
eventually becoming a continuous city, cover
ing the whole intervening area, that they shrink
from giving a direct reply when closely pressed
as to the actual probability of such a consumma
tion. "Youne men, especially, find it hard to real
ize that such a result can be reached except at a
period too remote to be of interest to any now
npon the stage of active life.
"If I may be pardoned for citing a few remi
niscences of what 1 have myself witnessed of the
growth of cities both east and west, it may help
you to attain something of the faith, amount
ing to conviction, which has been their natural
outgrowth in my own mind. No doubt many of
you are familiar with Boston and her beautiful
common and publie garden and the magnificent
new city west of them.
"I remember, perfectly when cows were pas
tured on the common, and it was not till I was
old enough to occupy a desk in a counting-house
on Central wharf that the question of inclosing
it with an iron fence, instead of the wooden
rails which were tumbling down, excited a very
warm controversy and was denonnced by econo
mists as a piece of needless extravagance.
"The site of the present publio garden was
then, and for many years after, a marsh, and
the only buildings on that side of Charles street
were two or three rope-walks, elevated on piles,
and at the corner of what is cow Boylston
street the cannon house of the company of Sea
Fencibles. All the site of the new city beyond
the public garden was then the Back bay filled
with water at every tide which furnished pow
er in running out, to tnrn the city mills on the
mill-dam. which is now the extension cf Beacon
itreeL
"Louisburg square and all the sow aristo
cratic portion of the city adjacent to it was then
a squalid and sparsely inhabited region, known
as 'Nigger Hill,' and was hardly a safe quarter
to penetrate at night
"At the western end of Cambridge bridge
were a few houses and some lumber-yards, but
from . there to Cambridge, except a small
villaee at Cambridgeport, it was all marsh and
open fields, where I used to go shooting.
"My memory of New York and Philadelphia
does not eo back so far as my boyhood, which
was passed in Boston, bnt I recall perfectly the
building of the Astor House and the assertions
of the wise ones of that day that old John Jacob
must be in bis dotaje to suppose that such a
house could be supported at a point so far up
town.
"The vicinity of Bowling Green was then the
fashionable residence quarter, and the building
committee of the City Hall gave as their reason
for using a cheap material on the north side,
while the south front was of white marble, that
it would only be seen by farmers coming In
from the country. The eity of to-day. with a
wealth of architecture such as was then un
dreamed of, extends seven or eight miles north
of that point, and it was long after the period to
which I refer, and the Astor Hoftse and City
Hall were already far down town, when in 1S57
the Central Park was begun. Yet the whole
region occupied by that park and the magnificent
streets In its vicinity was then a series of wild
rocky ledges and intervening swamps, and the
only inhabitants wero occasional colonies of rag
pickers and coal-sifters, living in wretched hov
els, erected by themselves out of refuse lumber
and having the aspect of miserable squalor and
wretchedness.
"In Philadelphia, as late as IS 12, Broad street
was the western outskirt of the city, and the
buildings upon it were at long intervals apart,
and all beyoud was open country. The banks
of the Delaware, which are now dotted with
villages and lined with country seats
for twenty miles above the city, had
cot then even a wherf on either side,
and the steamboat made no stop between Bur
lington and Philadelphia, except when a signal
was displayed at Andalusia, tho country seat of
Nicholas Biddle, who was then president of the
United States Bank, and used to come off in his
barge to be taken on board.
'My first visit to the West was made in 1833.
From Philadelphia I took the cars to Harris
burg, which was then the furthest western point
reached by railroad.
"The cars where in compartments like coaches,
each holding six passengers who sat facing each
other, and the conductor went from car to car
on a platform outside, precisely as is now done
on our open street cars. From Harrisburg I
took the canal to Pittsburg and then steamboat
to St. Louis.
"I spent three months traveling over the cen
tral portion of Illinois, and then bought a horse
in St Louis and rode him to New York, arriv
ing there on the 10th of December the day of
the great fire of 1835 which marked an epoch
in my life, nntil it was superseded by the great
fire of Chicaeo in 1871, which I not only wit
nessed, but felt to my ereat discomfort. Less
was known of Illinois at that day in New Eng
land than we know now of the whole region be
tween here and the Pacific.
. "On my return there many strangers came to
eall upon me to make inquiries abont the far
West' of a man who had actually visited that
section. It was not till my second visit to the
West, in 1837, that I first heard of the existence
of a 'right smart town up north, on Lake Michi
gan, called Chicaeo.'
"The sites of these superb cities of St. Paul
and Minneapolis, each containing a larger pop
ulation than Boston had at that time, could not
then have been reached in safety by a white
man, except by steamboat or with an armed es
cort All the region west of the Mississippi aud
north of the mouth of the Missouri was dream
land. "I used to read the stories of the expeditions
of Lewis and Clark and Mai. Long to the Rocky
mountains, and wonder if I should ever be able
to see the wild scenes they described, x
"Nothing more absurdly visionary could have
been presented to my mind thau what I can
cow state, as a simple matter of fact, that
while still in full possession of my mental and
physical powers, I have had a professional call
to prepare a desien for the grounds of a costly
villa residence in the suburbs of a thriving citr
500 miles w.st of the Yellowstone Park and half
way between here and the Pacific coast
"Now, here am I, a living witness of all this
wonderful growth, with the minute detail of
the scenes I have alluded to as distinct in my
mind as the last year's ice carnival of St Paul
or exposition of Minneapolis; an old to an, it is
true, but still working as industriously and
with as hearty an interest as I have ever done
in my life, and with all these memories crowd
ing upon me, I am told by an intelligent man
that 1 must have a powerful imacination if I
can realize that these two cities can ever over
come the intervening space, so as to form a con
tinuous system of streets and thoroughfares!
"Believe me, it requires no effort of imagina
tion on my part, but simply the application of
the rules of cause and effect, which I have been
observing for sixty years, nntil Oe deduction of
one from the other is as natural and involuntary
as the act of breathing."
An Untruthful Paper
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
The Democrat and Chronicle has many news
paper exchanges, but it bas no hesitation in
saying that among all the journals it receives
there is none which is consciously moro unfair,
deceitful and untruthful than that which
achieve! honorable reputation under William
Cullen Bryant, and which has, since his death,
been trading upon that reputation. There are,
of course, psrtif an sheets which are as bitter in
their language as the Post, but there is none
more partisan and certainly none which employs
more deceitful arts than does this journal which
claims to be actuated by the purest motives.
It is high time that the "true inwardness" of
the Post was understood. It has become so
warped in its hostility to the Republican party,
and its leaders, that it could not tell the truth
if it tried and it does not mean to try.
It is a common scold and a professional defam
er. A Cheap Country.
Brooklyn standard.
There is no cheaper country in the world than
India. You can buy a leg of mutton there for
15 cents, and fifty cigars for a shilling. The dif
ficulty is in obtaining the shilling in a free-trade
land, where 4 cents per day is considered fair
wages.
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