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THE SAW-DUST KING- Notes From an Interview With a Circus Manager. HiS r:trt!i:» and Lar*e Salaries—'dr* <u;» Vocation* From a S?«aiani tarian I*i>i:it at View— Hard Work. [New York Sun.] Circus equestrianism demands a peculiar -.aptifaido, and even with that, many years of patient study and laborious practice before excellence can be attained. People outside the business wonder sometimes at tho seem ingly largo salaries we get They do not knew how hardly and at what risks they aro earned, and what has been gone through to qualify for them. It takes seven or eight yean steady work, in public during summers and in private through the winters, for a young man or woman to become suf ficiently proficient to earn mora than a mere living salary. Season after season their com pensation increases slowly, according to the progress they make in their art And all the while they are in training, and after they have attained the long-contended-for prize of a good position, they are liable at any mo ment to be thrown out of work and perhaps crippled for life, by the stumble of a horse, the slipping of a foot, an unlucky wrench in the air, the momentary carelessness of a ban ncr holder, that prosaic and common fiend, the rheumatism, or some other one of many hazards to which they are daily exposed. Should they not be well paid to counterbal ance such contingencies? I could tell you of a charming young wo man, the daughter of an old circus man, who, three or four years ago, as the result of prac tice from almost her infancy, seemed to have a brilliant future in the ring before her. All who saw her ride said she was bound to be the American equestrian queen, for she ' had all the requisites of grace, daring, skill, and beauty. One day she met with an accident, an unlucky fall from a badly-trained horse. It might have been more serious in some respects, but certainly not so far as her pros lieets were concerned. When she got well she was found to have a slight but incurable liny), enough to quite unfit her for ever rid ing in the ring again. On the street, or on the stage, where she found employment at one-quarter of what she could have earned in the ring, you would not notice any defect in her walk, but sh'j can never again safely stand upon the back of a horse or leap over a banner. . . "Do riders ever t;;ko apprentices? Well, occasionally/but rarely in this country. They are shy of it. Teaching a boy or girl to ride is a yory long ib, generally a thankless and seldom a profitable one. A parent will teach hi? own children, of course, and the best riders come from old circus families in which riding may be said to have become a heredi tary trait, and learning the business oi! tho ring ia commenced in childhood and is com paratively easy for then). Others get into it by degrees, knocking around a circus as help ers of some sort, or as tumblers, and so on working their way to riding if they feel that that Is their vocation. There aro some ap prentices, but not many. One thing that ' mitigates against them is that the law respect ing the public employment of children pre vents their doing anything for their teacboi-s until years after they should commence their training. A child may sell papers in the streets, suffer hunger and cold, bo blighted in son! and ruined in body, and that is all right, from the S. F. T. P. O. C. T. C. point of view, but it is monstrously and out rageously wrong for it to do a little dance or a perfectly safe tumbling act on a carpet in the ring, or, as it gets older, to go around the ring standing on the broad pad of a perfectly trained, sure old horse, where it is just as se cure from harm as it would be in bod. It is long after childhood, after the years in which the law protects them, that they are, if at all, put to the dangerous work of the profession, or even allowed to attempt it Tho risks they knowingly take in their daily work, aud the consciousness that at any mo ment they may be. made dependent upon the kindness of others, undoubtedly have that ef fect upon them, and there is not one real per former worthy of the name who would treat '■ a child with wanton cruelty. If you hear of one who jabs a boy with an elephant prod or wilfully jerks him off a horse to hurt him, | you may set it down that that fellow is no : good in the ring himself. Oil, no; I'm not ; specially alluding to j that Forepaugh case, I'm just speaking in a general sort of way. "How are beginners taught to ride for tho riag? Well, at first with the mechanic, a Ion? arm that sticks out from the centra pole, from the end cf which dangles a ropa fastened to a belt around tha learner's waist at one end j anil tbo other cud in the teacher's hand. Tho I pupil stands on a broad pad on the horse's lack, and the supporting arm goes around as the horse goes. So long as the pupil keeps . his balance there is no strain on the rope, When ho tumbles off, or is likely to, the rope steadies and sustains him. It gives confidence, and that is its principal use, but it also pre vents falls. When the pupil can stand well without it its use is abandoned. For a long time nothing is attempted but m teach the pupil to stand easily, safely on the horse, and to balance himself gracefully to the horse's stride. Then he learns to do tbe same riding backward, which is harder. Then he jumps up a little, an inch or two only, and keeps at it until the fact is im bedded in his mind that he takes his forward impetus from the horse and only has to jump up and not forward, and for that. the me chanic probably has to be again brought in play to save him from ugly tumbles by his jumping out over the horse's shoulder or on bis neck. Each thing must be learned well before a new tiling is tackled, and nothing learned must ever be allowed to lapse for want of practice. Slow work, you see. I've no doubt it would be easier to learn Greek would for a Greek, any way. "Where do these lessons go on during tha winter? In several places about York, such as Stone's, dov.n in Jersey, and Stokes's, in Fordham, and Carroll's, in Westchester; but tho most perfect in all is the one Barnum has in his wintering buildings up at Bridgeport. All these establishments are in constant; ac tive use through the winter, often engaged by performers for certain hours each day for us ahead. You see, we have to supply ourov/n performing horses, and not only Ireep our old ones up to their work, but edu cate new oujs a.5 the old wear out. A good cold-blooded horse, one that never nervous or excited, doesn't break his gaifc, knows enough not to step on Lis ridw should he fall, lias the sense to feel if the rider makes a somersault a little out of . and sway to catcli him right as he comes down—that sort of a horse is valuable to us, and to get one that way we must work a long whiio with him. That we have got to prac tice ourselves you know already. I'm at work now, and shall be until the season opens, getting up in .something new that I expect will make a sensation if I don't break my neck at it before I get a chance to shew it in public." A Professional Chinese SStorj'-Teller. [Hong Kong Cor. London Telegraph.] At one end of the market was a crowd gathciod around a man who, seated on a stool, was evidently reciting or reading something. I found he was a professional story teller, and that lv was engaged just then in the narration of the troubles of a mandarin's daughter who, captured with her father by some rebels, went through a series of terribio adventures, but wiio finally, by !ier singular courage, released herself and her father, and brought the head of the arch re-bel to tho eaipero: 1. The reader, or rather tlio reciter, was a man of middle age, and of very respectable appearance. Ha held a fan in his baud, and his nails wore very long, to indicate his gentility. I wa3 told he was a very clever man, who couid, if he liked, talk in a dialect that the common n'jople could not understand, but that he was now speak ing in Cantonese, and with great skill. It was evident that as the story progressed he laid hold upon tho feelings of his audience, for as he dwelt upon the sufferings of the dtitasal, and weptcopioasly himself at the offspring of his own imaginaiiop, the people aliaro'inl mingled th»ir tears with. Ma and showed signs of fee deepest emotion. These poople would p' > looked cal lously on had thoy seen a girl in the position j he described, but so fervent was liis eloquence { and so great his skill that they could not help { weeping at the pictured tragedy. As for th.3 orator himself, ho would lower his voice and whisper, then, springing up, would shout out an impassioned sentence, relapsing once more into quietude as the tab went on. A magnificent actor, forgetting himiolf wh Aly in the interest of his tale, he hell bis hearers enthralled for more than two hour 9, for I now and again returned, only to find him unexhausted and his audience unsatiated. While he spoke itinerant venders of tea, pca j nuts and sweetmeats permeated the crowd, doing a comfortable trade, and now and then ono or other of the listeners would put down a few cash at the feet of the orator. On the whole, he appeared to be pretty well remu nerated for his trouble, the people being only too glad to have such a treat as his imagina tion afforded them. PEACH BRANDY VALOE. An Ex-Confederate Tells the Story of His Promotion for Gallantry on tho Battle Field. [Gath in New York Tribuna] During a recent conversation, V. K. Stev enson, Jr., one of our most enterprising real estate men, said: "When the war broke out I was a small boy and was sent to the Con federate West Point at Marietta, Ga., where we had about six hundred cadets. My father subscribed to f 100,000 of the Confederate loan •at par. He lost all his negroes, and lam glad of it. Although I was on the opposite sido I am perfectly satisfied with the result, and so is everybody else of good sense that I have talked to. Our ladies in the southg were so gallant for the war that they really made me believe I could go out with a'wheat straw and whip eS'ery invader across tho lines. My grand father after the Federals got into Chatta nooga became so patriotic that he wrote my father a letter that I ought to be taken out of the military school and sent to tho battle field. My father merely inclosed tho letter to me without any remark, and thereupon I went to the commandant oi'the academy and asked my discharge, as I was goiag to enlist in the ranks to be sent to the front. I enlisted in an Irish I'ogini'jut entirely composed of rail road laborers, and we started for tho battle field of Chickamauga in box-cars, every soldier being possessed of a canteen filled with New Orleans rum. You can imagine what a lical scene was in that car, fighting all thy way along, but I was regarded as quite a young hero. Wo had a terrible battle, and ia the excitement had no Lime to think. It got but, however, who my father was, and I > . ut on the staff of a mau named Benton Smith, who was only &J years old and a generaL" "Benton Smith," resumed Mr. Stevenson, "being called the boy general, concluded that he must have a staff entirely of boys. He ■was a prodigy of audacity and courage, but his high, nervous nature at last wore him out, aud not long ago ho was a lunatic in a pad ded cell in Tennessee. He always kept his aides right up to the front, and I saw . that unless something happened I should be shot Just before the big battle at Atlanta, where McPherson was killed, Smith's brigade was reinforced by a Georgia regiment nearly a thousand strong. I went to a hospital tho morning of .that battle, where I saw a pile of legs and arms amputated, and it made me sick at the stomach, being quite another lesson of the war, and finding one of our aides with several canteens of poach brandy, I asked him to let mo have somo to settle my stomach and drank the whole of it. Smith then ordered me to lead the Georgia regiment into the battle. I was blind drunk and charged my Lorso right over the Federal ramparts; he had both eyes shot out and both knees broken, and as I went up the rampart I could hear the Yankees cry all down the line: 'Don't shoot that.boy!' My life was really saved by my youth. It was that charge, as I have understood," said Mr. Stevenson, "which led to McPherson's death. I was twice promoted for gallantry on the battle field, and upon my soul it was nothing but that peach brandy." "Wlii .fancy's »not." [Inter Ocean.] At Corinth Nelson's restlessness and med dlesomeness had full play. All his men will remember the sudden order to about face he gave one day when ho moved out to assist Pope and received notice that Pope could take care of himself. He was that day the very personification of the indignant feeling ruling his division. One day during the ' siege he rode to the front and was watching the operations of a favorite battery. The rebel sharp-shooters had taken refuge in an old house far to tha front, and the artillery men were directing their fire at this house. Nelson grew impa tient finally, because tli3 house was not blown to pieces, and rode his horse up to the guns. A sergeant said, "They'll pick you off, gen eral, if you stand there." JEn reply came: "Gotohellsir—damit, I mean thank you sir." Just then "zip" came a "long torn" cutting close to the general's ears. This aroused him at once. He jumped off.his horsy, caught one of the guns, ran it forward by main strength and aimed it himself, remarking that he would show that jackanapes how to fire at him; be would, etc. "A little too high, general," ventured the captain, but he was cut off with the ever ready "Gotohellsir. * and the artilleryman was ordered to "pull the string." Crash, went the ball through < the tree tops not a hundred yards to the front, and going more in the direction of tho moon than toward the object aimed at. But at the same instant one of the other : guns was fired, and being well aimed, the ball struck the chimney of the old house and brought it down. Nelson - seeing only the chimney fall roared out: "I knew it. '. By gad, sir, it takes mo to knock things down about their ears." And then as he mounted his horse to ride away, ha said ' blandly, "Captain, I will come over in tho mornimr and give your men lessons in artillery prac tice. . I can hit them every time." .'>.-/,,,•; The major general did not hear the laugh that succeeded, but "Old Jakey's shot" was never forgotten. . A Snccessful Wasuinsrtou Statue. [Inter Ocean.'] Judge Tourgee says the new statue of Washington in New York is a great success, and adds:. "For the first time in my life I begin to believe that Washington actually lived, i All other representations of the. first president make him look as if ho were say ing, 'Lst us pray!'" ft'eei'.ed no Chloroform. •.- [Texas tings. ] '":'■"■■ A farmer living a few miles from Austin, whose wife waa troubled with an aching tooth, decided to como in town .with her for the purpose of having it extracted. Tha pair took a seat in the cars, and soon after the train started the farmer walked forward into the smoking-car, telling his wife he would be ; back directly. While her husband was ab sent, the conductor came leisurely .along, ticket punch in hand, ; . and approaching; the I old lady, reached over for her ticket, where upon the victim of the toothache opened her mouth, saying: ' "You needn't mind giving mo chloroform, doctor, just pull it right out, anyhow. I can stand it, and when John comes back he'll I eettlo with yer." TJ3E ST. PAUL DAILY GLOBE, FRIDAY MURNINtt, JANUARY 4, 1384. WELL-DRESSED For Ones and His Fondest Day Dreams Bealized. A. Yonns Workinsman Fits Hlnistll Oat in (xootl Close-* at a Cost of About Six Hundred Dollars. [New York Sun.] A young man who was in the crowd at an up-town jeweler's yesterday attracted a great deal of attention. His coat was of country cut and well worn, his trousers were baggy, and his shoes were of a design new to New York. They were made of grain .leather. Yet he wore a high hat in the most fashion able shape and glossy exterior, and two clerks were piling up jewels on the showcase before him. "I'll tell you how it is," said he; "I'm from Pittsburgh and I've come into a little money after working hard all my life. I've always said I'd like to dress up first-class from head to toe, though I never really expected to be able to. But now I've got quite some money, and I'm agoing to go back in as good shape as any man in Pennsylvania. What'll be the price of the best umbrella?' "Well," said the clerk, "we have got them at from $5 to $75— gold-headed ones are $75." "Cracky!" said the young man, "I'll have to change my tune, I guess. I don't want to be a fool. A silver-headed umbrella will do, and $20 will be the outside figure. You see," I didn't know how much things cost. First I went and - got silk drawers, silk undershirts, and silk stockings. • The stockings cost $5 a pair, and the shirts and drawers $10 apiece.; I got two sets, and that cost $50. Then I got two shirts for $2 each, and a couple of dollars' worth of collars and cuffs. Tho first timo I got a set back was when I went for a hat. It was on Broadway. I ain't going off Broad way, because I want the best. Well, I wanted the highest priced hat, and they brought out one for $25—tho darndest looking thing ever you saw. It was white, and made of otter fur. I got this silk one for $10, and I guess this is good enough. I went to a tailor's and got a nice black diagonal suit for §SO, and a beaver overcoat, lined * with satin, for $90. There may be higher priced clothes, but the goods suited me, and the jj tailor said there wasn't anything better for me in his shop if I was the biggest man in Pennsylvania. That's what I want. I'm close as a monkey on. a floating log, but I'm going to fit out first class just for once, if I save all the more the rest of my life. I've got to wait here 'most a week for my clotlics, an 1 I'm payin' $3 a day indoors, and about as much outdoors, but I don't care just this once. He got a silver-headed umbrella for $20. He asked what a pair of sleeve buttons would cost, and was visibly amazed at hearing that he might pay §100 for intaglios and as high as $50 for gold ones. He got a pretty pair for SIS. He paid $12 fora gold pencil and $5 for a silver toothpick, although tli3 clerk showed him toothpicks for double the money. A set of shirt studs worth $120 staggered him, and he got a moderately plain set for 810. He said ho wanted a match box. but on being shown one for §300 said that as it was the only one worth having, and yet v.'as a ridiculous thing to pay so much for, he wouldn't buy any. Finally he came to the watches. . i ! "Now," said he, "I want a good gold watch, and I want one that I won't be ashamed to haul out before any lady in the world. The truth is I don't live right in Pittsburg, but I come from close by there, and there's a good many swells where I belong, and I'm worth more than the whole of 'em, and I ain't agoin' to take a back seat when I get there. I suppose you can show mo watches for $50Q " "Seven hundred dollars, sir," said the clerk; "our repeater and split-second watches aro $700. But if . you want a good first-class watch, as good for all practical purposes as any that was ever made, take one of these for s2oo." .'.■ That is what the young man did, though not until he had handled a $700 watch for several minutes most tenderly and with longing in his eyes. He could afford it, he said, but he thought it would be foolish. "Curious thing 1" he said, quite irrelevantly; "I don't feel as if I had so much money, after all. I came here to get the very best of every thing, but I believe when I go back I won't have any of the highest-priced things except shoes, hat and underclothes. Now, I thought $7 would buy the best shoes on Broadway; but when 1 came to get them they cost $ IS. The}' are beauties though. They have me dium soles and patent leather up over the foot, about like a slipper, and from tho leather up above the ankle they have what are called stockingets, that is, black silk up pers with flesh-colored kid under them." "But they are evening shoes. "Oh, are they? Well, I don't care what they are. I guess they'll take the cake where they're going, day or night. Well, what do you suppose I paid for handkerchiefs—silks of course? Why, I paid $5 each, and $5 for suspenders, and Jo for a penknife." "We have some jeweled suspender attach ments at $120—very beautiful, indeed," said the clerk. "Ob, never mind showing 'em," said the young man. He bought a comparatively plain vest chain, a double one, for $45, and then said that he" did not think there was anything elso that he wanted except gloves, and he had priced them and found that the very.best kids only cost $2; though he could pay $18 if he wanted sealskin. He jotted down his purchases on a card, and when lie came to calculate the total he said that at first he had thought it would reach $3UL), then $400, and that now it was evident that by the time he had spent a week in town at $6 a day and paid his fare back to his honi3 $650 would bo about the full amount ho would have ex pended. An Awful Blow. ' [Chicago Tribune.] J '. It has suddenly been discovered that the swell English, actors in New ' York—llr,l Osmond Tearle, Charles * Coghlan, '"Gerald Eyre, Wihnbt Eyre, and Mantell— all Irish. It is an awful blow to the Anglo maniacs. Thcsi eminent actors have been worshiped for years in New York as perfect types of English swells, and the incontrovert ible fact that they are Irish causes the keen est sort of disappointment The descendants of Irish kings seem to ba rated lower in the city of the largest Irish population than th:? descendants of Giirth the Swineherd! This is hard on the kings. What to Tesicli Your Daughters. : .. ' ' ' [Boston Transcript] A bit of wholesome advice is credited to Washington Irving in OrviJle Dewey's auto biography, as follows: Mrs. S. told me that one evening he (Irving) strolled up to their piazza and fell into one of . his easy and'un premeditated talks, ■'■' when he said, among other things. '"Dou't be anxious about tho education of your' daughters; they will do very well; don't teach them so many things —teach ' them .one thing." " "What is that, Mr. i Irving?" ' "Teach them to be ' easily pleased." ; \ ; : , ' ? Another Short Hair Era. [Croffut's New. York Letter.] : ;. It looks as if another short-hair ; frenzy was going to strike the ladies. A good many in their 'teens now | consider it : the thing} to 1 cut off theiv hair and wear it curled close to their ■ scalps, and yesterday I saw a row of bonnets in a milliner's window, each decorated with a ■ little :. ruff of frizzo.l hair ■ sawed under tho back side in the neck. . . " To prevent mould on jelly, melt paraffin, and pour ove; it. . ", BABKES W SCOTLAND. The Evangolist Coughing and Snoez ■r ing in a Yellov7-Erown Fog. 6itt32row & Jostle of Spectra* in a City of Ghosts—-Bat, 6lMh gow Saints Arts liovely. [Stanford (Ky.) Journal.] Glasgow, Scotland, is a . favorite resort in ! summer, and tourists ;ck to enjoy the in vigorating climate. Of : course there must be a compensating discomfort for all this, ; and one hits it in perfection in .November. Wo were forewarned and vso in a certain measure forearmed; but I have only to say that tho grim reality far exceeds our most j imaginative expectations. We are just now in the second day of a fog, of the genuine London sort, technically known as "pea soup" fog, from its general color and density. About the " hue of a London brick, it is of brownish yellow— taking hold of the throat and eyes with a rasping, pyroligneou3 effect, this impacted mixture of the breath of 50,000 chimneys and 700,000 pairs of lungs is held in solution by the raw, condensed moisture of a Scotch November. One must be on the spot to appreciate it. The solitary pleasant feature of this par ticular fog id that it renders the almost illimita ble sign of Wylia & Lochhead, Funeral Under takers," etc., etc., invisible—the last written words bein? the portion that spans the full capacity of our spacious front window. In glaring golden letters and fully keeping up the impression produced by the issue at short intervals of the doleful hearses and mourning carriages described in a previous letter. By the. way, this wealthy firm, ramifying in various kindred departments, in ; several parts of the city, were burned out in Bu chanan street,last Saturday week, where their immense furniture establishment contrib uted in part to one of the most destructive fires that Glasgow has had for many years. 'After- our service at Patrick, we all ran up by the tram to the scene of con flagration and 'from a favorable point wit nessed the terrible sight. But to return to our "pea-soup." We have I kept our four gas burners in the sitting-room up i) their full capacity all day yesterday aud to-day thus far. Every time the door opeai the enemy rushes ;; in, and in vain do we essay to shut \ the successive re-enforce ments of filthiness out. So we cough and gasp ■ and sneeze and weep, and bear it as best wo can, after every fresh incursion. [ Outside, the" rattling* of lumbering vehicles go by; the noise of wheels upon the paving stones, coming out of invisible depths, with nothing of drivers, horse; or carriages seen. Out of the yellowish-brown abyss also pro- i ceed shouts, whistles, calls of various kinds ! expostulator\. obligatory and explanatory, i ! connected with the invisible mass of human ity and horse-flesh enveloped in Ifno smoky mist. The trams creep cautiously along the j rails; carters lead their horses by the bit; all grope, grope as best they can to their several destinations. On the sidewalk people plunge i along, bumping against each other, emerging I in an instant from vacuity and disappearing | in another instant into fog space. ! A very jostle of spectres in a city of ghosts, :is this great city of Glasgow now. I* only ; we could afford it and there were not duties forbidding, we j should mako our way to tho first railway station and ride until we had outstripped this heavy vapor's march and not return until it had succumbbed to favor ing winds and showers. George threatens to marry an organ-grinder, and persuade him to return to Italy. So much for our present atmospheric surround ings, of which I can not give too murky a description, seeing it all comes from the hate ful "prince of the power of air"— "the ruler of the darkness of this age"—the hater of God and our tortured race. I glad his reign is almost over now. .;.; \ Even as I write the shadows nro rolllnS away. Marie springs to the wind© cUrtaihi and throws them back with the glad cry, "Here comes the daylight; praise the Lord !' 7 And although tho undertaker's sign, again ap pears, and a funeral cortege, t3iuyt>:d by the returning daylight, issues promptly forth to do its needful but dreadful work, we rejoice, because . "the light is sweet; and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." Only a fifteen-minute "lift" of our sooty envelope. The fog is back once more, gas relighted and curtains drawn again. A sigh replaces tho exultant shout and the under taker's sign vanishes. On Friday night the Patrick mec^in.'r closed in fullest blessing, with twenty-one for soul and thirteen anointed for healing. At the j bibl6 reading the subject was Faith Heal ing," and fifteen more took Jesus for their physician. Altogether Dearly seven hundred have confessed the dear Lord for tho soul in tho six weeks' service. About fifty anointed for healing. Praise tha Lord. One word in conclusion. Glasgow saints are lovely; thirteen drawing-rooms have wel come us at the hospitable homes of different ones. More and more we think the Scotch are tho Kentuckians of the British isles. We have felt so happily at home ever since coming here. Such dear, receptive, generous people, rich and poor, we have seldom met. Of those who have attended the services with any regularity, hardly one has failed to receive glorious blessing and most been thoroughly convinced of the truth of "our gospel" in the main feature of it. Of the loving reception in social circles and charming families, I can only speak in terms of tenderest and most grateful affection. Tho Lord bless them every one! '"Comparisons are odious." I . will not treat as rivals such glorious places as High gate and Glasgow. I can only say, no city can exceed Glasgow. It will always be one of the very brighest spots in loving memory. Ever in Jesus. Geo. O. Barnes. . One of the Unforsiven. [Cor. Boston Advertiser.] "We had a perfect hegira of southern j officers in the early days of 1561," said my I friend, "but the people at Washington did ; hot seem anxious to keep them, and their i resignations were accepted as fast as they ■ were sent in. No one-had to leave without i his discharge. I only know one man among all those who joined the rebels who laid him self open to the charge of desertion. And i with him it wa-; only a technical offense. ! 'Bee' Robinson was a captain in the dragoons. ! Ho was a Virginian, I and. full of .secession ! His station was out in Utah some | where, and he sent in his .resignation. At I the same. time he started east himself. In ■ some way they heard of it at headquarters, and his application was rejected. ■■■■;' He knew nothing of this, .and went south. Not ap ! pearing, he was dismissed as a deserter; when j hostilities finished 'he was a Confederate j brigadier. . Since then ha has been an insur • ance agent; but when he sent up his applica j tion for an amnesty it was returned from the j war department, because he had not been dis charged from the army. He, , Davis and' Toombs are the three who have not been restored to their civil rights of all those who ' went into the war for slavery and secession." Houses Without Kails. . [Exch&Bg*.] ■ Japanese houses in the larger cities, such as Tokio, Nagasaki, Hakraadi, etc., are- of <_'one general : shape, ■■being ■ two stories high, and : put together by a curious method of mortis ing, at which these people are adepts, not one nail being used throughout the construc j tion of the building.. All interiors are of the j bare grain of the wood, and are kept scrupu ; lously clean; by three and sometimes four washings daily. ' - . '■.. . '■■ Life: . Pooty felles in disworl'ain't gin' rally, good fur ■ much 'ceptin' jes\. to look at; de rosebush doan' pah out well when yo'cuh; to lay in yd 1 wihtah fish-wood. . .. ; LECTURERS' BUGBEARS, People "Who Break Up Public Spsak* ers— "Queerers" Who Are a Terror. [Chicago News.] . "Did you ever Lear of a 'queerer ? 17 asked a well-known lecturer in the course of a chat. The visitor had not. "Well, if you should ever have the mis fortune to become a lecturer and run foul of one you will never forget him. A 'queerer 1 is a person who distracts your attention from your lecture end gives you much trouble. You know, about as scon as a lecturer takes to his feet he singles out a few persons in the audience, and utterly ignores all the rest. I have often picked out one person nt my left, one in front, and another at my right before I had spoken a dozen words ; and to these per sons, or to one of them at a time, I addressed every word, of my lecture. The rest of tho audience seemed to be that sea of upturned faces that some poet or other has written about. I never knew why it is that I always pick out two or three or four persons to rep resent the entire audience, and then never see anybody else as an individual, nor do I intend to trouble myself now with searching for the reason. It is easier to say it is so and let the whys and wherefores go. "Butthe 'queerer?' Ah, yes. Well, when one of the*w persons whom I pick out to represent tbo rest of the audience happens to have any very noticea ble peculiarity about his face or his clothing, I call him a 'queerer,' because he ,'quoers/ as they say in slang—that is, he distracts my attention from my lecture, j Once I hit on a man whose j necktie had - hitch<*i up ; over his collar and was rubbing against the-back of his neck every time he moved his head. If there is anything that makes me feel like fly ing it is to feel anything of this sort against thj back of my nock, and so I got up a lively sympathy for that man, though ho was one of those nerveless creatures who wouldn't bo fidgety even if the back cf his ;. collar should. be unbuttoned. I could '• fairly feel that hot necktie nibbing against the back of my perspiring neck, and it kept nearly all of my attention. A dozen times I pushed my own necktie i down before and behind, bat the relief was only momentary; the feeling that it was bobbing up and clown and was about to chafe mo came back as soon as I remove;! my hand, N I struggled an, and am not sure whether 1 talked to ■my subject or switched off to a dissertation on misplaced neckties. Finally/when it seemed as if I should jump oat or .my coat if that necktie was uot pushed down, 1 stopped short and said in a loud voice: "Will that gen tleman in the- third row— right there (I pointed dead at him)—will he posh down his necktie?' This provoked a storm of laughter and 1 went on just as it I frequently throw a joke like that into my lectures. "1 suppose those nerveless people would uot balieve ms if I told tlnin the truth that that necktie broke ms all up. "But the ivorst 'queerer' I ever had," con tinue;! the lecturer, "vras one who knew mo and knew how to Lreak me up. If Ihi mado a most determined effort to control my self he would have succeeded. I had had a petty dispute with tho man some time before, and rather v.-., ■/. • 1 him finallyin a lawsuit that grew out or it. He hated me as only a few men in this world know how to hate. Not long after that I was engaged to lecture in that city, and when I reached the railway station that man came up to me and took my hand. I thought it was strange, but he soon explained. Said he: 'If you try to lecture here to-night 1 shall "rattle" you. Now, mind what 1 say—l'll break you all to pieces.' With that ho left me. I knew he was not a low-minded man who would throw any thing at mo, or do any s»rt of personal vio lence, and I knew ho was a niau of con I r able talent for public speaking himself, but I could not think what means he would employ to 'rattle' me, as he called it In a niiuuts after I had begun my lecture, however, I knew his scheme, and I was afraid of it, too. Just as I arose to begin he also arose from a seat right in front, and took off his overcoat, '[hat was to attract my attention to him. Then he sat down and looked me squarely in the eye, making a hideously scornful face. Tiy as I might I could not keep my eye off him. He represented the entire inH'i:-.' division of tha large audience, and our gaze ii-'et —a dozen time >a mi mte 1 was going to . Every time I looked at him he gave iiis iace r. twitch that said to m-?, 'You aro mak ing c.i infernal fool t>J yourself,' and I rea!!y if I were talking to an assembly of b fct a* enemies; and to save me I con. \. . ;i up to my work. If ever a charmed bird triei to throw of! a sjiell I tried harder to get out from under the influence of tiiac bugbear—that evil spirit that sat on that man's face. It took ail tho power I had to remember my subject, let alone becoinin;.: enthusiastic over it. Several times I thought of stopping and asking to have that 'queerer' removed from the hall, but then I thought it would be a virtual acknowledgement of his power over me, and also that the audience would not understand why a quiet, reputable citizen should be removed, so I struggled on, doing my best, sweating, and almost swear ing, making a very poor mess—a very coid mess, too, I may say—of my lecture. Tha papers said next day that I did not do myself justice, and, as they had all heard me lecture under more favorable circumstances, they laid the blame on my selection of subject, one paper saying I was not en rapport with it" Visitors to "Xewspni>er Sow.' 1 [Cor. Troy Times.] "Newspaper Pow" used to be a feature in "Washington. The row of buildings on Four teenth street, opposite Wiilard's hotel, made it up. Now the correspondents are scattered, and but a fraction of tho offices i remain on the old ground. The Ebbitt. house i drove out a good number and the rest drifted to other quarters. Not long ago I noticed a paragraph in some newspaper saying that the "row" does not hold the prominence it used to do when Charles Sumner and Henry Wilson used to sit in The New York Tribune office in the evening. Even Eoscoe Conkling could be found occasionally talking affairs at the correspondents, and Blame. was a frequent ; visitor until; the investigation of 1877, when he cooled toward the "row" and lias never been there since. Yet, even in these days, 1 have seen Secretary Folger calling on the correspondents, with his young secretary, Frank Sperry;; Attorney General Brewster often rides down in; his carriage to run on pleasantly, for hp is a companionable ? man when he cares to be; Judge Gresham is an especial favorite in the newspaper offices. Senator Hawley can be found: there almost any evening when congress is in session. Ex- Speaker Keifer was a frequent caller last winter, Lut he will not be so amiable after the - broadside which has been launched at him. » Pannmelsburg, near Berlin, is tho largest t goose market in the world. They handle 20, --i)00,00'J a year of the succulent bird. , ' •■■: -'V ~ . '• •-- . ' '.- Chicago Herald: There is talk of bringing"' James liassejl Lowe!! home and working him as a : foreign*' >" '• '•■ ■ urn tour. '■■■■' Narrow (Jr.nge. Colorado has 2,000: miles of narrow gauge roads in operation; Texas has 1,190; Mexico, 1,100; "Arizona has 700 under construction, and Utah about 1,600 projected,: ! ' The Albion (Mich ) ladies' brass band is a flourishing "• institution. [ \ The base drummer ess is a widow with nine children. - Jay Gould testified in court the other day that the way to win in Wall street "is to find out which way the wind blows, and then get in the current" THE DAYS CRIMES T3.IZ \3lCUJ}Rtti£ji t +* M'CJRTU VAT MIL US Cl trUE LO. * ' */ 'V ~X* A t'fcioago KUp>oniniiltß Ilrr.: TFinf d — ' v•".: Mtirdere.s llaii^t* at NtH..TT7\. J.. ' —Other Criminal Notes. THE MTTBD«: 07 u'CA3XTiT. « [Special TeSeKram to tii« Globe.] Miles City, M. T., Jsn. B—Wm. F. ; Goggin, alias 'Kerry Eagle," who was Bnspicioned of being the muiderer" of Daniel McCarthy, on Deo. 24, had r pre liminary trial to-day and was held to p.wait the action of the grand jury. The evidence was weighty and there oil be no doubt of his being cmvicted. The clothing which he wore on the night of that brntal murder bear testimony, &cd his tervoDs action and wild expression during the progress of the trial attsat to, his knowledge of the crime. shot WHILE thiing to zbcapb. I Special Teletum to the Glob«.l Milks City, Mont.. Jan. 3.—Yesterday afteruooD, at about a quarter past five. the garrison at Fort Keogb, vmb shoked to lesrn that a soldier named K. oh, had met his death at the hands of a guard named Dhlmer. The cirenmßtßiio«<* . attending ibethootirc were few, iind can be sur mized on the Bta-eoant that, the deceased wfts known as "Big E< otb," and was under arr*«t and in charge of Uhlmer, and, becoming r*/raotory, was reprimanded by hit gnura. la retaliation he made an attack on the guard, and then Bought to eßcap* from him. Uhlmer, af ter halting him, fired, the charge taking effect in tne body, and killing him almost instantly. It is a affair, but is prob ably JBstiflalile under military law. A KLEPTOMANIAC rCNISHBD. 1 Special Telegram to the Globe.] Chicago, Jan. —The continued case of Mis. Lottie Brown, charged with tho theft of numerous packages of dress good* from Morj;artthan, Boulond & Co., W. E. Pardridßo & Co, C. A. Coutaut & Co., Cbas. Goneage & Co., OTiutflon & Co., and Marshall Field & Co., oame up before Jus tice Kerstor this morning. By consent of the eoujplainante, with the "exception of Mrrshall Field & Co , which case was con tinued until Tuesday next for want of proper evidence, the charges were changed from larceny to tho*e of duorcioro and a fine of 125 imposed on all of th& cases, of which there were seven. Oa pay ment of the money and signing of the bond to appear Tuesday in Marshal Field'i case Mrp. Brown left the court room with her husband a poorer and doubtless wiser woman. EXECUTIONS. Newaek, N. J., Jan. 3—Martin was harged at 11:26. Martin was condemned to death for tho murder of his wife nad children. Ho was n#ed fifty three years and waa born in England. Martin was out down at 11:50. Jameg B. Graves was hnD/j at 11:04. Ho was carried to the scaffold. GraTo3 was a recluse and sixty-five years of age. In the house wherein ho lived was a family named Soden, which included a boy named Eddie. Graves was annoyed by boys, among them Eddie Soden, and on the night of December 20, 1881, he crept op behind Eddie, while the latter was light ing a lamp, and shot him dead. The dsatu warrant for the execution of Graves was read in the hospital. He was then borne to the scaffold. He sobbed and moaned piteously. There was no religious ceremony.. Martin gave his counsel a snort address to the public, expressing great Borrow for shedding innocent blood, attributing the crime to the influence of disease, medicine and liquor, which had an unr.sua! effect. He had confessed he bore no malice, and •hoped shortly to be in peace with God. The address closed with exacts (r< m '.he I Episcopal litany. PEOVeD TO EE A FOEOVIi. Washington, Jan. 3.—The Star says, Clarence M. Barton, for several years connected with different papers in this citj, is mining and it is alleged has left behind him a number of forced endorse on which ho obtained nio?iey. Among tbe names said to have been forced ara Wm. M. Dioksen, foreman of tbo first F.tar route jury, and Henry D. Botler, a mer chant. General Brady's uace id on the, same paper, but it is not ascertained whether it is wa3 forged or rot The amount of the fraudulent paper is un known. Bartor was night editor of the Republican whan the affray took place be tween the Soteldo Bros, and himself, which resulted in the death of the elder Soteldo. BOBBING THE MAILS. New Yosk, Jan. 3.—Frank Barr, Jr., postal clerk from New York to Port Jervis, Las been jarrested for robbing the roailp. GBATETOL-CCMFOETINO. EPPS'S COCOA! BREAKFAST. "By a thorough knowledge of tlio natural laws) which govern tho operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of the fine properties of well-selected Cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a deli cately flavored beverage which may save us many heavy doctors' bills. It is by the judicious use of such articles of diet that a constitution may be gradually built up until strong enough to resist every tendency of . ditespo. Hundreds of subtile maladies are floating around us reedy to attack wherever there i.« a weak point. - We may escape many a fatal ehaft by keeping ourselves well' fortified with pure blood acd a properly nourished fiame."— Civil Service Gazette. Made simply with boiling water or milk. Snld in tins only (>£ lb. and lb.) by Grocers, labeled tlina:.._ 1.... ■ f \ lAMF^TIPPv 9. Pfl HomcEopatMc Chemist. JiiluDO II TO U LUi, Jx»do.v, <Kkgia»». COSTBAGT WOEE. Grading Fillmorc iraiie. ■ ■ Office of the Eo/bd op Public Wobbs, ) Citt of St. Paul, Micn^ Jan. 8, 1884. > Sealed bids will be received by the Board ol Public Works, in and for the corporation of tLe i city «f St. Paul, Minneeota, at their office ie said city, until 12 m. on the Htii day of January,. A. 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I iunxlly mayj I glvo (heir li«t>| I en that hccs*t I f.r.'.t^ •:,'>'* H collar io Si'j, I luxe I Ask 5-yi* 0 .- «jfj I I - ■ i YELLOWSTONE iiiisil Pirt Is li&lUjmi 101 He LIVINGSTON, M. T. The Denvar ."of the Northwest —la tl»o tersjinaJ point of throo divisioaa of the Korthoi . I'p.cifio Kailr'.ati. It if. locatod as the goo^rrapbicßl ccn ter of that line, It hie had a moot uiarroiocs growth. The Branch Line to the XeUoTstoce National Park has its term' ■ . point here, and all the im mense travel to that famous resort is compelled to stop here frora a few hoc re' time to a number of days. The principal ehope of the railroad company between Brainerd acd the Pacific Ocean are now being built ere. They will give em ployment to probfibly 1000 men. Pine timber 18 plenty in tho eurroundirg country, ar.d various sawmills is the immediate vicinity of tho town furakk -work for hosts of employ, s. The valleys of the Yellovis'.i.nt, Bhields and tiir.ith rivers are TBSt and very rich in agricultural resources, and are-well settled. '-in ir trade in entirely tributary to Lmmv-i'ir., while magnificent cattle ranches abotuu) in every direction; vast mires of true bi tuminous ccal, which can bo cokud for 1% cecta per ton; aleo rich iron mince aro within trro to four raiiee from town, a-d r.ro being worked. The gold placer mines of Emigrant Gulch, B*« Crevice, Mill Creek, and Eight-Mile Cr&'-k, «ra all in the Yellowstone. Yalloj ju&t south of Liv ingston, directly tributary to it. and are being actively worked. That wonderfully rich quarts country, silver and t;old, known as the Clark's Fork District, ii» south of town, and Livingston is the headquarters and outfitting point. Im mense d9pceita of limestone, sand tor a, clay and £no brick clay, ere but two miles distant, and the manufacture of lime is alicbdy an important in dustry, this being the first pcint after ie<mr>K Da lath on the east, l,oou :iiilen, where lime rock ia found. There arc eoino 2CO buildings in r;«-r;rtf> of construction. Tho Park Addition on which the new 117,000 school honee is expected to be bnilt is the most desirable residence propoi ty in town, while the Palace Addition eontai&l the ch»ij.et.t business property offered for —the tendency of bHfiinciee and boaine** irrpViiTcratnt* beiac largely in that direction. There are two bauke, tbe lint National •■; ii. private bank; two nowtpapeis, one daily and one weekly. A Knelt ing Bod redaction c- mpmay iaalto in process of formation, to be located here. There a:e maty oharcr.- for busiiiaes enterprises cf Ttriouß kinds. Like all new countries, tbe o portuuifies for profitable employment are very good ted 'work men as well as men of capital will ficd plenty ot. chanc** in and around the town. Livingston m lew thsn year oltl, yet it is probably the sccoad " largest city in Vcstaoa: It is not eurptiair ;> when one considers that agriculture alone has' made Fargo; theNorth&ni Facilic compcuy'b rail- j road shops, Brainerd; enmm&r Ti&itote, Ktratoga; lumber, tan Claire; silver and gold mines, Den ver; cattle Kansas City; iron and cljJ, Pittbbarg;. that a combination of ail cf throe factors an is found here Ebonld, ■within tbe next five'years make this point a city of at least iO.I'CO I people. The prediction may sewn a wild one, bat we hare yet to see or ksow anyone who, a tern years ego,, was accused of being wild then ■in their predict tions, who predicted one-half of what has actual ly occurred in the Northern Pacific country . W« sold lot* in Fargo a few yep.re ago for 9100 each, that would sell to-day for $10 000; acres at Jerr town for $15 per acre (cost 48 cents) that to-day sell for $1,500, and are built on. We have acres to-day in Fargo which cost 48>j cents th/ 1 ara now in town lota selling at the rate of |1,2C0 per acre. So lots at Livingston which we cow < ffer at from 25 to $260 will, inside i.f 8 mo»,aa]] &t from $600 to $10,OCO apiece. They Lave done bo at all good points on the road in, the p**t, urn! thoy will in the fntare—particularly tX an weep. OoDally good point like this. V7o ftd-asce pric* irJaly, /' ;-■;;.;.». ■;> ■.;,"■>■' C. IiIVIBGSTOH & CO., a -68 East Third street, 4 St. P»nJ Q. G. BEAEDSLBY, * - F»ri». Dakofr » • * W. A. frMITH, General igent Liv^sicd, M~r.ta,,, ■