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OUT OF THE WINDOW.
Oct of the window she leaned and laughed,
A girl laugh, idle, and foolish, and sweet
Foolish and idle, it dropped tike a call
Into the crowded, noisy Btreet.
n he glanced at the glancing face.
Who had caught the langh as it
fluttered and
fell.
And eye to eye for a moment there
They held each other as if by a spell.
All in a moment passing there
And into her idle, empty day,
All in that moment something new
Suddenly seemed to find its way.
And thronsrh and throogh the clamorous hours
That made his clamorous, busy day,
A girl's langh, idle; and foolish, and" sweet.
Into every bargain found its way.
And through and through the crowd of the
streets.
At every window, in passing bv.
He looked a moment, and seemed to see
A pair of eyes like tne morning sky.
Nora Perry.
THE OLD HOMESTEAD.
When home the woodsman plods with ax
Upon his shoulder swuns.
And in the knotted apple tree
Are scythe and sickle hnng;
When low about her clay-built nest
The mother swallow trills.
And decorously slow, the cows
Are wending down the hills ;
What a blessed picture of comfort.
In the evening shadows red.
Is the good old-fashioned homestead,
With its bounteous table spread 1
And when the winds moan wildly,
When the woods are bare and brown.
And when the swallows clay-built nest
From the rafter crumbles down ;
When all the untrod garden-paths
Are heaped with frozen leaves.
And icicles; like silver spikes.
Are set along the eaves ;
Then when the book from the shelf is brought,
And the fire-lights shine and play.
In the good old-fashioned homestead,
Is the farmer's holiday !
THE STOUT OF STERICKER.
Wk liad really enjoyed our Verdi, even to
bis trombones; the soprano had sung her
best, her soaring notes seeming to ring mu
sically against the very ceiling of the house,
like good coin upon a counter; the basso had
produced rich tones from strange depths, as a
bounteous host might bring forth luscious
and potent wines from subterranean regions;
the tenor bad shot amongst us, no w and then,
a shrill C above the line, that had lodged in
our ears, rending them as though it had been
a barbed arrow. Altogether the representa-.-
tion had been most unexceptionable and ad.
mirable; when -suddenly there occurred an
excitement in tho theater which could not be
ascribed to Verdi or his interpreters. Some
thing of a gasp was audible, something of as a
cry, the sound of something falling, of people
rising from their scats and questioning and
conversing in hurried sentences without re
gard to the transactions of the stage.
An opera-glass had fallen from one of the
., ' upper private boxes on to the head of a gen
41eman sitting in the stalls.
Now, I had seen the glass fall; had seen a
round, white, braceleted arm and a gloved
band stretched out to arrest, as it seemed to
me, its descent. But, of course, it was all
done in a moment; so rapidly, indeed, that
there was scarcely time for the thing to im
press itself upon my mind, and the instant
after it had happened I began to doubt
whether I had really seen what I had seen.
It was so much more as though I had im
agined the thing than actually witnessed it.
However, that the accident had occurred
there can be no question. The gentleman
upon whose cranium the glass had descended
had been carried into the lobby. . He was
said to be stunned, if not killed, by the blow.
A belief prevailed that his skull had been
fractured. In any ease an ugly wound had
been inflicted upon his head, which, by the
way, was bald, except for a crescent-shaped
fringe at the back, and a few scanty locks ar
ranged over the crown. - The blood had
flowed freely, dabbling and disfiguring his
white cravat, and embroidered shirt-front. ,
The tragic matters happening upon the
stage were quite quenched by this serious ac
cident in the stalls. The fate of our bald
comrade was of much more concern to us. I
hastened to make inquiries as to how he
fared.
He was not dead; so much was presently
clear. In fact he was gradually recovering
consciousness. He had just risen from his
seat, I learned, when the opera-glass struck
him, and he had fallen back as though he had
been shot. But I distrusted this account
afterward, when I ascertained that he had
been seen to stoop forward and piek up the
' opera-glass, which, indeed, he still held
tightly in his hand. He was breathing heav.
ily, rocking a little to and fro, and moaning at
intervals. He was a middle-aged man, pursy
of figure, with luxuriant whiskers that might
owe something of their rich brown hue to
art, linked together, as it were, by a branch
line of mustache running across 'his upper
lip, and with a shaven chin such as, in defer
: ence to the peculiar and unpicturesque fancy
of the Commander-in-Chief, has been for
some time the vogue with the British army.
Still I was of opinion, though I hardly know
on what grounds exactly, that the unfortunate
man was not a- member of the military ser
vice of my country. Then he started, lifted
his head and turned an eye toward me. Im
mediately, but to my very great surprise, I
recognised him.
It was"1 Stericker. I have said, advisedly,
that he turned an eye toward me. His other
eye was fast closed, seemed indeed to have
sunk hick into his head.
Then he moved a tremulous hand in my di
.recUon. lie knew me, it seemed. He tried
to speak ; but it was some time before he
could utter any intelligible sound. At last we
discovered his meaning. He had lost some
thing which he desired us, meaning myself
and the bystanders, to search for.
Search was instituted accordingly. After a
-while, very near to the stall he had occupied,
there was picked up a glass eye! It was a
new fact to me, though of course it was not
a convenient opportunity for pondering upon
it, that Stericker wore or possessed a glass
eye. I had never perceived any deficiency in
"his organ of sight, nor even suspected it.
The glass eye had always seemed to me a
genuine article; by which I mean one that he
could really see with.
He was gratified at the recovery of his glass
eye. "He was well enough now to dust it with
bis handkerchief and but this he did not ac
complish without considerable difficulty to
replace it in the socket it usually filled. Cer
tainly the aspect of that portion of his visage
was benefited by the more tenanted and fur
nished character it now again assumed. He
then took from his pocket a miniature mirror
. not much larger than a crown-piece, and gazed
at the reflection it furnished of his artificial
organ. He desired to see that it was properly
adjusted, and what artists call "in-drawing,"
-with regard to his other features. There was
something curious, I thought, about the
severity with which his real eye scrutinized
his .sham, cue; while yet, as it seemed, the
sham one was of more importance to him,
more cherished by him than the real one.
But something else was missing.' A shirt
stud. For this also diligent search-was made ;
and- again with success. - It was found on the
' floor of the lobby a curious-loekmg stud :
pearl, I thought, m the first instance; but it
was not pearl exactly; no, nor white corne
lian, which was my second supposition. It
was- of an obleng shape, milky white and semi
transparent, in a handsome setting of brill
iants. - Stericker expressed great satisfaction,
if in arather incoherent way, that the stud bad
been found. He clenrty prized it; if not for
its intrinsic worth which, without doubt, was
considerable, however then, as I judged, for
some associations, possibly of a tender kind,
connected with it. : . s :, , -, ,'..
He' was now so far recovered that he was
left solely to my care. The opera was over
and the theater was emptying fast. He Bat
for a few minutes longer, and then rose almost
briskly, and sajd:
" I'm glad you were here, old fellow. I don't
Know what i should nave done without you.
A strip or two of plaster over the wound and
I shall be able to get on again pretty well, I
dare say. Any chemist can manage that for
me. Ana pernaps a glass or not brandy-ana-water
would puU me together as much as
anything." ,. --, - Jf j ' - - a
I was glad to find him equal to the proposed
proceeding. I had not Tentured to hope for
so rapid a recovery.
" Not but what it was a nasty shock to a
fellow," he said.
I quite agreed that it must have been a very
nasty shock a most unfortunate accident.
At this he laughed rather wildly.
" Whatever vou call it, don't eall it that,"
ne saia.
" You mean that it was not an accident V
It appeared that he did not mean that.
" But I saw the class fall," said I.
- "You mean that you saw her throw it
down?"
"Saw? Who?" Ivdcmanded, unconsciously
aaopung tne raterrogauvcB m xlsmiiici.
"Arabella!"
I thought him wandering in bis mind.
knew nothing of Arabella. I could not r
member that I had ever encountered, out of
works or nction, any woman or tnat name.
And then I came to ask myself what, after all,
did I really know of Stericker himself? In
truth, it was very little.
" It was Arabella's doing, of course," he
continued. " I know that very well. I know
tne opera-giass, lor the matter of that,
oil "-lit to. leave it her" -
Where I had first Joet Stericker I am by no
means clear.' I am almost certain that I was
never formally introduced to him. But I had
seen him at various places upon numberless
occasions, until I seemed to have acquired
Suite a habit of seeing him. So at last the
ling was becoming quite absurd there was
no help for it but to recognize him as an ac
quaintance, at any rate. Finding each other
so frequently face to face in the "same place,
beneath the same roof and even at the same
table, what could we do, eventually, but laugh
and nod, and say, " What, you, here V And
then we shook hands.
Still I protest that I knew little of him
beyond what he told me. But then what
does one really know of any man beyond
what he tells one of himself? And certainly
that is not always to be relied on. I did not,
I may add, like Stericker; still less did I re
spect him ; although I had perhaps no special
reason for not respecting him beyond mere
prejudice of a fanciful, and possibly of an un
warrantable, kind. He was, by no means,
however, the man I should have selected for a
friend or even for an acquaintance had choice
been permitted me in the matter. But it
wasn't. I was doomed to meet Stericker in
cessantly and so it chanced that we came to
be almost on terms of .- intimacy with each
other. At least he came to be on terms of
intimacy with me. And he called me "old
fellow." I did not approve of this; indeed, I
thought it a liberty; but what could I do? I
was not really old ;- at any rate, not so very
old. But no doubt I had arrived at that
period of life when the question of age in
its relation to oneself is rather to be avoided
than discussed rest there should arise per
sonal application which could hardly be oth
erwise than inconvenient.
And now had occurred this accident at the
opera-house, confirming as it were my ac
quaintance with Stericker and converting it
almost, into a friendship. He expressed
great gratitude for the assistance I had ren
dered him, although, in truth, it had been
little enough. But again and again he
thanked me, and presently, his wounded head
having been skillfully dealt with and re
lieved by the application of strips of plaster,
I found myself at his lodgings in Half-Moon
street, sitting in an easy-chair smoking a
cigar and drinking a temperate mixture of
brandy-and-water. Until then I had never
really known where Stericker lived.
"And so you saw her throw down the
opera-glass ?" he said, returning to the sub
ject of the accident. 1 corrected him. I had
seen no such thing. But he did not pay
much attention to what I said.
"And how did she look? Handsome, of
course. She was always that; though she
certainly is not now nearly so youngas when
I first met her and loved her. For what
could I do then but love her ? Have you ever
been in love, old fellow?" he demanded, ab
ruptly. 1 said I thought I had. For I felt at the
moment that it was not a thing a man could
be quite certain about, and I rather objected
to the question; and on that account pre
ferred to give a somewhat evasive answer. I
did not wish painful memories to be awak
ened ; they had been asleep and very still for
a good many years. -
. If you doubt about it why then you never
have," said Stericker, oracularly. "There
can be no mistake about an attack of love any
more than about a fit of the gout. I have
Buffered from both afflictions. In my time I
have loved a good deal, and I have, in re
turn, been loved very much indeed. I say it
without vanity."
But he said it with vanity, and it was to
that I objected. He outstretched his right
arm, bringing an expanse of wristband into
view, anu raisea nis nana to bis head, as
though about to pass his fingers through his
hair and crest it up, after the invariable man
ner of the self-satisfied and vain-glorious.
r or tne moment ne naa xorgotten now Daia.
he was ! He had forgotten, loo, the strips of
plaster that cross-barred his crown ! In dis
covering anew these infirmities he evidently
experienced considerable mortification.
I had heard Stericker described as hand
some, but that had never been my opinion of
him. No, he was never, he never could have
been, handsome. He was always well dressed,
although inclined to make an excessive, and,
therefore, a rather vulgar, display of the
jewelry he possessed. His teeth, it is true,
were superb: but I was never nuite convinced
that they were the natural products of his own
gums and his nose was of that large, fleshy
Soman form which has always obtained, to
my thinking, an extravagant measure of ad
miration from the world in general. (My own
nose, i may mention, is altogether of smaller
dimensions, and of a totally different pattern.)
Then he was very upright, cari-vine- before
him his protruding waistcoat with consider
able dignity. Moreover, there was something
imposing about his fcspect and manner, aris
ing, I think, from his imperturbable and
deeply-rooted self-confidence and his fixed
resolution to exact from others, or enforce
upon them if he possibly could, his own
estimate of himself. Still, there was some
thing decidedly sinister about the expression
of Stericker's face: and especially when he
smiled. It was a singularly wicked smile,
that wrinkled his nose curiously, produced
strange dents and a dark flush upon his fore
head, and brought down the inner corners of
nis eyebrows close to his eyes alter a decided
ly ominous fashion.
1 nave lovea ana been loved," he repeated,
" and, I don't mind owning, I have in my time
ilted and been jilted." He said this with a
sort of morbid Don Giovanni air that I
thought particularly objectionable. " Arabel
la jilted me," he resumed, " and has never
forgiven herself for it, nor me either. How
fair she was in those days ! She's fair still,
lor that matter, though she uses more pearl
powaer now wan sue aio. air but false.
Women are often that, you know. Shall I
say always?"
1 deprecated such an. assertion. According
to my experience it was far too sweeping. He
conceded that I was right, possibly. Yet, it
seemed to me, he despised me for my modera
tion. -
11 You remarked this stud." He produced
the stud we had searched for at his request,
ana louna in we lODuy oi tne opera-nouse.
" It would have pained me verv much if I had
lost it.-I regard it as a precious relic it
belonged to Arabella once. In fact why
should I disguise the truth from you ? that
stud is formed out of one of Arabella's front
teeth!" ..-.,: , :. .
His smile as he said this was not pleasant
to contemplate. His confession had certainly
startled me. There was something dreadful
about it, and he had the air of an Indian
brave exhibiting a scalp. He 'gloried in the
possession of Arabella's front tooth! How
had he obtained it? I ventured to demand.
Was it a pledge of affection ? Could they
possibly have exchanged teeth as ordinary
lovers exchange locks of hair? I hardly knew
what I was saying, or of what I was thinking.
1 was a dentist in those aavs. he said.
What he had been before that, and since ;
what profession he followed at the moment
of his addressing me, I really had no idea.
" And Arabella was one of my patients. But
she was no ordinary patient. She was some
thing more, much more than that. She was
for a while my affianced bride. I loved her,
and she loved me at least, we thought that
we loved each other." ,
- "And you didn't?" .
" Well, we didn't, as it happened, love each
other quite so much as we thought we did.
In fact, both were disappointed, and, perhaps,
a trifle deceived.' She- thought I had money;
I hadn't.' i bad been told that she was sin
heiress. Well, she was nothing of the kind.
Still, I am a man of Integrity, though you
may not think it. I had' promised marriage;
I fullv nrnnosed to be sir rnnri sua m v word
The idea of terminating our engagement did
not come from me. But Arabella's temper
was imperfect; she was far from patient; she
was ambitious and, I must add, avaricious
and deceitful. She trifled with me. She still
held me enchained, but she encouraged the
addresses of another and a wealthier suitor.
She designed to employ nic merely as. a
means of Irritating his jealousy and of stimu
lating him "to declare himself. Then I was to
be flung aside as something 'Worthless, be
cause ithaderved-her purpose, and was done
with,... In good time I discovered her treach
ery. I bud intercepted her letters no jnatter
now ana l Knew an. nut ot that sne enter
tained no sort of suspicion. - She had always
found smiles for me, and false words, and ar-
Liuciai caresses. ti wasvnauaening. wen,
she was, as I have said, ray patient: and she
suffered much from toothache. She came to
me in order that I might extract a tooth that
pained her. It was arranged that the opera
tion should be performed under the influence
or cnioroiorm." tie paused.
" Hut surely vou didn't " -
" Hear me out. ." he said, and he smiled. I
thought, horribly. "It was accident, of
course, pure accident.' 1 was dreadfully nerv
ous. Was that surprising? I loved her, and
sue was amazingly beautiful.- it was acci
dent, as I have said : or call it, if you will, an
error of judgment, but nothing- worse than
that' as you value my friendship.' (As a mat-
ter of fact, I did not value his friendship in the
slightest degree; but I did not say so.) ';" My
conuuet, l uo assure 'you, was--strictly pro
fessional. I did noteven kiss her. - But J ex
tracted the wrong tooth I" ; ' ' t
" That was your vengeance ?" I interjected.
"iNo; sne saia so, dui rt wasn't true. 1 ex
tracted, as I believed, the tooth she had
pointed out, desiring me to ok tract it. -Was
it my fault that it was a perfectly sound tooth,
and a front one, too? She said it was; but
women, you know, are not reasonable in such
cases. 1 was a dentist then, with a reputa
tion to lose ; I was a loverthen, although a
deceived one. However, there was no pacify
ing Arabella. 8he was persuaded that I had
done it on purpose. !Su was most violent.
She had predetermined upon a Quarrel with
me, although she had not perhaps fixed upon
u3 piev-jCT; jKrrau iut its oecin-renciK wen,
she brought it on then,. It was an awful
scene. How she abused me ! ' What language
she permUte- herself ! How she screamed !
What hysterics she went into! However, the
tooth was out, there was no mistake about
that."
Here he smiled again, most malevolently,
as it seemed to me.
" Her treachery toward me was punished,
although, as I have stated, by pure accident
or error of judgment, which you please. But
Arabella vowed vengeance against me. In
that respect, I am bound to say, she has been
as good as her word. It's no thanks to her
that I am living to speak of these things to
night." " Then you really believe that she let fall
the opera-glass on purnose!"
" I am quite satisfied of it. She meant my
death. She knew I was there. I had noticed
her before leaning out of her box and taking
note f my position. I was just thinking of
changing it, suspecting what might happen !
when I was struck down. Arabella is a
woman who knows what she is about. She
was always that kind of woman. I know her.
I've good reason to. And it's not the first time
she's planned to punish me as savagely as she
could. You did not know until to-night, per
haps, that one of my eyes was artificial? No,
naturally you didn't. WeU, that was her
doing."
"What! The artificial eye?"
" Don't be stupid," he said rudely. No
doubt I had been rather obtuse; but I had
heard of ladies painting on glass and doing
potichomanie and other strange things in the
way of fancy-work, and for the moment, alto
gether, my mind was in rather a confused
state.
' No," Stericker continued, " but I owe to
her the necessity for wearing an artificial eye.
It happened at the flower-show in the Botani
cal Gardens. There was a dense crowd. It
was in the tent where the pelargoniums are
exhibited.- Not that I care about such things,
but it bo happened. A lady advanced with
her parasol held in front of her. Suddenly
she seemed to thrust it at me, as a lancer
might his lance. Her aim was wonderfully
true. The sight of my left eye was gone for
ever. It was quite a mercy that the spike of
her parasol did not penetrate to my brain.
That was Arabella's doing, of course. Fart of
her revenge."
"And she said nothing?'
" She said calmly: ' I beg your pardon. It
was an accident,,' and passed on. She looked
very handsome. Slid was. superbly dressed.
However, -that she always is. Her husband
is old, but amazingly rich. He labors to grat
ify her slightest whim so I'm told. But her
only desire the sole passion of her life is to
wreak her vengeance upon me. I feel that.
She cannot forget, much less forgive, the loss
of her front tooth. You see, she's reminded
of that unhappy business every time Bhe looks
in the glass, which she does frequently, of
course. She was always vain. And she
means, sooner or later, to be the death of me,
that's quite clear. She's made two very good
attempts: at the Botanical Gardens and, to
night, at the opera. The third time perhaps
she'll succeed."
"But doesn't the thought horrify you ?"
" I accept my destiny," Stericker said,
smiling, and with rather, an affected air.
" It would be something to fall by the hand of
such a woman as that; that would be my con
solation; really a fine creature, you know,
although no longer in the bloom of youth ;
indeed, removed some distance now from the
bloom of youth, but still grand and beautiful,
and so resolute! If she had loved me as she
hates me!"
" You love her still, then !"
"Well, not precisely. But I admire her,
just as I admire the Bengal tigress in the Zoo.
If possible, I should like Arabella to be caged
liKeine tigress; out as mat can t oe weii, j.
wear this stud as a memento to her, and for
the rest 1 take my chance. Now what will
you take? Another cigar? No? Some
more brandy-and-water ?"
No. 1 would take nothing more. 1 had. in
point of fact, already taken more than was
aDsoiuteiy necessary to me. i icii oieneser.
I was much impressed by my experiences of
that night, by what had happened at the
opera, and his extraordinary -narrative
touching the vengeance of Arabella. Was it
true ? I was really not in a state of mind to
determine. Even now I have a difficulty at
arriving at any distinct conclusion on the
subject. But I know that Btericker's face
wore, to - my thinking, a very re
markable expression as 1 quitted him. Mis
smile was simply awful. And strange
to say at least, I think so, though it may not
strike others in that lightI never saw Ster
icker again, He died shortly afterward, as I
read in the newspapers, the victim of a street
accident. He was knocked down and run
over in Hyde Park by a pony phaeton, driven
by a lady, mere was, or course, an inquest
upon his remains, the jury deciding, however,
that he met ins death by misadventure."
Some attempt had been made to hold the
lady responsible, and to charge her with furi
ous driving. But nothing of the kind was
sustained before the Coroner. Various wit
ncsses gave evidence, acquitting her of all
blame in the matter. Her conduct in court
was said to be most becoming. And it was
reported that, attired m very deep mourning,
she had followed Stericker's body to its last
resting-place m Brompton Uemeterv. Now.
was this lady the Arabella of Stericker's
story? She may have been. But I have no
certain evidence of the fact. Nor, indeed,
have I anything further to communicate
touching the life and death of my acquaint
ance BtencKer. am. tne i ear jxouna.
A Successful Farmer.
On Tuesdav we were drivinsr bv the
residence of William Fleet, of Eden
township, and we spied 31r. . sitting by
the roadside on a fence, under the shade
of a large maple tree, smoking his pipe.
we saia: " Taking comlort, Mr. Dieet? '
" Yes," said he, " I am enjoying the
shade of a large tree which, forty years
ago, I trimmed with my jack-knife one
day while I was at work splitting rails at
eleven dollars per month. They were
clearing up the ground, and cut down
many very handsome little maples, when
l selected this tree and requested, as it
stood in the fence-row beside the road,
that it be left standing to remember me
Dy. it was then not thicker than my
wrist. I was then a poor boy. and
worked outfor a living.", Mr. Fleet then
gave a sketch ot his adventures in Indi
ana and his experience among the Indi
ans, in his joking way. How he entered
1,000 acres of land on the Pottawattomie
Reserve, and afterward traded a half in
terest in it for 100 acres where his resi
dence now stands, and how afterward he
wanted to sell it and couldn't, and then
how he shouldered his ax and waded into
the forest and felled the timber on twen
ty acres. The relation of this bit of
personal . history was interesting, and
more so since we know that forty-three
years after Mr. Fleet trimmed that little
maple tree, while he was mauling rails
at the small wages of eleven dollars per
month, he sits comfortably smoking his
pipetunder the same tree, which is now
more .than, two feet "in diameter at the
trunk, and surveys over 1,100 acres of
well,-improved, and" -fertile- land.' worth
$100 per acre. 1 He does more: he counts
nis nocks by the thousand and his herds
by tie, hundreds, his bushels bv the
thousands and his wealth by the hundred
thousands. All the result of hard labor,
honesty and economy. All in forty
. ' ll I I
jews. ri iywt jiiW) owtr. ' - .
j i Sailing by: Kite Power.
The Springfield Union has the follow
ing account of an attempt to sail the
Connecticut in a small boat drawn by a
kite : " At last it was well mounted, and
then; he breeze being fust a little better
tnanatignt angles with their course,
the little boat glided merrily into the
teefh' of the current and almost into the
'teeth' of the-wind'.; The steam ferry
boat : was passed-with cheers. On, on
went the novel craft so successfully that
its crew were almost beside themselves
with delight and triumph, and but for
the necessity of hugging the bottom of
tne rxrat -ana keeping every laculty hxed
on the management of rudder, oaddle
and keel as for their lives they would
nave-aancea aaouoie-sliumeonthe spot.
Probably if the boat bad had a more
prominent keel or had the wind been a
point or two more southerly nothing bnt
the old toll-bridge would have stopped
the unique voyage; but again, in spite of
most deliberate and at the same time
desperate efforts, the freshening westerlv
breeze drew them to the lee shore and
close .by the' building , of the - New En
gland (Hard and Paper Company at the
foot of Broad street, in this city. The
line osraght in a tall tree, and after re
peated efforts to make a new start the
kite ws lowered away over in a garden
some hundreds of yards from the river,
and secured without an injury from any
of its numerous bumpings sufficient to
make a stitch necessary before another
trip."
We plant and the crop grows; but
we da not harvest it until the end of the
season... Most people look too soon for
tne enecsrrTOvTtislirg -
LATEST NEWS.
Proposed Catholic International
Congress in London.
Carlist Bombardment
Irun Commenced.
of
Serious Railway Accident Near Grand
Rapids, Mich.
Other Interesting News Items.
T11E OLD WOULD,
A London dispatch of the 4th says that
France had ordered all Spaniards to leave
the frontier towns to prevent them from
joining in the attack . on Irun by Don
Carlos. The bombardment of thai town
commenced on the morning of the 4th.
According to a Berlin dispatch of the 5th
the relations between Russia and Spain
had assumed a cordial character from which
the Berlin . quidnuncs were arguing a
speedy recognition of the Spanish Re
public. A Bayonne telegram of the same
date says that Gen. Jovellar had defeated the
Carlists with great loss at Albocear. Gen.
Coma had embarked eight battalions for the
relief of Irun. A Hendays dispatch of the 6th
sa3'S the Carlists had begun to hurl petroleum
shells into Irun. The Carlists claimed that at
that date they had repelled two sorties of the
garrison, and had taken effectual measures to
intercept the forces comiDg to its relief. The
Spanish Government had impressed all the
vessels at Santander for the transportation of
troops to Iruu.
The Emperor William has granted a separ
ate representative assembly to Alsace and
Lorraine. According to a Berlin dispatch of
the 9th the Prussian Government had failed
in its first attempt to have Catholic priests
elected by their congregations. The experi
ment was made at Landsberg and only eleven
persons voted. An application had been
made to the proper court -for-the deposition
of the Bishop of Paderborn.
A London telegram of the 5th an
nounces that a great international Cath
olic Congress will soon be held in that
city with the object of maintaining the
doctrine of papal infallibility, sorting the
Pope's right to temporal as well as spirit
ual power, and declaring it to bethe
bounden duty of all Christians to return to
the allegiance of Rome. It is stated that this
proposed Congress is the result of direct in
structions from the Vatican.
A late telegram from Rome is to the effect
that Italy was about to send a note to the
powers of Europe urging them to discontinue
the custom of maintaining ambassadors at
the Holy See, because of the dangers likely to
result from the intrigues of the Vatican. She
says the Government could no longer tolerate
a permanent conspiracy in its own capital. A
dispatch from Rome of the 7th announces the
sudden and serious illness of the Pope.
- Cokea has proposed to send the heads of
all those who had insulted the Government
as the readiest way to get out of the difficulty
with Japan.
Germ ant and Denmark, according to a
late Copenhagen dispatch, had been vigor
ously engaged in the discussion of the rea
sonableness of the expulsion of Danes from
Schleswig-Holstein
' The Lord Mayor's Day and the anniversary
of the birth of the Prince of Wales were cele
brated in London on the 9th. In the pressure
of the crowd to witness the procession two
persons were killed and three severely in
jured.
A Paris dispatch of the 9th says that the
Prince Imperial is to marry the Russian Grand
Duchess Marie. The Archbishop of Tours
died on the 9th.
According to a Trieste dispatch of the 10th
the Turkish authorities had recently captured
thirty of the lenders in the late massacra of
Montenegrin Christians.
A mail from Cologne, Prance, which should
have been forwarded in October, 1872, reached
New York on the 1st. It had been misplaced
in French offices.
IHK WEW WORLD.
Mayor Spencer, of Atlanta, and other
prominent Georgians have been arrested for
violation of the provisions of the Enforce
ment act.
The war claims of Indiana against the
United States, amounting in the aggregate to
$3,000,000, have been settled and paid. j
A New York dispatch of the 5th says the
boss coopers are successfully opposing the
Coopers' Union. They had resolved to em
ploy no man belonging to that organization.
The Episcopal . General Convention ad
journed on the 3d. The next session will be
held in Boston in 1877.
An officer who has' just visited the
Nebraska grasshopper section returned to
Fort .McPherson a few days agA -and je-
ports that, while he had found no cases of
actual starvation, he found much suffering.
Relief must be given or hundreds will starve
before winter is half over.
On the morning of the 5th a passenger
train was wrecked near Moline, Mich., in con
sequence of the breaking of an axle. The
rear passenger car and sleeper were thrown
from the track and overturned. One man
was killed and thirty more or less injured.
On the 3d an election riot occurred at the
polls in Eufaula, Ala., originating, it is said,
in the attempt of a negro to whip another
negro for voting the Democratic ticket. Five
or six hundred shots were fired, with the fol
lowing results: Three negroes killed; four
negroes and one white man mortally
wounded; Beven negroes and one white man
seriously wounded; eight negroes and three
white men slightly wounaedl"
Congratulatory Democratic meetings
were held in New York on the night of the 5th,
at which . addresses were made by Senator
Thurmani Governor-elect Tilden and others. '
- The Republican majority in Iowa at the
October election, according to official returns,
was 39,000.
The New Orleans Committee of Seventy
have called upon the people of Louisiana " to
meet at their respective places of worship on
Nov. 19, to return thanks to Almighty God for
their deliverance from political bondage."
During a fire at Peoria, HI., on the 6th, 100
valuable horses belonging to O. C. Parmley
were burned.
Mrs. Gen. Rawlins, widow of the former
Secretary of War, died in San Francisco on
the 6th. '
Some of the prominent merchants of Mem
phis, Tenn., have been held to bail in the sum
of $2,000 each for discharging colored em
ployes who refused to vote the Democratic
ticket in August last. The arrests were made
under the provisions of the Enforcement act.
The insurance companies which left Chi
cago some weeks ago are returning, and pro
pose to resume business in that city.
Some of the officers engaged in making ar
rests in Northern Louisiana have themselves
been arrested, lined and imprisoned for refus
ing to obey a. writ of habeas corpus issued out
of the court at Vienna. The United States
Commissioner has been also held to bail in
$1,000 to answer to the charge of kidnaping.
Several arrests had been made for alleged
violations of the Enforcement act.
According to a New York dispatch of the
8th there had been 193 deaths from diphtheria
in that city during the preceding two weeks,
and a scientific commission was about to in
vestigate to see if they could discover why the
disease was so prevalent.
The New Orleans Committee of Seventy on
the 8th telegraphed to the President that the
Conservative State ticket had been elected,
and asked that the troops might be with
drawn. That say that " with the return of
our people to power we assure you that the
civil law will become supreme, that its sa
cred obligations will be recognized, both by
the ruler and the ruled, and that there will be
ample protection guaranteed to life and lib
erty within our borders."
The Third Assistant Postmaster-General, in
his annual report, estimates that the depart
ment suffers an annual loss of $1,000,000 by
the use of washed postage stamps.
On the 3d, the eightieth birthday of William
Cullen Bryant, a memorial vase, costing
$5,000, was presented to him by his lriends.
The civil suit of Theodore Tilton against
Mr. Beecber came up on the 9th, and was set
for trial on the 18th. Moulton also filed his an
swer to the libel suit brought by Miss Proc
tor. According to a statement published in St.
Louis papers on the 10th by Prof. Smith, of
Arkansas, 40,000 people in Kansas and Ne
braska are either now or will shortly be in
absolute want of the necessaries of life.
The General of the army in his report to
the War Department gives the total of enlisted
men in the army St 36,441.
In consequence of the low price of fancy
casshneres several of the Eastern manufac
turers have agreed to reduce production 25
per cent.
The vote cast by Massachusetts at the re
cent election was: Gaston, Dem., 95,901;
Talbot, Rep., 89,343; Andrews, Labor Reform,
131.
According to a Brooklyn telegram of the
10th 300 workmen at the Brooklyn Navy
Yard Lad been discharged.
Gold medals, appropriately inscribed, were
presented by the citizens of Mill River Val
ley, on the 10th, to Cheney, Graves, Hillman
and Day, the heroes of the Mill River disaster.
Big Horn, a Cheyenne chief, with twenty
warriors, forty-eight women, twenty-nine
children and 300 horses, surrendered uncon
ditionally to Col. Hall, at the Cheyenne
Agency, on the 4th.
Gen. Hurlbut's majority in tho Fourth
Illinois District is 1,128. Harrison, Dem., in
the Second District, has a majority of seven.
According to a New Orleans dispatch of
the 8th President Orton, of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, had written a
sharp letter to the War Department, demand
ing why, in a time of peace, their wires had
been cut in Louisiana. The matter had been
referred to Gen. Emory for report.
On the 8th, in Terre Bonne Parish, La., a
negro Sheriff, who was elected on the com
promise ticket, was attacked by seven other
negroes. Simms ran from the party three
squares, and, being pursued, turned upon
them and fired, killing one and wounding
another. Simms immediately surrendered
himself, and was sent to jail. Five St. Mar
tinsville prisoners, charged with violating the
Enforcement act, have given bonds for their
appearance before the United States Circuit
Court.
ELECTION RETURNS,
The latest news received up to the morning
of the 10th from the recent State elections In
dicated the following results:
ILLINOIS.
The Opposition have probably gained six
congressmen, the following are elected:
First District, B. G. Caulfield, Dem., gain ; Sec
ond, C. H. Harrison, Dem., gain; Third,
C. B. Far well, Rep., re-elected; Fourth
Stephen A. Hurlbut, Rep., re-elected ; Fifth,
Horatio C. Burchard, Rep., re-elected;
Sixth, Thomas J. Henderson, Rep.; Seventh,
Alexander Campbell, Ind. (probably); Eighth,
Greenbury L. Fort, Rep., re-elected; Ninth,
Ktcnara ll. wnitmg, riep.; lenth, John u.
Bas-by, Ind. (probably): Eleventh, Scott
Wike, Dem.; Twelfth, William M. Springer,
uem.: inirteeniu, Aaiai a,, atevenson, uem..
gain ; Fourteenth, Joseph G. Cannon, Rep.,
re-elected; Fifteenth, John R. Eden, Dem.,
re-elected; Sixteenth, William A. J. Sparks,
Dem., gain (probably) ; Seventeenth, William
R. Morrison, Dem., re-elected; Eighteenth,
William Hartzell, Dem., sain; Nineteenth,
William B. Anderson, Ind. (probably). Thos.
S. Ridgwav, Rep., is elected State Treasurer
by about 30,000 majority, and S. M. Etter,
Opp., State School Superintendent by about
tne same majority, i ue opposition vote lor
State Treasurer was divided between Charles
Carroll, Dem., and David M. Gore, Ind. The
Leirislature will be composed, as follows:
Senate Republicans, 24; Democrats, 23; Inde
pendents, 4. House Republicans, 66; Demo
crats, bo; independents, 'Si.
WISCONSIN.
The State Legislature is probably Republi
can in both branches. The Congressional
delegation is probably as follows: Tirst Dis
trict, Unas. li. w imams. Ken., re-electea; sec
ond, Lucien B. Caswell, Rep.; Third, Henry S.
Magoon, Kep.; iourth, William fitt iynue,
Reform; Fifth, Samuel D. Burchard, Reform ;
Sixth, Alanson M. Kimball, Rep.; Seventh,
Jeremiah M.Rusk, Rep., re-elected; Eighth,
Geo. w. uate, uem., gam.
MICHIGAN.
The new Constitution overwhelmingly de
feated, 'ihe woman suffrage amendment
also defeated, but it received a larger vote
than was generally expected. Bagley, Rep.,
for Governor, is elected by a majority of about
3,000. Balance of State ticket Republican.
The Republicans have a majority in the
Legislature on joint ballot. Congress
men elected: First District, A. S.
Williams, Dein., gain; Second, Henry
Waldron, Rep., re-elected; Third, George
Willard, Rep., re-elected; Fourth, Allen
Potter, Dem., gain; Fifth, William B.
Williams, Rep., re-elected; Sixth, George H.
Durand, Dem., gain; Seventh, Omar D. Con
ger, Rep.,, re-elected ; Eighth, N. B. Bradley,
Sep., re elected; Ninth, Jay A. Hubbell, Rep.
re-elected.
KANSAS.
Osborne, Rep., re-elected Governor by about
12,000 majority. Congressional delegation:
First District, William A. Phillips, Rep., re
elected ; Second, John R. Goodin, Rep., gain;
Third, Wm. R. Brown, Rep. Legislature Re
publican. MISSOURI.
Hardin, Dem., elected Governor by about
35,000 majority. Legislature Democratic by a
large majority. The following Congressmen
are probably elected: First District, E. C.
Kehr., Dem., gain; Second. Erastus Wells,
Dem., re-elected ; Third, William H. Stone,
Dem., re-elected ; Fourth, Robel-t A. Hatcher,
Dem., re-elected ; Fifth,Richard P. Bland,uem.,
re-elected; Sixth, Chas. H. Morgan, Dem.,
gain; Seventh, John F.Phillips, Dem.; Eighth,
eujamin J. Franklin, Dem.;Ninth, David Rea,
Dem., gain; Tenth, R. A. DeBolt, Dera.,
gain; Eleventh, John B. Clark, Jr.,
Dem., re-elected; Twelfth, John M. Glover,
Dem., re-elected ; Thirteenth, Aylett H. Buck
ner, Dem., re-elected. - - , .
MASSACHUSETTS.
Wm. Gaston, Dem., elected Governor over
Talbot by about 7,000 plurality. Balance
State officers Republican. Congressmen
elected: First District, James Buffington,
Rep., re-elected ; Second, Benjamin W. Har
ris, Rep., re-elected ; Third, Henry L. Pierce,
Rep., re-elected; Fourth, Rufus S. Frost,
Rep.; Fifth, Nathaniel P. Banks, Ind.;
gain; Sixth, Charles P.Thompson, Dem., gain
(over Butler); Seventh, John K.Tarbox, Dem.,
gain ; Eighth, William W. Warren, Dem., gain ;
Ninth, Georsre F. Hoar. Rep..re-elected; Tenth,
Julius H. Seelye, Ind., gain. ; Eleventh, Chester
W. Chapin, Dem., gain. The Legislature,
which is largely opposed to prohibition, will
stana) senate. Ken., B4; Dem. 10; House,
Rep., 151; Dem., 85.
NEW YORK.
Tilden, Dem., for Governor, has a majority
of from 30,000 to 40,000. State Assembly
Democratic bv about twentv mnioritv. Th
Congressional delegation will probably
stana as toiiows: tint District, M.
B. Metealf, Dem., gain ; 8econd, John G.
Schumaker, Dem., re-elected; Third, Simon
B.Chittenden, Rep.; Fourth, Archibald M.
Bliss, Dem., gain; Fifth, Edwin R. Meade,
uem.; sixtn, Samuel s. Jox., uem., re
elected; Seventh, Smith Ely, Jr., Dem.;
Eighth, Elijah Ward, Dem., gain; Ninth,
Fernando Wood, Dem., re-elected; Tenth,
Abram S. Hewitt, Dem., gain; Eleventh,
Benjamin A. Willis, Dem., gain; Twelfth,
N. Holmes Odell, Dem.; Thirteenth, John
O. Whilehouse, Dem., re-elected; Fourteenth.
George M. Beebe, Dem.; Fifteenth, John H.
Baglev, Jr., Dem., gain; Sixteenth, Chas.
H. Adams, Rep., gain; Seventeenth, Martin
I. Townsend, Rep.; Eighteenth, Andrew
Williams, Kep.; .Nineteenth, William A.
Wheeler. Rep.: Twentieth. Henrv H.
Hathorn, Rep.; Twenty-first, Samuel F.
Miller, Rep.; Twenty-second, Geo. A. Bagley,
Rep.; Twenty-third, "Scott Lord, Dem., gain;
Twenty-fourth, William H. Baker, Rep.
Twenty-fifth, Elias W. Leavenworth, Rep.;
Twenty-sixth, Clinton D. MacDougall, Rep.,
re-elected; Twenty-seventh, Davia A. Pier
pont, Dem., gain; Twenty-eighth, Thomas
j. riatt, riep., re-eiectea; i wenty-mntn, Unas.
C. B. Walker, Dem.. gain: Thirtieth. John M,
Davy. Rep.; Thirty-first. George G. Hoskins,
Rep.r re-elected; Thirty-second, Asher P.
Nichols, Dem., gain; Thirty-third, Walter L.
sessions, Kep., re-elected.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Democratic on the State ticket by from 3,000
to ,uuu majority. .Legislature uemocratic on
jonit ballot. Congressmen elected : First Dis-,-!..
r -1. ......... t.-......... ,. .. . o ........ ,i m, ....
O'Neill, Rep., re-elected ; Third, Samuel J. Ran
dall, Dem., re-elected ; Fourth, Wm. D. Kelley,
Rep., re-elected; Fifth, John Robbins, Dem.,
gain ; Sixth, Wash. Townsend, Rep., re-elected;
Seventh, Alan Wood, Jr., Rep.; Eighth,
Hiester Clymcr, Dem., re-elected; Ninth, A.
Herr Smith, Repn re-elected; Tenth, William
Mutehler, Dem., gain; Eleventh, Frank
D. Collins, Dem.; Twelfth, Winthrop
W. Ketchum, Rep.; Thirteenth, James
B. Reilly, Dem., gain; Fourteenth,
John B. Packer, Rep., re-elected; Fif
teenth, Joseph Powell, Dem.; Sixteenth,
Sobieski Ross, Rep., re-elected ; Seventeenth,
John Reilly, Dem.; Eighteenth, William S.
Stenger, Dem., gain ; Nineteenth, Levi Maish,
Dem., gain; Twentieth, Louis A. Mackey,
Dem., gain; Twenty-first, Jacob Turney,
Dem., gain; Twenty-second, James H. Hop
kins, Dem., gain ; Twenty-third, Alexander G.
Cochran, Dem., gain; Twentv-fourth, John
W. Wallace, Rep.; Twenty-fifth, George A.
Jenks, Dem., gain; Twenty-sixth, James
Sheakley, Dem., gain; Twenty-seventh, Al
bert G. Egbert Dein., gain.
NEW JERSEY.
Judge Bedle, Dem., is elected Governor by
about 12,000 majority. Legislature Democratic
by eleven majority. The Congressmen elected
are: First District, Clement H. Sinnickson,
Rep.; Second, Samuel A. Dobbins, Rep.; re
elected; Third, Miles Ross, Dem., gain;
Fourth, Robert Hamilton, Dera., re-elected ;
Fifth; Wm. W. Phelps, Rep., re-elected : Sixth,
Frederick H. Teese, Dem., gain ; Seventh, Aug.
A. Hardenburg, Dem., gaiu.
VIRGINIA.
Congressmen elected: First District, B. B.
Douglas, Dem., gain; Second, J as. H. Piatt,
Jr., Rep., re-elected; Third, Gilbert C.
Walker, Dem., gain; Fourth, William H. H.
Stowell, Rep., re-elected; Fifth, George C.
Cabell, Dem., gain ; Sixth, John R. Tucker,
Dem.; Seventh, John T. Harris, Dem., re
elected; Eighth, Eppa Hunton, Dem., re
elected ; Ninth, William Terry, Dem..
TENNESSEE.
State Democratic by 40,000 to 50,000 major
ity. Legislature largely Democratic. Con
gressmen elected: First District, Wm. Mc
Failand, Dem., gain; Second, Jacob M.
ThomburglKRep., re-elected; Third, George
G. Dibreil, Qim., gain; Fourth, John W,
Head, Dem., ga'ji;" Fifth, John M. Bright.
Dem., re-elected; Sixth, John F. House,
Dem., gain; Seventh, Washington C. Whit
tborne, Dem., re-elected; Eighth, John D. C.
Atkins, Dem., re-elected; Ninth, William P.
Caldwell, Dem., gain; Tenth, H. Cascy
Young, Dem., gain.
KENTUCKY.
All the ten Congressional districts proba
bly Democratic. Democratic gains in the
vote throughout the State.
LOUISIANA.
Returns official and unofficial give Moncure,
Conservative, for State Treasurer, 7,159 ma
jority. The Republicans still claim Dubuelet's
election by a small majority.
MINNESOTA.
Legislature Opposition on joint ballot.
Congressmen elected: Mark H. Dunnell,
Rep., in the First District, re-elected ; H. B.
Strait, Rep., re-elected, in the Second; Wm
S. King, Rep., in the Third. Republican ma
jority in the State on Chief Justice about 5,000.
MARYLAND.
The six Congressmen all Democratic a
gain of two.
ARKANSAS.
The Democrats elect the four Congress
men a gain of three.
GEORGIA-
The entire Congressional delegation, nine
in number, Democratic a gain of two.
RHODE ISLAND.
The Republicans elect both Congressmen
in this State.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
D. H. Chamberlain, Rep., elected Governor
by from 10,000 to 20,000 majority. The five
Congressmen are all Republican.
ALABAMA.
The Democrats elect six Congressmen cer
tainly a gaiu of two. Many colored voters
supported the Conservative ticket. Legisla
ture Democratic. Democratic majority on
State ticket about 15,000.
DELAWARE.
Returns incomplete, but all three counties
probably Democratic. James Williams, Dem.
(gain ), elected to uongress.
VERMONT.
Dennison, Ind., in the Second Conarres-
sionai District, is elected over Poland, Rep.,
oy a large majority.
TEXAS.
Returns from the principal towns show a
large Bemocratic majority in every district.
The Congressional delegation of six is Dem
ocratic. FLORIDA.'
Both districts probably elect Republicans
to Congress. The State Senate is a tie. The
Republicans claim the Legislature bv a ma
jority of three on joint ballot.
ARIZONA.
The election of Stevens. Ind., to Consrress
by about 200 majority is generally conceded.
NEVADA.
Woodburn. Ren., is nrobablv elected to Con.
gress. Bradley, Dem., for Governor, probably
elected by about 1,000 majority. Legislature
probably Republican.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
O. Jacobs, Rep., is elected Delegate to Con
gress by about 500 majority.
There will be an Opposition majority of over
sixty in the next lower House of Congress.
The Senate will remain Republican by about
nine majority.
Treasurer Spinner's Annual Report.
Washington, Nov. 9.
Gen. Spinner's report is completed and
in the hands of the printer. He devotes
considerable space to an argument in
favor of issuing interchangeable bonds,
to hear interest at the rate of 3.65 per
cent. His arguments on this point are,
in the main, the same as those of last
year, except that he believes that it
would be wise to allow holders to ex
change the 3.65 for outstanding 5 and 6
per cent, bonds. He says that the great
est objection to a metallic currency is
its lack of elasticity, and is of the opin
ion that the adoption of the convertible
bond will correct this evil. He thinks the
rate of interest will be high enough
to sell the bonds, to the absorption
of any surplus currency, at any time,
while it will be enough to force a return
of the bonds in exchange for legal-tender
notes when the business of the country
demands more currency. The rate of in
terest at one cent a day on the hun
dred dollars would be popular with the
people, he says, because it is easy of
computation. He argues that the conver
sion of the 5s and 6s into low-rate bonds
in the event of the condition of the cur
rency demanding such conversion would
result in the material reduction of the
intere.st on the public debt, and make it
payable entirely in national currency at
home, and not in gold to foreigners.
Army Reports.
Washington, Nov. 9.
GEN. SHERMAN.
Gen. Sherman's annual report to the
Secretary of War shows the total num
ber ot enlisted men in tne army on uct. to
to have been 26,441. It estimates that
this number will . probably be reduced
through natural causes by the 1st ol J an
uary, 1875, to the 25,000 allowed by law.
It deprecates the inadequacy of so small
an army for the demands of so large an
area of territory as it has to be scattered
over, involving the necessity of
withdrawing troops from one depart
ment to meet the requirements of o'.hers
a long distance away. It compliments
the high efficiency of Gen. Sheridan and
his subordinate officers in maintain
ing comparative peace in the Indian
country. It says the reports or. the com
manding officers demonstrate that the
small army of the UnitecL States, called
a peace establishment, is the naraest
worked body of men in this or any coun
try. The discipline and behavior of the
officers and men have been worthy of all
praise: and whether employed on the ex
treme and distant frontier, or in aiding
civil officers in the execution of civil proc
esses, have been a model for the limta;
tion of all good. men. -
In regard to the removal of his liead-
auarters to St. Louis lie says: " I am
prepared to execute the duties that may
be devolved on me by proper authority.
Here I am centrally located, and should
occasion arise 1 can personally proceed
to any point on this continent where my
services are needed.
GEN. SHERIDAN. -
Lieut.-Gen. Sheridan, in his annual re
port, touches slightly upon Gen. Custer's
Black Hills expedition, which it pro
nounces a ' successful reconnois
sance. The country of the Black
Hills was found to be much
better than was expected, with plenty of
good timber and considerable good son
at high altitudes and an abundant supply
of good water and grass. Some gold was
found near Harney's Peak, but of its
abundance there is at present no reliable
information. Sufficient - time coulS not
be given by an expedition such as that of
ien: ;u steers to prospect ana aeierminu
its quantity. Gen. Sheridan again rec
ommends the establishment of a large
military post in the Black Hill country.
Ut the Indian troubles tien. enenaan
says: I respectfully diner with wen.
Pope as to the chief cause of these In
dian troubles, and attribute it to the im
munity with which the tribes have been
treated. In all their raids into Texas for
the past three years their reservations
have furnished them the supplies with
which to make the raids and sheltered
them from pursuit when they returned
with their scalps and plunder. No
man of close observation, it seems, to
me, can travel across the great plains
from Nebraska and Wyoming to
Texas, and see the established ranches,
with their hundreds of thousands of head
of cattle, sheep and horses, together with
the families of the owners, and reasona
bly think that these people, so much ex
posed and having such valuable interests,
are desirous of provoking Indian wars.
There was a time, possibly, when the
population of the Indian Irontier may
have been desirous of Indian troubles
but that has passed long ago."
In the Bottom Drawer.
I saw wife pull out the bottom drawer
of the old family bureau this evening,
and went softly out, and wandered up
and down, until I knew that she had shut
it up and gone to her sewing. We have
some things laid away in that drawer
Which the gold of kings could not buy,
and yet they are relics which grieve rs
until both our hearts are sore. I haven't
dared look at them for a year, but I re
member each article.
There are two worn shoes, a little chip
hat with part of the brim gone, some
stockings, pants, a coat, two or three
spools, bits of broken crockery, a whip
and several toys. Wife poor thing
goes to that drawer every day of her life
ana prays over it, and lets her tears iaii
upon the precious articles, but I dare
not go!
sometimes we speak ol little jack, but
not often. It has been a long time, but
somehow we can't get over grieving.
He was such a burst of sunshine into
our lives that his going away has been
like covering our every-day existence
with a pall. Sometimes, when we sit
alone of an evening, I writing and she
sewing, a child on the street will call out
as our boy used to, ana we win Doth
start up with beating hearts and a wild
hope, only to find the darkness more of a
burden:than ever. 1
It is so still and quiet now. I look up
at the window where his blue eyes used
to sparkle at my coming, -but he is not
there. : 1 listen tor his pattering leet, Ms
merry shout and his ringing laugh, but
there is no sound. There is no one to
climb over my knees, no one to search
my pockets and tease for presents, and I
never find the chairs turned over, the
broom down or ropes tied to the door
knobs. ,-. . :
I want some one to tease me for my
knife ; to ride on my shoulder ; to lose
my ax ;' to follow me to the gate when I
go, and be there to meet me when I
come ; to call good night irom tne
little bed, now empty. And wife, she
misses him still more ; here are no little
feet to wash, no prayers to say; no voice;
teasing for lumps of sugar or sobbing
with the pain of a hurt toe; and she
would give her own life, almost, to
awake at midnight and look across the
crib and see our boy there as he used to
be.
So we preserve our relics, and when
we are dead we hope that strangers will
handle them tenderly, even if they shed
no tears over them. " if. Quad," in Fire
side Friend.
Practical Jokes.
Verbal jokes are often cruel, jokes in
act are nearly always so; and hence the
amusement caused by the latter is not
unmixed with qualms of conscience.
This is the case with the following joke
said to have been perpetrated by a
Frenchman named Turpin. It turns on
the belief formerly prevalent that men
might be changed into the lower orders of
animals by enchatnment: Turpin was
sauntering along one day with a com
panion when they came to a country inn,
near which a peasant bad tied his ass to
the hedge and in which he was refreshing
himself with wine. Turpin took the
saddle and bridle off the donkey and
put them upon himself, while his com
panion led the beast astray.
When the peasant, renaerea even more
stupid than usual by the wine, came out
of the inn Turpin began to express in a
loud voice his intense joy at being freed
from the enchantment and restored to
his natural shape. The peasant believed
that the transformation had really taken
place, beholding in the man before him
his former ass, and, though grieved to lose
his useful beast, could not of course
think of detaining him.
The donkey was sent to a dealer and
was offered for sale in a market, when
who should come up but his former
owner! " Beware!" cried he. "how you
purchase this ass! He is a man suffering
from enchantment and is liable at any
time to resume his former shape. I have
lost him once in this way, and 1 warn you
against making such a bargain!"
. "The joke of Beckford, the wealthy but
eccentric owner of Fonthill Abbey and
author of " N athek," was less severe, but
it also had a little snice of unkindness.
Two young men were once encountered
by him in his grounds, which they had
entered without permission. Instead of
having them turned out, he took them
into his house, and feasting them sumptu
ously he kept tnem until it was quite
dark. He then sent a servant with them
to the exact spot where he had met them,
with instructions to leave them there.
"As they found their way in," he said,
" they might find their way out." The
grounds were arranged in that part as a
labyrinth, and the probability was that
the young men would wander about all
night in the vain search for an exit.
1 oum s Companion.
A Heroine of the Commune.
The following was related to me yester-
dav of a noble woman whose name should
live in history. She, together with her
lover, a young surgeon, had taken care of
the wounded Communists during the
days and nights of their fierce fighting
with the Versailles troops, upon tne
entry of the latter into the city, when
excitement was at its height and when
every .one suspected of complicity with
the Commune was shot without a ques
tion being asked, the surgeon was ar
rested and brought before the dram-head
tribunal in the Place du Chatelet. His
life trembled for the moment in the bal
ance, but was finally saved by the inter
cession of one of the Judges present,
who was an intimate friend of the ac-
ensfid. As the latter was being led from
the room he met the woman whom he
loved, who had helped him in the care of
the wounded, and who was now accused
of the same crime as himseit naa neen.
"Good God, Marie!" he exclaimed, "are
ntm. here, too?" The woman took the
whole scene .in at a glance, saw the
danger into which she would plunge her
lover should she recognize him, and drew
herself up coldly, saying: "You are
mistaken, sir." New 1 ork Evening Post.
The Saturday Review thinks that the
laboring population generally in the
mainland northern districts or England
is suffering from a sort of epidemic of
ferocity and violence. At the slightest
word, indeed, without a word or any
provocation whatever, roughs take to
biting and. kicking; and anybody who
knows what an iron-tipped clog is will
be glad they do not live within its reach.
The following Sabbath-school statis.
tics were nresented at the recent session
of the State Baptist Association of Indi.
ana: Schools in lull operation, olS; num
ber of teachers. 3.800 ; number of pupils.
60,000; number, of Suaday-echool papers
distributed during the year, 20,000 ; num
ber of books in libraries, 25,000; total
, amount expended, $ 12,000. .
BABY AND I.
We are so happy,
Eaby and 1.
Yon might not think so
If you were niyh;
Ton only pee the light
In his bine eye;
We know what makes it bright
Baby and I.
When we are singing,
Baby and I,
We hear a birdie sing
Up in the eky.
You could not get near it
If you should try;
We only can hear it
Baby and I. .
When we are playing.
Baby and I,
Out in the sunshine.
Where the birds fly,
Through the leaves at us peep,
Sin lullaby.
Till we are fast asleep
Baby and I.
Oh. how we love them.
Baby and I.
Birdies and blossoms,
And the bine eky.
They show us many things
We'd never epy ;
They know we are their friends
Baby and I.
Rural Hew Yorker
A BILLY-GOAT SCHOOL-MASTER.
1 C-a-p-k-i-c-i-o-u-s-n-e-s-s ! That's a
pretty word to put in a story-book for a
lttle tellow like me! 1 wonder wnat it
means, anyhow!"
Tommy always scolds a little when a
hard word trips him up. He doesn't like
hard words. How can he find out what
they mean, he says; and if he skips
them he never knows how much of the
story he has missed. Besides, there's no
use in skipping them, for they are sure
to keep turning up ; and a fellow might
as well learn them first as last. Of course,
it's a trouble to be asking some one,
What's this?" and " What's that?" every
little while, especially when everybody
is busy reading or working; and it isn't
easy for a little fellow to be running to
the dictionary every time he stumbles
over a long word ; still, anything is bet
ter than skipping.
I j can't help watching him with the
corner of my eye, as he stands with his
elbows on the window-sill, resting his
chubby cheek on his hand.
Presently a smile begins to flicker
round Tommy's mouth ; his eyes dance
a little, and the ghost of a laugh ripples
over his face, without making a bit of
noise. He wouldn't laugh that way if
we were in the woods!
"What is it?"-1 ask.
" Little Billy."
" What's happened to Billy?"
" Nothing, only he's trying to jump
outside of himself, while his mother eats
posters oil the wall, in spite of that boy
with a stick! He's such a funny rascal !
Do all goats act that way?"
" What way, Tommy?"
" Whv. as Billy does. He's so comical !
He'll be trotting along as sober as an old
sheep and whisk! he'll go oft at one side,
rearing and bunting and flinging out his
heels as though he'd swallowed a fire
cracker. You never can tell when he's
going to cut up his monkey shines."
" Tnat s cnaracterisiic oi goais, a uc
lieve." ' Just look at him now! Did you ever
see anything so funny? It always makes
me laugh to see him frisk about and flirt
that ridiculous stump of a tail he has. It
looks just as though it had been broken
off and stuck, on again the wrong way.
There's a caper for you! Just look at
him."
' Did you ever here of the Itomans,
Tommy?"
' Komulus ana iiemus anu. i unus
Cap.sar. and all those old fellows that
lived a long time ago? Of course I
have.
" Don't you know that if Julius Csesar
had said, 'There's a caper, he'd have
meant simply, 4 There's a goat? "
"Would he? wny? uaper uuesn i
mean goat, does it?"
".Not now, but it usea to.
" And is that the reason why we call
funny things that a fellow does when he
feels good and doesn't know what to do,
capers t"
" Precisely. To caper is to do odd
things without any particular purpose,
just as goats do."
" I never knew that words came about
in that way."
"They do, very olten. uon t you Know
how we call a greedy boy a pig, or one
that goes bawling around for nothing a
lttle calf 7"
' O ves! And we call a fellow that is
always bossing around a bully?"
' Certainly. Even the dictionary
makers have to admit it."
"Dictionary-makers! Do dictionaries
tell anything about where our words
come from?"
" Certainly; and capital stories you
can make of them, too. Fetch me that
big one there, on the lower shell. Can
you lift it?"
Jiumpn! jrity ii a can i iui a uoun.
as big as that!"
"Here we are! loans you. nuw
let's look at caper. Here it is :
"'Caper. (L. Caper, a goat. y
" That ' TS stands for Latin, the lan
guage the Romans used to talk. You'll
hear enough about that before you are
done going to school!
" The meaning of caper, you see, is ' a
skipping, leaping or jumping in frolic
some mood, after the manner of a goat,' and
To Caper, means ' to dance, skip or leap
in a frolicsome manner.' "
" Dolly says ' Quit your capering!' some
times when I'm having a little fun and
make too much noise."
" And I've heard vou say the same to
Billy, when you wanted to lead him and
he wanted to piay. xou khuw wnat ii,
means.
" Here's another word of the same
sort, which we likewise owe to Master
Billy:
"'Caorice. A sudden start of the
mind; a whim; a freak; a fancy.'
" You ve seen such actions, l aare say,
in some of your playmates, i ou never
can depend on them. One moment they
want to play ball; before you can begin
to play they have changed their minds,
and want to piay norse, or tag, oi ssuir.e
thing else. One moment they are very
friendly, and the next they're off in a
huff, without any reason for it. Such
people are called capricious. Here's the
word, a little further along."
" Why, that's the very word I couldn't
understand in my book!"
" Was it? Look."
" Oh, no! It's capriciousness. -1 know
what that means now. But who'd have
thought it had anything to do with a
Rillv-eoat?"
"that's a wonderful book, that dic
tionary. It'll pay you to study it."
St. Nicholas.
THISK1NG OF MAMMA.
Mamma was weary.
Annette watched her at" the table at
tending to everybody, but never attend
ing to herself. Everybody was to be fed ;
everybody was to be fixed, and who was
to see to it but mamma? Appetites
were to please ; pleasant dishes were to
dress : luncheons were to be put up ;
every day and every day mamma thought
and did it all, but who thought of doing
for mamma?
Annette forgot that her omelet was
getting cold ; that breakfast was almost
over, and sat tasting and thinking as she
saw the untouched food on mamma's
plate and the weariness and anxiety on
her face.
Every one was off to school or to
work but Annette. Mamma, exhausted
from hurry and labor, sat rocking and
resting.
Annette looked up from her school of
dolls and saw mamma, pale and tired,
and remembered the untasted food on
the plate at mamma s place at the break
fast. " She is tired." she whispered ; " she is
hungry; she has so many to tend, and no
one to tend to her; if I was only bigger!
If I was a woman like Jo'phine, or a big
girl like our Ted," and she sung a low
lullaby, unconsciously, to the doll in her
arms. " I wonder if I could," she
thought, " if I could make her anything
good. I wonder what I could make?"
and light as the air her little feet flew
over the stairs, down to the kitchen and
pantry below. ,
" I don't dare to ask about anything,"
she thought, " because mamma' would
say, No, little daughter, you can get me
nothing; I am not hungry, and you are
too small,' " and she-peeped into this jar
and that pan, and dishes without num-.
ber, to decide at last that she only could
" guess about making broth, which was
easy, and which it was quite certain
mamma would like."
It was just the nicest thing in the
world to hear the meat blubbering in the
pot, and know that she had put it there;
to see the rice dancing on the bubbles,
and to pick fresh parsely leaves from the
garden-patch and fix them in the pret
tiest china bowl, all ready for the broth.
Never had luncheon-tray so much fix
ing before ; from the napkin, white as
snow, to the polished spoon, everything
was arranged and rearranged, till the
kitchen was redolent with the vapors of
broth, and Annette decided it was " ready
and done."
But mamma was asleep, overpowered
by weariness, on the chair where she had
rocked, and Annette sat on the door-sill
to watch and to wait.
Boots rang on the sidewalk and on the
steps, and before Annette had time to do
more than think, " It sounds like Rob,
but what can he want?" Rob had banged
the door behind him and was whistling
up the stairs.
"Hush!" said Annette, on tip-toe,
" mamma is asleep."
" What's the use of hu3hing? I've lost
my lunch and come for more."
Mamma stirred in her sleep at the
sound of the voice and the creaking
boots.
"Please!" pleaded Annette, "she's so
tired." And Bob gave Annette's curls a
love pull, and turned to clatter down
stairs.
" He will get something in the pantry,"
she thought, and sat down again on the
door-sill to watch if mamma slept, or
awoke to the creaking of boots.
Mamma awoke in a little while, when
a door banged down stairs; so Annette
scampered away for the wonderful tray.
But, sad to behold, Rob had treated him
self to his luncheon, and the tray in dis
order, the parsley leaves gone, and the
drippings of soup told a tale overpower
ing to Annette.
"Oh, Rob! Rob!" she sobbed, "every
one thinks of himself."
Rob tapped at the window and shook
his head and was off, whistling as he
went; but Annette was burning her fin- .
gers with the steam as she lilted the
boiler to the light, and beheld Oh, happv
sight! that there was plenty for lnanmv
yet.
Mamma's face was bright as she tasted
her soup and looked at Annette.
Annette's heart was light as she saw
mamma rested and refreshed, enjoying
every drop of her unexpected little
lunch.
Annette's face flushed when Rob came
home and said: "Mamma, nobody comes
up to you in making soup."
So Annette knew that, though she was
not so big as Ted, nor a woman like
" Jo'phine," yet she could do something
to help, and as each day the little hands
sprang forward to new tasks, and the
little feet flew hither and thither with
the consciousness of being of use, mam
ma felt how pleasant it was to have
some one think of her while she was
thinking of others; to have some one
to do for her while she was doing for
somebody else ; to have little, unselfish
fingers pulling up the weights that were
dragging on her hands ; while Annette,
without knowing it, grew to be in the
house as the rays of sunshine, growing
brighter and more resistless every day ;
getting every one gradually to remember
that mamma could be tired and need
rest, could be overburdened and need
help, and at the same time drawing all
hearts to herself as sunshine draws the
hearts of the flowers. George Krinqle, in
Observer. -
"What Shall We Do With Our Daugh
ters?" Mrs. Livermore has made this query
the text of one of her lectures. It is
certainly an important problem, but the
Davenport Democrat thus sums up some
sensible lessons which should early he
impressed upon them :
l eacn tnem seii-renance.
Teach them to make bread.
Teach them to make shirts.
Teach them to foot up store bills.
Teacb,them not to wear false hair.
Teach them to wear thick, warm shoes.
Bring them up in the way they should
reacn tnem now to wasii anu uuu
r. . .. , . . j
clothes.
Teach them how to make their own
dresses.
Teach them that a dollar is only a
hundred cents.
Teach them to cook a good meal of
victuals.
Teach them how to darn stockings and
sew on buttons.
Teach them every-day, dry, hard, prac
tical common sense.
Teach them to say no, and mean it ; or
yes, and stick to it.
leacn tnem to w ear caucu uicco uu
do it like queens.
Give them a good, substantial, common
school education.
Teach them that a good, rosy romp is
worth fifty consumptives.
Teach them to regara tne morais anu
not the money of their beaux.
Teach them all the mysteries of thr
kitchen, the dining-room and the parlor
Teach them that the more one lives
within his income the more he will save.
Teach them to have nothing to do with
intemperate and dissolute young men.
Teach them the further one lives be
yond his income the nearer he gets to
the poor-nouse.
Rely upon it that upon your teaching
d3iends in a great measure the weal or
woe of their after life.
Teach them the accomplishments,
music, painting, drawing, if you have
time and money to do it with.
Teach them that a good, steady me
chanic without a cent is worth a dozen
oil-patent loafers in broadcloth.
Teach them that God made them in
His own image, and no amount of tight
lacing will improve the model. .
Solomon In Modern Life.
Sometimes a good rule does not work.
Two women came before Alderman
Dobbs, in our village, the other day, to
settle a dispute about a child. Mrs.
Murphy claimed the boy as hers, while
Mrs. Doolan insisted that it was hers.
As the Alderman could not obtain any
decisive evidence bearing upon the case,
it occurred to him to try the plan once
used in a similar case by Solomon. He
sent out to the kitchen and got a carving-knife,
and then, placing the boy on
the desk, he said to the women, while he
sharpened his knife on his boot, " I'm a
goin' to cut this yer youngster in half and
let Mrs. Murphy take the body, while
Mrs. Doolan can go home with the legs."
It was a clever idea, but it failed. Mrs.
Murphy stepped up to him, and doubling
up a fist that looked like an under-done
leg of mutton, she shook it close to his
nose and said, "Ef ye do, ye sphalpeen,
oi'll murther ye with me own hand;" and
Mrs. Doolan seized him by the hair,
threw him to the ground, and exclaimed,
while she brandished the knife over his
prostrate body, " Gimme the legs! Berne
sowl, oi've a mind to kill ye and ate ye!"
Then 'Squire Dobbs adjourned the case,
and while Mrs. Doolan retired with the
boy he went out to hunt up a Bible com
mentary, in order to ascert-in if there
was not something about bolomon's pro
ceedings that he didn't understand.
Max Adder, in Danbury News .
. Leather from tripe and other animal
membranes, to be used for glove-making,
tc., is a late French invention. :