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Addrw all letter* lo U«U BAKU * CO., WHKKLZXO, W VA I*. IMJ. Tmk g. -vernment baa refused to pay salary tu Tom Ochiltree, and the statesman from Texas la accordingly very careful not to get into any poker game with such men as Tom Bowen, Vest and Blackburn. He would probably preft: safe game* witb such innocents a» Kdmu.ndh and Uoak. It ia reported that several persons in this country have gone crazy through fear that the predictions of the crank, Wiggins, might be fulfilled. The next 1'obgresn should appoint a committee to investigate the fool-killer. There is painful evidence that that functionary is thoroughly corrupt or most shamefully itu fficient. % , , _m An exchange says: "The divided skirt is regarded by all progressive ad vicatee of dress reform as a condition precedctit of all substantial improve n ent in female attire. At a meeting ol the Rational Dress Society, recently, it was decided that a new drees must be f und, and that the uew dress must be the divided skirt." This is one of the e fleets of the pernicious example set by the (ioddeN) of Liberty. "Fok a long time," says a New York letter, "the Vandkkiults were not iu what is called fashiouaMe »»>ciety in New York; but the strongest gates have yielded to the golden touch, and one fee* their names now at entertainments in the most exclusive circles." Ia New York s»>ciety founded on anything Vt ter than money, that it should e-er have turned up its haughty none at the Vani»kkhii.t»? It is doubtless glad to toady to a family whose purse b so much longer than its own. 15a KTHOi.i»i*tf statue of "Liberty En lightening the World" ia not likely to tind an abiding place in the city of New York. Only $8.*>,U0o of the quar ter of a million necessary for the pedes tal baa been subscribed, and public en thusiasm on the subject ia nut so great an to Indicate that the rest wi.l be forth coming. If Liberty expicta to enlight en the world, she should not begin in a city which thinks it knows a good deal more than she does. I.et her try Bos ton, where the people are modest as to tl.cir intellectual attainments. Pl'KiNo his month of service in the rnit*d States Senate, his election to which co«t him $200,0U0, Tabor, of C >1 orado, (.poke but oucc, and the official «trnographer records the utterauce thus: "Mr. President, I second the motion of the gentlemun from Hamp ton, Mr. Carolina!" In a vein of deli 4'ioun irony the Denver Tribune assails the Congrt**ional Record for suppress ing Ta bob's great speeches, accuses it of having ceased to be a conservative and independent orgau, and is glad to bear that it "lias suspended publica tion." But T.miok, clad in one of his f'Jfii) night shirts, is proof against the »hafts of sating IIknky Irvino, the Kuglish actor, on his professional visit to the lTuited f^tale*, will bring over 1,100 wigs. Tom Hooi> tells a story of an Knglish nat uralist who, while in the wilds of America, was captured by the Indians. One of the foremost of the redskins x-ized him by the hair to take his scalp when his hair came off. He wore a »ig. The astonished Indians held a l< wwow, and concluding that theii prison* r has lost his scalp, anil, by un common j>erseverence and bravery, bad regained it, they took him totheii village, gave him an Indian girl for a iMride, and made him chief of the tribe. In view of the experience of this gen tleman, It is difficult to imagine the as tonishment of the Indians if Mr. Ikv INO, with a wig on his head and 1,09S more in his gripeack, should fall intc Lbeir hands. He would probable U worshiped as a supernatural being. Il is almost worth while for him to gc WeM and try it. yn Ni:NI\«-lUHI!tK IOXOPULT The tendency of corporate capital lr our time to combine for the purpose 01 strangling healthy competition ant earning huge profits upon article* o general consumption is well illustratec in a circular recently sent by Mr. W <1. Wilson to the chief officials of th« thirty leading companies manufactur ing or dealing In sewing-machine? throughout the United States. Inas much as the terms of many patent: have now expired, and the reeultan rivalry b&» operated to cut down prices Mr, Wiison elaborated a scheme foi uniting all tbemanifTacturcrsof sewing machines uuder a two-headed syudi cate, to produce only two kinds of ma chines, and to fix the price at one figure which would leave a margin of at leas $12 profit apiece on the 300,000 sewing machines annually sold here. lu proo of the feasibility of what he proposed Mr. Wil-son ealltd attention to the for tunes amassed in the Standard Oil Com puny aud the Westers Chiou Telegrapl Company. Doubtless Mr. Wilson feels keen I; tiis pressure of competition, and hi profits are by no nu ans what they use to be. So long as he enjoyed a mou opoly on a considerable scale for him self he was by no means eager to shan it* revenues with outsiders; but now- h is extremely anxious to enter a cmnbi nation to inflate prices. Mr. Wilso: began bis crusade too late, and hi wive me cannot be consummated. Tu organization of such a monopoly as h outlined would lead new manufacturer into the field and defeat the purp xe c the rin& A much better plan for bin is to compete legitimately with hi rivaN, produce a good article aud sell i at a & ir price. TBI NVTBCM KXttMlTIOM. Frequent improvement ou machinery in uw, the introduction of new ma chinery for new pyrposes, and the rapid expansion of our manufacturing indus tries seem to require periodical National Expositions, in which improvements and new appliances may be exhibited. Selling manufactured articles by sample through the agency of commercial travelers is now a well settled custom of our country; but the maker of ma chinery and heavy implements can not so conveniently show his samples, and the periodical exposition is therefore be coming a necessity to him. The pro ducer of the raw material is interested iu all mechanical appliances for ena- | bling him to harvest bis crops, or pre* (>are his material for the market or for (be manufacturer, and he naturally meets the machinery maker on the chosen ground, and by actual observa tion and personal intercourse with ma terial, machinery, and product at hand the two, and indeed, inciudingthe man ufacturer, the tbree, Hud the Exposition the only place where the representatives of the branches of our industries can meet and intelligently confer ii^ regard to their reciprocal aud dependent intei ests. The local Exposition has served a good purpose, aud within its limits will continue to do so; but the easy and rapid transportation that uow brings all parts of the couutry together, and the consequent extension of successful business enterprises into every oity and every quarter have given greater scope to these representative exhibitions, and ma^e a periodical National Exposition on^of the great requirements of Amer ican industry. With that quick adapt ability to surrounding conditions and new requirement which characterises our people,. this new form of exhibiUou has at once drifted into the proper channel. Paris may be France, bat uo> city ou this continent can be America. Our territory is too large, aud the sev eral sections of the country too well de fined in their interests, their power, aud their character to leave any one city the great ceuter which must draw to it every undertaking of conspicuous mag nitude. Hy common consent the Na tional Exposition is becoming a mov able feast, as to its location, with regu lar periodicity as to its time Two years ago tlie country semea dowu on Atlanta a.-, the experimental place because of its proximity to the fields of the great Southern staple. At that time the now better defined waut was felt, but the limit was not exactly appreciated. The project of the Atlan ta Exposition contemplated an Inter national Exposition, but the real neces sity regulated the proj ect in the end, and the exhibition bccame in facta National Exposition. During the year 18MU, the project of another Natiotal Exposition was started in several cities, but for various reasons it was aband I oned in all but the city of Louisville, aud the energy and liberality of the people of that city in providing the necessary pecuniary means have not only shown other communities what may be done, but have brought the country to a hearty recognition of the fact that 1SS3 is Louisville's year in a now well-inaugurated series of National Expositions. Baltimore lays claim to next year, and the Cottou Planters' Association has entered its claim for IMo. It had been thought that two or three years' preparation was necessary to an exhibition like that proposed at Louis* ville, but the Southern Exposition to open there on August 1, has already demonstrated that where there is a strong will in such thing- there is a quick way. When the projee was defi nitely proposed, without any delay a popular subscription furni-hed all the means require 1. An organization was promptly effected, the work of prepara tion at ouce begun,aud already so much space has been engaged in the tuacbin. ery department that the mauagers are compelled to extend their exhibition space beyond the original thirteen acres of building. It is not a mouth since | the (Jeneral Manager opened corres pondence with the country with a view to securing exhibits, and already more than two hundred and thirty of the largest machiue building and machin ery employing establishments ot the I'nited Stains have asked for space and steam power. Every day since the start lias shown an increase in applications, aud it is easy to see tnat long before the Exposition opens the problem will be not how to obtain exhibits, but where to place them. As the Southern Expo sition is now progressing it will itself i present an interesting exhibition of what American determination, liberali i ty, and energy can do when fully aroused to action. ■It'll MfcV* IIOI SLV TbU is an age of jrreat fortune. Never ! before in the history of the Republic i liave therp been so many men who are I very rich. Of course, this term has a 1 purely relative value. Oue who might I have been "very rich" in 1842 would not be acoounted rich at all, with the , same fortune, iu 18&i. But the numbor ' of men who are worth, say, ten mill I ions or more, is far greater now than f ever before since the foundation of the American Republic. These fortunes have been made in various ways. Iu > New York the richest men are, or have been, nearly all speculators iu railway securities. There are three or four es tates, the property of old New York i families, held together by a family un derstanding, or by an unwritten law of primogeniture. These pru{ierlies are the accumulation of mauy years of honest dealing iu real estate. They rep resent the enormous profits derived from early and permanent investment , in city and suburban lots. Estates of t this kind are held by heirs of famous . names, very much aa if the holders were f o« uers of stock in a corporation. The , stockholders, however, are beirs-at-law. . Nobody but the family lawyer knows ■ what interest each individual hat in the i vast undivided esUte. Rich men of this class look dowu : with Indescribable disdain upon the 4 other rich men who have amassed I money by speculating in stocks, mines, . and railroads. The returned ('alifor * man who brings to New York the hou i est spoil of many a panic in mining » stock—gild him with gold an inoh thick - —is regarded as still semi-barbaric. No ,■ bonanza prince, although he roll in * riches and wear diamond head-lights ? on his shirt-front, can ever hope to be s anything more than a lucky accident— t a kind of social curiosity. And he who f has sailed into the port of prosperity by i trimming his sails to catch sudden * breeze* from Wall street may blew his t lucky Mars that he is safely moored at laM; but he is told in innumerable ways that he tea parvenu, and his wife might as will have been a chamber-maid a* to have lin Iced her fortunes with his. It k in vain that the richest Croesus of the railway millionaires boasts his vast wealth, jingles his ponderous watch seals, and swears that be can buy and sell the landed aristocrats who turn up their noses at him. A parvenu he is and a parvenu be will remain unto tbe end of bis days. He is cacefully looked over by people whom he despises for their poverty, and is dismissed with the dreadful phrase "no gentleman." Semetbing must be done by the vul gar millionaire to assert himself. Tbe standing of a man, in ibis realistic age, is thought to be best assured by his building a great house. In England, where laws o! primogeniture and entail are in force, a great family house is pos sible, even desirable. The names of many famous family seats, hoary with antiquity and rich with the historic aud artistic spoil of ages, will occur to the reader. These are houses of the great, and they often continue in pos session of families for centuries, and long after the ability to maintaiu and increase their splendor has departed from degenerate or unfortunate de scendants. But nothing of the kind is possible in this Republic. We have no ancestral families. The children of a ferryman, inheriting great riches, may kave to their cbildien nothing but the privilege ot taking to the bumble call ing that their illustrious ancestor adopt ed as the introduction to bis subsequent prosperity. Tbe a-sthetic Croesus who tossed pan-cakes, sold whisky, gum boots and mines in bis early years in California, can leave no possible assur ance behind him that his heirs, born into the purple of new riches, may not ultimately gravitate backwanl into the humblf walk with which his feet were so familiar. Whose then will be the palaces that be has builded? liut the houses of the great are built for present uses. While people of small incomes groan over the dilliculty of keeping up decent appearances in hired houses, tbe very rieh exhaust the re sources of nature and art in attempts to produce more splendid palaces than any ever built before. Dealers who have costly luxuries to s«Jl are over whelmed with orders. The rarest, finest and most unique articlesof house hold and personal adornment are sought for with eag*r lavishment. Those who ueal in staple goods. adapt en ior tne common uswof the middle classes, complain that the time* art dull. This is not a wholesome sigu. Hut the rich build for present purpose#. They say, iu effect, "After the deluge." It is cer tain that when ('ruttus id done with his gorgeous palace, aud shall take up his abode In that "narrower house, a hou«e of clay," that awaits each man of us, there will be other rich men who will be willing and able to inhabit the mansion he must leave behind him. It may be taken tor granted that the rich man's children, who begin where their father leaves off, will not require his baronial residence. And, when the suddenly acquired riches of the mush room family are disj»ersed again, who shall occupy these beautiful muusious? No matter; these palaces are the monuments 01 ostentatious wealth. They serve their purpose, no matter how ugly, incongruous, and inartistic they may bo, if they only cost much money. fc»o we are told of a ten-thous and-dollar chimney-piece, a thirty-five thousand-dollar bronze railing, a stained glass window that cost sixty thousand dollars, and a house that has two hun dred thousand dollars' worth of uphol stery and decorative art in it. Thoeost of these things is the monument of the great man. Into the midst of these aes thetic splendors he comes with the memories of his humble, perhaps squal id, home thick upon him. lie remem bers, w ith a secret dread of Wing found out, the unfragrant shop where he sold rum aud red herrings in a long-buried past. He cannot help contrasting the gilded luxury and Oriental gorgeousness of bis new house with the vulgar pover ty of his cabin in the mines, or his fath er's farm house in the forests. He lives in the purple, but he was born in tow. He measures his social standing by the vastness of his expenditures. This house, with its treasures, is all his. His money has paid for all. There in no sheriff, no creditor, waiting for him at the door, llut, after all, what will ho do with it ? He has built him a house, but not a home. His palace is full of things that he does not understand. He Is uneasy in the midst of unaccustomed splendors. Aud when he is done with H the neighbors will idly ask, "Who will have that fine houso next?" DR. DIX OX DHOKCt. The course of Ijeuten lectures which Kev. Dr. Morgan Dix, of New York, ha* been delivering hit* not met with commendation, and it had not given him increased reputation as a broad and liberal thinker. But the courageous and truthful presentation of the subject of "Divorce," which he made in his lecture last Friday evening, is one of the important contributions that have recently been made to the discussion of this subject. His scorching method of treating whatever he desires to condemn adds to the e fleet of his words, aud when a man of his decided opinions, with his capacity in the use of keen and telling language, attacks this subject upon which the public conscience is somewhat undecided, a "sensation'' such as his lecture is said to have cre ated may be expected. In this lecture he ha* told some un palatable truths, and pronounced some principles that canuot be set forth toe often or too strongly. He dwelt witb ail the abhorrence of a man of keen moral sensibilities upon the rapid in crease of divorc*, and the peril to socie ty which it indicates. He spoke in withering terms of the record New Eng land has made, calling it "the centre of this moral cesspool." And with a div orce rate of oue to every fourteen mar riages in Massachusetts, one to every eight in Connecticut, and figures al most as bad in the other States, it must be confessed that his burning words are deserved. The different people who have dis cussed this question have accounted foi the unmistakable tendency in various ways. I>r. Dix thinks it is due to th« fact that marriage is coming to be looked upon as a civil contract and no more. "The notion," said he, "thai marriage is only a civil contract, term inable, like other such contracts, at the pleasure and convenience of the parties, is and must be in the brain of every ad vocate or approver of divorce." Others who have discussed this subject have found a princi]>ol reason for the increase of divorce, and Dr. Dix casually sap that the cause is lax legislation, which to so generally prevalent. But they forget that the laws merely mark the height of popular eonviction, and that to change tbeiu with any practical ben efit there must first be a radical change in the sentiments of the people. A persistent movement to obtain uni form divorce laws in all the States is about the only legal remedy that would have any efficacy. Suoh discussion of the question as that given by Dr. Dix is of vastly more benefit, because of its educational value, than any legislative enactment tbat is raised above the con victions of the people. LKIBSMU TO SPESD. The chief end of man, according to the modern idea, is to increase his in come, says the Philadelphia Times. To get more dollars this year than he had last year is of more importance to the average American than his hopes of heaven or of moral or intellectual ad vancement. If he is already rioh, he wants to be richer, and if he is poor, he organizes strikes among his fellow poor men to compel somebody to pay him more money. Indulged in to a mod erate extent this trait is not wholly evil. It stimulates men to greater exertions to better their condition. But a false estimate is put upon the value of mere money-getting. Money is valuable only for the real comforts and aids to human development it will buy. What a man piles up unused is only a source of care and a destroyer of real happi ness. What he spends on his appetite? and passions is often a positive curse, and what is spent by his family to grat ify the mere demands of arbitrary cus tom is worse than thrown away. The truth is that many people need to begin in a new place to increase their ccmforts. The average increase in In comes must bo very slow at best, no matter how hard we strive, But the Increase in the genuine comfort and re finement of the ordinary household might be great if some of the energy exerted in the effort for larger incomes were devoted to learning how to use to the best advantage the income already secured. There are a few people who have learned this art, but not many. The man with an income of ton thous and dollars it* often in debt and har assed by duns and rtaps little enjoy ment from his income. Another, who obtains the wages of »n ordinary me chanic, lives in comfort, and his chil dren are reasonably well clothed and educated. The one has learned to make the most of his means and the other has not. The ability to adapt muc h styie ami manner of living to one's income is of much more importance to the great mass of people than all the methods of getting rich easily ever discovered. It is in this particular branch of social economy that Americans are lamenta bly deficient. No nation iu the world furnishes so high an average of incomes te its people. And no people probably get so little for the same amount of money. "NVe have bestowed so much time and energy 011 the mere task of getting money that we have never learned the art of spending It. THE <>HOHT1I or MKTIIODIS*. The growth of the Methodist denom ination in this country is one of the marvels of our history. Jt is only a little over a hundred years old, and it took some forty years for it to get fairly organized and under way. A little over fifty years ago there was not a single Methodist divinity school, and only one college graduate among the Methodist preachers of New England. Now the Methodists have a larger college prop erty and a larger number of students than any other religious body iu the land. They have fifty-seven colleges, 4,-r)00 students, and about ?12,000,000 of college property. Just now the Methodists of Massa chusetts are moving to endow Boston University, and make it the educational centre of their body, as Yale is to the Congregationalism, Princeton to the I*resbyterians,and Harvard to the Unita rians. That institution was founded ten years ago by a bequest of Isaac Rich, amounting, as was supposed at the time, to $-,000,000. But owing to the losses in the great lire and in other wars, it amounted to only £700,000. Yet it has begun well, and now has iu Its different dej artmenU 572students. And its out look is full of encouragement. Method* tern began as a religion for the masses. Its preachers were earnest but unlearned men. They depended for succe-s on their zeal and fervor and all-cou<pier ing devotion to their work, making heroic sacrifices to save souls. It was a pioneer religion, nouri9inug rnosi in new States, going wherever the settlor planted a cabin. The whole condition of the country has changed since it was planted here. And one of the remark able things in its history is the success with which it is adapting itself to the new circumstance of the American people, keepiug pace with the growth of taste and culture. While our people arerejoiciugat the nou-appearance of Wiggins' storm, it may be well to remember the one that actually devastated England in Novem ber, 1703, one hundred and eighty years ago. It was one of the most violent that ever raged there. The losses on land were as nothing compared with those in the harbors and on the coasts. London sustained a loss estimated at £2,000,000. The number of persons drowned in the floods of the Severn and Than es, and lost on the coast of Hol land, and in ships blown from their anchors and never heard of afterward, was set dowe at 8,000. Twelve men of war, with more than 1,800 men on board, were lost within sight of their own shore. In the county of Kent alone, 17,000 trees were torn up by the roots. The Eddystoue lighthouse was destroyed, and with it its builder, Win btanley, and the persons who were with him. The Bishop of Bath and Wells, together with his wife, were killed in their bed in the palace in Somersetshire. Innumerable cattle were also destroyed, aud in one level 15,000 sheep drowned. And it has been known ever since a* the "Great Storm." It L. said iuj: London press did not dare to print the scandal which the con duct of Mrs. Langtry g&ve rise to ia this country. For awhile t ie great majority of American newspaper? did not dare to go to press without something a little worse than any of its contemporaries had said. CLncvMAS o ght to be very careful in the choice of language or serious results may ensue. "My brethren," aaid one late ly, "1 wM now pass," and before he could proceed a sleepy hearer ia the front pew suddenly started in*o life and crkid out: "Thin I make it sp.ules and play it alone." PEBNOXAL POINTS. M. Grevy, like Mr. Gladstone, ia in bis 74th year. Sine* the death of Mr. Dickens more than four million volumes of his works hare been sold in England. President Arthur will cruise along the New England coast next summer, fishing at ditttrent localities. John Kelly, the Tammany politician, passes much time in his library and is said to aspire to literary fame. As David Davis was not waiting for a di vorce and nobody objected to his marriage, it will trouble him to explain why he lied about it so persistently. Louise Michel may get up an occasional riot in Paris, but as she dues not offer to lecture in this country wedoa't believe her flag is as black as it is painted. A drunken fellow named Herrln?, in Hall county, Ga., emptied a shovel of hot coals over bis infant child, burning it to death. The lynchers are scouring the woods for him. William Fawcett, a veteran of Waterloo, died at llagerstown, Ind., a few days ago, and last week the death of Daniel Woods, another of tLe Duke of Wellington's sol diers, occurred ik Indianapolis. Both were over a century old. Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake asks: "If twenty boys were brought up in the same way as girls—laced, kept indoors, taught sewing, embroidery and playing the piano —what sort of young men would they be at twenty-one?" We really do not know, Lillie, but we think they would bear a very close resemblance to a majority of the . young men nightly seen smoking cigarettes in theater lobbies, says the Philadelphia News. The latest story about Senator Tabor is that he urged Senator David Davis, when Congress adjourned, to hurry up his wed ding, if he really was to be married, or to get married anyhow, and make with him (Tabona joint bridal tour across the conti nent in a special car, truly palatial in all its equipments; and he added, as a final ahd irrestlble argnmcut; "We'll make Mttue howl, and the whole show shan't cost you a cent." Mr. John W. Forney writes in Progress: "A biography of Mr. Stephens, written by the late Mr. l'orney, aud which it was well understood was to l>e published in The Press as his obituary after his death, was several times read and corrected up t« date by 'the great commoner' himself. The ar ticle was in type for months and the proofs made frequent trips io and frosu Washing ton. The last time they reached the oflke of The Press, on the blank space at the close of the article was written in Mr. Stephens' own hand: This is my last." The following anecdote of Alexander H Stephens is related in the Louisville Cour ier-Journal: The wife of a Western Con gressman was one day sitting by Mr. Steph ens' bedside, when he was so very ill in the winter of 1877, and he spoke quite freely to her of his mother and his early life. "Why did you never marry?'' she asked. "That's my secret," he replied, evasively. "Eut we would all like to know it," was her response. "Well," said he,grimly and reluctantly, "I never saw but one woman I wanted to marry; but sho did not want to marry me. That's a good reason, isn't it?" "1 hope she lived to regret her mis take," remarked the kind heart. "Y e s*" responded Mr. Stephens slowly, "I tlii-ik she did, and so did I." ETCH 1ft UN. Yotw. men should pattern after pianos be square, upright, grand. Mam wants bnt little here below, but he doesn't like too much water in it. Tai.magk says the principal occupation iu heaven will be singing. Shut the box. Xoiiooy wishes the baby stolen, still it is a relief when the nurse cribs it at night. "Pai\ did Washington never tell a lie"" "No, son; he didn't." "Then 1 guess he never went to school any." Mary Andkrhon wears a $2,.100 pair of garters. It takes a pretty tall girl to wear parters that come that high. A hank president left a Southern town the other day fo.'ever, without taking a cent of the bank's money with him. He died. It seems that sincc Frank James surren dered the members of the gang have stop ped robbing railway trains and gone into the State treasury business in the South. A Cincinnati man recently dreamed that he was in hell, and did not attempt to conceal his disappointment when he awoke and found himse.f still in Cincin nati. "Vk*, indeed," remarked a society belle to her good pastor, "1 say my prayers night and morning during Lent; one might as well be out of the world a? out of the fashion." An eastern merchant, who never adver tised, was found lying dead on the counter of bis store the other day. It is thought the body had lain there several days before being discovered. Ki v. l>u. Hall said that every rook waa a sermon, when a boy was stealing apples from Mr. Hall's orchard. When the boy's fether subsequently ask-ed him why he limped, he replied that he was struck with one of Mr. Hall's Bermons. ( onkliiK la the KnvlUb Nrhooln. London Nrutt. Mipa Fannie L. Calder, who has taken a warm personal interest in the move ment for promoting a practical knowl edge of cookery among the humbler classes, has contributed to Good Words a very interesting paper describing the history ot the attempt to introduce this subject into our elementary schools, with other details. The influences of the well-known Training School of Cookery at South Kensington, though not inconsiderable, have been chiefly instrumental in setting a fashion among ladies. Thanks, however, in great part to the Liverpool Training School of Cookery, and also to the successful eflbrts of the Northern Union of Schools of Cookery, in ob taining the recognition of this stuly in the code as a subject of the customarj grant under certain conditions, cookery cla**<es are in some parts of England steadily extending among those to whom a knowledge of this branch of domestic economy is of most impor tance. Mish Calder meets all the cur rent objections to the movement by the unanswerable logic of practical experi ence. THE GIRL OF THE PERIOD. On a mystical Kin U the lay that I spin. In th*seulira-civliif.-d dayn. Of the maiden who flaunt*, through Boolrty hunnta. In the lat.-.Ht ft-mlnine erase. Ycu will see her up-town, In a wonderful gown. Of vasberi-out btlioua red ; While lirr ha:r In » bang will moat artfully hang Tfeath the Langtry hat on her bead. Her g'ovee of "mus-klt-ter" will in wrinkle* lit her; He* loots will be high In the heel; Whiie libbons erratic, in oolois ecstatic, Her own special taste will rev* il. A dagger that's knife-like, a beetle that'* li e-'lke. Are items this darling affect*; While, a* for a lizard to get op a bllzeard, There's nothing sheso«uer keUct«. Some bangles, alt Jangling with chains that are dangling On her taper like wrist flud a place. And a monkey and saake *otl> ueat orna ments make, And spiders arctoweet tucked in litoe. A huge bunch of floweri'.at a.'j kinds of hours, H.e «i a>* in the belt at her waixt. But stay, gentle reader: they say that we need her To sliuw la »-trocg colore good taste. * THE AMERICAN ITALY. Wanderings 'Neath the Sumaer Skies of California. A« Old Town by the Sea—San Diego and Vicinity—The Agriculturalists Ar cadia—flive»$ide—An Ideal Village. Editorial Cbrrttpomdenet of the 9tm<iay Rf&tUr. Sam Dikoo, G'al,, March 7, IBM.— Hie nail from Santa Barbara to San Diego oh 0D6 of the Pacifio Coast Steamship Company's steamers, is a pleasant trip of two nights and a day. Here, as at Mouterey and Los Angeles, ft an old town and an old Mission. As at Los Angeles, we have - here an old Spanish town, with its adobe tiled roofed hout>eg arid adobe-walled gar dens. And near here is another of the old Spanish Missions—of which there vrere originally four planted in thw ter ritory more than a century ago—for the conversion of the red-faced heathen. The old building is now but little betUr than a heap of mouldering olay, al though a portion of the walls still stand and serve as a sheep oorreli and horw stables. One room of the old sanctuary contains a press and furnaco for the manufacture of oil from the olives which growupon the old orchard whioh was planted here probably in tbe last century. These Olive TrrM are the largest in all California—bein* as large and wide-spreading with their branches as the sturdy oaks of our West Virginia mountains. An olive orchard is one of the mo«t delightful signta of this country. The trees are singularly graceful aud ILe foliage possesses a tint of tender greeu which is most agree able to the eye. Nowhere iu Califor nia does the olive thrive better than in the fertile valleys of this vicinity; and I connt among tbe most pleasaut of the many pleapaut davs which I have spent tn this delightful country, a drive In company with my excellent friend, Thomas J. Arnold, Esq., formerly of loverly, West Virginia, and now a prominent lawyer of San Diego, and Col. W. E. Robinson, a worthy descend ant of the Breckinridges and Critteu dens, of Kentucky, which took me through the olive groves hereabouts. At the old Mission, iu addition to the great old olive trees, there are a uuuiber of the Date-palms now laden with the ripening fruit. There are also great htdges of the fruit-bearing cactus now bursting into bloom. The flowers are quite beautiful, beiug of the different shades ot red and yellow, aud the great flabby-leaved plants are of immense size. I will not undertake to sav how large lest I may not be believed. My friend Robinson told me of A rinu or iora iu this vicinity, in which the stalks all over the field* stood from seventeen to twenty-tliret; feet high and each stalk bore many ears of corn of immeusesize. He (-aid, "This is ttue, but I admit it has every appearance of being a false* hood, like other stories of the mon strosities in the vegetable kingdom of Southern California; but I shall show you to-day something as wonderful as anything of which you have beard. It is a single lime tree—or, rather, shrub, for it Is not a tree, from which over 7, 00*) limes have already been picked this year and there are more than 3,000 specimens of this fruit still upon it. This tinglo bush, only six years old, lias yielded its proprietor as much as $100 this, year, and there is no reason why It will not do better in the future ns ft gets its growth and comes into full Itearing." He oid show me this remarkable bush, in the course of the day's drive. It is about twelve feet in height, and its branches cover an area fully fifteen feet across. Its owner seldom goes to the city An) l»nj During tlio Yrnr without tiikingu basket of limes picked by his faithful wife with him. There ate on it now, as at all times in the year, buds, blossoms, small green fruit) still larger green fruit and ripe fruit. The acid of the lime is much like that of the lemon, but n little milder, and it is much preferred by people accustomed to both. On the same place were grow ing some of the finest lemons I have seen, quite as large as a large goose egg and fall of juice. The oranges were also remarkably large and sweet. The most j'alatai 1c oranges I haveyet eaten in California are gathered in an orchard on this ride in the El Ciyon Valley—a valley as beautiful as it is fertile. Among other elrgant estates In this valley Is oue owned aud occupied by George A. Cowles, Ksq., formerly of Philadelphia and Washington City, and who, with his accomplished wife, extends a hospi table welcome to the stranger who en ters his gates, lie devotes one ranch to the cultivation of fruits and another and larger to live stock. In his home are many evidence*of taste, refinement aud thrift. Mr. Cowles is conducting his oocrations without irrigation. He says lie will Mot Fight Again*! the Almighty; he will not attempt to raise banannas where potatoes will grow to ftiore profit —he will not attempt oranges where grapes, apple*, pears and neaclies will yield him more money. He will plant only that which will grow to profit with such moisture as nature furnishes. My friend Robinson has a theory that where much water Is used on land In irrigation frosts are more likely to do damage to tender trees and plant*; and, what w more important, is certain even tually to produce malaria. His Idea is, that it is impossible to poor a large quantity of water several times a year upon the ground and have that opera tion followed by intense heat of the sun which forces vege ration forward like the atmosphere or a hot-house, without producing malaria. Mr. Robinson has given a good deal of investigation and thought to this subject, and I quote him because of this fact, added to hii broad intelligeuceand keen discernment. This Kl Cajon rancbo, which former Iv supported one-fifth as many cattle aa there were acres in the valley, is now rapidly becoming a blooming garden yielding $100 where it formerly, in the old slip-and- go - easy way, yielded one dollar. And this will eventually be the history of all these great ranches. Then will prosperity be general in H*alk«ni California and a competence will be the reward of all who are willing to work. There are still vast tiact* held as pasture landa by the owners of the old Spanish grant* which do not yield an annual income of fifteen cents an acre, which, were they planted in vines and fruits, would return more than double aa many dol lars per acre net profit. Where the land is moist enough for alfalfa as muota can be raised on one acre as will sup port as many cattle as ten acres does under the present mode. At San Diego I met I>r. Dodge, for• merly of Wheeling, and had the pleas ure of bearing him preach, in the Pres byterian church, one of hia plain and common sense hern,on*. He has an elegant home in the suburbs of the place, and is enjoying the splendid health which was denied him by the climates of the States east of the Kocky Mountains. Han Diego is a place of about 4,000 in habitant*—not a town of business bus tle, like Loa Anpretefc, but its citizens are "solid" and intelligent. Ithaaaa fine a harbor as the ignited States can boast, sufficient to accommodate the commerce o! powerful na tions. When this ah all become the western terminus of the trans continental railroad system and tl.e commerce of the Qjient shall enter these gates, as Tom Bcol once contem plated should be the case, Kan Diego will become a powerful city. It is now the K>hthern terminus of the California Southern railroad; a line of steamer* ply between here and San Fnoekw, five hundred mile* sway, and south of the latter city it can hare no rival tor the great business that is soon to be de veloped by the opening of the new llnea of toads projected ana by the settle ment of tlie country. u n. AN IDEAL VILLAGE. MtrmMf-Ai KiHBipl* mf Km C«lMr Nyrni ■ What Mulr/ HMMd Wll) 1>«. fZMmrtmt Cbrrupomdent* of lit* 9**d*g RrgiMtr. RivEKdiDB, Cal., March 9.—This Is a bran uew little city. No old adobe houses; no swarthy Mexicans holding up the door Jams with their shoulders or females squatting on the ground with the inevitable shawl upon their bead*; no old Mission with its tender associations and romantic legends. All here Is new and as intensely neat and thrifty as the best New Euglaud town. Less than ten years ago this waa but an iudifl?rent cattle ranch; the broad plains almost barren of vegetation and the surrounding mountains which tower on all sidos as bleak as an extinct crater. Now a village thirteen miles in length, with a broad avenue ten milos long, shaded with graceful pepper trees and the beautiful encalyplus, lined with neatly-trimmed hedges of cypress and lime, embellished with palm trees and foliage and flowering plants. This mag nificent a venue,now ten miles long,is to he extended on through the entire vil Isge, over and through Oolton (on the railroad) to San Bernardino, making one grand boulevarde—broad, shaded, and embellished—25 miles in length. San Bernardino lies nestled at the foot of the grand mountain range of the same name, and is near the banks of tbe San Bernardluo river, which supplies the water for the irrigation of the orange groves and handsome gardens of Riverside. This town is supplied with obeaply-pro cured artesian water of an excellent quality, as pure as the streams which gurgle out ot the mountains near by. CUUi IcraardlM Is tbe county seat of the county bearing tberame name and lies four miles north of the Southern l'acitlc railroad at Col* ton. At Colton tbe California Southern railroad, which runs down to the ocean (one hundred and twontv-four miles away) at San Diego, forms a junction with the trans-continental line. River side is eight miles further down the valley. From the extreme end of Col ton to the extreme end of Arlington j avenue in Riverside is twenty-live i miles, which will all soon beanie one coin ill uouh cuy 01 orange groves, grap eries, elegant residences and flower gar dens. 'Jhey claim to raise better, eleaner-bkinucd and more delicious orange* nt Riverside (ban any plain? e!se in Southern California. Owing to tbe great distance from tbe sea fogs, the dryness of tbe atmosphere and superior ca'ie in treatment, Riverside makes as tine raisins a* are made in the moot favored sections of the world. Next week their annual fair will be held here, for which extensive preparations are now being made, and at wbioh will be a notable display of citrous and vin ousffruits. l'eopie come from longdiatan ces, even from Kan Francisco, MO miles away, to attend these Fairs, for the eye has seldom an opportunity to feast upon such a wealth of bright and lus cious fruits. About all the editor* of the State will be here on that occasion, as the Edl torial Association has concluded to em brain* the occasion to visit this smiling valley. The editors will g« to San Diego, al*o, to attend A Fralt I'slr to be held in that city the same week. ltiverside was settled by a colony, as was Passadena, Anaheim, Fresno, and many other of tho charming and pros perous communities in California. This is the favorite mode of settlement in California. A number of neighbors join together and buy a tract of suita ble land, ranging from 1,000 acres up wards in quantity. They are careful to select It where a water'right can be secured lor irrigation. A town Is then laid out for business purposes, and tbe entire ranch is blocked into ten, twenty and forty acre lots. Street" are staked oft ami thrown up with the plow, and ditches are dug or pipes laid, to con duet the water to the highest point on each lot; and then the whole is offered for sale, (or, sometimes, only alternate lots are put on the market,) and It is surprising how soon a beautiful town spring* into existence. A man may work to advantage every day in the year; •nis tree* con tinue to grow :W5 days and as many nights without interruption each year; his live stock matures much ear lier than in wintry latitudes; no freez ing disturbes his water pipes, which run everywhere, or disarranges his water ditches which only reuuirw a furrow with n plow to create. Ilia grapevines ix ar the tlrst season after the cutting is stuck into the ground; bis peach trees are laden with fruit the second year from the seed; oranges may be picked the second year after planting. A Has With iMlfrtlc Rmu may-and thousands of them do—pro duce a home of luxury and havo an a* wired income from ten acres In a sur prisingly short apace of time. I have seen seventeen varleUee of choice fruit growing in a single gar den ; and all kinds of grain as well as fodder for stock is easily produced. I believe that every colony thai has vet been attempted has (proved a - marked success. Only two or three of tbe colo nies which have been planted in South ern California were originated by peo ple of this State—they were mainly started and settled by people from tbe East, by a most excellent class of peo nU. ('alifornia in and has been all winter literally full of people from the State* east of the Hockies, traveling for health and pleasure, and quite a large number are purchasing propertv with the view of making this their future home. In glancing over the local paper* one ia struck with the long Hat or transfer* of BmI I»lan Rww4«l each day—ranging, I noticed in a 1 'jtm Angelea paper—aa high as twenty to twenty-five a day in thatalogie county. The purchasers are largely composed of people wboee families contain at leaat one invalid and who come to escape the rigor and sudden changes of tbe Northern seasons. This valley lies 1,000 feet above the surface of the sea, and ia, to all appear* ancea, closed in by light range* of mountains. On the north the main range oftbe&an Bernandino Mountains rear their nine covered tops, wbils on tbe one aloe the eternal snow covered peak of Old Bakly throats his white head a)>ove the clouds 17,000 (set above the plain*, and on the other aide Grey Bscs, whose back is now not grey but white with s fleecy covering, stands as a faithful sentinel over the Uorgonian Pass to the Desert. The temperature ia equable the year through, yet Croat does come sometime* in the winter time. ^ l. h. A (artoat Vifnltoa mf Tiakcn. Rirhm/md Riale. A correspondent writes from Ileal too Station: A movement of tbe Tunkecv of tbe Valley of Virginia over tbe mountains into tbe Piedmont and tide water counties has begun. Borne fif teen or twenty of the community bars settled In Fauquier and Upper Priam William counties, near this and they report that a com mi „ forty or fifty bouses will reach tbe see lion In the early spring. Toes* man are excellent farmers, and having sold their lands in U>* valley at froca fM to $80 per acre, they bare bought and are buying lauds hereabouts at from $6 to $15 per acre and settling down to im prove them. ' A Philadelphia rector, preacbiac «ai a •alary of $15,000. baa baen elected JJixhop of Indiana, with a salary of $3000. Luckily bis faifctr is a Baltimore banker. THEIR BRIDAL TOUR, lali««M< *7 the AU icail«M«f IIm >wnw, Peel't Am. "flay, whit kind of a hotel do 70a kecpr Mid a geod looking man. m ha atopped u» to tba counter and regialarad hia naiaa, and added, "and wife" after it "Can a nav ■anted couple aettle downbere for two or three daya and hove a qatet wteit here with each other and not be acared oat of their boot a T" The hotel man «»id they could go right to their room and atay there three day a or three weeka. and never torn* to their meaia if they didn't want anything to eat M»ut what'a the matter? Hare you been an noyed r anked the hotel man. .-"Annoyed r That doeaa'l espraee It We were married day befora yeaterday at St. fanl, and went to a hotel. I Ifte aboat piztj mi tea weet of 81 Piaul, and the trav eling men pat np a job to make «M tired. There were about a hundred of them snowed in at St. Paul, and I'll he darned If they didq't keep na awake all night They knew we were a bridal couple, and they bribed the bell boys and porter* to let theni act for them, and when we mag the ball lor the ball boy a drummer for a Chicago cigar factory came in and twuxl to know what waa wanted. I or dered a pitcher of ice watar, and a Milwaukee drummer for a grocery bourn brought it in. and he looked at mr wife, who ia basMul, and made hei* feel bsd. J didn't know they were drummera uatf the next day, or 1 ahouid hare killed aoaae of them. 1 rang the bell (or coal, and a talesman who poata railroiul car-Is aroand and works up axouraioo, ha came la and fixed the lire and be atayed and poked it for half an hour, and he had more gall than 1 ever eee. He asked ao many qure tions about how long we bad beaa married that 1 wanted to thump him, but my wife We PMa't vat «• Have la Ba* the lint day we were married. I rung for a chambermaid to cleau up the rooru and bring some towels, and it waa about half an hour before ahe came, and I went down to the office to tee about my trunk, and tba chambermaid atayed about half an hour and waa very interesting, and my wife aaid ahe waa a real pleasant, affectionate tort of a creature, far above her atation, and I tell you 1 waa mad when I found out lhal.it waa a smooth fteed, bandtome young Jewish drummer for a Milwaukee clothing house, who was iu with the gang, and he gave the chambermaid $.1 to loan him an old dre*e ao he could play the chambermaid. When my arife tola me that the chambermaid had patted ber 00 the cheek and Mid she was the awaetaat bride that was ever in a hotel, and aaked for a kita, and my wife aaid ahe thought it would be no harm to kisa a poor chamber maid, and encourage ber, I wanted to kill him, and 1 went down to the oAoe 1 he next morning, but the smooth faced cuss had pone to Fargo. It was all the landlord could do to bold me. Well, while we were at auppar tcmebody got into the rr«om and put crack er crumbs into our brd, and we foutd a cold oil cloth floor mat over the top sheet enough to freest1 anybody. But the worst wusatni},'bt. We had just ®>l comforta bly into tied when there waa a knock at tba dour, and I got up and the watchman was | lunr, buu uv »«•"* mv finin\ vi tw jn sis* vu• to mo tlie fire escafwa, so that I could get out in cave of fir*, and I went out into ttia ball and he took ma way out the and of tie building to show it to me. and while I waa looking out of the window my wife came running down the hall bearing ma to nve her. I asked bar what wat U»e matter, and aha aaid aa toon aa I went out A Maa thai Laakt4 Like a Peeler came in tbe room and told ber te fly, and save herself. and to follow bar husband. She felt awful when aha found tbera waa no trouble, and we got back into our room half frot*. I hare got them fellowi down line. The fellow who railed me out to look at tbe tirc-eacape ia a drummer for a 1'hiladelphia military houae, and the oae that acared my wife out of her vita travela for a beame factory at Kochee ler, N. Y. Mr wife aayi ahe would know him, beraa»e he baa a big gray wa» (ache, and weara a diamond oollar battoa in bia shirt 8he raid abe thought be vaa pretty atrlish for a porter at (be tine. They woke ua np several times in (benight to tell us wbat to do in caee we were etok, and in tbe morning, before we were ua, a waiter brought up our breakfast, lie eaid the landlord >ent it up, and he juet stood •round until we had 10 ait up in bed aad eat breakfast. I thought at the time that It waa kind in the landlord lo eend up our breakfast, but when I fouud that the waiter who brought it up waa a travel ing man for a reaper factory si Uockforil, and remeiubenl how darned im pudent he looked al my wife, I c^uld have murdered him, hut the clerk aaid he bad sone to Winnipeg. It waa just about aa bud coming down bere on the sleeping oar, and 1 think half the oasst-ngera ou the oar were tlione same drummers that ware anowed in. It was colder than A leaks, aad 1 would order eiiru blankets, and they would steal them. I had more than twen ty blankets put on the l>ed, and In the morning there was nothing hut a aheei over us. And every time there was a blanket spread over ua there was a differ ent porter put it on, and I Thlsb They Were All Trsvsllav Res. Kvery little while aomebody would pall open the curtaine and ait down on my berth and begin to pull off his boots, and I would tell bim that he must have made a mistake, and he would took around at ua as ibfcycent as could be, and ask our par don, and then go out and damn the porter. Occe 1 felt somebody feeling about my bertb, and I asked wbat was the matter, and the fellow aaid he was looking for tny wite'a ahoes to blaek cn. Then about every fifteen minutes the conductor would open tbe ear* taina and bold a rrd lantern in and a*k for our ticketa. I think they punched my ikketaixty-five time*. Anyway it lookad like a porous plaster when I got op in tbe morning. 1 think It waa the traveling men who were playingeondactor, but I wee eleepy, and 1 tbonghtthe beat way waa to let them pnncb It. Well about Socloek N tin- morning aomebody punched aa and aatd it ww time to get up, as all tba paawngere were np, and wa won Id bare brrakfleei in lifteen minutes. Ami then we battled around and got dreeeed the beet we coOid. leyingoo oar backs and kicking our clulbae up in tbe air and catching then on oar eures when they came down. 1 got wy peinta on wrong eide before and loet every thing out of my pockete. and my wife loet ber hair and bad to tie a headkerchief around ber bead, and tben we had oar berths made op end eat op till daylight, and tbo porter found ay wife'e IJPir IUU |/IHUni Aft IV IU« gyr taina of t berth occupied by a preacher from Oabkoeb, and bekir.ked u4 sot mad and talked about it and woudered bow it cam# there, and be avore about It and I think be trrrela for an Oabkoah oar riajre factory. Ob. I ncrrr bad aacb a n»nbt, or tiro aucb night*, in ail my life, and what I want to know ia If 1 out be quiet bare, and cat a Utile aleep, and Mi be annoyed." The hotel man told blw if anybody cam* aroand to bother him to knock them dear down ataira and be woald be reanoaaible, and the hridefmom look hie aatcbel and bia wife, and the colored maa flowed them a room, and (bey bare not ahowed npainre. ft fa confoanded mean in traveling men to get anowed In end farm a ayndicate to bare fun. They will aewae th» maelvee to Se dialiked if they keep eo. >»WtMO MACHIM1. JON. XI. HA OK, Agent for Ibe Celebrated HODSEHOLD, Vim JID MV ■» . ntwivo MACHiita, iM lutM -arm, fhulHf, 1. It j&sssr sf^sisssisASS S^iMytyaywitiialewtoaa.oBfc Drs, Surgison & Siiu DENTUT^ 1143 Market St, WHFKUNQ, W. VA. all orcBATiom vamuitiu u« ^TSeytooweSf** eeiie Ton. $s.tt DR. GEO, OADDLB, BUB0EO* DKSmmt 1217 MARKET 9TBBBT. Teeth Extracted aad filled vMwat pate hp bla eaaolotetf aafe aaeathetta. The Daeterama aoteaahlaamaiaaayailjaBpetatteaa a»g