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NOIITH CAROLINA. Lumberton Robesonlan: Captain J. H. Morrison made an assignment Monday evening, naming A. W. McLean as trua tee. The exact amount of liabilities and -assets are not yet known. As nearly as can be approximated the liabilities are $6,000 to $7,000, with nominal assets of about $13,000. Should the assets realize 50 per cent, of their face value they will more than pay all indebtedness. Morganton Herald: The Morganton Male Academy now has seventy-five stu dents. Professor Payne, who has charge, expects soon to add to this number. At the close of the polls Tuesday a cablegram was sent to London notifying the capitalists who piopose to build the new railroad of the favorable result of the vote. Regarding the adaptability of the soil and climate of this county to the raising of the pecan nut, we can cay that Mr. J. M. Patton, of Silver Creek, has a thrifty tree which has just come into bearing. The nut raised is of good size, weil filled and finely flavored. Asheville Gazette: G. G. Eaves. Esq., of Marion, wa3 here last night and in formed the Gazette that John Campbe.l, etate agent, returned to Marion yester day, having In charge a man named Jones, accused of the killing of Hughes In Mitchell county about six months ago. H. C. Jones and J. M. Morgan have just received from Sheriff McDaniel of Pickens county, S. C, a pair of fine bloodhound puppies. The animals are about nine weeks old and their pedigree the best. It is the purpose of the owners to train them for use in capturing crimi nals in the county. They will be suffi ciently old for use in about six months. Kingston Free Press: Mr. Wm. Stroud's gin house, near Woodington church, was destroyed by fire Saturday morning, About 8 o'clock, catching in the lint room. The los3 is or $j0; insurance $310. Only about one bale of cotton was burn ed. The sheriff and his deputies have been doing a big business this fall col lecting taxes. Saturday the office was crowded all day, and 402 persons paid their taxes, -ke.ng mostly negroes, the -amounts running from 4 cents up. About H.rX) was collected Saturday and about $1,200 Monday. At least three-fourths of the taxes have been collected already. The people were scared into paying eary by the new law. Statesville Landmark: Rebekah Stim--son, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lo gan Stimson, aged about 4 years, fell from a fence at her home on Academy Hill yesterday afternoon. The child fell a distance of four or live feet and struck on her head. No bones were broken, but the force of the fall left her in a semi conscious condition and It was difficult St trie time to determine the exact extent -of her injuries. The Western North Carolina conference of the A. M. E. Zion church, held in Sa.isbury recently return ed Rev. M. V. Marable to his woik as presiding elder of the Statesville district Rev. G. G. Musgrave, who was pastor of the colored Methodist church here, 13 succeeded by Rev. R. C. Collins. Sylva Sentinel: A condition of lawless ness, almost approaching a reign of ter ror. Is said to exist on Uper Scon's -creek In this county. Outrageous assaults on trave.eis along the puouc ructu ate said to have been committed without any provocation whatever. Private prop erty has been wantonly injured and de stroyed. Some airesis have been made and parties bound to courts and war rants have been issued for others who have not yet been caught, and yet the outrages continue. The air brakes of the on cars at liaisam have several times been interfered with and rubber hose cut. Train crews are said to be in a constant state of apprehension. Diilsboro corre spondence. It was a "sure enough" panther that sci earned In the streets of Diilsboro one night, two or three nights ago. Joan Caisun, who lives about a mile from town, saw the animal near his home a short time ago. Mr. Carter was about a quarter of a mile from his resi- 1 . - ...i. .... i Ai . i . dence when he saw the panther, not more than thirty or forty feet away Having used three bottles of P. P. P. for impure blood and general weakness nd having derived great benefit from the sams, having gained 14 pounds in weight in four weeks, I take great pleasure In recommending It to all un fortunate like Yours truly, JOHN MORRIS. Office of J. N. McElroy, Druggist, Orlando, Fla., April 20, 1891. Messrs. Lippman Bros., Savannah, Ga. Dear Sirs: I sold three bottles of P. ' P. P. large size yesterday, and one bot tle small size today. The P. P. P. cured my wife of rheu matism winter before last. It came back on her the past winter and a half bottle, 51 size, relieved her again, and she has not had a symptom since. I sold a bottle of P. P. P. to a friend of mine, one of the turkies, a small one, took sick and his wife gave it p tea .spoonful, that was in the evenii and the little fellow turned over like h was dead, but next morning he was hollow ing and well. Yours respectfully, j. n. Mcelroy. Savannah, Ga., March 17, 1891. Messrs. Lippman Bros., Savannah, Ga. Dear Sirs: I have suffered from rheumatism fo a long time and did not find' a cure until Ifound P. P. P.. which completely cured me. Yours truly, ELIZA JONES, 16 Orange St.. Savannah, Ga, Stimm-r I l"tr In Alliens (Macmillan's Magazine.) The luxurious modern Athenian, not- withstanding his great love of music and ( amusement, could never endure to re- j main pent up in a stifling theatre, how- ever great might be the attraction. It has been found necessary, therefore, to adopt something which combines the two essentials, comfort with amusement. Use ful suggestions from the past are not wanting in Athens. One has only to go round the Acropolis to see how the an cient Inhabitants solved a similar diffi culty: the theatre of Dionysius, or that of Herodes on the southern side of the Acropolis, and the Stadium further east, furnish excellent examples to the mod ern Athenian. A theatre, then, consist inn: of a vooden stage and temporary wooden seats, is erected inside a yard or enclosure, with no high walls to keep out the v. elcome cool breezes and no roof to obstmr-t the view of the beautiful starry sl;y. Such a theatre on a clear, quiet night, pleasantly cool after the in tense heat of the day, is always well pat zonlzed by Athenian play-goers. One such "theatre, standing hard by the historic Ilyssus and the fountain of Cal lirrhoe, bears the name of Paradisos, and bears it with good reason, for beau tiful gardens of sweet-scented orange trees lie around about It. Oranges, one remembers, are the favorite sustenance of the "gods" of Drury Lane, but the "gods" of Greece, if one may use the phrase, are more highly favored beings. To them it is given to pluck their fruit from the parent stem (provided the eye of the law be not upon them), instead of having it doled forth from the basket of a dingy and raucous dame of forbid ding aspect. A quarter of a mile nearer the city one comes on another summer theatre, also embowered among foliage. In this case of pines and pepper trees, called the Garden of Orphanides, which is generally used as a cafe chantant; while a third, the Olympia, is to be found near the columns of Olympeon. The last has for some time past been used as a circus, but the traveler will visit it In vain for any trace of the ancient Olympic games or the mediaeval hippodrome of Constantinople. He will find only a mod ern circus of the type familiar to west ern Europe, lightly clad ladles, affable ringmaster, clown, and all. runLin opinion What was the matter with fcim? Cllngman never had a wife and chll- dren to support, and his modest per sonal expenses should not have eaten up the earnings of a long and busy life. He was brainy, highly educated, a statesman, scholar and scientist. Sure ly he must have been able during about sixty years of an active career in a state where he was prominent and popular to make money and accu mulate some property. It has never been intimated that he was a spend thrift; or that he had any expensive vices. If he made bad investments and lost his fortune, the fact has not been mentioned. With no light what ever upon the case, it puzzles many people to account for the sad and des titute ending of this man's life. Evi dently he did not belong to the new school of statesmen. Since the war there have be?n many notable exam ples of men who accumulated vast for tunes in public life, though their sala ries were not large. Clingman was one of the old-timers, and he probably had a lordly contempt for money. This is the only way to explain the mystery. Bir mingham Age-Herald. The stories of starvation and death In Cuba are horrible to contemplate, and there is but little doubt that they contain the truth, but in a greatly ex agerated form. In fact, all reports from the ill-fated island must be taken with a grain of salt, for experience has de monstrated the fact that both sides are given to gross exaggeration. For instance, last summer it was asserted that ten thousand American citizens were starving in Cuba, but when thi3 government placed ample funds for their relief in the hands of Consul Gen eral Lee, not one-tenth of that number came forward to claim it. About the same time General Weyler submitted a Falstaffian report to his government, in which he claimed to have killed more than three times as many Insur gents as were ever enrolled in the Cu ban army, to say nothing of eleven colonels who were slain in what proved to be only a skirmish with an Insur gent battalion. Philadelphia Times. In M.or .1 1Ttmhi The Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun says: "The Georgia legislature does credit to the state when It honors the President of the Confederacy. The bill introduced to make the birthday of Jefferson Davis a legal holiday was ad versely reported by the committee to which it was referred, but the house disagreed to that report with hardly a dissenting voice. Why should not Jefferson Davis be thus honored? He was a hero lon-j before the birth of the confederacy. As far back as the Mex ican war he wore the trophies of a con queror, for it was his military genius that sent a Hying wedge into the very heart of .Santa Anna's army at the great battle of Iiuena Vista and won the plaudiL3 not only of his superior officers and his solciers but of the en tire American public. And it was not alone in camps that the greatness of Jefferson Davis was manifest. In the halls of the American congress his in fluence was f -It and he took his place Jn the front rank of the statesmen of i j t I ! l n - sj-kfis3 VtSa Afn rt on. his day. His later record, hi3 connec tion with the confederacy was alone enough to lead Georgia to honor his memory as proposed by the bill now pending in the legislature. Georgia will not refuse this tribute to the life and character of Jefferson Davis." A Al;fc- f l'iiauu (Boston Post.) Gen. Blanco's amnesty proclamation Is not likely to biing the Cuban patriots back in crowds to take the oath of alle giance. It has a very generous sound, but means nothing in their case. "I par don in full all those who have been pros ecuted for the crime of rebellion," the new governor general proclaims. But he goes on to say that 'rebels piosecuted for common cranes ' will be par doned as rebels but judged for other of fenses committed by them." As Cieneral Gomez and his fellow patriots have been outlawed not only for rebellion, but for "common crimes," such as incendiarism, spoliation, etc., the Dan does not seem to be lifted in any great measure from the revolutionists. To receive pardon for re be.iion and shot for a lesser offense would not afford them any substantial advantage. Indeed, it is moie likely they would prefer to be shot as rebels. General Uianco's amnesty is as great a humbug as Premier Sagasta's autonomy Neither amounts to anything. It seems impossible tor Spain to treat with Cuba in good faith. Washington Progress: On Thursday last the Old Dominion's flat with lt8 bales, of cotton on it was burned. The cotton caught from a spatk and was al most a total loss. The flat was several miles above Greenville. Railroad Engineer Testifies to Benefits Received From Dr. Miles' Remedies. J"nERE is no more responsible position on earth than that of a railroad engin eer. On Iiis steady nerves, clear brain bright eye and perfect self comin and, de pend the safety of the train and the lives of It3 passengers. Dr. Miles Nervine and other remedies are especially adapted to keeping tho nerves steady, the brain clear and the mental faculties unimpaired. Engineer F. W. McCoy, formerly of 1323 Broadway Council Bluffs, but now residing at 3411 Humboldt St., Denver, writes that he "suffered f cr years from constipation, caus ing sick, nervous and bilious headaches and was fully restored to health by Dr. Miles' Nerve & Liver Pills. I heartily recommend Dr. Miles' Remedies." Dr. Miles' Remedies are sold by all drug gists under a positive guarantee, first bottle benefits or money re funded. Book on dis eases of the heart and nerves free, Address, 5 or. Wiles d S3emediosf DR. MILES 1TEDICAL OO, EUtAirt Ind. Marion Harland says: J "Lard Unadulterated ts less wholesome than vegetable oils, and absolutely pernicious to most stomachs Cottolene contains just the proportion of beef suet, combined with V the purest vegetable oil, to make a perfect shortening. mm I IBett for either shortening or frying. Pure, healthful, palatable. Tb genuine Is sold everywherTj In one to ten poawl yellow Una. wttb our tradf-marka "CuWMrne" an-i teer'i hrad in cirton-piant trreafkoa every liu. Not guaranteed U sold ta uy otXtxt way. Made only by THE N. K. FA1HBANX COMPANY. Chicago. 51 1 mi VMknp T-ll Hr Siry j Chicago, November rS. Mrs. Minnie ! Wallace Walkup, with an evident " pur pose of divesting her marriage to John B..Ketchum of all mystery and sweeping away once for all the stories, insinuations and the theories of those who would dis credit her. today told of the whole trans action. She said: "I need not speak of the incidents lead ing up to my consent to become John Ketchum's wife. That is an old story now. But of our rlp to Milwaukee, the butler, the hackman, the police, the minister and the newspapers have all told their stories, while I alone have remained silent. I understand that the composite result is that somebody anybody but John B. Ketchum acted as brldgroom, and that I obtained my marriage certi ficate by fraud. "Do I need to explain why we decided on a secret marriage? Simply because of the danger of a sensation. Mr. Ketch um's divorce from a former wife and my own unhappy experience would undoubt edly have been revived in connection with a public announcement of our mar riage. We therefore, decided to wed secretly and to go to Milwaukee for the purpose. Mr. Ketchum and I, accompanied by my butler, Joseph Keller, who acted as Mr. Ketchum's va!et. went to Milwaukee on the evening of September 23rd. We went to the Plankinton house where we secured a suit of rooms, being registered as Mr. and Mrs. Young and servant. This was done simply to insure the secrecy of our errand. Mr. Ketchum rose befoie I was awakened in the morn ing and called me. I protested against getting up so early, but he had not slept well ana wanted to get out. When we were dressed we started out to find a minister, intending to travel in a street car, so that our movements might not be known at the hotel. Mr. Ketchum wanted to take Ke'ler with uj, but I was afraid he would gossip when we got back to Chicago, and I insisted on leaving him behind. When we had gone some dis tance from the hotel we met a cab which we enarajred to take us to the minister's. ! "Arriving at a parsonage I applied at I the door and learned that the minister was away frcm home, but his wife had another neighboring clergyman to per form the ceremony. When we were mar ried, we ordered the driver to take us to the railway station. This was for the purpose of misleading the hackman as to our destination. When he had left us we walked back to our hotel where we breakfasted and left for Chicago on i the 11 o'clock train. told Keller, when we returned to the hotel, that we were married." The coroner's jury will meet at Rols- tons, 22 Adams street at 2 o'clock tomor row and will be adjourned probably until Monday, as the chemical analysis of the stomach is not yet completed. EriCiut HfA i,-trr "15' The question is asked by "An English man," "Why is it that English people are such sinners in respect to the im proper use of the letter h?' " The writer goes on to say that the Scotch, Irish and Americans are not given to the faultiness in speech. Philologists say the frequent disrespect with which the letter is treated is largely due to the influence of the French lan guage on oiir own. and especially upon those of the EngJtsr. speaking race Who live in England itself. As every one knows, the h" is not aspirated in the French language, which was until the middle ages largely used in this country. Then, for almost centuries at a time, in the days of the Plantagenets, our Eng lish soldiers, who were wandering about France, became, naturally enough, affected by its people's manner of speech, and returned to their own country to in fect their families and acquaintances with the .same influence which go to de termine method of pronunciation. And at that time ft was really an English not British army which did the bulk of the fighting. Again, frorrutime to time various quar ters of England have been used as set tlements for French refugees the Huguenots, for example and French prisoners. Even so late as the beginning of the present century. when wre were in a chronic state of warfare with Napoleon Bonaparte, great numbers of Frenchmen settled, as prisoners on parole, in Eng landthe southern and midland counties especially, which, as we know, are the districts in which the aspirate is least observed. Scotland, Ireland and Wales were not under these same influences, fh'eir great er distance from the continent being one of the reasons. But the constant "h" dropping among the working classes in England today -is. I am sure, largely due to the fact that the working man who persists in speak ing of his horse, his house, and his home, instead of his 'orse, 'ouse, and 'ome, is regaided by his companions as a pedant, and one who "puts side on." I have often noticed that domestic servants are quite accurate or nearly so in the use of the aspirate when sit akig to their mis tresses, etc., while, once back again in the kitchen among their fellows, there ceases to be an "h" in their composition. London Tid-Bits. . A Knj"f I-ltr-Mkr A gentleman in Vladivostock, Siberia, quoted in the Boston Transcript, thus describes the new ice-breaker Hope that the Russian government has sent there: "Imagine yourself a Dutch wooden shoe rigged out with two masts . and an enormous funnel, and there you have, her shape. She was built in Copenhagen and contracts to smash six feet of ice without winking. If the old Ice-breaking Selatch had one foot of ice to contend with she "was usually the party that got smashed. She is of 300 tons, and was built for a revenue cutter. The Hope Is of 3.000 tons, and was built for business. Her method of procedure is, first to ram the the Ice; If it does not break she then gets up and sits down on it; and If it still holds its own, water is pumped Into a tank in her bows until she is so heavy that the Ice has to break wheth er it wants to or not." Tbe Or-at 8iff-rlne In robs Boston, Mass., November 18. A letter was received here today from Captain Charles, of the four-masted schooner Clara E. Randall, of Portland. Me., now In port at Matanzas. Cuba, which tells of the great distress and suffering In rhh contain rhariM av that Watan. rhh. fantoln riar1M ar- Motor.- sas Is Ailed with fever stricken and dying soldiers, and that hundreds of paclflcos are dying every week. 8 Afirp p SL Louis, Kew York. Tw rr-xr p m "Speaking of escapes from death re calls my experience with the murder ous elephant Romeo.Had I been a little slower In my movements I would have been his eighth victim," said Colonel Rice, reflectively. "One day I was di recting the arrangement of some can vasmen, and unwittingly ventured a couple of steps backward and within range of the death-dealing elephant, which at once raised his trunk slowly with the purpose of giving me a set tler. He would have succeeded in killing me had not a young elephant near by trumpeted an alarm, and, like lightning, I at once sprang forward and out of danger from the muderous blow of the trunk by such a small dis tance that on the back of my -head I felt the wind occasioned by its descent. After that experience Romeo was always kept chained by all four legs. The young elephant which had saved me was rewarded with candy. j "It is not surprising that eventually j I essayed the role of lion-tamer," con- 1 tinued the speaker, "and under the able tutelage of Franconelll, the best lion-tamer I ever saw, and who, by the way, subsequently met his death in a ' lion's den in the city of Havana. After having twice accompanied the fearless Franconelli into the den of Richard III, j the largest and fiercest African lion ' ever exhibited in this country, it was at Vincennes, Ind., that I at length de- ; termined to enter the uen of the beast alone. Clad in tinsel and spangles, at the afternoon performance, amid an outburst of music by the band, I boldly approached the lion's cage, opened the barred door and entered unharmed. The great brute, which was lying upon the floor at the further end of the cage, seemed to not heed my presence other than by a glance of sullen in difference, so that I deemed my first attempt at entering a lion's den a suc cess. "But my assurance of successs was a little premature, and fortunate was ! it for me that beneath the cage was a furnace in which glowed red-hot rods , . ... . and that trusty attendants were at hand to effectively wield them.upon ;he lion If necessity demanded.else another page would have been added to the bloody history of the king of the forest afid another name to his list of victims. After a three minutes stay in the lion's den I made a parting salute to the breathless audience and prepared to leave the cage. As I backed toward the door I observed to my horrow that the lion had almost imperceptibly risen from , the floor, preparatory to springing upon me. Almost overcome by the grave danger of my situation, IMPORTANT NOTICE. STATEMENTS OF THE INDEBT EDNESS OF THE SUBSCRIBERS TO THE SEMI-WEEKLY MESSENGER WERE RECENTLY MAILED, AND WHILE A GREAT MANY HAVE RESPONDED, THERE ARE MANY YET IN ARREARS AND WE TRUST THIS REMINDER WILL CAUSE ALL WHO HAVE NEGLECTED THEIR ACCOUNT WITH US TO TAKE PROMPT ACTION. THE DATE ON THE LABEL OF EACH PAPER SHOWS THE TIME TO WHICH THE SUBSCRIPTION HAS BEEN PAID. AND THE ACCOUNT CAN BE EASI LY DETERMINED WITHOUT WAIT ING FOR A STATEMENT FROM US. A THOROUGH REVISION OF THE LIST WILL, BE MADE AT AN EAR LY DATE AND ALL DELINQUENTS WILL BE PLACED ON OUR "BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE." I contrived to signal the attendants .to thrust the heated rods in between me and the bloodthirsty brute. Scarcely Via t er, a-h.n tho rr0n t fcu,nV " " iV;:.; ""Z creature hurled '"cu aim, burying its claws in my shoulders, bore me to the floor. "I felt the hot breath of the lion in my face as he opened his huge jaws preparatory' to sinking his fangs in my throat, and a horrible death was but a brief second distant, when the red hot irons were brought into play and used so effectively that the brute was forced to retreat to the far end of-the cage without inflicting further injury upon me. I was hurridly drawn from the cage, none the worse for my thrill ing experience, save badly shaken nerves, lacerated shoulders and a tat tered tinsel jacket. As I hurried be hind the curtain the band triumphantly played 'See, the Conquering Hero Comes!' and I noticed that a panic in the audience had been narrowly avert ed. And what became of Richard ITT? Oh, he lived to kill Franconelli a fw months later." Los Angeles Times. C fr. ni f ! m cniilr L dr Cincinnati, November 18. A special to The Commercial Tribune from Frankfort, Ky., says: A conference of silver democratic leaders be hcid In Louisville tomorrow night. William J. Bryan and Senator James K. Jones of the democratic national committee will be present to meet about flty lead ing politicians of this state. The situa- tlT M th- v, lMn regaras tne Deei means '" M 'CfiOlUB IW WVOV UlCftUD W keeping; up the fight for silver In the tate will also be discussed, as well as t amendments to the election laws. Hontreal. g u:i r.jfca t7J .Use Csrat Was ever life so sweet, love. Were ever nights so fair, . Were ever stars so bright, love. What fellow would not dare Tt win a stolen kiss. lore. When riding by the mile? For love is sweet and lips are near Since tandems are the style. Were roses half so sweet, lore, Vere kisses half so rare As one dear kiss from you. love. What fellow would not dare To pedal on forever. With a burden half so dear? A trust he ne'er would sever A-w heeling In the rear. So steal away the kisses. While hearts and Hps are young. When hid are life's abysses. Before one's tires are sprung. There's naught In after dreaming No memories half ao dear. As in th moon's white gleaming A-wheeling in the rear. Hy M. Ware Johnson. I Rduei'.tt Nft Utns-1 () d? If contentment is the highest good, it is probable that education is a mistake, since contentment and Ignorance are a more frequent concidence than content ment and learning. It is the function of education to kindle ambition and to grat ify It hilt nnl In aillefv It Thr la al ways more beyond. All England Li now! stirred by the pessimistic version of edu- canon aireaay ai.uaed to in mese col- ; urrns. given by Prof. Mahaffy In a col legiate even at Birmingham, lie doubts ' if the schools give as good an education , he discovers frightful Ignorance among graduates of his acquaintance. He has himself known students of his own Trinity college. Duplin, to turn out re markable criminals. Did not that argue something wrong with the system? He modestly said nothing about what It ar gued in the teachers. Dut. however that might be. he had the gravest doubts whether the diffusion of education had diffused morality or happiness. That a distinguished professor should take superficial views is the strongest in dictment, that we have seen of such par tial mental dicipllne as that of professor Mahaffy. Everj-body knows that the In tellect and the character are not Invar ib!y developed in the same degree: -tout everybody, except Prof Mahaffy, knows that ignorance and vice average to go to gether, aitnougn. fortunately for so- Ciety. only a moiety of the Ignorant arc criminals, and only a moiety of the vi cious are educated. We are concerned not with exceptions but with rules. The Duke of Devenshire says that even If education does not make happiness. It Is necessary if the modern man and womaa is successfully to compete for a larger existence. The fact is that education makes usefulness, and contentment, the basis of happiness, and thus substitutes a larger for a Fmalfer life. The fact Is that false education sup plies Prof. Mahaffy the basis of his Indict ment. An education that unfits a man . for life, and leaves him powerless, is not : education in the sense of relation to the actual world. They talk in Europe of the learned proletariat that Is. of a body of scholars that can scan Virgil and inter i pret Plato, but who know nothing of af fairs, little of science and art. Here is where our educational systems are weak. ' To enter upon life we must have science , and art, because modern life is scientific. and Its successes must be wrought out that Is. the worker must know how to think aright and how to act aright. The trade school, the techinal school, are es sential if we are to produce something above Prof. Mahaffy' s pessimism. Eng land is fast losing her industrial pre eminence because her technical education Is far beneath that of Germany. The ap rlieation of science to art. of knowledge of t,nmgtuCO'?TSt.uc,tIo? ,ls the Ger,man genius. In the United States we need es- peeially to encourage general education, as we now do, but to turn the enthusi asms of muscular effort from foot ball fads to the scientific battle with steam, water, hydrogen, oxygen, and the factors of force and matter. In grammar and in high schools we are wasting the highest power by allowing ourselves to be dis suaded from constructive effort by de structive engagements, from the con structive genius of peace to the destruc tive genius of war. To, nourish courage we want less pigskin and more of the spirit that suffers long and is kind in the science and art of Industrial evolution on which social evolution Is based. Lewis ton Journal, Wb't' Pr'tlent'nl Fevr (Carl Schurz In Harper's Magazine.) Unhappily for himself, Webter was not satisfied with the theatre of action on which his abilities fitted him for the greatest service, and on Which he achiev ed the highest meiits. At a comparative ly early period of his career he ardently wished to be sent as minister to Eng land, and he bore a grudge to John Quincy Adams for his failure to gratify that desire. Ever since his "reply to Hayne" had made his name a household word in the country, an ungovernable longing possessed him to be president of the United States. The morbid craving commonly called "the presidential fever" developed in him, as it became chronic. Its most distressing forms disordering his ambition, unsettling his Judgment and warping his statesmanship. Ills imagi nation always saw the coveted prize within his grasp, which In reality it never was. He lacked the sort of popu larity which, since the administration of John Quincy Adams, seemed to be re quired for a presidential candidacy. He traveled over the land, south and north and east and west to manufacture it for himself, but in vain. The people looked at him with awe and listened to him with rapture and wonder, but as to the presi dency the fancy and favor of the politi cians, as well as of the masses, obstinate ly ran to other men. So It was again and again. Clay, too, was unfortunate as a presidential candidate. But he could have at least the nomination of his party so long as there appeared to be any hope of his election. Webster was denied even that. The vote for him in the party conventions was always distressingly email uannllv confined ta New Kneland or oniy a part of It. Yet he never ceased ! to hope against hope, and thus to invite ' more and mre galling disappointments. To Henry Clay he could yield without humiliation: but when he saw his party ; him.elf tint nnre hilt tw c and three times, men of only military fame, without any political significance what ever, his mortification was so keen that, in the bitterness of his soul, he twice niunlv nrAtosteil acslnat the result. Worst than all this, he had to meet the fate a fate not uncommon with chronic presidential candidates to see the most important and most questionable act oi his last years tattributed to his inordin ate craving for the elusive prize. Or t KrtU"- Dwtn1Ilnc Are the great fortunes of our plutocrats dwindling? Are we not giving them too high a rating? We thought Ogden Goe let worth at the very least $l.0O0.OX. The most conservative men placed his fortune at J50 000.000. yet It dwindled to less than $10,000,000. The I30.0CO.000 of "Spite House" Richardson dropped to STjO.OOO as soon as it struck the court house. George Pullman was supposed to : - worth every cent of r0.000.000. Imme uttely after his death 135.000.000 was the figure; but the latest reports name 7. oj.000 as the -alue of the estate. How Is this? Can it be that we are far wrong In placing the fortune of John Rocke feller at 00,000.000? Will It dwindle to JFAOOO.OOO when-he shuffles off? Is Gen eral Sam Thomas, a partner of Cal Brioe and Inman. worth $10,000,000? I doubt it. What Is Cal worth? His is about the only fortune that no one tries to esti mate. From the way he flies around he must have big money. Boston Journal. A scholarly man has computed that Solomon's temple cost over 952.000.000, and that the illver ornaments were more valuable thai? the gold ones; II to 1. may Toe. A 7tik I t er Cleep la a rooca tX tIlI x?VJ out any lamp or cs burntnj. C7tUi . are somewhat transparent and erc3 strained all night by light are not rest ed and strengthened by sleep. Don't shut the sun out of the alclc room. It's all nonsense, too, this pro test about cut flowers In a sick room. The poisonous cases thrown otf by an ordinary -sized bunch cf flowers In three days, as long. as they'd be apt to live, do not equal the carbonic gas that es capes from a siphon of mineral water. Flowers and sunshine the sick room needs them both. The first thing to be done for e sprain ts to immerse the part In hot water. The water should be as hot aa can be borne, and should be kept iP to a constant temperature by frequent additions. It will be necessary to con tinue this treatment for a lone time, it may be for hours, or until every trace of soreness to practically d if pel led. The part la then to be tightly strap ped In a bandage In a position just short of absolute fixity. The best ar ticle to use In such a case Is what Is called In medical parlance a "Martln'a bandage." This Is a long, narrow strip of sheet rubber, of sufllcSent strength to withstand -strain and fitted at on end with tapes for tying. It Is easily seen that by the use of this Tandage the desired pressure can be obtained without complete immovability. Nuts have often been considered to be very Indigestible, but doubtless much of this prejudice against them comes from the fact that they are very rarely properly masticated. They are rich In nutritive elements, and we konw of no reason why they should not be a healthful article of food If properly prepared. They should be masticated very thoroughly, and often times if they were baked and ground Into meal they would be used to much greater advantage. People who have poor teeth should not undertake to eat them without some such prepara tion. Vwi-rii-n li I ' (St. Louis Globe-Democrat.) Henry Watterson givfs up. He Is not going to make any further attempt to protect the democratic party from It self. That 7,000 vote for his gold dem ocratic candidate, as against 137.000 for the Bryanite nominee, seems to have convinced him that the democratic, party Is not worth saving, and Is de termined not to be saved. Apparently, he thinks that at last Tuesuay's Pavla the democracy the Jeffersonlan and Jacksonian end of It lost all, especial ly honor. Thus Colonel Watterson re signs his commission, will never lead any more forlorn hopes, will never again rally the "boys In the trenches Yet this is not the way the world's val iant and chlvalric spirits-acted In crises. It is not the way Sir Galahad and Peter the Hermit did thinf:?. It would be all well enough for him to refuse promotion, as Latour d'Au vergne did, and to say, after the lat ter, "Among us true democrats them is neither first nor last." Ills place In the ranks, wherever it was, would be; the head of the column. General Ar nold, fighting as a private for the day, was a bigger personage at Saratogas than General Gates, the commander. But in deserting his legions at this hour of their peril Watterson will never get the honor accorded to d'Auvergne. Woin-n hi rr-ilcl Arehiir's "The reason why women will make good practical architects," us Id a bright professional woman last week, "Is be cause they know pre-eminently what Im needed about a house. They know how to have everything arranged so that as a whole it Is as convenient as It Is pos sible to make It. The gas-fixture Is not placed In some back corner behind a door, where nobody would ever think of looking for or wanting a ll?ht: the wall lines are not so broken up with doors and windows that there Is no room for the necessary furniture: the doors are not hung in such an awkward manner that they must swing against the win dows or gas fixtures: the space for tho dresser is not left on the aide of the room farthest from the light; the closets are not like dark pockets in a basement, but arranged to be well ventilated an often as needed: the dining room is made large enough, so that It will contain a side board, as well as the table and chairs, and it will not be necevssary for all to rlso from one Fide of the table In order that the waitress may pass to the other side, or else hand things across the table, aa occurred lately In an apartment building; designed by a man; the mirrors will not face the light: the pantry will have a window, and will not be placed In the centre of the house: the registers or radiators will not occupy the only wall space large enousrh for the bedstead or the sofa or the sideboard: the doors will be wide enough to admit of any article of furniture made, and the halls will b large enough so articles can be wheeled through them f'om one room Into anoth er." Chicaco Times-Herald. Nu German Vt-rr n ti.in pj (New York Tribune.) No more striking anO significant Il lustration could be given of the ani mosity which prevails In Russia toward Germany than the treatment accorded to Baron Bleichroeder, the Berlin and New York banker, who has Just re turned from St. Petersburg. He went there for the purpose of Inducing tber Muscovite government to permit hts firm and a number of other Berlin banking houses associated with him to take up a large block of the bonds guaranteed by the state and Issued In connection with the extension of the Russian railroad system. The baron's mission proved fruitless, for not only did the Muscovite authorities decline his offer, but they refused even to dlj- cuss his proposals, on the ground that they had no intention of permitting: Germany to have anything whatsoever to do with the administration of the Russian railroads or with Russian finance. The Russian government re tains a vivid recollection of the Inti mate connection between the Berlin banking house of Bleichroeder and the German government, which was so openly demonstrated at the close of the Franco-German war of 1870. (From the Jewish Messenger.) Major Alfred Mordecal once had an In terview with the czar of Russia, of a somewhat Informal and conversational nature, in the course of which he used the address"Monsleur" In speaking to the emperor, having carried the Interview forward, so far. in French. Turning to General Modellan. who stood near by. Major Mordecal suddenly exclaimed with a mighty deep Carolinian oath. "Ha! I called the fellow 'mister.' " The cxar thereupon smiled, bowed and said with s civility that entered the major's bones like Ice: "I rpeak English, quite welt enough, sir. to continue our Interview la that language. If you prefer Itr Poets must suffer before they can write, says a philosopher. After thav the public has a monopoly on the eufr ftring. 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