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WEDDING DAT. BY MABOAEBT I. PBXSTOH. They stood together, hand in band. Amid the happy wedding cheer, Upon the bo. der - of a land whose rare, enchanted atmosphere They had not breathed yet; not a blur Ot doubt her perfect lalth could dim— He was the man of men for her— She, the one woman made for him. They stood, exchanging troth and plight, Five years ago to-night They knew the realm that st etched beyond Held heights whereon the purple play Of Jove’s full sunshine, fair and fond, Was never seen to fade away. They knew that there were gulfs to cross, A ud many a tangled path to tread. But whether strewn with flints or moss, Wha need they care, since overhead That lambent honeymoon shone bright, to-night? 'Twas not to be a setting moon, Like eai thly one-*, but heavenly dear, Topo r its ben ms a steadfast boon Oi blessing through the circling year. And now into each other’s eyes They look and say, “■ nr dreams come true. But o.ni i it, dear, be otherwise / With yon to Ive me so—with yon _ To pledge me i ll this strange delight, Five years ago to-night?* No cross has come too bard to bear, No care that hid toe keen a smart, With two the burden's weight to share, With two to lift it from the heart .They had n t dared to ask so much Of bliss that should not know alloy, Or hope that time wonld lay a touch Bo gentle on their perfect joy, As flashed the future on their sight Five years ago to-night The heights that stretch before their gaze, Like Benlah’s, their rapt vision fill; The tender sheen of spot sal da s Is softly lingering round them atllL Her foot has only felt the moss, And bis has spurned the flints aside; An<i there has been no gulf to cross, And she to him is still the bride To whom be vowed the marriage plight Five years ago to-night Oh, happier, richer, gladder far, With their twain cherubs hand in hand, Than on t at bridal eve, they are, As here, all dreams fulfilled, they standi God grant that when their years shall reach Another lustrum, they may say, With radiant faces, each to each, “Why, ’tie another wedding day, Just like our first, so sweet, so bright—- _ „ , Ten years ago to-nightP —New York Home Journal.

ANTOINETTE.

A Story of the Franco'Prussian War. Our party numbered seven or eight, and, as all of us had the honor of being more or less robbed, sacked, ruined and broken up by the Prussians, to amuse ourselves after dinner we enumerated our pianos which had disappeared and our clocks which had taken unto themselves wings. “And I also,” said our friend Paul Rivet, “have lost pianos and have lost clocks, but I can buy more pianos and I can buy more clocks, while my camellias, my poor camellias! Twenty years of toil, patience and adoration!—all that lost, destroyed, annihilated! And do you know what I found in the middle of my green-house, in the place of that delicious little marble figure which'l brought from Naples? Do you know what I found ? Oh! do not try to guess —you would never succeed! “My wife, after Sedan, had shown a great deal of character. ‘My love,' said she to me, ‘ we must stay here; we must defend our house.’ I added, “And our camellias.’ “On tlio 17th of September, at 8 o’clock in the morning, one of my farmers arrived, out of breath and wild with fear. ‘ The Uhlans, monsieur!’ he cried, 1 they are at Corbeil, and will be here in an hour!’ My wife was seized with terror. ‘ Let us go away, my dear! I don’t want to see those Uhlans! Let us go away at once. Take me, take me, no matter where!’ The horses were immediately harnessed to the caleche, and we departed. “We left at the chateau seven or eight servants, one of whom, a little femme de chambre, Antoinette, very pretty, very intelligent, very shrewd and very bold, said to me as we started: * Pave no fear, monsieur; I will receive Fhe Prussians. I know how to talk to them, and they shall not carry off even a match.’ “The next day we reached Trouville; my wife fell seriously ill, and for a couple of weeks I was very uneasy. “I constantly received letters" from Antoinette. ‘Monsieur need not be disturbed,’ rihe wrote. * Everything is going on splendidly here. We have had the good luck to fall into the hands of an excellent Prussian Colonel and exceedingly amiable officers. Through the kindness of these gentlemen I am able to send my letters to monsieur.’ “And the gardener wrote to me: ‘Monsieur ought to be very grateful to Antoinette. By a happy idea she has saved everything. I dare riot say more to monsieur, because the. Prussians might read my letter;but, nevertheless, the Prussians, thanks to Antoinette, do not treat us badly.’ "About the 20th of October, my wife being completely restored to health, I packed my carpet-bag and started off. I wanted to see my camellias, and, above all, I wanted to know what was Antoinette’s happy idea which had saved everything. I will spare you the details of my journey. It was original, however. It took me a week to go from Trouville to Corbeil; I was arrested three times as a Prussian spy by the French, and four times as ia French spy by the Prussians.

“At last I reached my house, greatly agitated. I saw my broad avenue of chestnut trees and at the end of the avenue my iron gate. I crossed my court-yard, which was full of horses, army wagons, cannon, Prussian dragoons and artillerists. I mounted my front steps. I was at home —in my vestibule. The furniture, the pictures, the hangings, all were in their places. Delighted, perplexed, I stood motionless like a donkey, my carpet-bag in my hand, in the midst of five or six Prussian dragoons who were ctiriously examining me. One of these dragoons, a sub-officer—he had gold lace on the collar of his tunic—came up to me and said: “ ‘ What do you want ? What are you doing here?’ % * ‘What was I doing in my own house! X replied that I desired to speak with the Ooldnel. “ ‘He is busy. He is at breakfast. Who are you?’ “ ‘Mon Dieu! lam the proprietor of this mansion!’ “ ‘Ah! the proprietor—you are the proprietor. Wait a bit. I will notify the Colonel/ “A few seconds afterward a door, one of my doors, opened and I saw advancing toward me a tall Prussian, booted, spurred, with long grayish side-whisk-ers, "who, with both hands extended, exclaimed in excellent Frenoh: ‘M. Rivet! Is it you, M. Rivet?’ “ ‘Yes, it is IP “ ‘Ah! you have done well to come. How happy I am to see you!’ “And those two Piussian hands were still extended toward me, but I patriotically held my two French hands at a distance, as far as possible, behind my back.

VOLUME VII.

“ ‘Ah! von are prejudiced,' said the Colonel, bursting into a beastly and heavy laugh. * I see how it is—you are prejudiced. Very well; you will get over your prejudices. But come along, come along quickly. We are at table.' “ ‘But I don’t want anything to eat.’ “ ‘You don’t want to breakfast with ns. More prejudices! But you must come along, nevertheless, for the Baronne is at table with ns and will be enchanted to see you.’ “‘The Baronne! A Baronne enchanted to see me!’ “But, without listening to me, without answering me,’ the Colonel grasped me by the arm jmd, pushing me before him, made me cross my salon; then, opening the door of my dining-room, he cried: “ ‘Madame la Baronne, here is your uncle, here is M. Bivet!’ “And then I saw, seated at my table, eight or ten Prussian officers and, in the midst of these officers, Antoinette— Antoinette, who had on one of my wife’s velvet dresses. My wife’s diamond earrings were in her ears, all my wife’s rings on her fingers. My wife’s necklace of black pearls was about her neck and all my wife’s bracelets were clasped around her wrists. Rubies sparkled in her hair and sapphires shone upon her corsage. Antoinette was np longer Antoinette—she was the show-window of a jewelry shop! “Antoinette, on seeing me enter, arose quickly, turned very red, and let this cry escape her: ‘Monsieur, it is monsieur!’ Then quitting the table immediately, she ran to me, threw herself violently upon my neck and began to kiss me furiously, exclaiming: ‘All! how happy lam to see you!’ Then she renewed her kisses, whispering in my ear, ‘Kiss me, kiss me very tenderly!’ Of course I complied with her request, and she showered another flood of kisses upon me, and while continuing to whisper to me: ‘Seem more affected than that! lam your niece, speak to me lovingly—ah! that’s better—it is to save Madame’s diamonds.’ We went on kissing before all the Prussians. The operation, however, was not disagreeable, Antoinette being a charming little person. All the officers stared at me, and had the air of saying to themselves : “ * How delightful to be able to kiss that pretty girl as much as you w ant to!’

“And, naturally, this excited me! “But, after two or three minutes consecrated to this kissing business, mingled with revelations and explanations, Antoinette took me by the hand, led me around the table, and obliged me to seat "myself beside her; then, with much grace and self-possession, she presented to me in turn all my Prussian guests: ‘Monsieur the Col. So-and-so, of the 2d dragoons, the Maj. So-and-so of the 3d hussars, eto., etc.’ As “for me, I was like one intoxicated, and I assure you that I must be pardoned for having remained thus seated for an hour at that table, amid all those dragoons and all those hussars. Ino longer knew either where I was or what was taking place around me, but, nevertheless, I have preserved a very clear recollection of the extraordinary conversation which ensued, and in which, despite myself, I was compelled to participate.

“ ‘ Well, M. Rivet, said the Colonel, ‘I hope you will bring Mme. Rivet back immediately. We lead a charming life here, as your niece will tell you. We are not at all the savages which your beastly journals call us.’ “And then the Colonel gave vent to a burst of the same heavy laughter which a little while before had shaken my nerves. Instantly all the officers it concert, as if obeying a command, abandoned themselves to violent hilarity. There is a lively and light gayety, which is French gayety, and there is another gayety, lumbering and brutal, which is Prussian gayety. “ ‘No, we are not savages,’ continued the Colonel, ‘ and you can not condemn Mme. Rivet to pass the winter in a hovel at the seaside—for we shall remain here the whole winter. Not on account of the siege of Paris—oh, no! Paris will be taken in five or six days, the Ist of November, at the latest. But there will be, perhaps, car tain difficulties about the re-establishment of the Emperor.’

“ ‘ The re-establishment of the Emperor ?’ “ ‘ Certainly; you can readily see that, for your own interest, we shall be obliged to disembarrass yqu of your absurd republic. Beside, the Emperor has received a good lesson; he has become reasonable; he will no more disturb the peace of Europe, while with your republic one could be sure of nothing. Yes, we will restore you your Emperor, despite all the bawling of your beastly journals.’ “At the conclusion of this speech came another burst of laughter from the Colonel, followed by another general explosion. It must be admitted that admirable discipline reigned in the German army. All those men laughed in a military fashion, in the Prussian way, as if on drill. As long -as the Colonal shook his sides, so long the officers, with remarkable unanimity, twiste<J with merriment, but all the bursts of laughter stopped short with the last burst of laughter from the Colonel, as stops the roll of the drums when the drum-major lowers his staff. There were eight or ten of these rough fits of laughter while the Colonel, speaking with German enthusiasm, reconstructed the map of Europe, took provinces from Austria, invaded England, etc.; but the hilarity grew absolutely furious when he began a series of jokes about the Bavarians, evidently habitual with him. “ ‘Ah, you are fortunate,’ said he to me,- ‘in having to deal with Prussians, real Prussians —for we are real Prussians, Now, if you had Bavarians! What ugly things your beastly journals could say in regard to the Bavarians! Our King is too kind to permit Bavarians to fight beside us Prussians, real Prussians. The Bavarians should be authorized to serve only as musicians in the Prussian army. King Louis should be Field Marshal of all the German music, etc., etc.’ “This odious breakfast, at last, came to an end. The Colonel arose, dismissed his officers, and approaching me said: ‘Now, I wish to conduct you myself to your greenhouse; I wish to show you your camellias.’ “ ‘My camellias!’ “ ‘Yes, yes; I know your passion. Mme. la Baronne had the goodness to inform me that you adored your camellias; therefore I sent for your gardener and explained to him that he would _be shot in front of the greenhouse if he allowed a single camellia to die! That was a joke, of course; I would not have had him shot,, for we are a civilized people, but I should not have

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hesitated to order him tied to a tree for twenty-four hotag without anything to eat or drink. That, however, has not been necessary. Your camellias are in perfect health. Come and see them.’ “We went out all three—the Colonel, Antoinette and myself. The Prussian did me the honors of my park. I was choking with rage. Ten times I was on the point of bursting out, but Antoinette had pnt her arm in mine, and she made me such droll little supplicating grimaces and was, beside, so pretty beneath the trees in the noon sunlight with her assortment of diamonds and jewels that I restrained myself and bridled my tongue. “We entered the green-house. It was balmy, gay and blooming. My camellias had been petted, pampered and made much of. They were wrapped up in cotton. “ ‘ Well,’ said the Colonel to me, triumphantly, ‘you see that we are not vandals 1 Now, au revoir. I will leave yon to talk over your family matters. Of course you will dine with us.’ “He invited me to dine at my own house! I could not find a- single word with which to reply to him. He took his departure, that was all I desired. I was alone with Antoinette, and she, without waiting for my questions, cried out, as soon as the Colonel was gone:

“Oh ! monsieur, did you notice how he looked at me as he went awav ? It is horrible! That Prussian is m love with me! You must not scold me, monsieur. You must pity and thank me. I devoted myself to saving your house, and that’s the whole of it. When the Colonel arrived, on th 18the of September, he flew into a wild rage on learning that the proprietors had departed. He cried out: ‘All! that’s the way it is, is it ? Ah! they have run of! on account of our airival! Ah! they take us for barbarians! Well, I’ll see what I can do with this barrack! I will stable my horses in the salon!’ Then, monsieur, as I had crouched away in the corner, and as the Colonel had not seen me, I shot up the stairs, four steps at a time, slipped on one of the madame’s dresses, hastened down again, and said I was monsieur's niece, Mme. la Baronne de Barneviile, a high-sounding name which I thought would have effect. You must acknowledge that I have not been awkward, as for more than a month I have led the Colonel by the tip of the nose, and that, too, without costing me anything, I assure yon. I am too good a Frenchwoman to allow myself to be touched with the end of a finger by such a creature. Beside, there are a thousand dragoons and hussars here whom I rule like a despott I have saved your silverware, your horses, your carriages and your camellias. As to madame’s diamonds, if I wear them all, it is not for the pleasure of looking like a jewel-case, but because they ai*e safer upon my person than in the drawers. I know not what the Bavarians amount to, but the real Prussians do not amount to much, I can tell you! And now, monsieur, if you wish to do me a favor, you will leave this place immediately, for, in such a little game as I am playing, men are absolutely good for nothing! During breakfast I was obliged to tread on your toes two or three times to prevent you from bursting out, and a femme de chambre ought not to tread on her master's toes under the table! I will get you a good Prussian pass, and you can take with you all madame’s diamonds. I will put them in a little box and Pierre will drive you away in the break. As for me, I will remain on guard. After all, it amuses me greatly to deceive these Prussians, and make them believe I am a woman of rank,.’

“Antoinette spoke her little speech with so much energy and conviction that I could not help admiring her. “ ‘ You are a brave girl, Antoinette,’ I said— ‘ a brave girl and a girl of spirit. I want you to give me something, and then I will depart as you.desire. ” ’ “ ‘ What is it, monsieur ? ’ “ ‘ Permission to kiss you.’ “ ‘ As niece or as femme de chambre?’ “ ‘ As femme de chambre, Antoinette.’ “ ‘ Well, go ahead, monsieur, go ahead! ’ “I gave her a rousing smack, and then said: “ ‘Now, get ready the little box, Antoinette, but do not put that bracelet in it. Have the kindness to keep that for yourself. “‘With pleasure, monsieur. Wait for me here; I will be back in fifteen minutes; but do not commit any imprudence ; do not quarrel with the Prussians.’

“She ran lightly away. No sooner was she out of sight than I recollected that my daughter had requested me to bring her two photographs, w-hieh were upon her mantelpiece on little easels. I returned to the chateau. I mounted the stairway, and near the door stopped in great surprise. Somebody was playing the piano in my daughter’s chamber ! I knocked very modestly. ‘Comte in.’ I went in. One of the officers of dragoons—a tall, blonde young man, with an eye-glass in his eye—was playing one of Chopin’s waltzes upon my daughter’s piano! “‘All, it is you,’ said he, ‘monsieur, the proprietor! Make yourself at home, make yourself at home, I beg of you!’ “‘I came to look for something in this chamber.’ “‘Look for whatever you want, monsieur, look for whatever you want!’ “He resumed his interrupted waltz. I went to the mantelpiece, and on the two little easels I found, instead of my portrait, a photograph of King William and a photograph of Monsieur de Bismarck instead of the portrait of my wife! The blood rushed to my head, and, choking with anger, I said to the Prussian officer: “‘Monsieur, there were two portraits here. I w r ould like to know who authorized you to replace those portraits with the photographs of these two scoundrels?’

‘.“What did you say, monsieur?’ “‘ I said those two scoundrels!’ “And, snatching the photographs, I .tore them up; then, with great calmness, I threw the fragments into the fire. The officer arose. He was very pale. He approached me. The question was now who should receive the first blow, and I am quite sure I would not have been the person. At this critical instant Antoinette rushed into the chamber. “ ‘Well, what is the matter V demanded she. “ ‘This gentleman has taken the liberty of removing from these frames two photographs which I came to look for.’ “ ‘So you did that, did yon,monsieur ?’ said she addressing the Prussian. ‘And, pray, where are-those photographs?’ “ ‘ln that drawer,’ he replied. “ ‘Give them to me.’

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“ ‘Here they are.’ “And the Prussian officer submissively brought the two photographs to Antoinette, who handed them to me, saying as she did so:. “ ‘Are these the portraits you want?* * Tfes.’ “ ‘Come away, then.’ “She led me out of the room. The Prussian had cooled down immediately upon Antoinette’s appearance. I was utterlv amazed! Antoinette had played the whole of this little scene with the coolness and self-possession of a great actress.

“ ‘You seem astonished,’ said she to me, as we were going down the stairs. “T am astonished.’ “‘There is, however, no reason to be. Ah! the Colonel is not the only one in love with me here!’ “I returned to Trouville. A whole month passed and not a single letter came from Antoinette. I began to be very uneasy, and, despite all the difficulties of the undertaking. I was preparing to risk another journey, when one morning—it was toward the close of November—my wife suddenly opened the door of my chamber and said to me: “ ‘Antoinette, my love—Antoinette is here; but what a state the poor child is in!’ “I saw enter a pale, thin and ragged girl, who seemed to have been devoured by fever, to have been worn out by fatigue and sickness. “ ‘lt is I, monsieur,’ said Antoinette, ‘and I bring you bad news. You remember all the Colonel’s jokes about the Bavarians, do you notJ* Well, to be just, that Prussian Colonel was not a bad man, and he was not wrong in regard to the Bavarians. There were movements of troops. They took our Prussians from us; they sent a detachment of Bavarian infantry which had suffered greatly in the-vicinity of the Loire, and which came to us for a little recuperation. Pillage commenced at once. It must be admitted that it was very well organized, for that matter. There was a strong column of campfollowers in the train of this Bavarian regiment; they threw themselves upon the chateau like a flock of crows, and began to make a kind of inventory. I went resolutely to find the Major—it was a Major who commanded this detachment—a fat, little red-faced man, who spoke a frightful jargon, half French, half German. He commenced to utter something like cries of joy as'soon as he put eyes on me, and, without giving me time to speak a Word, cried out: “Ah! ah! here is that Paronne who is a servant, that servant who is a Paronne! The Brussians are not pad, but the Pavarians are the devil! You can’t catch the Pavarians as you caught the Brussians! I have shies, I have good sbies! Au refoir, servant, an refoir!” He said I know not what, in German, to an officer; two soldiers roughly seized me, and I was taken on foot, monsieur, on foot, being passed by Prussian gendarmes to other Prussian gendarmes. At Rheims I was thrown into prison. I remained there for a week, upon the straw, subsisting op bread and water. At tne end of the week I was taken before an officer of the Saxon cavalry, a tall, blonde young man, who had not a too wicked air. “I am about to set you at liberty, ” said he, “but do not attempt to return home. There is at the chateau a stupid report made by a' Bavarian Major. Those Bavarians are brutes! All this would not have happened to you if you had had to deal with Saxons!” I w r as free, and I have succeeded in dragging myself here. But, monsieur, your poor chateau is in bad hands. I fear you will not find much there when you return!’ “I found nothing at all there when I returned on the 10th of February, during the armistice. No, lam wrong in saying I found nothing at all. In my greenhouse, in my poor green-house, on the spot formei’ly occupied by my delicious little marble figure from Naples, and my adored camellias, were five Bavarian tombs, ornamented with poetic inscriptions like the following: “‘Here reposes Hartman, tlie young and heroic Bavarian chasseur, cut down in the bloom of youth!’ ”

raging Torrents.

Tnrriblo Effects of the Freshet ip Ohio and* Pennsylvania. The recent floods throughout the central, group of States caused a frightful devastation of property, the losses being estimated in the" millions. Pennsylvania and Ohio seem to have suffered the worst. At Cleveland alone the damage is placed at not less than $500,003. The loss was occasioned by the overflow of the Cuyahoga river, which wrecked vessels, carried away bridges, and piled millions of feet of lumber in a confused mass along the river front In and around Akron, Ohio, the damage is estimated at $1,000,000. The Scioto river went on a boom at Columbus, and many residences in the lower part of the town were drowned out, the inhabitants being rescued in boats Great damage was done to the railroads in the Western Reserve, while the news from the oil district in Pennsylvania is one long chronicle of disaster. At Pittsburgh and Allegheny City immense losses occurred, aud reports from various districts in Indiana show that the floods were very severe there Many railroad accidents, several of which were of a serious and fatal character, are reported, the high water having carried away bridges and trestle-work, or weakened them so that they gave way under the weight of traina A Pittsburgh dispatch says: “The damage bv the flood in the immediate vicinity of Pittsburgh and Allegheny City will not be less than $200,000. Most of it is in the destruction of small river craft The rest is in the inundation of dwellings, manufactories and oil refineries.” At Fremont, Ohio, five ont of six iron bridges were carried away, and mnch damage inflicted upon private property. In Lawrence county, Ohio, the water drowned out $100,(XM) worth of property. In Butler county, Pa, the Pittsburgh and Western railroad loses every bridge . from Colliery Junction to Allegheny. Whole columns might be consumed in reciting instances of the destructive nature of,the flood, but these samples are sufficient to give the reader an idea of the vast damage entailed by the watery visitation.

A Medical Opinion on Kissing.

Promiscuous kissing has been inf finitely more productive of disease or various kinds than the public evedream of, and it is a practice that should be discountenanced. The people should confine their kissing propensities to members of their oyn families, and even then it is not always safe.—Medical and Surgical Reporter. Joseph Cook says: “In Boston the question is, before admitting a man to society, ‘Have you written a book?* in Chicago, ‘How mnch are you worth?’ in San Francisco, ‘Who owns you, the railroads or the sand lots?* and in Washington, ‘Are you likely to be reelected?’” Mr. Cook observes that the state cf this country demands civilservice leagues. w One lawyer at Des Moin£s lowa, has put through 189 divorce cdses within a year. . ' J

The Confluence of the Rings. The powerful rings now gathered at Washington exceed in numbers and in wealth all that have appeared here for eight years. During the period of Demy ocratic ascendency in the House of RejA. resentatives for three Congresses these corrupt combinations were driven away from the capital and impoverished. With the return of a Republican majority they came back naturally to resume the old business. It may be said that they were invited to renew it. When Secor Robeson, the most notorious of public jobbers, got the leadership of the House, the invitation was too plain to be misunderstood. These rings expect to do their most effective work in the few remaining weeks of this Congress. All the large and many of the lesser special interests involved in the pending or in the proposed changes of the tariff are represented by active and influential agents, outside and inside of Congress. They have pooled their issues, and will make common cause. The navy ring has won the first engagement in the House. It remains to pe seen if the Senate will confirm Robeson’s work. - The great ring of land grabbers has succeeded, by the action of the Judiciary Committee of the House, not only iu preventing any legislation adverse to this immense interest, but also in keeping the subject from getting before the House at all.'' The whisky ring will soon make its last desperate effort. The real truth" in this case does not appear upon the surface. The distillers and manufacturers of whisky have little concern about the bill passed by the Senate extending the bonded time two years, or in any legislation that may be substituted for it. Speculators and. banks are the parties most anxious and most disturbed in mind about the action of Congress. There are about eightythree or eighty-four million gallons of whisky stored. The banks have advanced between $50,000,000 and $60,000,000 on warehousing certificates. About twenty millions of this paper are held in Louisville, Cincinnati, St. Louis and Chicago. The remainder is scattered in the great Eastern cities. It is undoubtedly true that the banks are seriously embarrassed by the accumulation of these discounted certificates, and they can get no relief from the speculators, who put them up as collateral, security. The banks, therefore, are practically the owners of the whisky; and their situation is rendered more critical because they will be compelled for self-protection to pay the tax on this stock as -it becomes due. The aggregate tax will be about $74,000,000 or $75,000,000, distributed over two years and ten months. It is thus seen that the banks whibh-have loaned much of their capital, tempted by high rates of interest, bn the whisky now in bond, are the actual supplicants for legislation, though they do not so appear before Congress. Some of them are in a bad predicament, and are unable to carry this heavy load. They are timid about taking any active part, fearing that a disclosure of weakness might precipitate disaster.

One-half of the present House of Representatives will go out on the 4th of March. Most of these members will go into private life permanently. Not a few of them will be annexed to the stationary lobby at ’ Washington, in which some of their predecessors are now established. They have no responsibility to confront, and this is their last chance to convert votes into cash.A rally will be made in these closing weeks for bills with “money in them.” The Rings are mustered in full force, and they will join hands for a general raid on legislation. —Washington Cor. New York Sun.

Why Congress Does Not Reduce the Tariff.

The Government receives from the tariff taxation an annual revenue of |2()0,000,000; but the protected capitalists, on the goods they manufacture, collect from the people at least SBOO,000,000 a year. The imported dutiable goods which come in competition with the domestic goods are worth between $400,000,000 and $500,000,000, and pay a duty of $200,000,000. The domestic competing goods amount to about four times as much, and pay a bonus or bounty to the manufacturers of four times what the Government gets in revenue, or $800,000,000. Both collect their taxes from the consumers, who are the American people. For every dollar of tax the Government gets the manufacturers take four from the people in the shape of extra price for thengoods and wares. This extra $800,000,000 is what they call “protection,” but what cynical folks call the “whack” of the privileged classes. The protected individuals cheerfully concede the wisdom and necessity of reducing the Government revenue on imports $50,000,000; each one is willing that the tax may be taken from any imported goods except the kind he makes. The woolen .men have no objection to a reduction of duty on everything except woolen goods; the iron and steel men want the tax reducd on ore, pig and everything else except iron and steel; and so on through a hundred other trades.

Suppose the protected interests represent or employ 1,000,000 of men in this country, and the non-protected 10,000,000 —which is about the proportion. To reduce the tariff $50,000,000 of the tax which goes to the Government would reduce the tax collected for the protected classes $200,000,000- To repeal $50,000,000 of unnecessary revenue tax would have the effect, then, of repealing $250,000,000 of the tax paid by the whole people on the necessary commodities of life and comfort. No one of the protected classes makes any objection provided that the reduction does not reach its particular interest. Thus the unmanufactured pine lumber interest refuses to give up the small pittance of revenue which the Government derives from Canadian lumber because it will relieve the prairie States alone of $10,000,000 of extra tax which is levied on the public in higher prices for lumber, shingles and lath. The glass and earthen-ware men are in Washington insisting that no part of the reduction of the tariff shall be made in their wares, but may be on everything else.* The nail-makers want their tax of 60 per cent., Mid the silkweavers their 60 per cent., retained for their benefit; the shotgun-makers want 100 per cent, in place of 30; the woolen men want their 80 per cent, and no less; the cotton-manufacturers want the 50 per cent, continued for their special

b J ,t; the soapmakers their 50 per or i the lead and zinc men insist on / /subsidy instead of less; the castor- / men say they can’t make matters lon less them 100 per cent, tax on Unfortunates who take their medij; the spool-thread men swear that "thtef must continue to be protected against the tailors and sewing-girls 50 to 80 per cent. And so on to the end of the chapter. All these interests and others, protected as they are almost to double the nominal value of the goods, demand that Congress shall not toueh any of their particular part of the protective bounty, but that if the tariff be reduced it shall come from other s Each subsidized interest is at WasKtagton watching over the bills to see that, whatever else be reduced, no reduction shall be made in its own share of the $800,000,000 taken from the people. Indeed, some of the more .rapacious of these special interests demand an increase of duty _on their particular branches of the robbery in order that they may be able to charge still higher for their wares. How can Congress unite upon a reduction of $50,000*000 of tariff revenue when to do so will involve the repeal of $200,000,000 of domestic protective plunder now’ collected as a bounty-tax for private and personal gain ? So relentless is the lobby that Senators and Representatives are personally bullied and threatened if they dare vote to reduce taxes.

The 1,000,000 of protected people demand that they be authorized to continue collecting $800,000,000 annually from the other 10,000,000 of unprotected. families in the country; afid the objection to a reduction of taxes is that any reduction of tariff duties involves a proportionate reduction of protected bounty tax to those special interests. There seems to be no one in Congress to represent the 10,000,000 of families who are fleeced for the benefit of the 1,000,000 who shear them. With a Congress thus beset on all hands—with lusty “infants” crying on all sides for protection, and more protection—every attempt so far to prepare a bill to reduce the tariff $50,000,-. 000 ends in an increase instead of a reduction of taxation. —Chicago Tribune.

Political Notes.

The Republican papers are publishing cuts of Tabor, the short-term Senator from Colorado. He has, as thus represented, a sinister countenance, a ferocious mustache, and altogether looks like a disappointed pirate in his Sunday clothes. The organs which are chuckling over the fact that Vincent, the runaway Alabama Treasurer, is a Democrat, have evidently forgotten Mr. Dorsey. They should be careful ,how they throw stones. —Chicago Times. Thebe is much eagerness on the part of the Republican organs to have Congress pass some sort of a tariff bill, so as to let the party go out with the credit of having done something in answer to the demand for a reduction of taxation.

The Republican organs are cliuokling with great glee over the fact that Vincent, the defaulting Treasurer of Alabama is a Democrat. Perhaps it is so difficult to find evidence that the Republicans are not doing the majority of the stealing that they feel tickled when they find a case of this sort. Of the last three Presidents of the United States it may be said that: Hayes was counted in; * Garfield was bought in; And Arthur was shot in. Not one of them had a majority or plurality of the votes of the people. “Hurrah for the Republican party!”— Martinsburg (Ind.) Statesman. Peter Cooper, the leader of the New York friends of protection who held a meeting in the interest of American labor the other night, has for many years been a hard-working laboring man. He has sat on the platform of every public lecture delivered in New York for the last fifty or sixty years, and if that, isn’t hard work it would be difficult to conceive what is.

Tariff “reform” is making rapid progress backward. In. our present exorbitant tariff the duties on steel ingots, blooms, billets and slabs are 45 per cent, ad valorem. This rate the Tariff Reform Commission propose to ohange to a specific duty of 2 cfents a pound, and the free-tobacco and cheap-whisky Ways and Means Committee nave approved their robber recommendation. What this means is simply that the duties on these indispensable materials for American manufacturers are to be increased to the following outrageous figures: On steel ingots, 222 per cent.; on steel blooms, 204 per cent.; on steel slabs, 204 per cent.; on steel billets, 150 per cent. The country has about al>andoned all hope of tariff reform from either party in this Congress, and its chief interest in the proceedings at Washington has become a languid wonder how far the Republicans, assisted by the Pennsylvania, New England, New Jersey and Louisiana Democrats and Dan Voorliees, of Indiana, will think it wise to go in their defiance of public opinion. Any curious person who cares to see how cyclones are made should keep his eye on Pig-Iron Kelley and his Committee of the Wavs and Means of How Not to Do It. They are brewing one which, when it sweeps through the political world, will make Prof. Wiggins, who is getting up the great storm for next March, green with envy. —Chicago Tribune.

A New Yoke paper figures out some interesting facts with regard to the effects of the protective tariff. In the case of glue, for instance, the tax collected by the Government is only $82,836 a year, while the tax collected by the protected manufacturers in the higher prices they are enabled by the tariff to charge the consumers is not less than $720,702. .The people pay the manufacturers $637,896 more than to the Government, and it would be cheaper for us to pension off their workingpeople on the same pay they-now receive and let the manufacturers go at some other business. In the same way it calculates that we could better afford to pay the soapmakers $5,000,000 not to make soap than to continue paying double price for it for the sake of protecting the soap-boilers, and the castoroil men $321,000 not to manufacture any more castor-oil at public expense. A Few-ow of the Royal College of Surgery, London, was fined $lO for “furiously riding a tricycle.” He was traveling so rapidly that a. constable on •horseback had great difficulty in catching him, though it was shown in court that the surgeon had almtady traveled sixty miles that day on his'maohine.

NUMBER 3.

THE TARIFF.

A Lively Debate In the Bout of BepreMBtettVM. [Associated Press Report.] In the House of Representatives at Washington, on Monday, Feb. 5: Mr. Kelley moved to suspend the rules and adopt the following resolution: That on the 12th of February, or on any day thereafter, the committee of the whole on'the state of the Union, having? consideration of the House Tariff bill, is hereby empowered to order the bill and amendment thereto to the House for its action, with such recommendations as may be determined upon by the majority of the votes of said committee, and on Feb. 12 a motion made in the committee of the whole to rise and report the bill to the House shall take precedence of a motion to amend. The motion was seconded, 120 to Bft Mr. Kelley said the country expected this Congress to revise the revenue system, and jto reduce the excessive surplus income. The tactios which had delayed the Internal Revenue bill until near the close of the last session, and had forced down its proportions, were now being resorted to in connection with tin pending Tariff bill If the House was to pass the Tariff Mil it must have power to escape from the distinguished leadership of the other side—no legitimate leadership; not the leadership of distinguished gentlemen who represented that side on the Committee of Ways and Means, but that leadership which proposed amendments to that which no man on the floor wanted amendments, which called for divisions and tellers, and which, unhappily, found support enough to obtain them: that leadership (referring to Mr. Wheeler, of Alabama) which would have rallied the cotton States in favor of putting ootton-seed oil on the free list; that leadership (referring to Mr. Springer) which on a joke mistook a specimen of American ceramic art as a cuspidor, and lectured the House on the extravagance of American workingmen in providing themselves with such costly spittoons The House must escape from that leadership and bring the bill under the control of its friends

Mr. Morrison said one paramount duty of Congress was -to revise the tariff, and so revise it as to reduce taxation. - This the bill prevented. Thebill was to deprive the Government of revenue by increasing taxation, and it was thus proposed to forestall any reduction of the tariff. It was a sham, and once passed it would be claimed by the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Kelley) and his friends that it was a revision of the tariff and therefore a settlement of the question, and that the question must not De again agitated, lest the business of the country be disturbed. The Tariff Commission has been revising the tariff for six months; the Committee on Ways and Means for six weeks; the Finance Committee of the Senate and the Senate itself for several weeks, and none of these four revisions was alike. Now the gentleman from Pennsylvania proposed to ask 2D2 men to take the work of the Committee on Ways and Means when it did not agree with the work of the other revisers. The gentleman knew it was impossible to consider half the bill in five daya Mr. Carlisle said the House had only been considering the Tariff bill for one week, and now at the first opportunity it was proposed to limit its consideration to one week more. The House had not as yet completed two schedules, and they by no means ihe most important By the end of the week the metal schedule would have been passed, but the committee of the whole would not have reached those schedules where lhrge increases of taxation were made, in cotton and the woolen schedule there was an increase of taxation to the amount of millions. He stood here as anxious to see the passage of a proper measure as any gentleman could be, but he stood here also to demand for the representatives of the people that right which had always been enjoyed by them—the right of free speech for the interest of the taxpayers of the country. He should protest against any measure calculated to stifle the rights of the people’s representatives on a bill which proposed to tax them to the extent of at least $200,000,000. If Congress were to pass the measure making an insignificant reduction in the revenue and at the same time increasing taxation, it would be claimed hereafter that the question was settled, and if the Democrats undertook to reopen it they would be subject to the accusation of being simply agitators and disturbers of business interests.

Mr. Hatch thought It came with bad grace from the gentleman from Pennsylvania to ask the House to pass a tariff bill when, during a session of eight months, the same gentleman had declared, by a bill which he brought in and championed, that after thirty years of delving in this tariff question he was unable to manage it, and wanted to relegate his high trust to a tariff commission, yet, having raised that commission, he swept the report aside and brought before the country a bill which increased the rates recommended by it. Mr. Haskell commented on the fact that the country had watched six years, and had waited in vain for a revision of the tariff at the hands of the Democratic party. Now that the Republican Congress had brought in a bill largely reducing taxation, the Democratic side of the House said “Nay." Mr. McKinley believed the Democratic side had made up its mind deliberately that, if it could be prevented, no tariff legislation should be enacted by this Congress. Mr. Springer—That s not so. Mr. McKinley—l have no doubt of it When we proposed the Commission bill you were erring for a revision of the tariff, declaring that this proposition was “an affidavit for a continuance," but we passed it, and it is the gentlemen on the other side who are making “an affidavit for a continuance” now. I have heard representative men on the other side of the house say they could amend this bill until the 4th of March, and that they would do it rather than that the Republican party should pass a Tariff bllL Mr. McKenzie—Name your men. I defy you to name them. Mr. McKinley—Does the gentleman want me to name them? Mr. McKenzie—Yea Mr. McKinley—l can name them by the score Mr. McKenzie—You can’t name one. Mr. McKinley—l can name men on the very committee on which I serve who were honest enough to say that rather than have the bill reported by the Committee of Ways and Means they would sit here until the 4th of March before the bill should be passed. Mr. McKinley—l ask that we pass the Tariff bill because the business interests of the country demand it The business Interests want rest, and certainly, and above all, they do not want a Democratic Congress to make for them a Free-trade bill Mr. Reed, in a brief speech, charged the Democrats with the intention to defeat the bill, and then a motion to suspend the rules ana adopt the resolution was lost—yeas 189, nays 10»—not the necessary two-thirds in the affirmative—a party vote, except that Messrs Hardenburg. Morse, Spear. Wilson of West Virginia, ana Wise of Pennsylvania voted with the Republicans in the affirmative .

Unhappy Marriages.

A man should marry, by all means; yet I am convinced that the greater part of marriages are unhappy, and this is not an opinion I give as coming from myself; it is that of a very excellent, agreeable and sensible lady, who married the man of her choice, and has not encountered ostensibly any extraordinary misfortune, as a loss of health, riches, childreh, etc. She told me this unreservedly, and I never liad any reason to doubt her sincerity. For all this, I am convinced that a man cannot be truly happy without a wife. It is a strange state of things we live in. A tendency so natnral as that of the union of the sexes ought to lead only to the most harmless results; yet the reverse is the fact. There is certainly something radically wrong in the constitution of society. The times are out of joint. It is strange, too, what little real liberty of choice is exercised by those even who marry according to what is thought their own inclinations. The deceptions which the two sexes play off upon each oth§r bring os many ill-assorted couples into the bonds of Hymen as ever could be done by the arbitrary pairings of a legal matchmaker. Many a man thinks lie marries by choice who only marries by accident. In this res{>ect men have less the advantage of women titan is generally supposed. —On e of Jawl Byrons Let* tern,

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INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

Fora bills were Introduced in the Senate on the sth Inst, by Mr. Willard, regarding the« operations of railroads in the State, mid which are qnlte severe in their provisions They include the repeal of the ttaket-soalping law, the repeal of the act allowing townships and counties to vote appropriations to railroads, an amendment to the Taxation act so that railroad tracks shall be taxed at not less than sl*s a mile, and an act requiring railroad companies to securely fence their entire lines. Mr. Spann offered two bills to amend the act relating to the drainage and reclamation of wet lands. Tho remainder of the session was devoted to bills on second reading. In the House, the bill providing for the erection of a new asylum for .the incurable insane at Evansville was ordered engrossed. Various amendIndlanapoUs and other cities. Mr. Mook's bill meats were offered to fix Its location at Vinoennee, against ihe use of “stickers" in election was favorably reported by. the Committee on Elections and debated without action. A number of bills of minor importance were passed to a seoond reading, and several committee reports acted upon, after which the House went to work and devoted the day to the Oenesee Appropriation bill.

Mr. Hiixigass Introduced a bill In the Senate on the 6th inst. making express companies liable a# common carriers, compelling them to oount all money intrusted to them, reoeipt for the full amount, and making this receipt a prims fade evidence of their uablltty. Mr. Foulke introduced two btHs, one authorizing County Commissioners to erect separate jails for women, And another providing that whore any person or property is injured by reason at the intoxication of any one, the seller of the liquor and the owner of the building where it was sold shall be jointly and severally liable for the damage. Mr. Hoover introduced a bill for the regulation of the penitentiaries, making the good time allowed oonvicts for proper behavior much larger than by the present law, so that lu a twenty-one years’ Sentence the prisoner would only be compelled to serve thirteen years. This Is almost the same as the Ohio and Michigan laws, and Is recommended by the prison authorities. The bill to elect Prison Directors by tho Legislature for a term of four years was passed to engrossment by a party vote. Mr. Beil Introduced a bill which, it enacted, will do away with graveyard and similar insurance schemes. It makes taking or writing insurance on other people's lives a criminal offense, punishable by a heavy tine and imprisonment. In the Hoqse. the, General Appropriation bill was ordered engrossed, the most important amendmont being the one giving Purdue University $12,000 instead of $2,000 as originally provided. The special order of the day was the vote on the question whether or not the oonstitntlon&l amendments wore pending, and this was decided In the affirmative by a vote of 52 to 85, tho following Democrats voting with the Republicans in its favor: Messrs. Bryant, Davis, Glbeon, Graham, Horn, Jewett, MoCormiok, Patton, Pulse, Robertson, Hhaffer, Smith or Blackford, Thomas, Weaver and Woodling. The Honse by a unanimous vote passed a bill appropriating $62,0u0 for the completion of tho female department of the Insane Asylum.

Mb. Spank Introduced a bill in the Senate On the 7th lust., providing for a constitutional convention to consider and pass upon various proposed amendments to the State constitution. It is to be composed of .fifty delegates, elected as State Senators are, and from the same dlHtrlots, and, when these shall have agreed to any changes In the constitution, the latter shall be submitted to the people for ratification or rejection. The bill provides that the eleotlon of delegates to the convention shall take place the first Monday in April. The convention sllall meet 'the first Monday In June, and the vote on the amendments shall be taken one month later. Senator Hilllgass failed to obtain the. passage of his bill providing for the pnrohase of toll roads for conversion into free roads upon petition Instead of by a vote of the taxpayers interested. It was discussed at length, and failed for lack of a constitutional majority—yeas, 21, nays 18. Senator Fletcher’s bill authorizing gas and water companies to invest their surplus capital in city or township bonds was passed, as was also the Voyles bill consolidating the Soldiers’ Orphans' Home and the Institute for Fee-ble-Minded Children, and the pay of Trustees from S2OO to SSOO. The House devoted a large sharo of the day to the discussion of Mr. Jewett’s bIU repealing the law which places notes i>ayable in bank on the same footing as bills of exchange, and It was finally ordered engrossed by a vote of 67 to 10. It similar action is taken in the Senate the bill will serve as a protection to the farmers of the State, who have hitherto beon the victim of hayrake and wind-pump swindlers, who by false pretenses secured promissory notes from them under the existing law, as in this State such notes are collectable. The claim of Neal «fc Co., of Louisville, contractors for the iron-work on the new Insane Hospital, wns sat down on heavily in the House. A majority of the Committee on Judiciary reported, recommending that the bill providing for a judicial construction of the contract be had for the Information and gutdanoe of future Legislatures be passed. The minority report recommended indefinite postponement. By a vote of 75 to 10 the minority report wa» approved. It was stated on the floor of the House that Neal «fc Co., having contracted to do the Iron-work on the asylum at a certain prioe, lost money and want the State to make them good to the amount of $95,000.

Thebe was a call of the Counties for the introduction of bflls in both the Senate and House, on the Bth Inst., and about forty new measures were offered. Most of them hod reference to subjects as to whioh similar bills are already pending, and contained no features of special Interest. Senator Graham and Representative Howland introduced in their respective houses bills providing as to the care or abandoned and orphan children. Their intent is that when a father abandons bis child for one year the mother shall have full authority and control Of her child thereafter in the case of 8 boy until the age of 21 years, and in the case of a girl until the age of 18. Senator Williams presented a bill providing that railroad companies shall be liable for all damages sustained by their employes, even though the same may be the result of carelessness or negligence of other employes of the same company. Tha bill amending the Decedent’s Estates act was ordered engrossed by the House. The principal changes in the present law made by the pending bill are the abolition of the office of Master Commissioner; the Probate Court docket allows an administrator to pay all claims of SIOO and under; gives him the power to distribute the money among the heirs; romoves administrators and exMtttors who leave the state; leaves it to the discretion of the court to remove an administrator who has left the oonnty in which the decedent was situated and reduces the allowance of clerks to 26 cents for filing a claim. Representative McCormick lntroduoed a bill to restrict the term for which a Warden of either of the State prisons can be elected to fonr years and render the officials ineligible for re-election. He thinks that the perpetuation of a prison Warden in office is an evil and seeks to remedy it.

The bill reorganizing the management of the Plainfield House of Refuge, changing its name .to the Indiana Reform School for Boys, and electing a new Bftird of Trustees, passed the Senate on the 9th tost. The bill for the reorganization of the Northern Prison also passed. Both measures were put through by a strict party vote—27 to 2L The Senate passed the bill to amend the Decedents' Estates act, upon which a special committee has been at work for three weeks. The bill does away with the useless and expensive cash accounts, and provides for notice of partial settlements only when in the opinion of the administrator they are proper or necessary. The whole purpose of the bill is to simplify the settlement of estates and make the same less expensive. It cuts off the bad provisions of the act of 1881, and leaves the best part of the law in force. It abolishes the office of Master Commissioner, so far as it applies to the settlement of decendents’ estates, and cuts off the expenses of an examination of inventories, settlements, etc., by snch Commissioner, as required by the present law. It provides that no action shall be brought by complaint and summons against any estate, but all claims shall be Hied with the Clerk of the Court, or the executor or administrator, at the option of the person holding the same. All claims filed with the executor or administrator shall, It not allowed by him, be Hied to the Clerk's office, and go upon the docket and be tried as other cases. The claims filed In the Clerk’s office, not allowed, shall take a similar coarse. All claims not filed within a year shall be prosecuted at the cost of the claimant, and not filed thirty days before, final Settlement shall be barred. All claims filed in the Clerk's office shall be put on the claim-docket and allowed or disallowed by the administrator. All claims filed with an executor or administrator shall be reported by him to the court in his settlement. The bill requires executors to aid administrators to make settlements within one year from the date of the appointment, and final settlement within six months thereafter, unless otherwise ordered by the court on good cause shown. In the House, the Metropolitan Police bill was reported by the Committee on Cities and Towns, the majority recommending its passage with tne amendments. The minority recommended its indefinite postponement. A motion to table the minority report was at once interposed stfW to ettt off all possibility of a discussion of the principle <4 the bill, and adopted W 52 to Strict party vote—and the majority report was concurred in. The General Appropriation bill came to a third reading in the House, and it was passed by a vote of 86 to 0. The bill appropriates for the general exigences of the Btato $1,254,120, and that of 1881 appropriated the sum of $1,211,880. Representative Antrtem has introduced a bill providing that all comiadd** <tod corporations shall make settlement and payment in money to their employes at leant once to thirty days under penalty of iiOO per day for noh-o6tnpliance. The State University Endowment bill, after being amended upon the recommendation of the Committee on Education so as to make the special tax 1 cent per annum for. twelve years instead of 2 cents for six years, was engrossed and ordered *> athirfi reading.