Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 6 April 1884 — Page 4

LIFE jLND SOCIETY.

rpgjen, Marriage and Luxury.

FINALLY LANDED HIM.

dreamy, quiet, flrellt room, rwo cups of coffee whose rich perfume Heales over our senses while fancy files To Indian isles and eastern skies: '. heavy languor, a full content, dors of rose ana violet blent if ith.f alntpatchoull and new-mown hay: memory sweet of meadows gay 5n the bearskin (ug I lie at ease,' ind listen "to wonderous harmonies *.s ttiey softly drift, with charms untold, "trough the velvet portiere's weeping fo'd, IThe.mUslc's passion Is rich and strange •With Its every tone my feelings change

It holds me captive, I'm swayed at will By-the master's subtle grace and will. |My eyes are ralsed'with movement low 1 To where, ona slumberous dtvan low, see you stretched so near the place ITnat^yonr soft breath fans my eager

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Thejnuslc's dying Its charms yetthrlll My soul with a yearning intense ai chill

The two young people, both no doubt breathless with agitation at the importance of the ceremony, have to take one long fixed look at each other. No word

Sisters believe so fully in the language of the eye that, in their minds, any addition is futile and might but serve to mystify the pure and perfect effect of love at first sight.

The look over, the Lady Superior asks the man ii. he will accept the maiden as his bride. Should he answer in the affirmative, the same question is put to her, and if she bows asBent, the betrothal has taken place, and they part till the Sunday following. The young lover again makeB his appearance before the tribunal ot guardians, and there the contract is signed, the day of marriage fixed, and he is granted leave to bring the ring, earrings and wedding dress, and present them—through the gridiron, of course —to hia betrothed.

Everything has to pass the scrutiny of the Sisters, for fear of a letter or some tender word being slipped in with the gifts. During the few Sundays that intervene between the first love-scene and the marriage an hour's conversation within hearing of the Lady Superior is allowed, but not a touch is exchanged. The empty talk, interspersed with giggling, consists of inquiries as to the wedding dress, and the occupation and place of abode of the suitor. Should the young man refuse the first damsel presented to him, he is favored with the sight of three or four more but should he still appear diffidis he is dismissed. The girl also has the power of refusal.

The marriage over, the task of the sisters is done. Here falls a veil they never lift—and whether happiness and faithfulness are the result of this rite tfcey never inquire.

Our readers must before now have wondered what inducement there can be to make the youths who have the world to choose from come here in search of a wife. Two hundred and fifty francs are the. attraction. The sum iB given in dowry with each of these girls, and for that sumt it seems, a Sicilian is willing to sell himself for

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Hand Painted Bonnets.

Boston Journal.

fbrhe latest Parisian novelty in feminine gear is hand painted bonnets, which articles are beginning to appear in this city. This seemB at first sight, and to the thoughtless mind, an agreeable and innocent idea, but reflective persons will see in it the inauguration of a movement which is calculated to have a most pernicious influence apon the piece and comfort of the male portion of that part of the human race which pays respect to the dictates of the Parisian fashion. It is evidently the first step in a movement which is designed to bring into vogue again the violently expanded hats which in years past have excited so mSch rage in the breasts of male attendants upon theaters and other places of public resort. The course of return to these monstrosities can easily be defined in advance. At present bonnets and hats are small, and only a few leaves, three or four cockroaches, a diminutive lizzard, or other such chaste trifles of decoration, can by the limitations of their space, be painted upon them. But will any woman of proper spirit be contented to remain thus at a disadvantage? We trow not. The truly feminine instinct to outshine one another will assert itself, and hats will slowly widen as larger and larger compositions are devised for their adornment^ until at last they will return to their pristine dimensions of five feet in circumference, and upon them will appear pictures of the falls of Niagara, the Yosemito and other such spacious scenes, painted in the highest style of art, and in not less than nine different colors. Let the male sex, then, assert itself in me, and—metaphorically, of course—sit down solidly upon the whole business of hand-painted bonnets.

Cards for Ladle*.

Chicago Inter Ocean. Engraved cards are the rule. The script is very delicate for ladies' cards, which are of a generous size and cat Beatly

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fc5* Wlo I look on with jealous glance As o'er your cheek the shadows dance.

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In vain to study your mind. To read the thoughts which lie hehlnd I Those deep gray orbs, to fathom the soul,

Apd fin# the power which holds control I Of my every sense, my every aim. Which binds me to a slave with unasked claim, •LAndmakes me follow where'er you lead: •f -Your life the all which my life doth need.

But the eyes no sign will e'er confess. And the lips will tell me even less: But when they quiver, and break, and cry, My own respond with answering sigh: Ohr why should we hold our lives apart? I can not cry down my hungry heart. Better defy the harsh world's decree, "And shape anew path for you and me.

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I creep still nearer, slave to a throne, Till my hands touch those Ilongto own, A lingering murmur, a haunting strain, "Which fades, bursts forth, and fades

The waltz Is over, Its last note dies, 'But safe on my breast your dear head lies.

How the Maidens of Sicily Get Husbands.

The following is a description of a scene which goes on every Sunday -morning in the hospital at Palermo:

The long dormitories were clean and orderly, but the curiouB and peculiar feature of this establishment was the parlatorio, or reception room. Picture a 4&.r33 long room, the greater portion of which is divided off from the sides and further end by an iron grating which forms a cage, entered only by a well-barred street door, through which visitors from the outer world are admitted.

Here they sit on benches to converse with those on the other side of the iron grating. Once a week, however, Sunday mornings, from 10 to 12, this place is the scene of the most novel and ludicrous courtships ever described. One of the objects of this motherly establishment is to find fit and proper husbands for the girls under its charge. The fit and proper here is much like the fit and proper of society—the one requisit being that the'young man is bound to show himself in possession of sufficient means to maintain a wife in comfort before he is allowed to aspire to the hand of one of those precious damsels.

Having given in his credentials of fitness to the guardian, he receives a card which admits him next Sunday morning to an inspection of the candidate for matrimony. There, sitting on a bench, if his curiosity and ardor will allow him to remain sitting he awaits the arrival on the other side of the grating of the Lady Superior accompanied by a girl. She had been selected by order of seniority and caacity for household work from the _undred or more between 17 and 21 waiting for a youth to deliver them from their prison.

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ladies are longer than those used by single ladies, and etiquette requires that a daughter over 16 shall have her name on her mother's card until she is 20 years of age, at which time she can use a visiting card of her OWB. Cards bearing the name of husband and wife are necessarily large. This fashion of card is only used in paying bridal calls and daring the first year of marriage at all other times the husband and wife use separate visiting cards. Cards for gentlemen are narrow and rather short. The script is round and has a much heavier look than the hair-line letters on ladies' cards. All kinds of invitations are written on clear white paper, except silver and golden wedding cards. The former has the script in Bilver and blue tinted cards the latter has the cards of a pinkish white with golden letters. For other wedding invitations there is tut little variety. In the announcement of a private marriage the cai ds are sent out by the parents of the bride the note sheet with lettering is in shaded script. Square cards are used when the couple issue the invitations. If preferred, a* separate card with the lady's name on can be used. The future residence is noted on the left lower corner, and on the right lower corner are stated the reception days-

Afternoon reception cards or note sheets are also handsomely engraved in script. When cards are used they are of the square shape, with the name and address. The reception days are written in the left, hand corner, and either above or below this the hour is noted, for example: "Tea at 5 o'clock." Dinner invitation cards are partially in script, neatly engraved. The guest's name is written by the hostess, a pretty idea, one intended to impart a friendly tone to the invitation. ^^||||g

JThose Bags of Zeehlns.-

Whose were they But a yesterday or two past a man died in our midst worth $15,000,000 fifteen fortunes tied up in the bands of one man. The bag was his, but whose were the zechins therein

Probably one-half that sum was heaped together by the hands of unrecompensed women. Women with sad, tearful eyes and wan faces, with wasted fingers and shriveled forms, with despairing looks and hopeless souls. All they toiled for was a crust ail they earned a shroud.

The rich man sleeps beneath his six tons of marble, the widows and orphans he wronged beneath their nowcovered hillocks but in the great banking books of the eternal exchequer the dividends are made just and equal.

The clanging of the gold into the great money-bags of our monopolists, rusted as it is by the salt tears of defrauded wives and mothers, will as surely reach the God of Justice as did the crying of the slaves of the southern plantations will He answer with the scourge or the pestilence? with the floods or with the hurricane?

v' Wives of English Statesmen. London Athenaeum.

Nearly all the recent premiers of England have enjoyed the advantage of having had wives of great devotion and considerable ability, to whose tender care and sympathy in their ambition they have been greatly indebted. The devotion of the Countess of Russell, who is still living, and the Countess of Beaconsfield had something of romance. Mrs. Gladstone,who is nearly the same age as the premier, accompanies her husband, as did Lady Beaconsfield, everywhere, and frequently remain in the ladies'gallery to the close of the night's sitting. Lord Palmerston, more than, perhaps, any other first minister, however, was indebted for his position and its maintenance to his wife, who was physically and mentallv a remarkable woman. Up to her death in 1869 at 85, four years after her husband, she could read without glasses, and talked with all the fire and energy of a young woman of 20. Her voice was most cheery, musical and soft. Her eyes were of bright blue, and, in spite of a very evident wig, she was a very handsome old lady. She had some peculiarities, always shook hands with her left hand, and pronounced gold "gould," and china "cheeny."

Waiters on Roller Skates. Chicago Hotel Reporter. Unquestionably the most difficult thing to manage satisfactorily in a hotel is the dining-room service. The Americans, who do everything with a rush, find it hard to wait patiently for the serving of their orders, be the waiters ever so expeditious. A novel and original idea is being experimented on by the proprietors of the Paxten hotel at Omaha. Having observed the rapidity and ease with which persons move about on roller skates it occurred to the Kitchen Brothers, proprietors of the Paxton, that possibly dining-room waiters, with the requisite amount of practice, could therewith facilitate table Bervice. With this end in view the head-waiter drilled his crew, and a few days ago the first experiment was made. A patron of the house writes us that with the exception of two of the boys who came down with the trays, everything passed off well. The proprietors declare their intention of giving the scheme a thorough trial, and the headwaiter says he can and will make a success of this new style of service. If the skates can be made noiseless and the waiters become expert skaters we do not see why, at least in large dining-rooms, the roller skates can not be made very useful. The project is at least worth a fair trial, and the proprietors in question are to be commended for taking the initial step toward a possible improvement of dining-room service.

A Dutiful Husband

At a recent trial in which a young actress in Buda-Festh sought to recover damages from a local paper for libel and defamation ot character, while the numerous witnesses were being examined a juryman got up and addressed the bench as follows: "Would the Herr President be good enough to send word home to my wife that I am not coming heme to dinner to-day

The suburban citizen must soon put his lawn mower in tune and playnpon it while he is resting after his day of toil. Itia during this recreation that he calculates that, by lawn meattn remen t, it takes about 9 million feet to 'make a yard.

ALYCB LEWELLYEN.

Sweet-Minded Women.

Springfield Republican.

So great is the influence of a sweetminded woman on those around her that it is almost boundless. It ia to her that friends come in seasons of sickness and sorrow for help and comfort. One soothing touch of her kindly hands works wonders in the feverish child a few words let fall from her lips in the ears of a sorrowing sister do much to raise the load of grief that is bowing its victim down to the dust in anguish. The husband comes home worn out with the pressure of business and feeling irritable with the world in general but when he enters the cozy sitting-room and sees the blaze of the bright fire and meets his wife's smiling face, he suecumbs in a moment to flip soothing influences, which^ act as Bpirit. We are all wearied with combating with the realties of life. The rough schoolboy flies in a rage from the taunts ot his companions to find solace in the mother's smile the little one, full of grief with its own large trouble, finds a haven of rest on its mothers breast and so one may go on with instances of the influence a sweetminded woman has in the social life with which she is connected. Beauty is an insignificant power when compared with hers.

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TORTURES OF WEALTH,

George Washington Child* and tbe Beggars Who Beset Him—Appeal* From all Classes.

Before Jay Gould started south on his yachting trip, says the Philadelphia Record, he told a friend that if he gave away a dime for every dollar that was asked of him by beggarB he would not have a cent left within-two years. So it is with Vanderbilt, who, though in possussion of an income of 6 per cent, upon a fortune of $203,000,000 is constantly besieged by begging letter writers. Nine-tents of his mail is made up of these missives. To the fugitive criminal every bush is an officer so to the Croesus of New York every new caller is a beggar. Gould and Vanderbilt, being immensely rich, are, therefore, big targets for the impecunious. But there is another man who, while not quite so rich, is notoriously free with his gifts,_ and consequently receives more begging letters than any rich man in America. Reference is made to George W. Childs, of the Philadelphia Ledger. His income from the Ledger is said to be over $1,000 a day. It is a private mint that ranks next to the New York Herald,, and he has othersources of income as well. Nearly all of this goes out in charity. Mr. Childs* has no children save his newspaper boys, for whom he provides with lavish hand. He recently pensioned off his financial editor. Though worth $400,000, thiB gentleman was relieved from active wore, but was continued on the salary^ roll just as if he bad been an impecunious reporter.

A Record man met Mr. Childs yesterday morning at the corner of Sixth and Chestnut streets, just as the publisher had finished a five-mile walk with Banker Drexel. These two friends are like Damon and Pythias. Mr. Childs walks out over the Schuylkill every morning to meet Mr. Drexel, and together they amble down Chestnut street to their offices. The banker goe3 on to his counting house, where he handles more capital than the thirty-three National banks of Philadelphia would have if they pooled all their dollars into one pot. Mr. Childs turns in at Sixth street to look over his morning mail and to dispose of his callers. There were five women and two clerical-cut men waiting^ to see him on this particular morning. Six of the seven wanted money, and the lads who tend the door had sized up every one of them. These youngsters are trained up to a study of visitors, and they can scent a beggar at a distance of ten yards.

Mr. Childs' private secretary says that as many as two hundred begging letters are received in one day, and that the total of the applications for money made to the Ledger published by letter often average $20,000 a da' One afternoon, while a_ friend waited outside to get an interview with him, a woman, a perfect stranger, went in to ask if Mr. Childs wouldn't pay her debts, amounting to $3,000. Folks will come from a distance of five hundred miles to beg a small loan. Some want to be educated at his expense. Quite a number of young women have been sent to Europe through him to study music, but none of them have ever reached public distinction. Not a few of the beggarB say they are ambitious, and want Mr. Childs to pay for courses of study that will enable them to enter the ministry or other profession.

A young lady in Indiana, who says she has heard much of Childs' generosity, writes an introduction of herself to him, and adds:

I come in the simplicity of a little child to ask you to please make me a present of a Scotch collie shepherd pup of the male sex. I reside in Indiana and highly appreciate anytbirg that comes from dear Pennsylvania, especially a present, I would be greatly obliged to you indeed for you kindness. Should you grant my petition I will name it after you. Very respectfully yours, A.

Another applicant writes: I wish to ask a considerable favor. It is the loan of $100, to help me with my education. I am an orphan, and have no brothers

One weakness Mr. Childs has is a fondness for clocks. He has thirteen in his private office some valuable for their historic associations, some because of their exquisite workmanship, and some because of the rare value of their cases—one, in particular, made of lapis lazuli, being worth its weight in gold. Altogether in his three residences and at his office Ihe has fifty clocks, worth $30,000. It is not strange, therefore, that he should get appeals from all over the world to buy old clocks. A few days since a woman called on him to induce him to buy a clock for $25,000. She did not know what he could do with it, but thought he ought to present it to the government.

A man in England wrote a note asking for money to send his three sons to school. Appeals for money to pay oft' the mortgage on the farm are a daily occurrence. Here is a specimen brick:

FOCOMOKE, March 1,1884. MY DEAR MB, CHILDS:—'There Is a mortgage of S3,000 on our farm. It Is held by a cruel man who Is opposing us and threatens to sell our farm over our heads if we don't pay the Interest. Won't you buy the mortgage? I know that if you did it would not be hard on us. If you will do this I and my little children will pray for you night and day. What greater consolation and satisfaction can you have than to know some one is always praying for you. Answer Immediately. Respectfully, ^ours,

If, after two letters have been sent no answer has been received, the beggars will impudently write: "I have written twice to you and have receivt no answer. What does this mean

Occasionally, when Mr. Childs goes out of town for two or three dayB, he is greeted on his return by beggars, who say: "Why, I have called here three times thus far without seeing you."

Church fair committees and designing men stumble over each other in their possessions to and from his office. Suppliants for his money chase him to his summer retreat at Long Branch they call at his country residence they beseige his white marble palace in this city. Every rich man is pestered the same way, and all who are not pestered want to be.

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DIAMONDS IN THE RANGE.

Two Gems That Were Recovered by Banning Ashes Through a Floor Sieve. New York Sun.

A week ago last Friday evening Mrs. Emma Buckley took a pair of diamond ear-rings from her ears while standing in the basement dining room at the house of her father, Mr. William H. Welch, 401 Bridge street, Brooklyn. She wrapped them in tissue paper, tossed them upon the mantel, and went up-stairs to bed. The 8tones were handsome brilliants, and weie valued at $200 each.

Some time later that evening Mrs. Rida Welch saw the crumpled bit of paper on the mantel, carried it out to the kitchen and threw it into the range. Mrs. Welch is said to be a very neat housekeeper.

The next morning the cook piled the kindling on the bit of crumpled paper and built the fire. Two hours later Mrs. Buckley walked into the diningroom. "Did any one see a bit of tissue paper on the mantel?" she asked. "Yes," said lire. Welch, "I threw it into the range last night"

The news had an agitating effect upon Mre. Buckley, and the family adjourned to the kitchen, where two very much excited ladies raked the kitchen fire until the ash pan contained it alL Then the ash pan was dumped into a coal sifter. The ladies were by this time very warm, as well as very much excited, and both alternately raked the ashes and rubbed the dust from their eyes.

When the ashes and finer coal had dropped through the sifter into the coal scuttle a flour sieve was placed over the dish pan, and the ashes and fine coal were gradually poured on the sieve. When about half the stuff had been emptied on the sieve a small black and yellow chunk rolled over the edge of the coal Seattle. It was a

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very warm piece of gold, and was all that remained of the setting. A little more raking and the two diamonds rolled out of the ashes. They were a little dusty, butwhen cool enough to handle they were bound to be undiminished in beauty and value. ANew York jeweller reset them the same afternoon.

Her One False Step.

New York "World.

"Only three months married and in a police court," remarked Justice White at Essex Market court, yesterday, when Caroline Heck, a young woman of good appearance, complained that her husband, Adolpb, a cabinet-maker, of No. 24 Clinton street, had abandoned her a month after their marriage and did not contribute anything since for her supported. She admitted that there was a reason for his leaving her. "And what was that?"

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Esk6d "Well," she said, "he learned that I had given birth to a child six months before our marriage. The child is new in an institution." "Your husband did not know that you were a mother when he married you, did he?" "Yes, sir, he did know of it,' she answered firmly. "I did not know of it," interrupted the husband, excitedly, "I only heard of it about a month after our marriage, when a friend told me about my wife's career before I married her. I instantly went home and asked my wife if the story was true and she relied that it was. That's the reason I left her, judge."

"Is the story that your husband tells the truth asked the judge. "Yes, sir," she replied, bursting into tears for the first time, "it is true. I have made one false step, but he can't say no other wrong about me. I have been a good woman since." "You are married to this woman,' said the judge to the husband, "and no matter what her character has been in the past, she is still your wife, and you must support her."

He was ordered to give her $4 a week^

Waiting for the Fifth Act of Lucia. San Francisco Chronicle.

A group of economists hit upon peculiar plan for hearing the opera. They each bought Beparate admission tickets, and got a seat in partnership The seat was to be occupied by them turn about, each one holding it daring an act. It was an admirable scheme. Those standing against the wall gave it furtive glances of proprietorship. Besides their other operatic furnishings,they wore upon their faces that transfigured look of hope which bean tifies the face of the dying Christian

The last chance fell to the politest of the five, and he leaned good naturdly against the wall, waiting his turn. From their conversation they were hibitues of the Grand Opera House, and accustomed to getting five acts for their money.

When Lucia went mad and disappeared from view, the polite man begun to look uneasy. When the tenor stabbed himself, beads of anguish impearled themselves upon his brow. When the curtain fell and the people began to disperse, he grew incoherent. "Say, Ned," he gasped, clutching the arm of the last sitter, "ain't there no more o' this going on Where do I come in "I don't see how it can go on, an swered Ned, calmly and sweetly. "The whole gang is either dead or crazy, and I don't think you come in until the next season. You're left, my boy."

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Oilve Logan's London Letter.

I suppose it was the immediate need of money which has caused Miss Fortescue to return to the stage at this critical point in her career. I confess thot durine the neriod of her engagement to Lord Garmoyle, I have often wondered how she got the means to dress as she did. But in large town like London there are to be found usurers who will lend money on all sorts of security, and perhaps there may be a regular class who furnish funds to persons having great expectations, of whatever kind these may be. At any rate, the fair plaintiff cannot noip plead thather professional prospects have been injured by her faithless lover, since she is at present commanding five times her previous salary. But I hear that her strongest plea will be that she lost an excellent marriage bj the assiduities of Lord Garmoyle. A well-konwn London figure,one Harry Quilter, who was said to have been on the point of proposing to Miss Fortesque, or proposed and was rejected. The Harry Quilter referred to is the son of the Benior partner in a rich firm of accountants in the city, and "the Quilters" are the family who now occupy Whistler's "White House" in Chelsea, having, or. so Whistler intimates, employed sharp practice to get him out of his charming old picturesque mansion by Thames-side. ||g

A London Opinion of Salvini, Labouchere's Truth. In Italy, Rossi is regarded as a better actor than Salvini. Here, however, Rossi proved a failure, and we all went mad over Salvini. As Othello he certainly is unsurpassable, but he strikes me as being a one-part actor. Last week I pointed out that while there was little to blame there was little entitled to special praise in his Lear. It is an honest and conscientious rendering of the part, but nothing more. The same may be said of his appearance in '*La Morte Civile." The play itself is dismally monotonous and Salvini is decidedly monotonous in it.

The Lord's Prayer.

New York Mail and Express.

One of the most important points bronght out by the just published "Teaching of the Twelve Apostles," is that as early as the second century, at leasts the form of the Lord's prayer in common use was that which contains the Doxology. The revised version leaves it oat, bat there can be scarcely a donbt that the ultimate form used will be that which is corn-

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Apostolic times.

The Lord Family.

The recent death of Henry C. Lord, a distinguished railroad president of Cincinnati, recalls the fact that he and seven brothers were graduated from Dartmouth college daring the administration of their tether, the Rev. Nathan Lord, D. D., LL. D., who was president of the institution from 1$£8 to 1863. This case is probably unparalleled in the collegate records of this country.

THE TEKRE HAUTE EXPRESS, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 6,1811

MT FAIR COMPANION.

At Perote, where he halted for a relay and refreshments, all my fellow passengers took leave of me, very solemnly assuring me that, if assailed by the lad rones or robbers it would be much better for me to take matters quietly, and suffer myself to be genteely plundered, than' to ran the risk of having my throat cat for resistance. There was one new passenger here to go forward, whom, to my agreeable surprise, I found to be a beautiful young lady, some 20 years of sge.

Senorita Paula, as I subsequently ascertained her name to be, was indeed one of those rare beauties seldom met with except in works of fiction tall, graceful, with a profusion of long, black hair—soft, clear, melting dark eyes— features as perfect as ever came from the handB of the sculptor, and with an animation the most fascinating—varying expression with" every changing mood of the intellectual possessor. A glance at her bewitching dark eyes showed me that she was one who was naturally of asocial disposition and as we rattled away from the gloomy town I took the liberty of opening a convex sation. "They tell me," said I, "that the route between here and Mexico is a very dangerous one to travel." "There is little to fear,"

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with a sweet smile and in a melodious tone, "except from the professional robbers, and they seldom harm any one who makes no resistance." "And have you really been robbed on your journey back and forth?" I inquired. '•I think I have paid my share to the ladroneB for my transit through their country," she laughed. "And your fellow travelere," said I, "have you never seen any disposed to resist these unlawful acts?" "Once, senor, an American and an Englishman, who were in the same diligencia with me, fired npon the robbers, killing one and wonnding two." "And did the robbers fire back?'" "YeB, but fled immediately, and fortunately injured none of our party." "As I should have expected," returned I. "You were not robbed on that occasion, I suppose "We were not, senor, but the two foreigners subsequently paid dearly for their resistence, for in journeying back and forth both were killed, separately and at different times, near the same spot."

As we continued our journey, the conversation gradually changing from one thing to another, Senorita Paula suddenly brought it back to the point where it first opened. "We are coming upon a dangerous part of the road," she said "are you still resolved to defend yourselves if Assftilsd?'' "With your permission senorita 1" "I do not think it advisable," she replied "but still, if such is your intention, I think it no more than right that you should give me a chance to take a part in my defense, since my riak of danger will be as grea'ff as yofurs I" "And have you really the nerve, alter all, to defend yourself I inquired. "If I had the means, senor." "I have two pistols," said I "if you will accept one of them it is at your service." "You are very kind, senor—but can I fire it?" "Withease, senorita and proauc ing one of my revolvers, I explained to her the manner in which it was to be used. "And this, you Bay, will snoot some half a dozen times?' "I think it safe to calculate that .five charges out of the six will explode, senorita." "A very formidable weapon, indeed she replied. "WOTTO care, senorita, or you will discharge it!"

The words were scarcely uttered, when her fingers pressed the trigger and one of the barrels was exploded with a sharp report. A minute after, and while I was gently chiding her, we heard a loud, quick tramp of horses, and several sharp, rapid exclamations.

The next moment our conveyance was stopped suddenly, and we saw ourselves surrounded by some eight or ten mounted men, one of whom, in a loud voice exclaimed: "Yield you prisoners, or die!" "Quick, senorita!" said I, extending my hand "quick! in heaven's name! give me one of those weapons, for now is our time for decisive action!"

As I spoke the door was suddenly thrown open and three or four swarthy heavily-bearded men presented themselves to my view. "Quick, senorita, for the love of God!" I cried, grasping at her arm. "Hold!"

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A Negro In the Sleeping Car, Macon, (Ga.) Telegraph.

A few nights since a negro loaded with whisky, and after having boasted and betted as to his competency to carry his point, boarded tho Central train at this point and forced himself into the Bleeping car. The passengers evacuated the car and this fellow held it until it reached its destination—Atlanta. The Central road some time ago furnished to its natrons the convenience of its own sleepers. This has been changed, and the Pullman cars are now used. This cannot in any way alter the responsibility of the Central road. The people of Georgia having to deal with the Central road, and if the Pullman Car Company will insist upon running its cars according to the socialequality notions of its stockholders or managers then the Central road will be asked to provide for its patrons cars that cannot be invaded by a drunken and truculent negro.

exclaimed, instantly

presenting one of my own revolvers to my head. "Resistance is useless—you are our prisoner!" "Gracious heavens!" exclaimed I, perfectly astonished. "Our prisoner, did you say It is not possible^that one BO fair and lovely as yourself is in any manner connected with these banditti!" "It is even BO, senor,"she replied. "I acknowledge myself conquered by being outwitted!" said I, bowing to la senorita.

Then turning to the robbers, who had now collected in a body in front of the door of the diligencia, I continued: "Gentlemen, will you permit me to alight and make yon some valuable presents? In the language of your country, 'all I have is yours.!"

The leader of the party bowed politely in return, and said with a grim smile: "Si, senor, we shall be most happy to receive anything which so distinguished a traveler may have to bestow."

With this I quietly stepped from the vehicle, and one quick, searching glance put me in possession of the whole state of affairs.

The diligencia had been stopped in a wild, gloomy place, and the driver was sitting carelessly on his box, taking everything as a matter of course. He might also be an accomplice of the robbers, or he might not but, in either case, there was little hope of assistance from him— for any attempt of the kind would certainly bring upon him a severe ounishment, sooner or later. I glanced up and down the road, where it wound between dark, overshadowing trees, but discovered nothing to give me any hone. The robbers, some eight or ten in number, and all well armed, were collected around me, part of them mounted, and the others standing on their feet, holding their mustangs by the bridle. "Will you accept this purse?" said I, producing one that held several sold coins, ana handing it to the chief of the lad rones. "Thank you, senor! yon are very kind!" he Baid, as he took it in his hand, with a polite bow, and chinked the money. •1 beg your pardon, senoree!" I parsued, glancing at the Senorita Paula, who, with my pistols still in her possession, was quietly standing within the diligencia, regarding the whole proceedings with one of ner sweetest smiles "I must not forget this beautiful lady 1 I have here," I went on, at the same time producing the article, "a very beautiful gold snuff-box—set, as yon perceive, with diamonds—will your ladyship honor me by accepting this as a slignt token of my regard for the pleasure afforded me by your company and conversation "Yon area very gallant gentleman senor!" she laughed, taking the two revolvers in one fair hand and presenting the other.

Now was the all-important moment of life and death! Ail were in a measure off their guard, and one quick, furtive glance snowed me that the pit still held my weapons carelessly In one land, with the other remaining extended for the prise. I lifted the box carefully, bat as I raised myself I gave a wild, startling veil, and as the senorita started back 1, with the qnickn—s

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of lightning, seized both weapons and wrenched them from her. To wheel and commence fixing npon the party was now only the work of a moment The first shot, fortunatelv stretched ont the chief the second took effect on the one nearest to him and by the time the third had been sent on its mission there arose one simultaneous yell of dismay, and the astonished robbers began to scatter in every direction. I had no disposition to follow them, however another minute they might rally and turn npon me and, springing forward, I grasped the reins of a freed mustang and vaulted into tbe saddle. One more glance around me showed me the Senorita Paula upon the body of the chief, her laughter changed to grief, and some of the scattered cowards bringing their weapons to bear upon me. "Adios, senorita and senores!" said I, bitterly, "he laughs best who laughs last!"

The next moment I was dashing away down the road, the half-rallied robbers pouring after me a volley, but fortunately not touching their mark. They would doubtless have followed me in hot pursuit but for the wholesome dread they had of my still undischarged weapon.

As it was, I escaped and entered the town of Pueblo in triumph, where, it is almost needless to add, a narration of my exploit made me a hero and a lion for the time.

Here I sold my captured mustang and trappings for enough to indemnify me for what I had disposed of in the way of presents and the next day saw me an inside passenger of the same diligencia en route for Mexico, where I arrived in safety, without any farther event worthy of note.

What became of the robbers and their beautiful accomplice I never learned but the lesson taught me on that journey I have never forgotten and during the remainder of my stay in that country no pretty woman ever had the honor of being my business confidante, or of getting possession of my trusty and nnfailing revolvers.

Training in Natural Science, Matthew Arnold In April Manhattan. It is proposed to make the training in natural science the main part of education, for the great majority of mankind, at any rate. And here, I confess, I part company with the friends of physical Bcience, with whom, up to this point, I have been agreeing, In differing from them, however, I wish to proceed with the utmost can tion and diffidence. The smallnees of my acquaintance with the disciplines of natural science is ever befare my mind, and I am fearful of doing them injustice. The ability of the partisans of natural science makes them formidable persons to contradict. The tone of tentative inquiry, which befits a be ing of dim faculties and bounded knowledge, is the tone I would wish to take and not to depart from. At present it seems to me that those who are for giving to natural knowledge, as they call it, the chief place in the education of the majority of mankind, leave one important thing out of their account—the constitution of human nature. But I put

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dite, very far from it facts capable of being stated in the simplest possible fashion, and to which, if I so state them, the man of science will, J. am sure, be willing to allow their due weight.

Deny the facts altogether, I ^hink, he hardly can. He can hardly deny that when we set ourselves to enumerate the powers which go to the building up of human life, and Bay that they are the power of conduct, the power of intellect and knowledge, tbe power of beauty, and the power of social life and manners—he can hardly deny that this scheme, though drawn in rough and plain lines ana not pretending to scientific exactness, does yet give a fairly true representation of the matter. Human nature is built up by these powers we have the need for them all. This is evident enough, and tho friends of physical science will admit it. But perhaps they may not have sufficiently observed another thing, namely: that these powers just mentioned are not isolated, but there is in tbe generality of mankind a perpetual tendency to relate them one to another in divers ways. With one such way of relating them I am particularly concerned now. Following our instinct for intellect and knowledge, we acquire pieces of knowledge and presently, in the generality of men, there arises the desire to relate these pieces of knowledge to our sense for conduct, to our sense for beauty— and there is weariness and dissatisfaction if the desire is balked. Now, in this desire lies, I think, the strength of that, hold which letters have upon us.

Irvings and Booth's Profits. Wm. A. McConnell, manager Haverly's Brooklyn Theatre.

While it is very true that Henry Irving plays to a great deal money in a week than Edwin Booth, there is no doubt that Mr. Booth pockets more of the profits. He gets one-half of the gross receipts from Brooks & Dickson, and they and the local managers have to be content with the other half. Mr. Booth's share in Brooklyn for two nights was nearly $9,000, stue no "Jay" story in this. Why, in eight weeks at the California theater, San Francico, Booth played to $116,000, and took for his share $58,000. No, you needn't allow the usual discount on managers' statements certainly not as big a discount as you give Jim Collier. But while Irving will play probably to $15,000 this week here, he has to pay several people ont of that, and they are all high-priced people, loo. His individual snare will be less than Booth's alter his .expenses are deducted. Wagers are out that Irving will play to $15,000 here, and to $60,-

000 for his four weeks in New York.

Calcutta's Exhibition. Even if the exhibition now being held in Calcutta results in no commercial advantage to India it will have done one good thing it has struck a good, hard blow against female seclu sion and the piurda (veil) system, so rigidly adhered to throughout that country. Of the 10,000 people who daily visit tbe grounds the most noteworthy feature is the female portion, most of whom, un accustomed to appearing in public and only after having their races studiously covered, now snddenlyfind themselves in a jostling crowd, surrounded by sights and scenes to them most extraordinary. In their bewilderment their veils are discarded, their features are disclosed (and these are certainly not the most symmetrical or very attractive either, and, with a sort of dazed look, they file past tbe various exhibits and gaze at the show-cases very much like a child suddenly confronted with a lot of new toys. Many of them will never don their veils again.

Drlnkivc While Eating. Nature never intended for people to wash down their food while eating. She has wisely placed salivary glands in various places in our mouths they secrete a fluid for the moistening, besides a chemical action of the food after mastication. This gets the food in a suitable condition for swallowing. Drinking every few minutes while eating prevents the usual flow of saliva •inn, it washes it down before it can have a chemical action on certain portions of the food. One of the most pernicious habits to health is drinking several tumblers of water-while eating better drink warm drinks. The stomach will not digest one particle of food when it has a temperature below 100° Fahrenheit neither will it digest one atom of food until all the fluid is first absorbed. No healthy person shot^l drink more than a half pint of some mild fluid while taking food, and dyspeptics should not drink a drop while they are eating, nor for three or four boon afte|.

w®S?*MODBRKr SHAMS."

Karily Fmithfall Tell* What She Dow stud wtnt 8fce Doesn't Know About Them. Chicago Tribune.

Miss Emi'y Faithful!, the famous English lecturer and philanthropist^ delivered her lecture on "Modern Shams" at the Central Music Hall last evening for the benefit of the bnilding fond of the Chicago Free Kindergarten association. The hall was comfortably filled, the inclement weather notwithstanding.

Dr. Barrows, in introducing ihe lecturer, eulogized the work of the Kindergarten association in this city. The proper training of the children was, he said, a key to the problem of civilizing and Christianizing the masses of the people. He referred in complimentary terms to Miss Faithfull's work, and to the honor and admiration with which she had been received by the American public.

Miss Faithful began her lecture with an emphatic declaration that the subject was equally applicable on both sides of the Atlantic, and that as a matter of fact, it had been suggested to her by her experiences and difficulties in her work among the English people. "We are all more or less the perpetrators and the victims of social shams," she said "the millionaire is the idol

__ rampant to-day allowed to go on unchecked for fift years, the people of England ant America would reach a depth of moral degradation that almost defied exaggeration. At the present-time women painted their faces and paraded in fashionable resorts they dosed themselves with chloral to build up their shattered nerves. The great evil of the age was the worship of wealth the twin vices of to-day were ostentation and sham. Every age had its own peculiar vices. There was no such headlong race for riches a hundred years ago as there is to-day. Shoddy was not then the supreme ruler. Now, the laborer of to-day is the millio'naire of to-morrow the lily of Poverty Flat is to-morrow the Fifth

avenue belle. Riches is the great desideratum the magic wand that opens the palace of delight The uncultured rich drag down the cultured few into the vortex of inoral degradation.

Steal by night and steal by day,' Doing it all in a legal way.

seemed to be the motto of the times. Business was mainly ruled by the three Rs—"'Ritbmetic, Roguery, Ruin." In her work in England she had an extensive experience of the results of wild extravagance and vain pretensions. The extravagant display of dre6s at fashionable churches waa a token of wealth it seemed that a delirumof fashion ruled all classes, so that a woman was valued by what she wore— not by what she was. The man of the period was equally culpable in this matter of ostentatious extravagance. The grotesque pageantry of London municipality was an illustration of this modern craze for glare and glitter. Our women wear Bham jewelry, our architects build sham houses. The country was as bad as the citv.

The trail of the serpant is over The trail of the serpant is over them allThe speaker then discussed the servant problem in England. "English servants have no more conscience than as many black beetles or red ants," she said. "They emulate their mistresses and wear all taeir riches on their backs." Taking the two nations—England and America—in a mass, it could not be denied that they were given over to money-making and moneyspending. Americans might laugh at the regard paid to aristocracy in England, but the social gradations to which the English openly bowed were becoming rapidly naturalized here. The American millionaire was tho object of perpetual notice, and he was continually devising means to increase his power. The speaker then referred to the noble exception in both countries—to men such as Peter Cooper, of New York—who used their wealth for the advancement of the human race.

Referring to the English worship of rank, she Baid that "a gorilla with a long rent-roll and a prospective coronet would probably

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shortcomings condoned." She then referred to the evils of the credit system in England—credit in personal expenditure and household expenses—a system which was rapidly growing up in America also.

She referred to loveless marriages as one of the humiliating results of the struggle for position—the srirls who would baiter their youth and beauty, the mothers who would sell their daughters for position in the social scale. She quoted the American press to show that the reputable citizens were to blame for the degraded condition of municipal politics. "Rogues go into office to make money, and honest men stay but to save it.' She concluded by pointing out the necessity for individual moral courage in fighting the shams of social life, and for both individual and collective action in obtaining a pure and honest administration of public affairs.

MARSH All NEY'S NATIVITY.

Was Napoleon's Bravest General Native of Georgia.

Was the famous Marshal Ney, "the bravest of the brave," a Georgian asks the Atlanta Constitution. With out attempting to anBwer this question the temptation of reproducing the substance of a recent article on the subject is too strong to be resisted. An anonymous writer in the Kansas City Times relates at great length and with a multitude of dates and details, the early career of Napoleon's brilliant generaL It seems that shortly after the revolutionary war a young man named Michael Radolpb liked on a plantation near Savannah with his wile and two sons, Victor and Adolph. One day Rudolph flew into a jealons rage against his wife, and, taking the two boys, he abandoned her and sailed to France, where be joined the army as a private. During one heat of a terrific battle the young soldier's phenominal coolness attracted* Bonaparte's attention, and he promoted him- Michael Ney was the name assumed by Rudolph in France, and it was generally believed by his comrades that he was a Frenchman who had spent most of his life abroad. The rise of Michael Ney continued until the fatal Waterloo. The rumor of his American nativity got abroad after the marshal was executed, and it was reported that before his death he told his sons that his name was Rudolph, and that they had abandoned their mother near Savannah, Ga. On this side the water several missing links in the chain of evidence establishing the identity of Rudolph and Ney have come to light One incident will be safficient. About 1820, two young Frenchmen were in Savannah inquiring tbe whereabouts of Mme. Rudolph. A survivor of Waterloo chanced to meet them, and rushing to the eldest, exfclaimed: ""Monsieur Victor Ney!" The young men got away at once and were seen no more. They were undoubtedly sons of Marshal Ney in search of their mother, the Mme.

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Tennjien In Cooked Hat. Londoh Standard. In the house of lords, yesterday, Baron Tennyson took the oath and his seat with the customary formalities. The noble lord .was introduced by the Dnke of Argyll and tbe Earl of Kenmare, assisted by the gentleman usher of the Black Bod (Admiral 8ir J. R. Drummond, G. O. B.), and Garter gtng at Aims (Sr Albert W. Woods). The peers present were the Dnke of Bedford, Earl Beauchamp, the Earl of Dncie, the Eaxi of MiUtowiif I#rd

Lyttletop, and Lord Balfour of Bur-

Lord Tennyson was attired in his peer's robes, as were also his introducers in their robes, and together they slowly advanced, at four o'clock, from the bar of the lord chancellor, who had taken hia seat on the woolsack. Garter king at arms carried the royal patent of nobility, and handed it to the new peer, who presented it to the lord chancellor.

The document was then handed to the clerk of the house, who read it aloucLand administered to Lord Tennyson the osnal oath. Thereupon the new baron, with his supporters, returned to the bar, and thence was conducted to the baron's bench.

Taking his seat there, still accompanied by the dukeof Argyll and Lord Kenmare, he lifted his cocked hat three times to the lord chancellor, who returned the salutation.

Lord Tennyson was then again escorted to the woolsack, where the lord chancellor shook hands with hup, after which the new peer retired to remove his showy bat rather cumbersome robe of scarlet and ermine.

LETTER FROM JOHN BRIGHT.

Sympathy with the North In the Civil Strire—Europe's Great Armies Tempt to War.

PROVIDENCE, R. I., March 28.—The following is a copy of a letter received from Mr. John Bright, member of the British parliament, in reply to a letter informing him that it was proposed to place a marble bast of him in the Friend's Boarding School here:

LONDON, March 10.

DBAB FKIEND—I regret that I have so long delayed an answer to yoOr most kind letter which reached me some weeks ago. It informed me of the and great compliment you were about to nay me by placing a marble bast of me in the lecture hall of your .noble school, was surprised to hear of the project, bnt I can not bat be much gratified at the friennly feeling manifested to me by yourself and tue authorities connected with your institution. You say that I was a friend to your country in the day of need. I did what I could to prevent discord between the two English nations, and to teach our people the nature of the great issne which depended on the conflict in which, twenty years ago, your people were enraged. I lamented the conflict, but I wished that England should offer her sympathy on the side of freedom to the Blave, and in favor of the perpetual union of your great republic. I look back on the past with unalloyed satisfaction, and would withdraw no word I uttered in connection with contest on which England and the civilized world looked with a profound interest.

The question of peace, to which you refer, claims the sympathy of all Christian nations. On your continent we-may hope your growing millions may henceforth know nothing of war. None can assail you and you are anxious to abstain from mingling in the quaraels of other nations. Europe! unhappily, is a great camp. All its nations are armed, as if each expected an invasion from its neighbor, unconscious, apparently, that great armies tempt to war the moment any cause of dispute arises. The potentates and governments of Europe, I doubt not, dread war. They seek to guard against it by arrangements. We in England are not free from blame, but with us the love of peace is increasing, and no government can engage in war without risking and even losing the support of our people. We are so involved with the territory and populations, over half the globe, that difficulties are almost constantly arising, and our danger of war is greater than that of any other nation. I am, however, confident that our feeling against war is sensibly increasing, and I trust and believe the moral sense of our people will more and more condemn it.

I have read with much interest the report of your great school which yon sent me. I hope your efforts in behalf of a sound, liberal education may prosper, and that your students, as they enter and pass through the world, may strengthen the moral sentiment which pervades so large a portion of your population. I can only wish you success in your great work, and thank you and all connected with your institution for tbe kindness you have shown me. England and your United States are two nations, but I always like to regard them as one people. On them tbe growth of all that is good in the world greatly depends. Believe me your sincere and grateful friend.

A Yoang Girl and Tonne Man, With Similar Histories, Bearing the Same Name, Meet and Love, Bnt Fear They

Are Sister and Brother. New York Special.

STATESMEN AT WHIST.

A Quartet (fast Sank Politics at the Card Table. Washington Letter to the Troy Times.

I suppose the greatest whist quartet in Washington for many years was that made np of tfarfield, Frye, Randall and "Alee" Stephens. The house committee on rules, of which they were members, met at Long Branch in the summer of 1878. They began playing there, Frye and Stephens against Garfield and Randall. Stephens played a wonderful game. Bolstered np with pillows in bis chair. be would sit by the hoar without becoming wearied. After the first two or three tarns he had an nnfailing power of telling where the cards were held. He hated to have a poor partner, for it disturbed his calculations, but with Frye he was always content and serene. Frye ia a strong, impulsive player, When winning his face beamed like a child's, bat once behind said it became a serious affair. Then he is uneasy and restless nntil a few lucky deals pat him, ahead, again. Stephens and Frye were in excellent contrast, for the former never apparently took the slightest interest, save as his eyes lighted up occasionally at a remarkably strong suit. G*rfieldnever

concealed anything. His plays were always open. Only once aid ne ever try leading from a "sneak." The look that met nh" from Stephens was such that it was never known to happen

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where else, is cold and calculating. He does not play a scientific mme, but a well-e one,

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JOHN BRIGHT.

To Augustine Jones, Friend's Boarding School, Providence, R. I.

ROMANCE OF TWO LINGS.

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Eighteen years ago a female baby, a few months old, was found one morning on the steps of a New York residence, on East Twenty-third street. Marked on the garments was the word "Dubois."

She was adopted by a woman of the nnmfl name, living in Sullivan county, She was, on becoming of a reasonable age, told of the circumstances of her early life. She and her foster mother moved to Chicago, and the young lady became anxious to know something of her ancestry. Learning that people of her name lived in Brooklyn, she wrote Postmaster McLeer, giving the circumstances, requesting him to find out what he could, if anything to her advantage, at the same time sending a notice, with the request that he should post it. The postmaster wrote to all of tbe individuals of the name given which be could find in the directory. Several replies were received, among them one from a young man of the same name, who stated that his early history was hot dissimilar to that of the inquiring young lady. The postmaster turned oyer to him the letter received from Miss Jennie Dubois, and a correspondence was opened between the two. Finally he visited her, and it was a clear case of love at first right, both being equally impressed with the, other. The first impressions grew stronger with longer acquaintance, but, while progressing it. their sincere attachment, each detected in tbe other that which was most convincing that they were of the same flesh and blood. They loved and would marry, but there was the harrowing fear that they might be brother and sister. Each desirea to find that tbey are in no way related.

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see that the four are pretty well balanced. But Frye and Stephens wonFrye was fortanate and Stephenaakill-A fnl. Day after day they kept ahead Afterwards, when the four returned toWashington, the games were kept up. Twice a week regularly the others' would go down to Stephens' old-fash' ioned parlor at the National hotel, andthere play exactly np to midnight. Of course they had varying fortune, but in the long rnn the first winners came out ahead. The morning afterwards the members would always ask them if they appeared at the capitol how the games of the night before resulted. Every winter np to the time Garfield was nominated for the residency the four kept at it, mt then it was broken off, with the intention of resuming after he was once fairly seated in toe White House. But he was shot so soon that the plan came to nothing. Stephens wanted to keep on and fill Garfield's place.

Harry Smith, the journal clerk 01 the house was taken. Very soon afterwards Stephens was elected governor of Georgia, and went away, never to come back. With his departure the series dropped, he and Frye still aheadLast winter several senators, including Messrs. Hoar, Frye, Sherman, Morrill, Warner Milter, Aldrich and others, made np a club and played often, but it is not continued. Sherman is one of the best players in the senate. Ben Harrison is reputed to be, but I never heard of nis playing. Senator Bayard likes to take a hand, but he has not the book knowledge that some of his brother senators boast of. But the critical scientists on this subject are not BO numerous as they were in the senate a few years ago, when half the members were noted hands. No man ever loved the game more than did Judge Thnrman. With his old red bandana on the table to dry his face with he was alternately in the highest state of exultation and despair. At times Mme. Thurman would find it necessary to take a seat by his side with her quiet "Don't grow excited, Allen," to keep her hiisband in his chair.

DUELING IN THE DARK.

Four Men Riddled With Bullets—A Qnartet of Prominent Citixeni of Columbia Connty, Fa., Quarrel OTer

Card*, Extinguish the tl(b(lr and Fight to the Death. La Borto, (Pa.) Special. *.

A'terrible shooting affray occurred over a game of cards at Cole's Creek, Columbia county, last night. Gambling has been carried on to a considerable extent there for some months past, and much money lost and won. Sunday night Charles Davis, Charles Mills, James Royer aud Henry Williams entered a tavern and began playing poker for small sums. Gradually the amount grew larger and at last reached $500 aside. Davis and Milsl were opposed to W illiams and Boyer. At the conclusion of the game Williams reached for the stakes, but Royer claimed he had Been Davis cheat, and a scramble was made for the money, which was scattered over the floor in the struggle. At last Royer Btruck Davis in the face and a row ensued. Revolvers were drawn and the barroom was emptied of the small crowd of spectators which had witnessed the game. A promiscuous firing followed, in which the lights were extinguished. The firing lasted several minutes and the crowd outside waited with bated breath for it te cease. Finally there was silence inside. The crowd Burged in and found all four lying on the floor, apparently dead.

|Davis and Miller each had foar bulet holes in their bodies. Royer and Williams were covered with blood and unconscious. Medical aid was summoned and restoratives were applied. It was found that Royer was shot twice in the right leg and once in the thigh. His skull bears the appearance of being fractured. Williams received three bullet holeB in his body, and is undoubtedly fatally wounded.

News of the death of Mills and Davis was received here to-day. The testimony of the crowd in the bar-room at the outbreak of tbe shooting shows that Royer had several times accused his opponents of cheating, and that a feud had existed betwen himself and Davis for some time. Another story is in effect that Royer had struck Davis without cause at tbe commencement of the play. A spectator who stood behing the players asserts the playing was fair, and that Royer had been seeking a chance to quarrel. The proprietor of the tavern has been arrested for keeping a gaming house and for violating the Sunday law.

The wildest excitement exists. All kinds of rumors are afloat to-day, and the death of Rover and Williams was announced, but afterward denied. The last accounts are to the effect that Royer and Williams will recover, although badly injured. All four were considered highly respected citizens, and the fact of their being shot Sunday night in a gambling quarrel has shown how strong the gaming fever raged. Royer's wife is reported to have lost her reason over the sad affair.

It May Come to That.

Philadelphia Times. Mrs. Langtry may yet have-to go around tbe country as Oebhard'* protector.

The Mieses Longfellow attended Mrs. Mackey's recent brilliant reception in Paris.

Senator Hawley, of Connecticut, is president of the Washington Literary society.

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