Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 August 1885 — Page 6

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It is the longest day: By the summer bay, ",Tj ji'-'i In sweet air and bght |§i||®|Slp We linger until night, •_ "Whichbul sleeps a little while '!",-- ,'Twixt the sunset and dawn's smile

Yet now 'tis sad to think and see firag Every day must shorter be. Sif, Every month an hour lees bright

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Until midwinter white.

Iftt in the dark nights lengthening drear, Christmas waits us with goed cheer, And pleasant book in fire-side nook,

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It is the shortest day

v*' Winter's sky is gray, ii |fe?' The black winds blow,

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j-v The world is white with enow, As by the hearth-nook warm, We hear the wide, wild storm

But for a space each month that o'er •fe' Us rolls shall longer grow B^an hour or so

And it is pleasant through the frore Weather, still to look before To poming days, when through the haze

Lifting o'er blue sunny bays, Spring will reach our shore. —[Cassall's Family Magazine for August.

"A DANDY CATTLE QUEEN."

The Black-Eyed, Sliort-Wai»teclJ Mra Salm, of Texas—She Carries a Brace of ^Pistols and Is Looking for a Man. Ghwa§(2.j^|^c6an.

Cattle kings and cowboys are not an uncommon sight to Chicago, but cattle qneens and "cowgirls" are a rarity in this neighborhood. It was therefore with some curiosity that the reporter for the Inter Ocean received a tip at the Palmer yesterday that he had "better go up and see Mrs. N. Salm, the dandy cattle queen of Texas, who was stopping up stairs." Mrs. Salm! Where had that name figured? It was in the newspapers. Ah, yes, the Atlanta, Ga, and Houston, Texas, files were filled with Mrs. palm's name only a short time

There were columns about Salm. A particular amus-

irfjg account of an episode in which she figured was given. Mrs. Salm had appeared at the counter of a prominent mt#inTexas, pistol in hand. A clerk •was described as locking himself up in a safe, another hid behind a pile of hotel reristere, while a newspaper reporter tjipped along over the "marble tiling to escape the whiz of bullets and had jumped down an elevator shaft. Mrs. Salm. was pictured as ordering a six-in-hand and having the order filled by two mustang ponies. She had taken umbrage at the published statement that she was a divorced woman and adventuress instead of a rich widow, and once on the warpath her detractors were made to "skip" in a lively manner. It was the province, of the- Chicago reporter to investigate,( and he proceeded with that extent, but Was met with the remark had given tn lilPTTfnrr all ,» Nevertheless a plain, u«s8t"card bearing a single name and nothing else was sent up, and soon le answer came back, "the lady will see gentleman in the parlor." The •j :attle queen" soon appeared. She is a ee bit of feminine humanity. Her ands are small, dimpled and fat. She is. apparently not over four feet in height, but her small frame is well rounded out, if she is not what might be called decidedly plump. Her little straw bonnet of natural straw color, perched on top of her jet black hair, was covered with sprays of artificial wheat. Her dress was straw-colored satin, with an overdress of •k lace. AtJta^throat was a breasta gold spoon, with a large solitaire diamond in the bowl, and from without the folds of the satin dress the toes of two dainty kid slippers, bespangled and bowed, were just visible.

As'soon as she was undeceived concerning «ihe business of her visitor she was at first apparently angry, but soon chatted away in an agreeable manner. She said: "Now, how did you know I was here. I told the clerks to keep the newspaper men away. I don't want notoriety nor publicity. I had enough quarreling with the newspapers in Georgia and Texas, but I made some of them trip over the country lively. It was all- a piece of blackmail—that's all it was. Yes, I am here on business. Have been in New

York, and am going to Michigan. I made $190,000 in New York dealing with cofton futures. I agi in the cattle-raising business, and have three ranches in the neighborhood of Houston, Texas. I did have four, but sold one of them recently. I have over 100,000 head oi stock, and have four managers. A man who was in Chicago some time ago trying to push an elevated railroad scheme, commenced to do Bome business for me, but beat me out of $10,000 by forged papers. I'm looking for him, and when I see Um he will be changed from Fell to Fall. I had detectives employed in New York, not" to keep the reporters away, but to protect my diamonds, keep away fortune hunters and 'Mevflft who would steal my valuables. rnkWffaftpiifc Mfc services of a detective here." Mrs. Sa^Lxlien went on to show her modus opnrannN»Laccum ulating cattle. If she got the lastEfand on stray cattle they were hers, and the cowboys that coula rope in the greatest number in this way were_generally employed. "But," 8£id Mr" trj "I don't care for pub$ls where I stop, as soon as ho. I am, if I enter the everybody lays down their

Jt, and says, 'There's the cow at pleasant, now, is it?" 1s she has driven cattle hi to

£Mttphre, rode in the cattle trains, and costume suitable for a he "My maiden name," said

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Nattilia Mizphi Commarco, ytbich being Interpreted means 'CjhUtTof Fate, God J'jCpteofclPhEe I' was born within a few iles of Houston. My mother died when was 4 years old, and my father when I was 11, and I was left with $40,000, a I plantation, and no guardian. In two years I had spent or rather given away most of my money. Mr. Salm met me on the street one morning, and when I told

him I was getting poor lie suggested that [we should/ get married ana pool our llssaes. 'I was but 13, and he agreed to I lend me abroad to be educated. I con„Jited we were married I went abroad lind spent nearly two years at Frankfort-|)n-dhe-Main. Wfcen I was 17 my I husband died. I am now 21. I liave had numerous offers of marriage, JiutI think I can look out for myself. "I would like to show you my liiaininds, but they are not here yet. I liave them sent by express. Call on [tfonday, and you shall see them." "You can tell me about them just as 11," was the reply. they say I have $150,000 worth, |ut I havenVgorTnore than $75,000, to tell you the truth. I don't tell everyf^dy what I'm worth, though. I've just "*red a dress Jfrom India, all made of

I -al things. The ferns will be real

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fringe will be real glass, and

irerytRtag will be real. By the way, I lave in my room a lamp-shade made in ladia. Let me show it to you."

And the vivacious little creole between I senorita and a fille excused herself and

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ripped out of the parlor. In a few mojnts she returned with the lamp shande exquisite piece of workmanship, with ij ferns imprisoned in each of tne six with gauze-like lace of the most Jjjate texture, the fringe, an. inch in pth. being apparently of asbestos, alough Mrs. Balm said it was "real ass?* "I like to drive," continued Mrs. Salm. ean handle four or six horses, and I lopoee to before I leave Chicago. I •n't like to start out too soon, though, I cause thtf women get down on me and sll me brazen, and I ain't brazen, am

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whimpering, simpering' tone, to a young man who was present, and whom she said she had known in Atlanta at the time she "pulled the pep on Broagh and scared him out of his boots." The young man didn't answer, and Mrs..

Salm rattled on.

She certainly presented an appearance likely to attract attention, being possessed of that attractive quality called chic and fine personal appearance.

Elderly gentlemen guests seemed anxious to & her honor, and gala day attire was donned by more than one of the habitues of the house who would esteem it a privilege to be in her good graces. She has a jaunty air about her that is not unpleasant to witness. Her mother was Spanish and her father French. Mrs. Salm is decidedly American, and as a conversationalist she is quite brilliant.

The COft.of Living.

One of the most perplexing questions in yiolitical economy is that of the cost of living. It enters

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tions, and hitherto it has been impossible to reach figures as to the cost of living. We do not assume that this has been correctly done even yet, but an^ effort has been made in that direction. The trouble with all such estimates is that the data vary—that is, in times of prosperity more is expended on living than in 'times of adversity. Edwin Atkinson has gathered some data which, however, are too meager to admit of their being regarded of great importance. It is a start, however, in the right direction, and jioints to a feasible method for ascertaining the result. He selected a town in Massachusetts and one in Maryland to experiment, and both sexes were included in the estimate. The cost of the Massachusetts town was something larger than that in Maryland but the two were averaged, and on this basis the 'estimate was extended to the entire population. The several classes of population were included in the experiment, which was continued six months. Thus it will be seen that the data are imperfect, owing to the limited character of the experiment. But, so far as it goes, it is very suggestive. It rendeis it easy to form a proximate opinion of the cost of living in average comfort in the United States.

The cost per individual is 20.85 cents per day—in Maryland it being 19f cents and in Massachusetts 28 cents per day. This makes $86.81 per year. A family of'lfive at this rate can live for $434.05. This includes, however, only the food. Meat, poultry, dairy, fish, eggs, flour, meal, vegetables, sugar, syrup, tea, coffee, fruit (green or dry), salt, spice, ice, etc., make up the items. House rent, clothing and the incidentals, aside from food, are not included. As these figures are based on the cost of living of mechanics and servants, it will be seen that the average is low. It shows, however, that our working class live fairly well so far as the element of foot}, is concerned. But it also proves that an average of at least $2 a day must be earned to support a family of five. Also, that $4,340,000,000 are annually expended by our 50,000,000 of population for food alone. In no country in the world do the people average so high in the cost of living. Good living promotes health, and is a sign of intellgence. Were a people so poverty-stricken as to be compelled to live poorly, the effect on the nation would be bad. Whether we advance in the bet.ter elements of civilization or retrograde, depends on our living.

A Long Branch Sensation. Long Branch has had a midsummer excitement. Mrs. T. F. Emmons came from Washington to the West End hotel, accompanied by three 'horses, a man servant, a maid servant and a big dog. She is the wife of an employe in one of the government departments, but has a fortune of her own. She took the best of the house's accommodations for herself and was also remarkably solicitous as to the comfort of her beasts. The horses were daily weighed to see how the sea air agreed with them, and one was doctored for nervousness. This made no difficulty, for the eccentric attention to the horses was confined to the stable, and the lady's departures and arrivals on horseback or on wheels were interestedly watched by the other guests. It was different with the dog, however, for his quarters were in the hotel. He was a Newfoundland, and his name was Treasure. The occupants of adjoining rooms objected to his sleeping in the corridor, and especially to his midnight gambols. Again, he was denied the privilege of bathing in the same surf with fashionable human beings during the appointed hours for that diversion. Once a clay Mrs. Em mons walked down to the beach wrapped in a loose evelope of gay flannel. Hei maid attended her at one elbow and her valet at the other, while the dog followed behind. Then the maid removed the wrap, disclosing the mistress in an entirely skirtless costume, the principal feature of which was a pair ot genuine Turkish trousers. These were bright in color, a change being made every day. The valet led her to the surf, in which she disported like an excellent swimmer. But the dog was excluded by the bath-master, in spite of coax, threat or bribe. At length Mrs. Emmons decided to give Treasure a bath in the evening. Even that poor boon was denied. She thereupon announced that she would not sleep or eat again in that hotel. She paid her bill, and set the maid to packing her trunk while the valet was directed to see that the horses were immediately brought out. She would make the journey to the Highlands, a point on New York Bay near Sandy Hook, before morning. The man demurred, and telegraphed to the husband for instructions but Mrs. Emmons quit in the night according to her hasty programme.

The First Ice in New Orleans. A reporter of the New Orleans TimesDemocrat, in conversing with Dr. J. P. Davidson, one of the oldest and most esteemed city physicians, learned the following facts about the first cargo of ice brought to the city. Dr. Davidson said that when a boy—it must have been about sixty years ago when Montegut was mayor—Mr.

Judah Touro imported a cargo

of ice in the brig South Carolina, Captain Thornton. He built an icehouse out ot flatboitl lumber placed upright, as was common in those days. This house was located on "Congo" square. Together with a number of other boys, said Dr. Davidson,I went out to see the ice hoisted up to the top of the house and lowered into the bin provided for its keeping. Once in a while a block would fall, when we boys would run in to secure our share of the fragments. While standing there I heard a "low, murmuring sound, like rain pattering on the prairie it increased in sound until suddenly a mob rushed onto the workmen and drove them away, while they proceeded to demolish the building. The mob then west to the river bank, where the ice was be ing unloaded, and cut the moorings of the vessel and ordered the captain to leave port. The excitement was so intense against the introduction of ice that Mr. Touro sent the cargo to the West Indies} The next morning the papers ublisned an article attacking my father, r. Davidson, who was then health physician, asserting that the doctors had advised the bringing-of ice to this city in order to produce disease, and thereby reap a profit out of the miseries of the people.

George Washington Childs has in his office the portraits of General Grant and the Emperor of China taken together.

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-THE NEW YORK GIRL. mm !$SI$ •IHer Scheme for Adorning Herself Fashionably at Small Cost, New York Times.

Nobody in this world likes pretty things better than the New York girl, and nobody is more ingenious either in devising ways of getting what she likes, especially when the matter of personal adornment is at stake. An up town merchant tells a story that does credit 'to the genius of a piquant young woman. Within a year or so she has perfected a system by which site can,be gorgeous to fashion's uttermost limits at an expense strangely trifling.- In many cases firms monopolize the trade of certain families. Every article that they do not have in stock they supply in order to spare customers the shock of collision with the clerks of another store. A family whose expenditures are of any consequence are pretty tenderly cared for by the shopmen whose interest it is to hold them, and one result of the sharp competition in the retail trade has been the introduction of the plan of allowing customers the privilege of taking goods to their homes "on approval." Of course this custorft has its advantages for the purchasers, and they were not in any way slow in falling into it. Then the bright New York girls made a discovery. "On approval" meant after trial, and they' began to give the goods plenty of trials. They went further and perfected the system. "You see," said my informant, "this is the way the thing is done now. A young lady comes into the store, goes over our stock of fans, picks out a beauty, explains that she will take it 'on approval,' and then away she goes to wield it with telling effect at the theater or in some fashionable ball-room. A day or two later she returns, explains that this fan is not just what she wants, and coolly takes another again 'on approval.' She brings that back, also, and tries a third and so it goes on for weeks. She has given her friends the impression that she fairly revels in fans, has one for every conceivable occasion, and never uses the -same one twice. That brings her lots of profit—a great deal more than we get—especially as, after all, she may not buy anything at all. It is the same with parasols, although there the exchanges are made less rapidly. Let me tell you, too, that our gentle shoppers don't stop there. Why, I know of one case where a lady, the wife of a college professor, took an expensive pair of corsets 'on approval.' Two or three days later she returned them with the message tjiat she had not taken them from the box, but that they did not suit her. We opened the box and found that they had evidently been worn, and were, in.fact, so torn as to be valueless to us. We told her that we couldn't take them back, and put them on her bill. We got our pay, but I don't think we made much on them, for we lost an old customer.".

MRS. MORGAN'S PICTURES.

Her Magnificent Collection to be Sold at Auction in the Fall. New York World.

The magnificent collection of works of art belonging to the. estate of 'the late

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M,aria Morgan is to be be disposed of at auction in the fall. The sale will be the most memorable ever held here. The collection includes some of the finest examples of modern French art on canvas and in metal known to the western continent. The gems of oriental art are equally interesting and rare. With the sole exception of Mr. William T. Walters, of Baltimore, Mrs. Morgan was the best customer the dealers in Japanese and Chinese underglaze and. metal work of the costliest order knew. Her last purchases in this line are said to have mounted up a bill of nearly $75,000. The cost of her entire collection is estimated by authorities in these matters at some $2,000,000, and it is confidently predicted that the sale will easily reach half that sum. Mrs. Morgan bought with considerable discretion in some cases, but in others it is said that her whimsical taste betrayed her into costly extravagances. JjThe exhibition of the collection will in all probability be held'at the American Art galleries. The sale will likewise be in the hands of the American Art associa tion. A catalogue ot the most elaborate and expensive order, as well as a fine one for popular use, will be one of the features of the exhibition.

Mrs. Morgan died, it will be remembered, without a will and her estate of several millions will go to two sisters and several nieces and nephews. William Moir, the jeweler at Sixth avenue and Twenty-third street, who married one of her sisters, was by consent made executor of the estate.

WONDERFUL WORKMANSHIP.

A Convict Who Treats Himself to a Circus and Uncle Tom's Cabin. Michigan City Dispatch.

Men of genius who are inmates of a penitentiary for any length of time contrive many peculiar ways to while away the idle hours. Their tastes differ, and, as a consequence, many varieties of fancy work are turned out with rude tools and only after many a weary hour of incessant labor. Canes, work-boxes, tooth-picks, shoes, etc., are made by nearly all of the men of a disposition to employ themselves evenings, but John Campbell, a life convict at the northern prison sent from Crawfordsville several years ago, has by means of a pen-knife and scraps of wood, cut out and mounted an entire menagerie and circus. The wild beats, horses, performers and even tlie ring-master is in his place, all of them being connected by simple mechanical contrivances controlled by a crank. Give this a turn and the circus commences, continuing with astonishing regularity and precision for several moments. In connection with the circus is a complete "Uncle Tom's Cabin" outfit, the entire representation in old plantation style. This drama shows Topsy, Marks, donkeys and hounds, who, when the crank turns, perform their parts in a manner as to put to shame half of the alleged combinations on the road. The entire workmanship is perfect and displays wonderful skill and patience on the part of the owner. An effort is being made to secure Campbell's pardon.

Lee at Gettysburg.

Chicago Herald. "I went to see the panorama in Chicago," said an elderly passenger on a Rock Island train the other day: "I've seen, it dozens of times, but I never go to the city without looking in on it, if only for a few minutes. It has a fascination for ma. which I cannot shake off. I was at the battle of Gettsburg myself and an incident occurred there which largely changed my views of the southern people. had been a most bitter anti-south man, and fought and cursed them desperately. I could see nothing good in any of them.

The last day of the fight I was badly wounded. A b^ll shattered my left leg'. lay oh the ground not far from Cemetery Ridge, and as General Lee ordered his last retreat he and his ofgcers rode near me. As they came along I recognized him, and though faint from exposure and loss of blood, I raised upon my hands, looked General Lee in the face and shouted as loud as I could, 'Hurrah for the Union?' The general heard me, looked, stopped his iorse, dismounted and came toward me. I confess I at first thought he'meant to kill me. But as he came up he looked down at me with such a sad expression

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upon his face'that all fear left me, and I wondered what he was about. He extended his hand to me, and grasping min« firmly and looking right into my eyes, said: 'My son, I hope you will soon be well.' "If I live a thousand years. I shall never forget the expression in General Lee's face. There he was, defeated, retiring from afield that haa cost him and his cause almost their last hope, and yet he stopped to say words like those to a wounded soldier of the opposition who had taunted him as he passed by. As soon as the general had left me I cried myself to sleep there upon the bloody ground."

English Party- Designations. Baltimore Sun. 'a The different names applied to political parties in England, have puzzled a good many readers. They desire to know what, distinctive differences there are between whigs' and liberals, tories and conservatives and radicals. The names "whig" and "tory" in English politics date back to the fierce and bitter discussions in 1679 over the bill to exolfide James, Duke of York, from the succf ssion to the throne of England on the death of Charles II. It is well known to readers of English history that the bill passed the house of commons, but was xejected by the house of lords, and that in 1685 the Duke of York ascended the throne as James II., but in 1688 was driven out of England by William, Prince of Orange, and that in 1690, in an attempt to recover this throne, he suffered a decisive defeat at the battle of the Boyne. It was between the years 1679 and 1689 that the whigs and tories were consolidated into distinct and antagonistic political parties. Both whig and tory were originally terms of reproach, the adherents of each party applied to one another—the word whig being a contraction of whiggamore, denot-: ing a drover, and was applied after a raid' made upon Edinburgh by a party of covenanters in 1648, while that of tory issaid to have been derived from an Irish term signifying robber, and applied to the "wild Irish," whom tne Duke of York showed hiipself disposed to favor. It was at the instance of the whigs that William of Orance was invited over and became king consort by right of his wife. This brought and kept the whigs in power for a period of nearly sixty years, after which the tories obtained control of the government and held it for more than eighty years. The distiction in modern times between whig and tory is this: The whigs have sought to break through the eld traditions of England and have generally adhered to progressive principles, while the tories, being strongly conservative in sentiment, have yielded slowly to changes that were from time to.time urged in parliament by the whigs. Of late yegtrs the whigs have changed their old distinctive title for the more popular one of liberals, while the tories now call themselves the conservatives. It thus happens that whig and liberal on the one side and tory and conservative on the other, have become conyertible terms, and each party is spoken of indifferently by either title. But since they assumed the name of liberals the whigs have been gradually. taking advanced ground, Until recently, under the Gladstone ministry, they have stood at the verge of radicalism, and by assuming this position have drawn the radical members in parliament and the faction they represent in the country to their support. The ultimate object of the rad icals is to break down the distinction of kings, lords and commons, and to estab-' lish a republican form of government but it may be many years before they wil be able to attain this end. If we were to define the two parties roughly, we should say that the conservatives were the party of the country and the liberals the party of the cities—that the conservative party is made up of the land-holding-interest, of farmers and farm laborers dependent more or less on that interest, and of the well-to-do classes generally. The supporters of the liberals are the inhabitants ot the great cities chiefly, including the smaller taadesmen and the great body of artisans, but at the back of them are many members of the old whig families possessing wealth, station and influence and clinging to the liberal principles they inherited from the statesmen of the days of "William III., Queen Anne and the early Hanoverian Georges.

An Able Tariff Debate.

The following arguments, says the New York Sun, occurred recently at the petroleum exchange, on Broadway, in the course of the noon recess:

First Speculator—What this country needs is a tariff for revenue only, not Second Speculator—Bet you $10 it doesn't.

First Speculator—I'll take that bet. Second Speculator—All ri^ht. I main tain that without a protective tariff the manufacturing interests of America would go to thunder, and

First Speculator—Bet you $20 they wouldn't. Stecond Speculator—It's a go.

First 'speculator—Put up. Look at England. She's a free-trade country, and one of the most prospeious ones on the face of the earth. She—

Second Speculator—Bet you $15 she isn't. First Speculator—I'll take the bet— make it $50 if you -want to.

Second Speculator—Fifty it is. Now, the present administration is— Just then the bell rang, and the betting on the price of oil began agSun.

Sam Jones on Boorish Husbands. Sermon in Missouri. Well, if there is a woman that I am in sympathy with in this world it is one of these kind, painstaking wives who does her best to please her husband, and to-day she has had the whole house renovated and everything changed, just so it would please the husband. And then as she prepares herself in her best garb and ooks, and she says: "I will make home cheerful for him this evening:" and she meets him with a smile, kisses him, and expresses words of kindness to him, and be comes in and takes his seat, and doesn't sit there five minutes before he takes his merciless tongue and cuts his wife right down to the floor. God pity you, you old devil you, fer that's what you are. [Laughter and applause.]

The Plan not Practical.'

Texas Sittings. Little Mamie Snickers," the only child of Judge Snickers of Austin, wanted somebody to play with her. She said: "Mamma, I want a little brother. The little girl next door has got a nice new one. Why can't I have onfe?"

Mrs. Snickers shook her head doubtfully. "Why don't you buy one, mamma?" "I haven't got any money right now." "But, mamma, you didn't have to pay any money when you got the piano and the sewing'machine. You pay* a little every month by installment. Can't you get a baby now, and pay for him by installments?"

On reflection Mrs. Snickers decided that the installment plan would not work.

Senator Harrison wore a colored shirt while investigating the Indian question in Dakota, and now "hickory" pfeifts are the rage ip the territory.

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LINCOLN REMINISCENCE.

What He Thought of Grant-His Belief That He (Lincoln) Would be President. Ward EL' Lamon, Lincoln's personal friend and biographer, writes in the New York Tribune as follows:

Ambition was one of the ruling characteristics of this great man from the cradle to the grave. When he was about 14 years of age, then at school—after mounting a stump in the school-house yard (woods, I mean) at the the time of the noon-day recess, he declaimed the sermon preached the tlay previous by an itinerant Methodist preacher almost verbatim. He astonished some of the neighbors who happened by chance or otherwise to be present. One of them asked hhn this question: "Abe, what do you expect to make of yourself when you grow up t© be a man?" He promptly replied: "I expect to be president oi the United States before I die." The write* of these pages riding over the prairies of Illinois with him long years ago, traveling from one county to another to attend the courts, was told by him repeatedly that he did not recollect the time when he did not believe that he would at some day be president It seemed to him manifest destiny. "I will get there," he would say, seemingly in the fullest confidence of realizing his prediction.

In the year 18471 left my native state, Virginia and settled in Danville, Illinois shortly after my arrival there the Circuit court for that county met. There were in attendance at this court mxny lawyers from the different parts of the states of Illinois and Indiana—many of whom afterward became very distinguished men. Lincoln was the great character, the center of the greatest attraction. During the following winter at Springfield, a very large party was given at Mr. Lincoln's residence. Being invited I attended, and after being introduced by Mr, Lincoln to Mrs. Lincoln—Mr. L. having left us in conversation—I remarked to her that her husband was a great favorite in the eastern part of the state where I had been stopping. "Yes," she replied, "he is a great favorite everywhere, he is to be president of the United States some day if I had not thought so I never would have married him, for you can see he is not pretty—but look at him! Don't he look like he would make a magnificent president?" Mrs. Lincoln from that day to the day of his inauguration never wavered in her faith that her hopes in this respect would be realized.

At one time afterward the writer went to Mr. Lincoln's office at the White House and found the door locked he went through a private room and through a side entrance into the office. He found the president lying on a sofa, evidently greatly disturbed and much excited, manifestly displeased with the outlook. -Jumping up from his reclining position he advanced, saying: "You know better than any man living that from mv boyhood up my ambition was to be president. I am president of one part oi this divided country at least, but look at me. I wish I had never been born! It is a white elephant on my hands, and hard to manage with afire in my front and rear, having to contend with the jealousies of the military commanders and not receiving that cordial co-operation and support from congress that could reasonably be expected with an active and formidable enemy in the field threatening the very life-blood of the government, makes my position anything but abed of roses."

Then brightening up his whole nature seemed all at once to change. I could see a merry twinkle in his eye as he said "If I can only keep my end of the animal pointed in the right direction I will yet get him through this infernal jungle and get my end ofnim and his tail placed in their proper relative positions. I have never faltered in my faith of being ultimately able to suppress this rebellion and of reuniting this divided country, but this improvised vigilant committee to watch my movements and keep me straight appointed by congress and called the 'committee on the conduct of the war' is a marplot, and its greatest purt seems to be to hammer my action and obstruct the military operations." With all these contending perplexities Mr. Lincoln never, up to the time of the surrender at Appomattox, doubted the ultimate succes of our arms.

A short time before the fall of Vicksburg great dissatisfaction became rife at General Grant's tardipess in moving on the enemy's works there was a pretty general feeling in favor of relieving Grant from his command and appointing: some one who would make short work ol' that formidable stronghold of the enemy and relieve the people from their great state of anxiety. Mr. Lincoln had great faith in General Grant. He* was being constantly importuned and beset by the leading politicians to turn Grant out of the command. Being in his office one day about this time, he said to me: "I fear I have made Senator Wade, of Ohio, my enemy for life." "How?" he was asked. "Wade was here just now urging me to dismiss Grant, and in response to some tiling he said Jed me to remark: 'Senator, -that reminds me of a story.' 'Yes, yes, Wade petulantly replied: 'it is with you, sir, all story—story—you are the father of every military blunder that has been made during this war. You are on your road to h—1, sir, with this government, by your obstinacy, and you are not a mile off this minute.' I good-naturedly said to him: 'Senator, that is juBt about the distance from here to the capitol, is it not?' He was very angry, and grabbed up his hat and cane and went away."

Lincoln then continued to say: "To Bhow to what extent this sentiment prevails, even Washburne, who has always claimed Grant as his-by right of discovery, has deserted him, and I really believe I am the only civilian friend Grant has left. Grant advises me [Lincoln had never seen Grant up to this time] that he will take Vicksburg by the Fourth of July, and I believe he will do it—and he shall have the chance."

Listing Corn in Kansas.

Frank Wilkeson, in the New York Sun, describes the means used in planting corn in the semi-arid Kansas belt, said to enable that region to raise good crops of the great fattening grain of the United States. It is by means of the Listing plow, which throws the soil into high ridges, the middles being deeply pulverin addition. In the trenches the corn is planted down in the permanently moist soil of the trenches, these being filled up in the process of cultivation. This trench, as plowed, is V-shaped, and sixteen inches deep until the corn gets strong, an inverted trough covers the rows as the cultivator passes, preventing the plows from rolling the soil over the plants.

When the corn is ready for the second cultivation the trough is laid aside. The shovels are set to throw the earth to the corn plants, now strong and two feet tall, and they are also set to take the ground deenly. This cultivation throws almost all tne earth into the trench that the lister threw out The weeds are deeply buried. Tb'e surface of the field is level. The main roots of the cornplants are at least ten inches below the surface of the ground, and how much further they have sunk into tbe rich, damp, underlying groiynd no one knows. But now no ordinary drouth affects the 3lants. The hot southwest winds can jlow, the mercury can ruse until the integrity of the thermometer is threatened, the sun can course across a cloudless sky for weeksf but the corn leaves do not roll. The plants thrive, and if a soaking rain falls between the middle of June and the middle of July, the listed corn will make

a full crop. Mr. Wilkeeon concludes afi follows: Last year on my farm in Kansas two forty-acre tracts of rich, black sandy loam were selected t« experiment upon. The land is as level JB a floor. There is not a particle ot difference between the tracts in fertility or location. One tract was plowed deeply with a common plow, and planted with a cluck-rower in hills four feet apart, thres e: nels in a hill. It was thoroughly cnliivated four times. The other ptcc-i wa* listed, the kernels of corn fourteen inoht-K The ridges were leveled by two cultivations. The listed field produced fifteen bushels of corn per acre more than the check-rowed corn, and its cvt of pro lection, previous to husking, was one-half less per acre than the check-rowed corn.

I think the lister is the most important agricultural tool that has been introduc-d into the semi-arid'belt It has placed all the lands that lie between the -iKittonis and the- uplands in the class coin lands and its u-=e will enable the farmer*who own rich up'amls to raise fair crops of corn, and in addition it will purely push the line of productive corn lands 100 miles further west and bring mi'lions of acrcs of la:id that have hitherto been unfit for remunerative com culture under the silk and tassel of the most noble grain that grows.

Ot course, the latter is not intended for use in regions where there is, year after year, sufficient rainfall to insure crops. Its use in the semi-arid belt has almost eliminated the doubtful factor in agriculture in that region, and the fact that its use insures 'the corn crop has caused corn land to advance in value by leaps.

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Bric-a-Brac in Peru,

Lima Lottcr in tho New York San. Lots of money might be made by enterprising Yankees who would cotnc down here and buy up oil painting and antique silverplate, of which the pawn shops are full. The aristocracy are compelled to have bread, eveu if they go without meat and butter, and a.* their incomes W^e been cut off by the war and the revolution that has been going on since, they trade on small margins with Mr. Isaacs and Mr. Jacobs, who do not seem to have felt the financial distress. The raiest sort of old plate can be had for its weight in'silver coin, and genuine old paintings are as plenty as peas. Relics -of the Incas are a'so cheap, as collectors liave to sell thein to live. It is still fashionable to go on resurrection expeditions to dig in the Incaburving-groundsfor mummies and things which are placed- in their graves. The Incas had the same mode of preserving the dead as the ancient Egyptians, and in each grave were placcd artf cles of decoration, as well as utensils required by the spirits to setup house-keep-ing in the happy land. Rings and other ornaments of gold and silver, cups and platters oi both metals made in quaint designs, copper articles, string of beads, weaving and cooking apparatus, water jugs, pots and jars, and all sorts of things, were always placed in the graves, as well as weapons of war and other curi osities that interest aquarians nowadays. Prof. Eamondi, a distinguished French scientist in Lima, has a collection of Inca relics for which he was offered $200,000 in gold by the London museum. He is writing a voluminous work on the antiquities of Peru, under the patronage of the government, three volumes of which have been published and five more are yet to come. But any one can dig up all the relics ne wants by hiring a couple of men and going out into the ruins, which cover the whole countiy along the coast. There are millions of graves yet untouched. The most curious things are mummies eyes—petrified evebalis—which are usually to be found in .the graves, if one is careful in digging. The Incas had away of preserving the eyes of the dead from decay— some process which modern science can not comprehend, and the eyeballs make very pretty settings for pins. They are yellow, and hold light like an opal.

A Sacred Chamber.

London Letter in the Charleston News. A long time ago I went over to the house and came to a room which had been religiously closed for years. It was opened by special order, and there issued from it a certain hallowed odor which exhales on opening a long-closed sanctuary. The blinds were drawn and semi-darkness prevailed. We drew near a table and my guide explained that'this was the late Prince Consort's room, and everything was to-day just as he left it when he died. The dust was nearly an inch thick on his writing desk a halfused quill was lying crosswise where it had fallen from his hand or its rack there were several articles about, a paperweight, a book, and to the right, near the abandoned quill, a little carved frame, and in this frame a portrait I think I can see it now—the youthful Victoria painted by Winterhalter. Her majesty has a sweet, fair face and rose-bud mouth, and she wears an apple-green gown, the tint just glimmering thrdngh some foldB of lace. The picture was always by the Prints Consort's side, and when this sanctum was vacated forever no one dared to touch it, or even the smallest object in the room. -By the queen's orders it stands to-day as it stood then. The dust is a little thicker on the tapestry, chair and table, the quill still lies in its old place, and the little royal picture smiles as sweetly as of yore from its half dimmed frame. I need not say that this chamber is never opened on a revel night, but I couid not help thinking of it as we walked once more through other lovely but less sacred apartments.

Tasted a Leetle o' the Staves/* I like to talk with boys about sixty years of age, says the humorist of the Boston Saturday Evening Gazette, and get them to telling their reminiscences. By boys, I mean those hearty old fellows who, though their hair has turned gray, have as much young blood in their veins as they had when they were twenty-one. "I suppose you all have heard of old Farmer Allen," said one of these jolly patriarchs the ether day. "He was a great temperance man, you know. Well, thirteen years ago, we all went to camp at Portland, and Farmer Allen belonged to my command. One terribly hot 'day we had a clam-bake, and in the tent was a big barrel of'champagne punch—strong punch, too. Allen came along very hot and very thirsty, and looking in the tent saw the barrel of itinch. 'Hello, boys! got some lemonade, aven't you?' said the old man. 'Ye?,' replied the boys, winking at each other 'help yourself.' The farmer went in, took one glass, smacked his lips, took another, and liked it so well that he wanted more. In a little while he came out of the tent looking very rosy and very unsteady in his movements. He reflected a moment, and then said: 'Shay, boys (hie), thash almighty fine (hie) lem'nade in thash bar(hic) rel but (hie) don't you tMnk (hie) it tashts (hie) a leetle mite o' the staves?"'

The Centers of Population. The negroes are going west as well as the white men, but while the* latter are moving along the thirty-ninth paraHel the former are keeping step along tbe thirty-gecond. The center of the white population is now near Cincinnati, while that of the black population is near Macon.

Increase of Cigarette Smoking. Cigarette smeking, probably the%.oet injurious way of using tobacco, has been rapidly growing in popularity in the last few years. In 1876, eight million cigarettes were manufactured. Last year the number was eight hundred million*

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Dickens as a Reader.

Chafes Dickens can not have given less than five hundred readings. As a professional reader alone he gave considerably over four hundred. Beginning in the spring of 1858 and ending in the' spring of 1870, his career in that capacity extended at intervals over a lapse of twelve years, those twelve years embracing within them several distinct tours in England, Ireland and Scotland, and in the United States and many either entirely distinct or carefully interwoven series in London, at St. Mar-, tin's hall, Ht the Hanover square rooms, and.at St James' hall, Piccadilly. The first series in the metropolis and the first tour in the United Kingdom were made in 1858, trader Mr. A. Smith's management Thesecond provincial tour, partly in 1861, partly in 1862, and two sets of readings in London, one at St. James' hall in 1872, the other at Hanover square rooms in 1863, took place under Mr. Thomas Headland's management. As many as four distinct, and all of them important, tours (notably one on the other side of the Atlantic) were carried out between 1866 and 1869, both years inclusive, tinder Mr. Geo. Dolby's management. As showing at once the proportion of the enormous aggregate of. 423 readings with which these three managers were concerned, it may be added here that while the first mentioned had to do with 111, and the second with seventy, the third &nd last mentioned had to do with as many as ft2 altogether.

Bullying in the House of Commons. Tinsley'D Magazines. There is no ordeal of bullying more severe than that of the house of commons Out of #bout 650 gentlemen who would not incur the expense and trouble of getting into parliament if they did not covet distinction, there are not more than fifty who achieve distinction, and the rest— the 600—are silent voters. Why are so many doomed to obscurity at Westminster? How is it that not quite 10 per cent of the members get the ear of the house? On the average the silent 600 could speak just as well as the talking fifty. Nay, among the Bilent 600 are several who prove by their speaking elsewhere that they are better orators than most of the fifty takers. •It is the bullying that causes their utter failure at Westminster. A very inferior member will get the ear of the house if he is not cowed bj bullying, and the most gifted member will be a nobody at Westminster if he is cowed by bullying. How Lord Beaconsfield was cowed! The bullying began with hjB first speech, and it was continued almost to the end of his career.. I do not refer to hostile criticism,' which, however unjust, vehement, and unscrupulous, is not bullying. I refer to the sneering, jeering, and insolent yelping. How heroically he endured it! He was not insensitive, but he had the wonderful courage to appear impassive in the hour of defeat, and to seem indifierent to the stinging of ungenerous and ungracious insolence. It is to be .observed that he had not the advantage of a public school training, but he was one oi those rare men who triumph over disadvantages.

A Romance of the Rose.

Land and Water. A very curious story is told as to the discovery of the variety of rose known as the White Provence, La Blanche or -Unique. Mr. Daniel Grimond, of Little Chelsea, nurseryman, was on bueine8S in the county of Norfolk 110 years ago. When riding leisurely along the road he perceived a rose of great whiteness in a mill. He alighted and discovered it to be a Provence ro3e. He sought an interview with the inmate of the mill, an elderly woman, an d_ begged a flower, which was given to him. -The old lady must, no doubt, have been considerably surpiised in being in turn presented with a guinea. "In cutting off the flower," so runs the tale, "Mr. Grimond cut three buds, and, on arriving at the nearest. inn, he packed up the flower and sent it directly to Chelsea, addressed to his foreman. Two of the buds grew, and in the following autumn the florist went down to Norfolk again, and bought the whole stock for five guineas. The foreman was then allowed to propagate it, and for doing so was paid five shillings a plant for three years. At the expiration of that time the plants were sold, but at a guinea apiece, the foreman's share of the profits amounting to £300." Not the least pleasant pat of this little "romance of the rose" is the fact that the old lady who had been the unconscious discoverer of a grand secret in the horticulture was gratified by receiving out of the proceeds of the undertaking a handsome present, consisting Of a silver tankard and other plate of the value of £60.

Peter the Great's Original Methods. Exchange. Peter the Great, of Russia, worked out solid reforms by original methods. If a man would not consent to be reformed he flogged him, and if he opposed accomplished reforms he knocked him in the head. He ordered the nobles to be educated, as he wanted their intelligence as well as their bodily service. When young noblemen did not attend school voluntarily he sent soldiers to fetch them. If they resisted they were flogged, and if their parents concealed them they were flogged, too. Those who failed to pass the examination at 20 were condemned to remain unmarried, and compelled to serve in the lower ranks of the navy. From all the nobles the great dictator required their blood, their time and their lives.

At Seneca Falls, N. Y., the largest single electric light ever produced wa8 recently placed on exhibition. It was of 50,000 candle power, and placed on a tower at a height of seventy-five feet it lit np the whole village.

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MAIDEN BOCK, PIKHCE CO., WIS., June 15,1879. Dr. J. H. SCHBNCK,Philadelphia. Worthy GenOcman:—It is with a feeling of gratitude I seat myself to write yon this letter. A little over a year ago I received from you a small box of your valuable medicines, Pulmonic Syrup, SeawawTTonlc and Mandrake Pills, for my wife, wte had been veiy sick for many years with female weakness and weak lungs. She had had tweaavere*attacks of Pneumonia, and our phyaiaian

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