Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 January 1886 — Page 7

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Jllfta— A Jfofcle Wlfc.

He VPS lea-ING sgaisat a pile ti limber, says the S#« Frs*d«#o AJta, the '.gsashiae dr»fpi«* i» war* upon him tV» bswJswi of tka buy ki**irg hja ni4r I***, whiek fri*$«3 silvnr winsS«s. We was a*, sssiaot tar, too old now for work, bst

fc»v.

for «wnrji»06rt reverie.

f-'f the young'uns who've never been oat-•i-1" side o' Califomy." Af cr chstMng pleasantly with the dla saiior for a short time, the ss/ibe nofiied th-it he kept his g»te almost constantly or the «hip that w*s riding *t anchor not far dis'twt. rinally cuiiosity prowptsd A the qnestiw W to why he seemed so ticularly intsrssted hi the^vessel, rc

ever ^*srt«-4«k we the haMt that im gave a mm maai. VM alkn a stickler fa- rfbcipliaa, hat lie ww a tail* nor lm« hi* iMek hi* vhMMvn k* had a»ythiag to aay. I de»*t thiak racre was aaythiag iai hi* lii« b* rcfnti«d sav« one thing."

'e thing."

name *M A iapfx^.r

skipper's ...—— or little fellow, full of pludk a*d wt» a first rate sailor. Hi» fawt. WMtti't nsa»e I shan't tell, because, ymi wSl M*, I t'ook an oath to»" mjwlf mm Aat I wouldn't. But he he law ""he afterwards comm*f:do«i that A«r» shij» out there that von swn lt»kin' it. Well, we cleared from Hew York in due time ,ou tl(« vessel I.was spcakin' aboat just now.^Jint" instead o' goin' to the I ndios^'ffcaded straight f#r the coast o'

Though I was a young feller, I

knowed well enough what that meant, but o'course, as we were all in for it, 1 couldn't say' anything, and didn't. We drop*! tiruliorfh the quiet little bay o' some low P. whosa name I forgot. It wasn't much a jilaee for I litre wasnothin' there but a. lot o'that#hed hute with nifmra hangtu' i.-roHnd 'em. There w»i» one h*t bigger'u'he rryt and I sfwrwatd learned that, the governor of the place lived ia it. The day after we anchored, Skipper G«w don went nihor6 and was g«ne Hirn four days, leavipg the flratmatein chartre of the vessel. Oae day while I was loaftn' aft trsin'to caicji a breath o' fresh air, -5 for it was hotter'n -I on that eoest, the ID ATE came along and says to me: 'Tom, how do you like the Indies?'

There was a smile on his face as he spoke, so I said, 'OhjjajgjK-well,' and I gave Tlim ». Wdn't, say anything more, biit walked for'ard as if tliinkin' hard about somethin'. If set me to thinkin' too, for I knowed w* was there to take on a oaig* •i niggers, and I thought about what might cotne' if we should get overhauled by a United States cutter ou the high seas goin' back. But there was no use kickin' against thiuga then, or thinkin' about the future. Matters couldn't be mended nohow, and so I quit mopin' and settled down to take the chances.

On the fourth day Skipper Gordon came on board. Shortly after we 6een a whole lot o' niggers come down to the shore. They was all as black as coal, and hadn't much o' anything on to cover their nakedness. Pretty soon a lot of 6mall boats loaded with niggers put out and came alongside the ship. They were unloaded and dumped below, where everything was ready to rtceive 'em. Well, to make a log story short, when they got through we had nearly 600 negroes bel»w hatch' They wss all stowed away a'-e hcrrin's in a box. Then we trimmed ship and .sailed away. Our course lay for several days i'u east, and the skipper kept a sharp lookout all the time, I can tell yon. 1 doD't exactly remember what latitude uvu».

must have been up in the cross-tree hr nearly an hour, and durin' all that tiwe he never once shifted that glass from tb« little speck on the distant eoa. When be did come down he called his mates and hurried info his cabin. They IK all in

med a,t0

,cfbm',

A- A±.

work, and in a short time tfce shi» was drivin'through the water with atuadin'Bails, sky-sails, royals and aky-«orapera all bellied out with the stifl tereeae. Ait •^f all the same, the vessel astern was a gainin' on ns.

linin'

cables. Skipi"er Gordon ordered the ciwwd to

Jcm

had another talk with his mates, and famog-

pretty soon the latter come aft Mid

ordered the small boats of'n their davits and us sailors to take to them. The mates took chaise o' the two boats. After putting provisions and water in 'em we puiled away. I heard the fa* mite beggiu'the skipper to go with him, hot

beggiu' the skipper to go witn aim, out

palled away we could see bet until night set in, hut the next mornm' she was nowhere. Our small boats met a clipper ship the third day, bound for Liver-

Col.

and the mates told a yarn about us wmcked, and we were taken on Uaid. At Liverpool we all parted comMIT bat as I s»y, some years afterwards I chanced to ship on a vessel whose stopper was the first mate of the slayer. He recognised me, and we had along talk afeont that voyage to Zanzibar coast tor niggers. Then he told what bad happened to Skipper Gordon. It seems he staid aboard the ship till she was taken by the ether vefsel, whicn proved t* be government cutter, ihe slaver waa osnveyed to New York, and the w«r was gsin' on then, and things was

mt-

GmxioB laid i« that there ]ail for rfmr two y«*M. fi« was tried a couple o' b*m, h«t tha ja«y disagreed each time. Vfcey west hita and void him they'''

Mi* k*?*

e- 's wer,-1 fixfM upon the dasclsg waisrs be lore hiui, npots the Imt shift that Uy at anchor here, end there, and epsn tnt distant hillsides. He was perfect picture of contentment, and it f« V"» obvious that, like all who have ^passed life bar® work and lisffsla*®, kn»g now in the past It «**«J «l»«t a sacrilege disturb bist, (wt the features which. sk«e tiim t®« etiB insists* wyra*

.... tarpaulin, which he etiB in=iet«d wpe* Hb wife never misMd a day we-irif*, if f** aha didr't g* over to the jail and reby, flif raj»«rtor that Ae eW «tia* whith her hnsbani, always takin'

would Tint r-aent an abrnpt iatraaw*

upon his neH-gn*nanniDg«. feo he a«- ghe'd g», rain or shine. She wae a I- vanced ai«ii wlnted hint with a geWal

fk don't feel the cold_ nigh as mnch as de

Te him hi* lih»irty if he'd tell who'd j: fed hu» «mt fer the African coast. Bat he kept Ms lips c3os*d and wouldn't tell enything. There wat eome big men in 3T«w York and Boetan behind the skipper, and they th««k ia their boota for fear he'd ganeal. The skipper had plenty o' money when he went jail, but he had to bny certain favws aadpay his lawyers, so that i* tw« yaaw he was broke. "lie had a wife **d little boy over in

tke cWH w),en t^e

hfJTe

"Ilappv Ifew Year. here fer her husbaad. After awhile the 5.' "Ai many to yon, yonng man, m«ny ^5--^ ^feed it «o's that a deputy to you. This is & l!*e day, fir, anal ghenff

n»ed

alien love to creep down by the water heuse en Satnrd&y nights and stay with V- ^whenever the sun shines like it does t^ j^m

untj[

day and the winds come in brisk and njomin', when the twoyd go back to Iff- chipper. 1 dor mind the bit chill -j j^long toward the last, after the 'a? that's in'em either, for. old as lan, I

Hecond

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weather wae right.

womaa, and fought like

to take him over to his own

before daylight en Mon-

lurr disagreed, they used to let

IWOO WUIiC» "uv* Sf /$r the privilege, though, u, when he was out on his

him fff h^e ftfone.

heavily Several tim«J, when

u«~

par-

if nich

•Well, my boy/* he began, ship recalls rnr.nv things that I l°v&^to think of now. I a*«de. three piwiwea ^*om

decks. Bnt. it »t ynrttcnlarly of

bacEin '60 just afore ,.T?i

that I shipped ab»*i* a

"And what was ChatT attires t*e anybody, out when he was norter. cone those rich fellers, who were afraid its a loqgyara, h*t II yw» tell 80*otliin', just up and left his tell it. It wee away ^jj0 for herself. She opened a

reporter. "Well, it's a want to.bear.it I'll want to .gear xn remv. jf 0

He had to pay

own hosk, the backers of the elaver urged him quit the country, offerin' hiw plenty money to go with. But hewosldn't break his parole. He was in jail when Lincoln's proclamation freein'

all the nirgers was made. Then his

icularly interested hi the vessel, which fiends thought he'd get off. When his. „tflilted in the rental of^ a stsry tnst

trjai cXm9 0fi,

.proved to bt deeply interesting. and sentenced to bo hung. ''Well wiv bov.' he besran, tha, tnere «*n,at was up to within six weeks o'i the 'ime when ne used to hate his free-! to go htime o' Saturday nights. His poor wife went nearly crazy when the

aroun^ the Horn in her and crossed trom ^oor jf nearly crazy whei New York to Liverpool twice on her

he was convicted!

htiine o' Saturday nights,

W8g

arononnoed. They got up a

petjtjon

the voyage* I ihi*k of when J. ^Mh}ngton add got look at her, *Hho«th they h«« their nps to Lincoln and begged him to pardon her nnd their *wna, their »t«h}ne *»d their J,HBband. But he wouldn't do it. So bhadcfw k*t b»ck aad waited the awful day •roe*thi»k «ie e7 the tort swtam tfcat -i—! ret for his

for her. and she went to:

iMasia'. It eame, bnt whent etls cell to take him out td

A»y weat int® Ae gallswi, they fo*nd him kiekin' ort iis fciimk. The docters oome and they! s«id he'd kkem poison. They pumped hiw nt. Swt ihe skipper never knew aaythiftg, and they hurried him omt to the gallows t« Hang him before he died,

Well, sir he was game. He never

to shift for herself. She opened a

*2 little thread and needle store ia Brooklyn

and Kade a

that wae billeted far I«4iea. The _e},_

bare livin' at it. One day,

ftafter,

fter. there came along a

ahent a year there came alon log man who called on her. He told her that he was the first mate of the alarm, and that he'd heard she was havin' a hard rtraggie of it to get along. He told h«r thatfi kipper Gor aon was alien a Wg friend ef hi^n, and he wound Hp by •fteria' to Miks care at her and her boy by matrryia' her. The little woman con«nt«d and they get spliced. He was then skipper of that very ship that's a lyin' eat there, and I afterwards sailed with him on n«. That's what I've been thinkin' about to-day, my boy. It's a good manv years ago, but I like to think about oli times nowadays. Bein' mate of the slaver was the one thing the skipper alien regretted. But he got a wife by it, theogh."

UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE.

STmafOugi*,'' fcy *fce Std« ot Wlileli "Toltjntk" ti Oatlitllik. Tha edvoeatel ef a uaivenal langoage will SMB have more than eneugh systems toehMW Imm. The German papers speak el a saw langaege—"Pasilingua" —which claim especial merits. It is baaed en living languages, in that all it oentilns either now exists or has lived, and down to to-day has remained an actual element. The system of the philologist Steiner is, on accoant of its class relaticnship to aadem tongaee, regmrded as swpericr to the earlier "Yola icaleyer, which in comparison in

n«k" of —, & said to he cntlandish. Tha ''PasilIngae" is a mixtnre «f Tentonic and Romanee elameato—the mixing, however, being done an seientilo principles—yet that it is esoteric is net dispated. It is claimed to he a language fer adults, and is especially commended to travelers, commercial men, contactors of hotels, and all who are thrown into contact with persons of .a nationality different to their own. It is proposed at an early date to issue a French edition of the Pasilingua grammar from Pans, and later an English edition is to bo printed at New York. The simplicity of the dictionary is shown by the laet that it is only necessary to give the root forms fer the nouns and a part ef the adjectives, and all words derived therefrom, as verbs, etc., are then formed after defiaite grammatical rules. The following is an example: ka«a-lr, to dwell. hsu-iro, the occupant ef the house, hana-an, a householder, ta han-aro, the owner •f the honse, haa*-lo, domeetio. kan*-l*, dooasticallr. hans-ebto, belonging to tha ken a*. feaas-adeo, proceeding item tha haoaa.

Ta haae«, tha ha ta fcaus-eaa, the large house. ta hans-illa, tie aaall house

we was in when we sighted a sail far tahau»*l,thewretoked astern, but I know it sent Skipper Gor- k«nse. don aloft with his glass in hand. He

k—J-

lhey

to haas-la^ honaehalJL to haaa-a, doiaaatio aaaaaiy. to haaa-in, haaaaheld

The Steiner system may act on closer MiMdea jratify cxpootatio**, bnt it Bat any rate another attempt to solve a

V* *4 ray rat* tutliir attempt to wive a

(gf "ft'' an -h«ar, when mey INUM, th« aolstioa if which came out and gave orders to ee* emj

wogU mktvelMJ

stitch o' canvas. All hu4 wak to iA .'•

pered to his mates, and the fiiBt we knew ^icoonsin, in 1868. The writing of the were given to bring the niggers WBa

below. They was brcught ip —r ^1. squads and chained together with hea

1 .—'1 .—

bwMfit

(Sweet By ud By."

Thk is how the now famous hymn, "Sweet By and By," eome to be written: Dr. Fillmore Bennett, the author, livea at

J18, ,. Richmond, HI., and is poor. The hymn "When the skippet seed this he whisWM

written by Dr. Bennett,, at Elkhorn,

based upon a remark made by

Jr. rreoBier,

z. Itr. Webster was of an exceedingly Vv hen the first sqaad was &xed, j^f^c^s asid assuitive nature, and subject assuitive nature^ and subject asrlsdrt of terrible depression. In one tt ni molaacholy mooos he chanced tu tep to at too haasa ef Dr. Bennett, wh a the latosr asked him: "What is the mr tor now?" "Oh, it is no matter," repli^ the despondent man "it will be all rijilit by and by." The last three words ingestion to D.\ le idea of the like a flash of sun-

overboartl. It went ajnii—ti baiter feelin's o' the men, I can toll Wk it had to be done, 'cause if wa'd a immaii we'd likely as not been phot d*»a. W«ll, sir, sq.utid after squad of the jM*r were chucked overboard tjhis way, until may be there warn't cwre'n a h*a..dred left below. Then we seed that tfc» Bennett,'and he' says vessel astern was neann us rapidly. She kTmn came t0 me ed she ^waa chasin us, and. I knowed sh* was a light." Turning to the desk he peniled revenue cutter. Jest then the skipper t{je w0r^8"

wno wuiuvnu mo muue.

1 we^iately conveyed- a sr that the n„ q«.

raore

he wouldn't do it, and so when we pulled I**1") J®st set this drink down with the oft* it the open sea there wasn't a senl riot. aboard tin- slaver but Skipper Gordoa-j Irrkaeper—Can't there's too much and the niggers below. 1 fhery already. "It was a good many years after tWa» |. "well, sfcoybe there is. Then s«t it before I heard anything about, the fate af rrtaewhenby itself. It,won't mind Skipper Gordon and the ship. When we being lonely."

^bich have since become so

8&y8

ft did not take him

than twenty minutes to write the

A Lonely Drink.

PMtotalphls, Call. Impoenniors Gairier (largely ia ar

THE FAIR SEX.

HOW THKT LITE, DBBBSAVS PHOSPEH

The If amber of Woman Baralng Their Own Ltrlnt-Slagle Blaasadneaa—Am American Girl's Bomanoe—

Tight Laolng.

The number of women earning their own livtng, remarks the London Queen, and often assisting to keep the family, in London is increasing eveiy day. Hundreds are employed in the postoffice, in some of the insurance companies as cashiers and bookkeepers, in tracing engineers' plans, in typewriting, in telephone work, and cigaretmakiug—all employment of comparatively recent date, for it is not so many years since the trial of female clerks in the clearing-house of_ the postoffice was thought a wonderful innovation, and one wnich many wise heads predicted mrch evil of. There are besides, of course, the very large number of working women in the more ordinary sense—the dressmakers, milliners, and shop assistants. Among the latter, perhaps, it is truest that we know little of how they live. One thing that is not half enough known about them, and that is the large number of girls and women employed in London at a rate of payment which is quite inadequate for tnem to live upon, however carefal they may be. They are generally machinists or dressmakers, or milliners' assistants sometimes attendants in second-rate shops. It is a common thing for these women to be paid 8s. ($2) a week, or less—they think themselves well off when they earn 9s. ($2.26)—and the work is not constant because when times are bad, or the slack season sets in, they are turned off. They will go day after day to some of the shops where their work is known and sit in the waiting-room on the chance of an odd hand being wanted. It these earnings are only part of the housrhold's means it is well enough the girl's work pays the rest if it does not always keep tier, and she is not without food or shelter during the time the work fails. Bat is is wholly different with the young woman who has no home but that she pays fer. If she is quiet and respectable she generally lodges with some fel-low-worker older than herself who has fdrniture. She pays two shillings or two shillings and sixpence a week for abed in the same room and' fer her share of firing and light. She buys her own food and cooks it herself. Six shillings for seven days is not very much, every one will allow, but when we know, that the recipient is expected to dress well—that is, respectably—and find herself in hoots, that in going out in all weathers her clothes wear out more quickly, no one need be surprised that her wages alone cannot keep and drees her.

It is not by any means, however, among this class of women onlv that there are workers struggling hard to keep their heads above water. It is no exaggeration to say that in London there are hundreds of gently bred and cultured women living actually alone, going forth to their daily work and returning to their lodgings in the evening, with perhaps a stinted fire and bad light. Many of there are quite young, and, to their credit be it spoken, they live as blameless lives, though out off frofc all supervision, as their carefully guarded sisten whose parents surround them with every possible protection and would gain haj^them ignorant that evil exists.

Aa American Olrl'a Bonaanoe.

The announcement of the dea.h of Prince Ferdinand, of Saxe-Coburg, father of the king of Portugal, has a local interest. He was the second husband of Queen Maria II. and regent during the ministry of his son Pedro* His second was Elsie Densler, of Spring' field, Massachusetts, who is well remembered by the old residents. Her father, a shoemaker, had a little shop on Main street, not far from the site now occupied by the opera house, and many of the older business men employed him to make their boots and shoes. There was in the city at that time a music teacher named Sig. Guidi, who suddenly became aware that Elsie, a little daughter of the shoemaker, had a remarkably sweet voice. He determined to give_ the child an opportunity to cultivate it, and at once set herself to work to interest some of the rominent people of the city in her ihalf. They heard her siBg, and, with her handsome face, she won the hearts of everybody.® Not a few of the people who were living there thirtyjyears ago or more will reasember her singing in the old Hampden hall theater. It Is said that when she first sang in public her dress was white cotton, and when she moved to Boston with her father's family she was put in away to pursue the study of music, and afterward went abroad and became a famous opera-singer, and developed into a-very brilliant woman, receiving many tokens of royal favor. There are many anecdotes related of her, though how much truth is attached to them is uncertain. It is said that on one occasion during the second empire she was at a court reception and wore at her throat a magnificent pia. Napoleon daring ther evening presented her with another of great value and beauty. Removing the pin she had been wearing she tossed it out of an open window ana replaced it by Napoleon's gift, ____

Single-Bleaaedntae.

The assumption that marriage offen to a woman the highest development is open to question. The normal condition of wifehood and motherhood, with the multifarious duties involved, is a serious drawback to industrial, public, or professional life. To do any consecutive works a single lite is almost necessary to a woman.

The married woman developes the special qualities of wifehood and motherhood often, noot always, at the cost of general development. Family duties, whieh are again an impetus to the career of man, crusn and annihilate the woman. Marriage demands from her that every thought, every talent, every project should be subordinated to its overwhelming claims. In it her individuality is weakened, and sometimes absolutely effaced. She has not the time even to continue those habits of physical exercise atad healthv recreation which maintain the elasticity and vigor of her vnmarried sister sne cannot command for herself those conditions of life which oonducei to health.

On the other hand, the number of unmarried women increases voluntarily, and not of necessity. The mental life 01 these fortunate and smperior creatures is free and untrammeled. The sing'e woman's tastes are various and refined— her opportunities for cultivating them are practically unlimited. Whether it be in the direction of society, or art, or travel, or philanthropy, or public duty, or a combination of many of these,, there is nothing to hinder her from following her own wul—no restrictions but those of her own conscience and right principles.

From her stronghold of happiness and freedom she can help the weak and protect the poor. She is fitted to fill the place whioh has always stood empty in the history of the world—that of a loving and tender woman armed with official power to redress the wrongs of women and children, whose nature and necessities are known only to ber.

While losing none of the fun and gaiety of life, she is called by religions conviction to stand lace to face and hand to hand with suffering. To be loving and tender is her nature, bat love and tender-

nessdo not reach their highest expression, in the personal relations. If ihe love of the mother grows by continually rendering services to I er child, the love of the woman grows by the protection she gives to many children and unbefriended, lonely girls. As the mother benefits two or three, the single woman may benefit thousands. When she throws the weight of her intellect, her influence, her enthusiasm on the side ef the neglected and friendless," she sanctifies these gifts to the noblest purposes of which^ humanity is capable. The social, legal, political interests of women, children and young girls are the charge of the femme libre of the future. In this direction is found her new and sacred function.

Elevated to an Art.

Dressmaking is fast becoming one of the high arts. A few. days ngo a celebrated English journal, which is noted for its published interviews with celebrities, reported a convereation with Mme. I a leading modiste, who, it would appear, is an exceptionally iutelligent person, having studied at Girton and dabbled considerably in philosophy. The journal reports that her business is conducted on highly artistic principles, and that madame ~es every week to the National gallery to make sketches of costumes of various nationalities and epochs, ehe making artistic und antique gowns a specialty. She es a close study of this style, form, a&d feature of each customer, and advises each to not wear what is fashionable simply because it is la mode, but to make the appropriate and becoming the chief consideration. She thinks that if once this principle is thoroughly accepted the world oyer a great triumph will have been achieved, and that then there will be no need of any further agitation of the question of dress reform. Among her apprentices are a1 number of. young ladies, daughters of wealth, who are making a study of "artistic home dressmaking" undermadame's skilled guidance, Kensington1 and "crazy work" being quite forsaken for this moJe praiseworthy and sei viceable occupation.

Advice to Young Girls.

A lady of intelligence and observation has remarked: "I wish I could impress upon the minds of the girls that the chief end of wo nan is not to marry young.'' If girls could only be brought to believei that their chances for a happy marriage were better at 25 than before, there would be much less misery in the world than there now is. To be sure they might notj have so many opportunities to marry as before, but as they do not need to marry but one at a time it is necessary that one should be satisfactory. As a girls grows older, if she thinks at all. she certainly becomes more capable of judging what would make her happy than when younger. How many girls of 20 would think of marrying the man they would gladly have married at 16? At 30 a woman who is somewhat independent and not overanxious to marry, is much harder to please and more careful in her choice than one at 20. There is good reason for this. Her mind has improved with her years and she now looks beyond mere appearances in judging men. She is apt to ass if this man who is so very polite in company is really kind-hearted.. Do his polite actions spring from a happy, genial nature, or is his attractive demeanor put on for the occasion and laid off at home as he lays off Jus coat? A very young girl takes it for granted that men are always as she sees them in society—polite, friendly, and on their good behavior, If she marries early the man who happens to please their fancy, she learns to her sorrow that in- nine cases out of ten a man in Society and a man at home are widely different beings. Five years at that period of life produce a great change in opinions and feelings. We frequently come to detest at 25 what we admired at 16. We advance from the taffy-candy and peanut age to the era of gum-drops and matrons glances, and even in latter years lose our yearnings.

IN A MOROCCO PRISON.

The Horrible Tyranny of the Saltan of a Iltle African State

It may not be generally know!, tf&ys tlie Tangier correspondent of the London Daily News, that into these prisons criminals and suspects and debtors are alike thrown, without trial, and with no idea how long they may have to lie there. In fact, those dungeons are used as a means of extortion, and largely so by natives who have obtained the "protection" of abuse and power of the "protector" to make raids upon the property and persons of the victims of their revenge or cuptdity. As the government does not feed the prisoners—or only to a nominal extent—and as it pays none of its officials, except those of the custom house, and has an unpaid army, some idea may be formed of the extortion and suffering daily enacted in this unhappy country. The condition of the Tangier though far better than those of the interior, is simply a disgrace to civilization and to our common humanity for here, almost within a cannon shot of Europe, there exists a state of things as bad as during the worst period of the middle ages. Here is one instance of what goes on within five minutes walk of the legations of the civilized powers, and within sight of the British fortresses of Gibraltar:

A poor woman has been for two years in solitary confinement in Tangier prison, and until lately she was in irons, being what is called a "state prisoner." She was once a wealthy Moorish lady, but as her husband was rich, he was "squeezed" and died under the process, without disgorging his wealth. About two years ago a large robbery took place at the house of a foreigner, who afterward made a claim against the sultan for £5,000. The money was paid. Somebody must be found to repay the sultan with the usual heavy interest The son of the poor womaq above described was accused of being concerned in the robbery, though it is not clear thathe knew any thing about it. He was seised, thrown into prison, and flogged almost daily with a view ot extracting a large sum of money. But he died without paying, as did his father before him. Then tiiej mother, against whom there is not a breath of suspicion, was seized, ironed, and thrown into the den, where she still lives, supporting life on two Rmall loaves doled out to her daily- Her case has been personally investigated ,by the two gentlemen who fed the prisoneis, and they are eyewitnesses of her condition. Can nothing be done to procure the freedom of this miserable woman? If not, it is quite time that the press took the matter .up. Then possibly even the doors of a Morocco prison may be unbarred. ,-j..

Use of Oil at Sea.

In an article on "The Use of Oil at Sea," by Lieutenant John P. Holditch, R. N. R., the author says: "The results I have obtained are the.eFish or colza oil only is of any £00d it does not matter how dirty it is so long as it is not thick. Paraffin is too thin paiat oil too thick. Running before a gale naturally expends more oil than 'laying to'—you nave so much more water to oil. Caiefully expended, one quart in three hours for running, one pint hi four hours for laging to, will be sufficient. The means I used was a canvass bag (No. 6) with large holes stabbed-with a needle. I have heard of a bundle of oakum being saturated with oil and then put in a coarse gunny-bag, which I think would admit ot a thicker oil being used for the time. The place for towing is undoubtedly forwara, not aft. Whether in head-

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reaching oil could be used successfully I ROMANTIC LIFE OF A SLAVE, cannot say, but I doubt it. When running dead before the wind tow from each cat-head, and the ship is as safe as anything can be at sea."

TIMELY HINTS.

How to Spend Winter Bvenlnga Most Profitably. Soontifio Ajnerican. .This is the season of snort days and long evenings, the best time of all the year for study and improvement. Perhaps you area young man desirous of obtaining commercial employment One of the best passports in that direction, next to good character, is good handwriting. Of course you know how to write, but like the great majority, probably, you have never trained yourself to write well. No merch&nt wants his books disfigured by awkward and illegible scrawling. No lawyer will submit to badly written copies. We suggest you devote yourself this winter to persevering endeavors to improve your penmanship. You will be surprised at the improvement which real effort in that line will achieve. Maybe you would like to learn stenography and type-writing. The faithful employment of your winter evening in this work may make you a firstclass graduate before the long days come again and enable you to earn a handsome support. Do you wish to become expert as a mechanical draughtsman? There are excellent instruction books sold very cheaply. The industrious occupation of your evening hours as a learner will surely be fruitful of results. We know of excellent draughtsmen, now enjoying good salaries, who taught themselves ta drawing evening hours, while companions idled away their time in smoking, cards or gossip. Are you of an inventive turn of mind The best of all times to study up and think .out plans for new contrivances is the quietude of evening. The results of earnest thought in the production of inventions are astonishing. In general, It is the improvements in simple devices, things of every day use and that everybody wants, which are the most profitable. The patent for the little invention of the spring window-shade roller, now so generally employed in all dwellings, has brought great wealth to the fortunate inventor. He is not a millionaire. His device wss truly a happy thought. We know of a lady in Chicago whose patents for the invention of a moving belt for drying eggs, albumen, etc., have revolutionized certain great branches of trade and now bring her a great income. The people want improvements in every conceivable form. Not only is the field of invention vast, but it is open to everybody. There are', no distinctions in respect to sex or age. The way to invent is to "keep thinking," the way to accomplish anything is to "keep working."

THE LATE PRINCE IMPERIAL.

A Leaf From the Diary of the Young Man Who Fell in Znluland.

The Figaro gives publicity to a page written by the late prince imperial while a cadet at Woolwich. It is as follows:

In our time peoples confide to none but their own sons the task of defending their frontier the army is national, and no longer fights for gain, but out of a sentiment of duty, and patriotism. Soldiers are not only brothers in arms, but brothers by birth. The regiment is, therefore, a big family, of which the officers are the heads. That quality of head of a family imposes on them the same duties as those of a father who is ever seeking the welfare of hiB children. While campaigning the officer would keep watch over the health of his men, see that they have all they want, and that they profit by the few hours given them for sleep. On the battle-field the officer should be niggaruly of his men's blood, and should not uselessly sacrifice lives with the ob iect of adding to his own personal glory but when necessary for the honor of the flag, he should not hesitate to follow the example Leonidas set at Thermopylae. In time of peace or after a victory the officer should be solicitous about the morality of his soldiere, and reprtihs the coarse instincts of certain men who profit by success to satisfy their passions but above all the officer should be jealous for the honor of his men, as a father is jealous fo'r the reputation of his household. He should proceed without pity against a man who commits a degrading action, but he should proceed in secret, for the dishonor of a single one tarnishes the reputation of all. But how is an officer to acquire over his men that authority which makes of him both a protector and a judiciary? By making himself esteemed as well as loved. The men must see their chief always at work, sharing their sufferings and privations let him watch while aU are resting in the camp, let him be the first ready for action, the first in an attack and the last in a retreat, and let him by his bravery raise faltering courage. Such a man will never be abandoned by his soldiers: they will group themselves around him, well knowing that they will always find themselves on the road-of honor. NAPOLEON.

DIET AND DRUNKENNESS.

Authorities Maintaining That Bad Food Breeds the Depraved Appetite.

Professor Williams says that he has no doubt that overwork and scanty, tasteless food are the primary source of the craving for strong drink that so largely prevails, with such deplorable results, among the class that is most exposed to such privation. "I do not say," he continued, "that this is the only source ot such depraved appetite. It may also be engendered by the opposite extreme*of excessive luxurious pandering to general sensuality. The practical inference suggested by the experience of these observations is that speech-making and pledge-signing, and blue-ribbon missions can only effect temporary results, unless supplemented by satisfying the natural appetite of hungry people by supplies of food that are not only nutritious, but savory and varied. Such food need be no more expensive than that which is commonly eaten by the poorest of Englishmen, but it must be far better cooked. I find that the raw material of the dietary of the French and Italians is inferior to that of the English, but afar better result is obtained by better cookery." He adds that he never saw a drunken Italian during a year of prosperity in Italy, but that at a subsequent period, when Italy had the three plagues—the potato disease, the silk-worm fungus and the grape disease— he found a very different state of affairs nmong the poor. There was no wine where fomerly the potation had been a glass of thin but pure wine "potato spirit and coarse Deer had taken its place." Monotonous polenta, a sort of paste or porridge made from Indian cornmeal, to which they gave the contemptuous name of miserable, was then the general food, and much drunkenness was thbnatural consequence.

Italian Revolt Against Cigars.' The Italian people have left off smoking cigars, owing to their indignation at a new law affecting the price. In Rome an association called the Pipe club has been formed, every member of which refuses to smoke cigars.v In Naples companies of young men parade tne streets with long pipes, so that a regular revolution in the habits of the people has been effected

Stranr* Story of a Colored Man Who Win Born in S»w York State. The character of this brief sketch, says the"Kingston Freedman, liyes near the Erie Pockets, Texas township, Pa. He is a colored man, about ninety-five years of age, and his name is "Harry" Brown. The story of his life reads like a romance, and again demonstrates that truth is stranger than fiction. He was born a slave. Cornelius Lowe, of Shawangunk, Ulster county, was his first master. When quite a b£, at sheriff's eale, he was sold to one William Smith, of New York City, who, after getting several year's hard labor but of him, hired him out for a money consideration to an Episcopal clergyman by the name of Peter McKee, of the eau.e city, who treated "Harry" kindly during his stay with him. Thomas Powell, of Newburg, Y. Y., was his next master, with whom he lived and labored faithfully for many years. "Harry's" next employment was with DeWitt Clir ton, of Newburg. He acted in the capacity of coachman. While thus engaged he became acquainted with a colored girl, a servant and slave in Mr. Clinton's family. The acquaintance was followed by love, and it was not long before they were wedded. The ceremony took place in the large parlor of Clinton residence, and was witnessed by a large company of white folks, who bestowed on the happy pair many valuable presents. "Harry's" wife's mother was also a slave belonging to Clinton. A short time after the marriage the three removed to New York, their master taking up his residence there. On July 4,1827, "Harry" and his wife obtained their freedom. Around about 1830, or soon after the Delaware and Hud'son canal opening, they went to

Honesdale, where they erected a cabin and commenced housekeeping. At this place "Harry" his lived ever since. When he first located that region was nothing but aa unbroken wilderness of pine, hemlock and lanrel. For many years he worked as a day laborer in and around the locality where he had made his home. His wife died a few years ago, and since that time he has been cared for by his daughter Ann. At the present time he is very poor and in almost a feeble and helpless condition. His last master, De Witt Chanton, was born in Little Britain, Orange county, N. Y., March 2, 1828. He filled many high positions of trust

SENT BY EXPRESS.

Persons Who Are Iabeled and transferred the Same as Any t-leoe of Goods.

"Can live stock be shipped by express?" asked a Detroit Tribune reporter, of an employe of an express company, "Certainly. You can ship anything for cash or C. O. D-" "What's the objection, then, to traveling by express with a tag tied in your button-hole?" "None that I know of, except being jammed around in the car with a lot of boxes and bundles. 1^. seen ^people shipped by express." "Dead?" Wfej"No, real live persons. We hid a case of that kind only a few months ago. It happens once or twice a year. The case that I refer to was a young boy about ten years old. He was billed to Jacksonville, 111., and had a tag on him for that place. What's more he was sent C. O. D. I don't know how we got him, but I suppose some poor relative, unable to buy a ticket, shipped him to somebody^ care because unable to keep the lad himself. Those are the circnmstances which usually surround a esse. A boy can travel quite as well ia the express car, with plenty to eat, as he_ can in a cusiohed seat alone—better, in fact, becaused the messenger usually takes an interest in him and lets him amuse himself. "When I was on the road I got one every little while. After a few miles they soon get used to it and don't mind it a bit. I had a boy on ray run once who was billed from Boston to San Francisco. He was twelve years old, had a basket of grub with him and was a terror to the messengers. He'd have his hand into every sack of peanuts and basket of fruit in the car if he wasn't watched. "Are they shipped by weight or otherwise?" "By weight—so much a pound. The advantage to these people "is apparent. They are transferred at tfansfer stations in the wagon with other goods and treated just like regular express matter. But they are entitled to no more consideration than a box of soap.'' "What is the comparative cost between the two methods of traveling, by express and ticket?" "For short distances, as for instance from here to Monroe, the express method is cheaper, provided the child is of ordinary weight but I would advise a fat person to buy a ticket every time. I couldn't say in reference to long distances, but I should thidk it would be cheaper in that case too, with the same condition in respect to weight. The express companies don't like to handle human merchandise, and I presume they would shut down on it if it became any more frequent. The railroad companies would probably object, too."

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Two Tbotisaud Piecft* of Bfo*a!c, Many of Which are Revolutionary Relic?. Robert Yale, of Norwich, N. Y., who is visiting in Norwich, Conn., has an historical cane which is made of 2,000 pieces of wood. Each inlaid piece is given an artistic form. It represents five months' labor. Sixty of the 2,000 pieces of wood are of value to the relic hunter, and comprise a piece of wood from what is alleged to be "the oldest tentantable house in America, the Fairbanks residence, built in 1720, and now occupied by the seventh generation"—though where this old house stands it is not stated. The head of the cane is from the tree at Crown Point, to which General Putnam was tied after being condemned to death, by burning, by the Indians. Set in the cane is a wreath of hair from the head of Rebecca Bates, one of the heroines whose strategy drove the British to their shipping after landing to attack Scituate, Mass. There is apiece of wood from the Charter Oak another from the house of Hancock, the first signer of the Declaration 6f Independence another from the house where witchcraft originated in Salem, and another from the ^building where the victims of that craze were tried.

Set in the cane is a small piece of Plymouth rock, and also a piece of wood from the Mayflower also woods from five diflerent forts on Lake Champlain,irom Hawthorne's residence at Salem, from the church where Roger Williams preached, and from the tree beneath which Jonathan Edwards preached to the Indians at Stockbridge, Berkshire county, Mass. Also apiece of wood from the curbing of Cape Cod well, commemorated by Wordsworth in his poem, "The Old Oaken Bucket," etc. The only foreign relic in the collection is apiece of wood from the Tasso oak. The cane is a unique and attractive piece of work, and it valued at $500 by its owner.

The Gambler's Funeral. It is a rule with the black-leg fraternity, in New York, to give any deceased member a "good send-off," and in tne Ransom luneral this rule was fully served. The display of flowers was veijr fine, and other acoompaniiuents wen of a~

corresponding character. This custom is one of old standing, and, indeed, I well remember the pomp with which Jaek Harrison was mined thirty yean ago. He had a first-class gaming hell in Park place, but the spot is now devoted to trade, and Jack is forgotten. Ransom's faro-bank in. Twenty-fifth street was a splendid establishment, but he had another in Barclay street for downtown men, which was immensely profitable. It was there that the late Cornelius J. Vanderbilt gambled away the money borrowed of Horace Greeley to the amount of $60,000. The Barclay street hell derived a large amount of its business from the Afftor honse, where some of the most adroit "ropers-in" were in constant service. This hotel had an extensive southern patronage, and hence was a profitable field for the professed gamester. The uptown establishment was supported by the rich yonng men of this city, in addition to which many a fat young pigeon was found at the hotels and plucked in the most effectual manner. The amount of destruction, both of money and character, at these gaming hells is beyond all estimate.

MRS. JUMBO TO COME. S

The Glpnt Elephant's Widow Parchaad by the Great Bridgeport Showman.

Jumbo i3 dead, but long live Mrs. Jumbo! says the New York Star. That is the cry the children of the country will shout when they know that their old favorite's consent will be on hand next season to take the place of her late lord and master.. The only Barnum has been negotiating with the directors of the London Zoological Gardens for a lone time for the purchase of the late elaphant's chief wife. Yesterday our Yankee showman received definite word that his advances had been met, and Alice—that is Mrs. Jumbo's first name—is to follow in the steps of her recent husband in places where admiration and veneration are the principal qualities that go to make up tha sentiments of crowds of hGmans.

It is not precisely known that Mrs. Jumbo is so divinely unselfish as her deceased partner. It cannot be said that she will, all alone, undertake to stop a whole, train of cars in order to save a fellow elephant from early death. But it is believed that she possesses one of the most admirable qualities that go to make up a revered animal. The Englishmen did not want to lose her, bnt America's Barnum put into effect inducements that even those who will never be slaves could not resist, and the queen vrill come to this country.

Many will remember that the big Alice exhibited great signs of distres when her mammoth spouse was taken away from her. Perhaps she was very glad when in formed yesterday that she was to travel over the same ground that her departed walked on. Anyhow, she will appear at the cpening of the Barnum and London shows, as she will reach New York about March 1st

Married on Snow Shoes. Miss Mellie Connors of Lake City and Oscar Olsen, ef Animas Forks, Colorado, were married on the summit of the divide, at an altitude of over 13,000 feet, the party being on snow shoes. Miss Connors agreed to meet Mr. Olsen on the summit, bringing her friends with her and Mr. Olsen was to approach the summit with his friends, coming up on the opposite side of the mountain. The bride left Lake City, accompanied by her two brothers, and Olson left Animas Forks at the same hour, accompanied by the Kev, Fr. Ley, of Silverton, and a few friends. The only way of scaling the snow-covered mountain was on snow shoes, and the climbing was fatiguing. The groom and the minister arrived first at the designated meeting point but they did not have long to wait, foe-, the bride and her brothers weie soon observed nearing the spot trudging along cheerily, Miss Connors seemed less fatigued than any other member of the party. After a short rest, Fr. Levy performed the wedding ceremony with as much impressiveness as if it had taken place in a church The minister, the bride, the groom, and the witnesses of the marriage grouped themselves together as close as Canadian snow shoes would permit.

An Emblem That Wouldn't Do. Uncle Abraham, over on Chatham street, was speaking to an acquaintance the other day about putting some sort of emblem over the door of his store, says the Wall Street News. "I'd put a bee-hive," suggested the man. "Vot does dot pee-hive shtand for?" "For industry." "Oh, dot vhas all nonsense. Dot doan' show people dot I sell a $14 suit for $8." "I know, but the bee is a worker." "Yes, but dot doan' do. Eaferybody vhas a worker. Industry vhas all right, but if somebody cornee back mit a pair ot pants dot shrink oop'eighteen inches, dot pee-hive doan' oxplain dot dis vhas a singular climate on pants."

CURRENT NOTES.

Haverhill (Mass.) Gazette: One of the Gazette reporters wishes to thank the gentleman who left the gold pen and holder on his desk to-day.

Hotel Gazette: The most thoughtful man living is the one who immediately stopped dying when reminded that his life-insurance policy had expired.

A professional reader who appeared before a "literary class" of young ladies in New York was asked if they were appreciative. "Why." he said, ''not one of them paid the least attention nntil I ceased."

Norristowtf Herald: A medical authority says: "J'ersons have been bitten by mad-dogs and have not gone mad." And then, again, some persons get mad by being bitten by a dog that is not mad. They get mad enough to kick the animal in two.

A sharp book agent induced a citizen of Cadillac, Mich., to buy a book for a Christmas present to his wife, and then sold a copy of the same book to his wife for a present for her husband. The couple are "all torn up" fty the wicked circumstance.

Boston Record: It was a little girl at Maiden, who, having been naughty, and having received a punishment from her mother, said this prayer fervently when Bhe went to bed that night: "O God, please make me good,- not real good, but just good enough so I won't have to be whipped."

Hotel Gazette: "So you've been out to the Pacific coast, eh Did you see the great gorge of the Colorado?" "Ith-think so. At least, 'out at Cheyenne I saw a buck Indian eat six pounds of bologna sausage, half a box of crackers, and nineteen herring without a grunt. How is that for gorge?"

Harper's Bazar: A hint to theatrical managers: Miss Clara—"Are you familiar with Dante's 'Divine Comedy,' Mr. Featherly?" Featherly—"No I've never seen it. The fact is, Miss Clara, I think this comedy business is bein^ overdone. The sooner the stage returns to the legitimate drama the better it will be for the profession."

Philadelphia Press: Bassale (to Gintop, about to annihilate a hot Scotch)— "Here, old man, I thought you told me you had sworn off New Year s." Gin: op (after hesitating suspiciously)—"I sure enough. .But when I remembered to day that New Year's fell on Friday I made up my mind to recall it and v. tit nntil next year. I will never begi a gmt reform on an unlaoky day."

A RICH BELLE'S BEDROOM.

How Comfortably and Composedly a Millionaire^ Daughter SteepaC Chicago Herald.

Would you like to see how aNew York belle 6f mrlKonatram sleeps? I can gratify yon, BO far as to describe with literal exneinesi the bedroom of a young woman whose name is printed as often as anybody's in the society reports. Into it I waeci.riiiiictfcd quite in the same mannerof courts way that the liule lady olf the house dii vv»ything that she willed, and there we the knick-knack which we were seeking for ate to criticise or admire. But I cocf*s 1 bad eyes only for the room. It was quite as interesting to me as if it had beet the bower of a princess more so, in factj for mere persons see behind the scenes in a princess's life than in those of a young American millionairess. The theatres endeavor to acquaiint the masses with the interior of great mansions, places, and abodes »f the_ wealthy, but the show is only the drawing rooms and dining rooms. I suggest that they speedily vouchsafe to.us all a view of the bedroom of a young lady of fashion. I don't know how they can do it exactly, but that is for them to find out.

I never saw a more beautiful, cosey, in every way delightful place than the sleeping room bf this young princess of fashion—this eldest child of a manymillionaire. The wall paper was paJe gold on faint .slate color. The gilt bedstead was pushed against a square of plaited silk of pale gold, with slatscolored silk bows at the corners Just such another square of plaited silk rose to the ceiling above the washstand. On that wers only pitcher, bowl, soap dish, and so on, because running water is presumed to invite sewer gas, but all of the choicest ware. A great sheet of bevelled looking-glass, six feet bigh, swung on brass rods above the floor in one corner for the young woman to see her whole attire in. She had also.a folding glass to reflect her ears, back hair and neck.

There was an open fireplace befides the hot-air register, a dressing stand laden with pretty toilet boxes and bottles, an ivory clock like a bird cage, in which ivory canaries trilled swseuy as each hour began ea*y chain atfd rocking chair to match the wall paper and furniture, a pretty little prie-dieu for the young woman to say her prayers upon as fashionably as possible, and a wealth of -little elegancies, cotspletiss a general effect that was exquisite, dainty,^md in-

ing Deyond computation. Opening out of this room the young siillionaijesa had another apartment, where she wrote and painted and "worked," so to speak, but I did not see it.

It wae while I was in her sleeping-roos* that I noticed that nowhese in the whole house during a whole day's stay had I seen a single hint of dlsoVder—n* shoes in sight, no article s( clothing tying on a chair or bed, no litter of any osrt—everything in short, as neatly ordered as if I were a critic invited to call and see the perfection of home dianpline. I confess that a tiny pair of kid slippers peeping from under the edge of the bed, or a hat and pair of gloves thrown upon a chair, would have made the room more interesting by connecting the maiden with it but it was the rule of the honse for such things not to be. Think sf it. Eight servants to wait upoa four persons.

The roost in which the faaaily assembled for conversation aad the entertainment of compaay was acrosB the hall from the parlor. It was quite as elaborately furnished as the parlor, bat the carpet, ch'airs, and various appointmests were not quite so new in fact, they were worn just enough to be comsortable. The two front windows aad one at the side commanded a general view of Fifth avenue, and I noticed while I was there that the ladies watched what went on in the ftreet with the same curiosity their poorer sisters possess but they sat so far back from the space between the curtains that, while they oould see everybody, nobody couM see them from the street.

I noticed, also, that when a friend called at the house, if Either the mother or daughter saw the visitor in time she would go to the door herself before the person had time to ring the bell. And I observed another thing. There must have been $10,000 in china, glass, bronae and marble in this sitting room distributed over a couple of hundred little things, useful and things ornamental. The members of the household would be glad to talk of any of these beautiful articles would say what tbey were, where they came from, and all about •them, except the price. Money and price and cost, subjects so commonly discussed by those of us who are obliged to think of such trifles, were never mentioned.

The folding doors between the front room arid the next room were never drawn together while I was there. The next room was tbe library, walled in by bookcases of curved wood and Bevelled plate ^lass. The man of the bouse invited me in there to smoke and read. He had daily papers, all of them, on tbe centre table, two or three easy chairs, a drop light, ai'd a grate fire. He went to his room when' he came in, exchanged his shoes for dippers, an.l his coat for a loose jacket then flung himself in chair, lighted a cigar, and tried to read, while either his wife or his daughter sat on an ottoman at his feet, or on th? arm of the chair he occupied. Wealth and happiness are said to be often strangers. These appeared to be the happiest people imaginable.

S' Retaliating on Bismarck. Polish manufacturers and merchants are retaliating on Bismarck for his crnel order expelling Poles from Prussia, by cutting ofl all business connection with their former German correspondents.

Things to Be Remembered. That milk which stands too long makes bitter butter.

That salt should be eaten with nuts to aid digestion. That it rests you in sewing to change your position frequently.

That rusty flatirons should be rubbed over with beeswax itnd lard. That a cup of stroiJg osffee will remove the odor of onions from the breath.

That tough meat is made tender by laying a few minutes in vinegar water. That a hot, strong lemonade taken at bed-time will break up a bad cold.

That well-ventilated bedrooms will prevent morning headaches and lussi. tude.

That a cup of hot water drank before meals will prevent nausea and dyspepsia.

That one in a faint should be laid fiat on his back then loosen his clothes and let him alone.

That rold tea should be saved for your vinegar barrel. It soura easily and gives oolor and flavor.1

That a fever paUent'ciia be made, oool and comfortable by frequent sponging off with soda water.

That to beat die whites of eggs quickly, add a pinch of salt. Salt cools, and cold eggs froth rapidly.

That you can take out spots from wags goods by rubbing them with the yolk of eggs before washing.

That the hair may be kept from falling out after illness by a frequent application to the scalp of sage tea.

That white spots npon varnished furniture will disappear if you hold a hot plate from the stove over them.

A decided novelty for spring consists open-work Scotch plaids, which are to cut into bands and used for trimming plain wools.

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