Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 April 1886 — Page 4

RETURN.

The world is half forgptfnl of the snew, i' An all unheeding of the Winter's way I W th ind and sleet across the hills of gaj. bo! ho !:f.s gone, and April does not know,

Comi. "r path with glimmering feet onr.

£. dark uiider-land of dreams and

f.~ gig 5^, have passed, heedless of that new Ijghft Which -ods the earth from happy sea to sea.

SiogiDg she comee and Hope ifl one withhor Hope of new joj in tender learee that stir AU tender thoughts. And love is swift to bring To these fair days fair promise of liter spring.

Pan ian rt dead. Within the fir wood's shade, By heron-haunted la^es, when days are fair, Blithe rustic notes, far filling all the air. On magic woodland pipes again are played. And mingling music of a thousand livi

Within her lengthening train, fair April brings Up th-i South wind the birds on swiftening wings, As thick »B summer bees from murmurous

The clear triumphant song of mounting lark, Soft twittering of the swallow in the dark Before the dawn creeps oyer sea and plain, And the low note of the thrush through quiet rain* —[Juliet C. MarsS in Harper's Magazine for

May.

DISMISSED FOE CAUSE.

I visited Ealph Eioketts, a life-long friend of mine, a short time ago. He lives in Denver, and is the manager A)f the Home Manufacturing company.

In the course of our talk I said: "I never quite understood what made you throw up you job at Hudson Bros, so suddenly all I remember is that one letter you wrote me was dated at Grayville, and the very next one was mailed from Denver." "Did I never tell you? No, I suppose not, for it would not be very pleasant for me. I do not mind telling you now, though." "By the way," I interrupted, "did you get a book-keeper to suit you to-day? "No the only one that seemed prepared to do the work was not the person I would desire in my office at such duty. She is a lady." "I am sorry. But tell me about leaving Grayville." "It is a long story, but I shall skip part of it," he said, smiling, "and touch very gently on other parts. To begin at the beginning: Hudson Brothers' bookkeeper, yau know, had plenty of time for other wcrk, and I had to act as sales man as well. You remember Dr. Staple' ton, don't you He was the wealthiest farmer and cattle dealer there. It was my good fortune to make a favorable impression on the old doctor at the start, so I frequently spent the evening at his house. He was always writing on some subject for publication in the county papers, and nothing pleased him better than to get me out there to listen to his essays before he sent them off. I did not like it very well, for after he was through with me I would slip off to the parlor and spend the rest of the evening with M*p. Stapleton and Grace. "Grace, you know, was the doctor's niece, and his ward. She was worth about fifty thousand dollars in her own right, inherited from her father. The doctor intended to make her his heiress, and that added a hundred thousand more to her possessions, real and prospective." "It never occurred to me that, because she had so much, and I so little, we were not on equal footing. At any rate, I did not feel beneath her notice, nor did she treat me in any other way than as a peer." "I remember her well," I stated, "and she never exhibited any elation over her ricfieg." "No. Well, one day she and her mother—her aunt, really, but she always called her mother—the two called at the store to make some trifling purchases. Mr. Hudson waited on Mrs. Stapleton and I on Grace. They bought most of their eoodB at Carrolton, but came to us tor any little article they might want. Mrs. Stapleton said: 'Grace, we must not forget the sugar I' "Shall I put up some for you?" I asked, speaking to Gra. e. "If You please, only a dollar's worth. Papa expects the team to go to Carrolton to-morrow for a barrel of it, with other things we need," she said. "Will you step this way and select the grade you want?" I asked, leading the way to the rear, where the groceries were kept in a separate department. "I showed her the various kinds of sugar, and was not very expeditious about it either. She did not seem in a hurry to fi», and I know that I was not anxious to have her depart. A few evenings before, when I had called at their house, I had a strong desire to declare my love for her, but was deterred by some incident, I don't remember now what, but I felt certain that had I done so I would have been accepted. Being alone, I was suddenly and insanely seized with a notion to there and then, across that grocery counter, propose marriage. It was a foolish thing to do, but what better could you expect of a young man of 22, in the presence of Grace Stapleton, the acknowledged belle of all that country "And she said, 'No,'" I interjected. "I wish she had. A thousand times I wish she had! No, she said yes 1 The floor reeled, the counter and shelves danced around me I lost my head entirely, but managed to get around the

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The next thing I knew he was on his mrse, liding out to the doctor's home. When be came back hi* face was livid wrii r»ge, but he only remarked "1 will pay yoa off to-night, and you may quit 1" '•i was too proud to stay. Ihad acted very foolishly, I know, but I did not consider that I deserved such rough treatment. The next morning I was in Carrolton by the first train. I drew the $300 I had saved Irom the bank and came here. And here I am." "But did you never hear from Grace? "Yes, I wrote her a note from Carrolton and received the answer after I got here. It was forwarded to me." "He turned to his desk, took a bundle of letters, and, selecting one, said: "I do not mind letting you see it, but you ire the only one, excepting myself, that has ever read that letter, and I have, I believe, read it a thousand times."

The letter was short, and this: "AT Hons—Dear, dear Ralph: -Mamma oommands me to write yon, and I would have done so even had not your letter oeme to-day. She says I must say no. I do, because she says so. I shall be your own true lirace as long as I live. Do not write, for mamma would be sure to get the letter, and would make my life a burden. Lovingly, "GBAOT." "That seems like yesterday, and yet it was fifteen years ago!" "But have you not heard from them since?" I asked, for I had lost sight of the family since I left Grayville. "Yes," he said, slowly ana rather sadly, "I heard from them quite lately." After a pause, as if wondering whether to say anything more, he continued: "Dr. Stapleton took a partner in the cattle busineses. This partner was a reckless speculator for a time successful the tide turned and he lost heavily finally he signed checks in the firm's name to cover his individual accounts. The end soon came all he, and all the doctor had, and all Grace had went into the vortex, and now nothing remains except the little home place in Grayville." •'That is very sad," I said emphatic ally. "Yes," he replied, with a lively air, "that is very sad, but not so sad as it might have been." "True," I assented, "you might have been bankrupt too, if your plans had not been so suddenly thwarted, instead of living here in the princely style you do." "And then," he rejoined, "I would not have had the bother of selecting a bookkeeper from a dozen applicants." "Sure enough. But why did you not take the one you said was well qualified for the place—that lady you mentioned "Just this, she recently graduated, that is, about a year ago, from a commercial college in Chicago served a year with a first class house theje, and came west for higher wages. She had a father and mother dependent upon her earnings, and I know that she can not support them upon the salary I pay my assistant book- keeper." "But if she wishes to try, why not let her?" I asked, innocently. "I will tell you confidentially," he said, "for old acquaintance sake, and it it to go no further, mind youl That applicant was Grace Stapleton." "The duce, you say." "And she is to be Mrs Balp Bicketts next month."

WHISKY IN GERMANY.

Prince Blim&rck Adv -cates a High cense on the Liquor-Sellers. During the recent debate in the German reichstag about the spirits monopoly Prince Bismarck delivered a speech in favor of the monopoly of the government. The report of the Chicago Freie Presse of the speech contains the following pass ages:-.

It has been represented by the opposition during this debate that the bill was introduced in the interest of the magnates in Silesia. But these "magnates" are in such a position that they can afford to look on for a few years while their distil leries make no profit. It would even be of advantage to these "magnates" if the crisis should become more acute. The smaller distilleries would then collapse, and the remaining large distilleries would put the price of spirits a» high as they pleased at the expense of the poor people. It is not only a question of the distillery, but of the cultiva tion of potatoes. Every diminuation of the cultivation of potatoes by a hectar (100 bushels) deprives a laborer's family of their subsistance, and every increase by a hectar gives a possibility of feeding one more family of laborers.

The financial need has been admitted by all parties. Most of the expenses that are intended to be covered by the spirit monopoly are paid at present, but in a most inconvenient manner. The cummunitie8 must defray their expenses by means of direct taxation. During a debate in the landtag, Dr. Friedenthal slated that the burden of taxation in the towns and villages, "considered in percentages of the class and income tax, amounts to 298 per cent., and in some country towns even 585 per cent. Considered in percentages of all the state taxes the burden of taxation amounts to 156 per cent, in the cities and 175 per cent, in the country towns. This is actually a case of emergency. The extension of local self-government and the public school system requires means. The public school, hitherto an object of the affection of the people, might become an object of their dissatisfaction on account of the school taxes. In Prussia in the last years there have been on an average 1,500,000 tax sales because the people could not pay the direct taxes. Such conditions would be obviated by the spirits monopoly. Formerly "liberal" papers have blamed the government for not taxing spirits high enough. No sooner do we try to 'tax

counter to where she stood, and with the them than brandy suddenly becomes dollar's worth of sugar hugged to my breast, under my left arm, I reached out

most screaming: "How dare you! ''There she stood in the doorway between the two rooms, glaring at me. In an instant she turned sharp around and walked hastily through the front part of the store to her buggy, which stood in front. Grace followed close behind her and I brought up the rear, still clinging to the package of sugar. Mr. Hudson gathered up the parcels she left behind her, and she and I reached the buggy just after Mrs. Stapleton had taken her seat therein and while Grace was still standing on the platform in front of the store. Mr. Hudson had not heard her remark, or, at any rate, he was in the dark as to what had occurred. He started to put the parcels in the buggy when Mrs. Staple^ ton said excitedly: "Don't you do it! I will not touch one of them 1" "Whv, Mrs. Stapleton," he exclaimed in astonishment. "What!" "Don't ask me 'what!'—askTiim," she said, pointing at me. "Fortunately no one was near, and taking Grace into the buggy, she drove rapidly away, leaving Mr. Hudson and myself to carry the merchandise back into the store. "Bicketts," he asked, "what on earth have you done?" "Nothing to ofiend her." "Yes, you have," he said iinptilsively you know how ferocious he could get in a moment "You have driven our best customer away and will ruin us forever!" '•I persisted that I was innocent of any wrong intent or action. He stormed Mound a while and finally left tit (tore.

"the poor man's drink," that must not be touched. The saloonkeeper is a class of the population that can be very danger-

with my right to clasp Grace, when—oh, 1 was quickly brought to my ous "to* a representative seeking re-elec-

horrors I senses by Mrs. Stapleton1! shrill voice al- {tion.

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It is dangerous, therefore, to

offend him. But this cannot be any consideration for a legislator Germany can not be governed in the interest of the saloonkeepers, much less by the saloonkeepers.

The present tax on Bpirits resting on the manufacturer directly brings in 50,000,000 marks ($12,500,000) annually. If you increase this tax 200 per cent yon will ruin all the little distilleries and the "magnates" will get the benefit.

Consequently you must tax the liquor trade, which can stand a high tax, for the profit of the liquor stores and saloons amounts to 1,000 to 3,000 per cent. The litre of whisky costs 10 pfennigs (two and a half cents), and out of one litre they sell thirty-two glasses at 5,10 or 15 pfennigs a piece.

I do nol think we ought to stop before the liquor trade and allowjthe Durden-

some taxation to continue in many parts of the empire simply from regard for the liquor trade. Drinking at home has by far a less injurious effect than drinking in a saloon, which undermines all family life. I am, therefore, of opinion that here is the place for a tax, and if the monopoly is refused we shall prepare a bill for a spirits-consumption tax for your consideration.

An Unhealthy City.

St. Petersburg is proved by recent statistics to he the most unhealthy city of Europe. During the month of January the number of deaths was 104 more than the number of births: 2,704 persons died and 2,600 were born. Sanitary reform seems to be one of the most urgent needs of a country in want oi all sorts of improrwatntt.

THE

AN US l)ER8TA*DING.

"I don't see why there cannot be friendship between a gentleman and a lady without any love and nonsense, as between two gentlemen or two ladies. Do you?" The speaker was a good? looking young man. "Certainly not," answered his auditor, a young ladv, in malter-of fact sort.of way. -•.- 7. -5

The reply rather* surprised the youfig man, who, it must be confessed, had made the query to several other young ladies in a not very remote past. He enjoyed the variety that a friendship with a pretty girl afforded, but he had always felt that it required wealth to give constancy to such a friendship, or to cause it to blossom into love.

This feeling no doubt is base, but Guy Irving is not a solitary example of one who has cherished it. "It is best to have a good understanding in the beginning. Don't you think so?" he asked, rather awkwardly. "Let us be good comrades this summer on that understanding. I will fancy myself a gentleman, or you can fancy yourself a lady, as you like," said Ethel Allen, extending her hand.

Ethel was boarding at Mr. White's in a pleasant country village, next door to Mr. Brown's, Guy's uncle, where that .young gentleman was now visiting.

Ethel was an orphan, who had inherited from her parents a graceful figure, a fair face, a bright mind, and a good heart. These are gifts that cannot he purchased with worldly goods, and, in Ethel's case, were not accompanied by them. She had sought this quiet village to gain the rest and strength that were needed after a year of teaching. Here she met Guy Irving and here tlicy made their compact of friendship

Walks and rides followed, and the acquaintance grew pleasanter ever day. After a few weeks Guy began to think that money was not so important' as he had hitherto imagined. The books he had long enjoyed had anew charm when read with so bright a companion.

One afternoon they sat on Mr. White's piazza chatting. They had been reading Browning's ''Babbi Ben Ezra." "Those are grand words but, all the same, I don't like the thought of growing old," Guy remarked, at length. "It does not trouble, me, for I think every age has* its joys, and I have often met very old people who have attracted me far more than many people who are voung," Ethel replied. "But think of the gray hair and wrinkles," Baid Guy, who was_ not unconscious of the kindly way in which nature had treated him. "As tor the gray hairs," said Ethel, "that is not always a sign of age. The handsomest man I know is but little over 30, and his hair is very gray indeed." "Who is he?" asked Guy, who had begun to hope that he himself was the handsomest man she knew, and so was secretly swallowing a dose cf disappointment far from small. "No one that you know," answered Ethel, carelessly.

As the summer was drawing to a close Guy longed to have "the understanding," that in pievious cases had caused him so much satisfaction, give way to one of a wholly different nature. Each evening he said to himself: "To-morrow I will tell her all." But the right opportunity to do so did not come.

One day there was a picnic in honor of Ethel, who was now soon to go away. In the midst of the gaiety some one said: "Let us tell our fortunes with flowers. Each select a flower and float it down the lake it will carry the fate of the owner with it."

The suggestion was eagerly carried out. "My life is to be fair," said Annie Brown, Guy's cousin. "Se.my aster rest ing beside those pond lilies. 'Flowery beds of ease' for me." "And I am to be a forlorn old bach* elor," said Ned White, the greatest flirt of the village "my golden-rod is floating away all alone." "Serve you right, too,',' said his brother, who had given him many lectures on his frivolous ways. "Look at Guy's and Ethel's daisies 1" exclaimed some one else "they are floating down the lake side by side: see, you can hardly tell one from the other," "I hope that fortune may be fulfilled," thought Guy, whose heart gave a sudden throb of pleasure. When he bade Ethel good night, after the picnic, he asked: "Will you ride with me to-moirow? I have something Very particular to tell you I expect a friend to-morrow if my friend does not come. I will," answered Ethel, whose face, for the first time in all that summer, was covered with blushes.

Guy had long wished to see that look on her face and went home happy. The next morning, as he sat on the piazza at his uncle's, he saw the hack stop at Mr. White's, and a handsome gentleman, with gray hair and dark eyes, alight, Ethel sprang down the path to meet him. The next moment she was in his arms. "Who in time is that?" asked Guy, with a pang of jealousy, thinking uneasily of Ethel's description of "the handsomest man she knew." "Why, Guy! don't you know!" exclaimed Annie. "Hasn't Ethel told you? That is Prof. Packard, the gentleman she is soon to marry.

Guy knew Prof. Packard well by repuration, and said to himself, bitterly: "What a fool she must think me to warn me not to fall in love with me, when a Jan like he has put his wealth and position and talents at her feet." "I think Ethel did very wrong in not telling you, since you have been together so much this summer." "She is not in the least in fault we had an understanding from the beginning," said Guy, with an inner loathng of the word.

General Butler's Organ and Monkey. I heard yesterday, writes a Washington correspondent of the Cleveland Leader, the true version of the monkey and handorgan story, which has been privately told in army circles here now and then, but not always correctly. It came to me from a high treasury official, who had something to do with the settlement of General Butler's army accounts. These ac ounts were very large and some of the items seemed out of all nature to the expenses probably incurred. After Butler had, however, explained them, it was seen that they were perfectly right and proper. There were so many of these strange items that Butler was 'called to the treasury to look over the accounts with the officials. One New Orleans item objected to was "Banquet, Pootoffice to St. Charles Hotel—$400." "Now," said the treasurer, "it's all right, General Butler, for you to give as many banquets as you please, but I don't see how, in justice, you should ask Uncle Sam to pay $400 for a supper which you choose to give to the postmaster at New Orleans at the St. Charles hotel then." "Oh," said General Butler, with a laugh, "that item is easily explained. 'Banquet'is the New Orleans same for street between the postoffice and St Charles-hotel."

After the laughter over this item had subsided, the treasury official rv!d: "Well, General Bntler, I nave no doubt these accounts are all right, and if you will explain satisfactorily one other item, I will pass them. Here is $50 for a hand-organ and

vmw iwuif a charge of a moony.

EXPRESS, TEREE HAtTTE, SUNDAY, APRIL

Now what possible use a hand-organ and a monkey would be to the United States government, or to to you as its general, I can net see."

Gen. Butler then told tlfefollowing: "I can also explain that hand organ and monkey item. It was the hottest time of my campaign about Baltimore. The rebels were very dose-mouthed, and I could get no inside news of the doings of the rebels. One day I saw a great crowd ginhering round a man with a handorgan who had a very large monkey. As I drew nearer I noticed that the man playing the organ looked very much like a smart Irishman whom I had among my soldiera. I said nothing, but went back to my headquarters, and calling up the Irishman, in whom I had perfect confidence, I gave him some money and told him to go and buy out the musician. He did so. He bought the hand-organ, the monkey and the musician's clothes, and paid $50 for them. Dressed in these I sent him out as a spy. He traveled all the surrounding countTV, and gave me some very valuable information. This information was "worth thousands of dollars to the United States government, and," continued General Butler, "you can thus see why it paid the United States to pay $50 for a hand organ and a monkey."

A CLIMAX OF COSTLY CUISINE.

The Unique Menu at a Recent Swell Fish Dinner In New York. ANew York special says a fish dinner has been the fashionable novelty of the week. It had numerous predecessors during Lent at a restaurant where, in fancy or reality, the chef is wondrously expert in cooking fish. It has been considerable of a fad to get up parties to dine at this place, where astoundingly high prices helped the exclusiveness of the indulgence. The feasts ba\e been ouriosities of cuisine and cost, but this one is regarded as a climax. Not only was the menu unique, but so also WSB the costume of one of the belles who graced thp occasion/ The private dining room was turned into a bower of bright green, with sea weeds in profusion and quaint embellishments of shells, while borrowed pictures of pisciculture and water completed the acquatic decoration* However, it was in one of the elaborate toilets that a clever conceit was most remarkably carried out. The wearer was a pretty girl belonging to a distinguished family. He hair was loosened and embelleshed with sea grass a necklace and bracelets were pearls and coral the sleeveless and low-cut corsage was delicate pink satin, shading off into the green of draperies fashioned in artistic simulation of a mermaid's lower half. The scaliness of a fish was imitated by means of bead work, the skirt was narrow, and a short train was shaped like the tail of a fish. The design had been real ized by a famous man dressmaker, but the girl got credit for the original idea, and is consequently famous socially.

High society is concerned with a ball that is to take pi nee immediately after Easter lets fashionable folks dance again. You have heard of the great charity ball —the one which for so many years was regarded »s the greatest social event of the winter in New York. Lately we have talked every season of its deterioration. There really was no such thing. Tickets were always practically obtainable by any one who would pay $10 apiece, and the beauty whose satin whisked your elbow was either undoubted or questionable as to respectability, just as it might happen. But the tendency is teward exclusiveness, and at several of the charity balls the self-constituted aristocracy—the few hundred families who regard themselves as "society"—have sat in their boxes and looked down on the dancing as at a circus. The forthcoming ball for charity is ostentatiously meant to be a reform. Not the whole Metropolitan Operc-house but only the comparatively small assembly rooms are to be occupied, and the executive committee, with Mrs. Astor at its head, is to not on each applicant for admission separately ana very stringently. Every ticket sold will be numbered and registered, and at the entrance will be stationed persons to identify the ticket-holders, so that no transfers can be made. By this method it is calculated that the 500 or 600 selected will be the very pink and perfection of swelldom. Fun will be made of it, but they will like the distinction. The money is to go to the Orthopedic hospital, and this has led to the coinage of a synonym for pretentious swells, who are now called "orthopeds" and "peddies." Already the acutest dandies and belles are spoken of as "peddies."

NEW GOLD MINES.

The California on the Amoor—Rlchnesa of the field—Severe Luws of the Colonj.

A letter from St. Petersburg in the Journal des Debate gives an interesting description of the new California, as the new gold mines discovered in the valley of the Djolgute river are called. This valley is upon the Chinese bank of the Amoor opposite the Bussian colony of Tgnachino, and as the soil is very marshy and there are no roads it is only accessible in winter. Gold was first discovered there in May, 1884, and it soon attracted a great many adventurers, the earliest comers being Bussian deserters and escaped convicts from Siberia, and by the month of January in last year there was a colony of 9,000 Bussians, the total having been very much increased since, while there are also about 6,000 Chinese and 160 adventurers of different nationalities, the last named of whom have joined the Bussians, the organization of the colony being altogether Bussian. The gold finders are divided into 722 artels (small groups) of workingmen, all of whom are absolutely equal. These artels elect twelve elders (starchina) who do not work themselves, but superintend the diggings and receive a salary of 200 rubles a month. They are selected from among the dealers in gold and tavern keepers, and form a sort of district police corps, They do no not meet with any interference from the Chinese authorities in this remote valley, the lawB of which are very simple but severe, the penalty of being inflicted for cheating at play, for adulterating the gold dust, or for theft while flogging is inflicted for drunkenness during the hours of labor or for bringing females into the colony. Since the foundation of the colony there have been only three murders and two inflictions of the death penalty—a Russian having been hanged for adulterating gold dust and a Jew flogged to death for having spread false news as to the approach of a body of Bussian troops, hoping thereby to send down the price of gold, owing to the panic. There are twenty-seven taverns in the colony and, owing to the coaspetion, the prices are not high, except for spirits. The goldfields, which are twenty-five miles in length by three miles broad, are said to be very rich, and seven pounds of sold are obtained from thirty-two hundred weight of gravel, even with the primitive mode of washing adopted there

Sew York's Dinner Hoar. Dinners are by common oonsent to Be 8 p'clock pa the evening after Easter.

A Great Leather Business. More than $14,000,000 worth oi hides were handled in Chicago last year

To Whom It May Concern. A dark waist imparts aB air of shadtrnm.

A WOMAN'S RETEVGE.

"You really must go to the opera tonight, Guy I don't believe you have heard Viola de Lanza yet all New York is raving over her. She is quite the fashion."

Guy Travers had just returned from a three-years' tour on the continent." "Who is die, this Viola de Lanza?" he asked, in a careless tone. "I do not remember hearing of her abroad." "No, she is a new star from Italy, I believe." "All right, I'll go with you and see oar divinity," said Guy.

That night the Opera house was crowded to excess. When the singer appeared in all her regal beauty she was wildly applauded, and Guy Travers, as he looked at the graceful, rounded shape, the dimpled wflite arms, the shapely hands and the glorious black hair piled high on the proud head, thought he had never before seen such a beautiful woman.

For three weeks Guy Travers was the first to enter into the opera house and the last to leave it each night and although his friends often chaffed him for being hard hit, and remarked his worn, haggard faoe, he was not the man to give up while there was the faintest shadow of .a chance to win. On Viola de Lanza he had Btaked his all, even though it was reported that she was betrothed to. Sir Maurice Conway, a wealthy English baronet.

At last fortune favored him. At a grand dinner party he met her and was supremely happy.

The day She had so longed for had come at last. For more than five years shSfrgd waited, and now she would pay him back in his own coin. She was no Italian girl, as many people supposed, but plain Madge Heathcote. As a friendless country maiden she scet Guv Travers. He had trifled with her love and then flung it away. She had then vowed to be revenged, and it was this determination which had led her to go to New York and seek her fortune by the aid of her glorious voice.

After this meeting at the dinner party Guy Travers was always near her. He walked with her, drove with her, and for three months was her devoted slave. During this time he often saw Maurice, but as Viola did not seem to notice him much he did not consider him a rival.

One evening he told her how dear she was to him how he worshiped her, and how, if it would serve her, he would gladly lay down his life for her dear sake. "Viola, my darling, until I saw you I never met a woman for whom I cared one iota." "And when was that?" she questioned. "When did you see me first—remember, now, the very first time?1' "The night you appeared in 'Travi ata,'" he replied. "Guy, you are sure you love no other woman in the world but me?" "No other, so help me heaven!" he an swered, solemnly. "Viola, when will you be my wife "I will give you my answer to-morrow I will write."

To-morrow! to.morrow 1 would it never come? He paced his room all the night through, and counted the hours which must elapse before he could receive the promised letter.

At last it came. He snatched it pas sionately, kissing the superscription over and over again then he opened it, and out fell a sheet of paper which bore these words:

I have bided my time. As I suffered then you must suffer now. This is the end. MADGE HEATHOOTE,

Otherwise VIOLA DE LANZA.

This was all no, net all, for at his feet lay two cards—wedding cards—bearing the names of Sir Maurice Conway and Miss Madge Heathcote. This was her revenge.

AMUSEMENTS OF PRESIDENTS

Cleveland the Only One Entirely Without Recreation. President Cleveland is the only president in our history who seems to have no amusements whatsoever. George Washington was noted for his muscular development. He was fond of jumping, and to the last day of his life kept a pack of hounds for hunting. .He could dance upon occasion, and he was careful enough of his health to go to bed every night at 10 o'clock. Jefferson was a great horseback rider, and he rode throughout the country about Washington daily during his presidency. 1 (e usually spent two hours in the saddle, and he was fond of mixing with his fellows. At his home at Monticello he paid great attention to farming, and he often walked about the streets of Washington while in the White House.

When Cleveland was inaugurated the press was full of wonder at his getting up for breakfast at 8 o'clock in the morning, and the whole nation patted him on the back for it, as it were. Still Washington got up at daybreak, and Jefferson crawled out* as soon as the light struck his chamber. John Adam?, who was as fat proportionately as Cleveland is, used to take a walk from the White House around the capitol before his breakfast, which, by the way, he tdfck as early as Cleveland, and his son, John Quincy Adams, was wont to go down to the Potomac and take a swim before his morning meal.

Both of the Adamses were great walkers, and while John Quincy Adams was president he used to walk out to the race course two miles from here, and back again whenever any great sport was on hand. Andrew Jackson was a hard worker, but he was a democratic fellow, and he liked horse racing, cock fighting, and a good social amoke. He ofter attended the cock fights on the Washington Heights, above Sixteenth street, and at one of the great races of the days of his own admitted in the name of his pri vate secretary, Major Donelson. President Harrison was a great walker, and he did much of his own marketing during his short stay in the White House. He would get up and go to market before breakfast, and, though he was an old man, he often went about without an overcoat Franklin Pierce was another great horseback lider, and he was accustomed to gallop through the streets of Washington at midnight on a fine blooded steed. Buchanan was a great beau socially, and he did some walking. Lincoln drove about somewhat, and it was not uncommon to see him on the streets here. He liked the theatre, and a box was always reserved for him. Grant walked up and down the broad pavement in front of the White House for an hour or two every morning, and his love ot horses and driving amounted to a parsion. He was not averse to having fellows call upon him in the evening, and he partook of much social enjovment. Arthur kept his house filled witn guests, and took a long drive in the country daUy.^"•*

Mr. Pow4erly*a Correspondence. Some idea of the work Mr. Powderly has on hand in the matter of correspondence, says the Scran ton Truth, may be inferred from the fact that when he left his sick bed the other day mors than 4,000 letters awaited his answer. "I don't think," said he, "that I would be ab'e for John L. Sullivan just now, but I think I went through that pile quicker than John L. could," and he pointed to a stack of letters at his feet. "I have answered all those letters sinee 11 o'clock this morning. I reoaivwd great many

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letters containing receipts for the cure of quinsy, but they are all worthless. I have tried every known remedy." Further, in regard to his health, Mr Powdeily said be considered himself nearly fully recovered, although he is still under his physician's care.

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A CHEERFUL DAKOTA LIAR.

Samples of Wjut Average Dakotan Cam do at the Expense of the Troth. In the east thousands of people plant and sow "in the moon" to insure rapid growth, but in Dakota it 3s dangerous to plant in the prolific phase of the moon, so they are careful to plant at such a time that the moon will exert its influence in holding the crop back, says a Dakota correspondent of the Modern Miller. I have known several disasters to result from neglect of this precaution. One day last January I got lost out in the country, and while I was toiling through the tall, new grass I saw a man with nothing on but his suspended tearing along like mad. He stopped just long enough to tell me what was up, and off he went again for the Iowa side of the Sioux river, which hi cleared at a bound, and fell on all fours into a snow drift four feet deep. He said he and his wife hcul looked up the moon business, and had planted their garden the evening before, out happened to get hold of a last year's almanac, and missed it about four days. The result was that when he woke up that morning the beets that he planted forty feet from the house had crusned in his cellar walls, and a squash vine had taken the door off its hingesr and was just mopping the floor with all there was left of his hired man, whom it had snatched out of bed in the attic. He didn't know where his wife was, but he saw some shreds of a nightgown and sevseveral agate buttons in the front yard as he fled. He said there were pea vines after him, with pods on 'em large enough for phantom boats and one could see by the way he was dressed that if he was a liar at all, he was not a regular Dakota thoroughbred sample. If I really thought 1 wonld ever become an 'average Dakota liar I would want to die. This territory must be divided some time before the day of judgment, for how could the Almighty ever audit its accounts with, only one set of clerical angels at work at a time

About two weeks ago I saw a farmer out behind a straw stack gathering into a heap a lot of bones and pieces of hides, and sprinkling salt on them. Yesterday I saw this same man selling a fine pair of steers to a butcher up town. They were so fat and had filled np so fast that he had pieced out their hides with an old buffalo robe. This granger was a Syndayscbool superintendent before he came to Dakota, but he swore that these were the same cattle I had seen him kicking togethei behind the straw stack. He said all that they had eaten was some wild grass that had sprung up in his door yfrd, where the women folks had thrown out a few tubs of warm soap suds on wash days. He said that he bad learned that the best way to winter etock in Dakota was to knock them all to pieces in the fall and set them up again as wanted, otherwise, unless we get a blizzard every week, they were liable to get too fat and round on the native grass.

Last fall I stopped at a house to borrow a match to light ifty pipe with. The man told me to go right out in the garden and pick all I wanted. I did not know what he meant at first, but he went out with me, and—I'm almost afraid you'll think I am a liar for telling it— there was about half an acre grow ing the finest parlor matches I ever saw. They were as thick as hairs on a mole. He said he had poor crop the year before because the seed was too good for such soil. This year he had mixed his seed matches with about one-fourth toothpicks and got a splendid yield.

I went out after breakfast and saw tbe man blowing up hubbard squashes with gunpowder. They were too large to. be moved, and the farmer wanted the ground. I noticed that one of his wife's legs was about eight inches longer than the other, and the man explained it thus: He said when they first came to Dakota they lived in a "dugout," with nothing but the ground for a floor, from which they had to mow the grasB once a day to find the baby. He said his wife had a habit of sitting with one leg over the other knee, and the leg that remained in contact with the soil got such a start that the other could never catch up.

ANOTHER FAITH CURE.

Sight Restored Alter Twenty-Two Tears of Total Blindness. Plainfield, N. J., has a sensation. Miss Louisa Mann, after being totally blind for twenty-two years, has suddenly regaihed her sight. The Mann family came from Virginia not many years ago. When only 7 years old Louisa fell down stain, and in two days "went blind," as her old mother explained. She was in bed for three months, and after getting about again was subject to occasional epileptic fits. A year ago Miss Dunbar, of Boston, who was a member of a faith-cure congregation, went to Plainfield and became interested in the sufferer, and instructed her in the tenets of her own faith, to which she believed her own recovery from an illness to be due. "She used to come and sit with me," said Louisa, "and read to me from the Bible, and told me to trust in the Lord and He'a make me well again."

One night last June she had four "spells" in one day, and haa not had any since. Her general health has been much improved since then. "Last Tuesday night about 10 o'clock," she continued, "I was lying on my bed with my mother beside me, when I began to see a light. The room seemed filled with it I could see my mother, but I wouldn't have known her if I hadn't heard her voice. I couldn't say anything for an hour, except to think—'bless the Lord, I'm cured.' On going about the next day things were visible to me, but in a strange, forgotten way."

It seems that at times during the last few months she has been able to distinguish light from darkness, and evidently her sight is not in an entirely normal oonditiou yet She has had no medical examination of her eyes, so no scientific opinion of the cure could be had.

French Matrimonial Agenclei. Matrimonial agencies in France are well known as flourishing institutions. There are over 100 in Paris alone some are public, and others private. One leading agiency during the last eight months has succeeded in making no fewer than 202 marriages. The maiority of them are kept by women. The male clients are composed chiefly of pensioned soldiers, dismissed functionaries, and humble employee the female applicants may be classed as elderly maids, enriched oooks, and domestic cooks.

Criminals Light and Short. Ji recent study of comparative hights and weights among different classes of population in Great Britain show that tbe criminal class average no less than forty five pounds in weight and four and a half inches in height less than their antagonists, the metropolitan police. Com pared with the general population, too, this elass is seen to b$ eighteen pounds in weight and two indies }n stature below the average, standing on about the same

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CURRENT NOTES.

"I hear that Filkins is sinking slowly." "Well, you couldn't expect him to suik rapidly. He's had no doctor, so far." "What was the cause of the death of Backets, the ball player?" "O, he went out of his head—had something wrong at the base of the brain." "Ah, went out on a base, eh?"

It is whispered in Boston that in case Ireland obtains home rule John L. Sulli van will claim descent from an Irish king and go over to Ireland to grow up with the country.

Country Landlord—"Well, yon do look pretty well fagged out Come in and eat to your heart's content" Tramp— Thanks, but if it is all the same to you, I'd much rather content my stomach-'

The symptoms always the same: Whsor'er yon see a heavy gloom O'enpraed the merchant's faoe,

And deep, dark sUenoe of the tomb Beign sill about his plaoe,

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Yon'l ever find in such a case !.vw That he is far from wise, And has to chanoe to win the race He doe* sot advertise. —[Boston Herald. Coroner (to young widow whose husband has just been drowned)—"Don't you think, ma'am, it might do for us to try and raise 1hs body with a cannon? You know that constant firing over the' river seldom fails to raise the body." Young widow—"Constantly firing! O, dear, no. John would never like that Ha was always distracted by noiBe of any kind."

Lawyer's wife—"How is it, Mr. De Puyster? I understand Mr. Bond is terribly severe with you at times?" Lawyer's clerk (who is a shorthand writer)— "That doesn't begin to express it, Mrs. Bond. 8omedays when he has lots of work on hand he dictates to me all day. It's terrible!" Lawyer's wife—"Well, I'm sorry, Mr. De Puyster. I see I shall have to be lees severe with him at home."

The river and harbor bill is before the house, and a majority of the representatives seem to be making ready to vote with an eye single to the wishes of their constituents. Over $15,000,000 is called forb whici projects even real local importance. The money is to be put apparently where it will do the moet good politically.

The temperance people of England ought to be pleased ny the statistics in the budget speech of Sir W. Vernon Harcourt. Within the last fiscal year the revenue ftom the tax on alcohol was £971,000 less than had been expeated, and £1,179,000 less than for the fiscal year of 1884-'85. Within ten years the receipts from this source have decreased 122,500,000. Evidently a good many Englishmen have reformed (or died) within a decade, or the times have been so hard that they could not afford to buy drink.

St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press: Judge Kelley apologized to the labor committee of the house yesterday for characterizing their arbitration bill as a trick to decieve the workingmen, observing at the same time that he had seen "many frauds and tricks perpetrated on workingmen." Judge Keiley is a strenuous champion, it may be observed, of tbe sad trick of foisting a system of exorbitant protective taxation on workingmen,. on the plea that every workshop in the country would close if the tariff were revised and modified.

An animated discussion recently took place in the house of representatives on the Indian question. According^ to the report of the secretary of the interior, Mr. Lamar, submitted to congress, there are in the United States 260,000 Indians, occupying 134,000,000 acres of land. Beckoning five to a family, there are thus 62, 000 families, each possessing 2,500 acres of land. In addition, the Indians collectively own $17,000,000 in invested and uninvested funds, as also an additional 1,000,000 acres of land in the market. Besides this, congress appropriates from $5,000,000 to $7,000,000 annually for the support and education of the Indian tribes.

&AINBOW PARTIES.

The i'onng Man Who Does the Qnlekest and Best Sewing Gets a Prise. The latest society novelty is what is known as the rniubow party, says the Chicago News. Already it has assumed the proportions of an epidemic, although it made its first appearance ia this city only a few weeks ago. Old bachelors and young men who have always lived lives of single blessedness are generally the fortunate ones at these parties. The rainbow party cunningly serves to illustrate the helplessness of man and also displays in no dim light the advantages of being married.

All the young ladies in attendance wear neat little aprons of such design and color as tlie taste of the wearer may suggest The bottoms are all carefully left unhemmed. Every young lady has a number, and duplicate numbers are kept in a box, which is generally placed in the neighborhood of the gentlemen's cloakroom in charge of two young ladies. The gentlemen buy tickets which entitle them to a draw from the box. The purchaser having drawn a number at once sets out to find the young lady wearing the duplicate number on her apron. The tickets are generally $1 each, but at a south side party given a few nignts ago they brought |5 each.

After all the young men have found their aprons, or rather their voung ladies wearing the proper aprons, the master of ceremonies announces the conditions. The young men are to hem the aprons, and the one doing the neatest, quickest, and mose careful piece of work is to receive a prize. The young ladies surprise their escorts with needle and thread, and at the call of time the fun begins with the efforts of the contestants to thread their needles. Young ladies are strictly forbidden to thread the needles of their escorts, and a violation of the rules compels the recipient of the favor to forfeit all claims upon the prize.

The young ladies enjoy the contest immensely, and it is indeed a pretty sight to watch a score of smiling young misses leaning back in their cnairs and watching with merry eyes the struggles of the clumsy finger^l swains before them. After the needles are threaded and the young men are at work the scene is none tbe less inspiriting. At last time is called and a committee judges on the work. The prizes are tometimes quite valuable. At a west side party recently the young man who was most handy with the ne«lle and thread carried home an elegant French mantel clock-

The aprons are raffled off after the prizes are awarded, and when a jealous young man attempts, as is often the case, to outbid a rival for the possession of a pretty girl's apron the prices brought by the innocent little aprons are amazingly large. At one rainbow party the sales amounted to $72

Practical Parsing.

Teacher—Miss Sinnico, please parse the sentence "Adolphus married Caroline. Miss S.—Well, "Adolphus" is a noun, because it is the name of a thing: "married" is a conjunction, because it loins Adolphus and Caroline, and, "Caroline" is a verb, 'cause it governs the noan.

A Few Odd Names.

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TAYLOR'S CHEROKEE REMEDY Of SWEET GOI and MCLLEiN Cores Coughs, Croup and Consumption-,

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