Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 30 November 1894 — Page 3

lOp SMITH'S REPORT

Past Year's Doings of the Interior Department.

SEVERAL SUBJECTS DISCUSSES).

H# DtAli LargeTy With Indian Affairs, and He Presents is'osns l'ractical Suggestions For the Development anil Civilization of

is. M'e Itace—Other Kucoiniiiemlatioii* Are Hide. WASHINGTON, NOV. 80.—The annual report

Secretary Hoke Smith of the

interior department deals hugely with Indian affairs, and he presents some practical suggestions lor the development and civilization of the race.

Besides giving a succinct history of the progress of the Indian bureau during the past 12 months, the sec-ro-tary reviews the prullara of effective work for the advancement of tlie Indians. He discus1--* the Riilvjeot of education and ot' allotments of land in severalty and urges that the education of the Indians should be for tin purpose of fitting them to perform the particular responsibilities most likely to fall to their afterlot. He pr the possibilities of the reservation as :«.4. :::s:laii(l to be improved and developed, to which the Indians should be taught to apply those modes of agriculture rcc-og-mzed in civil life. Their education should lit them for this work and they should be led on with the assurance that the government dealing with this land w'ill treat the Indians with perfect honesty and make no further effort to traiie them out of it ior the benelit of those who wish to settle upon it. Let

Indians keep their lands. Upon the subject of allotments, he Bays: "I lo not question the advisability uf alloting land to Indians in severalty, but 1 do most seriously question the propriety of this course before the iuVH dians have progressed sufficiently to utilize the land when taken. Hie allotments should be made to the Indians in severalty for the good of the Indians,

for

the advancement of the Indians, not for the purpose of obtaining land v* connected with the Indian reservation

satisfy the insatiable desire of bordermen who obtain it frequently, not for Monies, but for speculation. "I urge a treatment of Indian land based solely upon the purpose of realizing from it for its ownbrs the highest possible value. What is best for the Indfa'ns—to keep their land or to sell it If tin members of a tribe have reached a stjite sufficiently civilized to be aule to progress still further by selling a portion -of their land, then sales should be made but the land should not bo purcliased from the Indians at the best bargain the United Stales can make. It should be sold for the Indians by the United States, the department acting as a faithful trustee, and obtaining for the r: Indians every dohar the land will bring.

"The policy of the e\erument an I ot the department should be to recognize the land of the Indian reservation as the property of the particular Indians who own it. The difrerent lands should Vv^^nrliAri to see how beat their value can »%e increased. There are ample pub•W ^ciaEj.us in the United otaias for nome ... seeker*. Can we ncc be satisfied to allow to be administered in behalf of the

Indians the little we have left them?" With reference to the development of the resources of the agencies and the characters of the employes, he urges tliat each reservation must be treated in view of its resources as a separate business problem, and he says: I "Many of the agencies today, taken in connection the trust funds held by

the

V..

United States, for the Indians upon

them,

are already self-supporting. By & faithful effort to preserve the property

for

its real owners and at the same

time

to compel the reservation Indians

work and labor for a livlihood, I be

lieve

that it is possible to make self-sup-porting nearly every agency. But to accomplish this, agents absolutely faith

ful

and thoroughly capable must be placed in charge. "If an army officer fills the place, he must do so with the enthusiasm of a soldier in line of battle. If a civilian fills the place he is unfit for the task unless moved by an earnest, zealous, inspired purpose to accomplish the noble work of helping to elevate a weaker race. Something of the missionary spirit should be in the heart of every employe at an Indian agency or Indian school. I can not claim that the present administration has uniformly succeeded in selecting people of the character described, but it is the earnest purpose of the Indian bureau and the department- to study the employes throughout 'the entire service to maico proficiency the sole standard of retention in office ami to make apparent capacity the J-J-' ior nj'.v uppv.-.iii ...uius. "1 believe it is possible to develop a competent, permanent,' nonpartisan Indian service, and I hope before the end of another year that sii'ch progress will have been made in this direction that its realization will be assured."

Among other things in connection with education of the Indians the secretary say,3: "In the management of the Indian schools a definite plan for the Indians when school is finished must always be in view if practical resuits are expected from his education. "Education should be practically directed with a view to the probable future of the Indian. If he is to remain away from his former home and to

enter the struggle of life in our cities and towns as any other citizen^ then his education should be as broad and as liberal as possible. But if he is to retur.i to the reservation, to the place of his birth, and to commence his active life in the development of the resources of the reservation, then his education should be directed especially with a view to the life he will lead upon the ,, reservation and to the possibilities of the reservation itself. "if the lands are agricultural he slionlu be taught the methods and mode of life followed by :he ordinary American citizen engaged in agriculture, lie should not be accustomed to a life far above if to tastes nun more liberal than wouid there be possible. "If his work is to he on the reservation he should be practically instructed to pursuits similar to which he is expected to follow, and he should be accustomed to the life which he will be able to sustain. I can not help bolieving that by far the greater number of

Indian children are to work out their future in connection with the resources

upon I he reservations of their respective -tetribus and that that education for the

most part it wisest which trains them in this direction. For such a child 12 months spent in the service of some intelligent farmer, in

the

reservation

spent

higher

section where

located,

would be

worth far more than the same amount

of time

in the east and devoted to

education."

Upon the subject of contract schools, he

says:

"I agree fully wit a tin w? -vh* the use of public money for the support of sectarian schools. But" this ri,.^'iou should be considered practically. The schools have grown ui. !v. been invested in their construction at a time when they were recognized as wise instrumentalities for the accomplishment of good, do rot it proper to allow the intense feeling of opposition to sectarian education, which is showing itself all over the land to induce the department to disregard existing conditions. We need the schools now, or else we need a large appropriation to build schools to take their place. "It would scarcely be just to abolish them entirely to abandon instantly a policy so long recognized. ^iy o'.vn suggestion is that tiiey should be deCiOuseu at the Oi. Uut LiiUil .vO per cent a year. "This is the policy which is now controlling the department and unless it is changed by legislation it will be continued. The decrease in the amount uiioie.i j.or tiie pie-sent fiscal yuar is 20 per cent."

The secretary urges a liberal appropriation for field matrons. Upon this suoject he says: "I wish to refer especially to another line of work for the benelit of the Indians that can be accomplished with but litile comparative expense. The smail sum spent for field matrons has probably done more good than the expenditure of any other amount several tunes as larae. It was started four years ago with £3,000 a year. Kow $5,000 is allowed for that purpose. Congress at its last session was urged to increase the amount to $19,000, but this was not done. "I have no doubt that $50,000 spent in this way would accomplish more than any $50,000 spent in any school that we support. These good women thus employed go from house to house among the Indians, helping to instruct and to civilize the Indian women, too old now to enter school, but still young enough to learn something of womanly responsibility. They help at once to place some of the comforts of civilization in the Indian home. Their work influences all of the tribe and it prepares places for the school children when they return to their parents somewhat similar to the conditions existing at the schools."

An appendix to the report publishes in full the report of the commissioners to the five civilized tribes. The secretary calls attention to the duty which rests upon the United States to preserve law and order throughout the Indian Territory, and insists, if the right to do so can not be obtained by agreement with the tribes, it must be enforced as a matter of duty without regard to the wishes of those who control the tribes. He does not specifically recommend the organization of a new territory, but does urge that the courts in Arkansas and Texas be abandoned and that the jurisdiction of the United States courts be extended over the territory without regrrd to citizenship. This would give an opportunity7 for the members of the various tribes who feel that they are deprived of their just quota of lands to petition the United States courts for allotments in severalty of the portions to which they are respectively entitled. By a resort to such means those Indians who wish their lands in severalty could obtain them, and thus gradually, at least, the holding ot lands in common would pass away and they would be held as individuals I

Referring to the sale of liquor to the Indians, the secretary condemns in strong terms the establishment of saloons upon the line of Indian reservations and calls attention to the decision of Judge Ellinger of the district of Oregon to the effect that the sale of liquor to an Indian who has received his land in sever* I alty, is not in violation of law, because by allotment he has become a citizen. If this decision is right, it presents another argument against too speedy allotment I of lands in severalty to Indians. ft1

Secretary Smith next takes up the general land oliice, the buieuu only second in importance to the Indian office. He recommends a change in the system of surveying and the establishment of a land court in the interior department.

The present system of surveying the public lands is criticised as a slow and defective mode of procedure. Reference is made to the amendment to tne sundry civil bill proposed at the last session asking authority for the geological bureau, to survey such lands as might be recommended by the comrais I si'oner of the general land oliice as a f*.»v th'• prt\v«,ni system. It was,believed that the plan would prove economical and satisfactory and that it could be enlarged until it included the I ientire work of public surveys arid dis- I pensed with the surveyor general.

It is urged that if this surveying could be done by the government employes it would save much time now consumed in making contracts with deputy surveyors in re-examining their work and in handling the returns in the I offices of the surveyor generals. The land to be surveyed would be designated by the commissioner, and the work would be promptly (lone. If by tiie geological survey the certificate of the director would take the place of the report of the surveyor general, and if it was not deemed advisable to separate I tiie surveying of the public lands from the general laud office, then competent surveyors could be selected through the civil service commission and attached to the general laud oliice and the work entrusted to them. Such a course would bring more satisfactory results and save both time and money.

The great importance of the special service division of the general land office is urged. It is shown that the money which it recommends from cadi forfeited on entries which have been cancelled through the action of the special agents and from the prosecution of timber trespasses lias been, in years past, very mlicii larger Mian the cost- of tho service. The small amounts of recent appropriation." have very greatly crippled th«i work in the bureau in this direction. it is the desire of the present administration to vigorously protect the public int'.'rests represented by (he public lands of the United States, and it is believed that a competent force can more than return info the treasury the expenses incurred by their employment. ,---.-.-it«ieu\i to the protection of forest

reserves the seoretary »ays: "On account of the small appropriations for speoial agents, it has thus far been impossible to detail any of them for the protection of the forest reserves which from

time

to time has been created-

Practically this great extent of reserved lands is no more protected by the government

than

are- the unreserved lands

of the United

States,

I for a wise, comprehensive forestry sys I tem to be applied to timber upon the I public lands, UJIM the tore-st reservations is again urged upon congresa. The bill reported on this subject by the commitI tee of public lauds through its chair-

man. Mr. AloRo". '''immen.'oH. (Jiosing this subject, tne secretary says: The passage of some such measure would be a subsrintial stride in tno direction ot preparing for a lores try system which wouid preserve to the poopie of tins country a great product now plentiful, but, from the want of intelligent care, being rapidly wasted and deplenished.

Tiie present- organization of the department is under a system by which contested land cases are nrst heard before tne registers and receivers and then before the commissioner of the general land office and iinally appealed to the decision of the secretary.

The importance oi giving to the iegister and receiver the power to compel the attendance of witnesses inasmuch as the testimony taken by these officers furnishes tho basis for the final adjudication of facts is mentioned and legislation to that end is reeom mended. It is also shown that between 3,000 and 4,000 contested cases reach the commissioner, and that while theoretically he decides them, practically they are decided by a large force of law olerks. The physical impossibility for the commissioner to examine personally, with any degree of care, all these cases, is represented. The many purely administrative duties of his office require a large portion of his time. He snould be tree from the necessity of deciding litigated cases when he has not the time for their consideration.

Nearly 2,000 of these cases each year reach the secretary's uilice. There they are examined in the office if the assistant attorney general, who is aided by 17 assistant attorneys. The secretary of the interior is required to decide these cases. But it is impossible for him to give proper attention to so large a number and also to perform the other duties of his oliice. In a great measure, therefore, the decision of the litigate business connected with the public lands is the work of law clerks i.± the olhce of the commissioner and of assistant attorneys ill the oliice of the secretary. The secretary recommends that the commissioner of the general land office and the secretary of the interior be relieved from the duty of deciding these cases, and chat a nonpar-tis-'-ui court be created in connection with the genera* iaiid office to decide them, the decision of this court to be final, so far as the jurisdiction of the department is concerned. It is suggested that an appeal should be had in certain circumstances from the decision of this court to tiie court of appeals of the District of Columbia to the United States supreme cova't.

The report shows that the entire number of pensioners upon the rolls Ji le 30, 1894, was 969,544. The estimate for the fiscal year lb9G is $140,000,000. Pensioners added to the roll during the year was 3^,035 number dropped, 37,951.

The greater part of the cases now pending in the bureau are old cases. Many of theui have been pending for years, and have been examined one or more times prior to the present administration. Ufc)on examination it has been found in many instances that proof was not sufficient to sustain a pension. The attention of the applicants having been called to the defect in some cases, efforts have been made to supply the needed testimony.

Tiie great discrepanjy between the number of cases now being allowed and the number allowed two or more years ago, grows out of the fact that the pending cases constituted a remnant of ah immense number of claims of which those well established have already been adjudicated.

The secretary says the work accomplished in eighteen and a half months is unprecedented in the history of the department, being more than twice the number or cases disposed of in a like period by the prior administration.

Secretary Smith calls a.f:«*nt»n to the saying of .^4-1, i0 on the atent Ufiice Gazette, the result of contracts by competitive bids.

The report show's that the total disbursements to date for the 11th census amount to $10,3r.o.,C?'G. In tho last annual report it was stated that something less than $500,006 wouid be ample to finish the census. It is now apparent that $275,000 Will complete the work.

A large portion of the census force has been discharged. Between now and the 1st of January the force will be

The secretary euds his report with ail earnest recommendation iur an additional building for the interior department. irie calls attention to the fact that the buildings have to be rented from private pat ties for the Indian office, bureau of education, geological survoj% tho census of'ii e, the United States pension agency, r.ue civil service commission and for tho patent oltico model e.\!ii!it that few, if any, of these buildings aro fireproof, and in ease oi lire iliero would be gtva.fc ioss ..i" life and destruction of valuubl- and in plaeeable records. During the past 10 years have been expended for rent of buildings for this department and it would ho economy for a monetary standpoint bring twgother in one building owned by the government, ail the bureaus now in rented buildings. The secretary recommends in the interest of economy and efficiency the erection of a large liraproof building for this purpt-30.

•xt

BECAUSE.

The eyeball is whito because

generated by

the sole differsyVjcct to entry

or otuoi under tne public land

laws." Congress is urgoa to mane sufficient arvMwiviifirria to mtdnv at loast 0116 superintendent on each reserve and upon the larger reserves to provide a sufficient force of assistants to prevent public property from beivg wantonly destroyed. It is also pointed out that a lack of special agents has prevented investigation of proposed forest reserves which*would otherwise have been made. The

the

blood

vessels that feed Its substance aro so small that they do not admit the red corpuscles.

match ignites because of the hoat

friction. Matches

heat.

are

tipped

with phosphorus and sulphur, both highly inflammable substances. A pint of tho oil of vitriol mixed with a pint of water will not fill a quart moasure beermso the bulk of the compound has ,- been reduced by tho abstraction of latent

I A piece of phosphorus sprinkled with I dry powdered charcoal Ignites almost instantly because the charcoal absorbs oxygon from the nir, and so produces a higher tompurature.

People wink because the eye must be kept clean and moist, and by the action of

the eyelids the fluid secreted by tho glands

importance of laying a foundation of tho eyes is spread equally over tho surface of the globe. 'mt The apparent depth of water is always deceptive because the light reflected from the bottom is refracted as it leaves the vrais generally about one-third deeper than it appears to be.

The perfume of flowers is more clearly perceived just before or just aiLer a rain because the air, being then laden with moisture, better conveys the essential oils that, constitute the perfumes.

S'u.nurf can be heard over water to much greater distances than on land because the smooth surface of the water offers less impediment to the passage of the air viI brat.ions. On calm days the booming of artillery at sea has been heard for 200 niHes.

The toy called the weathercock is made with a piece of catgut because this matorial becomes longer or shorter as it absorbs or parts with moisture. When it shrinks, it turns a rod which sends the man out of the house. When it dries, tho action is reversed, and the woman appears.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

EDITORIAL OPINIONS.

Peru refused to sell any war vessels to China. The Peruvian bark is not for sale. —Lowell Courier.

The marriage of

Three Indiana men tried to thaw out some dynamite and made a quick job of it. That's all. They'll never do it again. —Chicago Pobv.

Russia is fitting out an expedition for exploring the Nilo. The source of the Nile has not been discovered for a year or two. —New Orleans Picayune.

An Indian prince had a throne made of solid glass. It will now bo possible to see the power behind tho throne without any trouble at all.—Tammany Times.

No one will be surprised to learn that prizefighters consider football brutal. It requires a prizefighter's intellect to make these delicate distinctions.—Chicago Record.

This is tho hunting season, when men handle their yuns with the muzzles pointed toward themselves and tho accident columns in the newspapers aro long and lamentable.—Buffalo Express, tv,'

If Chief Johnson of the bureau of engraving and printing knows what ho is talking about, the new silver certificates are going to be transcendent works of art. Almost any old kind of a $10 bill, though, looks beautiful to us.—Boston Globe.

THE LITERARY CHAP.

"What book has helped you most?" inquired Miss Eobleigh, and after a long thought Cholly replied, ''My book of thigawette papalis."—Truth.

The first thought that is inspired by the publication of Gladstone's translation of

tho

odes of Horace

time yet

son,"

that it may bo

before

long

the

Grand Old Man

translated.—Boston Herald. A

western newspaper has an advertisement in which the subscriber offers to teach any one ''tho poe'ry business in six weeks."' Hat of Hunilin Garland, and has it

como

to this '—Atlanta Constitution. "Could you use a little poem of mine?" asked the poet.

guess

could," replied

the editor. ''There are two broken panes of glass and a hole in the skylight. How largo is It ?"—Atlanta Constitution.

A play by W.

Howells entitled "Sam

dramatization of the story about

the strong man of tho Bible, was acted for the first tinip in Schenectady Oct. 81. Apparently Mr. Howells' "Sanison" has not Sainsonian strength, for nothing has been heard of it since.—Rochester Union.

Friend—The critic of The Review says that your book shovvs not the faintest ray of ger.ius ar.d contains not a single sentence that belongs to literature. Successful Author—Huh!

I've

reduced to about ~00, and by the 1st of Boston Globe. t,, March it will be disbanded with the exception of a small number who will be retained to supervise proof-reading and actual publication.

The report then deals with the different territories and gives much interesting information regarding their progress during the past year.

made .$40,000 on

that book, and I'll bet ho didn't get ovc* $15 for his criticism.—New York Weekly.

BROTHER TALMAGE.

The new plan of evangelical work decided upon by Dr. Talinago will doubtless meet with widespread favor. He is too big

man to be confined to narrow spheres of action.—Pittsburg Dispatch. Talmage lias resigned, but such

man

Talmage is never allowed to remain long out of a job. He would bo suro of a good audience every Sunday if he should decide to settle permanently in Boston,

The Rev. Dr. Talmage's resignation as pastor of the Brooklyn Tabernacle was not unexpected. He and his people have been unfortunate, and their church has tlirco times been destroyed by fire. The burden laid upon them was greater than they could bear.—Baltimore American.

As the Rev. Dr. Talmage does not seem to be wanted in Brooklyn, ho ought to try New York. This is the best place in tho country for notable ineii. This is the place for Lrotber Talmage, who has searched the world for a suitable home. He ought to be a bio to find a vacant pulpit somewhere in tho city.—New York Sun.

A MAN AND HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW.

A couple in Delaware have asked the government to prevent the landing in New York oi" tiie man's mother-in law. She is coming over from Germany. She has ten trunks and .-'x bandboxes and is prepared to stay few days.—St. Paul News-Rec-ord.

A Wilmington man is trying to preveijt the landing his mother-in-law in this country on ti ground that, her presence in the. United States would destroy his marital bliss, lie declares he won't help her if she succeeds in breaking into tho country.—Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.

W-

THE WHIMS OF CUPID

ECCENTRICITIES IN OF FAMOUS

THE COURTSHIP PEOPLE.

How tlic Blind God Victimizes Wary Bachelors—Lord TJrassey's Second Marriage. William K. Vauderbilt Won by a i'rvily face—Lincoln's Broken Engagement. ... ...... [op*cuU Correspondence. 1 I PHILADELPHIA, Nov. LFL.—A majority of women and certainly all young girls labor under very absurd delusions regarding tho effect of sentimental lovo upon tho ordinary man. Their ideas aro usually based upon test imony supplied by novels, and consequently they sulTer a shocked surprise in tho course of their actual oxporien cos.

Men aro confessedly eccentric when I touched by tho tender passion, more particularly wiien the emotion is genuine and directed ti.-ward matrimony.

Took :v Viir to Consider.

Then was a conspicuous instance of this in New York city. A fdrl, poor, but pretty, who miived in smart society, attracted the attention uf. rather a brilliant middle aged mar.t

-'f ,ArV'iVV\

.-•'- rfcia \'/k

Mi -IKV*

'4^1"

evidently

means a method to facilitate the conveyance of property.—New York Journal. Tho .Japaneso are partially avenging tho civili/.ed world for the misery it has suffered from tho Chinese firecracker.—Chicago Tribune.

IlF.I'ORK UK COULD P.KCOVER.

man. He showered her with proofs of his admiration in the way of flowers, books and parties arranged in her honor. Ho was soon a daily visitor at the houso. His manner was unmistakably ardent, and every day when the front door closed upon his retreating form the girl's mother and brother rushed in to find out whether it was definitely settled. Through the entiro winter and until late in tho spring this went on, to the chagrin of tho family, till I one day the very eligible bachelor called to say good by. Ho calmly announced to I mademoiselle his sudden determination I to make a tour of the world, said he would be away a full yenr and bade her a friendly adieu.

Of course that seemed the very end of tho story, and grief and indignation raged I in that household. Imagine, then, tho amazement of the girl in question when I one day 1^ months later her quondam admirer was announced and 20 minutes later asked her to be his wife. Naturally I her first question was a request for an explanation of his conduct. He frankly confessed that he left town because of his growing fondness for hor. He was soiuewhat loath to abandon the freedom ol bachelorhood, but was more anxious to find out. the true state of his own heart. "I have often," so ho argued with himself, '"been quite as much in lovo as this before, and each time I have found It an evanescent passion. I will go quite aw for a whole year, and if I find myself still in love then I shall know it is tho real thing, against which it is useless to struggle." "And if I had known all this, sir," declared the lady, '"you would have come back in vain," which was probably nottrue. .•

There has, it is almost needless to say, been many a happy marriage which did not begin in ''the real thing" at all. One of these was the marriage of the head of the old houso of Evelyn in England. Evelyn himself was a shy and solitary man, whom his friends and family had many times entreated to marry, if not his own sake at least for that of the name

and estates. Nothing could have been far

tlicr from his thoughts than matrimony when tho neighboring clergyman, who had connections in Ireland and wished to vithere, made arrangements with an Irish curate to exchange with him for a month. Evelyn, like tho well behaved country gen-

tlcman that ho is, went duly to church on the Sunday following this exchange, stopped to speak to the new curate alter service, and, according to his civil custom, asked tho family to dine that night at the hall. Now, the curate had two lively young daughters, with blue Irish eyes and red Irish cheeks, and they were all excitement over the change from their dull little curacy in a lonely neighborhood with no resident gentry.

Yi'.k. i.« arid ah its amusements, boating, tennis, horses, fruits.and flowers, were opened to them for the month, and what seemed like a mere bit of careless civility to two pretty little girls on tho part of tho host was to the naive young women an attention so remarkable that it could have but one end. However, the last day of tlicir stay arrived, and they had seen but little of the man who had so luxuriously provided for their pleasure. Ho did rouse himself out of bis indifference sulliciently to ask them again to dinner on this last evening. After dinner, in the conservatory, he said to the younger sister, a spir- I ited young person of 17, that he hoped she had enjoyed her month irt England. Enjoyed it! Words could not describe her happiness, nor her grief that it was over, nor her reluctance to return to Ireland.

Held by tli« Enemy.

"Why do you go, then?" inquired Evelyn in languid thoughtlessness, not really knowing or cariug much what ho did say. "Oh, I won't, then I won't! I'll stay here with you," cried the young lady, flinging her arms about Evelyn's eminently respect ablo neck. Before ho could rocover his breath she had burst into tho drawing room and announced in triumph: I •'Oh, mamma, papa, I'm not going back to that stupid old place at all! I am going to stop here with dear Mr. Evelyn. He has asked mo to."

What can a man do under such circum- I stances? The father and mother rose in emotion the girl ilew again into his arms and was all excitement and wild delight, lOvelyn's own people, when he censult-ud them in a panic next day, would givo him no help, being overjjycd to have him ontangled with a nice gill who was well born in spite of her poverty, and who was healtliy, clever and pretty. So the faint hearted bachelor was married out. of luind, lias been as happy as the day is long and doesn't even remember that, his courtship differed in any way from that of oilier peo-

pie. Indeed he now says ho really

mean to ask her to stay. Another somewhat similar

took place in England some three or

did

courtship

mora

years ago, the lucky man in this case

ing the recent widower of a lamuus travel

er,

Lord Brassey, in fact, lie was a

well

preserved man of t0, ruikly and active, and possessed of a very lartru fortune.

After

the death of hi- v.-ifr- ly,-: -rrfer the dominance I. w!ii««t-•, whose rule was so severe rh if ho looked back with re rc to I !i«: only henpecked, and tms •l iiahS.or so much iVari'd beimi .-i!ips.r:.j J.3sigui:ig lemaie that sue kept all such

arm's length with infinite penetration and ••..ision. Ir happened, however, that the no!ih' rd was visiting the cn.uuy houso I of a peer of much higher rank and older cKMtion than himself, and lor a wonder the d:iiighter did not accompany him. The peer, IMWIMT, WHS possessed o! a daughter, who, though in her thirties, was still hand.ionie and attractive. Now, tho widower, iijtt-r iil.-isliion nut. unknown among elder! niuwers, had a habit which caused his c.-in fu! '.laughter infinite disquiet,

st at en

halm. dr.-iwiiig the arms young women through his own, holding their luWlws, ./I .'\. .11 ui i«i .^tl'iiotioil, pill uiig his ana about their waists, hough it fratrrnal ami moliensivo rainy Mitiday afternoon the the p: er's daughter walked icture g.ilk ry, and his arm in unable manner slipped about one moment beiore that very impressivo lady, the peer'sopened tiie deur. ......

Jin I or 11.

liter, what does this mean?" nly, but instantly added:

ly uauu

slut cried St. course I sec delightful! would nion child."

yi'\~"

-,f. •vfcjjP'/- •t'v'.iz --•"'W&oO'••

"Of

Dear Lord Brassey, this

There is no one to whom WO willingly givo our darling

In his confusion tho widower was unable to explain, and he forgot to remove

his arm. '1 he con!used lady hid her face on tho only convenient hiding place near —his shoulder—and when he went back to London next day he boro with him the terrifying thought that he should liavo to tell his daughter of tho approaching advent of a stepmother. It is said that he I sat up ail night trying to write the news to bis self willed child, and that after I tearing up half a bushel of note paper he achieved tins:

DEAII Muiciiiii—I am ponig to raurry La-

dy our iiffeetionatit lather, B. I He then took the train for Paris before she awoke, remaining there a week until she was calmer.

The apparently slight trillos upon which the beginningof a courtship may rest were' exemplified in tho case of Mrs. "WillioK." Vauderbilt-, as she is commonly called. It seems that Mrs. Vauderbilt, who was Miss Smith at that time, was visiting some wealthy lriends at Saratoga. One day the: expected arrival of young Mr. Vanderbilt I was under d'scussion. -'Why don you make him marry you?" inquired tho hostess, turning to Miss I Smith. "He has such heaps of money, and you would know so wi II how to spend it." "Oh, he wouldn't look at me," returned her pretty but penniless companion. "Men are always lirst: attracted by something in a woman's dress that happens to catch their eye, and my clothes are all so dull and plain I wouldn't stand a ghost of a chance."

Well, he shall look at you if a frock can make him," declared the warm hearted matron. You aie going to wear a Worth gown of mine to dinner tonight, and Willie Y'anderbilt's fate will only bo a question of time."

A ltadisiiit Vision.

Sure enough, the lirst thing the young millionaire saw that evening when

mounted the steps was a lovely figure In yellow7 silk and white muslin and lace. Mrs. Vanderbilt as a girl looked like a young Spanish senorita, with that brilliant transient blomn which makes southern women so exquisite tor a moment.

The

level light of the sot ting sun lit up her dark eyes, Hushed cheeks and the deep red rose which, as the fashion was then,

she

wore tucked low in her hair. She bowed and smiled, he lingered, and in three weeks she had promised to be

his

wife. Alas and alas that, the final outcome of tiiur married life has been so unfortunate!

Anti-matrimonial I'Vtir.

Jhere is much undeniable testimony to the fact that a large number of men of the iiignust honor and integrity, men sincerely and faithfully in love with their betrothod, have at. the l.a-1 minute before marriage suddenly shrunk with overwhelming reluctance from the consummation of a life contract, and instead of crossing tho raging Hellespont or undergoing danger and difficulty to secure their beloved, have basely run away in a panic. The most famous case of this antematrinionial terror was that of President Lincoln. His failure to appear on his wedding day is a subject always avoided and glossed over by his biographers, who are evidently at a loss to explain his strange actions. There can be no doubt that Mr. Lincoln was simply the subject of an unreasoning repug-

VANDKIU'II.T SAW TI1K SILK AND T.ACE. nance at the last minute, or he would never have been willing to so wound

years in almost ideal happiness and

about to take filled him with doubts

tho

feelings of the woman whom he certainly loved, since he used every effort later

induce her to forgive tho past and renew her engagement. An old Englishman once confessed to tho writer that the day before his wedding ho came within an ace of throwing

him

self into the serpentine in Hj do park,

and

yet he married the only women whom

had ever loved and lived with her

lie

for 50

har

mony. lie had never confessed this strango experience to his wife and could not

him

self offer any explanation of it. other than that the irrevocableness of the step

he was

of its

wisdom, and of tho stability of his

own

affections MAKY L. DISLAND.