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dition, has over and over proved himself the most valuable ally England has in Upper Egypt, and perhaps the only real friend of any consequence it has along the Upper Nila Os course, it is practically useless to speculate upon what the government will do with the Soudan, because the Premier does not know himself. It is understood that the Cabinet have decided to adopt such suggestions as may result from a conference on the subject between Generals Wotsdey and Gordon after they have met and had discussed the whole subject. It assumed, however, that both wiil urge the retention of Khartoum and continuance of control over at least the surrounding country. Now that it is almost certain that Gordon's relief will be successfully accomplished, the political philosophers are opening a discussion as to the best use to ♦thich the Soudan region can be put Isis said that the country is pi*e-eminentlj suitable for the successful cultivation of the sugar beet. Great interest is now taken by English scientists in this sugar beet. They fondle it as if in it England had at last discovered the winning weapon with which to combat American agricultural competition. The learned men are now attempting to teach the British farmer how to profitably cultivate the sugar beet. It is easier to grow, they say. than wheat, and more profitable to sell, and if Gordon manages to turn over n lease of Khartoum to England, that is the country to emigrate to, because sugar beets can be cultivated there better and with greater profit than anywhere else in the world. it is learned upon good authority that despite Wolseley’s attempts to avoid criticism upon his management of the Khartoum exj edition, he really deserves censure. The sufferings of the troops in the terrible desert march to Gandula are described as horrible, and it is declared that these sufferings are almost entirely attributable to the extremely bad management of the water supply A large number of the troopers are said to have been kept in a state of semi-insanity half the time from thirst. This was owing to the waste of the water carried, and tli is waste was caused by the poor quality of the skins composing the water tank3 and the defective way in which they were put together. Plenty of water ground was found at stated places, but it was impossible to reach it in rno&b instances because of some such criminal negligence on the part of the commissary as that, for instance, of leaving the portable pumps behind, which was done at Korti. These pumps were useful in the Abyssinian campaign, and are indispensable in hurried desert marches, whe-re the water is far below the surface and the wells must be driven. Some of the newspapers tauntingly say Wolseley has been far less careful about the water supply for his troops than he has been for the safety of the jams and marmalades. —... ■ ... THE CONDITION OF IRELAND. But Little Danger that the Island Will Again Sutler from Famine. London, Jan. lg.—ln the course of an interview with Mr. William O’Brien, editor of United Ireland, and member of Parliament for Mallow, in the county of Cork, as to the condition of the people in Ireland, Mr. O’Brien said: “The prospects of the Irish peasantry were never better than they are at the present moment. There have been many winters before this when it has required desperate means to get food and fuel. Thank God, it is over. The Irish people are now so situated that they can take care of them; selves and each other, and that is about all they have ever asked. Come what may, there will be no more famines in Ireland to appeal to the benevolence of the rest of the world.” “You think, thon, that Ireland is self-sustain-ing?” “It is raoro than that; it is so productive that it should be a great exporting country, and it will be in course of time.” “What is the peculiar grievance of the Irish people at present?” “There is none except'in the grazing districts. Most people who theorize about improvement in Ireland seem to think that the conversion of large grazing lands into small farms will be a panacea for all the ills that Ireland is heir to. This is not true. The Irish people depend to a large extent on the growth of cattle, and if the big farms go the little tillage farms will quickly follow.” “How does the production of cattle affect Ireland’s prospects now?” “Not much, certainly at present; but a great deal of beef is shipped from here to England, and if last season’s prices for cattle are not imJiroved. the present depression in England is ikely to hit the Irish farmers pretty badly: but good is likely to come even out of this evil.” “Will the farmers have learned the lesson taught for so many years by Charles Parnell, that they must secure for themselves and for their children a decent moans of support?” “They are now, as a rule, striving to support themselves properly. A reduction in the prices of their productions will compel a reduction in reuts. The landlords now recognize the fact that the support of the family is the first charge upon the rental of a farm, and then claims upon the farms are gradually slipping from them. The level of comfort in Irish farmers' homes has been distinctly raised within the past few years, and Ireland will never again be compelled to go cap in hand to ask America, or any other power, to keep her people from starving.”

FOREIGN MISCELLANY. An Austrian T#wn Visited by an Avalancbe— Twenty Persons Killed. Vienna, Jan. 18.— Klagenfurt, the capital of the province of Corinthia, in southern Austria, was visited by an avalanche to-day, which wrecked several buildings and killed twenty of the inhabitants. Many others were injured and rendered homeless. All efforts to rescue the burtied were futile. • Anniversary of Emperor William’s Coronation. Berlin, Jan. 18.—The anniversary of the coronation of the Emperor was celebrated to-day. The Emperor signalized the event by making Prince Louis, of Baden, and General Von Sebachtmeyer, knights of the Black Eagle. Count Von Moltke, Baron Von Manteuffel, Gen. Von Blumenthal and many princes and other generals were present The annual ordensfest was celebrated, with the customary reception at the palace and thß usual state banquet, at which 1,000 guests were present. • * A Harrowing Possibility. Hong Kong, Dec. 23. —Fears are entertained that the steamer Charlestown, which sailed from Saigon for Hong Kong, has been lost with 250 sonls on board. Enforcing the Sunday Law in New York. New YoiiK, Jan. 18.—The excise law was enforced to-day as strictly as it ever was. the police having been notified by Superintendent Walling that the liquor shops must be closed on £ unday. A large number of arrests wero made daring the day. Five hundred dealers met in Irvirg Hall this afternoon, and adopted resolutions pledging, themselves to assist the police in an impartial enforcement of the law. believing that snob action will compel citizons to demand a modification of the statute. Cash and lionds Stolen. Wheeling, Jan. 18.—Last night, Louis Volbar.it’s residence at Weil sharp was entered and $1,500 in bonds and SI,OOO in cash stolen. Charles Voihardt, John Hardington, Posey Cheek, and a woman were arrested, and S9OO of the cash recovered from Hardington. The bonds had been burned. ■■ A Prisoner Commits Suicide. Providence, Jan. 18.—John Leneban, a prisoner in tlie county jail, awaiting trial, committed suicide this morning. On Oct. 22 last, after a drunken quarrel with his mistress, Mary Wintliam, he poured kerosene over the woman and set her on fire. She was thought fatally burned, but recovered. The distressing disease, salt rheum, is readily •cur, Iby Hood’s Sarsaparilla, the great blood purifier. Sold by all druggets. Large Supply of Measles. New Bethtord, Jan. 17.—One thousand cases menseh? are reported in this city, an avwago *£. one case to every thirty persons. No greater guarantee of the excellence of Dr. pu is Cough Syrup coyVI be furnished than that % u> recommended by dll the leading druggists.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS A Shelby ville Factory Destroyed by Fire, Causing a Loss of $40,000. Termination of the Kenned/ Murder TrialArrest of an Alleged Murderer—Burning of and Mill and Elevator. INDIANA. Burning of the Furniture Rectory of Conrey, Waller & Deprez, at Shelbyvllle. Special to the IndianapoJi. Journal. Shelby ville, Jan. 17. —About 6 o’clock this morning the furniture factory of Conrey, Waller & Deprez was discovered to be on fire. The structure is located west of the city, and was totally consumed, no water being accessible to the fire company. This manufactory was a mammoth brick structure, was 160 feet long by fiftyfeet wide, with an ell es seventy feet by fifty feet wide, and was three stories high. The engineroom was separate, and was a one story building, forty-five by thirty-eight feet. The building was heated by steam, and was only completed last summer. The fire is supposed to have originated in the second story, and caught from some soot flying from the engine stack, through a broken window-glass and igniting the shavings on the floor. There vreie sixty-five men employed in the factory, many of w’hom had jobs almost finished and ready to turn in and get their money, which ranged from S2O to SIOO. All the factory’ hands lost their tools. At least thirty-five men employed in the finishing rooms in this city will, as a result of the fire, be thrown out of work. The loss to the corporation is at least $10,000; insurance, $30,000, apportioned as follows: Underwriters’, $2,000; National, $1,500; Franklin, $2,000; Germania, $1,500; A£tna, $3,000; Hartford, $3,000; Phoenix, $3,000: Fire Association, $1,500; Liverpool, London and Globe, $2,500; Western, $2,000; Guardian, $2,500; Home, $3,000; Royal, $2,500; total, $30,000. Mr. Conrey is traveling in Ohio, but was telegraphed at Hamilton, and Mr. Waller has been dangerously ill for two weeks. The factory will be rebuilt at once. All their extensive buildings in this city were burned some four years ago. Sentenced to State Prison for Life. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Grkexsbukg, Jan. 17—The trial of William R. Kennedy for the murder of David Baker, the night of the Gen. Logan meeting here, November 1, closed at Rushville last night, with a verdict of life imprisonmeni. The county offered a reward of S3OO, the city S2OO, and the Baker family SSOO, for the arrest of the murderer. City Marshal Clemons . obtained a slight clew from Charles Wallace, alias Richard Hackney, and in less than a week arrested Keauedy in Cincinnati. Wallace, who, with Kennedy and three others, composed a gang of pickpockets, had been “working” the crowd at political meetings quite successfully. Wallace is here in jail.

Charged with Murder. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Ckawfordsville, Jan. 16. —A well-founded report reached this city this evening that William H. Spinning had been arrested at Jaekville, Fountain county, for the murder of a man named Murphy. Murphy was a merchant at Jaekville, and was found dead in his store one morning last winter, and his safe opened and his money gone. Spinning has been suspected for some time. Nothing certain can be learned concerning the arrest, as it is in a very remote district. Minor Notes. Dr. J. S. Shields has been appointed clerk of the Jackson county board of health. Major McGaughey, of Shoals, fell from a sidewalk, a distance* of six feet, receiving a dangerous gash in bis throat Avery successful experiment in steel-faced rails is being made at the New Albany rail mills. The object, is to furnish a steel-faced rail with an iron flange. There has never been an execution in Montgomery county. The monotony will probably be broken by the execution of Coffee, the murderer of the McMullens. A. R. Morrison, aged twenty-five years, an organ agent for S. V. Hardin, of Seymour, committed suicide by jumping into a cistern at Salem. Cause unknown. He leaves a wife. At Wanatah, E. L. Keil's flouring mill was totally destroyed by fire. Cause unknown. Loss, $7,000; insured for $3,000 —one-half in Germania and one-half in Continental, of Philadelphia. Thomas Hollahan died in the hospital at Lafayette. He was supposed to be in want, and was taken in from charity. Several hundred dollars in notes and money were found on the old man's body. Terre Haute Courier: Sheriff Cleary took Humphreys (Carither's murderer) to Jeffersonville, starting at 1 o'clock last night. Before starting, the Doctor took a last drink at A1 Scliaal’s saloon, and bid the boys good-bye. The county commissioners of Jackson county have awarded the contract for the construction of an iron bridge across the Muscatituck river at Newry, including iron abutments, to the Indianapolis Bridge Company at their bid of $3,000. John Eckert, of South Bend, took home a vial of muriatic acid and zinc to solder some tinware. A nine-year-old child swallowed a teaspoonful of this violent irritaht and poison. Its life was saved by copious drafts of milk. It still suffers great paiu but will probably recover. The case of Joseph Lewark, of Indianapolis, vs. Thomas C. and E. M. Marshall, is on trial at Terre Haute. The Marshalls, of Rockville, were commissioned to purchase wool and hides for him. Lewark sues for S6OO, claiming that amount was due on settlement. They in turn claim that he cheated them in weight. At Jeffersonville the trial of Stephen Harris, colored, resulted in a sentence of imprisonment for life. Harris shot his wife to death with slugs, in a little cabin out by the Government Depot. The circumstances were of the most attroeious character. He tried the insanity dodge, but the physicians who were called as experts testified that he was perfectly sane and responsible for his acts. Jacob Spillman, aged about thirty five years, was found dead early on Saturday morning, near Tennison, about ten miles from Boonville, at the side of the Air line railroad track. lie was found with both legs frozen in tlie ice of the water in the ditch, and it is supposed he fell by the track and was frozen to death, as it was a bitter cold night. He had started from Tennison on his way to Eames’s Station, a short distance west, in an intoxicated condition. The board of managers of the Island Park As sembly met at Rome City and arranged the summer programme. The Fourth of July will be celebrated as heretofore. Several schools will be opened on July 5. The assembly proper will begin July 14 and continue until July 30. The plan arranged will furnish probably a more entertaining session than heretofore, just who will be put on the platform, cannot now be announces, but such men as Emery A. Storrs, Taimage, Chaplain McCabe, Henson, Mark Twain and Cable are being applied for. There will be a Grand Army day, and an effort will be made to secure the attendance of General Sherman. " ILLINOIS. Mill and Elevator at Mount Pulaski Destroyed by Fire. Special to th Indianapolis Journal. Bloomington, Jan. 17. —The mill and elevator at Mount Pulaski, Logan county, were burned ibis morning, with all the contents. •Tha property was bought by Priest & Gordon, of Decatur, for $14,000, but cost, in 1881, about

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$40,600. Nearly $5,000 worth of machinery was destroyed. Loss, $27,000; insurance, $14,000. Five thousand bushels of wheat and a quarfftty of flour were destroyed. Brief Mention. At Evansville Mrs. Wm. J. Stnlken was thrown from a sleigh during a runaway, receiving a broken leg and other series injuries. Isaac Guy, a farmer who lived near Edgewood, met with a fatal accident while chopping down a tree. The tree lodged in another tree and a dry limb fell on him, resulting in instantaneous death. He leaves a wife ana two children. After years of expensive litigation to escape the payment of aid promised the Bloomington & Ohio River railroad, now the Chicago & Paducah branch of the Wabash, the people of Windsor township, Shelby county, have agreed to refund the bonds at 90 cents and issue new bonds due in twenty years with 6 per cent, interest. The original debt, contracted in 1870, was $70,000. If this proposition is accepted by the holders of .the original bonds the compromise wiil be effected at Springfield next week. SPECULATIVE CASHIERS. Two Connecticut Banks Lose SIBO,OOO TlirougluTlieir Operations. Norwich, Conn., Jan. 18. —Fuller details of the irregularities in the Merchants’ and Sketucket national banks of this city, show that the Merchants’ Bank has lost about $130,000. and the Shetucket about $50,000 through speculations on the part of their cashiers. The cashiers have been using the banks’f unds for years? The banks will continue business and the cashiers will be prosecuted. Assistant Cashier Webb, who was concerned in the embezzlement at the Merchants’ Bank, was president of the Shetuket Bank, and, with Cashier Roth, has been using the funds of that institution. Webb was also city treasurer. The city’s funds are all right.

SNOW-BOUND IN OREGON. Imprisoned for Three Weeks—Snow-Banks as High as Telegraph Poles. New York Special. Alexander McDonald, formerly a senator from Arkansas, and DeWitt C. Wheeler, formerly a Police Commissioner in New York, were appointed commissioners, in November last, by President Arthur, to examine and report on the recently completed section of the Northern Pacific Railroad between the Columbia River and Satas in Montana. They left this city on Nov. 20, and have just got back, after having been snowed in twenty-two days on the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company’s road in Oregon. In Seattle, on Puget sound, they gathered roses and ripe blackberries and strawberries on Dec. 1. It began snowing on the 13th, and kept on snowing on the 14th, loth and 16th, by which time they had returned to Portland. On the 16th Senator McDonald, Mr. Wheeler, Senator R. B. Langdon, of Wisconsin, and General A. Anderson, the chief engineer of the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company, took possession of the parlor car Yellowstone, the private car of President Harris. The car was hitched to the rear of a freight train going east. The railroad runs from Portland to Wallulu, where it connects with the Northern Pacific railroad. They passed the Monthomah Falls, 800 feet high, and had just fassed Bonnie ville, forty-seven miles from Portand, when the train stuck in a snow drift It could not get ahead, and backed down to Bonnieville, which is only a telegraph station. Near by was a Chinese camp of 100 railroad section men. The Cascade Locks were four miles east, and another freight train was snowed in there, while eleven miles further east was stuck the west-bound passenger train. The snow continued to fall heavily all the 17th, and it was plain that there was little hope of getting through for some days. There were provision s enough for two weeks m the cars, and there were two servants to look out for things. There were, besides, some eight or ten train hands. Mr. McDonald kept a diary of what happened, and he read it this evening, vyith running comments: Dec. 17—Able to communicate up and down the line by telegraph. Learned that five engines were trying to force their way thr<%u!*li from Portland. Dec. 20—snowing. Coal and wood running short, and wood procured with difficulty from the surrounding country. The Chinamen had run out of provisions, and a locomotive had managed to force its way to the Cascade Locks, where some hogs were obtained from the freight train there. Mr. McDonald and his companions were unable to leave the cars because of the storm, and passed the time playing whist and euchre. An old hunter named Perry taught them various games of solitaire. Dec. 23.—Snow ceased in the morning, but began again at night. The Chinamen worked at tffe drifts and got the freight cars side-tracked. They suffered a great deal from cold, and blankets were taken from a caraud distributed among them. “On the 24th, ’’ said Senator McDonald, “most distressing news was received from the wes‘ - bound passenger train, which was snowed in : t Yienta, fifteen miles to the east. It was s< i that many women and children were sufferi. ' for want of food. AVe were full if sympathy, hut had no way of getting to them. They said they must have relief at once. Lieutenant Carroll, who was in eh: rge of the government works at Cockade Lo ks, started fifty men on snow-shoes for Vienta. each man carrying twenty pounds of bacon or fl :ur. This was taken from the stores of the govi rnment contractor. The car load of cattle which were in the freight train at the Locks were slaughtered, and the meat was sent on in the same way.” Dec. 28. —Two Chinamen were killed by an engine. Their bodies were nailed up in rough planks and stuck in a snow drift. They were afterward removed to Portland and turned over to the Chinese company. Dec. 29—Left Xhe car for the first time and went on a locomo: ive to Cascade Locks. The government is building expensive locks at that point. The water rises and falls fifty-two feet. \Ye are all in good health. Dec. 30—Still at Bonnieville. Thermometer three degrees above zero. AVe have just received word that J. M. Buckley, ol the North Pacific road, had started from Helena with five locomotives and 250 men tor the relief of the imprisoned trains. Dee. 31.—Snowing again. Very cold. Buckley only twenty miles away, but he has the worst part to go through yet. Received a dispatch from home. All well. 1 feel vei-y despondent, Thermometer at zero. We made ourselves some hot whisky and sat up all night, drinking toasts, to see the old year out. Jan. 3. —At half-past 1 we heard whistling to the east, and we knew Buckley was coming. At half-past 2 the relief train came in, drawn by four big engines. _ I fairly embraced Buckley on the platform. He seemed the grandest man I had ever met. I had met him before in Kansas. The passenger train from Vienta followed him and he sent it back to Vienta, where provisions could be obtained. There are now 600 men here and eighteen engines. Jan. 4.—At 5 o’clock this morning a chinook wind with rain set in. AVe can almost see the snow melt, and it carries it away faster than thousands of shovels could do it. AVe telegraphed to Portland for supplies, as we are running low. The purchasing agent of the road came sixteen miles over the snow in a sleigh and brought us provisions. “It now begins to look as if we might get out,” Senator McDonald wrote on Jan. 6. “a train from the east has ju6t passed us, and one thousand men are working between Bonnieville and Portland ” ’ Jan. 7. Left Bonnieville; passed Cascade Locks and Vienta. The snow there reached to the top of the telegraph poles, and fell into the smoke-stacks of the locomotives. We arrived at Wallulu that night, and were transferred to General Anderson’s car. the Montana. Jan. B—Arrived at Yokema City.. Inspected the new section. Jan. 9—Left for St. Helena. The two commissioners then came home as fast as possible, and arrived in New York on Friday night. “If it hadn’t been for the Northern Pacific people we’d be in that snow-drift now,” said Senator McDonald to-night “Solid ice was formed over the tracks, t and Buckley had to blast it out with powder to get to us. w

FIRE IN AN INSANE ASYLUM. [Concluded from First Page.] exhaustive, should be made of the causes of the terrible destruction of life and property. One ofjthose reported missing, name unknown, was seen in the city this afternoon, and it is hoped he is safe. While the fire was progressing, the patients in the other wards near by became nearly frantie in their endeavors to get out to the fire. Some were weeping piteously, others praying, and still others screaming with alarm, and calling for friends they knew to be in the burning building. OTHER FIRES. A Boston Sugar Refinery and a Dye Works Destroyed. Boston, Jan. 18, —To-night fire broke out in the Bay State sugar refinery, No. 37 Eastern avenue. The building was of brick, four stories high, with a frontage of about forty feet on Eastern avenue, and extended back about ninety feet to Sargent’s wharf. The rear portion was pretty thoroughly gutted, from top to bottom, while on the Eastern-avenue end the fire damage seems to have been pretty well confined to the upper stories. The first floor was used for a receiving room, tha second floor as a packing department, the third as a char room, and the upper floor is the kiln room. The building was formerly used as the old Calcutta linseed oil works, and the floors were saturated with oil. The flames spread to the Standard dye-wood works, which abut upon the refinery on the Sargent’s wharf end. and extend down the avenue towards the wharf. These mills are three stories high and about eighty or ninety feet in length. They are nearly or quite destroyed. Other adjoining property was in great danger for a time. The refinery was operated by E. Atkins & Cos., who, is understood, own the brick block, as well as . refinery building. Their loss will probably us heavy, but they were fully insured. The dye mills property is owned by tho heirs of George N. Block. Stock of Clothing Damaged. Dallas, Tex., Jan. 18. —Fire, this afternoon, in the second story of the building occupied by Isadora Reinhardt's clothing establishment, damaged the stock to an unknown extent. The stock is valued at $70,000, insured for $40,000. The building was badly gutted. Heavy Loss at Dodge City. Dodge City, Kan., Jan. 17. —Fire this afternoon destroyed the postofiice block. The fire started in Wildin’s grocery. The total loss is estimated at $75,000. Among the losers are M. Collier, $10,000; the Cowboy printing office SO,000; Wilden & Cos., grocers, $5,000; Shield’s hardware stock, $3,000. Tho warehouses of Morris, Collier & Wright, Beverly Cos., were also destroyed, with contents. Insurance not ascertained. Town Burned and Many Lives Lost. San Francisco, Jan. 18.—'The steamer Arabic, which arrived this evening, brings Hong Kcng dates of Dec. 23, and Yokohama dates of Jan. 4. An incendiary fire completely destroyed the town of Hungham, near Hong Kong. No details are published, but it is believed that inauy lives are lost. Opera-House Burned. Beloit, Kan., Jan. 18.—The City Operahouse, the Avenue Hotel, and Freeman’s store building were burned to day. Loss, $40,000; mainly insured. Dry Goods Store Burned. Ennis, Tex., Jan. 17. — The dry goods store of A. M. and Daniel Morrison burned this morning. Total loss, $12,000; insurance, $9,000. Residence Burned. Cairo, 111., Jan. 18.—The residence of Chief of Police Reardon burned this morning. Loss, $5,000; insured for $3,000. 588,000 for Being Kicked Down Stairs. Grand Rapids, Jan. 18.—Geo Thurstein was given a verdict, last night, in the Kent Circuit Court, against Ransom C. Luce, for SB,OOO, for being kicked down stairs by Luce, ten years ago. Thurstein sued for SIO,OOO, and the large verdi t causes general surprise. The case will probably De appealed.

JULIAN HAWTHORNE. A Visit to the Home of the Novelist Who is the Sou of His Father. Brooklyn .Eagle. “Do you know where Julian Hawthorne lives ? ” I asked ot' a Sag Harbor cabman. “ Oh, yes, sir. I can drive you there in a lew moments,'’ was the reply. “How loner has Mr. Hawthorne lived here?” I asked, as we rode through the principal streets of the town, “About a year, I should judge.” “ Is he generally known in the*place ? ” “ I think he is. sir. He is a very agreeable, man, indeed, and all who know him speak very well of him. Wo don't see much of him about town, except as he goes out for his daily walk, which usually includes several miies.” “ Has he a large family ? ’’ “ Well, I should smile. I don’t know how many children he has, but I should judge about twenty. Here is the house, sir, and you can settle the family question for yourself.” The house was a large two-story frame building, with a veranda in front, setting back a little distance from the street, with an iron fence separating the lawn from the sidewu k. Mr. Hawthorne himself came to the door, and asked me to take a seat in his study, which was one of the front rooms on the ground floor. A cosier and more attractive room for a literary man could not be well imagined. It was eold and blustering without, with the oeean winds sweeping through, the streets, but in Mr. Hawthorne's study were warmth and generous hospitality. An old-fashioned New England open fire-place heated tha room, while large cane chairs of the most inviting kind, with long foot-rests, and cushioned for a king, formed part of the furniture. And there was a couch covered with Oriental rugs and a high pillow. Upon this Mr. Hawthorne threw himself when he began the conversation, which continued for nearly an hour. The room was not large, but it was tilled with curious old bits of furniture and interesting bric-a-brac. A spinning-wheel occupied a corner and old-fashioned pieces of crockery were upon the shelves, and there were a high bureau and a curious fashioned table, which had done service in the “House of the Seven Gables.’" On the wall hung a large portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne. The resemblance between the father and son was most striking. Julian is tall, .with heavy growth of hair, heavy mustache and a full beard, in the early stages of development —a bright pleasing eye and manner most cordial and effective. I asked him how he came to select Sag Harbor as a plaee of residence. He replied that he was obliged to settle down somewhere on account of his large and growing family. After he was married, in 1871, he spent a large portion of his time in traveling over Europe. He found that in nearly every country ho visited he did honor to the king by having an addition to his family, and he came to the conclusion that he must cast his anchor to windward and locate in some quiet place where his children could be properly brought up and educated. Sag Harbor suited him very nicely. It wa3 a healthy place, a good community, and back of his house was a ten-acre play ground for his children. “What literary work are you now engaged upon?” I asked. “I am writing principally short stories for newspaper publication,” replied the novelist. “I have written no long story since I published the book of my father’! life.* * “Do you find the newspaper market as satisfactory as the magazines?’’ “1 have no objection whatever in writing for the newspaper press except that in short stories there is not the opportunity for as good literary work as in a loog serial novel,*snch as are usually published in the magazines. An entirely new field has recently opened up for story writers. Several newspapers in different parte of the country ceznbine together and buy a story for which they pay the author a good price and publish the story at the same time and at a small expense to each paper.” “How axe these combinations formed 1" “Principally through agents who make r

specialty of that business. lam under engagement to furnish all the short stories I write to a concern in Brooklyn which has contracts with some of the leading newspapers in the country to furnish a certain quantity of original fiction every week. Here are two stories of 5,000 words each (showing me the manuscript) which I have sold to this firm.” “Do you think an author lessens his reputation in anyway by writing for newspaper publication?; “Not at all, but on the other hand becomes far better known. The American people are newspaper readers, and stories published by a combination of first class papers go before the very best people in the country and are read by a far larger constituency than that of any magazine. The syndicate method of publication is very popular in England and is fast becoming so in this country. Mr. Rice, the editor of the North American Review, is the head of a bureau which furnishes literary matter to a large number of papers. He does not have much to do with stories, but fills two or three columns every week in the papers of his combination with short sketches on literary subjects.” Mr. Hawthorne had coffee brought into the room, and, after we had drunk it. he rolled me a cigarette and made one for himself. He showed great skill in rolling the tobacco, and said it was one of the accomplishments he learned at college. The conversation drifted into novel-writ-ing, and he made the remark that there were few good novelists in America and that the novels that were written had very few readers. He thought that when some good novelist should arise the public would read his works. The great difficulty American writers had to overcome was the lack of sufficient background for their works to be obtained in this country, and so too often they had to go to England and other old countries for material for their fiction. The people did not object to long stories, like “Esmond" for instance, if.only strong to the end, but a loDg-drawn-out story found few readers in America. Mr. Hawthorne said he had been lecturing considerably this winter, and enjoyed it very much. He spoke in high terms of the cordial reception he received in Brooklyn. In nearly every place he had been be drew large audiences, and had succeeded better than he anticipated in pleasing the popular mind. . He said that he was happy to get back to America and settle down permanently. He was democratic in his ways and liked to mingle with the common people. He liked to be in an American horse-car and talk and jostle with the people and to meet them upon the streets of the large cities. He did not find the same broad democratic spirit when away. Speaking of Ben Butler and the forthcoming book announced from his pen, Mr. Haw thorue said he was informed on the best of authority that Mr. Butler was not going to write a book and had not thought of doing so. The hour with the genial novelist passed away only too quickly, when the cabman drove up to take me back to the train. The ride to Sag Harbor is a delightful one in summer, and has many attractions in winter. To injitate ground glass, boil a tea9poonful of rice in a pint of water for half an hour, dip in a painter’s brush, press the brush against the side of the sauce pan to squeeze out the surplus liquid, daub the brush on the glass; it will give the appearance of ground glass when dry. The Horsford Almanac and Cook-Book Mailed free on application to the Rumford Chemical Works, Providence, R. I.

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