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J)hlne is consistent with overcoming the pain and inducing needful sleep. During the past few days but six minims of Magendie’s solution have been injected hypodermically in twenty-four hours." GLIMPSES OF GRANT. IZiow the Dying Commander Used to Talk to His Friends—A Bundle of Old Letters. Bt. Louis Post Dispatch. “In no better way can a glimpse be caught of the real man that his fellows called U. S. Grant than in the private letters that were meant only for friendly eyes to see. That Grant's letters will bear the widest publicity is a test of character such as few men could undergo.” A reporter called upon Judge John F. Long, Grant's closest friend in St. Louis, and fell into talk with him of the old times, when he was the young schoolmaster of the Gravois, and Mrs. Grant was birched, or rather hazel-twigged, for insubordination. Judge Long is a most interesting talker, and he ran from anecdote to anecdote of the golden age in a manner to make one wish that a stenographer was present who might catch every inflection of the story. Speaking of Grant, the Judge made the remark quoted at the commencement of this article. The Judge has been in correspondence with the General for years, bnt the autograph fiend has carried off letter after letter of the great commander's, until, instead of more than a hundred, the Judge has hardly half that many. So many sac similes of Grant’s handwriting have been printed that the whole public is tolerably familiar with it It is the chirography of a busy man, an educated man. Once in awhile one runs across little fanlta in spelling, but these are rare—they are slips rather than errors. The signature is the most characteristic in every line and every shading. Every one knows that Grant's chief virtue was his love for his friends; how true this is let the following tribute to hi3 dead friend. Ford, testify: “Executive Mansion, ? “Washington, D. C. Oct. 25, 1873. S “Dear Judge—Our old friend Ford is gone! It was just the day week before his death that I met aim in Toledo, 0.. where he had gone expressly to meet me. He looked and seemed as will then—and as cheerful, too—-as I had ever neon him. I had known Ford from 1851, at which time I was a first lieutenant, Fourth infantry, stationed at Sackett’s Harbor, N. Y., where he then resided, & young lawyer, beloved by all who knew him. For some reason I then formed an attachment for him, which has never changed. I trust he bore from this world to a better the samo good feeling towards me. I know he did, for from the time I was a lieutenant, through the time of my farming experiences in St Louis to ray later military duties and present duties, he has been the same welcome visitor, be himself never having changed the tone of familiar acquaintance toward me during all this Ewriod, and it is certain I never did towards him. e was noble, generous, true and honest. His sacrifices in this life have all been to help other*. “I started to write something very different of a business nature connected with Ford’s last visit to me, but when I came to write his name could not do so. The subject must be deferred fw another occasion. “My kindest regards to you and yours. “Very truly, U. S. Grant. “Judge J. P. Long, St. Louis, Mo." Mr. Ford has been in charge of General Grant’s affairs in St Louis. After his death he requested Judge Long to look after them. Avery long letter of November 2,18? J, recites the condition of his property in this city and its neighborhood. He wants the farm got into grass, to make it a stock farm for horses alone, and he gives very particular directions for the minutao of the breeding. Peacemaker and the other stallions are to be kept in the stud, and “the sorrel mare out of Jinny by young Hambletonian, I want trained. If she does not promise well as a trotter, she may be bred to Peacemaker.” Again, “there is a thoroughbred yearling stallion on the place, which I do not know what to do with exactly. He should be trained to run, but I do not feel like having a race horse on the course. He may bo taken care of for a year, and then I may find some good fellow to give him to.” Under date of November 10, 1873, after writing of other things. General Grant says: “You may have seen the statement in the papers that I drew out of Jay Cooke's bank $40,000 the day before it failed, and took no notice of tiie $187,000 the government had there. This bank was not a national bank, therefore not a bank of deposit Government therefore had no deposit with them, and lost nothing by them. Individually 1 was in Pittsburg at the time of this suspension, and wns as much surprised to bear of it as you or any one could be. If I had a deposit there —and I did keep an account with them —it is still there. If I owe them anything —and I suspect I do—that is among their assets. Unfortunately, I have been in a position since my occupancy of my present office that no bank could fail after the 15th of any month and victimize me oat of SSOO. I write this for your information. but not for the public. It ha* been a rule of mine never to respond to slanders." A year later there is another little touch at the newspapers. Speaking of the farm, Nov. 19. 1874, General Grant writes: “I expect to spend three or son six --thousand dollars on stock and improvements on the place in the next few months. But I have to borrow the money first, l rape to spend six weeks there next spring, and look after matters a little myself. Don’t mention this, however. The newspaper comments would be as amusing on that subject as they have been on ‘Cesarism’ and ‘third term,’ ix they knew it” General Grant's plans upon leaving the presidency are so well told in the following letter that it is quoted entire: January, 28. 1887. “Dear Judge—After the expiration of ray term of office 1 propose to remain some place in the United States until Jesse’s examination in June, when he, with Mrs. Grant and myself, will sail for Europe. I have no plans laid either as to where we will go or how long remain absent. We will not return, however, until the party becomes homesick, which may be in six months, and may not be for two years. * * * * I shall not care to sell my real estate before my return. My means will be sufficient, owing to a fortunate purchase of paying Bonanza mining stock, to keep me for some years, by which time, it is to be hoped, real estate will have some value, which it has not “I have scarcely thoughTof where I will make my homo on my return. lam free to go wherever it seems to be the most agreeable. Having gone from the army into place, I have neither business nor attachments to take me to any particular locality. My last residence, before entering the army, was Galena. But I lived there less than a year, and nearly = every one I knew there has either left the place or died. My acquaintance here has been exclusively among officials, and they are ever changing. You see I am in that happy condition that few peoole reach —of being able to select the home of their choice. Generally circumstances over which we seem to have no control govern both our residence and our occupation. ‘ ‘Please present my kindest regards to Mrs. Long and the family. Yours truly, U. S. Grant." Writing under date, “Smyrna, Asia Minor, Peb. 22,1878,” General Grant says: “You have probably seen from the papers my general route and much better descriptions than I could give in the limits of a letter. I get the papers from the States now with much more regularity than for the first few months after rny departure, and that they not only follow up my lines of travel and what I do from day to day, very closely, but some of them speculate upon !my designs, I see. They may know them, . but if they do Ido not. I have been under the impression that I was carrying out a longcherished desire to travel and see as much of the old world as possible before settling down in a home to spend the remainder of my days in quiet. “But if I was where I was one year ago, and for the previous seven years, I would put a most determined veto upon the repudiation bill—called silver bill—if it should receive the vote of Congress. I fear it has parsed, but hope, if so, will worlt to defeat its operation by refusing to make contracts except to be paid in gold coin. * * * Ulysses says nothing about the revival of business. I hope there will be a change for the better soon. On my rgturn to the States I must sell off at ieiurt a portion of my real estate to invest in something which will pay me an income. I think I will be back in the falL" date of Now York city, March 11, 1881,

General Grant writes: “I was rather pleased with my visit to Washington than otherwise. Garfield is a man of large ability and of long experience in public affairs. I have no doubt about his good intentions, and wish the largest success for his administration. He will have a hard placo, however, for a time, at least” Under date of Galena, Sep. 10, 1880, speaking of Jesse’s marriage, General Grant says: “Jesse is very young to get married—twenty-two last February—but he is as steady as a man of forty, and apparently well fixed in business, with an income from it better than I ever had as General of the army.” In another letter from Now York, November 12, 1881, on this same theme, he says: “My mind is made up to sell all of my Missouri property as soon as I can get a fair offer for it 1 want the money placed where it will give me an income for my own benefit My children are all settled and doing well enough to be entirely independent of me. From present indications there is no object in my saving anything for any one of them. Fred is in the army, and is the poorest in the lot But he has something outside of his pay which I had not at his age. ” Os course it would be possible to fill columns with extracts from the chatty and interesting letters which the dying commander has written to his old St Louis friend, Judge Long, but enough has been given to throw a side light on the General, to give a glimpse of him as his friends see him, a sympathetic loving friend, a fond father; in a word, a manly man. Grant and Lee Again. Mias Gmoflr, in New York Graphic. On July 1, 1883, Mr. Logan Murray, of New York, related to me with great impressiveness the story of a scene which had taken place the previous week at the meeting of the board of directors of the United States National Bank, in New York, which story I then put in writing, so think it opportune to revive now. Mr. Murray was presiding at the board meeting, and General Grant was present as one of the directors when the incident occurred. Mr. Murray had been reading an article, then recently published, by General Sheridan, on Lee’s surrender, and when General Grar t entered, after all the members of the board had assembled, Mr. Murray asked him if he would not gratify those present by giving his own recollections that momentous occasion. It so chanced that General Grant was in the mood to talk, and he talked so well for over an hour, giving a clear, concise history of the days preceding the the surrender and all the events connected with It, that all presnt were thrilled by the recital, and the bank books were closed, and the vice-president of the bank declared the meeting adjourned to listen to this chapter of history. General Grant himself showed much emotion at times. He laid great stress upon his reply when Lee said to him when they met to arrange the surrender, “Gen. Grant, we come here, each representing our own country, to treat with each other." “Not so,” firmly answered General Grant, “we do not represent two countries, but one.” On this point he insisted, whenever General Lee spoke of the two countries, seeking, as General Grant’s auditors understood, to convey to General Lee the idea forcibly that it was not two foreign nations which had warred against each other, but a paternal government, which, having brought a refractory child into submission, was willing to receive the child again as a child on conciliatory terms, General Grant said that he sat down at the table and wrote out the terms of surrender and said to General Lee, “Let your officers and men keep their horses; we don’t want them, and they will need them, for it will soon be time for them to begin their farming, and I want all of you to take your horses home with you.” He added that, on hearing this, General Lee's eyes filled with tears, and he said more than once as he read the terms of the surrender: “This will have a splendid effect at the South.” Then General Grant said to him: “Now this war should be over. You, with your influence at the South, should see to it that not another gun is fired; not another life lost After this, a life lost in any fight would be murder, and you can prevent it.” General Lee answered: “Well, 1 will speak to Mr. Davis ahoutit.” In telling the story, General Grant added: “If that had been Joe Johnston, instead of Lee, he would not have said that, but would have himself assumed the responsibility of declaring the war should be over on his side as I did on mine; but Lee did not like to take the responsibility of making a pledge to stop the fight until he had consulted with Davis." Gen. Grant said that when he and Lee first met that day, they shook hands as old comrades in the army, and talked over their experiences at West Point aDd elsewhere at military points in a mat-ter-of-course way, as if they had met under ordinary circumstances.

Polities in the Grant Family. WAoitluKtoQ Correspondence New York Graphic. The story generally published that the important paper lately signed by General Grant was one requesting the President (of course, a future President, as the boy is now not quite three years old, having been born July 4, 1882,) to appoint his grandson (the son of Colonel Fred Grant) to a cadetship at West Point recalls an incident which actually occured at a state dinner in the White House in February or March 1870, when the President and Mrs. Grant were entertaining a number of gentlemen and ladies. One of the latter told me of it just after it happened. The youngest of General Grant’s family —Jesse—had asked his father to appoint him a cadet at West Point as soon as he was old enough, and the Presidentmerrily replied, “Oh, by that time, Jesse, I may not have the power, I may not be President then.” “Oh, never mind that,* Jesse,” chimed in old Mr. Dent, Mrs. Grant’s aged father, who never failed on all occasions to proclaim his Democratic principles, “by that time the Democrats will come in and then I can have you appointed.” This sally causing some surprise among the guests, Grant, with admirable tact, said quickly, “See how good a thing it is to have two parties in one’s family, so the children can be provided for in any event” And now that the Democrats have, as Mr. Dent predicted, come in, it seems strange to see the other part of the propheey fulfilled—General Grant out of power bequeathing an infant grandson’s welfare to the bounty of a future President Counting Prohibition Eggs. Pittsburg, April 16,—The Prohibitionists are already outlining their campaign for the next presidential election. Secretary Swager, of this city, in an interview to-day said: “The candidates will come, one from the strongest Northern State, the other from the strongest Southern State. Judge Hopkins, of New York, will almost certainly head the ticket, and Senator Colquitt, of Georgia, will likely be tho candidate, for the second place. Judge Hopkins, in 1882, polled 28,000 votes in the gubernatorial election. Although still a member of the Democratic party, we have had assurance that in the next presidential election Colquitt will sever his allegiance from the old party and join us. The two men I have named will, in al] probability, be our candidates three years hence. National Roller-Skating Congress. New York, April 16.— Managers of rinks and dealers in roller skatiner materials to-day organized the “National Roller Bkating Congress of America," in this city, and passed resolutions setting forth the healthfulniess and the innocence of the amusement of roller skating. They have made preliminary arrangements for a national contest, to be held here on May 27 and 28, when prizes will be offered for the beet execution of various movements on skates. It will be open to ftll comers. Comljntor to Bishop Tulgg. Pittsburg, Pa., April 16. —Information was received in the city to-day from Rome that Rev. Father Phelap, vicar-genoral of this diocese, has been appointed coadjutor to Bishop Tuigg, who has been ill for several years. Details of the appointment have not yet beeu receivod, although it is understood that Bishop Tuigg has forwarded his resignation, owing to physical disability. In that event Father Phelan will be in charge of the consolidated diocese of Pittsburg and Allegheny. _ Frew Park at Niagara. Albany, N. Y., April 16. —The Niagara reservation bill has passed the Senate. It will now goto the Governor for his signature. It provides for a free park around Niagara falls forever, and makes an appropriation for the purchase of the land.

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INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of All Kinds in the Two States. A Possible Clew to Delphi’s Missing Woman — Burning of a Coal Shaft at Lincoln, 111.—Gleanings from Exchanges. INDIANA. A Clew that May Lead to the Finding of the Missing Mrs. Harley. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Delphi, April 16.—A day or two since a fisherman found in the river, near this city, a lady’s hair switch, which, from various peculiarities, has been identified by friends as the switch which Mrs. Harley wore at the time she so mysteriously disappeared from her home, on March 18. The river is now being dragged thoroughly, and the impression prevails that her body will be found. Richmond Notes. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Richmond, April 16.—An old gentleman, a paralytic, named Herman Kuhlstadt, is reported missing from tho residence of his son in the northwestern part of the city. He has been gone for a couple of days and the family suspect that he has died, in some unfrequented place, from a second stroke of paralysis. An Indianapolis lad named James Uhler, thirteen years old, was found on the streets by a patrolman at 1:30 o’clock this morning, and was taken to the station-house to await communication with his parents. He had run away from home, stealing a ride on a freight train as far as Cambridge, and walked from there here. One day’s experience was enough for him. Minor Notes. Kern Edwards, a Connersville drayman, had his Jog broken by being thrown from his vehicle. A reception was tendered State Senator Francis Johnson, at Pythian Hall, Lafayette, last evening, by members of bolh political parties, and his opposition to the apportionment bill indorsed. The Connersville City Council has granted the G. A. R. post twelve lots in the cemetery, which will be immediately adorned and surmounted with a monument in honor of the soldiers of Fayette county. Adolph Linderman and Charley Netter. the two New Albany boys who rau away from home several days ago, have been found at Colesburg, Ky. They had three revolvers and considerable money. They had been reading ten cent literature, and wanted to be bandits. Andrew C. Gardner, on old resident of Wabash county, and a prominent contractor on the Wabash and Erie canal and Wabash railroad thirty years ago, died of paralysis, in the seven-ty-first year of his age. Mr. Gardner was a member of the Masonic fraternity aud the Grand Army of the Republic.

ILLINOIS. Burning of a Coal Shalt—Narrow Escape of Six Miners. Lincoln, April 16.—The Lincoln Coal Company's shaft and landing caught fire at 1:50 o’clock this morning, and were soon a mass of flames. From ten to twenty miners are at the bottom. The loss is about SIOO,OOO, and there is no insurance. The fire was caused by the explosion of a torch in the oil-room. The cages were kept running until a few minutes before the wire cable snapped in two. Tho following men are known to be at the bottom: Theodore Reed, John Walsh, ttataCnrapbell, Mike Savage, Jack Cane and Jerr|H^pfort. The escape shaft, three-quarters of a mile away, connects with the one destroyed, and it is by this avenue that the men will be most likely to escapa The fire is now under control, ana several streams of water are playing on the ruins. The wives and children of the imprisoned miners are in dreadful suspensa No word has yet been received that the men have reached the escape, though tho chances are in their favor. Later. —The six imprisoned miners succeeded in making their way to the escapement shaft, nearly a mile away, so that no lives were lost, as was at first feared. The fire was extinguished, with a loss of about SIO,OOO. No Vote for Senator. Springfield, April 16.—1n the joint assembly fifty senators and 145 representatives answered the roll-call. No vote was cast for senator. Brief Mention. J. D. Jordan, a railway postal clerk, running between Quincy, 111., and Lafayette, Ind., has been arrested, charged with embezzling money trozn the moils. “Hero of Thorndale,” the celebrated stallion of L. S. Rupert, of Bloomington, has died of heart disease. The animal's trial record was 2:28, and a short time ago his owner refused SB,OOO for him. Mrs. Camfield, as plaintiff in a suit against A. B. Graves, ,of Cowden, for selling liquor to her son, whereby he became intoxicated, and was killed by being run over by the cars, has recieved a verdict for $1,500. _ The Collapse of the Turnbull Case. Providence Journal. The celebrated Turnbull case has come to an end, and that not by any aet of the Supreme Court, but by reason of counsel for the petitioner yesterday morning going into court at Newport and asking its discontinuance. There were serious charges made against Mr. Turnbull, and soon after his wife turned him out of the house. The charges were domed by Turnbull, and after months had passed he put his determination to oppose the application into operation. It is thoroughly well known that when the parties were married Turnbull was what he is now, a clerk, only in a different position. , Turnbull married Mrs. Smith, then a widow. She was a person of very large means, and never expected Turnbull to support her, and, of course, he never has. When Mrs. Turnbull came here it was for a divorce. Nobody questions that. In her petition she charged non-support, although in receipt of many thousands a year. It is stated that it is almost beyond question that Turnbull proposed filing a petition in Washington. A report has gained currency, too, that efforts were being made to effect a money settlement, but that they failed. Mrs. Turnbull leaves next month for Europe. Dinner to Minister Pendleton. Cincinnati, April 16.— A complimentary dinner was given to-night to the Hon. Geo. H. Pendleton, the recently appointed minister to Germany, by his fellow citizens of Cincinnati, under the auspices of the Ohio Club. Although this is a Democratic club, the demonstration was in no sense a partisan one. Among the one hundred and eighty guests fully one-fourth were prominent Republicans. Lexers of regret were read from Hon. John G. Carlisle, Governor Hoadly, Durbin Ward and others, and telegrams from Hons. A. G. Thurman and Joseph E. McDonald. Speeches were made by J. P. Carbery. who presided, Hon. George H. Pendleton, Hon. E. F. Noyes, Mayor Smith, Hon. A. F. Perry, Wm. M. Ramsay, Henry Haacke and Emile liothe. HeavJ- Damages by Moving Ice. Belleville, Ont, April 16. —The ice in the river Moria passd down stream to-day, carrying with it the immense accumulations above Bleaker’s dam. It destroyed a fine iron bridge in its course, and flooded many cellars. Many persons in this district are imprisoned in their homes, and an immense amount of damage has been done. The lower bridge is now safe, bat the foot-bridge is badly damaged. The total loss cannot fall far short of $50,000, Fra vers at Harvard. Boston, April 16.— The committee of Harvard College overseers, to which was referred the petition of the undergraduates, asking that attendance at morning prayers be made voluntary with

students over the age of twenty-one years and optional with the parents or guardians of others, have adopted the following resolution: Resolved, That it is inexpedient to grant the petition of the undergraduates of Harvard College for the repeal of the rules now requiring attendance on daily prayers. THE FIRE RECORD. The Office of the Buffalo Express Damaged —Lithographing Material Destroyed. Buffalo, N. Y., April 16.—Shortly before 6 o’clock this evening, as one of the porters in the Morning Express office was lighting the lamps in the news-room, on the second floor, one of the oil tanks above the printer’s case caught fire, and in a very short time the whole room was in flames. The fire spread so rapidly that the reporters and editorial staff, who occupied rooms close by, were driven through the rear windows. The fire spread through tho building with great rapidity, soon reaching the lithographing department, owned by Edward Hoffman, on the third floor. A large quantity of valuable plates, together with all the plant and stock, were destroyed. The fire caught in the job department of the Express, on the fourth and fifth floors, which was also totally destroyed. G. H. Dunclon, a telegrapher, was also burned out, as was also the O’Neill Wagon Company, on the first floor. About 400 hands will be thrown out of employment. Straub & Cos., book-bindera, suffer considerable loss by water. The losses are about sis follows: J. N. Matthews,s7o,ooo; insured for $92,000. Matthews, Northrup & Cos., $70,000; insured for $90,000. Henry Straub & Cos., $5,000; insured for $7,000. G. H. Dunston, $40,000; insured for $25,000. Edward Hoffman, $2,000; insured for $2,000. Desterecker & Weil, by water, $25,000; insured for $25,000. _____ Horses and Mules Burned to Death. Red Bluff, CoL, April 15.—Some tramps called yesterday at Senator Stanford’s grape ranch. They were driven away. At daylight this morning, the stables were discovered on fire. They contained 115 horses and mules, all of which except four burned to death. The animals burned did not include any blooded stock, but were simply those used for working on the ranch. A large quantity of hay was also destroyed. The loss will not exceed $30, 000. ______ Losses at Adams, N. Y. Utica, April 16. —The losses by the fire which started yesterday in W. H. Whittington’s drug store, in Adams, are as follows: W. H. Whittington, $7,000; insurance, $4,000; Whittington & Torbert, $0,000; insured for $4,000; Thompson & Little, hardware, $7,000; insurance, $4,000; F. Williams, $3,500: no insurance. Mr. Torbert’s loss on building is $3,000; insurance, $1,500; Macon & Ramsaell, lawers, $2,000; nearly covered by insurance. Grist-Mill Burned. Milwaukee, April 16.—A special to the Evening Wisconsin records the destruction by fire of Andrew Vang's saw and grist-mill at Galesburg, Shawano county. Loss, $22,000: insurance, SB,OOO.

TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. The dead body of E. F. Moore, a saloon-keeper of Akron, 0., was found in the canal, yesterday, near a house of ill-fame. There are evidences of foul play. The Hon. S. B. Elkins, of New York city, has accepted an invitation of the alumni association of the University of Missouri, at Columbia, in that State, to deliver the annual address, June 4. Intelligence has been received in Philadelphia to the effect that George Firth, a resident of that city, was murdered in Marshalltown, lowa, pn Saturday last. I'he deceased was well known in the East as a base ball player. Rev. Thomas Spencer, a colored Baptist minister, of Norfolk, Va., was convicted in the Hustings Court, in Petersburg, yesterday afternoon, of housebreaking. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. Spencer is widely known. The grand jury at Newburg, N. Y., yesterday, indicted Hugh McCann, who is blind and over eighty years old, for the murder of his wife, aged seventy-three, in February last. The couple had frequent quarrels. The final quarrel was not witnessed, but it is supposed McCann knocked his wife down and stamped oq her. She died two days after. The indictment is for murder in the first degree. Fourteen hundred employes of the Barbour Flax-spinning Company, at Paterson, N. J.. struck, yesterday, for an increase of 10 pier cent in wages, to counteract two reductions that have been made within two months. The strike compelled the closing of both the large mills, and advices are awaited from Ireland, where the Barbours are at present. Large crowds of strikers gathered about the mills this afternoon, but there was no disturbance. Thanks from the Catholics of Germany. Baltimore, Md., April 16.—Archbishop Gibbons, who was apostolic delegate at the plenary council, held last fall in this city, has received a letter from the bishops of Prussia, North Germany, addressed to the archbishops and bishops of the United States. It is in reply to a letter sent by the plenary council, Dec. 6, and is signed by the. Archbishop of Posen and approved by Cardinal Ledocliowski. It expresses earnest thanks for the fraternal greetings contained in the plenary council’s letter; refers to the persecution of the priesthood in Prussia, their exile, the drafting of priests into the army, etc., and asks the prayers of the faithful in this country for a change in the condition of their German brethren.

A Hint to Good Boys. Detroit Free Press. A boy about twelve years of age entered a store on Michigan avenue the other day and asked for the proprietor, and when confronted by that individual the lad hesitatingly inquired: “I—l wanted to ask for some information about El Mahdl Man up the street said you wei*e posted, and that you’d be glad to help a boy along." “Y-e-s,” said the proprietor, as he scratched his ear, “jess so. El Mahdi—y-e-s. Say, bub, I’m awfully busy this morning. Ask tho cashier, and here’s a quarter for you. 1 like to help a boy along, but I'm rushed this morning.” The boy went down to the cashier s desk, and said: “ ’Nother boy and me are seeing who can find out the most about El Mahdi. Flease tell me all you know.” “El Mahdi —y-e-s,” replied the cashier. “Hang it! I've read of him a dozen times over, and the name is very familiar. Y-e-s—jess so. Say, bub, our floor walker knows everybody and everything. Here’s fifteen cents for you if you won't bother me to-day.” The boy passed along to the gentleman mentioned and said: “My teacher wants me to find out all I can about El Mahdi. Where he was born —how old is he—what does he do for a living? Please give me all the facts you can.” The floor walker looked the innocent boy in the eye for a long half minute. Then ho pulled a quarter from bis vest pocket, passed it over, and kindly whispered: “Not to-day, my son, but some other day. They'll probably tell you next door, as they aren’t rushed!” As the spring begins to open those who are favoTed with the possession of a garden will, as usual, endeavor to get the seeds in the ground as early as possible, but unless the soil is dry and warm no advantage will be secured by haste. The most important matter is to spade or plow the garden as deep as possible, manure it well, and thoroughly incorporate the manure and soil. The seea-bed should he very fine and free of lumps, as the seeds of nearly all vegetables are small and will not germinate quickly unless well favored with warmth, moisture and air. A free use of the rake in the beginning will do more for a crop of vegetables than double the amount of labor in after cultivation, as the preparation of the soil is of more importance than anything else. It is imperative to thoroughly keep down tho grass and weeds, which process of cultivation also renders the soil always loose and fine, thereby securing and retaining a greater supply of .heat and moisture-

LIFE IN AN ITALIAN HOME. Queer Social Customs that Prevail in the Land of Dante and Petrarch. A Lack of Fireside Joys and Comforts—Fictions About the Inconstancy of Women —The Round of the Day. Daniel Paul, in San Francisco Chronicle. The family meet for the first time at dinner, which takes place at or after noon. Before taking their seats at the table the children (I write of a particular family of father, mother, a grown-up son employed in the municipal office, and two danghters, also grown-up) reverently kiss the hand of father and mother. But little is said, and that by the mother, who usually discourses upon one of three topics—her bodily ailments, of which she has an imaginary variety; her religion, of which she is a scrupulous devotee, and her uncle, the aristocratic Bishop of Arezzo, who succumbed ages ago to the great divorcer—death. She used to chatter considerably about her ghostly adviser, until one day her eldest-born son kieked his reverence down stairs, and is now living under double excommunication from home and church. The soup is disposed of noisily, the young ladies contributing liberally to supplying the noise, with proportionate disenchantment to deponent. There are two kinds of wine on the table, baptized of water and unbaptized—this for the children, that for the parents. Towards the end of the meal the father pushes the unbaptized decanter to his son, in deference to his superiority over the girls. He drinks a bumper, lights a suicidal cigar, kisses the hand of each parent and departs for his office, where he discharges affairs of state, to wit, the registering of marriages, births and deaths, until 5 p. M. The old folks retire for a siesta, and the girls betake themselves each to her own window, whence they indulge in a half-hour’s ocular flirtation with some young blood, who happens to be at a neighboring window, or whose business makes it necessary for him to pass and repass in the street below, until an admonitory cough from behind apprises them that the old nurse and chaperon has dined, and that “time’s up.” Let me remark, parenthetically, that were a young man to walk to and fro before a given house in our country, gazing rapturously tbe while at a certain window, the probability is that he would be arrested, either as a crank or dangerous subject But in Italy, bless you, the police remain out of sight of such goings-on, as assiduously as do the “old folks” in America, when “M’riar” has ber best young man in the front parlor. I have in mind now a very funny incident which occurred during my residence in Portugal, and which illustrates the spirit of unobtrusiveness which actuates the guardian of the public safety in matters pertaining to the tender passion. One dark night a guard observed a figure moving stealthily along the back roof of a certain house. Thinking him a burglar, he secured a. ladder, and caught the man by the leg just as he was screwing himself into a small dormer window. The spur on the boot and the red stripe on the trous ers revealed an officer of the garrison. “What are ycv. doing here?” asked the policeman. “An affair of the heart,” said the officer. “Oh! I beg your pardon, and wish you success,” said the amiabie custodian of the law, as bowed himself towards his ladder. At sp. m., our adolescent statesman emerges from the municipal palace with the conscious dignity of a man who has labored for his country and done some business on his own account —the consideration being S2O a month, minus 13 per cent income tax. Does he go home to read good books and “store his mind with useful knowledge?” No, for the good reason that he has no home. He eats, drinks, sleeps and has his washing done in a certain house, of which his father is the present and he himself the prospective owner. But he lives between his office and his favorite case, or wine-house.. He may not frequent the same case as his father. Politics divide men socially in Italy. They are either Liberals or Clericals. No matter how small the town or village, there is a case and apothecary shop where the Liberals congregate *to gossip; a case and apothecary shop where the Clericals meet and discuss the forlorn hope of the restoration of the temporal sovereignty of the Pope. To one or other of these resorts, according to his political convictions and the secondary demands of his inner man, the scion of the family of which I write repairs, where he refreshes himself with a cup of black coffee, or a stoup of wine, while shuffling the cards at baccarat or tre-sette. If it be winter he indulges in harmless punch. But he never drinks to excess. Indeed, it is proper to observe that of the many vices to which the Italian gentleman may be subject, that of intemperance is not one. Nor is it often that you see one of the lower classes intoxicated. If a man have a sick-headacke in Italy, he is not asked by his friends if he drank too much on the previous day, but the question is, did he eat too much. The necessity in America and the British isles of temperance societies is a subject of astonishment and amusement to the Italians, their usual observation being “Che bestie?” (what beasts). If the weather is fine, and the municipal or military band be playing in the principal square of the city or town (every Italian city has band music in the evening), he promenades to and fro in the Corso. Should he meet his sisters or other lady acquaintances after sundown, he may not salute them. That is against etiquette. I have asked several well-informed gentlemen the reason of this singular custom, but they could give me none. At the case, then, or mayhap at a club, or in a theater, our friend passes his time until towards midnight His father likewise. Meanwhile his sisters array themselves in their best about an hour before sundown, and, with the everlasting mother, or chaperon, go out to take the air, and, if possible, make a conquest, or establish one already begun. Going out alone is absolutely against social laws. Shopping, in the American sense, and the delight of American ladies, is unknown. The mother, or chaperon, does the selecting and buying. The dress-maker always works at the house of her customer and it is but recently that milliners have begun to work in their own shops. Young women have but one ambition in life, one mission, and that is to marry and be free. ' The being free does not amount to much, beyond the liberty of going out alone to church, or to do her own shopping. 1 had read in books that every married lady in Italy has her cavaliere servente (knight at service), or, in one word, a lover, who is in constant and adoring attendance upon her, especially in places of public amusement. A long residence in the land and experience with the different classes, both high and low, bear me out in denying the prevalence of the custom, and in asserting that the troth of the Italian women is as steadfast in the main as that of their transalpine sisters, despite the fact that many of the marriages—yes, most of them —are made by parents and relatives, love being a secondary consideration. Formerly—and I speak of fifteen years back in the Papal States and of twentyfive years ago iu northern and southern Italy—if a young woman failed to get married before she was twenty-five years of age she took her dower and entered a convent—nolens volens — and hence there were very few spinisters. The Italian government put an end to this form of sepulture by enacting a law which prohibits convents and monasteries from receiving novices. And, though political and religious liberalism has introduced into Italy many elements that are not good, it has brought with it not a few blessings, and one of these is the emancipation of women in the sense that, before and outside of marriage, or the convent, she may earn for herself honorable sustenance and independence, something that of old was considered humiliating and disgraceful. I have left the young ladies fluttering upon the (Jorso, or, possibly, if the mother be in a generous mood, seated at a table in one of the best cases, partaking of ices. Here again no gentleman, unless he be on terms of great intimacy with the family, may join them, much less offer them any refreshments at his expense. In this last particular, what a paradise Italy would be to tho impecunious young man of our American cities, who beggars himself by spending a whole week’s salary in taking his Inamorata to tbe theater and treating her to a wine or an oyster supper afterward. There is a good deal ol drivol uttered and written about the independ-

ence of the American girl, but it may be questioned with becoming pertinence whether, after accepting attentions which are not infrequently purchased at a sacrifice, and placing herself under obligations for the same, she is in reality an independent as the Italian girl, whom a stringent social usage debars from accepting purchasable favors from a gentleman. The ladies may pay a visit after leaving the case. The conversation at these visits is, as a rule, neither brilliant nor exciting. Until of late the education of Italian women has been neither varied nor very thorough, and magazine literar ture, the armory of the Americifti, is yet in it* infancy. But it is delightful to hear them din•uss, in soft, musical accents, the latest style of bonnet, the play, or how Don preaches. Their conversational powers may not be enslaving to the listener, but their unaffected simplicity is ravishing. I have often fat, a willine and delighted thrall, to a bevy of these robins chirping about dresses and millinory. And when they talked their own poets and qnoted them I ceased to wonder that Dante apotheosized his Beatrice, or that Petrarch deified his Laura. Returning home, the ladies doff their finery and put on calico. If it be in the winter time the long tedious evening is eked out by them in alternate sewing and shivering, for even the wealthiest families have no fires. The houses are cool and pleasaut in summer, but cold and dismal in winter. Even in tbe hotels, which have fire-places and fires in deference to the' wants of foreigners, everything goes up the chimney but the smoke. Each lady holds in her lap a small bronze or eaithen vase—called a scaldiua—in which there is burning charooal and, over which she warms her chilbiained fingers. She may have a cliaufferette under her chilling feet, bat for the rest she shivers and wishes that the men would return, that supper may be eaten and folks may go to bed. Extreme sanitarians decry late suppers. In healthy protestation against their ran tings stand the Italians, sound and long-lived a race as any other. Between 10 and 11 o’clock at night the father and son of our family rot urn and supper is eaten —substantial meal, consisting of soup, meat and salad and fruit, with wine as a* necessary beverage. Tea is only used as a medicine. The supper is the pleasantest and most homelike meal of the day. The family chat is prolonged until late, and then the children kiss the hands of the parents, get their benisou for tbe night and all retire. The men of such a family may b*> happy enough after their own fashion and conception of home happiness. But the women! With their quaint fancies and pent-up longings for something that is always near, to lean upon and to love and to consecrate and worship as the sacrament of home, I doubt if they can be truly happy. * The Man Born with a Sneer. Springfield Union. Pooh-bah. in Gilbert & Sullivan’s new Japanese opera, “The Mikado,” says: “I was born sneering.” Pooh-bah was cut out for a Independent editor. Okra is a soup plant. Be sure and have a few in the garden if you wish a good vegetable soup. “Blood Will Tell.” Yes, tbe old adage is right, but if the liver is disordered and the blood becomes thereby cor-. rupted, the bad “blood will tell,” in diseases of the skin and throat, in tumors and ulcers, and in tubercles in the lungs (first stages of consumption) even although the subject be descended in a straight line from Richard Coeur de Lion, or the noblest Roman of them all. For setting the.liver in order no other medicine in the world equals Dr. Pierce’s “Golden Medical Discovery. ’ Try it* and your “blood will tell” the story of its wonderful efficacy.

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