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GRANT IN PEACE. BY GENERAL ADAM BADEAU. no. xviii. President Elect. Written for the Indianapolis Journal— Copyrighted. A few days after the election Grant returned from Galena to Washington. He was accompanied by his family and three staff officers, of whom I was one. There had been threats of assassination, "and I had opened several letters that contained warnings of this danger, but Grant took no precautions and made no change in his plans, though his route was known in advance. The aids-de camp were armed, but this was unknown to him. Twice when I had been traveling with Grant attempts were made to take his life. In North Carolina, on his return from the surrender of Johnston to Sberman, the train on which he was journeying was thrown from the rails under circumstances that left little doubt of the design. There was no one in the single car but the Union general-in-chief and his party of two or three officers, and If some bitter and disappointed spirit out of all the millions of the South bad taken this method to avenge the lost cause it would hardly have been extraordinary, and certainly not unprecedented. At another time, soon after the war, Grant was passing through southern Indiana, a region where the rancor during the Rebellion had been almost Jierccr than in the field, and as those who indulged it did not fight, but only talked, they cherished their hatred when the war was ended —un'ike most of the men who spilt their blood for the cause they preferred. It was night and we were on a special train, again in a single car. Again there was no one in the party but Grant, with two of his staff, a servant, and the officers of the road. We were moving at a rapid rate, and about midnight arrived at a bridge, at least an eighth of a mile in length, and that crossed a stream seventy or eighty feet below. The night was dark, and a switch had been left open at the approach to the bridge, while stones were placed on the road in advance. The train was, of course, thrown off the rails, but tho impetus was sufficient to carry us across the bridge, and into a narrow cut beyond, before the car was overturned. The banks of the cut prevented a serious fall, and the speed of the engine had been checked, but Grant was more disturbed tiian I often saw him in an emergency. The car was violently shaken, and he left his seat aud went to tho door before the motion ceased. No one was injured, but had the overturn occurred twenty seconds sooner the train must have been precipitated into the river. The cor was too much damaged to proceed, but we mounted the engine and in this way traveled to our destination through the night. There was no doubt in the mind of any that the interruption bad been planned, but it was thought wise to say nothing on the subject, and the details of the incident were not made public. Only one or two miscreants had probably been concerned in the attempt, and there was no reason to cast odium on a whole region, or to arouse the indignation of the country, which was hardly yet appeased since the murder of Lincoln. Grant himself enjoined silence in regard to the circumstance, and his companions were very willing to comply, for crime is contagious, and to announce one attempt like this is to suggest another. There was little change in Grant's outward demeanor after the election. He was as simple as ever, though somewhat more reserved. I fancied I saw the shadow of his coming responsibility, and that it depressed him. On his arrival at Washington he was at once beset with applications for office, and advice for his own behavior and policy. One of his acquaintances, a Mr. Cor by n, who afterward became his brother-in-law, wrote out an inaugural address for him in full, and brought it to him in my presence. As soon as Corbyn left the room Grant handed the paper to me and told me to seal it up, and be sure it was not read by any human being till after the 4th of March. He never knew the contents, and I never read more than the first line; “Fcllow-citizen3, I appear before you at this time.” There were more than six hundred letters waiting for him in Washington, all of which I opened. A newspaper correspondent came in and saw me at this task, and the next week there was a caricature of ‘‘the man that opens the letters” sitting behind a heap of rejected applications as high as the table; this part of the representation was not exaggerated. Grant directed me to show him no letters that asked for office. He always had an idea that the man who sought a place was unfit for it; that the place should seek the man; a notion that in his case might have been correct, for he lacked ordinary ambition and yet possessed great faculties; but most people will consider that he was exceptional in this peculiarity as in so many others.

Some of the applications, howevor, came from people of so much consequence, or from friends of such a degree of intimacy, personal Or political, that notwithstanding his injunction I did not always feel at liberty to withhold them, and he tacitly admitted that I was right. Among the aspirants was Henry Wilson, then Benator from Massachusetts, and afterward Vice president, who set forth hia desires and qualifications for the position of Secretary of War. tyrant did not answer the letter, and the subject was never broached in conversation between them. Those who wanted foreign missions were numerous, and collectorships and other lucrative posts were in great demaud; but no applicant received an answer. While he was at Galena, Grant had said to me that he thought Motloy, the historian, would make a good Secretary of State. Motley had been Minister at Vienna, but was removed by Johnson for criticising the reconstruction policy of the administration too sharply, and great sympathy was felt for him by Republicans. Sumner, especially, was anxious that he should be restored to the post he had lost. Motley corresponded with me during the canvass, and sent me copies of the speeches he made for Grant. These were shown to Grant,, and they impressed him favorably. But soon after the olection Grant visited Boston, where Motley called on him. I did not accompany iny chief on this occasion, and on his return I inquired his opinion of Motley. “He parts his hair in the middle and carries a single eye glass," was the reply; and the tone, as much as the words, indicated that the historian was too foreign in his ways to pleaso tho President elect. At that time Grant had not entirely rid himself of the narrowness of his early life, some of which, indeed, lasted even through bis presidency; hut after ho went abroad, and met so many great men in Europe and Asia, and even Africa, with dress and manners different from anything he had seen in America, be ceased to regard 6uch peculiarities as decisive. No man ever grow or expanded in mind, and taste, and character more continuously and conspicuously. During the winter of 1868-09 Seward, as Sec-

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retary of State, attempted to settle the difficulties with England arising out of the Alabama claims. As the new administration was just coming into power, the Republicans were very indignant that a discredited Cabinet should assume to control the policy of the Nation in so important an affair. But Seward persisted, and a treaty was negotiated at London which was extremely unacceptable to the Republicans, and, indeed, to the majority of the Nation, of whatever party. Grant was especially displeased, and expressed his feeling openly. He disliked Seward, to whom he attributed not a little of Johnson's craft, and be thought the negotiation an unwarrantable intrusion on his own approaching prerogatives. Besides this, he entirely disapproved the concessions of the administration to England. Boforo tho treaty was confirmed he took a remarkable step. I was personally acquainted with Sir Edward (then Mr.) Thornton, the British minister, and Grant directed me to pay the envoy a visit, and in tho coarse of conversation make known his objections to the treaty; in fact, to declare outright that I was certain Grant would use his influence to prevent its confirmation by the Senate, and if It should be ratified would, as President, assuredly procure its revocation. I made ray visit, not stating that I had been sent by Grant, but implying this as well as I was able without express words. The minister doubtless understood my object, and knew that such a visit could not possibly have been paid by the confidential secretary of tho President-elect without the sanction of his chief. If he did his duty he notified his own government; but the only result apparent was a renewed haste on the part of the plenipotentiaries, so that the treaty might be concluded before Grant came into his place. It was ratified by the contracting governments, but almost immediately rejected by the Senate, and in less than two months the administration that made it was out of power. The treaty of Washington, negotiated under Grant and Gladstone, took its place. This was not the only occasion when Grant acted as if the responsibilities of government were very near. General Rosecrans was nominated by Johrrson as Minister to Mexico about this time; the appointment was known to be very disagreeable to Grant, if not purposely dasigned to be offensive to him. The animosity of Rosecrans after Grant removed him from command at Chattanooga had never ceased. He had, like most of the discarded generals, joined the party that opposed the war, and had supported Johnson through all his tergiversations and aberrations. To appoint an important minister immediately before the beginning of anew administration would have been under any circutn stances di sccurteous and exceptional, but when the minister was openly and personally hostile to the incomine President, the nomination appeared a studied insult. Grant directed me to write to his personal friend, Mr. Romero, who had long been Mexican Minister to the United States, but was nowin the Mexican government. I was to address him not avowedly by Grant's order, but so that my authority could not be mistaken, and to state to Romero how distasteful the appointmentjgof Rosecrans was to Grant, and that one of the earliest acts ot the now administration* would bo to revoke it. The envoy thus would be unable in the short time that he enjoyed his honors to execute any important diplomatic business, or to thwart the policy of the incoming government. Grant would probably not have taken this course but for his profound interest in Mexican affairs, an interest of which the administration was very well aware. He had recommended a definite policy in regard to Mexico, and to have a man appointed as minister there who was likely to oppose in advance whatever he believed were Grant’s views, was in Grant's eyes sufficient justification for this interference. It must be Remembered, too, that Grant had been eriven by Congress an authority that made him in many matters independent of the President, lc had been declared his duty to oppose the Presidents's acts and policy. He had seen Johnson tried for high crimes and misdemeanors, and almost deposed. lie be ieved that his own election was the condemnation of Johnson, the fiat of the people directing him to undo much that Johnson had done. Yet Johnson was endeavoring to carry measures in regard both to England and Mexico which he knew to bo unacceptable to the people and offensive to the President they had chosen. Now, when Grant found himself on the threshold of the highest place, the sensation of power, as well as the consciousness of his own rights, was verv strong. The acts I have described are evidence that he felt the importance of his position more fully thau he showed. They were not known to any man about him but myself, and were never revealed by me until now.

As the time approached when Grant was to enter upon his new functions, those who were expecting place or recognition at his hands became restive because he gave no intimation of his purposes. Every effort was made to obtain an insight into his plans, but; without avjfll He did not discloso even to Rawlins or Washburne—who had been his trusted intimates from the very beginning of his greatness—what he meant to do for or with them. Henry J. Raymond, who was a warm. and. of course, an important supporter of Grant, wrote to me begging for a hint of the future President’s policy, so that he might be prepared to advocate it. I read the letter to Grant, but, he refused to furnish any data for a reply. Mr. Greeley also, I was told by those who should have known, would have been very glad to be taken into Grant's confidence, although he made himself no application like Raymond’s; but the same silence was preserved toward him. The country was full of comment on this reticence, and many of Graut's friends became anxious, not only those who wanted place, but others, from a genuine and patriotic concern. But Grant kept every intention within his own breast down to a very few days before bvs inauguration. He was led to this unusual course partly by his military habits and experience, and partly no doubt, by a belief that liis own judgment was better than that of any who could advise him. He had been used in the army to appointingcom manders without •consulting their own wishes and to ordering movements without informing his inferiors; and he kept up the practice in civil life. Many of his Cabinet ministers were appointed before they themselves were notified. One of them told me he felt as if he had been struck by lightning when he heard of his own nomination. Marshall Jewell went to Washington once to urge the appointment of a friend to the Russian mission, but was unsuccessful, and on his return he learned that his own name had been sent to the Senate for the post. Jewell was afterward dismissed from the Cabinet in the same peremptory way. Grant said to him one morning; “Mr. Jewell, I would like to receive your resignation,” and that was the Minister’s first and only warning. These were the acts of one who had been a military commander, “saying to this man go, and he goetb, and to another do this, and he doeth it.” But besides this, Grant was undoubtedly at this time affected by the adulation that was offered him. His head was as little turned as any man's who comes in to the highest place; but he had been told for years of his greatness, of his judgment, of his knowledge of men. All who approach Presidents or Presidents-elect say what they think will please them and withhold what will displease; all have something to ask, if only recognition, for the recognition of Presidents is itself an honor; and most people want mnch more. ■Everyone now was assuring Grant that the peoplo reposed full confidence in him; that he was the sole arbiter, the judge of last resort; and in some sort this was true; but the unwillingness to ask or to take nnv advice in this untried and most difficult of all positions—in a man who had no experience either in distributing the patronage or administering the affairs of civil government —betrayed a confidence in himseif almost unprecedented. Ti.is is the explanation of the distance at which he kept not only the public and the press, but political and personal friends. He alone was to be President, and he alone, he thought, was responsible. But no man is so much above and beyond his fellows as to be able to dispense entirely with their aid. Had Grant called around him and consulted able and experienced statesmen at this juncture, many misfortunes to himself, his friends and to the country would doubtless have been avoided. He would not, perhaps, have been obliged, in a second inaugural, to admit tbe mistakes he had made. I will yield to none in regard for his memory or admiration for his achievements, but the world will more readily believe me when I recount his excellencies, if I

do not hesitate to portray his errors; and this that I now point out was on T e of the most serious in his career. One afternoon, about three weeks before the 4th of March. Grant wrote his inaugural address. I was in the room, and when he had finished he handed the paper to me. This was before the return of Rawlins from Connecticut, whither he had gone sick and almost heart hroken, because Grant withheld his confidence. The address was written at the first almost as it was afterward delivered. Grant told me lock it up carefully, and it is within my knowledge that he showed it to no one but myself until a day or two before the inauguration. I went over it repeatedly with him during this period, for he was used to allowing me to read his most important and secret papers, and to make what suggestions I chose as to matter or style. But in all his utterances I was always anxious that' he should say his own thought, and, as far as possible, in his own way. On this occasion I suggested one material change, or rather addition. I had been greatly impressed with the sentence he uttered at Galena on the night of his election: “The responsibilities of the position I feel, but accept them without fear.” I proposed that he should introduce this line, and pointed out where I thought it could be inserted. He approved the suggestion, and this sentence —his own—became a part of the inaugural address. There were one or two verbal modifications, besides, and these were all. The draft was never out of my keeping till it was copied on either the 2d or the 3d of March. It is in my possession now, with the pencilled interpolation and other alterations in my own hand. Grant gave it to me on the 3d of March after the doors were closed and all visitors excluded, when be and 1 together revised the address for the last time. Adam Badeau. GENERAL GRANT TO MR. ROMERO. Headquarters Armies of the United States, ? Washington, I). C., Nov. 11, 1808. 5 Dear Sir —I returned to this city last Saturday evening, after an absence from it of more than four months. On my return I find three of your esteemed letters, one of which was written before you left Mexico to visit this country. I now write, not that I have anything particular to say, but to continue an acquaintance and friendship that I prize, because of your patriotism toward your own republic during its trials, and sympathy with ours when also tried. 1 sincerely hope for you every prosperity and advancement as a nation, and that the utmost good feeling may always exist between this country and all the republics or’ tho American continent. Before you receive this you will have heard the result of the late elections. Already the bitterness and animosity always engendered by a presidential campaign are subsiding. I hope now for national quiet and more looking after material interests. I shall not be able to visit Mexico as I hoped to do. My presence in tho United States will be required from now till next spring. Please remember ine kindly to your family and to the family of the President. Yours truly, U. S. Grant. KANSAS POLITICAL LEGENDS. How Hutchinson Waged War Against Jim Lane, and Made a Failure. Chicago News. Senator Preaton B. Plumb recalls what he is pleased to term an incident in Jim Lane’s senatorial campaign out in Kansas many, many years ago. He says that, when it became known that Lane was laying his pipes for the senatorship, forthwith there arose a bitter opposition to him, and among the opposition was one Hutchinson, a man of great natural ability, a persuasive talker, and an acute politician. A solemn caucus of the anti Lane leaders at Leavenworth resulted in the determination to conduct the battle against Lane on the nigh moral theory, and Hutchinson was dispatched to southern Kansas to tell tho people there what a profligate person Jim Lane was. The first speech Hutchinson made was at Fort. Scott. Tho men, women and children came in from everywhere, bringing their basket lunches with them, and otherwise prepared for a protracted session. Fully aroused to an appreciation of the responsibility which rested upon him, Hutchinson made the most eloquent oration of bis life, painting in tho fiercest language he could command the career of the libertine Lane, who. as he declared, had spent the most of hi3 life in wrecking homes, in invading the sanctity of tho fireside, in blasting human female lives, etc. A faint idea of the impression 119 made upon bis auditors may be gathered from the fact that, when he had wound up his peroration with a terrific denunciation of Lane and h ; s demoniacal methods, an old lady, who sat well up in front and who had been paying strict attention, looked calmly ovor her silver-bowed specs at Hutchinson, and asked: “Mister Hutcbi’sou, is that all you’ve got agin Jim Lane?” When ho came to brood over it in the hush of his chamber Hutchinson concluded that he wouldn’t attempt another public speech of this character; it would be wiser, he decided, to employ other tactics. Accordingly he sat himself about canvassing the agricultural districts, and the first man he approached was a hoary old person plowing in a field. Hutchinson took tho old farmer all aback by riding up to him, confronting him in the furrow, and opening out a tremendous broadside against Jim Lane for a libertine and a roue. When the simple rustic* had gathered his wits together and had caught the drift of Hutchinson's remarks, he assumed an indignant expression, and said: “Excuse me, sir, but I don’t care to hear you talk so agin a relative of mine.” Os course this remark confused Hutchinson a good deal. The best he could do under the circumstances was to stammer out an apology expressive of his deep regret at having denounced General Lane in the hearing of a relative, but while he was hemming and hawing tho old farmer interrupted him with, “Oh, it’s all right stranger; only I don’t care about hearing anybody speak disrespectful of Jime Lane, for 1 kind o’ suspicion him of bein’ the father of my oldest boy.”

Architecture as a Profession for Women. Boston Record. There is an opening for feminine industry in certain departments of architectural work which has, as yet, been little looked at by women. It is not iikeiy that any woman of this generation will prove herself great iu architecture. As in musical composition, this field has been occupied by men. The architect needs an unusual combination of qualities to be finely successful. lie must boa mathematician and an arii3t in one. fie must unit© the accuracy and precision of a logical mind with the sensibility and adaptiveness of an artistic nature. Tbe training of women has been such that the devel opment of this arrangement of talent must necessarily be rarer among them than among men. But it is quite possible for a woman who knows that her tastes and her powers will back her decision to make up her mind to study for and to enter upon the architect’s profession, hopeful of a fair amount of success. In designing houses, and in interior decoration, there is certainly a chance for very remunerative work for those who are fitted for it. The architectural department at Cornell University is open to women, and a Kansas girl is one of the best students of the class. A woman in St. Paul has succeeded in establishing herself in a paying business in house building. The lectures at the Institute of Technology are open to women. There is no lack of opportunity for tho necessary training to any girl who has the strength, and the talent, and the pluck to enter into this new place. The Bishop and the Boy. Boston Jtocon’.. Bishop Wi. liaras, of Connecticnt, a man warmly esteemed 1 y all sorts and conditions of men, and even mot aso by children, was making one of his episcopal visitations, aud was the guest of the rector of tbe parish ho was visiting. Tho rector, who was a rigorous man in the training of his children, had a little boy six years old, who was a great favorite with the bishop, and of whom, in turn, the bishop was much beloved. On Sunday afternoon the bishop and the boy were left alone for a while in the rector’s study, and were chatting comfortably. “Let us look at your picture book?” said the bishop. “All right,” said the boy. He brought the picture book, laid it on the right reverend lap of hi3 guest, ami then went furtively back and closed the study door. “We'll have to do it on the sly, bishop, you know!” said ho with a grin. • The next Sunday, the historian is told, the bishop preached a magnificent sermon on the sin of over-righteousness.

READING FOR THE DAY. Snnday-Sohool Lesson for Oct 10, 1886. Jesus Before Pilate— John xviii, 28-40. Golden Text— l find in him no fault at all.—John xviii, 38. GROSS INJUSTICE IN THE NAME OF LAW. The Jews followed, with great care, their written law in the method of their proceeding against Jesus of Nazareth. The best and wisest laws that wers ever made for the protection of society and to secure the rights of the individual may bo so administered that they defeat these very ends. The harshest and most cruel injustice often occurs in the name of law. Jesus Christ was put to death in the name and according to the forms of law; he was found guilty of violating the very laws he had given to Moses. We do wisely to study these questions from the stand point of the honest Jew, as well as from our own Chn„tiau view Jesus was arraigned before the Council or Sanhedrim at the dawn of day. Their object was to show Him guilty of being a blasphemer and a false prophet, crimes that were punishable with death according to the law o? Moses. Lev. xxiv, 13-16. They attempted to pervert what He had said about the resurrection of His own body into a statement against the Temple. But their witnesses were so contradictory that the high priest, At least, asks Jesus to make to the Council a statement concerning himself, and whether He really claimed to be the Christ, the Son of God. Jesus at once declares himself to be the Messiah. This, in their eyes, was false and blasphemous, and they would at once have led him outside the city and stoned him to death, had not this “power of life and death” been taken from them by the Roman government that controlled Judea as one of its provinces. Edersheim makes it evident that this meeting of the council, or Sanhedrim, was not a formal or regular one of the whole body, "but only a few of the leading and controlling members who had been warned to be in readiness for a trial, as the capture of Jesus was to be made that night. It was during this meeting of this counoil that the three denials of Peter occurred in the open court around which the palace was built, and from many rooms of .which Christ could look down on his disciples as they gathered with the soldiers and others around the fire built during the cool morning hours. PRACTICAL LESSONS. 1. They themselves went not into the judgment hall lest they should be defiled. What a strange perversion of conscience! Their hearts were full of hate and murder, but they were very careful to keep their ceremonial laws against outward uncleanness. There are strange inconsistencies on the part of those often who are the greatest sticklers for right. An enlightened Christian conscience is a safe guide, but its light should corne from the word and the spirit of God, and not from mere usage or tradition. Beware of a perverted conscience, that may be lax in some things and morbidly active in others. 2. What Accusation Bring Ye?—lf wo could get men to formulate their reasons against Christianity they would often see their absurdity. Press homo the question to each unconverted scholar. What is vour accusation or objection to Christ as your King? 3. My Kingdom is Not of this World —llow often we forget this fact, and judge and plan for it as a mere human institution? We measure it by wealth, by number?, by position, and our hopes and fears correspond. The aims and forces are spiritual, and it is strong, as it is established in men’s hearts. 4. lAm a King—The truth is plain, and Christ is indeed a King supreme. In His gracious work as Shepherd, Savior, Brother, Friend, we sometimes forget He is King. We ought to proclaim it often, and write it on our banners, that “Christ is King.” Ho shall finally reign over all kingdoms and become tho King of kings.

Religions Notes. Season for universal prayer for Sunday-schools Oct. 17 and 18. A Grand Lodge of Good Templars has been instituted at the capital of Iceland. The mind doth shape itself to its own wants, And can bear all things. —Joanna Baillie. The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still. —Pope. The Christian community in India is increasing at the rate of 8j per cent, a year, and therefore doubles every twelve years. Dr. Aubrey, the well-known Congregational minister of London, will make, this fall, a tour of the United States, lecturing and studying American institutions. The Baptists of southern California have raised SIO,OOO for the erection of the first building of the Southern California Baptist University at Los Angeles. Other and larger buildings will follow. The Seventh-day Baptists support a mission in China and on© in'Holland: a university at Alfred Center, N. Y.. and a college at Milton, Wis. The attendance at the two institutions last year ag greeated 700. There are thirty-two Presbyterian Sundayschools in the United States having more than one thousand scholars each. The largest one is at Throop-avenue Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. f with a membership of 2,777. The Lutheran Church has the gospel preached in the United States in thirteen different tongues: English, German, Swedish. Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Finnish, Bohemian, Polish, French, Servian, Slavonian and Wendian. West Indies Methodism is celebrating its centennial. The first Wesleyan mission among them was established at. St. John’s, Autigua, Christmas, 177 G, by Dr. Coke, who, with three missionaries, set up the standard. Doctrines that do not reach the heart wiil never control the life. Instruction that is intellectual only will never save or sanctify a soul. The minister's great business is to transform doctrine and instruction iuto motive. There is a memorial church in the Himalayas for which Mr. George Stuart, of Philadelphia, furnished the idea and a good share of the money, and Mr. John Wanamaker the bell, and George W. Child3 the clock, and Mr. Thomas F. Biakeraore the marble memorial tablet, inscribed with the name of the missionary pastor's dead daughter. The bell and clock are described as “the most magnificent in India.” At the meeting in Princess Hall, where the Bishop of London presided, he said that he was in favor of restrictive license, and that it was the greatest of falsehoods to say that laws to secure temperance affected only the poor, for in answer he said the poor themselves asked far legislation, and the only way to secure proper legislation was by patient, persistent work. The reports from the different colonies were very interesting, and went to show the great need for persevering, organized effort on tha part of the church. The Jewish Messenger assures us that “a religion will never rise above the spiritual level of its women; and no denomination can neglect the couuseh sympathy, and active service of highminded and sagacious mothers, wives and sisters We Israelites will recognize this fact more clearly in time. The complete Umschwune in the education of women is not sufficiently appreciated by our Jeuish congregations. But there is abundant excuse. The great majority of our synagogues are still foreign to all intents and purposes.” There has been, it is stated, a great awakening among the (Dutch settlers) of Natal, South Africa. They have been so busy with prayer-meetings that the worldly have complained that they have spoiled the annual races The leader among the converts is a Mr. Nel, who says he can count over 200 in his sparsely-settled district who have experienced a change of heart. The work was a very quiet one. beginning without the agency of evangelistic meetings. Those awakened showed great anxiety for the heathen Kaffirs, and many natives have been converted. What is known as the Paris Missionary Society, having resolved to establish a mission in the French section of the Congo district, has issued a circular appealing for funds. Thirty thousand francs, about SII,OOO per annum, it is calculated, will be sufficient at the outset. ‘‘Missions! Missions!” writes M. Revelland in the Signal, “these should be our crusades, to which our sons should devote themselves, and in which they might win titles to nobility far more real than those which were obtained by the pilgrims to the Holy Sepulchre and by the mailed knights of the Middle Ages. God wills it” A Yellow Dinner. Boston Gazette. A lady at Newport has just given a “yellow dinner,” which would have delighted the heart

of Oscar Wilde, fn the middle of the table was a large basket of golden rod, now one of the favorite flowers in fashionable society; grouped about it were smaller dishes of marigold, scattered over the network tablecloth, beneath which wasayeilow eover. Thecandlee were yellow with yellow shades, and the candelbra stood on yellow plush mats. The ladies, dressed in yellow, were presented with gilded palm-leaf fans, tied with yellow ribbons. The bonbons were yellow, the china a yellow and gold, and yellow fruit was served os dessert BITS OF FASHION. White vests of brocaded silk or velvet be worn with black silk. American silks and satins are winning still higher praise abroad. Fringes are deep and heavy and have velvet headings combined with beads. Old-fashioned hoop-skirts are already worn by ladies who “have just returned from Europe.” Among the girl of the period’s autumn wraps is the cape overcoat, heretofore copnned to men. Green is seen in a greater number of tints than ever before, from the darkest bottle green to pale chartreuse. Three sizes of buttons are used in costumes —large for skirts, medium for jackets, and small for closing bodices. Browns of all shades, from seal to tan, as well ns all variations of gold color, are favorites for tailor-made costumes. Lustrous alpaca is used in combination with surah. The alpaca is made of the finest mohair, and is of beautiful quality. Red, high-standing linen collars affected by some girls of the period make the unsophisticated believe it is flannel for sore throat. The fancy for buttons fashioned in odd devices is again revived, and these vary from the simple metallic buttons to styles almost as expensive as jewels. Sunset purple is anew color that is beginning to make its appearance in everything. It is a color vaguely described as neither one thing nor the other. Nearly all bonnet trimmings are still arranged very high in front, and the shapes are quite close at the sides. They do not suit long faces nor slender ones; still they are the fashion, so everybody wears them. Underskirts of gray and black silk moreen aro made with a number of flounces f.t the back and sit excellently. It is necessary that they be made by a person who understands the requirements of a well-fitting skirt. Red and deep blue bid fair to become almost a uniform in itself, so popular has the combination grown. This mixture, known as the “Princess of Wales’’ colors, shows itself this autumn in every sort of fabric, from serge to satin, and from the airiest silk batiste for evening wear to the most magnificent velvet brocades, designed for the most elegant and elaborate reception gowns. Pretty little dresses in Russian fashion for children are made of dark blue or fawn-colored cashmere or serge, brocaded with tiny bouquets and other small figures in cardinal. The short skirt is kilted .all around, and over this is a stylish little cutaway coat which gives the suit its name. The jacket opens broadly over a blouse vest of plain cardinal serge, gauged at the neck and laid in deep pleats at the belt.

STAGE SCANDALS. Securing Notoriety for Third-Class Actresses by Shameless Advertising. New York Fun. The fashion of advertising second and thirdrate women of the stage by cultivating scandals with regard to them has of late been carried to an utterly insufferable extreme. The one effort is to secure for them notoriety as shameless characters, so that the public curiosity may be excited when they are Dut upon exhibition iu the theatre. The present trick is to engage a woman who has a “follower” in some man of more or less sof/al prominence, and thus to spread abroad suggestions of improper relations between them. Their names are artfully coupled together in order that the public may always be kept in mind of the association, and every opportunity is improved to rekindie scandalous suspicions. The follower is trotted around in the country with the rest of the company, nud induced to display himself as conspicuously as possiblo, for he is relied upon almost as much as the woman to draw the crowd. While she is simpering on the stage he is on ex hibitior. in a private box, and if some other fool can be egged on to play the part of a rival, so much the better for the cultivation of the scandal. Now, it is probable that, as a matter of fact, the relations of the man to the woman are discreditable only on the score of taste. He is apt to be soft-headed rather than vicious, for veritable rakes and libertines would hardly consent to have their vire3 paraded before the whole public for such advertising purposes, however ready they might be to boast of them in their own small circle of male acquaintance. They would as soon think of touting for a faro bank because they gambled among themselves. We, therefore, think it pretty safe to assume that these followers are actually the victims of an idiotic, but innocent, infatuation which'the artful women and their enterprising managers stimulate and use for the sake of gain. If they appealed to the public simply on their artistic merits, such women might never get far above the ranks of the supernumeraries of the theater, but as notorious characters they may be run after for a while, regardless of their professional capacity. Besides the fools who already dog their heels, they may get other fools to increase the uproar over them, even it provision has not been made in advance for a'row, in which the original follower shall be one of the principals. In fact, throughout it is what is called a put-up job. AH that is, of course, degrading to the stage, utterly vulgar, and an insult to the public, who are treated as gullible fools with prurient tastes. The purpose is to draw great crowds by a cheap and nasty device; to palm off an indifferent actress by making her appear to them as a character so notorious that tney will pay their money simply to look upon her as a specimen of depravty, real or imaginary. Fortunately, such tricks will not long work. The people are already beginning to see through them pretty clearly. It remains to be seen how the Cameron-Lonsdale combination will get along. Association of Ideas. Boston Record When little Louis's mother was putting him to bed the other night he said to her: “Mamma, sing that song you sunged last night.” “But I sung-several last night, Louis. Which one do.you moan?” “Oh, that pretty one you sunged.” ' “But how can *1 tell which one you mean? Can’t you remember some of the words that were in it? What was it about?” “I guess it was about Jesus and the pump.” “Jesus and the pump! Why, what a strange boy! There isn’t any such song.” “Oh, yes, there is, mamma!” The mother thought long and earnestly, and at last it dawned on her what tho boy meant, and so sho sang, to his entire satisfaction— Jesus the water of life will give, Freely, freely, freely. The power of association in the infantile mind is a very interesting thing. Shears or Pair of Shears. Good Hirer. Perhaps some of our readers are critical enough in the use of language to decide whether the customer or the clerk was right in the following dialogue: Customer (to clerk in hardware store) —‘*Show me a small, low-price shears. Clerk (facetiously)—“Perhaps you mean a pair of shears.” Customer (severely)—“l mean precisely what I said." Clerk (defiantly opening a specimen article)— “Are there not two blades here? and don’t two make a pair?” Customer (triumphantly)—“You have two legs, does that make you a pair of men?” The shears were done up in profound silence. Society on the Lake St. Louis Post-Dispatch. No man is prepared to shine in Chicago society unless he is qualified to talk about plouro-pneu-xuoata.

HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD. To afford pleasing contrasts of color silk scarf# are now partially inserted in creamic vases, thA fringed portion falling over. To clean bottles put into the bottle some kernels of corn, a tablespoouful of ashes, pour it half full of water, and, after a vigorous shaking and rinsing, you will find the bottle as good as new. A liquid glue that is always ready for use. can, it is said, be made by filling a glass jar with bits of broken glue, and putting over it acetic acid. Place the jar in water over the fire until the glue is all dissolved, and tho process is complete. Fruit stains upon cloth or upon the hands may be removed by rubbing them with the juice of ripe tomatoes. If applied immediatly, powdered starch will also take, stains out of "table linen. Left on the spot a few hours, it absorbs every trace of the stain. For what is called lemon-honey, use one grated lemon, rind and all, one and one-half cup of sugar, one half cup of butter, one cup of water, two tablespoonfuls of corn starch: cook till thick, stirring while cooking. Nice as a sauce, or to put between layer cake. Try this way of pickling sweet apples: For six pounds ot fruit, use tbr?e of sugar, about five dozen cloves and a pint of vinegar. Into each apple stick two cloves. H*ve the syrup hot, and c k until tender. Peaches and pears are pickL the same way. To make Chili sauce take eighteen ripe tomatoes, nine medium-sized onions and three green bell peppers, chop all fine, put in your kettle, add oue cun sugar, three scant tablespoonful# of salt, c and a half of vinegar, and spica to taste; tntil the onion is soft. An od outterfly arrangement is made by painting an ordinary wooden ciothes-pin a jet black. Two silver wires are fastened in the head to represent feelers or antennae, and a Japanese handkerchief, folded tw ice, so as to make it about ten inches long and five inches wide, drawn half way through the split, and pushed close up to tho body of the pin, answers for the wings. Japanese “splashers” of bamboo, gilded or bronzed, fitted with hags, are useful adjuncts to the dressing or bedroom. In the center of tho “splasher” is a brush holder, divided in compartments for whisk, clothes and hat brushes. At each of the four corners is a bag for holding “odds and ends.” The brush holder and bags are made of satin or silk, or they may be made of handsome cretonne. A rug can be made by taking any pieces of woolen, cutting them about one-naif inch wide and three inches long. These can be cut on tho bias of the material or on the straight With e rather coarse stitch, and with strong thread, run them through the middle of the pieces, pushing them up closely. It will take about two hundred yards of thread for a good-sized rug. Have it woven by a weaver. Y T ellow has the peculiarity that it is not only less affected than o:her colors by the sun’s rays, but it is more distinguishable in declining light and less diminished than all other colors except white by distance. A number of hues in contiguity to it are apt to look discordant; hence bright yellow is not suited to picture frames, for which even gilding of a pronounced yellowish tinge >hould be avoided. Tho best way in which to clean hair brushes is with spirits of ammonia, as its effect is immediate. No rubbing is required, and cold water can be used just as successfully as warm. Take a teaspoonful of ammonia to a quart of water, dip the hair part of the brush without wetting the ivory, and in a moment the grease is then rinse in cold water, shake well, and dry in the air. but not in the sun. Soda and soap, soften the bristles and invariably turn the ivory yellow.

A writer in a household journal says: “There need bo absolutely no waste of bread. It is ah excellent plan to cut the bread at the table as it is needed. This is easily managed by having & small round board, such as are sola for that purpose in every house-furnishing store, or one can bo made by an ingenious boy. Mine is of cherry wood, with a wreath of ivy leaves cut around for ornament—a young gfrl’s first attempt at wood carving. Then there must be a broad, sharp, thin-bladed knife for cuttiug the bread. A correspondent of an exchange, speaking of tho defacement of paint by the inadvertent or heedless scratching of matches, says that he ha# observed that when one mark has been made, others follow rapidly. To effectually prevent this, rub the spot with flannel saturated with liquid vaseline. After that, people may try tp strike matohes ever so hard, they will neither geo a light nor injure the paint; and, what is most singular, the petroleum causes the existing mark to soon disappear, at least when it occurs on dark paint. A bag for holding a gossamer is much morp convenient than a case, as it can be carried on the arm and not be in the way when shopping or traveling. Black satin makes a very pretty and durable bag; it sheds the dust and rain. Dark flannel,, or ladies’ cloth, is also used. TO make the bag you will need a piece of the material measuring, double, thirteen inches wide and ten deep, to allow for seams and ruffles at th# top. Embroider the initials on one side In subdued shades of crewels that will look well oh the satin or cloth. Put a double shir string of silk braid in the top. To make citron preserves cut the rind in fancy shapes, notching the edges nicely, then lay then in alum water, not too strong, and let them rernaiu all night In the morning put in fresh alum water and boil a few minutes, then change them to clear water, hot, of course, and boil till tender. Now prepare the syrup, using one and one-half pound of sugar aud a cup of water for each pound of rind. When the syrup Is clear, put in the rind and boll till transparent. If thA flavor of glrger is liked, tie a piece in a thin muslin bagiud boil with the preserves, removing it when they are done. These are delicioul. A pincushicn that is a watchcase is made by winding stripu of list from flannel or narrow strips of old flannel round and round until they form a muffin about nine inches round. Cover each flat side with plush or satin. Sew an inchwide ribbon around the edges and give it a cluster of loops to hang it up by. Sew firmly a large gilt hook iD the center of one of the sides, upon which the watch is hung, and if the length of the chain requires it, another hook may be sewed on one of the edges. The same device makes a good backing for some preoiou? old miniature that you do not wish to Set up stiffly in a frame. He Tested the Matter. Boston Record. There i? a little boy down in Lynn who is given to telling of very large stories, and who oftefi has to be chastened for untrnthfulness. No* long since his father, to try the effect of a no# treatment, gave over the usual method of punishment, and told the boy the story of Ananias and Sapphira, with all the impressiveness that he could master. The boy seemed to be mtlok edified by the narrative. The very next evening, when the father came home, he found bis wife leaning over tho boy* with tears in her eyes. “What is the matter?” the father asked. “Oh, Willie has been telling another great big lie,” said she. “Yes, papa,” said the boy, “and God didn’t dead me, either!" Wanted His Money’s Worth. Boston Record. Out at Biankhara the old village hearse b rather gone out of style, and they are get* ting up a subscription to buy anew one. They same to Uncle Jake J , who is well provided for with this world's goods, and asked him for his subscription. “Well. I swan if that ain’t impudence,” said he. “I subscribed for that ere old hearse, and | hain’t bad my ride out of it yet. Come and see me after I’ve had my good o’ the old one, boys!* Don’t Work Both Ways. Omaha World. Little Dot—Mamma, I wish you’d soak my head. Mamma—Mercy! child, don’t talk that way. “Well, I don’t see why. Last week who& I had a headache you soaked my feet, you know.” “Why, yes, but—have you a headache now. pet?'’ “No, but my foot hurts.” A Nice Patron. Minneapolis Tribune. One conspicuous advantage of the established church systom is shown by the fact that Lord Lonsdale (Miss Violet Catneron’e “financial manager”) is patron of forty-one livings in the Church of England.