Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 1889-WELVE PAGES.

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It starts its characters in a New England village, goes with them to what was then the far West, and follows .them through adventures in love and In4H9T1 Wftrfarft- Tfc 1fT?w f b a lif a rf fbaf. impression that it was written by an eyewitness of the scenes, and is of great interest as well as of high literary quality. In . joint of merit, "East and West" is a fitting climax to the series of excellent novelettes the Journal has recently been printing, and 'too one should fail to read it. THE EEJICTI05 OF MB. HALSTEAD, The rejection by the Senato of the nomination of Mr. Marat Halstead as 'minister to Berlin is an event of more importance than may appear at first glance. By this action the Senate has puslied to tho furthest vergo its constitutional prerogative of advice and consent in tho matter of executive appointments. The Constitution does vest this advisory and consenting power in the Senate, but it clearly intended tho President to be the eoutco of executive authority and the sole custodian of the 1 appointing power. The consent of tho Senato should only be withheld for public reasons and in tho interest of the national honor or the general welfare. In tho absence of overruling reasons of . that kind, the appointing power of the President should prevail. In the pres ent case tho action of the Senate is not based on reasons of the character indicated, but upon personal reasons. Mr. Ilalstead'is rejected by. tho votes of Re publican Senators because ho severely criticisedtheir course in the matter of I Beating.Senator Payne four years ago. : "Without expressing any opinion now as 10 the merits of that controversy, the Journal remarks that it is past and gone, ! and, being so, the feeling engendered by it should bo buried and forgotten. Least ;of all should it be brought up in the Senate and made the basis of a personal attack on a personal friend of the Presi dent, against whom no charge of public disqualification or unfitness is brought. Wo think Senators have yielded too much to their personal feelings. Another and a graver aspect of the 'case is tho precedent it establishes in exercising a sort of senatorial censor ship of tho press. Mr. Halstead is re jected for an important offico simply because his newspaper openly differed vith and severely criticised certain Sen ators in a matter of public policy. This looks like notice to editors to bo careful how they criticise Senators, lest they or . their friends may some time be punished . as Mr. Halstead has been. In this view of tho case it savors of being a blow at tho independence of the press, and we think it will bo so regarded. The Sen ate has made a mistake, and sowed the rgeeds of trouble. T7ASSI3QI0S LITERATURE. It may bo thought, naturally enough, 'by the American pnblio that nothing new can be said or written at this late day about George Washington, and that every letter and document relating to him has long since been published. This, it seems, is . a decided mistake. A number of literary persons have re cently been mousing among ancient records and exploring the early haunts . of the Father of his Country, with the result, it is said, of discovering many new and interesting facts concerning him, moro interesting traditions and an unexpected supply of letters and papers bearing on tho subject. In spite of the war and its effects, Virginia shows less change than any other part of the country. The near neighborhood of a rapid . and modern civilization affects tho old residents but little. The "first families'' still livo on what i3 left or 01a estates, and find consolation for present deprivations in the discussion of past grandeurs. Among these families are aged persons .-Whose memories, go well back toward tho beginning of tho century, whose reminiscences como close to tho Wash ington period, and who cherish the old tales and incidents related to them in childhood as a part of the almost sacred early Virginia life. In these old homes piany a yellow, time-stained letter has jb;en brought forth which has proved a . tzzzzvxo to the historical searcher. The

results of some o these investigations

liaTO appeared in magazines; others are to be published in inoro pretentious form, as tho "Life of Washington," or as collections of his manuscripts. Hen ry Cabot Lodge will soon issue a life of Washington in two volumes. Moncure D. Conway, in a magazine article entitled "Foot-prints in Washingtonland," says he has recently read 140 unpublished letters of Washington. Tho Long Island Historical Society has 120 of these in its possession, having secured them from the hands of Hon. Edward Everett Mr.Conway adds that when these letters and Washington Ford's edition of known and some unknown Washington manuscripts has been issued, "it will be found that Washington has been his own biographer and his only one." Certainly, from all tho indications, there is no room to doubt that Washington literature will bo greatly increased in quantity, if not in value, within the next two or three months. The astounding news from Samoa is confirmed, and the extent of tho disaster is alipost as great as indicated by the first dispatches. A cable message from Rear Admiral Kimberly says tho Amer ican war vessels Trenton and Vandalia are total wrecks and tho Nipsic almost so. Of the three German vessels, two were wrecked and tho third is almost a total loss. The American loss of life is forty-three men and the German ninetysix. Tho hurricane which caused this wholesale destruction occurred on the 16th of March. Under the circumstances it is one of tho most remarkable marine disasters on record. Tho loss of life and property is very great, and the fact that tho wrecked ships are all war vessels and ha 7e been watching one another for months under very peculiar circum stances, makes the occurrence without a precedent in history. The three American vessels were among the best of our wooden ships, and their loss will materially diminish the effective strength of our little navy. Their money value was very considerable, but this is of little account compared with the loss of life. THE TRUTH ABOUT CALTFORHIA. Joaquin Miller has written many verses and some prose romances on life in California, but as he describes everyday existence in that Stato as experienced by himself and others who are obliged to work for a living, there is painfully lit tle romance about it. Even a poet can not grow sentimental over a financial investment which yields him aninsuftlcient return, even if the investment is in the land whose climate is glorious and whoso rivers run over golden sands. Joaquin bought a portion of that land one hun dred acres, to be exact for which he paid $200 an acre. He tells about it in the New York Independent, and expresses tho opinion that he paid too much. He went there with a partiality for the place born of an adventurous and idyllic experience in his early years, but the prosaic occupation of running a ranch at a loss seems to have destroyed the youthful illusions pretty effectually. He still loves California; but for the benefit of those who might be drawn there" by misrepresentation, and being disenchanted and disappointed, might learn to hate it, he pictures things as he finds them, and not as the real estate boomers color them. Tho new Californians, by which term he distinguishes those who are not forty-niners, he frankly declares are given to lying. As an instance of this, he avers that California cannot, as they insist, compete with Florida, of which State ho has also been a resident, in orange culture. Ex cept within a limited region tho success of the olive tree is problematical. His own ranch has increased in value owing to its neighborhood to Oakland, but of its profits as a farm ho has as yet seen nothing. Some, he says, "make money on eggs; some of my neighbors mako butter, some grow vegetables, some lease their land to Chinamen, sonio build and rent out cheap shanties to laboring men; but what I mean to say is that I do not see howl can make a living on such land here as can be bought at $200 an acre. For land is entirely too high in Cali fornia; and you would better settle else where. It is true that you can read about ranch eggs selling at 50 and even 75 cents. Butter also has its exalted days. But, as I write, eggs can be had at my door for 13 cents; butter, and of tho be.ft ever made, for about 25 cents." The stories of fruit selling at from $250 to 500 an acre, he says, aie some times true, but such sales are spasmodic and orchards are often badly injured by tho weight of fruit which the owners find unprofitable to gather because of its abundance. In tho face of this he has planted an orchard, and expects returns from his toil in time, but not a fortune. The poor man with an acre or half an acre near San Francisco would, he de clares, break his heart and his pocket in half a year. If he wanted to mako money, is his conclusion, he would go to Oregon or Washington; if he wanted climate and cheap land good land, too, if it has water he would go to Arizona. To 6um it up, California is a delightful region if you have money, but it is not tho best place, nor a good place, for the poor man. A great many men havo found this out by bitter experience beforo Mr. Miller's discovery, but many others are being misled by tho glowing representations of the real estate agents and the poet -f aimer's statements, which arc undoubtedly true, may prevent some disappointments. But how tho boomers will detest him! THE OKLAHOMA B00HER3. 1 It is difficult for people of tho steadygoing, stay-at-home class to understand the nature of the motives animating the clamorous crowd now hovering? about the borders of Oklahoma, waiting, like a flock of hungry cormorants, for the time when they can safely swoop down upon tho land and occupy it. If the couutry wero overcrowded, and land not to be had, tlie opportunity to possess a portion of theso fertile and hitherto uncultivat ed acres would be sufficient explanation of the motley gathering. But good land is plenty; aud while it cannot bo bad for V 1 il.i 1. not lung, u can ue uuiaiueu mine neigu borhood of civilization at such,- reason able rates that no mau willing to work need be deprived of the privilege of own-

ership. The money spent by these men

some of them from distant parts of the country and some accom panied by their familics-in travel and in maintaining themselves after arrival, would provide each with a home in a settled community. It is not in all cases the need of homes, for many havo left good homes. It can hardly be the hope of wealth that is the leading mo tive, though this doubtless animates all to some extent, for not one in a thousand of those who are waiting will profit financially by his venture through any foresight or management of his own. Tho truth probably is that the eager multitudo is composed largely of the nomadic class which is never long satis fied anywhere, and is continually and of its own accord "moving on." These will scatter themselves over Oklahoma, and for a time be an influence in its affairs, but presently they will make way for the more settled population and be known no more. Another element of the waiting crowds is made up of those of an adventurous turn, attracted to the place simply by the novelty of entering a new and comparatively unknown country. Still another influence that draws many to the place, including some, without doubt, who would be unwilling to acknowledge it, is the desire to escape to some degree from what they feel to be the trammels of civilization. The savage is just below the surface iu tho most cultivated man. A former minister of this city is authority for the statement that a week in the woods is sufficient to removo the veneer of civilization. It was but lately that an English writer accounted for the Whitechapel and other horrible crimes in London on the ground that the inherent AngloSaxon taste for brutal pursuits was too much repressed, and that if the instinct could find outlet, as in former times, in the beating of wives and children and animals the Englishman would be less likely to commit murders. The Okla homa boomers are not of those who would go to such lengths; they do not desire to bo free of legal restraints, though there may be lawless men among them. They merely wish to be rid of tho intangible something that oppresses in a community of Sxed habits and customs. In the wildernesi of Oklahoma conventionalities will not disturb them. Among all these people are many who will make good citizens, and when they are presently followed by the more de-. liberate settlers of fixed plans and staid ways the new Territory will be on an equal footing with any in tho Union. Tiiat was a singular use made of the Bible, a few days ago, by one of our city lawyers, who was defending a man on a charge of receiving stolen goods. To offset thech.uge that his client's witnesses had contradicted themselves, he cited the ac counts of Judas's death as given by St. Matthew and St. Luke, respectively, to show that they differed materially. Mat thew, after relating tho betrayal and sur render of Christ, says of Judas: "And ho cast down the pieces of silver in tho temple, and departed and went and hanged him self. And the chief priests took the silver pieces and said. It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is tho price of blood. And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in." Matthew, chapter xxvii. verses W.J Luke says: "Now, this man purchased a field with the reward of iniq uity; and tailing headlong he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out." The difference between the two nar ratives belongs to the class of discrepan cies cited by commentators in proof of the truth of the Scriptures. It is claimed, and very reasonably, that if several men had conspired together to frame an untruthful account of supposititious events they would have been extremely careful to make their stories harmonize, even in the smallest de tails. Such minor discrepancies and acci dental differtnees as those here cited are really proof of the honesty of both writers, and of the truthfulness of the main nar rative. For it is important to note that the manner of Judas's death, or his disposition of the thirty pieces of silver, are merely in cidental to the main fact. The main fact was his betrayal of Christ for money, and his subsequent remorse and violent death. Current accounts may have differed as to the manner of his death, but they agreed as to the main facts, and the variation be tween Matthew and Luke rebuts the idea of dishonest collusion between them. The same rule should hold in the case of ordinary witnesses. Difference in non-essential points or matters of detail ought not to shake the credibility of witnesses who agree solidly as to the main facts, unless the points of difference are so numerous us to cast doubt on the entire story. An official of the United States Land Of fice gives some information regarding the entry of lands in Oklahoma, which shows it is a simple process. The seeker of an Oklahoma homestead must go on to his claim and stick to it in order to gain a title. and beyond that the proceeding is simple. A civilian on making a homestead entry must pay the sum of 14, take possession of his claim within six months, and stick to it the required time. A soldier may file his declaratory papers, which he may do by proxy, through an agent, and which will cost him $2. At the end of six months ho must make his homestead entry and pay $14 more, so that it costs the soldier $3 moro than the civilian to make entry, the former only having advantage of six months' time to take possession. The soldier has one ad vantage over the civilian, and that is that he can deduct from the live years necessary to complete his claim the time he served in the rebellion up to and including four years. This will enable soldiers who served four years in the late war to secure a patent of land in Oklahoma one year after settlement, while it will require five years for a civilian to acquire the same title. Miss Amelie Rives has published anoth er novel. Being a young woman who is accustomed to having her literary efforts commented on, she will doubtless expect the usual attentions from the press on this occasion. In this she will be disappointed. People whose taste for naughty stories of a ridiculously crude order was not satiated by the "Quick or the Dead'1 will read this to see if it is as bad as the other, and find ing it is not will turn hopefully to Edgar Saltusand the one or two other immature persons who are producing the nude in lit erature. For Amelie'a new story is not "bad" in the sense of containing indelicate lovo scenes or free discussions of matters which modest people do not talk about in general society. It is not bad in a literary sense, for tho author unquestionably has much ability iu this direction and on. this occasion adheres to the established vo cabulary more than is her custom, aud uses

fewer home-made words. She has also

good dramatic power, but fails in repre senting life. This is not to be wondered at, since she is a young woman, and ha had but little experience of life. It is only her ambitious efforts to portray what sho knows nothing about that make her failure so conspicuous. This tale, like the rest, is 1 Ti A J t uureai, hs situations, many oi tnem, aosurd, its characters untrue to life. The scene of the story is laid in Russia, a coun try which Miss Rives never saw. The hero is a man of twenty-eight, who has attained fame as a novelist; the heroine a' "genius" of seventeen who, at the age of ten. had produced "manuscripts" which she wanted criticised. Fate, engineered by the jealous mother of the man, separates the lovers, and they are only united in the last chapter in time to be swallowed up by a quick sand the very best place for such a remarbable couple that could have been devised. There aro a few admirable things in the story, so admirable as to arouse the wish that Miss Rives may soon cease to imitate last century writers, or, as in this case, French novelists, and adopt a style which shall give proper play to her own natural talent. Probably the most useful work done and the best record made by any foreign representative during Mr. Cleveland's administration was that of Mr. Straus, minis ter to Turkey. Although Mr. Straus is a Hebrew, he rendered very marked services to the Christian cause and to the missionary efforts of the Western churches. Before he went to Turkey the colporteurs who distributed religious tracts and books were constantly being arrested, their books were confiscated, and the colporteurs sub jected to great annoyance. Mr. Straus ob tained permission for them to travel and distribute their books without interference. Another service rendered by hira was in securing the reopening of the American mission schools that were closed by the Ottoman authorities in 1855-C. There were thirty-two of theso schools, and all were closed under a strict construction of an old law that had not been enforced. All but three of them have been reopened, and all are probably in operation now. Mr. Straus also obtained from the Sultan a permit for printing and publishing the Bible in Turkish, and rendered other valuable services outside of his diplomatic duties. It is said that at the end of his term all the foreign missionaries resident in Turkey, the faculty of Roberts College and all Americans in business at Constantinople were unanimous in commending his course and expressing the hope that he would be retained. He is a wealthy merchant of New York, and it is said does not caro to continue in office. The appointment of Edwin H. Terrell, of San Antonio, Tex., as minister to Belgium is an exceptionally good one. He is in the prime of life, and is qualified by education, travel and legal training to capably discharge tho duties of the place. He is a man of high character, a sterling Republican, who is respected as such by his Southern fellow-citizens in Texas, and hiaappointnieni; asoneof the younger men in the parry in the South, will be well received. Mr. Terrell is a native of Ind'ana, where he was educated, but for the last thirteen years he has made his home in San Antonia Tex., and has thoroughly identified himself with its growth and prosperity. Having amassed a considerable fortune and being fond of politics he has endeavored to advance Republicanism in his section, and has done it with a vigor that has made him some thing of a power there. That his efforts have been appreciated by the administra tion, his appointment to this honorable post in the diplomatic jBervice is evidence, and the President is to be commended on the selection. the steamsmp vmgate, wnicn naa a narrow escape from being wrecked off Long Island, a few days ago, has arrived in New York wfth a queer cargo. The vessel was from Alexandria, Egypt, and her cargo con sisted of 700 tons of bones gathered in the sands of the Sahara and Arabian deserts. The bones were of both man and beast, and were the collection of centuries, if not of thousands of years. They are to be used for the refining of sugar, manufacture of paper, for fertilizing the ground and for knife handles, etc. The utilization for such purpose of old bones from African deserts is a reversal of Shakspeare's lines: "Imperious Cawar, dead and turned to clay. Might stop a hole to keep the wind away' The New York Legislature is still strug gling with the question of prison labor. The present system of idleness is found to be the very worst possible for the prison ers. A prominent State prison official of New York said a few days ago: "Something must be done, and speedily, too. The men. for want of employment, aro degenerating into a condition that is truly deplorable. Our hospitals are filled, the number of in sane patients is beyond all precedent, and it is no exaggeration to say that never in the history of a State have so many human beings, charges upon the State, been. 60 inhumanly treated as the 3,500 unfortunate men now confined in our State prisons." The Connecticut Legislature has taken very advanced ground on the tobacco ques tion, by passing a bill which prohibits the sale or giving to a boy under sixteen years of age tobacco in any form, under penalty of a fine of $50. It further prohibits tho use of tobacco in any form by a person under sixteen years old in a public place, un der penalty of a fine not exceeding $7. At last accounts the Governor had not yet signed the bill, and was disposed to veto it on the ground that it was too sweeping to be effective, and could not be enforced. Our form of government is not well adapted to the enforcement of laws of that kind. Some person who must have experienced the difficulty of procuring a postage stamp makes a suggestion which, perhaps, Mr. Wanamakcr might utilize. "Why not," says the inventive citizen, "attach a nickelslot machine to each letter-box, put in your nickel and tako out two two-cent stamps! Profit to the government, 125 per cent,; profit to the public convenience, time saved, drug storesjrelieved from many inroads on good nature." That would be a good use for the slot machine, but we fear Mr. Wanamaker would not approve a machine that would work on Sunday. It has been suggested to the New York centennial celebration committee that the theaters should, on the evening of April SO, unite in the production of plays that Wash ington might have seen when he lived. This suggestion is evidently made out of consideration for the Father of his Country in case he should be present at the celebra tion. If the shades of Washington and Martha should chance to wander into a theater where a modern society play or variety show was beiug enacted it would be a great moral shock to them. A PAirrv of Frenchmen has just left Chicago for western Wyoming and north ern Colorado, where they will spend the next few months in a search for specimens of the game of North America, which they

propose to capture alive and transport to the museums and public gardens of Paris. Perhaps for a beginning they had better capture a few grizzlies. We can hardly imagine a more picturesqure view than that of a Parisian capturing a grizzly alive. . One reporter has certainly been discharged from the Boston Herald before this time. In Friday's issue of that usually correct and fastidious paper, a local article contains the word "pants," not as a joke, nor as proceeding from the lips of a wild Westerner, nor yet as referring to tho tumultuous breathing of a weary dog, but seriously and in the sense of "trousers." Boston culture had a shock that morning over its fishballs. Lieutenant-Governor Chase, who is holding successful revival meetings at Covington, might accomplish a great political, as well as religious work by laboring in the districts which sent Democratic representatives to the late Legislature. Converts could hardly fail to see the error of their ways in sending such incompetent men to legislate for them and would not repeat the sin. The appointment of Bobert T. Lincoln as minister to England recalls the fact that when a lad, his father being President, he

was called the Prince of Rails. Now he will meet the Prince of Wales. That Denver bank robber was a genius in his way. Or if it turns out that no such robbery occurred, then the man who evolved the tale was the genius. To the Editor of tho Indianapolis Journal: ricase state what is understood bv the exnresslon "upwards of $10O,0OO.M Does it mean over $100,000 or under $100,000! j. w. m. cm. We cannot imagino how it could have any meaning except "more than $100,000," and this is what one should say if he wishes to speak good English. The expressions "upwards of and "over" in the sense of UWIO lUdU tuo ttll UUUUllUitllUU, t To tLo Editor of tho IndlanipoUa Journal: Where can I cot a short hlstnrv nf 1 hahnftl nf Atlanta! Has the company any small pamphlets giving a Boon, concise nisiory ior saiei DUBCKIBER. Address Manager Atlanta Cyclorama, this city. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Please trive a short sketch of the lifn of fipn. Lew Wallace. k. a. l. 6t. Joe, Ind. Such a sketch was printed in the Weekly Journal of Jan. 23, 1889. To the Editor of tho Indianapolis Journal: Will vou kindlr answer thrnusrh vonr rnlnmn whether General Fremont was placed on the retired list by the last Congress! j. j. l. l'tut, ina. He was not. BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT. Marion Crawford, the novelist, reads Latin, Greek, Sanscrit, Arabic and Persian with facility. . Geokge Kennan, of Siberian fame, has been elected president of the literary society of Washington Frank Stockton, it is said, does most of his composing in a hammock which he has swung in nis library. William Ralston, a well-known English writer, has been made insane from a too close study of the mysterious Whitechapel murders. Gkorge William Curtis never writes at a table except to sign his name. He writes on a pad in his baud with his pencil, and lias a copy made from this. M. MacLane, minister of the United States to France, expects to stay at least another year in Paris, after the nomination of his successor by General Harrison. C. W. Haskins, of Oakland, Cal., has made a list of immigrants who were struck by tho gold fever in 1849 and went to tho Pacific coast. He estimates the number at 00,000. The Hon. Neal Dow thinks there is no doubt that Theodore R. Tiraby, instead of John Ericsson, should be honored as the inventor of the revolving turret for ships or war. Wiiitelaw REm's nom de plume when writingforthe Cincinnati Gazetteas its war correspondent, was "Agate," and he won his spurs for the character of his work at Shiloh and Gettysburg. TnE Dorothy is a proposed new club in New York where woman can get luncheon or all their meals, if necessary, meet one another and have access to publications that women are interested in. John Hicks, minister to Peru, is fortytwo years old, editor of the' Northwestern, at Oshkosh. and the pride of Senator Saw yer, of Wisconsin, who says, with one eyo fchut: "I never seen such a man! He's a born diplomat." Allen Thorndike Rice is one of the richest writers in the United States. He is but thirty-three, handsome and a bachelor. He has a stable of fast horses, a steam yacht, a New York mansion, and a cottage at ruxeao rarK. Cattain Albertcs James, who died in Huel, Mass., recently, was one of the three celebrated life-saving brothers of that name. One of his most remarkable feats was the rescue of an entire familv of six. alter ne naa passed nis seventieth year. Dr. John Swinburne, who died in Al bany, N. Y., recently, at tho age of sixtynine years, was a surgeon of considerable note in both civil and military life. During thef ranco-rrussian warne naa charge of the Amerieau Ambulance Corps at Paris. He was also a member of the t orty-niuth Congress. - . At a wedding in high life vrliich occurred in New York just before lent, chatelaine watches were presented by the bridegroom to the brides-maids. The watches were in blue enamel suspended from a blue enamel brooch having for its center a monogram in small diamonds. The side chains were also in blue enamel. Four years ago a boy and girl of York, Pa., each six years old, asked Mr. William Maxwell to marry them. To humor them he read something out of an almanac and told them they were united. The boy's family moved to Baltimore, but he still writes to his "Dear lie." in ins last let ter he says: "I don't know whether you would know me now or not, because I am wearing long pants. Amzi Smith, who presides ever the doc-riment-room of the United States Senate, has a wonderful memory. The thousands of bills which come into his possession for pigeon-holing he carries in his mind, and remembers their titles, numbers and provisions. The ereatness of this feat may be somewhat indicated by the fact that the Congress which ended March 4 brought into being more than lij.uuu bills. Graduates of the olass of 1877, at Colby University, in Maine, started a class-letter, which was to be sent to each surviving member in alphabetical order, to be filled by him and sent a train to the man next on the list. It traveled for nearly two years, finally reachinz China. On the iournev there the mail steamer. San Pablo, was -wrecked, but the bag holding this letter was saved and now it has just comeback again. A vert pretty story is related of the Crown Princess of Denmark. Prince Waldomar ana Princess Marie are good skaters, and one afternoon when, after a long run across the ice, they sat down to rest, they noticed a little boy who was vainly trying to pat his skates on. On seeing the royal couple he took oil his hat and said: "Oh, dear Princess Marie, can you not help mo to put my skates on?" The royal lady smiled, knelt down on the ice, and firmly fastened the straps around the boy's ankles. "Nellie Bly," the enterprising and re markable member of the World staft, is a Pittsburg, Pa., girl, quite pretty, and gifted with an indomitable pluck and nerve. Her real name is Elizabeth Cochrane, and she

lives with her mother and sister, whom she

supports, in a cozv little fiat in West Thirty-seventh street in New York. Nellv lily, although neither highly educated, cultured, nor accomplished, is a young woman of intellectual power, high aims ana a pure and unblemished career. . The Medical Gazette alleges that the fol lowing letter was received by a physician from a man whom ho knew, practicing medicine and desiring counsel: "dear Dock 1 have a pashunt whos physical sines shows luat xno wina-pipe nas uiceraieu on ana his luncg 'havB dron down into his ctumiek 1 have given hyni everry thin without efeckther father is welthy honable and innuenshal as lie is member of assembly ana cod nose I dofrt want to loos hvm what shall I do ans ly return male. Yours frat-" Thk late II. G. Coinbes. of Brooklyn, left by his will the following legacies, . after handsomely providing for his widow and other relatives: The American Home Missionary Society, $-,000; the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions,' 85,000; Home for the Friendless, New York, UXXh the Biblical School. StanfordsviUe. N. Y., $3,000:. the Brooklyn Nursery, $3,000; Plymouth Hethel. SSJ,0U); ConsumptivesHome, Brooklyn. $3,000; the Wayside Home, Brooklyn. $2,000. and another charity. 3,000 ;n all, $00,000. The housekeeping duties pertaining to the White House have been about evenly divided among Mrs. Harrison. Mrs. McKee and Mrs. Kussell Harrison. Mrs. Harrison chambermaids and cooks; Mrs. McKee has chargQ of the butler and waiters and superluieuusuie cniua ana glass closer, wnue . Mrs. Russell Harrison sees to it that the supplies of food and wine are kept up in proper style. In this way the three ladies make an easv task of what was sometimes a heavy durden to Mrs. Cleveland. "One of tho most gifted linguists of the day has just passed away," says the London World, "in the Rev. J. J. O'Carroll, a Jesuit. Father O'Carroll could not, per-. nans, have held converse. like Mezzofanti, with forty-three bishops of foreign sees in tneir own tongues, but he had mastered fourteen languages with their literature, and had a fair acquaintance that is to say. was ou speaking terms with about twenty more," and. curiously enough, Irish was a mother tongue to him. 1 say curiously enough, for of the Nationalist politicians not twenty could make a epeech in the Gaelic tongue to be understood of the people.'" ' The queer spectacle of a military -looking man pushing a half dozen pieces of orange and banana neel along the sidewalk with a cane attracted considerable attention in Philadelphia the other day. The officer, for such he was. was stepninc alone brisk ly, when he noticed a banana skin immedi ately in front of him. He at once caught it on the end of his cane and started on again. Before he had gone five yards he saw another, and another, and then several pieces of orange peel caught his eye. He impaled these also, and, bearing on the 6tick, pushed them clear up to the opening of the sewer at the corner of Fourth street. Here he stopped and kicked the collection into the opening, remarking, as he did so: "There, I guess nobody will 6lipuponyou.M It was General Pleasanton, who became somewhat famous as a blue-glass advocate when that craze was on. He has slipped up on several such skins himself. WASHINGTON'S INAUGURATION. A Progressive Affair, Which Extended AU the "Way from Georgetown to New York. John Bach ilcMaster, In April Harper. Washington set out on the ICth of April. But he had not gone a mile from his door when a crowd of friends and neighbors on horseback surrounded his carriage and rode with him to Alexandria. There the Mayor addressed him, in the fulsome manner of the time,. as the first and best of citizens, as the model of youth, as the ornament of old age, and went with him to the banks of the Potomac, where the men of Georgetown were waiting. With them he went on till the men of Baltimore met him, and led him through lines of shontmtr people to the best inn their city could boast. That night a public reception and a supper were given in his honor, and at sunrise the next morning he was on his way toward Philadelphia. . in size, in wealth, in . population. 1'hiiadelphia then stood first among the cities of the country, and her citizens determined to receive their illustrious president iu a man ner worthy of her creatness and ot his fame. The place selected was Gray's Ferry, where the road from lialtimore crossed the lower Schuylkill a place well known and often described by travelers. On the high ridge that bordered the eastern bank was Gray's inn and gardens, renowned for tho greenhouse tilled with tropical fruits, the maze of walks, the grottoes, the hermitages, the Chiueso bridges, the dells and groves, that made it "a prodigy of art and nature." Crossing the river was the floating bridge, made gay for the occasion with Hags and bunting and festoons of cedar and laurel leaves. Along the north rail were eleven flags, typical of the eleven new States of the Union. On the south rail were two llagsone to repre sent the new era. the other the btate of Pennsylvania. Across tho bridge at either end was a triumphal arch, from one of which a laurel crown hung by a string, which passed to the hands of a boy who, dressed in white and decked with laurel. stood beneath a pine tree hard by. On every side were banners adorned with em blems and inscribed witn mottoes, one bore the words, "May Commerce Flourish." On another was a sun. and under it. ."Behold the Rising Empire." A third was the rattlesnake flag, . with the threatening words, "Don't Tread on Me." On the hill overlooking the bridge and the river was a signal to give the people warning of the President's approach. loward noon, on the 20th of April, the signal was suddenly dropped, and soon after, Washington, with Governor Mifilin and a host of centlemen who had cone out to meet him at the boundary line of Delaware, was seen riding slowly down thehill toward the river. As he passed under the first trinninhal archwav the crown of laurel was dropped on his brow, and a salute was hred from the cannon on the opposite shore, and the people, shouting "Long live the Presi dent!" went over the bridge with him to the eastern bank, where the troops were wait ing to conduct him ou to Philadelphia, lhe whole city came out to meet him, and, as he passed through dense lines oi encenugmen. the bells of ever churcxi rang out a merry peal, and every face, says one who saw them, seemed to say. ".Long, long, long live Ueoree n ashmcton: ' That night he slept at Philadelphia, was addressed by the executive council of State. by the .Mayor and aldermen, by the judges of the Supreme Court, the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, and the members of the Society of the Cincinnati, and early the next morning set out with a troop of horse for Trenton. On the bridge which spanned the Assaupmk creek, over which. twelve years before, the Hessians fled in confusion, he passed under a great dome supported by thirteen columns, and adorned with a huge sunflower, inscribed "To thee alone." T he women of Trenton had ordered this put up, and iust beyond tho bridce were waitine. with their dauchters, who, as he passed under tho dome; be gan singing: . Welcome, mishty chief, once more Welcome to this grateful shore; Now no mercenary foe Aims atrain the fatal blow Alms at thee the fatal blow. Virgins fair and matrons rave. Those thy onquerinff arms did save. Build for thee triumphal bowers. Ftrew, ye fair, his way with flowers Btrew your hero's way with flowers. As the last lines were sung the levy of little ffirls camo forward, etrevungthe road with flowers as" they sang. Washington was ereatly moved, thanked the children on the spot, and before he rode out of town tho next morning wrote a few words to their mothers. From Trenton he passed across New Jersey, escorted from ronnty to county by the State militia, to Klizabethtown. where a committee, with a barge provided by Concress. was ready to carry hira tocw York, r liowed by thirteen of the harbor pilots, the barge sped on through the Kill van Kail toward New York bay, followed by a train of boats bearing the few officers of the old confederation necessity still keptmtheirplaccs. In one was the Board of Treasury; m another the Secretary of War: the Secretary of Foreign Affairs was in n third. About the entrance to the kill was gathered a-navy of river craft gay with llacs and bnehtlv dressed women, and noisy with cheering men. As the barges of the President and his party paxseilby. scowa and shallops, track scouts aud row boats with onevaccord took place m l'ne and the procession, stretching out forraore thau a

mile, swept on toward New York, past th Spanish war ship Galvesou, which saluted with thirteen gun; pat the ship North

Carolina, which auswemi tne fcpaniaia shore came the blaro of conchs and Trumpets, the sound of Mng and music, and the Ktirrini? note nf "Stnrnr Point." As the little fleet came round the head of Governor's island the shouts were taken up by tie crowd that lined the nhore or stood in a . dense maw about the spot which, bright with Hags and ouuung, marked ttio landing-place at Jiurrav 8 Wharf. TKrA U'a.Kinirfnn w Tnfc I by Governor Clinton aud the members of Congress, and escorted by all the troops in i the city to the house made ready .for his use. 1 hat night the revelry was louder than ever, for scarcely a tavern but had a : song or an oue written lor the occasion ny tsnttiA f rfi il n t r irhn no scvl . nsiot tit the few that have come down to n. one was sung to the air of "God Save the King:'' Hail, thou auspicious day! For let America ; Thy praise resound. Joy to our native land! Let evry heart errand, For Wadnnrton's at hand. With glory crowijcd. ' Thrice beloved Columbia, bail! Ik-hold before the jralo ' ' , Your chief advance.The matchless hero's nicaj Applaud him to the ky, W ho pave you liberty, With gen'rous France. Thrice welcome to tr-is nhore, Our leader now no more, - But ruler thou. O truly good and CTeat. Long live to glad our ftate. Where countless honors wait To deck thy hrow! ONLY A MATTEK OF FORM. Hat It Became a Serious Problem with ChiefJustice FuHer and Senator Krarta. Washington Post. The families of Chief-instice Fuller and Senator Kvarts are very thick. It lias brought about a remarkable reform in cer tain social customs, lhe celebrated writer on etiquette, Mrs. Pnesie Sherwood, declares with emphasis that, in making call, cards should he left for every member of the family. In strict adherence to this rule, when the seven Kvarts girls went over to call on the Fullers, they had to leave cards of themselves and papa and mamma L varts for papa aid mamma Tttllcr and the eight Fuller girls, that is: 7 plus 2x2 plus 800. Each time thev made a call they had to leave ninety cards ou tho hall table, and when the 1- uller cirls went over to see the Evarts family they had to leave ninety cards to do the thine in proper bhape. Now, those girls would die, each and every one of them, rather thau do a eingle thing which was not chic, and recherch;, and an fait, and en regie, and cafe au lait, especially the Fuller girWand as they ran back and forth to see each other iu their innocent girlish way not less than four times a day the equation stood at the end of a month: 90x2x4x3021,000. Justice Fuller came here about the 1st of October, and by the end of the year his dear girls had used over 50,000 cards calling on the Evarts girls, and not less than oO.OOO more calling on other precious creatures, and the house was full of cards. He couldn't pick up a book or put down a hand without grabbing a handful of cards. Tho house was carpeted with cards. And it was the same way over at Senator Evarts's. The Judge had been drawinc his $10,500 a year in monthly installments, and paying his landlord 1.000 a month with commendable regularity and cheerfulness. But when Jan. 1 came around, and the stationer ran in a bill of $000 for printing 00,000 visiting cards, the Judge felt apprehensive. The stationer had the thin ir down fine. To accommodate the girls he had been puttine the cardsnninneatlittIeTack8of ten just family decks, you see. Then, when a call was made, a pack was left lor each member of the family called upon. And tho Evarts girls had theirs nxed the same way. bo convenient; didn't have to break a deck. The Justice carefully brushed his hat that evening. He had thought of buying a new tile as a New Year's present, but he put away rue notion ana gave tne old one a whirl nsrainst a benzine rae. then nut it on. washed his hands carefully, gave nis mus tache a twist, and went over to benator Evans's. He looked longingly at a passing street-car, but resolutely braced himself against temptation and walked. lhe Senator and the Justice had a lone. contidential talk, and parted with a cordial grasp of the hand, lhe next day a furni ture van, heavily laden, went from the Evarts house to the Fuller house, and a big two-horso dray, loaded to tho scuppers, toiled from tho Justice's to the Senator's. The girls were exchanging cards. Now, when they make calls on each other they i I just bang on the newell post and holler up stairs. i THK COST OF OCEAN STEAMSHIPS. Enormous Expense Entailed Upon the Build ers of a First-Class Vessel. W. H. Hiaelnir, In April Scribner. An order for a new ship of the class re quired to compete in the modern passenger ) service OI lue Anauuc is uui uy uuy means. a matter to be determined on without grave ! consideration. pced is costly, and ayou increase it it is generally necessary tvU n" crease the tonnage. This forces upon your i consideration tides, channels, harbor-bars and dock accommodations, all of which impose limitations uponyou. Andthen the cost of ths ship herself is not a matter which ev en the wealthiest of corporations can provide for at a moment's notice; it is not 8100,000, nor 500.000 that the work calls for, but about five times the latter sum, for it is safe to ' say that a vessel superior to the City of New York or the Etruria could not be built forless than $2,500,000. Sometimes the ship-builders are willing to become part owners of the projected vessel; sometimes they take as part payment iUl llio nviik Duuic viutt iion u a. iuo which they refit, re-engine, modernize, and , sell again, lhe ability oi tne builders to; make an arrangement of this kind, oft course, influences the placing of the contract, m a measure, but they must be able to givo certain guarantees. They must ntcr into- an encasement that the pro jected ship 6haU be ablo to carry Romany passengers ana so many ions or cargo, and to attain a specified ppeed on' a given consumption of coal per day. Let us say. for instance, that tho stipulations are these: Accommodations for GOO saloon passengers, 150 intermediate passengers and 1,500 steerago passengers; registered .tonnage. o,GUi; sneed. nineteen knots on a consumption of J0 tons per day. If the ship fails to fulfill these conditions tne ounuers acrreeioiorfeit a part of the amount they would other- , wise receive for her, or they may be compelled to take her back altogether. Tail, was the case with the City of Rome, which was built for the Inman line by the Barrow Ship-building Company. The Ungallant tsU Cuthtxrt. Fortnightly Review. St. Cuthbert, that out-and-out woman hater, would have nofemale creature about his placo in Lindisfarne, not sulk-ring even a cow, saying: "Where there was a tow : there must be a woman, aud wbre there ' was a woman there must be mischief." In the cathedral at Durham, dedicated to him, . a black crops in the pavement marked the t spot beyond which no woman was allowed to pass. In 1B Edward III, and his Queen went to the priory at Durham, where they lodged together. In tho middle of the night a monk broke rudely into thir room, saying to the Queen that St. Cuthbert loved not her sex, aud that she must up and go. The Queen tumbled out of bed. undressed as she was, and spent the rest of the night in the church, praying for pardon to tho patron saint whom she had offended. In 1117 two servant girls dressed themselves as men and "impiously approachi-d the Saint's shrine." to bo severely handled by the authorities. ' Thinks the Appointment Significant. Boshm Herald (Mugwump.) We said the otber day that tho nppoiutraent of the American minister to Ku gland would probably furnish as open a test as could be offered in regard to the relative rositions of President Harrison and Mr. Haine. It would show which of the two controlled the other. The choice has fallen upon Mr. Hubert T. Lincoln, and tho selection speaks for itself. Twd things are plain about thii appointment. First, it is unexceptionable. Secondly, it was made by the President, and in making it he gave, proof that he has a will of his own, and that ho knows how to secure respect for hi wishes. Hut They Ikhave Differently. Bonton Trncriit. Mr. Kobt.T. Lincoln is two years youncer than tho Prince of Wales, and they look a good deal alike