Indianapolis Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 81, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 March 1885 — Page 9

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TWELVE PAGES. GOTHAM GOSSIP.

Two YerT HlRn-Up Young Member Gothixn Society Fonod to Haye Been Four fears Married, of Which Recalls to Mind the 4 Lifo of the Late Robert 8chuyler. Dual I'J.miv Jan' fctlll at the Head of "SorogU"A Trip to SouthwMteru LouUI-anav-Straight Tip. Pioneer Press New York Letter. J Th neniteatlal season can tear eel J be said

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of achievements there are revelations, wiw la the last two weeks a bit of gojsip has come to the knowledge of a few that baa given our local nobs a terrible shaking up. Amorjg the brightest and moat accomplished of the young ladles of New York, who for fire years kH hlne.i flMii the balls of the wellest -V" r dancing clubs, and sat high upon the gor geous turn outs of the coaching club, was the heroine of the Ville de Havre steamship dis aster, which took place some years ago. When the ereat ahlD went down this female aristocrat struck oat boldly for herself, defi ant alike to a tor ma and sharks, and swan upon the sea till rescued. Scores haye sough her hand on account of her personal cbarms and of the undeniable Datchness of her a cestry, but they bare been, one by one, po litely pat asld. In the same circle haa been J LI I Ino Tm f .1111 a very aasuiog ueau, wuu. oiuuo

I Kane partially withdrew from the office o

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Astonishment of alu Now what do yoa f think? Why, it is suddenly diaooTered by prying acquaintances that these two are mar ried, and hare been for the last four yeara Did yoa ever What a crooked world thii is! The reason why it has been kept so secret, to the great inconvenience all parties, is that neither is worth a penny and the young man's "expectations,' through his proud-spirited and high-bred mother, would be Jeopardized, It not for felted, by ao exposure. Tne old lady's an castors haven't done a stroke o! work or earned an honest penny for more than two centuries; and she can not enau e tne thought of ber volant darling taking to wife anvbudv abortof a millionairess It iaa aad. lad occurrence. Capid ought to blush crimson with shame tor cutting up such didos, and I am not sure but I am imperiling the the happiness of a whole lot of folks by gab bling about it now. D;ei it seem odd tbat a young man and young woman in tne ranks of exclusive upper tecdoaa could be wedded for so long, live all the while in the very focus of public observation, with tbe electric light of amorous rivalry and the calcium blaze of maternal solicitude turned on them all tbe while, appearing almost eyery night at balls, parties and operas in the same ao cial circle, and nobody suspect their relation ? TUE 8CHCYLXR DUPLICITY. Oh, there have been stranger things. Do you remember the remarkable career o! Bobert Schuyler? His story is almost in credible. Born of an old and aristocratic famtlv in this citv. he went into bnaness I anl fa.ttl InMfaait riia valt mnnw 14a f mA i C(iU j uvi OB uib acat uivuy - "f also increased his matrimony; for he was captivated by a pure end beautiful girl of Yonkers, and made her nil wife, under the , tingle condition that sbe must never be ad mit ted into hia social circle or introdaced to any member cf his family. Be told her his name was Spicer. and that was tbe name born on tbe marriage certiflca'-e. He fitted up an elegant hon? on Amity street, and there he and Mrs Spicer lived happily for J ears. She had her own cirole of friends in er relatives and acquaintances, bat he was hy of them. He lived for fifteen years two distinct lives in this city about as distinct as if he had been two individuals. In real' izing one of these lives he was the generous and respected Mr. 8picer tbe affectionate husband and indulgent father of Amity street; in realizing the other he was the handsome and wealthy Robert Scbuyler of Wall street the elegant bachelor who danced at the Jays', and went to dinner parties at the LonlJard'a and Astot'a, and whom : worldly-minded maidens set their caps to catch. He slept on Amity street, and was there one of the pillars of the church, which lie always attended with Mrs. Spicer and the children. At Delmonico's he was known only aa Schuyler, the able financier, grand son of General Philip 8chuyler, whom Washington loved and trusted. Old society tabs teased him about his single singularitv. and hia frienda guyed him for so disrespecting the example of General Philip, who. I believe, left thirteen living likenesses of him self. John G 6axe wrote to him the well known lines, beginning: -Dir John, b persuaded to wed! For a sensible fellow like yon, 'Tia blgrt tl-ne lothlnk of a bed And mamas and coCe for two." , He little knew that the Bob whom head dressed as "John" for impersonality's sake bed already four children who called him father every day of hia life! 8chuyler throve wonderfully in Wall street. He became a million iare. He was a confidant of Vanderbllt, He was elected president of the New York & New Haven Railroad Company. About tnat time, I have been told, two young men met this duplex man on Broadway. Both recognized him, and both bowed. "I didn't know as you knew him, Dan," said one. "Nothing strange about that." answered the other, glibly. "I ought to know him con sideriDg thnt be is my father." "Your father!" retjeated tbe other, in astonishment: "ItraVtbe: that's Mr.Sshuyler Robert Schuyler and I know he isn't arried " "Schuyler not much!" retorted hia companion. "That's Mr. Ja es G. Spicer, and he's my father. I hope I know. Let's turn around and I'll introduce you to him." Tbe curiosity of tbe first speaker being now aroused, they turned about and walked after the fine, tall figure, now below the citv hall. "I know him by the shape of his ahou'dere and his walk," insisted he. "as well as by hia

L faca. Why. he comes up to our house and plays billiards with father every few nights. J and he attends our parties. " r They had gained on tbe gentleman aa they

. Ik J -J 2 . - Ll W A n wsaa.au. anu wtia uuna near mux wuu u met another coming from the opposite direction who said, shaking bands. "Good morning. Schuyler I Stocks area bit shaky this morn Id r. but your lines are firm." The boys walked pa it them unnoticed, but Dan was set to tain king. As a matter ot feet, Schuyler's lines were CSt rj "firm" u they mmxL He hi4 al

ready been nipped in several transactions, and to make himself good be had Issued ille

gal bonds of tbe New Haven road and sold hero. His affairs getting more and more tangled, be reaortea to tbe relief more and more, till at last he had created an Indebtedness of some two million dollars, sold the bonds and used or kept the money. He pre pared for night, and started for Lurope one summer evening. Just before absconding he fot time to run borne (no longer in Amity street, but a handsome edifice on Twenty second street near Eighth avenue, still known as the "Schuyler mansion"), and there be revealed hi nisei to his wile his name and his crime. He put his family in charge of a frier. d Courtland t Palmer, I have been to.u and bade good by to America forever. His family soon joined him in Paris, where they suddenly became Schuylere; there tbe children were educated, and there, some years since, Mr. Robert Schuy ler-Spicer went the way cf all the livingdust to dust. His body was entombed at Pera la Chaise; but his widow had the body disiote-red, frozen In ice, and brought back home. Determined to escape the galling no toriety that a disclosure of his Identity at quHrantine would have caused, ehe bribed stewards and inspectors, who hid the body In h roll of carpet and so carried it ashore. In tbe twilight three men were seen bearing a haavy roll of carpeting up the high steps of tne old Schuyler mansion. Carious neigh bois watched tne burden from tne oppojite wit dows. and loungers regarded it from the sidewalks, but tnere was no suspicion of its laenticy,. tnongn somebody may nave remarked, ''They a-e going to refarnish the Schayler mansion for a hotel. I'll bet Th it carpet must be Moouette. rolled tiebt!" I believe the burial took place under some third name neither Schuyler, aor Spicer. Twa oi the children of this strange double life live in New York city now. It was Go dsmith who said, "There is no solitude more dreadful than a great city": and Emers n says "If you would know and not be known, dwell in a city." HOKORS TO JENNY JUKE On Monday tbe women's club, 8orosis, elected its officers for the ensuing year. Iber were several candidates for president net. rnoeoe uannarord, Mrs Mary Kyle u&iias, or tne Leader, ana uisa Minnie Sa zey, a bright and ready speaker, as well as i woTian of important accomplishments and acquirements but Mn. J. C Croly was reeieciea ior me lentn year, a lew were opposed to what they called a monopoly, and some would have been glad to see what would happen under the experiment of new president; bat there was substantial unanimity, and Mrs. Croly bad tbe largest majority ever given for president since she was chosen by acclamation on the retirement of Alice Cary, fifteen years ago. Sorosis has nominating machinery whicb the "white ma'e citizen" might borrow to adyantage. When tne day of election approaches the tnree nundred members are reauested to notify tbe executive committee of their tint choice for president. Every person who has six votes is declared in nomination, and msy be vote 1 for on election day; the scat tering are dropped. This results in a con cectration of preference, and saves consider able friction, bad Jeelig and delay. An other taing: Sorosis haa never been beset by any dangerous scandal. Rivalriea and resulting hostilities have ended in raking up some anc ent history gossip sometimes: but these bave neyer amounted to much, and it is a fact that, with all a woman's iealouy. there has been far more real scandal in every male club in town (except the Authors' and the Twilight, which are too young) than has cropped out in sorosis. YA5KEES IN THE SOUTHWEST. Tbe time is coming, I suppose, when what is technically called "the West" will include tbe whole country bejond the Mississippi from the dominion to the gulf. Ye&tirday I met K. AloxJy lioynion, the Massachusetts Congressman, just returned from Southwest ern Louisiana. He was eeneroue in his praise of the country be saw. "I went to the cotton centennial." Boynton said .'and j)ined an excursion some public spirited citizens had organized to give Northern jour nalists ana public men a notion of Western a aa. Louisiana, u was an unanown land to me and all of us. In the cars of the Southern Facido railroad a.ralght west we went, till we struck tub big farm, in the extreme southwestern corner of tbe State, It ia about one-half bigger tbau the whole State of Rhode Island, and is called the 'Watkins Purchase.' It i about one hundred miln in length and twenty or thirty broad. It was crUlnally a swamp, or low land, only a lew inches acove the surface 01 the sea which washed its lower border; but etibrts are being put forth to reclaim it, and a battie is b ing waged against the watory foe like that in which the yeomanry of Holland have been for centuries enlisted Already there are some four thousand people on this land, which was once deemed uninhabita ble: and a little ridge of land, twelve miles long, on t -ie Calcasien river, ia a continuous orange grove, supporting a population oi 1,200 people 8chooners sail up the river into Lake Charles, sixty miles from the sea." I asked if they could raise any of the Northern crops. ''Wheat does not ripen," said Congressman Boynton, "and corn does not yield more than half as much as ia Minnesota and Wisconsin The soil is a rich aliuviam a veg etable loam, from four to ten feet deep Sjme 300.000 acres haye already been quite rec aimed till they are dry and fertile and fit for settlement The drainage ia effected by canals twenty feet wide and six feet deep. Of these, nineteen miles have already been cut, and these are being extended at the rate of our miles a month. It is, of course, Northern enterprise aad energy that is do log this, and tbe settlers ome mainly from the iSorth and .st people who want to strike sonny latitudes. The water is let into and out of the caoale according to the need of the land, so that there can never be a drouth. The great crops here will be tice and sugar. Ths land easily produces from sixty to eighty bushels of rice to th acre. wbica tells at at l ou a Darnel, it is as good suxar ground aa there is in the South, and all sorts of grass grow abundantly " ' Oar mr aas of t.ansit through the rivers and lakes were unique two barges each s xty five feel long, fitted up for our temporary borne and these were drawn by a steam acht and pushed by a steamboat. The Southern Pacific railroad runs through tbe purchase. For the first 100 miles at;sr leaving New Orleans the country is gently undulattrg and the vast cypress trees with abuncaut U pes try of Spanish moss trailing Ktves quite a tropical aspect to the landscape, tome hundred and thirty miles west wa see some distance off, at the right of the tra;k, "Avery's Mountain," so called, a sort of island forty fcet high, consisting of solid rock salt, 'JO per cent. pure. Near this Joe JelTerson'a Southern residence a handsome one atory rambling house, on a lovely knoll, surrounded with orange trees blooming and bearing every week the year round. It is on a fine lake, two or three railas long. where there ia superb duck and goose shooting. West of here, and adjoining the purchase on 03 the north, is a Urge tract ot 150,000 acres of government Jand open to pre emption, and adjoining this, again. Is an immense forest of a million acres, including yellow pine, cypress, beach, maple.the rar ions oaks, hickory and magnolia trees. The government land ia open to quadruple pre-emption ttzi Is, caca tattler can obtain 60 acres by

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, SUNDAY MORNING, tAEGH 22, 1885.

merely living on it. He gets ICO acree frora tne state and as mucn more from tne teaerai government, by pre-emption, and then he gets 160 acres more from each for cultivating a certain amount ol timber. There are hardly any darkies in all that region, and half o! the inhabitants were born in the North. STRAIGHT TIPS. Next week Miss Kate Sanborn, iournalist. lectnr and teacher, will be married to Görden W. Burnbam, the Fifth avenue mlllionare. It is now known, but not announced, that Henry F. Keenan, the journalist, wrote that rather remarkable current novel, "The Money Makers." He was once editor of the Indlaaapolia Sentinel, and alter tbat Lon don correspondent to the Chicago Times. A. P. Barbank. well known in the West, has dramatized "The Tale of Two Cities" under the title "A Life for Love," and pre sented tbe play last night before a large and choice audience in Chiokering Hall. The hearing was had under some slight disad vantages, as there were no costumes and no scenery, and the author had to act all the ten parts himself. Rat its reception lndlcittd that the play had "go" in it, and Mr. Burbank will very likely put it on tne road with himself in tne principal role the sen-'i ti mental tragic party of Sidney Carton. W. A. Croffut. Fallow Ground. Ivke to an upturned field, all brown and bare. From which are gathered all the scanty sheaves, Still scattered o'er with broken grasy leive, Or toe It of stnbble standing bera and tnere. Lying; exposed unto the aun ana air. PrlnKinii the rain in, and tbe blessed dew, Dntil 'lis tts ready for the harvest new. And turned, and mellowed by tbe deep plowsSre; Bo I lie. broken, wearied by the toil W hich yielded harrest of tuen scanty grain. The plow of thought drives deep within the soil Of barren soul: and still I wait tbe dew And frultial sun ot heaven to renew. And make me bud and blotsom once again. Tbe Independent. IDEAS FROM UK LENT ESSAYS. Bit dern Socletj and It Foibles -Marriage Conventional People From Philip Gilbert Hamerton's Latest Book Marriage unites all the conditions that make a blunder probable. People desire tbe profits or trade, cut are un willing to lose caste by engaging in it op enly. The father must net count on the affection of his son, and is lucky if he commands his respect. Family ties are lightly worn by relatives of unequal fortune, and easily broken by fraternal jealousies. Conventionality so presses on the inde pendence oi the individual that in labarious or atudioua aolitude alone can be hope to be master ot his thought. A narrowly exclusive society despises the virtue that is most creditable to the nouveau riebe his industry -while it wor.hips his wealth as soon aa the . preservation of it is compatible with Idleness. The contempt for trade is inconsistent in another way. A man may be excluded from "good society" because he is in trade, and his grandson may be admitted because the grandfather was in trade that i through a fortune of commercial origin. It Is remarkable that the people who most despise commerce are the very people who bow down moat readily before the accomplished results of commerce, for, as they have an ex- g aerated sense of social distinction, tbey are great adorers of wealth for the distinction it confers. There are men whose whole art of living CDns'Sts in passing from one conventionalism to another, as a traveler changes his train. Ö ach men may be envied for the skill with which they avoid the difficulties of life. They take their religion, their politics, their education, their social and literary opinions all as provided by the brains of others; aad they glide through existence with a minimum of personal exertion. For thoe who are satisfied with easy, conventional ways, the desire for Intellectual independence is unintelligible. What Is the need of it? Why go, men tally, on a bicycle or in a canoe, by your own toilsome exertions, when you may sit bo very comfortably in the train, a rug roand your lazy legs, and your aoftly capped head In a corner T ON THE IlUMIirV OF AMERICANS. No Occaalcn for Petty Prejndlcea or Polite Imitations oC Otber Natlona. fthotnaa Wentworth Higglnaon, in Harper'a Ba zar. It always seemed to me that Lowell's pa per on the condescension oi foreigners should be followed by one on the humility of Americans. It may be tbat we do net make tbat quality obtrusive when traveling abroad, for there we are frequently stung and goaded out of this fine constitutional trait. "My dear young lady," said a kitid English clergyman to a certain American traveling in Earope, ' let me urge you not to make use of that word unless you are willing to be known as an American." "But s appose," said ber mother, "that my daughters have no objection t3 being known 'as Americans, what then?" To this the good man had no answer ready, as it was a con tlngency he had not foreseen What Is it tiat carries us calm'y through these criticisms of Englishmen? No doubt good nature has something to do with it, but it is also largely due to the tradition of humanity, the habit of thinking that light aad grace come from Earope: ez Oriente lux. We early overcame thia humility in political matters, because it took a race ef strong men to free us from the parental yoke, and we recognize their strength; but literature and art and refined manners come more slowly, and ia these we do not yet treat ourselves. The bearing of many American women fully justifies such unflinching patriotism as that of Senator Tracy, of Connecticut, when at the end of the last century, the British Minister expressed his admiration for Mr a. Oliver Wolcott, of Litchfield, Coon., wife of the Secretary of the Treasury. "Your countrywoman," said the Englishman, "would be admired at the Court of SL James." "Sir." said the sturdy American, "she is admired eren on Litchfield Hill." There is no occasion for any petty preju dice against European science or art, or liter at are or manners; all nations can learn of each other, and we, as tbe younger nation, have more to learn. In many ways, than to teach. The nations of Europe are the elder sons ot Time; but the youngest born are also sons. It was not mere imitation that gave us Morse's telegraph, or Bell s telephone, or Emerson's books, or Lowell's speeches, or the American trotting-horse, or those illus trated magazines that are printed for two continent. I heard the most eminent of English electricians say. a few years ago that he had learned more of the possible ap plications ot electricity during his first fort night in this country than in his whole life before. When I spoke to Mr. Darwin of tbe Peabody Museum at Yale College, be said: ' Huxley tells me tbat there is more to be lerned front that museum than from all the museums ol Larooe." I do not urge a foolish insulation from England and Oer many, Italy and France, but only to remember that what we need is not imitation, but growth; tbat a healthy growth implies a cartain self reliance; and that strengtn, chuity, bsslns at horns. like)

THE FRAGRANT WEED.

The Origin or Tobacco, and Its Past and Present Use.: Anecdotal or Sir TOaltar Ralelgb Charles Lamb'i Farewell to the Weed Its Curative Properties. It seems to have beceme the custom says a writer to the Minneapolis Tribune, to find literature in almost every object that is pre eenbed to our notice, as well as in historical facts, opinions, sentiments, and current views. Of late, my eyes have been so often blinded by clouds of smoke,, and my olfactories 83 often greeted with the odor of cigars, my feet have slipped on castaway quids of tobacco, and my fingers bave bscome sticky with the weed in process of curing, that with these experiences strong before me. 1 have ventured to make capital of the' object in many ways, and gain at least one short hour's pleasure in considering its literature. To myself it will prove more profitable than It dipped, chewed, or smoked. T 1. t V . l ruoaoiy no proancuon nss involved -so wide a relationship to the different phase of life as tobacco, for it has Included the affairs of church and state, has influenced trade and commerce, has entered into the history ca nations, affected the wea'th and hap piness of communities, and has its own peculiar influence upon the body, mind, manners, and habits of individuals. It has done all this In Its production, culti vation, use. and abuse. Where, to day, among dignitaries, statesmen, the clergy, lawyers, doctors, literateur, politicians, mer chants, farmsrs, and servants, are these men who may not testify to the truth of the state ment? The other evening I drew back tbe curtain, of a drawing-room where there wai an assemblage, of getlemen, and the atmosphere was thick and the curtains heavy with cigar smoke. Hardly had I entered the cars nert morning than the men all disappeared to a more enjoyable retreat the smoking car. Last night a commercial traveler approached the ticket office and, soliciting a favor, quietly laid down cigars and wpn his way. Bjysonthe street, mere children, make one disgustingly familiar with the use of tobacco, and girls are adepts at dipping snuff. Surely it is not a miraculous weed, yet many wh3 deny the haaling virtue of nat ural waters take refuge in tobacco, not only for tbe ilia of tbe body, but look to it for sol ace from the unpleasant affections of the mind and spirits. Someone who has read thus far will read no further, thinking that, because written by a woman, this must necessarily be a ti rade against tobacco, or an attack npon an inoffensive and pleasicg habit. But read on; I am not alone in my choice ofaaubject, for Kogliah achoola long ago mane it a topic oi wisdom and wit. King James gave his "Counter Blast" against tobacco, and the inimitable Charles Lamb hia Farewell'' to the weed. With wisdom and wit enter also love and hatred into the liter ature of tobacso. Lamb says: May the Babylonish corse HtraUht confound my summering verse. If I can a passage see In this world perplexity, Or a fit expression find. Or a language to my mind, (SHU tbe phrs Is wide or react) To take lea Vv or the. great Plant I Or in any terms relate IIlf my love or half my hate. It dlKUles friends and enemies, for Thou la sucn a cloud dost bind us Tbat our worst foes can not find us; Thou through such a mist do'st show us That our bebt friends do not know ua. Tbe first specimen of tobacco from America was taken to England as early as 15S6 from Carolina. After the settlement of Jamestown tobacco became the chief article of export. and so rapidly did tbe consumption and de mand Increase that the planters became ab sorbed in its cultivation to the exclusion of more necessary products, and neglecting to raise corn in sufficient quantities for their use, they often suffered from famine. At last the house of burgesses was compelled to enforce the cultivation of corn, and limit the amount ef tobacco. At one time aa officer was appointed in each parish to count the number of plants. Fariiihes became known aa -'Orinoco," from the kind of to bacco used, and others as "sweet scented parishes," the latter being worth more than the Orinoco. Virginia became very noted as a tobacco btate. aad many towns grew rich from tbe export. There is now in Glaesgow, Scotland, a Virginia street. That city derived great benefit from being the entrepot, where the farmers, generally of France, de livered their supplies of tobacco from Virginia. In colonial times this staple became currency, and many salaries were paid it, or with notes representing it in the warehouses. After its culture was interdicted, for ten years it measured taxation, eighty-three pounds per poll being the sum levied by the acts of the assembly. Again two hun dred pounds were offered aa a reward for eyery wall killed. Tobacco warehouses used to be known as rolling houses, from the way of rolling to bacco to market before wagons came into use. It was packed closely in a laige ct.sk or hogs head, ana then a large wooden spike was driven into each end ot the mass. This farmed the axletree, tires were placed around the ends of the cask, and a split sapling was converted into shafts. In this way the valuable weed was carried to market, to bo in spected, ana soia. ine inspection was very rigid, for upon the quality of the tobacco de pended its value as currency. Such notes were in use in Virginia as late as the begin ning of this century. In 1G10 tobacco had come into reneial use in England, and from the manne; of using it was known as "drinking tobacco," because the smoke was Inbated-and expelled through the nostrils. In 1G20 there as a society of tobacco-pipe makers chartered in London. The membersbore upon their shield a tobacco plant in bloesom. Tbe Virginia tobacco was imported in the leaf, as now; but the 8panishor West Indian in balls, molasses or some other liquid being used in its preparation. To make the oronoco more attractive, or perhaps on the principle that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, it was sometimes called the Ameri can silver weed. At the theater in Shakespeare's time tbe spectators often bad seats npon the stage. where they were attended by pages who fur' nished them with pipes and tobacco. It ia used throughout the world. Living stone writes that on the lower banks of the Zambesi; during the winter month, Large quantities are raised. It is very strong and very cheap. The people are inveterate smokers, and after puffing out the first whiff. swallow tbe rest, which they say is the real essence of the tobacco. A very superior quality is cultivated in Australia, and bids fair in time, to become a staple product So much is it esteemed that the Australian aboriginees will too willingly sell his "gin" -wife -for a plug of tobacco. Among the American Indians ibis narcotic

plant, which they call uppowoc, was not only smoked, but the dust was sprinkled on their fishing wares to make them fortunate.

They burned it to appease the anger of the gods, and scattered it In the air and on the water to allay the fury of the tempest Smoking was introduced at tbe English court by Sir Walter Raleigh, and thus became fashionable. The incident is historical that he offered Qaeen Elizabeth some tobacco to smoke. She was seized with nausea which being observed by somecf the Earl of Leicester factions, it was whispered about that 8ir Walter had poisoned her. When tbe Queen recovered she made the countess of Nottingham and ail the maids smoke a pipe out among them. It is also said tbat Sir Walter made a wager with the queen that he could calculate tbe weight of the smoke evaporated from a pipeful of tobacco. This he did by weighing first the tobacco and then tbe ashes, the difference being that which had gone off in smoke. When the queen paid the wager, she laughingly remarked that she had heard of many workers in the fire, who had turned their gold into smoke, but that Sir Walter was the first who had c inverted his smoke into gold. Among other anecdotes, there is one told of a country servant of Sir Walter. Coming into bis study one day with a tankard of ale. the servant found Sir Walter reading and smoking, and he was so alarmed when he sa w the clouds of smoke issue from bis mouth tbat be threw tbe ale into his fare end ran down s'airs, crying that Sir Walter was on fire. His was tbe first home In. England in which tobacco was smoked, acd Raleigh had arms emblazoned there with a tobacco plant on the top. Ilunbanit or Wlf. One has fathomed the great unknown, The otti er. all sorrowing, left alone. Wearily lovingly, waiting to see The open ga e to eternity. One has solved the problem of death, Tbe other Is waitiDg with bated oreath. Forever and ever It must be so. For one there is peace, for the other there's woe. One Is so downcast, so lonely, so sad, Tbe other so joyously free, ana so glad. Bo far from earth's trammels, its cares and woe. Sheltered so safely In God's sweet repose. Its One Is waiting an outstretched hand To beckon from out a far-ott land. The other, well knowing the Master's why, Patiently waits for the by and by. Nellie F. Pratt in Inter Ocean. WEBSTER'S La MO CHK. How the Great ftawyer Decided a Blatter Against Illmself. iBarper'a Magazine.1 Every one who has read Mr. George Tick nor Curtla' "Life of Daniel Webster" will remember John Taylor, Mr. Webster's ten ant and factotum at Franklin, N. H., and Robert Wise, the old revolutionary soldier who came home from the war with Captain Ebenezer Webster, Mr. Webster's father, and built for himself a little cottage on tbe cor ner oi tbe Webster farm, where he lived and died. Skirting the Webster property, and passing by the spot where Robert Wise took up his humble abode, there had long been a ferry way, leading to a ferry across the Merrimac River. The ferry was established dur Ing tiie laat century; and after Robert Wise bad lived there for some time it came to be called Wise's ferry. The ferry way was orriginally fenced on both sides, and ran be tween the Webster farm and a farm belong ing at the time of which we are about to speak, to Deacon Farley. The fence Webster's side of the ferry way had been lowed to fall into decay, but the fence the Farley aide had been well kept np. on alon In the year 1818. after a bridge had been built across the river, the town voted to discon tinue the ferry way and the ferry, and the land reverted, of course, to the original owner. Deacon Farley, assuming that the land belonged to himself, removed all traces of the fence on his own side, and including the whole of tbe land in his own territory up to the line where the Webster fence formerly stood, Mr. Webster came up to Franklin soon after thia had been done, and was greatly incensed by what iie saw. He ordered John Taylor into hia sitting room and said to him, sternly: "John Taylor, how came you to stand still and let Deacon Farley steal my land?" Mr. Webster was in one ef hia blackeat moods. Poor Taylor was terribly fright eoed, for in all his life he had neyer sen his gieat friend in such a toweria g passion. Mr. Webster ordered him, in tones of thunder, to go and brin? Deacon Farley. The deacon came, and he, too, was saluted with a burst of wrath that made him tremble. He modestly replied that he believed the land was his; but Mr. Webster could not be pacified. Thereupon the deacon and John Taylor jumped into a wagon and drove in great alarm, to see a young lawyer of the name of Pike (now Senator in Congress from rew Hampshire), who lived two miles up the river. They told Pike be must go dawn and see Mr. Webster and endeayor to explain the matter. Pike went, but as soon as he was in Mr. Webster's presence the latter roared out: "Young man, did you advise Dencon Farley o eteal my landr" 4 No. sir." slid Pike, "I did not. But if the statements that were laid before me are true, the land belongs to the deacon." "Wll. sir." replied WTehster, "if I can find a lawyer in this county I ah&il bring an actio." "There is no need of that. Mr. Webster," said Ptte. "I will get tbe proper documents and submit them to you, if you will hear me, and I belieye you will be convinced that the land is not yonra." "You are a bold man, sir. if you propose to leave the case to me," said Mr. Web ster. "But do as you please. I give you fair warning that I consider this land mine, and I will fight for every Inch of my father's property." Pik went away and procured a copy ot the record which showed the isylng out of the ferryway, and that all the land was taken from the property of Farley's grantor, and none of it from the Webster property; a copy ot the vote of the town discontinuing the ferry, and amdavlt of a former tenant oi Webster's showing that the fence on tne Webster side bad been removed and tbe whole ferryway taken into the Webster field. Tbe strip of land which the discontinuance of the ferryway took off from what Mr. Webster had always regarded as his own property, extended the whole length of one of his beat fields. When Pike submitted the documents to Mr. Webster, the latter read them very care fully, and then said: "Mr. Pike, in half an hour the jury will be ready to render their verdict Go and get Deacon Farley that he may hear it." In half an hour Pike returned with the deacon,.who expected aothicg but a repeti tion of what he had met before. "Gentlemen," said Mr. Webster, "hearken to the verdict. The jury find tbat the land ia Deacon Farley's, and is not the land of Daniel Webster. So says the foreman, eo says all the jury. And now. Deacon Farley, I have an opology to make to yoa for naving treated you very roughly. But I never dreamed that this land was not a part of my father's farm, and you know what my affection for this property Is. I was very angry, but I hope you will excuse me,"

CEYLON.

A Short Sketch of This Asiatic Island. Its Physical, Historic and Topographical Features Itrlerly Summarised. Written for the Sunday Sentinel. It is said tbat before going abroad for in formation one should learn the knowablesof his own home. And this is true in one tense; in that one should thoroughly understand the laws and customs of society and govern ment in which he is a factor and forms part of its growth and civic development. Our own country has grown so powerful, made such strides in science, commerce and mis sionary work, that the most remote tribes of the world become of proximate interest to the common student. As long ago as lSirO, Sir James Emerson Tenneret, of England, gave some impcrtant history of the islands of the Indian Ocean in his letters from Egean or Green Islands. While secretary to the Indian Board, he wrote a .worn called 'Christianity in Ceylon " in which be shows conclusively by their ancient record, heca tombs and temples that perhaps hundred of years before the Christian era that itland was inhabited by a civilized people. After having visited tbe islands frequently he wrote in 1861 a short natural history of Ceylon which is pronounced very correct and valuable. The island of Ceylon is 271 miles long and extends from north to eouth, being fifty-five miles eouth of the southern portion of Hindostan, and is in the Indian Ocean, being separated from the main land by the Polk Strait. The relief of this island is very pic turesque. On its southern and eastern coasts are bold and rocky promontories, rich and fertile valleys whole appearance is greatly increased by their laxuriaut tropical vegeta tion, the verdant slopes of its loftv moun tains and the large groves of noble palms draped in perennial green. It abounds In elephants, bear, buffalo, deer, leopard, tigers, etc The principal producta are coffee cotton, rice, cinnamon, cocoaunt, coir, hides pearls and plumbago. The climate is very humid and hot. The year is divided into three seasons; winter, which correspondes In temperature to our summer, and lasts four months; summer, which is extremely hot, and likewise Iats four months; and the rain seaton which Is Lur months long and has an average of eighty inches rainfall. Long betöre tne unnstian era, numerous colossal tanks were erected for the purpose of irrigation in winter and summer but there are now massive iuins which excite the curiosity of all seekers of antiquities. No snow ever falls on this island, notwithstanding Mount Pedrotallegalla lifts its tow ering summit 8.280 feet above the level of the sea. Not a great distance from this mountain may be seen the sacred Adam's Peak, 7,240 feet high, from whose summit Booddha, the Mala barian God, ascended into Heaven. The peoples of Ceylon are the Moors, Kandyans, Hindoos, Malabarians, the singular Veddahs, said to be the most degraded and filthy race on the globe, the descendants of the old Daten and Portugese, and the pe culiar race of Singalese. Booddhism is the prevailing religion of the three former and the one latter tribes or races. The Catholics have established many chnrchos on the island, and in conjunction with the missionary protestanta of other denominations are making inroads upon their dominant religion. The island is divided into six provinces, over which the Governor, appointed by the Englüh Crown, has control. He stays at Columbo, the capital. Each tribe has its own local government and are en tirely distinct, each from the other. The writer had the pleasure of meeting Mr.! Eddie Mott, who has been traveling with Barnum's shew, and from him I learned the following pecul'arities of the Singalese race, six ot whom he is the manager: Five years ago Mr. P. f. Barnum con celved the idea of collecting an ethnological corgress of nationalities, and accordingly s?nt Mr. C. W. Gaylord, better known as "Deafy," being hardiof hearing, who went to Ceylon and other countries in the southern hemisphere. After giving bond for their return, etc., he returiid with six Singaleae who are now a part of Barnum's show. Mr. Mott says that he has learned from Mgposuh (pro- Muhpoiuche) who can talk a very little broken English, that they live on rice ana fish and wear but little clothing in their native country. They worship Booddha four days in the week. The bishop whom they call in their tongue Poorgee, preaches to them telling them that Boogoddah (God) makes and rules everything and in Teedo (Heaven) where Booddha Is pleading for his race They call their ruler the Shimbeeyan, who is elected for twenty-eight years or dnring life. Singalese speak and write a dialect which is an onshoot ot the Sanskrit language. They claim to have origi nated from the Hindoos and to hsve settled onCejlon 543 B C, which, however, may b9 uncertain. They certainly belong to the Malayan or brown race. Their skin is darker than the Mongolian and not so thick as the African. Their hair is black and straight. They never use chairs or stools in their home, but rest and eat while Bitting on their hunkers. I noticed one of them as he left the hotel BL Charles, take a cigarette and light it I sa'd to Mr. Mott, "Do they nss tobacco In Ceylon7" Mr. Mott laughed as though he thought I ought to have known better and he said, "Yea, they all use tobacco. Men, women and children all chew and smoke incessantly. Not only that, but these six, two ot whom are mere ba bies, eat over a half pound ef csvenne pepper every week." I was surprised to see one oi them take a pod of pepper and eat it without bread or water, and more so when he appeared to rel ish it. Mgposuh said, "Me no like much age (coat) and carumboo (clothes)." In Ce; Ion they only wear a girdle about tbe loins, a combom (bat) and parnots (shoes; which are made from thin skins, like sandals merely protecting the bottoms of their feet. They have learned to use calico in their country and have a large commerce with England and other countries. They take great pride in telling or trying to tell about the great temple of Danbool. which was built by the natives about 100 years B C, and dedicated to Boodha. The temple is profusely adorned with images and fine sculptures. When you go to Ceylon don't fail to atop at Trincomalee, where yoa may gather pearls and fill your pockets with the most precious amethysts. Lrt. THE FATE OF TOB BENDERS. A Narrative of One of the SSea Lynched them Shot to Death. IChlcago Times. I Who Tbe Benders might have continued thslr bloody work in peace and prosperity for an indefinite length of time had tbey contin ued planticg their victims in the garden Bat pievioua 1o tbe killing of Dr York they had murderei a n an named Jones. In Feb ruary a man roamed Conklin, in company with another farmer, while riding along Drum Creek, saw the dead body of a man caught In torse drift wood. It proved tobe

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the body of Jones. He bad his skull smashed in with a hammer and bis throat cut from ear to ear. The body bad no clothing upon it save a shirt. Some ten or a dozen farmers met quietly on the banks of Drum Creek, and after viewing the body of Jones held a council. At this meeticg the Benders were spoken of suspiciously, and it was determined to keep the discovery of the body quiet until future developments. The next day a man who was evidently a tramp and bad footed It from Independence on hia way to Fort Scott, stopped at Datroit's house and asked for something to eat. In conversation with this man, Dutroit learned tbat the previous evening the tramp bad, while look ing around for a place to pa&a the night, come acre si a small haystack back of the Bender's home, into which be quietly nestled himself. It must have been midnight when he was awakened by voices, and quietly lot-king out from his nest he saw the dim outline of three persons, evidently at work digging, at a short distance from him. It was so dark that he could not distinguish them, but he could hta- them speak in German, a lacguaqe he did not understand. His first impulse was to go out to them. But something seemed to withold him, and after a time they finished whatever work they were at and withdrew into the bouse. The tramp depar el early in tbe morning and had tramped on until he had stopped at Du troit'a for breakfast. He concluded hia tale by lemark dg that it "loosed eighty like as if they were bury in e tome one." Mr. Datroit said nothing at the time, but when the party of twelve met by appointment on llrnra Creek, he related tne circamttanoa to ! them, ind it was determined to give the Bender mansion a quiet investigation. A wagon track was discovered leading to the Bender place from where Jones' body had been thrown into the creek. The party struck out on the wagon trail, and at about sunbet it brought them within view of the tavern. It was thea determined to forego proceedings until the morrow, when in the morning the entire party would meet on Drum Creek well armed, and ride over to ths Bender place. On tbe morrow, at about 8 o'clock, the party assembled on the creek and immediately proceeded over the prairies to the aus pected house. But when they arrived there tbey found the Bender ranch deter ted. The Benders bad noticed the squad ot horeemen riding upon the wagon trail the previous evenirg, and during the night had bundled up their etfecta and departed. The Benders at this time had tour horses, a cow, and a wagon load of household truck. While the scouting party were canvassing the new state of affair, Mr. Dutroit and others went In search of the spot indicated by the tramp The searched around for some time in vain, as the ground had been recently plowed over, but as last struck a spot that appeared moister than the rest, as thoogu the ground beneath it had recently been turced up. No shovel being found, three of the party set to work with ahinglee torn from the rcof of the home, and after digg'na a hole four feet deep, one of them, witn a shout, reached down hia hand ana pulled up the skirt of a man's undergarment, and beneath could be seen an exposed portion ot a human body. This waa the corpse o! Mr. York, though at the time the explorers did not know it. The track of tbe Bender wagon could be seen leading to the southwest. " The horsemen f jllowed it at full speed. Just before sunset the pursuers came in sight ot the fugitives. They bad evidently nrged their teams on with all speed toislble. as they were a good forty rive miles from their tavern, and their animals appeared well used up. There was no cow with the outfit, nor had tbe Benders' cow been been or beard ot from that day to this. As the pursuit came in sight of their game they gave a yell, and charged down upon them. The moment the Bee drs caught eight of their pursuers, the gr a est consternation appeared to seizs npon them. John Bender, who was walking by the aide of the wagon, ran forward to the lead team, as though to unhitch them but waa recalled bv tbe old man, who handed him out an o d fashioned smooth bore Yeager rifle. With thia weapon he fired a harmless shot at the advancing horsemen, and then drew a navy revolver and reached his hand Into the wagon for another. Before he had time to draw it forth, however, a ahot from one of the farmers laid him out lifeless on the prairie, the ball entering hia left breast and piercing the heart. Old man Bender stood up in the wagon, and, striking down the cover, yelled at hia horse in German and flourished a revolver oyer his bead. The pursuers wished to capture them alive, if possible, but did not like to approach too close to the old man's re volver. As they were going down a roll In the prairie one of their lead boraee fell," and Kate, springing out of the wagon, went to the fallen animal as if to get it up. Bat instead of raising the fallen beast, aha cut loose its mate, and, mounting it, was endeavoring to make her escape on ita back. At this the old man seemed crazed with anger and fired hia revolver at her. He did not hit her, however, bat the horse springing forward caught a leg In the breeching of its fallen mate, and went down with Kate under him. The old man having emptied his revolver, the pursuers closed on tim and beat him down with their gun barrels, though he and his wife fought like tigers to the last. After they had tied Bender and his wife they got the girl out from under the horse and found that she bad a broken leg in tbe fall. Da troit said Kate acted like a very deviL Sbe cursed them, cursed her father and mother, and seemed a xed hot vial of wrath. The party moved on to a "run" and camped for the night. Old Bender refused to say a word in i.ogusn, dui both he ana his wife cursed their captors in German. Kate Bender seamed to think their captors knew everything, and while she would not answer questions, she made no concealment of the hellish work that had been carried on at the tavern, and asserted that they had killed over 100 persons. She eaid that ahe bad done most of the throat cutting herself; that John was atraid; that ne or the old woman did well enough to knock their victims on the heal bat tbey appeared to be afraid of tnem after they were down. When asked why tbey had killed so many (referring to her assertion of haying killed 100 persons), sne repuea mat tne old people meaning her parents) urea tne money, bat she liked to see the blood. She was lying on the ground, her broken limb preventing her escape. One of the men bappecei to sit down near her, when quick as thought, ahe jerked his revolver from his belt and fired at him The ball missed him and entered the fleshy part ot the thigh of a man named Love. Before she could fire again ahe waa ahot, one of the balls passing through her head. Tbe old couple looked on cllh appareat in d i If ere nee upon the terribb scene, and when spoken to would make no reply, save to give utterance to maledictions upon their pursuers. Tbe farmers held a long consultation as to tbe diapcsal of their prisoners. A bond of sworn secrecy was entered into, and so the old man and his wife ware both shot. They male no appeal to mercy, bat died cursing. The following morning their effects were divided up among their captors. Their bodies were burlid on the spot. If thsre not a strange inconsistency In adoring wealth as it is adered and despising the particular kind of skill and ability by which it is us a ally acquired?