Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 28, Number 19, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 May 1879 — Page 7

THE INDIANA STATE SEKTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 7, 1879.

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Her brothers were both down at Oxford, , ai uamonage ner lover nsa oeen; i "With him she's to go to the boat race The first one that e'er she had seen. . Her brothers wrote "Put on onr color;" ' Her heart wanted Cambridge to win ; . And her iover stood laughing softly At the pozzle her mind was In. "Now what shall I do, pray?" she asked him; 1 long to wear uamDriage lor you, . But the boys will never forgive me If I don not the Oxford blue.", i " " "Then wear It, my darling be happy; The boys will be pleased, and I too; Though your dress be the Oxford color. Your eyes will remain Cambridge blue." MISS MAT. ,." Harper's Magazine.' It was an afternoon in late February, and Tom Kingsley wss lounging in the bay window ot the little sitting-room, his Latin and Greek books all around him, and. what was worse, a broad snow-covered hill before him,. down which sled alter siea was giiaing witn the most tantalizing rapidity. ' Tom was 20, and devoted to learning, but he was not above a good coast when the chance presented itself. Occasionally he favored his sister, who was the only other occupant of the room, with very audible growling against the restrictions of study hours. The two were students in the academy whose mathematically square buildings rose almost opposite to the Kingsley house. They were nearly of an age; but the one was preparing to enter college; the education of the other was considered nearly completed. The two young people, with their father and mother,' made up the whole family; but Mr. Kingsley, in the simple, unpretending way of the village, received into his house as a boarder one of the academic professors, and also occasional students when they happened to be friends of the children.' It was this first-named individual who was exciting Tom's attention, in lack of anything better to look at . "May," he said, jerking his head over ' his shoulder with a quick, characteristic movement, "just come here and see Professor Bensel go by." His sister dropped her vork and came to the window. On the other side of the street stood a tall, ungainly man, witn a scholarly stoop in his shoulders, a head of bushy hair much threaded with gray, a pur ot mud, wise spectacles, and a general air of pei plexed acquiescence in all mundane affairs whatever. In his hands he held a very tiny sled, looking at it at arm's iengta, as if it was something of an explosive nature. One six-year-old little fellow was surveying his broken plaything with despairing eyes, while two other excited urchins danced up and down in front of the professor, endeav oring duly to set forth the nature of the accident that had happened to the runner. Two dogs wagged their tails hopefully in the bacKgrouad, and, to complete tne procession, a disabled crow. . the pet of one of the vil lagers, brought, up the rear. It hopped gravely aloDg, now on one foot, now on the other, settlor its head on one side in oracu lar fashion, and looking 10 times blacker and wickeder than ever against the white ness of the snow. - After considering the situation a few minutes the professor started off again, dragging the sled by the rope, and his pro--cession, crow and all, trotted along behind him. 'Now," said Tom, c'he will go straight to the carpenter's shop to get that thing mended; " and the carpenter, after impressing upon him the arduous nature of the job, will charge just 10 times what it is worth, -and he will pay it without a word." "No doubt he will." "And those little beggars will run off without even thanking him." "But they are fond of him, Tom." "I don't care. May, you can make that man believe anything." . "I know it" "Just fancy his going out with a telescope and watching the moon all night because we boys told him there were changes on its surface indicating some great in teller convulsions? "And when he couldn't find them,' and came to us to point them out, we pretended to see them plainly enough, told him his eyes were getting weak, and he believed every word of it, and has taken to wearing spectacles from that day." '- - s. ' i "Well, they are becoming at any rate, and he is short-sighted," said his sister, laughing. ; - . - "Bat, May, the best joke of all you never heard of. Promise me yoa won't tell any body about it" "Of course not except Jem." "Oh, Jem knows all about it already ; he was in it Seems to me you're very dutiful. though, all at once. Getting engaged has improved von." "We'll pray that It may last" said his sister, demurely." "Which? the improvement or the engagement? How many people have yoa been engaged to before this, May 7" "About half a dozen. 1 think." ' "I think so, too. Don't treat Jem in that way. He's a friend of mine; and, alter all, it's rather mortifying, you Know, to a fellow." 'It -can't very well be mortifying in this case, became nobody is to Know of the engagement" ' "I should like to know if they don't! Whv. May, it is known all over town. Jem told of it himself. You see, you are rather pretty for a girl; and then there's that bit of money grandmother left you. -On the whole. Jem's rather proud of it, and no wonder. i r . : - - - "Let's have the oke now, Tom; never mind the compliments." ' "Neve ; complimented, anybody in my life. What are you" talking about? But about that little affair: you remember when we were experimenting with that nitrogen iodide in the laboratory, May?" "Yes." "You remember how explosive it wss safe as long as yoa kept it wet; but going i off like nitro glycerine and .. dynamite put together when iteotdrv?". "It don't go off unless some one touched it Tom." . "I rather guess it did. If a fellow merely breathed a vard away from it off it went But that a of no consequence, for in this case somebody was expected to touch it "And the somebody was the professor, of course?"""""'" .---. - "Of course. Wa made a lot of it,' and put eome on the handle of his door, some in his slippers, and some among his books; the rest we scattered round promiscuously. And. as good luck would have it there came up a heavy thunder-shower that very after noon. The professor .- came nurrying in; accldentiallv Jem and I met him on the stairs. We asked him to explain a difficult Latin passage. 'Oh, . come right in come right in, boys,' he says, in that benevolent wav of his; and laid his hand on the door knob. Bang! He jumped back as if he had been shot 'Bless me, what's the matter? he exclaimed, rubbing his nose. We didn't sav anvthing, but acted as if 'twas the most everv-dav occurrence. Well, we went in. and he pulled off his boots and started to get his slippers on. Bang! bang! Oh, May, you never saw the like of that jump! I believe he actually struck the ceiling. When he went to draw down the window-curtain. bane! again. When he took down the Latin book it was a big and heavy on bang! bang! bang! And so on with every thing he toucnea in tne room, ou i uegau to think the poor man would lose his wits. But the best of it was he never even suspected the cause. You know his wisdom lies in Latin and Greek; he doesn't know anything about the sciences, though I believe he regards them with more awe than all the rest of the curriculum put together. Well, Jem just told him the thundeMhower had done it, that it had charged the room with electricity, and that he himself wss a firstI. rate prime conductor. Jemaxpatiated learnedly for half an hour or move on the freaks of

electricity; talked, yon know, as if it was a

usual thing to see rooms behaving in that I fashion. ; And, - if 'you believe me, the professor actually took it all in; is writing a paper now if Jem s any authority on th subjecton these , extraordinary , natural phenomena. . . ' , rom was in ecsiacies oi laugnter rjy inis time, and his sister was not slow in joining him. "I was only afraid father would hear the noise, and stop the fun," gasped he at last. when he was able to speak, "luckily be didn't come in till it was all over. I suggested to the professor that it might frighten mother it he was to mention it at tne taoie, and he has been as mum about it as possible ever since. May, we can make him believe anything anything whatever. If -I told him there were ghosts in the house, he'd put out his light and sit watching for one the very next night" . Why don't yon show him a ghost, then?' queried May. "You know we read how taey did it at tne spiritualistic seances. I'llhelpyou, and " "May," cried rom, lumping to nis leet and dancing the fisher's hornpipe, "you're a trump! Just wait till Jem comes, and we'll have it all hied. The professor never locks his door." The two pairs of brown eyes looked at each other, and the . respective owners of them burst out laughing, with the delightful unanimity of sentiment that occurs whenever any specially delectable piece of mischief is on foot Jem in no way dissented from tae pro gramme when he presented himself at night, but, on the contrary, auaea some timeiy suggestions. Tom considered his Riena the quickest-witted mortal in the world, and a handsome fellow besides, which last was true enough. The young people soon found out that to codv the spirits successfully re quired more time and practice than they had counted upon, their ghostly advisers having failed to provide any short road to perlec tion. They were very patient, however, as people will be when engaged in something with which they have no manner of business, and in about a week had all their arrangements completed. Jem was to personate the ghost Tom and his sister the audience, 'Tom having reluctantly yielded the post of distinction to Jem in consideration of his abilities. But when it came to the point, the wouldbe ghost had a new proposal to make. "Let's tell him to do something or other," he said "something that he would never think of himself so that we shall know by that afterward whether he believes in it all or not." . This being hailed with acclamation, Tom suggested that the professor should be commanded to wear a cocked hat for a month ; May, that he should make a daily pilgrimage to the top of Meeting-house hill for that length of time. But Jem rejected both of these proposals: they would be liable to bring about discovery, and were not solemn enough to be accredited to a ghost. "No: it mast be something that will affect his whole life," he said something of so much consequence that he would think it likely the spirits would be charged to deliver it. We'll tell him be must go as a mission ary; or. no, better still, let's tell him to marry somebody May, here, for instance; he was always fond of her, and she is right in the same house. But unluckily. May is not fond of him. but of you." observed lorn wicaeaiy. 'Well, he doesn t Know that, ne win think it's his duty to ask her. And when she says no. he will wait for some new spiritual light You don't mind, do you, Mav?" May did mind very much at first, out tne two bovs. aided by her own sense of fun, at last persuaded her into it. Perhaps the thought that it was sure to be discovered, and that the professor could not possibly carry his credulity to that point helped to auiet her conscience. At any rate, she not onlv yielded, but after the fashion of wo mankind, was the one to originate tne boldest cart of the scheme. if 1 let you do that, ooys, you must let me do what I want to." Of course they both asked "What is it?" May refused to tell them. "You'll know soon enough," she said, with the mischievous sparkles coming and going in her brown eyes. "Only, if I don't say anything to spoil your fun, you must. promise cot to spoil mine." They both gave this promise very ready, finding a new interest in their project now that something not laid down in tne . piau might possibly happen. In about a week everything was reaay. and the night set for the ghostly visitation. The professor, after putting out his light, was just getting into bed, still absorbed in the true interpretation oi a aimcuit aorisi construction, when the door creaked gently, seemed to swing open of itself, with a faint blue light encircling it and a general misty uncertainty of outline that might be attributed to the shifting of some thick vaoor. bnt to an uninitiated person was highly suggestive of ancorporeal spirits. 'Rlacm otia! hleofl ttio'" mid Professor Reuse!, staring at this ytsion. "Who are you, my friend?" l am a aisemoooieo. spirit, repueu a sepulchral voice. Dear, dear: wnai a pity: cant can't anything be done for you?" "nothing. .1 am sent to you," "Well, mv friend. I am here "after a pause, in which he seemed to imagine that the embarrassed spirit required some encouragement His face shone with a mild benevolence. "I am here." he repeated. "What can I do for you?" The blue llgnt was snaxen ior a moment, as if the spectral visitor was aisiuroea dv this tantalizing calmness, and even dis posed to back out of the situation. Then the . sepulchral voice replied: "Yoa are commanded to marry May Kingsley." 'How? What? My good friend, you are talking like a ghost!" exclaimed theaston ished professor. A slight flush rose to his benevolent face. . 'You are commanded to do it" repeated the spirit, monotonously. ... ., . , "Bless me! bless me: It isn't posaiDie." "With us, all things are possible." "Indeed?" said the professor, inquiringly, Indeed?" he repeated, with as much delib eration at if he were addressing his classes. "Well. well. Let us consider that settled, and and pass on to something else," with a certain mild dignity, as if he objected to discussing the lady they had named even with a ghost He was evidently disposed to be hospitable, but somewhat at a lost how to entertain his visitor. "You are not" said the professor, glanchesitatingly at the suggestive blue light Tfrom the celestial regions, I am afraid? "No" ' r .. .. " 'Dear me! dear mef what a pity! ' It mast be very unpleasant' Yet if you could if you ' could be persuaded to give me a little information about the other place the truth is, I have a young friend who is going that wav. I verv much fear, and " ' Here something not laid down in the programme happened f the ghost incontinently bolted, blue light and all. Outside there was a ansmcioua scuffling and hurry ing of feet that may have been produced spiritually, but was very like scampering humanity. ' The professor deliberately, got up and closed the door, muttering to himself "Verv singular verv singular, indeed!" The same embarrassed flush still lingered on his face, but be got into oea ana went calmly to sleep, as if nothing unusual had hamened. Meanwhile the ghost and the audience were holding a hurried consultation down stairs. All three were considerably taken aback. "He knew us." said Jem disconsolately, "He must have known us the very f rst thing. His young friend! That was cool, at any rate. Which of us doe he mean. Tom von or me?" "Perhaps he didn't know himself which it was," said Tom..

As neither of them could settle this point.

they at last adjourned to bed, each, perhaps, with a little sense of discomfiture under all his merriment The next morning, after . watching Tom out of the house. May sat down to some feminine work of her own, to ponder ovar their ill-fated schemes, when in walked Professor Rensel, who was supposed to - be safe in his class room. May was aghast at the sight of him. "Now for it!" she thought "It is too bad I should have to take the scolding alone." For it could not but be that even so mild a man would be angry at such an escapade. True, he could not know of her share in it. but then it was nearly as bad to have Tom made the scape goat Miss May was an audacious voune lad v. but conscience made a coward of her, and she dared not look up or ask him why he was Dot at school. "Why don't he begin r' she mused. ' still keeping her eyes on her work, as the tall figure shuttled uneasily round the-room. Presently the professor stopped In front of her and cleared his throat "My dear Miss May, do yoa think you could ever bring yourself to marry me?" The work fell out of her hands, and May sat fairly dumb with astonishment The professor picked it up again for her. "I am much older than yourself. Miss May," he west on, "and a very awkward man in action and speech, as you see. Not such a one as a young lady would ever be likely to fancy. Only only I felt it my duty to ask you." Then at last May found her tongue. "One would not like to marry anybody who asked her merely from a sense of duty," she said, gravely, bending still lower over her work. The same flush tinged the professor s face that had been there the night before. When 1 said duty. Miss May," he answered her, half reproachfully, "I only expressed the motive that had led me to speak to you this morning. I said nothing of my own feelings. Surely you must know that a man like myseit, who has tenner youth nor attractions of any . kind, would. under ordinary circumstances, feel debarred from the right to ask what a younger and happier man might ask. such a one as myself can only stand aside, glad to be your humble friend, and to wish you all happi ness to the end of your life." There was something so pathetic in the sight of the gentle, learned professor ad dressing such words to the thoughtless gin whom others treated only as a companion in mischief, but whom his love elavated to a pedestal above common womanhood, that May might well have been restrained by it His gray hairs and simple kindness of life, might have turned aside the jokes his ere dulity brought upon him. She wavered visibly for a moment; then the old mischiev ous sparkle came back to the eyes that were so demurely dropped. "Yet you have altered your resolution this morning?" she taid, inquiringly. "As I told you. Miss Mav, because I believed that it was right for me to do so. "Well," said May, after a long pause, in which she was scarcely able to keep down the roguish quivering of her lips, "if it is your duty to marry me, it must be mine to marry you." "Then you consent?" "Yes." The tall ungainly man stooped, with no grace except that which love gave him, and lifted her hand to his lips. He seemed no more astonished at her answer than he had been at the spiritual visitation of the night before. When the boys came home that niitht tbey found the professor radiant, Mr. and Mrs. Kingsley beaming approval upon their daughter, and May herself submitting to it all with the most curious expression ever seen upon any dimpled face a compound of laughter and doubt, of fun and fear. Whether Bhe was pricked by her con science, or only frightened by the boldness of the game she was carrying on, they could not tell. As soon as was possible they got her alone by herself and fell upon her, metaphorically speaking, with an avalanche of questions. May, did he reauy asK yoa to marry him?" "Yes." "But he acts as if you had said yes." "Well, so I did." "By Jove!" ejaculated Tom, perfectly con founded. Yoa know I told you boys, that If I helped you in your fun, yoa must let me have mine." - - "But May I May! do yoa know he basal ready asked father's consent? How will yoa get oat of it? wnat a storm mere win oei "She means," interrupted Jem, who had been studying her face attentively, "to let t go on till it comes to th finale, and then say no instead of yes when the minister puts the question." Tom's face was a picture of mingled con sternation and admiration. He had held a very low opinion of the courage of girls up to this point but here was one who was willing to go beyond him. 'Did you think of this last night when yoa wouldn't tell as what yoa were going to do?" he asked, humbly. "Of course I did," "Onlv think, Tom, he believed every word of it after all!" put in Jem. They congratulated each other upon hav ing perpetrated a successful joke, but sun their countenances wore a very uneasy expression. , ' After all. May, it's a little too bad," said Tom. hesitatingly. "Ihe professor is a good sort of man, though he is such a mutt. We won't spoil your tun, ot course, but lust look at it before you go ahead. Have yoa thought what an awful row there'll be when it comes outf" .... It's too late to stop now," said his sister, faintly, as if she were a little alarmed her self at the prospect. Well, anyway. May can marry me, ana so get out of the scrape," said Jem, taking her hand consolingly. 'She'd better marrv you right after the other ceremony, then," answered Tom. ominously. "You'd better take her out of father's reach as fast as possible. He Viinks evervthing of the old professor." Well, why shouldn't we?" asked Jem, with confidence. "It's just as well now as any time, May won t mind." ' And indeed May did look so relieved at this proposal, after the fashion of a child who has unexpectedly grasped a torpedo, that Tom began to think it would be the bet way out of the scrape, after alL To be sure, the pair would have nothing to live on after tbey were married, except his sister s little legacy, which would not go far, and, besides, which could not be claimed for a year, till the young lady was of age. But Tom had a cheerful confidence in Jem's abilities, and as great a confidence in his sister. They finally settled it among themselves that this was to be the denouement, and afterward tried to look as if everything was all right ... , , . .One of them at " least failed ignomimously. , Tom . was , attacked with fits of self reproach every time he chanced to meet the professor's eye, and whenever the good, unconscious man showed him any trifling kindness, would rush out of the house as if he were a convicted criminal. This went on for a few months, Tom growing more and more conscience-stricken, May more and more silent and timid, till at last the powers that be were moved to set the wedding day. They all felt a kind of relief at this. The joke which had seemed so ludicrous at first had grown into a species of night-mare, which bestrode them all mercilessly. May submitted to the wedding preparations with a quietness very nnhke her. She avoided solitary interv.ews with the professor; but as he had far too great a reverence for her to seek them, this conduct did not attract attention. There was much wondering and many comments among the gossips of the Tillage over this singular and apparently

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unsuitable engagement: but Miss Mar had always had a reputation for - doing unex pected things, as at last the. wondering . set tled down into acauiescerfce. ' By the morning of the wedding day - both Jem and Tom were beginning to recognizes the serious aspect of the drama to be en acted, and were not af little nervous on entering th e church. In their terpidation theynearly forgot to provide themselves with white gloves, if there had not come a timely reminder from May. The service commenced went on without interruption to toe place where the decisive question was put Jem and Tom listened in the utmost excitement to the professor s response; and then the question came to May, "Wilt thou have this man to be thy wedded husband?" Jem was just rising from his seat in antici pation ot the impending scene, when her anwer came, in a low, clear voice that could be beard distinctly in all parts of the church: xes." : The two boys were horror struck. Was it possible she knew what she was doing? Was she overpowered with fright? Whether she was or not. they certainly were; for in spite of a frantic impulse to cry out and proclaim the mistake, the decorum of the place kept them still till the ceremony was over. Then they rushed to her side. heedless of order or conventionalities. May! May!" whispered Tom. catching her hand in his excitement, "are yoa crazy? Do you that know you are married to him?" The color in her face deepened as in a late sunset sky. Tea, 1 know it she answered, auietlv. laying her other hand upon her husband's arm; and then lifting her beautiful flushed face to her brother, "and I love him." Perhaps two more discomfited young men never stole out of church than were Jem and Tom as they slipped away unnoticed among the crowd of people. The former, indeed, was savage, and declared he would never forgive her. But Tom, when he saw his sister s face leaning out of the carriage for the last time before they drove away, wss moved to kiss her in a grim, uncompromising sort of way; and seeing the penitent tears gathering in her brown eyes, to mutter to himself: "It was our fault after all. We acted as if we wers sure she feadn t got any heart and no wonder she was ashamed to show it" As for Jem. he finally retracted his he roic resolves, and consented to a most amica ble truce between himself and Mfs. Professor Kensel after her return; but the two young men were never quite sure whether the professor believed in that ghost or not : - A Tortured ActresH. Cincinnati Enquirer. The best "house" of the week, an honest house too, was present at the Grand last night to see Clara Morris in "Miss Multon,1 which is ".hast Lynne" Frenchified into English and "adapted" to the American stage. The play is full of sorrow and suffering, and had a double quota of the latter ingredient last night owing to the fact that Miss Morris played durijg the entire evening in the most acute aeony and misery. It appears that last Tuesday eveniog, while falliDg after the shot in the first act of "Article 47." she struck her right hip bone against the stage with such force as to injure it severely. At the time tee accident was not regarded serious, out the hurt has constantly grown worse and worse, until now she has almost lost the use of her right leg. Before the curtain rolled up in the first act of "Miss Multon" Mr. Wheelock made his appearance before it, and said: " "Ladies and Gentlemen We ask yonrlndnl gence for Miss Merris, who is this evening suffering from a painful lameness. Some time ago she received an injury to her hip from a full. At the time little Importance was at tached to it, but it has grown worse, and she now sutlers considerably from it She feels it her duty to the public to fulfill her engage ments, ana win ao so, Dut we maet ask your judq indulgence ior ner. When Miss Morris made her entrance on the stage it was seen at a glance that she was suffering excruciating torture, and her efforts to play were painful in the extreme to witness. Hhe limped and hobbled about the stage worse than Forrest ever did in his goutiest days. As soon as she made her exits from the stage she was carried to couch in the wings, where she lay until summoned "on" sgfin by the exigencies of the scene. Her playing in the third act was grand beyond description, and at its conclusion she was called before the - curtain to receive - a basket of flowers which the management and her husband had provided to rally her from the contemplation of her misery. The poor woman was very siow in responding to tne can, out at last sue maoe her appearance at the edge of the curtain supported by Mr. wneeioca ana mt. normaa. While the former stepped down to tho footlights tor the basket Miss Morris wreathed her face into a smile that was 80u!-sickenin& to witness. meanwnue having to be supported by Mr. Norman, who clasped her around the waist and held her up. At soon as she was half carried, half dragged back out of sight of the audience her face assumed a look of agony that could not be excelled by a poor wretch on the rack. In the next act she limped about the stage in a most painful manner, and it was with the utmost difficulty that she could nnish the play. Mr. Harriott her husband. was adverse to her appearing at all, and was bo affected Dy the pain she was In that he could not Btay in the auditorium of the theater, while she was on the stage. It was the most pitiable exhibition of misery and woe ever seen on our boards, and we sin cerely hope, for the sake of her mends. Miss Morns will never again attempt to perform when lame and suffering, as she did last night. If she must have the money that such suffering "earns, let her make known her necessities. and benefits will be given her in every city ot prominence in the country, that we are sure will provide her with a competency sufficient to maintain her off the stage for the short remainder of her days. We have a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals that will not permit a horse to be worked thst is 10 times as fit as Miss Morris is to play, and if there is no statute to forbid such exbibitionsof refined cruelty to haman beings, even if self-inflicted, the public should frown its disapprobation on them by refusing its patronage to the house in which they are presented. --. r Whose Pigs? London Sporting Times. When the Bishop of Peterborouh Was in' stalled in his country parsonage, be used to go about a good deal among bis parishioners, and on one occasion came across a boy minding a sow and her utter when the fol lowing conversation took place: . Vicar Well, my little man, and whose pigs are these? - uoy vv hoi, that old sow's, to be sure. Vicar No, no; I don't mean that who is the master ot tbemr . ., , . . . , Boy Whol. that little black ' chap there wie the curly tail he licks the lot oc 'em. vicar lamusea) an no, you oon i under stand me; I mean who is the owner of them? Whom do they belong to? Boy Belong to? whol, to my father, o' course. . Vicar Well, and who is your father! Eh? Boy "Well, look 'ere: if you just molnd the pigs oi 11 run an' ax mother. It is stated that Mil Hall, daughter of Oakey Hall, writes the Art JSotes for the New York World, and trips early from stu dio to studio In search of ber data; that Miss Jones, daughter of Ueorge Jones of the JSew York Times, makes the literary selections for the supplement ot that paper, and that Miss Dana, daughter of Charles A. Dana of the New York Sun, frequently does news paper work, is a clever writer and has writ ten ior tne magazines, having contributed tones to uarpers Monthly.

f . j . ; . ; i - S! I 1 1 THE DARIEN CAVAItX 1 1 '

parties ; Interested lathe Scheme A Com- ' puny Being Formed Abroad. London World. 16.1 v There is a vervorettv chitme Paris just now for floating a Darien Canal company, which is to do for the Atlantic and v ocinc what the Suez did for the Mediterranean and Bed Seas. Mme. Ratazzi and her relations, the Napoleon Wyses, are said to be interested in it, at least as well-wishers, and their good wishes ought to bring a blessing to any undertaking. The engineers are to cut clean through the isthmus id unite the oceans: the rest va sans din it would revolutionize the trade of the world. They have obtained a concession from the local Government and are only awaiting the result of a congress, to be held next May, at the Geographical society of Paris, to begin operations by patting tbeirshareein the market M. de Lesseps will preside, and the congress will sit in judgment on this and an alternative French scheme, the piercing of the continent by way of the Lake of Nicaragus, eome degrees further North. This is the project of a certain M. da Lessens &t Suez, and who has been maturing the idea of luiguucr wuri uuo nis masters for many years. He is a declared enemy not only to the Darien plan in question, but of all other Darien plans, and there have been many of them. He declares that, in spite of appearances on the map, the American con tinent can not be pierced at that point on any estimate of outlay likely to corns within the means of shareholders who expect a return on tneir money, his Alcaraguan I scheme, he maintains, is cheaper, as being I more leasioie according to the configuration of the ground. He has found a number of influential people ready to take him at his wora; a isicaraguan company is in course of formation, chiefly with French capital; a Kicarnguan concession has been obtained. and M. Blanchet, like the others, only awaits the verdict of the congress, as to which he seems thoroughly confident, to set to work. The Napoleon Wyses are said to bs mov ing Heaven and earth to get the Congress to pronounce for their project and they area powerful clan. M. de Lesseps is believed to be in some danger of losing his freedom of judgment on the question through female influence. He is peculiarly susceptible to the fascinations and flatteries of pretty women of the world, and there are many such specially retained on one side of the case. llis good word would be almost enough to float the Darien or . another scheme. He, however, wants to be altogether out of it as an advocate, and he has called the congress as a judge. He has had enongh of canal making and enougn of glory. - With all this it may be thought be can have no weak side; but the Danenites have iound one a horror of canal locks. There are no locks at Sur z; it is a level passage from sea to sea. "Why should there be locks in any other maritime canal?" says M. de Lesseps. Why, indeed?" say the Darienites: and they accordingly propose to drive their channel for miles through the solid rock. The "Mcaragnans" have another answer. "Darien is not Suez; it is rock instead of sand ; slevated ground ' instead of land on the sea level. To cut sheer down to the sea level through the Cordilleras would be a labor of Hercules. It would cost a thousand millions of francs. There must be locks, then, even at Darien; and since locks there must be, it is better to make them at Nicaragua, where the ground Is more suitable for their formation." "Granted," says M. de Lesseps, "if only the must is absolute, there is no lock plan so good as the One for Nicaragua; but the congress alone can settle the question." Here, then, is the turning point . - in support of their contention that there must be locks the Nicaraguans point to the fact that all the schemes hitherto proposed. even for Darien, that have borne the test of serious examination, have included this arrangement At the isthmus the two oceans are separated by a great ridge, miles in breadth, the tapering point of the Cordillera range. You must carry the water over this or through it; the first is tremendously dif ficult the last nearly impossible. . Th most plausible Darien scheme, that of Selfridge, the American, provides for no fewer than 22 locks, and even with this there is to be a great ship tunnel of such immense height and width that the work at Mont Cents would be a mere sewer to it all wrought foot by foot out of the rock. You would never come to the end of such an under taking, it is argued, except by coming to an end of the patience of your shareholders and the gullibility of the public. A. M. ds Gogorza did, indeed, propose to do without the tunnel, bat it was only by sinking a channel in the rock deep enough to hold two towers ot Notre Dame piled one on the other. The very Pharaohs would have winced at such a labor. No matter what your proposal of a channel by Darien, therefore, it is held to be vitiated by the nature of the ground. If you carry it over the rock by locks, you have sun the rock to work in ; if you carry it through by tunnels or an open cutting, you are almost overtasking the capacities of man. Now for the alternative Nicaraguan scheme of M. Blanchet The neck of land is thicker there; but the cutting through it involves far less labor, for the work is more than three parts done by nature herself. Look on the map, and it will be seen that there is a largs lake of Nicaragua in the midd'e of it, and that a river, the San Juan, flows from this lake to the Atlantic ocean. Here then, with a slight diversion of the mouth of the river, so as to bring the entry to San Juan del Norte, is your canal ready made. The ship leaves the Atlantic ocean for the river, the river for . the - lake, and crossing - the lake - there is cut a mere wall of land to separate it from the Pacifio on - the other side, which wall is to be pierced at Port Bnto to form the canal proper, nearly all the rest being natural "route, i The route, however, will bear improvement; and this, aavs M. Blanchet can easily be effected by flooding the San Juan valley from the lake, so as practi cally to extend the broad lake route sun farther toward the ocean. The lake is some 32 metres above the ocean level and 14 locks will be required to regulate the various depths and to carry the canal waters from to sea. rne estunatea cost is about 190,000,000 : francs, ' or within 10,000,000 of the estimated east of the Suez. Double it for eventualities and they had to do something more than that in Egypt and we have . a - total of about 15,000,000. These are the main issues ot the great argument which is to be held in Paris on the 15th of May and -following days, weeks or months before the savants of the world Invitations are being sent to all countries, and some of the English ones are already in hand. The geographers, the engineersthe financiers and the friends of hu manity may an nna ineir account in it; dqi it is perhaps most taking to outsiders in its financial aspect Certain drawing-rooms of Paris are now perfect nests of stock jobbing intrigue on behalf of one of the projects; which, thongh it ; may not result in tne union of the two oceans; may reasonably be expected to yield diamonds for a good many women and snug offices for a good many men. The idea makes a very strong - appeal to patriotic sentiment: there is a general feeling that it can be done and France ought to do it . l: The Pennsylvania Ballroad company re fuse to renew leases to saloon keepers in the vicinity of the depot at Jersey City, because the corporation can not afford to aUow its em ployes to drink. Xbe bar-rooms nave rented at from $2,000 to $5,000 each per annum. The bar-room In Taylor's Hotel, across the street from the depot, is said to do the largest business in the United States. 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