Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 28, Number 37, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 September 1879 — Page 9

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CAPTURING BOOTH.

Pursuit and Discovery of the Assassin. A reporter of the New Orleans Pieaune has recently inter vied Captain Edward P. Doherty, who commanded the detachment that captured Booth and Harrold after the assassination of President Lincoln. The story is told as follows: "After Garrett had designated"" the direction of the barn, Captain Doherty said to Sergeant Boston Corbett: 'Dismount your men, detail a tew to watch the house, and bring the remainder Here.' Captain Doherty then surrounded the barn with his men, and, going to the front door, placed a lighted candle, which he had held in his hand for some time, near the front entrance of the barn. Unlocking the door, Captain Doherty called upon those . in the barn to come out and surrender, but no answer was made to this and subsequent frequent and loud demands of a liue character. Captain Doherty then passed . around among his sentinels who surrounded the barn, when he was informed that whispering and the moving of hay had been heard from the inside. "Ca tain Doherty then said: 'If you don't come out I'll set fire to the building and burn you out.' As there was no answer even to this, Captain Doherty ordered Corporal Newgarten to pile some shavings and hay in the opening, and set fire to it. While he was piling it up a voice said to the corporal; 'If you come back there I'll put a bullet through you.' Captain Doherty. who was standing near Newgarter, then quietly ordered him to desist, and determined to wait till daylight before making any further demonstrations. "At this time quite a long conversation took place bet ween Captain Doherty and J. "Wilkes Booth. The former, after hearing the threat of the latter, called again for a surrender, when Booth replied: 'Who do you take us for?' Captain Doherty responded: 'It don't make any difference who I take you for, I rm going to arrest you.' Then Booth said: 'Boys, fetch me a stretcher. Another stain in our glorious banner. "Walking around the barn " and returning near the door, Captain Doherty heard whispering conversation between Booth and Harrold from the inside. Booth then said aloud : 'I am crippled and alone; give me a chance for my life; draw your men up at 25 paces and I will come out.' "Captain Doherty replied: 'I didn't come here to fight but to capture you. I have 50 men here and can do it.' "In the meantime Harrold had approached the door, when Captain Doherty said to him, 'Let me see your hands,' when Harrold put both hands out through the door and Captain Doherty, seizing them, handed Harrold over to the corporal at the door. "While this conversation was going on, and as Captain Doherty was in the act of taking Harrold out of the front door, the barn had been fired in the rear. The flames burst suddenly forth. Booth, who had left his position in the barn to the right of the opening referred to above, near the candle, took a position in the center of the barn facing the door, and, raising his carbine, pointed it in the direction of Harrold and Captain Doherty, when Sergeant Corbett, who was stationed at one of the openings in the barn to the left of Booth, observing the movement, leveled a large-sized Colt's revolver at Booth and fired, intending to hit him in the arm for the purpose of disabling him, but the ball entered his neck, about one inch from the same point as Booth shot President Lincoln. "On hearing the shot, and being at the time ignorant of the movement or intention of Booth, Captain Dohety supposed that he had shot himself rather than surrender, when the officers rushed into the barn, and by the light of the burning building saw Booth with the carbine between his legs, one of his crutches having dropped, and Booth in the act of falling forward, when Captain Doherty caught him with both arms abound the body and carried him outside of the barn, and laid him down; but the heat becoming too intense, Captain Doherty ordered him removed under the veranda of the Garrett mansion. "Soldiers were then dispatched in different directions for doctors, but only one, Dr. Upquart could be found, he arriving about 6 a. m., and, after probing the wound, pronounced it fatal, the ball having ranged upward, cutting a vital part. "From the time that Booth was shot, 6 o'clock, to the time he expired, two hours later, he spoke but once, and that was to Captain Doherty, shortly before 6 o'clock, when . he said to him 'Hands,' Captain Doherty lifted up his hands, when Booth looked at them for an instant, and, shaking his head, exclaimed, Useless, useless.' A short time after this he became unconscious, and so remained until he expired. "Captain Doherty, after wrapping the . body of Booth in his saddle blanket, sewed the blanket together with his own hands, and, having placed the body on a cart which was obtained from an old negro residing about two miles distant, proceeded with the body and the prisoner, Harrold, to Belle Plain, where the Ide was awaiting the return of the command, which arrived at 6 P. M, when the Ide proceeded to Washington, where the body of Booth and the prisoner,. Harrold, were turned over to the officers of the United States iron-clad monitor llontauk, Captain Doherty having received orders from the department com- . mander bo to do. This was at 3 o'clock on the morning of the 27th. In reference to the different statements that Booth was never captured nor killed, and that he is alive to-day, Captain Doherty says it is the sheerest nonsense in the world,as in the first place. Captain Doherty knew J. Wilkes Booth personally, and was in his company at the National hotel in Washington about two months previous to the assassination. In the second place, at the post ' mortem examination, held on the 27th of April, Booth was fully identified by Dr. May, his attending physician, who had performed an operation upon his neck, and by Mr. Dawson, proprietor of the National hotel, where he boarded during his residence in Washington, and also by other well-known citizens, to the full satisfaction of the government. "In the third place, after the body of Booth was buried in a cell in the penitentiary at the arsenal at Washington, the remains were delivered over to his relatives four years later, upon application to President Johnson, and they now rest in the family vault near Baltimore, Md., thus proving that the mem- ' bers of bis own family recognize the fact that the body lying there is the last mortal remains of J. TMlkes Booth. "A total reward of $160,000 was offered by tthe the government, the city of Washington "and the city of Baltimore. The reward of - $100,000 onered by the government was paid, but those offered by the cities of Washington

and Baltimore were repudiated. Captain Doherty entered suit in the United States district court for the District of Columbia to recover the $20,000 offered by the city of Washington, but the suit was decided against his claim, the court holding that the city of Washington had no authority in law to offer the reward. "Captain Doherty ap pealed the case to the supreme court of the United States, -here it is now pending, and from whence a decision is expected to be reached this year. In the case of the claim against the city of Baltimore, which offered $30,000 for the arrest of the assassin, Captain Doherty did not sue to recover, the mayor and aldermam telling him point blank that they would not pay him it as the reward was offered under a previous administration. The claim has now lapsed by limitation. "Of the $100,000 offered by the government, $75,000 was paid on the basis of prizemoney in the navy. The command consisted of 26 enlisted men, two citizens (detectives) and one commissioned officer. The commission appointed to distribute the money consisted of Judge Advocate General Holt and General E. D. Townsend, adjutant general of the army, who awarded to Captain Doherty $75,000, to each of the citizen detectives $4,000, to Sergeant Boston Corbett and Serfeant Wandeil, $2,200 each, the commission eciding that the fact of Corbett having shot Booth did not entitle him to more than the non-commissioned officer of the same rank who was also present at the capture. "General Lafayette C. Baker, chief detective of the war department, was held to be the same as an admiral, who detaches a ship and orders it to another squadson. In transitu, that ship captures a prize, and Captain Doherty being in the position as captain of the ship, receives two-twentieths of the whole amount, while the admiral, who in this case was General Baker, received one-twentieth, or $3,750. The remainder of $76,000 was distributed pro rata among the men. "Captain Doherty was informed from high aathority that a wheel-barrow full of claims, were put in for this reward, almost every detective in the United States representing that he was entitled to a share. The adjust ment of this mass of claims occupied the members of the commission a little over a year before they could ' determine who were entitled to the reward." Home Education. One of the most important duties of the matron or mother of a family, and for which she should always arrange to have time, is the home education of children. By this we do not mean a routine of lessons from books, but that beneficial oral instruction, those practical lessons on the duties of life, which should pervade entirely her intercourse with children. It is thus that lessons of love, forbearance, truth, kindliness, self-denial and fenerosity may be deeply impressed on the uctile mind, and the seeds of true piety and upright behavior scattered carefully over the prepared soil. The first care should be to distinguish between the different dispositions which nature has given to children to strengthen the weak and vacillating, soften the obdurate, encourage the timid, and repress the forward - to eradicate weeds and sow the good seed. Personal influence is a primal law of nature. God has set each person in the household to be educated that is, developed and carried up, step by step, through the most critical period of his life by the influence of father and mother and of brothers and sisters. It is personal influence that goes to make up the family. The child is greeted with that influence. He is not greeted with abstract ideas; he is not greeted with rules and regulations, explained to him; he is not greeted with any systematic arrangements; he is greeted with father and mother and brother and sister. Everything he does in the earlier stages of his living is educed from him by the direct inspiration of personal influence. And when be goes out of the family into the school, the same thing, though weakened and imperfect, is carried forward, and will be carried forward, in all the relations of after-life, until the society in which he moves becomes perfect. A fttmp'i Advice. 'From the Detroit Post and Tribnns.

At breif intervals during the summer the river front between Bates Street and Woodward avenue has been the rendezvous or "stamping ground" for tramps, These individuals, knowing that they are liable to be arrested for vagrancy if found wandering about the city, seek the seclusion that the place affords, and at night are perhaps able to obtain lodging at tne Station-bouse. A few days ago one of these individuals, old in years as well as experience, was overheard giving advice to a peripatetic novice of the same ilk who had evidently just signified his intention of starting out on his first campaign. The old tramp leaned back against a bale of hay which was standing close by, and said: "Young man, never play any back-door engagements, and scorn all offers of cold vict uals from servants, for bear in mind you are a gentleman of leisure and not an animated hog-pen. Always attack the front door. Ring the bell gently but firmly; and should an old, near-sighted person answer the sum mons manfully appeal to Tier generosity, and in nine cases out often she will invite you in to partake of chocolate and cake. Look well to the advantages you thus have, and observe the opportunity you are given to examine the hat-rack. Above all, my youthful friend, never degrade yourself or cast a stigma upon your respected brotherhood by laboring for any earthly compensation. Far nobler is it in the eyes of your dignified brethern to waste three days in an attempt to extricate the lead pipe of a frozen penstock than to spend two hours picking beans at $1 a bush el. And the young tramp thanked his mentor and departed. Why She Wore a Shawl. About a week ago some young ladies got np a party to go on a moonlight excursion. The night .finally arrived, and the moon flooded field and river with a glow of pearly richnessness. When the Earty was ' ready to leave the ouse which had been appointed as the rendezvous, it was noticed that one of the most charming young ladies of the coterie had a shawl on. "What s the matter, JUicyT inquired one of the young ladies. "Are you afraid of taking cold?" "No, no," she re plied. "The thermometer is up at 86." "You'll roast if you wear that shawl." "I'm willing to roast," she said, rather pettishly. "Don't vou know wh v she wears that shawl?" laughed her little brother, as he wiped some tatty off his mouth with his jacket-sleeve, "You keep still, you John Henry," screamed the dear angel, as she turned a trifle red. The bov then cot out of reach, and veiled. -I'll tell you why she - wears that shawl. When she gets out on the river Bob puts his arm under it and hugs her, and nobody can

see through thefgame.

THE CHXKB8B WALL.

The Greatest Territorial Fence In the Wrold A Story of Its Length and Strength. Chinese Letter to the Boston Herald. Like the pyramids of Egypt, the great wall, or the wall of myriad miles, as its Chinese name signifies, is of great antiquity, but its origin and purpose are not closed in the same almost Impenetrable veil of uncertainty. As useless as the immense work must now appear for the purpose for which it originated or inadequate as it is to stand the assult of modern arms, or defy the ad vancing step of an intruder, it Is still the greatest fortification ever built by man, and for 1,400 years it wholly, or in part, served its purpose. And why, now, we may ask, was this long rampart thrown along the northern boundary of China? For an answer we must go back over the long centuries in which, with gloomy strength, it has watch ed the rise and fall of kingdoms, the conver sion of dynasties, the strifes and wars of opposing factions, the advance of civilization, and, perhaps, the crumbling of a mighty empire. Hundreds of years before Christ the Mongolians of Northern Asia formed a kingdom futher South, but they were not suffered to remain in peace, for, greedy of the power of those who had preceded them, other hordes followed after, and began a strife which ended in the overthrow of China. Fearing for their safety, the Chinese, under Ching-Wang of the Tsin dynasty, or as some write it, Chin-Wangti, built the great wall separating their dominion from those of the Tartar tribes. Different dates are ascribed to the work, one being from 240 to 220 B. C, a period of 20 years, and another putting it a few years later. Of the magnitude of the work, one can form some idea when remembering that it has a length of 1,300 to 1,500 miles, crosses ravines, stretches across plains, and reaches over lofty mountains. It is not all brick. Some parts are faced with blocks of stone and were founded on walls hewed in solid granite. Beginning at the coast of the Gulf of Pe-chili, it runs to the northward, then turning, extends in a southwesterly direction, passing Peking about 40 miles to the north ward and 2,000 leet above it. men passing the Yellow river, and reaching over the Khang Kai Mountains, it continues oa south of the great Desert of Gobi to the borders of the Desert of Thibet. VV hat a distance tor a rampart to be carried, and what a stupendous undertaking for man to undertake! And yet now it remains but a monument of human labor, an eviedence of the folly of man. Time has marched on with ceaseless step, and history with tireless hand has registered the never-ending changes. Six hundred years after the completion of the wall the Tartars had obtained a foot r - hold in the upper part of the kingdom. It was the first step in the advance on the Celestial Empire. Another flight of time 1,000 vears have passed one dynasty after dynasty has uprooted and overturned its predecessor with strife and bloodshed. Early in the seventeenth century the Tartar king was assassinated by order of the Chinese Emperor, and when, 20 y ears'! ater, an,usurper had mounted the throne, ana all China was agitated by internecine wars, the time of her overthrow had come, and the Mantchoo Tartars, uniting with the Imperialists, defeated the king, and proclaimed Emperor the son of their dead king. To-day, the Mantchooian dynasty occupy the throne. Who can predict the fall thereof? The great wall no longer protects the Chinese Empire. It lies in the very heart of it, and the conquering Tartar rules the conquered Mongolian. The Fashions. Lea Ilea Lady Journal. We are still on the edge of summer, and not yet altogether recovered from the de pressing enect of tne occasional not waves which have swept over the earth, scorching and melting in their path. We scarcelv feel prepared to turn aside from the grateful delicate colors and airy tissues of the season for the contemplation of the dark, rich hues and the heavy materials which add so greatly to the beauty and comfort of autumn, But so it is. In comparatively small invoices the goods for the next season are coming in; and already here is noticeable a very decided interest among those of our population most immedi ately concerned as the purveyors of fashions, The most satisfactory in suggestiveness of the early importations are those in millinery, The bonnets that have appeared are in both the large and the small shapes. There is seemingly a greater inclination of favor for the large bonnets; though, as has been the case for several years, the styles will run through very many varieties, and the selec tion will depend upon becommgness to the peculiar cast ot features of the wearer rather than to an arbitrary dictum of the mode, for any particular shape or order of the headdress, for out-of-doors. The greater number of the large bonnets are more or less definitely of the "Directoire" style. The brim is flaring, with somewhat the effect of the Aureola brim which was given the nonnets of a few seasons ago; but it is wider lmmedi atelv in front and on the top, sloping down pleasingly to the ears, with a cleft toward the back, and a narrow curtain. In this shape we notice some resemblance to the "Carmen of the spring; while the bnm is less a circumference, and without the inden tation in front which gives the "Carmen" the -"Marie Stuart" effect. The crown is sharply square, moderately tall and broad. There are many modifications of this leading idea, but all are suggestive of the dress of the historical period alluded to. There seems a disposition to ignore the claims of the neat and pretty little .Trench cottage bonnet, with preference for the time for shapes which seem a connecting link be tween this ana the "Directoire, the squarecrowned toquet, and other shapes that hug. the head closely. This, at the present French-eapriciousness may revive the cottage bonnet at any moment, with some sort of modification to invest it with novelty. A popular headdress of the autumn will be a large round hat, with a large square crown very slightly inclining to the conical, and a wide bnm turned up (not very closely) on the left Side. A handsome and graceful shape in a round hat trenches on the "Bubens" while differing from it sufficiently to appear new, ana. ot course, interesting. The crown is square, broad and moderately tall, turned gently up on the left side, depressed over the front and on the right side, and slightly indented, after the style of the "Carmen," at the back. There are other shapes; and in the small hats thetandard "Oxford," "Der by," the "barefooted boy," and the toquet have consideration. For wear during the early weeks of the cool weather there is no departure from the demand for French felt bonnets and hats. The specimens to which our attention has been called are remarkably fine and soft; and in the aarK colors tashionable their ef

fect is peculiarly rich and velvety. But the fureur will be for the plush fur, or beaver felt, in preference to that without the nap. The fur felts of the coming season are a great improvement in manufacture over .hose of last autum. The pile is longer, and is as soft and glossy as that of the finest

beaver that ever appeared on a wealthy 1 Quaker's head. Plush felt is very light, and with its warm, comfortable effect for wear in cool or cold weather, it will doubtless be among the leading features in the street toilets of the next two seasons. For the haute toilets of the later weeks of autumn and for winter, volvet and satin made bonnets will be in vogue. A novelty in velvet manufacture is a variety that bears the name velours antique, a material which has a cut pile, and a more fluffy pile than the cut velvet, but a surface less deep and fluffy than plush. The pile has been subjected to the rolling process, and the face is that ot the very heavy old satin of which the petticoats of our great-great-grandmothers were made. Terry, or uncut velvet, appears in several of the models from Paris modistes. and the fine royal uncut velvet is seen in dainty creations for reception and evening wear. There will be, however, no deflection in popularity for cut velvet, while the use ot two and three materials appear in many of the model bonnets that have been sent out from Paris. Distintive of the coming season are the chameleon or shot velvets, satins, ribbons, etc. These effects, it will be understood, are produced by the different and contrasting colors in the warp and in the woof. Thus we have the peculiar tint of the raisin, in uncut velvet of old-gold .warp, and the brownish crimson called "Zulu" color in the woof. Gendarmeblue vieux-rouge, gold and black, gold and laurel green, chamois and lavender, etc., are woven together with the effect of the Turc satin of 25 years ago. Bead-embroidered lace is noticeable in the list of bonnet materials. This has been im ported in crown and brim patterns, with scarf for brides and piece lace for trimmingx or me crowns a nu onms me lace is sireicn ed on satin, and the effect in the bonnet is that of the satin embroidered with the cut beads and bugles. Some of the most tasteful bonnets to which our attention has beer, called have the crown of beaded lace on satin and the brim of cut volvet. The jet beading of the summer is continued, with beading in opalescent and iridescent colors, and lophophore and merle effects to match in idea the chameleon or shot velvets, ribbons and other millinery garniture. loo remark above will prepare the reader for what is to be told about the ribbons that have come in. A novelty in ribboas appears in the twilled manufacture with the sheeny surface of satin. The effective twilled ribbons are in shot or chamelion colors the warp of one color, and the woof of a contrasting color and in these all the fashionable and standard colors are introduced. Double-faced ribbons are still de rigeuer. Of these the most pleasing variety is the satin-lined velvet. Double-faced satin rib bons will be as much used as they have been for the last three seasons, and gros-grain-lined satin ribbons will also be seen. The double-faced ribbons are generally of mono chrome, though there are also small importations of two-colored and two-toned rib bons. ' Monochrome pekin ribbons are satinstriped on gros-grain ground, and are particularly pleasing in the new colors. Brocaded ribbons are also shown, but the faney will be for ribbons of plain texture. Ribbons of Nos. 1 6 and 20 are thoso in greatest deman a, while they run up in width to No. 32, TIATHERS, BIRDS, ETC. Feathers of all kinds will be used in profusion. Ostrich feathers are in short nodding tips, demi-long tips, and full-length plumes, shaded in two colors to match the shot velvets and ribbons and two tones of color, and in monochrome, willow and fringe finished. They are arranged in clusters or bands of the small curled tips, two or three demi-long tips clasped together under a metal or beaded ornament in the center of the crown of the bonnot, or one or two plumes sweep grace, fully around the brim or over the crown. All sorts of stuffed birds will be worn. Those of brilliant, natural plumage are in highest favor, though we are inclined to think that the art of the dyer has had much to do with some of the parti-colored birds of recent appearance. South American humming birds of the most glowing metallic colors are clustered in threes, fives and sev ens, set beak to beak, with their tails spread out like a round fan on the side or in the front of bonnets clasping one or two demilong ostrich tips, or upholding a bow of ribbon. Mounted garlands of whole humming birds, of the head and breast, or only the wings, decorate the front or form the inside trimming of bonnets, or surround the crowns of bonnets and hats; and in all conceived-of bizarre arrangements humming birds and sun birds will be used. Bronze merle, paroquets, pigeons, doves and other birds of medium size are in the line of the fashionable. The smaller ot these birds are used whole, but more frequently the bird is split, presenting the head, back, tail and wings; or sideways, presenting the head, a section of the breast, one wing, and half the tail. The wounded dove, with its pretty head bent back against one wing, is among the trimming millinery caprices; and they are sad evidences of man s ruthlessness to his own advantage to be noted at every turn in the stuffed birds of the millinery market. Beautiful effects are noticeable in the mounted pieces of the breast feathers of va rious bright-plumaged birds. These are in club-shaped arrangements, bands and crown of lophophore, iridescent, and cashmere col ors, requiring for their perfection the breast feathers of theimpeyan and golden pheasants, the bronze merle, the peacock, the cardinal, the Baltimore oriole and humming birds; various combinations and designs being re sorted to to create tue thing or beauty. Human Judgment I am just going to do something which I have clearly made up my mind to do, and some friend passing by catches sight of me, standing with tools all in my hands, and on a mere momentary impulse he cries out: "What a fool you are to do that!" and so passes on and has forgotten me and my plan in a moment. And yet it is just that sort of a taunt, or the fear or it, which has blighted many a sweet and heathful impulse in the bud. It is good for us often to know how superficial, how lightly made, hew soon for gotten, are tne judgments or our brethern which sound so solemn, and which tyrrannize over us so. Such a feeling set us free and made us independent. Be sure that'you may feel that about any cruel criticism that is hampering you, and may cast it aside and forget it and go your way, The man who made it has probably forgotten it long ago.

A FCNEBAL IJf AVSIBALIA.

The Burial gervfoe Bond Over the Body of a Miner An Impressive Scene. Boston Commercial Bulletin. We had been settled about a fortnight in this lead on the Shootover when one day one of our party fell over a precipice and was killed. Previous to this our whereabouti had become known, and we were now surrounded by a large number of miners, who, when they heard of the accident, came in to sympathize with us, and offer us any assistance that we might need. Our first sad duty was to obtain a comn, ir that was possible; there was no timber within ten miles, and no tools in the camp except knives and tomahawks. With these Tom Sanderson and myself set out to the timber hills; we felled a tree, cut it offthe proper length and then set about finding means to split it. We made wedges out of hardwood, cut hardwood branches for hammers, and after much labor, succeeded in splitting the tree into rough, heavy planks. - .notwithstanding the diffi culties which confronted us in the absence of tools, we managed to form the materials for a coffin. Of course having no nails, we could not put it together; there were no naiU within 200 miles. Having made the coffin, we brought as much of it back to camp as we could carry and sent a party out for the remaindor, for the materials were very heavy. The only spot where we could find earth enough to form a grave, was at a point about two miles from the camp on the side of a hill. Thither the coffin was carried, and afterward, the body wrapped in a tent cloth, the grave was dug and the coffin placed within it, piece by piece; then the body was placed in the coffin, and the rough, heavy lid was laid over it. Men of every nationality and of every shade of religious opinion stood around the grave. It was a wierd and solemn scene; the crowd of wild-looking men with uncovered heads surrounding the grave on the hillside; the wild scenery, rough, rocky ridges, deep yawning gorges and lonely peaks rising one above the other standing like sentinels guarding the treasures of the lonely regions around them. I inquired if any one had a prayer-book; the inquiry was passed around the crowd, and it found an affirmative response. It was an Episcopalian prayer-book. 1 scarcely knew now to conduct the service, but, having found the place, I knew there could be no harm in asking all to kneel. They did so, and the scene grew even more impressive than before. Englishmen, Scotchmen, Irish men, Americans, and men from every nation of continental Europe, negroes. Chinamen, .Maori es, uatbolics, rotes tan ta and Tsissenters of every hue and shade of opinion, together with infidels and pagans, knelt reverently and listened in solemn silence to the grand language of the burial service of the Uburch ot England: "Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God, in his wise providence, to take out of this world the soul of our deceased brother, we therefore commit his body to the ground, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust." Then when I came to the Lord's Prayer, I asked them to repeat it with me; they did so, alll who could. I shall never rorget that scene. It was the most impressive in which I had ever been or have since been a partici pator. The ceremony over, we filled up the grave and left our dead mate to his everlastleg siecp on me loneiy uuiitiae. ... The First Bachelor. Imagine Adam in his lonliness, the only human being in this wide, wide world a full grown man at his birth, with no one to grant him a certificate thereof, or to furnish him with the evidence that he ever was born at all. He has never experienced any Of "the perils of infancy and childhood, such as the cutting of teeth, mumps, measles and chicken-pox, without which no young man's education is complete. Adam is the only boy who never had. a grandmother to mend his pants, knit his mittens and stand between him and all harm. He had never played the great and exhilarating game of base ball, never had submitted to the indignity of having a chip knocked from his shoulder by some other boy. No, he had none of the essentials that go toward making up the average boy of the present. He found himself born somehow, a fullgrown man, a bachelor, with nochum in the whole universe with whom to converse upon that interminable topic, the weather; no one to go fishing with; "no one to caress;" no one to sew buttons on his shirt; no one to lend a helping hand. There he was, the keeper of a zoological garden, with no doorkeeper to take the tickets, no one to come to the show. Like all bachelors,he seemed to be a mistake, and this quality of mistake has been so severely transmitted through the long ages that have intervened, without let-up or hindrance, that it has become a fixed fact, unalterable as Persian law. His Maker saw what any one at this day clearly sees that it was not good for man to be alone. He became fidegty, queer, notional, and out of order generally. Adam, had, in all probability, begun to manifest some of these peculiar characteristics, and was himself convinced that there was something more necessary to his happiness, but he had not the brains to invent, nor the ingenuity to devise anything in himself. Adam evidently was not a happy man In his estate of single-blessedness, and the Divine Being, ever anxious for the welfare of his creatures, saw that it was notpgood for him to be alone, and hence gave him, what every full-grown man needs, some one to talk to, to argue with, to love and cherish, and if things don't go right generally, to lay part of the blame upon. Did you ever contemplate the poverty of Adam when he took Eve for better or worse? Only think of it. He hadn't a hat to his bead, a coat to his back, a pair of shoes to his feet, nor " 'nary a red cent" in his trousers' pocket. Eve brought no dowry, she had nothing to bestow, save ber love and affection, ana he was the only young fellow around, it was he or nobody. Equally poor with her husband, she came to him without a bonnet, or shawl, calico gown, or even a pair of slippers. Moses forgot in his reminiscences, to give us any account of their wedding trip, but from what we can gather in regard to the wardrobes of that day, their baggage would have proved no incumbrance, for a very limited amount sufficed, and dressing to please everybody was of no account, for there were none but themselves to please. Doubtless their whole outfit of traveling dresses, waterproofs, dusters, lunch-baskets, and all, he could have carried in the pocket of his trousers. They must have started housekeeping, also, upon as small a capital as could well be imagined. They hadn't as far as can be gleaned from history, a hair-brush, a fine-tooth comb, towel, or soap, nor bitters, soothing syrup, clothes-wringers, smoothing irons -no, nothing. Adam wasn't afraid to invite his wife to

fo on an excursion with him,'throaghf ear of aving to go down deep into his trousers pockets for the wherewithal to buy a suitable

outfit for the reason that he had no pockets in his trousers; nor was be bothered about the trunk-checks, nor did be swear at the baggage-smashers or brook the insolence of railroad officials. There was no good and sufficient reason why they shouldn't have been an amiable couple, and had a good time generally. They washed their own clothes, doubtless, by a dive into the Euphrates, and there being ne clothes-lines, their clothes were allowed te dry on their backs, and Adam didn't care a rush whether his shirt bosom was smooth or not, and why should Eve bother her head about it so long as her husband was suited. The Kerry Old-time Whistling- Time Dying Oat. Notes sad Queries. There is much less whistling among farm ers' men than 40 or 50 years ago, and less singing also. When I was a boy, most of the men sang at plow and with their teams. Xheir voices, borne over the Dills by . the breeze, was one of the charms of a country ramble. They mostly sang love songs or sentimental ditties. I remember " The mistletoe Bough" was a great favorite with one -of my father's men. Some time ago I remarked to the rector of a neighboring parish now very seldom x heard men singing at the plow compared to when I was a boy. He replied: -That is because you were bred among the hills, and now live in a flat country; men don't sing in flat countries.' 1 felt this was correct. Milkmaids sang to their cows, without which it was believed they would not "give their milk down." If you meet a country girt nowadays, and ask her, "Where are you going to, my pretty maid?" you can never say the reply was, "A-milking, sir,'' for maids no longer milk, but leave it to be done by men called "garthmen." At the "clippins" all the men were expected to sing, but those who could not might whistle. as 1 nave heard them more than once. Like milkmaids, "clippins" have all vanithed. Those kindly gatherings, where the master and his neighbors and his men all made merry together, have all gone, and we have steam plows and reaping machines and laborers unions instead. Although there is yet more singing and whistling in hilly than in fiat countries, it is certain that farmers' mem neither sing nor whistle half as much as they used to do. As far back as I remember, our middle classes considered whistling vulgar, (as boys were not allowed to whistle.) It is possible tho laborers have now got to think so too. Railway trips, and more ready access to towns, are bringing everything to a dead level, and gradually effacing the old-fashioned country ways. Loneliness on the Ocean. Any one who has never traveled upon the ocean expects to find it somewhat thickly populated. He thinks of the vast travel and traffio that go over the waters, and be is ready to imagine that the great deep is alive with this hurrying to and fro of nations. He reads of lands whose commerce whitens every sea, and he is ready to think the ocean is full of sails as the harbor of some mighty metropolis. But be finds his mistake. A he leaves the land, the ships begin to disappear; as he goes on his was they soon all vanish, and there is nothing about him but the blue sea and the blended sky. Sometimes he may meet or overtake a solitary ship through the day; but then, again, there will be many days when not a single sail will be seen. There are spaces measured by thousands of miles, over which no ship has ever passed. The idea of a nation's commerce whitening every sea is the wildest fancy. If all the ships that ever have been built were brought together in a single fleet, they would fill but a hand's breath of the ocean. The space that man and his works occupy on the sea is so small in its extent that the hold on it by his power is slight and superficial. Both together are as nothing. The ocean covers three-fourths of the globe; and by far the greater portion is and ever has been free from man's visitation. Personal Influence. What is the secret of personal influence? Who can tell? In a voice at times; in manner frequently; in the assumption of infallibility; in sympathy and in directness; in opposition and in a shifting which is quite opposed to directness; in broadly-outlined acceptance of your views with a fine shading of dissent which shows you to be quite right in vague essentials but somehow all wrong in individual points; in smiles that attract confidence and in silence that gives assent; in a moral pose offered as the expression of the true character; in the power of insinuating impressions without committing oneself to a positive statement, and in the impetus which lies in a thundering assertion, let who will dispute or disprove. In all or any of these things lies the subtle gift of power which we call the influence of a man's personality; and in none of them can we find much to lay hold of. Neglected Opportunities. New Haven Register. "Do you know anybody that's buried up in that cemetery?" said an elderly lady passenger to a railroad couductor, pointing to a resting place for the dead that the cars were whizzing past. "No, ma'am, I don't." "How long have you been conductering on this road?" About four years, ma'am." ' "Well, if I'd been four years on this road, I'd found out suthin' or other. I sh'd hate to be so ignorant," and an expression of extreme disgust stole over her face as she put down her parasol with a thud. Household Management. No woman can afford to grow up in ignorance of household management. The comfort of some home in the future is endangered whenever instruction is withheld which would enable a woman to plan wisely all arrangements necessary for the well-ordering of the spot which is to be her home, whether that home be one of wealth, or the reverse and the reverse may come even after prospective wealth makes such knowledge seem unnecessary. Aptness of Expression. When a lot of boys and girls get together and look at each other from opposite sides a a room, that is called a sociable. When at hungry crowd call upon a minister and eof him out of house and home, that is called donation party. The most gentle authority will sometimes frown without reason, and the most chAm-fai submission will sometimes murmur without cause; and such is the law of our imperfect nature, thatwe must either command or obey.