Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 31, Number 52, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1886 — Page 2

THE INDIANA STATE SEOTINEL WEDNESDAY JANUARY 27 188G.

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A ROYAL RACKET.

Cjenb of tha Britisi. Parliament Yesterday by . tie Qaflea in Person. 7I Ifon of Lorcia a Jirilllant Scene Her Majenty'a Speech Irish Agitation Viewed With Deep Sorrow Foreign Relations. Lomox, Jan. '21. The weather to-day was unauspicious for the reappearance of the iueen in public. It was a dull, heavy day, and the streets were coyered with snow and sinsh. Promptly at 1 :C0 the royal party left Buckingham Palace for the House of Lords. The route of the royal pageant had been coyered with gravel. This prevented the horses frcai failing and enabled more rapid progress to be made. Her Majesty ' rode in 'an open carriage drawn by eight cream-colored horses. The Household Cavalry aoied as the escort to the Queen. Ijtfge crowds lined the streets through which the royal procession passed, and her Ma jetty w is greeted with hearty cheers all along the road. The scene in the House of Lords was very brilliant. Peers and peeresses, judge-, ministers and bishops were present in large numbers in full court dress. Gaslight was used in the chamber owing to the disappear ance of the sun. This enhanced the beauty of the scene as it-showed more fully the brilliancy of the jewels and splendor of the dresses worn by those present. The iueen looked as if she were suffering from a cold. Her Majesty, in her speech, said her relationwith the other powers continue f riendly-. The differences with Russia regarding the Afghanistan boundary have been satisfactorily adjusted. She trusts that the work of the Itusso-English frontier demarcation commission, already far advanced, may tend to secure the continuance of peace in Central Asia. Referring to the rising in Eastern Jloutuelia, Her Majesty says herobjectln thenegotiations which followed the outbreak had been to bring the innabitants of that country, according to their wish, under the l"iince of Bulgaria's rule, while maintaining unimpaired the essential rights of the Sultan. The ueen regrets that, she had been compelled to declare war against King Thebaw of Burmah, owing to acts of hostility by himself and subjects. The gallantry of the forces under General Prendergast has rapidly overthrown the Burmese forces, and she had decided that the most certain method of insuring peace was to be found in the permanent incorporation of Burmah with her Empire. The negotiations respecting the rights of the French on the coast of Newfoundland had been satisfactorily concluded. With Spain, also, an agreement had been reached, giving the British the same commercial rights as the Germans in their Caroline Islands. Parliament would be asked to adopt certain measures, rendered necessary in the convention, relative to international copyright, to which the Queen has agreed. Turning to national affairs, the (iueen said: Gentlemen of the House of Commons, my Lords and Geutlemen I regret to say that no material improvement can be noted in the coailition of trade or agriculture. I feel the deepest sympathy for the great number of persons in many vocations of life who are suffering under a pressure which, I trust, will prove transient. I have seen, with deep sorrow, the renewal, since I last addressed you, of the attempt to excite the people of Ireland to hostilities against the legislative union between that country and Great Uritain. I am resolutely opposed to any disturbance of that fundamental law, and, in resisting it, I am convinced that I shall be heartily supjorted by my Parliament and iiiy i-eople. The social, no less than the material, condition of that country engages my anxious attention. Although there has been during the last year no marked increase of serious crime, there is in many places a concerted resistance to the enforcement of legal obligations, and I regret that the practice of organized intimidation continues to exist. I have caused every exertion to be used for the detection and punishment of these crimes and no effort will be spared on the part of my government to protect my subjects in the exercise of the leetil rights and the enjoyment of inindividr.al liberty. If, as my informa tion leads me to apprehend, the exi-ti;i i provisions of the law should prove to be in- I adequate to cope with thee crowing evils, 1 fd.aii look witn confidence to your willir.snes to invest my iovernment with all thV nee sary power. Bills will be submitted for transferring to representative councils in the -comities of threat Britain local business which i now transacted by the Courts of Quarter Sessions, and other authoritative measures for the reform of county jrovemineiit in Ireland are also in preparation. These measures will involve the consideration of the present incidence of local burdens. A bill for facilitating the sale of globe laivN "in a u anner adapted to the wants of the rural opuIation will also be suhmitted to you; as will, also bills for removing the difficulties which prevent the easy and chea transfor of land; for mitigating the d-tre?f-eif condition of the poorer classes in sWestern highlands and the islaniU of Scotland; for the more effectual prevention of accidents in mines; for extending the powers .f the railway commission in respect to the regulation of rates, and for the codification of the criminal law. I trust that results beneficial to the cause of education may iue from a royal commission which I have apointed to inquire into the working of the educational acts. The prompt and elective dispatch of the important business which, in nn ever-growinp proportion, falls to you to tran.sact, will, I doubt not, occupy your atIn these, and all other matters perhigh functions, I earnestly h keeping and sruidance l'u,f Almihfv ;nd "

o."-?eThe vaults of the Parliament buildings .. s carefully inspected before the arrival of j? ??"Z?i Ijfriieen at the House of Lords, as a pre- - '?5-, üriary measure against the perpetration

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recession was returning Palace a horse ridden by a "wifrecjed, th ä)rfthe Government,

- a boy standing at the edge oi -J- Z.- " J'tf r WJÄt. The (iueen, who was an eyeS -s- tv jflaccident, immediately stopied r .f ' flie p('5f4dVand inquired as to the extent h?i?0"c tt'r iidSoriuries. On being told they

f (ft: r'- , - T ""JV"' wao conducted her to the eleigh. The hour ,ySc4?i of departure was U:Vf), and trom that time till y VoA-Courw'i Policy OatllneU. o'clock this morning the distance of twen- . Jf" . v w - n a . ti i ty-live miles, from Kdgerton to Ieaven worth, Ja tbe HoUie ofLoras was traversetl. in spite of the bad and rough T o Ji;t,ke of-AbfrctJrtaoyed the addrejis in roads. Tliis evening the newly-wedded pair Vcj'i ef'iySp thfsrecT;txom the throne. He will leave on the Bock Island for home, to fAJJlhili of those rwde with the parents of the groom.

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he 6aid it would be better. t-V await the ar-' rival of papers from Lord Dulfleria before makinz any otatement. The Government was using its influence to prevent any iraIortant breach f international law. On this point, he 3aid, he feit s trongly, because it had been reported that he had given encouragement to CJreece. This statement be denounced as untrue, and declared that England, alove all, desired peace in the Las:. Preferring to Ireland, the Trime Minister said the iovcrnment has refrained from renewing the crimes act. because there had beea a prospect of returning order in that country, ihe exierinient, however, had failed, althouzh every chance had been given to make it succeed. Xthina be said, could exceed the patience of the Earl of Carnarvon in carrying out his mission of peace. The disea-e, said he, existed in Westminster, and not in Ireland, and the Government must try to stamp it out here. The words of Mr. Gladstone, be declared, were answerable for manv Irish evils. Mr. Gladstone had not spoken, he said, with sufficient firmness concerning the integrity of the Empire. The Prime Minister's speech was received with einer.

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mmi:ox WHO AI.I.Ktil -. THAT S-EXXTOI. P.WJfK, OK OHI'", ISK.I HIS SKAT BY BUtBEBV. The most striking of recent events in the oliikal world is the charge made by Simoon K. Ionavin, of Columbus 0., that Pnited States Senator Henry B. Payne was elected to succeed and ia preference to Senator George H. Pendleton by the corrupt use of money paid to members of the Ohio Legislature. Mr. Payne's term began March 4, 1 Senator Payne says he shall pay no attention to the cl arge made against him. Under the precedent of the Senate do investigation will le ordered except by Mr. Tayne's reincbt, unless te case, clearly supported by tangible and direct evidence, is laid before it by citizens of Ohio. Of the f.fteen legislators accused by Mr. Douavin of bavin? received bribes from Mr. Payne, one has directed his lawyer to bring Miit against the paper in which this great political scandal was ftnt published. Not long ago the acced man and hi- accuser were close jolitical frieudi. The appointment of a Postmaster at Canton, 0., who was not wanted by the citizens of that place, or recommended by Mr. Donavin, caux-d a rupture. siiiion K. Ionavin is familiarly known in Ohio as iiu" iKviavin. lie i3 about tiftvlive year- of a .re, red -faced and wearj a military mustache. He was orininally from Baltimore, where one of Iiis brothers is now living. In l."7, when the Democrats of the House at Washington elected Colonel Polk, of Missouri, their i 'oorkeeper, Ionavin was appointed his assistant. At the time of folk's dismissal Donavia followed his ciiief into exi!e. Since then he has made his home at Columbus. Cora time he had an interest in the Times of that city, but dis-po-ed of it several years ago. ROMANTIC LOVERS. JIuw a K:in:i 4. Irl Slnl 1 o v n a Runt Into M:ttriminr. l.i.WKNwfiKTii, Ivan., Jan. i. l!i;s morning at 1 o'clock Jame Gustin, a.-1 twenty, formerly connected with the i :dgerto ( Ivan.) Courier, and M:-s riia Bruce, acd eighteen, of tlie same place, arrived at the residence of A. J. 'White, pa-tor t tlie Christian Church, of this city, where they were quickly inarlied. taking roowsat the Cr:itine:ital Hotel shortly afterwards as James fiustinand wife. It is the culmination of ,uite a romantic affair. It seems Mr. Güstin, the groom, who is the son of a farmer residin? a short distance north of I'dycrton. met Mi.s Bruce last April. Gust'n located in iÄlgerton March 1, Hv;, aul in April he met the lady at a wedding, receiving an introduction to her through an open window ly means of a lighted mutch in tlie hands of the friend that made th( tU acquainted so roiaati tic ally. Yo'in? Güstin t was verv much struck with the heart ty and acrompl:shiiie:tt of the yotins lady, and paid a-siJuous court to her from that time on. sdie encouraged his suit, a:id a Mrong atTection sprang up between them." Miss Bruce is the daughter of T. P. Bruce, a prominent stockman of Buchanan County, and hor parents were not Ion? in finding out the secret. The yousg couple were engaged to be married two years and six months later, but the efforts of the girl's parents to break up the catch only precipitated matters, and yesterday Mr. Gu-tin arrived by rail, and, seeking Justice 1 lawn's oflice, - procured a license ami returned. Last night, at an apo5nted hour, when the old foiks were abe-1 and asleep, the young man and an elder brother, Y. J. Güstin, aged twenty-three, drove up in front of the young lady's home with a span of trotters attached to a sleigh. The Brute residence is two stories high, and while the anxious lover waited in the sleigh his brother signaled to the young lady from the rear of tbe honse. f-he was ready, and made her exit from the window of her room in the second story, sliding down over the kitchen roof immediately under the window. and dropping in the arms of tue brother. Serion Cliarge Asulnit lhjmiian. Ci.rvFi.AN f, O., Jhii. 2:. A ensatlna wa ore-nte-1 yeU rly by the arnstof lr. M. A. Ia vitt. manager of the KcIIkk ftetlii al I Jiboratory, anil Br. (min( y J. W'iusrr, of No W-) Fuclid avenue, on the charire of atort!fn. The warrant wm norn out l7 i.oke A. Wiilett. of Toielo street, stepfsther o( tbe girl In question. Ia hisatl.ilavil Willt-tt swears that on the niQt of Decern tier 'S. l-s". Mary ftf. Stewart, a younj woman, need tweutv, wn taken to a Doni ly a voting ma a wlui wa Bliest 4 to le tl'e father ot the uritxrn child, und that there lr. iJavitt. assisted by Dr. Win.-or, Ierfonneil an operation upon her which wns not re'-esfurr for ta i.r-ervatiou of her life. 1 He also nile?e tbat Lewa very erlously injured, nd that Thursday, Jatniary -I, 1 ', he miscarried. The kin is uw ly)n very ill at her hoai?s and fear are enterUi'ied th( Jie will nnt recover. Tbe üoc'.ors. ,ho have always beeaaoe tutpiciou, care bail fr taer apjx?arace. If all so-called remedies have failed, Dr. Sagv's GataxrU ReeJy eure.

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'REMEMBER, BOYS MAKE MEN.

Miett yoa see a n!?el urchla Standiü; wisttul in the street. With torn hat and kneeled troiuern. liirty face aaa bare red teet, Pass not by the child unheeding; Satiie upon him. Mark me, waea He's Krowa he'll not farjrrt it; For remember, boys make mea. When the buoyaat youthful spirits Overflow in boyish freak. Chide your child in gentle accents. Do net in your anger speak. You must bot ia youthiul bosoms seeds of tender mercies ; thea I'lants will grow Mid bear good fruitage, ben the crriag bo are uiea. Have rou never seen a KranL.ire, ith his eye as;low with joy. Drin to mind some act of kiu-inesa Stmethiuss said to him a boy (r re'.ate some sligr.t or col Jnes, With a brow a'.l clouded, when lie said they were too tUotnjhUes remeuiber hi make mea? lt us try t-i ad-J sft.-ne pJe.isares To the lifo of every boy, For euh child needs tender interest III it borrows and its joys; CiU yv.ir boys home by its brlghtne.ii; They'll svyid a gloomy deu. And set'k for comfort el'ewherc And rtMaeinler, boys make met. THE TRUE STORY OF TAMO SHANTER. Tam O'Shanter Ls, withoui doubt, one of the finest productions of Burm. It abounds m passages of great beauty aril elegance. Though unequal, like many other works of realmcrit.it has in it here and there lines perhaps too eoare and crude for the magnificent content ia which they are found. The homeliness of the incidents described, the common-place character of the hero of the piece and his associates, only serve to show the brightness of that genius which has thrown around such ordinary events and personages the charm of its attraction?. An Ayrshire farmer of very convivial habits, but blest with a canny wife and trusty mare, finds himself belated at the county town on the winter evening of a market day. lie is at the ian where he has often been before. A warm fire is blazing on the ample hearth. The potations are abundant and cheering. An old acuaintaice, an excellent bon-corupanion and storyteller, hobnobs with him. The landlord and his .spouse soon join these jovial canirades and readily lend their aid in adding to the merriment and the score. Under such genial auspices it was no wonder that the worthy ploughman forgot the long Scotch miles between him aird his home, Iiis anxious wife watching for his return, and even his gray mare" Meg. hitched, no doubt, to a iost hard by in the stnet, awaiting in mute patience the pleasure of her thoughtless master. The f uu inside, however, became in time rather loud. The noise had attracted the attention of all the idle lads in the neighborhood, who noticed the faimer lapped in the careless revels of the tap-room, and in pure mischief were minded to give him a dolorous lesson. They slipped slyly in the dark uton faithful Meg, and with a single well directed cut cleaved off her "gude gray tail." Iknibtless the faithful animal complained loudly of the robbery at the time, but her "eldritch screech" was drowned by the tumult of the storm without and the good cheer within. The mirth ran on until the time came, that black hour, -the keystone of the night," when Tarn must ride. W'e feel quite sure that the landlord and his ancient crony, fsouter Johnny, accompanied Mr- O'Shanter to his beast and assisted him to mount: not to have done &o were a sin against good-fellowship, in those days, seldom committed. We may depend Ui'on it that the inn-keeper carried his lantern with him, and that all three became won well aware of ioor Meps misfortune. But neither the poet nor the other, people interested say a word about the disaster at the time it was noticed the poet, because he cared not to impair the picturesque tradition of such an "ow'er true tale" by .o roughs touch of the real; the laud lord, because he did not wish to mar the good fame of his houe by the newstna'. buch a calamity had happened to one of his guests; the fcouter, from a maudlin sympathy, with the host, the mare and her master, and Tarn, from the mere sdupor of a somebat guilty amazement. So all we re silent, and the real state of the matter was carefully hushed up, both then and since. When the "ioor sinner, Tani," took the rad at midnight, it is said he held fast his blue Umnct and hummed to himself the words of some dd Scotch ballad for company by the way. Thee things he would do almost unconsciously, but what chieily occupied his mind was this: how he should ever uccount to the '"gmle" wife at home for the loss which had befallen his favorite mare. So when he had thoroughly reflected upon this sorely vexing subject, an idea llashed all at once iio:i him of deliverance from this perplexity. The darkness of the night, the violence of the storm, favored his plan exceedingly, lie knew that he had to pass on the road the old haunted church-that just before reaching his house he must cross the bridge over the loon, so as he was Hearing it he put lieg to her speedy utmost. I 'ashing through the wind and rain witli a terrible clatter, over the bridge he rode and thence home as fast as the mare could carry him. His wife heard the noise of hoots upon the bridge. She was waiting at the half-opened door with the lamp in her hand, jverhai'S in her alarm expecting to see the horse without a rider. The husband, breathless, dismounts. He tells her of the wonderful bights he had seen, of Kirk Alloway 'all in a bleeze," of the crowd of witches and warlocks who had pursued him, of his gaining the middle of the running stream, and of his lucky escape from such dangers, with the tnrling loss of Maggie's tail. The good-natured woman's wrath, warmly nursed as it had been, ebbed quite away at this recital. She was too well acquainted with the lore of the country-side to doubt the circumstance of the witches' dance, their anger at being interrupted, and the subsequent pursuit Instead of delivering the curtain lecture, "the counsels sweet and sage advices," so much dreaded by her husband. she welcomed him warmly as one who had been rescued from so grave jterils, and joined him in his praises of Meg's speed anlof the bridge over Ioon, which had saved him from the hands of the evil sprites who had given him such a terrible chase. Nor did he once think to ask what had detained nim so long at Ayr, or why he had not left tojvn earlier in the evening. Out of this hasty, meager, aud, we are bourd to say, utterly untruthful account of his benighted journey homeward given by O'Shanter to his wife Kate, the poem grew. Yet, w ith all his falsehood and evasion, the hero retains our sympathy to the end. Tarn, overcome in his cups, grievously hurt, i.t still C'assio. not Ingo. The man in all this cherishes a certain stout-hearted purpose, the most jerfect loyalty to his wife and household, l or this be abandoned the inn with its allurements, braved the dangers of the way, even Kate's displeasure, rather than fail in his expected return. But, it nuiy be asked, why make this ruthless and arid dis-ection of a joet's theme? The answer is. that the precise truth as Lere related greatly increases our admiration of the w riter's powers, and largely adds to the very' serious moral of the story. For .Tain . O Shanter is as much a tempernnoe tale, -,,as any of. (those of T. . H. ArtliuT. To , be sure it is Oambrlmis extolling tke virtues of sobriety, but even he may be heard, and with protit. The first glow of tha enchanter's goblet Is delightful yet remember, "ys may buy the joys 'er tfear." Tan O'.Shaater's rids

will outlive that of Paul Revere, or Sheridan, or the nameless courier who carried the good news from Ghent to Aix. Their exploits belong to a particular country, time and occasion. But this hero of Bums is one of the world's poor pilgrims, the unit of a great multitude, in all ages, whom no man can number. Whoever has tarried too long at the wine whoso hath had woe, sorrow, wounds, without a cause; whoever has felt the shadow of remorse in the morning from last night's rlowiug bowl this iä Tam 0 Shaater. Moreover, there is hardly auythin; i: the text of the author inconsistent with the account of the actual occurrence. The reader, we confess, like Kate herself, is left with the impression that the goblin3 of Kirk Alloway caused Meg's grief and less. Closely scanned, it will be seen that this 13 only an impression. 'Tis true we are told that before the bridge was reached the mare ''had tient a tail to shake." but it is not said how long before. And when the very moment of the catastrophe is spoken of, it is said: "The canine claught her by the rump." Without doubt the demon clutched at the tail it was not there; it had been left at Ayr miles behind, hours before. It was well that it had been. If the g-)b!in-chase bad been a reality, and the good gray tail ha l not been missing, neither Me aor her master might have come o2 so fortunately. It" is rot at all likely then that 0'3haaer really beheld any of t.'ie weird and frightful objects which lie is deribed as seeing is the old Kirk Alloway. But the poet saw them; the reader sees and will ever see them. These amazing visions of the Ayrshire ploughman are recounted in such terras in words so vivid, truth-like and natural tnat it may be hardly lawful to question their reality or to examine with too nice an audit the detail of horrors so stupendous. It is much more pleasant at least to dwell upon the many other excellencies of this famous idyl. Care has beeu apostrophized m all languagesoften banished from the world, both in prose and verse, but the clearest and boldest account of its utter annihilation is that of Burns ('are, mad to see a man & hf;i). K en drowned hiaieit a man; t'ie nappy" that is, in the foam of the ale they were quailing. Those who take part in such

scenes of revelry as are here spoken of have noticed that before the merriment becomes fast and furious, there is an interval of almost sullen quiet ot rather easy indifference and of slow, hesitating utterance. Was there ever a better description of this, than in the closing lines concerning Souter Johnny? 'Tain loved hhn like a ver britber. They had been ion for weeks thesitber." One must almost thicken his tongue to proter3y read the words of this couplet, and the w hole passage, even in its sound, enables us very distinctly to realize the precise condition of the two cronies at this time. Then the stately movement of that renowned distich "Kins may le blest, but Tam wns glorious, O'er a' the ills of life victorious!" shows us in grand terms, and full flavor, the high tide of this old-time carouse. One ot the best parts of the story is that in which the conduct ot Meg is contrasted with that of her master, when the two first catch a glimpse of the grotesque orgies held so noisily in the old chapel aglow with its wizard torches blazing in the surrouDding darkness. Though Tam himself was inspired with the fearless valor of bold John Barleycorn, Meg had . not been of the company that evening. She was in the solier certainty of all her senses. The reader is perforce brought to observe this, and all the more to note the rash and reckless bearing of her rider. Tam would hardly have paused had Vesuvius flamed in bis path. The mare, however, startled at these extraordinary sights a:irt sounds, slackened her gait, took step slowly, at last would go no further: 'Uut Maggie Ktood, right siir astomshel. Till b- the lieel aud hand admonished, she ventured forward on the ligbt." Now this astonishment of the mare, is master stroke of most delicate fancy, wonderfully in symathy with the time and of absolute truth to nature. The imagination i thus borne to the very sjot by the mention of an incident, which, to say nothing of the felicity of its expression an inferior hand would have wholly missed. Among the lour personages of the little drama met at the inn none are overlooked, nor is any one of them passed over with mere mention. We not only hear the ready chorus of the laughing landlord, but the poet has contrived also to give us just a glimpse of his spouse, in a delightful piece' of by-play between herself and the hero In this way we come into supposed confidences between these two, the existent e of which is cot deemed to have jjtcn even suspected by their companions. T!i- iMini:ly mxl Ttm ;r-v graeiou Wi' iavors secret, sweet aut precious." Favors, lis.-om smiles and glances, passable withal, in the jocund wane of such a was-ail. unknown to the Souter, unnoticed by the host. But the pl ue of these lines in the poem, the time in the scene when they occur, the "grew gracious," let it be perceived well enough, that no evil was afoot. The dalliance so aptly alluded to was ouly a fancy of Tarn's, induced by the ale which drank so divinely on her part, but an etfbrt to favor the passing humor of her puet, lue much more to the purse than to the person of her patron. T hese latter suggestions have been proffered, not without a degree of hesitancy, indeed w ith a sort of dread, lest the revisiting shade of the kindly hostess should suddenly appear before him to remind the critic, with somewhat of womanly scorn, that an explanation, so obvious, of her conduct was needless; that it were better left to the good sense and understanding of the reader. The transitory nature oT earthly pleasure has always- been a favorite theme of the moralist. Manifold sermons, essays, lectures and dissertations have expatiated upon it, but there is no form in which the idea has ever been presented so elegant, brief, beautiful and true, as the celebrated simile in Tam O'Shanter "Or. like trie snowfall in tlie river. A moment white, then melts forever." We may fancy the joet in musing mood wandering on a sombre winter's day along tlie banks of Ayr or iHxmconningbis theme, lie sees the snow falling on the stream, and hardly sees it before it is lost in the passing current. This is the simile he seeks. It is "married to immortal verse" and set forever in the memory of men. The formalist in search of mere utility may ask why were such powers wasted on sucn a subject. One might as well ask, in answer, why were so much fragrance and beauty wasted on the lily and the rose? To htm who does not note or prize thenv even these bloom in vain. To him who does, no reason need be given for their existence. 1'erhaps it may be that we miy know "Man does not live bv bread alone." The wine of loesy, the bread of prose, may both be needed for a perfect life. It requires no very profound study of the structure or sentiment of this admirable composition, even in the absence of external evidence, to determine that it could only have leen written by a Scottish yeoman of tlie last century. A man free, frank, fearless; one of most generous impulses, in full sight at least of that independence, social and political, lie was never to reali.e; yet in a condition w hose veriest foibles might be brought into conspicuous notice without detracting from its inherent worth and dignity. One who evidently held the opinion that men might fear Cod and work righteousness and still neither disparage nor wholly fast from cakes and ale. It . required no craven 1(K vears agf). in the caste-ridden world, in which liuriis iived and labored, to say as he did: "Tlie l'riucecn male' atelteI Knight .A Manpiit. Imke aad a' that. . , . The rank is but theemuea' stt!;. - '- The niaa's the ffowd far that 'Then let u pray that rme it af, Aicomeitvrfllfora'taat y That sense mmi worth, er all the ftrtU Sball bear tuecree- tfcat,

Fora' thut an. ' that. It's coming yet for a' thit. When man to man the worM o'er Shall brothers meet fur a' that." Barns was before all others the poet of democracy. Ilia was the voice of a mighty prophet of humanity uttering in the wilderness of caste and cant around him notes resonant of the near approach of a new ruler the people: in predictions which the course of events ban since wonderfully accomplished, and is yet fulfilling. Even Milton, with all his stern republicanism and hatred ofoppression, sang only ot th cherubim and te'raphim, the archangels, of the invisible world, and of captains, colonels and knights in arm. Of this, Berns was the minstrel of the many, of the unknown, nameless throng, with whom he walked the crowded common highway of human existence.. The Mowers he" gathered were found, not in the exhausted gardens of Arruida or Calypso, but by tlie wayside. The classic legends of antique mythology, the medieval traditions ot a gorgeous chivalry which had so long engrossed the harp aud voice of the muses he discarded. The crown he did not worship, th coronet he passed by; even the coat of arms of the brave old Baron, so skilfully polished an i brightened by Sir Walter, he overlooked, rather to celebrate "The short and simple nasals- of the poor." The Cotter's Saturday Night." ''Tarn O'fc-hanter'' and the song "Vor a' That," came from the same pen. In these there is n- dissonance. There is in all of theui the same deirn, to declare the nobility of labor, the brotherhood of man, the sovereignty of manhood. It may, iudeed, be said that he was not himself the best example of the noble life he purposed. But the verse is stronger than the singer as .the mound, the obelisk, the pyramid, have survived the builder. Manj years ago the poet left the plowman safe at home, after his perilous ride in the dark no more a marvelous light has since shone round about him. The rude country inn, the hunter's cairn, the long, murky road, the specterhaunted church, are now alike forever illumined by the resplendent elow of genius. Icathless peasant! immortal bard! whose memories neither the night nor the storm of time can efface or obscure. ''( AUNET." SENTINELS.

Notes and Item Captured uu the Skirmish Line. In a Fresno, Cal.. barber-shop they furnish music for the barbers to suave by. Knoxville. Tenn., is built over a cave, and occasionally the bottom of a street drops out. A tramp in Los Angeles, I'al., stole a marble slab weighing eighty pounds and walked off with it. A l,2iK-pound sea-cow was captured in the St. Lucie River, Florida, last week, and is held as a rare curiosity. A lemon raised at Enterprise, Fla., weighs one and three-quarters round, and measures 11x15 inches in circumference. "Beked Beens" is the sign in front of a Los Angeles, Cal., chop house,- kept by a cultured gentleman from Boston. A snow-melting machine, which, it is claimed, will melt snow as fast as fifteen men can shovel it in, was tried with success in New York the other day. An attempt to prosecute Portland Chinese for sawing wood on Sunday revealed the fact that there is no law in Oregon against manual labor on Sunday. In Albuquerque, 2f. M., a company is organizing to explore the ruins of a vast ancient city, where it is thought, $20,uu0,uuo worth of plunder may be found. A thirteen-year-old boy was recently sentenced to the Oregon State Prison for horsestealing, but the Governor pardoned him before be reached that institution. There is an association in 1'aris whose object it is to help drunkards home at night. If the patient is too far gone to give his address, the club cares for him till he can. 8toke Bark, near Windsor, England, tlie old Penn place, and associated with Gray's Kiegy, has been sold, after bein months in the market, at a low price to a local attorney. From tests made by Br. Fisher, the German chemist, it appears that in ordinary ttove not more than '.M jer cent, of the fuel consumed is utilized in warming the rooms. A prize obituary poem on Generai'Grant is entitled "Y Cadfridog Grant." It is in Welsh and the first line consists of the sonorous sentiment: "Iu Iwyth dr yr Unol i'alaethian." A bank clerk in Westfield, Mass., has ridden 0,0.v: miles on his bicyle, measured by a cyclometer, during the pat six months, and challenges any one to produce an equal record. I"rohibition and total abstinence are two very different things. In one day recently there were SoO jugs slii.)ed from I'-tducah, Ky., to precincts witnout saloons in adjacent counties. Trappers in the towns of Western Massachusetts have been usually busy this winter. Muskrat skins are worth from twenty-five to thirty-live cents in Springfield, and good fox skins sell for l, A lunatic w ho escaped from tlie Hospital for the Insane at Buffalo two years ago. and has since been wandering over France and Great Britain, returned to his home in New York SJtate the other day perfectly cured. An eijierienced vocalist has, it is said, during fourteen years . cured any number of cases of obstinate cough by prescribing the free use of raw oysters as a diet. The remedy is easily tried. I'espite Vermont's stringent fish-protective laws, some scalawag depopulated one of her lakes the other day by exploding a quantity of dynamite underneath the ice. Every fish, apoarently, was killed. The most valuable postage stamp known to collectors is said to be one issued by the Postmaster at Brattleboro, Vt, in 117. which was suppressed after a few weeks. A specimen is now worth $i00 or sou. George F. Lauer, of Beading, has one of three copier pennies that were struck at the Philadelphia mint in 17'Jl. One of the others is held in New York City, and the other is in lossession of tbe mint in Philadelphia. A fight occurred in a farmyard at Stanley, N. J., a day or two ago, between a mare and a buil-dog. The mare finally killed the canine by falling on it. but Lad to be killed herself afterward on account of the injuries she had received during the encounter. Ia Tuat Kutra and other hot regions of Central Africa sheep imported from colder regions loe their wool in the course of a year and thin hair takes its place. The lion, which in Northern Africa has a' long and thick mane, in Central Africa has none. A farmer residing some five miles north from Etna. Kas., tells of a great natural curiosity, lie says there is on his farm a perfect natural bridge. The width of the archway through which the water threads its way, is from eight to twelve feet, and the height is from six to ten feet. The cavernous archway is some 000 feet long. About Hfty feet from the lower end of the bridge there gushes forth a clear spring of col, soft water. Signs of life being observed about an elegant country re-idence in Westchester County, New York, by the owner, who knew that the tenants were temporarily absent, led to an investigation a day or two ao. It was discovered .that A number of tramps had taken possession of the place, made comfortable fires, a'ept In the luxurious beds, eaten all the canned edibles in the house, and succeeded In nearly ruining the costly carpets and furniture. They even went so fcC 1 to

drink .all the wines and liquors that had been lett in the closets. A watchman is now in possession of the premises. One of the new Congressmen from NewYork State, when asked at tne Capitol the other day to vote for a bill, astounded the man who was electioneering for the measure with the novel answer: "1 shall take pleasure in asking the opinion of mv lejal ad-viK-r at Albany as to the bill, and w ill act upon what he says." A 1'rlin woman lately attempted to kill herself by drinking live ounces of kerosene. She became unconscious, but was fully restored to health in three or four dnys. The Deutsche Wochenschrift tells of a man who drank habitually an ordinary liquor glass of petroleum several times weekly without any disagreeable consequences. A man from New Lisbon, N. Y., mailed

two letters at the Oneonto Postorlice the other day. His strange manner in buying the stamps, and his query as to what to do with tLe stamps alter he had bought them, excited curiosity, and inquiry brought out the singular fact that, although l.fty-tive years of ae, he had never before mailed a letter. A .liuke in Waila Walla, Y. T., thus addressed a prisoner the other day, upon whom he was about to pass sentence for obtaining money under false pretenses:, "Considering the service you have dene experienced people, tr.d the lessons you have taught, you have been of some service to the community bv doing evil that good may come of it. I," there:" -re, give you the lowest jnalty allowed by the law for a penalty o::c year in tbe penitentiary. Feter Cummings drove the hst boat that made the trip frcm BuOalo over the Erie Canal in lSi'.l. Ie Witt Clinton stood at the bow of the boat and gave the word to start. The boat was called the Young I.ion of the West, and was drawn by nine hordes gayiy caparisoned. Cummings drove until he was ?evtnt3--five, when he wa drowned at Pendleton. He is buried at Tonawanda, and Frie Canal boatmen are now raising a fund to erect a monumt-nt over. Ids grave. A New York philanthropist proposes to organize a land company, which shall furnish homes to deserving young men in small cottages costing 2,300. By a novel plan in case the tenant dies after the close of a year, the projerty will be deeded to his w ile as a home. The company will not lose, because its plan is the insuring of the young man's life for the amount of the mortgage on tlie property, and if he dies his wife takes the property and the company the insurance. Buring the recent Scottish elections some of the voters walked twenty miles to the polls in a driving rainstorm. In other cases they had to cross stormy channels in small boat3. So determined were the people to vote that the men joined together and hirod a small steamer. In another case the candidate himself chartered a steamer for the daj and on its arrival such was the teme-t that the small boats could scarcely get out to it. Not tobe beaten, the voters carried on their shoulders a large boat from tar inland and launched it for the occasion. New Yoik has a curious little burial place called the "Marble Cemetery," which contains a large representation of the aristocracy of the city. It lies east of the Bowery, comprises little more than half an acre, and its existence is unknown to the bulk of the inhabitants of the city. It does not contain a sinele grave, as all the interments are in subterranean vaults. The entire soil has been excavated and the vacancy filled with rows of vaults. These vaults "are covered with three feet of soil, which permits a full growth of turf and sbrubbery.ftThe cemetery contains only the best families, and only the names of the old Knickerbockers apjear. A physician was recently called to visit a patient named Antonio llarauta, living at Jackson Gate, Cal. He is an Italian, about fifty years of age, and earned a living by mining. He was sutVering from bleeding at the nose to such an extcxt that all ordinary remedies proved unavailing to stop it. In order to prevent the patient from bleedin? to death it was found necessary to phi? the nostrils. Another feature of the disease was the appearance of livid, purple blotches over the hands and arms and other portions of the body. Even the tonguv was a fleeted in this way, and a far down the t hi oat as could be seen. These spots were caused by the lupture of the small, superficial veins and the consequent presence of stagnant blood beneath the skin. It is not a common ma'iady. The victim will recover. A corresjondent writes from Mandalay just after tbe deposition of Thebaw: "Nest morning I obtained admission to the palace. and for several hours -wended my way through the endless succession of buildings. It is impossible te attempt here any detailed description of the mingled magnificence and squalor, tilth and splendor which I witnessed. I found myself i;i the Ixrd White Elephant's house. He had been left without food or water. The magnificant Silver vessels which held his food had been lying about unprotected. The royal monster seemed in a very bad temier no wonder. ) He was chained by the fore feet to massive pillars. Unless yon were told that he was white you would not perceive it. In the dusky light he seemed much like any other elephant. On closer examination he seemed of ligiit mouse color, with larqre white blotches." Tlie same corresomient de describes a most disgracelul scene of plunder. The crown jewels narrowly escaped. Serious Charges Against a Wisconsin Priest. Mii.wal'kkk, Jan. St. The town " fraukü'.i. near Milwaukee, had a genuine sensation a few dnys ago, when F.ev. Father Heigh was threntened with personal violence from Infuriated relatives of Miss Helen lkx. a lady of seventeen year, and well connected. 1 ather fleiuh, w ho Is alout forty vears of a?e, has been ordered away by Arcubifchop llei.ss. and stays at the t'apnehiu Vnvent at present, and Kev. Father TretnierKer. of inbuqiie, la., has been called to Franklin ia Iris place. It is tlleged that a yearago, while at confession. Miss Box wa tirst iroa( hol by her i.piritunl adviser, and that Mm-e then they have "thought a great deal of each other." she oileu visited him. At one time, it is said, he called at her home, and she was seen with her arms around his ueck. He lunde her many presents, which were retnrned to him by her relatives when the matter was brought to a climax. He denies a'.l criminal relations, which the said to nave ad mitted. Iter sifter finally applied to the An hbiFhop. Tbe latter waa freeu last ninhtnud said: "This is a verv unfortunate art'alr and I regret its publicity. "Father Heigh denied all sniit to me, consequently I know not whether the reports of Ids alleped misdemeanor are true. 1 u'ave him choice between investigation or resignation, and he preferred tlie latter. He w ill be transferred to Itichtield. Wis." The afl'air has caused much talk, the reverend father leinK weil known bote. Ilia friends deny his guilt. A Judge Arrested for Forgery. Ixpiana, Fa., Jan. 21. Judge Harry White was arrested this morning, charged with forgery. The information was made by bis brother, Thomas White, a son of Alexander White, who is contesting his mother's will, of which Judge White is executor. The information made before the magistrate charges the J udge with altering and falsifying a certain document in the Orphans' Court of Indiana County. Judge White served two terms in Congress, was a member of the Fennsylvania ttate Constitutional Convention of 18T1, served twelve vears as a member of the State Senate, was ä Brigadier General of the Pennsylvania National Gnard, was a Major Of the Sixty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, was imprisoned in Mbby and tilsbury, and escaped in lsuU. After the war he was llreveted Hrigadier. A LADIES SF.CBET. , ' Tbe ladies of th Contt of France possessed a secret tht eheuld be known by very lady. Setd 2-cent itamp for tsalej circular In plain envelope. European Medical Co., 233 riorth tüataetreet. rtuladeiphi

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