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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 183a

THE WAR OX THE FARMERS

TO BE FORCED FROM THEIfc LAND. Peelaratioa of War Agr'nt a ?nrptu of Karra Product old Abrond For Foreltn CoLd-31lIl OwnT I'rotertcd by Additional Farmer Im. On page 6S5 of the compendium of the ienth census published by the government the seeker for truth will find the "estimated value of all farm productions sold, conFamed or on hand for 1871"' set down as $2,213, 40--VVH. On page ?2 of the report of the treasury department for 1&S4 (or any year since ISsO) oar exports of farm products for the year ending Juno 3 1570, are given at i54C,47ti,7üo, and for the year ending June 50, 1SS0, at 0,0(31,091. For the fiscal year of 1S79 our exports were 2-3 per cent. ; for 1S-S0 they were 31 per cent., and if we average the exports, taking the 1S79 half of 1870 and the 1S70 half of 1850 the last six months of one seal year and the first six months of the . other to make the actual exports of the calendar year, they were 2S per cent. Properly speaking, of course, the exports for the year ending June, 1 SSO, are the exports of the farm producta raised in 1879 ; but to avoid all captious objections from the use of the larger figures, let us take for the purpose of this study the smaller amount exported for the year ending June, 1S70, as the exports for that year. The total number of farmers, farm-hands and dairymaids in ls0 w as 7,r70,4i3, of "whom 4,225,045 were farmerb and ?.,323,S76 were help, and the average, product or wages taken from the foil was but S2SS each. This was less than the wrgos paid in the 11,000 mills of the best protected industries, which employ 60 per cent, of he "protected" workers, for the wages oi the latter averaged S13i. Of this agricultural product Sl35,02ö,Sbd wa3 required to feed the people of the 1'nited States. The remaining 5Ö4 3,478,703 was a surplus which could not be used in this country. If we had not sold it abroad, we could oniy have used it as a fuel or fertilizer. If we had raised only what we needed for ourselves, l,S07,4Sö fanner? and farm hinds woul i have been, out of work and compelled to seek the protected milis tor employment. The largest estimate made pives lNV,d.v as the total number employed in tho protected mill?, and there then would have been two persons out of work and seeking the job of every person who had work in a protected milL This would have been a "halcyon and vociferous time" for the employer, who couli have cut wag-s down one half, it not more. So long as l,S07,4$ö persons are permitted by the 14.500 highly protected millOwners to work on our farms for a foreign market the protected mill-owners must pay what he calls "hizh wages." He must compete with agriculture to get his labor, as well as compete with agriculture in the disposal of what that labor brings. As the 1,897,455 farmers work for foreigners, they are paid in foreign poods, and these foreign poods aretheaetual product of their farming, which they pell to their countrymen in place of the wheat and corn the latter do not want and cannot use. Be tween these 1,807,4S5 fanners and the 14,o00 protected manufacturers it is war to the knife and the knife to the hilt. In every statement made by a protectionist concerning firming that war is distinctly declared. "Diversity industry !" By driving from the land they till the l,S:)7,4v men now workms for foreign markets who are paid in forden goods. There is no other way. "Give our farmers more mouths to teed"" By driving from the land they till the J.öS7,4ö men who now feed themselves and fseil th-ir surplus abroad. There is no other way. Give our farmers home markets." Py driving from the land they till the 1,S074.S5 men who now work for foreign markets, compelling them to buy food from those who are left. There is no other way. The farmers of the United States now feed even person in the United Statesand export one-quarter their product. They can only rcalce a "home market" for their froduct by decreasing their own numbers, iy driving from the toil and into the protected trills one-quarter of thoM? engaged in the same business farming. Not a single family can be added to the present "home market" unless it is that of a farmer driven from his land by foreclosure of mortgage. The republican farmer has accepted and voted for protection solely because it has been adopted by his party as a party principle, ami he accepts and votes for it only through party loyalty not because he think protection is right. His party leaders have adopted it because thov wanted the "at" tLcy could "fry out" of" the protected manufacturers to pay election expensesnot because they think protection is right. Not one man living who has f ver studied the subject is a protectionist except for some special reason not connected with its correctness as an economic principle. Every republican member of congre.-s will acknowledge that his opponents are right in their "theory;" as if any correct "theory" could possibly be imagined by the mind of man which it was not rieht to practice. "It may bo Tight, but it is not wise," is their miserable excuse, and the excuse of every thief who is told that honesty is rigid. " "It is not always the best policy," both whine. When the republican farmers controlled the republican party protection was not dreamed of. When the "protected" manufacturers bought control of the republican party every other issue was swept aside and their protection Against the competition of one-fourth the farmers of tbe United States was ma le the one vital and overshadowing issue. Eighty per cent of the foreign goods imported into the United States are the direct payment for the surplus product of our farms. These imported foreign poods are as much the actual farm product of the l,S97,4s farmers as if they had been made on the farms thev till. Thev simply exchange the surplus corn and wheat and cotton they have raided which their countrymen do not want and will not buy for foreizn cloth and iron and suzar which their countrymen do want and will buv from them. Is this theory not a fact? Is there a refmbdean farmer who can not see that these orcign goods are the direct product of the ,07,4ö farmers, and that it they should f.top farming not a dollar's worth of these foreign goods in which we are paid for our exported farm products would be imported or could be imjorted? When the republican party in its national convention solemnly pledges itself to keep these foreizn goods cut of the country, to "check imports," does it not a'so solemnly pledge it?elf to deprive these 1.897.4SÖ fanners of a market and to drive them from the land? Can it do one thing without doing the other? Has any repub-, I '.in newspaper, speaker or writer ever i.onestly met this question and explained, or attempted to explain, what ia to become of these larmers when they can no longer exchange theif surplus for foreizn goods? Not one. Not a newspaper, r ot a f poaker, pot a writer. One and all de ige the question and try to distract attention from it by hnu of their oTnoneDts. Can an? reader

of: this article find a republican farmer who ever read or heard an honest replv to it? . When the republican party levies the enormous tax of :J0 per cent, upon the foreign goods received by the l,i'.7,4S3 farmers iii" payment of their exported surplus, is it not openly levied to discourage the farmers from exporting their surplus and from raising a surplus? Is their any other way by which their labor on the land can be profitable to them? What republican editor has ever oil'ered them any work except in protected milis, to make themselves what they now get in exchange from "foreign paupers," compelling these farmers to enter into direct competition with foreign paupers by making exactly what the foreign pauper mak s? If to protect the farmer or to he'p the fanner, why tax only foreign goods like those made in our mills? If it is to protect the mill-owner, from whom is he to be protected? Can it be from any one but the farmer? If the mill-owner is to be protected from any one else, why does this protection consist only of a tax of .'to per cent, upon the payment to the farmer for bis eurplus exported? Is it not levied solely because the farmer will sell these foreign goods to hi3 countrymen in competition with the mill-owner, and has protection any other object than to prevent this competition bv the farmer? The question, which the protected millowners have forced upon us, concerns every farmer in the United States. Every one raises something for export. The 1,807,4n5 do net form a class by them-s-lves. No one individual belongs to it, but every individual has a share in it. When protection declares open war upon the farmers raising the surplus, it declares war upon every individual engaged in agriculture. The protected mill-owners are in earnest, and they propose to destroy competition by the fanners even if they absolutely ruin the farming industry. They are in the field. They own congress. They own the president. Their campaign begins begins next Monday. Democratic farmers, is it not time you were up and doing preaching, organizing, converting? Republican farmers, is it not time for you to consider whether you can afford to longer vote for your own "destruction? T. E. WiLu-is. A PROPOSED REMEDY.

Fire Hundred Tho.tsanil tiivorctt CraotKl Withm the Lat Twenty Yema. The lion. Edward J, Phelps, ex-minister to England and lecturer on law tit Yale, has turned his attention to tho 6ubject of "Divorce in tho United States," with an effort to discover a practical means of lessening the evil. How great that evil is may be seen at a glance from the fact that during the last twenty years more than 500,(11) divorces have been granted, whereas, during the preceding twenty years only a few more than 320,000 were granted. This rapid increase is the main fact which has directed the attention both of social and legal reformers to the subject. Mr. Pbelns treat it from a practical, legal po nt cf view, and considers the means whereby the law may be best used as a preventive. A uniform divorce law in all the states he retards as impossible ever to obtain, and his view of the federal constitution is that it would le illegal for the United States to enact a law on this subject, this being a matter which fails within state jurisdiction. He addresses himself, therefore, to state laws; and. after a discussion of the main features of all these laws, reaches the concision that the remedy wili be found in a prohibition of marriage by either divorced party so long as the other lives. He shows, historically, that it is the liberty to marry agaiu that has caused such an increase in divorces ; and he concludes that it is the desire for another marriage alliance that is the main cause of mn.-t separations between husbanis and wives. Mr. Phelps contributes this study of the subject b the Forum, and it appears in the December number. MRS. LEE'S MINCE MEAT. A Tiectpe for the Housekeeper to Cut Out nml Kfrp. The wife of Gov. Fitzhngh Lee of Virginia is a famous housekeeper, and this is how she Mrs she makes mince-meat for her pies: Two pounds beef, two of cur-', rants, two of raisins, one pound of citron, two cf beef suet, one and a half of candied lemon pel, four pounds apples, two of sultana raisins, two of sugar, two nutmegs, grated, quarter ounce cloves, half ounce cinnamon, quarter ounce mace, one quart sherry or good homemade currant wine, on? quart good brandy, one teaspoonful of salt, the juice and rind of two lemons and two oranges. Simmer the meat gently till tender, and when perfectly cold chop fine. Stono the raisins, shred the citron, pare, core and chop the apples, chop the suet fine. Mix the dry ingredients together, then add the juice anil rinds of the oranges ami lemons. Tack in a stone jar, pour on the wine and brandy, cover close and keep cool. This mince-meat will keep all w inter. When wanted for pies, thin with cider or wine. The rule is an old one and is said to have come from the Custis family in the beginning. According to Virginia tradition, the Widow Custis, who brcame Mrs. Washington, made famous mince pies. I tilla'io i of Absimlie. It'itt'bur Dbpuch.J The distillation of ahsinthe is bcoming an important industry in France. The upper leaves and twigs of the wormwood plant are macerated with hysop, calamus, ciironelle, anaise, funnel, badlane and other vesreUble substances, and the decoction thus obtained1, after bavins been distilled, is treated with alcohol, sweetened and colored. Absinthe is a powerful, but öVstruetire, nerve stimulant, which may be valuable in caves of extreme exhaustion or extreme fatigue, but, like chloral and opium, it is liable to abuse?, which, in the aetrreicate, far outwtiirh all the benefit. which are derived from iu legitimate use. Other profitable industries, peculiar to southern France, are the dis-' filiation of essential oils from wild aromatio Tlan?i, the manufacture of perfumes from cultivated flowers, and the preparation ot preserved fruits by the proceM of crystal irat ion. llach lias been built up in iu separate locality, and become practically a monopoly. The same mny be said of the manufacture of the celebrated liquors, benedictine and chartreuse. A fabulous sum was recently ottered to the monks of La (jrange Chartreuse, not for the- secret of the manufacture, u C for the rieht to use the original labels and bottles which are the guaranty of the genuineness and purity of the liquors. A Iouh e.Kmll Rule. Lsrr Eillf was told one err baJ day To black par' boot, as para was bwr; But Hilly unfortunately wanted to p ay, So h callM to the g.rl. whose tnrenama was Llrzie: 'Ilre Lizzie. gie papa bis well-worn shrm leather. And tell him 1 said twas quite doubtful whether ' 1 .ras worth wbile to pire myself trouble or pa.n Clrantng hoots that so soon would get tiiuJdy a gain. So tho boots went uncieaned, and of course spa knew The eciise for neptect of his lazy son Wily; n t ok of ibe matter a comical view, Though be said: ''The boy's reasoning Is really silly." Ahin : In rnshed lsry Bitty to dinner that day. Said papa: ,-Tnat rule of yours works t'othtr way. Get up iroTTi tbN table; to eat now is ain ' 'ot a bite for boy bo'il be huajirr aalo." Olivk Looas. Mi-tr monHl Item, (Texas Sifting. Friend "Parson Talmage saya 'we cannot get to heaTen by steam.'" Mr. Henpeck "1 believe it I have very frequently been in bot water with my wife and it eeaied to me I was in the other, place." A Corrft1firr ". ' . Tuck. ' " 'Dil be groan?" aked Nellie. . . -"Oh, Nellie," cried her sister, who had cot beard the whole eonrersation, "don't aay 'did he grown.' say 'baa he grown.' I fear you will necr aoeak the laazuae properly."

CHILDREN'S ROUND TABLE.

BEN AND BOB'S THANKSGIVING MEAL How the Hoys Ciptarfd The'r Turkey and the Plnnrr Thil Fo'lowd A Hard. Larned Less n-Other Storiee For Youug Folks Problem. The following unpretentious ttory was written by one of tho Iwyu of the high pchool and read to his class the day before Thanksgiving: l n Kavanaugh and Bob Archer were orphans. When quite young they had been t-cnt to the orphan asylum, and it was there they hail become acquainted. A mutual friendship sprung up between them, and when they were about fifteen for tey were nearly the fame age they left the asylum and took up their abode in an old f-hanty near the town, which bad been given to them by a kind old gentleman of the place. They filled up the chinks, put new glass in the window, new hinges on the door and used bits of boards for shingles. With an old dry poods box and a few boards and nails they soon had a table and a couple of stools made. A small monkey Btove eerved as their range, fire-place and furnace. With the money the boys obtained from carrying in Fevcral loads of coal they bought a coOee-pot, tin plates, knives and forks, teaspoons and pans. The first of November was near and they had lived in "Castle Small," as Bob called it, a month. Ben had procured work at a grocery as delivery boy, but Bob was till on the lookout lor an honest job. It was perhaps better that Ben should have the place instead of Bob because Ben could not cook and Bob could. Ben told me that Bob could fix up cornbread and potatoes in fo many different ways that he used to think that he was eating something different every meal. Thanksgiving; was near and still Bob was without a job. Bob's mouth fairly watered when he heard Ben tell of the turkeys, rich, golden pumpkins, mince pies and cranberries that were on the market. TbankFgivin? came on Thursday. Tuesday evening, after lm work w as döne, Ben came rusliinp hou.e and told Bob he had ?een a flock of wild turkeys. He faid that while delivering some pooci.s out in the country his hat had been blow n oir into a little ravine. He got out of the wajron, tied hi horse, and was axn after bis hat. He soon recovered it and, happening to look around a comer of the ravine, he saw a hV-k of wild turkeys aiMHit löO yard- from him. I lis p'an w as to take Bols gun and go and see if they could not get a turkey for Thanksgiving. By the time lien had finished his ttory and hzd his supper it was S:i0 o'clock. As the moon did not rise until a little after 9 o'clock, they could have plenty of time to get to the ravine. After cleaning up they started off and arrived at the head of the ravine a ehorttime after the moon had risen. Bob's gun had belonged to bis father, and this was the first time he had had a chance to use it. l'erhaps this accounted for the way in which he loaded it, for certain it was be got too much powder and buckshot in it. He told me be had a Kore shoulder ten days after he 6hot his gun. They finally got the gun loaded, and then they stole cautiously up the ravine. When thev were at about the place where Ben bad s-een the flock, they made a irent'e rustle in the branches overhead, and looKin? up they saw a large turkey clearly i outlined atrainst the sky. lue boys almost forgot they had a gun. In a moment Bob raised it and endeavored to steady it, but be found this to be impossible. It wabbled and wabbled, and he saw about half a dozen turkies instead of one. He lowered the guu to ret a moment, when a faint rustle overhead caused him to try acrain. This time he was more successful. Whether it was a mistake or not, I do not know, but he pulled both triggers at once. The next thing he knew he wr.s on the cround. with a very bad rain in his f-hou'der, but the sight of a fat turkey gobbler, the result of his fc-hot. made him forget all about his injury. The walk home seemed very short, and they dreamed of turkev and guns ali night. Bob would not trust himself to cook that turkey, ro they got an old colored woman tr rnnk it for them She nmiiniinroit if the largest wild turkey she had eer seen. ' W hen Bob and iJen sat down to their Thanksziving dinner of turkey, cranberry fauce, bread and butter, po'atoes and coffee, they pronounced it a dinner fit for a kinr. "Bob," EfJd Ben, "what arevou thankful for?'' "Well," was the reply as be glanced at the well-browned turkey, "I am thankful we are not starvi:i and that you have a situation and that we have a house to live iu." "And I," Ben replied, "I am thankful for whatever you are." Ben told me that that turkey was represented in at least one meal every day for a week afterward. CakÜs, Jr. A HARD-LEARNED LESSON. The Sad Story of Litt Jakie, na Told hy His Tracber. It was a Bmall primary school of four rooms in w hich I tangut, writes a teacher in the Youth's Cum;anion, and there was a Lowenstein in each room. As I had the lowest room, the teachers said that I guarded the portals through which the Iwensteins entered the field of knowdedge. Aaron, Bebecca and Solomon had passed in turn with slow and solemn progress through the grades of which I had charge, and now 'Jacob, having reached the legal age to enter the public school, was beginning his career. At home were BerthaMoses and baby Sarah; that meant six years more at leat, and who cares to look ahead for more than six years? Jacob, or Jakie, as we called him, w.ns a tiny fellow, with the sweetest little dark face you can imagine, a dusky complexion, with the red under tho skin, a pretty mouth, and large, soft, black eyes that looked almost tragic when a lessoii proved too much for hL oor little brain. He was the most conscientious child I ever knew; he never whispered or was mischievous, and his efforts to do right and to learn were almost painful to see, but be was yen dull. It waa not so much that he could not remember as that he seemed to lack comprehension ; he would read his lesson sometimes w ith parrot-like correctness, but be unable to tell me any sine'e word in it. He had ben t wo years in my room, and Bertha bad arrived at the age to enter, lie waa trying hard to get through his grade and into the next room before sha came. Bertha was a bright little thing, and, although he never said so. I knew it would be asrony t ; his sensitive soul to recite before her. He was now writing sentences, and had made a little progress in numbers, and I had given him a sentence to write iu which the number four thould occur. He tried for a while, then rate to me and paid : ' "Teacher, I cannot write it now. My head aches me. I will bring it tomorrow." I told him not to worry over it, but to wait till next day, when he

could think better, and Bent the little fellow home with a kiss. He did not como to school the next day, nor the nxt. 1 inquired, about him, arid found that he was ill of brain fever. In a week he died. The day after the funeral 1 heard a knock at my door. I opene'd it, and there stood .Rebecca, dressed all in black. 'Teacher, Ja.'kie sent this to you," ehe said, handing me a bit "of paper. I opened it. There in bis little, cramped, painstaking hand was written his sentence: ".Moses is four years old and I am twise four." Boor, dear little Jakie faithful even unto death! I have it yet among my treasures; it is yellow and tear-stained now, but no great man's work, eulogized and praised after bis death, can ever mean so much to me as that crumpled little paper Jakie's bard-learned leon.

St cMnj; t thel'o'nt. CleTeUnd I'Uin-Pealer.J A gentleman in this town had a very bright, but droll little boy. The other day the little fellow feigned bleep. His father came in and shook him gently. He remained immobile and silent. He shook him harder and would have waked a sleeping person. No movement, no noise, The boy thought he was acting natural. The father threw a drop of water in his face. Not a wince. He emptied a pitcher. Not a twitch. lie threw him on a bed. The boy slept on. Soon his mother asked him why he said nothing when hia father shook him. "Tos I was asleep." be answered. A Littly family 3Iatter. l-AIhenr Journal. It was on a west-side street car and a little four-year-old was talking with her uncle w ho sat opposite. She "Uncle, have you thebig dogyet?" Uncle "Y'.s. You must come down and see him." She "I am just as soon as I can." Uncle "You must get your pupa to buy you a dog like mine." fhe "I a?ked him to, and he paid he couldn't, but he was going to buy me a baby brother, ricrht away." Everv one in the car laughed and the mother s face was ro?v. TTmtoricsl. IM ) 'em Society. Once, while eximinina; a class of little boys, the late Canon Evans, asked: "What was the character of George IV?" No response. He tried to simplify the question still no reply. At length he came to one small boy nearly at the bottom of the class, who was all eagerness, as though ho wa.-i afraid lest the answer he knew so well might be taken from him. "Well, my little, man, what have you to say of (ieonre IV?" "Oh, please, sir, I know. I'lense, sir, he was given to immortalitv and vice." "Biht to a ' " said tho examiner, "go up." A IMnrence. b?tro:t Tribune. On Sunday n little boy was playing with hi alphabet blocks, and grandma said: "Didn't you know it was wicked to pile blocks on Sunday?" The litt e fellow, quite unconscious of his wit, replied: -; "I ain't piling 'em on Sunday. I'm piling 'em on the floor." Decision After Reflection. Scranton Truth. Little Girl "HI should die and goto heaven, would I have wings?"' Mamma "Yes, my pet, and a crown and a harp." Little Girl "And candv?' Mamma "No." Little Girl (alter meditation "Well, I'm glad we've got a good doctor." KNOTTY PROBLEM3. O'ir t'Jts are Invito famish orlzta! eotjrrjiju.ehjraVs, rllllei, nb aid, aai other "Knotty Pr.jb'em," address in? alt communication relative to thia department tu E. lt. Cha lhourn. Lawiatoo, Ma. "o. 2957-Ch nged Head. tTntred for Trize.J L Twas ber dlrjj at f rt, yrt It nurely 'Mid eat ;" Pr.-nxin a head it grows miid or effete; xt change, gives a dainty, amewhat obso'.e.e; Th next is an Arab's particular tnat; With the next tou niiy atrive, but yoa'll anrcly get bat ; The next finds its place 'twixt the bouse and. the strc-l ; Tbe Of it is a ration you'll fliun If dlcreet; Tte coxt 1 a lady you're certain to meet; Next, better thn üever," we often repeat; The next is a rhei-s player's tinlshio f at: The of xt a b-T'a mcKiiarur, 'tis sh'.rt it not sweet; The next is what erery one has, if complete; Tre next U to T.ilue or censure with heat; And the last ia to fill until more than replet. II. The firt. when 't;s dne, should be settled with f peed ; t h:incu its head, 'tis the nun of a sweet, spioy seed; Chant;)- aain, 'tis to finish, to stutf, or to feed ; Next change giv, a a measure, a small cue, indeed; r'rom the next you look down on tte low, level mead; The next is a tnim of whom all children read ; TLe next names a bloody and desperate di-ed; The next rhatig supplies many things that we need; The next you must take as the doctor decreed ; The next will refresh hvth the rider and steed; At the next ym may stumble unless you take heed; The nt'Xt by a tohlier was opened for greed. And the last you must hare if you wish to succeed. III. The first Is a poison, avoid it with care; Change, its heal, you may use it while taking the air; Tba rest conies from Denmark or maybe staya there; The next is a bnlldion for worship and prayer; Th next is a girl's n tuie that's not at all rare; The nest sought the pole, but found no thoroughfare; The next is a roadway where rnsties repair: 1 he next yuu wi.l find is a growth of tnog hair ; Tbe uext in your window siandishlning and square; The next you must he or you've cauo to despair; Ihe noxt stands exalted, and points eTerywhere, And the last the iuxu does when it grows thin an spare. M. C. S. No. 2958 On Thanksgiving Et. I. M. ITATWAfcD. Jio. 2959 Ueowpitation. Entered for Prize. First I'm an animal wandered away, To be cuffed by humanity from day to day; Br head nie and load me with luscious fruit And who betöre cuitod me will now salute. Rehead once apain and the" I w ll gleam In at your fireside a glorious bam ; lt-head iii once roie and the word you then find Will be savorr food for the wooer's mind. Georgetown, Ind. Mat Dat. S. 29CO Miimond. Entered for Priie.l 1. A letter. 2. A soft foo I for in 'ants. 3. Foundations. 4. One who severs. 5. The pits of theaters. 6. ICiilges on the shoulder pieces to turn the blow of a l.-i nee. 7. Machines nv d by the ancients for throwing stones. S. Crowded. 9. Advised (One.) 10. Half of sense. 1L A letter. Fhil O. Sofhkr. No. 961 Doubl Letter Eoiftna. In 'machinate;" . In "delicate;" In hesitate;" Id "overrate;" la "in ten late," We suffer much of Wnf In or journey on thronjh life; We will ever Lave our struggles Till death ends our care and strife. LlIA ME5TAU No. 896a Xuioer.caL. You . 9. 10 and 4 alway 1a ws of lite and health obey, If your irie.nds la you would scan A septuagenarian. Some men 1,2, It and S Are at fourscore years; tbey thrive beoause total they bare used. Fool aii drink, and not atutei.

Even a 2, 8, 12 should know Appetite mav t.e a foe, That it T, 3 the great Who will not let it dominate. Kittek Sweet. No. 2933 Atms-rams. HlSTORJiS. 1. Ben forgH Grace. 2. The ealy nrvral. 3. Nellie, as Maud. 4. Such a cruel lal. a retief. X. Did Uruvn jtb? 6, Prince tiaspar'a rivsl. IkkL. o. 2961-Chirade. Thefr is a prison in Ltnian, 'tis said; The tcholi Is a cowerlct ma le (or a bei ; Tbe latt la to mark, , solvers, please hark To thes words, and my riddle with ease may be read. P-mtlr Sweet. The Twenty-l ive Prizes. Thea prixs are to be siren for the bet lots of three original puizles, of the specified kinds, received before the close of the year: 1. Puzzle of any kind, Jl "v, 2. Illustrated puzzles, a large atlas ot tbe world. 3. "Forms" of nur kind. S-. 4. Transpositions or anagrams. Si. 5. Charades, i 6. 'umericals. J2. 7. letter eoipma 8. focapitations, $i 9. Curtailments S-'. IG. Diamond, Si 11. Squares, s2. li. Stars. SI. 13. Double or triple acrostics, St. It. Half Mjuares. fl. 15. Rhomboids, (l. In addition, tea fiue books will be awarded as speaial prizes. Answer. 2049 A cat-o'-nice tails, TM't Calipee. 2:.V The Witch of Endor. 2U51 M CAR POSES POEIKNT CORD IXER? MASTICATION K E E X A C 'C.JE I S X E T T D TRIED S ( D X 29V2 -1. Vivacity (SIX horizontally halved and a cty.) 2. No-vrhere. rAVtFresh-forctj. 2151 MorjTillE )RDA iNINtr TABASllEtR Opportune Xeol I oexT 2V-H Boats, boat. boa. bo. 2356 1. OCLD, Cjld. 2. FILE, life.

No. 2,965 Ciirtai'raent. We were tailing o'er the ocean. O'er tbe waters Oark snd blue, When we ha iA a great commotion Among the passcuri and crew. Then the captain's voice was calling: "For your lives duwn with the boat! Sb leaks! there's danger, dark, appalling! Quick, men! put the akiQä aäoat. ' "Aye, aye," the answer came; and rdy Hands, the liehoat s lowered down; Every hand was cool and steady, chöwiog calmness quite unknown. All strain on captain shouted : "In the boats, ere il a too late!" Soon we left in boats oVr crowded. Left the doomed ?liip to her fate. Thanks to sailors and to master. All were saved from awful death; See! the ship is siuklüz fa'ter! Xow dark waters she's beneath. fR, O. Chester. No. 2967 Excerrt the Chinese. Faeragct. Xo. 2967 Iecnvitttlrns. As F.d wnlted stately down the street And stirring thoughts ursred him on faster, tome wlud-blown rootlets snare 1 his feet And brought on hini a smail dbajtfr. Quote h: "For this I'll take Its head. And teach it not to send fo'.ks sprawling." The act was done as soon a said. But quickly, too, our lad was falling. The ngly thlnn In meaier shape Had risen while the biy had tumbled; lie's up again a cut to make. But this, too, leaves him badly humbled. Yet twice again he strikes a blow; For these we see be has b n bleeding. Once more he whacks this hydra foe. But now he's ltd who should be leading. The plucky lad must watch b'a chance. There yet remains one head to sever; 'Tis done, now see him proudly pranc". Our Ed aione, erect as ever. T. Rash. Xo. 2f(lS Doub'e Acrostic". 1. To transform. 2. V dt-h of etewed meat. 8. A book. 4. Cracked with cold. Prmn't: A large mass of storv material. Fiitiilt: An idol" formed of wod. Combined: Liquiform as! etos. Pick C. Xo. 2939 Chrnl. The first means to binder; The rond is I; The ih'.-d is a metal You'd like t descry; The uknit Is a flower I love to behold Of beautif j1 petals Oi jell .w and gold. S. Moore. Fo. 29 10. Tran-pisition. The flrti is "rent asunder;" The foo.i'f makes one wonder; So fearless bo Is of th? sea And of the caverns under. To three his trade, he snatches Treasures which lein patches Within their grave, Beneath the wave. Whose dark the sun ne'er catches.. BiTTtR Sweet. No. 2971. Uicldle.. 1. Forward a musician Backward a physician. 2. TaVe nothing troni both heal and tail, and you bave rift v-one. 3. An animal I know whose bead and tail make aUtv. I A. W. FlSHLB. West Unity, 0. No, JSS73 Numerical. To find the tnf$l, wa'te no time; It simply is chloride of lime. Kor 1 to 9 unwhiteoed clothes It has no equal, I suppose. A 10 to 15, whose rank sm U Xo written words can rightly tell; But if it does the work assigned. The careful laundress does ot mind. AXISE Lajkj. The ln. Month. The pnrrlo-mskin is rapidly dnwinir to a rloc, and favors not entered before tho close of beeemb-r will be too late for the competition. These are the prizes offered : 1. For the lest lot of thre original purzles of any kind. S15. 2. For the best lot of three original il'ustrated puz.les, the 'K.md-McXaH v standard atlas," containing about 125 larpe and beanli ul maps, some thirty l:.irams and tables, and many fine engr..vini and descriptive articles. 3. Fir the best lot of three original "forms" of any kind, 1 A. For the best lot of three original anagrams or transKdtions. 32. 5. For the best lot of threo original thirades, S2. 6. For the best lot of three original numerical, 7. For the best lot of three original letter enigirjus, $ 8. For the best lot of three original decapitations, 92. v. For the beat lot of three original curtailments, U10. For the tust lotcf three uripinal diamonds, T2. 11. For the best lot of three orifinal square. Si 12. For the best lot of three orlK.nal stars, $1. 13. For the best lot of three double or triple acro'tie, 51. 14. For the best lot of three original half squares, tl. 15. For the beat lot of three original rhomboids, tl. 1 to 25. Ten fine books as special prizes for any work tboofht deserving. Each aucce-sul competitor will be piven the best prize to which he is considered entitled, but will receive only one of the twenty-five awards. Answers, 59571. Ate, bate, cate, date, fate, gate, hate, Kate, ltte. mate, Xafe, rate. atre. sate. 2. BUI, diil. fill. fill. hill. Jill. kill, mill, pill. rill, sill till, will. 3. Bane, cane, Dane, fame, Jaue, Kane, lane, I mane, pane, sane, vane, wane. ! . - . ! . . 1 , ....... k. . hrnlfAn tta.vt ' Stray, tray, ray, av. 2'.60 P PAP BASES BURSTER PAK TER It EP f AS 8 E U A R D E 8 PETRAKIES SERRIED REDED s e a s 2951 Heart-aehes. 2it2 Abstemiously. 2U63 1. George Bancroft. 2. Thomas Cartyle- . Samuel Daniel. 4. CmuI Charles Fauriel. &. Edward Gibbon. 6. Sir Francis IVgrave, irtfet Counter-point. Poor Dl't. Harper's Bazar. "Wnat d Tu lire on down here, anyway?" asked a hungry northerner in Florida of a native the other day. "Waal," drawled the FJoridian, "in the summer we lire on fish and rams and in tbe winter we live on sick Yankees."

"flUIT FADS AXD GOSSIP.

THE BRIGHT-EYED BOSTON GIRLS." TYhat They Do Summer and Winter and in Old 3Iileiiliool Xew Operetts Literary Peorle Polltira Hie Exhibition DistnguUhrd Visitors. JJortox, Nov. 2. Special. I often wonder why the IJoston pirl flourishes in tho press as a severe young person in glasses "woarinn unbecoming clothes, anl never seen without eye-glasses. As I meet her day by day, bhe is extremely attractive physically with, a good color, bright eye and firm step. Boston girls have larger waists, wear thicker soles to their shoes, and take undoubtedly more exercise than eirls in other large cities. But they are not addicted to phenomenally long words, nor are they on the whole ultra-literary. A good many of them do not carry their studies beyond their school years; they make an entrance into the fashionable world at the conventional age of eighteen or nineteen. After four or five yeare of society, if they haven't married, they may perhaps take up special lines of study, join classes of one kind or auother, and when at last some of them find themselves real old maids, they take up active work in pome of the numerous charitable organizations of the city. The youni Boston girl is fond of exercise; in summer she rows and plays tetrtiis; in winter she rides. I doubt if there is a city in the Union where ridingclasss are more popular. The best riding school in the city has almost every hour of the day taken up by private classes. Boston irirls aro nothing if not exclusive, and so the rMin master assigns each hour of the day to a diüvrent class, and each class is composed of people who belong to the same social set, and are friends of one another. A riding class usually meets tw ice a week for Fix months or more. Souie Doston women ride remarkably well, and there have been vague hints this winter of a woman's polo club about to be formed here. It is true, too, that Boston women fence; this amusement was at it higlit last winter, and teachers of fencinc bad more engagements than it was always possible for them to fulfil. It is this exercise, I dare say, which gives that due suppleness to the figures of the girls I meet crossing the common this bright autumn day. Just now they look very picturesque in the kilt-plaited plaid skirts, heavy reefer jackets, and low-crowned, felt hats they are wearing. This description sounds a trifle mannish, but the cöect is far otherwise. I wonder if the reaction to the softcrowned, felt bat has yet reached the men of Indianapolis? In a few weeks the bean-pot hat will look as out of place as the straw hat of last summer, and it is very interesting to any one who wants to prove that men are ready to follow a new fashion as women, to observe how each man is trying to pet ahead of his nei2hbor in the wearing of the new style of hat. The Australian voting system, as every one now knows, was a great success at our recent state election, and it ia to have a eecend trial at our municipal election early in September. The curious little wooden booths which were used in many precincts where there were no suitable public buildings still adorn some of our parks and streets. Mayor Hart, the present holder of the office, has been renominated by the republicans. Mr. Galvin is a fairly strong democratic candidate, and to-day comes the announcement that a workingmen's party has put up Mr. Bobert Treat Paine, a strong prohibitionist with a suspected tendency toward the single-tax theory. Mr. Paine is a descendant of a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and through his connections in every direction belongs to one of the most aristocratic families here for you know they are strong believers in aristocratic families in Boston. Mr. Paine is S resident of the associated charities and eeply interested in improving the condition of the working classes so much m, indeed, that a few years ago he was anxious to have the legislature pass a bill for erecting with public money workingmen's houses on the waste lands outside of the city. All the same he. will not be elected mayor, for the party he represents is not sufficiently stroncr. Recently Mr. Kcginal Dekoven's "Don Quixote" was played for the first time at the Boston theater simultaneously with its production at the Prince of Wales theater, 1-ondon. Even-one is loud in praise of it. The music is bright, sparkling and melodious, and of a pleasing variety. The words by Mr. W. II. Smith are bright, and we seem at last to have an American operetta worthy the name. If anv one has a little wish that Boston might have the honor of claiming the composer of so interesting a work, at lea.st, no jealousy is felt of Illinois, which state, I believe, has the right to claim Mr. Dekoven. Miss Amelia B. Edwards, with her lectures on Kgyptian art, ha.s made an excellent impression here. he is the typical well-bred Knglish woman, somewhat more tastefully dressed than many who visit us here, an 1 she has a mast pleasing voice and manner. During her stay in Boston she is the guest of Mrs. Annie Fields, the widow of James T. Fields, the publisher. Mrs. Fields lives in a delightlul old house on Charles-st., the back windows of which look upon the Charles river. Mr. and Mrs. Fields enjoved the friendship of Charles Dickens, Charles Keade and, indeed, of most of the distincuished literary men of England and America during the pat thirty years and more, and the house abounds in mementoes of those people in the shape of framed autographs, presentation books and portraits. Since her husband's death, eight or nine years ago, Mrs. Fields has gone little in general society, but she is devoted to benevolent works of even- kind, and her tall figure in heavy mourning is familiar in the homes of many poor people. Mrs. Fields has written much fine poetry for the best periodicals, and many interesting sketches over the signature, "Annie Fields." Mr. Thomas Bailey Aldrich lives onlv a short distance from Mrs. Fields. Iiis duties as editor of the Atlantic Month!; have rather restricted his original work of late vears, yet his poetry is always most exquisite. Mr. Aldrich is a slight blonde man to whom the adjective "dapper" might be well applied, and few who meet him strolling over Beacon hill toward the editorial rooms of the Atlantic on Park st., would imagine him to be anything more than what he appears to be the average polished ociety man. In the same neighborhood with Mr. Aldrich and ' Mrs. Fields lives Mrs. Margaret Deland, whose "John "Ward Preacher" was such a success a year o? two ago. Only a little over thirty years of age Mrs. Deland is one of the most attractive of the literary women in Boston. She is not, however, a Bostonian by birth. Her native state is Pennsylvania, and the very "blue" theology which she exposes in her famous novel was not drawn from New England life, as many people erroneously suppose, Boston has had a good many visitors from other cities this autumn, and especially from New York, which is only just beginning to cease to call us provincial. The opening of a fine new theater, the Fremont, managed by Abbey & SchoeiTcl.

brought a good many thestiral critics; then the English actors, Wilson Barrett and Charles Wyndham, with their respective troupes, j-nve their first performances Lore, Jext, numerous politicians and t:esmen came ove to witness the ; workings of the Australian systeai of voting. Thea a press club banquet last week had many promineut newspaper men among iü guests, and finally the International marine exhibition is attracting people from all parts of the country, (ien. Schoneld, Admiral Jonett and many other hieb, dig nitarios from Washington were here tc attend this exhibition, snd the whole squadron of evolution, ender Admiral Walker, from New York. Boston had the first chance of inspecting the fine new cruisers of this fl -et, chief among which are the Chit -ago, Yorktown and Boston. Theg juairon had be--n ordered here to honcr the marine exhibition. At the exhibition can be seen models of every kind of sea craft from every part of the world, as well as every sort of invention and appliance relating o ships and the sea. It is a unique aSair, and already highly successful. Lr.ui Edgar. CALHOUN AND DAVIS.

An Old-Time Abolition;. t' Earlr Acquaintarce With 1'rotnSne nt Soutlu rnrrs. Oliver Dyer, an old-time ardent abolitionist, in a recent volume of personal recollections, says: "When I went to Washington in December, ISIS, full to the brim of abolition bigotry and prejudice, I wa oncer to get a sight oi the great Suth Carolina nullifier and di.-unionist, and when he was pointed out to me in the e?nate chamber I pave him a s -archin j eeru'iny His appearance satisfied me eomp'yV He seemed b) be a perfect image and embodiment of the devil. Presently, however, Calhoun arose to speak, and before he had ended, his physiognomy seemc-d to the onlooker to have undergone a change "Instead ot looking like a devil he impressed me as a high-toa?d gentleman, with a brilliant intellect, a sweet disposition, a sound heart, and a conscientious devotion to what he believed to be right. I was vexed and astonished that 6uch a change should bave occurred in my feeljng toward the great nuhiiier. It seemed to me that I was becoming a traitor to my status as an abo'.itionist, but as time went on the change also went on in spite ot all that I could do." Sulsequently the author saw a good deal of Calhoun at" the latter's house, and found him "inexpressibly urbane, refined, gentle, winning; and yet he was strong and thoroughly manly, w'ith an engaging iuvineibleness pervading bis softness and gentleness. I admired Benton ; I admired Clay still more ; I admired Webster, on the intellectual side, mn.-t of all; but I loved Calhoun, and as I came to know him well, sind saw bis exquisitely beautiful nature mirrored in his taee, hi countenance no lomrer seemed satauie, but angelic, and his benignant greeting in the morning was like a benediction that lasted the whole day." In one of his interviews with Calhoun the author, forgetting that Jackson's enmity had ruined Calnoun's political carovr, asked the South Carolina statesman what kind of a man Jackson was. "As soon as the question was put Calhoun sank into profound quiescence, seemed to be unconscious of my presence, aud was apparently absorbed in retrospection. Then his relations to Jackson flashed vividly into my mind; I was appalled at my blunder and awaited the result with trepidation. Calhoun's reverie continued but a short time. Soon he looked at me benignantly and said: 'Gen. Jackson was a great man.' The surpassingly beautiful expression of Calhoun's deep eyes, and the sweet, gentla tone of his voice, a9 he thus answered my question are now present with me as I write, although that answer was given more than forty years ago. The general was in his grave, and he was himself beginning to be enveloped with the shadow of death. Why should he, a dying man, continue to hate him, who was already dead? He would not continue to hat him. It seeued as though this, or something equivalent to it, parsed through Calhoun's mind and touched the inmost nobility of his nature, and caused him to give the answer which came from him like a renunciation of all his animosity and an assertion of spiritual reconciliation with his dead foe." It was in December. 1S4S, that the author saw something of the man destined to be the president of the Confederate states. Davis was then a senator, and th impression which he made on the mind of the young abolitionist was, ia spite of preconceived prejudices, most favorable. We are told that "I then a young man of twenty-four, and only jusi out of the woods of Niagara county became attached to Jefferson Davis on account of his genial personal kindness. Smetimes there were bills before the senate full of Indian names, or Aztec names, or Spanish names that the senators could not pronounce correct!', and which we reporters could not catch ; hence, it was neeessary for us to get sight of the names in print in order to write them out correctly in our reports. Whenever a discussion on such a bill took place, I used to apply to Mr. Davis for a copy of the document, and he would always gi t nie one, no matter how much trouble it gave him to do so. And he did it with such genial courtesy and kindness that his manner went straight to the heart and stayed there. In fact, I us d to notice that it" seemed to give JetTerson Davis pleasure to do an act of kindness for anybody. It is not probable that Mr. Davis remembers any of these things (or that ho even remembers my name) but they ar fresh in my recollection. Now that; the asperities of war bave given place to the amenities of peace, I lind only friendly feelings in my heart toward Jefferson Davis, and would gladly reciprocate, if opportunity should oiler, the kindnesses which, all tho-e years ago, he showed to me, an obscure young man, when he was a distinguished and powerful senator of the United States." We have space for but one more reference to the interesting contents of this book. The author says, on page 15r, that the secession doctriue was originated by .Tosiah Quincv, and was a Massachnseri heresy. Perhaps the fact is here rathe too bfoadlv stated. The germ of the the ory that a state had the right to secedft from the Union, as it imdisputably had from the preceding confederation, is discoverable in the Kentucky resolutions of 17VS. But it is unquestionably true. a the author of this book points out, that the doctrine of secession was first openly Jut forward on the floor of congress by osiah Quincy of Massachusetts in January, 1811, when the hor.se of representatives, by a vote of fifty-six to fifty-three declared it parliamentary and proper tc discuss the dissolution of the Union. Sometil"K w. Loell Citlzen.l Judge "It would be more reepeetfnl to tbia court, sir, if you would keep your handa out of your pockets. Why dr you do to, air?" Defendant "Jut for the novy of tho thing, vour honor." "Nor'eltyl What d'ye mean V "Fact ia, yonr honor, my attorney has had hie hands in there so long, I'm tickled to death to get a chance at thera myself." Tl Ws Discharged. TMunser-a Weekly. TJcker," said the yige, "yon are charjt J with Jrunkennesa. on are soaked with beer, he greatest curse of humanity. What have too got to say for yourselt? Were you Ter he"! before?'' "Oh, yes. yonr honor. 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