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Vol. 21.-No. 28

THEJV1AIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

-Notes and Comment.

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„Wnte it 1891 now.

"-Taik of an ice palace at St- Paul always brings on a thaw. Talk of a sleighing party bas the same effect In tbe Wabash valley.

The man who dares to name a baby ofter a United States Senator hereafter will be shot on flight. He will be. literally Duvalled -c

The Minn oapolls Spectator asks: "Why don't somebody introduce foot ball among the Indians? It is far more deadly than the ghost dance." -,'i

Congressman Allen, who was once Indian agent in Michigan is quoted as saying that if he had an Indian agency ana no concience be could make a fortune Undoubtedly he could, for many men are.

Tbe author of "Tbe-Quick or the Dead" has consumption and is to be inoculated by Pror, JCoch, If it were the book instead cfj the author, steps would indoubtedly be taken to prevent the inoculation.

A most curious indication of the lingering of superstition is an agency which has been inaugurated in Paris for the supply of the "fourteenth guest." Dinner parties of IS may be increased at short notice.

The Braxilla'ft Government has failed to obtain recognition by German j-, Austria, Spain and Russia. At St. Petersburg the Czar announced that nothing would induce him to recognize the republic during the lifetime of Dom Pedro.

The census bulletins announce 1-10 religious beliefs in the United States, in addition to the many not acknowledging denominational organizations. Why should any, man be "out In the world" fpJth such a variety of bebofs to select

«l*he tost words of tbe .dying Kansas* tH-pIayer are defr«thel to become

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Vnmrbut." Voltaire,^ Lord Wooslsey, Napoleon, Lincoln, Garfield nor any of the groat men, \vliot« tho world has known, could have more aptly expressed loyaly to'the work of their lifetime in a recognition of tbelr end.

Edward Everett Hnle suggests the appointment In some leading ^university of a "Professor of America," who shall stand as au expounder of Americanism. It sometimes seems that such an appointment might be made In all onr universities aud colleges, for Americauism is often sadly obscured in the teachings of these institutions.

A German scientist of note is always rewarded for bis contributions to the learning of the day. Dr. Koch, discoverer of the new consumption remedy, has in turn been recognLeed for his gift to the world, the freedom of the city of Berlin being bestowed upon him. t)nly three other men'of note now-enjoy this distinction and they are Prince Bis march, Count von MoltkeaAMl Dr.Sohlie* ann.

The board of Boston ald*r*aen jte voked the license of a theater because of one scene In which the actress was »«»t sufficiently clad. The action of the board was sustained by the press, indudii many papers that have no sympathy with what is called Puritanism. Boston may bo msthetic, but aesthetics And decency frequently go hand in hand farming a combination both beneficial and desirable.

The frnitfulnsss of foreign mission work is frequently question of serious doubt, and when suoh evidence as the following is presented" there is a very decided feeling that something Is radical wrong with the way tho work is carried on: "In the last fifty years over $100,000,000 in cash has been raised to teach the African to love his neighbor as himself, and yet no two tribes are ever at peace, and the first salutation a stranger receives is a poisoned arrow."

The mammoth tree# of Calfornia are not the growth of the present century and mauy of them are not of the century previous or the century before that, nor Is it possible that several generations to come will witness a natural growth equal to them in case they are allowed to be mercilessly- cut down. Hence it become# imperature that the government should intercede for their preservation and should spare no expense in suoh an effort. The teem arc a wonder of the world open to the world and should not be sacrificed to a greedy desire for the almighty dollar. *,

Medical science is becoming a mania with' physielaug of experimental tendency, and In is being forced, into popular dlsfevor. Not content with undertaking novel feats of surgery for the benefit of Syiog pattenta, whicjo woulo always be commendable If done in good faith and with reason, these in

vestigating fiends are working upon helpless animals apparently for their, own amusement alone. One exchange appropriately remarks on the subject Tbe last crank who transferred a cat*s brain to a dog's head and vice versa had better exchange bis own with a donkey and science will have benefited a man instead of worrying animals with useless operation

Social Events.

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The Home Circle reception at "The Terre Haute" Thursday night will go on record as the handsomest party in the annals of the organization. Given the beautiful house, and the power behind the throne in the person of Mr. Charles Bau% who is a born general, complete success is not to be wondered at. Every detail was carefully planned and carried out, from the perfect arrangement of the dressing rooms to the beautiful decorations and appointments of drawing room. The large dining •room was used for the dancers. Every time I look at it I am more and more impressed with the perfect taste displayed in its treatment. It is elegant at all times, but on this occasion was doubly so. The glass bulbs which cover tbe incandescent lights were of different colored glass. In the tire place the fuel gas. was burning just over the mirror on the mantel were the .words "Home Circle," made of tiny jet* of gas, on either side looking like bu nches of re lilies, were the electric lights. The effect was wonderfully beautiful. Tho largo ulcpye in the south side of the room, was filled in with evergreens and palms, making a screefi, behind which were the musicians. Refreshments were served in the ordinary, and here Mr. Baur had wrought out some beautiful effects. In the grate were electric lights showing through red glass, and covered lightly with thin shavings, which looked as if they were burning with a rosy flame, yet were never consumed. Between the windows on the north Side the space from the ceiling to the wains*, sotting. was tilled with vines of the southern grailax, ordered by Mr. John Hru'l for this o«maiot, Jtml peeping out from this lea^v ^oroe%| ^rtM^^tered, light red, blue, and violet electric lights. Tho^fbtoMtq.center wis a thihg of beauty, witltats floral decora tions of liyacinthe, roses and smilax, its glass, china*'and sllyer. Everybody en hausted their stock of adjectives in the attempt to do justice to the beauty of, the room. The guests were reoeived in the drawing room by Mrs. W. R. McKeen, Mrs. Goorgo Fplrjrington, Mrs. II M. Smith and Mrs. Ilaberly. Dancing began about 9 o'clock. As I entered the room a line froth one of James Whit eombJKileyte poems came into my head "And the violins wove for the dancers a story Enmeshing their feet In thtfweftof the tunc."

I looked across the room and there Mr. Riley was sitting. The ypung^ dies looked unusually pretty.

Miss Maggie Tuell wore a trained dress of heliotrope Silk, velvet, and brocade. Miss Anna Warren, pink lace over pink satin: diamond ornamentss.

Miss Alice Warren, pale blue silk, brocade ^Mis^Enitna Boland, pale bluesllk with lace overdress. ... ...

Miss Florence Hussey, pink silk with over-res-8 of white point d* esprit. Miss Ellse Hudson, pink silk covered with pink net La France roses.

Miss Anna Stronit wore an wonderfully becomlnggown of overdress of pale blue gaujee striped with •liver.

Miss May Armstrong, whitedotted net over M^SFr»nces Haborly,- white silk ntull garland of white lilacs.

Miss Rose Karrtngton, pale blue silk covered with blue not. Miss Hetty Allen, white atbatross trimmed with gold braid.

Miss Amelia Kussner, old riwe china silk. Miss Fanny 0'Boyle, yeUow china silk. Miss Elisabeth Dowling, Nile green crepe elath trimmed with silver braid.

Miss Cora O'Boyle, red chluasilk. Miss Cora CondiW red china silk. Miss Belle Allen, light blue chlua silk covered with blue flowered net.

Miss Sue Roes, white china silk. fv Miss Cerrle Hyde,pale blue cblna slUt ItMrs. Francis Hord, wore a very beautiful costume made while she was in Paris by Worth. It was black and white, pale lemon oolor and yellow, but how it was put together passes the comprehension of an ordinary mind. It was vastly becoming

Mrs. N. K. Elliot wore one of the handsomest eostame*. ItWof black laoe embroidered with gold beads and trimmed with gold PMnf*Charl««' Hamill, a very pretty hetto^ trope china silk.

Mrs. Harry Baker, pale blue silk. Mm WTI£ McKeen, heliotrope

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George Farrlngton, bloechl Mrs. toy Jenckes, blue and wh silk.

Mrs. Dr. Rice, pearl silk. Mrs. H. M. Smith, black lace. Mrs. Frank Crawford, black and white ^BRSSL Some#, blue and white china silk.

Mrs. R. D. Dlgges, bine and white bncvfa Ben Hndnut, blue challle trimmed with black lace.

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In colors. Mrs. Frank Kidder, garnetvelvet.^M Mrs. Max Wooi black sllk^

Mrs. R. A- Wood, black sllte., i.1 Mrs. Crawford Fairbanks, Mack and white

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Young, black silk with gold em*

judge Jump, black and blue china

silk. Miss Slddie Wood, garnet silk. Miss Sue Ball, term cotta silk, cashmere andbracade.

Mrs. Harry Gilbert, peart colored, china silk. ... Mm. John E. Lamb, white china silk trimmed with white possament&rie.

Mr*. OVerstrect, black lace. Mrs. John Atkman, white brocaded silk. Medici collar.

Mrs. Geo. Parker, white china silk and crepe, garland of while roses. UpL Thateb«tr Parlcer, pale blue slllc with thssoe overdress.

Among Vhe gentlemen prssent WMt»

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Berry and Motors. Fay and Clark. Gexialdkhs.

One of tbe moat delightful as weltW beautiful dancing parties ever partly pated in by the young misses and maters of the city was that given by Mr.' and Mrs. G. E. Farrington Tuesday evening in honor of the Seventeenth birthday of their son Janfts. The sixty-fivf young people who wire guests appeared in full reception atti^presentinga mc-4. oharming scene of the evening, an guidance of Prof, graoame of dances cuted. It is not say that nowhere

Our lady fi faces, Who-would sent tl For them round, That they the b&

ing was the ordot under the skillful: uenweg the prof excellently ex of vagaut praise tbe United Stated

can an equal numnr of more gracflf«|: and beautiful you® dancers be four)4 than those gracingfiis reception, and to Prof. Duenweg is compliment for tered the art unde the guests were Anna Crawford, Beth Parker, May Hunter, Florence Dainond, Middle Cox, "7 Helen Gilbert, Jeanette Simpson Venle Richardson Amle Bindley, Bessie Fitch, Emma Gilbert^: Eunice Hunter, Franclscn Strong, Cora ttyan, Grace Arnold, Grace Jenckes, Mary Keller,

.rly all have mad# is direction. Among iMisses Mary Armstrongsr^l^fc Bonny McNutt, May Damond, Perdito Pene, jjgE Mary Cox. Mary Gilbert, Edith McKeen, Helen Benbrldge.,,(™ Blanchle Fitch, Virglnie Somes, Janie Hunter, jlia Ford, Martha Roy6e',53 Mary Preston,^ Grace Wood. \rM Fanny Blake,

Rose Farrlngton.

And Masters

Russell Bement,

The Dirif which for si measure the season, gave Tuesday evi grammps 'the' lirit of si following Let tho.must For now the Our Dlrlgo

John Crawford, Robert Hunter,. Harry Isaacs, James Cooper, Jos. Richardson, Herbert Ryan, George Wells, Charles Duncan, FrfcU Beaushamp, Samuel Wales, Henry Hudson, Mr. Will Pfiin, l'cof* OfV.-^r DuenWAg.

Herbert Westfallj Edward Kidded, Frank Will-Ian,.i Fred Blake, Charles Fleming Bruce Bement, Harry Fuller, biieldon Grein Percey Williaw Frank O'Boyl Mr. Edward Ito Mr. Will Donas!

Rluh, *»,n ^rganizatlbu ^ars has^enjoyed topfull Jeasurest the dicing' usual hoiitla^ru^ jg. The*(acHWl^,

Iftiices^preaente

[Year greeting:

So dance enjo/ yourselves while you

And we

fro see 'you all a year from to-,

ub members attended and in lore the following guests from Mies Trlshmeyer, of LafayPi^rtle McClanahan, Messrs ^uglass and Harris, of Brasll, an Will Delaney and Sam Legore, of Mar shall, -v

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Tho "Docem Dalces Puellse" club tii entertained Wednesday night by Miss MoTaggart, of south Eighth street. The eyenipg was spent in the usual delightful manner.

Another delightful aud pretty dancing party among the young folks was that given by Miss Anna Royse, young est daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Royae, from 4 to 9 o'clock Thursday. This wa» a party of the little ones, aud a great success it was. Refreshenta were served in the large dining

oft of the Royse home, and as each est entered the iobm he or she was, rnber and while at the table was called iyri»-j«reeent he holder, m: receiving by her mO^r^ Missee rham, of Danville, T., Jeesie Havens and Bella Allen. The

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Ml»wF^anoeCSusan joevuna tsuonff Anna Cmwford, Sadie Falrbanlra. SedaSa pox, Parker and Felix GeddS, ja»iTwil-

Be Ulna Stro

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Blrdwtil, Wilson Oox? Beanor Cox, LauraE. Cox, E Cor, Newton Cox, Herbert and 5*®8!riry®r'Bruce and Delphine Bindle^ |tav?ns' Albert Beau^2^

Malcom Sim paon, Charley

l^smJ^arlet Foster, Charles and Mary Blake, Fred Clatfelter.James Sankey. Daniel Gertrude Grace

Boyse, Kunlce

I3te holidaf reception of the Knickerbockers, given at Bindley hall last nlgbt, was another brilliant success fully in taping with the established reputat^»of the dab. This could have been atttidpated from the elaborate preparamade and tbe neat invitations ia-

Tbe evening was given up entireto dancing, and that it passed en joywas evident from the animation beauty of the scene presented. The wing were the ladies present: Jfeses Maud G*rr, Vlnnle Curtis. Laom 1 ricks, Belle Hemy. Oootle Black. Graoe

Maiy Preston, ^lic© Flemii Pttoee,-

Jacob Baur, Charles Baur, X^mBegwuT ".«-ujxwub«.ui |{«gSR, Jay H. Keyes Geo. E. PnghTcTF.

SueNlchWade,

... ..Indiana^

^.^ Jewiie La Gmcge, ^Ssf'&Se'pinfttll, of Paris, Gertie Johnson, Bonnie Merry,

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TERRE HAUTE, END., SATURf^Y EVENING, JANUARY 3,1891. Twetity-first"'

Ethelde Daggett, Baker, of Princeton, Ind., and Misses Hill, Forsythe, Patterson, of Lexington.

The gentlemen were: Herman Goetz, Harry Beggs, Fred Goldsmith, Cliff Westfall, Cbas. Duncan, Vern Barlow, Jake Strouse, Harry Button, Chas. Gkldsmlth, Jr. Harry Pinkley, Body Patterson, Boss Branson, Harry Bronson, Lee Grelner, James McGrew, Will Hamilton, J. Crawford Bart'ett, of Philadelphia, Pa., J. Whalen, of Paris, Juntger, Paris, John Dickson, Chas. Miller, Joe Duncan, Ed. Johnson, Harry Lease, Sam Bock, James ("rawford, Bruce Bement, Henry Hudson, R. W. Hudson, Jr„ Chas. Fleming, C* Hervey, John Stewart, Ike Frank, Frank Ryan, Bruce Cooper, Oskar Duenweg, John Crawford.

The Home Circle, Jr., will dance at Bindley hall .Monday evening, this being their first dance of the season

Geraldine's Letter.

MY DEAR RUTH: When this reaches you, the old year will have gone, and the new pne, will be almost three days old. I an^not much given to retrospect possibly for lack of time, but thep nobody has much time to look backward nowadays. It takes all one's wits and 'strength, to keep pace with, and com-

ue a share of tho' prehend the present. 'Wouder crowds

upon wonder in every department of life, until one is almost dizzy trying to realize them all. The advent of the electrlo cars in our midst, those uncanny things going along without any apparant reason, are of the most wonderful of all the hew wonders. Dr. Holmes has written a poem about them which is in his happiest vein. I doubt if a decade ago he could have foreseen, even with that poetic imagination of his, the va garles of "Tho Broomstick Train." They came of course, at their master's call The witches, the broomsticks, the cats and all, lie led the hags to the railway train tki Tho horses were trying to draw in vain. "Now tbeu," says be* "you've had your fun,

And here are the cars you've got to run. The driver may just unhitch nis team, We don't want horses, we don't want steam Von may keep your old black cats to hug, But the loaded twin you've got to lug." Since then on many a car you'll see A broomstick plain as plain can be: On every slick there's a witch astride— •.,* The string you see to her leg is tied &he will do you a mischief if she can. But tbe string is held by a careful man, And whenever the evil minded witch Would cut some caper, he ^lves a twitch. As for the hag, you can't see her, But bark! you can hear her black eats purr, And now and then as a car goes by. You may catch a: gleam from her wicked eye.

Often you've looked oh a rushing 1 rain Bufi Just what moved it was not so plain. couldn't be those wires above,

whe

nd sweet, and clear, Year's very near bin its sixth season of dancnembero an evening entranc-

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Wishes all ing.

nets,"to"look at "their smiling say that they do notrepreGraces, rtsh, before another year rolls taji have "captured the hearts of boys in town.

Now it is honed all this evening, will have lots OtilU), For romen^et ,Ottr

Uves have but a short time

to rud

guess—but now you

Wonderful indeed 'are the problems which are being wrought oat in the world of science, but after all, is there* anything any "more .'wonderful, than the vf/iy menjfcre discussing the absolute and final abolition of the things which they hUve considered inevitable, as much a jiart of human life, as life itself, as real ^id enduring as the ground upon which filiey stand. He who laughs at the Beljiamy idea, which means the abolition of poverty, he who-crdls Gen. Booth's Idea impracticable and ssys no good can qpme |?om it, v5%o goes lightly through the pages of Walter Besant's "All sorts and conditions of men," who scoffs ait the abolition of war, and disease* would bet ter wake up, and move on with tbe rest of the world, for he Is living in the past, has not caught the spirit of the pres-

None of the poets seem to have had rophetic vision of Tennyson. None t' has written like this: "Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind. Ring out the slowly dying cause. And ancient forms of party strife. Ring in the nobler modes of life, |. With sweeter manners, purer laws.

Ring out the want, the care, the sin. The faithless coldness of the times." 1 The bells haye rung many an old year out, and new year in, since the poet wrote these lines, and every year his prophecy has come nearer fulfillment. They have been ringing in "more of the love of truth, and right," "mora of the common love of good," are ringing out "the old shapes of soul disease" and "the narrow lust of gold," and they are surely and steadily ringing in "the larger heart, the kindlier mind, the Chriattbat is to be," I rThen Is one thought which In spite of us wiil'come with the coming of the new yaar. It is the same that obtrudes -fafif when onr birthdays come around, and the most of us don't like It very much. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, whose cups of tea we have been drinking with so much pleasure daring the past year, writes of himself as "having Cleared the eight barred gate which few oomein sight of, and fewer, far fewer, go over." Somewhere be says between forty and fifty we begin to dangle a jaunty pair of eye glasses, half plaything, half necessity. In dne time a pair of sober business like spectacle* bestride the noae. Old ago leaps upon it as saddle, and rides triumphant, unchallenged, until the darkness comes which no glasses can penetrate." He offers some original consolation abont growing old, in tbe fact that every decade is a defense of the one just behind "The man of forty looks with a sense If security at the strong man of fifty, Ind when fifty is reached, sixty doesn't ggem so old as it used to, and seventy foil stems-far oft H»e man of eighty gives to read about people of ninety, and th what pleasure the man of ninety rold go to the birthday feast of hia ighbor of 100. Life, he says, "is a litglass of a very peculiar kind of spirit, used to bo said that at seventy the lit

tle glass was full. We should 'be more apt to put it at eighty in our day, while Gladstone and Tennyson and our own Whittier are breathing, moving, thinking, writing in the green preserve belonging to their children and grandchildren, and Bancroft is keeping watch of the game-keeper in the distance."

Mrs. Swaflford's'little volume of poems "Wych-Elm." lies on the table before me. I am proud of the success of any woman, and especially so of that of a Terre Haute woman. I love poetry and appreciate the quotation on the first page. "Poetry is the blossom and fragrance of all human thought, human passion, emotions, language So "Wych Elm," filled with beautiful thoughts, has given me a morning of rare pleasure. What few of Mrs. Swaf-f«rd's-poems I have seen in the newspapers, have always attracted me. They always contain an idea which is gracefully wrought out, but I have seen none that compare with some of those in her new book. The very first one "Damascus," would alone settle her claims to the name of poet. The first verse tells how Damascus, sphinx like looks across the sands of the desert and views along the hitch way of the world the passing centuries. In the second verse, looking across the sands of Araby, tbe traveler seos the enchanting vision of the city, then comes this exquisite touch:

He hurried on

Through oleander thickets, white and pink, Liquia with music spilled from feathered throat. About him now tbe sleepy popples nod And splash his feel with crimson over all, Heavy and 8weayhe breath of Damask rose* $ .' =. 4-

Four^thousand years fegi ter gray old wall p§

The apricot upon lxer gray old wall its bl' years Upon hers Here= caravans assemble as of old. The camels come and go about the streets Laden-with spices, perfumes, silken »tUBS,jg, And many a blade of bright Damascus steel, As when In half forgotten days stjo reigned

Has liiing Its blushing fruit. Four thousana years Upon her streets has shown the Syrian moon.

And many: In half forgo Proud Syria's capital.

The poem theu goes oo to tell how she (Damascus) saw Ephesus arise and decay how, in her old age, she saw the birth o^Rome, her rise, her splendor and her fall. Then comes the following beautiful verse: Hoary with eld, worta-worn, she was,' ?he shone -s Outside her city:gates the wondrous light That was not light of sun, nor moon, nor star, Round Saul of Tarsus. Old when flrstvwas

f... viaua ottThat little scorned and "persecuted plant*' Set 'niong the Judeau lilies long ago, Watered by bload'ubd tears bf'martylwi slain Grow to a goodly tree, whose branches spread O'er all the earth, ^fjiose fragrant leaves are for' •*,'». The nations'- healing. underneath whose

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The world aweary ones may come and rest. The second poem, "Hesperides,"! like almost as well: We read of a marvelous Island fair-—

A charming story and quaintly told—^'At3And a Wonderful garden Tying there, Whose trees bear apples of yellow gold. It is said If you sal 1 away, away,

O'er the pulsing seas, to the shining west? Steadily on, you will cpmo some day, With favoring breeze, to tho Island blest, But eye of mortal has never seen-

The mythic Isle of the western seas, With its.garden bright in the flashing Hheeb Of golden fruit on the magic trees You may gaze, and gaze, where*the cloudlands pile .fV

Their sunset gold till your eyes are dim, You never will sight the Hesper isle, Though you sail to theocean'sfartheat rfm.

Tben she tells of a wider sea, the sea of Life, how it laps the world, and how In its midst is a happy isle where "a garden of golden fruitage lies." And Butonce in sailing the wide sea o'er,

We si

We sight this beautiful wonderland, .men of youtb, with its precious storo Once only our feet will touch tbe strand Where the rosiest curtains ever drape

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Tbe windows And th# bloom The blush on ^The Haunted Battle-field" is another of the bestf' ...v %?... .?

AH the piSee is haunted In tbe moon's pale beams y. Every wind-stirred thicket

Full of specters seems Here a bayonet glistens, There a sabre gleams. Sounds a ghostly bugle

Far away, and then Comes a steady tramping, As of marching men, Up among the shadows

Of the haunted glen. Yonder, down the valley By the riven pine, Where the ground was reddest

With the human wine, Come the spectral columns Wheeling into line. Bee the ghostly gunners

Gathering around Where thebtoken caissons Moulder on the ground And again the cannon

Thunders from yon mound/ .... S Kow the storm of battle

Sweeps across the vale,--Comes a heavy patter As of leaden bail, And the Soathern pine-trees

Bend as in a gale. Wavers there no column, Infantry like rock Stand with stern set faces,

To receive the shock Of the charging squadrons Seeming death to mock. Bush tbe phantom horsemetti

Like tbe wind^-aor heed Screaming shell and shrapnel, Keigh of dying steed, Prayer or imprecation.

Shriek of spirit ftpwd. Uat tbe charge is over, All Is still again: Crimson dyes the grasses,

Like a b:oody rain, Where tbegbaxUr reapers Mowed tbatwiol Lane. Sver In that valley

At tbe close of day Come tbe waratag shadows, iibadows blue aod gray. Gathered In the moonlight

To the dreadful fray. Shadowy lines are forming, Marching to and fro, Spectral drums are bemen.

Ghostly bugle* blow, Where was fought the battle a2 In the long ago. ,CV -i "Tbe Empty Jficbe" I l»imrilttd

and over agaln.rJ[ only quote tU«f last four lines: But then for labor vain and fading flowers And wasted wine, my heart., the fault is ours, In that we did a foolish thing and odd, We made the niche before we saw the god.

In the "Evening So-uth-Wind^are these dainty lines: •. Ar-n And Bhakes th« lily's waxen cup with restless wings that beat, Until Its rare perfume Is spilled, and all the night is sweet. "The Laud of Flowers" is another of the most exquisite.

A summer land of aftcrn^tn A land of drowse and drone WJiere languid eyelids droop aha sweon, 10

petal'! at, an

Belittle airs that beat, and beat,

jasmine's scented gold.

Besides these I especially liked "Ju-, dah's Lament," "Moonlight on the St. Lawrence," "Dream-Land," "Unsatisfied," "The River of Sunset," aad "The Letter." The mecihanical part of the book deserves mention. Tbe paper, the type, the coyer are all attractive. On the cover is a branch ot tbe wych elm, and the words "Wyoh-Elm" with the author's nom de plume, "Belle Bremer," underneath. There is also an exoellent portrait of the author.

4,Gabriel"

GkraldiNK.

AMUSEMENTS.

POl'tJLAR MGHT OFI3KA. ''C-.-',

The Bennett & Moultou company, who have been playing a successful engagement at Nay lor's this week, will close tonight, presenting "Billie Taylor." The attendance during the week has been large and the house will likely be crowded tonight.

THE FAKIR.

The seed^ that borethe Mystic Passion Flowcr Konkln, Geo. Mit-|?, UpA throuffb .the lapsing cycles, she bn»/ choll, Chris. Border. ^.r foiiMilu anai

Hamlin's Farce Qomedy companyx presenting that otie^vespent skit, Bakir," will be the attraction on Monday evening. The Chicago arid Cincinnati papers can't say too much in its^ praise. 'Me company is a very stronaf^f§. one,' no less than five members having starred successfully. TPhe comploteffi company fts a& follows: Misses Allce^M Harrison, Jenuette g^t. Henry, Ros^iM France, Annie Southeriand, Helen Rehpeiv Mollie Shoawopi}, Jenhle 'Eddy, Annib RotilusoQ) Dudie Tracy, Gertie)^ Lehtnau, M^rs* Jiarlt Sullivan, T. J. Crcnln, Alf. C. Wheelan, John Bnnny,

been ebtlrelyrewritteu this reason, new songs and^p.e-W-music introduced, and it Is certaW^^n# of tho farce comedy attractions of tfe© day. Boats canbesecured at Button's. .,v/..

MOJE'S

"Evangeline,1" "with' ^iVoscdre pt Arcadian maidons, Its lAdrry but miserable ruffians, its demure heroine, its dashing horo, its Dutch captalu, Its Irish policeman,tits lono fisherman, its cunning notary, Jts cpquettisli chaperon, sportive whale and.dance heller, in fact, "Evangeline,'? with all its halo of stage triumph, magnifidehi Mcenery,,superb costumesfand dazzling effects* will be seen'at Nayl^r^ on Tuesday evening, January- Bth^^efitldine' McCann, one of the foremost ^of stage beauties, plays

lol4llla4 Walter^ 'Charming

"Eyan^eMne,". Pretty "Eulalle" is played by Helen young, "and "Felician^ is done by Lena Moraine, Richard Harlow, mammoth in stoe and good nature, and elegant in elaborate costumes, plays "Catherine," Jas. Maffittt will cast his line as the "Iione Fisherman,?' Ben Lodge, the popular comic opera corner dian, is the crafty "Le Blanc," Bernard J. Reilly swings his club as the "IHsh Policeman," and Harry West talks Dutch as "Capt. Dsitrich." Tbe chorus ladies are said to be young, and remarkably attractive in face, shape and voices. 3*he admission will be at regular house prices, 26, 50, and 75 cents. Seats on safe at Button's.

A BARREL OK SrONKV.

B. D. Stair's Comedy company will be the attraction at Nay lor's on Friday evening, January 9th, presenting the farcial comedy entitled, "A Barrel of Money."

Do not fall to attend the Musin eoncert, which is in the regular Coates college oourse, to be given at tbe Presbyterian church to-night. The concert will be exceptionally fine/ Oourse-tickets are good for this number.

MBS. ASTOR'S NECKJLA OE. (Free Press.j/j Mrs. William Astor has a wonderful diamond' necklace. It is six strings deep and is set with no qold visible, giving the diamonds the appearance of be* ing strung. together. Mr. Astor has lately had it entirely reset and bas replaced all the smaller and inferior stones with diamonds of surpassing brilliancy. Mrs. Astor rarely wears it, as she is not over* fondlof personal adornment. Both she and Mr. Astor, however, rejoice in the poeesion of beautiful jewel* and are willing to pay a fortune any day in* the week to obtain them, taking the same pride In their ownership that they would take in beautiful piece of Haviland or 8atsuma.

-Under the bead of "Plessabt paragraphs" a Georgia paper prints the following: "Mr--—died very suddenly ott Wednesday morning, after along and severe Illness. His death was entirely: unexpected.1'