St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 36, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 26 March 1892 — Page 2

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, . - . INDIANA THE CRISIS IS ACUTE. 1 AND THE ROW IS ALLOVER THE SEAL BEHRING SEA. t “Sam’l of I'osen” Admitted to Rall—He Smiled on the Scaffold—Cheated the fallows—Made Them Dance and Pray, but Was Killed for Ills Sport. The Lawmakers.

A message from the President, transmitting a communication from the District Commissioners, accompanied by a letter from the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the G. A. R. Encampment, to be held next September, was laid before the Senate on the 25th. An appeal is made for 9100,000, one-half to be paid by the District for the expenses of the encampment The President says: "It seems to me that it will be highly appropriate for Congress suitably to aid in making this demonstration impressive.” The Senate then went into executive session. Mr. Wilson, from the Judiciary Committee, reported a bill changing the time for holding the Circuit atrd District Courts of West Virginia, and it was passed. Senate bill appropriating 5400.009 for a puoltc building at Helena, Mont., was passed. The Senate then adopted resolutions offered by Mr. Stanford in respect to the memory of Senator Hearst. Eulogies were delivered by Senators Stanford, Vest, Stewart, Voorhees, Bate, Dolph. Morgan and Felton, and then, as a further mrk of respect, the Senate adjourned till tha 2ith. The

tJuuatv aujvuuifu bill I II a m J 111. A*av House went Into committee of the whole on the private calendar. Three hours were consumed in the consideration of the till for the relief of the personal representatives of Henry 11. Sibley, the Inventor of the “Sibley” tent, but no determination was reached. The committee having arisen, the House adjourned. NEWSY PARAGRAPHS. —R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: Business indications are not quite so clear. There is, on the whole, less evidence of improvement in distribution, and yet the prospect in the great industries seems brighter. The movement of grain and cotton falls off, and the sharp decline in prices is felt in many quarters but the tone In the iron, woolen, cotton, and shoe manufactures is rather improve 1. The money markets are abundantly supplied. With unusually conflicting signs the confidence which prevails in business c rcles is still unabated. But for the uncertainty how far foreign relations will affect tnohey and business here, the general confidence in the future of trade would seem to be justified. The business failures occurring throughout the country during the last seven days number 231. as compared with totals of 240 last week For the corresponding week of last year the figures were 256. —."We are in a crisis more acute than any since the rebellion and out of which it will require the loftiest statesmanship to conduct us,” said Senator Palmer to a request for his op n on of the present situation of this country in the Behring Sea imbroglio. He does n t believe that we shall have war. • In hisopinion diplomacy will effect a settlement satisfactory t> this country. In the Houso of Commons at London. Louis J. Jeunings, member of Parliament for i tockport, asked the Government whether, lu view of the gravity of the news from Washington, published in the newspapers. It was not advisable for the Government to inform the gw,.. House of ttoti ftiypor^ of tho latest dis- . U .. Sea

Dickens’ novels, and your—" Teply “Never mind explaining any more,” think ■she interrupted, biting her lips fiercely. “01 “I may as well'tell you now MMfll ',_t • 'aLi T 3 UTZr -aSSOJwu^^Rirtls 1 attorneys are now looking for the bondsmen. —Henry Smith, a negro, was hanged at JxHiisville, Ky. When he mounted the scaffold. Smith, whose courage had never left him. steppe I to the front and made a short speech. As the noose was put around his neck Smith laughed and said: “Be careful.” He was smiling all the while. The drop fell and his neck was broken. The murder for which Smith was executed was committed on the afternoon of Jan. 18. 1891. Without provocation he shot down l>is employer, Louis Specht, a white man. After lingering five days Specht died and the charge of malicious shooting which had been registered against Smith was changed to murder. —Joseph Myereck shot and instantly killed Thomas Edwards at Sims Mills, Mo. Edwards was a desperate character, and while drunk went to the home of old man Sims, who was Myreck's grandfather. Drawing his giin. he made Mr. and Mrs. Sims dance, pray, etc . until the old couple bscame exhausted. Myereck was unarmed and powerle s, but after Edwards left he secured a shotgun, and, following him, emptied its contents into the back of his bead —M. 11. Lake, of Michigan, was elected Supreme President of the Patrons of Indu^try. —Fifty-two anarchists were sentenced to imprisonment for terms ranging from twenty-five days to two years and eight months at Rome. —Texas rangers have had two battles with Garza’s men. A Texan guide and a deputy sheriff were killed. —Eight trains, comprising 175 cars loaded with 22,000 barrels of flour for the starving Russians, have been dispatched from Minneapolis. —King Toubinoof Butaritari. hasarrived at ban Francisco. His minion is to secure the protection of the United States over the Caroline Islands. —Ren Gano, the Mount Gilead. Ohio, wife murderer, is dead. He was convicted of murder in the first degree. A motion for a new tr al was argued and overruled, and the Court ordered the Sheriff to bring Gano into court to receive his sentence of death. On going to the jail the prisoner wa; discovered in the agonies of death. He had poisoned hims.df, thus fulfilling thj threat that he would never hang. —ln executive session the Senate practically completed consideration of the Behring Sea arbitration treaty. In view of the absence of a number of Senators, the final vote upon the ratification was d “forced. It is understood that a resolution looking to the withholding of the exchange of final ratifications until the modus vivendi is renewed, will accompany the treaty. —The Maryland Senate passed the House bill appropriating JG0.003 for a State exhibit at the fair. —Capt. Yokum was convicted of manslaughter at Hastings. Neb. lie killed JMyron Van Fleet, his daughter's traducer.

CRIME AND CASUALTY. —The bark Star of Erin, Captain Hopkins, bound for London, with a cargo of oi s, wool and tallow, went ashore at Waipapa reef and is a total wreck. —Jesse Davis, aged 80 years, was Instantly killed at Jonesville. Ind., by being struck by a Pennsylvania, passenger train while attempting to cross the track in front of It. —Four men were killed by the explosion of a boiler at St. Louis, Mo. Their names are Larry Hussey, Reynold Dledoke, Joseph Beckley, and John Debrichti. Two others were fatally injured. —The Rev. H. D. Benjamin, a prominent minister of Portsmouth, Ohio, was found in his robm at Scioto dead, hanging to an iron bracket. Temporary dementia caused by illness is supposed to have caused the

suicide. —Johnnie Considine, one of Detroit’s toughest citizens, was shot and killed. —Thieves stole the money deposited in an Elkhart, Ind., church corner-stone. —At Minto. N, D., Pat Foley fired three shots at A. Fields, one striking him in the forehead, one in the back of the head, and one at tho side of the nose. Fields was entering the house of Mrs. John Halvorson. Foley's sister, when tho tiring occurred, jealousy, whisky and bad reputations are mixed up In the case. —At Chandies. O. T.. for a long tints there has been bad blosd between two Indians. Each bad his family and particular friends, and the affair grew until it amounted to a feud. A regular pitched battle ensued, and when it was over three Indians were dead and two were so badly wounded that they will die. while three others were severely cut about the head and body.

। • —Burt Smith and Robert Whittaker. , young employes of Lamson Bros., commission merchants in Chicago, have gone into hiding after swindling their employers out of 860,000, seriously inconveniencing the firm. The news of this created great excitement on ’Change and broke the market, —W. C. Loighty. postal clerk on the Burlington and Missouri River Road between Lincoln and Hastings, was arrested nt the latter place cn a charge of robbing the mails and using the mails for blackmail. He tried to blackmail IL C. Outcalt, cashier of the Capitol National Bank at Lincoln, and was caught by decoy letters. Leighty operated under the alias of Herron. —Brazonla (Texas) dispatch: All the lower coast country is stirred up over the finding of the bodies of three persons horribly mutilated, and each of them bearing marks of foul play. The bodies were found in the Bernard River. Two of them were men and one a boy aged about 16. On the body of each one was found a letter addressed to 11. C. Gray. The party was seen about ten days ago, accompanied by two Mexicans, who acted as guides, prospecting overland. It is thought the prospectors were murdered by ihe guides. Men are searching for the suspects, and It will go hard with them if found. —Joseph Simcox, of Portsmouth, Ohio, was fatally burned in trying to save tho life of his wife, who had tried to Kindle a fire with kerosene. His wife was only slightly burned. —A disastrous crossing accident occurred at Odin, 111., Tuesday night, in which seventeen passengers were injured, though none of them dangerously. The names of ' the Injured are as follows: H. R. Andrews, Lawrenceville, 111., hurt about head; ’ Henry Ferryman, Olney, II)., right leg and hip bruised: H. C. Francher, Neoga. 111., collarbone broken and otherwise injured ; 1 W. R. Hoagland. Chicago, hand slightly 1 cut; Mrs. O. R Jenkins, Flora. 111., cut in * temple; Charles Klepper, Washington.lnd , ’ right arm and shouh r bruised: I.’.

f. “He has too many other girls to I danc k of, let alone you." serve Haute. Ind., hnftd sprained : M. V. Thompson, Seymour. Ind., head cut : J. H. Ward, Lawrenceville, Hl., cut in back and face; S. O. Wifklin. Fairfield. 111., slight cut on hand; R. F. Wins. Lancaster. Ohio, right band cut and leg bruis'd. —H. E. Barksdale n Danville. V«.. lawyer and ptoseci mg attorney. committed suicide by sb .otlng himself at the Arlington Hotel, at Hot Springs, Ark. No cause is assigned for tho de‘d. —Two Chicago laborers met. a horrible death at the Illinois Steel Works. They were Frank Puhelskl and John Drazeck. The two men went to work to load iron ore from a huge heap. They had excavated a distance Into the mass, which fell and buried them beneath hundreds of tons of the heavy metal. Life was crushed out in an instant. —The night operator on the Jersey Central Railroad at Cranford. N. J., successfully resisted the attempt- of four burglars to rob the depot. The four men tried to break down the door of the ticket office In which the op >r a tor was and he telegraphed for assistance There was a chain fastening to the door, which allowed of the door openin r a trifle. The operator caught two of the int.ru lers off their guar 1 and knocke 1 them senseless with a club. Then lie sprang Into the other room and tackled the other two. He wat getting the worst of it when the noise of an approaching haadcar was he ird and th* would-be burglars abandoned the fixht and took to their heels, dragging their half-stupefied but reviving comrades with them. By the time five railroad men or, a hand-car had arrive 1 on the scene the robbers had disappeared in the woods. —Mrs. Bessie Howard, aged 26, was killed by 1 er husband, William, at New York, during a fight at their residence. ’1 he husband was arrested. —Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Stewart, of Millersburg, Ohio, blew out the gas at a Lima hotel, and were found dead the next morning. They were on their bridal tour. —At Utica. N. Y., the ji.ry In the case of Gould, the Albany banker accused of misappropriating funds of the national bank of which ha was an officer, rendered a verdict of guilty. THE FIRE RECORD. —Five persons named Leahay were burned to death In a house near Springfield. Minn.. Saturday night. —At Kalamazoo. Mich., fire broke out in Hie home of Garrett Friellnk, and tho sleeping apartments were surrounded by flames before the occupants were awakened. Mr. and Mrs. Frielink escaped, when they were horrified lo hear the cries of their son and daughter on the second floor. The two were safely landed with but a single piece of clothing to protect them from the severe weather. The loss is about 81,500; insured. —For the past month the dried grass on the prairies southwest of Fort Cantonment, I. T., has jeen burning and fires could be seen at almost any time in any direction. They have been yell kept down, however.

and little damage has resulted, b it is | s now learned that seven lives have b< lost : by these fires within the past ter ays. i The first report of loss of life was 1 light i by an Arapahoe Indian. 1 —Fire in the folding-room of the ouse of Representatives at Washington ci ed a : loss of 516,000. । —Two dwellings at Anderson, Indvere blown up by explosions of natur; gas, causing a loss of 56.000. No one wa urt. —A fire occurred at Mount Wash ton, Md., by which the Hotel Edgemo^was burned to the ground. There were tkrge number es guests in the hotel at thqme, but owing to the heroic efforts of tKemployes all were rescued in safety. L« estimated at 825,009; insurance, 811,G00.‘ PERSONAL MENTION. —T. A, Chapman. Milwaukee’s forkost citizen, is dead. —At. New York. Sidney Dillon. Present of the Union Pacific Railroad, is con fl id tjo his house with an attack of stqach trouble caused by chronic indlgeton. Mr. Dillon being nearly 80 years ok his illness causes much apprehension aotlg his family and friends. —Obituary: At Philadelphia, F| D. Hayes Agnew, aged 74. At New Otan*. Randall Hunt, dean of the lawfactwof Tulane University, aged 85. At Tor<&b Captain Frank Jackman, Sr. At New YeK Samuel Drake, who designed the first t)' stove, aged 91. —Colonel Daniel S. Lamont has dangerously ill at New York for th^t two weeks, but is now reported to be rfing comfortably, though not out of Saner. POLITICAL. — The Gatch license bill was defen^|n the lowa House of Representatives vote of 52 to 46. —Roger Q. Mills was elected Ut^ed States Senator from Texas to fill the'*" cancy caused by the resignation of Job H. Reagan. ,» —John Temple Graves, of Macor"Ga., who accompanied Senator Hill on Is trip through Georgia, declares that, a evidences showed that the New York talesman is weak in that State. Mr. Graes affirms that Grover Cleveland is the geatest Democratic statesman of the day. FOREIGN, —Auckland advices report the lossihf the brigantine Kyno off Flint Island. —Tho Portuguese town of Quilmane. capital of a district in Mozambique,is be- I sieged by 6.000 natives, provoked torebelHon by the Portuguese rule. Quilmane, which is a trading center of impotance, with many European residents, is it danger. The Mohawk, a British brpedo cruiser, has gone to Quilimane and a Portuguese gunboat, with 100 solders, is on the way. —Sir Edwin Arnold, who is a paisenger on the Belglc. was presented to Queen Lilluokalani during a stop of the Bdgic en route to Yokohama It is reported from Berlin that Prince Bismarck was attacked Monday with a sudden Illness. In view of the condition of affairs there the news has caused Intense anxiety. Owing to the attack be lias given up his intended visit to Ratzeburg, the capital of ills duchy of Lauenbiirg. —Arthur Goring Thomas, the comic opera author, has committed suicide nt London. ; —At Amsterdam, Holland, thoe*^J>lo«‘.on of a barrel of benzine In a drug/warehem«e killed six persons and injured twentyseven, some of them fatally. Four houses were destroyed. ‘ - —Dn uxht prevails In South AuStral^, sh— I lononpw am o) V uu ^’’^nddu

OOl?O«p4W liaU y AOCbM CMA/ fUVf uuaperon b se? She believes herself un ^M| wouldn't dare to MISCELLANEOUS. —The boilersof the United States Men n- I er Michigan have been condemned by a ■ commission of inspection at Erie. Pa. -Twenty-nine person* have died of ! typhus fever in New York. — Montana horses are dying of a strange disease — Indiana White Caps have broken out near Muncie. —lt is now reported that it cost $3,000.000 to secure the passage of the act legalizing the Reading combine by the New Jersey Legislature —The New York Senate passed the World's Fair bill appropriating $300,000 for the New York exhibit, w.th the Assembly amendments providing for closing the exhibit on Sunday. —Mr. Thompson, of Forest Grove. Ohio, got drunk and told the neighbors that he l and Mrs. Thompson were not married. A mob prepared to move the couple out of the neighborhood, but a marriage license saved the trouble — Gov. Seay, of Oklahoma, has received information that the allotments in the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Reservations will be completed this week. He now has men at work drawing the plans of the county seats ip the reservation, and has asked the Postmaster General t> establish postoflices and post routes at once. After the allotments are complete! a few days’ conference will be necessary at Washington, and then the landswill be ready to open. The re-ervation will make six new counties.and there will be over 3.000,033 acres of fine land for s»ttlers. —A gold discovery has been made near Cottonwool Springs. San Bernardino County, that bids fair to outrival anything in the gold mining Hi e ever known in the history of California. Great stories havj been told about a rich gold mine somewhere in the neighborhood of Cottonwood Springs, and hundreds of prospectors have been over the ground in search of it, but never until now has It been discovered. —The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has declared the apportionment bill pass id by the last Legislature as unconstitutional, and therefers void. —Guiteau, President Garfield's assassin, is declared to have been drunk when he was executed. —Senator Gallinger. of New Hampsh're, has accepted an Invitation to deliver the dedicatory address at the Childs-Drexel Home for Printers at Colorado Springs on I May 12. Senator Gallinger wa* a printer in early life and naturally feels complimented at being called upon to participate so prominently in an event st Rich is to be historical. The 12th of Maz. it may be I added, is the anniversary of Mr. Childs’ birth. — A lucky strike of gold was made at Fremont. Colo.. Monday, by the six young men making up the Rosette Mining Company. The company’s property is located at Beaver Park, and the strike was made in a sixty-foot shaft, wliich was sunk through the solid rock with no encouragement. The samples of rock brought fc> :

show nuggets of almost solid gold as Inrge as the end of a lead pencil, while tho whole rock is covered with flakes and wires of the same metal. The samples assayed 830,0GG to the ton. —Mrs. Andrew Reid, Ji , discovered a painting by Jean Baptiste Greuze in a second-hand store in Baltimore, which she bought for 820, The painting is worth thousands of dollars. —While in a fit of temporary Insanity, caused by the grip. Jolin Ruthenbeck killed his wife at Lima, Ohio. —Governor Abbott, of New Jersey, is said to have decided to veto the Reading trust bill. —F. A. Soule, for * horn a subpoena issued requiring ills attendance before the Grand Jury at Chicago, and who is supposed to know something about the alleged bribery cases, has disappeared and officers can not locata him. —An Aberdeen (S. D.) clergyman charges i Rev. Dr. Talmage with stealing his sermons and declares that tho New York preacher has not produced a new sermon duriag the last ton years. —Minneapolis mills last week ground 167,920 barrels of flour, against 158,615 barrels the previous week and 133,720 barrels for the corresponding time in 1891. The flour market continues in a depressed condition —Thirty-two bodies have been taken from the mine on the Hill farm at Dunbar, Pa They were ent imbed June 16. 1890. —Dr. Newton Bateman has resigned the Presidency of Knox College, at Galesburg. John H. Finley has bee.i elected to succeed him. —Minister Foster announced in-the Canadian Parliament that the Dominion Government had given up all hope es reciprocity with the United States. —Ex-Governor Thayer, of Nebraska, has filed notice that on March 29 he v ould make application to have the gubernatorial eontreversy reopened. —William H. Laidlaw, the clerk who was injured in the dynamite explosion in the office of Russell Sage, has demanded 8100,000 from the Utter for shielding birn at the time of the explosion. —Mrs. Johanna Keusman. whose husband ("Professor Koch”) deserted her in Chicago. ' with her little girl, has been sent to the poorhouse at Buffalo. Mrs. Keusman has spent all her means in searching for her truant spouse. FINANCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL —The National State Rank of LogansI port Ind., will refuse to pay its taxes under the new State tax law. It is understood that this Is an initiative movement on the part of the banks of the entire State to resist the collection of the assessments as made under the tax law as passed by the lust. Legislature. —The Painesville, Ohio. Savings and ; Load Association Bank closed its doors Monday morning. The depositors are generally working people, who crowded around the building threatening violence to the officials. Col. IL K. Page, veil known In railway dre es and one of tlte most prominent capitalists in Northern Ohio, is at the head of the cone >rn. —The Philadelphia Inquirer says: “The official announcement that Claus Spreckels' refinery has gone Into tho great sugar combine, with the Franklin refinery of Harrison. Frazier A Co., may be expected tn n | few days. The preliminaries are said to be j about fixed, ami all that r inain to be ari ranged are minor details The terms are not , I yet known, nor is It understood exactly how Spreckels was influenced to go Into the c< mbinatlon he fought with so much vigor. Ue Is. however, credited with innkint alaiut 83,000,000 in *he deal ove» ’Twatstoat' the cost of his big refinery it pav'nniq o - * , Tren-

Im th e I "Division. There are now n large number o I men out —Tie “Ufa- mining plant of Harrison. . Frazer A Co.. I hiladelphla. was formally ; transferred to the American Sugar Refining I Company, the con-idei ation being $10.0011.- > 000. one-tenth of which was paid in cash | and the remainder In exchan re of Suga' | Trust certificates for Harrison. Frazer A I Co. stock In consequence of the trust having absorbed the Franklin refinery the McCnlmn Sugar Reining Company, which was incorporated last year with a capital of $3,030,000. has Increased its capital to $.■‘,0,10,000, and has decide ! to begin building a plant ut once. - Re. f packing houses at Kansas City. Omaha. St. .he. Des Moines and Lincoln. Neb., have formed an association for mutual protection. —The Standard Oil Trust, I esides paying a 12 percent, annual dividend, has, during the last two years, accumulated a surplus I fund of $26,000,000. ; —The Linde I Hotel at St Louis lias been ' sold for $875.00 ’. THE 2IARKETS, CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Pi line.... $3.50 n 5.2> Hogs—Shipping Grades 4.50 6.03 Shkkf —Fair to Choice 4.00 » 6.-0 W h rat—No. 2 Red 8 I <4 .81 Cork—No. 2 :7 & .•■’B Oath-No. 2 27 «<. .28 Ni k - No. 2 79 .81 Butter- Choice Croamerv 28 r” .29 Cheese—Full Cream, flats 12 .Jt'y Eggs—Fresh 13 .14 PoroTOts—Car-loads, perbu... .35 .45 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Sl ippiry? 3.25 @4.75 Hogs—Choice Light 3.53 e» 6.Ml Shekp—Common U> Prime B.<O @ 560 Wheat—No 2 Red 88^ « .391$ t orn—No. 1 White 8j @ .40 Oats— No. 2 White 32k>@ .33'.j tT. LCUiS. Cattle 3.' 0 & 453 Hogs 3.5" <<4 5.00 Whba i — No. 2 Red 86 @ .67 < OKK—No. 2 848;^ .36^ Oats No. 2 38 & .29 Barret-Minnesot i 45 © .48 CINCINNATI. Catilb 3.50 13 4’o Hors 303 @ 500 Sheep 3.03 <3 6.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 92^@ .93’£ Cobn—No. 2 Red 41 *«( .42 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 31 @ .88 DE I'ROI 1. Cattle 3.00 @ 5.00 H GS 8.00 @ 4.75 Sheep 3.00 @ Whsat-No. 2 •ol 92’i@ .93 Cohn—No. 2 Yellow .433$ Oats—No. 2 White 83k>@ .341* TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 K) @ .90 Cohn—No. 2 Yellow 33 @ .40 Oats —No. 2 W hite 31 .33 : Rye 83 & .85 BUFFALO. Bkep Cattle 4.00 @ 5,75 Live Hogs 3.75 5.25 Wheat—No. 1 Hard 94 @ .95 Corn—No. 2 44 .40 MILWAUKEE. " heat —No. 2 Spring 83 .85 Corn-No. 3 36 .88 Oats—No. 2 White 31 .32 Ute—No. 1. .82 .84 Barlet No. 2 53 @ .54 Fork—Mees 13.00 t« 10 5J Naw YORK. Cattle 3.53 (it 4,7.5 Mogs 3.0) @ 5.5<> Sh ep 4.00 ((ti 6. ,5 Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.01 1.03 Corn—No. 2 47k.& >B's Oats—Mixed Western 84 .36 Btwr. J’. -1 reamery, 20 .30 jl* -a—New Mess.. 11 00 (411.50

GIRLS DOWN IN DIXIE I ntly as Fropresalve anti Certainly as Handsome as Their Northern Sisters. There is a surprise in store for the Yankee girl. One of these line mornings she will wake up to find herself playing second fiddle to her Southern sister. Half a dozen years ago, when one of the most gifted magazine writers of the age went South to study the industries, wealth, and promise of that glorious section of country, he prophesied that the daughters of the : Southern States were destined to make a lasting impression upon the social, industrial, and literary life of America. The most rema-kable maids and । matrons of the age are in the United States of America and the most womanly women of the race are down in Dixie. They are not supeieducated, not advanced, not independent, a d not self-satisfied. They don’t swing Indian clubs nor toy with fifteenpound dumb-bells. They are not shrieking for the unattainable, and the stage, the roster and the polls are not in the line of their ambition. They are not looking for missions, they have no desire to become female bachelors, and the dissecting-room, the pulpit, and the bar are not favorite goals.

The sweetest thing about the Southern girl is her dependence. She can't even buy a railway ticket alone. It she has a call, an errand, or a journey to make, no matter how short the distance, she looks to a relative or to the men she meets to have her safety, comfort, and convenience, in mind, and instead of regarding their solicitude as a favor she takes it as her just desert. Her schooling is not of the routine order. She never did understand arithmetic or science, and doesn’t want to, either. Instead of being ! crammed with geography, mathe-I matical propositions, rhetoric, and | physics she has her heroes in history and poetry. She thoroughly understands the art of being agreeable, and whether she is on her toes hanging a mosquito netting, on her knees painting the front gallery, or down the

parlor playing the piano, she always looks pretty and pleasant. Her adaptability is admirable, her reverence beautiful, and her versa- | tility is something amazing. Not 1 only can she sew, cook, talk, trim i hats, make violets and roses grow, sing, and play the piano, but she can paint a placque, or the wood work in j the dining-room, hang wall paper. I gild the parlor sconces, blacken the, fender, and keep out of debt without Keeping an account book. To illustrate, one of the belles of New Or.cans, a raging beauty, was pointed out to me as ever competent j to make a ball dress or repaint and . paper her bed-room whenever she got tired of the one or the other. Ant other lady with a younger sister had just opened a winter hotel in l’ass Christian for the accommodation of ’ senii-frozen Northern guests. In ( former days the family used it as a country place, butthefather died, leaving a inN«w <'Heaps :.n.' u >■ t- ;

lousiness in town, and during the winter and summer months the daughters manage the little hotel on the gulf: a third earns her living as a stenographer ami typewriter;a fourth remains at home and keeps house, the little girls being still in school. At the I'ass these pretty young women ate known as the Crescent sisters by the residents, who hold them in the highest esteem. They have a stall of colored servants, with which as- stance twenty odd guests are cared lor in an easy, gracious ami delightfully deliberate way that neither a Yankee nor a Western woman could understand. A month ago the girls took imssession of the house. It was found that tile wood-work in the lower rooms and halls needed painting. It was ! impossible to get help from the city, j but something had to be done. The ] younger sister of the two had some knowledge of painting. While at school she did a few picture-. She | undertook the work, and going to New Orleans, spent a couple of days I in a paint shop where, for her ser- [ vices, the proprietor gave her what he called a few pointers. The task was not an easy one. The , paint made her ill, and for a few days she pursue,! her work with an open 1 vial of scent tied to her collar. However. she not only painted all the doors and window frames, loose boards and floor spaces, but put new paperin the dining-room, touched up the ! rear gallery and made the big hall i beautiful with Spanish moss, orange. 1 pine and palm for the familj’ Christ- i mas dinner. The Postoffice in Pass Christian is in charge of a woman. Mrs. MarySimpson. who, with her assistant. Belle Loury, lives in a little white cottage overlooking the gulf, in one room of wliich efficient and most courteous service is rendered Uncle Sam and the general public. New Orleans that Paris of America, is populated with bright, beautiful, able women, who arc designing, teaching, sketching, keeping shop, editing papers and writing books,music, songs and stories. One of this army conducts an undertaking business. personally looking after the general details, a specialist attending to the scientific part of the work. Unlike her Northern sister, the ; Louisiana woman takes her time. ! She doesn't wear out as soon. She i hasn’t any nerves, but a great many ; ideals to which she lovingly clings. She lias her own lazy, captivating ; way of doing things. Then she has - her little ways, and sh is sweet in a manner not generally understood by I the matter-of-fact Wisconsin girl ur j the frigidly formal Boston maiden.

It is also a fact that she has a. firmer, stronger hold on femininity than is common among the equally brave and equally earnest girls of other sections. This may be due to their early training, their associations, or the chivalry and devotion of the men folks, but it is there and it is a uclighL l e« I revent ■«! the Duel. “I heard Gen. Mosby tell a story' of a duel that came near being fought by Gen. Longstreet and Gen. A. P. : Hill during the the Virginia campaign, said Col. Edward Anger, a great admirer of Longstreet’s valor. | “Mosby says,” the Colonel remarked, ' “that the battle of Gaines’ Mill was I fought and won almost exclusively jby Longstreet’s Georgia soldiers. A I paper published in Richmond, called ' the Richmond Examiner, printed a j very extensive description ot the battle, but gave all the credit to Gen. i A. P. Hill, who was also in the tight. ; The paper gave the Georgia General ; and the Georgia soldiers no praise at ! all. Longstreet's adjutant called his ■ attention to it with a vehement pro- ! test. The men were all angered that after winning such a hard-fought : । battle they should be robbed of their । rightful claim of victory. Longstreet • ' ordered his adjutant to reply to it I officially in the same paper, which he

... vuv Vliuvtl 111 did. Gen. Hill wrote to fird out who it was who had stamped his account, of the battle as false, and Longstreet, somewhat provoked, wrote on the ' back of Hill’s letter that he himself did IL This, Witli the manner in which it was given, caused Hill to send a challenge to Longstreet, which Lee’s old war-horse was quick to accept. Everything was being arranged for the light when Gen. Lee heard of it and pushed in upon the scene and commanded Longstreet to desist or !he would send him from the army. Longstreet said he could not withI draw his acceptance of the challenge i until the challenge was withdrawn. |By interference the challenge was i withdrawn and the duel declared off. | According to Mosby’s account these j two gallant leaders came very near ■ shooting at e ch other.” —Washington Post.

The i iMConiflred Wile. The other evening, says the San . Francisco Examiner, a prominent I State official telephoned to his wife, I waiting dinner at home: “Will be detained down town, dearie. Don't i wait dinner for me. Will lye home as j soon as possible.” ’Dearie” didn't j fancy this desertion in the least. I She fretted and fumed, wiped away a | vagrant tear, and then determined upon revenge. Getting a large sheet of paper she made a placard of it and wrote in bold letters: “Dovey: Have j been called down town. Will return ।as soon as possible.” She pinned this to the cushion on the-bureau and posted off to her sister’s. There shei remained until she had just tune to . i catch the last car for home. All the evening she chuckled to herself and ‘ pictured her worried spouse nervously ( pacing up and down in their home I waiting her return, fearing, expectauL. W^eri ug .whgruj>he cpu^i^ ‘W^Tia^Worlittle I ■ ■ ■ VI in—£l3

. triniXMl into the house with a feeling .' of mingled triumph and revenge. She | rushed up-stairs to clinch her hold on i her husband for gold and all. Tear- ! ing into the family bedroom the fPst thing that met her eyes was a pacard on the pin-cushion: “Dovey; Have been called down town. Will return as soon as possilde.” The husband had not returned. ■•What.''’ exclaimed the friend to whom the neglected wife told the storv of her discomfiture. ‘-I'd have gone away, again, and I’d have stayed,, and staged, and STAYED!” • Hlllb lily. The necessity which teachers are under of being perfectly sure of their statements, or else of being not too positive in making them, was illustrated recently by an incident of i actual occurrence in a public high school. A puj 11 was reading, during a leeitation English literature, while : the luacher, with no look in bis. hands, ami wit!: folded arms, waked I up and down the recitation-room. ••Hypocrisy, says La Bouchefoncauld. is the homage which vice pays : to virtue," the pupil read. "That is very true,” said the teacher, "but don't say homage: say I ’omaae: the h is not sounded.” "Omage.’' said the pupil,obediently. "Read on. now.” "Sir,” said the pupil, “may I please tead the note at the foot of the 1 page?” — “You may do so.” The pupil read: “Homage: In , pronouncing this word, the h is frequently omitted by uneducated persons. It should always be sounded.” In some cases there is absolutely nothing to be said, and on this occasion the teacher said it. I'orfect Proportions. The height of a person with a “perfect figure” should be exactly equal lo the distance between the tips of the middle fingers of either hand when the arms are full extended. Ten times<he length of the hand, or seven and a half times the length of the foot, or five times the diame- ! ter of the chest from one arm pit to . tho other, should also give the hight ■ of the whole body. The distance from the junction of the thighs to the ground should be I exactly the same as from that point to the crown of the head. The knee should be perfectly midway between । the first-named point and the ground at the heel. • The distance from the elbow to the ' tip of the middle finger should be the i same as from the elbow to the middle lof tho l-vast—New York H >me Journal