Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 June 1897 — Page 3

CUBAN ON THE WAR.

|fwfe,4 ,'f $ VIEWS OF A SUGAR PLANTER AS EXZJ)7 PRESSED TO MR. CALHOUN.

fe b* Thinks" the Insurgents Are In Error and Prophesies That Spain Will Win. |.iK States That Those Who Never Worked $ Started the Insurrection. I,:5?t The landed proprietor in Cuba is the r®ij sugar planter. His estate i$ baronial in its extent and be himself baa some of the attributes of the old feudal barons of Europe.

He is not able to bavo his fiefs, but on his own demesne be exercises an independent sovereignty. He bas been the greatest sufferer by tbe war. When be tells you, ns bnptpens in some cases, that he is able to grind the cane, politeness forbids your asking how be comes to be so fortunate, with destruction all around him. Such a question would be an unpardonable breach ijj -of etiquette. You simply assume that he has influenoe enough to buy protection ,. from both $ides.

One of these planters, whose estate is 40 Mi miles from Havana, was desirous of meeting Mr. Calhoun, special commissioner of the United States in the Ruiz investigation. This was dene at a little breakfast, breakfast being the midday meal in Havana. He was a type of the successful business man in Latin-American countries, highly educated, traveled, of intellectual force and of a masterful character, which was stamped on his features and was shown in his manner. Ho believed in the continuation of Spanish rule in Cuba, nominally at least. He did not class himself- as an "autonomista," but that would probably be his designation in the shadowy distinction of political parties on tbe island. His wealth is in the soil, and whatever happens his future is here. His views area contribution to the Spanish side of the controversy which is worth recording.

This sugar planter has been to tbe United States 50 times. He understands English, but was not willing to trust himself to a foreign tongue in laying bis opinions before the representative of the United States. Secretary Fish back repeated them with accuracy and fullness, along with the questions which Mr. Calhoun asked. Over the oysters thiB sugar planter explained that his plantation consisted of 30 cabellerias, about 1,000 aores. He had built a ditch, or trochA, around it, and, though he sometiinos heard fighting, there had been no clash between the troops and the insurgents on his plantation.

The year before the insurrection, this planter said, the sugar crop was 1,100,000 tons. If there had been no disturbance by this time, it would have been 1,500,000 tons. Actually it was below 250,000 and the next year would not reach 150,000 tons. Then the insurrection had been a very bad thing for all olasses on the island? Immeasurably so. And to what causes did he think it due? The sugar planter shrugged his shoulders. He was grinding cane, and in these times he did not talk politics. But he would try to explain. "This cause of the insurrection," he said, "was discontent. It was not the discontent of the men who had been developing the island since the ten years' war. They were satisfied with the government. But the men who were without occupation during peace and quiet, beoame discontented and started the revolution. Tbey were the men who were never under their own roofs if they had roofs, never helping to develop the natural wealth of the island, never satisfied except in turmoil. They did not work themselves. They did not want others to work. So they forced war on us.''

A question was asked whether there had not been complaints of excessive taxation. The sugar planter replied: "Not by those who pay the taxes. I have very large interests, yet I have never found them excessive. If you want to buy house in New York or Chicago, you hoar the same complaint—taxes are high. Taxes always seem high. Here in Cuba it is not more so than in the States. In developing my estates taxation never interfered with me. It was no kindness for the insurgents to come in and tell me my taxes were too high. How did they know? They were not paying my taxes. I was satisfied, but they would not have it 80. I do not believe that 5 per cent of the population of Cuba is in sympathy with this revolution. Some of them have to appear so, yet there .is inuoh ignorance. Among some.of the people I myself pass for an insurgent. "It ought not to be called a revolution," continued the sugar planter with animation. "It stands for no principle. It has no policy becoming a gTeat cause. There is no concert of action among the insurgent leaders." "Would Gomez lay down his arms?" "Not Gomez, but all the other insurgent leaders in the field. Gomez will never quit. He hates Weyler too much. He holds Weyler responsible for the death of his son, who was with Maoeo. I say nothing against Gomez. He is a brave man, but he cannot keep up the insurrection himself when his support is withdrawn. The war will end anyhow within a year. I am sure Spain will succeed in destroying the insurgents within that time. Pinar del Rio is already pacified. But we all wi,gh it could end at once. Everybody suilers."

Mr. Calhoun wanted the sugar planter's opinion on the relation of Cuba to the United States. He answered: "As a property owner it would be for my interest to have annexation. That would mean security, progress, development. But I realize that is impossible. Yours area different people. It is partly a race question, and you could never assimilate with the people of these tropics. In this climate ii is necessary to renew the stock every third generation. The immigration must come from a kindred people in raoe, language and habits. Spain supplies it. If the insurrection were to succeed and Cuba become independent, you would have these adjoining republics of Santo Domingo and Haiti over again. How much trade do they develop with the United States? With all their natural richness they are stationary. They 6how themselves unfit for government. "My idea," said the sugar planter kindling with enthusiasm, "is that the political future of Cuba is under Spain, its commercial fature is with the United States. After Mr. Blaine gave us reciprocity the ships from Europe began coming into our. ports light laden and going out empty. If we could have peace and tranquillity on this island for a few years, many more thrifty people would come here to settle. They would buy from the United States. We would help supply you with sugar, tobacco, coffee and our fruits. In return we would take from you flour, machinery and very many products of your factories. You know that under the reforms Cuba could negotiate its own reciprocity treaty with the United States.

Ppain could not stand in the way."—-Cor. Washington Star.

A LESSON IN POLITENESS.

ft Was Taajht by a Toting Woman to a Dandy In a Car. This oar on a Sixth avenue "L" train, bound up town, was crowded. The vast majority of the passengers were women who carried bundles. Plainly they had been shopping and were returning home. Mosa of them wore tbe weary but satisfied expression of one who had bought- something she didn't need far til.98, reduced from II3. Several men were hanging by the oar straps.

The only man seated in tho car was a gorgeous yoang person, whose patent jeatbershqes wero^afl shiny as bis tall hat.

be held np for admiration by stroking bis downy upper lip. By the exquisite sat a messenger boy, deeply interested in some tale of piracy or Indian fighting.

More-women got on the oar at Twentythird street. Olio was gray haired. Her arms were full of bundles, and she had evidently been roughly handled In 6ome rush at a bargain counter. This old lady stood directly in front of the young man with tbe loud olothes and the diamonds, swaying with the motion of the oar. All the other women near fixed a stony glare on tbe young man whfch said as plain as words, "Why don't you get up, you brute, and give that poor, tired woman a seat?"

The brute put his hand in his trousers pocket and pulled out a 5 cent piece. "Here," be said, nudging the messenger boy, "take this. I'll pay your fare. Give this lady your seat." "Sir," exclaimed, the gray hail'ed woman, her dull eyei lighting up with anger. "Sir,'you are impertinent!"

Instantly a young woman jumped up and said, "Madam, take this seat, I beg of you," and, gently insisting, forced the old lady to be seated. Then, and not until then, the brute got on his feet. Taking off hie hat, he eai(% "Pray take this seat, miss."

The young woman said not a word, but, throwing back her head, gave him a look tjiat would pierce a sensitive man like a dagger. The train Arrived at Twentyeighth street, and tbe young man got off. "I don't believe he had intended to get off at that station," exclaimed a woman to her companion. "Oh, Idol" answered the other. "Nothing could shame him. That man would not give a seat to his grandmother J"-»-New York World.

THE PLANETS.

Cartons Ideas Concerning the Beings Who Blay Possibly Uve on Them. It is common to hear people speak of the possibility of the planets being inhabited, and the disousaio# of the question often brings out some enrious ideas concerning tbe supposed planetary beings. The majority of people never imagine that it is possible that the great worlds which we know only as shining points of light can be peopled by others than creatures resembling the highest type of animal life on this globe.

Such pewens, although they may be able to tell you the exact weight of the earth in tons, pounds and ounces, the minimum and maximum temperature of the surface of the sun at different seasons and tho exaot day upon whloh the moon becomes an arid waste, never stop to think what would be the effect on stature of persons living in such gigantic worlds as some of the stars are known to bo.

The dark planet which accompanies the giant star Algol is known to be more than 1,000,000 times larger than this earth, but its density is so light that it is only about 50,000 times heavier than our globe. You are now thinking that tho inhabitants of this monster planet must be at least 5,000,000 feet in height (if they are constructed on such a plan as the world upon which they reside), but suoh is probably not the case. The density of the planet would have a great deal to do when it came to a question of size and weight.

Figuring with density and size both as a basis, Vogel oame to the conclusion that the average man on Algol's companion world would bo 24% feet in height and weigh between 700 and 800 pounds. Arnold and Metterich both figured from the same data, adding that of tho intensity of gravity, and gave a string of "correoted calculations" in proof of the assertion that a man on tihat planet oould never grow to exceed 15 inches in height, but would spread out over a quarter of an acre of ground!—St. Louis Republio.

Grf\cos Versus Fates,

In the "Life of General Sir Edward Bruce Hamley" we are told that the name of the general is embalmed in tho verse of the late laureate in the lines preparatory to'' Tho Charge of the Light Brigade.'' In referenoe to this may bo quoted Hamley's account of his visit to Lord Tennyson: "I once went from London to spend a day memorable to me with Tennyson at Aidworth. We spent some time In his study discussing the incidents of the charge of the Light brigade, his verses on which he was revising. In the afternoon I accompanied him in a walk about his grounds and woods, and it was not until evening was closing in and all were assembled indoors that I rose to take leave. My host then invited me to stay the night, offering to make good all deficiencies of my toilet. Much pleased &t the invitation, I was also vexed, for I had an engagement in London. On my saying so, he re-enforced his invitation by saying, 'Thera are three ladies who wish it,' meaning my hostess and two friends on a visit. I replied sorrowfully that tbero were three others who opposed it. 'Who are tbey?' 'The Fates.' He rejoined at once, 'The Fates maybe on one side, but the 'Graces are on the oth-

A Problem Not to Be Solved. This is the strange problem presented at the Hotel de Villa in Paris for solution to tho poor girls who took part iir, the last scholastic examination for what is oalled the brevet superieuu: "A square tank, 80 centimeters deep, is supplied with water from two taps, of which one yields 27 liters a minute more than the othor. If the two taps were turned on at once, thr wojLild fill tbt tank in two hours. Th. tank could also be filled by letting the larger tap run alone for 1H hours, and then the seoenfl tap alone for \]4 hours. What is the capaoity of the tank? How wide is it? How long would it take for each tap alone to fill it?" After the candidates bad puzzled their headBOVer It and failed to find a solution of the problem the examiner bad to admit that there was no possible solution. The candidates have been graciously informed that their failuro will rot be allowed to weigh against them. —•London Ntws.

Chinese Tactics.

The Chinese soldiers accepted their fate from the outset, after their first decisive experience. Reslsfcanoe to tho enemy nuver really entered their minds, their sole preoccupation being to make room for the enemy as he advanced, while keeping up some form of fighting. This relation between the two armies became so well understood before the close of the war that the Japanese commanders were wont to send word to the Chinese tbat they would attack such a point at such a time, when tho Chinese general would place his main body in a neutral position, leaving a small detachment to fire off some cartridges for the honor of tbe flag, and retire.

This incrcdible procedure is quite in keeping with Chinese military traditions. The campaign against the ffaeplng rebels was conducted audi on the pro forma system till toward the end. An imperial officer on one occasion, speaking to a foreigner, summed up his own justification in the neat axiom that two people could not occupy the same place at the same time. "If they come, I must go."—Blackwood's Magazine. _— .C-rv

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Art.

Mistress—Well, Mary, what did you thiuk of the pictures at the academy? Mary—Ob, mum. fchere was a picture there callcd "Two Dogs After Lanctsoet," aud 1 looked at it for nearly half an hour, but couldn't see no Landseer.—Strand Magnzlnu.

Whatsoever tbat bo within us that feels, thinks, desires and animates is something oclestial, dirtne, aadi00B^uenti^iinp»-

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TERRE HAUTE EXCESS, FRIDAY, MORNING. .rUV? IH l««7.

ADAY WITH SHERMAN

WONDERFUL ENERGY OF THE VENERABLE SECRETARY OF STATE.

He Puts In Long Honrs jtt His Desk: Every Day—A Voracious Header of Novels. How He Treats Callers—His Old Time

Conrtesy.

In these days of frequent international controversies one of the most oonspicuous of American officials is the venerable John Sherman. "X ,v

This is tbe first time Mr. Sherman .has been secretary of state, although it is not the first time he has been a cabinet officer, and as the premier of the American executive's privy council he bas an interesting fashion of passing bis days.

Briefly, he works at his desk froin 9 o'clock in the morning until 4 o'clock in the afternoon then be goes home and reads novels. He is an omnivorous consumer of novels of all degrees of merit, of all colors of binding—yellow preferred. He says they rest bis mind. He considers that at the age of 74 be bas earned a rest from the heavy literature of finance, of eoenomics, of statesmanship, and Mr. Babcock, bis seoretary, says that he follows the woes of the latter day heroine, tbe truly good stiltings of the modern hero, and the sulphurous ejaculations of the fin de siecle villain with a really remarkable interest, even if he does smile a good deal through his spectacles over what he reads. But all this happens after 4 o'clock in th? afternoon, when Mr. Sherman is Mr. Sljp'man, and not the secretary of state, and it is with his manner of putting in his time as secretary of state that this article is concerned.

When Mr. Sherman became the secretary of the treasury, a matter of 20 odd years ago, he was confronted by one of the most herculean tasks that ever loomed up bofore an American statesman—the resumption of specie payments—and Mr. Sherman worked away at that job, and accomplished it, from 9 o'clock in the morning until 4 o'clock in the afternoon. "I first beoame connected with Mr. Sherman at tbat time," said Mr. Babcock, his secretary, "and I never knew him to work longer than the office hours of his clerks. Yet he contrived to refund $700,000,000 of the national debt. The thing was, he knew how to work. Mr. Folger permitted the secretaryship of the treasury to kill him probably Mr. Manning did also. Neither of these gentlemen was generous to himself. A whole generation of political experience taught Mr. Sherman that lesson before he assumed the reins of the treasury, and, accomplishing more work in tbat capaoity than did Hamilton, he emerged from the ordeal with his health and strength. The secret of it? He trusted his assistant secretaries he allowed his subordinates to do the work they were appointed to do. "As was hia rule when secretary of the treasury so is Mr. Sherman's rule as seoretary of state. When he came here, he found, as he expected he would, that tb,e state department was filled with men who had been here along time, and who had every detail of tbe department's routine at their fingers' ends. Mr. Sherman perfectly appreciates the fact that these men know more about the practical workings of their respective branches of the department than he himself could hope to aoquire in a period of service here twice as long as that for which he was appointed, and he is a strong believer In the value of routine. So he lets them go ahead, keeping an eye on their work, but in no wise interfering with it without good occasion. And I guess this is the reason that be has all the hair he had when he was 20 years old.

Whenever any document reaohes Mr. ShermaB's desk that does not absolutely require his personal attention he sends immediately for the official to whose branch of the department the dooument properly belongs and turns it over to him with a few succinct instructions. He does not lay it aside for future consideration, and thereby accumulate a monumental pile of papers filled with possibilities of grief and labor to come. It is really quite entertaining to see MT. Sherman cut open an official letter as it reaches him hot from the mail, glance it over and grasp it within the compass of 60 seconds, and then either send for the proper official or else shoot it out by messenger to tbe place it belongs. The result is that Mr. Sherman at his desk does in no wise resemble a country editor buried up to bis ears in hopelessly entangled exchanges.

The American citlzon toves his country's consular system to an extent that makes him quite willing to become a part of it. Seemingly he has never before in his bis-' tory'of the government regarded it with so much positive veneration as he has since the present administration began. The tens of thousands—literally—of applications on file at the state department for consulships amply illustrate this fact. An analysis of the applications elearly, shows that Americans area dreamy, poetic race, a nation of would be lotus eaters, for about three-fourths of those who have placed thair applications on file for consulships want to be governmental^ wafted to lands where 'tis always afternoon, on JSgean isles fen the blue Mediterranean or on the mainland adjacent thereto to magnolia scented Japan, in Yokohama, or Kobe, or Nagasaki, or Hakodate, where the white resident perennially wears a white duck suit and a pith helmet and sips saki through tho long rosy day to any land where nature is reposeful and lovely—and the emoluments good. Multitudincmsly these applications pour in every day. But they do not pour through Mr. Sherman's office, else ho would never know what the inside of a novel looked like. It is a separate branch of 6tate department business, this reception of applications for consular jobs. That it Ls a very big branch goes without saying. But, although it is impossible for Mr. Sherman to scan the papers of the applicants for consulships, be can't get around the task of seeing the applicants themselves when they como to Washington for that purpose, which they do in very largo numbers.

The secretary of state sees them all. Mr. Sherman picked up the mwjner that distinguishes him a matter oPKfty odd years ago, and it is a pretty fin8 manner, so that the men who visit him to ask for consulships have a fair show to study how their grandfathers used to receive visitors. But Mr. Sherman bas never been a spectacular success as a promiser out of hand, and he is not thnt today. He^ wiH see that 'the papers receive careful consideration he will have tbe applicants' claims and qualifications thoroughly inquired into before any appointment to &uch and such a post is made, and when Mr. Sherman gently pulls bis speotaoles down from his forehead—where he has pushed them the better to see his visitor—to his nose and slowly wheels around so that he is facing bis desk, the visitor, if be be a man of tact, makes his adieus. Otherwise, his conversation is continued with Private Secretary Babcock—very briefly.—Washington Star.

MECHANICAL LEGS.

Artificial Llmte So Natural Nowadays That Yh*y IMr Close Scrutiny. The degree of progress shown by the artificial limbs- new oonstxaotad is astonishing. Time was when the man who lost a leg carried tha adTatttrament of Ms calamity continually about with Mm in the shape of a crutob pr staff or peg. Now that La all (tone away, and tbs cripple moves, undiscovered, among his fellows.

Many walk the streets with two artificial logs, and tho }aofc of their nafereal instruments of notion is not detected by the ordinary observer. whHe those who have but onearkiQoiaJ Jeg often defy close scz uanch: JDMrilg the

maimed must purchase the most approved devices and must devote somo care to tbe cultivation of the "knack" of swinging the oontrivanoe, Hot these pains in the end area triumph, though caution must be used not to put the best leg

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too prominently. A universal motion at the artfclo joint has been introduced, with good results, for the peculiar comprehensiveness of the natural movement of the ankle has always offered tremendous difficulties to the maker. For a long time one joint was used at the ankle, but a second ls now used, and the result is most satisfactory. By tbe use of springs and cords at tho knoe also it is possible for the wearer, of an artificial leg to sit without the annoyance of a protruding leg, whioii has always been a cause of difficulty.

The mechanical skill shown in the manufacture of hands and arms is no less ingenious, for they are so well constructed as to be for use as well as for ornament. One maker seems to regard tbe latter as the primary attraction, however, for ho says, "I make them so that the hand can be detaohed, and a hook, ring or any instrument suitable to the wearer.'s business can be attached, and tbe hand oan be kept neat and clean for dress purposes."

The arms now made can be moved forward or back, while the fingers of the hand are made so that they oan be opened or shut. By suoh adjustments the wearer is enabled to perform many feats which one would suppose to be impossible for the maimed. By one movement of the arm the fingers are made to open, while by another they are made to close, in whioh position they are retained firmly by a spring, giving a firm clasp.

A violinist who lost his right arm was fitted so skillfully that he was enabled to play again with something of his former ability, and one man, well known in New York, bas two artificial legs, yet he attends balls, and is by no means a "wallflower," though he shuns the round dances. There are machine legged cripples who gkafco on roller skates, and there are men wi£h artificial arms and hands who play a good gamo of billiards.—New York Herald, gv-

'v. The English Officer as He Is. The moss dinner, no longer a gorge sometimes accompanied with intemperance, has been Curtailed into a well cooked, gracefully served meal, at tho conclusion of which the wine is passed round once or twice, and then five out of six of the diners betake themselves to the smoking. Neither is the evening capped with the rowdyism of .practical, joking, the wit of which consisted in stupid outrage, and the results in quarrels which many a time cost those concerned their commissions.

A bumptious young officer is snubbed and wheeled Into line until he has been reduced to a due diffidence of self, and this remedy has been found far preferable either to deluging an offender's bedclothes with slops or to thrusting his dress uniform up the chimney. By the bye, the word "uniform" reminds us of a transformation as complete as that in a pantomime. In lieu of bead dresses as topheavy as a milkpail, of packs as killing as those under which we may still see Frenoh conscripts staggering, and of coats tightened by belts and buckles to a tension approximating to splitting, we have adopted a light kit and loose clothing specially favorable to work, comfort and economy, and thero seems little justification for the assertion of the late Sir George Brown that in abolishing the wonderful old dog collar stock we had ruined the morale of the British army.— Blaokwood's Magazine.

Petroleum.

A peculiar fact in respect to petroleum is the difference of conditions under which that oil occurs in Russia and America. In the former it is found in strata of the tertiary period, usually a formation resembling a quicksand and at depths of only a few hundred feet. In our own oountry it occurs at great depths in the older compact sandstones and limestones of the carboniferous, devonian and silurian periods. The oil of Russia consists of a class of hydrocarbons known as naphthenes, belonging to the benzine groups, while our American oil is mainly composed of paraffins. It is to this difference that the great variation between the products from these oils is due, for, while American oil yields a very Iprge' proportion, say, about 70 per cent, of illuminating oil exactly suited for combustion in our ordinary lamps, the Russian oil produoes far less of suoh oil and a larger proportion of high class lubricating oil. The Russian illuminating oil also require* to be burned in a modified form of lamp, with a more perfect draft, in order to overcome its tendency to produce a smoky flame, and it is largely this fact which has prevented the consumption of Russian oil.for light abroad.—New York Sun.

A Story on Alfrecl Do life.

A gossiper in the Fort Plain (N. Y.) Standard tells the following story on that enterprising citizen, Alfred Dolge of Dolgeville, N. Y.: "Most of iny-readers," he says, "are aware that Mr. Dolge is we&lthy and that nearly all the mills and a groat deal of real estate in the village named for him are owned by him. Of aourse, like every other place, Dolgeville has a person or two jealous of everything and everybody, and particularly of their townsmen-who have prospered and grown rich. One of these green eyed fellows held espeoial animosity against Mr. Dolge and all of bis undertakings, and when the new school building was erected iniihat village ho was profuse with sneers and bitter commonts. But when a stone bearing the following was placed very conspicuously in the structure the climax was capped, and the jealous fellow's rage was unbounded: 'Erected 18—, A. D.' 'Well, I'll bo blankety. blanked,' said the kioker as be observed the inscription for the first time, 'it's Dolge, Dolge, Dolge here, and now they've even put his name on the public's achoolhouselJ

Won by a Trick.

A sporting gentleman, who had the reputation of being a very bad shot, invited some of bis frienjls to dlna with him.

Befoze dtoner he showed them a target painted on a barndoor, with»Imllet- right in the bnllseye.

This he claimed to h&vs shot at 1,00) yards' distance. As nobody believed him be offered to bet the price of an oyster supper on it. On one of hia guests accepting.tbe wagej.he produced two witnesses tfwse veracity could not be doubted to prove bis assertion.

Since fboy both stated* that he hadidone wbal he claimed*be won hia bet. luring dinner tbeloser,of tho wager1Inquired how the host had' managed to

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soob an excellent shot. The host answered: "yell, I shot the bullet at tbe door at a distance of 1,000(yards, and then I painted tbe target round it."—Pearson'a Weekly.

Pozzl*d.

"'Wlxen a man," said the philosopher, "when a mat. who is alway&telklng about his happy home is observed^ to laugh appreciative^ when he-hears^a father-in-law joke, then, I asTi, what

think?"—Indianapolis Journal.

fe'-Did tbe Right Thin* After All. "I am ashamed of you, mwdoar, laughing at those risque retozfes'of Mrs. Do French. You woold^b^fieriiaiTO'blushed." "But, mamma, ifc-t-bnkiftblashed, itij would have shown I understood them.

The-word idea formerly meant a ooxnpleted performance, whether mental e? physical.

Eighteen American women bear, by otprtnoese.

THE PARIS SUNDAY.

A DAY OF REST OR RECREATION FO*l NEARLY ALL THE PEOPLE.

The Well to Do .Stay at Home, bat tfca Slasses Are Gay and P»iOw—IBiipeeial Arrangements For Their BstwtsliiiBMil

and Pleasure.

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If the day be fine—a bright sun in winter and cool breeaes in summer—Paris presents th^ most beautiful exterior of any capital in the world. There are smooth paved roadways, full of cheap oabs, and neatly laid sidewalks, free from thoso treacherous unevennesses, tbe bane of the pedestrian in American cities, and, to cap all, these Paris streets are perhaps even a little cleanor than the Manhattan thoroughfares since Colonel Waring took up his good work. Then there are well trimmed lawnB in the many public gardens, numerous flower beds blooming in ovary season, graceful fountains ever playing, innumerable statues and groups of sculpture by past masters In the plastio art, comfortable benches scattered along miles of avenues and scores of more comfortable ohnirs under the trees of the broader streets and squares, countless restaurants and cafes, with their immaculate tables invitingly installed on tbe broad sidewalks, and, lastly, the famous boulevards—the boulevards, from the Madeleine to the Montmartre—the like of whioh, for an indesoribable something, are to bo found neither in London nor In any American oity, overflowing, especially on Sunday, with good natured crowds of men, women and children in gala dress.

But a description of the attractions of Paris on Sunday would bo quite inooniplote without some mention of the charms and entertainments in its immediate vicinity. Here belong the horse raoes, offored in great variety nearly all tho year around, at Longchamp and other suburban tracks the Seine boats, bearing their happy human freight to the Vinconnes wood in one direotion and to tbe superb alleys of St. Cloud in the other the neighboring town of Sceaux, with its garden dedicated to Robinson Crusoe and Friday and its dining tables perched in the easily accessible branches of towering ohosfenut trees St. Denis, with its tombs, and Versailles, with its picture galleries, and still farther away, but one of the favorite Meocas of the more well to do Parisian Sunday sightseors, Fontalnebloau, with its historic apartments and its grand forest.

Suoh are some of tho more Inviting aspects of external and exterior PaTis on a propitious Sunday. Now a word about a few of the internal, the within doors allurements of this same oaptivating city.

The magnificent Louvre, with its Immense collections of paintings, sculpture, antiquities, ethnological and naval museums, is thrown wide open on Sunday, year in and year out, to the delighted crowds who throng its galleries from morning till night. The samo thing is true of the fine military museums at the Hotel des Invalides, of the Trocadero ethnological and architectural collections, of the Guimot exhibition of oriental religions, of the modern painting and sculpture at the Luxembourg, of theCanavalet museum so rioli in souvenirs of the history of Paris, and true also of a half dozen or more other musoums, collections and exhibitions of greater or less importance. It is on Monday that these publio resorts are closed for the weekly cleaning and sweeping, not on Sunday, when all the population is free and can visit them.

The two state theaters—the Francais and the Odeon—and the Opera House are not only open throughout the year, winter and summer, |mt never dream of closing their doors on the Sabbath. In fact, on that day the Francais and the Odeon, and, as a rule, all the Paris playhouses offer two performances, afternoon and evening, when the programmes are made as popular as possible and the prices of admission reduced. In a word, the managers seem to vie with one another in an effort to entertain the public, a striking instance of the demqcratic spirit whioh pervades the Paris Sunday.

Furthermore, the best musloal concerts occur on this same day, and it is on Sunday, too, that the military bands perform in the parks. When the great annual picture exhibitions are in progress, the price of admission' is reduced, as in the case of the theaters on Sunday, and at the old salon no charge whatsoever is made in the morning, when one may see lines of people, four or five deep and a block leng, filing in through the gates in order to feast their eyes on the best work of the laading artists of the world.

Now, how do the people of Paris use these privileges of a French Sunday*. In answering this question we may separate the population into two grand divisions. The leisure class, that have amused themselves during the week, generally remain at home on Sunday, for If they go out tboy complain of finding the streets too crowded, the oabs taken and the theaters full. Speaking generally, it is tbe masses who take possession of Paris on Sunday, and they evidently gctso much enjoyment out of it and must be so much benefited by tho fflsthctio surroundings that even a Puritan would have to admit thnt some good fbing can ooine out of Nazareth.

Tho big stores and most of the small ones do no business on this first day of the week, so that tho' army of clerks is free. Many of the great public administrations, suoh as the post and telegraph offices, close early Sunday afternoon and add a large contingentfxt those bent on rest and innocent amusements. The mechanics and vast majority of the day laborers, the shopgirls and home servants, the university students, probably from 15,000 to 30,000 in number tbe cadets from the various government schools, in jaunty uniforms, and the multitude of school obildron, all, in their way, give vivacity and variety to the joyous scene.

M. Leon Say and several other philanthropists have founded an -organization whoso aim is to secure-the cessation of all labor on Sunday, and they are meeting with oomMarable success. The number of the "Sunday unemployed" is consequently ever on tbe increase in Paris, so that a Parisian Sunday is continually growing in popularity and universality.— Paris Cor. New York Independent.

ENGLISH SPEAKING MEN.

The United States a Grsat Factor In Their Augmentation. The foreign born population in tho United States is very numerous, and in some of the cities forms a numerical mar jority, but the legal rights and tbe remedies are almos* entirely American in principle and form of expression. The constitution of the United States contains tho principle of Magna Charta and of every subsequent declaration of political and religious liberty in tbe mother oountry. Out of this condition it would seem natural that what are commonly styled "An-glo-Saxon ideas and'feelings would bo inore apt to.predominate in the United States than those having any other racial origin."

This subject alone needs, howfcver/ Ti much more comprehensive statement and careful-deduction than I aan ibis at this time to present, and lean only egpvess tbe hope that the principle of cfvH and religious liberty whloh tends to keep each individual bee and protect "him against tyranny may long bold good among-all Englishspeaking people, no natter where they may find their homes».And that no International jealousy or mutual disparagement may be-allewed to weaken»4e&ntdly and co-operative support.

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HT JSTT drato** the^SStod States, and the wore non-Kngliah people ooine Into the country tbe men wlfi the dominating English speakers themselves bound to make oomioson eaose with those who speak tbe English iai side the political and geographies! aries of the great republio across the Atlantic. The spread of English, peshaps should say British, ideas is farther winced by tbe increasing demand for works of literature produced by living writera of tho parent English stook. I masdky instanoo this as a further irrefragable proof that the fasion of raoes working on the American continent is pour lag fortfc English thinking and English speaking men who bear foreign names.—Sir Asfcley Cooper ia Nineteenth Century.

H4«r CrswAmPi Wteowiy Xhte

For instance, a well known writer picked up in a twopenny barrow at different times the only two known copies of a Shelley pamphlet. The pamphlet was unsigned, and perhaps not another man in the kingdom would have identified the book, so that the purchaser almost created tho value of what be purchased. In horse dealing caveat emptor is taken in its widest sense, yet even in buying horses cases may arise where the buyer should not take too gcod care of himself. No doubt in suoh bargains as well as in connoisseur purchases one has to take into aocount all the times one is "done," and the professional horse coper or bric-a-brao dealer makes it his trade to sell, not at a fixed price, bnt at the largest possible profit, 60 that the tables may fairly be tuinedon-him.-—Lon-don Spectator.

His Wedding Fee.

The pastor of a prominent churoh in a oily of New York was discussing with one of his country parishioners the subject of ministerial salaries. The parisbloner insisted that his pastor must be laying aside a great portion of his salary—which, by tbe way, was not large, as city salaries go —and when tbe minister attempted-to explain that there were many demands for money on a man in his position the farmer Intimated that the wedding fees for a year would amount to a tidy sum. Unable to disabuse the farmer's mind? of this impression, the minister asked him what he would give for the first fourmairlage fees.

The farmer repjied, "I will give you tbe best cow on my plaee." It was a year when cows were worth" twe or three times the price they have been bringing this season. "It is a bargain," said tbe minister.

In a few weeks tha, flrstr wedding party arrived. As soon as they-ware gone the minister drove out to see his parishioner. "I have come to pay the float installment on the price-of tbat cow." Wre preacher went qpt to his carriage, returned-with a covered basket, and, openjng it, disclosed two small puppies.—New Yort^Jfeeaa.

Compensation.

One of the things tbat irritate me," said Mr. Gttmmeey, "is to have the man whom I sit down next to in a street ear persist in sitting slewed round sorthat he takes up more room-than belongs to him and deprives me of 6ome that belongs to me. One of the things that rejpioe me is the expression on the face of' tbe~man who has been occupying three-fifths*or a cross seat on tta elevaSpd, and who looks up,j but fails to mave' VIisn someboqy comes along looking for a seat, when"1 tbe big man sits down beside hhn, and,'calmly, irresistibly and conclusively, cmwd3 Mm. over to where he- batongs."—-lieWfYork-Su.n.• ...

May Have Been a Volcano. The theory i*.now advanced that AAout-' ney mountain at Windsor, Coaa., was onoe a volcano. Becact analpse«6f the green granite from-the mouatitfn' chow'fliat it is cot really^fitttafte, as li£ocs*lain«" no mica, but a dlfifBrent^adnereS, thaMba scone Is more n&anlor ttuur granite. It is »ld to be absolutelyilmpeiisbable, as iff oonta4»s 'none of Hbe natural elements! wbich ««n» atone to' decay. Thaafcone ha* at some^flme been subjected^to intense heat, which-has driven out all the metals and made ifr reiMwrfrflihfr-oospflaok—ffhilay Mffhiatfkiedger.i

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"It's queer, isn't it, bow pickerel always travel in pairs?" said Major Crawford of Campbell HalL "Why, do they, major?" Inquired the Hon. Charles T. Donning, interested at onoe. "Do they?" replies the majaB. "Why, certainly they do! I discovered the foot, I think, and in a very curions way. I never go pickerel fishing in the Waltkill without taking my rifle along withme In tbe boat, for duoks are liable to come flying over about this time of year, mallards principally, and there isn't anything much better to follow piokerel at dinner than mallard duok. My rifle always fitted with a hair trigger, so there will beao delay in its going when I pull, I inwwiably place between, my knees as-JRfll^MprtjIaw, so as to have it handy. "Ono day I was outow|)tf» xtear this way, trolling for piokerel and ready for ducks. I got .a Wg strike on tho troll, hooked it and hauled in. Just as I had the piokerel almost to the boat I spied a lot of mallards ooming up the river. I kept cool, landed tbe pickerel all right, and dropped the troll out so as not to lose time. Just then tho duoks came in nice range. I fired. Ducks began to tumhle. Chug came another strike on my line. hooked it, and landed a second piokerel before the last duok hod fallen. I oouldn't have done that, don't you seo, If it wasn't a fact that pickerel travel in pairs, and that's tho way I discovered tbe interesting fact," concluded the major. "I see," said Mr. Dunning, Jtfiowmany ducks did you kill, major?"

Six,'' was the reply. There was an impressive-' silence for awhile. Wood Pitts of the Sit Elms-hroko it by asking: "Did they all fall in the boat, major?"

Mr. Dunning reproved Wood Pitts fo? asking suoh a disturbing question, but tbe major didn't deign to notice ^it^—Goshei (N. Y.) Cor. New York Sun. "..'MSnylng and Selling.

Connoisseurship is beset with temptations, and it is hard to lay down rules. It is clearly fair to buy a young man's work at its market value, say a Rossetti in the pre-Raphaellte days, for £50 or £100, but to purchase below the known value, say, a Shakespeare quarto from an ignoramus for a crown is trading beyond reason on another's ignorance. The same considerations apply as in betting. In fair betting a man buys a chance, but when the chance you sell is no chance at all, and you know it, you are swindling. Betting ethics, which are vague, forbid betting on a certainty, but really the morality of the matter is that a man should get his money's worth in the way of a chance. Still if it is not fair to trade on another's ignorance one may profit in reason by one's own knowledge.

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to someoeaotzles. "Wwy at* sprta^upon a Slice of Tbrqad' an4: fcbtfcer.^awi .'sauces considered* exwifianfctiB'e* mad*wi*b tttjp.j They*are esteemed 4* a .costly food In Slain, within tbe jssaob only}a0pw«ll:to do people. The* am.tha.sfcjeelfar sraixyortant trad»in*scane'oonatsfa «f neeAern Borons, whese thsy11ore wofefgrt tnrtolHjigi -watsr *ui6 yteUT a kiatf of vinegar or femfta-aoid:—Popular Seiaasailfissttkiy.

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