Bloomington Courier, Volume 9, Number 43, Bloomington, Monroe County, 25 August 1883 — Page 3

tfpHE returns of the censnis taken on Jan. 1, 'S3, which have just been publish ed, show that the empire of Japan contained a population of 36J01,10O, made up of 18,598998 males and 18,101,1 12 fe mt.les. & ccordin to the official - census taken ic 1875 fl e porniatkn wbbS3794897, of which 167&,63 were males and 16,061,199 were reraales. The increase in population in eight vearss nearly; 4000,-

largest estimate of the acreage of 1883

prices it 10 per cent below that of 1882.

Ywstersi of museums and proprietors of

side shows are on a strike. They 4iave

formed a combination against skeletons, fat women, giants, two-headed women

and other living cnrioaities and refuse to

- longer submit to their extortionate de-

mauds in legard o- salaries. The showmen think the curioeitifes have been makim: toe much nrcftfey. It is too early for

tho results to be fearWeti, but the chances

are that (fenbleheaded woman's

hedSfcreVshe wfll liold her own,

wlateier fee test may do.

It appear tnaV oVer forty thousand "mi tee of railroad have been bnilt in the Tfriited States since and including 1879. "Tlas is -about onertnird the entire mileage of the country. Last year alone the amount rais- d to bnild these roads was wer $7(,000,003. The main trouble with Hto situation is that while all the -mate trials of railroad construction have been de easing in value, the cost of te conduction of these roads has been largely increasing. This will pcconnt for a large po rtion of the preseat business depression. Another important factor in the eat nation is that-the net earn Tigs" on the railroad inyesfinents. generally have been

if' :

'Ehe Ntw York Financial Chronicle, as fthe results of a computation based upon itnepast growth of the country,.TOakes the annual increase of onr population to be 3 ,9351,815, or ahout a86 per cent. If these figures are5 approximately correct, the .population of the United States is now .f56,000000;while the year 1900 wil' see the ! republic contain more than 100000,000 ? persons. In this connection we may add Ttbe immigration for the last two' years Jibs bsenfoi 1883, 788902; and for 1882W04u 31ie falMr.g off m the arrivals last year was sufficient to populate the st8.te of Demware-with 40,000 to spare. It was throe times as large as the populaiicn of Nevada, and 15,0Qp greater than that of Oregon. r ! : t

ir is said that one gang of workmen on tiia Union Pacific railway ie composed of Winnebago Indians, and that in some respacte they are superior as workmen to those of any other nationality. This discovery should be- utilized at once, and the Indian, question will be solved; If the noble red men can work on a railway, he can work on a farm. He should therefore be given a ajp and compelled to support; himself m the same laborious w ay that a white man dees. The present policy of sitting aside more than a square mile of arable land fbr the support of every Indian, big and little, "is indefensible. It is a monstrous idea that the lazy, tpttd-for-nothing Indian should receive batter treatment at the hands of the govRrnment than do the veteran soldiers who saved it.- Give the Indian a quarter section of land and a hre, and compel him to support himself. The people are tired pi squandering hard-earned- money on . him. Indianapolis Journal

DThe aristocratic classes of England find . ready market for their old furniture, 'their surplus jewels and their historical Relics. The Duke of Hamilton has recently sold his furniture fete heirs of-the -31uke of Marlborough his books and jewels, and even the Duke of i Norfolk,.

millionaire though he be, his household

t reasures. The Duke of Teck has eontributeda select1 assortment of furniture - and ornaments to the fashionable auction 3toms at the West End4 of Ixr?don, the precious associations of genuine royalty being enumerated in details in the cata- : logttes. The Maharajah of Xahore,Prinee ;Dhuleep Singh, who has resided at Etvedon Hall for many years and being the god son of the Queen, has always been received with distinguished honor at Oouri is following the fashion of the time and selling out his plate andje wela The pmte belonging to the Black Prince, a he is familiarly known in Suffolk, is tme of the richest displays of Oriental luxury ever sei in the auction room. It -is sold because he wants to travel in tu- ' yiiand wU not do so unless he can make the journey in state like an Eastern prince, without reference to expense.

c Thk West comes modettly but confidently forward with the following contribution to polite literature and current iBction. (According to the Omaha Bee, a queer family lives near that city. The father and mother have dwelt in one house for the past ten years, and during all that time neither they nor their children have ever come out of the house except at night. They deal with only one t tradesman, who furnishes them with the necessaries of life at - night, through a window, and bis bills are always prompt ly paid without question. A coffin is kept in the house for every member of the family. As the children grow and the- coffins become too small, larger-ones are procured. Whena new- member is added to the family a coffin: is at once ordered. The physician who has been called to attend this singular household - says he has never, yet seen the face of any - member of ifc The moral of this fable is not ap parent, but it is a beautiful evi

dence of the handiwork of Western journals when .they set about to build a truly artistic narration. v .-

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HISTOBY. Indianapolis Sentinel,. w. ......

Elsewhere in the Sentinel to-day we re

produce from the New York Times

chapter of history of special importance just now. It is a brief report of the great

banquet given to Stephen W. Dorsey in

honor of his success in carrying Indiana

in 1880. It skould be read carefully, be

cause Democrats and Republicans need to have their memories refreshed in re

gard to matters the essential infamy of which have no parallel except the per petration of the Continental and Centennial fraud of 1876, when a gang of perjured villains reversed the will of the people and stole the President and Vice President and seated Hayes and Wheeler. In 1880 S. W. Dorsey was to carry the State for Porter and Garfield, He came with money obtamel from Jay Gould as the price paid for Stanley Mathews, the bargain being that for $100,000 Matthews should be placed oh the Supreme Bench of the United ' States. The pledge was given and the money was handed over. It

was used in Indiana, as Hon. William P.

Fishback; says, "to bribe election officials to stuff ballot-boxes- and falsify election returns. It was used as S. 1?. Conner testines to pay for importing votes from

Illinois. It was paid for importing re

peaters, cut throats, "blood tub 3f" and when these rascals were permitted to es-

eapclfe rascals who aided them were

rewarded. When this nefarious business

was over then it was in order to honor

Dorsey. Whatever he is now he was at the time- the Delmonico banquet was given in his honor. The New York

World republishes the report of the Del

monico banquet as it appiaared in the New York Times, a Bepublicaii organ, which

now denounces Dorsey as a "liar, a

"small beer politician" an "outcast' and

a "thief." The World refers to the ban-

guet a?d says: ; ",

General Grant presided. In his open

ing speech he declared that to ex-Senator

Dorsey's "skill, to his executive ability,"

the Republicans were "largely if not whollv indebted for the result of the

"forlorn hope" in Indiana in October. Does that warrant the classification or Dorsey as a "small-beer politician ?" General Arthur spoke. He admitted that Indiana was really a Democratic State. But after the liberal response ot Morton's Finance Cononittee, Dorsey "with his matchless skill, cool head and wonderful' courage," saved Indiana, New York and the Nation. " don't think we had better -go into the minute secrets ot the campaign," said General Arthur 4becauBe reporters are present Does that admission of corrupt practices; of methods which must not see the light convict Dorsey o lying? Does it not confirm and authenticate his story of the manner in which the election of 1880

2was carried? - .

But why trust to the evidence ( f Henry Ward Beccher, Secretary PrelingiuyBen, ex-Secretary Boutwell, Judge Noah Davis, ex-Secretary Hamilton Fish, Minister Morton, Senator Jones, Senator Win-' dom, Jonn C. New, and other great lights of BepubHcanism who attended the banquet, to prove Dorsey's truthfulness? Dorsey has given t he name of Levi P. Morton Minister to-Prance, as the person who raised and contributed largely to the Indiana corruption fund. Levi P." Morton has not pronounced, the story a lie, although he has had time to deny it. . . ... J. Pierrepont MorganAuguste Kuntze, H. P. Hatch, John A. Stewart, Joan H. Starin and others were on the Finance Committee, and Dorsey refers, to them as witnesses. Have they pronounced the statement a lief ; ; Jay Gould and 0. A. Huntington contributed $100000 says Dorsey. ' Do Messrs.- Gould and Huntington brand it as a falsehood? ' Thomas; C. Piatt took the money to In-

jdianapolis, says Dorsey.

Does Mr. Piatt give Dorsey the lie? John 0. New,Golonel DudIey,Stephen--son and Dillon, according to Dorsey's statement, paid out the money. v Neither New, Dudley,' Stephenson nor

, D01on has pronounced the story false.

By what right, then, does the Times brand Dorsey as a liar? We have no defense for Dorsey np interest in him. But his disclosures bear the imprint of truth, and not a"man,from Chester A. Arthur through the entire list has yet dared to deny his storv. ., , How can they ? They have confirmed it in advance: They are precluded from denying it It is the truth. V Whatever others may eay,Rspublion8, upon the principle th?,t there is "henor among thieves,' should stick to Dorsey. Dorsey is a spawn of Republicanism, an d has claims upon the party. He has been indorsed fess than three years ago as a paragon of patnotism,and now that he is divulging the secrets of a conspiracy his pals turn upon him with robust maledictions, Dorsey's pals might make a success of it were it not for the circumstances which came to Dorsey's rescue in this his time of need, and proclaim to the world that the Republican campaign ol 1880 was run Jy a set of as arrant rascals as ever escaped the Penitentiary..

POLITICAL MATTERS.

Events and Opinions, Published Without Bias, for the Information of the Reader.

i ENGiiisH financial journals reckon that f the united kingdom will have to pay out even a larger sum for wheat the coming than the past year. The yield last year was estimated ' as folly ten million

quarters. Tlfondon Economists thinks ifciwill be safer to suppose that the- corps

thia year will be - 10 ner cent lw

Still - there is an nuusally large, supply believed to be held in store in England at the present time. Last year Great Britain imported 77,201,000 owts. of wheal and flour, at a value of $224445,OOOf This was the largest quantity, and at the greatest cos imported in any one year. Bat even if the yieH of homegrowd wheat this year were to prove 10 15 per cent better than last year, the diminution in the acreage would swallow? up the increase. In 1869 the acreage of the wheat crop in the united kingdom was 3,982,000 In England alone in that year i6 was 3000 acres. Last year the acreage in England was 3,000,000, but in

was oniT. ynftfinn .k&

SENATOR M-DONAIDS CAMPAIGN XiABORS. Washington special. ' , Ex-8erator Joseph E. McDonald and Mrs. McDonald passed through the city to-day on their way from Deer Park to White Sulphur Springs; stopping off several hours. O.iey will remain at the springs a few days and then return to

Deer Park, after which the Senator will, repair to Iowa, where he is down for three speeches, the llret to be delivered Sept. 1 He will not enter the Ohio campaign "until about the -isl of October. He declines to be interviewed. ' oh the ground that

what he could eay in an interview will be

given in his own wordsi and in his own arrangement in his campaign speeches, and he-prefers to let his declarations go tc the pubhc in that form. SBNATOB VOOBTBC2ES' BBOTEOXION IDEAS. Wabash Conner. " Major Kidd, oi? this city, commenced bii3 collegiate course at Asbury a year be fore D. WVoorLees graduated from the institution. Reading an ill-natured paragraph lately in & Democratic print concerning the sudden conversion of Voorhees tbthe dochine of protection, he mfo- 'That itellow simply don know

what he's talking about, I remember that at college Dan Voorhees was no less

distinguished for his eloquence than his

advocacy, of protection. He not only took exceptions to the text-book on political

economy in the class room, but was ac

corded the honor of enlisting the profeB

sor in a debate on the subject from the rostrum in the ohanel. before the assm-

bled. students and a very select audience.

"Then Voorhees was a debator during

his college days'?" suggested the writer.

"Yes, indeed; he graduated from As

bury a pronounced and acknowledged

orator. By his fellow students he was considered a miracle of eloquence. I am

not familiar with his subsequent' views

in rAfrnril tn the tariff, but I know that

during his college dayB he was strongly

for protection." SkATOR VOOBHEES nBNIBS. Indianapolis Special.

To-day Hon. D. W. voorhees was among the soldiers at the encampment,

and I asked himjif he had made the re

marks regarding Judge Hoadly, which

was reported in the Cincinnati Commer

cial Gazette of yesterday. "I never said

one word of the kind. Judge Hoadly iB

a gentleman, and if I lived in Ohio,

would vote for him. as I always do for

the nominees of my party. The whole

story is a fabrication."

SENATOR BIiAUt OP NEW HAMPSHIRE.

N. Y, Interview. , . . -

"Senator, what is the feeling in New

Hampshire in relation to the next repub

lican national convention?"

I do not know how well I am author

ized to speak for the people of that state,

but as far as my : personal observations

go I think there is a widespread feeling

toward the nomination of President Ar

thur."

"Would you regard that as a strong

nomination on the part of the Republi

cans?" ?

"In many respects I think it would be.

I know that m New York state there is

still a good deal ot feeling acrainst the president. There are prominent republi

cans here who do not hesitate to say that he could not get anything like a majority

of the New York delegates, to say nothing of carryingthe state afterward. But President Arthur's services to the party since the time of his inauguration ought not to be underestimated He . has been aloof from any factional troubles, and the party has, under his administration, grown into a harmonious condition, and is now, t think, in excellent condition. The president has shown his ability to sit down on a situation and a condition of affairs in a manner which makes his own seemingjpasstveness a very affective weapon of attack. T do not know what the feeling may be in Ohio, which has Senator Sherman to look for as a leader, but I think everywhere President Arthur is the second choice of all the people, and in many cases their first choice." 'Arthur is said to be popular in the South. Do you think he could cai ry any southern states, Senator? "1 think he could. He is favorable to Gen. Mahone, and Mahone is the beet republican in Yirginia, or. out of it. I look to the casting of Virginia's electoral vote 'or the next Republican candidate." "Will Blaine be a candidate before the next convention?" "I think not. 1 know he does not want to be. Blaine is out of politics, andia rinding congenial work in other lines of life." "Who else is talked of except Arthur as a presidential quantify in New Hampshire?" ' "There is some talk of Edmunds, some of Logan, and some of David Dais, although this is not very serious." ' "Why would I)avid Davis not. acept the nomination?" ' "I know of no reason in the world. He is a good republican and in the last Congress rendered us very considerable aid. He would certainly fill the chair as well as any of-hiB colleagues." ''Whom do you regard as having the best chance for the democratic nomination?" , "Well, that is pretty hard to say, but I think there s much more in the Tilden movement than is generally supposed, and I believe the mass of the party would like to see him nominated. Whatever may be lilden's physical condition, his mind is just as bright as ever. His eneaaes know this, and everytime his name is mentioned they go into hysterics. I do not kntw of any man whom I would prefer to see the democrats Belect, and I do not know, who they are more likely to nominate than S. J. Tilden." VIRGINIA KEPUBTjIOANS. 'The Republican straighout convention met at Richmond, Wednesday. The platform adopted favors strict adherence to Republican principles and a protective tariff, indorses James G Blaine for the presidency, condemns the action of the administration in aiding Gen. Mahone in the repudiation of the State debt, de clares that the power thus given Mahone has been used for the persecution of life long Republicans, and that the power given by the administaation to Mahone makes him 'virtually President of the United States for the State of Virginia, The platform also opposes mixed schools favors civil service reform, and honest en for cement of recent acts of Con jrees. It favors a free ballot and honest count, favors the just and equitable division of the school funds according to population and concludes by expressing unalterable opposifeiog to the one man power in Virginia represented by Mahone, and calls the attention of the administration to the results of such a system in other States. POniTIOAIi NOTES. The Shelbyville Volunteer says: "The following namea Democratic papers are now calling for the 'old ticket of Tilden and Hendricks against the field: The New Albany Public Prese, New Albany Ledger, Terre Haute Gazette, Terre Haute Democrat, Anderson Democrat, Lawrencebu rg Register, Michigan (City Dispatch, Wabaeh Courier, Martinsville Gazette, Prankiin Jacksonian, Owen County Journal, Brazil Democrat, Spen

cer Democrat, Tayloryille Democrat and Muncie Democrat and others." General Joe J ohnson says there was no call for the letter of Jefferson Davis on what Judge Black had written, It' was incomprehensible to him how Mr. Davis could make the statement that if there had been no attempt to reinforce Fort Sampter there would have been no secession. General Johnson said that he did not suppose there was a school boy in the North or South who did not know better. He said Jefferson Davis was not a great writer, as he permitted his feeling to influence him, and serenely smiled at the idea of .Jeff being matched tfor Jere miah with, the pen.

THE "ROYAL DtSHjk ..: . Theto's nc'or n lad in all our baud But lovos thealmmrock greon Thinks wi th dinirao'I oyes of Erin's skies. And soas that roll botwoon , Yet on we march o'er shifting sand, . 'Noath irtars with ghostly shoon, Ench man goes by, content to dio For country and for Queen. Full well we know there's grief at her o That blights oar shamrock fain But then we see pure royalty ... Ready to do and dare. ,So on wo march neath heaven's wide dorao, Dark, qui to and serene: Fight, bold and bravo, or find a grave, For country and for Queen. Soft, soft we step, and make no- noiseIn silence, ono and allThe Egyptain day dawns red and gray Who'll see tho evening fall? But be it life or death, my boys. Let's keep our shamrock green; Whatever betide, we lived, wo died, For country and for Queen.

RHAMPSINITUS.

An Egyptian Story.

RhampsinitiiB was ado?, n large, white

woolly dog covered all over with snowy

curls, and having two bright brown eyes,

at d a black shiny tip to his nose like

patent leather. He was a thoroughbred

Abyssinian mastiff; and he lived in old

Effypt in a great palace at Sais, almost

twenty-five hundred years ago. His mistress was no less a personage than Niteris

the daughter of the Pharaoh, Apriea (or

Hophif, as the Bible calls him).

The mother of Rhampsinitus had been

.especially prized by the Pharoah. She

had watohed over the cradle of Niteti?

when she was an infant, and once had saved the life of the young princess. The

maid, going in bathe in the Nile, left the

infant exposed among the lotus blossoms;

and an eagle would have carried off the

child, had not Htasu been near. Wheu the maid returned to her charge, there 3 a the bird dead by the side of the sleeping

infant, while the hound stood close by,

with the air of a sentinel on guard. From

that titae Hatasu had an easy time. She

had nothing to do but lie all day on the

papyrus rushes in the outer court, and a night she had a bed of soft down. Sh e

was feci on a golden plate "with the richest

ood, gazelle meat, roast OOse, scented

cake and sweet meats. She lived to an advanced age: and when she died, the whole royal family 6haved all the hair from their heads, as a token of grief and respect. Hatasu, after being embalmed,

was buried under a magnificent monu

ment in the sacred enclosure of Sais,

Rbampsinitns was Hatasus only de

scendant, and he was prized more on that

account than even for his great beauty.

He was as large as a bear; and was very

sagacious, and very faithful, as you wiu

see before the end of our storv. Nitetis

valued him above all her treasurers, and

wherever 6he went, she tok Ehampsini

tus with her. Jn doing this,she did nothing to create lemark; for most of the

Sgyplaan ladies had their pets. Some had ame young leopards; others, peacocks;

others, ibexes; and some, a cat But Ni-

tetis end her Abyssinian mastiff made the most remarkable looking con pler by far to be seen on the streets of Sais.

Fitetia was a princess, as we have said,

a young and beautiful princess, and,

at this time, about seventeen years old.

Perhaps you would like to know how she looked. Here is her portrait, engrav

ed on. a rock, a picture more than'jtwo

homand y ears old. Bhe is tall and slim,

and her complexion is a light olive. She

has large black eyes, rather pretty mouth

and a no?e that shows character; that is,

it is long and aquiline. Her hair is very

thick,, and is represented as falling over

her shoulders. A peculiar tress is worn at the left side, plaited with gold thread.

and hangs down to her waist. None but

princesses cculd wear a lock of hair like

that

The drees of this royal daughter of the

Pharaohs consists of a loose robe of sof ts eoiortad linen, confined to her body by a

gold belt and straps. Kqund her throat

is fastened a necklace, like a collar, made of pearls and ec stly stones. There are

eat liugs in hersarms; and armlets and

bracdets of gold, inlaid with lapis lazuli

and turquoises, around her well-formed arms, . This was most likely Ni tetis' court

dress, in which she sat for her picture.

Wheia she went abroad, she threw aman-

tlelol embroideredby Balonian cloth over her shoulders, cased her small feet in sandals of crimson leather, and put on a

head dress of line feather, work, jewels

aceand gold. We can scarcely imagine

ner walking. She either rode in a char

iot of silver,, drawn by two horses, or car

ried in a palanquin of gold and lacker

work, on the shoulders of Nubian slaves.

With Rhampsinitus beside her, looking

like a great noble lion, she must have made a pretty sight.

Nil;etis was the only child of the great

Pharaoh,' and was. netted and indulged till it was a wonder she was not spoiled. She had her own way in everything, for

the old king, her.father, never said nay to

one of her wishes. Perhaps he was the

more indulgent because her motner was

dead, and the little girl had no one else

to indulge her. So beautiful and charm

ing t princess would be likely to have

many lovers. Nitetis had hers, by the

scora They came all o ints of the com

pass. from Ethiona. Libva. the land f

Panfc (or Arabia Felix;) and even from

India beyond the seas, princes had sent spleadid embassies, asking her hand. To all these formal messages and costly gifts the Pharaoh made no answer, but simply referred prince and ambassador to his daughter. And Nitetis' answer always was: "I must marry for love, and I do not love your faster." But one day there oime sailing into the harbor of Sais a great fleet from Tyre. And on board the fleet was the train of Prince Bardes of Persia, who had come all the way to seek Niteiis as the bride of his master OombyEes the great king. He showed his wonderful presents, and spoke flatteringly of the power of the Persian king who ruled nearly all the known world, and who had a palace for every any in the year, -The Pharaoh only said that he must tell his story to Nitetis, if he wanted an answer. The prince was accordingly shown into the. chamber of Nitetis, where the little beauty sat in a groat fauteuil, with her Abyssinian mastic beside her. A maiden stood on each side of her, one holding a lotus to her mistress's nose, the other waving a fan of ostriohjfeathers over her. She listened with an idle air to Bardes's story; but

when he had concluded, she said: "Brave Persian, you have told me of the power

and splendor of your king, of his many cities, and the nations he reigns pver; but is he as handsome as you are0" Now Bardes was one of the handsomest man of his tiin& He had thick golden hair, blue eyes sparkling with mirth and intelligence, and a slender, muscular figure. His beauty was set off by a very rich dress. His tiara shone with jewels; and his upper garment, of heavy white gold brocade reaching to Ids knees, was fastened to his waist by a girdle of blue and white, the rojal colors of Persia. His pantaloon of white, gathered in at the ankles, half covered his blue leathern shoes. Ho wore a short golden sword, its scabbard and hilt studded with white opals; andi his naked, sinewy arms were circled with costly bracelets: even to Nitetis accustomed to royal scenes all her life, the princely Persian seemed a very gorgeous personage. "My brother Oambyses, the lord of tho

world, is a much handsomer man than I lun,'' answered Bardes. "Look for yourself," and he showed her a medal with

the great king's features stamped on it

"You speak the truth," said Nitetis, contemplating the nicture for a while; "I

will marry yonr master." So at last the

princess ot Egypt found the man she

cou ld love. It was not a very stfe way to choose a husband, but it. was very

much better than to marry without any

chofice at all, as too many of the poor princesses of that time ditl The Pharaoh

kept high holiday at court, and the bride

macle what speed she could for the wed

ding.

A few d ays before Nitetis was riw4y to

sail,, another embassy arrived at Sais. It came down the river, from the country of

the Macrobian Ethiopians; and the pr ince

came in person, instead of trusting his

errand to an ambassador. He sought audience at once and told his errand; he

too had come to ask the princess to be

his wife.

"You are a day too late," ea:d the Pha

raoh. "My daughter is to wed the Great

King. In less than a weak she will leave

Snis to go to her master." The Macrobian

prince jerked his shoulders, and put on a

serious face.

"One day is as good as nine years I

have lost my journey. However, there is good fish yet to be caught in the sea. My

fleet will sail on the morrow." A nd ho

bowed himself out

Sleeping in her porphyry chamber that

night, on her feather-embroidered couch,

under, a canopy of sky-blue and silver brocade from Damascus, Nitetis was

aroused bv the sound oe stealthy foot

steps on tbe tiled floor. Bef ore all things, she loved air and light Her room was on the second floor, overlooking a canal of the river, to which there was a descent by a marble stairway. The curtains of her windows and doors were seldom closed. Any one from the river could easily gain access to her apartment, if they dared to in vade the sanctity off such a place. Not that her room was left unguarde! Every night, a faithful sentinel crouched at her doorway, a sentinel watchful and unwearied,, whom no enemy could hope to circumvent. It was the Abyssinian mastiff. Before the princess had even time to call "Rhampsinilusr she heard the fierce growl and the spring of the faithful beast There was a struggle in the dimly-lighted room, a hoarse voice half smothered by the savage growls; then there was a call for help. & "Let go of him, good Bhampsinitusl" cried Nitetis. "Don't kill him, only drive him down the stairs." The mastiff obeyed, and the intruder on being released was not long in making an exit In the haste ot his departure, he left that behind wh oh revealed Iris identity,--a crimson scarf with two ai rows crossing a bow the arms of the Macrobirn EtMcpians wrought in gold. Long before sunrise, the Macrobian fleet is far up the river; the defeated prince has not darcdi to wait for daybreak. But as the morning light lifts the mists from the noble stream, it also shows plainly the marks of a dog's fangs upon tjie neck, hands and face of the Ethiopian. Rhampsinitus had saved his mistress from an involuntary journey and life of misery, by interposing his own perse n between the prisse and the wouldbe abductor. But this is not the story. Nitetis sailed away, with much of pomp and pageantry, from the quays Olf her father's city. There were processions, and music, and scattering of flowers. Carpets of purple were spread under her feet Banners wavedj and the incense from many temples perfumed the ah as ; the princess looked her last on the pyramids and obelisks, and the waving palm and cypress trees of Sais. There miisrht have been tears in her eyes, but they were tears of happiness; for was she not going to her beloved?v Rhamipsiditus lay at her feet, regarding his mistress with great luminous eyes, that wore almost human in their sympathy and meaning. "Good old fellow," said the princess, patting his noble head, "you am content, to follow me. We know not what will be our future home, but I can be as content as you.". The fleet landed at Tyre, the proud, the beatiful, the city of purple; and there Nitetis found her future lord waiting for her. We pass over the meeting. Enough to say, there was no disappoinlimenfc on either side Oambyses was the handsomest Persian of his time; he was a mighty sovereign, "king of kings," his inscriptions termed him and he possess ed some noble qualities. There was no reason why a young girl should not have been attached to him. As for Nitetis, everybody loved her; and the haughty Achromenian king was no exception to the rule. From the moment he placed his royal eyes on the delicateNilotic beauty of her face, he lovfld her with a great love. The bridal train set oat toward Babylon, across tho desert. Days and days were spent in crossing the burning sands. It was in the sultry summer time, and the torrid heat of the sky scorched man and beast. One noon the caravan halted,--a picturesque group, under a grove of palm trees, where there was a well of water, the camelB lay down beneath the shade, and the tired men sought the same cool retreat Oambyses and his wife wended their steps to the further outskirts of the grove, and under the shadow of a vine-clad rook sank to sleep, overcome by heat and weariness, and mummed by the musical murmurs of the tofiising palm boughs. They were awakened by a loud and frightful roar, that sound so common to those eastern deserts, which if once heard is ever remembered to the day of one's deatbrtbe cry of that iniecalied royal beast, the lion. Before they could rise, the

animal was upon them', tearing with teeth

and claws, Without weapons of any k;iod not even a friendly dagger in his belt, the

king could make but little defense. Nite

tis screamed. Death stared them in the face. But at that very naoment help was

near. A lithe, powerful body leaped

through the air. With a great yell, Rham

psinitus dashed at the tawny desert beaBt.

The next moment mastiff and lion went

rolling over and over the sand; The lion

was one of the largest oiihis kind; but the

dog was nearly his match in strength and

size. Though struck down, time ater time, by the paws of his savage foe, he returned to the fight with all the fierce energy of his race. Fearfully torn by the claws of the lion, foam falling from his mouth, yet his great brown eyes had an unquenchable fire in them, and he lifted his head proudly as he dashed to the fiay. Four times was he struck down by the lion's paws, and each time be arose fierce and defiant. The last time he seized the

desert brute by the throat The huge beast reared and roared, and shook his head, striking fiercely at him with those cruel talons, each stroke of which wmld have taken a man's life; but the dojf held on savagely, never relinquished his chi toh, Terrible was that battle between the desert monster and the brave mastiff battling for his mi3iree's lifo. The sand was clawed up in ridges, and little pools of blood lay in the sunken places. Which will Jonquer? Oambyses meanwhile had shouted to his guard. Into the dell cime rustling swordsmen and spearsmen, but they came too late. As the foremost soldier reached the side of the king, the lion uttered a deep sullen roar, staggered backward and fell dead on the incarnadined sands. The mastiff, who had never once taJren bis fangs from the huge hairy throatnow released his hoi d. He looked toward, his mistress; shook his head, uplifted proudly still, the sun shone full upon his brave, weary eyes, with all their silent agony and mute appeal. For one moment he stood there erect, his white form sculptured etatue-like against the riot, yellow light of noon, great flecks of foam and blood staining his black muzzle and the white silken hair. Then, with a half defiant, half triumphant growl, the noble mastiff fell beside his conquered foe, He was quite dead when Ninetis went to him but in his teeth there still was clenched a handful of the tawny mane of the desert king,- from whose jaws he had saved his mistress. . . ' He had been her mate from childhood, and with dog-life faithfulness had civen his life for hers. She was not ungrateful And her grief and her memory had ever a reminder in her palace home. For on the walls of her chamber, engraven in colors that will never w3ar out, Cainbyses caused to be made by a cunning artist an exact likeness of the noble animal,, who had twice saved a king to Persia. " You may see it there to-day, among the ruins of the fallen palace, t he image of a- dog as large as a lion, with an expression as gentle as a woman's in the large brown eyes; distinct in every outline, as though the storm and sunshine of twenty aantu lies had not beat upon rit: and below, in ancient Persian characters, the name BHAHPSIXtTUS.

"Dynamite Devils." The press on the other side of the. ocean as well as the American pres9,has almost ceased talking aboub the dynamiters.

Some of them were de3erate and dangerous men, no doubt but sney did not blow anybody up. A .small amount of proper ty destroyed is all they have Jo show for their trouble,, while several of the alleged plotters languish in British bastiles.. Not only English public opinion but also the best sentiment cf Ireland condemned the dynamite method of warfare as un justifiable and barbarous. Hence, the campaign came to an end suddenly, and few besides the painted and feathered O'Don? ovan Rossa regret its niter failure. However, the British mind is bHII somewhat apprehensive. 1 Such at least is the inference from the report that when Mr. Parnell was seen a few evenings ago in the lobbies of the House of Commons with a box in his hand', from which he distributed among the Irish members big round objects having the appearance of bombs, the other fellows looked inquiringly at one another arid shuddered It is said the impression prevailed for a moment that something frightful was about to happen. But.it was discovered in time to prevent a panic that the supposed ter? rible missiles oi? death were nothing but huge American peanhe which the gTeat Irish leader had received from his brother John. A similar inc u lent happened in Washington not longo. A box came to tne British Legatia7 bearing a label which gave diriMstkros to how ithould bo opened. The British Minister was frightened. The Secretary thought the i'beastly thing" contamed dynamite. Ev erybody about the honse grew pa e. The mysterious box was sent to the State Department with a request for protection. Detectives watched-the Legation house for two weeks. Who should open the box was the grave question.. Finally Secretary Lincoln ordered twenty men from the Arsenal to invesfegate the infernal machine. The operation was carried on with ridiculous caution, Secretaiy Frelinghuy sen presumably at the request of Minister West-determined to keep the result a secret But it has come out The box contained a machine intended to express juice from sugar cane, and its inventor had inclosed a letter asking Mr. West to recommend ifc. If our British cousins would' not be

come a laughing-stock they will quiet-

their fears, or at least not act like timid, children who are frightened out of their wits by bogie names. Last Battle of the War. Albuquerque Journal. A very interesting bit of personal and general history, especially to the residents of New Mexico and the Rio Grande Valley, is the fact that Oolonel David Bianson, now a resident of this place, is the man who fought the last battle and gave the last order to ceaee fighting, at the close of the war of the rebellion, and did it at the mouth of New Mexico's great river, the Rio Grande. The battle was ought on atyy 12 and 18, 1865. Oolonel Branson was sent oub from tne general camp on Brazos Island with a mixed company of about 300 men from the d Texas cavalry, dismounted 1st Missouri, colored, and the 34th Indiana, to capture a herd of cattle for tho use i f the troops. While out he was attacked by a force of about 600 Texas cavalry with artillery, under General Slaughter and General Ford, During t he light a war ehipar rtved olf the harbor with the news of the surrender of Kupy linith? the hist of the

confederate forces in the field, and consequently the end of the war. General Bar

rett, the commander of the garrison, ordered Colonel Branson to cease fighting and return, which being, impossible on

account of the pressure of a superior force and the well known enmity on their part toward the colored troops and southern white Union troops, the engagemen fc was continued, though the Unionists retired, fighting, toward the island. General Barrett came to the rescue on the 13tb, with a small reinforcement, and the tight back to the island occupied all that day. Near sunset, as Barrett wfs croes ing the ferryvith the main body, the attack was renewed ur-on the rear guard, in command of Oaptain Coffin, Colonel Branson had just gone back to the guard and the enemy were repulsed; the last battle of the war was over. . TOWt THUMB; Interesting Reminiscences of the Dwarf His Love for Horses, 'Etc , A Hartford paper has interviewed a gentleman who was Tom Thumb's manager for several years. He said: fTom Thumb was incapable of a joke or any bright saying; he wa3 by no means precocious. His intellect was deficient. He was perfect in his dwarf mavliress, but

his mind as well as his body was dwarfed

and one had to lead him about as a child

is led. Re had no memory. ' When I was with him in Eugland;we had the entrance

ino polite a. d noble eociety. His mem

ory "was very deficient. For instance, I

would say to him. "Do you remember,

general, when we were at Chatworth, at

the Duke of Devonshire's, yesterday?'

and he would reply that be didn't remem

ber any t hing about it He'n i ght sometimes

have a general knowledge that he had

been somewhere in that country, but that

was all."

"Did he have no powers as a conversa

tionalist?"

"No: although he met a great number

of people, he could never say anything to

them. He would simply answer their

questions and then stop.. Once in awhile

he wouldvsee something and speak? of it to me or Borne other of his close friends,

but never to. a stranger.1. ' .

"Was he a great reader ?" "Tom Thumb never read book, news

paper or aught else During all the time

I was with him I never saw him reading. He never took the least interest in the

news or the romantic as it is found in: novels." ,

"What did he do with himself during

the little leisnre he had?"

'Well, he never had; very much leisure;

he used to occupy it in playing billiards

or in smoking. He dearly loved a horse

and Over 'diamonds he nf arly went wild.

The fancy may have partaken of a boyish

freak; although men of i are intellect can't help but admire the exquisite color of an

old mine gem. He at one t ime owned a

creat many diamonds and horses. It has been asserted in the newspapers and nut

of them that the general 3rank to excess.

Now, I will say this in his behalf, so long

as I was with him I never saw him under

the influence of liqnor He smoked, sev

eral strong cigars a day, but he never was

an intemperate drinker.'

r "How about his tmarried life was ibat

happy?'

"It was truely a happy life. The dwarf

couple had more more pleasant conjugal relations than the average cf grown up

people. (She knew bo w to handle him; she

had tact and everything went smoothly, and yet I do not quite understand why she is now in Cincinnati" 1 "Was he rich at the time of his death?'' "I suppose hemusthave been, although I have no means of knowing now" said the ex-manager of the dwarf. "He made a great deal of money and also spent a great deal, but he ought to have saved a goodly sum. He certainly made Barnuni: rich. I have always supposed the great showman got the lion's share of 1he profits. The general broke with Mm because he suspected he could make more, money by managing lis own tours; The dwarf also made his own perentp rich. They were poor and shiftless- until Barnnm discov ; ered their prodipy of a son, and with all his wonderful tact displayed him to ah admirine world; They had a cerain percentage of the earnings until the source of the income ws of age, " and at one tiime werewortn ?,000. Unlucky investments and a circus dwidnfed the pile until there was little left. The general himself began to gather in the coin offer he had attained his majority. In Slnglandi although it may seem fabulous, he ofte received 100;a weeti," ., r; , - ... ,, ,.' ' ' . .. .," ' -. Mr. Richard E. Kcse has in his possesion an interesting relic of the late Geih Tom Thumb, in the shape of a pair of boots, worn by the general when 21 years bid. The tools are not over dj inches in length, and Miy Rose has never found a child able to walk who can put them on. -

The Secret of True pitfnity. t j a . . a? . "

The common note of all mon who aref that it is necessary to do so.

remarkable for true dignity is, however, a conscious self respect, and this- is gatting less and less common as the contemplative temper merges in the competitive temper of m item times Mr. Arnold has with more thrtn, his usual skill, described, the dignity of the East, in its contrast with the restlessness of the West, in the lines in which he paints the scorn felt by the East for the Roman conquestsr v The East bowed low bpforo the blast, . ... In patient, deep disdain: , She let tae Legions thnnder past ' - And plunge in thought again;". You have the whole secret of true dignity in that verse. It is patient; it is inward, and it really prefers the inward to the outward scenery. Dignity cannot be impatient; it cannot be external ; yet even if a mind is both patient and inward, it fldll have no true dignity so long as the whole feeling for the inward scenery; it contemplates is that of displeasure and disapprobratiom A dignified man mn6t feel a certain amount of interest' and pleas ire in expressing, himself adequately in speech and conduct He must keenly value the moral symmetry ot his own thoughts with his action, and therefore is that in the externality and hurry and ir ritability of our day, dignity is starved, ; :- Initial. " Texas Siftinfes, , , ; - , , German, who only left the old country about a year ago, but has become veiy much Americanized, speaking nothing but bad English, recently remarked as he bought some school books, that all his boys names commenced with S,hence that all their books and clothes were marked with that one letter. "I suppose

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A donkey has more brayin's than sense. It is after a woman has emerged : froni a salt-water bath that figures don't " It is when a woman tries to whistle that the great glory of her mouthijfi seen without being very much heard, ,r

"There's no place h&e home," repeated i Mr. Henpeck, looking at a motto,- and ftet?, heartily added: 'Tm glad there isn't,'' 1 When Hamlet said, "But I have that: within which passeth show. it itf believed., that he had in his pocket acomplimentfr ticket to thecircuSi ; ;;. ' Teacher ''Gan you tell me which is the olfactory organ?' Pupil tanWy aiiswersi ?No, sir." TeacterKrect iPupil goes off in a brown,atudyv .5 ' . ? i'OflflAr Wilde writes of - the Michael-

Angeleeque appearaece . of a London,

policeman. The ppearence of the New York policeman is merely MicbaelesqiieC: -"I meant to have told you of that hole' j

said a gentleman to his Mend, whoi walk-'

ing in his garden; stanbled into a pit1 of

water. "No matter," said thefrpidr

have found it' V ' i'

The latest case of indolence related ia

that of a-man named John Hole, who waa-:

so lazy that, in writing ' his name, he

simolv used the letter "J" and theni

punched a hole through the paper; :;

From the French, Before the Police

Commissioner: "Isidore Ferblantine, this 5

is the thirteenth time that you have been

arrested for theft" Ah, mpnsieurj ifciff

so humiliating to begr ,

An absent-minded editor wrote a

letter and an editorial at the same time.

The love-letter he sept out to.be set upia

type by the printers an-1 a long editorial

on tariff to his girl. ThereWflBj' fan? at. .

both: ends. "'.

A Ijondoa credit bootmaker has a boot' .

in wnicn ne Keeps tne names m o. , oustcmers-who pay up promptly. His. g ; labels it outside H?he Legion ot Honon Tffi

He has been in bnsinesB :.twenty -yeara"' -'. v;

and it is not halt full-yet ' U' y.

Before the city directory man .ta&es. a

census of St liouis, watermelons are air1

wave; sent there from Chicago to double

up the population. After that an official

count is made, showing how unreliable St Tjonis figures are, ,,Vv);v.'"':-'v

A prominent phyMcian says that being

suddenly waked up in the middle of " the

night is detriraental to health. Burglars

will please remember this, and consider

ately go quiet when they are rummaging, a house, so not to disturb the innaate?C

"When Bame Fortune wants 'b man

she calls for him," asys the Whitehall Times. And very often finds him not a home. Nine timeaout of ten he is down at the f;rocery store sitting on a soap box

and telling what a , oyelonje

father was to cradle wheat il "' ; ;

Mr. Bergh, the S. P. a A. man, says it

is cruelty to animals to eaten fish with a hook. There wouldn't be-much fun in

fishing if a man had to dive ?nnder the

water and hold chloroform to a hWsnose ;

until it became, unconsctous,, and4 theh

hit it on the head with a hammer. ;

Gentleman"How can you afford

sell these rifles for $5. They certainly

can-1 be good for mncfi. ; Theyf won't stand mucheservice, will they T - Dealer

"They will last as long as the man wbo" - V

fires them. What more w juld yoti wantf

Gentleman thinks 'Sur goesxff without a rifle; " ".':?f;:' VvV;--,.-v " '

A Difference Among Dairymen: v . a

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TIT -n T. . 3 JJ;-..VMw,w m. tha. - .. ....

East, inspeaking pt the most . preptonic -.

tirnA.fnr. ft ftrxr tn come ln.savs. '..HI njla ' .?:t" - 4?-

more profit for the cows to come in jfresh. in the fall than from them- fresh the spring. 'Not only ;oes butter brinff abetter price, but I think the cows give

more milk in a year under this manage

ment, for just when they come feithetinie J when they ;would naturally - begin tpl shrink largely in their milk they Ro oa iresn pasture and increase ths flow;? while a cow that is fresh in the spring begins to shrink just at -the season- ofv failing nastures and the-, transitibii from

green to dry feed, and a gieat falling

in milk is imayoidable. :, I V . fji - This theory may be the best forthei . East, but we doubt if it' Would, answer in: the West June is t making month, an 1 it ha ;beeh ' demon- J strated time and again that the fresher Sgs. cow is the more milk 6he .will irive- 'i&j does not cost near as much to feed calves) j on grass as it does on hayi This is aj other consideration in favor of tiie sprjnjg ,

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Questions-Do any of our j -long to secret'organizariouSV . : 1 u -C A.Wenevit took the tonbleto,eM them; We. should expect to be rebniecT for impertinence if we didi We1 have no v doubt, howerver, .jfli'IPJ them are married. : . v ; Q: 1 would like to know .'wW:,yoo; .--, opinion is it a man is . a nighfc-watqhman ,- t. . seven nights in a week--if he ife cenBider ;" " ed a Sabbath breaker? I mean, otcorse .

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Watch Factories in the United States.

Among the watch factories in the Uni

ted states,- three are sitaaM Illmoi , hmm

which state now supplies more tnan naic

the watches made in this country, ineoia v f American watch company at WaithamjT; v Mass , turns out about aKl watehesa dy; ? A hustoty at. Lancaster Elgin rsctery, liHnbis, day and one4 -at Kockford, IUL, 150 a day. Large quacV - '

tities of wheels and other, part

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How Does He btand fliCAlieat?; - ;;r "(Wd morning, John," said one 'of'thH .f ? j leading Presbyterian pastors in Scranton, vy

to a young I riend whom he met on tU& 3$ vf

street the first warm day of the seasor

"how does ;ths old man stand? the heat?'f

The young man made nofreply, but went; hiaiwAv 'with'a clouded brow; - And-when

the good pastor learned that the y ni . man's father had die he understood why to ccnxl W tgffeg - was met so coldly- - s.zp' : fN J,"

Boil steak without salting, ss r alt draws juices, and ck over fire, turning ;finen.wiai ton; "''y MrsBvF. Duncan, Southld, tho champion female fisher at Borne Oity

She caught nfe-seven 4bMWMM-;V Vil! hours; - - Tyy. ' -y' yV- v j3'.'4t

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John B. Gamier, of tawrenoebxirg

mrvn. or some siieh names." "No: mv

poya' names all pegin mit an Sn, J Ind

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