Bloomington Telephone, Volume 11, Number 17, Bloomington, Monroe County, 2 September 1887 — Page 3

KEMISISCEKCES OF PUBLIC MH BY BEN : PSBUHf POOKK. Among other anecdotes whfch have been handed down at Washington, was one of an incident at the table of President John Adams, when Gouverneur Morris, then a Senator in Congress from the State of New York, was one of the invited. It was at the time of the fend existing between the President and Gen. Hamilton, arising from animadversions of the latter upon the sudden compromise of our differences with the French Republic Mr. Morris was called on by Mrs. Adams for a toast. "Madame," said he, "I will give the health of my friend Hamilton." The lady indignantly replied: "Sir, that is a toast never drank at this table. "Suppose, then, madame," was the xol rajoinder, "we drink it now for the first time?" "Mr. Morris, " exclaimed the excited hostess, "if you persist I shall invite the ladies to withdraw !" "Perhaps," retorted the imperturbable Senator, "it is lime for them to retire." The signal was given, and as the ladies rose in obedience to it, the Senator sprang from his seat and stumped on his wooden leg to the door, threw it wide open, and, with his constitutional boldness, fairly bowed Mrs. Adams and her lady guests out of the room. Among the many stories told by Thurlow Weed about Martin Van Buren, was one narrating an incident which occurred on the deck of a Hudson River steamboat, on the way from Albany to Sew York. The merits of Mr. Van Buren were being discussed when the beat touched at Kinderhook and "The Little Magician, 99 as he was called, came on board. One of the party had been dwelling upon his noncommittalism, and complaining that "a plain answer to a plain question was never yet elicited from him. "I'll wager the champagne for the company, added he, "that one of us shall go down to the cabin and ask Mr. Van Buren the simplest question which can be thought of, and he will evade a direct answer. Yes; and I'll give him leave too, to tell Mr. Van Buren why he asks the question, and that there is a bet depending on his reply." This seemed fair enough. One of the party was deputed to go down and try the experiment He found Mr. Van Buren, whom he knew well, in the saloon, and said to him : 44 Mr. Van Buren, some gentlemen on the upper deck have been accusing you of non-committalism, and have just laid a wager that you would not give a plain answer to the simplest question, and deputed me to test the fact. Now, sir, allow me to ask you: Where does the sun rise?" Mr. Van Buren's brow contracted; he hesitated a moment, and then said : "The term east and west are conventional, but I 99 "That'll do!" interrupted the interrogator, "we've lost the bet!" Abraham Lincoln became acquainted with Mr. Blaine in Illinois during the memorable campaign with Douglas in 1858. Mr. Blaine wa3 corresponding from--the scene -ef .-contest with his paper in Maine, and in one of his letters

he predicted that -Lincoln would be defeated for Senator by Douglas, but woxdd beat Douglas for President in 1860. The letter was copied in several Illinois papers, and Mr. Lincoln cut it out and carried it in his small memorandum book until long after he was inaugurated as President. It naturally laid th foundation of cordial friendship between the two. Moreover, at the Chicago Convention in I860, Mr. Blaine was almost the only New England m m who was for Lincoln from the start To his efforts was credited the division of the Maine delegation on the first ballot, and that was "the light in the east" which heralded speedy victory. When the movement was made agair st Mr. Lincoln the winter preceding the campaign of 1864, Mr. Blaine was the person with whom Mr. Lincoln constantly conferred about Maine, and I was present at a conference between the two when Mr. Lincoln requested Mr. Blaine to proceed to Maine and see if there was an adverse movement there. Mr. Blaine reported by telegraph to Mr. Lincoln, and he sent also to me a telegram, which was made public in the Washington papers and through the Associated Press. The Senate passed a resolution in the Pierce administration accepting a portrait of John Hampden, the great English patriot, and directing it to be placed properly in the Executive Mansion. This portrait was presented by John McGregor, Esq., of London, and was a worthy and acceptable gift. Soms uncertainty seemed to be attached to its parentage, but the iaquiry was narrowed down to the two eminent painters, Anthony Vandyck and Sir Peter Lely, contemporaries not only of each other, but of Cromwell, Hampden, and the Charleses. Its fidelity is unquestioned, and it therefore is a rare and precious possession of our Govern-' ment and people. The circumstances that Sir Peter Lely painted Cromwell, as the latter strictly ordered him, with all the indurations, warts, and pimples on that iron visage, may favor the idea that this picture of Hampden, who was Cromwell's cousin, is also Sir Peter's. The Bill-Poster. Bill-posters are a very important adjunct to the printer. Without their services a very large and important portion of the job-printer's art would not exist. The great patrons of ornamental poster are theatrical and show people. Scenes from plays, portraits, representations of some performer executing a remarkable feat form the great bulk of such work. These are printed weeks and months ahead, sometimes as much as six month, and are sent on to the bill-poster, a week's supply at a time. It needs for New York City about seventy-five thirty-two sheet posters and three thousand three-sheet posters to paper the town effectually. If a poster is nearly entirely of a small size it takes nine or ten thousand single sheets. The thirty-two sheet posters cover a space nine feet four inches high by twenty-nine feet long; each sheet is t Venty-eight by forty-two, and for j thographic work it is usually done on t a vent: j -pound book paper of low crrade.

In large quantities a common price is 4 cents a sheet. Actresses and actors are not now having much printing for themselves individually, imle&s they are in variety companies; but patent medicine men and many others are doing a great deal in this particular line. For theatrical people lithography has been for the last two or three years more sought than letter-press work. The quantity is enormous. A single firm of bill-postern in New York has taken in for its work in one year $82,000. If we suppose that the charge for putting up the bills is 10 per cent of th cost, it would show that the bills they handled were worth $820,000, this being independent of what other firms were doing, some of them just as large. American Bookmaker.

CURIOUS ROYAL PROCLAMATIONS.

Trees. Near an old German castle is a lime which a boy, accused of killing his master, planted with its head in the earth, to attest his innocence if it grew and flourished. Two friends were attacked by robbers in the woods, and one of them was killed. The robbers having been put to fiight by a flaah of lightning, the surviving friend, found kneeling at the side of his dead companion, was condemned to death foi bis murder. On his way to execution he planted a stick, which he adjured to take root and grow if he was innocent ; as, of course, it is proved that he was by the beautiful apple tree that the stick became. Somewhat similar is the account of the Luther elm near Worms. A bigoted old Catholic lady, plantiug a stick in the ground, declared her resolution not to accept the new faith till that dry stick became green. The fact thai it did so proves the interest taken by trees in the preservation of orthodoxy ; but it would seem that the elm tree takes a special interest in matters of this sort, for is not the elm tree the symbol of St. Zenobius, when the coffin of that saint was earned past it a dry elm tree suddenly burst into leaf? Another way by which trees reveal their inherent sympathy with humanity is by bleeding. Both Virgil and Ovid tell the story of Polydore, one of Priam's sons, intrusted to the care of a king of Thrace, and by him killed after the taking of Troy; from his grave there grew a myrtle, which, when Eneas plucked its boughs, bled iu a pure human fashion, much to that hero's dismay. The present writer himself has searched for an oak tree in a Surrey wood which was said to show a blood-red sap in memory of a murder committed in its vicinity. At all events, if a deed of blood had been committed near the spot, the tree in question had forgotten all about it;, for no blood issued from its wound, and a disbelief in bleeding trees had to add itself to many another negative conclusion. The peculiarities, no less than the existence, of trees admit of mythological explanation ; and strangely abused those explanations often are. Here, for instance, is one of the jagged form of the oak leaves, an explanation of the same order as that wiiich traces the minute holes in the leaves of tho St. John's wort to the needle with which the devil pricked it as a punishment fo:c its devil dispelling powers. The devil agreed with a man that he should have the latter's soul at the time when the oak leaves fell ; but when became to look at the oak in the autumn he found it still in loaf, nor did it part, with its old leaves till the new onest began to sprout. In his rage and disappointment he scratched the leaves so vehemently that they have been in consequence jsgsjed ever since. Gentleman's Magazine. In Central Soudan. In shady nooks sit picturesque groups of natives in all kinds of combinations discussing the news of the day, haggling over a purchase, or busily engaged in embroidery or making up of gowns and trousers. This trade, we may note, is here entirely in the hands of men, who ply the needle with much skill. Farther on we meet a courier gorgeously dressed, looking in his voluminous garments a very Falstaff in bulk, as he goes ambling past on his still more richly decorated horse, bent on a little exercise in tho cool of the evening. Of the personal appearance of this aristocrat I shall not now speak, but we may take notice of the horse. By good-luck here happens to be one standing waiting to be mounted, so we can more conveniently examine steed and trappings in detail. The animal before us is a very fair specimen of a Soudanese horse. It is somewhat lanky, with little beauty of line, but it is fiery-eyed, and its tail and mane, being uncut, give it a somewhat wild appearance. Soudanese horses are generally very vicious and difficult to manage, stallions alone being used for riding purposes. They are specially trained for sudden forward charges, to stop within their own length when in full gallop, to turn with equal rapidity, and away like the wind oat of harm's way. At other times the favorite mode of progression is by making the horse's left legs simultanelousy alternate with those of the right side, a method of traveling which is very pleasant and easy. The riders are fond of making their horses pranca and plunge about with tierce and liery action. There is nothing which the central Soudanese is so proud of as his horse, and nothing to which he devotas more time and attention than its appearance and trappings. The headgear is almost one mass of brass-plated ornaments, little bells, and a thousand tassels and flaps of leather in v ellow, light blue, or dark red. The beautifully plaited reins would almost hold an elephant for strength, while the bits are perfect instruments of torture. Joseph Thompson, in Haiper'x Magazine. An odd practice prevails in regard to mourning for deceased relatives in Corea, Any one who has suffered such a loss goes about for a year wearing a kind of pointed basket on his head, which completely hides his face, and no one is permitted to address or speak to him. It was by adopting the mourners bonnet as a disguisa that the early Jesuit missionaries succeeded in entering the country and making thtir way about unquestioned by anybody.

Power of the Elliots of English Kuler and for What They Were Issued. London Tit Bits. Royal edicts or proclamations have never yet in England been armed with the force of the law ; indeed, the proclamation of a British monarch may even become an illegal act, if it be in opposition to the laws of tho land. Several times during the course of English history and notably during the reign of Henry VHL and James L attempts have been made to give to royal proclamations the force of acts of Parliament ; but they have always faded, as being altogether opposed to the first principles of representative government. Had it been otherwise, the whole course of English history might have been changed, as will be seen from the following examples of tho more curious and remarkable of these royal edicts : King Henry VIIL, toward the close of his reign, issued a proclamation to abolish the translations of the Scriptures and to prohibit the reading of the Bibles to the people. Another edict by tho same monarch forbade the circulation in this country of English books and pamphlets printed abroad ; the reason why such publications were "printed abroad" being that the press at home was gagged. Queen Mary issued a proclamation which throws a curious light upon the antipathy which prevailed in England at that time against all foreigners of whaterer kind or degree. The edict commends all the Queen's subjects to behavt themselves peaceable toward the strangers coming with King Philip; that noblemen and gentlemen should warn their servants to refrain from "strife and contention, either by outward deeds, taunting words, unseemly countenance, by mimicking them, etc. " Queen Elizabeth issued a scathing proclamation against the excess and vanity of apparel, both among the men and women of her reign. King James L was a voluminous edict writer and their frequency considerably lessened their effect. More than one solemnly warned the people against "speaking too freely of matters above their reach" and prohibiting all "undutifnl speeches." King Charles I. by royal edic t changed the seasons for his "sacred touch" (for the king's evil) from Whitsuntide to Michaelmas, "as more convenient for the temperature of the season." Another proclamation by the same monarch was directed to the "suppression of cursing and swearing." It is amusing to notice the proclamations of Charles II., issued during the most licentious period of the Court of the "Merrie Monarch." One was against "vicious, debauched, and profane persons, n who are thus described: "A sort of men of whom we have heard much and are suihcientlv ashamed; who spend their time in taverns and tippling Louses; giving no other evidence of their affection to us but in drinking our health and inveighing against all others who are not of their own dissolute temper, and who, in truth, have more discredited our cause by the license of their manners and lives than they could ever advance it by their affection or courage." The "Merrie Monarch" also issued a long and solemn proclamation for the due observance of Lent, alleging for it, among other reasons, "the good it produces in the employment of fishermen." In other proclamations he strongly denounced the excessive "gilding of coaches and chariots, " the spreading of "false news," the "licentious talking of state and government," and against building in and about London and Westminster. On the last-named grievance the royal edict declares that "great inconveniences daily grow by the increase of new buildings, the people increasing in such great numbers that they are not well to be governed by the wonted officers." The King adds the hope that if houses are to be multiplied they should at any rate be built of brick or intone and not of timber, not only as a precaution against fire, but also as involving little if any more cost. , Odd A vocations. A woman who has seen better days once had a fine house of her own, and the usual embarrassment of bric-a-brac in her drawing room, which she was accustomed to arrange herself with exquisite tastefulness. When the wolf

came to her door she begged one or two of her former friends having fine mansions to employ her in arranging their drawing-rooms occasionally. With their consent she began an industry which has developed into a business. Once a month this lady for she is a lady goes to tho houses of her patrons with her two assistants, and superintends tbe cleansing of the parlors, after the furniture has been removed, and then rearranges them in the most elegant style. If she finds certain articles are needed to make the room attractive, a la mode, she purchases them and pats them in place. She also selects articles of virtu, having consummate taste and judgement in such purchases, for which she receives a commission from tho merchant of whom she buys. It would seem possibly an extravagance to the reader to employ any one for such a purpose, but considering the wretched careless methods of servants in New York, and the numberless articles of bric-a-brac now in vogue for drawingrooms, it is an economy and not an extravagance to en ploy a woman of discretion and carefulness to keep them in order. And then our new rich people do not know how to arrange a drawingroom, and it is a comfort to them to hire tome one who does know, or, rather a necessity. Another ladj'., formerly wealthy, charges a good round sum per day for escorting ladies strangers, of course to the most elegible shops for purchasing stylish garments, furniture, etc. Still another lady acts as guide to the picture galleries, museums, and public amusements for ladies from out of town, who write to her in advance. For many yecrs women have been employed by ladies of fortune to go abroad and make purchase for them in Paris, London, and Berlin; in short, to buy novelties at a cheaper rate than can be purchased here and to be in advance of the modistea of New York, Thsa (some of theng arc ladies who boaat that they naver wear dry goods

purchased in this market, everything comes "from abroad" and if the truth were known, from second and third-rate shops in the cities where their agent finds them. Shopping on commission has grown to be an enormous business in New York,, One woman engaged in it has an office and clerks; she buys furniture, jewelry in fact, all sorts of merchandise for her customers in every state in the union; has whole wardrobes made up for ladies, for children, and infants, and ha purchased artificial limbs to order. There U a commission from those she buys for and from, yielding a very good percentage in this double arrrangemont. Nexo York letter. Gen. Jackson as a Sheriff. You see I knew Old Hickory personally. My father served under him at New Orleans in 1814, when my eyes were first opened at Jonesboro, Ten-o. I've seen the bushes many a time behind which Russell Bean concealed himself whon Jackson compelled him to answer the suinmona of the court. Bean did not like the appearance of his newly-born child, which he said did not belong to him, and in his anger he took a knife and slit its ears. He was indicted by the grand jury and a warrant issued for his arrest. Gen. Jackson was Judge then of that district, and when the Sheriff reported that he could not arrest tho prisoner unless he killed Lim in the attempt, the Judge said : "You haven't summoned the nght kind of men to your aid." M Your honor, " said tho Sherifl-, jocularly, WI summon you." The Judge got off tho bench without saying another word, went home and buckled on his pistols, and proceeded alone to a little hill where Bean was hiding. He called Bean and told him he must obey the law. Bean said : "Go away, General; I don't want to hurt you." "Deliver yourself up to me at once," said the General. Bean said he would not, when bang went the pistol. The ball passed through Bean's whiskers and grazed his cheek and the scalp just above the ear. He cried out quickly ; "Don't shoot again, General, I'm coming. " He was marched to the jail by the General as a special bailiff who, when he had turned the prisoner over to the jailer, got on the bench and opened court to try the case. Subsequently the prisoner was convicted, and as we had no penitentiary i:i Tennessee at that time he was Ordered to be branded in the right hand with the letter "M." As soon as the branding-iron Mas applied and released, and while the steam was still arising from the burned Hesh, the prisoner put his haid to his mouth and bit out. a large mouthful of the flesh .and said : "There, now, take your brand." Louisville Courier Journal Danger in Thunder-Storms. The chief danger incurred by human beings and other living animals is duo to their bodies being better conductors than some objects, although they art) bad conductors in the sense that they afford considerable resistance to electrical discharges passing through them,

and4hcefore give rise to tho develop ment of heat and mechanical and molecular disturbance. A man standing, walkiug, or riding npo:a an open plain during a thunder-storm is in a dangerous position, bocause his body is apt to be made a stepping-stone of the discharge, offering less resistance to it than the air. The danger is increased by the near presence of large masses of metal in the ground.. Dry, lowlying positions are safer than such as are elevated and exposed. The close neigh borhood of water-courses should always be avoided. It is better to lie flat upon the ground than it is to stand or sit. If shelter is near, the individual should get at once completely under cover. To stand under the lee of a house, wall, hay-stack or thicket of trees is more dangerous than to remain altogether exposed in the open. The inside of a barn or out-house, well away from the walls, is comparatively safe. A distance of two or three yards away from the walls, is comparatively safe. A distance of two or three yards away from the trunks and branches of trees is a comparatively safe position; but to lean against the trunk of a tree during prevalence of a thunder-storm is especially dangei'ous In the interior of a house not adequately protected by ii lightning conductor it is b?st to keep to the lower rooms during a thunderstorm, to remain, as far as practicable, in the middle of the room, to avoid objects hung from metal chains, gilt frames, fire-places, looking-glasses with amalgamated backs, and iron pillars

and balustrades. Peddlers and Hawkers. Peddlers, again, fall into several distinct categories. There are those who may be spoken of as locally attached, who have a habitation and a name, and in most cases take, week in and week out, a regular and unvarying route. And there are those whose ambition is wider and more restless, who journey from county to county, and are seldom seen twice in tho same locality within a long term of years. Beyond and beneath these are the occasional and, so to speak, amxteur peddlers, who more properly belong to the formidable hordes of vagrancy, and who are genuine Ishmaels, with their baud against every man, and every man's hand aguinst them. Many legitimate and recognized peddlers travel with some single specialty brushes, combs, ornaments, spectacles, or even clotheslines. Theso have often a pride in their profession which would vie with that of the nourishing town tradesman. The rounds taken are long, and with their interminable calls, very wearisome. To

walk on an average twenty miles a day, and visit several hundreds, it may be, of cottages and , farms, is a severe test of physical endurance. CasselVs Family Magazine, Martin Beuem is credited with having discovered America prior to Columbus. In a first voyage of discovery in 14G0 he visited Fayal and the Azores, and afterward visited Brazil, sailing as far north as tho Straits of Magellan in 1484. six years before Coluinivoa &et sail for the West.

Cuba as It Is. Tho island has more fine harbors than. nnv other countrv of its size, and it is no wonder that tho buccaneers of the Spanish main selected it as the center of their piratical enterprises. It has two hundred and sixty rivers and plenty of fresh water spring. It has a climate' which is one perpetual summer. It never snows in Cuba! though the ice sometimes forms upon the mountains.! The babies can go naked here the year round, and as for the stocking trade of II ava units customers are confined to the higher classes. Neither stockings nor suspenders are used by the laborers, and I doubt whether there are one thousand pair of suspenders worn by the one million five hundred thousand people who make up that island's population. They use instead a beit-

j strap, and the majority of the working-

men of the island confine their apparel to an undershirt and trowsers. The hotter clcas of men dress in white duck, with Panama hats. The lower class of women wear few underclothes, and a calico wrapper and a pair of heedless slippers are a wardrobe. There are no carpets on the floors nor plaster on the ceilings. Iron bar fake the place of glass windows, and there is not a chimney nor a cooking stove in Havana. There are no tarns, and the horses are washed in the harbors instead of being curried. There are no bricks used in the sidewalks, and the average sidewalk is three feet wide and of stone. The building stone used is a porous one, and this is covered with stucco. Havana has parks, but vthero is no grass in them, and as for shade, it can be got only by going to the mountains. The policemen carry swords and guns, and the offices of all kinds are Jit led by the Spaniards. There are no mattrasses on the Cuban beds, and as for feather pillows, there are not feathers enough used here to make a wad for the earache. There are few china pitchers used in Havana, and the drinking mug is of porous clay, with a hole at the top, out of -which the water h poured into the mouth in a trickling stream. Red brick tiles take the place of shingles and the tops of tho houses are used in the evenings for sittingrooms. The gardens of Havana are inside the houses, instead of behind them. The milkman drives his cow from, door to door and milks directly into the vessel of his customer. The calf generally tags along behind, and the cow now and then refuses to give down her milk until the calf has had a pull. The only way of watering the milk is watering the cow; but a cow that is kept on the run much of the time does not always give good milk. The Cuban takes oranges, bread and butter, and coffee for breakfast. He pares his oranges as we do apples, and you Jind plates of pared oranges before you on the table when you sit down to the morning meal. The way to eat these oranges is to drive a fork into diem, plant your teeth firmly into the luscious fruit and suck the juice. The Cuban breakfast is taken on rising, and there is another breakfast about nine or ten o'clock. This is more like the American meal, and "he whole city knocks off for it. Passing along the street at this time you n. ay see families ut their meals through the open windows; and doors, and an hour or two latter the whole town seems to be taking a siesta. Dinner is eaten between live and six o'clock, and the stores keep

open until about nine o'clock in the

evening.

Home Journal.

Bob Burdette as a Pastor. Mr. Burdette sought a resting place last summer, a hiding place from the worrying world, and found it on the chore of Thirteenth pond, on Brother Bennett's farm. But "Bob" is a plain Christian, and the little company of believers in the church near by found it out in a simple, proper way found that a Christian man of some culture was tenting on one of their hill-sides. They had no pastor, and they asked him to preach for them. With some hesitation he consented. Thus he spent the summer, enjoying his new experience beyond measure, and blessing the simple folks more than they can tell him. He is known to the world as a wit who cannot open his mouth without pouring forth screams of qniet humor. But the brethren of North Eiver say that he rarely brought a smile to the face of his hearers. He expounded the scriptures as a man who

behevd them and loved his hearers. Inexhaustible in his supply of thought and fitting expression, he delighted and profited them, Ir prayer, as well as in discourse, he was the same an humble follower of Jesus and the preacher of His gospel. They offered him their little offering of pecuniary compensation, but he refused it They invited him to receive a donation party. He laughed, but refused. They insisted, and for their sake he yielded. It was a merry occasion; he kept $1, his first dollar for preaching, and pnt the re mainder of the proceeds into the debt of the church building. He gave them a lecture, and turned the proceeds of this also into the treasury. It was a delightful summer for him and them, and when he left them in the autumn he promised to repeat the experience another year. It so often happens that religious people manifest a disposition to leave their religion behind them when they go into the woods or to the mountains, and that ministers, even on their summer outings, refuse to avail themselves of opportunities to preach tho gospel to people eager to listen, that the example of "Bob Burdette" in hi little summer parish in the Adirondack? deserves special commendation.0 Watchman. The number of blind people in England is relatively decreasing. In 1851 th-?re was one to every 1)79 of the population; in 1861, one to every 1,037; in 1871, ono to 1,052; and in 1881, one to 1,138. It costs the Government $200, 000 a year to maintain blind people in the almshouses.

If a man be not handsome at twenty, strong at thirty, learned at forty and wi-se at fifty, he never will be, Martin Luther. Flowers are the sweetest things tint Qod ever rnado and forgot to put so il into.

GEK. GKEEH CLAY SMITH. How He Caught Even With a Washing Hotel Man. Dar.viU Advocate. The last, end perhaps the only, whisky transaction Gen. Green Clay Smith ever had in his life oaaie about in this way: Just before or about tho closo of the war Gen. Bmibh was in Washington city. Engaging a suite of rooms at one of the fashionable hotels he had sent to his rooms ten gallons of fine 'Old Crow" whisky that had been sent him by some frieitds in Kentucky. The keg was soon exhausted by the 1 General's friends, save a bottle or two, which he reserved in case of siokneee or snake bite. When the General went to settle his hotel bill the account presented to him ran thus : To suite of rooms on? weak $1,2 0 To corkige forty bottles, at $1 40 Total, .$1,20 Gen. Smith glanced at the bill and said to the hotel man: 'Twelve hundred dollars is an exorbitant price for the rooms, but I will pay it. The item for corkage I will not pay, as you hod nothing whatever to do with the whisky sent to my room, and have nc right to charge corkage on it." With a stroke of his pen the hotel man canceled the corkage item. Gen. Smith drew his check for $1,200, and the receipted bill was handed him. Upon the eve of leaving tbe city for Kentucky Gen Smith presented the hotel man with a bottle of whisky, saying: "Here, I want you to tasto the whisky you wanted ta charge me corkage on." The hotel man sampled it and pronounced it the best whisky he had ever tasted, at the same time requesting Gen. Smith if possible to purchase at least five barrels ot whhtky for Lim as soon as he got to Kentucky. Gen. Smith agreed to accommodate him, and, bidding him good-by, came to Kentucky. In a few days Gen. Smith went to a wholesale whisky dealer in Covington, where he found the whisky wntscL "'What can you sell me five ban-els of whisky for?" asked Gen. Smith. "Three dollars per gallon," replied the dealer. "All right" said Smith, "here is a check for your money. You ship this whisky to Mr, , Wellington city, and bill it to him at $10 per gallon." The whisky was shipped, Gen. Smith writing the hotel man that he would be in the city in a few days to collect the bill in person. In due time he arrived in the Capital city and called on the hotel man to collect his bill. Tho hotel man met Mr. Smith with a letugh and Baid; "Well, General, I guess we cxe about even, as you have made more than enough on that whisky to get back your hotel bill; but I have mado a good thing out of the whisky, auyhow. Come now, it's my treat, and I'll show you how I have xnad money and ad veiv tised you at the same time." As soon as the two entered the saloon the first thing pointed out to Gen. Smith wu several large posters hanging over the counter, upon which, in rich, gold letters, was the following: "Geo. Green Clay Smith's Old Crow Kentucky Bourbon Whisky 1 Guaranteed to be twentyfive years old ! Only 50 cents a drink." "Well, well," said Gen. Smith, I have made $1,400 on tho whisky, which I intended ac an offset to your exorbitant hotel bill. STou take those posters down at once and well call ir, square, and II quit the whisky trade." And, true to his word, he has not since bought,sold or drank a drop. Singin g Sands of the Pacific In one of the South Pacific island are some wonderful singing sands. These sands are in a small desert la the center of the tesert are about a dozen cocot.nut trees, and alnrat five miles distant is the ocean. Ka Pole, a

j native guid 3, and myself reached the

trees about noon. Our horses, as welj as ourselves, were about used up, traveling through the deep sand under a blazing sun, As we lay stretched at at the root of the towering cocoanuts, the trade wind set in, cool and refresh ing, from the ocean. Notwithstanding the heat and our -wearied condition there was an enchantment about the situation that caused me to think ol the beautiful stories I had read in my childhood I began to feel the soft touch of slumber and all at once I heard faint musical tinkling as if Uroops of faries were coming to greet us as they used to do the enchaated princes in the olden days. I tried to locate the melodious sounds. In til lirectiona there was nothing' but hot, glowing sand. J looked up there was nothing but the beautiful tropical sky and the tremulous atmosphere. Si. ill louder sounded the music ; it was all around us ; it filled the air, I gazed toward the ocdan, and there, apparently a short distance, was a beautiful lake, with its waves dashing upon the moss covered stones. It wag not there when we first arrived at the place, and I became half convinced that it was the work of enchantment Ka Pule had fallen a&leop, and, gazing at the lake and listening to th) music in the air, I rested my head agidnst the rough bark of a tree. As I did so I heard the distant gurgling of brook I could plainly hear the water splashing over the glistening stones at d dying away in quiet eddies. I was more ana more bewildored, and at length awoke Ka Pule. I told him what I had heard, and directed his attention to the lake. He explained that the seeming lake was a wailiula or mirage; that the sound of gurgling waters came from an underground stream, and that the niu&io was caused by the stirrit g of flinty sands by the wind. Anyway, the whole experience was beautiful, and I have often said that E once made a visit to fairy land. Stockton Mail. Our JSjstem of Voting The present system of voting, intended to give the voer a secret ballot, practically does nothing of the sort By the exercise of a little adroitness on the part of the inspector of elections who is the selected oiBcor of the party, the voter's intention is easily ascertained and the vaunted inviolability ot the ballot beeomea a mockerj. Our system is not advanced enough ,For the present day We are a quartet' of a century behind the Age. More scientific methods are in uue in y oungor com muuities, which give the elector absolute freedom of choice and the necessary secrecy such as the very act of voting oorktempiates in a free com munity. North American Review