Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 September 1877 — Page 2

THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 27.1877.

A Wife's Wonderful Economy.

'[Max idler in Philedelphla Bulletin.] We had been out to the graveyard to *bury Mrs. Bidgeon and we were riding £home in the carriage with the bereaved Kwidower. While he sopped hi* eyes with si his handkerchief he told as abont her "In one respect I never saw her equal.

Bhe wa? a manager. I've knowed thai "woman tna's lying ont there in that tomb to Jake an old pair of my trowgers and cut them up for the boys. She'd make splendid suit of clothes for both of them out of them old pants, get out enough -tufffor a coat for the baby and sacap tor Johnnie, and have some leftover for a rag carpet, besides making hand kerchief out of the pocketB and a bustle for herself *iut of the lining. Qive her an old garment and it was as good as a gold mine. Why, she'd take a worn "out sock and maKe a brand hew overcoat •out of it, I believe. 8he had a turn of •itbat kind for economy. There's one of my shirts that I bought in 1847 still going about making itself useful as window curtains and pantalettes, and plenty of oiher thing*. Only last July our gridiron gave out and Bbe took it apni and in two hours it was rigged on the wide of the house as a splendid lightning rod, all except what she 'had made into a poker and aq ice pick.

Ingenious? Why, she'd kept oar family an buttons and whistles out of the ham ^bones she ived, and she made fifteen princely chicken coops from her old hoop skirts, mnde a pig pen out of her used urj ft bones. She never wasted anything. Lei a cat die around our house, at.d in- fiist thing you knew Mary

Jane'd b.-\ve a muff and a set of furs and I began tin 1 mince pies on the dinner table. She'd stuff a feather bed with the feathers she it off of one little bit of a rooster, and she'd even utilise the roaches in the kitchen so's they'd run the churn— had a machine she invented for the purpose. I've seen her cook potato parings BO'S you'd think they were canvass-bnck dusks, and she had a way of doctoring up shavings so that the pig* eat 'em at a grow fat on 'em. I believe that woman could a built a four story hotel if you'd given her a single pine board, or a steamboat out of a wash boiler, and the very last thing she said to me waB to bury her in the garden BO'B she'd be useful down there helping to shove up the cabbages. I'll never see ber like again."

I don't believe h« will either.-

The Belle of Newport.

The Newport tielie thi- jear, according to the corrt*-po iteut of Ihe New York San, has beet) he charming Lady Hykes, wife of Sir Ttti-n S kes. Tbe SyK«-se* and the Von Hoffman* have been, und still are, the i.tre of attraction

Sykes created a great furore in Lomtnn society when she made her debut. Blessed with beauty, cleverness, tact, and en ergy, Bhe is one of those rare women who do everything well. She swims, rides, drives, shoots, dances, walks, drest-e* an pi ay 8 lawn teenni* to perfection. At 6 ^o'clock in the morning she begins i! day'B amusement- by plunging into the surf and swimmitig a mile or so out to sea. Lots of people go down to the bathing beach at this early hour to witness these daring aqusftic performances. No

Newport entertainment is perfect without Lady Sykes, and HS she was a vim, snap, h. and go which may be equaled, but canmn ibe excelled, there are few entertainment she does not honor with her presence. In

London Lady Sykes is a reigning bel in sthe ultra fashionable set and was greatly ^distinguished by the respectful homage* of an illustrious personage. At Newport she has charmed everyone, and made many warm friends by her winning ways.

Both men and women rare about Ladv Sykes.

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FLOWERS.

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A CARD FROM ENOS WADE CLAIMING 3 THE REWARD. Editor of tho GAZKTTK:

In a recent issue of the Express appeared an article in which Chief of Police Stack takes to himself the credit ol working up the Flowers case. Now 1 desire to state facts in reference to this matter Being in the employ ©f Mr. George King for four weeks previous to the murder, I became very well acquainted with Flowers, and soon found- him to be a'man of desperate character as he continually carried a revolver of the same calibre as that with which the murder was committed. On Saturday following the murder I met him at the hub and spoke faotory of Kevcs & Sykes, and having had mv suspicions directed toward him, I made an arrangement with him to meet him that evening at the house of Mr*. Owens, cor. Third and Chestnut streets. I then went to Chief Stack and thade an agreement with him to meet me at the house at nine o'clock the same evening, In order to take Flowers into custody but the Chief, tor reasons best known to himself tailed to put in an aupearance. I kept Flowers there until io o'clock and then took him to my own hou«e and ktpt him all night, telling him I would go out to King's with him in the morning. On the following morning he (Flowers) wish ed to tee friend of his in the county jail I went with him and when inside the jnil yard 1 arrested and disarmed him, in the presence of two witnesses, And turned him over to Chief Stack, whom I found on the street near his office. Such are the tacts in relation to the arresting of Flowers. Chief Stack claims that he is, entitled to all the reward, but I think It is the reverse. I arrested him, why not I have the reward?

ENOS WADR.

.Work on the brick walls io progressing rapidly and finely on the Baptist church being erected on the corner of Sixth and Cherry streets. It gives promise of being a very handsome edifice.

Rev. Dunham is detained in New York through sickness, and will not be able to occupy his pulpit at St. Stephen's church to-morrow.

LABOR MEETING.

A Meeting Last Night at Court Square.

Speeches Mr. Spaan, of Indianapolis, and M»jor O J. mith, of the ft**** Express.

A Host of Resolutions Adapted.

(From Saturday's GAZKTT*.). The Labor meeting at Court Square last night was called to order by Mr. C. G. Foote. Mr. Abbott presided,

RESOLUTIONS.

Messrs. George Hammerstein, Ceday Dickerson, P. Osborne, W. A. Ryan and M. C. Rankin, all laboring men, were selected to draft resolutions.

SPAAN

MR. H. N,

was brought forward He spoke of what he termed white slavery, stating that it was much more tyrannous than that which was placed over the blacks previous to their emancipation. It is this slavery which awakens our party and our sympathy to-day. lie s?id tue laboring people had been robbed by chicancry and fraud of every right they posseised.

He spoke of the newspapers who misrepresent the laboring men's part* a6 composed of communists. The meeting was noi ol Republicans, nor Democrats, nor distinctively ot Greenback men, but of we who can 6ee the shadow of coming events mid prepare for them. No party can succted in the future, he said, which does net embody the wantfc and wishes of iilaboring men. The political yarty ot the luiurt must be directly opposed to tlie money power. (Applause.) It must tavor labor emancipation, monetary reform aud the total abolution ot class legislation.

He remarked, amid checrs, that the present troubles can not be put down by newspaper ridicule.

He spoke bitterly of the schemes of the Shy locks and Money Bags. He thus pic tured the dav of resumption: On the first da oi January, 1878, every debt in the United States, public and private, will be pavable in gold or its equivalent. When the morning of that da dawns there will £0 up from the producing interests a great wail ol anguish. All blight hopes of happiness will be blasted. Industry and prosperity, the twin sisters, will go hand in hand to their untimely grave. hen the morning of that day dawns the teiribln reality will face the American p, ,,p

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Ocean house. Yon Huffman (nee Grimes), sin-r of the 'ate Mr Sum Ward, has long bm. kn in N York fashionab «oi:te y, it le ner hun band, the great German banker, is equa. ly well knowi. the Hnancial world. Sir Tatton Syk a— about 50 years old, though lookirg much younger, enjoys an income of $50,000 per annum. He wedded not long a young lady of 20. the sister of Mr. Caevendish Benttnck, who is $ likewise passing the summer her*. Lady

reality which they have never

1VU belore and how the Goulds, the Gai n.iu. the Shermans, the Tom Scotts and all that horde of commercial vampires will rtjoice on that day, the day of national mourning The "question naturally si,gget,tb itself, what is the true remedy in tins case Surely not armed revolution not violence. There are

GREATER EVILS

than high taxes, than enforced idleness and bankruptcy they are lawlessness and bloodshed. Our only hope lies in the biillut, tnat o!t abased,' but mighty little instrument. With it we can sweep these money changers out of power. [Applause.

He complimented Col. Maynard ot the Indianapolis Sentinel very highly, believ«ng him to be the embodiment of dibintere.Nted effort

When he had closed Mr. M. C. Ranki\ port the resolutions as follows: THE RESOLUTIONS.

Lauoi w.tH ordained by divine comiiirt,,. Miid ih the only cause of a people's happine-.- health and prosperity the oi.ly source of wealth, power and civili zatioi.. In a country like tbis it remains true ut at it is a solecism and a scandal that man abe and willing to work should be even uueatened with actual want. Wild if ealie-i over prouuciion in this country iLc i.s bad distribution. General Hcurcity me lis not ihat nature is niggardly, bu mat man is unwise. We hav« imputed foolish restrictions and reguUtmn.4 upon trade, or else we have neg tcttd in mpose wise restrictions and reguUuout. Scarcity anywhere,certainly scaicu throughout large districts and auioi.g gre 1 classes, is an indictment of our ia and our policy.

Web lieve that the times imperatively demand the upbuilding of a political part3 which will work patiently, soberly and earnestly 10 solve the great problem ol civtliza.ion, which is that the laborer shall OdVe the full results of his toil, and we lecommend ceaseless agitation of the subject until ibai result is attained.

We hold ihat every uaefnl member of -cteiy, whether at day work, in the me chauic^i arts, in agriculture, in com mercv. or in the professions belong, of right iu tne ranks of labor. We make our uiviiaiion to co-operation as broad as human industry and activity.

After jeara patient forbarance, experience aud suffering, we are foiced to the conclusion that the industries of the country can hope for nothing from either the Democratic or Kepublican parties the«e partie- have originated and maintained ine evils from which we suffer, and Me therefore 1 eradiate all allegiance 10 or &iiili*iii>n with them.

We invite co-operation in .the following declaration of principles: 1. We demand that our system of govern mem snail be simple and economical, that superfluous offices and sinecures shah be abolished, and that fees and salaries Bhall be so reduced a« to put an end 10 the aristocracy and despotism of officehnldiug. 2. We denounce the corrupt ase of money in elections, which has become open and shaiueless. 3. We demand that the president',the vice president, and the senators of the United Spates shall be elected by direct vote of the people. 4. We demand the perpetuation and amplification of the greenback currency. We believe that to the legal tenders we owe the successful termination of the war. We do not believe that a currency so poteut in disaster is worthless in time of peace. Neither do w6 believe it right or expedient to pursue further the policy of contraction, every step of which is marked by failure and distress which has crippled every industry, trade and profession, except that of the money-lender, who is acquiring the property for default of interest and taxes. We believe that the consolidation of property now going on under this policy is dangerous that if persevered in will end in revolution. 5. We demand that the silver dollar which had been a full legal tender for all debts, both public and private, from^

1792 until February 12,1878, which was demonetised at the suggestion and in the Interest of the toreign creditors of the nation, be restored to its original position as a full legal tender, and that its free coinage and circulation be encouraged. 6. We demand the retirement of the national ba» king currency which exacts from the people an annual subsidy about eqaal to tne sum of, ail pejtaions paid to our soldiers. 7. We demand the unconditional repeal of the Sherman resumption law. 8. We demand the abolition of all class legislation, of the iniquitious system of land grants and subsidies to corporations and private individuals, which has spread the sinister influence of the lobby and sown tbe seed of official corruption throughout our whole political fabric, which hao subjected the public welfare and the general good to a hostile and dangerous oligarchy of private interests. 9. We demand the enactment of laws which shall make labor a first lien upon the property of the employer, which shall facilitate and force the payment of laborers on or before the loth of each month for work performed in the previous nonth. 10. We demand that the Btate shall not let convict labor out by contract to com* pete with free labor. 11. We oppose all schemes looking to the increase of the regular army of the United States. 12. We favor a thorough system of nonsectarian schools but that school boards shall not oppress the people by uncalled forch.nge8 of text books, 13. We respectfully urge that there shall be no

Btrife

nor discussion among

industrial organisations, but that there shall be harmony and union in one great party for the common good. To thai end we recommend that a national convention be called at some oentral city during tbe coming winter to formulate the principles and name the party, and that all labor and currency reform organizations be invited to send delegates.

The resolutions were, of course, adopted. MAJOR O.J. SMITH. next came forward. He said: We are celebrating now throughout the country the era of reconciliation and peace. It is a spectacle certainly over which we may all rejoice. Some of us may complain that it has come later than it should have come, but surely all patriots will be glad that the issues that have divided the country, aud which brought it up to the decision of war, are finally buried and laid aside torever. But, my friends, we may not congi aiulate ourselves that we are done with political strife. The slavery question and the difficulties growing out of it, which are now settled through the wise, just and magnanimous policy ot President Haves, has agitated the country from its beginning Another issue at» broad as civilization itself faces us to-day. and while President Hayes and hi* party ar^ .celebrating peace iu the south, we are here to night, to inaugurate war in the north. [Applause.] We tokc up the tight where they laid it down. We fight not with the bullet out with the ballot and we propose to prosecute this war to a successful conclusion The great issue of civilization as stated well in your resolutions is this: That labor shall have the full result of its toil—not one half not tw^-thirds: not ninety per cent. not nineiy-nine per cent but one hundred percent. That4s the great problem, and that problem, my friends, we begin to-night, and some ot us began years age, to solve. I undertake to say that we will carry this fight forward through whatever trouble may come, until we have won. Possibly our platform does not coverall the ground. W have not wisdom enough to look into the luture and tell all that must be done to elevate the laboring and producing classes of the country but we can at least make an honest effort.

He spoke of the necessity of action on the part of the people. He thought he saw forces at work which are preparing for a great national and widespread political organization, is,

After cheers the meeting adjourned.

JACK MURPHY.

THTK HOODLUM PROPRIETOR OF THE "MURPHY HOUSE" HAS SKIPPED. The GAZETTE knew he would dishon estly oozed from every pore ol his hang deg ugly phiz. When, therefore, it it known that Jack Murphy, the "snide" hotel keeper on south Fourth street, who has served as landlord for a time at the once respected Henderson House, has skipped out, leaving his creditors in ihe lurch, no particular surprise is manifested. The fact is MurpM has been gone some time, but the GAZETTE gave him time to comeback. He hasn't come. His wife, the meaner member of this marital partnership, is still here, but on next Tuesday she too will be ousted, as all her goods are attached to pay house rent.

The two area miserable, lying, deceitful pair, and their house is more notorious than any pace of prostitution in town.

Tt GAZETTE but serves the public good in exposing them, in all theii hideous deformity. Theirs is but a regular plan of extortion and robbery, and it they will on* ly come along with their libel suit The GAZKTTK will make the charge good.

PALMER &WEY. .*

Something new to be seen at the ware rooms of Palmer and W'ev, who have just opened a splendid stock of marble work, which for beauty, style, and finish, excels anything now on exhibition in this city. Ladies and gentlemen are invited to call and see for themselves, as the pro pi ietors feel assured that for beauty of design, symmetry of proportion, and style of finish their goods are unequaied in the city, also just received trom New! York, the most unique and splendid de-' signs ever offered in the west, they can not fail to please, as they are looked up on by all with admiration. They will be in receipt of granite monuments uext week, again we invite the attention of the public to our new and splendid stock.

Office and ware room No. 17 Second street west side public square.

RUNAWAY.

A frightful runaway occured on Lafayette Avenue this morning.

A

team

from the country attached to a load ot potatoes became frightened at an I. & St. engine and ran north. About the first obstruction wafe a small boy by the name of Raynes who was run over and an arm and leg broken. Dr. Link was called and set the broken members. The team waa not stopped and is probably on the fo yet.

INDIANAPOLIS.

Matters and rhinos in the ier

Hoos-

Capital.

The Fair—Gas and Water—Rev. Bartlett—tteal Estate.

From an Ocoasiosst Correspondent. INDIANAPOLIS, Sept., 20. Business in this burgh of concentrics is constantly reported belter by business men. Whether a real revival has taken place, remains to be seen. So often have the fathful thought their business pravers answered since the landslide ot '73, that ordinary sinners b*»gin to regard them alter the cut of the boy who yelled "wolf" for fun If business does not let down after the fall run and the grain trade are over, we may begin to think of exchanging cob pipes tor havanas, and it may not be necessary to have summer pants dyed for winter use. A good many have been learning constrained wisdom of cob pipes and reenforced breeches.

Next week

THE FAIR

will contribute t«* the transient population. A good many of our absent black chickens will be here for a week's picking under their own vine and fig tree. In so far will the county tairs be bereft of monte men, wheels of fortune and other means of giving the fool's shilling reliet. It has become a standing disgrace

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that a very

large amount of rascality may hide behind a comparatively small number of dollars as license or "whack", money. There is nothing very wonderful about it though, when a doliat has been known to c«ver a whole square or two from the eyes of the law's minions.

From the number of entries and the general esprit of the show, it promises better than it paid last year. So far it has been remarkable for nothirg except its possibilities. The exposition was a sort of hybrid between a show-window and a country circus. At least the citizens here visited and talked about it as though it were a troll for suckers and it seems to have caught a handsome string of them. Since it is the era of international fairs, why wouldn't it do to have incer-state fairs? The fact of the matter is state fairs 6imply resolve themselves into advertising booths.

The city dads are in tribulation concerning fcSAB ADD WATER.

A few years ago when Indianapolis was taking morning witlks out into the surrounding country, the council contracted tor water and gas with no gingerly hand. Fire-plu^s were set where they were no use except to the necesssities of country cur* lamps were placed here, •nly the sentinel stars beheld their light. Now i, it* in order to draw in horns. A formidable riv*l in the shape ot an ener geiic, n. company vigorously pushing unead tue laying of mains, renders the gas company docile enough But the water-works company are not mcved by any such compassior, and stubbornly laim the nomination of the board. At first, municipal dignity leaned bacn. on its own sufficiency. However, the threat to shut off the plugs in toto relaxed the dignity of the city's functionaries, and induced them to consicer compromise pie.

The social event of the near future seems to be the reception forthcoming to the

REV. WM. ALVIN BARTLETT, of the Second Church. Nex: Tuesday night it is reasonable to suppose that the ice cream will not be blue anu the cake heavy at hearr. Rev. Bartlett is one of the elect, so tar as things of this life go. He gets the biggest salary in the city $7,oco he has fair houses, is toasted socially, and above all captured a maiden with a laughing eye and years not more than twenty. The Rev. himself is reputed not mere'than forty three, though one'd stake his oath on it he's forty-sev-en. It I were au old maid, which I am not, I should grow green every time I should look at a widower. Forty-three years add a taking spice to a widower but consign a maiden fair to hopeless single blessedness. There isn't any doubt that some of the Second Church young ladies will kiss the fair bride from her tour across the sea with outward smiles, but inwaadiy there will be gnashing of teeth '1 he happv pair arrive soon, it they are ot already here, from the gold en glamour of a bridal tour to Europe. Wealth and social position are social equalizers.

REAL ESTATE OWNERS I

here are still blowing their fingeis. When a house built at a cost that ought to real ize seventy-five dollars a month brings only twenty, somebody has lost money, buch houses are not infrequent. In seme 5 rases, owners ot empty houses would be glad to do as well. The whole sys tem of city building and rentage rests on quicksands, aud quite a good many will go down when they put their foot on them. It is simply foolishness to think that the steady value'of lots can stay anywhere near the gilt edged figures that have prevailed in the past. Land outside of the corporation limits, at seventyfive dollars per acre, and the three lots on which the Great barn, the unfinished Sheet's Hotel, stands, corner of Pennsylvania and Ohio, was put in at seventyfive thousand. Nonsense!

SILKX.

PALMER & WEY.

THEIR SECOND STREET MARBLE AND GRANITE WORKS. The partnership formed between Mr* Palmer late of Barnett, Palmer & Smith, nd Mr.JCharley Wey an excellent work er in granite and marble, will be the result of enabling t.ie people of this entire section superior advantages in the purchase of these testimonials to the memory of respected dead. 1 heir arrangements are such that they can execute any work with dispatch, and of the most approved models. The beautiful works and fancy designs which we admire, they import from Italy. It can be gotted up there cheaper than at any other place on the Globe. A1J regular work they do themselves, giving employment to a number of operatives.

An inspection oi their stock convinced a GAZETTEER, to-day. that they are worthy of patronage. Anything they have not got they can easilv obtain on order from superb photographic designs.

MASK TVADf'8 LATE8T-

A Csayl««fiMMsats that Ocearre* la a Basikliaf Itaratqr. I From rhe Atlantic Monthly.]

Now an ancient whale ship master fell to talking about the sort of crewn they used to have in hit early days. Said he: "Sometimes we'd have a batch of college students. Queer lot Ignorant? Why, they didn't know the cat heads from the main brace. But if you took them for fools you'd get bit, sure. They'd learn more in a month than anotbtr man would in a year. We had one, once, in the Mary Ann, that came aboard with gold spectacles on. And betides, he was rigged out from main truck to keelson in the nobbiest clothes that ever saw a fo'castle. He had a chest full, too: cloaks, and broadcloth coats, and velvet vesu everything swell, vou know and didn't the salt water fix tbem out for him? I guess not! Well, going to sea, the mate told him to go aloft and help shake out the foreto'gallants'i. Up he shins to tbe foretop, with his spectacles on, and in a minute down he comes agsin, looking insulted. Says the mate, 'What did you come down foi?' Says the chap, 'P'raps you didn't notice that there ain't any ladders above there.' You nee we hadn't any shrouds above tbe foretop. The men bunted out in a laugh Buch as I guess you never hesrd the like of. Next night, which was dark and rainy, the mate ordered this chap to go aloft about something, and I'm dummed if he did't start up with an umbrella and a lanternT But no matter, he made a mighty good sailor before the voyage was done, and we had to hunt up something else to laugh at. Years afterwards, when I had forgot all about him, I comes into Boston, mate of a ebip, and was loafing around town with the second mate, ana it so happened that we stepped into the Revere house, thinking maybe we would chance the salt-horee in that big dining room a flyer, as the boys say. Some fellows were talkin? just at our elbow, and one says, 'Yonder's the new governor of Massachusetts,—at that table over there, with the ladies.' We teok a good look, my mate and I, for we huln't either of us ever seen a governor before. I looked and looked at that face, and then all of a sudden it popped on me! But I didn't give any sign. Says I, 'Mate, I've a notion to go over and shake hands with him.' Says he 'I think I see you doing it, Tom. Says I, 'Mate, I'm a going to do it.' Sxys he. 'Oh, yes, I guess ao. May be yon don't want to bet you will, Tom?' Says I, 'I don't mind going a Yon it, mate.' Says he, 'Put it up.' 'Up she goes,' says I, planking tbe cash. This surprised him, but he covered it, and says, pretty sarcastic, 'Hadn't you better taae your grub with the governor and ladies, Tom?' Says I, 'Upon second thoughts, I will.' Says be 'Wtll, Tom, you are a dam fool.' Says 1,'May be I am, may be I ain't but the main question 1«, do vou want to risk two and a tislf that I wont do it?' 'Make it a

V,'i»ay-

he 'Done,' says I 1 sUrted, ui agiggui'K and flapping his haud on 1th.gh.hefeltsog od. I wentover her a»d lemed my knuckles on tbe tubie a minute aud looked the governor in ihe face, and, says I, 'Mister Gardner, don't you kno me?' Ha stared, and I stared, and he BLared. 'Ihen all of asudaen he sings out, 'Tom Bowling, by the holy poker! Ladies, its old Tom Bowling, that you've heard me talk aout,—shipmate of mine in the Mary Ann.' He rose up and shook hands with me ever so hearty—I sort of glanced around and took a realising sense of mv mate's saucer eyec,— and then says the governor, 'Plant your self, Tom, plant yourself you can't cat your anchor again until you've had a feed with me and the ladie*: I planted mystflf alongside the governor, and canted my eye around towards my mate. Well, sir his dead lights were bugged ont like tompions, and his mouth stood that wide open that you could have laid a ham in it without him noticing it."

There was great applause at the conclusion of the old captain's story then after a moment's silence, a grave, pale young man said: "Had you ever ftet the governor before?"

The old captain looked Bteadily at this inquirer awhile, and then got up and walked aft without making any reply. One passenger after another stole a furtive glance at the inquirer but failed to make him ont, and so gave him up. It took some little work to get the talk taa chinery to run smoothly again alter this derangement but at length a conversation sprang up about the important and jealously guarded instrument, a ship's time keeper, its exceeding delicate ao curacy, and the wreck and destruction that have sometimes resulted from its v* rying a few seemingly trifling moments from the true time then, in due course my comrade, the reverend, got off on a yarn, with a fair wind and everything drawing. It was a true story, tuo about Captain Rounceville's shipwreck— true in every detail. It was to this effect

Captain Rounceville's vessel was lost in mid*Atlantic, and likewise his wife and his two little children. Captain Rounoeville and sevet seamen escaped with life, bat with little else. A small, rudely constructed raft was their home for eight days. They had neither provisions nor water. Thev had scarcely »i:y clothing no one had a coat but the captain. Tnis coat was changing hand* all the time, for the weather was very cold. Whenever a man became exhaust ed with the oold,they put the coat en him and laid him down between two shipmates until the garment and their bodies had warmed life into him again. Among the sailors was a Portuguese, who knew no English. He se^ti.-d to have no thought of his own calamity, but a as concerned only about the captain's bitter lost of wife and children. By day, he would look dumb compassion in the captian'sface and by night, in tbe darkness and driving spray and rain, he would seek ont the captain and try to comfort him with caressing pats on the shoulder. One day, when hunger and thirst were malting their sure inroads upon the men's strength and spirits a floating barrel was' seen at a distance. It seemed a great find, for doubtless it contained food of some sort. A brave fel low swam to it, and after long and ex hausting effort got it to the raft. It was eagerly opened. It was a barrel of magnesia! On the flfth day an onion was spied. A sailor swam off and got it. Al« though perishing with hunger, he brought it in its integrity and pat it into the captain's haul The history of the sei teaches that among starving, ship-wreck-ed men, selfishness ii rare, and a wondercompelling magnanimity the rale. The onion was equally divided into eight parts, and eaten with deep thanksgiving.

On the eighth day a distant ship wasr sighted. Attempts were made to hoist sn oar, with Captain Ronneeville's coat on it for a signal. There were many failures, for tbe men were but skeletons now, and. strengthless. At last success was achieved, but the signal brought no help. The ship taded oat of sight, and left despair behind her. and by another ship appeared, and passed so near that" the caatawaya, every eye eloquent with gratitude, made ready tt welcome the boat that would be sent •o save them, fyit this ship also drove, on, and left these men staring their unutterable surprise and dismay into each other's ashen faces. Late in the day still another ship came op out of the distance, but the men noted with a pang that her course was one which would not bring her nearer. 1 heir remnant of life wnn nearly spent their lips and tongues were swollen, parched, with eight days' thirst their bodies starved, and here was their last dhance gliding recklessly from them they would not be alive wh*n the nex, sun arote. For a day or two past the men had lost their voices, but now Captain Rouncevilie whispered, "Let us pray." The Portuguese patted him on the shoulder in sign cf deep approvat.. All knelt at the base of the oar that wa«: waving the signal-coat aloft, and bowed their heads. The sea was tossing the sun rested, a red, ruyless disk, on the sea-4 line in the west When the men presently raised their heads they would have roared a hallelujah if they had hsd a voicej the ship's Bails lay wrinkled and flapping against her masts, she was going about! Here was reicue at last, and in tbe very last instant of time that was left for it. No, not rescue yet—only 1 he imminent prospect of it. The red disk sank under tne sea and darkness blotted out the ship. By and by came a pleasant sound,—oars moving in a boat's row-", locks. Nearer it came, and nearer,—--within thirty steps, but nothing visible.'. And then a deep voice: "Hol-lo!" The castaways eoula not answer their swollen tongues refused voice. The boat skirted round and round the raft, started awny„ —the agony of it!—returned, rested the oars, close at hand, listening no doubt." The deep voice again: "Hal-lo! Where are ye shipmate-?" Captain Rouncevilie, whispered to bis men, saying: "Whisper your best, boys, now—all at once!"So they sent out an eight-fold whisper in hoarse accent "Here!" there was life in it if they succeeded death if it failed. After that supreme moment Captain Rouncevilie was conseious of nothing, until he came to himself ou board the saving ship. Slid the Reverend, concluding,— "There was one little moment of time in which that raft could be visible fromthat she had only one. If that little fleeting mandent had passed unfruitful, those whom doom was sealed. As closed that do God shave events foreordained from the beginning of the world.' When the sun reached the water's edge that

(day,

the captain of that 1.1 w*»

fitting on deck reading his pray book Tne book fell: he stooped to pick it up ,, and happened to glance aitbesur.. In, tt iurtau. inni far off raft appealed a sec nd iiga.'nst ihe red disk, iiwuteuielike oar and diminutive signal cut sharp and brigat against the surface, and ir the next inrtant was thrust away into the dusk again. But that »hip, thai captain, and that pregnant instant had had theiit work appointed for them in tbe dawn of time aua could not fail of the performance The chronometer of God nevm* err* I"

There was deep, thoughtful silence for some moments. Then the grave, pale youug man said—

What is the chronometer of God?"

The Value of Man's Opinion of Woman's Dress.

[Clarence Cook, on "Tegas and Togxory Scrlbner for October. The truth seems to be, that the taste of men in the matter ol women's dress is often better worth consulting than"' women will allow itto.be. Sometimes' when they are very much in love wi.h a man, they will wear what they think wilUr please him. Tennyson's angry lover

"Saw with half unconscious eye She wore the colors be approved. But, as a rule, they make no such concessions. But then, I will admit that men are very irritating in their criticism, and most of them do not know when to Btop. The tirades of the midiseval preacbers agalnst the dress of the women of their time are amusing reading nowa days, and even the upbraiding* ol the old Hebrew prophets would be fur less terrible to our ears than they are if they were not rolled out in such a-rich vocabulary. (Isaiah iii. 18-24.) Certainly, there is no profanity t«-day in smiling over Latimer's rebuke to the women ot, nis London for what looked to him like absurdity in their dress, and for the pleasure they took, and the time and money they wasted, in tiring themselves. 1 But from Jbsish down to Savonarola,^ what real good did all these ratings do?. No woman ever minded them for any length of time, or changed a fashion, or gave up an alMurdihr in dreaa until ahe was ready to do so of her own sweet will.

But for all their dislike of Betties, women may remember that all their, stuffs are devised, and all tbe patterns of. those stuffs designed, by men that almost^ all the new fashions originate with men: and that the great Parisian arbiter of their fate is a man, and, for all they despise English taste, an Englishman born, and trained to his work in England. Whv not compromise on the subject, and aumitl that men and women need to work together in this as in many other things, and that each needs tbe ether's help if a I good result is to be attained?

The help of artists too is often of great value, and, if accepted, may lead to important revolutions. I believe the colors that have been so fashionable for several years—the new shades of green, blue, red snd all the odd intermediate combinations—are directly owing to the so-called pre-Raphaelite painters in England—to them and to their scholars and follower^ who first had stuffs dyed in colors to snit themselves, then persuaded their wives and aisters to wear dresses made of these materials and devised by themselves, and finally came to control the manufactureof stuffs that would take the folds they liked. From the families of these artista the taste they hsd cultivated spread to their friends, then overflowed into the artistic world, and becoming the fashion, was strong enoogh to make a decided mark npon trade and manufactures, so that nowadays there is scarcely a beautiful material of the middle age or of the renaissance time that vou cannot get in England made with all the old perfections and with all the old beauty.