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iRAL BAEE,EditoeakiPbopbietob TUESDAY, SEPT. 14, 1897. SUBSOBIPTION BATES. One Year, cash in advance, Six Months, cash in advance 75 Cents EnteredattheNorthPIatte(Nebra$ka)po8tofflceas a econd-claBS matter. REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET. For Judge of the Supreme Court, A. M. POST. For University Regents. C. V. KAXiEY, J. N. DRYDEN. MEETING OF CENTBAL COMMITTEE. The members of the Republican County Central Committee are re quested to meet in JSorth Platte at the office of French & Baldwin on Saturday, Sept. 18, 1S97, at one o'clock p. m., to transactsuch bus iness as may come before the com mittee. A full attendance of mem bers is desired. Geo. E. French, Chnin. Geo. E. Prosser, Sec'y. The populist farmers of Lincoln county who last year so strenuous ly denied that supply and demand cut any figure in the price of wheat, are keeping- their mouths shut and selling- their wheat for nearly double what they received last 3'ear. Men intimately acquainted with M. H. Holcomb question his qualifi cations for the position of county treasurer and it was from such source that we learned of his lack of cleri cal ability, to which mere reference was made a week ago. The popu list organ has not, however, offered any proof as to Mr. Holcomb's ability. With but one exception, not a republican has announced himself as a candidate for county office, and this, too, in a year when repub lican success is brighter than it has been for six years past. This effectually refutes the charge of the populists that the republicans area body of office-seeekers. The Keliher-Holcomb-Haultman-Buchanan political trust froze out the other candidates in the popu list convention as easily as the Standard Oil Co. freezes out the less important oil producers. It now remains to be seen whether the populists of Lincoln county are more favorable to political combines and trusts than they are to finan cial or business combines. The McKinley calamity which the silver shriekers and free-trade mourners were predicting seems to have come the latest report of the comptroller of the currency shows the indivduai deposits in the nation al banks to 'be only 51,770,480,563. But as this is the largest ever known, by several millions, the country is anxiously waiting for more of that same brand of calam ity. Judge Neville, who was nomi nated for supreme judge by the populist state convention and then thrown over the transom to further the democratic scheme, takes his medicine as though he had always been accustomed to a diet of crow. As a matter of fact he as good as admits that the populist party is fulfilling- manifest destiny in permitting- itself to be swal lowed by the democracy. Hub. Without waiting" to learn who the republicans will nominate for sheriff, Tim Keiher acknowledges that he has on hands the fight of his life. It is surmised that in this campaign Mr. Keliher will be per fectly willing to barter the re mainder of the populist ticket if by so doing he can save himself. He is a pretty shrewd politician and his shrewdness will not benefit the other fellows on the populist ticket. They will do well to watch Tim. It is learned that a number of leading democrats of the city and county have received letters from the state fusion headquarters inti mating that they must withdraw the democratic-ticket in this county or else make some arrangement for a fusion with the populists of the county. It remains to be seen whether the democrats of the coun ty will do the bidding- of the demo pop state ring-, of which the very good Si Holcomb is the reputed head. Senator Foraker speaks confi dently of the probabilities of the success of the republican party in Ohio this fall. The Senator says the situation has changed wonder fully within 'the last few months, and that while there was some doubt before congress adjourned of a. big republican victory, there is none now. It has been very quiet in the state for some weeks, but next Saturday the campaign will open with a flourish, and all the prominent republicans will speak at various, meetinra. HOT WOBDS OF WAE STIRRING SENTENCES SPOKEN IN THE HEAT OF BATTLE. . Cassar's Epigrammatic Ballet!? Xapo- leon's Pithy Saylnps Laconic Beman&s "For Surrender Putnam's Postscript. Americaa Phrases That Will Live. Copyright. 1E97, by American Press Asso ciation, .book rights reserveu.j JESAR'S famous epigram, "Veni, vidi, vici, " was not spoken to ag crandize the greatness of tho .Roman arms, but to signify the dis patch with which the great cou queror overthrow the army and kingdom of Pon tns at the battle of Zela. The very hour when he met tho enemy he attaoked and de feated him. Perry's cele brated dispatch to General Harrison an nonnciug his victory on Lake Erie was equally brief aud pointed, "We have met the enemy, and they are ours. Tnrenno accounted for the brevity of his dispatch announcing tho defeat of the Spaniards at Dunkirk. Said he "Tho eneinv came, was beaten. 1 am tired. Good night." It was necessary for Snvaroff to im prove somewhat upon Caesar, for Su varoff was not the empire, and, in fact, not verv well known personally to the Empress Catherine to whom he wrote: "Hurrah! Prague! Snvaroff!" Cather ine answered: "Bravo! Field marshal! Catherine." That is to say: "Good for you! I promote you field marshal." Sir Gbarles Napier still further improved upon the brevity anu produced a puu when ho announced the victory over the Iudiau provinco of Scinde. Tho ono word "Peccavi," meaning sinned," with his signature "I Lavo attached, was his dispatch to the war office, Napoleon set the fashion of laconic terms, and one of his generals demand ed the surrender of Saragossa in a note of four words. He wrote: "Headquar ters, Santa Eugrazia. Capitulation." Tho Spanish General Palafox, not to be outdone, answered: "Headquarters, Saragossa. War to tho knife." Of pithy correspondence relating to surrender there were several notable examples during the civil war. Grant's terms to Buckncr at Donelson, "Un conditional surrender," lose half their force when shorn of the sentence im mediately following, "I proposo to move immediately upon your works." Corse's famous signal dispatch from Allatooua Pass to Sherman, "I am short a cheek bono and an car, but am able to whip all h 1 yet," is a very talcing ono for popular fancy on account of the blue sting in its tail, but it was only what might have been expected from a man who, when summoned fo surrender at five minutes' notice in or der to "avoid :i needless effusion of blood," answered, "We are prepared for the 'needless effusion of blood' whenever it is agreeable to yon." Foremost among dispatches with a business ring stands tho telegram, "If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot!" sent by General John A. Dix on Jan. 29, 1801. to Lieutenant Caldwell iu New Orleans There was no war going on at tho time, hut those words cm bodied the spirit cf the northern people as afterward displayed on tho battle field. It was an American statcsmau, Charles Cotesworth Pinckuey, who said, ".Millions for defense, but not one cent for tributv!" aud a German who in vented the term "blocd and iron" a3 a synonym fcr war. Bismarck declared in 1800 that Prussia's wrougs must bo righted, "not by speeches and rcsoln tious, but by blood and iron." Nelson's signal to tho fleet at Trafal gar, "England expects every man to do his duty," stands at tho head of battle watchwords. "Put your trust in God and keep your powder dry," has been placed in the mouths of man 7 American generals of the old Conti nental stamp. It is a good phrase even when second handed and was used by Cromwell. Napoleon stimulated the flagging spirits of his soldiers in Egypt by saying, "From tho summit of you pyramids 40 centuries look down upon you!" Wellington might not have said "Up, guards, aud at them!" at Waterloo, as some say aud others deny, but he was with tho guards the very moment when they arose and dashed at the French, putting in that blow which most of all decided Waterloo. Sheridan said to his retreating men at Cedar Creek, "We must face tho other way aud recover our camp, words more enective than the "terrible oath" which tho poet places in his mouth and the real ones used at the time. There wasn't time for a choice of words when Farragut ex claimed: "D n tho torpedoes! Go ahead!" iu the heat of battle in Mobile bay. It is no disparagement to the memory of the gallant Lawrence to say that he used the words, "Do not give up the Ehip!" in the delirium of despair after the fight was lost, for he had eclipsed that phrase some time before iu shouting to his men as ho was car ried wounded below, "Fight her the Shannon till she strikes or sinks!" Coined iu the heat of battle were phrases that have done duty oil many battlefields and will to the end of time. "I have not yet begun to fight," said Paul Jones to the captain of the Ser apis, who asked the Yankee viking if he had struck his colors. ' 'Courage, my friends; the ball which is to bill me is not yet cast," said Napoleon when ap pealed to to retire from an exposed posi tion in battle. Once, in Egypt, he said, "It is not written on high that I am to perish by the hands of the Arabs." To an officer whom he saw dodging he ex claimed, "My friend, if that ball were destinedfor yon it would be sure to find you were you to burrow 100 feet under ground." A similar thought was Nel son's when -he said, "The bullet which kills me will have on it "Horatio Nel son, his with speed." The phrase, "We mnsi beat the red coats or Molly Stark's a widow," is not adapted for repetition, but Prescott's caution to the raw Continentals at I Bunker Hill, "Wait till you sep the j John Cranston 90S Hamshire Street whites of the eyes of your enemies, and Quincy, HI., writes; I bave-found Bal then fire at their waistbands," has dono j lard's Horehound Syrup superior to any dutv again and again, Wq'b ntfhipcf. o,TiK! h wh n . u: uLi :,;:r "";rr 1 not the" occasion, the' man is stamped upon them. "I propose to fight it out on this lino if it takes all summer," wrote Grant to the secretary of war. "I'll find a way or make one," was Hannibal's motto when he set out to cross the Alps. When .Marshal MacMahon was warned that the captured fortress of Alalakoff might be blown up by the Russians to rob him of his victory, ho replied: "I am here. I shall remain here." Wallenstein said at Stralsund, will have tho city thongh it were bound with chains of adamant to heaven." t I a . . . "uities are not tauen by sitting in tents," said Gustavus Adolphus. "All is lost save honor, " said Francis I at Pavia and Napoleon after Waterloo. iniup or juaceaon was tola that a certain city was impregnable. "Is there not a pathway to it wide enongh for an ass laden with gold?" "I'll storm h 1 if you'll only plan it," sits naturally on the lips of ".Mad" Anthony Wayne, addressing a Washing ton. The great war maxims have been varied by usage, and the origin of many is now obscure. "Money is the sinews of war," was used by Cicero. In both German and French maxims it stands, "War de mands three things money, money, money." "God fights on tho heaviest sido of the battalions, " i3 attributed to Mme. de Sevigue, to Napoleon, Moreau and Charles Lee. The great Tilly demanded "a bright musket, but a ragged soldier." Snvaroff Eaid, "The ball is a fool; tho bayonet is a hero." Louis XIV ordered engraved upon his cannon the legend, "Thojast argument of kings. " Frederick the Great used tho same idea. "Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable argument of the rights of kings," wrote he to Prince Henry. Cromwell said, "A man of war is the best embassador." "When the enemy is making a false move, bo careful not to interrupt him," was Napoleon's order to Soult when about to charge homo at Austerlitz. Iu tho rude phraseology of General For rest, success iu war lies in "gettiu thar fust with tho most men." When warned that the enemy was coming up on his rear, he exclaimed, "Well, if we turn round won't we bo on their rar?" Chevalier Bayard said, "No placo is weak whero thero are men capablo of defending it." The motto, "Tho Old Guard dies, but never surrenders," has inspired many a phalanx to forlorn resistance. When the wounded captive Colonel Morrow was asked why his regiment, tho Twenty fourth Michigan, preferred annihilation to surrender, ho replied, "Wo caine here to fight, uot to.surrender. " "There stands Jackson like a stoue wall," was spoken when Jacksou'd brigade stood in an immovable lino amid the wavering aud retreating troops at tho first battle of Bull Run. The last words of the two most noted spies 01 the Kevoinuou have the true ring of soldiers face to face with certain death. Even the British must admire the firmness of Captain Hale, who said at the gallows, "I only regret that I have but oue life to lose for my coun try!" When Major Andre was asked by his executioners if ho had auy request to make, ho said, "Nothing but to' request you to'witneES to the world that I die like a brave mau." There was a spy incident of tho Revo lution which exhibits the Roman firin. uess of a typical Continental hero. When General Israel Putnam was in charge of the defense of the highlands of tho Hudson, his soldiers caught a British lieutenant lurking in their camp. The late 01 all spies was to no meted out to him, but the British, not recognizing any sovereign power in America, claimed that the revolutionists could not execute spies legally, accord ing to the laws of war. When General Gliutou, the British commauder at New York, learned of tho capture of one of his officers by Putnam and the fate that awaited him, he sent a messago to Put nam's headquarters at Peekskill threat ening terrible thiug3 iu retaliation for any injury done to tho person of the king's liege subject, Edmund Palmer. While tho bearer of tho flag of truce was waiting, Putnam dashed off this dis patch, probably the ouly ouo of its kind in all the history of war: HKAhQCARTEits, 7 Aug., 1777. Edmund Palmer, nn officer in tho enemy's service, wns taken as a spy lurking within our lines. He lias been tried :is a spy, condemned ns a spy and shall be executed as a xiiy, uud the flag is ordered to depart immediately. Israel Putnam. P. S. He has accordingly been executed. Andrew Jackson left a legacy in his 'By the eternal!" aud Zachary Taylor ives in history as the general who didn't stop to couut the Mexicans," but went at them, and in the heat of the battle shouted, "A little more grape, Captain iSragg! ' Why not sim- ply "moro gmpp?" Because just a lit tle would do the busiuess, and cood powder and ball should not be wasted. Geokge L. Hilmek. A Hard Death. Blobbs Poor -Tones died hard. Slobbs How so? Blobbs He was frozen to death in the arctic regions. Up to Date. Big Difference. "What!" said the judge. "You expect me to send your husband to prison when you acknowledge that you threw five flatirons at him and he only threw ono at you?" "Yes; that's all right judge," said the irate Irish woman, "but then the one he threw hit me. " Harper's Bazar Singers, actors and public speakers since the introduction of the electric ight have less trouble with their voices nd are less likely to catch cold, their hroats aro not so parched and they feel better. This is duo to the air being less vitiated and the temperature more even. What a Prominent Insurance Man Savs. II. M. Blossom, senior member of 11. M. Blossom & Co , 217 N. 3d St., St Louis, writes: I had been left with a very distressing cough, tho result of in fluenza, which nothing seemed to re lieve, until I took Ballard's Horehound Syrup. One bottle completely cured me. I sent one bottle to my sister who , had a severe cough, and she found im mediate relief. I alwaj's recommend this svmn to mv friends. other cough medicine 1 have ever known. It never disappoints. Price 2o and 50c. sold by The North pia Platte Pharmacy, THEIR QUEER WAY. ACTORS AND SINGERS AND THEIR REMARKS ON THE CRITIC. Callous Indifference or Ignorance the Com monest Refuge of the Artbvtlo Nature. Several Cases Cited by the Innocent He- porter. "There are many amusing things about tho artistic temperament, " said, the innocent reporter, "but you have to know the disposition in order to tell how funny they really are. You must know enough not to believe them al ways and theu through all your inter course with the professionals thero will flow an accompaniment of easy humor that gives acquaintance with these per sons an added pleasure. One charming incident of this can always bo found in their views of what the newspapers say about them. Mrs. James Brown Potter is the enly woman I ever saw who talked frankly about that subject '' 'So long as they don't ignore me,' she said, 'I don't caro what they write. Let them say anything so leng as they say it, but it would bo horiiblo to be left alone. ' "That was a very truthful statement of her own opinions and almost un paralleled in its frankness. Everybody knows that Mrs. Potter has never had very much to thank the newspapers for that was really pleasant, but she had plenty to be grateful for as long as she was willing they shonld print anything if it kept her in the public eyo. ".almost as genuine was a young American singer who came back here after sho had made a debut and seme little reputation in Europe. She was n pretty woman and she had a good vcicc, but she was unfortunate. Once she had a sore throat and another time sho was out cf condition fcr tome other reason At all events she was never in condi tion to do herself justice. So there was nothing pleasant that, even with the kindest intent iens, the newspapers could say abont the 3oung woman. One night toward the close of the season she was in a grand tier box at tho opera house. uuring ono or tec cutr actes sno was walking about the foyer with a friend, aud halted in frcnt cf the grecurcom 'What is that room?' her friend asked. naming nerseu aeiiuerateiy in front of tho partly cpened curtains, she saicrin a voice audible to every man in tho room, Oh, that is tho placo they go to write, in the most disagreeable way they cau, the most disagreeablo things they can think of about you.' The younger singer was unjust, but she had no false vanity. Sho was willing to have it knewn that she read what tho newspapers said about her. Her moro illustrious colleagues are uot always so willing to admit that. "1 have heard Mile. Calve pretest that she never saw any newspaper but tho Paris Figaro, and declare that sho really had not tho slightest idea what New York papers wrote about her. She said this one day while waiting cntsido cf Maurico Grau's office at the Metro politan, and then turning suddenly to a reporter standing near her asked if he was the man that wrote she had signed a contract to give some concerts at 2,000 a night when she was really to receive $2,200. The man did net un derstand French, so Mile. Calvc's com panion translated the question into English. The man replied thatheiep resented another newspaper, and when she tumcd this into French fcr Mile. Calve sho mentioned the name cf the newspaper from which she hr.d had translated tho dreadfully erroneous paragraph which had led the public to believe that Mile. Calvo had consented to take 200 less than she was to get. "Mine. Eames has an indicated in- dirrerenco lor what tne newspapers say which is sometimes a little bit difficult to reconcile with her intimate knowl edge of what they publish about her Mme. Melba is also familiar with them, and sho is a little less averse to having that fact known than Mme. Eames is. It is well known that Mme Nordica takes her press clippings with her coffee, aud sho makes no bones cf it. Jeuu do Rcszke is a regular reader of what the newspapers have to .'ay about him, aud, whatever he may think abont it in reality, ho never, but in one instance, took any notice cf it PJauccn enjoys reading tho agrceablo things that aro written about him and doesn't caro who knows it Only tho women profess to be wholly ignorant cf what the uewspapers write. "With tho actresses tho case is very much the same. The celebrated foreign ers, according to their own accounts, arc quite nnacquaiuted with anything that tho American press may write abcut them. Agnes Scima said that she did not intend to read any of the crit icisms of her work until she started home on the steamer it didn't lake a conversation cf more than three min utes to show that sho had a fairly ac curate knowledge of everything that had been printed about her It must have been seme Eiipeiior sort of clair voyance that is possible only to the ar tistic temperament, for hadn't she said that none of them would be read until- sho had got on tho steamer to go to En rope? Sarah Bernhardt has them all translated to her aud accompanies tho performance with more or less emphatic reflections on tho intelligence of the writers who do not agiee with her own ideas of what she does It is said that the atmosphere of the Hoffman House was heavily charged with brimstone for several days after Mme. Sarah had the New York accounts of her performance of 'Magda read aloud to her in Eng lish. When the American actois read unfavcrablo accounts of themselves, they are always able to tell how they came- to be written. There is always some specific cause for everything unfa vorable. Either they snubbed th. writer accidentally or said something disagree able about him to ouo of his friends. There is never any explanation beyond their bold truthfulness fcr the flatteriug notices that appear. "ilnw York Suu. Effect of Diet Upou History. An eminent German scientist, refer ring to human history, asserts that we may trace the cause cf many evils in the dietetic character of the people. The rejection of flesh-would give a new direction to human culture and indus try. Agriculture would be greatly de veloped. Tho numerous diseases now traceable to a flesh diet would disap pear, and with them theinanifold cruel ties of the slaughter house. TV.e espouse of living would be greatly reduced, and thus tho poorer classes-would be "ele vated. . Awarded Highest Honors World's Fair, Gold Medal, Midwinter Fair. BR,- CREAM BAKING A Pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. 40 YEARS THE STANDARD. WOMAN AND MUSIC. The Two Arc Uonnd Together la All Up to Unto Education. If n few years ago music had been de clared to be as necessary in education as in mathematics or physics, the state meut would have been received with amazement, if not with derision. The early aim of common school education was tho makiug of practical men and women, and by "practical" was meant a preparation tor tne ordinary oread winning affairs of life. Not that the moral sido of education was iguoxed, but it was believed that the three R's and the hard and fast sciences, together with a general indorsement of religion aud good ethics, were sufficient factors in character building and all that the schools should supply. Music, litera ture and drawing, if they found any placo in the curriculum, were merely incidents that were not sufficiently practical to be requisites, nor was their mere subtle and potent influence on the character and the higher development of the mind appreciated or perceived. Ornamental they might be, but they were not believed to be useful; Only a visionary sentimentality considered these arts as necessary to public educa tion. Today art, in a broad sense, occu pies a far higher place in the regard of every educator of note and cf every man who is alivo to tho interests of well balanced and symmetrical educa tion. In fact, the art influence in edu cation is coming to bo adequately ap preciated, aud art is no longer considered au incident in life, but rather the real ity itself. Wo aro not attempting to detract frcm tho nobility of labor. That educa tion which founds industries, which adds to the comfort of mankind, which makes possible the cultivation cf live arts, we must recognize, uphold and ad mire, but that education which tells us'wo are not altogether commercial machines; that to lovo something for its innate beauty and not for its pecuniary wcrth is wise and geeds that by loving harmony of sound we may come to love harmony of deeds; that tones which speck to us of others' Forrows, making U3 forget self, may te of more worth in the end than much positive science such education we are begin ning to revere aud to sco in it the most practical method of developing sweeter women and nobler men. Philadelphia Times. TOMMY ATKINS' VANITY. Curls His Kacgrs and Tads tits Chest, So ThLj Wiltcr Avers. "You'd hardly credit the vanity of some soldiers, " Faid a sergeant major of the guards. "Thr.t perfect curl which yen see cn lcrcmy's tcrehcad is mere often than not the icsult cf an hour's persuasion with hair cil aud a pair of curling tcngs. Nearly all soldiers are dandies iu this way. They use expen sive nair cils and i.omaccs verv olteu 'curlers,' tho same as those used by women. "When they have cilcd and brushed and Lrnshcd and oiled, the curling tcngs put the final 'shape' cn. Any sol dier who is a clever curl maker and who cares to do so can earn a few shillings extra weekly by putties his services at the disposal cf these lastid jous young men. Tommy is uot quite to particular over his boots, bet very nearly so. The fastidious soldier decs net demur at Is. (id. a pound fcr fresh Luttcr, Lcr an oc casional 2 chillirss for a deer's bene, to 'tone down' the leather with. "Most Tommies wiathfully declare that chest padniug is a fabrication, but I can assure you that it is dene. Cav alrymen in many crack regimcnt3 are much more vain than women. Their mustaches are trained, many of them use face rowdtr, and so ptrfect aud beautiful do their trcuseis fit that they dare not sit down cr bend tl.c Lrc y witncut extreme caution lo add a charm to their walk the steel rcwcls are taken out of their spurs r.ud t;ived' sixpences inserted instead, the result cf whicn is a lively musical jingle." Loudon Answer? bplencp oil Urnlng, Tho following extract is from Have lock Ellis' book, "Man and Woman:" "Again, untij quite recent times it has over and over agajp been emphatr jcally stated by brain anatomists that the frontal region is relatively larger in men, tho parietal in women. This conclusion is now beginning to be re garded as the reverse of tho truth, but we have to recognize that it was in evitable. It was firmly believed that the frontal region is the seat of all the highest and most abstract intellectual processes, and if on examining a dozen or two braii.s an auatomist found him self lauded iu the conclusion that the frontal region is relatively larger in women, the probability is that he would feel that he hat reached a con clusion that was absurd. It may in deed be said that it is only since it has become known that the frontal region of the brain is of greater relative extent in the ape than it is in man and has no special connection with the higher in tellectual processes that it has become possiblo to recognize the fact that that region is relatively more extensive in wou:eu. A Sound Liver Makes a Well Man. Are you bilhous, constipated or troubled with jaundice, sick-headache bad taste in mouth, foul breath, coated tongue, dyspepsia, indigestion, hot dry skin pain in back and between the shoulders, chill and fever &c. It you have and of theeo symtoms. your liver is out of order and slowly being poisoned, because your liver does not act promptly Herbine will cure any disorder of the hver, stomach or bowels. It has no equal as liver modicino. Price 75 cents. Free trial bottle at North Platte Phar J. B. Bu6h, Mgr. . WEALTH OF ANCIENTS THE ENORMOUS SUMS THEY ACCU MULATED AND SPENT. Potentates Who Disposed of Anneal In comes Reaching Into tho Millions Im mense Works of Art and Skill Carried Out by These Itulcrs. It wculd be polite fiction to assert that everybody who Icoks upon tho great monuments of antiquity tho pyramids or the Coliseum, for example thinks cf the cost and wonders whero the money came from. But when, by chance, a learned person suggests the inquiry only an idiot fails to be Etruck for a moment. It is so curious that while modern states, with all the ac cumulated wealth of the antique world at their back, and tho treasures of Mexi co, California, Australia, tho Transvaal in addition, havo to consider ways and means with anxious care before build ing a government office, the early mon nrchs raised palaces and temples by tho hundred at will. The thoughtless have a ready explanation slave labor did it all. But, in the first place, tho slaves had to be procured somehow by war or purchase and either means was expen sive. There is, a reply to that objection equally facile tho war paid its own cost in loot. But this only leads us a step backward. The loot must have been enormous, and where did it come from? In the second place, those slaves had to be fed, and, however cheap their ra tions, the sum total must have been im mense when such vast numbers were employed. But captives of war could only do rough work. They might build tho Col iseum or the pyramids, directed by an army of skilled craftsmen. But the sculpture of Assyrian palaces, the paint ing of Egyptian temples and tombs, must have been effected by artists, probably free, or, if slaves, trained at great ex penso. When we read that tho city of Dur Sarguuu was created on an empty plain, Dy oraer or tne King, m eigne years, standing on a mound of brick TOO acres in area, its walls CO feet high, broad enough for seven chariots to run abreast, and faced with stone, all the evidence is needed to make ns credit tho storv. but the marvel becomes far greater when we observe the miles of scnlptured stono that decorated Sargon's palaco with colossal bulls on each sido of every doorway. No uupracticed hand carved thoso reliefs. They are the work of art ists. Were all the sculptors cf the em pire summoned to this task, to be fin ished in eight years? But the tombs of private individuals in Egypt must have been painted, at the ccst of the family, by masters of the craft. Animals and birds show a skill not to be surpassed. We may be quite Euro that work like this was highly paid by comparison, that is, with slave labor. So the question recurs, How much gold and silver did theso ancients pos sess? In the liomau time men appear to have been strfick with tho evidence of vast wealth displayed by their predeces sors, such as the Ca?sars could not equal. But they escaped the difficulty with ease by granting them riches literally beyond tho dreams of avarice. Dr. Ar- buthnot, for example, has patiently reckoned up tho amouut of treasure leaped upon tho pile cf Sardauapalus by Athenajns, and he finds that it came to 10,953, 120, COO in our money at the east, for if a computation which Athe- usecs himself suggests be admitted tbo total would be about twice as large. After this tho statement of Diodorus that the Pharaohs counted upon a reve nue of 133,000,000 annually from gold mines iu the Bishan desert and drew an equal sum by taxation is very mod erate. But when the same most valua ble writer who talked uonsenso only when he repeated the words of other men comes to deal with Babylon he lets himself go. There was a gold statue of Zeus (the Greek assigned his own gods to Babylon as usual) 40 feet high; of Rhea equally tall, with a lion of gold at each knee and silver serpents to correspond; Juno weighed 500 talents; in front of her was a golden table, 500 talents, upon which stood two cup., 300 talents each, and three bowls, J.200, GOO and GOO talents. These orna ments of a single temple represented about 11,000,000, and the building was covered with gold plates. It has been calculated that the statuo of Nebuchadnezzar mentioned iu Dauiel Would be worth 3,500,000; that the treasure left by David amounted to ijou.uuu.uuu m gold, auu,0U0,U00 m silver, but tho value of the Hebrew tal eut is donbtfnl We are told that Pyth eus, seemingly a private geutlcirau cf Phrygia, entertained Xerxes rnd all his prmy, ''with most sumptuous feasts," tec and then had 4,770,000 left, or, as some compute, 3,G00, .0 The tale of Alexander's loct is meat woudcrfal of all, aud that is historic. If wo enter tain doubts, it is futile to express them when the statements aro so clear and the mcr ns cf disproving them absent In tho Persian camp, then, and at Baby ion Alexander secured something like 70,000,000; at Persepolis, 18 000, 000; at Pasapuida, a trifle of 9,000,- 000; at Ecbataua, 270,000,000 say 550,000,000 And Darius carried off 9,000,000, which his murderers seized. Louden Standard. Lifo Marks Aro Indelible. We are not writing in the sand. The tide dees not wash it cut We are not painting our pictures en the canva?, pud with a brush, so that we can erase the error of yesterday or overlay it with another color today. We are writing pur lives with a chisel on the marble. and every time we strike a blow we leave a mark that is indelible. Lyman Abbott, D. D. When you buy a few yards of cloth in Japan, the merchant always unrolls the whole piece and cuts off the inside end, iu order that you may not have to take the rrt that is faded and shop worn. Tho Irobahlu Itca.sou. Mrs. Simmons They say tho sonson cf mourning Tor a dead husband is only three weeks iu Persia. Mrs. Proudflfc Dear me! Persian wom en can't look well in black. Cleveland Leader. More Terrible. Hewitt My wife was looking for n dry goods storo yesterday, and by mistake sho walked into n .caloon next door. Jcwett That was terriblo. Hewitt Yos, sho found me inside. New York Truth. the crater of rainier. Experiences of a Night on tho Suaimlt of tho Weird Mountain. Throwing ofF the lifo line, which had become almcst an intolerable burden, I scaled the pile of bare rocks and gained the rim of the crater. Tho great bowl within was deeply filled with snow, but tho black circle forming its rim could be distinctly traced. Descending the in ner slope for about 100 feet, I found a place whero Eteam was issuing from a oevice in the rocks and warmed my benumbed fingers. Scon my companions joined me, and we took refuge in one of tho many caverns that the heat of the rocks and of the escaninc steam had melted iu the lower portion of the snow and ice partially filling the crater. In these weird caverns one may descend far beyond the light of day. The white vapcrs drifting silently through the dimly lighted passages assume grotesque shapes and suggest to tho imaginative visitor that spirits of tbo time when Pluto's reign was supreme there make their homes. By melting snow in our tin cups over the cracks from which steam was issu ing wo scon had water enough with which to prepare tea. In the absence of sugar and cream a little alcohol from the supply brought for fuel was added to each cup and, proved a welcome stimulant. Making cnrselves as com fortable as pcssiblo under the circum stances, wo passed tho night in the cav ern of ice. There were no ledges bread enough to lie down on, and we were forced to stand or crouch against tho hot recks all night. Tho floor of our cavern sloped steeply aud led 'down to an ugly opening of unknown depth be tween the descending rcof of ice aud the rocks. To guard against accidents, the life lino v. as stretched across tho cavern and made fast to crags. This proved a wise precaution, as we wero able during tho night to walk up and down with the rope iu our bands and avoid the stiffness and discomfoit that ccme from remaining long in cue posi tion. Israel U. Russell in Scribuer's. Size For Size. Tho company of one of the epera houses, at tho close of a London reason, had arrived at Liverpool to embark for a continental tour. The musical instru ments were being shipped with the rear. and among them was the double taps, or "big fiddle," as it is also called, not cased as usual, for this member of tho string family will stand a little rough treatment. It scon attracted the attention of tho jack tars, three or four of whom settled round, scrutinizing it with keen inter est. By the crder of au officer they scou dispersed, but net long afterward an other blnff seaman was discovered se cretly watching it with wondering eyes. He was asked his reason for standing thus idle. "Well, yer knew," said Jack, "I'm jnst waiting for to see the length cf the bloke's arm that can play that there fiddle." Musical Anecdotes. Nature's Uattleboxes. Near New Brunswick, N. J., says Minerals, are found hollow balls, or masses, of yellow iron ore which con tain lccso particles that rattle, when shaken, like the coutents of a child's rattlebox. It is thought that when the concretions of ore were formed the cen tral parts consisted principally of some material which afterward dissolved away, so that the interior space now contains only fragments of ore aud sand. When these balls are broken, the frac tured edges sometimes show beautiful bauds of red and yellow. The Good Oat of It. Landlady I believo in letting coffee boil for 30 minutes; that's tho only way to get the goodness ont of it New Boarder ( tasting his and leaving it) You succeeded admirably, ma'am. London Fun. 3Iiltous Wives and Daughter, Of Milton's three wives and his relar tions with them enough has been writr ten. It was a hard thing to be Miltou'3 wife or Milton's daughter. He was stern, he was austere, ho was self ceijr tered; his impeccable strength was pur chased by a Eublimo and monotonous egoism, which is the name they gjyc to selfishness i.i poets. Very chill must havo been tho life of his girls in that Puritan house, reading to the iuwrapped Puritan father from languages they did net understand and taking down from his lips poetry they understood stilj less. Milton found them uudutifnl. Poor lit tle "nudntifol" daughters! Fathers had terrible conceptions cf duty iu thosp days. Did any one ever want to know Milton? Did any quo ever pqt want to know Shakespeare? Doubtless there are readers of the Exeter Hall class who wculd havo yearned for the godly com pany of the "great Christian poet." But, on the whole, how tliankfql one should bo that b'hakespearo was upt a " Christian pee 1 1 ' ' Academy. MfUche. "Here are n few letters f wish yon. would mail fcr mo, dear," said Mis. lenspot to her husband, wljo was paring to go cut prc- As Mr. Tenspot took tbenj he glanced at the stamps and asked: "My deal, why did yen. put 15, ccnt:-. stamps ou th-?c letters? Two cent stamps would have carried them." "I know it," replied Mrs. Tenspot, -"but how would a red stamp look on' envelopes cf that lovely violet shade? This, new stationery is of an exquisite, color, and I could pot think of spoiling its effect v. ith stamps which did not; haimouize These purple 5. pent stamps aro the nearest match tjjn postoffice keeps. " Harper's Bazcr. Kero and IJig Noses, Nero never liked a person with a large nose. He flippantly told the sor rowing relatives of Plautns wlipm, if is alleged, he killed that it was only on inspecting the corpse that he discov ered that Plautus had eo largo a uose, and if it had been pointed put before he would have certainly spared his lifo. "Life with such u nose," coolly added . Nero, "would have been ample penance . " for any crime. " Fair haired people aro becoming less numerous than formerly. The ancient Hebrews were a fair haired race; uow they are, with few exceptions, dark. So' it is in a lesser degree with tho Irish, among whom 150 years ago a dark haired person was almost unkuown. The most valuable sword iu England is the one presented by the Egyptians to Lord Wolseley. The hilt is set witlf brilliants, and it is valued r.t $10,000 xhl -i j E Bush, Mgr. ft