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THE FARMERS' ALLIANCE: LINCOLN, NEB., SATURDAY, JAN. 18, 1890. CONGRESSIOiVAI ..The Senate. Wabxcjotos, Jan. ia Bills were reported for publlo buUdings in St. Paul, tl,5U,000; Sioux ?ity, 1500,000 and Cedar Bapids, la., 200,000., The bill to authorize a railroad bridge across the Missouri river at a point be tween the counties of Douglas and Sarpy, in Nebraska, and the county of Pottawat tamie, In Iowa, was amended and passed. The resolution heretofore offered by Plumb respecting the lease of lands on the Islands of St. Paul and St George to the Commercial company was taken up and Plumb proceeded to address the sen ate. He said the time of the proposals for a new lease was too short, and the propo sition limiting to 60,000 the.number.of seals to be taken the first year, if not ' extraor dinary, opened a large field of conjecture, fie epofee of the preference shown the Alaska company and said that a certain Louis GoodstonA bad made a higher bid and had also offed to pay 62 cents per skin more than the Alaska Commercial company, and 55 cents per gallon for all the seal oil extracted. He said that morn than two-thirds or perhaps three-fourths of all the seals taken in the world were taken from the Alaskan isJands and the vicinity. ,cTbese skins were told at public auction In London (In their raw state) at an average of about 919 a piece. One hun dred thousand pkius at $19 a piece amounted lo $193,001). He went back to his statements to mention that in the opera tion of the lease the treasury department remitted all payments on account of oil, ro that not a dollar had been paid during these years on that account. The estimat ed production of the oil of these twenty years should have brought the government nearly $2,200,000. He believed the govern ment should get its share of the encrmou revenue derived from the lucrative trade In the lur of seals. He had no doubt that the profits of the company tad, on an avtragtv far exceeded 1,060,000 a yeai since it had the lease. He w u!d not b surprised if its profit averaged $2,i00,0m per year. Congress should o something adequate to the situation and not allow the matter to go on in such a t-ltp slide way. Days, McPherson and Stewart defende 1 the Alaska company, and the resolution was referred to the committee on finauc The action of the house upon the death of Representative Kelly was announced, whereupon the senate adjourned. Washington, Jan. 14 Among the bills r-3 ported from committees and piaced on thr calendar.were the following: To declare unlawful trusts and combina tions in restraint of trade and production Sherman's bill) ; authorizing the purchase of a site for a building for the supreme court. George offered a resolution instructing the committee en finance to inquire into the propriety of reducing the penal bond required of manufacturers of cigar i in all cases, &r at least where the manufacture is carried on by the manual labor of the man ufacturer. Referred. The resolution heretofore offered by Call in relation to the claims of Florida under the swamp land grant, and in rela tion to the alleged unlawful selection of land in Florida, were taken up and Call addressed the senate, The burden of his remarks was that lands which were not swamp and ove J flowed, but which were flc for cultivation, ha3 been selected under the swamp land act, to the injury of the people's rights. He asserted thut 2t 0,000, 000 acres h&l been selected and approved in ail the states as swamp and ovei flowed lanes, uh'le everybody knew that there was no Buch extent of territory (as large as Eur.pt consisting of swamp and over flow ei lands, over 16,l00,0u0 acres of which had teen passed in Florida und-r tjue swamp &nd overflowed land act. He as serted that 11,100,000 acres of these lands were high and dry. Plumb said Florida contained about 40, 000,000 acres, and more than one-half of this had been given by the United States to the state for various purposes. Every single acre of land so granted had been placed under control of the legislature of Florida. Some 16,000,000 or 18,000,000 acres had been granted asBwamp and overflowed lands. Senator Call had just told the sen ate that the most of it was not swamp land, but good land.- So much greater was the dereliction of the senators of the state if they had betrayed their trusts, make an imputation on that committee. With out action on the resolution the senate, after the executive session, adjourned. Washington, Jan. 15. After some peti tions were presented Sherman introduced a bill to provide for a permanent bank cir culation, f" Referred. Chandler offered a resolution, which was referred to the committee on contingent expenses, instructing the committee on in vestigation to investigate the various laws of the United States and of the several states relative to immigration ; also to in vestigate the workings of the contracts made by the secretary of the treasury. The senate then took up Morgan's reso lution recognizing ti e United States of Bra zil as a free, independent and sovereign state. The resolution went over without further action. The eenate took up the calendar and passed the following senate bills: The bill relating to homestead entries in the ndi an territory. To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri river within one mile of the mouth of the Kansas river. Appropriating $3jO,000 for the purchase of a site and the erection of a building at Washington for a hall of records. After an executive session the senate ad journed. The House. Washington, Jan. 13. Adams of Illinois, chairman 'of the Silcott investigation com mittee, submitted a report accompanied by a bill appropriating $75,000 for the pur pose of supplying the deficiency in the ap propriation' for the pay and mileage of members and delegates occasioned by the defalcation in the office of sergeant-at- arms. Two - minority reports were also submitted. They were all ordered printed in the records and recommitted. Accom panying oxe of the minority reports is a bill authorizing the members who suffered by the defalcation to bring suit against the government in the court of claims. Among the bills introduced and referred were the following: By - De Haven of Colorado Providing that public lands shall be sold only to citi zens ot the United States. 5y Fithian of Illinois A resolution di 'recting the committee on ways and means to report a' separata bill placing, lumber. salt, jute, oemp, manilla and sisal grass on ine tree list. Anderton of Kansas To define the du ties and enforce the obligations and regu late the service of railroad companies as carriers of interstate commerce. Connell For public building at Beatrice, Neb. Ly ws Fer public building at Hastings, JieD. Cummlngs of New York A joint resolu tion for the erection of a etatue to the memory of the late Samuel J. Tilden. The joint resolution read as follows: Resolved, That there be appropriated from the treasury of the United States the sum of $50,00 to erect a statue to Samuel J. Tilden, t be placed in the center ef the rotunda of the capitol; that on the tablet at the front of the base of said statue there shall be conspicuously engraved the words: "Samuel J. Tilden, Nineteenth President of the United States; elected but not seated" fapplause on the democratic side); that on the right side of the square base shall be engraved the date or the birth, electien and death of said president, and that on the opposite . side shall be engraved an eagle with a snake in his talons and under them these words: "For the Bight." Resolved, That' the president of the United Statep, chief justice of the supreme court, president of the senata and Bpeaker of the house of representatives be author ized to superintend the expenditure of the money and that a copy of these resolu tions, with the names and titles of. said dignitaries be. engraved on the rear of said . case. Sweeney of Iowa inquired whether the gentlemen expected the inscription to be in cipher. ' By Grosvenor For a military national park. This is the Chlckamauga bill, making Andrew Jackson day a nation al holiday. , . , ... The house then proceeded in committee of the whole to the consideration of the bhl to provide a town site of lands ia Ok lahoma. ' No action being taken, the committee rose and the house adjourned. Washington, Jan. 14. McKlnley, from the committee on ways and means, re ported back the bill to simplify the law re lating to the collection of revenues. Psrkina of Kansas moved that the house go into committee of the whole for the consideration of the bill to provide town site of the lands of Oklabama This was antagonized by Adam of Illin ois, who wished the house to consider the Silcott matter, and the motion was defeat ed 63 to 93. Blind demanded tellers. The friends of the Oktahama bill were ngain defeated 95 io 118, and Adams called up the Silcott re rnrt, accompanied by a bill appropriating $75,' i to reimbarse the member. Adams argued in favor of the bill, hold ing that the sergeant at. arms is a public offlosr. Hmphiil of S nth Carolina advocated the adoption of his bill permitting the members to bring suit ia the court of claims for the recovery of t ieir salaries and oppod th bill of the majority be cause he could find no statute declaring the serareant at-arms a disbursing c flicer. He thought the house Rhould not appropri ate the public money to tay deb's. HoJman contended that the fund re maining in th filce of the serjeant-at-arms, abou $83 M, should be pivided pro rata amonur the members who were losers by th defalcation. Pend ng further debate the house ad journfd. Washington, JaD. 15 Hitt of Illinois, rising to a question of privilege, read acir cular issued by the national butter, cheese and egg ofb. elation changing him with having introduced a bill for the abolition of the tax on oleomargarine He said he had been one of those who had been most interested In the passage cf what was knowit as the oleomargarine bill. He had introduced no such bill as referred to In the circular and could conceive no reason why such a circular should bo sent through out the cort wst. The charge was "with oat foundation. The house thn resumed consideration of the report ot the speeial committee to investigate th; Silcott defalcation. Stewart of Vermont argued in favor or the majority report for the appropriation to reimourse the members for their lest salaries. O.iteb of Alabama. Catchings of Missis sippi and Pays n of Illinois, also supported the mHjority report. Herbert lavored Hemphill's proposition to rer the matter to the court of claims. Mt Crae dd not believe the house shoula disgrace itself by making the appropria tion. Wike of Illinois favored the reference of the whole matter to the judiciary com naittee for judical examination. A vote was then taken on the Hemphill b 11 as a substitute for the majority bill, permitting the "nembers to sue in the court of claims. It was defeated. A vote was then taken on the bill and it was defeated yeas 16, nays 142. A motion to reconsider and a motion to lay that motion on the table were entered and then the h jus adjourned. JJeaih of Walkea Blaine. Washington, Jan. 15. Walker BlaiDe, the eldest BOi of Secretary Biaine, and solici tor of the state department, died at 8 o'clock this evening of acute pneumonia, in the thirty-fifth year of his age. Around his death-bed were Secretary Blaine, Mrs. Blaine, his brothers Emmons and James and Miss Dodge. Mr. Walker Blaine was taken ill with a cold at his office in the state department on last Friday morning and was so much indisposed that he never came to his office afterwards. At first it was thought that he had only the prevail ing influenza, but his cold developed into pneumonia which rapidly became worse He was not, however, thought to be in a critical condition until this morning, when his symptoms would not yield to treat ment. ment. During last night he was deliri ous and all day he remained in the same condition, except for a short time this aaorntng, when he appeared slightly bet ter and conscious for a brief time. The improvement, however, was but tem porary. His fever increased, his breathing became more labored, and at 3 o'clock this afternoon for the firpt time nis family seemed to realize his extreme critical con dition. A consultation of physicians was held at 4 o'clock and it was then decided that the patient was past medical aid. He continued to sink gradually, after remain iDg unconscious for nearly twenty-four hours, when the end came. The arrange ments for his funeial will be perfected to morrow. The Iowa Legislature. Des Moines, I a., Jan. 14 The legislature is still deadlocked owing to tie failure of the house to organiza. The democrats frcm all over the state are beginning to gather to see the inauguration of the first demo cratic governor in thirty-six years, but no one can tell when he will be inaugurated. Senator Allison arrived this morning and is ready to be re-elected, bub no one can tell when the legislature will be organizad and ready to elect a senator. The house held but one session today. It met at 10 a. m. and took five ballots for temporary clerk, each resulting in a tie, and tnen adjourned until tomorrow. Des Moines, Ia., Jan. 14 The first thing done in the senate this morning was the swearing in of the new members. After the introduction of a few resolutions the senate adjourned until 2 o'clock this after noon to give the democrats time to caucus on candidates for senate positions. In the afternoon the election of officers was taken up. It resulted in the election of all the republican caucus nominees, as follows: Secretary, W. R Cochrane; first assistant. U. F. Carlton; second assistant, Charles W. Beverly; enrolling blerk. Miss Lucie Young; engrossing clerk. Miss Nan nie Stull; sergeant-at-arms, Peter Melindy; bill clerk, Miss Margaret Mills; Postmis tress, Miss Maud Murray. The other minor offices are filled by the republicans. - After the passage f a number of resolu tions, adopting rules, etc., the newly elect ed officers were sworn in and a committee, consisting of Messrs. Floyd and Clyde of Mitchell, was appointed to notify the gov ernor of the permanent organization. The senate then adjourned. National Silver Committee. Washington, Jan. 15 The national exec utive committee appointed at the St. Louis silver convention met here today. A sub committee consisting of Fitch, Pixiey and Barbour was appointed to draw up the plan of work for the executive committee to pursue during tne meeting. A perma nent bureau will be established in this city to look after the interests of free coinage. The committee of five was appointed to draw up and publish an address to con gress and to the people will be in attend ance at this meeting and will probably issue its addresses immediately after con ferring with the members of the execu tive committee. The New Senator. Columbus, O., Jan. 14. Charles S. Brice was today elected United States senator receiving a majority of votes of either branch ot the legislature. The joint result of the two branohes is, Brice 'ib, Foster 66. Elected for Six Years. Annapolis, Md., Jan. 14.' The senate and house met in joint session today and re elected Ephraim K. Wilson, democrat, United States senator for a term of six years, beginning March, 1891. Nearly 43,000 sheep are being fed in the vicinity of Wood Eiver. MOTHER-LOVE. My wife, his mother, rocks him ' And braids her nut-brown hair. And smiles, and toop to fondle Our new-born son and heir, Triumphant gaze maternal! Since Eve's in paradise What raptured orbs supernal - Could match her love-ht eyes7 Their gloried glow angelic Brings Eden back again; Redeems a world's long straggles With sorrow, sin and pain. For Love can win in losing, Find victory in defeat: Knit pain-rent ties the firmw, Make all earth's Borrows swoet Not Life's onfathoraed riddle, Not Death's unnumbered graves, Can daunt the trust of manhood Jn the Mother-love that saves! A POSITIVE WOMAN. Mrs. Prindle stood in front of the pier-glass trying on a new bonnet. She was a plump little woman, with a fair, baby-like face, and no one could blame her for gazing at herself with some complacency, for the dain ty bit of millinery perched over the curly brown bang was exceedingly becoming. "There'll be nothing like it in Hutch in ville," she said to herself, with a thrill ol pride, and her fingers mean while fluttered like humming-birds among the trimmings, touching here aHower and there a loop. She was going to Hutchinville the next week for the first time since her marriage, to spend a few days with her mother, and the bonnet had been selected from Mme. Le Grande's lat est importations with a view to daz zling her rural friends. "I only hope nothing will hap pen to it before I go there," was her thought, as she turned at last from the mirror. She even denied herself the pleas ure of wearing it to church the next day, fearing a shower, for the skies were lowering. To face her city ac quaintances for one more Sunday in the bonnet that she had already worn a whole season required far less strength of mind than to take her mat in the little Hutchinville church conscious that her bonnet, robbed of its pristine freshness, was being pounced upon by every eye in the Congregation; but she could not re sist putting it on to let Jack see how he liked it. "It's pretty well up in the world," said Jack, viewing it critically, with his hands behind him; "but it seems to be the fashion in head gear nowa days. And really, on yonr head, my dear, it looks remarkably well." Mrs. Prindle preened for a moment before the class. She was almost tempted to wear it, after all, but a warning splash on the window kept her from yielding. "I won't risk it, she said; and put ting the bonnet back in its nest, she stood on tiptoe and pushed the band box in place on the upper shelf of the wardrobe, Hutchinville was a night's journey by boat, and the next day proving stormy, Mrs. Prinile, in terror of seasickness, decided to defer her trip but with the waning of the afternoon the wind suddenly shifted, the clouds pa rted and the sun burst forth like a. monarch newly crowned. If it was going to be a fair night, it would be too bad to disappoint her mother, who she knew would be looking for her the next morning, and ordering a carriage thelast moment, she hast ily gathered up her baggage and de parted. She was a methodical little woman and even forwthe short time that she was to occupy her stateroom sha wanted "a place for everything and everytlng in its place;" but on boarding the boa t she met an invalid friend who detained her for half an hour or more in the ladies' cabin, and before she could arrange her stateroom the , capricious wind had veered again., She stood for a mo ment at the window trying to per suade herself tha t there was no cause of uneasiness, but the rain was al ready driving against the deck, and the increasing roughness soon com pelled her to take ref uge in her berth. To all those on board who were predisposed to seasickness it was a night of woe, and when, the next morning, Mrs. Prindle took the stage for Hutchinville, the lit tle village being about three miles inland, she was too ex hausted to giveathonghttoher bag gage even the precious bonnet had for the moment drifted out of her mind and it was not until she alight ed at her mother's door thatthedis covery was made that the bandbox . was missing. With hasty greetings and equally hasty directions as to where to find the box, her brother Tom was dis patched on horseback to the boat, and in a disturbed state of temper and nerves Mrs. Prindle seated her self at the breakfast table. "I wouldn't worry about it, Phebe." said her mother; ''it'll be all right if you left it in the stateroom." But Tom shortly came galloping back with the information that the stateroom had beta searched in vain; not a box of any kind was to be found. "Then that maid must have taken it," Mrs. Prindle declared. "She had to go rummaging among my things last night for my bottle of salts, and I daresay the bandboxtookhereye." "More likely it slipped overboard when they were bringing your traps ashore," remarked Tom with a re pugnance to having people suspect ed. But Mrs. Prindle, convinced that the bandbox was in the waiting maid's possession, insisted on going herself to see the captain. The captain, who had just risen from breakfast when the carryall stopped at tho gate, listened to Mrs. Prin die's story with courteous pa tience. Mrs. Bates had been on the boat for thirteen years, he said, and he had never had cause to suspect, her honesty; but he was more than willing to investigate the matter. It was possible that Mrs. Bates had taken the box to her own room simply for safekeeping, he suggested. But Mrs. Bates, who had just fin ished putting in order the stateroom Mrs. Prindle had occupied, denied all knowledge of the bandbox, and was bo indignant over Mrs. Prindle's im plied suspicion that the captain had some difficulty in preventing a scene. "It's very strange," said Mrs. Prin dle, stiffly, as the captain helped her over the gang-plank. ' "A box like that couldn't have gone off without hands. Somebody must know some thing about it, and if it isn't the maid it must be some of the passengers." But all the passengers had left the boat, and Mrs. Prindle herself had to admit that to send a search warrant after them would be an unwarrant able proceeding. Beyond question the bonnet was lost and she, returned to Hutchinville feeling that the pleas ure of her visit was at an end. Even the fact that her traveling hat was a pretty fair affair, and not at all out of style, afforded her little consola tion. Still, she could have worn the the traveling hat in a more resigned state of mind had the weather been such as to make the other seem a trifle in n d vance ot the season; but from the hour of her arrival until she turned her face . homeward, scarcely a cloud marred the serene azures of the skies. The air was full of subtle hints of bursting buds, and robin songs fiilled the per fumed dawns, while up and down the streets from morning till night the merry children trundled their hoops and high above the treetops soared the inevitable kite; but to Mrs. Prin dle, bereft of her bonnet, these unmis takable signs of spring served onlv to intensity her sense of lose, and sha was scarcely sorry when the time came for her to return to town. The loss, trifling in itself, took the beauty out of the velvet lawns. Jack, like the dutiful spouse that he always proved for himself to be. was at the landing to meet her next morning, and on the way home she poured into his sympathetic ear the story of the missing bonnet. "You are sure you took it with you?" he asked when the recital was ended. "Jack! Of course I'm sure! You don't suppose I'd gone off without it after buying it on purpose to wear it when at home?" "Hardly, but never mind, dear; all you have to do is to go to Mme. Le Grand's and dublicateit," said Jack, eager to comfort her. ,"I may go to Mme. Le Grand'sand order another, but I shall not dupli cate it," said Mrs. Prindle with much dignity. "I've no wish to have my bonnet a. companion-piece to Mrs. Bates'. That woman ought to be brought to justice, and as soon as we're through breakfast, Jack, 1 want you to take a description of the bon net to some detective and put him on the watch for her." Jack barely succeeded in suppress ing a whistle "Wouldn't it be better," he be gan- but the stopping of the street car in front of their own door served to change the subject. "I feel like a famished hunter," said Jack, as he turned the latch-key. Mrs. Prindle, too was hungry, and when Jack had deposited the parcels she asked him to tell Bridget to put breakfast on the table at once. "I'll be down in a moment," she added, as she pulled out her hat pins. Jack started to obey, but before he was half-way down the stairs, a cry from Mrs. Prindle caused him to face about, and on regaining their room he found her standing in front of the wardrobe gazing in a dazed way at the upper shelf. "Jack," she whispered, huskily, "is there a bandbox up there?" "Jack seemed a little dazed. "It looks very mnch like one, my dear," he said, slowly; "but of course it is not the one you took away with you." "I'm oh, I'm afraid it is. Jack!" gasped Phebe, as Jack took down the box, "or rather I'm afraid I didn't take it, after all. I remember telling Bridget to put it with the other things in the carriage, she had my bag and umberella in her hand at the time and just then the door bell rang, so I told her to go on and I'd bring the box, and I didn't think of it again till I was at the gate and then Bridget came run ning out with something that I sup posed to be it,' and stowed it into the carriage; but now I think of it, it must have been the lunch box. Oh Jack, what a goose I've been!" "Moral," said Jack, taking tin bonnet from the band box and perch ing it on his own head. "Please don't, Jack," entreated Phebe. "Well, then, let's have breakfast," said Jack,' hungry enough to be glad of n truce. But though the subject was not al luded to again that day, whenever Mrs. Prindle shows a. disposition to be a little over-positiv?, Jack, with a masculine memory for, feminine shortcomings, mildly reminds her of the lost bonnet. Disestablishment in England. English church disestablishment is coming faster and faster to the front of political discussion by the highest authorities. At a great meeting in Glasgow recently Lord Bosebery said: "I approach the question in a spirit perhaps somewhat different from some of those who are here to night. 1 know many think that an establishment is a national injury and a national injustice. I cannot take that view altogether. I do not consider that an established church is either a necessity or an outrage. If I may say so, a church of some dis cription is a necessity for a states man, even if it were not a necessity for man himself. But of the necessity of an establishment the nation and the state itself should be sole judge. The church is a necessitv, but the es ta blishment is a superfluity. It is a superfluity in which, in my "opinion, the otate the nation has aright to indulge if it chooses; but it is a super fluity without which it can very well do ir it pleases." A RURAL OPINION. The dty gal's a queer ronsarn; -There's lot of things nhe has to lam, Thoujih she may claim with angry bene Her education's quite complete. She don't know yarbs from piwn weeds, Nor nothin' much about the feeds That's propfcrent to give the stoct. Nor how on earth to tend a flock. ' Mos' gin'rally she's skeert of bugs, And boilers if you mention slugs; And as fer cows nnd gonrs that's mild She's kinder suspcious that they're wild. She can't climb fences pood, nor trees, And she's no nse at huskin' bewj; But then, jes take her all in all. She's pnrty niee, the city gal! St. Georgo's Journal MENTAL ANGUISH. "You smoke very strong tobacco." I said to him as we passed through Tunbrhlge in the tidal train lor Folkestone. "They are strong," he replied "but they are uncommonly good. Won't you try one?" and lie opened his case, which was filled with the strongest of strong Trichinopoli cigars. But I declined. The essential oil seemed to be oozing out of them; they were black and shiny. "They must be stronger than the strongest pigtail," I remarked. "They are strong, and that's the truth." said the man with the im mense beard who had offered me the cigar; "but they are the only weed I can taste. I wish 1 hadn't smoked so much," ho said, with a groan, "it's been my greaf. misfortune." "You must have smoked very ex pensive cigars, then," I said, vith a laugh. "It wasn't the value of the cigar that once ruined me," said the beard ed man; "it was my cursed habit of smoking." "I don't quite seehow itcould have ruined you," said I, incredulously. "Don't you?" said the bearded man. "Then I'll tell you how it came about. It'll be rather a relief to me to tell the story. I'm a doctor," he began. "I didn't see that there was much good to be done by a young doctor in England competition among us medicos is very keen here, and a young man in the profession who hasn't money has little or no chance, so I went off to America to seek my for tune. You can get a good cigar in America; you have to pay for it, but you can get a good cigar. I did fairly well in New York. I took an office, as they call it, in the busi ness part of the to wn . I saw pat ients from 9 till 4, and I advertised the fact in the newspapei's, as is the cus tom in America. "I smoked all day long; I used even to smoke at meals, and I smoked while I saw my patients. They were all men, so it didn't matter. My in come exceeded my expenditure; I had crowds of friends, and I was perfectly happy until I met A urea Van Spoo', a young lady from Indiana. She was the loveliest girl I ever saw in my life; a brunette with great masses of blue-blnck hair with a wave in it, great glori ous black eyes that set your heart going pit-a-pat when they fell upon 3Tou, a little aristocratic acqui line nose, lips that were ruddy and .kissable, teeth like pearls, a charm ing delicate color that went and came with every changing thought, a rounded chin with a dear little dim ple in it; her figure was perfection, and she got her dresses from Paris. I fell madly in love with Aurea Van Spoof. The Van Spoofs came original ly from Holland; they were very rich, they were proud of their old Dutch ancestors, and they were very much respected in New York. "But Aurea Van Spoof came from Indiana; her grandfather was one ol the first settlers in that State, and her father, when alive, had represent ed the State in Congress. Aurea Van Spoof, then, to put it shortly, was a wealthy orphan of preposessing ap pearance; she was willful as well as wealthy, and, quite contrary to the wishes of her relatives, Aurea and I became engaged to be married. The only stipulation she made was that I should become an American citizen, and the onlv thing I insisted upon was that all her ,mone3r should be settled upon herself, for it was Aurea I was m !ov with and not her fortune. We went to Wayne her native place in Indiana, and there we were married, and I don't suppose there was a happier couple in the United States ot America. Still, Aurea had what is known as a 'tem per.' She hated tobacco, and I was a slave to it. "Now, in order to please Aurea, when I was paying my addresses to her I had given it up altogether; but after the honeymoon was over I al lowed myself a cigar a d-iy in the open air. and that single cigar made my pretty wife very angry indeed. She declared that a man whosmoked degraded himself below the level of the brutes. I differed with her, and, to show my independence, I started the practice of an nfter-d inner cigar. "Then Aurea remonstrated very seriously. "'Jack,' said she, 'your dreadful hab it is causing me intense mental an guish.' "'Mental auguish,' 1 replied, with a laugh; 'how can my smoking cause you mental anguish?' " 'You'll find out,' she said, mys teriously, 'if you insist upon smoking in the house.' "I continued my smoking, and for a week my wife didn't speak to me. Then 1 went for a three days' fishing excursion to a neighboring lake. When I returned home my wife had disappeared, and I was served with a. citation and a copy erf a petition for a divorce in the Indiana High Court, on the ground of my having caused my wile intense mental anguish. At first I looked upon the matter as a rather stupid kind of practical joke; but it wasn't a joke at all. I went to a lawyer and he was candid enough. "She'll gain her cauae, sir. She's a pretty woman and a Van Spoof, and she's bound to get her divorce. You can't swear you didn't smoke, and if she don't like the smell of tobacco I guess you have caused her mental anguish,' which, in this State, is legal cruelty." , : In three months the trial came off. "Aurea entered the court surroud- edbylierrelntives. We bowed distant, ly to each other, and Aurea looked na if she were going to cry. I believe if j had gone up to her and promised nev er tosmokengain all might have been well. I worshiped the very ground she walked upon, but my fooiish pride stood in my way. and I did not really believe it was possible that in any civilized country a woman could put away her husband because he smoked an after-dinner cigar, but I was soon undeceived. My lovely young wife went into the box; she Bwore to the cruelty that is to say, the mental anguish caused by the ci gar; my advocate made an impas sioned speech, in which he said that the eyes of the whole civilized world were that day watching the doings of the Indiana High Court, nnd he drew tears from the jury by his de scription of the agonies of the smok er who is not allowed to smoke. But all to no purpose. The judge was a non-smoker, and Aurea 's tears and Aurea's beauty settled the question. The jury gave their verdict that it had caused my wife intense mental anguish and the judge annulled our marriage in solemn form. "1 went back to New York. In five years I made my pile. I cam back to England nnd gave up doctoring. I never inquired after Aurea I was a great deal to angry and 1 once more became a British subject. One day I was walking through Cornwall Gardens, Kensington, when I met a servant girl who seemed in a stage of great excitement, and who spoke to me. 'Oh, sir," said she, 'where ia the nearest doctor's? I am a stranger here, and I've been sent to fetch one, and he was out, sir. and our little boy is dying.' "Perhaps I can be of use to you," I said; "I'm a doctor." "This wav, then, please, sir," cried f the girl, and she began to run, and I ran atter her. We entered a house, and I followed the servant girl up to the second floor. By the side of a little b d sat a wom an weeping bitterly, her face buried in her hands. "My professional instincts were naturally concen trated upon the occupant ot the bed, a beautiful child of 8, who was apparently at his last gasp and gradually choking to death. His face and hands were blue, his eyes were bloodshot, and his lips were al most black. There wasn't a moment to be lost. I whipped out my pen knife and improvised a tube from some Indian reeds which formed a trophy on the wall. Then 1 cut down upon the child's windpipe; I intro duced the tube and car.'lully scurd it. Within five minutes the breath ing was natural. I had snatched the child from the very jaws of death, and then I turned to the mother, who still sat sobbing at the bedside. "'Your boy will get well now, madam,' I said; 'I'm glad to have been of use to you.' I didn't take much notice of the mother. I was still gazing at the child; he was a lovely boy, and as he looked at me he smiled, and in that smile and in those great dark eyes of his there was something that seemed strange ly familiar. " 'Oh, doctor, how can I thank you?" sobbed a solt voice. "You've saved my little man's life, and he's all I have in the world. How can I thank you?' "And then I turned toward her, and my heart began to beat within my breast as if it would break the bony walls. It was Aurea, the wom an to whom I had caused 'mental an guish,' the wife who had divorced me. . "This big, bushy beard of mine was a effectual disguise. She hadn't the slightest idea, poor thing, that she was talking to the man who had been her husband. "And then she seized my hand nnd covered it with kisses in her great de light." "It was my own boy's life that I had saved. " 'You used to kiss me onthocheek, Aurea, once,' I said simply. 1 hen she sprang to her feet, gaz ed with astonished eves into my face. and fell fainting in a heap upon the noor. "You can guess theend of the sto ry," said the bearded man. "Aurea became a British subject and we were married; and by English law, you Know, no amount of mental an guish can dissolve our union. But, indeed, I may smoke as many cigars as 1 like now without causing Aurea. mental anguish; she has quite got over h3r aversion to tobacco. bt James Budget. A Relic of Early Days. While quarrying for building-stone in the foot-hills, near the old St. Mary's college, yesterday, Edward Loughry found among some loose rock on the surface a flint-lock dra goon pistol, bearing on the butt plate the date "1830" and the letters "U. B." surmounted by tho English crown. It has been altered to a pre cussion lock, the nipple being far for ward on the barrel and tho brass socket of the flash-pan still remain ing. The stock is of reddish wood and has evidently been whittled out with a knife, the rough surface left by the chipping being plainly visible, as the stock has never been painted or varnished. The trigger is broken off. The spring of the lock is still sound and the hammer falls with a vicious snap suggestive of the days of '49. San Francisco Chronicle. The Length of The Day. At London. England, and Bre men Prussia the longest day haslG hours. At Stockholm, Sweeden, it is 18 hours in Iengnth. At Hamburg, in Germany, and Dantzic, inRrussia, the longest day has 10 hours. At St. Petersburg, Russia, and Tobolsk. Siberia,the longest is lu hours and the shortest 5" hours, At Tornea, Finland, June 21 brings a day nearly 22 hours long and Christmas one less than 3 hours in length. At Ward burv, Norway, the longest day lasts from May 21 to July 22, without in terruption; and in Spitzbergen the longest day is 3 months. At St. Louis the longest day is somewhat less than 15 hours, and at Montreal, Canada, it islG. St. Louis Republic. At Tho Sfiith Tole. It appears to bo probable that Prof. Neumayr of Hamburg Marine observ atory will succeed ingettinga Kouth polar expedition organized. It might have been supposed that until sotno greater measure of success had at tended nimilar adventures in tin artic regions tho most ardent nd va cate ot such Echerncs would have doubted the wisdom of exposing' human lives and treasuie to tho risk of antarctic seas All the best author ities are agreed, says the London Daily News, that tho difllculticjto bo encountered in the south are much greater than "in tho north, and tho hideous stories which gained currency after the return of the last nrlic ex pedition might well have sickened t!: boldest of this generation isufliiently to deter them from any assault ui'; the stronghold of king w'ntcr in t !. w south. In comparing tho difiicultis i of arctic and antarctic ndventuiv. Sir Wy ville Thompson says: ? "We can only anticipate disaster., multiplied a hundred-fold. hho i d t he south' pole ever, become a goal of riv alry among nations." For various reasons the great lone land uiul.-r th southern cross is more dilli.-ulL nt access than the north. It is mudi colder there than in the arctic t.-in U There seems to be no such wann cur rents as aro found in the north such, for instance, as tho Lahrndm current, or that round tlu south coast of Spitzbergen. Such emana tions from tho torrid regions of tho earth do much to mitigate the rigors of the northern seas at certain point s, and bring about tho most striking variations of temperature, breaking up the ice at certain seasons and opening tho way to navigation far beyond points otherwise attainable. Any enterprise of this kind will, of j course, bo pushed on during the sum mer months during January, Feb ruary, and the early part of Alan h. that is. But even in the height of summer the temperaturo of the air in the antarctic regions is always lie low the freezing point of sea water, and bitter tempestuous winds and fogs and blinding snowstorms are all but incessent. No arctic explorer has ever gone beyond tho bounds ot vegetation. At least lichens and sea weed have been found wherever ; northern navigators have penetrated i butin the awful solitudesofthcsouth Sir James Rosa lound not the slight est trace of vegetable life, either on land or in the sea, yet lie never came within less than 700 miles ot tl.e south pole. The magnetic "pole lias been approached within 1T0 miles, and it seems possible that important scientific results might be obtained by covering that farther distance; but even this is doubtful. A 3ioIcl Kitchen. From the Scientific Ami ricnn. It is possible nowadays, snysfcn authority, by spending money lav ishly, so to build a kitehon that tlr; most ingenious of servants cannot keep it otherwise than clean. One need not waste upon her unappre ciative soul tho costly tiles with which one lines the bath room, but, may substitute for them the glazed bricks that are as highly polished and that will mak the f!or, the chimney, tho walls, if desired, and oven the ceiling as easy to clean as a brca.Afa.st plat'?. Once buiit; no white washer and no painter would be needed for such a room, no smoke need cling to itw walls for an instant, and no odor of rooking would bo perceptible in ir, even it' it were used for generations. And the temperature of Hiu h a room need not reach the great height unavoidable with plastered Wid's, whieh permit the warmth of th chimney to he perceptible through their surface, and thus both the good health aad -ood temper of the cook would be main tained. As for coloring, such a kitchen may bo precisely what one pleases, for tho bricks are made in ail hues, and they may be laid in p-it- terns or in wide surfaces of one tint from floor to ceiling. Lastly, assudi a room would bo fireproof, a sliding or swinging iron door would no iso late it that no kerosene-quickened tire and no careless upsetting of ' "d could bring destruction to the roo a itself of which a little water wouM not clear it. . Too Much ofatiood Thing. The new minister came to ville last autumn to take charge of tho largest and most prosperous con gregation in the place. As we know, it is of prime importance that the shepherd should know his lioek, and as a means to this end he was suc cessively invited out to tea by t In different families in his congregation. For many months after his arriv al he was not know to take tea in l:U own house. Each housekeeper wfm anxious to do her best. The old lam ily china nnd glass were taken down from the top shelf, silver that was used on great occasions was brought J out, and an inviting menu prepared. The first hostess had tea aud coffe t hot rolls, cold ham, a dish of scal loped oysters, cake and sherbet. Tho second evening there was boa tea biscuit, chicken salad, scallop ed oysters and charlotte russe. T he third evening the principal dish was again scalloped oysters. They ap peared the next night, nnd tho next. nnd for forty nights the new minister ate scalloped oystera with his parish ioners. Whether ho concluded that these were a peculiar people, with whom theservingofscalloped oyster was an essential irnrt of tho rito of hospitality, or whether his views of a forty day's fast or the forty yearn in the wilderness wero modified by the ordeal through which he was called to pass, we do not know; but the end had not come even then. On the torty-first evening a new dish finished the piece de resistance, but at the forty-second tea there again appeared the scalloped oysters. If you wish now to make an unfortun ate remark to the Kev. Mr. Blank. just ask him how hs likes oysters preparea. ( V 6 r i 1 1 I 'if