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CHARLES SP3INER.
BY HENRY W. LONGFELLOW.
Garlands upon his grave,
And llowers upon his hearse,
And to the tender heart and brave
The tribute of this verse.
Ilia was th troubled life,
The conflict and the'pain.
The grief, the bitterness of strife,
The honor without stain.
I-iKc WInkelrled, he took
Into his manly breast
The sheaf of hostile spears, he broke
A path for the oppressed ;
Then from the fatal field
Upon a Nation's heart
Borne like a warrior on his shield !
So should the brave depart.
Death takes us by Burprlre? ? tj
x.;cMri!niirhnrrvtnefeet!
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But In the dark unknown
Terfect their circles seem
Even as a bridge's arch of stone
Is rounded In the stream.
Alike are life and death ;
When life in death survives,
And the uninterrupted breath
Inspires u thousand lives.
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Were a star quenched on high.
For aees would Its light,
Still travel downward from the sky,
Shine on our mortal sight.
So when a great man dies,
For 3-cars beyond our ken,
The light he leaves behind him lies
Upon the paths of men.
From the Atlantic for December.
A WOMAN'S BETEL ATION.
My husband came tenderly to my
aide.
"Are you going out this evening,
love?"
"Of course I am."
I looked down complacently at my
dress of pink crape, dew-dropped ov
er with crystal, and the trails of pink
azaleas that caught up its folds here
and there. A diamond bracelet en
circled one round white arm, and a
little cross blazed fitfully at my throat.
I had never looked better, and I felt a
sort of girlish pride as ray eye met the
fairy reflection in the mirror.
"Come, Gerald, make haste! why,
you haven't begun to dress yet!"
Where were my wifely instincts
that I did not see the haggard, drawn
look in his features the fevered light
in hi3 eyes?
sTcan,t go to-hlght, Madeline lam
snot wen enougu.
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oblige me, Gerald. I am tired of be
ing put off with such excuse's."
He made no answer, but dropped
his head in his hand on the table be
fore him.
"Oh, come, Gerald," I urged petu
lantly. "It is so awkward for mo to
go alone, always."
He shook his listlessly.
"I thought perhaps you1 would be
willing to remain at home with me,
Madeline."
"Men are so selfish," I said, plain
tively, "and I am all dressed. Clau
dia took half an hour for my hair. I
dare ay you'll be a great deal quieter
without me that is, if you are de
termined not to go."
jSo answer again.
""Well, if you choose to be sullen, I
can't help it." I said lightly, as I
turned and went out of the room, ad
justing my silver boquet-holder, the
tuberoses and heliotropes seeming to
distill incense at every motion.
Was I heartless and cruel ? Had I
ceased to love my husband? From
the bottom of my heart I believed that
I loved him as truly and tenderly as
ever wife did, but I had been so spoil
ed and petted all fiiy brief, selfish ex
istence that the better instincts were,
so to speak, entombed alive.
I went to the party and had my fill
of adulation and homage, as usual.
The hours seemed to glide away, shod
with roses and winged with music
and rich perfume; and it was not un
til, wearied with dancing, I sought a
momeutary refage in the half-lighted
tea-room, that I heard words awaken
ing me, as it were, from a- dream.
"Gerald Clen ?" I could not be mis
taken in the name it was scarcely
common-place enough for that. They
were talking two or three stout, business-like
looking gentlemen in the
hall without, and I could catch, now
and then, a fugitive word or phrase.
"Fine, enterprising young fellow !
great pity ! totally ruined, so Bees
and McMorken say! reckiess extrav
agance of hiswife !"
All these vague fragments I heard,
aud then some onosaid
"And what is he going to do' now?"
"What can he do? I am sorry ; yet
he should have calculated his income
and his expenses better. Or his wife
shouid. Deuce take these women
they are at the bottom of all a man's
troubles!"
And they laughed ! Oh, how could
they? I had yet to learn how easy it
is in this world to bear other people's
troubles.
I rose hurriedly up, with my heart
beating iumultuously beneath the
pink azaleas, cud went back to the
lighted corridors. Albany Moore was
waiting to claim my hand for the
next redowa.
"Are you ill, Mrs. Clen? How pale
you look !"
"I I am not very well. I wish
you would have my carriage called,
Mr. Moore," For now I felt that
home was the place for me.
Hurried by some unaccountable im
pulse, I sprang out the moment the
carnage wneeiB touched the curbstone
J and rushed, up to my husband's room
The door was looked, but I( could see
a light shining under the threshold.
I knocked wildly and persistently.
"Gerald! Gerald! For Heaven's
sake let me in!"
Something fell on the marble
hearthstone within, making a metal
lic clink, and my husband opened the
door a little way. I had never seen
him look so pale before, or bo rigid
yet so determined.
"Who are you?" he demanded
wildly. "Why can't you leave me in
peace?"
"It's I Gerald your Madeline
your own little wife."
And I caught from his hand the
pistol he was striving to conceal in
his breast its mate lay on the marble
hearth under the mantle-jond flung
i out of the window. .
Gerald, would you havjoleft me?"
fftIwould have escaped!" he cried,
"still half delirious, to all appearance.
"Debt disgrace misery her re
proaches I would have escaped them
all!"
His head fell like that of a weary
child on my shoulder. I drew him
to a sofa, and soothed him with a
thousand murmered words a thousand
mute caresses ; for had it not been all
my fault? And through all the long
weeks of fear that followed I nursed
him with unlvaveriug care and de
votion. I had but one thought one
desire to redeem myself in his esti
mation ; to prove to him that I was
something more higher than the mere
butterfly of fashion I had hitherto
shown myself! Well, the March
winds had howled themselves into
their mountain fastnesses; the bright
April raindaops were dried on the
bough and spray and now the apple
blossoms were tossing their fragrant
billows of pinky bloom in the deep
blue air of latter May. Where were
we now? It was a picturesque little
cottagejustoutof the city, furnished
very like a magnified baby house.
Gerald sat in a cushioned easy chair
on the piazza, just where he could
glance through the open window
at me working a batch of biscuits,
with my sleeves rolled up above my
eibows, and the "gold thread" hair
neatly confined in a silken net.
"What an industrious fairy it is,"
he said, smiling sadly.
"Well, you see, I like it! It's a
great deal better than those sonatas
on the piano!"
"Who would have thought you
wpnldmake8t&IianotaDlehouse-j
keeper?" 9rtj .!"
-I!laughedgleefully I had a child's
delight in being praised.
"Are you not going to" Miss Delan
oy's croquet porty ?" he pursued.
"No what do I care for croquet
parties? I'm going to finish your
shirts, and you'll read aloud to me."
"Madeline, I want you to answer
me one question."
"What is it?'
I had safely deposited my pan of
biscuits in the oven by this time, and
was dusting the Hour ofF my hadnds.
"What have you done with your
diamonds?"
"Isold them long ago; they paid
seveial heavy bills, besides settling
half a year's rent here."
"But Madeline, you were so proud
of yoa'r diamonds."
"I was once now they would be
tho bitterest reproaches my eyes could
meet. O Gerald ! had I been les3 vain
and thoughtless and extravagant "
I checked myself and a robin sing
ing in the perfumed depth of apple-blos
soras above the piazza, took up the
current of sound.
"That's rightlittle red-breast," said
my husband, half-jokingly, "talk her
down ! She has forgotten that our
past is dead, and that we have turned
over a new page in tho book of exis
tence. Madeline, do you know how
I feel, sometimes, when Isit-acd look
at you?"
No!"
"Well, I feel like a widower who
U3 LAJtfc. -- ui-
My heart gave a little superstitious
jump.
"Yes, I can remember my first wife
a brilliant, thoughtless child with
out an idea beyond the gratification
of present whims a spoiled plaything!
Well, that little Madeline has vanish
ed away Into the past somewhere ;
she has gone away to return no more,
and In her stead I behold my second
wife, a thoughtful, tender woman,
whose watchful love surrounds me
like an atmosphere, whose oharacter
grows more noble, and develops itself
into new depth and beauty every
I was kneeling by his side now,
with ray cheek upon his arm and my
eyes looking into his.
"And which do you love best, Ger
ald, the first or second wife?"
"I think the trials and vicissitudes
through which we have just passed
are welcome indeed ; since they have
brought me, as their harvest fruits,
the priceless treasure of my second
wife."
That was what Geraicr answerea
me, theswestest words that ever fell
unon my ear.
"Here we are now, within a quar
ter of a mile of land," was
the joyful announcement made by
the captain of au ocean steamer to his
grumbling passengers.
"Where,? which way is it?" were
the eager exclamations whfch follow
ed. ' "Anywhere down below there,"
said the captain, pointing toward the
bottom of the sed. "The lead gives
us iust 220 fathoms of water, and the
,land comes slap uo against the brine."
BROWFVILLE, NEBRASKA,
WHERE DID THE RICH MAN GO T
Little Johnny was preparing for
Sunday school, situated some distance
awai', when his mother saw one of
her neighbors approaching in his ve
hicle. This neighbor, by the way,
was called the "rich man," being
both wealthy, kind-hearted and liber
al to the poor. Johnny ran out, and
the rich man took him into his ve
hicle, as he was going right past the
Sunday school. It was a very hot
day, and so Johnny took off his shoes
and stockings to keep himself cool.
When they arrived the exercises had
already begun, rind ris the man wasgo
ing to a church about a milejjeyond,
and he agreed to call for Johnny on
his return, he concluded not to .put
pa .his shoes and stockings again', but1
teaye uiemuinefenicie. oo ue
tripped lightly intolhe sohqol, and
.the jnan drove -away-toward the
church.
The teaohor was just hearing the
lesson, which, by the by, Johnny was
not acquainted with, which was the
fate of the rich man and Lazarus.
Soon after Johnny took his seat, it
came to his turn to answer a question.
"Johnny, can you tell me where
the rich man went?"
"He went to the Baptist meeting,"
replied the little lad, thinking only
of his late companion.
"No, no, my son ; the rich man
went to hell:" said the teacher with
great impressiveuess, while the schol
ars were tittering with laughter.
"Did he?" exclaimed the lad in all
honesty. "Then he has taken my
shoes and stockings with him ;" and
up he jumped, and seizing his hat, he
put out of the school room and down
the road to' overtake the rich man,
and recover his property.
WONDERS Oli" THE THAMES.
Eleven bridges cross the famous
River Thames, and over them go
more people in a year than cross any
bridges in the world. They are fine
specimens of architecture, made eith
er of stone or iron, and some of them
cost hugoi sums of money. Beneath
all these bridges is a constant stream
of boats plying upon the water. They
go and come, upand down stream, and
across in every direction, and in such
numbers and confusion that the
stranger cannot see how they escape
runniug into an over one another.
And such" a noise as the,.steamwhist-,le3and"the1oarsmen4'anil!tho's1c6n-
nected withithe boat&Jjeep up.
It is
nositivelr deafening: Inwadditfbu
to
all these bridges and , boats,
theie is
another mode of crossing the Thames.
It is the tho tunnel, two miles below
London bridge. Thi3 stupendous
work extends beneath the bed of the
river, and connects Wspp'ing on the
left bank with RedrilT on tho right.
It consists of two arched passages,
one thousond two hundred feet long,
fourteen feet wide, and sixteen feet
high, all below tho bed of the river.
Whoever walks or rides through the
tunnel goes under the River Thames,
with ships and fishes swimming over
his head..
HOW TO GROAT THE OLEANDER.
The oleander is a very ornamental
plant when properly grown, but we
seldom see fine specimens. There is
scarcely one of my readers who has
not seen dozens of tall, straggly
plants.
I propose to give a fow directions
how the fine plant may be grown.
Take a healthy cutting, place it in a
bottle of water, aud let it remain
there till roots appear; then pot it,
shifting into large size pots as th e
roots require room. Do not try to
have it branch until it blooms. It
will then have a long, straight stalk
a good foundation for tho plant you
desire.
After blooming, three shoots will
start ; allow these to grow, as they
arejthe flower shoots. But after these
have all bloomed, cut back all the
shoots to within four or five inches of
tho former braucbes. Do this each
time the plant blooms:
Two years ago we had a plant given
us which was two years old and sev
eral feet high. In the autumn my
husband remorselessly cut it down
within five inches of the first branch
ing, but after starting the next spring
it grew rapidly.
The oleander has many good quali
ties, It will bloom well for its owner
all summer, and then after miltlncr
down in the fall, may be put in a dry
cellar for the winter, doing better
during the following summer for its
long rest. While growing it requires
an abundance of water. It would be
a good plan to allow it to stand in
pans constantly full of water till after
blooming, when the water should be
gradually withheld till cut in, and it
should be put in the cellar aud no
more water given till the following
spring. It is well to re-pot the plants
every three year (just before starting
them in the spring). If you'do not
wish them in larger pots, pare the ball
of roots with a sharp knife on the
sides and bottom, re-pot in strong,
rich loam, and set in a shady place,
and in a few weeks the roots will form
anew.
Robert Daie Owen tells an anecdote
of an old gentleman, who, being tired
of life, and too conscientious to com
mit suicide, used to walk out in the
most violent thunderstorms, holding
aloft an iron rbd ten feet long to in
vite the lightning.
A strong minded woman will
al-
ways be sneaker of.the house.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31. 1874.
MYSTERIOUS BELL RINGING.
A PUZZLER FOR THE BALTIMORE
ACADEMY OP SCIENCES.
From tho Baltimore Sun.
The ringing of the bells In a house
on North Strickerstreet, above Cooke,
which has caused a little sensation in
the northwestern section of the city
during the past week still continues
to agitate the residents of not only
that portion of the city, but on ac
count of the publicity given to the af
fair tho curious In such matters from
all sections of the city visit the locali
ty for the purpose of solving the mys
tery. There has been no positive so
lution as yet of the exact cause of the
ringing, altho the matter has been in-
fvestigated by several scientific- men.
EA colored seryanfegVl in the house, it
ibcuuaiuercu ui.iir-i.jiuLuu uukiiuwu
infiuence overtbpibeUs: I is said she
never approaches tho wires but they
vibrate.
Tho gentleman who resides Inthe
house being convinced that the girl
did exercise some influence over the
bells, watched her movements for
some time, ond noticed that tho bells,
were much more affected whenever
the girl was near them, and at night,
after the girl retired in the third story
of the house, there was not so much
ringing; also that about twelve
o'clock they generally cease their clat
ter until the girl comes down stairs in
the morning. She wa3 spoken to
about the matter and acknowledged
that she had been discharged from a
former position on account of the
bells ringing and her supposed con
nection with it. She added that at
another place, beside the one from
which she was discharged, the bells
did tho same thing, but as the family
were Spiritualists they did not mind
it. Tho girl is very much worried
over the matter, but says she is pow
erless to prevent it, as she is an invol
untary bell ringer and she knows it,
and will probably lose her present
place on'this account.
The house is a fine-looking, three
story brick building, and has never
been occupied before tho present ten
ant moved in. The girl is of a very
dark color and hails from Vlrglna.
Electricity has been tried upon the
wires, thinking that the ringing may
have been caused by that agency, but
it had no effect. The wire was de
tached from one of the three bells in
the house, and while it was detsched
the bell 3ic1 not ring, but the wire vi
bratednll the same. At times during
the.riJghtthe bells have becomerftpy
annoying that they bad to b'e'muffled
in order that the occupants
of the house could sleep.
The bells began to ring in this way
on Monday morning last, and contin
ued to do so at intervals all thro' the
week. One member of the family had
his hand cut in trying to prevent tho
wire from vibrating.
Spiritualists attribute the ringing
to spirit power, and ore quite anxious
to get into the housu for the purpose
investigating the matter, but have
been refused, and so many people
have gone to visit tho premises that a
policeman had to bo detailed to keep
off tho crowd.
Mysterious as the ringing-' my be,
there is no doubt, however, that it is
caused by soino perfectly natural
agency. Several members of the Ac
ademy of Sciences have visited the
house, butXheir scientific researches
have failed to solvo the mystery, and
all tho newspaper reporters give it up.
It will bo interesting to know, how
ever, whether, tho spirits will contin
ue to ring when tho colored girl leav
es her situation.
WHAT A SINGLE BALLOT ACCOM
PLISHED. In 1SG0 Dan Stone, of Cincinnati,
was a candidate for tho State Legisla
ture. Walking up Main street on the
morning of the election he overtook
an acquaintance going to tho polls,
who intended to vote the opposition
ticket. Stone solicited his vote. "We
are old friends," said he, "and I
know you will show a" friend that
mark of kindness." Party spirit was
then comparatively quiet. The voter
replied:
"Well, Dan, you are a pretty clover
fellow; I don't care if I do."
Tho vote elected M. Stone, and
gave a majority of one in the Legisla
ture, which made Thomas Ewing U.
S. Senator. Mr. Ewing's vote on the
question of confirming Martin Van
Buren as Minister Plenlpotentiarj to
Great Britain enabled the Vice Presi
dent to give the casting vote against
it, and called Mr. Van Buren first Vice
President and then Presideut, and
determined the general political poli
cy of the donntry for four years. One
vote accomplished all this. Ohio
State Journal.
According to a correspondent of the
Marietta (Ohio) Registor, the body
of an infant dying suddenly in that
vicinity was fallowed to the grave by
a maltese cat that had been the child's
pet in life. The animal persisted in
remaining beside tbo Burial place un
til the last sod was replaced, and then
followed the bereaved family back to
the house. At night she returned to
the burying ground, and being fol
lowed and watched was seen to work
frantically with all four feet until she
had completely leveled the little
mound over tho grave. Then she
went home again; but on tho follow
ing morning was seized with a fit ex
actly at the hour of the child's sud
den sickness, and died at the very
moment corresponding with the in
stant of the child's death.
THE POOR WORKING GIRL.
Little feet, a pity 'tis
Neater boots should not encase you;
Shapely hands the dantiest gloves
Should bo happy to embrace you.
But I know no art that would
Make your eyes a diamond brighter,
Make your lips a rose xriore red
Make your neck a snow flake whiter.
Straight and strong with gliding gait,"
(Clumsy boots, I hate you so !)
Every morning passes she
Rain or shine, or wind or snow.
One small hand a parcel clasps,
(Gloveless, happily for me);
T'other lifts the shabby dress,
Showing vaguely what might be.
Justice done, her work should bo
Tulling petals from tho rose,
Feeding humming birds, or else.
Fanning fairies in a dozo;
Justice failing likelier, ' , -
. She Is gravely binding saoea, . , .
Making paper boxes, or
Sewing slop-work, for the Jaws. . '-' r
-w MHO .
Little beauty, though your boots
Shabby be, aud coarse your dress.
Toll your lot, and scant your Joys ;
Itaro kind words, and rare.caress,
Yet I see that in your eyes,
That outshines all outward show ;
That makes poverty content,
And that makes mo love you so.
From the Cincinati Times.
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Tlie Homeless Boys Interior Cities A
Short History Sunday Business.
Correspondence Nebraska Advertiser.
New Yokk, Dec. 20, 1S74.
THE HOMELESS BOYS.
New York, like London and Paris,
has its thousands upon thousands of
homeless, houseless, uucared for chil
dren who live, the Lord only knows
how and where. They are the off
spring of either drunken, criminal or
unfortunate parents, who either turn
them out into the streets as soon as
they can walk to live or die, as fate
may have it, or die and leave themto
shift for themselves. Who they are
and from whence they came, they do
not know themselves. That they are
hero is a terrible fact.
Some years ago Corlear's Hook was
the rendezvous of the depraved aud
desperate of the East Side. Gangs of
half grown boys, lawless and desper
ate made that locality their centre,
and it was as much as the lifo of a
man was worth to venture there. The
homeless boysand girls there gradua
ted from boot-blacking and newspa
per selling to pocket-picking;, bur
I glary and mu rdtTr JasJ ncreasing years
gave them increased strength. If one
died in a street brawljfor was offered
up as a sacrifice to tlTeiaWj'a score of
recruits stood ready to take his place
from the numerous ranks of the
homeless. These children sleep in
store boxes, in ash-barrels, in hay
loftsany place that can afford a pro
tection from the wind and rain. For
food, the garbage barrels give them
something, the lieht chances of
chance jobs another part, and theft
the remainder.
The Children's Aid Society, an in
stitution which is practical in its de
signs and methods of work, determ
ined to purify tho "Hook," and to
that end established a lodging house
for boys. A large building was leas
ed for the purpose in Rivington street,
near the East River, and placed under
the superintendence of a man who
put his heart into the work, and was
not afraid to go out at night in search
of these homeless youths, sometimes
bringiug home as many as a half a
dozen to a good supper and a com
fortable bed.
A boy who has no money Is given
food and lodging free if they have
money, five cent's is charged each for
meals and beds. A night school,
where these Arabs are taught to read
and write, is in full operation. A
bath room is free to all, as well as a
library and reading-room, in which
all the daily aud weekly papers are
filed.
The effect upon the boye has been
wonderful. The Superintendent,
backed by influential citizens who
give a good share of their time to the
work, not only feeds and clothos the
boys, but he instructs them how to
get an honest living, aud aids them
to get in the way of it.
Since the House was opened it ha3
fed and sheltered no less than 0,500
different boys ; furnished 204,2-50
meals; provided homes in the West
for 420 boys; found employment for
several hundred others in the city,
and restored 1G0 truant boys to their
friends. Hundreds have been educa
ted. The good work goes on, so that
ihe Society has been obliged to lease
an adjoining building, to afford room
for the purposo of the lodging house
aud school. There is no reformatory'
enterprise in the city that has accom
plished more or better work than
this. There ought to be twenty of
them where there is one.
NEW YORK VS. THE INTERIOR CITIES.
I have mentioned several times the
trouble New York is laboring under
at this time concerning her trade.
The merchants of the city have final
ly discovered that the loss of trade is
not chargeable altogether to "hard
times," but that the cause is deeper.
An act nassed In 1S70. made ports of
entry of Chicago, Cincinnati, Toledo,
and various other cities in the west,
and provided that goods might be im
ported direct in bond, appraised at
the point of final destination, and the
duties be collected there. In conse
quence of this, the- importing trade
increased very largely in the interior
cities, for the retailers were not long
In discovering that they could pur
chase foreign goods just as well in
VOL. 19. NO. 27.
those cities as in New York, and even
better, for beside the cost of transpor
tation there is a system of doing pub
lic business in New York that is ex
pensive to the outsider. Tho import
ers here will make a vigorous effort
this winter to repeal the law, aud
compel dealers in imported goods to
buy in the Atlantic cities, as of yore.
The West ought not to permit this.
The privileges of direct importation
to Western cities has brougufc mourn
ing to the extortioners in and about
the Custom House, and has seriously
injured the importing business here,
but it has saved the West hundreds
of thousands of dollars. There is no
reason why the cities of the West
should not have all the facilities for
Importing that the Atlantic cities pos
sess, nor can there be any good reas
on given for giving three or four cit
ies a monopoly. Look out, gentle
men of the West, for the 'NVv York
importers in Congress this wiuter.
POLITICS
in the city i3 mixed. The Democra
cy is fighting over the spoils; aud the
Republicans are lying back waiting
for "events. The Democrats have nev
er yet profited by a victory, for the
fact is their political ventures aro all
for spoils. They win a victory and
immediately spoil the effect of It by
not knowing how to improve it, or
rather not caring. They will plun
der the city and State right and left
for a year, and then the .people will
raise and oust them. Tb.9 Republi
cans have a sure thing on the State, in
the long run, so long as the Democra
cy are controlled by the men who now
hold the power in that organization.
To succeed they have to promise plun
der, and those to Whom they promise
are very sure that tho promises are
fulfilled. Then the people when they
get tired of being plundered, dethrone
the thieves, who stay out till the peo
ple get careless again.
You may look for a reaction next
fall. I prophesy it.
HOW THE THING IS DONE.
I attended a funeral yesterday. It
was the Inst office I could perform for
a young man who was, in this life, a
friend of mine, and as a friend I fol
lowed him to hisgravein Greenwood.
Ho had only reached twenty-eight
years when he died, but such years as
he had lived ! Pardon me if I give
some space to the history of one who
is a representative of a class that is
unfortunately too numerous now, and
is daily getting more so. My friend
was born rich. His father was origin
ally a tanner, aud'by a long' course of
honorable industry and good manage
ment accumulated wealth great
wealth. He died a dozen years ago
worth a millitin or more, leaving one
sou, my friend, and three daughters.
The young man received n collegiate
education, and, graduating, came
back to New York to live. Life was
to him as rose-tinted as possible.
Oceans of money, excellent society, a
splendid home, everything in short
that a man could have to enjoy life
and bo hannv. He ioiued clubs, of
course, he instituted a stable, of
course. Ho proposed' to live, aud he
did live. He made tho acquaintance
of all the men who live, ond hefouuJ
plenty of them willing to help him.
He had no business to do, for why
should a young man with a million
do business or bother about it? His
father had made the money for him
to enjoy, and ho intended to enjoy it.
His life was a routine very easy to 'de
scribe. The morning at his clubs
drink. Tho afternoon in all sorts of
places drink. The early evenings in
the theatres drink. The latter part
of tho night in gambling hells and
places of just as bad a nature drink.
Drink in the morning to tone him up
for dissipation later in the day. Drink
to drown remorse drink, drink,
drink. And at twenty-eight the poor
fellow, born with splendid possibili
ties and with capacities for all sorts of
good, sank into a drunkards grave,
with no good deed left behind him to
signalize his life or to mark tho fact
that he had lived. He died of being
left a fortune, instead of having been
compelled to make one.
This is a brief history, but theroare
one hundred thousand young-men In
this city repeating it at thi3 moment.
Are there not similar cases In j'ourlo
cality? THE SUNDAY QUESTION
assumes more importance every day.
The Germans and French back up
the "sacred concert" theatres, aud the
Americans generally support those
endeavoring to crush them out. And
the fight is waxing warm. The Bow
ery theatre was open last Sunday
night 'with their ghastly melo-dra-mas,
as usual, and the old place was
jammed with people, of theciass who
do go to the theatre week-day nights
half grown boys and girls. It was
a wild night they made of it. It
seemed as though tho fact that their
amusement was illegal and likely to
be interrupted, guvc an additional
zest to it, for never in the history of
tho place were peanuts so liberally
masticated or applause so freely and
boisterously given. It was a pande
monium from the rising of the cur
tain to the going-down of the same.
The beer-gardens and "Concert Sa
loons" were in full blast, the police
not having been instructed to make"
raids upon them. It is singular that
the work did not commence with
them, for if the theatres are, as Tal
madge styles them, "the vestibules of
hell," these places are in the exact
centre. They are the resort of the
lowest, vilest men and women that
the Almighty for some, to us un
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known, purpose permits to exist, and
the orgies nightly held in them would
put a debased Fiji Islander to blush.
But somehow the police pass them
by without an effort to break them'
up.
b'usiness:
is improving steadily In many of its
branches. The strikes are all over,
and though laborers are on short time
and reduced pay, they aro squeezing
through better than was anticipated.
The coming of the holidays has put" a"
great deal of money in active circula
tion, and there is a briskness, which,
if it bo spasmodic, is pleasant. The
weather is pleasant and bracing, and'
tho heaith of the city vastly improv
ed. May the good we have be in
creased. Pietro.
A PICTURE OF GRANT
RICHMOND.
BEFORE
Gen. Grant is cold and silent; he
had ordered a tent to be given me at
his headquarters, but'duriugmy brief
stay I never saw him except at din
ner, which was as short as it was fru
gal. I remember that ono day one of
the staff spoke of ai. attack to be mad
at the mouth of the river, and said
that the bar at low tide had sixteen
feet of water in it. Grant raised his"
head: "Eighteen feet," said he; and
everybody held his tongue. When I
was ready to depart I gavo notice- tha
day before, as tho rule was. That day
after dinner the General, who usually
retired at once to his tent, did me the
honor to ask me to take a short walk
with him. It was almost evening in
the month of January.
"You brought me a letter fronv
Sumner," said he. "I don't concdm
myself with politics, but they say in
the newspapers that I belong to the
democratio party. You may say to
Sumner that I am, before everything','
the servant of the Union and' the'
Government; that for his fridnds, and
especially for him, I have no feeling
but esteem. He does his work in tho
Senate; I am doing mine as well a3 I
can here, and I hope we shall soon be
in Richmond." Albert Zaitgel, in
Revue des ATondes.
mj m Itw
From'Josh Billings' papers.
THE COUNTRY SXCOOL MOM.
Sheis invariably about twenty-three'
years and six months old, and re
mains right tbare for a term ov,yoars.
She wears her hair either kut'short
or hanging around in ringlets, and iz
as precise"- n all things az- one of
Fairbauks improved platfotra8C&lesi'
She never lull's out loud, and sel
dom even smiles, but when she does,
she does it according to the rule laid
down by Murray forspeaking out and
pronouncing the inglish language
korrectly.
She is the very essence of doubfe
extrackted propriety, and would rath
er be four years behind the fashions
in her dress and bonnet than' to spel
a word wrong, or parse a sentence in
korrectly. She keeps a scrap-book and an al
bum, and would prefer rather to have
the autograph of some milk-and-water
poet than the name ov sum-good
man to a sixty dollar note.
The country skool mom seldum
dies an old maid; she gets married
generally to sum man' who haz but
little edukashun, and he thinks (as
he ought to) that thare ain't another
sich a larnt woman as hiz wifd on'tho
faco dv the earth.
With all her precise phoolishness,
her pompous knolledge her sikly sen
tamentalism, and her allmost allwass
mistaking manner for matter, i re
spekt the country skool mom; she
taught memi'letters, she waz pashunt
when i waz stupid, she soothed mo
when i was frackshus, and sho often
(good soul) give me a titbit from her
luncheon at noon-time."
May kind heaven strew some kind
ov happiness in her pathway, fbr she
iz paid poorly worked hardly, and tho
stepmother to everybody's children ;
she never receives frum the world en
ny thing better than the raojf formal
respekt
A Dirtier One. A good story Is
told of one of the' city councllmeu of
St. Joseph. It is tliis r Ho wns at
dinner with n party of gentlemen,
and much to the horror of a dandified
guest who sat near him, persisted iu
playing with a cork, in such a man
ner as displayed a hand long divorced
from a wash basin. The exquisite;
expressed his surprise to another, and
in too loud a whisper exclaimed,
"Heavens, what a dirty hand !" T'he
councilman overheard it, and turning
slowly round said. -"Sir, I'll bet you
a V there's a dirtier one in the com
pany." "Done," replied the first,
sure of winning. The money was
staked, and the councilman showed his
other hand, and was judged to have
won, without a dissenting voice.
A Car mi man, who was out until a
very late and unusual hour of tho
night, assured his wife that he had
been attending the Odd Fellows
lodge, to which the old lady, who
smelled a large sized rodent, replied;
"Dear me ; it must have been an odd
fellow you lodged with, for your
stockings are mismatched, and one
of tnem is a woman's-aud it ain't
mine, you brute!" A then grim vis
aged war siiowed its front.
Stephen Pearl AndrewsdtStfr" old
friend of other days still holds hi3
opinion that a lady withvblack stock
ings on has uo business towalk out
on a wind$ day.
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