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A. C. HOSMER, Proprietor.
BED CLOUD, - -
NEBRASKA.
UNCERTAINTIES.
Pint linen bonnet,
Pink cotton gown,
Eoses printed on it.
Hands burnt brown.
Oh! blirfcc were all the piping birds, and th
go den-bclted bees:
.And blithe sang she on the doorstep, with her
apron full of peas.
Sound off-cytbc and mowinjr.
"Where buttercups prew tall;
Sound of red kine lowing.
And earlv milkmaid's call.
Sweet she san? on the doorstep, with the younu
peas in her lap.
And he came whUtlinjj up the lane, with the
ribbons in his cap.
"You called me a bad penny
That wouldn't be sent away
But here's pood-bye to you, J cany.
For many and many a day.
There's tall: of cannon and killing
Nnv, never turn to white!
.And I've taken the King's shilling-
I took it last uichi."
Oh! merry, merry piped the thrushes up In the
cherry tree.
But dumb he sat on the Coorstcp, and out
through the gate went he.
Scent of hay and summer;
Ketl CTeninc sky;
Koisc of Jife and drummer;
Men marihiug by.
The hay will be carried presently, and the
cherries gathered all.
jnd the corn stand yellow in the shocks, and
the leaves begin to fall.
Perhaps some evening after,
AVith no more song of thrush.
The lads will cease their laughter.
And the maids their chatter hu-h;
And word of blood and battle
Will mix with the sound of the EiU,
And lowinpof the cattle.
And clink of the milking pail;
And occ will read, half fearrul,
A list of names aloud:
And a few will stagger tearful
Oatof the little crowd;
And she, perhaps, half doubting,
Ila'.f knowing why she came,
"Will stand among them, pouting.
And hear, perhaps, his name
"Vill weep, perhaps, a little, a? she wanders up
the lane.
And v.iMi one summer morning were all to do
again.
Mat; rrolyn, in MacmUlan't Majzzint.
Offlce, telllnjj them when action would be
taken on his claim. He remembered that
I WaS the DCISOn Wh(l nrifHnnlltr inlnvlniuJ
him into the navy, and he thought a letter
from me might obtain an answer where he
had failed.
"I recalled, as well as I could, the cir
cumstances in which ho first came to me,
and I said, Jn a short letter, what I could
V to his advantage, in order that ho might
cso my recommendation, so far as it went,
tti his application, and then I went on with
y other letters.
"I had finished the whole correspond
ence, when something which I do not
understand, and you do not understand,
made me take this letter to him out from
tie pile. I opened it, looked at his letter
sVRain, and looked at the letter which I had
written to the Pension Bureau. Clearly, I
had done all he asked me for, and I folded
toth envelopes again and sealed them. 1
went on with my other work. Btill, I wns
taunted with the feeling that this thing
was leit unfinished, and I opened both the
letters once more. I read his letter again,
1 read my letter to the Pension Bureau, and
I read the note which 1 had written to him.
This time, after reading his letter to me
and mine lo him once and again, I inclosed
in my envelope to him some mouev, withoui
saying why, for indeed I did not know.
This 'linally finished' my correspondence,
as I supposed; I sealed the letter again,
and. finding that I could do nothing in mv
office, put on my coat, took ail the le;ters"l
hud been writing, passed from my private
room through the counting rooinaad left
the letters for tno mail.
"But I was not permitted to leave the
door of the office. In obedience to the im
pulse which I had now obeved twice. I
went back to the mailing box took out my
letter to him again, went back to mv
private office and read it once more; read
his letter now for the third or fourth time,
and this time wrote a new letter to my old
iriend Colonel Sharp, who lived in the
town from which the officer had written to
me. I asiied Sharp to be good enough to
find him, to find what his condition was.
and that of his family, and ir he found
that they needed any help, to render it to
them at my expense, if it should be neces
sary. I sealed and stamped this letter,
added it to my mail, and this time I was
permitted to leave my office and so to mv
home.
A TRUE STOKY.
"What
tho Writer end
Tliiiik It Shows.
Others
t The following ;tory is better than most sto
ries aio. because it is exactly true, excepting
ibe aaaitt gn-en to the parties and places. The
gentleman i-hom I hae called "General Gloi--t"
has permin-d me to put it in writing, that
itmavgueiae a-.rc courage to other pers-ons
-which it has given to him and to me. lint, v.l
his reqr.e-t. I have changed ecery name in the
s-tory from tliot-e which he gave me: and I as
sure the mos-t curious reader or cr'tic that he
i ill Hnd it impossible to ascertain bj ny con
jecture w ho are the parties described. No in
cident, however, in the story, is drawn in 'Jc
slichtc&t degree from imagination. I tell the
tale as it was told to me, ai.d print it after it has
had the revision of "General Glover." U. E.
Hal.e."1
1 was riding across the country to Duluth
when my old friend General Glover came
into the palace car. AVe two were born at
very rcarly the same time; we like each
other and .respect each other. IV e have
knocked about the world a good deal, and
do nitt meet each other as often as we wish
fedid, but when we mee: we begin where
eleft olf and enjoy the meeting. At
iea?t I am sure I do. and I think he docs.
Vs soon as the first inquiries were passed
I said to him : 1 want you to tell me again
your story of the letter you wrote to a
stranger. At the time you told me I re
peated it to my wife, and afterward to one
or two other persons; but now I am afraid
to tell it, it is so strange, and I am always
thinking that my imagination has added
something to it."
General Glover looked at me with a sur
prise not wholly of amusement. It
was quite clear to me that the story
was a serious matter to h:m. as it waste
J me; and he told it to me for the second
time. I think it is four years ago since I
. beard it first, and it speaks as well for my
AM memory, as for his, that I should recognize
each slightest detail, as a thing which had
impressed itself upon his careful mind, so
That this narrative was identically the
same us the first was. It was as if you had
struck a second impression from a stereo
type plato which ou had not used for four
jear.s.
"I was sitting at my desk at Xere3," he
said, "and working through my daily mail.
My custom was to attend to the business of
the firm lirt, and to leave the rcrsonal
ettcrs to be answered in the afternoon.
Jt wasxioi&sfternooii,and I turned to the six
v-r eight letters which 1 had for answer.
"Among these was one from a man for
vho:n I had se-:uit;il a place in the navy in
the outset of the civil war. If you remem
ber. I was then at the head of the Bunting
Board, and had a great deal to do with the
enlargement of the navy. Also. I was my
jelf connected with she service. I had
been in service on the seaboard all my lire,
and knew, naturally enough, a great many
t-ailors in the merchant niar.ne. Hundreds
of such men came to me, and it was with
my recommendation of them that they re
ceived their places in that volunteer serv
ice which was of such infinite advantage to
the country in the war. Among these
hundreds was a good fellow who had been.
I should say. in the coasting trade; but I
do not remember what he had 4)cen. He
wanted to servo the country, and, at my
recommendation, ho was appointed, as
other men were appointed, a master's
mate. As a master's mate he did his
duty, rose to be a master, afterward ob
tained a lieutenant's commission, and so
tcnl well-nigh through the war, until, by
an accident not, J think, a wound he
was so far disabled that he could no longer
go to sea. 1 did not know this at the time;
there was no rcasou why I should know it;
1 had nothing to do with him and he had noth
ing to do with me. lie was to mo no more
than one post hi this rail fence which we
are passing now is as distinct from another.
1 had signed the papers, I suppose, during
tuc service, of thousands of men who hart
more or less to d with our Bunting Board,
and thi3 man, hi naino or his affairs, made
no more impression upon me than tho rest
of them did.
"But, among the letters of this particu
lar atternoon, as 1 said, was a letter from
this man. It was a gentlemanly letter,
pd to the point, in which he told me
received his appointment on my
rccoinBccdaUon, that, alter some years ot
had been obliged to cease going
c account of the accident of which
i now asked me if I were willing
Lthe head of the Pension Bureau
claim might bo examined
I ccted c3Bimmi:UIM:iy'
neither he nofci c0"11861 had ufceeaftu
n.obiain...re Mr letters from the Pension
"Ue had a nightly mail, at that time,
from Xeres to Abydos, which was the citv
in which he was living, and, as I learned
afterward, my letter to him arrived the
next morning. It will snvc trouble if T
give you a name for him. We will call him
Needles, though that is not his name.
Th.rty-Mx hours alter I had written, I
received his reply. I have it now, and 1
will show it to you at some time. It was a
most modest and simple narrative or the
steady decline of his fortunes, since the
accident which Ihavedescnbcd. It seemed
he had a wife and four or live children, of
whom he spoke with pride and confidence.
But he had been educated as a sailor, and
he knew no arts hat those of a sailor: he
had no way of earning a living now that
he could not go to sea, and he had gone
through all the misery of sickness, en
forced idleness, of his income becoming
less and less until it was nothing.
'Ho and his wife had, sold every artic!"
of property and dress whicbthey could sell.
for the food and clothing of their children.
Tney had been obliged to withdraw their
children from school, because they could
not present a proper appearance there. It
w: under such circumstances that'necd
ing hi? pension, of course, he haii written
to me tnc modest letter which I had re
ceived, asking for my assistance in hasten
ing the decision o it.
"On the night before his present writing
that 5s, on the evening which immedi
ately followed the afternot-n of my writing
to him he and his wifeano. children were
cowering around the little stove which
warmed their lodging. Tho fire in it was
maintained by coals and cinders which the
children had picked up in the street. He
had not a cent to pny for any article of
food, and he and the children were all
hungry. They reviewed the position as
well as they could, and it was then that hi?
wife said that she was sure that brighter
times must be before them. Tor she stilt
believed that God did not mean that people
should perish who had not intentionally of
fended Him. or fought against IBs law. She
knew that they had done their duty as well
as they knew how, and she believed that
God would carry them through. She had
no ground for this belief excepting her cer
tainty that neither sh'e nor her husband nor
her children had intentionally dona what
was wrong. With such comfort as they
could get from such expressions as hers,
thev all went te bed. the earlier because
they had nothing to eat, and perhaps be
cause the fire vas not very satisfactory.
"For the same reason they slept, or
stayed in bed late in the morning. One is
not tempted to rise early when he has noth
ing to do and nothing to cat. Eut they did
ris-e, though late, and were rekindling th
fire. I think, when the postman stopped at
the door and brought in Uio letter which I
had three times opened, and in which I had
finally inclosed the money.
"Needles wrote to me that when the bill
fell to the ground from the letter, as it did.
he felt as he should have felt if it bad
dropped from the hand of an angel. He
had not asked me for money; he had not
asked anybody for money. He asked mo
for my inlluence in the Pension Bureau.
Without asking, the money had come. He
felt, and his wife felt, as if it had come in
answer to their prayer."
As General Glover told me this story, 1
was reminded of a phrase or my friend Mr.
Nayior, who used to say that there was no
condition in human life in which a check
on New York would not answer most pur
poses. It was clear enough that the crisp
greenback which had been inclosed in Gen
oral Glover's letter had been quite as valu
able a workman in that starving family as
Aladdin's slave of tho ring would have
been.
A skillful child was at once dispatched
to buy the materials for breakfast, and
thev were well engaged in the first meal
which they bad eaten for several days,
when another party appeared upon the
stage. This time it was not the postman:
it was Colonel Sharp, to whom General
Glover's fourth letter had been written.
I wish I could give the rcuder an idea of
General Glover's description of Colonel
Sharp's methods. He sut, cheering all
parties by his lively talk I wish. I were
talking with him now and when ho 6aw
that the breakfast was well finished, ho
took Needles with him to the great post
office at Abydos. Colonel Sharp was a
pretty important person iu that city, and,
breaking all lines of defense, he soon found
himself with Mr. Needle in t-io private
room of the post-master, whom, for the
purposoof this story, wo will call Mr.
Rowland HilL General Glover went on to
describe the interview.
"Sharp told Mr. Hill that there was a
deserving man, who bad (fcrred the coun
try, and that I was interested in him, and
Hill shook hanas with official cordiality, and
said ho should bo interested in any friend
of mine and his.
Colonel Sharp said that he wanted Hi'.l
to appoint Mr. No idles to a good pUm in
that post-office, Mr. Hdl at once assumed
the oftio al air of distress, and explained
how many hundreds of applications bo re- corns to, Mr.
eeived every day from very deserving peo
ple; but he would put Mr. Needles' name
on the list, and would send for him the first
time ho had an opportunity.
"Colonel Sharp said, at this, that he was
very glad Mr. Needles Interested Mr. Bill,
that neither of them were much occupied,
and that they would stay in the private
office until tho opportunity should occur.
At this announcement that the office would
need three permanent chairs for some time,
Mr. Rowland Hill was mare startled. In
short,' said Colonel Sharp to hiui, good
naturedly, 'the official methods will not an
s.verin this case. Mr. Needles deserves
the place; bo must have the place; General
Glover and I both mean that be shall have
the place; and you may as well give it to
him now as to givo It" to him next week.'
There are men who can say such things,
who hive earned the right to say them by
long and distinguished service to the coun
try. Mr. Hill knew perfectly well that this
was one of those casss, and when, there
fore, Mr. Needles walked home that morn
ing to his wife, it was to explain to her
that he was go on duty in the post-office of
Abydos, with a proper salary, that after
noon.
"All this he explained." said General
Glover, "in the letter of which 1 told you,
which I received thirty-six hours after I
inclosed the bill toh'm."
Here ends the first half of General Glov
er's story to me, as he told it on the train.
I wish the reader to observe, however, that
this first half is accompanied by a second
half, which transpired several years after.
Mr. Needles did his work so well in the
new office that every one liked him. Had
it not been in-door work, and he a sailor,
needing out-docr life, this story would end
bete. But the close confinement of the
office was bad for him, and the doctor told
him that he could not stand it. He did not
repeat this to General Glover till be had
found where he must go. Then it proved
that in a bureau which is under the treas
ury, which I will call tho Bureau of Red
Tape, they needed an out-door invoice man.
It was work that ho could do, and ho ap
plied to be transferred there. He wrote to
General Glover to tell him why he wanted
to remove, and asked for bis nelp at Wash
ington. Help at Washington, indeed ! Tne head
or the Treasury had been at the General's
side in those old days of '01 and 'tii, and as
soon as the mail could send it, the new ap
pointment was made secure. g
And from that time, I know not for how
mauy years, there was no correspondence
between General Glover and his friend.
Years passed away; I do not know how
many. General Glover, who is a man of a
thousand duties, all of which he docs well,
went hither, went thither, and may not
have thought of the letter or the answer
once in a month. Needles never wrote to
inm. He never wrote to Needles. As 1
said, borrowing lusphrase as ire Hew along
in the express train, one such man. till the
letter came, did not differ from another,
more than one post in a rail fence from
that which is next to it.
But tho letter, and what come from it,
made a difference. Yes, and the memory
of that letter, and the picture of the Move.
and the chidren, aud their mother sleeping
late, and all the rest which I have told you,
did sometimes come back to General
Glover.
And so, when, as I sav, years had gone
by, as he was one day making a visit in the
great roaring city which I have called
Abydos, ho tcld the story, as he told it to
me. and as I have told it to you. He was
making a call at the Hotel Esterhazy on
Mrs. Fonblanquc, whom perhaps you know,
and he told this story.
"You, say he lives in this city!" said she.
very much interested in the story. "Bo
you never go to see them?"
"No," he said; "1 have never been to
see them J"
"Might I see them! Where do they live!
What is his name'" she asked, somewhat
eagerly.
And tho General confessed, that since he
began to tell the story, he had been feeling
for the name, but it had escaped him.
"IT you had not asked me, however. I
thiuk I should have caught it- Queer that
i can noVfecali it."
"Atfd you liave'not seen himl" said she.
"No. I should not know the man from
Adam if he came in at that door." Aud.
at that instant, as if the man were coming,
a knock was heard at the door. A servant
entered with a card "For General Glover."
The General read it, and bade tho man
say he would see the gentleman in the
reading-room. He turned to Mrs. Fou
blanque: "What were ypu asking me?"
'I was asking the name of the mau whose
story you told me."
"Yes, you were. And J did not know it"
"iou saiu," continued sne, 'that you
should not know him if he came in at that
door."
"I did so. And here is his name.'1,
'Do not tell me that, this is that man'3
card."
"It is his card, and I am going down to
see him.'' So ho left Mrs. Fonblanquc to
her reflections.
Sure enough, there was his friend. He
was twenty years older than when, as a
young man, he flung himself into his coun
try's cause. Tiiere were the marks of his
accident, and there were the marks of his
twenty years' work. And both these men
went back, in memory, to those eager days
when the war began. But it was not of
them that the younger had come to talk.
He was in trouble again. "You will think
I am always in trouble, and yon will think
I always fall back on you."'
General Glover is not one of those peo
ple who turn over their own benefactions
like savory bonbon-.; he does not often
think of them indeed. He said, cheerily,
that, quite on the other hand, it was long
since he had heard from his friend.
"Nor would you hear from me now,"
said the other, "if I could help it. But I
can not help it. I come to you, of course.
My life is all to change, and I do not know
how. I come to you to ask. I should do
wrong," he said, very seriously, "con
nected as you and I have been, if I did any
thing without your advice, nay, without
your permission."
The General looked at him with surprise.
But the man was not weak ho was not
chattering compliments. He was speaking
with the deepest seriousness. "My life,
since 1 entered the navy, has been all
wrought in with your instructions. I
should be wrong if I did not come for them
now."
Then he unfolded his budget of miseries
audexplaiued that he was worse off than
he had been that day of the postman and
the letter. Worse off, because a second
fall is worse than the first.
This was the story:
At the time when he was transferred
from tho post-oalce to tho Bureau of Red
Taie, at the General's intercession, it had
been necessary, under such Civil Service
rules as then existed, that he should file a
oroper certificate of character, and he had
done so.
Now this certificate, alis, was headed oy
the most distinguished of General Glover's
friends in that eity, (lovernor Oglethorpe.
But in tho course el live or six years,
there had grown up great feud ia the
party, and Governor Oleihorpo headed
one side and Mr. Clodms headed the other.
And a weak baforo the time we have
Clodms baa been appointed
from Washington to bo tho bead of our
Bureau of Red Tape.
And every man in tho office knew that
all thoir certificates bad been examined
on Wednesday, aud that all Governor Ogle
thorpe's men would be dismissed on Friday.
It was now Thursday evoning.
"I only heard of this to-day," said the
officer we are interested in. "I would not
tell my wife. But ihe knew something
was he matter. But when tho evening
papzrcame.1 saw yoi were hero at the
Esterhazy, and then I know it was all
right."
"All right, dear friend!" said the Gen.
era!, in real distress. "It is all wrong. I
do not know this Clodius havo hardly
beard or him. I am out of politics these
Uveyoars. Noaonf them know me or care
for mo. I can not help you."
"O, yes. you can hel me," said the men,
simply and confidently. "And you will.
That is why I came." I told my wife it was
all right and it is."
"My dear fellow, you understand nothing
about it. Jiven the people at Washington
do not care for me now. They have forgot
ten me. I would gladly help you; bat 1 am
is powerless as a child."
Still he ivas touched how could ho help
being touched! by tho man's simplo faith.
"Or course I will vrilu a letter for you.
But it will do no good. Your Mr. Clodms
cares nothing for me or mine. Stay hsrc,
however, and 1 will go and write it.
So he crossed tho hotel lloor (o the pri
vate office, where, not th ''gentlemanly
clerk," but Mr. Mann, tho wise director of
the whole, was sitting.
"Mann," said the General, "do you know
this Clodius!-'
"I should think I did," said he. "He sat
in that chair half an hourugo. William,"
ana he struck his bell, "sea if Mr. Clodius
is in 75."
"No, no: I do not want to sea him. Rut
who knows him well enough well, to tell
hiin si 1nn?V1 I
'I should think I did. I have got bim
this office in the Red Tape Bureau. He
would not be there but for me."
"Is that possible!? said tho General, a
little awe-struck. "I want to tell him
about one of the people in it."
"There is paper and ink. Write a noje
to me and it shall go to him. Man to bo
kept ini He shall stay in. If there is any
thing Clodius wants, it is to oblige me. At
least, those were the last word he said to
me when ho left this room."
The General wrote h.s note, in a few
lines, as such mea can. Mr. Munn indorsed
it: "Please see to mis." The waiter took
it to 75.
There came back a card, with "All right.
Mr. Clodius." And iiltseti minutes after
General Glover had left the reading-room,
he returned with this card to hisfnend.
"I told you so," said the man, eager,
modest and simple in his gratitude. "I told
you that it would be wrong for me to do
any thing without consulting you."
Ami General Glover wont back to Mrs.
Fonblanquc, aud told nor tho end of the
story.
I told a story somevfhat like this to a
very wise man last week, aud he for;ed
himself to say: '-Yes. it shows how close
ly wo are all jumbled together in this little
world." But he forced himself to say this,
and at tho bottom of his heart he was won
dering if it did not show a great deal more.
And General Glover thinks, and Mrs. Fon
blanque thinks, and Needles thinks, and
his wife thinks, and 1 think, that it shows
a great deal more.
We think that outsido the people that
write letters and put them in the post
office there are unseen people who tell them
what to say. We think that behind you
and me, who come and go, there are some
times unseen hands which show us where
to go and where to come.
And those of us who write stories some
times put into thom such tales of crisis, as
that in which Jane Eyre hears the cry of
her lover, though he's" two hundred miles
away. But we do not put in such things
merely to serve the purpose of the story.
We put them in, because, if wo did not put
them in, the story would not be true to Life.
-EVftciird JCvt.-ctt Hale, in X. Y. Independent.
WEARY WANDERERS.
The TTays and Meaan or IIoBMt aad Die
hooMt Tramps.
Since the panic of 1873. when thou
sands of men were thrown out of em
ployment and began their desultory
wanderings from city to city, the name
of tramp" has become a significant
term in our language.
At first, tramps were in the main
honest unfortunates, and every farm
house along their wearying march
generously and willingly gave to them
at least a morsel of food. Worthless
wretches and thieves who never gained
support for a fortnight through honest
labor, noted the success of those seek
ing work and saw in it a glorious op
portunity to travel over the country,
upon a borrowed reputation and with
out display of means. The olau be
came popular and these peripatetic
tourists became as plentiful as tho
Kansas grasshopper. Then followed
in rapid succession so many horrible
outrages, bold thefts aud daring deeds
of deviltry tiiat to call a man a tramp
meant no less than thou dog" among
the children of Judea. The newspapers
vied with each other in heaping upon
them every invective and following up
their machinations, realizing that life
and property were not safe with this
lawless class wandering hither and
thither at will. In most of the States
rigid laws were enacted for the purpose
of suppressing this pest, which was be
coming alarming in proportions.
Such was the reputation established
for tramps, and long will thev have to
bear its stigma, and yet there is one
class of these folorn wanderers which
appeals to pity.
Winter being the season for .these
transient guests, a reporter asked Chief
Iladlcy Clack, of the Nashville police,
for some information concerning them.
"Those who come to the statiou
honsc," said he, "are not tramps by
profession, and appear to be such only
from unfortunate circumstances. Usu
alh' they arc endeavoring to reach some
certain point where they have relatives
or prospects of work. Nearly every
iiizni uurmg me winter months we
keep one or more of them over night,
registering their names' upon what is
called the charity- book."
'The mere fact of their coming to
such a place and asking to stay over
night indicates that they are not very
great criminals, because they would
SENATORIAL WHISKERS.
Hew horn f Oar Statvsmea !Tar Thtr
Hlrsat Adoraatents.
Wade Hampton has shaved off his
whiskers and with them has gone his
resemblance to Kaiser Wilhelm. Hi
rosy face looks smaller and fatter antl
the only hair on it is the little whisker
of frosted silver which shine from under
his nose. You would hardly know him
for the same man aud his face loses
much of its character by the change.
Senator Hoar looks like Greeley, only
better dressed.
Cockrcll, of Missouri, with his long,
straggling blonde beard, his tall framo.
is the counterfeit presentment of Uncle
Sam, save that his breeches are not
made of the American tlag nor are they
fastened down under his patent leather
boots by straps.
Senator John W. Daniel has the face
of Edwin Booth, save that the nose is a
triile larger and the forehead broader.
His hair is brown and his eyes are
gray.
Senator Joe Brown looks like a
Jewish patriarch or a typical Mormon,
but his words show him to bo neither.
He is np to the times and his srrav
head is full of practical brains.
Cullom has often been compared
with Abraham Lincoln, aud he is fully
as tall and nearly as angular. His
resemblance, however, comes from hia
characteristic gesture and expression.
Senator Cush Davis looks like Ben
Butler, and the two have been taken
for ono another.
Senator Dolpb, of Oregon, with his
long, sable silver beard, would make a
splendid representative of Hamlet's
father.
Senator George Edmunds could
make his fortune by sitting as amodel
to painters for pictures of St. Jerome.
Blair, of New Hampshire, looks lik
President Hayes, and he sympathizes
with him in his temperance principles.
Aldrich, of Rhode Island, Paddock,
of Nebraska, and Butler, of South
Carolina, resemble each other, and
each has a rosy face and gray mus
tache. Matt Ransom is handsome, but he
has no counterpart in history or publio
life.
Chace, of Rhode Island, though he is
by no means a bad-loolnrig Quaker,
could, in the words of the old joke.
Be worshiped without breaking the
THE RHINE FALLS.
Ctlllzlnr the Wtr That Fliw from
Con-ttancn to Schatlhatisrn.
Visitors to the Rhine are well ac
quainted with the Rhine Falls, situated
at Schaffhauscn, these forming the
largest cataract in Europe. Some
twenty miles below the point where it
isues from the Lake of Constance, the
Rhine, with a width of 3j0 feet and
an average depth of abwut 21 feet,
plunges over a barrier of rocks vary
ing iu height from -15 feet on the rMit
bank to about 60 feet on the left. In
cluding the rapids, the total fall within
a distance of a little over a third of a
mile is estimated at l.9 feet- The vol
ume of water passing over tho falls
per second varies from a minimum of
118 cubic meters in February to a max
niutn of 502 cubic meters iu July, when,
in consequence of the melting of the
snow in the mountains and the rise in
all the tributary streams and brooks,
the Rhine readies its highest point
In this practical age of inventions and
progress very few will be sur
prised to hear that an applica
tion has been made for concession
to utili.e these m:igr.;ficent falls
for the manufacture of aluminum, the
story of which, with numerous illustra
tions and maps, has been recently told
by one of the American Consuls. The
applicants are Messrs. i G. Nether?,
Sous& Company, iron workers atSchau
hausen, who ask for the privilego of
constructing a dam from LaufeirMill
to the railroad bridges, a length suf
ficient to furnish thom with a volume
of seventy-live cubic meters per second.
If this is granted they propose to estab
lish works for the manuf-ictiirn nl
aluminum, furnishing employment at
lirst to 500 workmen and latter to
double that number. They estimate
tho water power requisite to carry on
their works at an equivalent of 1,50:)
horse power and submit with their ap
plication the necessary maps, plans
and drawings. They further announce
that a company with a capital of 12,
000,000 francs Cbout 48'J.O00) is pre
pared to conduct the enterprise, and
tbay offer all reasonable guarantees
against any marring or defacement of
the natural beauties of the falls. The
proposition is being met with a strong
opposition, this being led by the hotel
keepers, men of infltionce in Switzer
land and many others who are depend
ent on tho tourist busincs. Their
bonnes, they say, would suffer disas
trously and all over the Rhine district
energetic endeavors are leing made to
get the application refused. London
linicx
fear that their deeds and description of j Commandments," for he is like no one
uicmscives wore iuruishcu to the police.
They conic usually just about six
o'clock iu the evening, as soon as it
begins to grow dark, and do it only to
get ofT of the street, knowing that they
would be picked up by the ollicers dur
ingthe night, and being without money,
they have no place to go. Early in the
morning they are turned out and that
is the l:it we ever see of them."
"How is it then, that they are sup
posed to be of desperate character?"
The thieving .and lawless tramps
only visit the city during the day, and
sleep at night in some barn or straw
stack outside of the corporation. Olten
they build a lire, using some farmer's
rails, and keep warm in that way.
These do about all of the villainy, and
in the heavens above or the earth be
neath, or in tho waters under tho earth.
Speaking of beards. Senator Allisoa
wears a full set of reddish brown,
whiskers into which a few gray strands
have crept. They are stiff and straight
and about two inches long. Job Black
burn's chief ornament is a fierce mus
tache. Don Cameron had a red mus
tache. Blair has hair of sand and
silver all over his face. Daniel is
smooth shaven, and Edmunds' whis
kers are as whito as the cotton burst
ing from the Post Department Eustis,
of Louisiana, has a full beard of iron
gray. Frye sports a gray mustache.
George, of Mississippi, has blondo
whiskers, and A. P. Gorman keeps his
face as smoothly shaven now as it was
continue their depredations to the when he attended tho sessions of tho
country and edges of the city. They
make their living m this manner, and
have no desire to secure work."
What do the tramps usually have,
and how do they act when they come
here?"
"Well, nearly all of them are men,
it being extremely rare for a destitute
female to come for lodsrinff. Thev
never have any money, j-ou may be as
sured, or they would never resfcontent
with such accommodations as"are fur
nished them va this old trap. Neither
have they any good clothes, for every
article of value would be pawned for
food, lodging or drink. Except in
very few c:iscs they are extremely
ragged, but you never find one that
docs not carry a needle and thread
fastened in his coat collar. Most of
them have some kind of a little bundle
tied up in a handkerchief, a walking
slick, aud very often a little coffee pot.
"When they walk into tho office they
at once tell what thej- want, and we
til ways permit them to sleep here. We
tell them that they will have very
rough accommodations, but they are
satisfied with any place of warmth and
safety."
"Of what color and nationality are
lh:y usually?"
4 'They are always while. A negro
tramp would never come here. It
would be hard to tell which nationality
predominated, the German, Irish aud
American being about equally divided.
"Now and then something amusing
develops when we search them prior to
putting them iu the cell. An old Irish
man, small and feeble, came here not
long ago and, after he had thoroughly
warmed bj- the stove, he was asked
what he had on his person. 'Not a
cint; not a cint. All Oi have is just
this little bit of a firearms,' he said,
pulling out from his hip pocket a small
pistol. When it was explained to him
that to carry weapons was against the
law he replied: 'And I didn't know
that. Thoy told me that this was a
dangerous country for a man to travel
all alone, and than tnere's some -queer
doin's goin' on here, sol just got that
uuie Dit ior protection, tie was as
Senate as a page. Gray, of Detroit,
. has a black mustache. Eugene -Halo
sports a full beard. Harris waxes tho
J ends of his long mustache. Mandersoa
wears a brown imperial, and Mitchell,
of Oregon, has toe longest, glossiest,
dearest brown beard in the Senate.
Senator Morgan's mustache is white.
Morrill has side whiskers, and H. B.
Payne kcep3 hi3 face as bare as tho
crown of Senator Sawyer's bald head.
Stanford has a full beard, and he
conld probably cash a $10,000 check
for every hair in it.
Stewart's full whiskers are straw
mixed with frost.
John Sherman's whiskers are stiff
and white. George Vest's blonde mus
tache overhangs his mouth.
Walthal has glossy brown hair which
curls as it touches his collar. Quay
has a dark mustache. Ingalls shaves
every day and nurses tenderly his little
mustache and the bit of hair on his chin.
Looking thom all over aud sizing up
their intellectual strength the amount
of whiskers seem to have nothing to do
with their amount of ability, and had
Delilah shaved Sanson instead of cut
ting hiu hair he woald never have been
conquered and blinded by the Philis
tines. Washington Cor. Cincinruili
Times.
A Wave Power Motor.
An engine has been invented and!
constructed, which is moved by tho
fluctuations of the sea. This uew ma
chine has been erected in San Fran
cisco, by E. T. Steen. It is a very sim
ple contrivance, but it is capable of ex
erting great power. A bridge is built
across a chasm in the rocks on the shore.
From this is suspended a largo paddle,
and this is moved back and forth by the
action of the waves. Connecting with
the upper part of the paddle is a
plunger pump, which has a stroke of
nine to twelve feet, and this is attached
to a suction pipe, extending out into
the water. When the fan is worked
back and forth by the wares, the water
it forced into the suction pipe. The
force with which
the water is drawn
innocent as a child about it, and bein" i UP is sufficient to raise it 350 feet above
soold he was simply advised of the risk tae ude levcl- . Tie water drawn out
run and told to dispose of it I ' tne se 7 tn" engine will be utilized
"Most of the tramps com from the ' 'or rio3 purposes. Tho cost of run
Nortli, andarevtryingto reach points ning the engine is very smaU, as h
still further Sooth. They do not talk neeils little orno attention. 2temari'
much, and rarely attempt to tell us any Monthly. j
of those pitiful stories with which the -Deacon Jones (to countiy minister)
public is burdened. From what I see I --Some of the members of the con
of them about the stition-hoiue I am gregaUon. Mr. Goodman, complain
nvHiiiui-uHN i pny tncm, oeneving thl,t yo do ;,ot gpeilk ioad enough.'
that the'tnostnf thnn are honestiv seek
ing cmgloymeaL"--Aoit;i7te Awcr-
MUM.
Country minfster "I speak as loud as
I can afford to, deacon, at 500 a year."
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