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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (July 24, 1896)
I TW ,-"' THE HED CLOUD CHIEF, FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1896. 3 ft w j SIMPLICITY BEST. A PLEA FOR GRACEFUL ARCHI TECTURE IN DWELLINGS. I'rnfiinriicn nf Orn miPiit itlmi n of thn t'lUilt uf Till (ii'iipriilloii ll.iji plly ttm Alitno I (ir.iltiully Dli.ip lir.irln In Plum for tlui I iituro. (Copyright IO ) Ono of tlio greatest faults in Ameri can architecture, although happily it is tnoru to bo noticed iu tlio buildings of n puit generation tlmti those of tlio present, is n too profuse timi of orna mentation. It bespoko n low Htuto of public tnnte. Tlio most glaring in stauees of this f mil t are to bo soon in tlio homes that woro routed iu tho Into '('Us and early '70m, with tho French roofs their hideoiH and oh strtiMvo iron window Mils mid thoir ginger-bread work everywhere IJvon buildings put up purely for busitioss purposes felt tho ollect of this im pulse, for thin w.is tho period of iron frontH that did not show 11 foot of pluin tint surface. At thin day there is coming, oven if slowly, a general recognition that tho beet und most imposing effects in iirohitooluro uro provided by simple und cuusto de signs. In house miilditiglhu external ornamentation may uifely bo left to tho competent architect. When ouo of tliece ollend, it is usually because n pnrliuiihir patron objects to loo much plainness and wishes to carry out his own fancies. rnnspnrriVK vintr. Urnaracntatiou may be licculifnl in lltelf, nnd whon applied to nrchitcc turo niny not offend tho oyo at tho first glnuce, and yet as ouo lives within its presence, grows tircsoao nml cre ates resentment. If ono builds a hniiBo and its general lines are strong, ho should im.iht, boforo everything else, on a freedom from petty details of ornamentation. Thoro should bo uo tawdry cornices, llimsy brackets and spindle work. In design theso may seem attractive, and may bo doomed noccpsnry to cover baro spaces of stone or wood; when thoy aro in place, however, thoy prove u torment to tho oyc. Iu tho matter of interior finish tho same rule holds good. There can not bo but general regret at tho pass ing of tho honest handiwork in wood. Tho workman was an artisan, if not an artist, and ho rarely sinned against good taste, everything being in keep ing and goncral harmony of design. Ono must bo ohary. Now in tho usoof machine work, mouldings nnd carv ings nro practically tnrncd out by wholosalo without regard to its partic ular use or location, nnd thoy fre quently clash with themselves and surroundings. Thoro should be plain casinas nnd door nauols nnd no l'ir.sT iT.oon. eln'uornto , bnso boards if the bott effects nro to bo ob tained; in particular, ono should guard against ornate mantels nnd tt.n "built in corner" cabinots glittorln with glass or mirrors. Plain walla givo tho host background for pictr.roa, nnd artilloial flllinonts virtually kill ono'u furniture, no raattor how hand Fomo it may bo. Tho passing cf tho stylo of ornamoutal plaster work is matter for congratulation. A simplo contro picco for tho chandelier iu a largo room in pormissablu, If it Is un obtrusive, but ovcu thin is not acces sary. Thoro is no longer nny need foi plaster cornices. These gntbor dust and dirt nnd consequently bocoino uu henlthy as woll as ngly. Tho modern method of pnpor hanging covors tin. break bntween eeillni; anil aids walls, ftaa furnishes an nrtistto sulutituto for tho old time cornious. Thero is n less uecd for tho warn ings over ornamoutation at this tirao in as much no popular tnsto is steadily mbving in tho direction of rich and simple ofleots. Kvery year brings u notablo improvomo"t iu architectural stylo. Wo illnstrato nn nttractivorcslclonco and describo its principal features uu follows: GuuornnDimeuBions : Width, through sitting-room nnd diniug-roora, 111 ft. 8 ins. ; doplh, inoluding verandn, C3 ft. Hoights of Stories: Collar, 7 ft. G ins. ; first story, 0 ft. 0 ins. ; second 6tory, 9 ft.; attic, 7 ft. nSat.nq R " X tl J rv r-k u y I2XO D'Oing K. I if- r " w rpTr.2-)ll5- Pdrlor vfesiH VerAndA i'WIde T?L .T. JZHfj)1 r ... ut...mn Exterior Materials' Foundation, stone ; llrst story, clapboards; second itory, gables and roof, shingles. Interior Finish: llurd, white plus tor; plaster coiuicrs and centers in parlor, dining and sitting-roomf. Double floor in first story with paper bettvrou finished floor, soft wood. 1'rim in hall and vestibule, ipiarterod oak. Mniu tBtiiircus.', oak. Faticl line fen tinder windows in pat lor, din-iug-room and hitliiig-rouni. t'icturo molding in principal rooms and hall of llrst story. Cliair-rail in dining room. Jtath'rnom and Uitchon. wains iiBathbrn Ro n 7Tx rooli Bed R. 4 S J ( io'xi.1' J BcdR 1 IIP Mj I dR I BdRJ 15X15 j Roof HECONU 1'I.OOK. cotod. Interior wood-work stnined to suit owner and finished in hard oil. Colors: Clapboards, heal brown. Trim, including water table, corner boards, cornices, casings, bands, ver nudu posts ami rails, oiitnido blinds, rain conductors, etc., chocolate. Out hide doors finished with hard oil. Hashes, l'ompei'nn red. Veranda floor nnd ceiling and nil brickwork, oiled. Wall shingles dipped iu nnd brush coated with light hieuun stain. Hoot shingles dipped iu and brush coated dark red stain. Accommodations: Tho principal rooms und thoir sizes, closets, etc., nro shown by tho iloor plans. Cellar under tho wholo house, with insido and outside entrances and concreto Hour. Ouo room finished iu attic; space for two more. Attractive main staircase. Sliding doors connoct hall and parlor, dining-room nnd sitting room. Attractive circular bay iu sec ond story. Cost: $:MO0, not including mantels, raugo or bcator. Tho ottiinntn is based on New York prison for mater ials and labor. In many sections ol tho country tho cost should bo loss. Co-Operatlve Building I'lan Associa tion. IT KILLED HER. IVrullitr Not Inn nf Woman Who Fcnm! llurulnr. "A very sad affair," remarked one of the mourners on the way home from the funeral, nays the New York World. "Yes," replied the man at his bide, "death Is always sad." "Of course: but it was particularly i-o in this ciiFe. Perhaps you didn't know the deceased as well as I did. She was one of the host women that over lived, but all her life sho was the victim of a strango terror." "You don't iy ho," commented the man. "Yes," went on the melancholy mourner, stroking his heard relied holy. "She had an Idea that she was going to be murdered by a burglar who hau hid himself under her bed. She nlloweil the Impressing s. stow upon her. and in course of time sho became a monomaniac on the subject. All the doors and windows In her house were doubly locked and barred, and every night for thlity years the last thing she did wan to look under her bed." "But didn't her friends try to do anything to get her out of her morbid condition?" Inquired the man, growing intercdted. "Everything they could think of," answeied the mourner. "Why, the Inst thing they did was to buy her n fold ing bed to sleep in." "That surely cured her of her Insane fear about a muii under the bed." "You'd think ro," returned the mourn; "but that's just whoro you mako a mistake. She hadn't been sleeping In that fn'.dlLK bod a week be fore the thing collapsed one night and smothered her." lliiffuln Found. Several weeks ago Dr. J. B. Taylor, the wealthy Texas stockman, sent three experienced cowboys nnd frontiersmen In search of the hord of wild buffalo which were discovered In Brewster county two years ngo, nnd havo been seen several times since then. Tho hunters hnvc just returned from thoir trip, which they state was a success. Thoy found the herd of buffalo, num bering about eighty head, iu a rotnoto section of Presidio county. Tho nnl ninla were trailed by the hunters from tho Carmen Mountains, In Mexico. Now that tho exact location of tho herd Is again known, it is Dr. Taylor's in tention to start with his expedition, which has been organized for several mouth?, und round up the animals and place them all on his ranch In Tom (Jrcen county. San Antonio corres pondence St Louis Globe-Democrat. rrpp-llorn. Foreigner This may bo a frco coun try but I don't aeo ttiut tho freedom Iiub nny effect on tho people. Such a patient, ineok, subdued lot of humanity I never paw In my life. I should think a free-born American would act ns If ho woio monarch of all ho surveyed, Nutlvo Watt until you seo u passen ger car brnkeman who oxpccU soon to bo a conductor New York Weekly. 7 . i-fjrifi rniiihriniy IMPORTANCE OF THE LIBRETTO .. fl. .,. ... I.............. ,.. nf . tfc An tin, .imii iu)Mir I ii I i mi w. .. 0l)ir.l. j I'lwt and frri'tuo t the composer , nuwt proMile himself wp'i n good libretto. mys the rortt'.lglit'.y Kevlow. On this we should i-.i.v roundly the whole fortune of the piece depends. A good liluvito v 111 make amends for bad music but g"od mush v. ill never 'inke amends tor a 'md llbietto. If tho libit Ito Is light the music need not neei'Shiiiily be llimsy. Indeed, we can promise the rnuipoier that he may In dulge his most recondite vein at times without danger and throughout tho opera may wipe his very best and most valued music. The llbietto will correct him when he Is Inclined to prose and h'-eome tedious. It will keep li f tn from tripping; it will ho hl.s sahntlon if he has any theories. Whatever he does the opera will Mie-ceed-only provided that he has a good libretto. In the second place he must provide himself with a good libretto. The best music iu the world, which sounds elegant and even sublime in the concert-mum, If by any means It could he transmuted into the music of the theater, would fnll lint nnd mriiului; less If linked with n bad libretto, so In extricably are the two Intermingled so Important Is a good libretto to the composer. Iu the third place he must by all means piovlde himself with a good libretto, for without It he can do nothing. In the fourth place he must do the same, and, having obtained the libretto, he has only to sit down and write tho very best music which truln lng and his genius admit of. and with a good libretto lite opera will he a suc cess. PARADISE FOR CRIMINALS. I.ltn lit thn Onrti Air In l'oniinratltn rrpt'iloin. A correspondent writing from Italy gives some Interesting details of the treatment of prisoners on various Italian islands he visited while on u trip in the Mediterranean, says Lon don Tld-Blta. Kach of these Islands contains several liundted prisoners, who are locked up every night at sun set, released at daybreak and locked up again fiom midday until li o'clock. During the night no prisoner Is nl lowcd to be absent under any circum stances, but ut midday those who work on farms at a distance from the prison are allowed to remain out by special permission of the director. During these free bourn the prisoners can go anywhere they like on the Island nnd can engage In any work offered them by tho townspeople or farmers. Any Infraction of tho rules of ordinary life around them or of their prison Is pun ished by seclusion in special cells. The government furnishes physlclana anil medicines, a summer and winter suit of clothes to each prisoner every year nnd allows him llvepenco dally In money for his food and other neces saries of life. Danger of escapo is pre vented by a squad of soldiers ono to eveiy ten criminals and a swift-sailing felucca, manned by marines. On nccount of the cheapness of labor the Islands are so highly cultivated as to resemble gardens. The correspondent adds; "As for the prisoners, the open air makes them the healthiest of any criminals I have ever seen. There Is no sign In their faces and bodies of that prison blight which strikes every visitor to ordinary Jails." SCIENCE TOO SLOW. Dlit'ovory of Cut I.iiiiffiincn Not I.lkeljr to lln of Alnrli lr. "Wo livo nnd learn," said the ordi nary man, nccordlng to Black and White. "1 always thought that a cat could either mew or purr or spit or le.ivo It alone. It now seems that 1'vo dunu an Injustico to the beast's vocabu lary. Prof. Marvin Clark, I'm told, has been studying the languago of cats nnd has discovered f00 'primitive wordB.' " "Of which " the mero boy said, "fiO't nro either blasphemous or Improper." "Tho professor doesn't say no and I don't see how you found it out." "I ice thlsprofcsior savn thnt cat lan guage bears a resemblance to Chinese. It's rather rough to Insult a fallen nnd vanquished nation that way." "Well, If there'a anything in It," tho ordinary man remarked, "It would ac count for the Chlno-Japaneso war In a novel and perfectly satisfactory way. But really, when one comes to think of It, It Is much easier to believe that cats talk than thnt monkeys talk. Cats and owls both muko sounds exactly like the sound of a human voice. Given a churchyard, a dark night and n whlto cat and you havo all tho materials of a ghost story." "It's a pity." the Journalist said, "that discoveries of this kind cannot he turned to some practical use. Why don't they discover tho language of the horso? It would make driving much easier if you could tell tho animal ex actly what was wanted and explain to It verbally tho perfeclly innocuoin character of any object at which It might bn likely to shy." "Ah!" said the eminent person. "Be foro that discovery arrives we shall have the auto-cars and no horses at nil." Tliry Would J't Imy. A good story Is told about a clerk In a Mechanlcsvlllo, Pa., store. It seems a country damsel ontored the storo in which tho dork was at work. Sho cur ried homo livo chlckons with their foot tied, and sho placed them on tho coun ter. Tho clerk who waited upon her Is noted for bis pollto manners, but ho Is not nlways grammatical, and he smilingly asked: "Aro you sum thoy will lay there?" "Oh, no, sir," sh- stanimerod, "they're all roosters," riiiniiliMti (lot In Ironlilp. Ben A. Bore I'm very forry Miss Tookor Is out; you won't forget to mention that I called? Flnnnlgan No, Indeed: I'll run right upstulrn now and toll her. New York World. THE PISA Mi IXDrSTRY IS THE ONLY FARM OF THE KIND ON EARTH. UIiik of (Ifin I utirrt 1 : 1 1 1 1 1 1 t Nn l.r Tlmti I, ,-.IK Mill, llulililln,' '.'.ID Millloil Diviin ll-citi r.iuliii i mi n hiiiull Si'uln. r.i AMES OI.AUIC of tjitcenslaiid, Aus tralia, the king .if the pe.ul HsheiM and the owner of tin uiily pcarl-slHI M' ii.' w k) " IJ I mjW UfTi- L w farm In the world. '- ' lYw...l ...V I, ,1 ,1... M..1,l.,.. 'T.C- - till, announces the San Francisco Call. Mr. Clark's pcail nhi'll farm Is stock ed wllh l.-.n.n.Hi ii.mi-1 niiHIs, which lie collected from the deep-s, a waters. He believes that hn can grow peat Is and shells. It Is ,i now thing. .Nobody ever attemptnl It bfore. Mr. Clark Is on n tour of the world to Investigate the various p-.irl llsherles. Ho lias all the facts and llsures con cerning them on his llnger.tlp.t. He Is much liitficMr, In the extensive peat I llsherles In the (Julf of California, but, of course, onl in an abstract way. as he hf no money Invested In them. Th. islim of pearl Ushers employs no less than l.fmii men and "jr.O vessels. Of the army of l.r.OH men, i'.'il are nkllled dlvirx. The e-aels used are of all sizes, the average cost of each being ('.00. "I have been llftren years engaged In pearl HsIiIiik." said Mr. Clark List night. "My llsheilesare In the Tories straits, In the north of (Jueensland. I began on a small scale, and have given the pearl llsherles my close attention during nil these years. My experience has led me to the belief that with proper intelligence in the selection of SCHOOLTEACHER I r. A wr St.. -WH'v - v.i Ji&-4J'f.'.''-i ,K, I Miss Kdna Booker Is the heroine of tho Hoekle.s. She Is tho school teach er of the village of Midland, and she ha Just performed a deed of heroism which, according to western editors, "cannot be too highly commended." Ono of Miss Booker's pupils had a pet antelope which, llko Mary's little lamb, followed the child to school each day and waited patiently about untU the class was dismissed. One day last week it lay. as usual, basking In the sun nt tho door, while tho teacher and her children were nt ,vork. Suddenly thero was a commo tion, and the startled children looked up to see tho little animal In tho clutches of n largo mountain lion. With shrieks of terror the tots ran to tho most distant corner and huddled there together. Tho teacher did not for a moment lose her nerve, but started towards a shotgun which hung on the wall near a place, one can nil so pearls and pearl shells as easily as ono can raise oysters, but, of course, to do this you must know how. I started a largo pearl-shell farm three years ago, and have stocked It with shell, which I ob tained In many Instances far out at ocean, In tlio ueep water, in " shells successfully, according to my ex perience thus far, the water must noi bo too deep. "There Is ono thing I am sure of, ami that Is that no matter how many pearls ..... r.niiiwnii tho miiinlv can never ii.v i' ...... -... -..w ...,..-. equal tho demand, and therefore there , is no danger of any coriinino among tho pearl fishers of the globe. It Is Tor tho purpose of finding out all I can in icgard to the pearl fisheries of trio different parts of the wot hi, that I havo now sot out on this trip. 1 keep pictty well Informed in ro;?ird to tho pearl fisheries In all parti of tho country. Your great fishery In the Gulf of California Is the biggest ono on tho American continent, nnd Is prac Mcally the only one, excepting that of .ho Gulf of Mexico, below the gulf. "Tho pearls that aro grown iu the Torres straits aro all of the color you bco hero. This beautiful silver pcnil which you seo on my sirf Is a good Illustration of tho kind we produce. "Thero Is only one color, In fact, nnd that Is the moat desired among pur chasers. This Inrgo oval pearl yon nay think something abnormal In Its wnv. but wo net manv of them. Thero Is no question but that the Torres fish eries produce tho Ilne.st pearls to bo had. Tho market shown that. Thoy bring tho highest prices." Mr. Clark Is a man of medium height ind middle age. He Is said to ho a multl-mllllonnlro and to havo acquired his colossal fortune since r.o began pcarl-fiohlng a fow years ago. Ho has a reddish beard, a clear, gray eye, and a quiet, confident way of talking that is very Interesting. "My pearl-shell farm," ho continue I, 'occupies a htrotch ot water ten mllon long and about livo miles v;ldo on tho Tl' 4 ' J $&!;& . aw1 J'ummm .-&, s vr '. V3 i&rMiVWsm f ,n ?. :. 1 'vMlW 'Wr ttrm CI UkH edge of the Torres s'.r.ittj. The water Is shallow, for It Is only In that kind of water that sIHl.t can be found success fully matured. Any experienced pearl -linker cm tell at a glance from th" surround I m? fhorrs whether or not lie has the best llvh'nc ground. "If t'i" shore ate hUh ami rugae.l It Indicates th.'t tin- w I'ef I ibep and i ild. T!i rhelb do not attain the JltMirvt sl.c there. Ilislden ihte It is hud on the diver j In g.ilng down oo deep for them. 'Where the shores are low and re ceding and the water warm, there are In he found the lines! shells and the highest pearls. "I ship my shells to London In my own veneris. The shells are used for scored of different purpiwes now, ami there Is a greater demand for tlieni each ear. They go to London In my veels by hundreds of tons. "The pearls are marketed In Loudon and Paris mainly. The catch cory e.ir runs roughly speaking from ?'-'",-Odd worth up to almost IHo times that. There Is a constantly growing demand for them. I have been In the business long enough to ascertain that for a (i italnty. "It Is beaiio of this that I am now trying to make pearls and shells on my own faun, which 1 have estab lished and stocked by n portion of what 1 have caught. A QUEER EXPERIMENT. riiolosr iihlii: Mi Sil ili of i Drop or Slrrrur). Prof. Woithltigtoit has been studying a viii Ions phenomenon for twenty xears says Knowledge. The splash of a drop occurs In the twinkling of an eye yet II In uu exquisitely regulated phenomenon and one that very happily illustrates some of the fundamental properties of the Until. The problem that Piof. Worthiiigloii has succeeded in solving Is in let a drop of dellnlte size fall from a fixed height Iu eonipnr- KILLS A LION tho door. To reach It she had to pass the lion, who had dropped the antelope and growled ominously as sho ap proached. Tho gun was empty, so sho had to reach her desk again to load It. In tho meantime the linn sprang to wardH the group of children. The bravo young woman followed him, took aim and pulled the trigger. Tho recoil of tho old gun knocked her over, but tho charge had dono its work, for the IIoii'h head was blown nl inost to pieces. The pupils ran screaming down tho road with the story, and In a short time men were In the school-house, whoro they found the lion dead and the teacher safe, but in a nervous collapse. They ex pressed their enthusiasm In typical western faahlon. Procuring a chair, they placed tlio girl In It nnd carried her nnd tho dead Hon through the town with wild cheers. From the Now York World. ntlvo darkness onto a surface nnd to Il luminate It by it Hash of exceedingly short duration at any desired stage, so as to exclude nil the stages previous ami subsequent to those thus selected. The many Illustrations In this volume testify to tho accuracy and beauty of his work. Tho curious results of a splash of a drop ot mercury from a height of three Inches upon a smooth glass plate are particularly Interesting. Very soon nfter tho llrst moment of Im pact minute rays are shot nut in nil ill icetlous on tho surfaro with marvelous regularity. From tho ends of the rays droplets of liquid split olf. The liquid subsides Iu the middle and t;oon alter ward Hows Into a ring. The ring then divides In such a manner an to Join up the rays In pairs. Thereafter tho whole contrneU till tho liquid rises In the center, so ns to form the beginning of the rebound of the drop from the plate. Immediately the drops at tho central mass tlses Iu a column, which Just falls, itself to break Into drops. Ho photographed no fewer than thirty succeBrilvo Mages of the splash within tho twentieth of n second, so that tho average Interval between them was about tho six-hundredth of n second. Uemarkahle aro tho splashou of water drops fulling about sixteen Inches Into milk, but more beautiful aro tho domo forms when tho height Is fifty-two inches. A Hup to CnrlieriH Grosblnct has n violent discussion with a gentleman who has called him a porcupine. "Withdraw tlir,t expression!" howled Orobblnot. "Never!" "I'll call you to nccount for It." "Ah you ploaho." Grosblnot (simmering down) "Come, now, you really must withdraw Eomothlng." "All right," said t!io other, "I'll with draw 'uplnc' " And Grosblnot wnlkod off ns content ns you please Lo Petit I.legeols. 'te.terawKSr i K i. K 5N , rjwWaJT, :aSBBK !:V,.-rlR WjVM-V T s ! i '. M 8 OFFICE BOY'S "CHANCE." A He Item.- lint Mlclit .lln ho lllm .Viimlriiii of C'lRiirrttm. One of the big stock brokers down town bus nn oillce boy who promises to In mine n grnuluo Napoleon of lliinnce whin h grows up, says tlio New Yoik Mall mid Dxpress. Wall ntieel cilice ho) arc- about as nhrowd and wlde-awiil.e joungilers as -nn bo found, but for the moment the one In question bear.i the pnlt.i He ban dis covered how lo get sonicM.ln ', und lots of II, for nothing. A package came through the mall for hl.i employer this morning. The broker, after opening II, tossed It to the boy. II proved lo bo an advertisement from a clgaietle company and contained a package of live cigarettes, Fiiniph'H of a new brand, and a postal card ad dressed to the company. The accom panying circular stated thnt tho com pany had decided to Introduce tho brand In this way nnd icqueited tlio recipient to write nn tho back of the postal card the mimes und uddrcsscH of live friends who smoked cigarettes ami mall It. Cigarettes would he sent to them and It didn't take the boy long to guess that each of the five recipi ents would he asked to hond In five new names. This was an endless chain scheme with a xeiigounco. the youth decided, and offered up n most brilliant prospect for him. He promptly grasped the opportun ity. I'll. st, he llllcd In his own name with the oillce nddresii; next another niime with bin own home address In Broiiklvii, and then three names bn managed lo Invent with the sanio street number uddiess as his firms. This done, he mailed the card nnd left word with the Janitor that It nny let ters or packages came addressed to the l bice Individuals for whom ho had Invented names they were to bo deliv ered to li I tn Iu the oillce At this point he was assured of twenty-live cigarette, and ho began to fig ure out the method by wblcli ne wouiu obtain the Hi." cigarettes that would re sult later from the llrst batch. When Inst seen he bad not made up bis mind whether lo make use ot somo of his oillce boy fi lends us consignees. Ho did not wnnt to give the scheme away, yet he could not exactly seo how bo could carry on such a wholesale busi ness no promised lo result without ns slstunts. He wns murmuring: "Flvo times five Is twenty-llvo livo times twenty-live Is 12.1 -five times 125 Is i',25-Hn times fi2ii Is-" when tho bookkeeper sung out to htm to start In and deliver stocks. roltlo "Tltmilm." In his bonk on "Tho Study ot Celtic Literature," Arnold showed that ono ot the ipialltles which the Kngllsli peo ple admire most In some of their poets Is the very quality which, above nil others. In the distinguishing character istic of the Celtic bards, nnd th.it Os slnn In particular Is saturated and per vaded with the quintessence of this trait. To denote this characteristic trait of Celtic poetry Arnold used tho word Tltanlsm. No one bns defined TltanlKii), but it has been ciirlcnturoil Iu the saying. "Tho Celtic mind seems nlways sailing nowhere under full sail." Thoso who wished to know tho full moaning of tho word were recommend ed to discover It by devout study of Byron and Keats. "Anil where did they get it?" asks Arnold. "Tho Colts," ho answers, "aro tho prlmo nuthors of this vein of piercing regret and pas sion, of this Tltanlsm In poetry. A famous book, Mncphcrson's 'Osslnn,' carried In tho last century this vein llko u Hood of lava through Europe. Mako tho part ol what is forged, modern, tawdry, spurious, in the book ns largo as you like, there will still be left a reslduo of tho very soul of the Celtic genius In It, nnd which has the proud distinction of having brought this soul of tho Celtic genius into contact with tho genius of tho nations of modern Kuropo by It. Woody Morven, and cohering Lorn, and Solma, with Its silent halls, wo nil owe thorn n debt of gratitude, and, when we nro un just enough to forget It, may the Muso forget us." Mncmillan's Muguzlno. TEMPERANCE. Tho extent to which browers control the retail liquor business of Now York wns manifested under tho Haines li quor tnx law, May 1, when ono brewer filed application for 700 certificates, an other for 300, and another for 150, a total of 1,100, aggregating in money ?02O,O0O. Tlio Southern Baptist convention, in session ut Chatlanoogn, passed, by a largo majority, resolutions condemn ing tho retention of church members who "mako, soil, or drink spirituous liquors, or rent their property for tho uso of liquor dealers." Tho prohibition convention has nom inated tho following ticket: For pres ident, Joshua V. Levering, of Mary land; foi vice-president. Halo John Mon, of Illinois. Tho free silver plank was rejected, ant' tho cnndldat03 wero placed upon a "narrow-guaga" plat form, etnboiljlng morely tho prlnclplo of prohibition und oven omitting tho womun-uffrage plunk which has boon a featuro of its platform for years past. Tho broad-guage clement hr b formally tccedi'd. St. Georgo vlnoyard at Fresno. Cal bcahts of tho largest tun for holding wlno to Lsj foun I In all tho world. Tho great tun a Heldolborg enstlo, In Germany, holda 49,000 American gal lons, while tho St. Georgo tun holds not lost than 73,000 galloiiB. or thirty car loads. II, II. Boyd, a druggist, was con victed Iu tho district court at Lamed, Kan., lately, of violating tho prohibi tory law on threo counts, fined 300 and sentenced to ninety day3 In Jail. Tho ciiso will bo appealed. Tho general conferenco of tho Metho dist Protestant church adopted very strong resolutions on toiipcranco. .... . -Jii '""WWPWtl"""'- '-' iWW',l"'i WW-HHMWIW t A i ' i & tm ' "' 'TP1'linlMHi tf-fcWiMMijf I