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_ NO. 24~ VOL. XVI. PICKENS, S. C., TIIURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1887. ROBER'' E. LEE. titN. Lt1D WOLSELEY REVi1EWS TilE SOUTIIERN IEAI)Et'S LIFE. The Scone Described whoan He Accepted a Comnission From the Mother of 'rosl dents--A Couparison Bet ween tho Anior iean Soldier and England's Conquering Marlborough. NEW YoRm, March 1.-Of the cables printed in the New York papers the fol lowing special cable from London to the 4 World is the one which will rttract most attention: The leading article in Macmillau's Magazine for March is by General Lord Wolseloy, on General Lee. Reference is made in a foot note to the recently published memoirs of Genrid Lee by General Long and Marcus Wright., but in no sense a review of that work. Gen eral Lee is given full credit for the love he had for the Union, and for the strug gle he wont through before finally taking the decision to go with his own State. General Wolseley describes how Lee accepted his con mission as commanler in-chief of all the military fQrces of Vir ginia in a crowded convention of the most eminent men of the state, and then draws a parallel between him and the great Marlborough: "Generul Lee's presence commanded respect even from strangers by a calm, self-posseted dig nity the like of which . have never seen in other men. Naturally of strong pas sions ho kept then under perfcct contrc. by that iron and determined will of which his expression and his lace gave evidence. As this rail and handsome soldier stood before his countrymen he was the picture of the ideat patriot. Unconscious and self-po sessed in his strength, he indulged in no theati ical display of feeling. There was in his face and about hin that placid resolve which bespoke great confidence iu self, and which, in his case, onij ktows not how quickly comuniiwicated its magneti influence to others. HIe was t iei just fity-four years old, the agu of iiad borough when he destroyed tie Fraeb , army at Blenheim. In niam- ws and . on many points these two! gri't ien much resembled each other. .I:utli t. of a dignilied and eomnuading exterier. eminently handsome, with a 1iauc talt, graceful and erect, while a ioet;la, square-built frame bespoke greu aetiv:t t of body. 'T'lio charm of manlt . r waiei I have mentioned as very ' ini in Lee was possessed in the highut degree by Marlborough. Both, at the outset. of their great career of victory, were garded ..s essentially national cunllaid ers. Both had married young and were faithful h.sbands and devotedI fathers. Both had in all their caui.gns the same belief in an over-watchful Provi dence, in whose help they ti usted imt plicitly and for whose interpo.ition they prayed at all times. They were gifted with the same military instinct, the same genius for war, the pow r of fasci nating those with wl.om they were asso ciated, the spell which they east over their soldiers who believed almost Super stitiously in their certainty ot victory. Their contempt of danger and their dar- 1 ing courage constitute a pandl l that is diflicult to equal between any other two l great men of modern times." AN olatANIZEn{I. leference is made as to how General Lee organized an army of 50,Ut) men in two months, and as to how in another month he had gained a great sictory at Bull Run and driven the Northern in vadlers back across thle Potomac like hords of frightened sheep1, his army be ing supplied with ammaunition, army stores and clothing captured there, lHe tells the followiing story: "'Some time afterward, when General PLope and his large invading army had been sent back flying across the Maryland border, I overheard this conversat.ioni between two Confederate soldiers: '.have you heard the news? General Lee has resigned.' 'Good God,' was the reply; 'whiat for?' 'He has resigned because lie says lie can not feed and suipply his army aiiy longer now that his commissary, General Pope, has been removed.' Mr. LAicoln had just then dlismissedl General P'ope, re plhacing him by General McClellan." iN IFlelENT sen01OINATECs. General Wolseley incidentally ex presses ani opinion, wheni Spetakmlg of t3ull Run, that tile Confederates did not follow up their victory there as they should have (10ne. A rap)id aind daring odvanee would have given them p)osses sion of Washington, their enemy's capi tal. Political conisideratioins at Rich mond were allowed to oultweigh the very evident military expeuriencue of reapl~ing a solid advantage from t his their f irst great success. T1his suggests thle general (criti cism which follows: "'What most strikes the regular soldier in these campaigns of General Lee is the inefficient manner ini which hot h lie and his opp)onlents were oftenl servedl by their subordinate comander and how badly the stalT and Outpost work generally was performed Oil both sidcs. It is most difilcult to move, with any 'lffective pre cisioni, young armies coinstituitedl as5 theae were during this war. 'The d.irectioni iad movement of large bodies of newie raised troops, (vent when viutorious, ai never easy and often inmpossible. Ove and over again 'was the Southl ayuparenit h. within a stone's throw of mndeycendenee, and it has booni many times reuimrk'sd, when from want of a thoroughly goon staff to organize the pursuit, the~ ce sio'.a wvas lost, and the enemy allowed t' es .ape. Lee's comnbinationes to sece -victory wvore.the conceptions of a trcul great strategist, and when they had been oil icted his tactics wYore hlso most always 'erything that could be desired up to the moment of victory, it therei hii actiont seemed to stop altogether. Was ever an army so hielp)Jess at the mercy c1 anothler ats thant of McClellan, when hec bgnhis retreat to Hacrrisont's landirs attack upon Lee at Fredericksburg? Yet in both instances the Northern com mander got safely away; andl other simni lar instances could hbe mentioned. TJh( critical military studenlt of this war, whoc knows the power whlich regular troops, well ofilcered andl well directed by a thoroughly efficient staff, placed in tho hands of an able general and who has acquired an intimate and complete knowledge of what these two contending American armies were really like will, I think, agree that from first to last the co-operation of even one army corps of regular troops would have given com plete victory to whichever side it fought on.,, AT ANTIETAM. Lord Wolsel?y says that Lee told him that he had only 30,000-men in front of McClellan at Antietam, with a few tired reserves behind, while McClellan had an army of 100,000 men. Ho states that Lee always spoke well of McClellan, though he spoke bitterly of none of his Federal opponents. In his reference to the thirty-five days' fighting around Richmond just before the surrender at Appomattox, Wolseley says: "Leo had only 55,000 exhausted soldiers to o1 1)050 190,000 fresh men under General Grant." In speaking of the faults of General Leo ho says: "One of them was too great dread of wounding the feelings of tliers, which load him to leave incom potent men to fill important positions. This softness of heart or amiability, however good in itself, may amount to rime in the man intrusted with public dalhirs at critical moments. Lee's devo bon to duty and great respect for obedi nCe seems at times to have made him too subservient to thoso charged with the ivil government of his country. He 3arried out too literally the orders of lhose whom the Confederate constitu tion made his superiors, although he nuust have known them to be entirely ignorant of the science of war. He ap pears to have forgotten that he was the rreat revolutionary chief, engaged in a ;reat rc' olutionary war; that ho was no nero leader in a political struggle of )arties carried on within the lines of an >ld, well established form of govern nent. It was very clear to many at the ime, as it will be commonly acknowl dlged now, that the South could only tope to win under the rule of a military lictator. If General Washington had tad a Mr. I)avis over him, could lie iave accomplished what he did? It vill, I am sure, be news to many that icunral Lee was given the command vc r all the Confederate armies a month r two only betore the flnal collapse, .ud t hat the military policy of the South ins throughout the war dictated by Mr. ftvis as I'resident of the Confederate t:. Lee had no p_iwer to reward uhder-i or to pronote oflicers. It was Ir. )avin who selccted the men to comt uand( divisions and armies. Is it to be tpui-.si lint. Cromnwell, king Wilmiam 1i, \Washington or Napoleon could yive succeeded in the revolutions with ihi:h their aumes arc identiiied, had bey sthuitted to thie will and authority >f a politician as Lee did t) Mr. Davis?" DeEn st: or' lcnMCHMON . Lord Wolseley says that ''General Lee vats epposed to the defense of Richmond tt the. last, and that he was right, for if 10 had drawn General Grant's army into he interior far away from its base of upplies, he would have greatly weak ned it. But it were vain to speculate. .ichmond fell and Lee's army surren lered. Who shall ever fathom the depth )f Lee's anguish when the bitter end ame, and whei., beaten down by slicer orce of numi)ers and by al)solutely iothing else, he found himself obliged o surrender? The handful of s)tarving nen remaining with him laid down their irms and the proud Confederacy ceased o be. Surely the crushing, maddening mngUisli of awful sorrow is only known 'o the loader, who has so failed to ac omplish some lofty, some noble aim for vhich he has long striven with might md main, vith heart and soul in the in crests of king or of country. A smiling ace, a cheerful manner may conceal thme ore place from the eyes, p)osibly even rom the knowledge of his friendi~s, but here is no healing for sueh a wound rhichi eats into the very heart of him; vho has once received it." AN ESTIMATE OF LE, The article closes with this enthusias ic estimate of the Conifederatc chieftain. 'When alIl thme angry feelings roused by lie secossion are buried with those which ixisted when tIhe declar-ation of indle >enidenice was written; when Americans :an review the history of their last great 'ebiellion withm calm impartiality, 1 be ieve all will admit that General Lee owered far above all men oni (ither sidle ni that struggle. I believe lie will be egardled not only as the most promninent igure of time Confederacy, but as the ~reat American of thme nineteenth eentu y, whose statue is well worthy to stand >n an equal pedlestal with thaot of Wash ngton, and whose memory is eqjually vorthy to be enshrined in the hearts of ill his countrymen." Goodi ules to FIIi oow. First, be honest andi truthful. All dle )Cends upon this. If you have work to do, do it cheer It you go) out oni buisiness, attend to thme matter promp)tly, and then as promptly go about your own business. D)on't stop to tell stories. If you have a p)lace of busminess be theore dlurinig business hours. No one can get rich by sitting around stores ani saloons. I yi you have to labor for a living, re membere ihai, on1e ihour ini the miorning is ietter' than two at night. IDo not meMile with any business you 51now nothuing of. A good business habit and reputation m ahvays mfoney. .1help yvourself, and others will help you. lie obliging. D o niot bie ini toos greait haste1 to get rich. Dlo not spend time in idleness. Die kind. Leani to say no. T'huere is no nmecs sity of snapping it out, but say it firmly andl respectfumlly. -Learn to think and act for yourself. lie valiant. HTelp) others when you canm. Keep ahead rathor than behind tine, for it is easier to keelp ahead than to catch upl. Anm Expesive~' Del-ay. Is failing to provide the proper means texpel from the system those disease germs which cause serofule, indigestion, debility, rheumatism and sick headache. Ihe only reliable meamns is Dr. Harter's froni Tomi. TIEE LAST 1TEM. A "Sad Accident" to One Who " Wa; i,i versaily Liked, hlaving No 1-:Nem. uut lIImtSelf." It was early evening. The lamps were beginning to shine out here and there and men and women who had finished their day's work were hurrying home to supper. The door of a neat little home stood partly open. A man was near it, evidently just starting out to begin his work. "I am sorry you have to go back to night work," his wife was saying. She looked pale and troubled. "So am I," ho answered, "but never mind, dear, perhaps it wo'i't be long." He kissed her as he spoke and went out through the door. She looked after him with he: eyes full of tears. "If he should begii again," she said, "oh, if he should!" "Mmma," called a tall, slender girl from the room, "come and tell me what pattern to choose for father's slippers; I want to commence enibroidering them to-night. His birthday isn't very far o!l; you know." "Bertha and I are going to club to gether and get hinm that new book he wanted," said another girl, evidently her sister; ''we heard him speak of it and we have money enough." The woman turned and went into the house and shut the door. The man went on down the street and was soon busily engaged at his case, away up in the highest story of a tall building. His lingers wsent back and forth, hack and forth, picking up the -bits of black metal, setting up line after line of what in the morning would appear in the great daily. Out over the city he could see the lights beginning to shine, and gradu ally the hum in the streets below him grew less and less. All about him were men working away steadily at the bits of metal. He could hear presses click, click, as they went on with their part of the work. The gas ilared. Now and then one of the men spoke briefly, generally some thing about the work. Sone of them vent to their coats oc :asionally where they hung on the wall tnd drank from bottles in the pockets. Jne offered his to the silent worker he side him, but he shook his head. ''What," called a gay young fellow icross tho room, "you given up the uottle, Menson; what will happen next?" The meii laughed. he lights in the houses died out after iwhile, the noises on the street grew less md l5ss. The men went to their bottles Mtener and passed theni back and forthi from hand to hand. Mensoii .vas grow ing tired. He was not as yo..ng as hie biad been when he began to work at the lype, and the smell of the liquor e;nn to him as he worked and grew more and wore weary. He longed for one taste, just one, ''to help him out," "to rest him." let, when a lad near him took the bottle and began to taste the liquor he touched his arm and said: ''Don't, I began at vour age; I wanted to be smart; don't begin." But the boy laughed and drank. The hours went by and the presses clicked louder and the noises on the street grew less and less. ''here, Menson,' said a man, coining across the room, "here is some of the best French brandy. ,Just ta.ste it; I know you are sick to-night; it'll do you good." "I don't feel exactly well," he said, wizing the bottle eagerly, "I'll taste it, only taste it." The fumes of the liquor had been half-maddening him, his old thirst had been crying out to be satisfied. lie drunk ns eagerly as lie had seized it. "'That is good brandy, " ho said, giving back the b,ottle. The man winked slyly at the others as io went back to his ease. M~ensonm worked on. He felt better, Lie said1 to himself, the brandy had done urim good; and after a while lhe asked for another drink. Th~le man gave it ..nd lhe drank as sagerly as before. Ile had drank a good na: y times by the time the last line was set up an dtoi men were making ready to leav'e. was early morning nmow andi the noises of that early time in the city were beginning to be heard. Monson wecnt to get his coat, but lie could not find it. Then lhe looked for his hant, buit he could not remeniber where be had put it. Hle stood holding on to the back of a chair, vaguely, wondering what lhe should do about it, wvhen the man who had given him the brandy caime up. "'Hello, Menson,'' lie called out, "'you'i look as though you were get ting upi a leader. Too late now for that, come on." Menson endeavored to let him know his; di lemma. '"Where's your coat?'' lhe said; he wats loud and noisy; "w~here's youir coat? Blest if .I know." ''Oh, here it is; let me help you on with it. TIhere y ou arie, comie on niow, the boys have all gone and left us." They went over to the elevator, it wvas just comning up the shaft. Awiay downi belowv thiem they couli har' the enlgine anid ait one side the preses 5tampi1, stampi1, as the great (laily dtroppedC( away fresh and damp fromi thiri jaws. "'Comie on thien, no0w may boy,'' called his compan)iiion, as Menisoni hesitated . lie drewv him on, one bewilered andi~ confused, the othier hiilaiouis ad loud. The elevator began to move downi lhe shaft. Menisoni looked up and sawi a "Hifere's lacie,' lie said1 steppoig (out toward it. H is comipaniioun caughit his coatt. It' came oft' in his liand, niit as lie stoord wildlly lookinmg at it, h eanrd, <down bea low hiim, somthiung tall havi ly. Thle great daily hiad a little itemi, a few lines crowded into its ecohniiuns that nmorng: "We r'egret to relate ai sad acien mt at the building of the Alorninig (Chronie', it said, "'which resuikd in the death of cne of our oldest a111ni ost popular emi ployes. "'At 8.30 this morning when the priniters werro leaving, (r. W. Menson, being at the time ini a rather confuisert state, owing to having takenl a little. br-andy for a sligh t indisposition, stepped off' thme elevator shaft ait the fourth stA riy, falling to the basement and being in stantly killed. I [is terrified companion atte'mptedl to save him" but was hom'i fie I to fund his empty coat left in his hand. ''Monsoni was uniiversally liked, having no nemy but himself. ''li leaves am wife and three daughters who were dependent. upon him for sup port..-Emma Ilarrinan, in Union Signal. AN INTl T.:lt:s.'Ii N *iHF.'' I'osxibe Cot itIItgeneiec IV It MIai lny ArTis1 Out of Ithtude Isiant'svptte. There is a prospect that little Rhode Island, tliat alrea(ly ha; a numerical rep resent(ttion iII the Senate equal to that of the largest State, may have an influ enco of the largest character iii the next house of Bepresentatives. In case there should be no choice for President at the polls in 1888 the election would be thrown into the touse of ltepresenta tives, the vote being taken by States, each State having one vote, and the can didate having a majority of all the votes being selected. There was a contest over the election last fall in the second Rhode island district which was settled by the J louse ordering a new election. That election will be held April ( , and on the choice thou nuade may hang the next lresidency. The o'ajority of the States is twenty. In tht, Fiftieth Congress if the vote for l'resident is taken by States, each State voting according to the party preferc ues of a majority of its delega tion, the .liepublicans will have nineteen States aind the I )enocrats will have seventeti, classified as follows: li c anill iei States--California, Col oriolo, i linois, Iudiania, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, lassachimsetts, Michigan, Ne brasla., Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, 'ennsylvaiia, Vermont, V'irgini:i, W\iscontsin. l)em:o:(rt ic States -Alabaina, Arkan sas, ('oinieeticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgi:, Kientucky, ILouisiann, Mary hand, t1i:is;ippli, Minnesota, Missouri, Nou th Carolina, South Carolina, 'ennes see, Texas, Vest \irginia. New IIaunpslire is not included in either of lhese tables, as its delenation is divided eveuly, so that it would have no vote in the emergency contemplated. lthode Il:nil i.; also omitted, for the complexni of it delegation is not yet determiit I. It lm; two representatives in Congr. .. One of these is a 1)pul)li can, nd 1i tit ']her, who is to be elected in A 'pril, siaIl Ibe a Relnib) c:t, the le pIibblean:s vill thet have the twenty States necessary to a niajol ity, anil wou;tl so cli et .1 puiil ican I'resident. If he sl ;d! 1; a )enocrat, the delega tion froni lihotle Island would be a tie, without? a vet', and the .epublicans wouhl tlien lie left with their iieteet States, or still one short of a majority; while the lieinicrats would be no better oil'thai they art now. The result. of the clectioni in April will be await d with great interesit, a; the ;tetnd district of little liode Isl:id may have the dis posit ion of t he next I'residcncy iii its til Ii)D A so4)MtiItAfN,;.. A V'.nuo;\'iin'rIts IIii iiut banttt's I.uve anti lit"ttet i orry' for It. (F rein the. New; Yorkt w\orltl ) Annie l'fafl, the young and pr."ity wife of Salooukeeper August Pfall', of No. I98 Avenue A, wasn't <piite sure that ier husband's love was all her own, and in putting him to the lst she itpassed though an experience which si' entirely unexpected. S:iturday eveniig I'fail found her moaning piteously tin the sofa, ini in answer to hi:; tuestins she said tIhat having ascertaine i tiat he did niot love her, she had swallowed a dose of 'U tuglh on Buats.'' Instantly the hits band was oti his knees beside her mid calling her pet ntes, and she was on the point of telling him that she had been n erely joking when lie th1iedil out of the house, and, meeting I'oliceman Schmidt, of the Fourteceth I'recinct, requested him to ring for aii amuliitlance, as his wife had taken ptoison and was dying. After thc policeman hiad sum moned an1 amibulance lie wient to the saloonkeep er's apaiirt ments andl made a prisonier of Mrs. Pfafl' on the charge of Th'e ambulance surgeon hooked down her throat, slapped her on the back and walked her up and down the floor at the rate of six miles an hour. Theni she was takeii down thle stairs andI plaicd in the anmbulancee, although she pirott sted that she had1( nott taken poisoii. At .tellevue H osptitail she screamed wivhen she saw the dloctor with the stomaiih i ..mplij, hit she couldn't help herself, iamd the docttor's dhisguist can be imagined when not a trace oif toisoni was dischar-ged from her stomach. She was dischariged a iid shle was go ig home wiith her1( dehighited husthinad when P'olicemani Mel idht in terposm~eu. She was is pr'isonier for' at temnpttig siiid(, and1( us lie lad idready repo)irt ed the (case to his capitain hli was compei(lledl ti arrest lier, ini use thle hiuisbamnd, who had given him n the information, as coinipiihnanit,. Mrs. P.falf' remained in Ihe sitt inig roomii of thle FifthI street station house until Esse5(x Mairket Court wias openatl yester daiy morning, whetn she was arraigned biefore( .Juist ice W )I hillyv, iiind iter she had told her story she was dischtarge'd. or, New t,trh ('ify. (itd tiheli Nw Yiork il returns1 t, priivate lift?'' asked onei New 'wiill mnot git bactk toi luthdo, hut wtill iiuke his'. home in A\lbany or ANw 'iorik c'it y, morte hk ely t Iatter, fromi his sav in'gvswhimle ini the Wh'lite I louste. I Ic uilml purchalse ; a larg', handi(somae house mn the tinently t'spectable, iad not mmo falthinale part1 if thle city, pterhmaps nott enijoyedt( by an(iy wm if of an ex-PI resi dent,une tI he da of I )mlly Mbolison,. ir. Clevelail wtil Iit up fotr himiuself doawn townan exce\ tltlmnt law aiie, in really1) tIo very' little wor IIk, no lie will only detsirm a 'iomuda la(ce iat the haur. Jit' wouild noht eixptct very muttch oif a lucr'at ive p)raetice. I4it what is lie g(inig to live on? TIhiat is the rub of tIme stormy tol which I was about to coime. lIe will lie mtade the piresidenit of one 01' two, potssiblyV moriie, harge new business cor piorationms, to which his name, Ihis hal,hits of industdry andl reputation for' gotod 'ommihon, sense and1( strong will power will ecaoiy be worth anywhere fromsi $10(,0)00 to $25,000 a year. lIn shor't, lie will r'epeait oni a littlo .larger seude whit Secretar'y Manning lhas been asked to d' tlgA pi ostmser-Teoprnenet. FACI'S ABOU'T T'1'lIE CZAR. INtOII)FNTS iN llS STORM'Y I, Li NOT (1FNlS1(tA1,1.YINOWVN. hIow ills Liking for -'rance 1)isl,1 eased it ib Father--Ile Favors IhIe Strongest K Iinil of (.overnne,nt--II is WVife the idol of Ii i Ilom e--A I)ovotetl Iins1 ni. (From the New York Mail an<l Express ) While the private and public life of every other European monarch has fre (ueltly given the jourtalist's pen occa sion to cover a ream of paper, more oT less, Alexander Alexandrowitch of Ilus sia, has kept the modern hieroplants, to whom every secret is known and who are initiated into the mystery of Jife, pretty well at bay. What has crept into print about him, oil' and on, has uniformly beent marred 1by inacuracies. This is easily explained. The present Czar is not readily approached, and since his advent to the throne especially has he hedged about so thoroughly that even the intrepid gatherer of news has often lost scent before reaehiig him. Alexander iii. 55W the frosty sun of the Nova fir:t r.elh 10 (February 2t by the lBussian calendar), 1815, as the see ond son of Alexander II., and was edit. cated with his elder brother, the heir presumptive, Nicolas, by two years his senior. The education of these two princes was put into the hands of Count S. Strogonow, but their real ''gouver neur" was P'rivy-Couneilor Titow, re called for the lurpose from his post as Russian amba sador at the court of Stuttgart. In Titow's place tate Councilor von Grimm was appointed in 1858, when Alexander was 12 years of age. From that time on the boy drank daily deep from the fount of German learning, as nearly all his tutors were professors of thatt nationality. Urimm, however, in spite of his German nme, was an arch-ltussian b,y heart, and the early influence of 'Jitow, a Museovite of the old school to the linger tips, had sunk into the youthful price's soul. (lrimm, twenty years Iefore, had guided the education of the Prince Constantine Nicolaiewitchi. '1'he mnilitary training was intrusted to an adjutant general re siding in the winter palace, the religious instruction to a learned old pope, amd State Secretary .ltron Modest. Korl, author of several books ot 1{iissian his tory, taught the high bintr twain all of lussinu stateeraft, history ant ltw they Were desirous to learn. April 21, 1815, the death of the czarowitz intervened at Nice, antd Alex ander, then just attaining his majority, was solemnly declaretl the heir to the throne. In the following year, Novem iber U, 186ti, he wedded wit h nutel puni the D)anish lady who had01 b1een his lata brother's ! .'.ncte, 1rincess I )agiar King Christian IX.'s daughter. l;aptizei in the (heck orthodox faith, she receivet the names Marie 'eotlorowna in cx change for her former ones-Muri Sophie Frederika i)agimar. This print cess, as am0iablile and accotplished as sht is b)eautifuil, was born November 2t ii 1817, anti was eonlseqtuenitly her spouse' junior b)v two years and eight months. ''he young consort of the lihssiat lei cane from a court where the loss of twu beautiful provinces, just swallowed up by lrussiat, wits mourned with tears of impotent wrath, and where pions WVil liam by the Spree had been daily anathematized. V tat wonder, ti en, that the beautiful bride made her young husband, then in the hush of entthusiasnm so comnon to heir premuunptives, a sharer in her mnortal antiattlty to the Jiohenzollern dynasty? Thle p)alpial efret (if these utxi rious lessons was noit long in coming. The prince withiin a few mronths was t lie tie knowvledged hiad ofI the anti-t irmiino party at the court., at thmt timet aimi up to tho hour of Alex:mder Il.'s diinth ilIi vitded inito the oltd liussian iand .e ne mtw .1mis siani or G erman parties. . I Jeri ihelay were well inftrmed iabout this, antid hai marck, togther wit h b is maasttr, ini duilgetd inl diire fomreboinimgs as to what would luap pen when A le xantder II . sh oul cltise his eyes. Thle wiar ofl I Si I. atie iand( the Iflames buarst out afrtsh will b re ntewed vigor. The Cz'at andl his i mmi ate enitoiurage were in full symp~athiy with (Germanmy iat that fume, andt (eseial pains were taken to emplhiasize this state of fteliing. T1hie younigtr Alexaitnier, tim thle tother Imimdt, hamd a well-torganizedl follow ing of his own, whlose syn tt int ie werei strongly in another grootve. Thli in. ()vitale. result was thait thes:e symtpathit's anti. antipathies tfre<juicitly clashe ittal that snubs and the "(cut diireet"' were dealt out very liberally itrul evenly tisa tribuited during thle whole dtrt itn ofi( the iFranco4( erman conflict and( for somte tune after to the repiresenitiatives tof (Ger maany as well ias Franice. P ersonail eni counters even anti tduels ensued andi Alexander 1I. hatd rathet r a busy time of' it trying to allay the toutragetd feel ings of this anmbassador iatnd of the ttachele or secretatry. Occasionally, hoiwever, lit, too , fel prtovoked, idt oni one ntabitle occtasiton the E'mperor was pu t inott a perttect rage biy his son's Prussophiobous ptraniks. I t wits on the toctasiton oh it court ball. Thbis hiappeiied to he giveni the night whent lie telegrap~h ic niews of anothher td istt'r toi Frenich ariis had juist rteaced t.I I 'eteu lbur g. T.1he E'mperior Ilad bi' n spein't( g of thtis toi severatl tof hiis inti nmte(s early in thle evening andt iin teirms of admii ration at the wonditerful ach iev nmnts tof G ermantl valor. Soonti alte tihe hai eniteretd thie graindi I||rtooli in1 the' wiiterI placite, IPriiet .\ltxanderc' emint ini likew ~is, itbiost inuinit<hattly lollowed by~ his. circle oif friendsl. The pince, as welIl its those beindm himi, h;oIni pinnii sinmuil atvorIs toi thle lihitehs of t hir swal Iow-tails, threst hieing tdiminitive reptre wvhotlt set of hiadies blonluigiiig to themit (ariedi(t silimultantletously bouquetitts to I heir lovtely lirttle noses, wichel exii tetd even moire gIhiigly .1i th le tree lO' colors nmig til the Gallije emblllemt. Thit (demlonta - t ion wais s(i paitent thatt it could not es atpte the jIitpriatl hotit, and0 lie was contsidertbly anigeredO. T. tke the edge illf thIis iuinpleiasant incidlent, howevet', te Empieror walkedi over to where the~ wife of thie Giermaan ambassador suit itnd, against his usual cuttOln, dancetd a tour oir two of a quaidril with her'. Thle tzaro)witz, nothing daiiuntted, resp onided by leading the sptouise osf the French am ba)mssad(or to the Itazy whirl. Next the gentlemen of the Germtau party went man colors-whito, black, rod-in their buttonholes, and their ladies in an hour or so had managed to obtain the corro s:ponding thing in flowers. This, of course, did not improve matters, and the ball for the rest of the evening consisted largely in couples of different political afliliations sweeping past each other and glowering savagely. A similar occurrence happened the evening of the day when the Germans triumphantly entered Paris. That was at the opera, but the emperor did not happen to be present. Jlemonstrances and unpleasant scenes are said to have been quite frequent just about that time between father and son. however, it all blew over, and the scenes enacted a few months later on by the commune in Paris, as well as the repeated attempts on the life of his father made by nihilis tic conspirators considerably changed the czarowitz's views and held in check his symtpathics for France, though these sympathies never wholly died within and still exist to-day. how much of a chango time had wrought in him was ohbviously shown when Alexander 111., after the assassination, of his father ascended the throuc. Thousands in l{ussia expected in his proclamation to his people some promise of larger liber ties, and if not a constitution outright, at least an assurance from him that the nation at large, through its representa tives, should have a voice in making and unnaking laws and in adninistering the finances of the immense empire. But neither in that document nor in the pub lished manifesto of May 11, 1881, did the new E:mperor say a word about this. Quite the contrary, lie accentuati d his claims to autocratic power even more broadly and absolutely than his father had ever done. Loris Melmkow, a re former of a mild pattern, was soon given the go-by likewise and Ignatic appointed in his place. cliwalofl followed, and now it is even T'1olstoi, a mian than whom there can be nobody better qualified to crush every liberal aspiration and retard every sort of progress and popula"r en lighten ment. 'The preselit Emperor's forteigni l 'I icy is too well known t., need cominient, amid the fact that he has thought a It io of such men as 'Tolstoi, I)e ( iers, Iuad (homrkko worthy of the j highest honors and of his special conli dence, and that Kaulsirs whon a recent article in this papu'r sulliciently charac terized, has ot late likewise found favor in his eyes and has (ven be1it promoted to the grade of lieutenant-general, speaks veouns. The fantily relhltionis of Alexander 111. have becen uniformily plIleInt. 1ie is a devoted h1usban1d amid a fond and dutiful ifathr. roin his iiinion witl the royal l)ane have sprung lour cliihlren --three suns and one dia;;htcr. 'I i latter, I'rine-s Neni, is now nearly tlve yar o1 u ago, aiul is a lovely, amiablc girl, itl blue eyes and fair hair, of a rare golden tint. The eldest son, N icolas, was buorn May I, IN, and is a tine, sturdy boy. ieorge, the seceiol, wai ho brn in I1, atl Michtael ii 1.87. Thu cinpress is still a chariing woman ant ' wears her forty yearS wit h1 ease antl gracot Thoughl not amuch of a musiciai w ! vvhelt he w%edkledi Lh R ,ussian, she per fected heriself since in t'rdlr to 'ratify his taste lr nmisic. l.i E iperr, how ever, is only fond of tine Italian opera :ud of thei melancholy, simple air:s and folk-song- of his country. .1)agiitr sings to lim I even to-day, when she wishes to lese hoim. N ') T ill: ('ti :n n -l:AN s-:.. A Ta'111e uf Mlierro Slai, T1radilg E;xp e (t'runl thet 1)t Iruil I'1 r'rtess 1 plrolse hterewith to relate the histo ry of a1 e1(e coniiuittedl fourteen years ago ini the city of .hreksonville, Fla., and of whlih I Iatvc had1( gu ilty knowledgo eve in 12ce. When(2 I tirst Iearned , niear ly bneii donea fe Iw weeks0 befoire, I was toIo young to fuilly> compehIlend the gra vity of t1he flii thiough .1 recollect experiIiening 22 ('e-:1121ti2i (oIsof iiidliguim tion, and1( this 1m ;;rownIl steadlily w'ith the lapse ofI time. 1 haIve 21ot kept the inatter secret(1 through any desire to shiel the guilty piarties, but halve never beenih ble,Ir amn inow able, to dliscerni hoIw they iinighit arve b eeni reached and At the close of the war, ini I i-, all those Confed (eries whll 111ele fight la11idwna their oarns and retouned to theI n pteifl walks of life, to relni ihh, if poss ible tInhe)fotinos that liuul been wasited Ji hit soiinethinig like I 1) irre preIssile Icpijt upon0 the: amnesicty otYered( themn, and11, heapin g impree'nLtions upon02 the dtestroyl rs of thle iinstitution of shi:very', left 1the coIiuntry 1a21 in beamie re-sid1ents oIf 21ex ico. I 'rouid, im ioeis and1( InuoIghty as tIhesc inien were, anld a1 comnumIId , their success ini the ('aplitl oIf the 241exNicans was bulit indifflerentI. Ini short, thleir incomeis couildi not 1be illadle to e<poni their expenses, and1( withini live tinanc11es, to their niatim soil. On tIh' 21(irinlg (If Octeober -1, 1 '72, I was1 sitting atop1 ofI the plilinIg at tihe edge oft thll wintrf ini JacksonvilIle, with note booik and11 peil in hand(, scoring down thle dimenIsins of certanl live oa1k timi hers1- ml phok12 s as thle scalers measured( I the and~I 11 cal led out their cubic coni ten1t s. (u vessel55(, the barkeintiino Maple ILeai, was1 bin loaded1141( wvith these tim-. bers2 for use5 illn br'idge buildinug on1 the thle sail,ors h aldI bec watching a small full rmiggd br iig thalIt 1had1 apphlearled on the ro:al11(, Iblack Iho41(1m of the St. J1ohis, ma las slo1wly nking hier way to the p0i W without th a. (1(id at 2a tu2g, anid halving (lIry nie of her1. paitched anld dlirty sails st1 toI ca1tch the 1abn1111ost 211mpereeptible breau111. Alon2 g towa'lrd evenm1g the ves tIlree tall, hlardt-featured men01, eachl with a gripsack ill111 iad, camle a1shore anid struck out for the niearest hotel without ultterinig a word. A b)l.ck, curly-haired 2m1a2, wIlo seemed tol conun1and( thle litle brig, wvas left giving orders in Mexican to is crew of three hands. "ullo, Groaser'!' called out our c 11ain, who hadt beenh watching thle whioi e Iroceeding; '"why didn'jt you ta1ko the tug lat the mou2th (of thle river and1( 1)e towed uip'' "Mcl no1 sabo)." "Dlon't sy>e, e~Jh? ow would a1 good square (drinIk of whisky strike you about this time oIf day?" "Si, sil Me SAbo) whisky. Me nabo (lamnl." "Of course. Your knowledge of the English language is not very extensive, that's certain; but in the small amount that you have acpuired you seem to ' have selected its brightest gems. Come up the ladder and take something." Whisky may not be in all respects the equal of the common school in calat ing a knowledge of the English but in the case of this Mexican capsiUn its effect was such that within two ours after joining our captain in his cabin he managed to convoy the facts that his vessel had been chartered by the three gentlemen who first came ashore, an4 that they had come to engage a cargo of negro laborers to work in a tobacco fac tory of theirs in the City of Mexico. When the Mexican had returned to his brig, and I had finished writing up the day's 'og after supper, Captain Ellsworth turned to me and said: "Steward, there's something all-fired strange about this thing." "What thing?" I asked. "Why, this rotten little brig, with its dirty sails, its dirty crew, and the three shabby aristocrats who have chartered her-they are not over-clean themselves." "Probably engaged in a dirty busi ness?" I suggested. "Correct," said he. "If they wanted niggers for factory hands why didn't they stop at New Orleans---the French miggers are the smartest of all, and can be had by the cargo. Or, why didn't they stop at I'ensacola? Why did they come clear around here to Jacksonville for a load of country bucks, the laziest and dullest of the whole caboodle? An other thing, Mexicans can be hired cheaper than niggers can be boarded, and will do twice the work. What do you make out of it?" "I make this out of it," said I, "that Mexican captain has lied to you." "No, he hasn't. Those fellows may have lied to him when they chartered his brig, but ho was straight enough with me, that's sure." Next morning Captain Ellsworth called at the hotel, but the three men had gone. "1 used to know one of those men before the war," said the landlord. "lie was a l ig planter up here in Ala bama, just over the line, and when I recognized him last night ho said he said he was going back to get some of his old slaves to go and work for him in Mexico." In three days the Maplo Leaf was loaded and ready to sail, but the evening before we were to sail Captain Ellsworth attended a fandango, got into an alterca tion, was arrested and released on his personal parolo to appear one week from the day of arraignment for trial. In vain he pleaded with the local magistrate to set the trial for the next day-the complainant know the captain's anxiety to sail and insisted upon his "rights." The week passed tediously away, and Ellsworth remarked that he wished he had gone to jail instead of being released on personal bail. "As it is," said he, "I am bound upon honor to stay and pay my fline If I had gone to jail I could have kicked the old rattletrap to pieces the first night and been half way to Aspinwall by this time." On the second day of our delay the three charterers of the little Mexican brig returned, accompanied by some thirty negroes. They immediately went on board; a couple of dray loads of pro visions were taken in, and in less than an hour the brig had cast off and was floating down with the current and the tide. A clump of leaning cypress trees, with long gray mosses streaming from the limbs, htnd the ragged sails from sight at last, and about the same moment the hymn which the colored people had been singing ceased to reach the ear. There was certainly something singular about the whole transaction. Woe had left Aspinwall nearly a week, having discharged our load of timber, and were rapidly nearing Pernamibucuo, where it was designed taking in a cargo* of hides andl horns, when the lookout in the foretop called out: "Th'le immaculate Mexican!" T1his was the name the crew had ap lied to the unclean b)rig that had loaded the negroes at Jacdsonville, and all hands were soon looking at the patched sails andl( black pennant of their old1 ad qulaintanco, as she rapidly approached us5. "'What in Sancho is that brig doing down here?" said Captain Ellsworth. "'Thero's something wrong, by hokey. Make signals for her to heave to and wve'll speCak her." In half an hour the Mexican captain was in our skipper's cabin dIrinking clear whisky by the cupful. At the end of another hour he was lowered to his boat and both vessels resumed their course. "It's about as I expected," said Els worth at the suipper table. "Those chaps took the negroes to Brazil, landed at St. Cynthia, so the Mexican says, and he didna't daure refuse to obey their orders." "And what have they done with them?" I asked. ''Either s'old them into slavery and ')ocketedl the cash, or else they intend to e~ p 'em themselves and become plan teis. T1his lady says that she once wvarned President Arthur not to keep it, as it wats the most unlucky thing he could have ab)out the house, but he laughed at her, and said lhe was not superstitious. When ho left the White House he pre sented the bird to Mrs. John Davis, and the lady of the legation called my atten tion to the fact that Mrs. Davis had met with many misfortunes since for which the peacock was responsible. I had never heard of this suporstition before, but upon0f inqjuiry found that it was quite plrevalent ini Europe, a.nd the .French Minister told1 me that the ill fortunes of the Emplress ,Joseipinoi were attributed to the fact that she was exessively fond of peacock feiathxors as ornaments and nearly ahvays wore them. -Washington A ttwo yearsX' ago a prominent citizen of Chicago was. told by3 is p)hysicians that he zmust <due. They said his system was so debilitated that there was nothing left to build on. lIeI made up his mind to try a "new (departuire." li got somec of Dr. 1'i(ee's "Goldlen Me(dical Discovery" and took it accordling to (directionis. HIe began to imuprove at onice. HeI kept ump the treat menult for sonie months, and( is to-day a well mnan. lHe says the "Discovery" saved is life. Ani oil well, unlike a dude, gushes to five lithit to) thle world.