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! ? ? ? ? l ? ? ? . _ ,? ? ? ? ? lewis m. grist, proprietor. | Jndepeml'nt <Jamihj JJeicspapcr: $x the fromotion of the folitiral, JSotial, Agricultural and Commercial Jntrrrsts of the Eolith. | terms?$2.00 a year in advance. 1 "VOL. 35. YORKVILLE, S. C., "WELISTESIDjJlY, FEBRUARY 20, 1889. NO. 8. I I.'*- ?ha Vn-l/vllL Kn/mlror JONATHAN AND BY MAX O'RELL A Translated by Mme. Paul Blouet. Copj We Publish the Following Extrat rangement through the An Paul Blouet (Max O'Rell) is a remarkably eats mostly to satirizing the Anglo-Saxon raw of "John Bull and His Island," "John I (luction, the material for it Iteing gathered d CHAPTER XH In a country where woman is a spoilt child, petted and made so much of, who can do and dare almost anything, it is strange to find women who are not content with their lot, but demand the complete emancipation of their sex. American women for complete emancipation I It makes one smila I was talking one evening with Mrs. Deverenx Blake, the chief of the movement?a "* ? -* middle aged lady, of a Unset, ngrooablo conversation, who has declared war to the knife against the tyrant man. "You most excuse me," I said to her, "if I ask questions, 1 am anxious to learn. I have submitted so many tim^ to the interviewing process in your country that I feel as if I had a right to interview the Americans a little in my turn. The American woman appears to me ungrateful not to be satisfied with her lot. She seems to role the roost in the United Statea" "No," replied Mrs. Blake, "she does not, but she ought" "But she certainly does," 1 insisted. "De facto, perhaps, but de jure, no." "What do you want more?" ' "The right to make laws." "What do you mean by that?" '."The right of voting for candidates for congress, and even the right to a seat in the house of representatives." "This appears to me a little exacting, and almost unfair," 1 observed timidly. "You probably already make your husbands vote as you please; if, added to this, you are going to throw your own votes into the electoral urns, it means the extinction of man, neither more nor less, and as Loon Gozlan says: 'It is perhaps as well that there should be two seres, for some time longer at all events.' My dear lady, you are spoilt children, and spoilt children are never satisfied." A lady, who enjoyed that most esteemed of woman's rights, the right to be pretty, gave me some very curious details on the subject ^ of New York life. We were speaking of the security of women in the large cities, and of the risk tbey ran In going out alone after nightfall. "I have been struck with the respectability of your American streets," 1 said to her. "One never Bees vice flaunting by daylight, and in the evening, whenever I have been through the great arteries of your city, I have seldom seen anything that could 6bock the eyes of an honest woman. In Paris the boulevards are Infested with street walkere from 8 o'clock in the evening, and the evil is j much worse in London, where from 4 or 5 in i the afternoon a whole district is given over V IAJ IUUIH, "Yon are right," said the lady; "but if the streets of New York are respectable, it is thanks to us. If we had waited until the ] men swept our pavements, we should have had to wait a long time. We cleaned them i ourselves." "What do you mean?" "A few years ago several young women, among whom I might name members of our best society, resolved upon going alone in the \ evenings, and of striking the first m?n who dared to accost /them. They persevered. r a long while, and finally succeeded in accom- | pitching tho disinfection of tho main streets, i Vice still exists, but it keeps within doors, i and hides instead of parading itself. If you 1 are able to go out at uight with your wife, or even your young daughters; if a lady can go to the theatre alone, and, if it please her, return home on foot, it is to us that thanks are due. And do you not think that women, young, good looking and well bred, who could master their disgust so far as to do that. which the authorities were too cowardly to undertake, are not worthy to have a deliberate voice in tho councils of the nation!" I could not answer this. J am going to launch a rather dangerous assertion. It seems to me that the American woman does not render to man a hundredth part of the adoration he renders to her. If love could spring from gratitude, Jonathan would be the most beloved of men. But does love ever spring from gratitude? In the eyes of the American woman man has his good points. He insures her a good position when he marrie3 her, he works hard to satisfy her smallest wishes, and so long as his signature has any value at the foot of a check this will be an extenuating circumstance in his favor. This spirit of independence in woman produces excellent results, it must be confessed. You find in America women who by their talents hare won for themselves positions which numbers of men might envy. And do not imagine that I am speaking of blue stockings, spectacled spinsters, disdained of Cupid. Not at alL The American woman has always tact enough to remain womanly. Even among the heroines of the platform I have always noticed a little touch of coquetry, which proves to me that man is not in imminent danger of being suppressed in America. Only a few days after I set foot in New York, a friend took me to visit the offices of the principal newspapers of the city. Passing along a corridor in The World's offices, I remarked a lady writing in one of the rooms. My friend led the way in, and presented me to her. I found her to be a pretty brunette of about twenty or twenty-two, delightfully piquant?, and with most distinguished manners. I was struck with her simple bearing and her intelligent expression, and, on leaving the room, naturally wanted to know to whom I had had the pleasure of being introduced. I then learned that this young American girl did all the literary reviewing and gossip for The New York World, and took up as large a salary as one of the best writers on the staff of The Paris Figaro. _ ThaRt. Nicholas Magazine is conducted by a lady, Mrs. Dodge. Since her husband's death, Mrs. Frank Leslie has carried on, under her own management, the numerous magazines which issuo from the house founded by that gentleman. The largest newspapers, and all the principal reviews, have ladies on their staffs. Mrs. Mary Louise Booth, who directs The Harper's Bazar, receives a salary of $8,000. The two editors of The Critic are Miss Jeannette L. Gilder and Mr. Joseph B. Gilder, sister and brother of Mr. Richard Wat bod uuaer, poet, ana cniei ?airor 01 mu century Magazine, who himself has for colleagues Mr. Buel and a talented lady. I might name many mora The education of the women being in America very much the same as that of the men, ladies naturally may aspire to many employments which, in Europe, are looked upon as being tho monopoly of man. CHAPTER XIIL The New England descendants of the Purltans have inherited a more than British prudery. The word "leg" is improper, you must say "Jpwor limb." Trousers have become "lower garments." Instead of going to bed, people "retire," bo that tho bedroom becomes the "retiring room." ' A lady having said not long ago in a Philadelphia drawing room that she felt cold in her back, created a veritable panio among the hostess' guests. Pt"ead tho following piece of information in a New York paper among the news from a New England city: "The authorities have begun a crusado against tho nude in art. One of the wealthiest gentlemen in tho city will bo proceeded against: or keeping in his house copies of tho Venus of Milo, tho Venus do Medici, Canova's Venus, Powers' Greek Slave, the Loocoon, and other works." During my stay ia New York, 1 was constantly hearing at a certain Mr. Anthony Comstoek, who bad attained celebrity by a \ HIS CONTINENT. | | .ND JACK ALLYN. 'righted by Cassell & Co., New York. :ts from this Book by Special Arlerican Press Association. clever Frenchman,> who has devoted his tal. He hus become widely known as theauthor (ull, Jr.," Etc. .This book is his latest prouring his recent visit to America campaign be had undertaken against nudities. Mr. Cornstock visited the museums, galleries, exhibitions and shops, and, whenever he found a bit of flesh portrayed in paint or marble, he went before the magistrates and hud a grand field day. 1 must say, for the credit of the ? w? -i?. if- n .?I- u?,i a new JLUrtkUTS, luai m. W11UIU\.S uau auucu for himself a reputation as grotesque as it was noisy. To take up such a line of censorship is, it seems to me, to publish one's own perversiry, and tho individual whose mind is so ill fefo^mod that he cannot look at an artistic cfcuSterfeit presentment'of the human form divine without thinking evil thoughts, is to be pitied, if not despised. But I suppose there will always be quack doctors with the cant of virtue on their lips and filthy imaginations in their hearts. Meanwhile, tho American newspapers seemod to look upon Mr. Corastock as a legitimate target for their jokes and satire. Tho Now England ladies have the reputation of being the most easily shocked women in the world. An American gentleman told me thata Philadelphia lady, at whoso side he was seated ono day at table, grow red to her very ears at his asking her which part of a chicken she preferred, tho wing or the leg. Are the New England women Saintes?Nitouches? CHAPTER XIV. Jonathan is the cousin germon of John Bull, but yet not so German as one might imagine, for, if Germany supplies America with two or three hundred thousand immigrants yearly, these Germans do not Germanize America; on tho contrary, they themselves become Americanized, thanks to that faculty of assimilation which they possess in sucb a high degree. I One strong proof of this is the way in which women are treated from one end of the United States to the other. And here 1 may say that in this matter Jonathan sets John Bull an example which the latter would do well to profit by. Whilst English justice gives merely one or two months' imprisonment [to the man who is found guilty of having almost kicked his wife to death, an American town is in arms at the mere rumor of a man having maltreated a woman. Sometimes the chastisement takes a comic form. There are few distractions in the little American towns, and native humor finds an oht let in strange fashions. A man who ill treats his wife, or forsakes her for another woman, is often tarred and feathered. The operation is curious and satisfies the vengeance of the populace, while procuring them an hour's amusement. The delinquent is led, sometimes to the sound of music, to a retired spot. There he is stripped to the skin and coated over with tar from head to foot. This done, he is rolled in feathers, which of course stick to him and give him the appearance of an immense ugly duckling. To give a finishing to the operation, his clothes are sometimes carried off, and the mob wish him good luck. This chastisement is often applied to a woman whose conduct is known to beim moral, in sucn cases i ueea not say ic is loo women who^operate on the culprit They rraafetheir husbands tttxT wn,^* i niiin tn jet about without clanger, and they take upon themselves the task of keeping the moral atmosphere of the neighborhood healthy. The idea appears primitive, but morality thrives by it The susceptibilities of American women are sometimes very easily wounded. A paper having announced a man's death under the heading: "John K gone to a better home," the widow brought an action of libel against the editor. The further west one goes the more apparent becomes the power of the women; the further west one goes the rarer does woman get Is this the reason 1 To every American hotel there is a ladies' entrance, This is to prevent contamination from the possible contact of man. When it rains or snows an awning is thrown out over the pavement; but 1 dare say a permanent triumphal arch will ultimately be demanded by the ladies. Here is a little story which would supply a very good subject to the novelist or the dramatist. Idaho territory lies very far west indeed, and there is an alarming scarcity of women there. This has been curiously illustrated of late in the town of Wagon WheeL Recently two young ladies traveled to that remote region to attend to their dying brotner. me poor leuow uui uos long require their services, and immediatelj after his death the sisters prepared to return home. Before, however, they could get awap, nearly the whole population of the town?h?aded by the mayor and other high officials?were making matrimonial overtures to then. Feeling ran very high during five or six anxious days, and the mayor's chances, despite his mature years, ruled the betting at sis to one. At the end of the week both young lades had capitulated, and were duly engagec. The mayor was, however, cut out by a haidsome young miner. The wedding day wai fixed, and the mother of the young ladies wis summoned upon the scene. Here troublesbegan. She duly arrived, but was hotly intignant with her daughters for the scant respect which they had manifested towan their brother's memory by such iidocent haste to wed. The girls explainel that they had literally been besieged, aid had yielded to the overwhelming force of crcumstances. As usual, explanations inreased the offense, and the mother vowa that neither of them should be married oc there at all?that, in fact, the engagement wero "off," and that they must be off tot Tho cup of felicity was thus rudely dashd from the lips of the two accepted men, ad they mado haste to tell their sorrows to tfe town. _ An indignation meeting was heldand the mayor appointed a committee o wait upon the irate matron in orde to ask her to reconsider her resolutm. The mayor, with rare magnanimity, jonsidering the cruel blow his own hpes had just received, placed himself at the head of the deputation, and in thoname of patriotism implored the good lad to grant the petition, which ho ardently urgd. She, however, stood firmly on her pareml rights, and declarod that she would not eavo the town without her two daughters. Then tho genius of the mayor shone forth lio tho sun, and proved equal to the occasion. lo blandly | proposed a compromise. Why not she leave at all? He drew her attention?o course in most delicate terms?to the fact tit she was fair, plump, and fifty odd, and tat similgr language might bo taken as doriptive of himself. There and then ho offfed her his hand and heart, and the young liics a kind father and protector. That settled the matter,: andthreo mar riages took place with a grea flourish of trumpets at Wagon WheeL CHAPTER XV. In America gentlemen's dress; plain, even severe; a high hat, black coat, irk trousers. Fancy cloth is littlo used, eveni traveling. I remember well tho sensa^n I created with a pair of light gray trours in a small Pennsylvania town. Every to seemed to look at me as if I had been a sange animal; in tho hotel tho waitresses adged one another, and scarcely repressed; gigglo; and the street urchins followed inasif I had been a member of tho Sioux triboi national cos tumo. Tho day after my jural, one of the local papers announced the a Frenchman had landed in tho town thday before "in white trousers," and that hipopularity had been as prompt as decisive. American ladies dress verwell as a rule, but there a great numbeirho cover themselves with furbelows and jrels, and so long as each item is costly, trouk themselves little about the general effect American women have plenty of style of their own, and also a great deal of distinction and grace, but they always bok dressed for conquest. It is well to be it, but not well to show it. They are apt to laujh at the toilet of English women, and molel their own dress on French lines. For, my jart, 1 think that nothing can surpass a'fresh young English girl in a cotton dress and simple straw hat The fashionable headgear, during my sojourn in the states, was a high) narrow construction, perched on the top of the head, and surmounted with feathers. Ala certain distance, it gave its wearer the look of an irate cockatoo. Tbero are French milliners in New York, I believe. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes pretends that they deteriorate on American soil. I remember we got upon ttiissubject, during a pleasant chat about his early days in Paris, and ho said: "By the time a*French milliner has been sis months in New York, she will make a bonnet to frighten a Choctaw Indian.'' At the theatro, women wear silk, which prevents ono from bearing, and hats a foot high, which prevent one from seeing. American ball toilets are ravishing. Here the diamonds aro jp pjafe J do not know any gayer, more intoxicating sight than an American ball room. Tho display of luxury is on a gigantic scale. The walls are covered with flowers, the rooms artistically lighted, the dancing animated, and the true spirit of gayety everywhere visible. The young women are ideal in beauty and brilliancy, and if it were not for tho atmosphere, which is hot enough to hatch silk worms, you would pass tho evening in an ecstasy of enjoyment. Tho wives of men with middle class incomes imitate the luxury of the millionaire's wife. I expected to And it Jb; in a democratic country frogs try to swell into oxen. They puff themselves out until they burst, or rather until their husbands burst In Franco always, and in England when ho will let her, a wife keeps an eyo on ber husband's interests. In America, sJko often lays hands on his capital , CHAPTER XVI There is no country whero you hear so many good anecdotes, and no country whert tKon own crt troll IfUQJ CM V OW ? VM vw*VM The Americans are delightful raconteurs; they are past masters in the art of making those light, graceful, witty little speeches, which give to their dinners such a unique charm. Then the humor is delicate, the wit of the brightest Irony and elegance com-' bine to make these discourses veritable little literary gems. Here is a specimen of Gen. Horace Porter's drollery?a portrait of an old typical Purltan, given at a "New England" dinner: "The old Puritan was not the most rollicking, the jo'Jiest, the most playful of men. He at times amused himself sadly. He was given to a mild disregard of the conventionalities. He had suppressed bear baiting, not, it is believed, because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the audience. He found the Indians were the proprietors of the land, and he felt constrained to move against them with his gun, with a view to increasing the number of absentee landlords. He found the Indians on one side and the witches on the other. He was surrounded with troubles. He had to keep the Indians under fire and the witches over it. These were somo of the things that reconciled that good man to sudden death. He never let the sun go down upon his wrath, but he, no doubt, often wished that he was in that region near the pole where the sun does not go down for six months at a time and gives wrath a fair chance to materialize. He was a thoughtful man. He spent his days inventing snow plows and his evenings in sipping hot ram and ruminating upon the probable strength of the future prohibition vote. Those were times when the wives remoo^nttct^'wtth their husbands #eganilng~onj~ unfortunate and disappointing results or too much drink, particularly when it led the men to go out and shoot at Indians?and ml<gt them. These men generally began drinking on account of the bite of a snake, and usually had to quit on account of attacks from the same reptiles." Gen. Porter was kind enough to introduce me to a New York audience on one occasion. "Ladies and gentlemen," began the general without relaxing a muscle of his face, "I claim your indulgence on behalf of the speaker who is going to address you. He has to speak in a language not bis own, ana, Desides, he has not the resource of some of our countrymen, who, when their throats aro tired, can speak through their noses." American women run their husbands and fathers very close in the matter of wit. Their wit is apt to be a little more sarcastic, perhaps. They are not women for nothing. CHAPTER XVH. Humor only springs in simple, unaffected characters. You find it in the Scotch. It overflows in the well bred American, who is the prince of good fellows. The Americans are so good at taking a joke, so good tempered that, even in public, they enjoy to banter each other and serve as butts for each other's sarcasms; it is on these occasions that American humor is allowed free play. There aro oven "Gridiron" clubs, clubs where guests are invited only to be put on the grilL The most famous of these is the Clover club at Philadelphia. Outside Paradise there is no place where men are treated with so little regard to their rank. "Gentlemen," says the president, "1 have the honor to propose the first toast of the ovening. Let us fill our glasses and drink to tho honorable member of congress on my right I doubt not you will push your amiability and patience so far as to listen to his speech in respectful silence. Ho will bo all the more proud to have an audienco tonight, because, as wo all know, when tho honorable member gets up to moke a speech at Washington the benches begin to empty by magic. Gentlemen, give him a chanco." The congressman takes the joke merrily, and thus commences his speech: "Gentlemen?I mean members of tho Clover Club." The members pocket tho satire with a hearty laugh. Presently comes tho turn of tho second speaker. This ono speaks in a scarcely audible voice. "Raiso your voicol" cry tho members. "I'm sorry you cannot hear," quietly anTWerffTfio speaaer; "como nearer." Theories of "louder 1" continue. "If I speak low," says tho interrupted man, "it is in order to got down to your level" m.j vi~ i v. j.ma uuLiv ulm;u luu ? itu lau^utw, I was aghast. Can it bo possible, I thought, that they will stand that? Tho joke may be now and funny, but surely it is being carried beyond the bounds. If such things went on in France, one would see duels going on in all the retired spots of the neighborhood next morning. The president rises once more. My turn has come. Scarcely have I heard tho word "Gentlemen," when a volley of shouts and whistlings greets me. I see that I am not going to be spared. "Excuse me," I continue; "perhaps I had better explain to you why 1 accepted your invitation. Since 1 am in America 1 mean to study the customs and manners of the people. With this object in view, it would not do for me to confine myself to good society, and I havo determined to make a study this evening." "That's right," whispers my neighlw in way of encouragement, "continue in that strain and you will do," For hours the speechifying goes on, mixed with music, recitations, songs and anecdotes. At 2 in tho morning hosts and guests separate, declaring that thev havo had a "real good time." Tho Clover club is a first rate loveler. Any man, whose self esteem lias been over cultivated, can bo supplied by this club with wholesome physic. CHAPTER XVIIL I think tho following anecdote illustrates tho delicacy of eastern wit: Philadelphia, whether justly or not, has tho reputation of being very dead and alivo, and many are the jokes on its dullness. A Bostonum was doing tho honors of his native city to a friend from Philadelphia Having shown him all tho points of interest in the place, be asked'if he did not think Boston a fine city. "Yes, it Is very nice," said the Pennsylvania man, "but 1 do not think it is so well laid out as Philadelphia." "No," rejoined the Bostonian, "but it will bo when it i> i:> dead as Philadelphia." CHAPTER XIX By his discovery of Anierica, Christopher Columbus has furnished the old world with inexhaustible source of amusing novelties. You [mss from the curious to the marvelous, from the marvelous to the incredible, from the incredible to the impossible realized. But it is to American journalism that the palm must be awarded. The first thing that attracts your attention is the titles of the articles. The smallest bits of news cannot escape your notice, thanks to these wonderful headlines. It requires a special genius for the w<*k to be able to hit upon such eyo ticklers. The death of Mrs. Garfield, mother of the late president, was announced with the heading: death of grandma garfield. The marriage of M. Maurice Bernhardt: sarah's hot leads his bjude to the altar The execution of a criminal was announced by a Chicago paper under the heading: jerked to jesdr The reports of two divorce cases at Chicago were entitled respectively: tired of william. mrs. carter finds fault with her husband's kissing. An orticlo on Prince Bismarck was headed in largo letters, Bismarck Withdraws. Just underneath in very small print was: "His resignation as chancellor of the German empire." The marriage of young Earl Cairns, who had been betrothed several times, was announced to the American ladies thus: garmotlb caught at last. Whilo I was in the United States the papers were constantly speaking of a certain financier named Jacob Sharp. Accused of fraudulent dealings, this gentleman had been arrested, but subsequently released untried The press Indulged in much comment on the matter, and such remarks as: "All mortals have their trials except financiers." UDO morning mo newspapers were uuugeu to desist from their attacks; poor Jacob hod passed away from earth. The same day I met the editor of one of the large daily papers. "Well," 1 said, "hero Is a fine occasion for a grand head lino to-morrow; you oro not going to lot it slip, I suppose?" "What do you mean?" "How can you ask? Why, Jacob gone up the ladder, of course." "Splendid!" ho exclaimed. "Shame on thee, my dear editor, thou didst not find that one." "I must have it How much will you tako for it?" "I'll make you a present of it," I said. Next morning the death of the financier was told in two columns, headed: "JACOB GONE CP THE LADDER" If ever I wanted to apply for a Journalistic post in America this would bo my most weighty recommendation in tho eyes of my future chief. This is how one American reporter made a reputation at a bound. The Chicago people are still proud to tell tho story: Tho young fellow was taking a walk one evening in a retired part of the town, on the lookout for what adventure history does not say. All at once a human form lying motionless on tho ground attracted the sight of our hero. He drew near to it, stooped down, and found it to be a corpse. His first impulse was to immediately seek a policeman and tell him of tho discovery. But a second itjpji tMimn it tvna mnrn practical, and ih.0 ' -adopted it. tWwIfc-ftr , His paper comes out, me arternoou, so that by running straight to tho police station ho would bo making the matter public, and furnishing his brother reporters with a column or two for their morning papers. It is a catch, this corpse, and not to bo lightly given away. What to do? Simply this. Our journalist drags tho body into an empty building near at hand, and carefully hides it At 11 next morning ho discovers it by chance, goes as fast as possible to mako his declaration to tho police, and then hastens away to the offico of his nowspaper with two columns of description written over night At 2 o'clock tho paper announces: "Mysterious murder in Chicago; discovery of tho victim by ouo of our reporters I" Tho morning papers wero outdone, the evening ones nowhere. An American newspaper is a conglomeration of news, political, literary, artistic, scientific and fashionable, of reports of trials, of amusing anecdotes, gossip of all kinds, interviews, jokes, scandal, tho wholo written in a stylo which sometimes shocks the man of taste, but which often interests, and always amuses. A literary celebrity of Boston said to me one day: "I am ashamed of our American press. Wo have only two papers in tho country that 1 do not blush for, and those aro Tho Boston Post and Tho Evening Post, of New York." I must say that, if you want to hear America and everything American severely criticised, you havo only to go to Boston. There you will hear Boston and England praised una America picicca to pieces. "Are you an American?" I once asked of a gentleman 1 met in New York. "Well," bo said, after some hesitation, "I'm from Boston." You must visit tlio offices of tko great New York pajiers in the evening if you would get au idea of the colossal enterprises. There you see about fifty reporters with their news all ready for print in their hands. Each ouo in turn passes before tho heads of the various departments, political, literary, dramatic, etc. "What havo you?" asks on editor to tho first reporter who presents himself. "An interview with Sarah Bernhardt." "Very good. Half a column. And what have you?" ho says, turning to tho second. "A report of John Smith the banker's case." "Right Ono column. And you?" "I have an account of tho president's forthcoming journey to tho south." "What havo you for us this evening?" says the editor to his correspondent in Berlin. ""Bismarck threatens to send in his resignation." "Ono column." "Boulanger has just received an ovation at Lille. A riot is feared in Paris," wires tho Paris correspondent. "Capital 1 Send two columns." "A scandal in Rome. Tho Marchioness of N. has ruu away with her husband's secretary." "Good. Whero are they gone?" "No ono knows." "No matter. Send a good stirring column all tho same." "What's-his-uame, tho financier, lias made off," ticks the wire from Chicago. "A column. Send report and start on scent of tho fugitive." When the telegraph has ceased ticking and tho crowd of reporters havo departed, tho chief editor, liko a ship's captain, tho last to leave the desk, works on. Ho reads over everything, sifts, corrects, cuts down, odds to, puts all hi order, and towards 2 o'clock in tho morning gives tho order to print, and goes home. But, orieo more, nil this is nothing. It is in tho Sunday's issue that you havo tho crowning feat of journalistic enterprise?thirty or thirty-two pages of telegrams, articles, essays on politics, tho drama, literature, pictures, the fashions, anecdotes, boas mots, inter*.i....... frtp .'liil/lt'nn nnotp,' I phies, chats on science?the whole illustrated with portraits, sketches of interesting places mentioned in the text, caricatures, etc., etc. All this for the sura of thrco cents. Every little town of a thousand to fifteen hundred inhabitants has its two newspapers, one Democratic, tho other Republican. For lively reading, tako up theso papers during the electoral struggle that terminates with tho installation of a new president at tho White House. Tho names of somo of them will suffice to givo you an idea of tho style of tho contents; very favorito names are The Poralyzer, Tho Rustler, The Cyclone, The Prairio Dog, Tho Bazoo, The Lucifer, Tho Bundlo of Sticks, Tho Thunderer, Tho Earth quake. I saw and read a copy of the sheet which rejoiced in the name of Bundle of Sticks. The first article contained advice to a certain Joseph Mulier, who, instead of working, had taken up streot "preaching and house to house prayer: "We give Jceeph Mulier a fortnight to find some honorable employment. If at the end of that time he is still leading an idle life, we will find an exalted position for him." The joke makes one shudder when one thinks that, if Joseph should turn a deaf ear to the warning, ho is quite sure to be hung by his townsmen to the highest branch of some tree in the town. The characteristic of new societies is freedom of speech as well as of action. I read in some Thunderer the following lines about the editor of The Lightning, tho other newspaper of the town: "We wish to uso moderation and to keep within the limits of good breeding. We will only go so far as to say that person ally be is a sneak, and that as a journalist he is a liar and a sooundreL" The Lightning replies in the same strain, and the public gets amusement for the moderate sura of one or two cents. During the whole time 1' was in America Mr. Pulitzer, proprietor of The New York World, and Mr. Charles L. Dana, editor of The Sup, one of the most .' jrniplished journalists,' were day <fl>arday3qtig otttir such names as "robber,w. "lierffT "mortgaged," "dirty Jew." Do not, however, draw hasty conclusions irom this. I do not know Mr. Pulitzer personally, but I have the pleasure of knowing CoL Cockerill, chief editor of The World, and Mr. Dana, of Tho Sun. In private life they are perfect gentlemen and men of great talent (Mr. Dana is one of the greatest scholars in America).. In public life they are in the swim, they go with tho tido. As a study of English the polemic of Tho World and The Sun was most interesting. The American press was divided into two camps, the partisans of Pulitzer and the partisans of Dana. Whenever the combatants were driven up for want of fresh epithets of the requisito strength, their supporters sugested some to them. Here are some congratulations, addressed to Mr. Dana, which I read in The St. Louis Globe: "It was from beginning to end The Sun's stiletto against The World's meat ox, and, as is always the cose, tho meat ox como out second best. The literature of invective contains nothing finer than some of Tho Sun's attacks on The World, and the literature of the gutter contains nothing more feeble than The World's defense. The Sun dealt out prussicacid by the drop, and The World replied with rough on rats by the pound. The flatulent anger of Pulitzer was completely overwhelmed by the concentrated venom of Dana." If I were asked to name the most amusing papers published in the United States, I should not hesitate to award the palm to The Detroit froe Press and The Omaha World; in tbeso two, American humor reveals itself in all its spontaneous gayety, and their drolleries ore reproduced from New York to San Francisco, from Montreal to Now Orleans CHAPTER XX "Journalism has killed literature, and reporting is killing journalism. It is the last gasp of the dying literature of an epoch; it is tho man of letters replaced by the concierge," So exclaims M. Albert Millaud, in one of his witty articles in The Figaro. In America, reporting has simply overrun, swallowed up journalism. It is a demolition of the wall of private life, the substitution of gossip for chronicle, of chatter for criticism. For tho interviewer nothing is sacred. Audacity is his stock in trade; the most private dotails of your daily life are at his mercy, and unless you blow his brains out? which is n<kt lawful in New York state?you have no means of getting rid of tpipfc. There is no question tipo Ij^Utcrapt for these interviewed St- AnthonjTB^aW Do not shout victory aitlilBr because you have succeeded in getting rid of the interviewer without replying to his [questions. It is in such cases that the American journalist reveals himself In all his glory. To your stupefaction the newspapers next day will have an account of the conversation which you might have had with their reporters. If my advico be worth giving, the best thing you can do, when the interviewer presents himself and says, "I am a reperter, sir, and I have come to ask you for a few moments' chat," is to say to him: "Mad to see you, sir; pray bo seated." *V,o 1 IfV, o# XTotto^Ko.. 1CU7 of O o m VU LUQ lliu \Jk JLi \J V VUlUw y IW I, UU V U. Ul., the Germanic, after a terribly rough passage of nino days, entered tho magnificent harbor of New York. Tho sun had risen resplendent in a cloudless blue sky. We had just passed Bortholdi's statue of "Liberty Enlightening the World," and it seemed as if Franco were not far off. It was a sweet sensation, and instinctively I had raised my hat. All at once tho Germanic stopped. A little steam tug drew up alongside, and there stepped cvi board a few custom house officers, followed by several other persons. "Look out!" cried one of my fellow passengers, seeing that I appeared to bo unconscious of danger. "What is the matter?" I uked. "Tho interviewers!" "Nonsense, not here surely," I exclaimed. No sooner wero tho words out of my mouth than two young men handed me their cards, with tho announcement that they were journalists. "We have come to present our respects to you," they said, "and to wish you a pleasant time in our country." While they uttered those words they scanned me from head to foot, jotting a few strokes on their note books. They were taking my portrait, which appeared next morning at tho head of tho articles that the press of Now York thought fit to devote to mo. Ohl that first afternoon in Now York, spent in tho company of the interviowersl I shall never forget itl Tho office of my lecture manager, Maj.* Pond, was situated on tho ground floor of the Everett house, where I had put up. Thither I repaired after lunch to undergo tho operation of tapping by eight interviewers at once. "Ah I" said ono of them, after tho usual salutations, "we are going to boro you, so let us begin at the beginning." This made mo smile. "I know your first question," I said; "you aro going to ask mo whether this is my first visit to America,'-' ? "You aro right; that is generally our first question, but I have another to ask you before. You have just eaten your first meal in America, what did you have?" "Gentlemen," I replied as seriously as I possibly could, "1 huvo just been in for a pieeo of turbot, a beefsteak and potato chips, a celery salad, and a vanila ico.1' "And now." remarked another reporter. "I have an important question to put to you. I Liujio it will not astonish you." "Oh!" 1 replied, "1 am in America, and quite ready not to bo astonished at anything." "Well, then," said he, "I want to ask you what aro your impressions of America." "Excuse mo," I exclaimed, "I have only boon in it threo hours, and those three hours kavo been spent in this hotel. You must really allow me to abstain for the moment from telling you what I think of America; for you will admit, I hope, that one must have passed a whole day at least in America, in order to judge it with any accuracy." Here I rolled a cigarette and rang for a lemon squash. Tho reporters immediately mado an entry in their note books. "What is that you havo put down?" I asked. A young fellow, with a face beaming with activity and intelligence, replied: "I wrote that at this point of our conversation you rolled a cigarette and rang for a lemon squash." Tho questions they asked really appeared to mo 60 commonplace, so trivial, that I was almost ashamed to think I was the hero of this littlo farce. "With tho idea of giving tbcm something better worth writing, I launched into anecdotes, and told a few to these interviewers. This brought about a little sceno which was quite comic. If I looked at ono reporter a little oftencr than tho rest, wkilo I told an * My manager, as the reader will ol>e rve, was one of the rare Americans I who are not colonels. 1 anecdote, ho would turn to his brethren and say: "This story is for my paper, you have no right to take it down; it was told especially to mo." "Not at all," would cry the others, "it was told to all of us." Next day I procured all the New York morning papers, inoro from curiosity, I must say in justice to myself, than from vanity, for I was not at all proud of iny utterances of tha day before. Judgo of my surprise on opening the first paper to find nearly two columns full of amusing details, picturesque descriptions, well told anecdotes, witty remarks, tho whole cleverly mingled and arranged by men who, I bad always supposed, were mere steaograpbei-s. Everything was faithfully reported and artistically set down. The smallest incidents were rendered interesting by the manner of telling. The major, for instance, who, accustomed to this kind of interview for many years, bod peacefully dropped asleep, comfortably installed, with his head on tho sofa pillows and his feet on tho back of a chair; my own gestures, tho description of the pretty and elegantly furnished office?all was very crisp and vivid. They had turned evtryrhiKg to account; even the arrival of the lomou squash was made to fuipiish a little paragraph that was droll and attractiva You might have imagined that the whole thing was the first chapter of a novel, commencing with the majestic entry of a steamer into Now York harbor. Well, 1 said to myself, tho American journalist knows, at any rate, how to moko a savory liasb out of very littla CHAPTER XXL America has not yet produced a transcondeut literary genius, but she has tho right to bo proud of a national literature which includes poets, historians, novelists, essayists and critics of a superior order. In tho domain of romance, we find writers whoso reputation is as firmly established in Europe as in America. Who has not read in his youth the novels of Fenimore Cooper? Who has not thrilled over the weird tales of Poe? Among tho most famous names in fio tion aro also vvasumgcon irvmg, rt. ruiner Willis, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Marion Crawford, Prank Stockton, George W. Cable, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Henry James, W. D. Howells, Julian Hawthorne, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Charles Dudley Warner, Bret Harte, who Is also a poet, Edward Eggleston, J. Brander Matthews. All these names aro household words wherever the English tongue is spoken. The greatest success of the century has been attained by an American novel directed against slavery and instrumental in its destruction. In the philosophical essay, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Robert Ingersoll are unapproachable in their different styles. The first shines by his originality and a subtle power of reasoning, which puts you in mind of Carlylo; the second by the grandeur of h'"1 language, his keen, clear reasoning pow r, and his humor and pathos. History is, perhaps, of all tho branches of American literature, that which has found its highest expression. Washington Irving with his History of Columbus. Prescott with the History of Ferdinand and Isabella, the History of the Conquest of Mexico and Peru, and the History of Philip II, Bancroft with a History of tho United States, Hildreth, Sparks and others have produced a national history from the discovery of their country down to our own days. It seems curious that the vast and grandiose regions they inhabit should not have inspired the Americans with taste and talent for descriptions of nature. Fenimore Cooper is tho only great scene painter produced by the immensities of the great western continent. Humorists swarm in the United States. Artemus Ward and Mark' Twain are two [MLmuITJ.M -fgaiuua Hiumu uuU abroad. There is a third on toe road thai leads to similar celebrity. Bill Nye has the same droll way as Mark Twain of droning out irresistible comicalities, with that solemn sang froid which is not met with outside the frontiers of Yankeeland. When he mounts the platform tho audience prepares to be dislocated with laughter. Although tho names of Charles A. Dana, Whitelaw Reid, Park Godwin and many others are well known to the reading public of America, it is in tho large reviews, and not in the newspapers, that really literary nrn f-A hn fniinH Children?if there be any children ir America?ore not forgotten by literature. II is safe to affirm that there is no country where children aro so well written for, by authors who have the secret of instructing them while they charm and amuse them. CHAPTER XXIL Tho American stage boasts some excellent actors, but it owes its prestige rather to the talent of a few brilliant individuals than tc distinction of ensemble. Tho plays aro written for certain actors, and tho secondary parts are made to serve tho purpose of throwing up tho "star." Thif is why the French plays that are transplanted to tho stage of America generally faiL American theaters aro not subveutioned by tho state, and private enterprise can scarcely afford to give the public tho luxury of a whole company of talent The "star" u usually his or her own manager, draws the public and realizes tho profits. The repertoire consists of two or threo plays, which aro performed before a Now York audience for a month or two and then taken round tc tho chief cities of tho States. This is why ono sees fresh companies nearly every week in half the theaters. Today o drama, next week comedy, opera bouf&f the week after. Sometimes tho chango is still moro brusque. Mr. Henry Irving and Miss Helen Terry gavo a series of performances al tho Star theatro, New York, during the month of March last. On their departure they were succeeded by a troupe of performing monkeys. Tho theatro was just as likely to havo been hired by traveling rovivalists. Tho Americans have an unbearable trick of arriving late at the theatre. For twenty minutes after tho curtain rises thero is a constant bustling and rustling of newcomers, which debars you from tho pleasure of following tho actors' speeches. If tho play be gins at 8, they como at a quarter past; if it begins at a quarter past, they come at halfpast, and so on. At tho - time appointed for tho curtain to rise, tho stalls are empty. This bad habit annoys tho actors and disturbs the spectators; but tho evil is incurable, and managers try vainly to stop it. I know one who followed tho advertisements of his play by this paragraph: "Tho public aro solemnly warned that, unless tho wholo of tho first sceiio bo witnessed, tho subsequent action of tho play cannot be understood." His efforts wero crowned with failure. Not to understand tho play is a^pity, but not tc crcato a sensation when'ono conies in, dressed in one's most killing attire, is out of question. It i3 tho same at concerts and lectures. Those who havo booked their seats in advaneo como in a quarter of an hour or twenty minutes after tho timo fixed for commencing. When every one is placed, tho concert 01 lecture begins. Tho early comers, who have to wait until tho lato ones havo arrived, uttei not a murmur. Tho patience of tho American public is angelic. CHAPTER XXIIL Tho Americans aro Cln-istians?that is t< say, thoy attend church on Sundays. Lik< other Christians, they attend to business ot week days. In America, religion is served up witt sauces to suit all palates. Independently oi tho Catholic religion, there aro 189 differenl religious sects. England has only 1S5. Every good preacher draws a full congro gation, no matter to which sect ho belongs | Tho church in itself i3 not tho attraction, ant tho minister has no other influenco over tb< pcoplo than that which ho exercises by hi oratorical talents. A religious or mora lecturo is as popular as a literary lecture, t concert, or a play. An American will go and listen to tb( minister of a sect differing from his own rather than sit and bo bored by a tiresomi preacher belonging to bis own denomination Ho will rather go to hear Dr. McGlynn, th< excommunicated Roman Caliholic priest, oi Dr. Felix Adler, tho eloquent agnostic; re liglous as ho is, ho will sometimes regret tha I A Col. Ingersoll does not appear In public on Sundays any longer; Protestant as bo is, ho has no scruple about going to hear a musical mass in the Catholic cathedral; in fact, you can see him everywhere except in the churches where dullness prevails and the mind waits in vain for fresh nourishment. The churches advertise a preacher in the newspapers as the theatres advertise a "star." In default of a good preacher other attractions are put forward to draw the publrc. How resist the two following appeals, posted at tho doors of a New York and a Chicago church? I copied them word for word with great care: Musical Evangelsts. Solos; Short sermons; Tbo piaco to do nappy ana savea. Walk in, ladies and gentlemen, walk In. Tbo other, more seductive still, was worded thus: No reason for not coming! Free seats; Cheerful services; Books supplied to tbo congregation. Religious sects multiply every day. No doctrine is too absird to mako proselytes. Tho latest religious invention in America j is Esotorism, which promises immortality to i its followers?immortality, that's all! The doctrine of tho Esoterists teaches that, if man werp really pure, and followed tho precepts of tho Gospel to tho letter, ho would become immortal, not in Paradise, but here below. As it is probable that no Christian ever yet succeeded in following minutely the precepts j of tho Gospel, the Esoterists may bo right. To live forover, say they, you have only to remain virtuous, oven in tho married state. Celibacy must be embraced. Celibacy pure j and simple, however, is not sufficient, for where there is no struggle there is no victory. Devotees must therefore marry, but in all honor remain celibates. If you succeed in mastering your passions, no malady will attack you, and you will become immortal "But," you will probably say, "do the Esoterists never die?" Yes, thoy dio?once; but, according tc them, this does not prove tho fallacy of theii belief. If they die, it simply proves that they have failed to attain tho necessary degree of perfection. Now tho Esoterists are sole to continue with us, for either they will arrive at perfection and become immortal, or they will fall away from grace aud will have children to swell their ranks. The head of this sect, which is as yet only about two years old, claims that when tho Esoterists attain perfection, not only will they bo immortal, but they will have a clear insight into the future, a gift which will enable' them to amass great riches. And, indeed, the utility of such an accomplishment on tho stock exchange, for instance, must be apparent at a glance. Another sect pretends to bo ablo to cure all disease by faith. The faith of these fanatics is not shaken by the death of their patients. "If thoy had had more faith they would have recovered," During my stay in America, a well known evangelist published a volume of sermons with tho following preface: "God has been kind enough to own the words when I spoke them, I hope Ho will give His blessing to the book, now that tho same words appear in print" Many books are published in Franco with the remark, "A work approved of by Mgr. the Archbishop of X." A volume, advertised as having been owned and blessed by tho Lord himself, ought to have a wide sale. A truly edifying sight is tnat of tho noisy, dirty, blaspheming crowd, collected ou a a.m/inv oTTorrniT nntoidn Mndison SnuaroGiir """""J 1 i den, Now York, on the eve of a "six days' go-as-you-please walking match." From (5 or 7 in the evening, there is a betting, swearing i match outside the gates. But tho walking i only begins at one minute past midnight. Not to take tho name of God in vain", the English have invented many euphemisms; i some men, imagining, I suppose, that the r PviVj Uthm no oogiilnnnrm of any language ; but English, venture so far as to say Mon i Dieu or Mein Goth ; At this kind of thing the Americans are su clever as tho English. Thoy havo invented i Great Scott! Something admirable in all tho main re ligious sects of America is their national character. When I hear it said that religion is the sworn enemy of progress, especially of rei publican institutions, I turn to America and 1 say to myself: "This is not true." Thero is no minister of religion, from the archbishops down to the most unlettered i preachers of all tho small isms, who would ; daro to tell his congregation that liberty h r not tho most precious, tho most sacred ol r their possessions, and that tho republic is not ; tho most admirable?tho only possible?form of government for America. In Franco thero is much indifferenco on the subject of religion; but a great deal of incredulity is affected to satisfy a political bias. I am certain that if, in Franco, you searched into tho hearts of tho people, you would find there much loss atheism than in many other countries. Religious belief seems to bo the appanugo of tho royalist party, and other people think they mako a show_of republicanism by throwing over tho belief of tht royalists. Tho religious man is rather looked upon as a political enemy than as a religious antagonist. This is tho truo explanation of much apparent agnosticism in France. It must also bo remarked that plenty of royalists only affect piety and go regularly tc church as a protest against republicanism, and that many republicans may bo excused for taking this display of religion for an act of hostility towards their pot institutions. This state of things is deplorable. Both sides aro to blamo for it In England and America, whero tho form of government is questioned by no ono, religion does not clash with progress and liberty, but lives with democracy in peace and harmony, as becomes a faith whose grand precept is: "Lovoyoone another." [TO HE CONTINUED.] Our Seventy Year Clocks. Our brains ajo seventy year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of Resurrection. Tic tac! tic tac! go the wheols of thought. Our will cannot stop them. They cannot stop themselves. Sleep can; not still them. Madness only makes them go faster. Death alone can break into the caso, and, seizing the over swinging pendulum, which we call the heart, ' silences at last the clicking of the ter1 riblo escapement we have carried so long I beneath our wrinkled foreheads. i If wo could ouly get at them as we lie on our pillows and count the dead boats of thought after thought and image after imago jarring through the over tired organ! Will nobody back those wheels, 1 uncouple the pinioti, cut the string that 1 holds those weights, blow up the infernal machine with gunpowder? What a pas; sion comes over us sometimes for silence > and rest! that this terriblo mechanism, [ unwinding the endless tapestry of time, embroidered with spectral figures of lifo and death, could have but ouo brief holiday! Who can wonder that men swing ' themselves off from beams in hempen ' lassos? that they jump off from parapets Into the swift aiid gurgling waters be ueatli? that they take counsel of the grim , friend who has to utter hut his ono per. emptory monosyllable, and the restless machine is shivered as a vaso that is dashed upon a marble fioor? * * * If anybody would only contrivo some kind of a lovor that ono couia thrust in among tho works of this horrid automaton ana ) check them or alter their rate of going, j what would tho world givo for tho disi covery??0. W. Holmes. Work of a Story Writer, 1 In beginning to writo a story, it is well f to have a basis resting upon fact, either t in circunistanco or personality. For this reason tho author should bo able to dis. sect human nature with keen analysis. No trait, no eccentricity, no expression, ^ in tho broad volume which mankind constantly opens before him should escape 5 his attention, but everything ho sees 3 should bo stored up as valuablo material 1 in his literary laboratory A fitting comi biuation of individual traits in different persons can bo assimilated in ono mental j creation, alt hough a just consistency must bo observed. It is often amusing to an ' author to find his stories read and dis 3 cussed by tho very persons whom ho has embodied in his hero, with never a sus 3 picion, on their part, that their own charf acteristics havo formed a ground work for - tho interesting fictiou.?Virginia 0. Elt lard in Tho Writer. Ittiswllanraus! grading. STARTLING INCIDENT OF THE WAR. During the early part of 1863 the general's division was quietly settled in quarters in its camp south of Murfreesboro'. While there he related this curious incident: "Col. Conrad, of the Fifteenth Missouri, informed me that ho got through without much difficulty; in fact, that everything had gone all right and been eminently satisfactory, except that in returning he had been mortified by the conduct of the two females belonging to the detachment and division train tit my headquarters. These women, ho said, had given mucl annoyance by getting drunk, and to some extent demoralizing his men. To say thai I wna ootrmtcVioH at hia at.ntarrmfit. wrinlr be a mild way of putting it, and had I nol known him to bo a most upright man anc of sound sense, I should have doubted nol only his veracity but his sanity Inquiring who they wero and for further details, . was informed that there certainly were ir the command two females, that In some mysterious manner had attached them selves to the service as soldiers; that one an East Tennessee woman, was a team ster in the division wagon train and th< other a private soldier in a cavalry com cany temporarily attached to my head quarters for esriort duty. While out on the foraging expeditioi these Amazons had secured a supply o "apple jack" bv some means, got ver drunk, and on the return had fallen int< Stone river and been nearly drowned After they had been fished from th water, in the process of resuscitation thei sex was disclosed, though up to this tim it appeared to be known only to eacl other. The story was straight and th circumstance clear, so, convinced of Con rad's continued sanity, I directed the pro vost marshal to bring in arrest to m; headquarters the two disturbers of Con rad's peace of mind After somo littl search the East Tennessee woman wa found in camp, somewhat the worse fo the experiences of the day before, bu awaiting her fate contentedly smoking cob pipe. She was brought to me, uui put in duress under charge of the divisioi surgeon until her companion could bo sc cured. To the doctor she related that th year before she had "rofugeed" from Eas Tennessee, and on arriving in Louisvill assumed man's apparel aud sought am obtained employment as a teamster in th quartermaster's department. Her feat tires were very large, and so coarse am masculine was her general appearanc that she would readily have passed as man, and in her case the deception was n doubt easily practiced. "Next dav the 'she dragoon' was caugh and proved to be a rather prepossessiu young woman, and though necessaril bronzed and hardened by exposure, doubt if, even with these marks of catr paigning, she could have deceived a readily as did her companion. How th two got acquainted I never learned, an though they had joined the army ind< pendently of each other,yet an intimacy ha sprung up between them long before th mishaps of the foraging expedition. The both were forwarded to army headaua] ters, and, when provided with clothin suited to their sex, sent back to Nasi ville, and thence beyond our lines t Louisville."?Gen. Sheridan's Book. Lie of the Loco Weed. No other plaut in the Horn of Texas ha exjoyed a greater notoriety than the fi mous "loco" or "crazy weed." Popula superstition has accredited it with a mos remarkable property, and that is, th power of producing insanity in man an beast. Botanically, the plant is know as Astragalus molissimus. The extravi ga.vt atones that have been told about recently led Mi., James Kennedy to invei tigate its properties and determine wht physiological phenomena result from 11 action. i, As the result of his in\ ?stigations an his experiments upon animals feeding i pastures, Mr. Kennedy finds conclusive! that the plant is non-toxic and jnnoci ous and possesses none of the property long ascribed to it by popular supcrst tirm TTo thinks that, th'e immense Hi stroction of stock with which it has bee 1 charged may have been caused by son 1 poisonous plant heretofore unsuspectei or if the "loco" really has produced deatl it has done so by reason of the tougl [ fibrous and indigestible character of tl plant acting as an irritant, and uot as ( poison.?Scientific American. The Gatling Gun in 1870-71. Up to this time wo had not seen ar Prussians beyond a fow skirmishers I 1 the plain, though our battery of Uatlinf l had kept blazing awaw-at nothing in pa 1 ticular all the whilejJBut now an oppo i tunity of its being IB use occurred - column of troops appeared in tho vallt below us, coming from tho right?a me; dark streak upon tho white snow, but r 1 one in tho battery could tell whether th< were friends or foes, and tho commandi 1 hesitated about opening fire. But now c aide-de camp came dashing down tho hi with orders to pound them at once? [ French journalist, it seems, having di covered them to 1* enemies, when tl , general and all his staff were as puzzle as ourselves. Rr-rr-a go our Gatlings, tl 1 deadly hail of bullets crushes into tl thick of them, and slowly back into tl woods the dark mass retires, leavinj i however, a trace of black dots upon tl 1 whito snow behind it. This, thoir famoi , and 4 o'clock effort and its failure, has d , cided tho day. That one dischargo ws enough.?Loudon Journal. Tho Man Who Laughs. 1 Thero is one man whoso presence in i theatro during a comedy is worth moue I to tho management. Ilo is the creates ; laugher I over saw. Like all good laugl ers he is fat, and it fills a man with merr moments to bo around when ho is laugl ing. IIo has a hearty rolling faugh tHt catches an audionco quickly, and soon tl 1 audience and ho aro engaged in a laugl ing match. When the laughing has bee going on for four or five minutes, an everybody's sides are soro and all kanci [ take a rest, thero is a lull through tl house which is immediately broken by low passionato sob and a gently modulate "O-ah!" from tlio laugher who Is puttin the finishing touches on his cachinator effort. Immediately the audienco forgt the soreness of their sides and burst ini 1 a roar. Friends of his bring the laughi to the theatre just to have fun with bin He comes with a different crowd ever time, and his friends get their enjoymei out of him and not out of tho perforn ance. He's tho jolliest laugher I ev< heard.?"G. M." in Globe-Democrat. Slaking tho Eyes Bright. It is no use asking mo for the secret of making the eyes bright. I know then but they are dangerous, and as moders tion in the use of any oomestic is ui known to women who adopt such thing they had better remain secret. The onl harmless things for the purpose are tli juice of the herb euphrasy or eyebrigl dropped in tho eye, or a spoonful of roa coffee chewed for the juice alone. Th brightens the eyes for an evening, and useful to keep watchers wide awah nights. But it must not be used ofte or it affects the heart. Puro blood an thorough circulation, with unobstructe functions, will secure glowing eyes of dark shade of their natural color, chanf ing gooseberry eyes to luminous dar gray. Walking a milo briskly again; the wind is good exercise to darken an brighten the eyes, whoso beauty all d< pend on a right circulation of the blocx which in turn depends on more thing than can bo mentioned here.?Shirle Dare's Letter. Swift Messengers In China. Human endurance is seldom tested severely as among the postal messenge of the Chinese government between Pek and Lhassa. These messengers a picked and trained men, who in times great urgency aro required to cover tl 4,COO miles between tho two capitals < horseback in thirty-six days, or 125 mil a day. The messenger's letters inclos< in a yellow bag aro never taken off his ba< except when ho changes his dress, on a week. lie changes horses every fe miles, eats and sleeps in postal station is under tho most rigid restrictions as articles of diet, and is permitted to sle< only four hours a day. This remarkah feat is said to be accomplished whenev there is need of special dispatch, but < ordinary occasions just double tho tin is given the journey.?Boston Herald. pQ~ "From a financial point of view your profession a success," she askc tho pianist. "Well, it ought to bo," 1 replied, "for T have handled thousam of notes and never had one to go to pn ' test.?[Time. V ( \ * . r JL REMINISCENCES OF WESTERN YORK. I On the Quin's road, between where Dr. R. R. Darwin lived and Wolfe creek, is a spot the negroes thought was haunted. They had a traditional statement that many long years ago this beautiful stretch of road was used as a race path, where all the rowdies and plug uglies and riff-raff of the country generally, for miles around, would meet to enjoy their favorite sports. , Sunday was a great day for the business. i One Sunday, we are told, while riding a ' I race, a man by the name of Arnton fir I ( mistake not) got his brains knocked out \ | against a tree, by his horsQ flying the ; | track. The superstitious negroes in that | neighborhood, in our boyhood days, would [ report seeing sights or hearing all kinds of t sepulchral noises about this alleged hauntr ed spot. ' We have already told our readers that 3 near the same spot the deer used to "lick." Hunters used to "prime" the "lick" with t salt; that is, fill the joints of canes and * stick them into the ground. Here the deer would congregate in droves, at times, and many of them were killed. Mr. Aikins used to tell of killing them there. f One day, he said, that he, with a party, Y shot a "five pint" buck which bounded off 3 toward Broad river and crossed the river just below the mouth of King's creek. On r the opposite, or Union side of the river, o Mr. Johqi Kennedy stood with his trusty ^ rifle, and as the champion of the race 0 scaled the western bank of the river, he laid him lifeless upon the sand. When 7 the hunters came up their game had been captured, and the rule among them was to 3 divide game with those who came into r the race. So they skinned and opened the t deer and found in him a "mad-stone" that j by lot fell to Mr. Kennedy, who kept it u for many years, and it was used in a few ) cases of mad-dog bite with powerful effect. 0 Some one sent for it in North Carolina, 1 and Mr. Kennedy sent it there to be used j in a case of hydrophobia. It was never o returned that anybody knew of. Twelve jj months or more ago, the writer met James e Wesson, the mail rider from Shelby, N. a C., to Gaffney City, S. C., at the latter O nloriD anrl hn / Wnuonn \ Vio/1 in foia nnaa/>u. j/iav/vj uuu iiv y tt voovuJ nau i u 1110 j/uouv j t sion a "raqd-stone." Messrs. Kenpedy g and Aikinsalwayssaid that the mad-stone y they had was sent into North Carolina, 1 and this may, in all probability, have Lg been the same one. Mr. Wesson is deaf o and dumb, and could give no history of it, d only that it had been in that section for a ^ long time, and this he did by writing. e In the early chapters of these re&inisy cences we referred to hunting in more recent days, and gave the names of the persons who were fond of thissport. Mr. Chess ,o McKinney was among them. These hunting parties would frequently have one hundred hounds, or perhaps more, in the M chase; and among them were scores of i. first-class sheep killers, ur Ben Bolin used to tell of an old ram in lt the coaling ground, which was the only d survivor of a large flock that had been n killed out by dogs. Perhaps he had been able to knock his assailants off and retain his undisputed right to life as well as to the range. In his solitude he would stats tion himself upon some knoll or elevation, and to the passer-by he would bleat and ? say: "Where's Chess?" y Mrs. Rosa Arrowood, as well as all, i- her children, had a habit of ending every sentence in in began to pay court to Dulcina, sho, like a i0 great many girls of the present day, knew how to put on "airs." She had bought and a] made a black dress and laid it away to don ie on "Tied-up's" next visit. Sure enough, a when he came back again, he found her attired iq all the grandeur surrounding circumstances would admit. Telling "Noose" iy Cobb of her success in this new style, she in said: "Well-er, Noose, what do you thinkpj er?? "Well, I don't know," said Noose. ? She said: "I put on my new black dress-er ~ ? j r I' /* /\ .1 ? /Itylviffi IvMAItt A At* fplt A rva _ AM a auu xeeu-up uiun lkuuw mt-ci. mcui-ci y buttons don't suit it-er. I think they are too big-er. I'll change them before he 5y comes back-er." j. l. s. 'n AN ELEPHANT STRANGLED. } .11 The elephant Chief, who has killed -a eleven men, was executed at the winter s quarters of Adam Forepaugh's menagerie aud great show in Philadelphia, recently. !(i Chief had been marked for slaughter for 10 some time, and it was intended that he should be killed by an electric shock, ber cause he had become vicious and unman'o ageable, and it was feared that he would I3 kill some of his attendants. Word was 0. sent to Adam Forepaugh, Jr., recently i? that Chief was exhibiting dangerous symptoms, and was likely at any time to break out and do some fearful damage to both life and property. It was evident at once a that prompt measures were necessary, and y that it would not do to wait for the perfecting of the electric apparatus with which l' it had been proposed that the animal J should be artistically executed. The vicious beast was trumpeting and creating a wild panic in the quarters where he was j. confined. It was dangerous work even to n approach the beast, as he had worked him(1 self into a frightful condition of exciteis ment. No one could tell at what moment, to in a frenzy of madness, he might break a the chains which held him and spread d death and destruction in his path. How S to kill the brute quickest was the question y to be decided. He had upon a former oc3t casiou proved himself proof against rifle ;? bullets, and after some deliberation it was Jr determined to strangle him to death. The dangerous and difficult task of put^ ting a rope about the elephant's neck was j. promptly assumed by Adam Forepaugh, ;r Jr. Aropehalf an inch in diameter and twelve feet in length was sent for, and the intrepid showman stepped fearlessly into the stall occupied by Chief, who was in a ^ frightful rage and could have crushed him ~ witn a single siroae 01 nis great ' But happily the habit of obedience, atmoment, prevailed over the brute'ip' and with a deft movement Mr. Fort^ ' slipped the big rope over the beast's't. g and hitched it with a slip-knot over v w ! tender part of the beast's neck and ove. M the jugular vein. Four feet of the rope 1 ' was left dangling on either side, and hav,g ing accomplished this, the most dangerous part of the business, Mr. Forepaugh rushed ? out of the stall. Two of the trained eled phants?Bismark and Basil?were then j brought in and one placed on each side of Chief. Chains were attached to the ends I of the rope about Chief's neck and they '/ I were fastened securely about the shoulders ?fc J of Bismark and Basil. A keeper took poJ sition at the side of each of these elephants, i and at a sign from Mr. Forepaugh, gave l the word to them, and the mammoth's ' j started on a run in opposite directions. ? : The shock threw Chief on his knees. y j The two trained elephants pulled the rope taut. The noose closed tightly over Chiefs jugular vein and wind-pipe. lie struggled with a great convulsion for a moment, 60 and then rolled over dead. Chief was one P of the best known elephants on exhibition J? j in this country. He was purchased nine 0f years ago by Adam Forepaugh, in Germain ny, when he was twenty-four years of age. lie has in his career killed eleven men, ? unr? nn thr> Sth /if Onfnhor Inst. in a fit of CO v..~ w... - ? -3d anger, broke from his keeper in the Fore:k paugh quarters, at Lehigh avenue and ce Edgemont street, and came near killing w several people then. At that time Mountain Bill, the cowboy, put ten bullets in 10 his body, which only had the effect of ?P sending him back to his place with a dislle dainful snort. Chief was valued at ?>,000. e* His body will be presented to Professor ^ Phillip Leidy, who will prepare the skeleton for exhibition in the Academy of Natural Science. teg""What do you think of your new re- A porter?" "I think he'll bo anotherHor^^ Greeley." \V' one compositor ih