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VoAL. 11". 11ANNING, CLARENDON CONY .C., WED)NESDAY, (X)~L12~ S( O 5 }{ I P. v~ MIARES TI I'pi1. REPLYUN C To THE Eu- 0i O The Premident of the:'-u, im- ( Irlwr In Refutation (of the chiarge' cC SIlwrnrman. and FactN a, to the Late War ii'ettit' Z% at' The Baltimore Sun prints a letter, five columns in length, from ex-President Jefferson Davis in relation to the long standing controversy between himself and General W. T. Sherman. The let ter is dated Beauvoir, Miss., September 23, 1886, and begins as follows: "At various times, ad from many of my friends, I have been asked to furnish a reply to Gen. W. T. Sherman's so called report to the War Department, which the United States Senate ordered printed as Executive Document No. 36, Forty-eiglth Congress, second session. I have been compelled by many causis to postpone a reply to tiese invitations, and have in some instances declined, for the time being, to undertake the labor. A continuing sense of the great injustice done me and the people I represented, by the Senate making the malicious as sault of General Sherman a public docu ment, and giving to his &lander the im portance which necessarily attaches to an executive communication to tte Seu ate, has recently caust d the reqzest for a reply by me to be pressed v.i ia very great earnestness. for this reason I have decided to furnish a reply fer pub lication in the Baltimore Sun. The his tory of my public hfe bears evidence that I did all in my power to prevent the war; that I did nothing to precipitate the collision; that I did not seek the post of Chief Executive, but a .vised my friends that I preferred not to Ii1 it. That history General Sherman may slan derously assail by his statements, but he cannot alter its consistency; nor can the Republicans of the Senate change its un broken story of faithful service to the Union of the Constitution until, by the command of my sovereign State. I with drew as her ambassador from the United States Senate. For all acts of my public life as President of the Confederate States I am responsible at the bar of history, and must accept her verdiet, which'I shall do without the leatst.appre hension that it will be swayed from the truth by the malicious falsjholds of GeneralSherman, even when amped as an executive document by the United States Senate. Mr. Davis then recites the sti tement made 1y General Sherman lbefre a gath ering of ex-Union soldiers in 1m4, that he (Sherman) had seen a ltktter frow Mr. Davis to a United States :nator, in which he (Davis) said that he "would turn Lee's army against any Szte that pnight attempt to secede from the South ern Confederacy." Mr. Davis then quotes his letter to the St. Louis ilepub lican, printed at that time, deny iag the truth of Sherman's statement and the interviews had subsequently by reporters with Shermuan, to whom ihe latt r said: "This is an aiEir between two gentle men. I will take my time about it and wite to Mr. Daviz myself. We v- id set tle the matter between us." "It is hardly necessary for me to say," continued Mr. Davis, "that ( eneral Sherman did not write to me, and we had not settled the matter between us, otherwise than I settled it by denounc ivg his statement as false and himself as a slanderer. There the matter would have rested, so far as I was concerned. But when the War Department of the United States was made the custodian of his slander and Republican Senators be came its endorsers, and the statemcnts made at Frank Blair Post were lifted into official importance, it became a duty alike to myself and to the people 1 rep resented to follow the slanders with my denial and to expose alike its author and his endorsers." Mr. Davis reviews at length the p'ro gress of the controversy, reciting the de nial of every Senator from the Southern States that he had received such a letter as that spoken of by Sherman, and ac cusing Sherman of first trying to substi tute a letter from Alexander H. Stephens to Herschel V. Johnson for the alleged Davis letter; then of representing that the Davis letter was lost in the confusion of the rebellion archives in the War De partment, and finally of pretending that he had seen the alleged letter at 11aleigh, N. C., and intimating that it was ad dressed to Governor Vance. Mr. Davis quotes the published denial of Governor Vance that he had ever received such a letter from him, and says: "My alleged Raleigh letter has never been found. Sherman says it was sent to Nashville, Savannah, Washington an' St. Louis, and may have been fina' burned in Chicago ma the great fire of 1871. But in its travels no other person but Sherman saw it; not a single oflicer at any headquarters has been produced who read it, and it passes belief that im the excitement of the closing days of the war and during my imprisonment, ;when every letter of mine was carefully ex~ amined to find evidence upon which to convict and destroy me, not an orlicer at all these headquarters should have read that letter- Every fair-minded man maust therefore concluae that General Shernmnr stated at the Grand Army Po:,t a wilful and deliberate falsehood, and that hi: motive had its inspiration in that mean notice which has characterized his act: and writing in other resp~ects toward the Southern people. The so-called histori cal statement concerning the pubht policy of the Executive D)epartment the Confederate States, as Sherman letter to the War Depiartmaent i.s headed in that executive document, opens witl. die following statement: -That I dher: man) had seen papers which convimee me that even Mr. JDavis, President of tla Southern Confederacy, had, during th< progress of the war, changed his State' rights doctrines, and had threatenetr t< use force-ven Lee's army-should anz State of the Confederacy attempt to se. cede from that government.' With th, mental process by which General Sher man is 'convinced' I have no concern but the 'papers' in which lie alleged tha I 'threatened' to use force aganist th States of the Confederacy ought to 1. tangible aind produceable, and in a 'historic statement' the Senate ought have demanded the production of proofs and on failure to produce them and afte denial by the Senators who Shermo alaued had received them, such 'historx ca! statiment,~ already brandtd with d-, hood and unsupported by evidence, oug it to have been rejected with only wondier how it got before the Senate. It s aparent that this so-called historical timent had been seen by Republicai Senato; s, and that they were not igno rant of its real character when the Haw ley resolution was under discussion in the Senate. Those Senators then knew that Geineral Sherman had, in his letter of January 6, 1885, to the Secretary of War, changed the issue between us from one of veracity to a rambling, shuffling di-cussion of a 'conspiracy' and of 'con spirators' in the winter of 1860-61, and that which at Frank Blair Post may have been 'a white lie,' not intended for pub lication-came before the Senate as 'a historical statement,' bolstered with oth er falsehoods equally without foundation or support in anything written or uttered by me. It now survives as an 'executive document' of picturesque prevarication. I know nothing of any 'conspiracy' or 'conspirators.' There was no secrecy about any of the political affairs which led to the secession of the -States in 1660-61. It was the opinion of the con ference of Southern Senators in January, which is introduced in this historical statement as evidence of 'conspiracy,. that secession was the only remedy left to the States; that every effort to pre serve the peace had failed mainly through the action of that portion of the Republican party which refused al propositions for adjustment made by those who sought in January, 1861, to justify confidence, insure peace and pre serve the Union. In the same month in which that conference was held I served on a con mittee raised by the Senate to seek some possible mode of quelling the excitement that then existed. That com mittee was composed of the three politi cal divisions of the Senate, and it was considered useless to report any measure which did not receive the concurrence of at least a majority of each division. The Republican Senators rejected every proposition that promised pacification, and'the committee reported to the Sen ate that their consultation was a failure. Was there less conspiracy in the Repub lican Senators combinmIg to prevent paciication than there was in the South ern Senators writing in a conference to advise conventions of their States thrt their cause was hopeless in Washington? "As to the epithets which Senator Sherman, in debate, applied to myself, as his mode of retaliation for my denun ciation of his brother, I have been com pelled to prove General Sherman to be a falsifier and slanderer in order to protect my character and reputation from his wiilfui and unscrupulous mendacity. If his brother, the Senator, felt the sting of that exposure, and his epithets are any relief, I am content that he shall go on'the record as denouncing me as a raitor,' because I have proved his brotiier to be a liar. -This historical statement mi.'ht have ben enlarged and extended by the Sen ate and made to embrace the deliberate misrepresentation by General Sherman of a communication to him by Col. J. D. Stevenson in regard to Albert Sidney Johnston's command in San Francisco. In a 1. tter to Col. Win. H. Knight, of Cincinnati, Ohio, dated October 2S, 18&4, General Sherman asserted that Col. J. D. Stevenson, now living in San Francisco, has often told me that he had cautioned the government as to a plot or conspiracy through department com mander Albert Sidney Johnston to de liver possessio- of the forts, etc., to men in California sympathizing with the rebels in the South, and he thinks it was by this advice that President Lincoln sent General Sulter to relieve Johnston of his command before the conspiracy was consummated. That statement of Sherman, the veteran, Col. J. D). Ste venson promptly and emphatically de nied. General Grant himself has not been exempt from Sherman's malice. To Colonel cott Sherman wrote: 'If C. J. Smith had lived Grant would have disappeared to history.' The remarka ble statement was published by General Fry and pointedly and emphatically denied by General Sherman. Prompt to slander, hre is equally quick to deny his language. The letter of Sherman dated September 6, 1883, was written to Colo nel Scott, now of the war record office. The denial of Sherman has caused the publication of the letter and the exposure ofhis hypo crisv in his recent laudation of th dead chieftain. "The deliberate falsehood which Sher man inserted in his official report that Columbia, S. C., had been burr ed by General Wade Hampton wa' afterwards confessed in his 'Memoirs' to have been 'distinctly charged to General Wade Hampton to shake the faith of his people in him.' Even when confessing one falsehood he deliberately coined another, and on the same page of his 'Memoirs' said that the fire 'was accidental,' when 'e knew from the letter of General I tone, who commanded the provost guard in Columbia, that the fire was not accidental. How much more he knew he may in future 'Memoirs' or 'state ment'~reveal. Can any man imagine a less moral character, less conception of truth, less regard for what an official re port should contain than is shown by Sherman deliberately concocting false hood for the dishonorable purpose of shaking the faith of the people of South Carolina in their fellow-citizen Genera] WXade. Hampton? I have in this vindi cation, not of myself only, but also of t he people who honored me with the highest olicial position in their gift, been compelled to group togetntr mn stances 01 repeated falsehoods deliberate y spke and written by General Sher aian-the Dlair P'ost slander of myself, -the de famation of character of General Alber-'t Sidney Johinston, the disparage ment of the military fame of Gecnera] Grant and the shameful and corrupt chairge against General. Hanmpton. I have o reiared this examination and exposurc onN ~ because the Senate of the United 2ta. has give-n to Sherman's slande: the- endorsemient which gives it whateve: am it may have to atten and of powe: to misle ad in the fuiure. Having specifi - all- s- imed the statement as false, having~ proved its author to be an habit ual slanderer, and not having a partisa3 ,~ enate to' make place for this notice o: t ersonal tirade, which was neithe: L 'omeial report or record made during th< e r, so as to entitle it to be received a a Ie office of archives, I submit it to th< o public through the columns of a news , paper wvhich discountenanced foul pla: r ad misrepresentation, and which wa kind and just to me in its issue of Jan - i v 4 185." THEl- M-i0. HALL1E-'TERl .ND Tit WON G 1.\. An intere,4ini:: Lxhibitilon of the Nen Maiems at Siumter Vesterdav-IekluTiTo Thou-cand Pound-4 a Day. N ws ard Conmicr, Octobpr 1!.) A practical test of the Mason Cotton Harvesting machine was made in Sumter yesterday before a committee of three from the New York Cotton Exchange, and committees from the Charleston Cotton Exchange, the Agricultural So ciety of South Carolina, the State Agri cultural Society and the State Board of Agriculture. The committees were ac companied by the board of directors of the Mason Cotton Harvesting Company. The New York committee arrived at Sumter at 4 a. m., by the Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, and the other committees arrived at 9.30 a. m., by the Central Railroad of South Caro lina. About 10 o'clock the whole party i drove out to the shops of the Mason Cotton Harvester Company, which are located about half a mile from the hotel. On arriving at the shops the committees and other guests passed half an hour pleasantly in examining the tools and machinery with which the shops are equipped, and in having explained to them the several processes employed in turning out the wonderfully ingenious mechanism which is used in the harvest ing machines. Everything being in readiness one of the Harvesters was pulled out of the shop, two horses were hitched to it, a cotton field negro jumped into the seat, and the machine, followed by the visit ors, started for the cotton field, about one hundred vards off. To an observer of the machine. who had never seen its mode of operation, it, would seem absolutely impossible to carry it over the cotton plants without tearing them all to pieces. Consequent 1v when the macLine was driven into the field and started down a row of cotton plants, the faces of the visitors showed now much they were surprised in seeing that the plants passed through the ma chinery without injury, while at the same time they saw a constant stream of cotton pouring into the bags which are suspended at the back of the machine. After running it over the field for some time it was saggested by the committees that the operation of the machine be timeed in order that they might arrive at an idea of its capacity. This was ac cordingly done, an.d as fast as the bags were filled others were subsLituted until a hait was called. The cotton was then weighed in the presence of all present and showed a picking capacity of 2,00U pounds a day. The cotton plants from which this cotton was picked were not: fullv iruited and it was the general opin ion that in the rich fields of the far South and Southwest the capacity could be counted upon to be much greater. The machined-picked cotton was then taken to one of the Mason Cylinder Gins, which was in running order on the: place, and was ginned out in the pres ence of the company. The Gin worked superbly, and everybody present was de lighted with its capacity, with the beau tiful condition of the lint cotton turned out, and with the perfect safety to the ginner with which it can be oprated. Several members of the different om mittees bundled up samples to take home with them, that they might show the cotton which they had seen in a few minutes picked from the field by one of Mason's machines and converted in to such beautiful lint by Mason's Gin. An hour or two more was spent at the shops examining other Harvesters of varying styles and in different stages o11 completion, when the party drove back to the hotel. At 4 o'clock the party all dined togeth er at the Jervey Hotel. Among those present was Mr. W. L. Langley, of New York. This gentleman, who is a me chanical engineer, and hearing that a~ committee from the New York Cotton: xchange had been appointed to come South and witness a practical field test. of the Mason Cotton Harvester, came down also as the representative of North-: en capitalists who own large plantations in Texas, and who for many years have~ been endeavoring to secure a practical cotton harvester. In response to a toast, Mr. Langley took occasion to say that he had been more than pleased with what he had seen; that he had never seen a new machine tested with such suc cessful results, and that he was prepared Ito report favorably to the gentlemen whom he represented. He was satisfied beyond preadventure that Mr. Mason had discovered the correct principle, and that he believed that he had solved the problem that cotton could be and would be in the future picked by machinery. The visiting committees were invited to stay over at Sumter and witness a test of the Cotton Harvester by moonlight in order to show them that the machine can be utilized at night as well as by day. The committee, however, found it imessible to remain over. The Mason Cotton Harvester and the Mason Cylinder Gin will be exhibited at the State Fair of Georgia, commencing at Macon on the 27th inst., and at the Alabama State Fair at Montgomery, commencing on November 8th. TIlE 1AI~vEsTER .$ID ITs UISTORY. IThe exhibition at Sumter yesterday of the Mason Cotton Harvesting Machine, before committees appointed to investi gate its practi:-al olperation and report upon its success and usefulness, is a signal ev ent in the history of the devel opment of an invention which ranks in importance with those great labor-saving machines which have, more than all other iluences combined, contributed to the rapid conversion of the vast wastes of the American Continent into fertile Ifields and flourishing cities, and have -exerted so p)owerfu~l an influence in shap ing the destinies and advancing the civ-il ization of all the countries oi the world. The Cotton Harvester did not spring, like Minerva, fully armed from the brain tof genius, but has been slowly and pain fully developed step by step, from the firtIcrdeconception of the inventor to Stepeetpractical working machine. sTt will doubtless go onin the samne march - Iof progress until perfection is reached. was gerrally iuown in this State, and, in fact throughout the Southern coun trv, that Chrles T. Mason, Jr., of Sum tir, S. C., had invented a contrivance for picking cotton from the tield by ma chinerv without injury to the growing plants or to the imniatuare fruit. This contrivance was the employment of a pickingstem, or finger, about eight inches long and about an inch in diame ter, on the surface of which were ar rai ged small teeth or barbs, so pro tected by adjacent guards as to prevent the teeth from coming in contact with any material except fibrous snbstances. This principle of picking cotton by a sense of touh, as it were, is the essen tial feature of the 3ason Harvester, without the employment of -which it is self-evident to any one who has paid any attention to the subject at all that the picking of cotton by machinery would be an inpossibilitv. Having tested b1y a number of experi ments the correctness of this principle of discrimination between fibirous and non-fibrous material, the inventor gradu ally developed the stem from its first imperfect and costly form of construc tion to its present beautiful and efficient condition. The evolution of the picking stem is in itself one of the most interest ing and striking features in the develop ment of the Harvester as a whole. The first stems were made of wood and were simply small cylinders having grooves cut in their surfaces, in whicL grooves teeth were set, which were protected by the shoulders on each side of them. These stems were made by hand with great labor and included various forms oi the same principle. Later on the in ventor adopted a metal cylinder with elliptical perforations in its surface. In these openings teeth were set so that the points were disposed evenly with or slightly below the surface of the open ing. Then came the style of sten: which is now in use, being constructed of a metal envelope, the teeth being punched out of the metal itself and being sur rounded by an opening which guards the teeth from coming in contact with anything except it be fibrous. Very clear and perfect cuts of several of Ma son's picking stems were published in the April number' of the Southern Bivouac, together with a very interesting description of the whole machine. The teeth in the stems are punched by a special machine constructed for the pur pose by the Pratt and Whitney Compa ny, of Hartford, Conn. This machine ia capable of punching four thousand teeth a minute, and cost the Mason Cot ton Harvester Company several thousand' dollars. Having solved the problem of pieking out the cotton from the growing plants without injury to plant, boll or blossom, the inventor went to work to apply the stems to the plants by automatie mechanism, so that when the stems had picked out the cotton from the bolls they would at the proper moment re lease it, so that it might be deposited in sacks provided for the purpose. Several different styles of machines have been constructed. The particular style of machine which was exhibited at work in the cotton field to-day is known as "the Radial Stem Machine." In a: strongly constructed frame of hickory' and ash are placed two pairs of cylin-: ders, from which radiate the picking stems above described. The machine is mounted on two iron wheels similar to those used in mowers and reapers. The machine straddles the row of cotton plants, the wheels passing along the alleys. Therefore, as the machines move forward through the field the cotton plants pass backwards through the ma chine between the two pairs of cylinders! mounted with the picking stems. The cylinders are mounted on vertical shafts: and rotate backwards around their shafts at the same rate of speed as the machine moves forward. The stems, being jour naled into the cylinders, revolve back wards with them at the same rate of speed as the cotton plants move back ward. Thus, when the machine starts to operate upon a row of cotton plaLnts, the horses which pull it enter the alleys on each side of the row, the stems begin to revolve backward with the plants, and, while they penetrate every part of the bushes, they do not in any way jostle or' tear the plants. Now, in addition to the backward movement of the stems with the plants, they have an independent, individual rotation on their own axes irst in the direction of the points of their teeth, so asto catch the cotton, and then, as they pass out of the plant, in the reverse direction, so as to throw the cotton off by centrifugal force. When the cotton is thrown off it falls on a con veyor, which conveys it to a carrier belt, which in turn picks up the cotton and throws it over the back end of the ma chine into bags suspended in position to receive it. When the bags are full they are dropped and others arc placed in po sition. The machines are so light and' the machinery moves so easily thaat they can be drawn by either one or two horses. The use of two horses has been found preferable, however, for the rea son that they pull more evenly and steadily. WVhie the machinery, in order to per form the work successfully, must be made with great care and exactness, yet it is by no means complicated, nor easily deranged. The public, no doubt, think that the invention has been developed very slowly. This, in a certain sense, is true, but in addition to the natural difli culties which have beset the inventor at every turn, it should be known that the comi)any has been again and again harassed by piratical attempts to inter fere with their patents. The company has, hiowever, fought out every case, both in the patent ollice and in the courts, and the result has been that it has, won evecase up to the piresent time ad has now a long list of patents whichi cos er so broadlly every essential detaiil of the machines that th~e invention may~ be said to be thoroughly protected. T he following is a list of the patents already issuied to the company in the United States5. No.:i1'.647. . .. ....Feb. 24, 1s5 No, .l 1.514. . .... ... ..Dec. 1, 185 No.:843,:ll.. ..July 13, 1886 Other pajents are, of course, pending, and, as continuad improvemnent., are be - ing made all the time, new applicatioii for patents are being continuously filed. Tnl mLNitin to thee T~nited States Ipatents the company ha; obtai e !patents on the inventon inig, t Brazi, British Inda, Turey Maurii, Cape Colony, 3Iexico, and Hidtd all tiL eciton-growirg countries of th' World, and a th'eCse countries al-o, such as Great iritain, where agricultuiral na ehiierv manufactured or likely to be manufactured. These patents and all future improve ments on the Cotton Harvesting Ma chines made by Mr. MIason are owned by the 'Mason Cotton Harvesting Com pany, in which Mr. Mason has a large interest. The President of the company is MIr. Theodore D. Jervev. the senior member of the old firm of mVni. C. Bee and Co., and also collector of customs at the port of Charleston. The company, up to the present time, has been rather a close corporation, numbering only about fifteen stockholders, three of whom are residents of New York State, and the remaining twelve are residents of South Carolina. Among its stock holders the company numbers some of the most prominent and successful busi ness and profesiional men of Charleston. THE bTARS AND LTRIPES Ha: % nn on an Anriean venei by the Captain or a BrItish Vehse!-Serous ComiiI catlons Abroad. HALIFAX, N. S., October 11.-By far the most serious event in international affairs since the abrogation of the Wash ington treaty occurred at Shelburne to day, when Captain Quigley hauled down the United States flag from the American vessel Marion Grimes. At midnight Thursday the Gloucester schooner ran into the entrance of Shelburne harbor to escape the fl y of a heavy southeast gale. She anchored eight miles from the cus tom house. The storm moderating at daylight, Captain Landry hove anchor and was about to proceed on Is voyage when he was boarded by an armed guard from the cruiser Terror, and, subquent ly, seized for not reporting at customs. Captain Laudry's protests, that the cus tom house was eight miles distant, that it had been closed eight hours before he anchored and would not be open for four hours after he sailed, and that he had had no communication with the shore, were of no avail; a fine of 8400 was imposed by the Ottawa authorities. Consul General Phelan wired the Minis ter of Customs the trivial nature of the alleged offense, and asked for a reduction of the fine. This was refused. But pending the instructions of the Glouces ter owners rcgarding the payment of the fine the Marion Grines was allowed to ride at anchor under the bow of the cruiser, instead of being docked and placed in charge of armed guards, as is Captain Qu(igley's hmbit with captured American vesseis. This morning Quigley observed the American flag flying trom the mainmast of the Grimes, upon which had been placed the Queen's broad arrow. Quiglev was astonished at the Tankee sippers audacity, and immedLately seat to in quire if had been released from the cus toms authorities. On receiving a nega tive reply he ordered the Anerican skip per to haul down the United States flag, as its display was a gross inpr.oTriety when the vessel was in the custodv of British officials for a breach of B"ritish law. Captain Landry accordingly hauled down his flag. The American skipperi went a.shore, conversed with his friends, saw the degradation to which he had been subjected, and immediately returned to iis vessel, and was again in the act of hoisting the Stars and Stripes when the Canadian tar once more hailed him, and learning that the vessel had not yet been released by the customs depart ment, peremptorily forbade him hoisting his tlag. Landry replied that he had ai perfect: right to fly his American flag over an American vessel and that Quigley or no other man could prevent him, and he therefore hauledl the Stars and Stripes to the masthead. This greatly enraged Quigley, who im mediately boarded the Grimes with an armed guard and vigorously remonstrat-: ed with the American skipper upon the foolishness of his proceedings, which would probably result in the loss of his vessel and l'ring about international un pleasantness. Quigley then lowered the Stars and Stripes from the masthead, un rove the flag halyards of the schooner; and came ashore, and the MIarion Grimes was subsequently brought to a wharf and* placed in charge of a guard. Captain Landry is reticent about this: action, but Consul General Phelan be came very indignant when the telegraphic reports reached him this afternoon, and regards it as the most high-handed out rage yet perpetrated. He immediately telegraphed the facts to Secretary Bayard. WASHIN~GTON, October 1:.-Advices received at the Department of State this morning corroborate the pulished re port of the hauling down of the Ameri can flag on the American schooner 3Ma rion Grimes, at Shelburne, by Captomi Quigley, of the Canadian cruiser Terror. The action of the captain of the M1arion Grimes in running up the colors while the vessel was in the custody of Canadian oficers is deprecated at the department. Assistant Secretary of State Porter to day said he had received from Consul General Phelan a dispatch narrating the facts of the case, but no action had been taken and he did not knzow that there would be. "it seems to mne, said he, "that it may be construed into a retalia tion against this government for the placing of the Stars and Stripes on the topmast of an English vessel in Behring Straits not long ago.'' .1 Foiiund in 4. hien~&w. Dirrete:-'. Did you ever look into the city dire tory with the anticipation of 11ningi .any thing aiusiug? Perhap~s not. The driver thumbed the leaves of the ig book thec other day, and this is what he found: Victor Hugo is an engraver ''n Sedg'wick street; George Wanshingtou is folowing~ the meek and lowly oce:i4tio o a ho'st lr, aud Andrew Jac:kson eun h.ir up onl Polk street. John Brow~n's boy mayi~.1 be mouldering in the grave, but the John. Brown on Lake street isa pre u: lively policeman. C:e.-ar drives a1 wagon, ad~Brutus is an Ei1k ( rove avelue laborer. ML)Uhe and Pa-rot liv e on?, WeK [Huron stret.-Chicago He~raid. -I France the muanber of suieides is alamiugi. on tile incre-as'. in I ~h twenty to thle same number, a~s the staL M I I11V i.% hiIATG VN. r0-. or P:':n NeIo Sv.tem;. The 'hinese quarter on 3Iott street is getting to look as much like a Chinese city as Sacramento street in San Firan ' co. In New York the Chinese are full'y protcted by the police, and most of tiem are earnest scholars in Sabbath schools. Tihey are watched over care fully by the chiurches. There is no species of iice'ntiousness visible in the entire laarter. They have their Joss houses or (iod houseswhere they go to pray, as we go to our churches. Their faith is about like the Unitarian or Jewish faiths. They believe in one God, who has such attributes as omniscience, omnipresence and potentiality. They reject all prophets who claim to have a spiritual con nection with God. They say God is too great to need a prophet or assist ant. Their food is usually rice, peanuts, oil, sugar and cheese. They live on about eight cents per day, and are healthy and fat. They are al learning to talk English. They never fight un less first assaulted, and then it is for pro tection. The Irish are fighting all around them, but the Chinaman is only a curious spectator. Yesterday an Irish man and his wife were fighting in front of the Joss house. A reporter asked one of the twenty Chinamen who was watch ing the scrininage why the Chinamen didn't fight too. "You wantee know why Ilishman and Melican man likee fightee?" asked John, avoiding the spirit of the question. "No, I want to know why you China men don't fight?" "Ilishman and Melican man," said John, still avoiding the question, "him fightee 'cause he flaid of him wifee. Melican velly fond stay out latee. Him wifee get heap mad-taka a poka-say, '3Ie givee him fit'-takee pitchee lice wata-say, 'Ie coolee him off.' Bimeby Melican man come home, takee off him shoe, stealee upstay-say, '3e foolee ole woman.' Alle same him wifee open him eve-say, 'Ha! why vou be so latee? tha tiie you thini him be?' Den Melican man him say, 'You betta leavee me lone-me velly bad man. Me see tightee alle night-Patsee Hogee-Paddy Lyan. Me heap sabe Sullivan-knock you out in a minute. 3e sabe 3uldoon -givec you fall-bleakee you neck. You let up; me velly tough man-muchee wosee man Sullivan."' "What does his wife do then, John?" asked the reporter. "Den him wifee catchee poka. Hittee him veliv hald. Flo licee wata all ovel him. Takee him wipe de flo. Melican man yelle, 'Iudda! fi! fi! plcce!" "And then what?" "Nexa day newspapa heap muchee talkee, velly bad on' Melican man Mciican man, him go Chicago, get divolce, catchee nudda wifee, sabc heap money, all velly nappee." Tlee apparently bright young men totally failed in their civil service exami nations for positions in the Custom House last week. The young men now lav their failure to the fact that they did not attend the public schools, but, being C atholics, they attended private Catho7 lie sci.ools, where they were not taught thoroughly. One candidate who failed, a ZMr. McCullough, was very indignant. When I asked him if he blamed the civil service examiners, he said: "No, sir; I do not. I blame my pa rents for taking me out of our splendid 1 public schools, where everything is taught through the Normal school sys tem, and where all the teachers are Nor mal school graduates, and sending me to a school where I was taught more re ligion than geography." "Then von do not think the average Catholie church school is as good a place for a boy to get an education in as our regular American public school?" I inqJuired. "Certainly I do not. I shall hence forth send my children to the New York public schools. I am a Catholic, but I am not willing to cripple my children as I myself have been crippled. If I[ had gone to our public schools I would now be in the Custom House at $1,600 per year. Instead.I failed in my examina tion and I go back to a menial place where I only make $600. No boy who graduates at the average Catholic school, where they have old fashioned books, old fashioned systems and solemn and shallow teachers, will be able to pass these civil service examinations. We Catholics are hurting ourselves. WVe are keeping ourselves in the mud through ignorance when we could go to the pub lic schools without money and without price, and fit ourselves to cope with 'the rest of the world. If we want to take a place among educated Americans we must quit all nonsense and go to Ameri can schools and colleges." EL1 PERT~ns. Lodge-Wlorkern. It can be noted generally that the bus iness of Lodges is always conducted by half a dozen or so of the members, whose leadership is always accepted, evenU if directed in lines not wholly satis factory to the others. Numerous mem bers hardly ever rise to address the chair, save to second a motion, and their difli deuce is such that they will even allow propositions to which they are opposed to pass, become a law or be placed on re cord, and which they also think unwise or ill-timed. Their silence, in such con ditions, is a tacit confession of incom petenee.. although often arising, not so much from lack of ability. as from aj detrimental dilhidence or bashfulness, and someitimeIS fromi a fear of offending, particuliarly when an ambition exists to --pas~s the chairs.-' Other members, radi e ily d1ia'etenct, speak too often, p~erhap~s, but'betv, cu those who have too little to -e an.d those thiat have. too much, the Lin to the Lodge of the latter is much grea ter, especially yhen their self-main iined proinenUice1 x caused by excess of enhsis and sincere interest, and not v x dsire to thrust themselves for~ .4ar or push thems~elv.es into leadership. Y oung or Inewly 1~ntiated memv ers hiould u4 - ita ' ointL to acqture a kun idge of their Lodge and societ as u ustomls, and with this at ained, therv should not hesitate to make tAir I'ud ivu'lulity ?2b mn the afi'airs o heir L. d"'. [I thecy fail to do se, then the soubl not utter one word -of com pialat against the mode in vhich the su ftheir Lodge i, coujilueted, .nety a.e had, and thrown away an opportunity to change the current o CUPID IN THE TREASURY DEVARTMENT He is the Menna of Reformin;: a Brkht Young Man and 31akin;: a Prty Girl Happy. (From the Wa-hiuAn It -pubican.) "The life ot a government clerk is at best a monotonous one, as in nearly all the departments the clerks have the same routine work day after day," said a ven erable Treasury clerk, "and when there is a bit of gossip to relieve the monotony of his life it is taken up with a relish and retold till it blossoms out in many differ ent forms." "What is disturbing the monotony now?" inquired the reporter. "Well, I am getting to that. Six years ago last March a bright-eyed, rosy cheeked young fellow of twenty-two re ceived an appointment through political influence in the division I am employed in. You know that was before the days of civil service reform. He was quick and intelligent and it was not long be fore he was as familiar with the work as the oldest clerk in the office. For a week or so he was a most efficient clerk and always on time. With sorrow I began to notice that he was becoming dissi pated; that his work was behind, and instead of the frank, independent ex pression that he had when he came in the office was a careless, devil-may-care sort of a look. I remonstrated with him and told him he would be dismissed, and justly, too, if he did not shake the com panions he was associating with. -'His only reply would be: 'I can take care of myself; you needn't fret about me.' His downfall didn't surprise me much, for I had seen a number of young men go just his way who had come in the departments honest, sober young fellows, and leave it broken down in health, and careless as to how they made their living. Things went on this way until the present administration came into power, and the heads of th ediffer ent bureaus were changed. Consequent ly a great number of new clerks came in. Among these was a pretty young lady with large brown eyes and a fascinating smile. The clerks, both male and female, immediately took took to her, and she became a general favorite. The young men in the office never lost an opportu nity to have a few minutes' chat with her, but that is as far as it ever went. Though she treated all pleasantly none were ever invited to call on her. The young fellow I spoke about had gotten so that he seldom had anything to say to any one. In the course of time he made the acquaintance of the pretty young clerk, and that evening one -of the older ladies, with the best intentions in the world, told the young lady not to get too intimate with that man, as he was considered a 'rounder,' or in other words, dissipated. "She said she liked him and thought there was a great deal of good in him if he had the proper encouragement. He seemed to be a gentleman and that if he lid anything wrong it was only through carelessness. Alter this the two young people were together constantly when not at the office and a most wonderful change came over him. He stopped Irinking, attended to his work with a will and when not somewhvre with her f an evening stayed in his room and read. I was pleased to note the change mnd knew that all would come out well. he had only been in the office about six months when he came to me one day mnd said he was going to resign, as his salary was not sufficient to support a wife as he would like to, and that he had secured a positi n as book-keeper in a wholesale grocery house in New York. He went away and I heard nothing from im. We often spoke of him at the office, but no one ever dared ask the young lady clerk about him, for they re Lembered how she went for the old lady who spoke of him to her. Several weeks since I was surprised when the young ady came to me, as the young man had before, and said she would be pleased if [ would send her resignation to the Secretary. I asked her jokingly if she was going to be married. She blushing ly admitted she was, but would not say to whom. I suspected and felt pleased. This morning she and her husband called to see me, and it proved to be the young nan I suspected. He told me that he bad been very fortunate since leaving the office, and was now head book-keeper or the concern to which he went from the department, and attributed all his success to the pretty young bride at his side. They left this evening for New Lork, where henceforth will be their home. It does my heart good to see a marriage like that." A Talc That Had To Be the Last. A party of gentlemen at a Birmingham hotel were telling stories one night re eently, of famous shots and how many guails, partridges, ducks and other birds had been killed at a single discharge. After listening to what seemed a willful exaggeration by different narrators, a stranger who was present volunteered his experience of his only use of the double barreled gun as follows: "I went into the field one day to try gunning. The only game discovered was an immense flock of black birds. I should say there were 10,000 in the flock. Slowly I crawled up toward them, and when not more than four rods away the birds rose in a solid mass. I fired both barrels, and how many do you think I killed?" Different guesses were made by the party, ranging from twenty to one hun dred. "Not one," said the stranger, "but I went out with brother to look for- results and we picked up four bushels of legs. I had shot a little under." It was the last story told.-New lHaven News. -Almost every millionaire in Chicago is fat or heavy, because of a big frame. Si Kent, though, who is rated at $5,000, 000, is thin. small, wiry, and so nervous. that he can't keep still 10~ enough to>. have a photograph taken -In London, it seems, but little carpv be done without the police. A young sucide was left hanging the other day by peCople who sa'w him swing, because, having uever s.een anythng like it be fore, thought it safer to wait. But the boy in the meantime diec. The Atlantic Coast Linec railroad author ities have sent a check~ to Mayvor Courtenay, of Car]eston, for theL hand~somei sum of 4:.70s for the relief of the eitquaike suf ferers, that being the net amount realized