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VOl,I'M F, I. v A KIN DIM', 11 son,. (/ r<>/n The J'eur/.) ? 11 \ i?Ti:it ii. lw the room ahovo the one oecu-i I., a'i.... i II ? I ri. . I ' y IIUMIIUI it I It I I KM" 1 I'M'll( I, two voting men were seated; otU' i?:itientlv enonj^od in studying a timetahl", tin' other, who was rather voun?rer, impatiently apostrophisine* VV .'ailroads, the town, and especial the accommodations of the hotel at which tliev were utoop njr for the niirht. A stranoer* looking 111 noon these (women, would at onee set them, down in his mind in this wise: the vounj.rei\ a man of wealth, iravelinif with his tutor; or, perhaps, with ui poor relative, whose meek temper and wis" acquirements commended him to the favorable consideration of his n >re wealthy, and less experienced kinsman. This, no doubt, unmld be the verdict of a majority of observers; and, as it often transpires, the majority would lie altogether wronef. Jack Norton, the patient man, instead of heinir the jioor relalive or the learned tutor, was comparative!y wealthy, and would have been exoeediiu'lv rich if he had not been a ] philanthropist at heart, lie did not expect to reform the world; he fully understood how hard it is to drive) poverty and wronir out of it; his! mind was not clothed with conceit; he felt instead, constantly discour a?p'd because, ovon his small sphere) of life, the wroti<r went 011 as thoughi it were a matter of no importance, whether lie fought far it or opposed it. I>111 .lack was a philosoper; he indulged in no visionary schemes, lnitj Inisied himse'.f amono the poor of his own family, addine his more destitute cousins, caring alike for those who were wasteful and improvident, thereby eonrtinjr povertv, and those) who were ill or otherwise unfortunate, until it came to pass that nut : only his cousins, cousins, cousins came to him for help, and did not come in vain. Raymond Xorris was a cousin's cousin; a handsome, taking fellow.so handsome, in truth, he was usually forgiven for the self-important look! upon his face, and the self-important | airs that characterized his conduct Generally. lie barely missed beiiio a o-enius, and was always on the eye of distiiijruishinir himself, or of maki11jjf a fortune, or some other eijally startliiiLT tliinir. There was a plan 1-; bility in nearly all of his schemes; in short, thoy possessed everything nee-1 essary to curry thoni out except the 0110 most important element --sue oess. And Raymond was able to al-| ways explain so clearly the reason j why this one element was wanting, he usually Lucceded in convincing everybody that he was simply the victim of adverse circumstances. lie had written an article on tlie j labor question which found a pub-: lisher, and forthwith he betran a be ok upon this ever fruitful theme; the book, however, was hiss fortunate than the shorter dissipation, f<?r no one was willing to risk the expense | of putting it in print. There were o'ood things in the book .lack Norton felt sure of this after wadintr i through niuiiberless pn?*es of MS. but the trouble lay in" the fact that Raymond had not studied the labor question eloselv enough; lie needed, in short, the observation that travei only could ifive; and so it came about that Jack Norton invited Raymond to accompany him on a tour of inspect- i ion to several laroe mills and fact- 1 ories in various towns and cities, that ! lun mijjdit thoroughly master the sub-, jert. (if such a thine were possible),] and make his book a success. Tt only needed a month spent in bis companionship to convince .Jack ' that Raymond would never make] ttiiy tiling a success; and to I hiymoiid's 1 disgust, he was ahout to l>rin<f their tour to an abrupt termination. Thev were sitting Jack patiently as usual, and Uayniond in his usual intolerant mood, when the voices of Kleanor Keith and Colia fJi>toti reached them from the room below. ,Jaek smiled, for the discussion was so spirited the words were distinctly audible, and Uavmond lanohed aloud. %/ "Did you over hear anything so absurd before, Jack? Why that; woman must certainly be a fool." 44 If so, she is an original fool," re turned Jack, "and looks below the surface, even though she can see hut a short depth. And to fathom the question of marriage is even a ipreater task than to solve tho lalior jiroblom. Her eyes must, ho far-seeing if /''they can pierce the mystery that envelpes either of these two vital questions." IJavmond did not choose tosuiswor . - I this remark and ho nuulo liasto t<>, slightly turn tho current of conver1 sat ion. ".lack," said ho brightly, "I should liko, to write that ?^ir 1, whoever she may be and that we can readily discover it would be a capital joke. I wonder if I could win her affect ions by painstaking correspondence of the goody-goody sort?" "Why do you desire to win her affections?" asked .lack. "Do you t ~ - - 44 3e tikttie: think of l>roakiti<r vour on?ra?roinont with Sue?" i <i ".lack, for a limn of moans, who s has seen as much of the world as vou t have, vou are the most truly verdant, I' matter-of-fact individual I know. ! |v simply meant the thino as a sort of e praedcal joke on a girl who advertises h herself puJilicly. It might lie amus- j t V "It would In* very heartless. Sin* n h;id no intention of advertisino* her-j tl self, people who do such things are s less frank than she. At most she is 1 only thoughtless, and you see that v since Iter father sj oke, we do not t hear a sound." j < "1 do not see that it would he t he;trlless to write her. She would " prohahly take it as a toke." "Sin* mioht; hut she seems all strange, earnest sort of tprl. llay I v mond, I have no rijrht to meddle1 t with you or your inclinations, and I t rareh' do, hut I want to advise you, j t to-nijrht." I l ' Vim never meddle with anybody, I except to <lo jrood, and von know you have a perfect rijjdit to say what i you please to me," said IbiviUoud. i with, apparently a parent deal of en- j i thusiasm. i < "I have no rii^ht exept the rij/ht v which frindslii|) o ves to hoth alike to interfere with von in any way. i lint I want you t:> promise me vott j c will not write to that Lrirl." 4'Jnok!" rather impatiently. Ad-jtt vice he did not dislike, hut a promise i was a dilTerent t hino. ** I wish Villi III till mill:" ....I '.......t ly, I>ti t persistent I v. ; t "Well, I promise,*' said liaymond, i after si pause; for, though probably too s indolent to write in smv ease, lie did not relish dietation, even from .Isiek. t .lack thanked him and ehnnoed the * subject. A few moments later he lounjred down stsiirs and consulted the hotel register. And, later still, Hsivtnond went down upon si similar errsmd, lint they did not renew the suh jeet that nioht. t Next mornino, however, both lost 1 at sin early hour, though their train e Was later, and hound for a different ? town from the one lOleanor's fsither < had denominated nnoodly. A.m! I strangely, too, hoth wandered toward j t the stsition si few moments before 1 this unorthodox train was due. c ( 'elia I ptou, wh.) knew everything ' t sinil everybody, had met with :m sic- t <|uaintiinee, and was walking to the I v station, under his protection, si little e in advance of Kleanor and he father, s Ikiiymomi eliauced or so it seemed I to be walking in an opposite di- a reetion, ami so met them fsiee to faee. | s Indeed, fortune so surely favors the | f brave, lOleanor dropped her satchel j a sis lie approsiched; she tisui been look ? ino- for something which Mr. Keith < felt cert air. she had left behind, siud . s the satchel slipped from her hand.sill s open as it was, siiul its eoutents were s scattered wide ami far. r Raymond set himself the task of i i gathering Miss Keith's belontpnips; I < lie wsis clever about trifles, and had s the things together directly, and I with little {rouble liiw I he recoivcd curt tluinks from Mr. j Koitli, and a smile and glance from s lCleanor, who impressed him as bring <i a young lady wlnso ghu.ees and | smiles for strange young men, were : a few. s .lark, at a distance, watched the in- * eident, and when, after the train had ' departed, Raymond joined Itiin, he s looked ratiier rold and stern. But * little was said by either, until they }i were seated together in their own ' train, and were speeding hwift I n to- ' ward homo. Tlion, in a half-jdavfnl * way, Raymond, who could be exceed- * ingly winning in his manner when he N chose, spoke. ' I only promised not to write to " her," he. said, smilingly. "The sateh- I el affair wasn't even mentioned; 1 even if you could not foretell that, N luck. And really it all happened ' accidently." ' "The meeting was not an accident," said Jack, quietly; he was evidently thinking of the same thing that tor the moment was uppermost in Raymond's mind. "No, of course not; I wished to s know what she was like, and simply went to see. 1 went, I saw, I picked (| up her satchel and its contents, and j ( now I am satisfied. Are yon?" Jack was watching a bit of wood^ c land that was bright with autumnal ( tints, and did not answer the query, but his face was restored to its usual tranquility, and Raymond emigratelated himself that peace was so easily s won. j And Jack took from his pocket six (1 letters, each one oskimr him to come I , , . ". * 'II ami spend Thanksgiving with the s writer, and half regretted hut not | more than half that he had no home | of his own in which to spend Thanksgiving day. f A bachelor whose yours numbered \ almost forty, Jack had always been j n too busy with plans for others to't think seriously of wooing a wife. It (. could scarcolv bo said that he was z lonely, yet. there were times when he ,] looked forward to old acre with some- s thing like apprehension, and even | f now he would have been glad of the' y companionship of a kindred soul, if he could have known it was a thor- j oughly disinterested one. > 1 TO yOTJE -woxeio COX MAY. No liiul beei. sought after I>v fortne-hunters ououi^li to render him mnewhat suspicious, ami he f?? 11 a liorouoh sympathy with Kleanor veith in her d sire to tii> I someone rho wotihi love In r for her soul ami onduet ami character, and not for mauls, wealth, or position. No onlv thought to protect her vlion he exacted u promise from I'av 111 Mid not to write her. This duty lone, ho fully expected to dismiss the ubjecl, but tlio subject refused to ilisinisscil. lie was rather vexed vitli himself lieeause he was tinal>le 0 jnit her out of his mind. lie took nit the morninm paper and read the ews, and while he read thought: she must be an odd :;irl," Then he istened to Raymond's rnmnrks up mi lie passengers and they were reall\ vittv remarks hut in the midst of he very brightest one of all, he houmht: "ami she's a pretty triil h I t . ^ oo." And s > he lost the joke altoretlier, and disappointed Raymond iv not even sniilinm. "I'm iniserahly stupid this morn* nn, Raymond," lie said, at la -t, diinv conscious that he had been impede. " The approaeh of winter is the 1 rear' --a season <tf tin* year to an norrhbi >le bachelor; the -< Tlianksmiviiij imitations, instead of cheer! nm no, seem to have a positive inil'di a v about them, as if the writers said: vou have no home of von i.eome nd see mine in its n > ITeetive Iress, and envy me.' A?<<1 vet, takno all the year round, I've no doubt am ijuito as route, t as the happiest narried man alive." "In all probability vou are more o." said I Javniond. And while lie was siniii" it .lack V ^ houo-lit: "I'll write to that #irl tnv ( '/<> !>( Cohtin net!.) Tllv> Veriia I I'aj (I ilioi. < )ii tlio '20th \?f March, at ) P. M., lie stiii (tosm's (lie lino ami tho agronomical Spni)Lr . Wc sal la threat rime i mtU tin* vernal spiinox, for, as the wolds sit_r;iify, la\ and niolii arc eipial. and Spring las (aimc. iJul the son did not ero-y in> "lino" or euniuoxial where he did ast year, luil liifl\ and a ipiarfer seeinds of a decree behind it. This iniiiitesiinal 111la111it y of recession which nkes place every year constitutes vhat is called the procession of the rpiinoxos. .Small as the ipiantitv eesns siaco astronomical records iave heen preserved, the recession .mounts ?<> ihirts deirreos, or a whole ii?*11. The retrograde movement of lie eipiilioxes jrives to the stars an pparent precession. As the point vhere the sun crosses the eipiinoxtial each year is the astronomical tartinir point, there must l>e a contaut increase in tho longitude of the tars, whose risings and settings, a.s r> t m ecorded l?y the old Latin poets, lis io means correspond with the present ihservations. The cause of this trance motion has been discovered, t is found that the poles of tho earth iave a "juratory" motion around the Miles of the ecliptic, moving at ->o low a pace that lie,000 years arc re[uired to complete the cyel", comilete the recession around the eeiptio aid brinir the. sun back to tin* same tartino point. Durinjr this ivvole ion, wnorever 111 ino celestial shore 1 io earth's pole points, tlio nearest tar to that point will bo the; polar tar. Kor this mason 12,000 years ion Caph was tho j)olar star, an'l 2,(MM) hence the poor I ess Voira will njoy tho celestial honor. When in ho year 111,887 this brilliant star bines near that point in the sky to vhicli tho North Polo if extended vould roach, what will ho tho oharictoristios of tho race which then jooplos tlu; earth, how clear will ho ho lioht that will mak plain tho venders in the heavens. now soon inly tli roll oh a <dass da \ ' /'roej ?> r> (/cure Journal. Causes all tin- Wars. "Cases Belli has been tho cause of core wars than .all the others torionors in this country put too-other," aid tho driver of a Blue Island venue car as la; leaned heavily I pen his break. "Who brought on he IInvolution? ('usus Belli. Who tartod the war of 1812? Same ukh. Who was it that made us fit lie South in til? Casus Belli. Who vas it that tried hi-' darndest to oit ip a war with Mexico? Belli. I eo by tho inorniid paper that the anio beast, is fitf^erin' on a war with Cncdand over a mess of fish. In the onntry where I was reared a feller lamed Host wick used to oo round timid up fiohts between his noioh>ors. lie had heajis of fun as it nsted, but one day fate in the fall n undo of mine and the Kendriek aimly squatted themselves in a rush heap and when Host wink came )(>n<^ they filled him so full o? holes hat he fe!! to price-; when they pi !; (1 him up. i. <r chokin' the wizard out of t.iis Belli, oven if ho loos como from Roman and Italian toek. Ilo'a <p>t no business in a roe country, lie's wuss'n Satan, low old is he, anyhow?" It's quite natural that a boy should >luhber when ho is whftlod. S. C THURSDAY, M.N TIIKCONFKDKK \TK LKADKK. wolshlkv < <>>n? \icin <;r.v 1.1:1: to Till': imiki: or M A It l<itOlt< H'(; II. "lid's <>nl> (Jcncriii" ' prosse linsiiistie Ailmii'alion tor tlio Idol of tin* Soul li His SI ru t ('!!> W .1 rmI v ('ominriiit? (!. I (f 'ithli-;i'<iin^ii Yt'ir York \Vorl<1.) London, l-Vbniary V?'>. -Tlio leiulin?* article in M>tornUInn's ' j zinc for March is by ( ton. Lord W'dstdev on (Ion. Loo. Reference , is mado in a foot note to tlio recently |?u!d;.diod memoirs of (ion. lau* by < 'ion. I -olio mid Marous Wright, lnil it is no souse a review of that work. (Ion. Loo is ojyon full credit fertile love lie liad for the I nion and for tlio i htruo^rlo ho wont through before li-i navliy making tlio derision to oo with 1 his own Stuto. (Ion. Wolsoloy dosoribes how Loo accepted his coin- j i L mission ns commandor-iii-cluef of all 1 it,.. ..,:t;....... r -t **:. .... .........it IM \ |[|T||||a III H crowded convent ion of the most enii- , I imnt men of the State, ami then ' aws a parallel between him and i . jo-eat MarlUoroii/^i: "(Jen Lee's i presence commanded respect, even from strangers, I>v a calm, self.possessed dignity, the like of which I r have never seen in other men. Nat nrallv of strung passions, lie kept , them under perfect control l?v that iron and determined will oT which j Irs expression and Ins face enve evi- , deuce. As tliis tall, hands* one sol - L diet'stood before his count rvmen he was the picture of the ideal patriot. ' tieoiisrions and self pos> sse<l in his , strong!h, he indulged o i theatrical display of feoling. There was ii. his face anil about him t hat placid resolve which bespoke groat eonlidenee in self, and which in his ease, one knows how ipiieklv communicated its mag- j I iM'ti'j inlluenco to oihcis. lie was then just ,"> I years years nhl, (lie n<r of Marlborough when lie destroved i the I'Veueh army at Blenheim. In many ways and on many points these I two great men inueh resembled each I other, Both were of a dignilie.l and i commanding exterior, eminent I y handsome, with a figure tall, gracefulL and erect, while a muscular, square i built frame bespoke ere,at activity of body. The charm of manner which ' I have mentioned as very winning in . I.ee, was possessed in the the Inchest i decree by Marlborough. liotli, at the outset of their great career of victory, were regarded as essentially < national commanders. liotli had | married young and were faithful liusj bands and devoted fathers. Both i , had in all their campaigns the same . belief in iii. ml.f..l m . M Iiiv.111111 I I'M M 11*1 n;i5 | iii whose interpositions they prayed I ! at all times. Thoy were gifted with ' 0 e same military instinct, the same i genius for war, the power of fascinating those with whom thow wore associated, the spell which thev east over their soldiers who believed almost snperstitionslv in their certainty of victory. Their contempt of danger and their darinecourage con- i r> r> r> stitnte a parallel that is diilicidt ton eipial between any other two great | . men of modern times. I'oforenee is made as to how (Jen. I.ee organized an army of 50,001) men in two months, and as to how in another month he had gained a great vietory at Hull IT,in, and had driven | the Northern invaders back across) the I'otomae like herds of frightened, ' diecp, his army being supplied with ammunition, army stores and elothincr captured there. lie tells the following story :| Tj./iiiv time, afterwards, when Gee.. I i 'ope and his largo invading' army j : had ooen sent back living across the j Maryland border 1 over-heard this I conversation between two Confedorjato soldiers: "Have you heard the news? Leo has resigned!' '(Jood (rod!' was the reply, 'what for?' 'lie lias resigned because he says ho can- i not feed and supply bis army any i i longer, now that his commissary 'general, Pope, has been removed.' j Mr. Lincoln had just tie: dismissed! (Jen. Pope, replacing hi u by (Jen., McClellan." (Jen. Wolseloy incidentally expresses an opinion, when speaking of p Hull Hun, that the Confederates did not follow up their victory there as they should have done. A rapid and daring advance would have given them possession of Washington, their : enemy's Capital. Political considerations at Richmond wore allowed to oulweight the very evident military I: expediency of reaping a solid advantage from this their lirst great suc-L 1 cess This suggests the general criticism which follows: What most strikes the regular soldier in these r> i campaigns of (ion. Lee is the inefliciont manner in which both ho and ' his opponents were often served by I is: -^oxxi^ co,|{( II lit. IssT. their subordinate commander, and how luidlv (ho siafT and outpost work tfonorally was performed <?n both sides. It is most diflieult to nuivo with anv elTeetive precision voting armies constituted av these wer" dmino this war. The direction and movement of laroo hodies of newlv raised trooos. even win... iiinl iii'vcr c!i>v ami often imix>-sil?le Over ami over ao-ain was the South apparently within a stone's throw of independence, as it has l>oen nian\ times remarked, when from want of a thoroughly oootl staff to organize the pursuit, the occasion was the eneinv lost and allowed t escape. Leo's continuations to seeur< :clor\ were the conceptions of a 1rul\ oreat strategist, and when they had heon effected his laetiets were also almost always everything that could lie desired up in the moment of victor\. Hut there his action secerned to stop altogether Was ever an army so helplessly at I!i?> mercy of another as that of \|et'lellan when lie beoan his retreat to Harrison's Landing after the seven days' lio!itin<r round Hiehmond ? What eommander eon! wish to have his foe in a tighter place tliyn Ihirnside was in after disastrous attack upon Local I'rederiekslmrcr? Net in both instances the Northern commanders oot safely away; and other similar instances could lie mentioned The critical noliOn-i' . !...? I ? r?? ? ?1 M 11? ? ?I 1 1 I I war, \v 11? knows the 'cover which rcmihir troops, well ollieered ami well directed !>v a thoroughly ellicient KtulT, plaeod in the hands of an able general, and who has acquired an intimate and complete knowledge of what these two contending American armies were real I\ like, wil', I think, aeree t' at from first t?? last the co-operation of even one armv corps nf reeular troops would have oiven complete victory to whichever side it foiiedil oil." I. ?rd \\ olseley says that I ,eo told lion that lie had only dd,000 men in front i >f Met ltd Ian at Antietam, wi' a ! -w tired reserves hehind, whi. Mc'.'hdlan had an army of I0O.O00 men. lie states that Lee alw.,\ spoke well of Met Mellan, though he spoke bitterly of none of his IA .nrn' npp< nents. In his reference to the thirty live days' fielding around I'icluuond, just before the surrender at Appottam >\ Wolseley says: "I .ee had OIlK IHKI exhausted soldiers to Op| x >s<' UN),000 fresh men under (Seneral (i rant In speakino* of the faults of (Inderal I ^eo, ho says: u()no of them was a too oreat dread of wound in?r the feelings of others, which led him to heave ineom | MM ?' III 1114*11 III till 11111 M It! .1 111 lions. This siiftiicss of heart or audibility, however wood in itself, may unouiil to crime in the man intrusted with imblie affairs at critical moments, litre's devotion to duty and irreat respect for ohedimice seem at times to have made, him too subservient to those charged with the e.ivil mjvornmeiit of his country. lie carried out too literally the orders of those whom the ('onfederate Constitution inatio his s,,juniors, although lie must have known them to he entirely ignorant of the science of war. 1 In appear* to have forgotten that he was iheifreat revolutionary chief eniraoed in a threat revolutionary war, that lie was no mere leaders in a political struoole of parties carried on within the lines of an old, well-established form of government. It was very clear to many at the time, as it will be eommonly acknowledged now, that the South could only hope to win under the rule of a military dictator. If (jion. Washington had had a Mr. Unvis over him, could he ha'vo accomplished what he did? It will, I am sure, be news to many that (Jen. Lee was <dven the coinn i no < - mi ;i11 uie * <>liI<mli;rut?5 ill* mies a month or two only before tlio final collapse, and that the military policy of the South was throughout the war <Ii<*tatc*? 1 hy .Mr. Davis as j 'npi.ji Joj.f /\C t jw? ( til f/?# I* ? r*? * ? 'Dot! Doe had r.o powor to reward soldiers or to promote oflicers. It was Mr. Davis who selected tho men to command divisions and armies. Is it to he supposed that t'romwell, Imii^ W illiam I 1 !, x<\ asliin^tou or Napoleon could have succeeded in the revolutions with whieh their names are identified had they sul> initted to the will and at. horities of a politician as Dee did to Mr. Davis?" Lord Wolseley says that ' ( en. I ,ee was opposed to ilie defence of Uichmond at the last, and that he was rioht, for if ho had drawn Gen. (irant's j^rent armv into the interior far away from its base of supplies he would have greatly weakened it. lint it w re vain to spec date. RiehiiioikI fell and Lee'snnnv surrendered. W'lio shall ever fathom the depth of I joe's anguish when the bitter end t-amo, and when beaten down by sheer force of numbers and by absolutely nothing else, he found himself obliged to surrender; The handful of starving men remaining with him laid down their arms and the proud Confederacy ceased to be. Surely the crushing, maddening anouish of awful sorrow is only known to the leader who has so failedtoaceomplish crisTTinr^v' t jrr sonic 1 <?ftv, some nohle aim, fur which lii? has lunu striven with niioht ami main, with heart ami soul, in tlm in- < terests ?>f kino or of country. A smiling face, a cheerful manner may conceal the sore place from the eyes, possibly even from the knowledge <>f I his friends, Init there is no healinol ' for such a wound, wliicli cuts into t!;c 1 j very heart of liitn who has once re- J reived it.'' The article closes with this enthu- v j siastie estimate of the ('onfederatc chieftain: "When all theanory ferlintrs rous- ' ed I>y (he secession are buried with ' those which existed when the Decla s ration of I ndependence was written; wljen Americans can review the his- N ! torv of their last jrreat rebellion with ! calm impart inlity, I believe all will!' admit that (Jen. I ,ee towered far above all men on either side in that 1 ! struoo'le. I believe he will be re- I oarded net only as tin* most prominent < lijnire of the < 'onfedernev, but as the ' ; oreat American of the nineteeiith cettturv, whose statue is well worth\ : to stand on an equal pedestal with ' that of Washington, and whose metn orv is equally worthy to he enshrined 1 in the hearts of all his countrymen." ' < ? >- ?? What Docs it All Mean? < t I ^ What under ?|ie S'nn does the ' mean, whilst elaimine-to be a ' I Deinoeratie journal, by its persistent efforts to render the people dis ' contented with the only |)euioeratie administration we have had in a nuar- 1 1 iter of a century? What does the ( H i>r/<! nrniiosr to achieve by its ' 1 i i ' stubborn reeusan oy if not, openly j ' lee I a rod hostility? The |)einoeartic 1 party never undertook to elect a I I'resident who would follow the no |' I lions of everybody in the 11 j' and no such man could have held I the confidence of the people if it!' I had, \nd what in the \\roi'/</ does thel' S?/t, mi hi, so !on<r as it claims to ' / " d< forme I )emoeracv, by its bit- ' ti 1 i' to the only |)emoeratie nt >ve have been able to seat ^ i.art r of a century? Door the'' St//t for "U, whilst constantly and 1 l I ( ciferously puinpino up the cry, I lern out the rascals," woo it would ' I have tnr/H'tf in upon the country? * Don't it remember how it would ' have turned Den Duller in on us? ' Does it remember how it sneered at ' so j^ood and heroic a man as I fan- ' cock? And as to the policies of the ' I country,' where would the country M have been if it had followed the policies advocated from time to time1 joy this New York "Sunny" and its1 j special favorites? Is it not time for both of these ( journals to remember that there are j . other people in the W'ttvld besides ) j themselves, and that there is more i j j t/ntft r'f/n' Sit/t for people to think | about than their sapient view of I t ' thinos? Ilo.v we can help the Dein-! > oratie party by disorganizing the | only Democratic administration we j. j have had in a generation, is not plain j , to us down hero, whether wo agree ; ! altogether witli Mr. ('lovoland or not , r 1 Io our inmd wo can t unset Mr. < < 'Icvelanil lioforo tlio country with- | 1 out upsetting the 1 Vmocratic party, | and quietly handing over the rule to .Mr. Blaine or some other Kepuli- ( ! lican. But, of course, we can't ex- t | pcct patriots like Pulitzer and I hum ? to take so poor a view of things; or possibly, tlicy would turn out tlio I | Democratic ("liief and let Blaine or { some other Hepuhlican come in. Is this what they mean by "turning out i . j ? V < ^ i the rascals?" If so, thoy are on the | right track. Columbia Iie<li8tci'. Fishing With Dottles. The natives up at Lake Villa, near J the Wisconsin line, buy a bottle of whiskey and drink the contents. Then they put the cork back hi the bottle fasten about live foot of line around the neck and bait the hook j with a minnow. When they reach I deep water thoy throw the bottle | away from the boat and wait for results, (>f course, the hottie is as buoyant as a cork, and the action of the waves has the effect of keeping the bait in a constant state of agitation. Bn and bv the pickerel comes along and snaps at the minnow. The hook catches him before ho know it, and then the bottfe begins > p ! to scoot under water or scud along on the surface. The natives in the boat may bo playing soven-iip or whiskey poker, but the minute the bottle begins to skip they drop everything and begin to pull out the flask as though a sea sorpent was after | them. I j It in reported that the land in Tvr- ' mil county on the coast of North ! Carolina, lias risen a foot since the ! earthquake of the )l!st of August. ' Mr. Mrown," said Dumlev, "I call to request your daughter's hand | 1 in marriage." ' ] "Her hand?" j , "Yes sir." |1 "What's the matter with asking j for the girll?" j Says an exchange: "Women should . never use a Hat-iron on their huslvands | I to smooth out matrimonial difficulties. < * "1 NUMBER 33. I >1 >1 BOSTON MAIDS. (iir!s \VIm? Mli.jt>\ One Whit*'!* ; 111?1 llll'll l,(isc i?ri?_ - - . - ^ * Last Yi'iir thorn were forty debuantes in society, of whom Huston Ivor rot I, with u propor pride and rejoiciij?r, there was not onu without mine acknowledged charm. The .vinter wont by, Lent came, then iprino and summer, and the annual vxodus to Heverlv and Naliaht found lot one of all the enliuntiiie forty itIhw married or entfa^ed. Now, vhy was this ? There is no doubt hat in some cases the youim women vero too exacting, like the celebrated 'Three Old Maids of Leo," or that, n others, the eallant cavaliers were aint of heart and dared not tako ipoii themselves the respotisil>ilil\ of irovidinjr those I 'archer ifowns and bdlander hats, which enhanced the ovehnoss of the adored ones to such i decree. Hut the fact remains that ill the forty are till siiifrle and that, . . H 1 vith the present season, another mtcli <tf buds has bloomed out to ake the'r places, and to push them iack into the second row in that {rand ballet that the world calls so iety. Are all those pretty cr atures o be laid He .i the shelf, as the say"tC iroes? It seems so. Men are ifraid of them. Their price is too lioh. If they led less frivolous and 'asliionuhle lives, wore simpler clothes ind learned to cook ami manatee a louse, they would not be a whit less It! ' - '' |#M1 il I MOUHUIl'IS tlllU'S iiiiff seductive ami irresistible to tin* mrht'lnis about town with suseeptl)lo hearts ami slender fortunes. Many a <_fir 1 anion.'' those, however s sadly misinterpreted. The realism )f .lames and llowells. the eynienl aireasin of Thackeray, and the mod rn tone of worhlliness which prevaiIs, all work upon the mind feinitine as upon its inuseuliuo rival, and cava little chance for any jrenornm i?r unselfish sensations. I hit, now ind then the old love of romance and sentiment heats in some tendoryomm tosoin, heneath the Parisian plaits uul rills that conceal its heaving roni a rude world, and the Maiden liostonian, outwardly "icily regular, iplemlidly null," longs and yearns to income the heroine of a grandofi'dire h, ft nr. In one moment she would 'orsuke her ancestral halls for the nimhlest fjueen Anno to he found in lie neighborhood of Boston. Hoston II< I'd/ I. t/iiccr Story Of i? Theft. Judge William I\ Byuuin roturn d to his home in this city a few days igo, after an absence of six weeks in 'lorida, and found that while he was iwav his residence has been entered >y burglars. A trunk which con , m allied ^2,500 worth of solid silver.varo had been broken open by the mrglurs and all the silverware stolen. The loss of this valuable .vare ercatly disturbed J iidife Bynum O > O J uul in his efforts to get a clue he undo a visit to the ollico of the Southern Kxpress ('onitmnv in the lope of finding u track of its shipment. In this, however, ho was unsuccessful, and lie had turned to leave lie office when one of the clerks called him hack. "There is a heavy box for von tio?o," said the clerk, "shipped from New York." "Well," the Judge answered abstractedly, "send it down to mv house." Judge Bynum then returned to his law office, and all thoughts of the box passed from his mind, but when he went homo to dinner ho found a hea' " iron hooped box awaiting him. (Jurious to know what the box contained, .1 mitre Bvnum proceeded to open it. lie found that it was a double box, and when the inner lid was removed ho was astonished to see his missing silverware. The goods were packed in the most careful manner, and as the now thoroughly mystified but delighted Judge removed tho articles one 1?v one lie found that every single piece of the stolen silver had he >n returned. Not so much as a spoon whs missing, and the ware had not been injured in the slightest degree. The mysterv of the theft and the retun of tho goods, it a most puzzling character. This Knil.t I lie Kcconl. Cincinnati, March 1. -During the severe wind storm, which prevailed hero on the tilth, several gentlemen 11 the Kastorn part of tho city were struck I?v a shower of little pellet-hopod ashes and mud. It has now levolopod that the strange particles ire not known in this country, and Prof. Curtis, a prominent lnierosco[>ist, gives it as his opinion that the [idlets are portions of lava from Vfnuna l.oa tno volcano in the Sandwich Islands now ir. eruption. The Professor in h detailed statement \r'wr strong reasons for his theory, nul the subject is attracting much ittonticn. The distance from hero to Manna l.oa is 1,200 niiUsiu a straight lino. 'n . ' i