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fortfa atreamm^ Iroin a brtuil of pearl;
The alnmbrooa light ia rich and warm,
had move* not on the rounded curl
The ailk-atar brohlcr'd oorci lid
Outo her limba I tec If doth mold
Languidly ever, and, amid
Her fnlftriack ringlet*(loanward ndl'd
Glows forth each aoftly nhaduwed amt
With braceleta of the diamond blight;
Her conaiant beauty doth Inform
•tillneai with love, and d»v with liKht.
Sha aleepa; her breathivpa are not htat'i
In palaoe-ehambet a far apart. v
The ftwjfrant treaaea arc not atlmd
That Be npon her charmed hrarr.
She alaepo; on either hand npawcila
The gold-fringed pillow lightly preat;
She aleepa, nor dreamt, bnt ever dwella
A perteot form In perfect real.
Twsthon.
THRILIING WOLF STORY.
Babe Wexford oagbt to bnve been a
happy fellow. He waa certainly consid
ered one on the day when Kate Wilde
became hie bride. He waa the envy of
every yonng man in the rude Western
hamlet where the ceremony took place,
and many were the good wishes show
ered on the heada of the newly-wedded
pair for their future happineee and pros
parity. Still there were thoee who not
only tnalnnated hot boasted that the
Ittilpmali of her choice was not worthy
the woman he had won. Kate’s father
and mother were particularly opposed to
the matoh, and did all in their power to
prevent it, bat the girl, betides her un
wavering lore, possessed a determined
will which, when once aroused, carried
much before it Rube Wexford was
never accounted a strictly temperate
man. Indeed, there had been times lie-
fore marriage when he was for days un
der the influence of liquor, and Kate
had seen him in this state and therefore
knew fully the extent of hia weakness.
Bnt the woman loved the man, and with
in herself resolved that his reclamation
shodM be her duty. That success must
erown her efforts she little doubted.
Antama drifted away, the crops bad
been gathered in and all the indications
pointed to an early and severs winter.
Baba's tprscs continued. No wind waa
too cold, no snow too deep to keep him
from Wash barn’s, a not distant tavern.
One evening in the latter port of De
cember be took down hia logging
goa from the pegs where hung Rnd
was preparing ^ Kate went to
“®«*&amd:
J ‘“* , Rube, you must not leave me to
night. Give in to me this time and stay
at home.”
"I ami coy going for a jaunt,” he re
plied. "I’ll be back soon. ”
"No, yon are going to Washburn's.
To-night yon will, you must gratify me.
I am afraid to remain here alone.”
"Afraid 7” he answered. Such a thing
as fear waa almost unknown to Kate
Wiide.
She clasped her arms around his neck,
whtopered into his ear, her cheeks flush
ing brightly, then aat down in the rocker
and cried ae if her hearl would break.
Robe stood the gun in a corner, threw
aside the leggings and cried too.
The next morning when the winter
son beamed npon the cabin, the log
•belter held three souls instead of two.
A wee stranger had come in the night,
a bright-eyed baby girl. Her weak cry
sesaaed to move all the better part of the
husband's nature, and hia wife looked on
with a new-born confidence in her face.
oat, leggings, tmffido coat, gnu, and all
Kate worked away and said never sword.
He opened the door, and, withoat look
ing back, remaked:
"I'll be here by annas
"See that yon are," waa the reply.
"If yon come here later the honie will
t»e empty.” ( .
The wife watched his form across the
clearing, and saw it disappear in the
heavy timber which circled the cabin.
She tqrued to ber household duties, bnt
had no heart for them. Wall she knew
Rube Wexford would break hia last
promise, as be hadbroken others before
it If so, he mast abide by tbs result.
She was determined.
The day went by at a snail's pace,
and the afternoon seemed never ending.
Kute fondled the baby, listened to ber
crow and cry, and fed her a dozen times.
Then she prepared sapper, and sonset
came when it was completed. But it
bronght no Robe. Another hoar and
still he was absent So the moments
passed until the clock struck 10. The
Imby was fast asleep. Kate rose from a
chair at the cradle's side, a look of firm
determination on ber face, and opening
the cabin door, she peered across the
clearing. Not a soul was visible. She
closed the door, went to the chest, and
(ook from it a pair of old fashioned
skates, whose steel runners gleamed in
llio relight She laid them ready for
use and proceeded to wrap herself as
warmly as possible. Then she bundled
the bsby in the same manner, lifted her
tenderly in her arms, and with tbs
skates slung over her shoulder, started
across the clearing. After reaching the
timber she left the beaten path aud
made for the river. It was coated heav
ily with ice, and the winds had blown it
almost entirely free from snow, leaving
a nearly naked surface. Kate laid the
liuhy down for a few moments while she
ftulcnud on her skates. Then she lifted
her bnby onoc more and started for
PuYcvifKv 1& miles away. Tire mbtfri
vhouo brightly, sho was a wonderfully
rapid skater, and she knew no slightest
suspicion of fear.
Unite Wexford sat near the warm fire
which was surrounded by a dozen men
lieshlo himself. He had been there for
hours listening to anecdotes of hunter's
lives, even adding to ttte general land
with some <>l his own experience*, but
ihough his companions coaxed aud per
suaded him, they could not prevail uoo^^
him to taste liquor. This ^ ZZ& 'aome-
thing »o futird^w timt many a laugh
d,i *l j^ko.YAia Inal ut his expense. He
•Itaweivd all ih’ishu.ions to imbibe lu
be same war, saying only. "Not to
day, lioys; not to-day.”
When sunset calhe ho wss still in his
scat. Ho wanted to bo at homo, he
wanted to keep his promise, but he
thought ho would wait awhile and start
later, so ns it would not look to Kate too
much as if ho were giving in. Sothink-
iug he wont to a quiet corner by him-
aelf, and had not been there long before
ho fell asleep. It was eleven o'clock
when he awoke with a start, and said
hurriedly:
"Wh«A»it, Kate? - ’
A loud roar of laughter brought him
to his senses, aud a rough voice cried:
"Rube, guess you have been dream- ^
ing.”
"Yes,” he replied, foolishly; "I
thought my wife wok calling me.”
He glanced at the clock and said:
"Boys, 1 must go.
“Have something before you leave,”
was the general cry.
"No, no; not to-night.”
Then he was gone. His conscience
unote him as he trudged through the.
up, Rune wentio relate the happy event
to hia grand-parent*. It was the first
time be had visited them for months.
Very early in the morning he started,
end when the afternoon shadows began
te lengthen Kate looked oat eagerly for
his return. It was toward daybreak
when he appeared, hie hands and feet
slmoat frozen, and his senses stupefied
The wife's
by liquor. The wife’s new hopes were
deetined to be short lived. Freshly-
made promisee marked the morrow, bat
days went by only to see tnem unrui-
filied. Now there was a new torture.
Babe bed forsaken Washburn’s, and
made hie vimta to Pineville instead, where
Kate's father and mother lived. It waa
almost more than the woman’s nature
could bear to know that ber parents
were the frequent witnesses of her hus
band's disgrace. This wss s sort of
thing which she could not and would uot
tong brook.
Little Kate, the baby, was a month
old to a day whan Babe made prepara
tions one morning for a trip to Pineville.
Kate looked on silently for a few mo
ments, end then said:
"Where ere you going 7”
"Only to Pineville."
, "Whet for?"
'To see about some powder and stuff."
'That is an true. You. ere going to
•psnd the day with worthless eompan-
iiM. sad you will come back stupid with
liquor. Rnbe. listen to ms. I have
stood all it is potsible for me to endure.
I hove prayed and entreated you to
abandon a habit which has disgraced ns
both. My pleadings have brought noth
ing. I cannot sod will not have our
eMld grow up to know a father whs is a
dnmkncd. If yon refose to stay at home,
1 have said my lard say. Go to Pine
ville if yon iuaht on doing eo, bnt if yon
am Ml ben sober by sunset I shall
eo x wUk the baby to father’s, and in this
bones I wfll never set foot again."
"Theft all talk," Babe answered, in
s rough, Joking, half-serious fashion.
"Why. ift fifteen miles to Pfoeville-” -
„ TfegmUir," was the firm rejoinder.
'1 will make the efokt if the child and I
could save her, when, qntsk aMn arrow
from a bow, she swerved to one aide, the
maddened brutes sbd forward on their
hind legs and she had gained a few steps.
Again she flew onward, and again she
tried the rose of swerving aside, the
man on the bank in the meantime firing
rapidly, and picking off wolf after wolf.
A fresh danger arose. The woman evi
dently did not see the abrupt break in
the ice above the falls, and the dark,
«wift current which lay 4 beyond. Per
haps she was too frightened to hear the
rushing waters. On she went, making
straight for the fall*, the wolvw almoet
on her heels, and the man’s voice crying
nnaiAMU MAM AT TUB MtWMlHG
CKNTKOUAL.
ington. Great everywhere and at all
in terrified accents as he dropped on his timea, the part played npon this field in
these closing months of the Revolution
was not less conspicuous nor complete in
kn** in the snow: .
"Kate I Kate 1 My God save her!”
The woman was on the brink of the
ice, when she made a sudden sweep to
one side. Nearly the entire pack, unable
to cheek their mad flight, plunged into
the water, which carried them swiftly
over the rocks, and Kate Wexford was
flying toward the river bank, where she
fell helpless in the snow, her baby in
her arms, while Babe's rifle frightened
was some time before
tier husband's voice.
d answer
en strength
enabled her to do so she arose feebly in
the snow, her resolution to go to her
father as etrong ss ever, but Babe took
her hand, knelt down, And said:
"Kate, beer with me for the last time.
As God is my judge 1 shall never again
taste liquor. This night has taught me
a lesson which i cannot forget”
Kate believed him and accepted his
promise. They then started for Pine
ville, Babe carrying the baby, and more
than half carrying his wife. When they
arrived there Kate told her parents she
had been dying to show them the baby,
and taking advantage of the moonlight
night, had made the journey on skatea.
Rube kept lus vow, the roses bloomed
again on Kate's cheeks, and to-day a
happy family of boys and girls feel no.
lonoh of shame as they look up with
wide to their father.
Jimmie’s Old Watch.
snow. It would be after 2 o'clock when
. . . „ . .. . , he reached homo. One thing consoled
UUt - - r v vbm ■&(. .« .Me a rtt y. wmewh „. W But would
It ha.
'Bubo laughed
half a donee
Kate be in the cabin when he returned 7
Of coarse, she mast ber Nothing short
of madness could tempt her to keep the
rash vow she made iu the morning. So
thought Rube. This was because he
was incapable of estimating the great
suffering which he had caused his wife.
On he wont until through the stillness
of the night was home to his ears the
sound of falling waters. It proceeded
from a spot which marked the half-way
lictwecn Pineville and his own home
and was caused by the river tumbling
down a steep descent of 15 or 20 feet of
nigged rock. His read at this point lay
close to the river bank, and soon he was
in full view of the cascade. As he passed
it he noticed with a sort of shndderhow
cold and dark the water looked as it
tumbled down. For thirty f e| above
the falls there was no ice. it broke off
abruptly, and the current rushed from
Ixmeath with terrible velocity. Beyond
ill the moonlight glistened an unbroken
surface of clear ice for fully half a m’le
before there was a bend in the river's
bank.'
T'uo sight was an old one io Babe, and
be paid little heed to it, but stalked on
silently, still thinking of Kate and won
dering would the cabin be tenantlesa.
Suddenly he stood stock still.aud lis
tened. Many an ear would have heard
lolUing but the sound of rushing watara.
Kabo’s acute and practiced hearing de
tected something more, and he felt in
stinctively for his ammunition aud
coked to the priming of his rifle. Then
irom s distance the sound came again—
a peculiar cry, followed by another and
another, until they ended in a chorus of
unearthly yells. Rube muttered to
liimself one word—wolves—and strained
bis eyes in the direction of the carve to
the rivers edge. 5 The ery proceeded
from tint direction and grew loader
every instant.
Before he could decide on A plan of
action there shot oat from the band in
ihAamwhatVaoka&taMM Uk* » wo
man carrying a bundle and, •hating far
dear life. She atrsinad every nerve, but
never oooe cried oat. Mart eame a wolf,
followed mptcdyty r
the pack to a dozen, all jftjMboqo, yalp-
On Brush street, near Jeffeson ave
nue, for an hour the other day a bruised
and battered old dumb watch and ghsiu
lay in the gutter, where foot had
kieked ii^frexn if anyone
gave th” t,jy a second glance it was to
J'TCegnize thai some child had lost or
flung it away. The case wss battered,
the face scratched and scarred, and no
boy would turn aside to pick it up.
By and by a curious procession came
up from the Brush street depot. It
was composed of a man aud his wife,
lioth past fifty years of age, and four
children, the youngest of whom seemed
to be about twelve. They were spread
out on walk and street, heads down
and moving slowly, and there was a
look of anxiety on every face. Some
one asked the man if he had lost his
will let, aud he replied:
"No, not thak- Somewhere as we
came along we lost our Jamie's watch. ”
"Very valuable?"
"Well, sir, not safer as money goes,
but it’s a relic of the dead, and sir—
and-”
"Ob, it was an old dumb watch, eh ?.
Yea, sir I”
You'll find it in the gutter up by
ITkalto
»< (It Altar a
Ob* H*a4r*A Year*.
The address of Wm. M. Everts at the
Newburg Centennial concluded with the
following impressive words:
"The interest, the reverence, that we
feel as we recall these great transac
tions, as we stand npon the spot where
they were enacted, centre npon Wash'
its greatness than any manifestation of
his life. A ad these events closed'hia
publio service, had he then forever re
tired from the great theatre of action
and renowh, had he never filled ont our
admiration and gratitude by the eight
years of private life and the eight years
of the Chief Magistry which followed the
surrender of his military command—if
the remainder of her pursuers away. It hia great presence in the framing of the
THE HUMOROUS PAPERS.
WHAT WB PlNOfN T—M TO I
that poet”
The entire family made a rush-for-the
i.pot, and the watch hoi] no sooner been
lifted than the mother kissed it and the
children shouted their exultation., „
"It may seem foolish to yon, sir,” ex
plained the husband, as he slyly wiped
at something lik? a tear in the corner of
Jus eye, "bnt it’s a long twelve years
since Jamie died. That watch was the
first toy I ever bonght him. We’ve
lieen burned out of house and home
twice since he died, and that’s the only
scrap or relic left ns of the little one.
You see it's old aud bjuit, but money
ooaldn’t bay it. Every lime we look at
it we can call up his blue eyes and chub
by face, and the thought that he is wait
ing for ns up there almost answers for •
meal with mother.”
"Are you going away 7"
"Yes—across the ocean to our old
home in England. We must leave the
dead behind. Had we lost the watch I
lielieve the mother would have broken
her heart So long ns we have it the
boy’s face comes up to us. Wo can al
most hear his laugh again, and it seems
more like we had laid him away to sleep
for an hour or two. Thank Heaven that
we have it I It was Jamie’s, sir, and we
are never to see his grave again.”—
Detroit Proe Prat.
Constitution and in the guidance of the
nation by high statesmanship and pare
administration—if all this had been
wanting to the foil splendor of his fame
—if he stood to his countrymen in their
memory as he stood npon this very spot
one hundred years ago, his face would
have shone to all this people as did the
face of Moses to the children of Israel
when he delivered the tables of the law,
"And now, after a hundred years of
marvellous fortunes and crowded experi
ences, we confront the days and the
works and the men of the first age of the
Republic. Three wars have broken the
peace here proclaimed. The war for
neutrality to complete our independence,
by establishing onr right to be at peace,
though other Powers sought to draw ns
into their wars. The war for boundary,
which pushed onr limits to the Pacific
and rounded our territory. The war of
the eonstitution, which established Joj^
this people that, Jor>,heIh and forever, '
‘Liberty 'Union are one and insepar
able.’ ^hese rolling years have sho mi
growth, forever growth, and strength,
increasing strength, and wealth and
numbers, ever expanding, while intelli
gence, freedom, art, oulture and religion
have pervaded and ennobled all this
material greatness. Wide, however, as
is our land and vast our population to-
,day, these are not the limits to the
name, the fame, the power, of the life
and character of Washington. If it could
be imagined that this nation, rent by
disastrous feuds, broken in its unity,
should ever present the miserable spec
tacle of the undefiled garments of his
fame parted among his countrymen,
while for the seamless vestures of his
virtne they cast lots—if this unutteia-
ble shame, ii this immeasurable crime
should overtake this land and this peo
ple, be sm that no spot in the wide
world is inhospitable to his glory; and
no people in it bat rejoices in the in-
fluenoe of his power and his virtue.
"H the great statesman and oratdr
Mr. Fox. could, in the British Parlio-
ment, exalt the character of Washington
ss that ‘illustrious maff deriving bohor
less from the splendor of his situatiou
khan from the diguity-ot his mind, be
fore whom all borrowed greatness sinks
into insignificance, and all the poten
tates of Europe become little and
temtible;’ if the famous eloquence of
mtifTATjOK rmnoeoFBX.
I dpan know ob nothin’ what tries ter
sing dat makes so po’ a out ob it as de
owl. My ole gr_n’fedder what come
from Africa tole me de reason ob dis.
Once <le owl was a putty good singer,
an’ wss invited ter all de parties in de
neighborhood. One night at a big ball
gin by de parrot, d^ owl she come an’
sung tea everbody praised her. Dis
made her mighfy prond, an’ when she
was gwine along home through de woods
she ’gratulated hersc’f an’ laughed
mightly.
Airter a while de hawk ootoh up wid
de owl, an’ sex ze, "Yer thinks dat yer*s
a mighty singer, doan yer 7"
“Git oaten my way,” says de owl,
'* ’case I doan ’soeiate wid common
fokes.”
"Dat’s jea’ what I wanted ter hear yer.
say,” said de hawk, and when he had
put his claw in his mouf’ an’ gin a loud
whissle, two jay birds an. a whipporwill
come rtown outen de tree. Da grabbed
ole Mizzes Owl,an’ tuck ’er ter de branch
an’ hill her head un’er de water, takin
it up once in a while ter let ber git her
bref. Da kep’ on at dis tell da got tired,
an’ den da let ole Mizzes Owl go homo,
but bless yer life, de naixt mawnin’ she
had sich a bad cole dat she couldn’t sing,
an’she’s been hoarse eber since.—Ark-
antaw Traveler,— »
ANOTHER FAILURE IN LIFE
another Good man who tried to
BEAT WHM&Y AND EAILBO.
A W*rt*ra LeetBr* Ob T*w»araae*
Oaabt t* Hare a G**A KBtet.
[From the Milwaukee Sun.],
Fifteen or twenty years ago there
no in Wisconsin whose name
more familiar, or whose presence created
a pleasanter feeling among a company
than the name or presence of S. Park
Coon. A few days since the gentleman
died penniless in a Milwaukee hospital,
and was buried by friends who had
known him all these years, who respect
ed him when he was at the top of the
ladder, and who pitied him when at the
bottom. He had been attorney-general
of the State when a young man, aud con
tracted convivial habits which caused
him to be Hie wrong man at the head
of a regiment, which was soon discov
ered when he was placed at the head of
a thousand brave Wisconsin soldiers.
Jay-Ej^See and his Owner. ,
The New York//our says: "Jay-Eye-
See will probably go into winter quarters
early next morith. Mr. Case has, since
his departure from New York, received
many offers for the horse, despite the
prohibitive price of 850,000 which waa
placed on him, but he is determined to
keep him. People in a position to know
say that hia winnings foot up to very
nearly $200,000. On the Monday after
the 'yocmg ’on* beat St. Jnlien he
bought a $1,000 oamel’a-hair shawl for
his wile in a well-known dry goods house,
and offered in payment a check for
$1,500.
"The proprietor naturally hesitated
about aooeptibg it 'I don’t know you,
sir,’ be said.
'My name is Case, of Racine, Wis.,’
he replied.
"The merchant looked blank.
" 'I’m the owner of Jay-Eye-See,’
added Mr. Case with a smile.
"The man of yards ticks jumped up.
‘I bag you pardon, air; I dii not know
that’
'Mr. Case then drew his wallet, which
• full to over-flowing with cheeks
ranging in value frees $800 to #4,000. -
1 *8aa if yon oan find a ehaok among
m,’ said Mr. Oass, ‘whose mate
yon know.'
as was found, and as )fc
ing, ap*rllng t and gaining i
prey. Babe
r or their
began to load sal
VK-
NEVER AGAIN.
He had just go£ bis oyster shop opened
to the public the other day when in
came a man who asked:
"Got any raws ?”
"Yes, sir.” -
"Serve ’em on the half-shell ?”
"We do.”
"Extra large?”
"We have some of the largest oysters
I ever saw.” - -
The price was UkfduuS given, and ns
it seemed to be perfectly satisfactory
the man ordered a dozen and added:
—‘‘I’ve got a slight ooutraction of the
muscles of the throat, and sometimes I
choke. . If anything happens to me run
me to the door where I oan get the air
and then rush for a drink of water.”
The caterer promised to observe the
caution, but it was only when the twelfth
aud lost oyster was taken in between
two rows of teeth which stood' out like
ten-pcuuy noils that anything happened.
Then the eater suddenly raised one leg,
his eyes bulged out, and bo began to
skip around like a goat dodging a club.!
The choke had come. The caterer
seized him by the arm and ushered him
to the door, and then hurried to the rear
end of the restaurant for a gloss of water.
When he returned with it, half expect
ing to see the customer lying on the
floor in the agonies of suffocation, no
in sight. The man was not in
oarriad away
foe. Now if
one
Erskine would speak of him ‘as the only
human being for whom he felt an awful
reverence;’ if the political philosophy of
Brougham prescribed it as ‘the duty of
the historian and sage of all nations to
let no occasion pass of commemorating
tlrirHhiatrioBS man;’ if he asserted that
will
the door, nor at the door, nor around
the door. Ho was two blocks away and
the twelfth oyster had gone down to
keep the company of the other eleven.
Just exactly another such thing won’t
happen in that place again. Borne other
man with a contracted throat may start
in to play the game, but befotp he has
eatem his second oyster he will be dis
patched with a hickory clnb, and his
body sent to some medical college to
e loose spoke wus.—Detroit
Free Press.
KENTUCKY ETIQUETTE.
"Good morning. Is Mr. Black in?”
"No, sah; he’s gone to his business,
sab.” 1 ^ - V :Y, , ,
"Well, is Mrs. Black in?”
"Dat depends, sah. What does ye
want wid her 7” —^
He was a mau good at heart, a man of
ability, a man loved best by those who
knew him best, but the fatal defect was
his entering the lists to wrestle a catch-
as-catch-can match with whisky, a trial
which ultimately beats every man who
tries it.
When the writer first saw S. Park
Coon^he was the orator at a political
meeting, hail been met at the depot by
a band, wore a slouch hat, and was ad
mired by .five thousand people as a
thoroughbred. He could talk spl ndid-
ly, had been a colonel, and bis cordial
greeting ou being introduced to a
stranger captured the stranger at once.
Though ho went to lied with his boots
ou that night, and got up tho next
morning with bis hair pulling to take
the train, his getting full was looked
upon as au eccentricity of genius, boys
talked about it and said, "Well, he’s a
daisy, anyway,” and they forgot bis elo
quence of the evening before in admira
tion atJak don’t caro-a-darnativeness as
he took the train that morning, knowing
that every man, woman and child in the
country village knew ho had been as
full as a goose tho night before. There
was ait independent air about him that
boys could not help admiring, and we
wish the boys who put their hats ou one
side aud winked at each other at the
connlry depot that morning, and ad-
mired the orator, ooukl know how the
poor man turned out.
All who stay by whisky are as liable
and more so, to die in a+rafpital, than S.
Park Coon was fifteen years ago. It
always seems hard to speak of men's
mistakes when they are dead, bnt if
more good can be done by speaking of
them than was ever done by the man
when living, it seems as though we
should not shrink from speaking. No
harm can be done to the deceased, aud
no More chagrin can be felt by the rela
tives than has been felt foY many years,
so, while admonishing yonng men to bC'-"
ware of the fate that befell otir friend
who is dead, we shall not forget Uie
kind heart the man always carried when
alive. No matter how great, or brainy,
‘until time shall be no more Will a test
of the progress which onr race has made
in wisdom and virtne be derived from
tne venefatiOtT paid to the immortal
name of Washington;’ if our own great
statesmen and orators join in this ac
claim,
Nil oriturum alias, ail ortum tale fstentes.
letSfil
and cherish the splendid posseesion, and
exalt and perpetoate it now and forever. ”
” . Oar Olvorce Lews. '"••Y 1
"Why here's a milk bill of $32 I’d like
her to settle.”
- "She am not in, sah.” —
"Bat I know she is in.”
"Can’t help it, sah. De orders am
dat she am never in for milk bills and
meat bills and sich. Good mornin’; I
has to go; sin am callin’ me.’’—Afen-
tucky State Journal. ,
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Thb raws which Lieut. Stohet has
bronght from Alaska of the fete of
Master Putnam, of the ill-starred Rod
gers, is' melancholy enough. It was
known that Patnsm wss
beyond help on floating
seems probable that he
a lingering death. The natives in
formed Btoneythst four of their number
had seen the body of the- unfortunate
officer, and thought from its appearance
that he most have starved to ; death. v
His sledge was by him, and the bones
of several dogs. The sad story of De
Long and his companions has thrilled the
world; but not lees pathetic k the com
paratively little remembered fate of poor
Pnti am. The victims of thp Jeannette
at least perished together, and with the
one boon of eompanionship loft them.
Patnsm starved to death aldhA, on a
field of ice at sea.
It is known that many tramps who
lead a delightfully lazy existence during
the snmmer months are in the habit of
celebrating the first hard frost by some
slight crime which will secure them snug
quarters daring the winter. An analo
gous practice has lately been discovered
by the police of St. Petersburg, where
the frequent commission of petty thefts
by yonng men who appsrenlly were not
tempted by want has. caused^ bewilder
ment. The police have now ascertained
that these thieves arc natives of the
Grand Duchy of Finland, and that their
motive is to escape from military service
under the law of Finlan, which does not
allow any one who has been convicted
of theft to serve in the army. Their rea
son for going to St. Petersburg is sim
ply thav the punishment for theft is
much more severe iu Finland than in
other parts of tho Empire.
David Dunum Field is indignant
aliout the growing disregard of smokers
for the rights of their non-smoking be
fogs. He has nothjpg to say against the
use of tobacco as such, bnt confines
himself to the assertion that abstainers
have rights which every smoker who
pretends to be moderately considerate of
others ought to respect. In tho Con
tinent he asks how the smoker and non-
smoker can reconcile their respective
pretensions. Nothing is easier, he
thinks. Let the smoker smoke nnto
himself, bnt let one who does not smoko
or take tobacco into his mouth or blow
it ont of his nostrils be free from the at.-
uovanc«. The non-smokers have tho.r
n fiedy in their own hand#. Let them
resist every encroachment ou tin ir
rights.' 7 'Let them refuse to frequent
places of amusement or take passage
in conveyance* where they are not pro
tected arninst tobacco.
Mb. Howard Yinukst, the Eng’iah
Director - of Criminal investigation,
places tho direct cost of crime in Eng
land, Wales, and Scotland at thirty mil
lion dollars. Over seventy-four thon-
* sand persons arc maintained for the p’e-
G
1
o
ventiou, detection,
or educated a man may be, if he ties his
cart to the rum locomotive, he will have
his cart tipped over, and the greatfiiihe
man ia his profession the worse his ex
ample is to the lioys. A boy who has
read, and heard his father talk of tho
greatness of a states mau, and who would
give more to see that man than he would
to see a circus, is injured more by seeing
that statesman drunk than he would be
in any other way. He is more liable to
imitate the drunkenness of the man, be
cause he sees people laugh at that,
while they take his oratory without a
smde. — ..—_ ,
The greatest orator that Illinois ever
praduced, who is now dead, did more
barm once to yonng men by appearing
educated men, and certainly hu advice
to boys would be, "Never look at the
stuff.”’ : V
1 The Grave of Jeffcmon.
The imperfection of oar divorce laws,
says the New .York Hour, was recently
shown by a case of peculiar hardship.
Something over two years ago a New
York heiress married in this State a citi
zen of Montreal, where the young couple
went to live. Immediately after tho
marriage the wife handed over to the*
husband more than two-lhirds of her for
tune of $300,000. Afterward the wife,,
becoming aware ot the husband’s mis
conduct, sued for and obtained a divorce
the New York Supremo Court, tho
in
defendant making no opposition and re
turning a portion of the plaintiff's for
tune. This, however, was not satisfac
tory to the divorced wife, who bronght
snit in the Canadian courts for a return
of the entire sum, $220,000, which the
had given him, or an acconnt of what ho
had done with it. This action has just
been decided in favor of the defendant',
on the ground that the plaintiff is still
his wife—the Canadian decision thus si-
, mitting the validity of the New York
marriage, hut refusing to recognize the
New York divorce. By taking mp her
residence*Jn this State, of oonrse the
plaintiff Mm enjoy, the advantages of
her judicial release from her husband,
but at thi |0st of nearly al her fortune.
lieut-Coh- Thomas L; Casey, who
was charged with the execution of the
resolution of Congress providing for the
erection of a suitable monument over
the grave of Thomas Jefferson at Monti-
oello, announces the completion of the
work. The grounds were surrounded
by a wooden fence, and the old monu
ment to Mr. Jefferson was muoh worn
by the weather and disfigured by relic
banters. The work just completed con
sists in the grading, seeding and sodding
of the surface, the erection of a new
monument over the grave of Mr. Jeffer
son, and tho bnilding of a strong and
handsome fence about the burying-
ground. The monument cousists first
of two foundation courses—th(flower 12
feet square and the next 8 feet square,
aud each 9 inches in height—which oovgr . , . , , .,
.the grave of Mr. Jefferson and four of ^ ard , for , H8 U> * ee V ^ e , ad ° f em '
"L.” w^tes to the London Times.
"T find Httle article ‘the’ occurs 200
times in the first column of the Times
lot the sake of average, aay, 1,000 time*
OiWvM? *»$•> MsWntJKflOO for entire
CQpy, equal to 48,000 letten. Now, if
we reckon that every line in a column
numbers forty lettsxs—taking leading
article type as an axaaspla—and that T
of 150 Unas, then we
attars are
low.
his kindred who are buried at his head
and feet and on either side. These
foundation stones are surmounted by a
die, 4 feet square at the base and 3 feet
7 inches in height, and this by a granite
obelisk 8 feet 2 inches square at the base
and 12 feet 11 inches high. The total
height ot the monument above the ground
is 18 feet
Theinscxiption composed by Mr. Jef-
erson add fo aeoordauee-with his direc
tions, ill a cod on the obelisk is as fol
low*:
"Here was buried Thomas Jefferson,
author of the Declaration of Independ
ence, of the statute A Virginia, for re
ligions freedom, and father of the Uni
versity of Virginia."
Upon the die is inscribed: "Born April
2,1748,0.14. l>ied July 4,1896.”
On the upper surface of the four sides
of the lower foundation step are inaerip-
tions marking the four graves surround
ing that of Mr. Jefferson—the grave of
Martha Jefferson, his wife those of
Martha J. Randolph and Maria J. Eppaa,
4 hia daughters, and of Governor Thomas
If
were upon the
.. y*r*#
I [ expenditure
In
MAM
A Moileru Boj's Seven Ages.
and punishment <•(
crime aud control of criminals, lint he
qnt that inasmuch as 823 Ci.7
persons (being nearly one in thirly-sfi of
population) were either apprehend d,
proceeded against, or cited, neither I he
criminal staff nor the cost could l o
deemed excessive. Of this enormous
nnmbef'TjuT 94,868 were arrested for
effepcee against the person, and 12*2,761
for those against property. Mr. Vincent
is a stanch upholder of capital pniiialo-
ment. He believes that it is due to the
cortaiuty~of this being inflicted that
London had far fewer capital crimes
than Paris, Berlin, and Vienna." Iu
Great Britain al>ouk. fifty per cent of
hose sent enced to death are executed,
in France leas than forty-six pgr cent. ,in
Austria abopt two per cent., and in Gor-
many only one-fifth per cent. He flim- ~
ly believes flogging to be the 1>< sjkq
Mr Shakespeare says that a man has
sev.n ages, but to my opinion a boy has
nl iout ton of his own. He begins, with
his first pair of breeches and a stick" -
horse, and climbs up by degrees to toy
gtms and firecrackers and slingshot and
breaking calves and billy goats, and to,
sure enough, guns and pointer dog, and
tho looking glass age, when he admires
himself and greases his hair, anil' feels
of his downy beard, and then he joins a
brass band and toots a horn, and then
he reads novels and falls in love and
rides a prancing horse and writes per
fumed notes tb Tiis girl. When his first
love kicks him and begins to run
with another fellow ho drops into the
age of despair and wants to go to Texas
or some other region and sadly sings:
This world is all a fleeting show.
Boys are mighty smart now-rflays
They know as much at ten years as we
Used fo know at twenty, and it is right
One
of these modern philanthropists was
telling my kinsman the other day how to
raise his boy.
"Never whip him," said he; "raise
him pn love and kindness and reason,”
and then he appealed to me for indorse
ment.
"And when that -boy is about twelve
years old," said I, "doyou go and talk to
him, and, if possible, persuade hfm not
to ship his daddy. - Tell him that it is
wrong and unfilial and will injure bis
reimtation in the community. ”
.The modern boy is entirely too bigity.
—Bill Asp.
Two San Francisco women are at law
about a wedding dress, each claiming it;
and the testimony is so mixed that the
judge can’t decide. Let him try Solo
mon’s scheme with the w omen aud the
baby I Let him threaten to spill a plate
of soup or a dish of foe cream on the
dress; the woman who screams and calls
him ‘‘a mean old thing” will be the zeal
">ynu$.—Detroit Free Press.
"Tv,” Mid Mis. Boodtngton,
Smith is • clever sort of * 1
deterrent to crimes of personal vio-
lencc. ' -' ^
Jn tile Caubiaouiakxiis’ Convention
in New Haven, Conn., slier the Com
mittee on Apprenticeship had reported
in favor of restoring tho old system ot
indenturing apprentices until they reach
their majority, Mr. John W. Brittou
of New York saidT **Oae of the serKnw
wants of this conutry and of onr faulc
is good boys. Our boys arc deteriorat
ing, as are our men. Tho greatest diffi
culty that wo experience in New York is
that of getting boys who have Lrauis
and are willing to learn a trade thor
oughly. The example of men who have
made millions in a few years is held up
before oar boys in school, and the bpi s
become inflamed with the notion that
they must make their millions and 1*
able to found cross-roads colleges lefiae
they die. So they eschew trades and
become poor professionals.”
Certain Cuban citizens, whoare ia - d
to have been connected with the late Hi-
snrrection, have sent to New York city a
protest against any further agitation.
They sky that they have "road wi:h
pain” a recent pronunoiamento that
emanated in New Tork and has been for
warded to Cuba, and in which neurtmt-
breaks are incited. The signers of this
protest declare that ruined homes, deso
lated plantations, and poverty arc all
that remain to them, and that they
must refase to aid in any prolongation
of the strife that has ravaged the country.
The purpose of the New York branch of
"Cuban patriots” is probably referred to
when it is declared that to these men
"the destruction of Cubs means nothing
if they could by it extract from barren
fields sufficient to sustain agitation io
the dubs.”
A railroad sue eels veedent has
given the dan Francisco Call an aati-
mate of the coat of an average train on a’
fust-class railroad: For an express train,
locomotive, $12,COO; baggage ear,
$1,200; amoking car, $5,000; dining
room oar, $18,000; five first-class Poll-
m «hs, $18,000 each; total, $120,000. The
ordinary express train represents about
$63,0001 Boms Pul Imre can coat
$30,000 each. The average valua of a