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*4. U N Ei . C T F FIST A RT2SIIED 1865. 1TEWB3ERRY, S. C., 2TP-SDY, FEBRUR 0 19.________ A GREAT TRAVELER Who Has Been Twice Around the Globe and is Still Going-Colonel John F. Hobbs Tells Some of His Most Wonder ful Experience.. LFroni the Atlanta Constitution.] "I have made two tours around the world covering a period of between seven and eight years." Colonel John F. Iobbs is one of the most extensively traveled men in America. His life has been full of ad venture, and a few days ago while in a communicative mood he gave an ac count of some of the trials through which he has passed. "I have been," he continued,"under thirteen governments and on twenty three islands and sets of islands. Of course the largest of these was Austra -lia, which is as big as the whole United States with Texas left out. The conti nent-for so it may be called-is very sparsely settled, and while traveling among the aborigines, blacks or kana kas, as the natives are called by the white settlers, I had several very nar row escapes, and many interesting ex periences. "I was drowned, given up for dead in two or three sicknesses, stood nine hours undressed on the aft half of a broken steamer at night in a storm, been in storms and railway wrecks, had my head split open, and enjoyed sundry ugly wounds in my body, but for intense suffering and pain nothing comes any where near the terrible ago nies of unquenched thirst. Once I was picked up on an arid prairie out there after being two days and a half with out water in a parching sun, with my tongue stuck to the roof of my mouth. It took three strong men to hold me ' from jumping into the river to which I was carried. When my tongue did come loose the report was like the crack of a gun." A SINKING BOG. The mention of his mistakes made the colonel communicative. "I'll tell you," he continued, "of one trying time. It was once in the wild parts of Australia, when I rode for hours among the narrow gorges of a low range of mountains, passing be yond into a lovely valley or plain, en tirely housed in, excpt at one point, by a solid wall of rock some 500 feet high. I stood to look at a fire beyond. The night was dark. Just then the moon rose through a cleft in the huge moun tain wall; and cast a flood of silver light over that little plain that held me mes merized for half an hour. Then I pushed forward towards the fire ahead, with the hope of its being the house of the only man in that section. I came to a little marshy place, and urged my horse forward. I was not long in real izing that I had entered one of those sinking bogs so common and fatal in Australia. I rode a powerful (seventeen hands high) Cleveland bay horse. I could feel him sinking at every step, and feel overy nerve of the horse em phasize that struggl~e for life. The re lease of every foot seemed like the crack of a rifle and the terrible ride I made through that death-trap was never accomplished by any one before me. A LOT OF SAVAGES. "I rode on about a quarter of a mile to the light I had first seen. Judge my amazement when I found myself con fronted by a tribe of Queensland blacks. There was no time for retreat as I was in their power. I called the chief or king and doctor of the tribe showing a bottle I had. It was a bottle of whisky I carried for snake bites or any acci dent. They came to me. Taking a drop or so myself to show that it was all right, I gave a drink to each, and their antics as it went down made me -laugh outright. By a motion of my hand I called up the whole tribe of some twenty odd males and females, I gave each a taste. Then turning to the king I handed him the bottle, at the same time saying "MIcCabe"-pointing over the hill. "3Marcaber," he said in reply, and then by gestures and a jar gon that I did not understand, gave me the directions I wanted. That bot tle of whisky saved my life and kept many a poisoned spear out of my body. "That same night I found the gentle man's house I was looking for, and re lated my adventure. "'You didn't ride through there,' he said. 'It is impossible. Why, man alive, four of my stockmen and their horses are under that bog.' "'Yes, I know it," I said facetiously, 'I rode over on them.' "'And," he continued, 'there must be no bottom to it. for I've lost enough cattle in' it to fill it up.' "When I showed him next day where I entered and where I came out fifty feet distant, he looked dazed and repeated his story." SOMETHING OF AUSTRALIA. "There are only 3,000,000 whites in all that vast territory," continued Col. Hobbs, "and of these- over 2,500,000 ~ive wIthin 300 miles of the coast. So you cam imagine how sparsely settled,l so far as the white man is concerned, the country is. The rest is taken up by the wild and never-to-be civilized abo rigines." "The aborigine cannot be civilized?" "There is no chance for it. Experi ment after experiment has been made, but to no avail. They can be made to wvear our clothing, but are absolutely no good for anything excepting those few who are used as mounted police. Here their savage instincts come into play and they can track criminals with far greater accuracy than bloodhounds. THE BLACK MEN. "The Australian black man is the seond lowest in the scale of human species. I believe the flat-headed Pats gonian is at the bottom. He serves n god, no idol, has no future state or hop of any kind. When he dies his name i gone forever, and is never, by law, r peated in the tribe. If another has similar name he drops it and assurm some other. Oblivion forever holds tha person." "Do they all belong to the sam tribe?" "Oh, no; there are many tribes and a many languages. About the only thin; they have that seems at all like civill zation is commerce, and I suppose tha is as old as the world. Each tribe has postman. He generally understand the language of all the tribeswithiu radius of 150 miles. These men ar sacred, and their persons are neve violated by any tribe, though th tribes be hostile. Ngalla Wattow negc tiates all matters of barter or trade, o tribal treaties. And a most singula thing, too, is that these tribe linguist are almost invariably imbecile or silly The articles of commerce generally con sist of reeds for spears, red ochre an< chalk for painting their ornaments tomahawk stones, cord and net fibr from the trees, skins and general wvoo< implement material hardened ant ready for use." "How are the tribes governed?" "Though the Ngalla Wattow is th, most sacred, most important and mos central figure in the tribal life, yet hi is not chief or king. They have no lav of succession. The oldest man in th, tribe is king. Their theory for this i that being the oldest, he knows mor( adventures and can recount more thrill ing experiences, being always the her< of his romance, than any one in thi tribe. He directs the movements of th< tribe. "It is a case of the man who can tel the biggest lies. You will thus see tha the Australian aborigines are merely i people of the day," said a friend to me "to whom events of the past, howeve interesting, are as though they hac never been." I may add, figurativel3 speaking, a people to whom grand fathers have not been vouchsafed. "Are those people brave like our owi Indians are said, by tradition to hav been?" "On the contrary, the Australiar black is a physical coward, but he car endure privation, frequently doing without food for a week rather that stir out of .his tent to get food. H< never looks beyond the day he is out.' "What is the status of the womer among them?" "A woman is simply a beast of bur en. They have no courtship, and, J nay say, no marriage relation of: definite character. Though thosi tribes have different languages, ye they differ very little in their genera customs and habits. In none of th dialects does any word answering t< >ur wvord "love" occur. The yount ouple never think of anything lik ourting or company keeping. It is;: ase of swap. Any man having a wife aughter or ward can swap her o them to any one else for a similar num er of females within his gift.' If ; young man has no sister or wvard that hi an trade for a wife, he is an enforce< achelor. When a trade is to be made an understanding is arrived at betweer he male traders. The girl is then tok to take up her things and go to his hut f she hesitates she is gen erally knocket own with a bludgeon and taken over There is no ceremony. This binds th< woman. The man can send her hom< when he likes, or take in another if h< has a daughter or wasn't to trade fol er. In case of a child from the union she goes with the mother, and i rakes no difference to the next hus. and, because no one rears the off. spring. They grow up the best wa) they can. If the husband dies, the widow goes back, with all encum. >rances, to her former owner to be raded again. A husband can chastist is wife to death and no one notice it t is treated as his individual, and nol a tribal loss. The least blood relation hip is a bar against marriage, but no1 gainst incest. They have no idea o irtue, morality, or sh,atme. From what I have said, it is plain that the nativi Australians are not an attractive peo pe." "You say that you are going for an. >ther globe-girdling expedition?" "Yes, I'm soon off again. But I in end to settle down some day, ani( ,hen 1(do, it will be in Atlanta." The World's Most Powerful Tribtunal. Eaton S. Drone in the February Forumxi.] The highest court of the United States, whose05 cen:ten nial comnmemnora. ioni is at hand, holds a unique place it our government and one not found it any other governmental system. I1 wields a power greater than is exer ised by any other judicial tribunal it the world. In no country of Europt r the East has any court authority t< make or unmiake the sup)remle law o: the land, to limit the prerogatives oj the sovereign, to control the powers o1 the legislature, to shape the form 0 overnment. These functions are exercised by t.h opreme Court of the United States. t holds a power above that of the chiel agistrate of the nation, superior t' tat of Congress, higher than that oi any State, and equaled only by that which nmade or can amend the Con stitution. It can enlarge or limit the prerogatives of the president or the powers of Congress. It can change the relations between the State and the na tion. It can extend or restrict either the central power or State sovereignty. In short, it can make or unmake the constitutional law of the country. It can introduce radical changes into out form of government. Not only can the Supreme Court wield these vast pow. ers, it has long done so and may long ontinue tn dln o BILL A\K) THE GRIIP. e Tha "l'revaiiing" Attacks the Philosoph< S -Says He Would Like to Get a Grip on Speaktr Reed. a s La grippe, la influenza, la catarrl t !a epizoot, a nose and mouth and throz and chest-la ten handkerchiefs a da e and one under the pillow at niglht la blow and sneeze and cough and e: s pectorate, and nobody wants your con pany and you want nobody's compani When will this thing stop? The rai t ged edge is worse than the beginnint a the tail is worse than the comet. Tali s quinine! Done taken it, and it makt a me sick at the stomach. Put some tu: e pentine or kerosene oil on a strip r flannel and apply it to your throat an e breast. Done done it until I am burr raw and smell like a drug store. MayL r you had better take a Dover's powdt r and go to sleep, which I did, an s dreamed of fighting a black snake tha was trying to make me swallow it, an - I wouldent, and finally I got choke I with the slimy thing, and woke up an cleared my throat in the foot tub. Bu I am convalescing now, sorter, an cross enough to spank a grand-child I the mother wasent about. I think would enjoy a small light with som body. I would like to try Tom Ree if he was in reach and wasent too bir t I reckon its all right to fight Toni Ree and to abuse him and denounce him and raise as big a rumpus as possibk a but for the life of me, I can't see wha a good it does. Toni Reed is only th mouthpiece of his party. His tyrani - cal rulings have already been agree< > upon. They have got the power, an where there is a will there is a way Why not give them rope and let then run the machine for three years longer I We don't care about the offices, nohow t but what does trouble me, is that th administration is manifestly agains , the South, and does not want peace r Mr. Harrison has disappointed us. W I had hoped for him as a Christian gen tleman. He had an opportunity - glorious opportunity-to n4ake peac and harmonize the sections. W thought that he wasent a politician but a pure man and a statesman, bu he seems to be small and selfish an< vindictive. He wants the Southerl Republican vote in the next nominat ing convention. That means the voti h of the negroes, and so he must throv them a bone or two to pick. Buel tells him that Matt Davis must hav the postoffice at Athens or else Mat will kick and Matt is a high kicker There are a score of clever white Re publicans in Athens who would lik< h the office and are fit for it but Buel says they cant control the negro voti t and so Athens-classic refined Athen I -must be insulted. A negro is to hav< the postoflice-an office that bring him in daily, hourly contact with si. ;thousand white people. Ah, my coun Stry-somebody hand me the cologne Smy head aches and my eyes are run ,ning water. r Now General Harrison knows tha -the surest way to make a race troubli t at the South is to appoint negroes t< s such offices. Our people will not stan< I it. We have enough to bear withou ,being insulted. It is enough that wi 1 pay our part every year of one hundre< I millions of pension money to Northerr -pensioners. That we pay our~ part c I the public debt that grew out of th -war. It is enough that our land wa Sswept with fire and desolation and ou Snegroes set free without compensation And now we are taxing ourselves t< Sto educate these very negroes and thei ,children, and wec tax ourselves to pen sion our own invalid andl maimed so) -diers. But the time will conic wher -our people will rise up) as one man ari say: thus far shalt thou go, and nio far ther. Please hand me the campho -bottle, somebody, oh! miy long-sufTer ing nose. Yes, boycott h im. Let every South ern merchant boycott John Wana nmaker. He has proved himself an un principled, unrelenting enemy. H< has been entreated and importuned t< give Athens a white man, and will no even give a respectful answer. Now if Buck is mnoving him, then let th people of A tlanta boycott Buck. Don' speak to him.. Ostracise him. Rub him out of all respectable society. Le him feel what it is to insult our peophl with his apploinltments. This is not party q1uestion-why even in Missour Judge Field has just nonsuited a negre who sued for damages because lhe wai not allowed to sit in the diress circh with the white folks. All honor t< . Judge Field. Yes, boycott him-] wouldn't buy a hat or a cravat from merchant who wvould trade with Wan I amaker. Let the South stand firm 01 -the color line. The North does nol iunderstanid us on this question arx never wvill until they come down an< stay long enouigh to see it just as it is General Grant knew all about it, and( ence lie declared that lie was not fight ing for the negroes. There are thou, sands of Northern people who don't know thait General Grant was a slave ow ner whlen the war began. I was tlking* to a Boston man the other day and be smniled a smiile of utter incredu ty~ when I told him about it; and had to ge~t Appletonl's biography and read old Jesse Grant's biography tc him-the( letter that the old man wrote to General Grant Wilson in 128S, and told him how Ulyses broke down ii S. Louis in 1860 and couldn't make liv ing, and so lhe sent him i to Galena tc clrk for his brother Simpson at $800O *year, and told him that lie must live on that aiid the hire of his slave in St. Louis. Then I told him that Mr. Lincoln9 brother, Captain Todd, fought on om~ ieall1 through the war, and he moc amazed. It is mrost astoiiniig no.w little the average man dores kn.w ab). l ,r the war or what it was fught r.. Why, you can't make a ne.:ro b"'i,:ve that General Grant ever oWied dlavi s. They have been made fools aid pup 1, pets of for twenty-five years :ri :.;rt it fools yet. Historical lies are still :i v force. Even so responsible a g:azi' - as the Century is still all(ing ti-r C to be published in its columns. Tie - January number has dark hints i'nu Hay and Nicolay that Jell'erso ih vis countenanced assassination during ihe ; war-and the February number has a e rehash of that s:ane old lie about Mr. 5 Davis being arrested in woirtmi's e- clothes. A lie that has been long since >f nailed to the wall by Senator Rcagntr d and Burton Harrison and the faithful it body servant, Jiinmy Jones, and ni e since the great man's death, his slan ,r derers have come to life, arid evet, arl d mit that they searrdhed \Irs. I ravis's t trunk to find the clothes while sie was d their helpless prisoner. Oh, thi-shunrirte d of it-somebody bring ine anotiitr d handkerchief. Oh, my poor thri"t:r. t But we are glad to see that the "t'r;rn d federate Veteran,'' of Atlana, is e<rtal if to the occasion, and has in the 'eiru I ary number republished the true ver - sion of the capture. When a "ran hap I pets to be the hero of any L, thing he . will naturally overlook the occurreince d and make himself a bigger hero thani , he was. Those men who arrested alr. , Davis have told that lie so long and so t I often that they are just obliged to stick e to it. In fact, they have told it so often that maybe they believe it. , Some men will do that. I knew :n I old man who, fifty years ago, used to tell us how he settled in the forks of the rivers at Rome before the Injui s came, and that he knowed the ('oosa river when it was a little spring branch e and had jumped across it a thousand t times. Old Uncle Jake had told that, and told it and told it until he ht:i:ved 3 it, and would get fighting mad with - anybody who intimated that lie was a mistaken. 3 But the question is not about that re a vamped lie, but that a great national magazine should lend its columns to t to the publication. For suppose it was all true, what does it amount to-who 1 is benefited or who is injured by it? - Mr. Davis was trying to escape capture, 3 and what of it? The Northern pap-ers used to publish how Mr. Lincoln dis guised himself in a Scotch cap and a cloak when he first went to Washing t ton as the President-elect, but suppose - he did and suppose he didn't-what of - it-but they are a curious set of people. 3 only a few days ago the Northern press told us how Mr. and Mrs. Blaine were a hissed in the Catholic church because a they did not make the sign of the cross as they entered the church on the oc a casion of their daughter's funeral i what kind of people are they, have - they no feeling, no consideration for - the grief that was mostecrushing. W\ho - is not sorry for Mr. Blaine andu his wife-who is not sorry for poor Mr. t Tracy? When such afflictions conic a let all hearts throb with pity and with a sympathy. IBut the South is fast coming to the t front, and the true history of thte war a is being written-even Brick Pomieroy has dared to publish a beautiful tribute to Mr. Davis. A few more y'ears anid our slanderers will be dead, and then maybe the nation will hlave peaece. 9 The Confederate Veteran of Atlatnta has nmade a good beginning in miailng -up the record, and it is to be hloped a that our people will patronize it, and rsustain it. It will certainly be worth the $2 a year for its influence upott our children and grandchildren. The vet Ierans will soon pass away. Ours w ill, I know, for they are not tempted by - pensions to over-live thleir tinie. Th ie r federal government has 489,725 penl ~ sioners upon the rolls--twice as many as we had soldiers at the close of the - war. Just think of it. And thley in - creased thirty-seven thlousand during - the last twelve months. These are the afigures from the New York WAorld. > They do not seem to be dying, but are t multiplying. Like a feller whlo took a ,contract to gather up the bones of the a scattered dead, who were buried for t miles around Missionary Ridge. He Swas paidl by the coffin, and so lie dIi t vided the bones and niixed dog's bones and cow boiies with them anid so miani t aged to fill t wo coffins fromt every grave le dug up. They say there is niany a grave in the National cemetery at Chattanooga thlat has ito skull ill it. But let us all have peace. I wish that I could unscrew nty head _and clean it. 111L.1 AR '. - Secretary B.laine Hif ned in Church. [ From the Globe-Democrat.] I WAsHIxGoN, Feb. 4.-A disgrae I ful incident occurred durinlg the fumn ,eral services of Mrs. Coppinger, the t daughter of Secretary Blaine, to-da:y. -Mrs. Coppinger was a Catholie. The -services took place at St. Matthew's. The galleries were p)acked withl people. Pewvs were reserved for thte miournlers. As Col. Coppinger, who is a (athtolite, enter'd the pew he miadie theC usual gen-x uflection andi sign of the~ eross, as ill C'atholies do. Secretairy Blaine and t [Mrs. Blaine followed him. They are Presbyterians. They did not bendit the knee or cross thlemlselves. The omnis sion was immediately followed by tin; outburst of hisses from the right hand 1 gallery. So loud was the demtonstrat ion that it wvas heard all over thle church, and people looked in the direction tile ugly sound came from. Mr. anld Mirs. Blaine were overcome by grief an d a p- I parently did not notice the hissing. Trifles make perfection.-MichaelI Angelo. t A i'tx !! unt in North: Carolina. ii.l,h- liatfhotne in Ilt-trlit -'e l'r*eMs.] Th'!-statr; woryet shinini cle:ar atiol b,right in thi- dark buit- of a winter i r,l iwd ky, \w!i- :a grtat ('over."Il I rid - that 1p:: tli- (':ttce Fear river re-oura111in1 w\Iithi to ela ue o:1 'tf ho,Irte' > an t h . iuorry v"ic,s of tlir at ie r :aI t hat sire heI away likea wh it ri tl Iowaird :t belt of plin f1e. Iilhind Il:S t!a he towtn-asleep, for' ", 1't"|ut" ha! tt y"Ft -iu mn lc": froma iheol mnariot hiuii-e t,w.r beforl' us a cornpoitel coun11try\; t,ton litl.ls, s:u tly w;astes, piny \wootis awl eyris swalitjis. A1 w:titintg t ih, reti:linilt"r oft Ihe party, an< ili e aippoitdt hour fnr th- ".starit," tho horses ,aw\etl. itnpatiei; the lioulis tilled tht (.car, erispair with tiir .slort yelps OIf e:,gerness denierd; the hailies patted theit' lunl:ters' gltssy ne( ks, :ntl di\'i<b-d. g:ines betw\el-n their eav:tliers:uid tit ir rivals for the '"hrish," wit" the r"llerlten relate-d alte: dottes tf fo,rn-rt "rur's,"' arnd feats of horsein:iasltIj,. One candlidate for' fuId hltoos, wvhose "jolly' rouiil face fatirly h:arned with good hurnr, and who bestrode a gray Mexie:ia pony of dininutive and Lony iroportitos hearing the high sounding title of I)otn, frankly confessed that this was his first hunt, and innocently in quired if they Juniped fences, solernaly dcelarintg that if the fox was on one side of a fence ani lie on the other the fox was safe. D1oe, a beantiful hay hunter of Ken tucky pedigree, was the mount of a typical North Carolina gentlernan of the old regiine. Suave, dignified and chivalric, conbiiiing gentleness, firn Iess, pride and kindliness under a miea gracious, manly, handsonie, lie rutde with the ease of one accustoiietd to the saddie, and as though lie felt the Snows of inuy winters but lightly upjon his head. Jugle, a powerful coal black animal, proudly carried a dark-eyed Carolinian belle, wh-ose Ii.tbit set off to advantage t beautiful foril. Itocket, mounted by the whipper-in, escribed ever wideniing circles in his impatience to be off ; and Dandy, a prited sorrel, enrvetted and coquetted pranced, pawed and tossed his head under the firm but gentle rein of a dlender lady in navy blue habit and a ()cky cap. Five o'clock ' We are oft'! Don. Doe, judlge, Rocket and Dandy-hounds, horses and riders-away over the level sandy road, with the ghosts of hun red-year old pities barring our way as the waning moon sheds it pale light through the stately, solemn aisles of the forest. The hounds are out of sight, but their baying startles the echoes in he lonely cypress swamps and sounds across the opien spaes with thrilling if 'eet. The horses' ears are pointed forward. The ridetrs no longer com plain of the chill morning air, but, firm and( and erect their saddles, listen in tenitly for the unify of sotund that shall idicate that the dogs have started the ~ame. Tr1e it is ! A burst of triumplh that penetrates and resounds through the pini'y recesses. .Toy, eagerness, hope, itnxiety, doubt and determuination blend in that pulse-thrilling cry. A way ! away ! What is that ? A stray loir' "A fox, by jing.o !" cries the foremost rider. "Crossed the road righlt uinder myI horse's nOse-coinfound it !-they've nmissed that fellow-there le goes-hle's safe !" "Thou art so near, and yet so far!'" Mocki ngly hums a rich contralto. ''The wotrdls arc full of them!'' rings at a merry voice andl Don speeds fast. "KReep the roadi till you reach the river, then to the left, or you'll miss them,"' is the warning shouted as Doc [bundls forward for the lead. A way! awayj Trees, fences, stumnps, pools, seen to fly. The wind whistles in our ears. The horses spurn the grounid, while every nerve is tense. nway! ptast thet cabtin, where an opent lotr reveails in a flash a group oif wool [y headhs hiudidled over a freshly lighted pine fire. TIhrough a long shallow pool of swamnp wvater that covers the rod for twenty yairds. How the water lies! F"aees, hab its, horses, riders-all .et their sbar. Who) cares? Thai:t deep full-thlro:ated ryv is urgen~iit. The hound ili(s-the fox lie brtush thitnk of them! Away! A way! ( ver a narrow woodencu bridge vithI a brief' elattIer--one-Iwo-three! WVhire are the rest? No timeii to look -we are ait the heels of! the hounds Doe, Dandy and l)on! Off thle road ow-thiroughi the baire brown stalksof Scottonl til-otve.r a dividing ditch. aid aero ss a f..t if plowed1 land. Hark: "Thecy are doubitlinig back!'' cries Don's rider. "We must crouss that ~wamip or lbe too lhite!'' Already D)on's .oofs arc trampijlinig the stars that leami iere atnd there f'romi the blacek ater. l)andy f<lhows (diise. D)on :meti.fonaidering over the furrows a it tic in thle reair, a comicatl lo or (lie'' ~xression! onl his rider's -- e. Tlhe ~iat t p15ins met overhiead. T1. -cypress -ata weird shawlow in thu watersi hey darkeuned. The sptongy turf yields teneaet th the hiorse's feet. ren'cher'ous oo!is await the fir'st miistep. Onzi! On! urely the shade of sone old forest .an gur leads ite way! N ow thle houn zds weep ini t, lull sight-atnd see! not l100 ads awvay the fttx is treed! A deep, wift stream intervenes, but, yonder, a ridge, onily a few rough hewn logs utoh lotise btoar'ds on it. ''Steady ! ('are u!'" Ditot ha:s overturnied a planki eaving:a gap, atl D)andiy , a struiggle, a >unge, the blue hiabit and the sorrel re 'out of sighit: How swift the wvater si Will they niever rise! Yes, see! 3ravto tt o l one! Thn k ( otd! he'r otcauight inthe stirupL adDad Lid the rest. The "brush?" O, yes! Dandy got j he "bu." ( A RAT'S COSTLY MOIRSEL. It Waw a I)iamiond Stud, ar,d It Cost the '] Rodent Ilis Life. rep [ l' roml the Cincinnati Enquirer.] When Louis Braharn, the old-time 1 l,awnbrokcer, opened up his shop Mon- arg d:y mr'nrring at 2 Fast Fourth street vot he missed a quarter of a carat diamond shirt stud, valued at from $35 to $50, s which he was positive was in the win- are 'low late Saturday evening. Bo, He called1 his son, and the two and serch"d the shop high and low, but pou cosll'l not find the diamond. sun liraharn began to get crazy over his treE loss, and went to Vie Hill's to take a ers, elass of heer and brace up to continue tha the search. rob "olad quite a time last night watch- He ing a rat inl your show window," said star Vie, as the old pawnroker qluaff'ed off wis his beer. inec "Rat inl ly window? What's that?" Tha iA nurnher of us were sitting in front try< of the St. .lares Hotel about 8 o'clock a d< Sunday evc ning. The electric light he was burning brightly in the window, for when along came a woman, and, stop- turc ping a rmlorent, looked in and shriek- libe ed: ' A rat!' We all rushed over, arid, whi sure enough, there was a big gray fel- ling low, ab< ut a foot long, skipping around the anong the diamonds and breastpins, you smelling of the silver spoons, ard is- of y tening to the ticks of the clocks. aboi Brahaml took off his hat and flung it did on the counter. "I wonder," he said, Y then started out. and "What's upl" doll "Why, I've lost a diamond stud out ries, of that window.'' com Hill, who used to work for Pinker- mir; ton, said: "Why,the rat hasswollered of r< it. Catch the rat and you'll get the fron stone." inst "Nonsense! What do you know teac about rats arid diamonds?" and Bra- rmin ham rushed out; but be acted on Hill's door advice, fixed up some poison in an B attractive manner for a rat, and at 4 fun( o'clock out comes the rat, hunting for wa; water, weak and sickly looking. you Young Braham rushed up and kicked it poor with his foot. The rat was cut open, ing and safe and sound in its stomach coffi was found the stud, as good as new. are "Gott im Himmel!" shouted old man ther Braram. "I'll set 'em uI)." And now my t all the guests of the Sr. James and hos people around Vic Hill's talk about is B rats and diamonds. dels del;i feeb How Many Newspaper Have We? crea We copy from the-London Times the compilation of newspaper statistics, in- son tended to show the comparative energy lion with which the presses of journalism low, are working in the different countries Ing of the world. The alleged facts were then gathered at Paris, in connection with. de the Exposition. So far as the United mor States are concerned they are conspicu- of t1 ously arid even grotesquely inaccurate, like This comparison credits Europe with kno over 20,000 periodical publications, like Germany leading with 5,500, of whichan 800 are daily newspapers. Next coe nig England with 3,000 periodicals, 809 of T which are dailies. Our own country is you credited with 12,.500 papers of all sorts, in hi 1,000 of them daily. the As a matter of fact, the aggregate any number of newvspapers issued in the you United States, instead of a little more you than doubling Germany's total, nearly the equals the aggregate of Europe; and jokE our daily papers, instead of exceeding in the German or the English total by a or h couple of hundred, more than equal whc Germany and England combined. gavi The figures presente.1 by the London whli Times for the United States are those of seven or eight years ago. Nine years wer ago the Tenth Census included an cor enumeration of the newspapers pub- tinuh lished in all the States and Territories mno in 1s80. The total number of periodi- forn cals then registered was 11,514, of which swe 971 were published daily. The enume- 'stea rat ion of Howell's Newspaper Directo- phil ry was less complete than that of Mr. elus North for the Census. Rowell, in his Pos~ edition of 1880, gave 9,723 periodicals, the and S43 dailies. That is to say, the ca figures of the Census were more than ing sixteen per cent. over Rowell's figures w',ill for the total of publications, and niorepr than fifteen per cent, over Rowell for gOi the nurmber of dailies. mer This year Rowell's Directory mien tions rnot less than 16,319 papers printed in the United States including 1494 [Ge' dailies. If the deficiencies of his enu nmeration count in the same proportion T' as they (lid in 1880, as compared with viev~ Prof. North's enumeration for the last tion Census, the number of periodicals is- fair. sued in the United States to-day is riot less far from 17,000), arnd the number of of an danily niewspapers rnot far from 1,700. to ti The 1Lond1on Times' figures for the dust U.nited States, therefore, are about fifty intei per cent. short in regard to the total this number of paipers printed, and about appe sevenity per cent. short in regard to our as tI 'Jaily nJewsp)apers. all tl How accurate these statistics are ship with regard to foreign countries we are then niot able tro determiine. The staterment somii thiat 54 dlaily niewspapiers are p)ublishedI brati ni Athens, a city of per~hmaps 75,000 owe iceople, does rnot inspire confidence in adve lie comipiler; arid his assertion that Man 'miost" of the 700) (anadian journals exer1 tre French, shows that he does not a seh monw what lie is talking about. Not the: mei in every ten of tihe rnewspap)ers of thron lie Carnadiani Domninioni is F'renmch. jductu Nevertheless, even frorm the very- cosn rmperfect statistics presented by the trial ~ondioni Tinmes, t lie main fact stands dloes iut very clearly. This nation is away mlCe head of every oither country of the propx ~lobe ini t lie enterprise of its journa:listic large ress, as well as in the character, in-' an es erest, arid ability of the inky product chiefi fits tireless energy. velop How to Treat Ingersoll. he following question having be mitted to a college professor, lies as follows in the Albany Jot )ear Professor: Are not Ingersol unents unanswerable? What a going to do about it? SEVERAL STCDENTS. o you are out half a dollar apie( you? No, no; I cannot answer hir -s, I recall the incident in my eag impetuous youth of wasting nd and a half of bird shot on 1Il owl. I followed him from tree , and shot away a hatful of feat] and when he died of fatigue I four his body was about as large as n's and I put it to no earthly us was a deceptive target. If I unde d the gentleman from Peoria, l ies to liberate youth from tl ibus and thraldom of superstitioi t devastating influence of the coui lergynan's on $500 per annum an nation is what worries Robert, an roposes to cure it and eradicate he trifling pittance of $250 per le, . For fifty cents he proposes I rate your mind from that influen< ch filtered into it from the tremi lips of your mother, and free fror charm of superstition loaned upo r soul by the rough but loving han our father. Of course he worri( it you more than those old fogi( -for fifty cents. :u look around you in the city her you discover several millions < irs invested in hospitals, seminf asylums, forced 'on the sufierin munity by the same mythica culous and superstitious incubt ligion. You ask the gentlema Peoria where his little publi tutions are, founded by his peculis hing, and he says in an absen ded manner, "Fifty cents at tI >ys, you see sometimes a poor man ral procession, with a democrr on, and a little coffin in it so sma can carry it under your arm. couple walk behind it with hreal hearts. Their baby is in the littl n. It was their all. Their hear roken. Oh, if we only had Bo e to tell them about liberty an hs and miracles-for .fifty cents it would cheer them up. it you say there are so many infi Boys, you are mistaken. An int s an abnormal growth, and Natm funny once and a while an tes a freak, e. g., the living skeletor rat. woman, the two-headed gir here is about one infidel to a mi sane men. The most of these fe > are amateur infidels. They tal !rsoll in fair weather, and pra aselves hoarse every time it thur . A well-developed ease of choler bus will knock their infidelity of em and leave them in a cold swes a china dog in an ice-house. ~v them. The most of them ar the boy who runs away from bonm comes back to stay with fath< .ts. len, again, boys, take a look aroun when you invest another fifty cent berty, and compare the crowd wit kind of people you find in almoi church. Is it the odor of sanctit smell? Hardly, boys, hardly. Br can eat peanuts there and choke o shells while you applaud the funn, s about the heaven where you kno' our heart you hope your mother i! ear the humble Nazarene ridiculec ,you think, and always will thinl a home to your weary old fathe n he left the earth. as, boys, his arguments are unan Lble, and I think the season wil e along, and the churches will cor e to bloom, and all nature wi t exasperatingly and calmly pe: her functions if Robert is not at ed. You know when the firn ner crossed the Atlantic a gres osopher was delivering a most cor ye argument to prove that by n ibility could a steam vessel croi cean, and that provoking steame~ e snorting and sizzling and splurg right into the harbor. Boys, a God's f,,olish children go right o ing and preaching and dying an g to heaven in spite of argt t. ivhat the World's Fair Should Be. r. Francis A. Walker in the Febrt ary Forum.] vo things should be prominentlyi: .First, that it is a real celebri we want, and not a mere peddler: We can be content with nothin I han a grand, dignified celebratio: event of transcendent imrportanc te whole world, riot alone to its it rial, but to its political and socia ests, as well. Secondly, that, o occasion, the United States shout ar, not for themselves alone, bu e head arid front of the people c 2e Americas, assuming the leader as is right, but associating witi selves, in the initiation and, ti degree, in the conduct of the cele o)n, all the other nations which their existence to the daring am nrturous voyage of Columbus y per'sonis think of a world's faira: ing its economic influence only a: o01 of industrial art; but this i, ~maller part of its mission. It ih gh widening the markets for pro through educating the taste 01 m rers, th rough inspiring inudus ambitions, that the world's fair its greatest work. It is not as ai s to ends already desired, but as sing new ends, as setting up and finier objects of desire, than hibition of arts and manufactures y contributes to industrial de ment. QUIETLY JOINED THE CHURC, 'n Mr and Mrs. Grover Cleveland- Worship e Unostentatiouiy. r-New [New York World.] l's Mr. and Mrs. Grover Cleveland at re tended the morning service yesterday at the Central Presbyterian Church, No. 220 West Fifty-seventh Street. e, They arrived early and did not attract any unusual attention, although they. yr walked from their home in Madison a avenue. The statement was published a yesterday that Mrs. Cleveland was to oU formally unite with the church at the - . morning service. The error was prob d ably due to the fact that she had de a cided to join the church on the first Sunday in the month, which proved to - r be a rainy, unpleasant day, and it was 1e supposed. that the bad weather would e have kept her away. It did not. Even had she been absent the formality of. receiving ;her into this church would d have been gone through just the same. d Her name, with that of twenty other it new members, was read by the. pastor, the Rev. Hilton Meree Smith. The o twenty-one names were those who had come to the Central Church from other cities, bringing letters of transfer from a their pastors. During the reading of the announcement Mrs. Cleveland did d not leave her pew, neither did any other of the twenty-one whose names. were read. Mr. Cleveland was with - his wife. e t was a strange thing yesterday to see the man who twelve months ago . would have been followed by a curiois g crowd, walking calmly and slowly 1 with his wife across Fifty-seventh sy s Street. . Few of the many hundreds n along the way from the Clevelands' c home on Madison Avenue, recognized .r them, and the few who did stared po litely and with friendly interest. The e ex-President wore a silk hat, not too new, his inevitable and statesmanlike s frock-coat. Mrs. Cleveland, hand } ermer than ever and as young looking, wore a quiet gown of seal-brown cloth . and modest hat. The Clevelands occupied yesterday a e pew half way between the door and the platform. It is on the left sideof b the church. The ex-President looked; d tranquil and paid heed to the sermon::_ Mrs. Cleveland -joined in the congre gational singing and paid devout atr tention to the services. When the i congregation was dismissed the er Presidential family walked away d the bright February sunshine mucb. the same as the other people did. Thanks from Airs, Grady.. ATLANTA, February 12.-Mrs. Hen-_ ry W. Grady has received since tle death of Mr. Grady so many kind ex a pressions of sympathy from various States and municipal bodies, organm , tions, societies and individuals all over'- . the conutry that she desires all wh e know o kindly remembered her may kno thorw touching and comforting rterwords have been to her, and how ' inexpressibly dear to her is all thatas' been so beautifully said and written of Mr. Grady. She also wishes in thns way o rturnheatfei thnksto these tkind friends everywhere. Asking too Much of Ex-Partner BisseH. t [From the Philadelphia Ledger] ilson S. Bissell, Cleveland's former laIpartner, was served with a sub pcena last week at a railroad station in 'Buffalo to appear as a witness in the 'Ball-Post libel suit. As the train r moved out Mr. Bissell said to the offi cer: "You may go to thunder. I'm nof ~ going to put off my wedding to testify 1in a libel suit. I'll get married to-night ' iflIgo to jail for it." Col. Ingersoll Recalls a Story. S [From the Washington Post.1 "Harrison's selection at Chicago," said Ingersoll, "reminds me of a story rof a newly married couple who quar relIed about what they .should have ~ for dinner the next day. The husband swore he'd have terrapin and the wife vowed she wanted duck. The quarret got hot and they finally compromised on cabbage. That," said the Colonel, pointing scornfully in the direction of the White House, "is cabbage." John's Pledge. [From the Kansas City Times.] "I promise to run the Post Office De ~partment on busines principles," said Holy John Wanamaker when he-took ' charge of that important branch of the e Government service. And the bus!- { - ness that flows into his Philadelphia establishment from 50,008 fourth-class 2 postmasters is proof that he has ful- - Sfilled his promise. t ____________ f Census Supervisors. WASHINGTON, 'February 11.-IL is understood that the names of F. W. Macusker and S. T. Poiner have been submitted to the President for appoint ment as supervisers of the census for ~ the 4th and 2id districts of South Cary The Whole story. [From the Washington Star.] Mission Worker (kindly to prisoner at the rock pile)-What are you doing here, my friend ? Prisoner (shortly)-Time. Sixty-five out of seventy-six mem. bers of the present Senate are lawyers, and of the three hundred members of the House far more than two him dred are drawn ftom the same profess sion.