Nemaha County Republican from Sabetha, Kansas • Page 2

WINGED MISSILES THE CAMP FIRE. HE NATIONAL CAPITAL. one cf the vtpi'is are remarkably brilliant players. The chessmen have little pics tu the bottom of each piece which lit iito a hole ia the square, so that they are Leld ia placet until they are ruovei bv contestant. Although the blind play cards they dfc tot ei a rule take much pleasure ia tb.lt.

precious metal that will be the main question after the shackles of legislutiou have been removed. It is uot to be deni-d that some well known Senators an I Representatives from the Atlantic States deprecate the action taken and fear some terrible cataclysm as the suit of coining more silver; but they are net vociferous, for they blushingly remember that the similar prophecies made by them when the Bland bill pa-sed went far wide cf the mark. About eight blocks north of the Capitol a flat crouching wandering many angled ramshackle structure cf brick and wood, painted white, which always attracts the inquisitive attention of the visitor who climbs to the dome or take-3 the elevator to tiie top ef tlie monument. It is a beggar iy building, uncouth au.1 pockmarked, out at elbows, forlorn and wmo the blind. GAMES THAT SIC'-tTLESS CrPLDREN CAN FLAY DURING LEISURE Before They Can "lay Indoor Game They Must be Kducated Toys and Girl's The amusements of blind children fire necessarily limited in character and few in number.

Most outdoor sports cannot be enjoyed by them, tmd thoso games that sre played indoors differ largely from those of seeing children, either io their construction or in their use. One reason, perhaps, that there are sc. fewamcs for hiiud children lies in tie fact that there are very few bliuii children to play games. Those who see have an idea that ail blind persona have been accustomed to the loss of their eve-sight all tlieir lives. This is in reality very far from being the case.

Only five per cent of the blind are born without eyesight. Seven per cent lose their sight under the are of ten years. Thirteen per cent become blind between the agei of ten and twenty. Thirty per cnf meel their r.f.lictioa between the ages of tweu ty and fifty, and forty -five per ceut, oi nearly buif the blind persons ia the world.rcach the age of fifty years before they lose their sight. Consequently, among the blind, chil dren are iu a very great minority.

There is another reason why there are few games that blind children can play. With the blind any movement of the hands or feet that is not perfectly natural ia an effort. A Eeeing child, for instance. docs a thousand things be has not been taught by imitation, lie sees bit brother dress himself and imitates him without any conscious effort on his part. He watches other children at their work and in their play, and without knowing how he acquires the knowledge he learns to lo as they are doing.

The little blind boy has not this facul ty. He cannot dress himself until he has been taught by many patient lesions how it shall be done. Learning to but ton his shirt up iu front is tlie work of days and perhaps of weeks. He cannot even eat as other children cau without going through a long and tedious period of instruction. And some blind children whose parents are overiadulgent to them do not learn to walk until they arj live or six years old.

i. i f-st! p. BLIND LOTS PLAYING LEAP i ftOO. One tan readily understand that such Children cannot share the amusements of seeing children, and yiu cau realize how difik-ult it has been to devise any games for them that do not tire thein to learn more than they amuse them. Still blind children are no less fond of sports than children who cau see, and those games that thev can play arc enjoyed equally as much as you eujoyed your gtme of ball or checkers.

1 lie simplest lorun ot amusement among the blind are skipping th? rope, 11 avi tig tag and walking All of these eports are easily learned, and they are a roeans of woikine off the superfluous. animal activity, that children, whether blind or seeing, hiways possess. Hide and seek is popular sport. The bov who is "it" doesn't cover bis face while the other boys are hiding themselves, and those who arc sought make no effort to conceal themselves. They are found by the sense of touch after a search that serais as hopeless to the looker on as the finding of a needle in havstaek.

The most mufcular boys prefer leapfrog, and woo be it to the unlucky chap who stands too near the living Sost the human frog vaulta over. He is fartun-te if he is not rolled over on thi ground and flattened out beneath the falling weieut. Tug and skipping the rope ars played the same way that seeing persons are accustomed to play them, and barring the accidental knocks the players get they are highly enjoyed. The girls find pleasure in walking around their yard and talking and iu skipping the rope and playing tag. However, in this yard the spor.

are gentlet and knocks and bruises are the exception and not the rule. The older boys take thctr exercise iu walking tnd in the gymnasium. There is a peculiar printing pstablish-meut in this ciiv says the N. T. lleral where very littlo ink nnd hardly am type, as most printers know "ypc, an used.

It is here that the lnuric books and the school books for the blind ere printed. There arc square blccks with points on them to correspond with th? points letters that are used, which take the place of common type. These are set up from the "copy" ard printed on heavy paper. This paper is after ward vnrnished so that the paints will not be worn down by constant uce, as would be the case were nothing of that sort doiic. ItLIXD GIRLS TLAYIX9.

After the pupil has learned to read and write and to play the piano or organ or some other musical instrument he it ready for games. His bands have been trained so that he can do mechanically what at first would have been the hardest kind of work for him. Not he caD play checkers. The checker board, as is shown in the illustration, has every alternMc square raised, and the men fit into the depressed squares. One side of each man has a hole in it, and when it is crowned king this side is turned uppermost.

The white "men" are round and tie black are square. The same sort of board is ascd foi backgammon, and the dice all have sharp points on them, instead of black dots, to mark their values. Chess is a difflcnlt game to larn, but when it is once mastered the blind player 5n enjoy it as well us one teeianj i -fx. ah- I'ensifitls. Assistant Secretary P.ussey overruled the former adverse Departmental decision in the pension claim of the widow of Frank Iieckof.

late Major of the id Mo. and directed that the widow's name be placed upon the pension-rolls. The decision which is thus reversed was based upon the ground that records of the War Department the claimant husband was dismissed from the service bv order of the President of the United Stat-. liie aitegoa incurrence oi tne tiou'ne inguinal hernia in the manner and at the time an phee set forth in the original declaration for a pen-ion is eon-ceded as correct and as having -n ck arly proved. The only quest 'n raised bv the claim reh.te- to the discitame 'f the soldier from the rviee ar.d tt.e action of the court-martial by he was tried and acquitted upon cert'iii? charge-.

These; findings, however, were disapproved by th" M.ijor-Geiieral commanding the department, who forwarded the record to the President with lie recommendation that the ae-cu-ed be dismissed from the service. The recommendation was approved by the President, who ordered his dismissal. The conclusion in this decision are reviewed at some length by the Assistant Secretary, who then says: "The dismissal of Beckof from the military service, despite the acquittal of him by the court-martial, was simply a penalty for an alleged offense against the service, the infliction of the penalty exhausted the power of the. Govern-ment to punish him for said offense, and it bore no relation to a claim for pension based upon disabilities incurred by him in line of duty." On Hie Waterloo Monument. I5y the desire of the Duke of Cambridge and the membei-s of the London Committee for the erection of the Waterloo monument at the Cemetery of Evere.

near Brussels, it has been definitely arranged that the inscrip tion on the moniimi nt shall run as follows: In memory of the British officers, non-commissioned officers and men who fell during the Waterloo campaign in ll.r. and whose remains were transferred to this cemetery in This monument is erected by her liritanuic Majesty ueon Yictorhi. Empress of India and by their countrymen, a site generously presented by the eitv of Mo: tuorum tria Memor." Thelh keofCambrid-e will unveil the monmn end of August. at toward thy Went on a War Outli. A man named Harmer was in the Confederate army from Tennessee.

and the day before the battle of Chicka-mauga, full of confidence in the result of the coming fight, took a clean shave, that he might be in good condition when victory should perch on the Confederate standards. After the battle he swore in disgust that he would never shave again until the Federals had been subjugated and the Yankees driven out of the- South. Hut the constant accession of Yankee population and capital has forced him to succumb, and the other day a Knoxville barber removed a vard-long beard from face. hii Kx-Oliio SoJtlicrt rtrri an Association Forty ex-Ohio soldiers organi.ed the Cook County auxiliary of the Ohio Veteran Association of Illinois at Chicago. The organization i- formed to make preliminary arrangements to attend the Erst annual State reunion of the Ohio veterans now resident in Illinois, to be held at Springfield in December.

Maj. Charles C. liliven was made President and M. F. Sheffield secretary.

The secretary was directed to ask the commanders of each G. A. li. post in Cook county to furnish the names of all Ohio soldiers belonging to their posts. A Handsome Acknowledgement.

The Department of Indiana. Grand Army of the Republic, presented to ex-Department Commander Charles M. Travis badge. at Crawfordsville, the presentation leing accompanied by appropriate exercises. Governor Hovey and staff, together with their ladies, were there from Indianapolis.

At the conclusion of the programme Governor llovey was tendered a reception. The Cost of War. Of wars within the last half century the cost has been as follows: France ami Algeria. .6 ItMooo.fMO Prance and Austria, 1S' 2iV S) 'J lie Kuropean revolution ia Prussia and Austria, to x) Our civil war. iMtl-Vi Prince and Mexico.

In; To.ino.ikttf Hrazil and I'arauav, 1 i- ml Prance and Germany, 1.0St Canadians Who fought in ISli. The Canadian survivors of the war of 112 are rapidly passing away. They receive an annual pension from the Dominion Government. The applications for the forthcoming payments only number 37 in ail Canada. Last year 70 drew pensions.

At the present rate the pension list will be extinguished iu a few years. Preparing for the Veterans. John R. Miller, Henry Lyon and other Decatur (111.) capitalists decided to erect at once a large auditorium building for the accommodation of the next annual meeting of the Illinois Department Grand Army of the Republic and the gathering of the Illinois Di-vision Sons of Veterans. Nebraska Veteran.

The State Veterans' Association met in Lincoln. recently. The attendance was between three and four hundred. The object of the meeting was to emphasize their views in favor of a service pension bill and more liberal treatment of the soldiers. Casting Their Shadows Before.

Whenever you find a girl who finds fault because she is not allowed greater liberties at home, in the matter of receiving young men, you may safely say to her that the time is coming when she will regret that her parents were Lot mor- stria. are down on the army iwcrds as sent without leave." A young woman at Madison, being frighteaej, screamed louiiy, dislocating her jaw. A colored man at Alb.tny.Ga., has servi no less than twenty-one terms ia jail for fighting. A medical scientist says: A a rule women need about nine-tenths of the nourishment requisite lor men. They seem to bo honest folks in Boston.

one book out ot 4'00J ia the Dubtic library fails to be returned. Mrs. Hough'on, a rail estata dealer at Spck-me Falls, is sail to hava made in four years. Robert L. letter in defense of Father Damians is considere I oaa of tiie best literary e.forts cf his life.

A well-known colored fiddler at Annapolis. dreamed that he had only one day more to live, and died accordingly. Scotch capitalists are ready to invest at Glasgow, if their geeloj-ical expert gives a favorable report. Business and singing often tro together. W.

II. Duine, the nymn writer, is tha manager of an iron foundry in Cincinnati. Max; says that soiuo of the natives cf Iniia need fear no comparison with the best men and women of Kurepe. A counterfeit dime heavily plated witli pure silver on a body of German si.v.-r appeared in Goshen, lud. It is dated Haverhill, is years old and just celebrated the event in good style.

People wto read hitlier will recall tha old town. The largest contingent cf recruits ever demanded by the Russian war of.iee, was fixed for tha next enrollment by the latest ukase. A new lion hunter has arisen to succeed the late Bombonnel iu Algeria, name! Cat-tier, who invites not en men but women to come and hunt. The Vineiand jrrape crop this year will be an almost entire failure where a few years ago over vines wero fruiting and yielding heavily. A magpie that has just died ia Meriden, could call all tho members of its owner's family by name aud was ijaite a fluent conversationalist.

Improvements are constantly coming around. Electroplating with platinum nromi es to be r.mong the accomplished thing of the near future. It is said that the Ivl-yenr-old daughter of Colonel T. W. is unusually bright.

The father reeeaUy said of her, "I study to keep her ignorant" The largest sheep ranch in the world in the counties of Webb and Dimmit, ia Texas. It contains upward of -f t-'0 acres and yearly pastures sheep. J. IX Rockefeller has just piveu to tho Baptists general education society, lie is quite a bouana to that denomination. His gifts are and large.

Two beys who ndered from the town of Tuarne, iX. into tha mountains wera killed and eaten by bears. A third boy escaped aud told tiie fate of hi3 companion. Miss Lottie Uod, the Lnglisli lady lawn tennis champion, advises ladies who would excel at lawa tennis not to phry too much, and to carefully eschew garden party tennis. Glut'ous have to pny for their rashness in abusing the system.

The man who ate twenty-six eggs in Atlanta, on a wager, be came sicii and died. Mature win taKe its revenges. A bigamist under arrest in Akron, Ohio, is said to have no less than seven wives. They live in various parts of the country. ha lias married them all within tha past ten years.

Senator Evarts has four establishments. one at Montpeher, one at ashmgtou nd one at New York; an 1 now ho ha bjug'ut and fitted up a log cabin near Mount Vernon. A key to Browning's poetry will bo pub- slied in London. In Chicago tiie.v don't need any such help. There th; children have it aside, their primers and taken up their Brownings.

The center of New Guinea has just been reached by an explorer. The world has been hard to find out and it still has many unexplored corners. There is still room for the explorer. The mineral called turfa, or braolina, recently discovered in Bahia, furnishes, an oil ak to petroleum, a parafline suitable for the manufacture of candles and a good lubricating oiL Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa's twenty years term of banishment from England is about to expire, and his friends are raising money to send him back and keep him there the rest of his life. The invention of smokeless powder has been followed by a counter-invention in the shape of a "smoke rocket," to bo used to screen the advance of a bidy of troops.

It has been tried with success. A "fossil forest" hns been discovered in Scotland. Thirty or forty fossil trunks have already been laid bare, mo3t of which are gray freestone. One of ttie trunks is at least two feet in diameter. It will take from ten to fifteen years for the government to complet tho history of tho war.

While each volume costs nominally it is said tha real cost wiil ba not iessthan par A cording to recent figures the people of this country are longer live! than those of Europe. In t1 is country persons out of every I.CMJ die each year: ia England tha average is 2 and in Germany 2'. "Jane Eyre" still has its hold upon the public. A New York firm wdt bring out a iinely illustrated two volume issuo of the old standard. There are few better selling books among thosi ba-k of modern date.

A new element named "Jamaria," is said to been dls overe 1 in the crater of an extinct volcano in Damaralan 1. It is reported to have an atomic weight of only 0.5, or half that of hydrogen, and, therefore, it is the lightest known substaaca. Joseph Thompson, a well-known British traveler, writes to a Lonaon missionary society from Africa: "Gin ard brandy tre depriving the native Afrian of whatever native virtue they possess. Tha gia and the missionaries both coma from England." A lignite sugar refinery has been established in Philadelphia for utilizing "blaclt strap," tho refuse or molasses. Hitherto this substance has been used in making rum, but the product has always been la excess of the demand.

The inventors claim that the process will revolutionize the sugar industry. It is clarified taroagii pulverized lignite. There was a pathetic scene in a Sixth avenue elevated train. A drunken man. leading a little 6-year-old boy, stumbled into the rear car.

After finding seats he gradually leaned further and further over, until he fell asleep with his head on tha child's lap, and every few moments the little fellow, wide awaka at midnight, would tug at his father's coat and say: "Please sit up, papsk" Sir Henry de Burgh-La wson thinks that he will revolutionize naval construction by his plan for constructing ships with three keels, between which their bottoms ar3 curved in combination with special internal propellers, werkei and housed in chambers from which the water is partially excluded, each propoller having a separata set of machinery, working independently of each other. Sir Henry claims that rolling would be almost prevented and that the ship's power of climbing waves would be immensely in created. rcorFPT DISCOURSES O.V SILlEn AXD THE BIG PR1XTIXU OIFICB. Sketch tlie Flcht In Congress What Silver Junes Saj Itelstive Quality of the Two Metals ISig Ma- ehino-Men WHO Help Hitu Old News, paper Hand. Special Washington Letter.

"God knows," said Cannon, "how far h' gentleman from Missouri Bland) would go ia this matter, but Go I doesn't know how far my colleague (Mr. Springer) would go. The remark was greeted with roars of laughter, in th midst of which Springer struggled for the lloor and retorted. "It is churacWisTis ot my colleague's inodVstv that he so conlidently claims to know what God does not know. A few who were close to the speaker l.m-.'heJ at this, but the laughter evoked by Cannon had not yt sub-ided.

and the re cinder was lost in the tumult, so ir.at even theofacial reporters lost it. It was a nat rer.lv: perhaps thj best that the occasion permitted. The free coinage silver i'l was up in the House or. rather, it down in tl; House down in the rooms of the committee on coinage, weights, and measures, to which Speaker Reed had alertlv consign? 1 when it made its ap- pt a ranee from the Senate. The Speaker was in a dilemma, and so were the Re publicans whose acrent was.

Eight of these, from Kansas, California. Colorado, and the newest States, had voted with the Democrats, virtually censuring the Speaker for sending it to that committee, and demanding to have it recalled to the table. The new masters of the House had a majority of two. and it was enough to cause a paralysis for two days, and it was solid. But it was not enough to enable them to get possession of the bill and act upon it.

The new rules proved sufficient not only to enable the majority to do business, but to enable them to prevent its being done when they lost their grip. A hundred were mado fro Morrow and th? other recalcitrants by leading Senators and Members, but their invariable answer was, "I have been instructed by my people to vote for free coinage, anl if I refuse I come back hera more. Tlie answer, coming from Perkins and Morrill, of Kansas, and others, was "So have I instructed to vote for free coinage, aud I am ready to voto for such a bib whenever it can lieeom-i a law. Bui th; will veto such a bill if ptusd. and staiesni uiship go 33 not for the conceivable but tlu boat attainable.

P.eed was in a fix, but he did not permit that fact to worry hitn. He had been reprinvm-i-'d. but he was imperturbable. Tin ha 1 voted that the bill had not been sent to the committee on coinage. "Yet it lias been sent there," said Reed, "for I sent it there myself.

"I have po.sesoio:i of it," said Conger, of Iowa; "it is now m- committee room. "There, you see I was right," con tinued th calm and complacent presid ing oflicer; "it is down in the committee room, and how to get it up here is tha problem: parliamentary law is not an exact science. So the struggle went on for three days the Speaker repeatedly outvoted by the free coinaga men, but keeping his grip upon the bill. The discussion was lively and even acrimonious. By this time the Speaker had sent imperative summonses to absent Republicans, commanding them to hurry to "whips, "as they are called in tho Bntitdi parliament and on the third day the Speaker had a majority again and got out of hot water.

Then a vote was taken, and tho bill regularly assigned to Conger's committee, and next day it was reported back and disagreed to. and a committee to confer with the Senate was, appointed. Although the Democratic members had voted solidly together iu the three days' scrimmage, ostensibly for free coin-tge, anJ the Republicans almost solidly together against it, it was known that 2) Democrats would vote against it, and that nearly 30 Republicans would vote for it on the floor, if it ever came to a square and decisive vote. But it was understood that Secretary Windoni had not changed his views as to the perilous character of free coinage, and that the President would dare to veto it if such a bill were laid before him. So the supporters of tlie AdminisLration struggled on for the best attainable thing a bill providing for the coinage of something like four and a half millions a mouth tlie total American pruduct.

I send you herewith a little picture showing tho comparative bulk of the gold and silver produced ia tiie world aunually; and it may be sr.Uled that the THE WORLD'S OF aggregate of all the gold and silver existing would present about the same contrast. The annual product of gold is valued at $106,000,000. and the annual pr xiuct of silver at 1 i 1.000 so that, measured by an ultimate value standard, tiie silver cube would be but little more than one-third larger than the gold cule. The cube representing the annual product of gold, would be a little taller than a tall man, when lying on the ground; but the cube representing the annual on; put of silver would be about 20 feet square. A similar cube 30 feet square would contain all of the gold now existing in the world.

"Silver will rise in relative value if we can only monetize it again, said Senator Jones to me. It diminished in value only because it was not used. If ail nations, or even the principal nations, were to combine and enact that no wheat should lorjrer he sround or used for human food, trie price of wneat would necessarily arop in the market, and the pries of rice and potatoes would go up. That is just what has happened to coin. Gold, being overworked, has gone up till it is now 10 or 15 per cent, above par, while silver is as far below.

'Gold is above par measured in what?" I asked the Senator. "Human labor." he said "the only ultimate standard of value. Labor i3 not an unchangeable standard, but it on the whole, less variable than anything else, and gold and silver, whea both have free coinage, will be measured by it How many days' work does it take to njiiie aaid assay and coin th? incident of the war-new Eli 31 AN RIFLE. -THE I.ensrtli of Service Couirt Have Saved Liilpln Deserter No 'Hern I'rla-um-New Matter I Items. An InfiiSent of tl War.

I was a member of Thirtieth Connecticut Hie opposing armies hr.d come ir.tu pretty close quarters in Louisiana in i-S(i2, anil confederate out-pickets, strappers and skirmishers were around us and doing oonsideraVie mischief. Throe companies of our regitnent wi re ordered out i'U skirmish duty. Wo marched down, five paces apart, according to regula tions, into a perlcet morass. l.e water was v.ai-t everywhere. wasn't very ttt.d I found it necessary to hold up my car! ride-belt to keep it from gelling saturated.

The confederates were scattered through this swamp and we took a numher of without op' i.lng lire. I met with a in is-fort: me. My foot caught between a couple of parallel Tranches beneath the water and I was securely pinioned. My companions continued on their way, while I struggled hard to extricate myself from my unpleasant predicament. I finally pulled my foot out with a desperate effort, but my shoe was left behind.

I could only secure it by plunging my head beneath the surface of the slimy, noxious, muddy water, but it had to be done. I had no sooner tot the shoe tied on again than a rebel came in sight from behind some bushes. Intuitively our muskets were simultaneously raised. "Surrender, you thundered the rebel. "Surrender yourself, I returned at the top of my lungs.

Then we stood and eyed each other. Each had his gun cocked and leveled at the other, but neither pulled a trigger. Why we he-itated is more than I can explain. By delaying, you see, each was practically placing himself at the mercy of the other, or so it would seem. Suddenly the rebel's gun dropped, and I brought mine down also.

"See here, Yank," he began in a much milder tone, "if I should shoot you. my side wouldn" gain mu-h. And. if you should shoot me your side wouldn't gain much. Now I've got a wife and two babies over yonder, and if you dropped me they wouldn't have nobody to take care of 'etn.

Now, it's a mean man that won't split the difference. I'll let you go if you'll let me go, and we'll call the thing 6quare. What do you say?" Well, what should I say? I walked over half-way and we met and shook Lands ana parted. About a year after a letter came to our camp addressed to "Little Yankee thai split the difference." I had told him my regiment, you see, but not my name. The letter wae a cordial invitation to visit the fellow at his home in Louisiana.

lie wanted me to see the wife and babies whose memory had prompted him to propose to split the diiTerenee, and I have always regretted that I was unable to accept the invitation. Adj. Gen. Mullen. 4'oaUl Have Saved Lincoln's Life.

The one man in the world who rould have prevented the assassination of President Lincoln is dead. John Frederick Parker, born in Winchester. came to Washington eomo time before the tiring upon Fort Sumter, and soon found employment upon the metropolitan police force. When in lMc' it was decided to etrengthen the regular force of doorkeepers and watchmen at the white house with a squad of policemen, Parker was one of those selected. It thus happened that when President Lincoln and part' entered the old Ford theatre on the night of Good Friday, 1865, they were accompanied by Parker as guard.

He took his position at the door to the private box from which President Lincoln watched the performance, where he was expected to remain and prevent the entrance of every one except the members of the party. As the play proceeded. Parker, from his post, could hear just enough of what was said on the stage to arouse his curiosity, and it was not long before he left the door and edged toward the auditorium. Ho finally took a seat in the orchestra or "pit." as it was then called, where he had scarcely settled himself when the whole audience was surprised at the report of a pistol shot. The assassin.

P.ooth. had stealthily approached the door of the president's private box. where, finding no one to challenge him. he entered unannounced and tired the fatal shot. There is no question in the minds of those who are familiar with the details that, had Parker remained at his post.

Booth could never have taken President Lincoln unawares. To Pardon Army Ieserter. A law was passed not long ago offering amnesty to deserters from the regular army under certain conditions, and all whose offense occurred more than five years ago can surrender themselves to the commanding officer of the nearest military post. and. after an investigation of their cases obtain jm honorable discharge.

The object of this law. it is said, was to clear up the records of certain wealthy gentlemen who were formerly in the army but deserted a generation or more ago and have since been in constant terror lest they might be apprehended and sent to prison. There are, of course, thousands of others to whom it is a great relief, and who will take advantage of its provisions, but they could not have commanded the influence to secure such legislation. In the early days of gold excitement in the West it was difficult to keep men in the army. Many enlisted solely for the purpose of securing free transportation to California.

Nevada. Colorado, and other far-off states, and soon after deserted and took refuge in the mining districts. It is said that there are thousands of such men in the West to-day, wealthy and prosperous, some of them worth large suras of money, but they have all lived in constant danger of arrest and been the victims of blackmail from those who know their records. O'Brien, the partner ot Flood and Mackay, is said to have been a deserter, and some of the rich-eft afid best-knows men in Arizona dissolute of mein. d.

draggled from every v-ss-l aaJ bo-point of view. Smoke and steam escape from it; Usl! chimneys, and it is evidently a buy spot. Its employees are skilled laborers, and thev work two hours lo.iger each day than do the government servants who uot siiii.ea. mere are a coupiu oi thousand ot them about half women and it is truly a sight when the rickety old front door jars open ami the day's J. inmates swarm 'clock each T-l iicLsW.

-3if tui. iurj iii jrL' the people in wiiuse luieresi Congress has lately worried itself to secure T. W. PALMER. only eight hours work each day for them.

And in regulating human, Congress does not seem to be very puissant. This enormous and complicated ma chine is now run by Palmer Frank W. Palmer, formerly of the Inter-Ocean. 1 remenibt when he came up out of Iowa aud tackled that moribund sheet. Folks smile 1 at his audacity, and wondered if his purse wao as deeD as the Gulf of Mexico.

But Palmer was either saga- cijus or lucky in surrounding himself with a corps of men who were hustlers. And by an odd coincidence or something almost ail of those men are now iu oilice in Wellington. His managing editor. Gil. Pierce, is Senator from Dakota; his city editor.

Halford, is the President's secretary at a vear: his chief editorial writer, Ro'-ert P. Porter, is su perintendent of the census. One of the most brilliant members of his stall, William E. Curtis, is correspondent of the Chi- ca go auu -r. iiaiue a representative iu the All-American Congress.

Major John Melllvev, noweditorof tlie National here, was another of his team. Miss Alice Hobbins, a remarkably able II around reporter the later-Ocean, is the wife of Superintendent Porter and the mother of his four or five children. Charley Ham, appraiser, there, too, at that time, hustling for news. I was on the Liter-Oeeaa myself, awhile, as editorial writer, an I at least one other reporter is enjoying a first rate consul ship on a spice island in the great Pacific Palmer was originally 10 years ago a type sticker on the Jamestown, N. Journnl, and after that he wa3 suc- ce sively and successful? editor of the Dubuque Timrs and tiie Des Moines Then he came to Congress for eight years and climbed up to the ap propriations committee and a leading position.

After he left the Intcr-Ocettn, iu 187o, he was for eight years postmaster of Chicago, where he handled of money and let go of the whole of it. il? is an entertaining platform sieaker and a discre -t politician. For this elephant ia old ler box a great new building is about to be substituted, and Senators Manderson ar.d llawl of tlie printing committee have secured an amendment of tlie sun dry civil bill which provides tlie ground and lite budding. It ougiit to have been lone long ago. Benedict urged its necessity under Cleveland adminis tration, but it was neglected and will now signalize tha administration of Palmer.

This is the lare-est printing establish ment in the world larger than that of Harper or Apploton or Trow in New York, or Low in London, or Chambers in Edinburgh, or Tauchnitz in Lcipsic. Recently three large books were printed here from the manuscript in 24 hours, aggregating 2,000 pages! and delivered in cart loads It is no uncommon thing for a committee tomtet at 9.30 in the morning, hold a session of an hour and a half, send their report to Printer Palmer, and get it back in great piles at 12 o'clock, print' anl stitched, laid on the desks of niem-l-rs at the ojicning of the daily session. This is tremendously quick work un-equaled anywhere. huch rapidity in execution, with corre sponding accuracy, would not lie at all possible, if the Public Printer were not ilanked on either hand by two of tiie most efficient men in tin public service. Captain H.

T. Brian, foreman, and W. H. Collins, chief clerk. Brian is a little, active, vigilant man.

with as many eyes as the thousand faced fly and a memory liks sin elephant. He knows not only every tiiini that troes on under that knock- kneed roof, but he is far the bet informed man in Washington as to tlie eggregats of work being done by the di fit rent departments. If he chose to talk and tell ail he knows he couid fill a con mitlee of investigation very full as to the locality and identity of a good many of the best and of the poorest workers ia the public service. He ought, really, to le superintendent of printing with in adequate salary, instead of ft reman at S2.1UC a year. Collins, too, is chock full of days' works and he strengthens Palmer like two additional pairs of eyes and another right hand.

W. A. Cp.offct. LiJiea. Everything is perfumed save the handkerchief.

Custom stamps a scentod handkerchief a vulgar. If you wish your linen to haTe a particularly fresh, wholesome, old fashioned odor, buy one of lavender hasp now in tlie market They are filled with the crushed lavender flowers, and the pungent odor will last much longer than poudre sachet. One can not imagine the task it is to prepare these bags for tlie market. In conversation with a girl who does this work she said that when at work she is forced to covrrher hair completely, wear gloves, cover her neok carefully and her gown with huge aprons, and even then the fine dust of the flowers will fly up, lodge in the eyebrows, ears, and nostrils, causing unlimited dwoomfort. But one-half the world must have the luxurious appointments of the toilet; the other half muot prepare thttn.

While there are many illusions in which the young and some who are not young indulge, and which must inevitably at some time or other be revealed and drop away, the ideals of life that is, the highest and purt hope and dreams of good to be attained ar all true, and will eventually be fulfilled. Therefore we need never part with them, nor with the joyful enthusiasm and acV it endeavor which they cnrtfKFr. cv.v.czt.v. a so CHESi t.ii: Tr. tin.l cf cinusement.

cc.rd, of cottrse, ij marked so that the nlaver can tell its value, but in a game each player must call out the card as ha plays it so that his opponent can tell hat ha3 been played. Tais makes the gainu a trill slow and monotonous. In concluding let me cttll attention to something that moot readers have pro hahly noticed and perhaps may never have heard explained. It' one has ever been near a blind asylum in the evening he must have noticed that the building is always illuminated. Why do the blind need lights? It is because very few so-called blind persons are really blind, vhile they may not be able to distinguish objects, they can, as a rule, distinguish between light and darkness, and the gas light makes their rooms and halls much easier for them to find their way in than darkness would.

Joseph Jefferson on Snoring. In the Cent 'try Joseph Jefferson describes the snoring part of the old-fashioned stage journey across the Alleghauys: "A short way from town there was a long hill up which the horses toiled, so this gave the inmates cthe time to settle themselves down for a quiet m-p. One snore after another announced the accomplishment of this feat, and in a few minutes at least six of the nine passengers were oblivious of their miserable condition. I never before had so line an opportunity to study the philosophy of snoring. A large, fat man opposite me had a short, angry snore: at one time he snored so loudly that he woke himself up.

and had the impudence to glare about at the company as though hoped that would not make that noise again. The old lady who was me up in the corner snored deeply and contentedly. Some one otr in a dark corner, whom I could not see, had a genial way of joining iu, as though lie snored merely to oblige the passengers; but tlie grand, origiual musician of th" party sat opposite me. I never heard anything approaching liiui, cither for quality or for compass. It was a back-action snore that began in a bold movement, suddenly brought up with a jerk, and terminated in a low whistle.

As the coach steadily moved up tiie hill the band was iu full play. The summit gained, there was a sharp crack ot the hip, the horses started, and as everybody was jerked violently backward, the snoring gave place to oaths and pshaws and jolting about. As soon, however, as we got used to this scn-ation, the chortw began again: and as I was quite overcome and tired, I joined iu until tlie coach came to a full stop at the Liable where the horses were to be changed. The -nil now rose, and came in all sorts cf places, waking and blinding everybody. What a discontented and unhappy lot we were! and how wo all hated one another! 'Breakfast at last! Ah, hot coffee, ham and eggs, and buckwheat cakes! The meal was r.ol half over before we were a baud of brothers.

We could not do enough for one another, and all as harmony and ace. Of course under these conditions we bvcame more familar. and one vied with another ia making the time pass agreeably." A I'avorito IiCend. There is a favorite legend Jo Oer-nianv of a certain luck-Mower, which admits its fortunate tinder into the recesses of a mountain or castle, where untold riches invite his grasp. Dazzled by so much wealth, with which he tills liis pockets and hat.

the favored mortal leaves behind him the flower to which he owes his fortune: and as he leaves the enchanted ground the words "Forget not the best of reproach him for his ingratitude, and tbo suddenly closing door either descends on one if his heels and lames him for life or else imprisons him forev'r. If Grimm is right this is the origin of the word forget-me-not. and not last Words of' the lover drowning iu the i Danube, as he threw to his hilly love i the Bower she craved of him. Tiie tradi- tion. however, that the luck fiower, or key flower, was blue is consistent with the fact that the primrose isthr Schlus-i sel-blume However this maybe, there" exists in Germor.y many 1 subterranean passages, under hillsides, dating from heathen times, and asso-; ciated with legends of former treas-I tires there: and it certainly seems more likely that the liouer was simply adapted to the let-end as readily oc curring to the story maker" mind, than that it really signifies the lightning which opens the clouds, that "primal wealth of the pastoral Aryans, the rain that refreshes the thirsty-earth, and the sun that comes after the tempest.

CornhiU. A r.t-eiocted Branch. We are taught in school to read and write but many of U3 are ever taught how to talk? And if we wished to learn where should wo seek a suitable teacher? And yet among all the accomplishments which men and women possess there is not one that can give so much pleasure as an ability to talk pleasantly and entertainingly. Think how many things go to make up good talk a good voice, well disciplined, -soft aud low." one that rests rather than tires, a voice with music in it. Next, a well stored mind.

Next, possession of the art of putting things, for it is quite as important that vou say a thing right as that you say the right thing. Then to communicate information in such a way as to make it aopear that you assume no superiority. Wendell Fhillius, who was perhaps as delightful and charming a conversationalist as Boston ever had, would always put it: "You remember that Socrates said It was a harmless fiction and apteasant one. Loslcn Budget. A good many people are rrst-clasj Christians until the contribution boa aroutid.

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