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STAGE THE FIRST. ■While George Caulfield was talking to his mother the vicar of Preshmead was plodding His first visit was to the office of a daily paper, where he handed in the following ad vertisement: “Missing, since November 30, a young lady; when last seen she wore a Rob Roy tartan shawl, a brown straw hat This advertisement Mr. Leworthy took to tie three local dailiea His next visit was to Mrs. Elsden, of “A man would hardly make use of another man’s card unless he had some business or social relations with that other man,” re flected the vicar, as he tramped along, sturdy in bearing, determined in step. “A man does not pick up a visiting card in the ^*He found Miv Elsden elderly and plethoric, a man who rarely got through a business letter without stopping in the middle to mop his highly polished cranium with a crimson silk handkerchief. This gentleman was amiable, but not brilliant He had read the report of yesterday’s inquest, and was there fore posted in the facts; but he had no ideas “How did that young man get hold of your card?” asked the vicar. “He must have picked it up in some illegitimate way, unless he is among the number of your personal acquaintance. secret murderers,” he said. “Of course, we all ho- e that, na urally, but one can never tell Mv li'iond describes this young man as of gent.- niauly appoar- ince and good manners. Good-looking, too, quite an interesting countenance—pale, with dark eyes, silky broWn mustache—what is generally called a poetic style of face.” The Granchester merchant seemed to re tire within himself, and to be absorbed in profound thought. Presently ho gave a sigh, and began to mop his polished brow and the barren arch above it, whereon no hair had grown for the last decade. ■T don’t want to mix myself up in this business,” he said at last. “It is sure to en tail trouble.” “As a Christian, as an honest man, you are bound not to withhold any information that can tend to exculpate the innocent,” , urged the vicar, with some warmth, 'such“Lforaatton^Xm^ded““Mr.^^^^^ testily. “If I give utterance to my ideas I I “I know absolutely nothing. But your description might apply to a young man 'called Poy, who was in my employment ;three years ago.” I “'What character did he bear when you knew him?” i “Excellent He left me of his own accord, ^in order to improve his position. Ho was a : to-icritca jnoiiiag u3o.,x —fiTStTato aecountant,, •good linguist—and I had no situation to give him worthy of his talents. He left me to jgo to Ki'oble & ITmpleby’s, packers, in [Deansgate, as corresponding clerk. I was only able to give him seventy-five pounds a year. He was to have two hundred at Kib- ble’a They do a great deal of business with Spanish America and the French colonies, and they wanted a clerk who could write good French and Spanish.” ■’' ippose that he is still at the contraty.” Poy a native of Grand- xo,miIy or friends here?” “No; ho was quite alone. I believe he was of French extraction. He used to boast that he was descended from some famous family called Be Foix” “I should be very grateful to you If you could give me any further information about this young m.an.” “■What kind of information? My acquaint ance with him never extended beyond my office. I know that he was clever. He was regular in his business habits, and I had every reason to suppose ho was weU be haved. He jbrought me a letter of recom mendation from a firm at Lyons with which I do business. I engaged him on the strength of that letter.” “I see; then he was a stranger in Grand- chester? Something you can tell me, how ever—the house In which ho lodged while ho was in your employment. You must have percha tube. Five minutes'after-ward a clerk appeared with a slip of paper, which he laid before his employer. “That is the address, sir.” Mr. Elsden handed the paper to the vicar. “There it is, sir. Yon see there is only one address, and the young man was with me nearly two years—an indication of steady habits, I think.” “No doubt. I dare say Mr. Foy is ,a most estimable person. But I must find the dark- eyed, pale-faced young man who gave your card to my friend; and whether I find him in Mr. Foy’s shoes or in anybody else’s, I’ll make it rather hot for him.” And -with this unchristian speech the vicar took leave of Mr. Elsden. CHAPTER IV. THE MYSTERY OF ROSE COTTAGE. Mr. Leworthy’s next call was at Kibble & TJmpleby’a Here he acted tvith greater subtlety. He asked to see the head clerk, and informed that gentleman that he had been recommended to apply there for a small service which he had been unable to get done anywhere else. He wanted a letter written to a correspondent at Cadiz, and ha had not found anybody in Grandohester who knew enough Spanish to write such a letter for him. He had particular reasons for not writing in French or English, as his communication was of a strictly private character, and the gentleman to whom he had occasi--n to write understood no lan guage but his own. “I am told you have a clerk who is a fii*st- rate Spanish scholar,” Mr. ’ Leworthy said, in conclusion. “Quite true, sir. Our foreign clerk, Mr. Foy, knows Spanish as well as he knows French, and can write you as good a letter in Italian or Portuguese as in either. It’s rather lucky you looked in this morning, though. To-morrow would have been too “Why? Is he leaving you?” The clerk g r innei important event In h, be married to-raor He’s going to orning—to the daughter of our junior partner, the youngest Miss Umpleby.” “Oh, he is going to be married to-morrow ling I I congratulate him—and the lady. Has it been a long engage- young “A year and a half. The old gentleman was very much against it at the first— thought his daughter might have looked higher—as of course she might, though she’s one of a large family. But the firm had been pleased with the young man, and the young man had got a footing In the firm’s houses, which is more than the common ruck of us do—unless it’s a bit of a kick-up at Christmas time, in a condescending way, which we may appreciate or may not, ac cording to the bent of our minds. But this young Foy is musical, and he’s half a for eigner, and those two things have stood him in good stead with the firm’s families; and le upshotpshot ofl it all is that he is going to be TJmpIeby tt u o married to the youngest Miss dev after to-morrow.” day after to-morrow.’ “Could I see him for a few minutes. I sha’n’t detain him long.” “Certainly, sir; I’m sure he’ll be happy to oblige* you,” said the clerk, who knew all - about the vicar of Freshmead, one of the '^Iost popular men within twenty miles of Grandohester, is* fllbe clerk went to U M i Jfc For. and re turned presently ■with that accomplished man. The vicar was a student of i all his da; young n character. lid the st spent all his days itures of Preshmead. amid the green past Seven years of his life had been devoted to preaching and teaching, and doing all man ner of good works, in one of the vilest and most populous districts of East Loudon. Ho had had plenty to do with scoundrelism in his time; he knew a scoundrel when he saw one, and his first glance at Gaston Foy con vinced him that this young favorite of for tune was as dark a villain as ever wore a oth face to gull the world. to a sU-anger. George Caulfield had minutely described the man’s appearance, and this man, in every feature, corresponded with that description. That he seemed perfectly happy and at ease did not surprise Mr. I j O- worthy. To a creature of this kind dis simulation was second nature. The vicar stated his business, and sat dewn at the clerk’s desk to write a rough draft of the letter to be translated, but after writing a sentence he stopped abruptly. “It’s a business that requires some thought,” he said. “If you’ll look in at my hotel this evening, and let me dictate the letter quietly there, I shall esteem it a favor. I won’t keep you half an hour, and you’ll be doing mean inestimable service.” S s knew a scoundrel when he saw one. Mr. Foy looked a t him rather suspiciously. “My time is not my own just now, ” he said. “If you’ll send me your letter I’ll put it into Spanish for you, but I have no time to call at your hotel” This was said with a decided tone that set tled the question. “I see.” thought the vicar. “Ha is not the man to walk into any little trap I may set ^°“Mr'send the letter to your private ad dress this evening,” he said. “You had tetter send it hero. I Uve a little way out of Grandchester. ” The vicar assented, wished Mr. Foy “Good morning.” and went away. Ten minutes afterward he went back to Kibble & Um- pleby’s, saw the clerk he had seen first, and “I may as well have Mr. Foy’s address, in case I shouldn’t be able to get my letter written before he loaves business.” “Certainly, sir. Mr. Foy lives at Par- minter—Rose Cottage, Lawson lane.” “Thanks. I may not want to send to him there, but it’s as well to be on the safe side, “Good morning, sii’,”said the clerk, aloud. “Fidgety old gentleman,” he ejaculated, In- the direction affected by Grandchester mer chants or Grandchester tradespeople. Here were no Gothic mansions, no fair Italian tar tubs, stacked flooring boards and rough- hewn stone, and the next all smUlng among geranium beds and ribbon bordering, velvet lawns and newly-planted shrubberies. None of tbo commercial wealth of Grandchester had fo:ind its way to Parminter. The vil lage was still a village—a mere cluster of laborers’ cottage, two or three old home steads, and half a dozen small dwellings of a thabby genteel type. Among these last was Rose Cottage, a sm.ail,, fquai-e house, with plaster walls, Irig’ut with greenery and scarlet berries, evt-u in t ’nis •wintry season. A bow window below, rustic lattices above. Just such a house as a naan with considerable taste and an inconsiderable income would choose for himself. The small garden in front of the bow window was in admirable order, yet the place had a deserted look somehow, Mr. Leworthy thought, as he rang the bell. He rang once, twice, three times, with no more effect than if Rose Cottage had be toy house inhabited by Dutch dolls, was aggravating. There was a meadow < one side of the cottage, where half a dozen sheep wore browsing contentedly. The vicar climbed the hurdle which divided this pas ture from La-wson lane and went round to the back of the cottage. Here there was a small garden, neatly and tastefully laid out, but there was no more appearance of human Ufe at the back of the house than in the the vicar said to himself, much provoked at aving ti-aveled seven miles without result. He was climbing the hurdle on his return to the lane when a small girl in a very short skirt—a girl of timid aspect, eai-rying a beer jug—dropped him a courtesy and said: “Please, sir, was it you a-ringing of that bell just now?\ “■Was it me?” me?” ejaculated the vic.-ir, impa tiently, “Yes, it were.” And then, smiling on the small girl, for ha had a heart large enough for ever so many parishes of children, he said: “I am not vexed with you, my dear; I am angry with fate. Tell me aU you know about that cottage and I’ll give you half a The girl gasped. She had never possessed a half-crown, but she had an idea it meant abundance. Her father counted his wages by half-crowns, and there were not many in a wee ,’s wage. “Please, sir, Mr. Foy lived there with his BLstor, lu t they’ve le f t ” “Oh, they’ve left, have they? When did they leave?” “Last Monday, sir, and the lady she was very ill, sir, and he took her away in a “And Mr. Foy has not bean back since?” “No, sir. He left for good, and he gave the key of the cottage to my mother, and thea«.entis to put up a board next week, and the house is to be let It was took fur- “No, sii*, never no reg’iar servant Mother •used xo do the cleaning twice a week. Motber’.s very sorry they be gone. They ■was good to mother.” “Hoxv long had they lived there?” “Nigh upon a year.” “And tho jady was Mr. Foy’g sister?” “And now take me to your mother.” The girl looked wistfully at the jug. “If you pleaie, I xvas to fetch father’s beer, “I see. And If you don’t father wIU be “Then you sliall go; but first tell me Tvhere your mother Uves.” The child pointed down Lawson lane. Just wcere the lane straggled off into plowed fields and open country thoro was a row of laborers’ cottages, and in the last of these Mr. lAworthy found a plaintive woman with a child in her arms, who owned to being the mother of the small girl with the jug. The vic,:r wasted no time In preliminaries. seated himself on an almost bottomles “■You ur-cd to work for Mr. Foy and his sister. What do you know about them?” “Only that they paid mo honorable for ■whntl did, si\. I’m bound to up an 1 say that, whoever os'xs mo.” “GcoJ. Did they live happily together as —brother an-,l si-!er?” “Here the matron began to hesitate. She shifted her baby from one arm to another. She gave a deprecating cough. “I see—they quarreled spmetimos. ” “I never seen ’em, sir, for I scarce over see Mr. Foy. He was oft to Grandohester be fore I went of a morning, and he didn’t come back till after I left I used to go for the half day, you see, sir-not the whole day. But I don’t think tlm^ young lady^wM ting; and^eople will tolk, you see, s i r - neighbors next door to Rose Cottage have heard them at high words, in summer time, the xvindersiders was all open, or when was ley was in the garden.” “I see. Had the sister been long ill?” “No, sir; not above a month.” “What was the matter with her?” “Well, sir, I can’t say azackly. It was a sort of wasting sickness like. She couldn’t keep nothing on her stomach of late, poor dear; and she had pains that racked her, and used to complain of a burning feel in her throat; out of sorts altogether, as you may say. I believe it all came from fret- “Why did she fret so much? Was her brother very unkind to her?” iiw* T j — 11 . *hink it was his unkind- But he used to keep ness that woiTied her. B very late hours- hardly ever coming home till the last train—and that worried her. the worse for drink. thought that he was out enjoying himself with other people used to prey on her mind.” “That was hardly fair, if he treated her kindly when he was at home. A sister has Not that he was e’ Ho was the soberesi it she -vv reled sometimes.\ \ I see—they quarrel \Perhaps not, sir, but jealous she was, and fret she did. ‘I’ve nobody but him in the world, Mrs. Moff,’ she said—my name being Moffi—‘and I can’t bear him to be always away. There was a time when he spent all his evenings at home.’ And then the tears would roll down her poor holler cheeks, and it went to my ’eart to see her so miserable. 1 had a feller-feeling, you see, sir, for I know how it worrits me when my master stops late at the ‘Coach and Horses’ on a Saturday “Ah, but it’s different with a husband. A wife has a right to be exacting—not a sister. Now, tell me how they left the place, and aU about it. I’m interested in this poor girl, and perhaps I may be able to befriend her. ■Where did they go?” “He was going to take her to some place near the sea, on the other side of Grand chester. and a good way off. The name has gone clean out of my head. He was very kind to her from the time she fell ill She 5 T own lips. ‘Gaston was life,’ she says •0 that didn’t agree -with her, she told me, and it is rather a relaxin’ air, sir. I feel it so sometimes myself, and if it wasn’t for my drop of beer I should go off in a dead faint” “■What kind of a young woman was Miss Foy? \Was she like her brother?” “No, sir, she were not. I never laid eyes on a brother and sister more unsimilar. She had been very pretty, there’s no denying that, but her nervous, worriting ways had ind preyed gard before ■riting her that ‘s f S old and ’aggard before her time. She had light brown hair, and a fair skin and blue eyes and I dossay she had been a pretty figure before she wasted e were never good from the time I knew her.” “D d yr>i' **'“ day .v>a went away?” asked the vicar. “It wasn’t a day, sir. She went late at night by the last train to Grandchester. She was to sleep in Grandchester and go on to the seaside next morning; and I do say that it wasn’t the right thing for a young person in her state of ’ealth to travel late on a winter’s night. But there, poor young feller, it wasn’t his faifit, for ho had to be at thei office ail day.” that ho bought her the winter before.” ind red?” asked the vicar.” and red,” assented the woman astonishment. “One would think oW you i was took out his memorandum book, and 5 down the date and hour of the young woman’s removal from Rose cottage. She had left in the one cab that plied between Parminter village and the Parminter Road station. The cabman could be forthcoming it he were wanted, Mrs. Moffi protested. Mr. Leworthy rewarded this worthy woman with a orewn piece, half of which he stipulated was to be given to the little girl when she came home from her errand, and then he walked briskly back to the station, which was a good half mile from La\wson lane. He was lucky enough to get a train in less than half an hour, and he was back in Grandchester at three o’clock in the afternoon. Hera he took a cab and drove straight to Mr. Brookbank’s office, to whom he imparted all be had done. “Upon my soul, you’re a clever fellowi vioarl” cried the lawyer; “you ought to have been something better than a parson.” “You mean I ought to have been some thing that pays better. Now, look here, Brockbauk, you must start off to Milldale by the first train, and get the coroner to order a post mortem. No post mor y, forsooth, said that fool of a 1 clear to my min , to-day,y, thathat thiss poorr cretitureetiture was slowlyowly ously laudanum. 'Wh_ ind, from what I’ve heard da t thi poo cr was sl done to death by arsenic, and that the dose of laudanum was only given a t the last to accelerate the end.” Mr. Brookbank saw the force of this argu ment, and looked at once to his railway time '•There’s a train at 4:80,” he said; ‘‘lean gOi go by that. And now what are you going “I shall call on Mr. Umpleby and try and stop to-morrow’s wedding.” “IVhat motive can this Foy have had for getting rid of his sister I” speculated the “Very litte motive, I should imagine, for gating rid of a sister. But what if the young woman was something more difficult to dispose of than a sister? ■What if she was his wife? These two yonng people lived quite alone in a coxmtry lane. It was easy for them to live as man and wife, yet pans for brother and sister. The char woman’s account shows that the poor girl was jealous and tmhappy. She fretted on ccount of Poy’s late hours. They were verheard quarreling. Take my word for it, Brockbanlr, that unfortunata you? _ . ____ was a wife—a wife of whom Mr. Foy grew mortally tired when he found that it was on the cards for him to marry Miss Uraploby, with a handsome dowry, and the prospect of rapid advancomont in the house. Now I want you to set one of your clerks at work, without an hour’s delay, to hunt up the eiri- donce of such a marriage, either in church r at a registry office. “It Shall be done,” said Brockbauk. “Any thing more?” “Only this much; I have -written an ad vertisement, which will appear to-morrow in three local dailies? He read the draft of his advertisement. “This may bring us information as to the next stage in that poor young woman’s journey after she left Parminter,” ho said. “Possibly, You really are a genius in the art of hunting a criminal.” “No, sir, I nm only thorough. I would do a good deal more than this to help any one I love. Now I’m off. I dare say you’ve some bu-ines3 to got through before you start for Milldale.” “Only half a dozen letters to dictate,” an swered the -Jaivyor lightly, and then he put his lips to a speaking tube and gave an ‘“Send up the short-band clerk, and have a- caib at the door at a Quarter cast four.” To he Continued. P. T. B arnum announces that he will not run for President next year on the Prohibition ticket, but will continue i:o devote his time and energies to his “ Greatest Show on Earth,” which will be inaugurated for this season a ti! ieon Square Garden, March 14th. Washington Society. Tbe Standard o( Social Etiquette Batab- U slied a t tbe N a tio n a l C a p it a l. Mrs. John A. Logan contributes an in teresting article on “Official Etiquette at Washington” to a recent number of the Ghautauquan, in which she says, among other things, that the P resident and wife, or presiding lady of the White House if the President be a batchelor, head the list to whom all pay homage. Neither the President nor the lady of the White House return any calls; they are supposed not to accept any invita tions. But some Presidents have in late years dined at the homes of Cabinet Ministers and other friends—official and private citizens. This is consid ered of doubtful propriety, since under the rules he can not accept invitations of the foreign Ministers and many oth ers, embarrassments might arise that would result in unfortunate complica tions. The Secretary of State, Seerta- ry of the Treasury, Secretary of War, Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of the Interior, Attorney and Postmaster- General with^the ladies of their house hold take precedence in the White House in the order given next the Vice- President. But outside the White House the Cabinet make the first calls on Judges of the Supreme Court, Sen ators and the Speaker of the House and their families. Next to the Cabinet Ministers come Judges of tbe Supreme Court. The Lieutenant-General,United States Senators, and members of the House of Eepresetnatives, Judges of the Court of Appeals and Destrict Courts, army and navy officers accord ing to their different ranks and senior ities, distinguished strangers from abroad and private citizens generally according to their various degrees of social importance.” There is nothing remarkable in the etiquette of Washington; its laws are governed by common sense and repub- iies ing to every honorable person and official repub licanism, free from every species of toadyism and snobbery, and yet givii due consideration and respect; no less, no more, than should be at a national capital. Any lady and gentleman well- bred and worthy of admission into po lite society may come here and mingle with the best, and enjoy as much or as little as they please of what people call society. A season in Washington is between the 1st of January and Ash lay, the length varying with the calendar of the church fixing that Xing date, during which much time is given to social matters includlner T-Anfip. tions, dinners, oreakfasts, teas and co tillion parties. The lady of the White House receives ladies and gentlemen informally Saturday afternoons from three to five p. m ., standing in the blue room attended by any lady friend or friends she may invite to assist her. The marshal of the district assisted by the secretary of the Presi dent or some 'gentleman connected with some department of government, stands at the entrance of the blue room and presents each person who may call; hundreds will call during these two hours and sometimes many have been unable to enter on account of the crowd. During tbe season the Presi dent holds a reception on Tuesday evening of every alternate week. On these occasions he sometimes issues cards of invitation to public officials, the army, the navy and distinguished citizens when they are supposed to don their best attire, every one appear ing in full dress. The people fall in line as they emerge from the dressing rooms where they have deposited wraps and hats and are presented as they'file through the red room to the blue, passing still in line through tbe green room to the famous east room, where they are at liberty to promenade or go through the corridors I o the con servatory, and amuse themselves at will, but no refreshments are offered. At other times the public are notified through the daily papers that th? will be received by the President wh( any one who is respectable may be presented, provided the numbers are not too great for all to pass through before eleven o’clock. . The state dinners are more ceremo nious affairs, the invitations are issued at least ten days before the date upon which the dinner is given; nothing nation, it being considered in the light of a command and but illness or death will permit a decli- L’ed in the light especial courtesy on the p art of the President, an ac ceptance must be immediately sent. At these dinners the guests are seated strictly according to rank, a n d in the assignment of the couples some ill-as sorted combinations are often made. But however inharmonious the relation of the parties, all who are likely to re ceive these invitations are too polite to exhibit the slightest displeasure. After any invitation to the White House or other home for that matter, it is necessary to call within one week, unless you are indiifferent to the opin ion of your hostess. The families of the Judges of the Supreme Court ceive on Mondays from two till five p, M. The Speaker’s on Wednesdays, the same h o u rs; those of the Senators on Thursdays ; those of the Represen tatives generally on Tuesdays. Most families of the army and navy officers receive on Eridays; but in the latter cases i t is optional, while in the others, the days have been assigned so long ago that none would have the temerity to suggest a change. Residents of the capital receive on any day that they choose. At all of thesa afternoon re ceptions ladies and gentlemen call in any genteel street ooslume. Simple refreshments are offered, aocordinjgf to taste or circumstances of the hostess ; tea, chocolate, coffee, cakes, ices, crack ers, salted almonds or fruits. The Cabinet, particularly the Secre tary of State, gives during the season at least four evening receptions, at which no one is expected who has not been invited by card. Club and as sembly parties are exactly what such affairs are in other cities. Representatives from every part of the country being called here by Con- !S 8 , and other officials connected with our National government and for eign relations, it is natural that a cosmopolitan society should exist. And yet so well bred are most persons that have the entre that you rarely hear of flagrant offenses against po liteness, or of any complaint of rude ness from our resident representatives of foreign courts against the people with whom they exhange civilities. They have had quite as much occasion to criticise some of the members of their own corps for bad conduct aurf bad manners as they have Americans. Taken altogether, Americans have no occasion to be ashamed of their coun trymen or women or of the standard of social etiquette at the National capi- In The Event Of War. The minor na-val powers are falling more or less completely out of the lists of naval competition. Spain and Portugal have ceased to be, and Greece has not become, o f any naval import ance, Spain abne making some small effort to keep respectable, but even that effort is chiefly expending itself— as that of the U nited States govern ment is about to expend itself, by- the-bye— in the production of very fast vessels, which may be useful in preying upon commerce, but which are scarcely fit to fight even pirates, and which a real war ship would dis pose of with a single round o f her bat- t'ery fire. They will be efficient in running away, no doubt, when danger arises ; but “ running away” was not the method by which the United States Won naval distinction, nor that by which Spain once became great, and Greece immortal. T h e naval policy of Germany is defensive ; she is almost without pretensions upon the open sea. Turkey is slowly but sure ly succumbing to Russia, and in the tKo ^ u c c tan S«a wi'l hold unquestioned * mastery over Turkey. Italy has a naval role of her own to play in Europe, and on the whole is playing it well. Austria would do well to hesitate in her pres ent naval condition before again ex posing herself to the swift and destruc tive onslaughts which the tremen dously armed and excessively fast Italian ships could make upon her. France is a really great naval power, and there are circumstances which would make a naval conflict between her and England one of the most un certain in the history of the world. The French have very largely aban doned the protection of their guns by arm o r; we, most unhappily, have still more largely abandoned the pro tection of our ships, and it remains to be seen which has been the most fool ish, In such a conflict the French would have this advantage over Eng land— the overthrow of their guns, or the destruction of their gunners at them, would not prevent their ships themselves from withdrawing from ac tion and repairing their injuries. W h a t would become of our “ Ajaxes,” “ Agammemnons,” our Colling- woods,” and “ Benbows” (both these latter with guns as much exposed as the Frennh, by-the-bye), when their long fragile ends had been smashed and water-logged, and their high speed consequently gone, is a question which' I prefer not to speak of further. There was, there Is, there evei will be, but one sound policy for a nation that desires to command the seas, and can afford to do so, and that is to re ject all doubtful fads, all dangerous fancies, and to insure without ceasing pronounced superiority in every known and measurable element o f naval power. New inventions will and must be made ; new sources of power, new means of attack, will and must be discovered ; but these things take time and money and skill to develop, and that power is the greatest and safest which from time to time and- always prefers the thing which must succeed to that and which others fear ay. -hi?h 1 will, fail in the hour of trial. One hope I, the present writer, have, and it is that the terrible development of the weapons of war—for terrible it is with all its shortcomings—and the enormously increasing cost alike of single actions and of conflicts between in favor of peace and good-w men.— Harper’s Magazine. PoFULAB interest in the settlement of the Indian question grows with in creasing knowledge of the subject, and when a man like Gen. Crook, who has studied the Indians for 85 years and has fought them through ma,ny arduous oampaigns, says that they can be civil ized and absorbed into our citizenship, there is every reason wby he should be listened to with interest and respect. Speech of Hon. Chauncey M. De- At the Banquet Given by tbe Republi can Club of tUe City of New 'Vor! Delnionlco’*, February la , ISSY. To the sentiment, “The Young Men in Politics,” Mr. Depew said: I am glad these toasts are beginning to assume some relation to the Kectlemea who are to respond to them. When Senator Hawley, whose sentiment was “Lincoln,” started off with mine of ‘‘The Yonng Men in Politics,” and Senator Hisoock took up Govenior Foraker’s subjeot, “Tha Republican Party,” a'nd Foraker started out Hisoook’s demesne, “The Em] I began to think the honored exchanging speeches and became alarmed about my own. [Laughter.] Governor Haw ley eloquently remarked that it was the great est of distinotions to bo a private when every body was a titled officer. Then I am the most distinguished man upon this platform, for all tbe other gentlemen bnt myself are Governors, Senators or Generals. [Laugh ter.] I have found during the evening that conversation was impossible, because if I be gan a question, “Governor,” the answer came in chorus from the dozen of them about me. Impire State,” Rests had beep ------ J ---- -- ..u^orioan labor. It is not enough, however, that American industry should be protected, that tbe conditions should be created where capital can safely be invest ed in mines, in factories and in mills; but, 16 party either exists or will be created --------- an solve so successfully the distribu tion of wealth,_ the responsibilities of capital, the remunerative employment of labor, as to bring abont in all the great industrial centres jof thj6 land harmoniouKrelations between the ----- V --------- 3 ------ , ---------- , ------- irons and workers. [Laughter.] city and the ipew, if yon desire recognition in this town, itidge over the bloody chasm, always thatat everyry citizenizen is either a Gen- remember th eve cit is eral or a Judge. [Laughter.] The youthful vigor of the Republican party was never better shown than in the vigorous and magnetic eloquence which has electrified ns to night. [Applause.] It has been worthy of the most heroic period and most inspiring achievements of the grand old party. It is impossible for me to voice the encourage- ment and hope which comes to us whoso lot is oast in a district where the enemy beat ns nine times and count ne out tha tenth, when we listen to the aggressive eloquence from yon gentlemen of the West, who win nine times, and the tenth get there just the same. [Great langhter and applanse.] It has always been the custom in companies of veteran politicians to call upon “callow X.\ - ---- ----- 'iecce to line the selection [More laughter.] I see about me gentlemen who were famous twenty-five years ago, and the time required prior to that to reach their then high positions no man living remembers. I have always found that when a life-long officeholder loses tbe confidence of his oonstit- nenoy or exhausts the patience or generosity of the appointing power he immediately vio lently projects to the front the bald and frost ed pate [langhter] and calls upon the young men of the State to rally for the reform of the party. [Renewed laughter and applause.] What is age ? What is youth ? They are It is not a questioj carries with him longest the bloom and the effloresonoe of youth. [Applause.] The two men who are the most important factors ia the destinies of peoples and in the puiulus vc uaiivuo, Dlaxaarok at sfeVGiiXj— four and Gladstone at seventy-six. ble name for treason, when the lines of old party assooiations and affiliations are the boundaries of the dungeon, and when fidelity to ancient principles and precedents creates the conditions of an inquisitorial torture which leads to certain death. Twice only in the history of this people have these condi tions existed, and each time th'ey have led to a union of the yonng men of the country and to the projection into the foremost ranks of publican government and then for indepen dence and nationality. The other struck first for the Union of the States, and then for the ' t S f i S i K S l ■« men must be the most important factors in its politics and its parties. They alone pos sess the element which overturns rings and Upsets combinations and all other artificial creations for the suppression of popular sen timent. They alone possess that quality so necessary at times where audacity leads cau tion and imagination and enthusiasm com- I are crises lople when history of every inservatism is a converti- , when the lines of disappearance of activity in the affairs of the State and the Government as will make it bad. form and unpopular for young men to be ac tive, will mark the decadence to be followed by the overthrow of the liberties of the couu- I TBE BEFUBIiIOaBEAI>EBS. U Ha turns, on tha other hand, to the Repub lican party, and he learns that it was born in the inspiring sentiments of free soil end free men. [Applause.] Bo studies tbe history of its founders and finds that most of them lived up to within the period when he could know something personally of their greatness and participate in tbe national mourning at their demise. There stands before him that rough, strong, grand figure whose rise from among the people, whose great heart, great ■ mind, character and achievements had made for him the first and most enduring fame among the statesmen of his generation—Abraham Lin coln. [Prolonged applause.] He looks for constrnctive statesmanship which can create in national exigencies out of bankrnptoy, of lost credit, the means for car rying on great and expensive warfare, and there looms np the figure of Salmon P. Chase. [Renewed apnlanse.] He finds opened when the hands of the Republic were tied by civil war, when the*monarohies and despotism of the Old World were plotting for tbe overthrow of the Bepnblio and the destruction of liberty on this Bide, which reacted on tbe o ther; and he reads of the brilliant diplomacy, the sue- cessful leadership and the wonderful acquire ments of William H. Seward. [Great ap plause.] He naturally turns to the halls of Oongress, and there discovers the tribune of tbe people, who voiced in most eloquent and enduring language the moral sentiment for which men were saor: field—in plause.] „ glory of the Bepnblio are with the history of that great soldier who commanded tbe largest armies and won tbe moat victories fought in the greatest cense of modem oheerini times—General Grant. [Tremendons land again rei sarety. _ ue looks out for that organization which is constructive and creative, which can understand the needs of sixty millions of peo ple and legislate for their wants. If he finds no organization equal to this great task and mng men of the country tb.e land harmoniona-i _____________ employers and^mployees and prosperous happy conditions for all classes o [Applause.] X liONESOMBTATESMAN. S politicians 1 laugtiterj, that the fulfillment of the roseate and reform promises of the cam paign necessarily loses him the confidence of hisparty. [Renewedlaughter.] Hefindstbat just in proportion as he attempts to solve the question of Revenue and Tariff, upon which depend prosperity and employment, does he offend one section of his party ; just in pro portion as he reaches sound positions upon currency and finance does he alienate another portion of his party. And when he carries into practice the Oivil Service promises which the Mugwnmpian reform placed so acutely in his letter of acoeptanoe [langhter] and plat form, does he find himself deserted by the whole of hisparty. [Renewed laughter.] So that, as he loyally rises to the highest and best conditions of his early promises and hopes does he become the most lonesome statesman in America. [Continued laughter ] I remember that I was once ■ a pall bearer at the funeral of one of the leading citizens of Feekskill. Noticing that the carriage was plunging wildly and likely to npset, I looked but and saw that the horse attached to the hearse was running away and golloping across lots, while we were in reckless pursnit. T called to the driver to hold np, bnt he only answer ed, as he gave his team the lash, “Mr. De pew, you were born in Feekskill and you ought to remember that it is the custom in this town for the mourners to follow the hearse,” [Great laughter.] 'While the Demo- oratio hearse is being frantically driven now in the woods, now in the open and now on the road, to suit every oondition of grief there may be behind, the Republican procession moves grandly forward in harmonious columns and with equal step along the broad highway towards better government for the nation and freer and happier lives for the people. Well, gentlemen, the Republican party has not now the responsibilities of power. They will se cure them only through the aid of the gener ous and ingenuous youth who this year and next year are to become the first voters of the itry. when the grand old organization, resuming the government of the country, which it so admirably administered for a quarter of a century, will for another equal period exhibit genius for promoting the development, the prosperiry and the liberty of the Republic. [Loud and prolonged applause.] The Fish Ponds of Saxony. In traveling through Saxony one is struck with the large number of ponds of all sizes which stud the fields in every- direction. W h ether these ponds are the result of accident or de sign, they are as carefully tended as are the fields themselves. They, too, are a source of income to their own ers. They teem with carp, tench and other fish that will thrive in sluggish water, which are taken out in the fall and sold at prices ranging from twelve to twenty cents per pound. T h e ponds are then restocked with a young brood, which costs from fifty cents to $ 1.25 per hnndred, according to size. These fish are left to shift for them selves until they are a year old, when they are generally large enough for the market. In winter the ponds yield a crop of ice which is readily dis posed of at a fair price. W here their services are not required to turn a mill, they at least serve as watering places for the cattle, and where they are sit uated near a village or hamlet they even feed the hand engine in case or fire. W here these ponds are made the land taken for the purpose gener ally is unsuited for other purposes.— Foreign Letter. Ahead of the Egyptains. “ T alk about Egyptain embalming,” said a Chicago undertaker. “ W hy, it don’t compare with what we do nowadays. Those old Egyptains didn’t know what art was in the pro fession of undertaking. There is too much nonsense afloat about the lost art o f embalming as practiced by the Egyptains. In the first place their climate is of a kind to preserve dead animal tissue whether it is embalmed or not. It is very dry in Eygpt and the temperature is even. T h e boasted m um m ies o f Egypt are simply dried up specim ens o f skin and bones. T o day we can embalm a body so that it will preserve the fullness and hue of life, and it will never dry up at all. If the modern process of embalming had been known to the Egyptains of several thousand y ears, those old k ings who were laid away In the pyramid.^ for US moderns to look at instead of presenting the appearance of tanned leather would have the kingly dignity of form and feature which was theirs when the bodies were laid away for the last long sleep.”— Chicago Paper. N ew and terrible explosives seem to be multiplying. The French discov ery of melanite was followed by a Ger man discovery of and explosive said to be even more destructive than melanite, and now close upon the heels of the German death-and-destructive-dealing compound comes Russia with the an nouncement that she has a new explo sive which possesses fifteen times greater destructive power than gun powder end produces no smoke. A Tirginia P e t Coon. H e B l a n k C o ffee K led tlie Feet o Cor. N. T. SUD. While the following true history of this most remarkable member of the almost unknown coon family may not greatly assist the naturalist in his re searches, it may help to prove that this species of the brute creation is pos sessed of wonderful intelligence, and is thoroughly susceptible of domesti cation. This coon was well-known, if not re spected, in a large number of some t>f the most aristocratic homes of “ Old Virginia,” and there still lives many a man of note there who can remember, and would tell you various incidents in his life. He was purchased from an old negro on the roadside by a lawyer (who afterward became one of Vir ginia’s most distinguished judges), and was brought home for tbe amusement of his children. Great was their de light as this strange visitor jumped from the carriage and dashed in among them. At first he seemed somewhat shy, as he stood taking a survey of his surroundings, but soon he made himself entirely at home. How long a course of civilization he had enjoyed in the cabin of his sable friend we never knew. He soon con stituted himself one of the chief heads of the household, literally having a finger in every pie, as his mistress knew, to her cost, for she declared that he could dash into a storeroom and taste more preserves and devour more delicacies than any child in the land. He was specially fond of coffe, a large cup of which, ■ well sweetened, was daily placed on the dining-room floor, and this he always drank before eating his breakfast. His imitative powers were remarkably great. On one oc casion and often afterward on seeing his mistress place a basin of water on the floor in which she washed her hands, he dipped his paws in, rubbed them well together, and then wiped them on the towel as she did. On another he watched her as she sewed, and when she placed her work on a chair he went to it and pulled the needle through with his teeth—we children of the nursery always believ ing, and so it is handed down to this day in old Virginia as a tradition, that he also stuck his paw into the thim ble. So mischievous and troublesome did this beloved of the young folks’ hearts become that, hard as it seemed, it was determine?’ sent him t mirer who had long looked upoi with envying eyes. He was present lual, during these arrai when the lad’ Wh( send for len the messenjger and agreed ,dy caressed him, and agree “his Majesty,” that evening. arrived the coon i arrived the was nowhere to be found. The visitor joined with weeping eyes in the search, place which h was exerci •red hisdiap] lOuse, entered her id himself in attic, id never been known r tbe contents of iffort lung I the us, Still another incident in his life— this the young folks ever consid- t a -pracDieai joke'* on n is part. It 3ised upon an elderly maiden lady who had incurr He went to her h? room, and quietly her feather bed, h: t was the comr nerves. The coon was not a very reverentii coon, and many were the reprimands given to the children during prayers which properly belonged to their four- footed friend, who made it a point to go around and tickle the feet of each one in rotation. His self-appointed task it was to awaken them in the morning, at about the same hour, rushing into the nur^ sery, jumping upon tbe beds, burying his nose under the children’s throats, pulling at the covering, nor “would he be comforted” until he got them up. He lived, it is thought, far beyond the usual span of a coon’s existence, dying of sheer old age, partaking to the very last of his daily cup of coffee, and otherwise receiving such attentions as his loving friends cot bestow. her feather bed, his head resting upon her pillow! Great was the commotion over this shock to the old lady’s itial inty -W - - * »uld Hygienic Treatment of Disease. A great advantage in the hygienic treatment of disease is that it does not, or at least need not, interfere with * sound and Bxperience proved modes of treatment of a medicinal kind. The scientific physicians finds, in fact, that there is always a consistent plan for combining the medicinal and hygienic systems. He sees that the two sys tems are one; he sees, further, that the m e re medicinal plan -without the hygienic is in all cases imperfect and in some cases worse than imperfect. The practical details of hygienic medi cine in relation to the treatment of dis ease have, however, yet to be wrought out more fully. This will be sure work, but necessarily slow, because i t -' is hard to give up old friendships in dogmatism, while to effect a cure in a sick man by fresh air alone, or diet, is infinitely less satisfactory to the public than to assume to effect the same cure even by a bread pill.— Dr. Itichdrdaon m Popular Science Monthly. English and American Service. TalK Wltn Henry Wara Beecher. English railroads, their bridges, their stations, are incomparably better than ours. They seem as if built for eternity. But there it ends. T h e cars are short, so that they have but six wheels, two here, two there, and two beyond, and one is obviously, of necessity, always over a grinding iron wheel. Then they oscillate so that they almost always make one seasick, and always give a feeling of nausea. American cars would be very much better. There are a few palace cars over there, but they are not popular as yet, and the”e is but a faint begin ning o f comfort for the engineers and stokers. For a long time they have been compelled to do their arduous work exposed to the element*, and even now they have nothing but a . glass frame over them, open in front, affording a most imperfect protection against the moist, cold, chilly climate, . 50 ^ they bundle up like so many
