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The Appetite May be increased, the Digestive organs Btrengtbencd, and the Bowels regulated, by taking Ayer’s Pills. These Pills are purely vegetable in their composition. They contain neither calomel nor any other dangerous'drug, .and may be taken with perfect safety by persons of all ages. T was a great sufferer from Dyspepsia and Constipation. I had no appetite, became greatly debilit.ated, ami was con- IM P R O V E D as.telV T .s.sS'& S M. Logan, IVilmiiigtoii, Del. C f l i t t t b k Im. § tg an ^ San, ^m p m tats. YOLXIME 68. # f f iM of Canntg. HUDSON, N . Y ., THXfESDAY, A P E IL 21, .1887. Cams: $ 1.50 |fa in ^Mmna, c m AHD THE CUBANS. Ayer's Pills are ibe best medicine P c * known to me for reffiilating the bowels, and for all diseav-s caused by a disordered ■ - Stomach and Liver. I suffered for over three years with Ifeadaebe, Indigestion, and Constipation. 1 bad no appetite, ana was weak and nervous most of the time. B Y U S IN G ch-ep w.;s ,. f. < . n i l ! —ireurv’ C. Hem- iiKuway, Rochport, Altiss-. T V. '.s curfal < r the Piles bvtbe u«e of A \e'-s ru.^. They not only relieved me of 1' t ] s'; fnl (r.<e-.i.r. but gave me in- e' i.\!. .1 vt^i.;-, M- 1 le.tovd my liealtb.— Jo'.n l.azani.., Si. Jolut, X. B.' A y e r’s Pit is, PEN PICTURES FROM THE LARGEST ISLAND OF THE WEST INDIES. How th e People A ct and to o k —The Ke- ■ouTces of Cuba and the' A ttem p ts of th e U n ited States to A cquire It>-Its Poverty and T a x a tion—Cuban M arkets, pecial Correspondence-! H awaiva , April 9.—I met Senator CHiace, of Rhode Island, in the Hotel Pasage this morning, and in fact the city of Havana seems to be filled with Amevicaa tourists. We are growing very close to Cuba, and this most foreign of foreign countries will in the future attract many who do not relish the ag Atlantic trip. There is talkjtf a rail- . THE LAST FURROW. And mosses mantle and the bright flower opes, But Death the Plowman wanders in all lands, And to the last of earth his furrow stands. The grave is never hidden; fearful hopes Follow the dead upon the fading slopes, And there wild memories meet upon the sands. SURE DEATH ON RATS. r the Florida keys from Florida t Cuba. One can then go to bed at Key West and wake to find himself steaming into the beautiful harbor of Havana. He can see the sunset in one civilization, and awaking see it rise -upon another. I foresee in Cuba one of the great winter resorts of the United States, and it will not be strange if the island soon belongs to us. entirely. Many of our statesmen have coveted it in times past, and President Pollc offered Spain $100,000,000 for it. But Cuba was doing well then, beet sugar had not ruined her cane pro duct, and Spain rejected the offer. There was another attempt to get it shortly before iring great Spanish treasury. She paid all o f her own expenses and as high as $34,000,000 a year additional. Now, with everything loaded down with taxes, she is a drain upon her mother country, costing above her rev enue about $8,000,000 every year. The re sult is ruin to Spain and ruin to Cuba. As for us, we are her chief customer, the United States taking 90 per cent of her exports. But first let me tell you something about this island, in which we are so much interested. Its picture upon the map gives no idea of its extent nor its character. It is 130 miles south of Florida, and it forms the key to the Gulf of Mexico. It divides the entrance to the gulf and the outlet to the Mississippi river’s sea transportation into two channels, each about 100 miles in width, and practically controls our ocean access to the great south- STBEET SCENE IN HAVANA, that this not improbable. The taxes, how ever, keep on all the same, and Cuban taxa tion is reduced to a science. They would tax the air Here i f they could get any adequate ;re by which to regulate it. They do ■erything else. The steamer Mascotte, _____ carries the mail to the United Sta^,^ . has to pay a tax of $300 every time it enters' the harbor a t Havana. Travelers are taxed $1 apiece upon their passports, and this hotel in which I write this letter, after paying a number of hundred dollars for the privilege of doing business, is taxed five cents for each name on its register, and it has to put a revenue stamp of that amount opposite each name. This is a new tax, and the landlord of this hotel did not at first observe it. The omission was discovered and vas fined $300. The cab drivers pay a nw h o lani' Solved a Vexations Frob- Hom e stlc I.ife. Mrs. Benedict’s business is that of a ’ fairly hich Mrs, aediet at least T The business of rat extermination is t yet Mrs. Benedici problem has been how to Mil t h e r ats ithout bringing unpleasant odors into ■hfiE V £ R PIU S , ivy tax, and the boatmen w ho land pas sengers in the harbor have to buy a license. Small retail stores pay $300 a year, and as their business increases they pay more. Each ■adesraan is taxed a certain amount for very letter on his sign, and clerks must pay per cent, of their quarterly salaries. The thousand miles of railway in Havana are taxed 10 per cent, of all the freight and pas sage money they receive, and every citizen f Havana has to pay $5 a year for a docu- lentof identification or passport for home use. These are but a few items of taxation of which I have heard. Is it any wonder that the native Cubans hate Spain and that the prices of everything are extravagantly tionists, and the Chinese, negroes and some of the creoles the laborers. There are about 500,000 ne^oes in Cuba, 30,000 Chinese, and the remainder are Spaniards and creoles. The negroes are far different from the Amer ican negro in that they seem to have no life or joyousness about them. They look, ugly and sad. Some of the wealthier of them rank very well. Some of these are seen riding in cabs and putting on as much style as the head waiter of a Saratoga hotel. The Chinese of Cuba are of the lowest grade, ey are the offspring of the coolies, and they quently intermarry with negroes. They ve a Chinese market in Havana and a Chi nese theatre. I attended the latter and sat for an hem- listening to a concert which re minded. me of an army of cats engaged in a midnight battle. CARTER MEDICIIffE CO.. Hev,? Y o r k C ity . W r s TRUTHS FOR THE SICK.! HOW THEY DEINK IN CUBA. „ ^ s back towa This crescent is more than 700 miles long— longer than the distance from New York to Cleveland, and it is a little over 100 miles wide in its broadest part. Taking the figures furnished by Librarian Spofford, it is larger than New York, Massachusetts and Mary land combined. This crescent has a line of mountains running through its center from one end to the other, and the land slopes from these to the sea in undulating plains. The mountains are covered with forests of fine finishing woods, mahogany and ebony being chief. Of the 20,000,000 acres of wild land in Cuba more t l ^ half is made up of virgin forest, and thwe are vast extents of territory here, which good government and enterprise might make very profitable. The island has more fine harbors than any Other country of its size, and it is no wonder that the buccaneers of the Spanish main se lected it as the center of their p iratical enter prises. I t has 260 riveys and plenty of fresh w ater springs. I t has a climate which is one perpetual summer. It n ever snows in Cuba, though the ice someCmes forms upon the CUBAN MtLiK PEDDLER. to be no standard of measure except weight, and no string was used in tying up the par cels. The paper was wrapped so that it Staid of itself, and beans and peas, butter and cheese were done np in sheets of paper b y a twist of the wrist. The porters carried, their bundles about the markijt on their beads. They were usually barefooted ne groes, whose sole dress consisted of a ragged shirt and a pair of dirty white cotton pants. This market is as big as any market in New York. Its ceiling is hung with hundreds of bunches of bananas, and beside these are onions in strings many yards long, woven to gether and strung along the poles which hang over the counters. The meat market is up ■s, and th ) announcement of his ( cause universal regret all o ■where h e was so w ell k have g iven him something to eat out of pity or charity, half a cen' Lucas, Sandusky and Hancock counties. He has no relatives in the world, and no one can t e ll where he came from; although there is a local tradition that he came from Canada aR alone in a hoat more than fifty years ago. Ho had but one mission, one object, on earth, and that w a s to exterminate aU Mndls of thistles. For the entire hall cen tury he never relented in his warfare upon these enemies of the farmer. From dawn ders are used by the laborers, aud Whether there are 1,000 p airs of suspenders worn b y the 1,500,000 people who make up this island’s population. Speaking of suspenders, the Cuban fastens his unmentionables with a belt strap and the m a jority of the working men of the islan these enemies of th e farmer. From dawn to darkness, with sc 3 rthe, gruband hoe, he cut out and killed them. No one could t ell r. WCirA., UUU LLUUO UL l/XIt? Xi » hotels' pose on him, for he wonlt ' A bout he could cut the thistles. In wint IlonSOLPHUEBlITEBS -lire yon> RS. Theyw mbewe&ai suppose there are less clothes worn in Cuba to the population than in any other country in Christendom. The chief aim of the people is to keep cool, and the better class of men drei , in white duck, with Panama hats. There at )u the flooi-s and health wlU fol-SS ” suLPHU^BrnfBRS 111 trill care L iver Com-l|| plaint. Don’t be dls-ljl couraged; it willcorelU PHUB B itters I ____ take your blood I ptire,Tich and strong,! and your flesh hard. | 1887. CAEPETS, We are now receiving our Spring stock of Carpet- consisting of Velvets, Body Brussels, Tapestries, Three Plys, ingrains and Criterions. We make a specialty of the lariM Ma Sojeiie lapas, Purchasing direct Bum the MUla, enabling ns ti offer a t bottom prices, their new and most desirable styles. QUEBNSEY& TEBBY. S . l i . h o k e y f o b d ; VETEBHiAE¥ 8IIBeEO», Graduate of the Ontario Veterinary CoUege, To- . ronto,C a n ada,lspreparedtotreatan diseases of domertlcated animals. Medicine’for horses and underclothes, and a calico •wrapper and a pair of heelless slippers are a wardrobe. Iron bars take the place of glass windows, and there is. not a chimney nor a cooking stove in Havan There are no bams, and the horses T.—T ----- .-— ’-giijgcmT sidewal: ee feetw Iding stone used is a poro one, and this is covered w ith stucco. Havana has pai-ks, but there is no grass in them, and as; for shade, for it you must go to the mountains. The policemen here carry swords and guns, and the offices of all kinds are filled by the Span iards. There are no mattresses on the Cuban beds, and as for feather pillows, there are not feathere enough used here to make a wad for the earache. There are few china pitchers used in Havana, and the drinking mug is o f porous clay, with a hole at the top, out of which the water is poured into the mouth in a trickling stream. Red brick tiles take the place of shingles and the tops of the houses are used in the evenings for sitting rooms.. The gardens of Havana are inside the houses,, instead o f behind them. The milkman drives his cow from door to, door and milks directly into the vessel o f hiS; customer. The calf gene pull at the teats. The only way of watering: the milk is watering the cow; but a cow that is kept on the dead run much of the timedbe* not always give good milk. \ ’le Cuban I .................... The Cuban eats nothing but oranges, br^adi m d butter etpd coffee for breaM'ast. Hb paxes his orango as we do apples, ami you find plates of pared oranges before you on the table when you sit down to the morning meaL The way to eat these oranges. i»- to drive a fork Into them, plant your- teeth firmly into the luscious fruit and suck the juice. The Cuban breakfast is taken, ou.ris- ing, and there is another breakfast about 9 or ip o’clock. This is more like the American mea], and the whole city knocks off' for it. Passing along the street a t this time you may see families at their meals through the open windowsmnd doors, and an hour or two later the whole town seems to be taMng a siesta;. Dinner is'eaten between fiand. fi o’clock, and the stores keep open until about 9 o’clock in Havana is gayest at night. The clubs are then full of life, the theatres are well attended, and Blavana has one of the- largest theatres in the ■world. The parks, of & v a n a blaze with gaslight. Gayly dre^ed senoritas in mantillas walk about with Cuban dudes, and eyerv one chatters, sraylv There are manv fine turnouts driven by the better classes, and I see some -poachmen. here who would bo sirells in Washington. Still the style-of Cuba has sadly waned of late, and the Cuban millionaire is no longer found at American watering places. The soil of Cuba, is as rich as any in the world, but the Cubans are poor. Sugar and tobacco have been the island’s chief sgurcoof profit for yearsy.and the manufacture o f beet sugar bos so reduced the price of cane sugar that the mpet of the-sugar estates o f Culm are now runoingat a loss. It takes lots of money to ran a sugar- estate, and there are Cuba I \ Memorable Case of “Suttee.” Leaving Lahore day before yesterday .afternoon, a ride of thirty-tw-o m iles brought us to this place, Amritsar, w h ic h name is a combination of Sanskrit words, meaning “ fountain of immortal it y . ” About halfway from Lahore w e •passed through the sm all town of Atari, ■the scene of one of -the m ost memorable cases of “ suttee” in the history of India. Its gray headed Sikh chief, Sham Singh, w h ile proceeding against some Moham m edan enemies of his faith, w a s sm - rounded by overpowering numbers, w ith no opportunity for escape or prospect of ■assistance. Rather than submit, be •clothed himself in pure w h ite, to denote -a devotion to his religion unto death, and , placing himself at the head of h® follow er?, clmrged the enemy w ith great brav ery, and w as killed after performing ^ exceedingly rare. That thorough and beautiful love which would make t of this w o rld believing that her act w o u ld entitle her £o the Hindoo promise of an im m ediate Teunion in. heaven -with her d, .to ] ^^:^*BW3lALPKmTINOot an WD(i«, n e » ^ . a s ^ J i a s »90o;oo0a yter. 'Whett ifcis.r®- am to k ^ which cent Besaem e r’s Steel T n rretf. Sir S e n z y Bessemer has explained in T h e London TLtnes a process by which. ;steel forts a n d turrets could be supplied for British coaling stations 'with extra- ordin a ^ dispatch, a n d a t a v ery moderate ^rice. H is phm i* to c a st the required fort in one p iece,: There is a simple grandeur About this id e a w h ich strongly recom m ends it to t h o la y rniind. Sir Henry'has a ;good deal to s^ y in favor of his proposal. .Suppose w e wajat a text w ith a curved face 100 feet long, 16 feet high and 8 feet thick. If a m q ld m ade of bricks and lin e d w ith fire clay w ere aaadev Sir Henry states that sixtoeii hours w ould suffice for the casting of th«> fort in one solid piece Of steel “ w eighing 900 tons, r^ u irin g no hacking orsuperstracture for its support, : and no expensive fitting together of its 'various x>o^, a n d having a ll its ports a nd loophedea formed h i the required position h y ■the a c t o f casti'Jig. ” — B oston Olbbc EUROPE. AND THE ORIENT. Conversation Between a Chinese and a .Tapanese Diplomat—Novel Conclnslon. Some time ago a friend of mine, who Ihiaese language, listened to a icrative. a is not le house. Mr. Bene to m ix wheaten flour witl pulverized plaster of Paris, so that the gluten of the flour might make the paste less brittle. One evening she had -visitors w h o rang the beU just as she was sifting the m ixed plaster and flour for the third tim e by way of m ixing them intimately, as the chemist says. She had already set a dish of water a t hand, intending to make au experimental cast a t once, and -when the door bell rang she hastily removed her apron and went to welcome her guests, leaving her materials upon the Mtchen. Her guests stayed until bedtime, and hen they bade her adieu, Mrs. Benedict ent to bed -without returning to the Mt- ■What happened in the night was this: A raC made his ivay np the legs of the table to the top, where he was speedily joined! by others. The dish of flour and plaster was easily reached, and the rats ate freely and hastily of it, as it is their custom to do. It was a rather dry sup per, and water being near, each rat turned to drink. The water drunk first w et the plaster in the rats’ stomachs, and then, in technichal phrase, “set” it; that is to say, the plaster thus made into paste,, instantly grew hard in each rat’s stomach and put an end to any exercise of that organ. The rats decided Mr. M allock’s question: “Is life worth liv ing?” in the negative -without quitting the table. The next morning thirteen of them lay dead in a circle around the water dish. Mrs. Benedict, when she entered the kitchen for the pmrpose of maMng her fire, saw them and acted— that is to say, she screamed and climbed upon a chair. From that position she studied the scene, and very soon saw the cause. Like a -wise woman, she kept her secret a nd made profit of it. She under took, for a consideration, to clear the premises of her neighbors of the pests, and sucoeeeded., It w as not long before the town was as’free of this sort of ver m in as if the pied piper of Hemelin had traveled that way.—^New York Star. western ci-vilization it was de duce into their respective countries. The diplomatist from China was greatly im pressed ■with the immeasurable superiority of European sciences over anything of the sort existing in that empire. The Japanese fully agreed -with bis friend that both China and Japan, should profit to the uttermost by the fruits of 'modem inventions and discovery; but he re marked that that was not enough and that something more was needed. Fressed to say what it was he replied that to the science they ought to add the religion of Europe.- The Chinaman differed from his friend on that point, but the latter repeated his opinion in yet stronger langna^. ■'He said that al though the Japanese jtofin m e n t did not know much about-the i ^ i ^ a n religioirand . attached no more importance to it than they did any other form of supernatural belief, they at one time seriously thought of taking it over and making it the religion of the state. The Chinaman still expressed his incredulity as to the -wisdom of such a proceeding, but e Japanese clinched his opinion by refer- availed the could deri\ r are losing ground every day. Science in instance does not suffice to arrest national decay, and therefore I am forced to believe that the Turks have made a mistake in stick ing to their religion instead of adopting that of the stronger race.” This remarkable conversation took place in London, As evidence that, so far as tha Japanese diplomatist -was concerned, it not empty sound, I may mention that, a1 request of the Japanese authorities, a < would not work unless stairs, and there seems to he more chicken sold than any other meat. The Cuban chickens are small, and they are, as a rule, lean and scrawny. The market mpn use strips of bark instead of string to tie the chickens’ le » together, and they sell them alive to the customers. Eat ables here are high, and board at the hotels' is correspondingly .dear. W e pay A bou t $10 a day in Cuban money at the hotel Pas- __ . . - _ ®ut when it is remembered that this is jif T H E G R E A T m coniine their apparel to undershirt and panta- i only about $4 in our money it is not so muck ____ __ __ III __ III loons. In the case of the colored laborer, the ; after all. ■ again in the spring. H e had one other | | O . M | M « * n K O l Y I A r l l f III undershirt is dispensed-with, and, aU told, I The chief amusement in Cuba isthebu ll failing. He imagined, sometimes, that he i l l C l l i I l U l l l v / l i V * i l i suppose there are less clothes worn in Cuba to fight, and the town is in love -?vith a h u ll wasi a great general; at other tim es he III «7 s i population than in any other country in fighter named Mazzantini, who has just left ' thought that ho w a s a n officer of the law, — — rm .. ........................... .. , . .here. It paid him $30,000 and his expenses -with fu ll power t o make arrests. for fourteen performances, and you may see Years ago some practical joker sent him w ith orders to arrest the chief of police a t Tiffin. B y pretense he succeeded in get tin g the chief of police to show him into the interior o f the jail. He then read i imaginary warrant and looked the poU captain up in a cell for a long time. I t w as a more common practice to 1 . h the birds southward, but he would come w ith the thistles in the spring. H e b quite -willmg that his daughter should be taught any religion which would enable them to better their condition in this world.—New York Mail and Express. The Story of a Flay. James Barton Key tells an odd story about the first English production of “Jack,” which enjoyed such a prosperous run at the Grand last week. It seems that Mrs. Henry Beckett, the author, took her insphation from an old French play, but her work on the piece was entu'ely original, she having changed the con struction entirely and keeping only tho motif. She originally sold the play ten years ago to Harry Montague and it was played by him in this country under another name. He, however, received his San Francisco offer and left to accept it. Sothem fell in love -with the piece and was to have produced it had his death not occuiTed just then. By the terms of the contract it reverted to Mrs. Beckett and it was again sold by her to Mr. Flympton. About two months before it was produced in London she was asked by a pub lisher for whom she worked to write a short novel The price was alluring, but she had no theme bandy. In despair she took the play and turned it Into a novel, putting in only enough description to connect the scenes. • “The novel came out before the play did,” said Mr. Key, “and some hack.-jsriter in Lon don perceived its dramatic value and turned it into a play. As luck would have it, our play was produced anonymously and the hack writer was there. He was astounded, and when he saw Mi-s. Beckett responding to the calls for ‘author,’ ho raised such a row that we were obliged to conduct him behind the scenes to her. He was so enraged that he could hardly speak. He claimed to be the author of the play and threatened her with all sorts of terrible things. At last ho said, ‘IVhy, madam, I can bring you the novel I took it troai.’ 'V ery well,’ said Mrs. Beckett, ‘bring the novel and play to my house to morrow.’ Sure enough he turned up with tho documents, whereupon she produced her play with a United States copyright ten years old, together with a not el and a letter from the publisher certifying that she was the author, and her own play. ‘This,’ she said, holding up her play, ‘was what my novel was written from.’ Ho -wilted at that, for this is the clinching clause of copyright law. Notwith standing all this, however, he sold it to ‘Fritz’ Emmet for $250.”—Chicago News. Barharous Ballet at Tangier. guns high in the air, until at a point in the dance, when one platom gives a wild shriek, reversing the muzzles of the guns to the ;d, and giving a simultaneoas leap in the this platoon runs off to an attendant who stand b y with an open bag of powder to re load, and its place is taken in the dance by a fresh^ ■* ......................... e is taken in the d; fresh troop. I saw this thing kept up for an hour to the intense delight of performers and treaties he 'would make i would w a lk a dozen m iles to arrest any man, and more than once has he aided the . police and constables in dischargiug their duties. Judges, preachers, congressmen, whose early homes -were in Sandusky county, or Seneca, tefi amusing stories of how “Old Silas” captured them. \Wlien the forest roads were fenced np Silas Barher did not ' It. H e -ivouia tear down rods in g j a order that his favorite thistle fields m ight remain open and the nmon property of the whole world, it the farmers always forgave him the mischief for the good that he -wrought. Conductors were M nd to him and aU the railroads i n northwestern Ohio gave him free rides over the roads,—^Toledo Blade. E m p e ror Ak-bar’s Bonbon Book. Of a ll the M ogul emperors Akbar was ,;fa r the ablest and greatest, but. Shah Jehan w as the m ost magnificent. The Emperor Akbar succeeded to the throne • when he was but 14 years of age, -with only the Punjab under his rule. H e h a d the -wisdom to show n o distinction between his Mohammedan and Hindoo subjects,and made every effort to mold them into a com mon nationality. B o m on Indian soil, he made every effort to give the cohntry of his birth w h a t she has never had, a nationality. He even w ent so far » s only to marry Into the families of the royal Hindoos. H is military success was 're markable, and at his death almost aU of India was firmly seonrled to hisAmpire. He loved and favored h is friends, but ha^ s for those who proved themselves nemies. H is double sided box of )ns is a matter of history. No one _____ to refuse the great emperor when he was offered a hohbon from this well kno-wn box,, although none could tell whether it iras an evidence of favor or of displeasure until after i t had been eaten. A bonbon from one aide c f the 1 off bleeding, but J was told that he was the victim of a bloody feud, for this is the op^ toason for the vendetta, a popular institution in this country. Indeed, it is said that these feuds exist among the mountain tribes dur ing generations, and 'that a man feels it a ' point of honor to MU a few of the tribe which a hundred years before may have put an end to his great-uncle’s mother-in-law.—^Tan Cor. Boston Transcript Tlie Bootblack’s Income. ' hang around the corner of Jlyi-tle avenneam Fulton street, I asked toe Italian,-who keeps it, how much money % day he took in. He told me that $6 or $7 was toe average aunt. “And -this is as good a spot for ir business, is it not, os any in the city}” ),\ hee replied,lied, “therethere arere standsands nearear thoho “No,\ h rep “ a st n t bridge that make from $1S to $20 a day. I used to have a three chair stand at the Grand Central depot. New York, that paid me three ather side meant a sudden drowsiness, ____ resulting in the* sleep of death. It has been said that he came to' his own leath by accidentally eating ^ a bonbon from the wrong side of his liox.—^Indla Cor. Baltimore Sun. of paper by light, and’eepeciaUy the more refrangible rays.. The discoloration is more marked in w ood papers than in r ^ papers, and more rapid i n m oist than in dry air. Tivo p r a c tice results o f this study - s t i t o k -------- ■ ■ Jr il depot. New York, that paid me three IS much as I make here. I paid $80 a monthrent;hereI pay $10 a month rent.” “TVnydid you leave New York?” I asked. “Oh, because there were too many hoodlums around there. They used to steal m y black ing and bother me in other waya Then again I had an offer of $600 for my privilege there, and that was to* much money to xe- tute.”—“Rambler” in Brooklyn Eagle. Twice Three-Soora and-Ten. A writer in The Jounud of Mem, published in Boston, holds that “the at tainable lim its of hum a n longevity are generally underrated b y -the m edical pro fession and b y popular opinion. In stead of the Scriptural lim it of three score and t e n ,” he says, “I w o u ld esti m ate twice that amount, or 140 years, as the ideal age of healthy longevity, w h e n m ankind shalL h ave been bred and trained w ith the sam e -wise energy that has been expended on horses and cattle. Of the present scrub race, a very large number ought never to iweve been bom , a ought not to be allowed to transmit tbo.x phySicaland moral deficiencee to poster ity.” This estimate, he insists, is sus tained by th e 'n u m b J of persons of the age of 140 found in Italy under a census by oue of the Roman emperors. I t is aided, moreover, by tiie number of per sons t o this country 'who have passed the century lim it.—^D^oit F rto Press. Th« ^anoM in ToMlng. Professor Proctor, in his new book on •“ Chance and Tuck,” undertakes to teU the chances of getting heads or tails in tossing a penny. I f you toss an hour, “heads” -will no#, exceed “ t a ils,\ or “tails” “heads” i n a greater ratio than 81 to 80. If you M for » d»y the in equality w ill not b* greater than 101 to ,100.-—Nfi’ir York (k<<pa#itial Adrerttwr. THE WRECKERS. ' Out, out, ye gnashing, hungry pack, And scour the desert saJt and -wide? But what ye take briug straightway hack, And toss it hither up the tide. From main to main ye coursing go. Ye bring the deep hulled ships to hay;’ And then returned with sure reflow. Your captures on the beach ye lay. Is it Iberian giapes ye bring. Or slender length of Indian cane? Or is it some old sovereign’s ring That long in secret gulfs hath lainf A mast the storm hath shorn away, A rudder, or a broken oar. The timbers from your vessels drawn. leof circling seas. To whom shaU I a salvage pay? To you who drank the mortal deep, ■Whose craving hands reach thro’ the spray, ■Whose voices sotmd -within-my sleep.^ —Edith M. Thomas in Brooklyn Magazine. irUM B E B 16 PICKETT'S MEMORABLE CHARGE. O u F C Hn^ndm o ther’s R a y s a n d N o w . A ttacking th e Fed o r a l'C e n ter on Ceme- ' of tho End. £ and pierce the Cemetery Ridge under Gen. Hancock. It was made suc- arshal Me lt -rictory. )oleon had ti TH E DELIGHTS OF SMITHVILLE, SmithviUe is thirty m iles from lYll- mington, N . C., at the m outh of the Cape Fear river. In the hay in front of Smith- ville is Coon island, which is Inhabited b y an infinite n-omher of raccoons. Nobody takes the trouble to hunt them, because nobody cares to eat them. Not even the darkies down there know how good roast 'coon .is. Alm ost aU the bottom of the great bay is covered w ith enormous natu ral beds of the largest, fattest and m o it Iclously flavored oysters imaginablo. throu£* ssive generations of oysters i past have piled their shell prediredecessors ose of their p until they have ide solid masses of shells coral reefs, a depth. Inrt until now they a r c ------- * tide, and the hoys of Smii handy and amusing to huild fires on them when the tide is out and roasting them in their beds, flirting each oyster out of his shell as he is cooked and swallowing him. The tide rises and falls about five feet. Monster green turtles, some weighing as much as 1,500 pounds each, frequent the beach fill the way down to Fort Cas well, four m iles below the town. People eat their eggs, b u t do no t e a t the turtles. Beach parties of young folks go down there, gather beautiful shells, have dances on the hard sand in the moonlight, roast oysters and have fun w ith the turtles. ■'TOen a fem ale turtle wishes to lay her and neatly in rows. When she com mences l a j ^ g it makes no odds to her how big a beach party stands around superin tending the process. She attends strictly to business, and if the eggs axe taken from the hole as fast as she lays them it does not at all discourage or frighten her. rough r e hole \ nd ther seem to mind their weight or show any disposition to resent their good natnred farniliarity. Sometimes they turn her over on her back, but after she has help lessly pawed the air a little while they right her again and she waddles off. Of course, there m u st be something wrong mentally in a people who can fumble around green turtles in that w a y -without ever thinking of eating them, r don’t eat soft them seems WJJJIUU ttiO u>uuuuai. C w hich there a fe w i pretty much everyplace where anybody m ight look for them in the bay, they do eat, but not -with any particular enthusi asm, though their hard clams are really veryAne.—^New York Times. equivalent to the m ovem ent w hite baton in tho hands, of a.j produced e rem ent of a leader. It iisionlsision ob is said that-muoh greater prec is tained by this de-vice than where the . is beaten for the chorus by a second der behind the scene.—^Philadelpfiia 1 Children Out at .Night. ThOTelsa:nother • .though partial;rtiol, is a application w hich, al- a is of great range and of importance, addressing ItseU child store I would give him unwatched liberty after dark. Yon cannot do or thing th a t w ill b e so n w r ly the guarantee oiC a child’s ctamnation fw to le t him have ^ the l l b e ^ of the streets a t n ighti^ H e n r y an ■ attack such as . Icon had tried with the Old Guard at iterloo against 'Wellington and had m et -with disaster. B y 1 o’clock Lee found himself in readi ness to again open the battle. For sev eral hours a dead silence had reigned over_ the battle field, when .suddenly a cannon’ shot, followed a t the interval o f a minute by another, proclaims to both armies that the hour h ad come for the last and final ading. One hunffired and thirty-eight pieces o f fcannon opened their fiery throats and sent their iron missiles against the Federal center, :to shake itj to tear it, t o . -rend it, if-^possJble^ -From..,righty guns,^ weU posted on the ridge, the Federals made reply. For two hours this terrific storm of shot and shell continued, until tho Federal chief of artillery slackened h is fire, deeming it -wise to hold in reserve h is am munition to m eet the infantry charge which he knew was coming. Meade, also •wishing to provoke the attack, ordered the firing to cease. And'now the Confederates drew out to make that final and forever memorable charge, which ranks among the m ost re markable in the history of battles. The column numbers 14,000 men. If they could all he pu t in motion and weU led against a particular point of the Federal Hue they may decide the fate of the b attle. vooded crests o Ridge they march, sweeping into the plain, a mile in -width, they have to cross, with the mien of conquerors and -with a cou rage that hah been tested on many b attle fields. Onward. theyhey goo inn doubleouble battleattle t g i d b lously, not at the double- quick, but -with disciplined steadiness, as if on the field o f review. The supporting columns follow, hut not with the steadi ness that characterizes Pickett’s men. Now opens the Federal artillery -with aU their force upon the assailante, the solid shot opening great lanes through the ad'vancing hosts. Stai they go them. The suppori _ but P ickett carries his men forward, they reach the crest of the hill, but tom and bleeding and almost destroyed, they are Federal almost annihilated them. Out >n field offlci give. A blasting infantry almost s of eighteen field officers and four generals, Pickett and one lieutenant colonel alone remain unharmed. They throw doiro their arms, they fly, and the conflict is at an end. Of P ickett’s magnificent division alone 3,500 m en have been sacrificed and twelve stands of colors lost. The losses in the supporting columns are nearly as heginning of tho end, but the great army of Lee was destined to hold at bay for a long time yet the 'conquerors at Gettys burg. Into the dispute that Meade should have made his victory still more decisive by an ad-vance upon his foe it is not ice upon h i d to enter. He had repelled the ii “ “ '! army retired i A Drove of Coirs TohosTgranlnj;. A rare and amusing incident occurred Dn Saturday last. The Messrs. Everhardt own a large farm on the road leading from Ne-wport to N ew Bloomfield, Ferry county, and a short distance from the latter place. They keep a large number Of cattle and on the day in question the hovines were roaming about in one of the fields in which there are a number of high hills, [ another followed suit until five or six had performed a similar feat. It remained for- the last of the cows to perform the crowning feat. She sat down on her h ind legs and ereet on her fore feet and started down the incline. AU went weU until near the bottom of the hiU, when her front feet caught t o the ice, causing her t o perform an acrobatic feat which would make a gym nast tprn green-with en-vy. The cattle seemed to enjoy the impromptu slide and when they brought up at the base of the hill would gingerly get on to their f eet and move off as though it was nothing unusual, Altogether it was an amusing sight.—Altoona Tribune. Neiv Y o rk Twenty-five Years Ago. lation, to find laboring men an d m ______ who knew how to behave to women with any gallantry. The general area of our con versation thirty years ago was hardly above the common instincts o f ignorance.; Now ■ e apt to get more common sense out artisan class than out of.the wealthy It is noticeable here that if yon ride on the Sixth Avenue Elevated road, and are a woman, you -will be im pudently stared at; but if you ride on the N inth avenue road, where the poor create the manners, the best dressed woman in the land w ill find complete respect.— “ Gath” In CincinDati Enquirer. E lectrical Device fo r heading Choruses. Leading a chorus by electrical appar atus has been tried In Paris. The current . is used in heating tim e for the chorus of an opera company w h ile the singerq are behind- the scenes. A n electrical baton, hung in a conspicuous place, is controlled by the loot of tiie leader of the orchestra, who has also l a front of him a sm idl du plicate, by which he can see whether h is foot is heating correct time. The electri cal baton does not actuaUy move in space, -but it presents the appearance of doing so. There are, in fact, two hato'ns oc cupying different positions, which, on being revolved by the action of electro magnets, presents white and black faces alternately on a black ground. An cal' illusion Is thus vasion. Lee -with h is arm y retired to YirglDia again to act on the defensive, and Meade pursued him. In t h e latter days ■' of July the Rapidan had become the_^ di'viding line b etween the opposing armies.'^ —Chicago Herald. D umbness Cured by Hypnotism . Hypnotism has been employed w ith con siderable success iu Paris for some time past by Charcot and others, in the treat m ent o f hysterical disorders, hut a case just related by M. Clovis Hugues in The France is perhaps the m ost successful ex ample of its application so far recorded. A young lady of months ago w ith a completely d( . voice. Elect certain amount of success a t first, h lost its effect after a time and it wi length abandoned in despair. A s a last resource her friends appB Dr. Berillon, the hypnotic speciali after a consultation -with Charcot cided to rmdertakethecase. After L thehe mesmericesmeric having ught on t m trance by tl usual means he “suggested” to the p tient to say “1 am 30” as soon as si ;nt to say roke. A minute afterwi r eyes, and at Without the least there her power of .articulation ended. The next day the suggestion was that she should con-verse 'with the doctor, and this she did -with ease, though she could not exchange a single remark -with anyone else present. Finally, a t the third seance, Dr. Berillon ordered her to speak when- •ever and w ith whomsoever she pleased thenceforward. Since that time she has been able to use her tongue freely, and her The Prince and Princess of \Wales and their eldest son were in a box at the Princess’ theatre last week, and on an. in timation that the prince -would he present the house was crowded. The future queen and the two coming kings of Great Brttato looked very simple and ...hqn^eli]l£%'the princess in a light, ganZy di§&s';-Sho-wing to great advantage her perfectly preserved figure, and the prince in an ordinary even ing dress, with an extraordinary gold double watch chain s-wung across his ample vest. They aH three watched the play intently. The prince has a habit of leaning forward o n the edge of the box, so that everybody in the audience has a full view of his head, which is growing quite bald. Both he and Prince Albert Victor wore lavender kid gloves, aud both went out to take a drink a t the end of the first act. Frince Albert Victor is a sallow youth. Thi M a n’s T rue N a ture. 3 not found iu him at birth, h developed b y his activity; his true nature is his ideal, which he m ay a ctualize by education. N o t So D elightful. A florist, who was congratulated by a ipon possessing such a delightful allo-wjng'chydren to find their companions at night, and their pleasures a t night,' aw a y ; -from -parental inspection. If - I , w a n t^. to \ make- tho destruction of i child store I would give lady upon possessing such a delightful profession, replied: “Madam, when you come to know them, flowers is j u st as dis gusting as any other business.—Chiotgo B n tlor’s B u ttonhole Bqnquet*. It is a m ystery where Gen. Butler finds the flower that he wears in his button hole. In Boston he always has a May flower.hefore anybody else \has thought of looking for them. In N ew York it is easy enough to get a posy, hut when the general alights from a sleeper early tn'tho morning -with a pretty combination of flowers in 4he left lapel, the wonder is itnral where he found them. .H e is a that if this w ild flower were rare It wo be reckoned among 'the choicest o f blos- Boips.—^New York Sun. Ordering for Two. Hotel W aiter (to little girl)--W fll you order your breakfast, please? Little Girl’s Mamma—^ m e oatmeal, I thiokj waiter. L ittle Girl—1 > sauce; El .. saehuokwht ____ let the coffee b e strong a ______ Little Girl’s Mamipa <with a sigh)-—You may bring m e t h e same. - - , Many of the mothers o f the present generation wore away their lives in ^the kitchen in order that their daugh ters might get a smattering of French, music, painting and other accomplish- menits, and while they were thereby rendered useless as wives for -working- meii they were but rarely dowered sufficiently to pay the cost o f servants, and,, if they were, they knew not how to manage them. Fanny Fern used to say that man was an alligator, and, if well-fed, was easily managed ; but if wife and hired girl do not under stand the chemistry of bread-making, let alone general cookery, how can children he kept healthy or a husband be prevented from degenemting into a d^peptic savage.? In our grandmothers’ days- people were beginning to see as through a glass, darkly, the millennium for their children, a millennium to be brought about by labor-saving machinery, and it is o f interest in this day to take a retrospect of what these old-time women accomplished and the difficul ties under which they labored, and one does not need to be over fifty -xo remember their straits. Light at night was obtained either from a tal low dtp, made in the household, or from a Dutch lamp, filled with candle- wick and lard, and though we may wonder they did not become blind, yet they did not need spectacles at as :arly an age as we do now. They took long journeys on horseback or in. lumbering stage-coaches over roads that would shake the bones out o^ their descendants, and they regarded these journeys as relaxation. They spun the wool, cotton and flax and wove by hand the cloth necessary for the family, and they cut and sewed it into garments. They paid eighty cents a yard for calico prints for soclety apparel. They used thorns for pins and took more care o f a case of needles than the modern housekeeper does of her silverware. They cov ered the embers of their fires carefully at night, for they had no matches, and If the fire happened to go out it might necessitate a walk of a mile to a neighbor’s house for a burning brand -in the morning before coffee could be made or meat fried and cakes baked for breakfast. They got through with all this multifarious labor without the aid of sewing machines, and they but rarely had a hired girl to help. They made their own soap, and with out formulas save the traditions of their ancestors, and it was a case of fit-and-try ; and when the chemical combination could be affected in no other way they had to resort to incan tations. It was necessary to make it when the moon was in a soap-making humor, and a spring or .well could not be cleaned, nor seeds planted, nor children weaned, unless the signs of the zodiac were propitious. Notwith standing all these hindrances, our grandmothers found time to learn the shorter and longer catechisms; to read and almost memorize the bible,. Josephus, “ Pilgrim’s Progress,” and the “ Dialogues -of Devils” ; acquired a mine o f crisp proverbial philosophy, and were better conversationalists than are their granddaughters of to-day. And not only did they do all this, but foqnd time to assist our grandfathers in their harvest field. It* will not be argued that woman should thus be made a beast o f burden, but the cita tion' o f these facts shows what vvoman can do when the occasion calls for in tense energy. Some of these old peo ple lived to get a glimpse, like Moses, of the promised land, the inheritance of their children—of the time when sewing-machines should reduce house hold drudgery one-half; when enough matches-can be bought for five cents to kindle fires for a year j when yeast can be bought for one cent sufficient do the family baking j when soap can be bought cheaper than it can be made at home ; in short, when inven tion and discovery have reduced house hold labor to the minimum, and in imagination their fancy reveled in the “ possibilities of excellence and eminence” which -would be opened to their granddaughters. Could they, re visit their earthly abodes they would find that all these advantages for cul ture have turned to dust and ashes in the mouths o f a vast majority o f tl'eir granddaughters simply because the daughters did not-do their duty and teach their children the secret of ma king home happy—the secret that, if employed, would do more to deplete the haunts o f vice than all the moral teaching that b»* ’ «en heard from the pulpit in the If iwenty-five years. Some o f the evil reiults of the present system are that it hat given us a sur plus of only half-competent female school teachers, music teachers, clerks, seamstresses, etc., a mise.rable, dis contented army of grumblers who. diffuse their .misery and discontent through almost the entire army pi brciad-winners. It is a class that I l r e g O o n f n u i t e d . Hsritont Ooanui& A. T. Stewart toUed sll his fife to amass a colossal fortune, and saoceied- ed, At.thejtime of his death he‘w«l oonaidered the richest manin Amerioe, with an income greater than that of most of the monarchs of \the w'qrld. H e built a spacious palace, formed an expensive art collection, founded a lit tle jpty, and began the construction of a’ great institution for the^ benefit of the working-women of New York. He migh.t have done great things for hia fellowmen by expending during his life a portion, of the income which be .did hot need and .which be bad no children or kin to inherit. But he did nothing of the sort. He has been dead a few years, his body stolen and iu-some unknown and unhohored grave, * and what has it profited him or the world that he ever lived? A large' part of his fortune has gone into the hands of his former attorney; his art collection has been sc.atter.ed under the bammer, his little city will go the same way; his palace is waiting for a bidder and his great institution for the bene fit of the working-women has been changed into one of the third or fourth rate hotels of New York. So far as is known the only benefit the public se cures from his vast fortune is that through the generosity of Cornelius Vanderbilt, Bosa Bonheur’s famous picture. “ The Horse Fair,” has been given to the Metropolitan Museum— bo thanks to Mr. Stewart or hisezeeu- lore. . --- '' Miss Catharine Wolfe, who died last weel^ saw less of life by^ a score of years than Mr. Stewart. She came in to the possession of wealth—about one-twentieth of the Stewart fortune—■ about fifteen years ago. Like Mr. Stewart she had no immediate heirs. She buUt a handsome biX not showy house, and formed an art collection, judiciously selected, and therefore vastly superior to that' of Mr. Stewart, a large part of which was bought by the square yard. But she did some thing more than this. Beared in lux ury, a favored member of a social cir cle which Mr. Stewart seldom adorned with his presence, she oared little for the excitement of fashionable life, but found her enjoyment in going among the poor and needy and devoting her life and her fortune to their benefit. She did not plan benefactions to be made public through her will and then defeated by her heirs and executors. In a quiet manner, so that only the few intimate ones who assisted her knew what she did, she endowed' homes, built churches, established schools, and sought in every way to follow the example of the Christ in whom she believed. Every year she gave a-way with Intelligent care hun dreds of thousands of dollars, her total benefactions during her life amount ing to millions of dollars, the benefits of which, through permanently en- . dowed oharities will continue for ages. But she also made a will, and by it leaves to the city of New York for its Metropolitan Museum her magnificent collection of paintings, valued at half a million dollars. It is the most nota ble gift of its kind this country has known, and is the first instance in New York where a great collection of paint ings has been thus kept together by the far-sighted philanthropy of its Of how much greater value to the iforld was the simple life of Catharine Wolfe than that of the great dry goods Fine Breeding o f Household Pets. The fine breeding of household pets has not been carried out in America so extensively as in the old world. So recent is the occupation here that there are comparatively few breeders. In foreign countries the fine breeding of cats can be traced back for centuries. In Angoro, Persia, cats, dogs and goats have ever been in great repute for their long, silky hair. In Malta the save the domesticated tortoise-sl South America; but ail the dogs and ;ts brought to our. shores have be- ime so mixed that the original types kve nearly all been lost. We have, )wever, produced the fleetest, most beautiful and most highly intelligent horses the world has ever known. In Maud S. is the poetry of motion, the highest . intellectuality developed among lower animals. Now that Cen tral park has a tame and loving kebra, let the old theories to the effect that domestication of all wild animals i s impossible crumble to the dust.— W illiam JSosea Ballou in New Or leans Times-JDemoerat. bacon, cakes and coffee, and ig and hot. If \we lose, a doRar on der shtreet ytt vhas madt pecans# der finder vhas not honest -enough tp retani It. i f i f f s ^ d lakes more trouble in the industrial world than docs convict labor— Ktts- hugh Dispatth. Tax Dow highdioense law in Ohio :h«i«lb^ forty-hight sid<»aB|n Colum- bu% 2<)0 in Toledo and 900 m Cleve- No E x tra Session.^ Wosiniigton Critic. '‘My dear,” said a congressman to his daughter at breakfast, “Wasn’t young Brown here last night until 12 o’clock ?” “Yes, papa,” she replied with a pret ty little blush. “Well, my dear, you should not per-’ mit it. It has been that way for sev eral nights, hasn’t it?” “Yes, papa.” “Don't you know that Is hardly th i proper thing ?” “Yes, papa.” “Then why do you,do it t” he asked impatiently. ‘‘B ^ u s e , papa, I expeqt l a go away next Wee^ <uid I am rosbing the busi ness so there will not have to be .an ■ ■'^1 d 4 Knights of St. John bred celebrated dogs. Mr. Hugh Dalziel, of London, speaks of Sicily m the home of the Maltese dog, but if he will refer to British historians of a century ago he will find that these dogs were.bred by the Knights and inhabitants of the isle of Malta. In the great monastery at Chartreuse, in France, celebrated do mestic animals were bred from tho time of its origin and sold to aid the monks in their work. Here originated the far-famed Carthusian oat, which is somewhat more blue than the Maltese c^, and colored black on the hips and bottoms of the paws. In China the most marvelous breed ing the world has ever seen has been in progress for over 1,000 years. Here is the gold fish of great size, having a id tail, pendulous from the first, which is very long and flowing, and which was originally bred on the ordi- animal. Here also are strange cats, with peculiar ear tufts aud mufits,;^ J dogs with long silky hair, and hmrles^' dogs. America has no typical d o ^ ^ save those bred by aborigines, no cate ' the domesticated tortoise-shell of . h America; but ail the dogs and brought to our, shores have be- 1 so mixed that the original types nearly all been lost. We have, jver, produced the fleetest, most tifui and most highly intelligent lorses the world has ever known. In of motion, ■r '
