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i. m tunc, EATMIMNW McHENBT, ILLINOI& • A* Italian traveler. Prof. S. Somier, finds that the northern limit of the Si- . feerian forest region is retreating south­ ward on account, he believe:,, of in­ creasing moisture of the climate of Arctio Asia. In many districts the trees have been succeeded by extensive tracts water-saturated moss. .THE yellowing of paper, acoording to xlot Wiesner, is due to an oxidation •determined by light, especially by the xnore refrangible rays. It is greater in 'wood than in rag papers, and in moist than in dry air. The electric light, rich in the more refrangible rays, has a greater discoloring effect in libraries than gas. IN Japan stairways are almost un­ known. Hence, when Japanese come to this country and are lodged in board* ing houses their apartments are gen­ erally in the third or fourth story. To reach their rooms they are compelled «t first to go up very cautiously and with the aid of the balustrade. Some -do not even hesitate to go up cat-fashion, on all fours, ^rom step to step. The trouble is that they have not learned to balance the body so as to ascend and descend as we do. COLORADO maintains first rank as the largest producer of the precious metals ia the United States, the value of its production of gold and silver having been over $20,000,000 during the last year. California yields second place to Montana, with a production of nearly $17,000,000, against $16,000,000 by the former. The production of Nevada and New Mexico has decreased. Texas, for the first time, is added to the list of producing States, with a production of #200,000 in silver. THERE is a tradition that a cave near Calhoun, Ga., contains vast quantities of silver. It is said that the Indians were accustomed to go into the cave and chop off great chunks of pure ore with their tomahawks. When forced tp leave the country they rolled a huge atone from the mountain above and closed up the entrance. Some of the farmers in that vicinity say that when they get through plowing corn this epring they will blow up the stone with dynamite and carry away a few wagon- loads of silver. A TEXAS editor announces himself as follows: "We were born on the Texas frontier, have been reared on the broad prairie; have plowed, herded cattle, kept store, run a mill, practiced physic, lectured on phrenology, edited a news­ paper, and run a drug store, but we have never been whipped, and when any person undertakes it he will be pretty oertain to regret it till he dies, *plase God,' as the Irishman said, 'that be lives that long.' We can be slan­ dered, cursed, abused, and ridiculed, but we draw the line at being whipped." A BOSTON man tells the following incident as illustrating the strictly methodical style of doing business which distinguished the early Boston merchants. Having occasion to settle an account with a well-known honored firm he was sent by the firm which em­ ployed him to deliver a note on demand for $1,600. The word dollars was ab­ breviated so that it read dolls. Mr. Perkins, the dignified head of the house, received the document, and adjusting his spectacles read it and handed it back to the messenger, saying: "Young man, we don't want 1,600. dolls in our business. Tgbke it back and have it made dollars and I will accept it." AV old mulatto woman named Topsie tried to join one of the colored churches at Athens, Ga., lately, but as she was looked upon as rather a hard case one of the brothers was deputized to talk with her and report on her con­ version. It seemed that the church .had unfortunately selected a deacon who owed old Topsie a long-standing debt, and as soon as she saw him her ire was aroused, and she turned her battery of abuse and profanity loose on the deacon and the church, showering a frightful benediction on the congrega­ tion as she sailed out of the door. She denounced them as a band of liars, and hypocrites, and said she would go and join a rival church. TULANE museum, New Orleans, pos­ sesses a Peruvian "whistling jog" which dates from the incas. It resembles two squatty, flattened bottles con­ nected by a bar between the necks and below by a pipe one inch and a half in diameter. One ends above with an open brandy-bottle mouth and the other in the form of a grotesque hu­ man head. The only hole in the latter is a small orifice at the back of the head. On pouring water into the open mouth till both jugs are filled above the level^of the connecting tube the air remaining in the closed side is forced out at the small orifice, and, striking the thin plate between the two openings, produces a clear, shrill whis­ tle. By tipping the half-filled vessel in various directions various sounds are en îttted--some of a most startling, weird character. THE disturbances in Wales resultant upon the attempt to collect tithes will probably lead to a revival of the pro­ position looking to the dis-establish- ment of the English. Church in that country. The hardy Welshmen, among whom the doctrine of dissent is largely held, have often made strenuous efforts to resist the payment of tithes, but the influence of landlordism, which is almost as great in Wales as it is in Ire­ land, has hitherto been able to keep the system in force. Prior to the Tithe Com­ mutation act of 1836 there were many discreditable occurrences--audi as a peasant shooting his rector, or a rector wageii tithing a peasant's wagefc and patting him in jail on aooonnt of a few shillings but even since that time scenes have been witnessed whereof the tendency was to bring religion into disrepute. The claim made by Blackstone that clergymen were entitled to a tenth part of the increase yearly arising from the profits of lands, the stock upon lands, and the personal industry of the inhabi­ tants was effectually disposed of by the Dean of Norwich as far back as the year 1710; and the present Bishop of Chester has^ added the weight of his authority to the view now almost uni­ versally held that the claim of the clergy to tithes cannot be put upon any Divine right. Nor is there any analogy between the tithe system pre­ vailing among the Jews and that which exists in the English Church. With the former the tithes were applied to the support of the whole tribe of Levi, the priests having received a tenth of the tithe, and no power was vested in any person to enforce the payment of these tithes. The English tithe system, as Walpole says in his "History of En­ gland," in course of time resulted in giving England the richest church and the richest aristocracy in the world, the wealth of both having in many cases been due to fraudulent appropriations. THE prosperity of the United States is always menaced by enterprising peo­ ple who are striving to do too much, pertinently remarks the Milwaukee Wisconsin: That is, creating large supplies before there is a demand. If all the present railway projects are carried out 21,000 miles of railway will be built this year; and that will require a fixed investment of $500,000,000 of capital. The relaying of 13,000 miles of old track with steel rails will require $100,000,000 more. We do not think that so many miles of new track will be built, but an effort is making in that di­ rection. As an evidence of the rash­ ness of some of these enterprises, it is announced that the Atchison, Topeka and Sante Fe will build a new line from Kansas City to Chicago, 489 miles, re­ quiring an outlay of at least $18,000,- 000. The company has just concluded a contract for 100,000 tons of steel rails, and it is supposed these rails are in­ tended for the Chicago and Kansas City line. Inasmuch as there are al­ ready four roads from Chicago to Kansas City, it seems like putting in the fifth wheel of a wagon. Another serious menace is the large destruction of property by fire. This waste annu­ ally absorbs $100,000,000 of money. It is much worse than any permanent in­ vestment, because it is an utter annihi­ lation of that amount of property. The waste goes on increasing from year to year. It not only bankrupts many persons and renders their lives hope­ less and cheerless, but nearly ruins all investments in insurance companies, and to that extent is a dead weight on capital. Foreign nations do not earn as much as the United States, but they do not waste as much; and, therefore, the balance-sheet of savings is not so widely different. France has a popu­ lation of 37,000,000, and covers a large territory, yet the annual destruction of property by fire in all France does not probably exceed $1,000,000. A Snake for a BedfelM " "One night I awoke and found the light had gone out," says a writer in Youth's Companion, describing an ad­ venture in India. "I was too sleepy to call for the lascar and probably did not remain awake a minute. "But this was followed by disagreea­ ble dreams which seemed to last for hours, but quite likely they were of only a few minutes'duration. I waked again and was about to turn over, when I felt something pressing against my leg. The moon was shining into the room, and, as I moved slightly, I saw a movement near the foot of the bed at the spot where I had felt the pressure against me. Besides my pajamas, or sleeping-suit, my only covering was a single sheet of linen, and a very thin one it was. "A sense of great danger came over me, and without moving my body I slowly raised my head and distinctly saw in the moon-light the head of a co­ bra slowly turning and settling down after the disturbance eansed by my moving when I waked. "To say that £ was seriously fright­ ened does not describe my feelings, as you can well believe. My flesh was chilled as though by a blast from an iceberg. My blood seemed to cease flowing and I could feel my hair rising upon my head. My first impulse was to spring from the bed, but fear pre­ vented me. "By degrees I became sufficiently self-possessed to realize that if I jumped I was not only in danger of be­ ing bitten by the snake that lay against me, but also by its mate, which might be on the floor exactly in the spot where I should plant my feet To call the servant with the light was my only safety unless I chose to lie still until morning, which I felt I could not do. To remain for hours in that position would have made me a lunatic. "At the top of my voice I shouted lascar!'" "The cobra, disturbed by the noise, raised its head, but soon settled down again. The servant did not come, and as soon as the snake was quiet I re­ peated the call and with the same re­ sult. "A third time I shouted even louder than before. This appeal was success­ ful. My servant answered the call and came with a burning lamp. The cobra had moved, and with head erect was looking in the direction of the approach­ ing footsteps. On seeing the light he glided down the side of the bed' and sought safety beneath it. "I ordered other lamps brought and several of the servants called to remove the bed by suddenly dragging it from its corner. Then with my fowling- piece I riddled the reptile with shot, and had him flung outside the bunga­ low, where, in the morning, we found and dispatched his mate." ALL experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forma to which they are accustomed.--Jefferson. "HERE'S 5 cents, organ grinder, move on." "I knows the walue of peace and quietness. I never moves on undar a CLEVELAND AND THE 6. A. R. The Position of the Iowa Grand [From the Chicago Tribune.1 Th« mugwump and Democratic papers an misrepresenting outrageously the action taken in St. Loais by Gen. Tuttle and the reasons given by the Grand Army posts in Iowa for their indorsement of the Gener­ al's opposition to a review of the G. A. R. parade by Cleveland. Tattle is represented as a swashbuckler who has sought to at­ tract attention to himself by proposing (hat the old soldiers should openly insult Cleveland if the latter should attend the encampment. These are gross falsehoods. Gen. Tattle--"Old Tut," as the Iowa soldiers call him--is known to thou­ sands of veterans throughout the West as a modest, brave, cool- headed, plainspoken man--(me who would not under any circumstances propose such a thing as offering an insult to the Presi­ dent. Tuttle went to St. Loais in his ca­ pacity as Division Commander of the Grand Army for r Iowa, and to his astonishment found that the St. Louis Citizens' Commit­ tee had made preparations to use the en­ campment to boom Cleveland and give him a "starter" for the Presidential cam­ paign next year. It bad actually been ar­ ranged to have the Cleveland Democratic clubs of St. Louis parade in the same pro­ cession with the Grand Army and all pass in review together before Cleveland! Tut­ tle at once called attention to the rule of the Grand Army forbidding on'aiders, and espe­ cially those prominent in politics, to partic­ ipate in its proceedings--the rule which was applied strictly in the case of Mr. Blaine at the Portland encampment two years ago. He added that tbe feeliug among the veterans toward Grover was very bitter, and if they found themselves dragged into a partisan demonstration in honor of Cleveland, he feared some hothead might openly insult the Pie<ident. Warned in time, however, he and thousands of others would remain at home, and if the Citizens' Committee persisted in its partisan course, he predicted the demonstration would prove a failure. Nor is it true that Gen. Tuttle said his feeling or that of the veterans in general against Cleveland was based on the veto of the dependent pensioa bill. Gen. Tut­ tle said, distinctly: "It was not the veto, but the language and the manner, that had aroused so much indignation among the "soldiers. The veterans could allow /or differences of opinion, but found no excuse for the elephantine wit and contemptuous sneers of the veto message, whih seemed to regard all old soldiers as mendicants appearing at the back door. Tbe members of the Grand Army all recognized the prerogative of the President to disapprove legislation, whether it affected pensions or other mat­ ters, and no, special feeling could be aroused by the expression of antagonistic views in decent and rcspectful language." Moreover, the veterans differed among themselves in regard to the propriety of the pension bills vetoed last winter, but they are substantially unanimous in OOD- demnation of Cleveland. The sneers, and insults scattered through 1 lit vetoes of private pension bills and piled on top of a two-years' record of preferring the gray to the blue--these were the straws tbat tested patience and endurance to the limit. The manner of General Tattle's recep­ tion on his return from St. Louis to Des Moines makes the matter of Grand Army feeling against Cleveland perfectly plain. General Given, aciinq; as spokesman for the Grand Army posts of Des Moines, said in his address to General Tattle at the re­ ception: "As citizen soldiers we realize the right to differ and we do differ, save upon the issues of the war and those that imperil the standing and credit of the Union soldiers. We have within oar organization men of all political fi-.itbs, and its beat energies have always been devoted to the promo­ tion of those primal virtues which are the guiding stars of the order. Wily poli­ ticians have sought to capture the organ­ isation, but we have persistently stood aloof from party politics. To that end We approve with one voice your action regarding the invitation to Grover Cleve land. The invitation of any outside man would have been forbidden, bat especially of one who had endeavored to depreciate the high standinz and integrity of the Union soldiers. I voice the sentiment of »very mau in your post in giving sanction to your action in this matter. We may dif­ fer as to the right or wrong of tbe veto; it is not that to which we object, but the manner in which it was done. It was to the cold-hearted brutality of the man who could not discriminate between loyalty and disloyalty, nor between the traitors and the brave boys who stood a belt of blue and a wall of safety around our homes. I need not occupy your time farther. The G. A. B. of Des Moines and of Iowa indorse every word yon said and your every act in this regard." Here, then, is the reason for Tattle's course, and its approval by ti e Iowa veter­ ans clearly statea. Even if they had not differed among themselves regarding pen­ sion bills they could have allowed for any autagohistic opinion stated in respectful language; but they cannot and will not ex­ cuse Cleveland's per-istent and willful re­ fusal to "discriminate between loyalty and disloyalty, between the traitors and the. brave boys who stood a belt of blue" in de­ fense of tbe Nation. Thousands upon thousand* of loyal veteraus, serving the country as faithfully in civil as they did in military posts, have been designated "offensive partisans" and summarily re­ moved from office by Grover Cleve­ land solely because they were loyalists and Union men, while unrepent­ ant reltels by the hundred and thousand have been elevated to honors and dignities. It is, however, not strictly correct to say Cleveland "can­ not discriminate between (loyalty and dis­ loyalty." He has discriminated in a most odious, indefensible manner, and in all things has preferred the rebel to the Union soldier. Nothing appear* to delight him more than to chop off the heads of veter­ ans who were maimed and crippled in the Union service; they have gone down before him like wheat before the scythe. Mr. Cleveland, the old soldiers claim, has ex­ hausted the powers and patronage of his office to elevate the gray above the blue; be has bent every effort, they affirm, to punish all veterans found in office who dare to cherish the principles for which they fought on fhe field; and they charge that he has appointed unpardoned rebels to the highest honors of the Government, while coarsely deriding the sacrifices of Union men and glorifying Calhounism with en­ thusiasm. Is it to be wondered that loyal veterans refuse to join a parade in his honor? The Labor Party and the Democracy. Grover Cleveland for President carried the State of New York in 18S4 by a plu­ rality of 1,017 on a total vote of 1,171,312, and a change of one vote in each thousand cast would have caused him to lose New York and the Presidency. David B. Hill, Democrat, was elected Governor in 1885 by a plurality of 11.134 in a total of 1,026,- 2;»9. In 188(5 Rufus W. Peckham, Demo­ crat, was chosen Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals by a plurality of 7,797 in a total vote of 970,807. In each case the Prohibition vote was much larger than tbe plurality of the successful candidate. These are facts which must be borne in mind by any one who seeks to arrive at any reasonable opinion as to the effect of the Labor vote on existing political par­ ties. They show that the Democratic ma­ jority in this State is so narrow that any appreciable loss of votes that did not equally affect tbe Republican party would give the State to the latter. In New York City last full 18,551 Repub­ licans who voted for Daniels for Judge of the Court of Appeals deserted lloosevelt and voted for George for Mayor. Of 132,- 373 Democrats who voted for Peckham for Judge of the Court of Appeals, 41,821 de- urted Hewitt and voted for the Labor didate. Nearly 7,000 voter* voted for George who voted for no eandidate for any other office. The loss to the Republicans • 23 per oent, and to the Democrats 31 per eent. Had the .new movement ex­ tended to State officers thexeaolt would have been as follows: H' Daniels, 461,018 less 18,131 .,.......,443,467 Peckham, 468,815 less il,«l 496.9M Republican majority 15,473 This calculation is, of coarse, based on the assumption that tbe movement is con­ fined to New York City; but it is no longer thus confined. The United Labor party now has a complete organisation in every district in Brooklyn, which has also been a Democratic city, and the probability is that it will draw from both the old polit­ ical organizations in proportions similar to those shown in this eity, thus iucreasing the disaster of the Democratic party. The last election placed the Labor party third in the race and left it facing' the Democratic party as its only real antagonist. The new party with but an impromptu or­ ganization, and believed by all outside its own ranks to be doomed to inevitable de­ feat, polled over G8,000 votes in 1886. It is now organized in every election district, and has never permitted its effort* or its enthusiasm to flag for a moment. There is every reason to believe that it will sweep the city this year, and certainly any hope the Republicans may have had last fall of creeping to power between it and the Democrats is at an end. If the Labor party carries New York City this year and the Democratic party loses the State, the latter organization may as well abandon any thought of electing any candidate of its own to the Presidency if the new party has a candidate in the field.--New York Standard (Henry George's paper). "idWA NOT A LOYAL STATE." A Kebuke to the Kx-CoiitWI«ratc and Cop­ perhead Critics. The Des Moines Register says: The Democratic papers of the North as well as the South are hasily joining tbe ex-Con­ federates of St. Louis in their pursuit and abuse of General Tuttle. They are not only assailing General Tuttle, but are using the opportunity for the expression of Democratic hatred for the State and people of Iowa also. The Chicago Herald, a sort of a reduced picture in shadow of the Chi­ cago Timeh, leads off in the following re­ markable statement, trying to show that Missouri and Kentuoky were more loyal States during the war than Iowa: "Tuttle, the spokesman of the Iowa Grand Army of tbe Republic, not only ob­ jects to the presence of the 'Rebel' Presi­ dent Cleveland at the reunion of the veter­ ans in Sr. Louis, but he says it is a mis­ take to hold the reunion in a 'rebel' State at all. This is rather large talk for a citi­ zen of a State that furnished fewer soldiers thau either Missouri or Kentucky. The record or enlistments in the three States on the three-years standard is as follows: Kentucky 70,8»2 Missouri 86, .:i0 Iowa * CH.RiO "If Tuttle is a representative Iowa man, Missouri sent ten times as many soldiers into the Union armies in as Iowa would now should any trouble arise. Mis­ souri had its rebels in the late war, but it will be seen from the above figures that it was by 1<»,000 men more of a Union State than Iowa was." The St. Louis Republiym, tbe organ of Missouri rebelB during the war and since, has a paragraph of the same tenor. Even the Keokuk Constitution of this State re­ echoes the slander of its own State, in favor of tbe rebellious States of Kentucky and Missouri. Let us look at the figures of the Herald in its Democratic indictment of this State. We presume it makes all its figures on a three-year basis of service. Iowa sent all told about eighty thousand men into the Union army. Figured on a three-year basis it had the number that the Herald gives it. In making its Democratic parade, and showing its Copperhead hatred of Union soldiers and the States that stand by Union soldiers, it has the imffadence to assert that Iowa has no reason to question the loyalty of Kentucky and Missouri, be­ cause ftbey sent more men to the Union army than it did. This is rank dishonesty on the face of it, in the body of it, and all around it. At the outbreak of the war Iowa was a State only fifteen years old. It was admitted to the Union as late as Dec. 28, 1846. Kentucky was admitted in June of 17iJ2; Missouri in August of 1821. Accord ing to the Federal census Iowa then had but 674,!)13 papulation; Kentucky 1,115, 684 population; Missouri 1,182,012 popu< lation. But this paper of rank dishonesty at Chicago, with an ill-concealed hatred both of the loyal soldiers and the loyal States, assumes to put this young State of small population in comparison with the old States of large population. Nothing but a man who was a Copperhead or a rebel during the war, with the seutiment tbat actuated him thou still lingering in his breast, could resort to such defamation of a loyal State and its soldiers. €LETELAND>8 RENOMINATION. The labor Vote May Frighten Htm Out of the Fielal. | Albany dispatch to tha St. Louis Republican, Dem.) A well-known Congressman, whose sa­ gacity is everywhere admitted, told a pretty secret or two which, while having a direct bearing on the question of the relations between Hill and Cleveland, also dis­ close why the President may be averse to a second term, and why, in that event, he would favor Hill. Said the Con­ gressman: "Dan Lamont and I are very fast friends, and have been such for a doeen yearsrftnd more. Through liim I know ab­ solutely that cordial relations and a com­ plete understanding exist between Gover­ nor Hill and President Cleveland. They have never had a breach. Lamont told me tbat less than a week a,"o, when we were chatting about the President and a second term. Lamont says Cleveland will not accept a renomination if theso labor troubles continue. He knows he could not have the sapport of the united party, and he discovers that the man far such a situation would be Hill, who is acceptable to nearly all the labor men. Cleveland has said within two weeks that in JhvB own opinion the labor troubles will h<tve ended before next spring. In such an event be would take a renomination, and I believe Hill would help him to get it, being him­ self content with another term as Gov­ ernor. " The Republican Party's Duty Toward the South. Andrew D. White indfcates his belief in the possibility of the political regeneration of the South by saying: "I have the in* preesion that the time has come wiien the Republican party should send its strongest and ablest men into the South to present to the Southern people the advantages of a protective tariff. They are ripe for the discussion of tbat question in the South, and ready for a change of front. Charles Dudley Warner, who has been writing a series of articles for the Harper publica­ tions on the development of the South, told me a short time since tbat he had found the people down there all interested in this question. They have seen tbe devel­ opment of manufactures in the North under a system of protective tariff, and with man­ ufactures just beginning to spring up in their territory are seriously inclined to break away from the old traditions and stand up for the protective tariff policy. There is more than a possibility that sev- eral of the Southern States can be brought away from tbe Solid South on this ques­ tion. Our public men in tbe North are not at all agreed on this question or sangnine about it. In talking with Senator Hiscock about the subject to-day, I found that he had doubts whether anything on be done in this direction; but all tbe evidence fliat comes to me is to the effect that the South­ ern people are at the present time just in the balance, weighing the situation, and only needing encouragement to take them over to the side of protect on."--New York Tribune. REMINISCENCES OF PUBLIC IES, BY BEX: PKRUCY POORK. ( Senator Benton always asserted that he had a right to state what he did and said in executive session. When, after the Mexican war, he had resisted the nomination of Brigadier-Gen. Kearney a3 Major General by brevet, Ixtcause of his treatment of Col. Fremont, Mr. Benton gave to a reporter some resolu­ tions which he had prepared, denounc­ ing Gen. Kearney, saying: "Take those, if you please, sir, and print them. I give them to you in the presence of these witnesses. I desire that they be promulgated to the country." The resolutions were taken by the corre­ spondent and duly printed. A few days afterwards, Mr. Butler made a motion that the galleries be cleared and the doors closed, for the purpose of enabling him to make a motion concerning the violation of cer­ tain executive proceedings. Every one knew that Mr. Benton had avowed the publication of his resolutions against Gen. Kearney, avowed it and glorified in it, and defied all objections to it An altercation of an hour followed, with excited remarks made under the cover of discussing the question of order, the perpetual sneers and jeers of Mr. Ben­ ton, his hundred interjectional exclama­ tions, his final pompous declaration that he threw upon Mr. Butler the necessity of saying what he did, that he was ready to meet the Senator from Missouri anywhere. Mr. Benton, al­ though his defiance was thus accepted, continued to assert that the man who charged him with doing anything dis­ honorable was a liar in his throat. One cannot conceive the violence and defi­ ance which he threw into his manner, his emphasis and gesticulations. Never did he better merit his sobriquet "The Mad Buffalo of the Plains." John Taliaferro, who represented a Virginia district in Congress from 1801 to 1843, with two brief intervals, was during the last year of his term the same man that he was when he was the confidential adviser of Jefferson, Madi­ son, Monroe, the same man that he was when he opposed the administration of the elder Adams. Col. Taliaferro had always lived liberally, and had en joyed, as much as any man that ever lived, so­ cial pleasures, in all their approved forms. At a supper party he was asked what his secret was. He replied that he had never known disease, that he had never made but one meal a day, that if he took supper he did not dine, that he had risen earlv, had always used exercise, and never on horseback when he could go on foot; and that under all circumstances, he had preserved an equality of temper. His rule was never to sutler that which was past to prey upon his mind, to enjoy what Provi­ dence sent him, and to trust to the fu­ ture. He finally served- as librarian of the Treasury Department, and died in 1853, acred 85. * The battle of Bull Run was the real commencement of the war, as it showed that the time for compromise was past. This was what the abolitionists had longed for, aa they had feared that some amicable adjustment of the na tional troubles would have been made at the Peace Congress, and their or­ gans shouted, "On to Richmond!" al­ though military men were unanimous in their opposition to a forward move­ ments At last Gen. McDowell reluct­ antly consented to advauce, and having found that the enemy's works com­ manding the fords could not be curried by assault without a great loss, con­ centrated his forces at Centreville, and advanced by the flank around the fords to attack the Confederates at Manassas. The advancing columns of Union soldiers, with glistening bayonets, gav Hags and bands performing patriotic airs, mbved through the primeval for­ ests of the Old Dominion. They were accompanied by a crowd of spectators, who hod driven out from Washington to wituess the fight, as they would have gone to witness a horse-race or a game of base-ball. The Union officers, smart­ ing under the insinuations of politicians that the}' darod not fight, gallantly led their undisciplined commands into the range of the enemy's guns, where they fought like veterans. At first it was thought that victory bad perched on the Union flags, but the decimated Con­ federates received fresh courage from the arrival of reinforcements, and the tide of battle was turned in their favor, A retreat was ordered, which soon be­ came a disgraceful rout, and it was im­ possible to control men who had lost all presence of mind and only longed for absence of body. The Confederates were in no condi tion to follow up the victory which they had gained and to press on to Washington, and the defeat secured the support of every loyal man in the Northern States for the Union cause, whatever his previous political convic­ tions might have been. Practical issues were presented, and there was no time for hesitation or indecision. To use the words of Stephen A. Douglas in his last public speech: "The conspiracy is now known, armies have been raised, war is levied to accomplish it. There are only two sides to the qnestion. Every man must be for the United States or against it There can be no neutrals in this war; only rapublicans or traitors." Clark Mills, the sculptor, used to narrate how Mr. Browere, a New York sculptor, attempted to take a cast in plaster of the head of Thomas Jeffer­ son. The family of the ex-President were opposed to it, but he finally con­ sented, saying that he could not find it in his heart to refuse a man so trifling a favor who had come so far. He was placed on his back on a sofa, one of his hands grasping a chair which stood in front Not dreaming of any danger, his family could not bear to see him with the plaster over his face, and therefore were not present; and his faithful Burwell was the only person beside the artist in the room. There was some defect in the arrangements made to permit his breathing, and Mr. Jefferson came near suffocating. He was too weak to rise or relieve himself, and his feeble struggles wero unnoticed or unheeded by his Parrhasius. The sufferer finally bethought himself of the chair on which his hand rested. He raised it as far as he was able and struck it on the floor. Burwell became conscious of his situation and sprang furiously forward. The artist shat­ tered his cast in an instant. The fam­ ily now reached the room, and Browere looked as if he thought their arrival most opportune, for though Burwell was supporting his master in his arms, the fierce glare 9f the African eye boded danger. Browere was permit­ ted to pick up his fragments of plaster and carry them off, but whether he ever put them together to represent features emaciated with age and debil­ ity, and writhing in suffocation, Mills did not know. John Quincv Ada:<ns, hi the closing years of his life, attended the Sunday- morning services at the Second Pres- bjterian Church when lie wa* at "Wash­ ington, when his health permitted. Ho distance, no storm, prevented; he was an all-day hearer. The great snow­ storm of February, 1846, which closed nearly all tha churches in the country, did not keep Mr. Adams from the house of God. He was one of thirteen per­ sons present in the Second Presbyterian Church at Washington, and returned home through the deep snow on foot at the close of the service. Mr. Adams said to the pastor of this church. Rev. M. H. Smith, "I hold in great distrust all my early opinions on religion. As I advance in life I feel more and more distrust of all self- formed opinions. I throw myself back upon the simple word of God I re­ ceive what that teaches. I go where that leads. I should not, I suppose, be considered fully orthodox, according to the standard of the Presbyterian Church. I am edified by its ministry." Henry Clay, when he visited New York the last time, expressed a wish to renew his acquaintance with Albert Gallatin, which had been broken off after a debate in which harsh words were used. A venerable age was ad­ monishing both of them that their time on earth was not for many years. Mr. Clay, with the generous enthusiasm in­ herent in his very nature, resolved, it seemed, so soon as he arrived in the city, to discharge, as one of his earliest and most pleasing duties, that of an apology to Mr. Gallatin for the severity of his remarks provoked during the un­ guarded heat of a warm debate. The imagination can easily draw the picture of two renowned statesmen thus coming together, the one frankly to confess and to ask pardon for an error. It was in­ deed a spectacle worthy of the gods, and no man can describe, even if imag­ ination can picture it. , Stalking an Indian I had often longed for a good picture of ;a Navajo baby in its native plains, and here was an opportunity not to be lost, writes, an enthusiastic amateur photographer in Nature, describing a visit to an Indian village. So, step* ping a few feet out of the way, in an instant I had my instrument in posi­ tion, focused on the path, and, with in­ stantaneous snap ready, I stood quietly for my subject to pass. On he tottled, until he came within about thirty feet of me, where he stopped, and, to my surprise, seemed to fully take in the situation. At this stage I feel quite sure that one of our babies, especially at this tender age, would have begun to crv, and more than likely retraeed its steps to the hut from whence it had issued. Not so, however, this infant Navajo; and mark the difference. He steadily watched my every movement, and was evidentlv determined to reach the lower hut Very cautiously leav­ ing the path on the side furthest from me, he was, in the next instant, behind one of the sage brushes, which was something over a foot taller than the baby. From this position he peered through the leafless twigs at me to see what I would do about it. A, little an­ noyed at this turn in affairs I threw the focusing cloth over my head and turned the instrument on him. Taking advantage of this temporary conceal­ ment of my head, he ran, thoroughly baby-fashion, to the next lower brush, a distance of some ten feet, where hid­ ing as before, he crouched down and stared at me like a young lynx through the twigs. He now looked for all the world the young Indian cub at bay, with all the native instincts of his an­ cestors on the alert, and making use of all the strategy his baby mind could muster. It was a wonderfully interest­ ing picture to study; but, fearing that I would lose a permanent memento of it, I turned to lift my instrument, with the view of taking a much nearer position, when again facing the brush where I had last seen the baby, it Was to my great surprise not there, but had scampered to the next lower one, in the direction of the but for. which it was bound. I ran upon its last place o# conceal­ ment, holding my camera in such a way tliat I could immediately place the tripod in position, which I succeeded in "doing, with the lens leveled directly at its head and not three feet from it It now stood up to the full extent of its baby height, and giving vent to a genuine infantile bawl, it made a break for the final point of its destination, for there was nothing else left for it to do. It is almost needless to add that before I could focus and insert a plate my Navajo baby was out of range.--Boston Herald. • The Appetite of Birds. Of all animals birds possess the quickest motions, the most energetic respiration, and the warmest blood, and they consequently undergo the most rapid change of substance and need the most food, Although few creatures are so pleasing to the aesthetic tastes of a poetically inclined person birds, the breeder knows that most of them are to be looked upon as hearty or excessive eaters. Any one who closely observes birds and their con­ duct will Boon remark that all their thoughts and efforts, aside from the few days they spend in wooing ard their short periods of resting, are di­ rected to getting something to eat. With what restless earnestness do tit­ mice plunge through the buahes and the trees 1 Not a leaf is uninvestigated, every chink in the bark is examined for whatever eatable it may be hiding, and a sharp look is cast into every joint of a branch. How industriously does the ousel tarn and thrash the leaves on the ground of the woods all the day long, spying its game with a glance of its sharp eye, and snapping it up on the instant! After observing a few such incidents we can easily believe the stories that are related cf the fish-eat­ ing powers of the cormorant and of the fruit-eating birds that are able to con­ sume three times their weight every day.--Popular Science MoiUhfy* Getting Even. * Stranger--What is the most power­ ful bomb you can make for me ? Anarchist--Well, sir, give me money and time enough and I can construct an implement of devastation which would shake the whole city of New York like a house of cards! " Stranger--Wpuld it make much •noise ? Anarchist--My dear sir, the concus­ sion would be felt for hundreds of miles! Stranger--You don't say so! My friend, you can build me one of the machines, and have it done next Satur­ day night, if possible. Anarchist--Excuse me, sir; are you a Socialist? Stranger--Not to any great extent; but I live next door to a fashionable church with a bell-ringing sexton. I want to play a little joke on him when he starts the circus on Sunday morn­ ing!--Puck. BRET HARTE was a very active book agent in 1849 and 1850. ftjRgB coatwrei*. Tk« KM «r Ftoopte One Meet* ia WMtet* Mbtaomti. ' CMMUM Ihmlft.} a type of oareleaa individuality different from tbe conventional upoo*- cern of the "old-time" ArkansKW iiyMf ter. A traveler on horseback, who M been out all day in the chilling. Tjjg» stopped late in flie night at a> stone house sftuated on" thetopo#» bleak knob. After the traveler MA shouted until he feared that his throat had been permanently damaged, In­ door was opened with a creak ffap echoed down "the hollow." "Mister," the travel began, "I amfl* wet as a dog, and " "Must uv been in the nain," the n«* tive broke in, opening the door a little wider and poking out his head a little farther. "Yes, since 5 o'clock this mornings* "Got er putty early start, I 'low." _ , "Pretty early. Yes, I've been ont Hi J" V the rain since 5 o'clock, and " "Rainin' when you started I reckon.* " UJJ "Yes, but my business waa so urges* " " . that I had to leave " J. "What bus'ness are you in?" "I am a large dealer in salt and •y "Beckon that about all yer've got. > S with yer is melted by this time." "Got none with me, of course. My, friend, I don't like to put you to aajr "V inconvenience, but you see----" * "Kain't say that I da Mout el it •• wasn't so all-fired dark." v ~ "I say, you must know * " V ' J , "Didn't Yer said I see." "Well, that makes no different**. 'r'I "J' - am as wet as a dog, and am very cold, and if you can't do anything else fof me let me come in and give me a drink ^ of water, for I «jn aa dry as a powdei* 'Xl llOVri." "Thought yer wuzer wet oxer dog.* flam." "Then how ken yer be e* dry es ear"* powder-horn?" - ' "Here, let us do away, with thee# quibbles. I am in diatreaa and waul you to help me." FDon't be 'no ways back'arda, he*|l yerae'f." "You are certainly a tough tomer." •' : "That's what Eli Bragg, the miUe^^;| says when he tries to cheat me." "I don't care a cent what Eli Bwgfc ' -*• says, I " , "Me nutliefc* * - ' ,» "Look here.* 4 ap * • "Wall " •••••v w- •. k - "May I get off my hone and email ia*" •: "Ef yer come in I reckon yer'll half to jgit offen yer horse." Well, in case I come in what must %. do with my horse?" * ^ "Leave him outside, I reckon." ^ ' "Haven't vou got any shelter forytMil^iS stock?" "• "No." "Doesn't the bad weather nearly kin : them?" ' No." i C' ¥ "How do you account far it?" "Z "Ain't got no stock." ~ "Haven't you got as much aa .amok*; i, house to give shelter to my horae? "Got no smoke-house. All the amok* we want we get in here." t "Suppose I lead him through thit gate and turn him loose in the lot?" " 'V "All right" . The traveler turned his horse loorib w and entered the house. The host raked the chunks together, and soon a bright ^ blaze sprang up in the great fire-plaMew . He did not stop at this small attempt to make his guest comfortable, hat brought him a "hunk" of and the boiled foot of a hog, "I am deeply thankful to you."* ' , "Not er talL" '!l suppose there is room enough til the lot to enable my hone to walk around and keep warm?". ^ "O, yas." ' „ » "I am glad that I wasn't compelled fe|-' . tie liim, fearing that ho might break loose and go back, sixty miles, to the place from where I started this mora- ing. I have lost my i-oad. but doubt­ less he knows well euough where he i% He is a very valuable animal. So yott say he's got plenty of room ?" 'H>, yes." ,• "How many acres are there in tMWf lot?" , i • t,- V "Don't know." . , ^ j() , - t "How far across from one fenoe m, " another?" .«yv'V,^ "I don't know. I didn't make bo|^ one fence. There mout be ernothMr one, but I ain't seed it yit, Beckon there's one summers twixt here •n't?* State line. Don be in er hurry. I never seed er mun in sick er swivel, W'y'n't I tell yer ? W'y, dad blame yer tigly pietux', yer didn't ax me. Mint be er blame fool ter think that I keli tend to yore business an' mine tocfe Good-by." - Dutch Care oT Bird*. The worthy Dutchmen Who on fhe banks of the Hudson were : hospitable to birds than their de ants have shown themselves to bft They not oaly let the birds be, but eijr; s couraged them to build their nes^p| about the house. These wise settlors knew that the birds would pay for their protection by feeding on the inseetp that swarm in a new country. Each large Dutch house had £ portico, floored like a room, open ] the sides with seats all around. Abov|§'v' was a slight roof, painted like an awak­ ing, or a covering of lattice-work, over which a transplanted wild grape vin# spread its luxuriant leaves. x Af; Here hundreds of little birds dome4^% ticated. occupying a small shelf buOi round the portico, where they were a* sacred as the household gods of the ItomanSi Children and slaves werft taught to regard them as the goo#" genii of the family, who were to bai cherished but not disturbed. > In clearing the ground for a house tree was always left in the middle the baok yard for the use of the birdfe The negroes, quick to imitate their. . masters, used old hats to form asyiumgp for their little feathered friends. Thji deal fences were also utilized "by thfjf negroes to furnish homes for the l>irdfe* On the stakes to which the deals .we#; nmled were stuck the skeleton headMt of horses and cattle, the jarws being1 fixed in the poles so that the skullj(T should be uppermost--'Yovtih's COM**. -*v panton. tteing te tbe People ̂ "We didn't hold service in the dfrnrefci.'* to-day," said a clergyman in a small;,, town in Dakota, as he returned hornet! "Where did you hold them, thanjf*' asked bis wife. , ' " . "Back'of Joe Pinneo'a barn." "Well, that's & strange place--luu|, the church burned up ?" \':i. "Oh, no, the church is all right, butt/. " ,j the congregation was all back of the» ,v " * barn, so I went there and stood up or*/' % t a hay-rack and expounded the word over an hour. You st-e Joe and Deacon Fumstock were tradiug horses out theiw ^ and I'm bound to take the gospel rigkt w » to the people."--Dakota JtdL ̂ >k '• . , *1 4}l4