Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 23, 1878, Page 12

ey i THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JUNE 23, 1878—SIXTEEN PAGESR. that every man thinks he can get even with the ritory as the German Prince, who, Baving o 12 R S PSS S been fntroduced into these places, aud, having “. A DOSE OF EPSOM. Not the Searching Salts, but the Perennially Delightful Downs. Being the Graphic Sketch of How “Gideon” Did the Derby Day. An Entsrtaining Experience at This Jolliest and Most Bizarre of Holidays. Hansom Cab No. 2,352: Whers It Went, and What Happened to Its Inmates. Not Much About the Race, but Lots About Everything Else. From Our Own Correspondent, Loxpon, Jane 6.~The uriginal plan was for three Americsn husbands and wives to drive out in asix-seated csrriage, thereby giving the sovereign States of Itlinois, New York, and Connecticut 3 good, stylish representation at the Derby. With that view, a well-recommended livery-stable man was consulted,—*job mnas- ters™ they call them in England, because of the masterly manner in which they put up jobs on strangers. The job-master would give us two horses, a {air carriaze, 2nd a driver for the Derby for $30. Hesaid it pleasantly and apathetically, 50 we knew he wouldn’t take a farthing less. Had he looked at us with an uely Enclish glare square in the eye, and growled out his price with uu- compromising gruffness, we should have under- stood that he would do the thing for balf the money. The clinching of the barzain was deferred antil the wives could be consulted. How swift to the rescuc flew the blessed spirit of feminine economy. “What! pay over $26 a couple for & team 1o go to an old borse-race! Why, $26 will get five cood opera-stalls, or twenty-six pair of kid gloves in Paris.” Thus do rood wives ever rallv under the banner ot prudence, and save their busbands' money in onc direction to spend it in another! Further ponderings and consultations boiled down the matter materially, and finally Cou- mecticut and Iinois masculinity chartered, the nizht before the holiday, Hausom Cab No. 2,352, the driver agrecing to get the two men gafely out to Epsom and back for §15. THE DAY BROKE DINGILY. When in doubt iz London take an umbrelia. Some ram was a certainty; lots of it a proba- bility. But o Englishmsn knows enough to foin when ft raina. If he did be would be a house-plant two-thirds of his life. Londoners may learn to talk zood English, found a Re- public, or do some other creditable impossibili ty: but stay home from the Derby because the eky threatens, never! As americans, we would not allow that we were soluble any more than the oiliest-skinned Briton of them all. Indeed, on rummiging my memors, I could conjure up but one ymportant event inthe Unitea States I had ever known postyoued because of rain. into three of the guickest hours ever forged by the brisk hand of Time. when the road broke sround a sharp turn and down s gentle slope, and the whole ficld o Epsom flashed out royally before us. What was itlike? Heaven only knows, and any adequate journalistic description of the scene is highly improbable, as Heaven does uot write for the newspapers. g It_was, rouzhly compared, all the life, color, Jumble, and bubbub of a great battle-field with none of its honors. It was two hundred thou- sand people and twenty thousand vehicles mass- ed and dotted upon i slanting stretch of mag- nificent English verdure-Jand. "It was an ocean of moving life fecked by myriads of anchored Dbooths avd floating shows, with the Grand Stand towering like a huge rock in the centre. This latter is casier described. Take the largest five-story business block in Chicago, slice off the whole front, make an easy inclined plane of each floor and the roof. Then pack people with sardine compaetness into it and atop of it, 2nd you have the EPSOM GRAND STAND ON DERDBY DAY. Cabby wedzed our couveyance In_with thov- sands of its fcllows of high and low degree, and we bade him adieu and charged into the melec. How acrobats make whirlizis of themselves; boxers thump zealously each others’ heads; Punch-and-Judy showssqueak and gibber; bailet: girls pironette; cazed menagerie beasts howl fat women waddle, and living_skeletons cronk their thin bones; sable minstrels cavort; snake- charmers foudle stupciied consirictors: puppets dance; balloous 70 wp and wooden hurses g0 round, all to theend that pennics here aud shillings thera may sweil the profits of Derby Day, who has not heard? The Derby world is in two classes alter all like the greater world outside: those" who scatter moncy und those who grad it. Partly of our own volition, and partly because the mob and destiny so willed it, we eventually reached the roof of “the Grand Stand, and, from 2 paragon_of positions, were remaled with the stupendous scene in its entirety. Human- ity was 5o dense below that it looked Tike great spreads of anthracite coal-yards hin- jng in the sunlight. So solid were the masscs on'the course that to clear it for the race was an bour’s work fora battalion of policemen. “Ihe big-backed fellows were alianed across the course, and then raked good-humoredly through 1he struggling multitude, up and down, up and down, combing them out thinuer and thinner, until they finally had everybody crammed in sharp-cut lines beyond the boundaries. ‘Who cares about the race? It was ail done in Joss than three minuics. Away over at the starting-point we saw something like a brightly- mottled Persian rug, and were told that it was the may jackets of twenty-two jockeys astride the créam of Fugland’s 3-yearwold horseflesh. Presently the Persian rug trembled, and in the Taint distance was seen to glide along agaiust the edze of 3l A mighty bellow, “They've off!”” went up from 200,000 throats. A The Persian rus_strung. out like a brilliant peunant, undulated, lumped itself into kuots; the knots grew bizger, aud in & jilly were so many leaping, flyine horses tearing down past us, with maniac karlequin jockeys lashing and yelling. and the wmonster cougrezution without roaring in thunderclap unison. THE RACE WAS OVER. A horse owned by a plebeian Mister had flailed those owned by Earls. Couats, Lords, and Baro- nets, Sefton was monareh of the day, andbad put §55.000 into his possessor’s pocket. As repre- sentatives of a Kepublic we rejoiced that a com- moner had beaten the effete aristocrats, and that only one jockey bad broken his colfar- bone. ‘The road_home was like the road out. only more g0, The average time of gelting back was five hours. _Abous 100,000 sensible folks came in on the railroads in a tenth of the time. Even ihe pedestrisus beat the carriazes—for there were thousands who swung sturdily in and out on foot. Wkat but British calves could or would tote their owners thirty-five or more miles fn a single day for the *enjoyment® of the thin: As we neared the city the urchins who fing handsprines and somcrsaults elong the side- walk were out in customary dizziness. This was more cirens for the mouey than my Con- necticut friend had ever owi. He was One pouring day in war-times, Iying in the Virzinia trenches, I remember they put over shooting a deserter till the next fair morning. He naturally thought he was going to be re- ‘pricved, but they were only saving him an extra to send him to glory in a dry jacket: and they did it. Hansom No. 2,352 was at the door betimes. ‘Travelers always hold pleasantly fu mind these most couveuient and hideous of Eaglish city converssces. New York has tried to acelimate afew of them, ond 1 think I kare scen one or two in Chicago. Dut they are too uncouth o sight and reasonabie in price for Yankee assiti- lJation. Nothing less than a crvstal-front car- riage, two horses, au impudent driver, and 2 S8 fec. 1 good enongh Lo carry an American a few blociss when 22 home. Cabby Ulizked at us cheerily from his Jack-in- the-puldit perch behind the two-wheeled ark. An 1nch of pipe wes nipped between his toeth, &nd it #as never absent therefrom the whole day save when Lriefly removed to allow an oe- casional zulo of heer. The pipe-buwl was as frequently upside down as otherwise, but smol dering tobaceo knows no gravitation law. An over-abused race are LONDON CABBIES. Bard-working, tousued fellows in the mafo, they are arateful for 20 extra thresnence after an hour’s Lrisk drive, and the thankful fore- zhe hat-brim in consonance with & hearty * thaukesir.” We dwellers in the nome of the free acro: the water ar2 o little used to decency ina ha msn that we are pecke o hire cabs in Loudon just to enjoy thedrivers’ manners. Most Amer- icans spend the major share of their waking hours in Hansoms for the first few days after their arrival. s Tac Epsom Dowrs are something over se teen miles from the lesrt of London. race is called the Derby because it takes place in Surrey, and is pronounced Darby because an onginal law of England makes it umperative for all proper n2mes 1o have a_pronunciation at variance with their spelling. When you hear aperson in Ensriand pronounce any local word correetly, that person is a foreigner. How we edged alonz one of the several pleas- 8Dt routes to the tamous old grouuds would be an often-told tale. Graphic masters of the pen biave blazoned the stery for you; painters have limoed it3 poets have built more or less viva- cions doceerel abous it. It is the mreatest of Bational holidays, matched inno other land than England, and” never likelvto be. To have a Derby there must be London, and Londons can- not accummulute their hordes of people and their ferrific varicty of social evistence else- where thauin England. Only an island can aguregate such immensity: in continents avd teeming millions of human life slop over and spread out into rusticity. Cabbypiloted ue well, thourh my Lord’s huge drag and the costermonger’s donkey-cart some- times banged up ogainst us. We had pens shot into our ewrs from school-boys in merrv van- Toads, and water squirted into our eyes by am- Pple-mouthed artisans on the top of omnibuses. There were UTES OF TRIBULATION 3 s locked otner wheels, snd when airy blackcuardism made us glad thie wives had stayed at liome. There were minutes of com- ‘placency as kisses were blown us from budding mouths i windows, and minutes of reprobas tiou s we saw the sume kisses blown scandal- ously at cvervhody else. ‘There were miputes of cilm delight when beer from the Old Nag’s Head s)id down our zullets,—~delizht that wouid not haye been dimmed In theleastif the quaint, busr old inn had been u New Nag's Tail, ‘There were mivutes on wninutes, and then other minutes aiter them, of admiration for the douuhty rats of ponies £0 common in England, go rare cverywhere clse. ‘How the odd little rascals scamper abead with a heavy cart, and two to six people in it, tied to them! To eali it work for them sceme ridiculous. Their lers twinkle gicefully, und fife is a transport of pull to them. 1 havenerer secn a tired *widsreon pony—thus named, doubtless, because ther are 50 ** znme'gz" % i Then there were minutes of wide-stre grins at the donkeys aud donkey-earte :h;: rican in Eneland is not over his rreenncas L he can couposedly pass one of these pre. Dusterous turn-outs without laughing. Simon- Yure inckasses—tour-footed oucs I miean—are such Taretics with us at lome that to use them anvwiere ouiside of & circus-ring seems non. sensical. But hiere they are important factors in the traosit problem” everswliere, the rule oz the smaller the donkey the big losd of fouts ke ha to haul. e Miesh dh ‘Ihere were minutes, many of them, - derment why English pentlomen shalq. s such eharming nomes tn such noble zrounds ang then build walls €0 towering and hedgos o lieh fiatpever s glimose an the eavious ontsider TRE IIDDEN LOVELINESS. There were' minutes of talkin by colliding drivers; miutes of rapture fflifi'&ffig Spread viows of English vales and hilicrged pinates of hl:v;;_v.hlng,gurdnstemniou at the serab. in pelted; minutes ot - ent, when the cun blascd torth neaist gliston: < lawa, and hawthorn, and. poplarivith clorions emerald ‘radiance; more p} 3 gruable. beery delavs at Pis and Candiest she lephants aud Castles, and other celebrated inys of consisteatly mixed Englisl minutes of noise, jollity, bedlam. suy as we worked ahesd in”the jost] road o Derby. And all these minntes were SWiltly welded prineety with his half-pennies, and the news flew rapidly. ‘The result was that the jurenile teetotums rallied alarmingly around us, and we were escorted iuto London by animposineeloud of ragred younyg rascals, h beels in the air and heads in the gutter. Cabby dumped us at the hotel; elinched his three zold sovereigns; rattled away into the vastness of London and the society of 12,000 of his fellows, and we were done with the Derby. “They THE WONDERFUL QLD HOLIDAY is not what it used to be. But 1 fawcy that is merely the wail of th who have et on the wrong horses, seconded by the sages who never see auy speeial zood in the present. 1t is the privils of age to bewail the degeneracy of to- day. To it there can be no singing like Mali- bran's; no acting like Keaw's: no Derbies like the old ones; no morality like that of their youtl. . Wait tilf we all getinto the lean and slippered stageot life—won't we snub the youngsters with aecounts of the glories of the rood oid times? ‘There seem to be two approved ways of wind- fagup Derby Day in Londow,—gcing to the opera or getting drunk. We chose_the former asthe more cconomical. It was * Trovatore,™ with peerless Patti and superh Nicolini—his name, by the war. is Nichols. + He s a prince of tenors and a bandsome, o very handsome mav. It §s au evidence of shameless providential partiality that tenors are almost s wood-lokm. No wonder Patti shook her Marquis and married her Nicolini. Europe bristles with Marguises, but Adonises with angelic-toned gullets dre rure as A decent sitting for two at first-class npm@ TLondo, with incicentals, such as cab-fare, fods for attaches, programmes. ete., comes Lo about 312 7his, added to previous expenses, did not make Derby Day exactly what thie boys call “*a giveaway.” But when the Shaughraun stole the Squire’s horse tor an hour’s mad gallop after the hounds and was threatened with a month in jail for it, Die simply said: *“Bezorra, it was worth it GIbEO©! —— DISCONTENT. - Sang the South-wind—elept the roses— Hinshed the birdiing's haopy trill: Through the valley, throughi the wildwood, Sanz the Soath-wind sadly still. Heffow moonheams caught tho whispers, bt ed toem us they upward sped, Wishing they were but the Sonthowinid— Wished the South-wind them fostead. Sanz the Sonth-wind: Must I wander and through the day, 0 how heppy would 1 be 1f I were but like the birdling, Sweet, g0 eweet, then life 10 mey 1t 3 wero but tike the moonbeame, Mellow moonbeams, fair and bfight, 1 would never, never wander Turouch the day and through tha night; T would <tecw as do the roses, 1 would rest as nirdlings do: Tell me. tell me. mellow moonbearie, Sleep yor not the daytime through? Sang the South-wind, discontented. Soon the nicht had vlided by: Soun the melluw moorbeams vanished— Not a glimpse of one was nis Soon the ruses woke from stumber ; Soon the birdlin:: “zun Lo sing; Soon the South-wind's zriefs were over— With the day they all Took wing. Thus it is when life seems weary: Diseontented with their lot, Some are sighing, always sizhinz, Alwase wailing for—what noty AR? it webat look sronnd us, Find we will mech to be done: Soun will conso the bright 1o-morrow— Never-ending, happy one. ' Josern D. TURNET. e Chiarlie Ross’ Father. ... Thitadelohia Tecord. Mr. Christian K. Ross was yesterday tendered the position of Master Warden of the Port of- Pniladelphia, at a salary of $2,500 per annum. The recefpt of his commisclon s bus fec i timation that JIr. Ross bad recelved that Gor, Hartraaft had ever considered his name fn con- Dection with the position. Ile accepts it a5 an expression of the symoathy felt for him in the turible ordeal he has borue so long and the sucrifice of his eutire property in his efforts to Tecover bis stolen boy. *1 have spent ali the moucy 1 had, and all 1 could get, hold of, in my soarcih” te':ia Mr. Ross, wheu asked how much uvestizutions had cost bim. Mr. y that, including tie §20.000 ives e s Comumittee, nearly 330,000 has been expended in efforts o restore the lost child to his parents, and be does not propose to give up th t )50 e scarch s0 long o ms he' can ¢ ger the meaws to pursue . it He has tnvestigated about 500 citferent cases which bave been presented to him s “finad™ discov- griesof the lost Charlie, aud every day brings Jresls communications clainiing to throw new ight ou the subject. *I am not going on the- Qries ow, " auswered Mr. Ross, when asked if e kad auy theors as to Charhic’s fate; *I am deating with nothing but facts. I bave dealt in theories long cnough.” Mr. Ress says he has never hed any idea of lecturing on the subject of Cliarlic’s abduction, and that the lectures he %fle:i xin Boston and in Warren, of this State, verc in answer to specially urzent requests to I do 50, 8s the book he has™ published c?muuninz a bistory of the search for the lost boy had not. siven by the Citizens? | oceasion to visit there, he complied with the request made to tell the sad history of the loss of his child. Mr. Ross has now the entire con- trol of the book,and hopes to realize somo- thing substanual from ks sale, which is more thon he has doue vet, although nearly 12,000 copies have been sold. WASHINGTON CHAT. Closing Scenes of Congress—Lobby Demands —~DBrevet Washington Wives~Repentant Congressmen—Re-elections to Bo Looked After—Closing Debates—Blaine on the Rampago — Conkling Taciturn— Speaker Randall Despotic~Fernando Wood Dumpy ~Bucolle Burnside—Anthony Unmarricd. Swann the Bridogroome-Ben DBatler's RBricks—The Smithsonian — Congressional Library~Hotels, Special Correxpondence of The Tribune. WasmiNcron, D. C., June 17.—A tolerably perfect representation of old Babel is to be found at the Capitol to-day, for the sccond session of the Forty-fifth Congress s fast draw- ingtoaclose. The rotunda, the lobbies, and the corridors arc crowded with anxious faces— some claiipants, some expectants of office, and som who are there buying and selling offices; some are fricudly to the Administration, and others are opposed to it; while, like golden drops fn the muddy streams of the Paciic Slope, THR BRIGNT FACES OF PRETTY WOMEN and the amended faces of tugly ones appear.to refresh the cyes of the observer. Some of these fair ones, whose faces kave been wresthed with smiles all winter when certain Scnators or Representatives approached them, now * talk business,” and claim votes on measures under consideration as n reward for favors shown. No exeuses are received for non-compliance with their demanas, and more than onc ‘ honor- able " gentleman wishes that he bad rematned faithfut to his legitimate better-half at bome fnstead of COQUETTING WITH A GREVET WIFE hiere at Washington. Poor devils! They have wulked into the spider’s parlor, and are firmly held in silken bonds. It is for the votes wanted in these Jast moments of asession that the lobby-lionesses Liave been so awiable, especially during the last few weels. They have gone on boating-partics up the Potomac, or on Liorseback- rides over into Virwinia, or on excursions to M. Vernon, muking excellent. punch, dressing salads artistically, laughing at showers, and keepiug jolly during return trips, when every one else s " deen tired anl quiet. Who can blame the Congressman, bored and perplexed, if he bas been beguiled by one of these clever creatures, with ler piquant stories and naughty conundrums, and mortizaged the votes he gives to-day? THE MASCULINE LODDYISTS are now in their glory, aud assume airs of reat fmportance; gravity becomes a shade nore grave, and legislation more intricate, perplex- fog, hod uncertain, Noses canuot always be counted. A moment’s absence of u meinber may decide the fate of s bill or an amendment in which thousands of dollars are at stake. Visages are wreathed with smiles or are elongated; hopes rise aud fall like the quick- silver in the thermometer; hearts beat tumul- tuously, and *great expactations’ are often wrecked by a singlevote. [ndeed, in these few fast receding moments business is crowded upon wembers PHYSICALLY UNABLE TO EXAMINE IT,— too sleepy to perceive its frauds, or too weary to prochim them. No man—not the most veteran of reporters—can tell what bas fup- peted or what will huppen. Bulesare suspend- ed with a jucgler’s facility. Legislation los: its cstablished forms and safeguards. By appa- rently insignificant amendments laws are framed or repeaicd, armies or navies disbanded or aug- ed, oflices are created in a proviso, and public works sanctioned i parenthesis. (With ominous distinetness the clocks tick the time away, and each vibration of the pendulum mdrgs the aporopriation of a million. In such Rours, when there is o time for business, many Congressten feel in their hearts LIZE SINNERS OX A DEATH-DED. The tormenting consciousness of opportunitics wasted. hours misspent, and months squander- ed in dalliauce rise in Judgment against them. They sce the uged soldier, the thinly-clad widow, the beggared orphay, whose humble claims have laid on the table of one Iouse or the other for months unheeded, while the halls have resounded to the theatrical thunder of studied declamation or lost fn personal ex- planations and the defining of positions which no detinition can render other than ridiculous. What makes the occasion sadder_ to many Rep- resentatives is that the elections for THE TORTY-SIXTIL CONGHESS are drawing near, and from now until Novem- ber the whole tenor of their life wust be made subservient to eilorts for renomination and=re- election. They must mauke speeches and pay for having them printed in large quantitics, at the cheap Government rates, for distribution over their respective districts, They must-wear out shoe-leathier in “proing the grand rounds ™ of the Departments in search of oflices where- with to reward ‘“‘workers' at howe. Their Jocal newspapers must be conciliated with pub- Tic docments and sceds, sout free by mail. They ‘must subscribe to home charitics, not from any spirit of compassion, or any desireto et rid of surplus cash, but to obtain personal popularity. ‘They 1nust cordislly welcome constituents, show them the sights of the metropolis, ascend with them into the tholus on the dome of the Capitol, and often loan them money wherewith toret 1o their homes. And when they get back themselyes to their firesides, they must i dustrivusly *go the grand rounds ' of their re- specuve districts, making nice little speeches cattle-shows, military musters, school exhibi- tiows, and horse-trots. Yet many will not e cure o renomination, much less o re-clection. THE CLOSING DENATES in the Senate have been marked by prodigality and by good nature. Edmunde, the watch-dog of the Treasury in the Ubper Louse, had to surrender to malarial fever and go away; while Davis, of West Virginia, whostrives for reputa- tion us an cconomist of the caude-cuds and cheese-parings order, {s witnessing the Paris Exposition. The zaunt Suulsbury, of Uelaware, oceastonally cntered a feeole protest against some scheme for depleting the mna- tional coffers, but there was always some good Democrat to sit down on him, and let the appropriation be made. When the amendnent came up for payicg the expenses of the visiting tatesimen who went to New Or- leans Inst year, Blaine sailed into the arcna, with 4 chip on each shoulder, challenging Bea Hill 1o knock off one and Stanley Matthews the other. He repeated his oft-said assertion, that ““if Packard is not Governor Hayes is not Presi- deut,” but the weather- was arm, time was precious,and ©o one took up the gauntlet so saucily thrown down. CONKIING, OF NEW YORK, was equally unwilling to be proveked by Thur- man into a discussion of the Louistana ques- tion, and those who would have listened with pleasure to his passiouate invective and ve- Liement bitterness were agaiu disappointed. He has not spoken at any length since the opening of the first session in October, or opened bis mouth in debate excent to occasionally ‘en- lighten the Senate ou some question of order, which he clucidates like sowe absent-minded man_ who vceasionally pursues his own train of thought without paying the slightest heed to the conversation arouud hi; WINDOM, OF MINNESOTA, has ably engineered the Approprintion bills through the Senate, backed by that stalwart representative from the blueerass region, Beck, of Kentucky, who is a fuir-minded, liberal Democrat, and who does not believe in crippling the public service that a false cry of cconomy may be raised, to be followed within & year by an application for & deficiency uppropriation. MIt. SPEAKER BANDALL has ruled the House of Representatives with an iron hand, and the Southerners who have hun- fered avd thirsted after the subsidy fiesh-pots and the Southern Pacific retainers arc mad— clean througn. Were there to be an clection of Speaker to-morrow, Sam Ranaall wouldn’t et over fifty votes, and yet he bas done much to restrain the Democratic House in its greed. FERNANLO WOOD has hardly beeo heard from since his tariff bill was eo unceremoniously killed, like a turkey before Christinas. Yet for months previous Fernando had griven charming supper-parties to small zatherings of Representatives, who said but little about the tariff, but did justice to the terrapin and the champagne. When the erucial hour_arrived. nearly all those vartakers of Wood’s nospitality Yoted apainst his bill, aud he was, like Lord Uliin on the bank of the lake, *left Jamenting.’” £ _ THE ** BOULD SOJER-ROTS of the United States army have farcda desl better thun their friends expected. The high and mighty staff, hereabouts, who have hired houses of their own wives nt $15 per month for therr regulation number of_roouss, wiil have to get alongwith less rent. Netherean theytrade their foraze requisitions with livery-stable kecpers for hack-hire, the use of pony phactons, and an occasional bugey-drive. The extras of room-rept and foraze have been docked, aud while the Miss Naocies at the War Department, **who never set_asquadronin the field,” ars very ushappr, the line ofticers inthe Indian country will shed no tears. ) TUE MILITARY COADIISSION, which s to ascertan whether the army can be | merited succuss. reduced, Is to meet on the farm of its President, Gen. Burnside, at Iristol, R. 1. The General’s farm is an institution, with its prize bull and its quaint buildings, and he keeps open house there during the summer wonths. ANTHONY, OF RHODE ISLAND, now the Venerable Pater Senatus, or Father of the Senate, keeps house at Providence, and his diuners are a gastronomic wonder n that re- gion. Authony is a widower, and_the zossips were positive, a few years azo, that he wasabout. Lo marry the widow of ex-Senator "thompson, ot New Jersev. But ho followed the adyice of the elder Welier,—* Bevare of the vidders, Sami- vel,”’—and she had to.accept an older suitor, EX-GOV. SWANYN, OF MARYLAND, ‘who has lost bis yoiee, but who is having a pho- nograph adjusted, so that, when asked the usual questions on Thursday, a_response will eoine from beneath bis wastoat, “1 will? Itis to Dea high old wedding, the bride’s brother-in- Iaw. Speaker Randall, miving ber away, while Hayes, Evarts,and other notables will be among the spectators. TIHE OIGH INVESTIGATORS, expeet to keep up their fishing after fraud dur- iug the recess. but thus far they have only had “ater-hauls,” aithough Ben Butler has man- aged Lo throw a few bricks towards the White House. The Lowell Brigadicr has just had his bome vanity shocked. His oldest son is some- what deformed, but the other one has been educated at West Point, where he endéeavored be' a lavish expenditure to secure popularity. When young Butler graduated ho was very low @own in his class (even below the colored cadet), and he was then detailed to oneof the regi- meuts of colored cavalry in Texas. He trfed it for'n few weeks, but has resigned and come home to engage in some peaceful pursuit. But- ler’s only daughter, a most charming lady, marricd Senator Ames, of Mississippl, after: ward Governor, who, when trouble bezan, WOULDNT BE MADL A MARTYR, Lut quictly resigned his Gubernatorial honors and went to Minnesota, where he is interested in flour and_saw mills, Butler was disgusted, for he would have preferred being chief mourner at the grave of his martyred son-in-aw; but Ames was in_carnest, and his wife sided witl him. They spend their summers with the Gen- cral, at his Lowell home or at his cottage on the seashore, which gave him a residence in Essex County when he cume to Congress from there. THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITGTION will make a new departure under its new Di- rector, for Prot. Baird possesses the rare faculty of sweetening the cdzes of the cup of kuowi- cdge, as he_has shown in the discharge of his duties as Fish Commissioner. Ichthyology is not a popular topie, but Prof. Baird’s nccurate observations of the ways and habits of our food- fish bave shown that he is a true priest at the shrine of Nature, and e has had no lack of worshipers. The Smithsonian wiil no longer be kept up for the advancement of one man, but will tend renown to the name it bears, and thus carry out_the wishes of its founder, who was excluded, by his _{llegitimacy, from society, and who swore that he would make the name of Smithson famous, - His fath Dr, Smith- sou, was so fortunate gs Lo marry a patient who not only tave himn a fortune, but the title of Duise of Northumberland. THE NATIONAL LIBRARY, with nnew building in Judiciary Square; bangs fire, and {t is very cleac that Congress will not send thst far away the fine collection of books which has been so long accamulating in the Capitol ns a library ~of reference for Congress. But fn Washingtou the tendency of everything fs towards an independent bureau, with an increaso of salary 1or the chief, a horse and earriage for his use, and & staff of clerks. It is thus that 8 wagon-load of plants brought home in the cabin of Commodore Wilkes' flag- ship when it came back from its voyaze of dis- covery formed the nucleus for the Natfonal Botanic Garden, and four old chronometers at the Navy Department beeawe the National Ob- servatory. During the War there was an army repair shop here, where an order from Gen. In- alls would secure the repair of a single spoke into a handsome new ambulance, but with peacs the army repair shop vavished. THOSE SENATORIAL VETERANS, Simon Cameron, of Venusylvanis, and Ramsey, of Minnesota, have been here, and were warmly welcored by their old associates. Cumeron has been asked to write a book of political reminis- cences, and, if he will, it can out have an jm- mense sale, for no one hus been wmore thorough- 1y behind the scenes of Peunsylvania politics during the past half century. Whether he would tell * the whole truth ” 'or not i3 ques- tionable. THE ROTEL PROFRIETORS of Washington, or 1 part of them at least, haye come to grief. The Seaton Iiouse, Willard’s Hotel, the Metrovolitan Hotel, and Gray’s Hotel have each end all been closed by the strong arm. of the law, and the red fiags of the auctioncer heve juvitea the bargain-bunters to contust for the_possession o much-used furoiture, The Arlington Iouse has never paid, but the Ebbitt House, the Riges House, and the Nationul Hotel have doue a good winter’s business. The landlords of the last-namea establishments have labored to please their guests, and have Perhaps those who left the unfortunate hotels were too strong on_ private tables for themselves and their friends, and were rather above their business. AMUSSMENTS are of arural character these warm evenings. The theatres areclosed for the season, but there aro boating parties on the Potomae, driving parties to the park of the Soldiers’ fome, and 2 great consumption of {co-cream, bersics, and soda-water. RacoONTEUR. THANATOPSIS. TY WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. To him who fn the love of Nature holds Communion with ber visible forms, she speaks A various Ianguage: for his gayer hours $he has & voice of ciaaness, und o smile And eloguence of beauty: and ehe glides inta his darker musings with a mild ‘And healing sympethy, thas steals nway Teir sharpness ere be'is aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come 1ike a blight Over thy spirit. and sad imazes Of the sterr: agony. and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkuess, and the narrow house, Make thee to shudder, and zrow sick at heart, Go forth. under the open sky. and list To Nature's teachings, while from all around Earth and her waters, and the denths of air— Comes 1 still yoice: 'Yeta few days, and thee TThe sll-benolding sun shail sce no more In oil bis conrse; por yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy imnze. Earth, thut nourished thee, shall claim . Thy prowth, to be resolved to earth again, And loxt each human trace, surrendering up ‘Chinedndividnel being, shals thou go To mix forever with the elements, To be u brother to the insensible rock, And to the shugeish clod. which the rade swafn Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak ‘Shall send his roots abroad, and piercé thy mold. Yet not to thinc eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone, nor conlu'st thou wish Couch mere magnificent. ‘Thou shalt lic down With patriarche of the infant world—with kinge, ‘The powerfal of the carth—the wise, the good, r forms, and houry scers of swes past, All in one mizhty scpuichre. The hills Tock-ribbea und ancfent as the sun; the vales Stretching in pensive quictness between; The venerable woods; rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooke That make the meadows green; and, ponred ronnd all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste— Are hut the solemn decorations al) eat tomb of man. The golden sun, inets, ull the infinite host of Heaven, nr o the sad abodes of death vl the still inpee of ages, All that trend ‘The globe are but 1 handful to the tribes “That slumber in its busom. _Take the wings OF worning. traverse Liarca’s desert sands, Or loze thyself in the continuous woods Where roifs the Orezon, and hears no sound, Save his own dasitings—yet, the dead ure there; ‘And millions in those solitudes, since first Tie tlizht of years began. have'laid them down In their Jast sicep—the dend reien there ulone. So shalt tho rest; and what if thou withdraw In sileuce from the living, and no friend Take note of thy departurer Al that breathe Will share thy destiny, The gay will langh When thou ait gone, the solemn hroud of care Plod on, and each ofie as before will chase Tiis favorite phantom: yet all these shall leave “Theiz mirth and their enployments, snd shall come And mafe their bed with thee, As'the long train Of ages ghde away, the sons of m ‘e Youth in life's‘zreen epring, and he who goes Tn thie full streng.l of years, matcon and maid: And the sweet babe, aid the pray-headed man— Shall one by one be zathcred (o thy side 1y those who, in their turn, shall follow them. 8o liye that, when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan which moves To that mysterious reaim where ench shall take Tiis chamber in the silent hails of Death, ' Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustzined sna soothed By an unfalterfug {rmet, aporoach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his conch ‘About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams, ————a—— Satan ns a Poor Editor. Xew York Ecening Iow, From Paris conics to us « copy of The Cen- tenary ot Voltalre; Journal of Anti-Christ; cditor-fn-chief, Satan,” a single newspaper sheet of black paper printed in"silver ink and devoted to miscellancous eulogies, hoth old and fresh, of the notoriously distinouished French philosopher, The office of the publication is aunounced to be ar No. 44 Hell street, and its literary excellence is very nearly cqual to that of the lxm()aanluz pamplilets sometimes got out by sophomore classes. In the wood-cut in- Iu.i:u’lel:x to represent ‘v‘oxmidre's face, an strocious ibel bas been perpetrated—uncenscions); tobeloped, T speson b NEW YORK. A Day in the Country Among the German Bands. The National Schuetzenfest and the National Beverage. Eow and Where the Metropolitan Germans Enjoy Themselves. The Splendid Park on Union Hill-Its History and Norman Castle. Specolative Misfortnnes--The Avenue of Sights and Wonders--And the Romantic Finis by Night. Frem Our Own Correspondent. NEw Tork, June 20.—I weat out tothe Schuctzen Park yesterday with a talented young man who, immediately upon his entrance into the grounds, procecded to search out a quiet corner 2od a tree, underneath whose abundant shade he might writc sylvan prose for his jour- pal. Intho fanciful sketch produced by this method, aided materislly by the absence of trammeling facts, he alluded to the beautiful trait fn the Germans that they make for the country as naturally as do the deer, and refresh and better themselves upon green grass, green leaves, and lager-beer. He passed to say that it is hard for any but a professional criminal to do wrongz under the trees and on the Zreen- sward; that every tree is a leaf from the Bible, every blade of pgrass acommandment. This was in o double sensean enlargement both upoa the Good Book and upon the decalogue, but it forms a pretty sentiment, and shows the effect of an hour’s contest with the Jersev mosquito and the summer fly, creatures who allow neither German nor any man to rob them of their bome and enjoyment In the groves. Meanwhile I was roaming about the beautiful park which is the pride of the United Schuetzen Assoclation. - An observer of men, women, children, maidens, curfosities—in bricf, of na- ture, human, inhumasn, and otherwise—could have asked 1o better opportunity for study. The result is generally satisfactory at a Ger- man fest, because 1o more jolly, contented people live than are the Germans on such an occaston. Here were 20,000 of them scattered about the grounds, sceing the sights, venturing the quarter upon the “wheel of fortune,” doing the sideshows and the restaurants—all drink- ing beer and all bapoy. Thus through the day; and at evening, when the Chinese lanterns liv up the long avenues, thronziug to sce the fire- works, gathering around the singing societics, or dancing on the great platform, never weary- ing till the last train has becn announced, and the midnight draws near with the new day in its wake. Thisis the meaning of a fest day to the German youth and elders alike. THE SCHUETZEN PARK, The park ie some five miles from the Erfe depot in_Jersey City. It contains thirty- acres, and was laid out and improved by an English gentleman, then a wealtny merchant of this eity. On bigh ground tesr the centre he built bim a mansion of rough-hewn stone, in the Norman style, with a tower on everr side. He fitted up this house, known as the Castle, in privcely fashion. Used as a club-house, the beauty of decoration and fiuish are stiil to be secn and admired. ‘The diniog-hall js the lare- est room, and often holds a half-thousanc of {mbibing Germans. Back of this, at the end of the wing, is the billiard-room, with great wall-benches upholstered in Russta [eathier, now devoted to the members of the press, who may look through ivy-bound windows down the wide central avenue. always swarming with people. The library forns one of the large tower-apartments, and is a work of art. The deep-brown wall-vanels, red-bordered, are set off with hizh effect by the blue panels of the ceiling. The cases, low-built, run ecntirely around the room. The narrow windows in the baysJet wa soft light through the stained glass. Just above the cases is a continuous line of miniature busts, representing more than 200 of the world’s greatest authors and poets, fromn Homer and Socrates down to the time of Ten- nyson and Dickens. Above the dado are in- scribed the names of the great poets. It seemed like sacrilee to see gathered in the place thus dedleated to genius @ company of badme-be- decked and green-uniformed men, {rying to de- cide where the National Schuetzenfest should next be held, and profaning with German gut- turals the uir of thisstudent’s retreat. Not to remain too long iu this building, I will onty speak of the reception room, which has walls and ceiling all of wainut, rlch'tf carved like the interior woodwork of an old cathedral. The stuirway 1s also a sample of exquisite carving. Over the ontire structure ivy-vines have thickly crept, untll the appearance from without is that of an aucient, ivied castle, with turret and tower. THE NORMAN CASTLE'S COST. The Enclishman—pity that he ever had to part with such an estate—met with reverses of fortune in his busincss. and Gnally sold ont to the Assoviatiou for §130,000. Thea he went back to his own country to live ontheincome thus ob- tained. TFifty-thousand dollars were paid in cash, ns much more has since been paid, and a $30,000 mortgage is held_ by the former owner, who is well plcased to let it run. _ The Assocla: tion, composed of all members of Schuetzen or- ganizations who wish to take stock, spent $109,000 more in fitting up the park for their purposes. ‘They built a little farm-house, like those in Lower Germany, 8 grand_dancing-hall and_restaurant, a covered shooting-ranze, a pavilion, and nuinerous booths and structures uecessary for the pubtic use of the grounds. Naturally, and with the improvements added, this perk is undoubtedly the finest of tne Schuetzen parks in the land. From its high yrround a view may be bad of the metropolis, with its encircling rivers and beautiful buy, and of its neighboring cities. The air comes fresh and pure from the sea. Within the inclosure, as a Isnd in_miuia- ture, are woodland and champagne, hill and dale. stream and lake. Long avenues are lined by magniticent hedges, which scem proud of their stately growtn.” This park is perfect. NATIONAL ENJOYMEN On this day of which I am writing the park is thorougnly Germanized. To be convinced how wholly these foreiun citizens rotain their national characteristics, it is only necessary to 2o to their festivals. The Amiericans never could make up sach a scene; neither can these people ever afliliate with the Americans in thelr methods and style of enjoywent. There is musfc on every sidge. A dozen bands are playing, a dozen choruses are singing. 1t is all oo music. o bave good. mnisic 13 a raty characteristic which other peoples might well wish to appropriste. The band that plays in the restaurant is equal to the same composers and qualicy as the band that is delighting the hundreds of listeners around the ceutral stand. Wherever there is a clump of bushes, there, also, Is a eroup of Germans, commonly « family group, and there, again, is 2 White-uproned waiter, delivering or receiving orders for that artful beverage Which makes Germons stout, round, and phlegmatically contented. This soclal gatheriug jn seml-retirement, out of the thick of the activits, is one phase of the day. Here the baby, as well as the rest, is alowed to sip the beer, and, by making wry ' faces, proves conclusively that even with Germans the taste for the natiounl drink is an scquired one. THE SPECULATORS' HARVEST. The excitement 1s down the avenae whigh, on onc side, overlooks the range, with its twenty targets. All day long the shooting goes on, sometimes ball-a-dozen guus cracking simul- tuneously. “The targets pop up and down s if they worked sutomstically, snd each kanew just when to iy up and get a bulles in-the eye. This creates little of the excite- ment, however. The spectators soon tire of sceing what they cannat understsnd. Only the men with houors and prizes fo win maintain interest in the gunnine. This avenue is noted for other things tban its view of the targets. First you pass a row of beer dispensa- ries, and then the sport begins. Ah! it is the sawme seductive thing that draws men every- where. Gambliug in its lesser forms is carried on by wholcsale. *“Take your chance, gentle- 1en,” says a comely Gretchen who stands in an inglosure with a table stuck full of jack-knives. ‘“Ihree rings for five cents, and aknife when you hoop it.” The game scems simple and cheap. 3Man and boy succeed ome mnother in vain “attempts to hurl tue light and decentive rinas over a knife. The Gretchen puts away dollar after dollar. It she would publish ber accounts for day you would find that she has cleared over $100 "and lost not more than six knives, which cost ber perbaps 40 cents each. Then comes the more specious “wheel of for- tune,” as it proves to the owner, not to the better. “Walk up, speculators,” says o fat, red-faced type of his class, *walk up and svecyoudate. Moncy don't grow in _’a'unr vocker. Four quarters Tor one, 32.50 for a half, 35 for $1. Now is your ehance.” Six numbers on the board are 50 few game. 'The large and constantly growing pile of silves on the counter ought to teach some- thing, but it faits to. A darkey swings the wheel, with its dozen rounds of six numbers, and the operator sweeps in the chauge. It is amazinx kow persistently the cateh will fndicate the wrong number. Here is a workingman who iavests dollar by dollar cvery bit of money he has. Ouce bitten, and the desire to geteven_ sends prudeuce flying. Here a man with the' money to stand loss is urged by his fair partner of thefest to see what be cen “secomplish. He invests a V, and it is gone in two mioutes. She looks at him in a manner indicating deubt of his wental ecapacity. It is a dangerous thing for a young man to have the girl aloug if ho means to engage in such enterprises of various and dubious result. DECEITFUL GAMES. There are other ingenious and catching de- vices. Throwinz abuse-ball at a dice. with a cigar for every hit, is a fair business for the cigur-seiler, Casting dice for cheap jewelry at & half a dollar a throw is a protitable thing for the jewelry speculator. Soit goes. It isin every case’ that of the biter bitten. Alnn% this same avenueare the side-shows. The Albino girl is beside the sacred ox with the human arm and hand. The porforming mice, the fat womau, all the old circus attrac- tions are here in tents, and succeed in draw ing many dimes from the pockets of the eredu- lous. Better far arc the midgets, which show free, and the magician’s tricks, done openly. The athletic young men give cxhibitions of their skall in tumbling “and on_the trapeze, showing cxeellent training and muscular development. And last on the list comes the juckass that no- body can ride, and that kicks in five directions at the same time. All these features afford amusement in plenty to the crowd. The littie pond is navigated by three or four boats,and here the maidens are enticed, to be rocked intoa sad state of fright by heartless swains, who know how toswim, also that the water 1s not decp enough for much of an accident. OUTDOORS VERSGS INDOORS. The ensemble possessed suflicient variety to cause me to foreet the youns man who was forgring prose out of imazioation and_ reclining in the shade when [ last saw bim. e was dis- covered, no longer holding communion with Nature's visible forms, but with knees .above his head engaged in puffing the Press Commit- tee aud acigar, with occasional glances at a champagme bottle that Jiad once been, as Mr. Eccles perenially was;full, The joys of the Norman castle, lie concluded, eclipsed those of the forest by a large percentage. The inner man was now satisficd, and remained in the rest of the day. ‘To interpolate a paragraph of cold fact, the United Schuetzen Association hardly rets on prosperously with its costly investment. There are three regular Schuetzenfests every scason, this of the National being sn extra meeting. The rental of the booths and restau- rants brings in some $15,00 8 vear. The gate money, if the Association bad all of it, would make a large revenue, but this chiefly goes to those who rent the grounds. I was informed that the stock is not in high esteem, and that it was not improbable that the property would some time pass back into Mr. Wright’s Lhands by foreclosure of his heavy mortgage. It is not likely, however, that the various Schuetzen corps n this section would let the splenaid park o without a larga effort to save it as their fes- tival seat. The «ates are open to members all the summer, and the easy distance and quick meaus of transportation by rail make the park a delizhtful sunmer resort Tor those who cannot | otherwise cet out of town. CUINESE LANTERNS AND FLIRTATION. 1n the evening comes romance, to add to the pleasures of the daylight scenes. Beneath the swinging lanterns, which do mot yield too much light for flirtation, promenade the young folke. Relensed from their close attention at the range, uniformed men mingle in the crowd, and now it is that the **German warrior winks upon the German maid,” apparently to the satisfaction of the maid. About § o’clock there was a tice display of fireworks, closing with a mammoth repre- sentation of a shield, with eagle above, aud the inseription * Union Forever,” while the band vlayed the music appropriate to the words. Thén the chorus took up the refrain, and the hill called “ Union” rang with the sound of melody. THE GREAT SCENE of the day, though, was at the dancing plat- form, when the orchestrs began to play a Strauss waltz. There was acouple to every are foot, as it seemed, and the whish- whish sounded like the street-sweepers which are driven through the streets of the city in the valnattempt to cicanse them. The clond of dust that arose wus astill more torcible re- minder of the sweepsrs. Trains were imoossi- ble, hats were Jammed, everybody was stepped upon and punched and jostled; yet through it all appeared the smiting faces of “these singular Germaos; and they called it hearty zood fun. 1 was thankful to escape and get back to town, after a day among the genial-and sober peopic, who drink much but intoxicate not, neither do they quarrel. But as for the talented young man, he would not leave until the Committee, in despair, hired s hack and sent him, sylvan prose and all, to his ofilce. p The Northwestern shooters, it may be sdded, are winning their share of the prizes, the! total value of which amounts to nearly 350,000 Itis considered probable that the next national fest will be held in Chicago. This oneis now an assured suceess,—the daily attendance reaching as high es 30,000 people. The amount of beer consumed is beyond the computation of the averagze mathematician, skl s IR SR M\7 LOVER IS COMING. One morning T rose from my restless bed— No clouds were loating overhead; Tsang in my heart 3 little song. As happy and bright as the day is long; And 1nis was the brrden of my lay: *+ My lover is coming—is coming to-day. " 1 wore a ribbon among my harr, For Lknew ho liked to sce it there; 1 robed mysclf in o simple dreas, The shad of color be liked the best; And still I eang in o happy w ** My lover is coming—ts com g to-day.” I gathered flowers of sweet perfume, And decked afresh each ple: 1 Isid the table with snow: ite, And scattered blossoms fresh and bright; Aud still my heart did constant say: ** )y lover is coming—is coming to-day.” At last the shadows began to fall Tcfore 1 hsd heard his welcome call; Dark clouds were guthering overhea b v flowers weze dying—dead: d still fn my heart T sadly sa; 43y lover Is surely coming to-day. But hark! I hear approachini feet: Alas! they carry o winding-sheot! With gentle nands they ancoves his head, Aud sadly [ guze on the face of the acad. While my achiug heart mozns this broken lay: -+ My lover is coming—las come to-day.” Cicaso, June 19, 1878, Lavia UNnERmILL. —— DEAD. And she Is dead! Tler task 13 done, Ier promised rest secure; The coal eternally s won, Her fect stray nevermore— They gleam a9 jewels on the hills Of fhat far-shining shore. Dead! Aye, dead! How white her browy How still the spirit lies That looked in mystic radiance from _Those pure, uniathomed eyea ! Note'ena uiarof thongut g From thoso dim, shadowy Dend—and how fair! o fmpulse Jitta Those barids of molded snow From that mysterions heart that lies So muze and cold below, ‘With no glad thrill for earthly bliss, No pang for veomed wo. Beatitade of rest! Olips Sealed with the awfal seal Tbat rends our hearte with baflied love. Ye may not e'er reveat # How sped the epirlt on its way To hights or deptts of weal, Save by the smile the spirit-lips Left on the lips of clay— A light reflected from tha beams Of God’s refulgent day— A myetic emile tint saye, =* I know, But may not tell, the way.” Cuicaco, June 14. Aacarz A. Coxse. B ey The Revised Tark. Neww York Timer, It is recorded thau the ouly daughter of s famous Arab chief came weeping to him on the third day after her marriage, to complain that her husband had struck her on the face. ** Whicn check did he smite? ” asked the vener. able parent. #The left,” answered the fnjured bride through her tears. “Good!™ said the sympathizinir father, administering a tremen. dous slap to her right cheek; “this makes alf even again. Go tell thv nosbava that, if he lias buileted my dauhter, [ have bulfeted his wife.” Turkey's presenc share of the * bless- ingzs of peace is verymuch of the same quality. To console hier for Russia’s anuexation of Ba- toum and Northern Bulzaria, she sees Southern Bulgaria becomiug virtually inuependent; An- tivari and Dulcigno handed overto Montenegro Ketour stivped into the pocket of the Shah a 'l}rlush protectorate louming over Asia Minor, Lhessaly, and Epirus; Greece demanding Crete . Servia stretching her hand towara Vranja and Novi-Bazar; Austria furtively eyeing Bosnia and Herzegovina.—till it seems that few more dered a forcign Ambassador to qnit Lis ey ions within twenty-four hours, chnh‘e\‘xé ;};m;:: swer that, “If his Majests cared to 100k ong of the palace window hie would see Lim cromss the frontior iu logs than tive minates,” % THE GAME OF DRAUGHTS, Commuateationstntended for THE DEACONT Enrrog should beaddresscd 1o O. D. ORVIS, P.-0. Lo 513 Chlezzo, . For Publisher's price-lfst of standard works ox thy game, address the Drauzht Editor. CHECRER-PLAYERS' DIRESTOR: Atheamum, 50 Dearborn street. PROBLEM NO. 71 By C. HrFrer, Chleago. Thite to move and draw. POSITION XO. 71. By J. W. Muecm, Chicaso, Black men on 6, 15, 20. Kfngy 1 White men on 9, 11, Kings = 1 Yhite to move and win. TO CORRESPONDENTS. J. H. Workman—Score dest week. . . Truax—Too late for this lssue. Frank Greenlee—Ncver heard of him, D. Carstatrs—Card duly recetvea-Shinks, 3L J. Kalo—See A.D.P., page 115, varlatton 44 dratn] Abbott—Book matled. (2) Posltion on fle~ A. §. Chapman—Proof-sifps malled. Tae Srn TEIBENE 13 $2.50 & year—63 cents fur thires mongee T is—Your Whilser correction will oaly ter thy cxchange. White plays 24-18, andis 11. Brsant—(1) Spayth's American Draught —price, ST, (3) Your contributlons Wil be yory Come. R. E. Towen—Tour roquest shall bo attended to, (1) The managers of THe TLL1 ‘w1l not allo e wlin 1o be dated. WG CHECKER CHATTER. Tha gental Mr. Starkweather, of Boston, wasin Inst wesk. tea ‘The checker-players of Watertown, X. J., or 13 a club of Afty members last Week. Yot Mr. Wyllle has finished his very successtn) girougd Engiand, aud returncd 1o bis home fa Daaleer ot While vislting frieads at Wishaw recently, M, Mar- tins piayed 18 games, winning 14, lostok 1, a3d 3 games were drawn. The Boston Globe Is tesponsible for the following: **The Lowell plavers teil a zood story or one of thelr namber, o, After thie cares of the day. retired th fhy Drivacy of iy ruom. ostenafbiy Lo Teit. Dut Fealy iy Zoach ip the TIuctor gatie.” Several Bours sfierras he was found sittin boly uvtlfhl o red, the checker- board In hislap, a half-pluyed *Doctor game* on the Dboard, his haud extended, holdlog a checker-maa as if in tne act of crown!ng one that kad reached the oppo- Site. Eng Fow, and wIth the exprcssion Of -sradiogs cuneing’ still visible oo his face, hut sound asleep. ‘The gas fet was wasting fts brifliancy on the tablean 88 105 dlatant chaatlciees prociaumicd the spproach of Mo, Wé ahall grieve cteraally that we Bave Bora chromg of that secae 1o ofer ad & premium with the lube." “The readers of Tinx SyNDAT TRICNE will remember o serles of questluns taken from that excellent maga- e the it Brdugl Fisyen tom Tonihs . intended to onen a discussion regarding draughts Mrera: ture, origin of the gaumne, ctc, ‘e Mayand Juze nuny- berare how at hand, contalntag the fullowia SUOrevl- a%cd apswera: 1. **Drauzhts™ {3 a modern e. I believe the ward {s eiven for the dlrst time fn Hyde's Latia Treatise ** Do Ludus Orlentaltbus,™ 1691, but Lo allusloa lsmade ta its ezymology. J. S. Luckl of Alnwlck, once pro- ‘pounded aa Lypothests on the subect, - He supposestne Same to- Have neen drajts. sAnifying, 165 milltary sense, **raaks or rowsof men.” Thls, of coudse, fm- Plles thist the prosont name ia derlves STom chacrsed re- semblance. The difference (n the modc of Spelling may be accounted foron the suppusition that the earilest lt;fl}[zl’,,vll! Imperfectly acqualnted with the subject.— L dettey ‘The close connection that existed for centuries be- twéen Francs And Scotland leads mo £ hink tha draugits was Imported from the former country. un- &cr the French nade, * Lo Datiox * and that th Ea- i5h-speakini Scotoh called 1t -~ The Dames* (18 ¢1ven b a translation of KKadelals' **Giamnes of *Gargzantua®™ ~the French work was published fn 151 and of coursy Ishfi bozrd ‘was calied the Dames-board Dam-brod.— A Lrcis, 3. It is nearly ten years since I had Hyle's Latla treatl ** Do Ludus Orlentalibus,™ 1691 ia my posses- sion, and [ should not ke to be 100 positive in any Siatements | make concernine 1. Ehe wOrk trvsson 3'VaTiety Of ancs. 30Mms Of WhICh If Geserlbes 3¢ Hress fonitt but ofy devores twd o three pazes (0 DTSuEALs. o the t of my recollectlon, he uses, as a synoaym, the wort Dams." /. /I 4. Wearetold fn Angas’ book—‘‘Savsze Life and Scenes "—that draughts I3 vplayed by the savaze trives of thie taterior of New Zealind ader the. nsvuc of Femu, and that 1t does not scem. possible they coutd Ve derived thelr Knowlodge of 1 (hom sy oitier peo- oty enceavor Lo trace the derivaon of tho E'inn.1 as stzuck with the fact that e New [lolland und surrounding Emu," or **Emsu." by tho uuese voyagers. Surelv these hardy adven- Ys Tighr, have: (st the gatae fo the natises. whether in friendly intercourse or as prisoners. The more 1 study the subjeet the more lam tnclined to douhe thic accuracy of Mr. Augus. 1 trust some Dortu- such *‘crumbs of comfort” would leave the poor Sultan with much the same extent. of ter- uese scholar may bo sbie to glve you the ctymology of £o word. 22 OIr. ¥ SOLUTIO SOLTTION TO PEORLEM XO. 70.% Ly ILF. 5. 252 1 6 | 9-13 711 19-23 -8 |13 oo o White win, foree 27-31 11-15 16-12 7- 15 ln»:.m) 711 Tt wSek [IE- ., ) 2 1 SOLUTION TO POSITION BY Charlle Hefe: Fac o T 2 2027 |17-28 10-17 GAME NO. 210-SECOND DOURLE CORNER. Thirty-third game played ja_the Hefter-Keed match ‘Hefter's mov —WILL O' THE WISP. (Thirteenth Game.) Playod o tue Hefter- iteed mateh. Hefter's move. Fa—g -3 o Didn't Care o Chip. Cases of romantic suicide, as they are often styied in the newspapers, lose much of their romante on investication. < Recently in Sag Frandsco a youny min—he musc have pced very younz—of the Wertheriau schvol ended Liis life for 1o better reason than because a girl had declined to love him. fie left a note ud dressed to ber—Nellie Kelly—in which he said that her eruelty had killed biin; that be would meet her in heaven, where a kinder fate would be his, where they should be happy with the angels, and a deal more of such seutimental stufl. Areporter of an evening paper, after reading the account in the mornini journals, naturaily desired further interesting particulars, and souxht out Nellie for the purpose of interview- ing ner. She proved to be thereverse of un ele- gant or interesting creature. In fact, she was both prosaic and illiterate. In answer toin- quiries she replied: There baint no romantic story about it. That there fool Tom Tighe come spoonin’ round me, and I tole ’im tolizht out. Now he's busted bis crust, and I don’ care achip. That’s all there fs *bout it.”? - What & charming being to die for! g