Evening Star Newspaper, January 10, 1880, Page 6

“WHAT QUEEN VICTORIA NEVER TOLD. Edited, from Sccretary Ward’s Papers by Fred B. Perkins. [From the Saturday Magazine of Boston. ] 1. NOTE BY “ME EDITOR. ‘Th: record below gives the history of a trans- action of which some hint might possibly be found in the secret archives of the State depart- ment at Washington; but certainly only the re- motest allusions, if any at all, to anything of the sort can be discovered in the public docu- ments of the year 1861, or in any of the histories or collections about the rebellion. And yet it has a significant relation to one of the most critical periods of that struggle. At ths | nt writing, Mr. Martin's “Life of Prince Albert,” as far as published, comes down only to the year 1365, It will be Interestinz to see if the occurrence narrated by Secretary Ward is referred to in the remaining volume. Probably not. If at all, it will be only in the most vetled manner; it may be that Queen Victoria thought it right never to reveal this one thing, even to her husband, so very deeply loved, so absolute- ly trusted. The account came to me among the private papers of my old friend, Suchet Ward, so well remembered by his affectionate intimates as “Sue;” and whose name, thus shortened, used to mislead, as to his sex, those who for the first tme heard the praises of his singularly loving and steadfast nature. It was his first name, too, that amused me when I first heard {t, more than @ quarter of acentury ago. He was called, of course, after Napoleon’s wise and noble mar- shal, Suchet, duc d’Albufera; but those nelgh- bors of his who first mentioned him to me, men not versed in the French tongue, calle? him, not Scoshay, but Suckit, a pronunciation for which something might be sald during an early period of life, but, on the whole, not to be de- tended. ‘Agreeable personal qualities are at least as in- fluential as professional ability, for gaininz and holding confidenttal positions; and the re nark- ably sweet and sunny nature of Ward, perhaps almost as much as his many accomptts' and his extraordinary executive and bu ability, was the reason of his long se: private secretary, as well as of his intim. sonal friendship, with old Admiral Morgs Joved him as men iove favorite sons. body could deal with Ward without becoming his personal friend. Tt was as his executor that I received this document among his other papers, and the terms of the appointment, I need hardly say, Justify me in any use of it that I may think proper. Itmay be that some of Ward’s other sketches of his experience are worth printing. He saw many lands and many people, and is records contain some stories strange enough. I wonder what he and his stout old chief—he usually called him the chief—are doing now. ‘They are both dead. I shall know, very likely, before long. My faith in the goodness—although, as this account shows, the admiral was sutti- ciently queer@is so complete that I would giadly take the risk of being this moment established along with them. 2. SECRETARY WARD'S ACCOUNT. U. S. FLAG Sarp TENNESSE! ENGLISH CHANNEL, Dee. 1, 1 I shall now set down altogether the most traordinary occurrence that I have ever wi nessed—and I have seen many strange thing This one, however, will perhaps never be known beyond the flve human beings who are now co; nizant of it. If it ever ts, it will be most li! by the publication of this record. That cannot happen if we founder at sea, or are cast away some day; and hardly, in any event, until I am dead. But it ought to go into history some- time. It belongs to humanity to know how Magnanimous a Christian queen can be, and what are the narrow chances that determine the fates of nations. I went over to Portsmouth in the steam launch yesterday, from this ship, then lying off Os- borne, Isle of Wight, with orders to bring aboard a passenger who would communicate with me. Tasked no questions—I learned a good while ago not to do that; and, besides, facts always have their resurrection if one can wait; and a flag officer's private secretary has to know Pay much all that his chief does; andas [ now by the chief's correspondence a critical state of things prevalls at present bo- tween the English and American go" res ure. ‘The it is a likely time for sudden meas ‘Trent had come home to England, having had Mason and Slidell picked out of her by Will and the fat of all England was in the fire, w Palmerston to stir the combustion. The Eng- lsh dockyards were in a fury of outfitting, and the wrath and threats of the newspapers were wAtra-Homeric. I really don’t woader at it, either. And I shall not very soon forget the delfght ot the chief when that news came. He was th: youngest of all the Bainbridge’s midshipmen in the old Constitution, and child as he was, the born Aghter and sea king had made a splendid record in the victories of Old Ironsides; and he was just as eager for fighting now, a white- haired old man. He could not sit still, as he read the news: he stept about his cabin as live- ly as a fighting cock—I never saw so handsome and well preserved a man, to be 59 years old;— Sushed and laughing,—be always did laugh, he said, ata fighting chance; his eyes sparkled, Again barely bitten off close bend his lips—tor ten off close behind his lips—for he is now really a sincere and humble Christian man—a member of the Episcopal church, like, so many of our iand and sea officers, and not utter an oath; and dreadful times he in struggling to forbear, I never knew 80. tu ous a temper,nor a stronger will f-re- stra % he said; * have all ‘int. “Oh, Charles Wilkes! the luck—every d—readful bit,—1 forgive me!—But hertape ‘we'll get our chance yet. Td" in ere all I've got in this world, and a morigage in the next—ho, not that,—ift it’s wrons—for var!’ I rected very quietly, “But I say unto you, that yewesist not evil; but whosvever Shall sinite thee on thy right cheek turn to him the other also.” “Ward,” said the old fellow, stop- ping short, “I sw—or aftirm—that a fair stand- up fight isn‘tevil. Ivs good. There's no other such thorough means of setfling a differeace of opinion in tbe world, when both sides kuow they’re right. When one of ‘em is beaten— thoroughly flaxed out—he can’t assert his v And that’s what a friend of mine say: a really meant when he said at the cannon’s mouth.”” He may be right, dation is not the made on Shak exactly according to your theory for search of refutation to look up one.” The Chief had been living, as it we kind of lower hea t 1 ever since that kept him here, well over toward the Wight, just opposite the queen's country. Osborne, where he was to hold himself wholly at the disposition of our minister to Eaglan had been well staried 1 1, her boats all hoisted in and every. Ubing made snug and ready for sea before I left 1 knew something was coming; and, indeed hal ‘atation answered; “the emen- most violent that has been are’s text, and it would be Ndier in fMfectual about thing. “All right, admiral,"T We had a numbe SI ecute at Portsmouth nd away T wont minissions to our passenger until evening. ock, a ce e drove rapidly down to the do asmul man got out, shook hands with somebody taside and stepped briskly down to the cig» of the landing. wher “Mr. Ward?” he asked. and without another word, he jump briskly as the admiral himself co! we let go our fasts and off. € word did the small man utter all the way over to the ship, and I did not interrupt his thoughts. Iknew who it was well en: and that it must be something of the highest imp that would bring hitn just now from his post London—then far the most important position in our diplomatic service—to go to sea in this very quiet manner In the fastest war-steamer of the United States nay. d the ship, there was light enous! for me to sxe that she was riding at singleanchor, and swing- ing to the westward running Ude so that her Dow pointed toward the Atlantic; and a deep booming hum like an organ-bass, from [ac Within her vast bulk, announced that steam was up. The landing-stage was gone, and atter the regulation challenging and answering, we came aboard up the ladder, just like mere human beings. As we came over the side, salutes and formalities were omitted except a couple of side- boys, and the executive officer, who had the deck, after touching his hat and ‘briefly saying. “The admiral desires to see the gentleman and yourself in his cabin,” at once ordered the great Steam launch to be hoisted in, the anchor to b= raised and every preparation for the ship to be got under way. Jim McGowan, coxswain of the admiral’s perhaps the finest seaman on board, and a great favorite of the admiral’s and ot myself, for that matter—made an excuse to step up tO me for a moment, a3 we passed along aft to- ward the break in the de Although I could not distinctly see his face his voice was fall of chuckle, as he said in my ear, “The old man’s i a widder below, a runnin off wit her. tched her off In the cutter about five bells, ‘They say she’s the richest woman in England. Good on his head, I sayt” “ Weil, Jim,” I answered, suspecting that the man was drunk, in spite of his excellent char- acter for st “it, will be all right, no Sng we'll see.” But circumstantiality of majesty were perfectly*familiar to me tures, and to my companion from tercourse. AS we stepped forwai looked; stopped as if s ; 1001 ced as for my part held witha very low a ceremonious mnished”- ,” burst out the anIe that you have contrived this wicked- “If your majesty is not here of your own free will,” immediately answered the minister, “I | ‘ou simply to say so, and your orders shall “Of course I am not,” was the answer, ina voice full of the intensest anger. kidnapped, along with y —— here, ‘his person,” (pointing to the admiral.) “You have rirates worse than John Paul Jones in your American na’ ever happens to me, republic, Mr. —, and you will richiy deserve She spoke right royally; without a tinge of fear; as boldly as ifshe were addressing her own rliament in Westminster abbey, instead of tiwe in a foreign man-of-war, beyond lity of rescue. The momentI saw who it was, I knew exactly what had happened. Theadm this mad scheme, out of his own reckless, fear- less old head. in order to secure a sufficient hostage to offset against the threatened war measures of England in consequence of the It was an inconceivable audac- ity, and an overwhelming blunder; and how on earth had he managed to ensnare this po tous “rich widder,” as Jim McGowan called her?_ But it was no time for speculation. “ Your majesty is in command of this ship,” said the minister, who certainly looked thor- oughly amazed, but whose cool head told him at the only thing to do. already possessed of your wishes, it can be but avery few minutes before you Osborne again—for I suppose your majesty must have come from thence?” ‘The queen assented. pg to be excused for afew mo- ments, when I will wait upon your majesty “ihe Queen bowed. “ Admiral,” said the minister, “a word with you outside, please.” “Come Into the captain's cabin, Mr. —,” said the Chief, in an_obviously disappointed voice. “Come along, Ward.” I fcllowed them. rou expressly and spec! my orders, A‘ ” s man, but with a deliberate dignity and in a de- clsive tone that showed him not at all small in d. ‘The admiral bowed. “You will at once have the shi} her anchorage and these two ladies set on shore again as quickly as possible.” Chief stood irresolute—I could see werful impulse to carry out, his —,” he said, “we've ‘—he motioned toward tl site cabin—* they will be glad to drop Mason and Slidell like a hot The minister considered a moment. admiral—this is your confidential secretary, you told me?” at least, he Began to now or never, and I e in my tu “Will your maj su; ueen, “can It be “T have been ntly. But what- the end of your mral had contrived ‘Trent seizure. once what wa: will be safe at taken back to sure. Paitin her’ for this time,” she said; “I ho “Mr. Ward, were you engaged in this “No, he wasn’t,” said the lanned and done ell to-night” (viz., T shook my head. inside of two hours after one 8 p.m.) “while Ward was waiting for you at Portsmouth.” “Well, then,” pursued the minister,—‘I shall risk a diplomatic unconventionality rather than merely repeat an absolute order, for T would to convince your reason, under the circum- Now, gentlemen, attend; we at home in America have our hands pretty full with this rebellion, so tar. I know what yon, perhaps, do not; that there has been a powerful and steady Is more, a nearly successful one, to induce a joint intervention by France and England to stop the war and establish the inde- endence of the rebellious southern states. And know further, what you almost certainly do not, that the resolute opposition of Queen Vic- toria and Prince Albert has been the chief rea- why this scheme has" not 1,” pursued the with one fore- solved to give up his proposed voy thinking it more important that he main in London; and he wrote orders instead for the ship to sail at once without him, carrying dispatches; and caused himself to be set ashore again near Osborne, where there a small inn, and whence he could easily return to London next day. effort, and wh: son, up to this time, gone into operation; an Inting ‘emphatically “when that scheme does go into o) hich will be the very day your ance is found out, it will succeed, an I need not count up to and French navies, nor their defencelessness of our sea-board They can beat us toa dead certainty, in six Admiral, you have done what you could to secure that result; to be a well-meanin Judas Iscariot to the United States of America. He spoke with a pecullarly distinct, quiet, incis- ive manner, and with a restrained but evident intensity of feellng that was profoundly impress- He paused a moment, and then continued: “And now, Admiral, I repeat ed, the ruin, not mere! that is a small matter—but the ruin of your country, be on your head.” “Very well, Mr. —,” said the Chief, for he lone—and Indeed’ it only this short, clear statement to show it— ae orders shail be obeyed. But is it not too ater” ‘The minister shook his head. to be seen,” he said; “I must We are in her hands. The admiral—his fi you the English land forces nor order; and if ly of yourself— ow what he had led. “That remains ‘oto the queen. lose a moment’s captain, by the way, Was absent on leave, which had left the cabin empty—sent for the first officer to give the necessary orders. = “T may want you, Mr. Ward,” said the minis- ter; “so if the admiral can spare you, you had better come with me.” The Chief nodded. And, Admiral,” said the minister, ~the fact i, the court etiquette Is such—you'll excuse me, im sure—but won't you just keep out of the queen's sight?” The Chief growled something or other, but it was a sufficiently clear case. knocked at the door of the admiral’s cab! was told to come in, fhe minister now He stepped inside, ask resent me, received if, and did soy an: before the queen, and the minister entlemen,” commanded Queen Victoria, as easily as if she had in the private apartments at Windsor. obeyed, and the minister resumed, after asking the queen’s permission to make beea at dinner S' ist you will not suspect me, mad- am, of having been concerned in this lunatic for, aS YOU see, as soon as the orders is being put about.” the queen was quite could be given tlie And sure enough—an sailor enough to understand it—the engines were slowed and the tiller ropes could be heard crawling through the sheaves as the great ship e a circuit in the sea. Neither was Mr. Ward, here, the admirals rivate secretary, even aware of it. indeed, that it he had been on board, it could And he looked at ime for raly, I thought f gan,” and, Ward, we won't si about it pleas Jong enough to afford the time to chatter about our failures.” with some miuds, settled bac tion, and so remained, that it take not to let him bring Queen Victoria to New not have happened.” York. T said, and ver; could have prevented it, The Czar of ali the Russias, in a drew Was st: artled by an anguislied woman's sc 1 loo) He eaw slow ma: “Do your Ainerican adinirals ining in kidnapping In the slave MLcve wan annshand ek jesty, if Nelson or Col carried off in the Bhglishinen have been tempted to exense The minister went on, w reply, to develop is plan. hout waiting for a “What I beg to urge consideration, as a chitistian s not to let the knowledze of experiences go beyond the tive who now know it.” The queen looked at him with some scorn. continued the minister In inet way, “certainly con- trols at this moment life or death for. thousands ‘ou can cause or prevent the and now, no Thousands of human “Your majesty his quiet, clear, di of brave men; for y declaration of war by Englan other human being can. lives; the existence of the United States of It is on religious grounds,—as a Christian speaking to a Christian, in the imme- diate presence of Alinighty God” clear voice sank and trembled a little, and his head bowed reverentiy; and I saw the queen’s color change—*that I humbly beg your majesty to overlook the greatest indignity offered to a crowned head since Napoleon I.’s time; to for- ‘ive the insult, and to be abs stopped a moment, and added, in a v evident immense self-control, trem- ‘ht tremor was more imp) and the few words, than hours of oratory: “If not, your majesty wills that my country be destroyed; and it is a country that loves and reverences you, this impulsive old fighting sallor’s y, 22 Possible just as your own J need not detail in full the arguments with _— the minister enforced And hers, ‘That startl Isit too late?_ Thou who so nobly brave {he minister's | Hast thou forgotten thi Thy «rand ambition to ** do good to man’ Be what thou wert, a noble ir again, And all the world will shout, “Long’may'st thou us A. Gipbs. folly, as ra this main head of il consider what {3 right,” said wail I certainly ‘in , after twits visible eftore of self-comt old dead in the street at San Francisco Tl night, The minister looked utterly at aloss. Once and failed. It was rp. allow me to make one een pend I stated whi Ji queen Lake an what Jim cl MeGowan’s hint, which I remembered at this moment, had revealed to me. “The admiral, madam, took a picked crew ashore with him, of course. 1 spoke by aeci- board on dent with the coxswain when I came al returning from Portsmouth. The crew, whi 0 are ail very fond of the Chief—the admiral, I hi rich mean,—believe he has carried off a widow, not so.v much against her will, to marry her. Provi your majesty should be able to get safe ashore without the usual marks of respect, and if the household at Osborne can be answered for, I believe the secret will be kept safe.” in spite of the ity of the situation, the queen smiled slightly at the nature of the sole Piece of sly contrivance of which I ever knew Admiral Morgan to be guilty. Then she looked down for some moments in silent consideration. Then she raised her head again and addressed the minister. “What you have w Mr—-, Istrue. Iac- knowledge great weight in your reasoning. I will now go.as far as this; provided I can be set ashore quietly within Osborre grounds,and pro- vided the household there has not n dis- turbed, orcan be quieted if it has been dis- turbed—I will take time for mature considera- tion of this matter. But I cannot in conscience promise more explicitly now.” “1 thank your majesty most. earnest! plied the minister; “I ¢arnestly pray God to guide you to a right decision. In his will 1 acquiesce.” “Amen,” said Queen Victoria, half uneon- sciously, as if she were In the habit of praying and responding to prayer. It was not many minutes before we were back at our old moorings; the captain’s gig was quietly ordered out and manned; the ladies were with some difficulty, and by means of a chair rigged to a whip-tackle (as they had been brought aboard) lowered into her in the dark. ness—for it was now toward midnight—an: minister and I escorted them-on shore. A: came within sound of the wash on the be. the queen looked intently landward. “Port, port your helm, steersman,” she said— it was I who was steering, andI was going to lay the boat alongside a little landing some. dis- tance outside the limits of Osborne. “I think,” resumed her majesty, ‘I will land at the private landing. I have a key to the gate above, and it is a very quiet spot.” I obeyed orders; she continued to “con” the boat as handsomely as any old quarter-master, and to the evident adiniration of the sallors;tand very quickly laid us safe alongside a small land- ing in a nook of the shore, where the minister and I got out first, handed the ladies ashore, and passed up with them to the gate above on the edge of the slope of the beach, where, as the queen opened it, we took off our hats and made our farewell bows. ‘The queen held out her hand to the minister, who kissed it with sincere emotion. ‘Good-by 0 see you soon at London, or at Windsor. rything seems to be quiet, It may be that you have put it in my power to do a good deed, Mr. —, and I wer thank you.” They passed inside; the gate was closed and Jocked; and we returned to the bdat and to the ship. The minister was silent. I gave the tiller to McGowan and sat next to him. “How's this?” he saidin alow tone. “Why, the fact ae explained, ‘‘she was so furious that the lef couldn’t do anything with her, and he just had to "bout ship and set her ashore again. Jim, don't you ever undertake to run off with a widow, just bec: ise you think she likes you.” “Sure, Mr. Ward, and I wouldn’t have a wid- der anyway unless she was in love enough to carry Ine off. That’smy way! Well, Pll wager the old man’ll have her yet.” “If he wants her, you may belicve it,” I said. In this new state of affairs, the minister re- e home, hould re Note by Mr. Ward in 1865.—Nothing more has ever been heard of that night’s work. The good queen kept the promise that she only agred to consider. I do not believe she has ever been sorry, for it is not the least of her many good deeds. I never said one word to the Chief about it, exception the occasion, a few days afterward, when he was growling in some moment of im- patience about having lost his chance to get ahead of “Charles Wilkes.” ‘Now, admiral,” Tventured to say, “how was it that you knew so exactly when to miake that descent on the queen?” “Information from my private secretary,” ‘said the Chief, abruptly,—‘all your fault,—all your fault, by—by Jupiter—or gum, or anything that isn’t profane!” “Information from me? How on earth should 32” T know how to steal queen: “Till show you, Ward;” and he went to his desk and after some rumaging produced a cut- ting from the London Illustrated News, giving a full, true and particular account of Osborne and her majesty’s habit’s of life there, with a view, a map, and everything complete to facili- tate burglary with promptness and quiet. “You brought me that only a day or two before,” he went on; “and when you went over to Ports- mouth that day, I got the paper and read it, and when I came to that place where the fellow talks about the queen’s safety, and so many millions of Englishmen’s hearts, and describes her way of going out and walking in the grounds with one confidenfial attendant late at night at all seasons of the year—it isn’t much like a New Es gland November, you know—it struck me that J could show ‘em & wrinkfeor two. So T ‘Sent for McGowan and told him a cock-and- Story about a widow, and asked him if he could pick me a boat's crew of men both sinart and safe, and he said he coi had four short ladders knocked up ina hurry two for each side the wall—the London fellow was a careful, thoughtful chap; he gave us the height of the wallto an in 9 inches it was; and all the rest was easy enough: they were out of sight of the house, and we were too quick to let ‘em scream—put white handke chiefs round their mouths and tied their dresses neatly about theirankles and shipped the: over the wall and down to the cutter and aboard as neat as cotton.” lJ; and we went. We —eleven feet, eight tee 1,” I said, when this ins? active account was rendered, “it strikes me that the London editor is the one to biaine. He touched of the fire-wol I'm sure.” “Perhaps you are right,” said Admiral Mor- anythin: And live isn’t It didn’t wo I do suppose that the Chief, as isthe wa to a con a great mis- THE CZAR’S DREAM. {From the Loulon Graph ‘urping to m whom tie sou ¢ exiles to Siber In every phase of wre' hedness w Upon his maiden daugh here a son, ‘The hope, the pride, the only stay of one Bereaved at that son's birth of loving wife, ‘To whom thenceforth that son was more than life, Ard yet debarred e’en now one last hand's touch; Oh, wanton harshness! is not this too mu And there w ‘bowed down upon his hand ‘The young ‘*chief mourner” of this mournful band, The bridegroom from the wedding breakfast torn, Condemned and scoffed at with official scorn; Now e’en rough soldiers cease their coarser je Altho’ his hand searce hides the scalding tears. For lo! his bride hath taken that last glance That pierces to her heart like potsoned lance, And in the last ead agony of woe Hath flung herself down blinaly in the sno: her r! was that heart-rending se. 8 unholy dream. Rivked throne and life to free the abject slave, imperial plan— Awake from these foul dreams, and live once more, Live in thy people's hearts—abjure mad war, Give them fu ll freedom, just and equal laws, t none be punished, save for rihtaous catse. fe} reign. As it Used to Be. One hundred years ago not a pound of coal or a cubic foot of illuminating gas had been burned in the country. No iron stoves were used, and no contrivance for economizing heat were’ em- loyed until Dr. Franklin Invented the iron- framed fire-place, which still bears his name. All the cooking and warming in town as wellas in the country were done by the aid of a fire Kindled on the brick hearth or in the brick ovens. Pine knots or tallow candle3 furnished the ht for the long winter nights, and sande floors ens the ies of rugs and carpets, The wal © used for household pur- was drawn from deep wells by the creak- sweep. No form of pump was used in this country, so far as we can learn, until after the commencement of the present century. There Were no friction matches in those early days, afl the aid of which a fire could be easily died, and if the fire went out upon the he over night, and the tinder was damp, so that the spark could not catch, the alternative re- mained of wading through the snow a mile or ‘so to borrow a brang of a neighbor. Only one room in any house was warm, unless some member of the family was 1; i the temperature was at zero many nights in winter. The men and women of a hundred years ago undressed an beds in a temperature colder than that of our barns and woodsheds, and they never com- in all the rest id went te their §-Joshua A. Norton, better known to all Californians as “Emporer” Norton, A NEGLECTED VEGETABLE. The Excellence of the Jerusalem Artichoke. It might be very; loquent to affirm that, prior to the ip, centuries before the par- a potato world, the’ artichoke. was in sosue- & potato w choke was in vogue. Sometimes it has been asserted from ite Com: mon name—Jerusalem artichoke—that this tuber fs of eastern Uerivation, and that the Jews ate it. But, really, how old the artichoke is in the history of vegetables is yet unknown. Some authorities trace it to the seventeenth century as coming from Brazil, while others insist that it was the potato which replaced the artichoke and that once the whole of Europe were arti- choke eaters. Our end will be, however, accom- plished when we state that the Jerusalem arti- choke is a neglected vegetable, and that its great merits are hardly appreciated. Two years or more ago a sertes of novels were reprinted, books all famous in their time, written by one of the most eccentric and clever of men, Thomas Love Peacock. K, Who made books for our grandmothers in the first half of this century, had a huge liking for old things, and he writes about the artichoke. It is an old-fashioned vegetable, ‘so he intimates, and he takes the trouble to ex- plain how the name Palestine soup, made of arttchokes, has been derived froth the Italian name of the plant. ‘Palestine ape ree said the Rey. Dr. Opinian, dining with his friend Squire Gryll; “a curiously cempotnded misnomer. We have an excellent old vegetable, the arti- choke, of which we eat the head; we have anoth¢r, of subsequent introduction, of which we eat the root, and which we call artichoke because it resembles the first in flavor, although me jndice a very inferior affair. This last is a specier of sun-flower of the syngenesia Srus tranea (2) class of plants. It is, therefore, a girasole, or turn-to-the-sun. From the girasole we have made Jerusalem, and from the Jeru- salem artichoke we make Palestine soup.” This derivation of the name of the soup is undoubt- edly correct, just as dandelion comes from deni- de-lion, or Mon’s tooth, but with the taste of Dr. Cpinian we by no means agree, and even when we find in books of reference the very terrible assertion made that the tubers of the artichoke “are food for swine and cattle,” we must dlifer from it.’ The artichoke is just one of those cases of a vi qeate which has had a bad rame given to it. People do use them spar- ingly, however, as a material for pickles, but few know how really excellent they are’asa boiled vegetable. They have a delicate, inde- seribable flavor of their own, Which the intelli- gent gourmet delights in, for it faintly recalls the truflle. It is quite as good as the French leaf artichoke. The following receipt for boil- Ing may be used: Wash carefully, then scrape like potatoes, throw into boiling water about enough to cover them, add salt in the water, and cook half an hour until tender. Drain care- fully, keeping them near the fire so as to evapo- rate the water, and serve with a white sauce, as for boiled celery. But excellent as artichokes are when hot, they are even better when used cold after boiling as a salad. Any dressing will do, providing not too much pepper or vinegar 1s used, for their quiet flavor is destroyed by any overpungency. There is one thing, which the Jerusalem artichoke is particularl adapted to, and that is to stuffing a turkey Possibly there are but three extraneous things Fee Ea and artichokes—which con- sort with the bird, and of these the artichoke se mare the best. The artichokes should be boiled; then allowed to dry as much as possible —using pressure to extract moisture. Make into a puree, thicken with a few stale bread crumbs, season with a little pepper and salt, a little nut- , and then introduce it into the bird. As to Palestine soup, a careful research into an old cook-book of 1768 furnished this rather vague receipt: “Take a hock-bone of lean beet and make a strong broth. Having cleaned your Jerusalem artichokes, which should be fresh-plucked, cut them in ‘slices, and let them do to a parboil in some of the broth. Then cut them into fine pieces and place them in the caldron, and boil until the broth is done. A few leaks, marjoram and thyme, with gen gi den stuff should be put in the broth. It is among the most healthful of soups, being cool- ing and very advisable in the spring of the year.” Here js a receipt for artichoke soup for Invalids, which has been found quite palatable: Boila ponnd of Jerusalem artichokes until ten- der, with one cnion, a turnip, and a plece of celery. When cooked, pass all through a sieve; add to this a quart of weak stock. When it has boiled again, add half a pint of milk, with salt and pep) T to taste, At this season of the year the addition of a single vegetable to the 2nenw is of decided ad- vantage, and none have better claims to u good Ppesition at the table than the Jerusalem arti- choke. It is strange how litle attention has been paid by market gardeners to this most delicate vegetable. It is exceedingly hardy, ylelds well, and once put in the ground, volum teer plants will keep growing for years to come. The real difficulty seems to be how to get rid of pod artichoke when once planted.—[(¥. Y. imes, ee Catching Cetywayo. We mounted, and having skirted the hill for about 100 yards found a smaller hill, on which stood a solitary hut, evidently erected for the purpose of a lookout; but luckily there was no Sentinel to give the alarm. Then again came in sight the kraal, (in which we ultimately found Cetywayo), about 490 yards distant. Capt. Gibbings to the right, Capt. Godson to the eu roterd we: Cole to surround the Kraal; Major Marter tal ecto Jead in the middle, through grass, over boulders, large and smaili. At last we encircled the kraal, the Naf®e Con- Ungent, stripped of their red’ coats, closing up the K. D. Gs., and every man ready to cut down any Zulu whi ould attempt to break through the cordon. It was.a complete surprise. Only one shot was fired by the Zulus, and then they were warned to surrender. How many there were We had no means of knowing. We t! began to search the huts; each was carefuli. searched, but no Cetywayo, until the last but one of the 10 was_ entered, and there we found the Zulu King. A magnificent fellow he was—every inch a King. A short glance at_him was sufficient to satisfy one that the dread and respect with which he wasregarded by the Zulus was genuine. But it were idle to describe him, ‘his portrait is pho- tograpLed, and may be seea in every shop- window:;) besides portraiture Is not the forte of the K. D. Gs._ One of curs compared him to the late King of Hanover, so mucit was he struck with his kingly bearing. He was dressed in a large red and green cotton table-cover over hi shoulders fea en of tigers'tails, with sort of tablier of leopard-skin behind. With the King there wereseveral women of var ng variously costumed in African fasiion; there was also the captain of his body-guard, {amost truculent-looking savage,) his Cham- berlain, and some 30 attendant: In searching the kraal we found many rifles, some of the latest pattern. Thesearch was soon over, for, Cetywayo captured, there was no time to be Jost in taking him aw lest, be made to rescue him; the day was drawing to a close, and it v tial that we should rest en plain befor move, our Major walking Cetywayo, with his revolver in hishand mounted dragoon on either side; and placed inside ot ils choices, and the rest of the party in other huts, gua ed. Anxiously we waited for daylight; for felt that the prize In our hands might be taken from us had we been attacked in foree. No at- 1 at rescue was made, and at daylight we proceeded on our mareh, when, about midday, after we bad left the valley, we came most un~ expectedly upon Lord Gifford in command of a body of irregulars, who had been out on the same errand as oursely rh the met with the same success. hus was Cety- wayo caught, and peace hoped permanently.—[4il (he Year Round. How a Farmer Recognized His Dog. Some years ago a farmer tn Washington re. ognized a fine setter that had beea given to him when 2 pup. in the street. He seized his lost dog, and was assailed by the person who had go: possession of him. “This ig my dog, gentlemen, and yor don't take him from me tniess you take my lif+ at the same time.” ‘ ey the parties were taken before a magis- rate. “Jedge,this is my dog,and I can prove it to you.” So he stooped, pinched up the skin of the chest below the fore leg, made a straight incision wit? a knife, and took out a bird-shot, which he showed’ to the jydge, and which had certain knife marks or crosses on it. “Jedge, this pup was given to me three years ago by Gus T—,, and Mr, ——, the grocer on L street, at the corner, can tell you thatas soon as I got the dog I took him to his store, marked a shot, and put it under his skin, first making thee crosses with my knife on the lead.” Atter this the oaths of the other party that he had raised the dog from a pup were of no avafi. "the farmer took his dog.—[Forest and Stream, ‘The Fatality of Cold Weather to Aged Persons, ‘The obituary of the Times of yesterday illus- trated the effect of the severe weather on the aged, and gave several remarkable cases of lon- oH ~ In the case of eleven persons—five ladies and six gentlemen—their united ages umounted to 954 years, giving an average of 86 years and more than it months to each. pers ne ese 1 ae who had reached e great age @f 98 years; the youngest of the Of the ladies the oldest, en, f-Six persons in one day’s obi ‘shoud ‘ears ig a remarkable thet Lz dont temuse bea trick or or ehurch.—{™. ¥. World, —_ "Why is a boy’s mustache upon by the breeze like the tree uprooted ty gale? because itis blown down.” i STEAL IT? NO. SIR. blanket and toil in his shirt-sleeves. man labored and wheezed a st a florid face and a very high forehead roached. He stood for some time idly watc! ig the Indian tolling, G Lg icked up the blanket lespite the expostulatory cries and whines the Indian, who followed in great distress ck ‘upon the heels of the tramp. Deputy Constable Enders was attracted by the noise, and when r old Indian had, in his broken English, explained the cause of Woe, the tram) taken into cust and the blanket turned over | to its relieved and thankful owner, who hobbied | back to his work. ‘This morning the tramp, who = James Belford, was brought OX, What's your “What's the cl “Petty larceny.” “Great heavens!” cried Mr. Belford, starting back, “do my ears deceive me?” ‘No, your ears are all right,” said his honor. “What're you making a noise for? Didn't you steal the blanket?” “Steal it, sir? No, sir; I took it. It was mine ‘The irrepressible anta; nism of race justified the transfer of ownershi Sad, sir, as the fate of the Indian undoul is, it 1s yet. inevitable. Saxon civilization in its onward march across a“ a ee lorious oa crushes the Treat progress. It is as a mighty torrent, irresistible in its force, sweeping all be- ‘That which but maintains the Indian in Savage and ill-fed idleness under the peaceful 2” asked the Court. rge?” demanded the tramp. because I wanted it. The genius of Anglo- this broad and ‘Three ‘Thousand Years ef Misery Ac> counted for. A contributor of the Scientijic Gossip insists that the cucumber is known to have been culti- vated for more thar 3,000 years. In ancient it toe grown, and so at the urdy tramp with | the Israelites in the wilderness; we also find It | mentioned in other of Scripture. It is - | mentioned in a particular manner by some of and growing cold in con- | the early Greek writers on plants. Cucumbers iP | grown in the neighborhood of Antioch were con- off with it, | sidered by the ancient Greeks the finest. Colu- of | mella mentions tkat the Inhabitants of Mendes, lose | in Egypt, were accustomed to take the largest | bramble bush they could tina, transplant ft tO a warm, sunny spot, cut it down about the time of the vernal equinox to within a couple of fin- was | gers of the ground. then insert a seed into the pith of the bramble. the roots of which were well covered over with fine manure to withstand thecold. By this plan they were enabled to have cucumbers all the year round. This same author states that cucumbers ought to be propagated from seed that has been steeped in milk and honey for a couple of days, this method having the eect of rendering them sweeter and pleas- anter to the taste. Pliny states that in Italy the cucumbers are small, but in some countries are large and of a wax color or black, He tells us that the Emperor Tiberius was so fond of this Vegetable that it was served up at his table all the year round. The same author appears to have considered the cucumber unwholesome in an uncooked state, as he telis us it will live In the stomach until’ the next day, and cannot be reduced to food; but, when boiled and served up with ofl, vinegar and honey. it makes a delicious salad; he also recommends a pinch of the seed beaten up with cumin and taken with wine as a good remedy for a cough. ‘The precise date at which the cucumber was first cuitivated in England 1s unknown. It was arts of the white man blossoms and blooms and ‘Where the red man roamed following the chase are now busy citiesand field of golden corn. The Indian has passed a Who shall say the cruelty which expelled him from his hunting grounds was not a work of ‘or every Savage who drew his civilized men teems with plenty. mercy after all? bew in the solitudes a thousan: and women now toil, sow, reap and_are happy. aks of time and taking the eld of observation, I—” “Yes, but what about the blanket?” inter- Belford, thoughtfully can’t see but that old buck’s Standing on the continent for the rupted the court. “Well,” replied scratching his jaw, much right to nab Congress has to fire the Utes off their reserva- tion just because there’s been some good ledges oo with you, Mr. Belford,” said the court. “Thank you, your mOnORT returned Mr. Bel- permit me to add,” continued the court, “that the moral ideas of Congress don’t always agree with my notions of what’s sq opinion of this court, Mr. Belford, you’re about the meanest thief I've had before me for a long time. Because the Indlan was poor and help- Jess, you thought he had no rights you need give you six months in the county jail to study up the Indian question.” “This could not have occurred in a civilized community,” muttered the dazed Mr. Belford ay he was led off to the bastile. Prehistoric Man. These earliest human inhabitants of Haconby, who have left their rude weapons among the river gravel or on the hardened floor of the sea- in which they dwelt, were black- skinned savages, lower in development than the lowest races of mankind now in existence. Their features probably resembled those of the Australian black-fellows; but they had larger and coarser jaws, in which their great canine teeth were widely placed, so as to allow room in each row to receive the projecting fangs of the opposite set. Their foreheads, too, were ap- parently low and brutal-looking, while they planted their feet less firmly, and erect than even the naked An of our own day. Altogether a more sorry set of colonists than those who first took aman Islanders protably introduced with other fruits and vegetables at the time the Romans were mas- ters of the country. ,It became neglected in time and entirely lost, but was at length intro- duced nat the latter part of the reign of tenry VUI. Parkinson, in his * Paradisus” (1656), tells us that in many countries they do eat cucumbers as we rs and apples, par- ing and giving slices of them as we would to our friends of dainty app! pear. The cucumber was not generally cultivated till almost the middie of the seventeenth century, and it ts stated that the most successful forcer of this plant in England was Thomas Fowler, gardener to Sir Nicholas uld, of Stoke Newington. Some years ago the cucumber was cultivated in Jarge quantities in the outskirts of London, and it is stated in Dr. Wynter’s “ Curiosities of Cly- iivation” that fourteen acres might be seen under hand glasses in a single domain, and that it has been known that 200,000 gherkins have been cut in a morning for the pickle merchants. In London's time large quantities were grown in the fields of Hertfordshire, without the aid of glass, for the London markets during the sum- mer months. The village of Sandy, in Bedford- shire, has been known to furnish 10,00 bushels. of gherkins in one week for pretty purposes. ‘The cucumber, notwithstanding its extensive use, is considered unwholesome most, medi- calmen. Dr. Doran, in his “Table ‘Traits,” mentions that, in the days of Evelyn (1699), the cucumber was looked upon as only one remove from poison, and adds that it had better be eaten and enjoyed with that opinion in one’s memory. ‘Abernethy also gave a quaint recipe for its use, which was to peel the cucumber, slice it, pepper it, put vinegar to it, then throw it out of the window. The extent to which this vegetable is con- sumed by the inhabitants of Beypt and the southwest of Asia, but also in European Russir and Germany, would scarcely seem credible to this country. You never see a Russian peasant at dinner but you see the lump of black bread and acucumber. The vegetable seems certainly asingular dish to be so nationalin a country with a Climate like that of Russia. Some writers say that there used to be a great annual fair at Leipsic for cucumbers, when the streets were heaped up a story high with that precious element of German cookery. In Germany bar- rels of half and also full grown cucumbers are preserved from one year to another by immer- 3 , Where the uniform tempera- of Haconby you could hardly wis! eninsula of Britain at its broa southeastern isthmus, the primitive black men the coast of the German if like the Baltic in our own emselves as they went with periwinkles, or their simple weapons. They iron or copper; nothing but rude knives and spear-heads of flint. Even round and polished like the ed greenstone hatchets from the West Indies, which may be seen In any of our museums, but were mere rough-hewn ends of flint, chipped by a few dexterous side-blows Into the rude semblance of a knife. Anything more simple in the way of man’s handicrati can scarcely be concelved, so much so that many inexperienced people who see for the first time the weapons from the Haconby caverns Tuse to believe that they are really the products it those who have compared them with others found in like situations else- Where cannot doubt for a moment that they do veritably bear the genuine impress of the hand ‘k-fellows crept cautiously ve may be sure; for the forests re thickly stocked with savage wild beasts—iions, bears, wolverines, and other natural enemies of our race. But generation after generation, as their numbers increased. fresh colonies must have set out northward and west- ward, a family of two at a time, in search of the caves in whieh they found safety from the at- acks of their forestine foes. Crossing ying tei tary jungle-lan<s, where Essex and the Fast Anglian ‘counties now stand, and passing uhrough the like country of the Fen district and the Humber Valley, they reached at length the Yorkshire Wolds and the mouth of the Line. The caverns of the West Cliff, which they dug out by means of horn splinters, offered a capi- tal shelter for a litle knot of famtlle blackfellows settled down quietly at Haconby The wooded valley of the little stream and the open moorland in the rear sup lied them with game in abundance—elk, urus, ison and red-deer; and here they lived fora vast and unknown number of centuries, chip- ping the filnts of the cliff for their spears and arrows, gnawing the bones of animals and flinging away the remnants on the floor of their caves, decorating themselves with drilled am. ites and fossil sea-urchins from the neig! ore, and fishing in the Line with rude bone, almost too obvious, one would say, to deceive even the most unsophisticate On the floor of their rock-shel- ters one may find to the present day these relics of their industry, matted together by earth and water, but still testifyin: mode of life led by have spent many a digging out the rem: contents.—[The Cornhill Magazine, Entering the ushed their way alon; ean, then & fay mussles__ and they _ killed no implements o} these were not beautifully-fini of human art. of man. The DI along the shore, of the interior we! as thelr home, prizneval trout. clearly to the parilest. colonists. ut summer day in and examining their Infanticide and Tight Shoes. There are districts of Chi: revails to an incredible female ebildren matnly. of women is the product of Christian t and though women in China are comparatively free from seclusion, and hive been the Empire, and ¢minent for literar plishments, and although 2 son pays profound regard to his mother, even the Emperor kneel- ing before her. yet the woman {3 despised, and When little girls die, where infanticide ‘tent—a murder of ‘The higher estimate female life is chea alle same chicken,” t little boy die, too ba and netwithstanding that the traveling vaccinator charges a shilling to vaccinate a boy and 0; parents will rather let the than pay the lower fee. the number they have destroyed. An ayah where we staid had Killed two. A man will sometimes carry the child in a basket along the road with perfect unconcern, destination is the nearest pond, and the nd is sometimes a village institution, and “it no uncommon thing to see the bodies floating reen slimy surface.” Parents have to take back a child that was ex- ie, and have absolutely There are districts where only seven-tenths of the female children are kept alive, and others where, notwithstanding the immense emtgra- tion of men, there are not enough women to be wives for the men that are left. Of course a sin like this ceases in a Christian congregation, but the reformation is not stayed there, for in many neighborhoods there is a growin; to the practice, a weighing of it scales, and what the protest of many of the best men in China failed to do fs bein; done by the influences that spread ‘There is another practice far more uni- versal, but which some su; with — infanticide, fashion of binding the feet, so as to render only useless, for girls thus treated are, a useless burden to their parents if not married. The Chinese themselves have tried to deal with this habit. It isa huge tyranny of fashion, and cannot even plead royalty in its asty not binding the tect of thelr women; while one of the Emoderors even issued an ineffectual edict would have issued another weighted with heavy penalties, but that his throne would have been ‘The native churches are now taking the matter into hand, and are here and “Anti-foot-binding socleties,” and sometimes the Pgs is discussed in be can s sixpence fora girl r girls run the risk Women will confess to in quite other ig already silently from the mis- but diseased; there forming Lam not so; it is wiie. and Icannot prevent it;” and that really touches the root of the feet:” and the Sop oer thousand years, a than scmme Christian centers y! of CLristian principle.—[{Good is the influence Bucs DAUGHTER OF A W) ion from alrseemed to be the pre- serving agents. Tartary has been assizned the native country of the cucumber, but upon what authority is equaily questionable with that of the melon. No modern traveler appears to have found it growing wild. SomMEBODY 18 INqurRING ABouT “The Devil and Tom Walk It is a proverb not much in vogue nowadays, though still frequently heard in New England, and is of native origin. It is employed as a caution to usurers, and Is de- rived, it is asserted, from an actual personage. Walker was a Bostonian, having been born there about 150 years ago, and notorious for his greed and his miserly disposition. In those days, when superstition was rife, he was thought, by ete people, to have sold himself to the evil for a large sum of money. With this money he opened a loan office there, and during the financial panic which prevailed during the tme—1730-1741—of Gov. Jonathan Belcher,com- pelled many merchants to pay most. usurious rates, causing several of them, it is said, to commit suicide. He grew so rich and so mean, according to tradition, that he tried to cheat Satan himself; but Satan, who has always been more or Tess potent in that vicinity, determined to foreclose the mort- gage he had taken on the old hunks’ soul. With this determination he knocked at Walker's oftice door while he was screwing the last hundred dollars out of & rr wretch who had fallen into his clutches, The usurer opened the door and immediately disappeared. The story was cur- rent that the mysterious visitor was a black man who had come on a black hors t he had szized the Bostonlan and flown away with him. A number of people at once searched Waiker’s office, but his money chests were emp- y and the same night his house caught fire ahd was burned to the ground. Tom Walker's | fate was long cited as a terrible warning to | usurers; but now, alas! Boston 1g full of Tom | Wailkers.—{™. ¥. Times. A Bass-DruM SOLO FOR A SICK MAN.—‘To- ward the latter part of the war.” said the col- onel, “bands became rather scarce in the con- | federate service, and we were rarely regaled | with the strains of martial music unless it was | from the federal forces. On the retreat from | £6 Sharpsburg, during a brief halt, the weary sol- diers, as was their custom, flung themselves down on either side of the road for what rest they could get. Just at this juncture came trudging down the center of the road a solitary musician with a big bass-drum. His appear- | ance excited tie liveliest emotions among the boys, Which finally found vent through a tall, tallow-faced North Carolinian, who, bringing his piece to the ready, halted the astonisaed musician, at the same time drawling out v mister, can’t you come down here a plece an’ play Something kinder soothing on that air thing—for a sick man?”—{Boston Comimerciat Bulletin. Vestvits.—It is thouglit that a er in the history of the mountain is approachin: there will be a great discharge, such as will terrify the neighborhood, or, as is more Ukely, there will be an overfiowing of lava, covering the cone with a mantle of fire, and silently in- ficting more destruction on ‘property U grand eruption. Vesuvius has been in an ac- tive state now for several years, and Prot. P: mieri has from the first prophesied t eruption would consist in the overtio lava.—{Natwre, Tue Law or Lear Year.—Leap year makes no changes in the maturity of a note of hand. Paper dated on Febr day trom date, become asin any other year. In Indiana the qu has come before the supreme court in re: the serving of process ot Jeap year. The law there requires ten day previous service for the entry of judgment. the case before the court the judgment mature if the 25th and 29th of February were computed as one day. The court sald:—“It must _be regarded as Settled in this state that the 28th and 29th of February in every bissextil year must be compuied and considered in as one day.” A CLERGYMAN UNDER TRIAL FOR FORGERY.— At Flatenborg, N. Y., asi case Is under investigation before the United States commis. sioner, The Rey. George A. Van Duesen 13 pas- tor of the M. E. church at Tribe's Hill, Mont- gomery county, N. Y. He is charged with the crime of forging signatures to his application for apension. The si part of it is that there was no necessity for his alleged fo: he being entitled to a pension, and each of the persons Whose name is fraudulently Signed would have made the affidavits had he n asked. Every paper which he sent to Wi - ton js alleged to have been fo! includit 5 natures to aflidavits, names of witnesses, fota- ies public, and the justice of the peace before whom his affidavit purports to have been taken, | and who lives directly opposite Van Duesen’s | own house. Tue Rev. 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