Evening Star Newspaper, April 3, 1880, Page 6

4 ROYAL HOME. | and that we are therefore glad to believe that, upon GARMENTS OF MYSTERY. Aw full consideration of the circumstances of the un- Ina which Is kept TRY Life and Death ef ‘Albert the Good.” | doubted of international law committed, | A Lady’s Description of the Chemi- Bacage exican panthers. In| Hew He Canght a Hare With a they would spontaneously. offer ss | “loon—An Interesting New York | size they are about as large as a full-grown set. Hook and won Forty Dollars, THE HUB alone could satisfy this country—viz., the restora- y - {Memoir by Mr. Theodore Martin.} tion of the unfortanate passeigers anda suitable Window. | ter dog, —, their whole appearance is of Like most men who have done great things 1n | apology. {Cincinnati Enquirer. J | the cat order, having one claws, Sharp teetl : THE HUB PUNCH. ‘the world, the Prince got to his work early. and e su; ns here made at once com-| There is ashow Window on one of the ave- , and eye-balls which, in thelr anger, gleam an 5 People mere eee samt wine ne rose | mended themeetves to Lord Jonn Huseel, | nues fuilof reform undergarments of myste- | qUVeE lke Uva tie anges aula” saya uman participants Now 4¢ the time to lacs your system ina THE HUB PUNCH. e . Sumi is) 7 us shay jor in are real- muc!] Bs @ rule at seven, dressed. and went to his sit- Piceguneron teougnt then excellent,” are | ous shi nders {oP skirts and stockines | Worse Than usta. ‘They had been fighting | Tank, ea vouch annoyed by the remarks OC | proper condition tesarry you safely through -room, Where in winter a fire was burning. are num ly displayed, but the general ten- among themselves until their heads and ears | ing in the lake near at and who had left | the spring andsummer influences, a nh German lamp ready lit. dency of the reforms there illustrated is toward | were eeting and upon the approach of any | nisangling to watch the work of the and affswered letters, never allowing his them. By the time this letter | combining two artécles in one. An undershirt | visitor near their they would spring against | This party amused himself by making sarcas- ABSORPTION correspondence to fail into arrear, or prepared | reachea the Prince he was already much worse. | and a coi cover become asingle garment, | the iron grating, w ith gleaming eyes and ex- | tic and contemptuous rsmarks arta what Ne Fee ee any Soar ie aiitoes at im, | It Was read to him by the Queen, and he was | aud so do a nightgown anda nightcap. ‘Thé posed fangs, with a foree that would shake the | he considered the stupidity aad el going jo Bxperiment. Swers to her ministers on any matters of im- | much gratified by the good result of his obser-| most striking thing’ In the window 1s of white cage from to dott at the same time | to all that expense and trouble in atew Portance. | Not feeling sure of the idiomatic ac- vations, which led to the removal from the dis-| muslin, and has both arms and legs. It is, to thrusting their claws through in thelr efforts | hare, HOLMAN curacy of his English, he would constantly bring | patch of everything which could irritate a| speak without equivocation, a chemise as far | to clutch the intruders and bring them within “What on earth,” he sald to the referee, his English letters tothe Queen to read through. | proud and sensitive nation, at the same time | down as the waist, and drawers below that di- | range of their teeth, Even the keepers them- earnestly, “why on earth don’t you kill the | Malarial, Liver, Stomach, Spleen saying: “Lese recht aufmerksam, undsage wenn | that it offered to them an’ opportunity of re.| Viding line. The utility of it 1s not very appar- | Selves, after they had prodded up the tigers | hares with a club instead of taking the chances and Kidn ein Fehler da ist!” (Read carefully, and | ceding honorably from the position in which | ent, though the dealer dectares that it ‘saves | and leopards and passed close to their cages in | on the catching them, when you could ore tell me if there be any vaults In thes Or, in | they had been pl by the indiscrete act of a | time and trouble, and is more comfortable. It | safety, made a detour when they came to the | save ‘em all with half the trouble.” = the case of drafts on political affairs, he would | too zealous navy captain. certainly is rather a startling object, as it | Panthers, giving them a wide berth. Presently | “On, you goto blazes!” sald one of the dog PAD. say: “Ich had,Dir hier ein Draft gemacht, lesees | “Lord Palmerston approved of the Prince's sug- | at full length and breadth in the window; yet I | 4 young woman, dressed in bloomers and with | pwners, impatiently. c Gratt I have male tor you, Road tt ‘Tan aaia | SeS4OMS, although the effect of them was toen- | Imagine that it ts mysterious to most Of the | her hair tightly done up on the top of ner head, |*™ sur just reasomabout the thing.” expostu- | Yon have been assured and reassured that han- | MANUFACTURED BY © 4. GRAVES @ <a LD oct Crp teel oe eG oes Urely remodel "hs own dispatch. The Prince | men who throw sly glances at it as they came along, with a stout whip in her hand. lated the lean economist. “It’s a Clear loss of the close of his life, and his last memorandum of this description—a paper of the greatest im- portance, to which we shall hereafter have 0° sion particularly to advert—he brought to the Queen on December 1, 1861, ats am, having risen to write, ill and suffering as he was, say- ing as he gave it: “Ich bin so Schwach, i kaum die Feder halten kennen.” ("I am so weak I have searvely been able to ho'd the n.”") Defrom § o'clock till breakfast time was etther spent in the same way, or In the persal of fresh relays of dispatches and official papers, which had been previously opened and read by the Queen, and placed by her ready tor his perusal Veside his table In her sitting-room. Every morning the leading newspapers were laced on a table in the breakfast-room near the re. He never failed to examine them— sometimes, to quote a memorandum of the Queen's, of January, 1562, “reading aloud good or important articles. A good article gave him sincere pleasure.” How much a mischievous ‘one pained him has already been told. “often,” eays the same memorandum, “when breaktast Was over, he would get up, and sprem#ing a newspaper over one of the tables, bend over It, and refuse to listen fo any questions, saying, “Store mich nicht, ich lese das fertig.” (Don’t disturb me, I'm busy reading.) And bis papers are fall of evidence that no article in any of the leading journais of real value for its facts or arguments escaped his notice. “Formerly,” again to quote her Majesty’s memorandum, “when he did not go out shoot- ing. he generally walked out with me before 10, or sometimes even eariler; but for the last three or four years we seldom went out before a quar- ter past 10. He generally saw Mr. Rulandt, bis private librarian, (or in former years, Dr. Bec! er.) sometimes Colonel Biddulph or Major Elph- instone, or would write something, or run down or he was always quick and energette as he Went up or down the stairs and along the pas- sage, and I could hear his footstep as he went along) to see Gen. Grey or Sir Charles Phipps. Sometimes, if a minister were tp the house and Were going away early. he would send for him for a moment to his room, and then would come Yo my room again. Not for years did be go out with me on th Was only quite jn the earlte bad not £6 tauch to di “In the shooting season hi Out three or four times a we hunted once a week, bur he had almost given | up hunting since Is5s. He was generaily home by 2 or a iittle before. He never went out or came home without coming through m: or into my dr vith ait Kept ev ®verything I heard, to show him, and was always vexed and vous if Thad any foolish draft or put. before him, as I knew {t would distress or frritate bir, and affect his delicate stomach. He always Walked very fast when ont shooting. and got very quickly through with it. He would say ‘i don't understand people making a bust- hess of shooting. and going ont for the whole day. 1 like it as. an amusement for a few hours.” Even during these tew hours of recreation the brain could have had but from its preoccupations. The day ort for the Claims upon the Prince's attention, and the fre- quent attacks of tines. even although slight, Showed that his body was growing Ker. while every day inc d_the strain upon his In every direction his counsel and his help were sought. In the Royal household, in his family circle, among his numerous Kinsfolx athome and abroad, bis judgment and guid- ance were being constantly appealed to. Every enterprise of national importance claimed his attention: and in all things that concerned the Welfare of the state, at home or abroad, his accurate and vgried knowledge and great polit ical sagacity nffide him looked to as an author- ity by all our leading statesmen. Let those who Worked with and for him do their best—and he could not have been served more ably or more devotedly—they could not prevent a pressure which constantly compelled him todo in one @ay what would have been more than ample Work fortwo. But all this fatigue of body and brain did not deprive him of his natural cheer- fulness. “At breakfast and luncheon,” s the memorandum already quoted, “and also our family dinners, he sat at the top of the table, and kept us ail enlivened by his interest- log conversation, by his chartulng anecd: and droll stories without ena of his chilin of people at Coburg, of Cur good people in land, which he wou's repeat with « wonde power of mimicry, ahd at which he wouid nit self laugh most ieartily. Then he would a! other thines encertain us with his talk about the most interesting and important topics of tne }Fesent and of former days. on watch it was ever a Pleasure to hear him speak. This twenty-first anniversary of the roya mertiage, the the Princ: was to know cn’ this Was kept quletiy—“t event being only marked by some sacred inu formed before the royal cireie by the Queen's | 7 On that day Albert wrote to Victoria's mother, the Duchess of Kent kept our pledge for bette Baye only to thank God that he has vouchsafed ‘so Much happiness to us. May he have w Keeping for the days to come. You hav trust, found good and loving children in us, and } we Bave experienced nothing bat love and | kindness froi Th ‘th uncle, the el + “We have both ‘rand for wo! y h me that twenty-one years hip, kindness and ¥ Liuriage brings love as In the are not only affection which a trui it 1 the sam , Dut ol as} domestte lite itude to the gh giving way berore the March Ue Qu @ great Sor- tue Duchess of say All ibroug: have been tuoroug) Queen noticed tn her diary that he was Sad.” He » wish to dle but did ne for living. 3 ge the Queen. “I do not cl Iset'no store by severe illness f sic Hot struggie lor i 2 cause of Wie Prine Hiness has ever been ascertained. p medical au- thorities trace back with ie pre- €ision to a day—the 22d of November—when the Prince Consort inspected the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst in a terriic rain. He came home from this visit “weak and tired out.” ‘Thencame rheumatic pains and a “feeling of unwell.” “Have reatly out of sorts.’ Am ould not join the Queen as usual tu her walk,” feeting that 1 and “very wicomfortabie from | and legs.” “Although able to move about he had frequently to rest himself, as he was enough to go out. Trent affair, by te Amertean man-ot-war, which added gteatly tp the Je had been one Of the mdst distre Prince's filness.” | On the 2 find the Prince sit ill, “He could eat no breakfast and Jooked very wretched.” THE PUINCE AND THE TRENT AFFAIR. ‘On this day he performed the last pubite office Of an eventful and tilustrious Ilfe. pleas Ant to Feeall the fact that this office was one of kindness to America tn the time of her great calamity and when she had very few friends in England. He rose. according to his cust at seven in the morning. and before eight he read y Kussell addressed to the Aterican government demanding the return of Mason and Siidell. ‘The Prince did not approve Of this dispatch, thinking its tone too severe. He wrote out an amended draft. “When he brought it to the Queen.” says Her Majesty, “he told her be could scarcely hold his pen while writing it.” » schurach ich habe Kain. die Feder ha Aonnen.” (1 ama so weak I have Searcely been able to hold the pen.) Mr. Martin prints a fac-suuiie of the draft, and call atten- Uon to the traces of weakness visible in the handwriting and ihe correctness in the hand- writing of the Queen, “showing how the minds of Doth Were continually brought to bear on the ey on which they dwelt.” The dispatch 1s as follows: ret een son Casi, Dac. 2, 1861. 2 The Queen ‘these important drat yon the whole she approves: but she canziot help feghng that the main draft—that for communics- } Years ago, and asked me to stop and look at it, passed away before the result of this interfer- ence was Known. When the Queen heard of the action of the American government in re- storing Mason and Slidell she wrote a letter to Palmerston as follows: “Lord Palmerston can- not but look on this pacific issue of the Ameri- cam quarrel as greatly owing to her beloved Prince, who wrote the observations -to the dis- patch to Lord Lyons, in which Lord Palmerston so entirely concurred. It was the last thing he ever wrote.” To this statement of the Queen Lord Palmerston answered: “There can be no doubt that, as Your Majesty observes, the alter- ations made in the ch to Lord Lyons con- tributed essentially to the satisfactory settle- ment of the dispute. But this was only one of the innumerable instances of the tact and judg- ment and the power of nice discrimination which excited Lord Palmerston’s constant and unbounded admiration.” THE SHADOWS DEEPEN. On the 29th of November the Prince Gs en himself Resin riba of the Eton College Volunteers, looking very unwell and walkin slow, peer om wrapped in a coat lined with fur he “felt as though down his back.” ent,” he wrote in his diary, ind these are the last words he ever wrote. | N! and sleeplessness, the Prince lyti and the Queen reading to him; vi ministers, from foreign ambassad Palmerston lally became uneasy about the symptoms of the Prince’s indisposition. Sir James Clark and Dr. Jenner assured Mer Majesty on the 3d December that there was no cause for alarm. Still further nights of wakeful restless- Ress, and distaste for food. “He would take nothing,” says the Queen; broth, no rusk, no bread or any . My nee Fain great and I feel utterly lost.” ‘The Ince liked to be read to, but hardly any books sulted him. They’ tried bim with the “Dodd Family,” but he did not like it. One of Sir Walter Scott's, “The Talisman, Was substituted. It wis read by the Princess Alice. “the Prince Msiening in a very uncom- fortable, panting state, which frightened us.” On the night of the 5th of December, Dr. Jenner sat up with the Prince, who complained of his wretched condition—‘weak and irritable and unlike himself” In the evening the Queen founder Albert most dear and affectionate and “quite himself when ent in with little Beat- + Whom he kissed. He quite laughed at some of her new French verses which I made her repeat. Then he held her little hand in hts for some time and she sat looking at him.” December passed to the 6th, the Prince still looking weak and exhausted, his wife thinking Ae Was overwork and worry. “It ts too much, he sald. “You must speak to the minister “Then he said,” says the Queen, “when he lay awake there “he heard the little birds and thought of those he had heard at the Rosenham in his childhood. 1 felt quite upset.” THE END. Dr. Jenner on December 6 informed the Queen in “the Kindest, clearest manner” that the Prince's disease had now @ssumed its office and was gastric or low fever, id must have its course a month, which dated from the 22d of November. Albert,” says the Queen, “was not to know it, as he had unfortunately a’horror of fever. What an awful trial is this—to be de. prived of my guide, my sup] ory, all, My heart was ready to burst. But I cheered up, re. menbering how many people have fever. When the Prince retired for that night his pulse was good. Next morning thonrmptoms seemea to be improving, and Prince desired to be removed to a Froom. ‘When I returned from breakfast,” Sala the Queen, “I found him lying tn the new blue room and much pleased. qhe sun was shining brightly, ne, iarge and cheerful, ‘and: he said “It 1s 03 i G and’ he “It 18 80 For the first time since his ines he asked for some music, and sald: ‘I should like to hear a fine chorale played in the distance.’ We hada plano brought into the next room, and Alice played ‘Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott,” and another, and he listened, look- ing upward with such sweet expression and thi tears in his eyes. He then sald, “Das voc (That ts enough). “It was Sunday. Rev. Charles Kingsley preached, but I nothing. says, the Ct istliness irritability of mind when the Queen read everil of the Peak,” which the Prince followed with tnterest. Whea the Queen } came in from dinner one day, the “Prince was | So pleased to see me, stroked my face and sintled, | and called me ‘Liebes fraalein!’ (Dear ltt wite:) ‘Precious love!’ His tenderness this ev: ning when he held my hand and stroked my face touched me so much and made meso grate- ful” On the 9th two other doctors came in, Sir Henry Holland and Sir James Watson. The symptoms seemed to be the same, the Prince's u lou occastonaily wandering, the strong consti- tution struggling with the fever. On the lith there Was un improvement and the Prince was changed into another room. “Going through Ube aoor he turned and looxed at a beautiful [sture en china of the madonna, a copy of the lacon na and Chiid by Raphael,” known as the | Colon na Madonna, “which he gave me three Tae heard jueen. ‘There were fits of ever loving what is beautiful.” “It helps me thrcugh haif the day,” he said. et “On the 13th | of December the fever developed a tendency to | congestion of the lungs, a symptom which gave | alarm to the {eer It was noticed that on | this day for the first time the Prince took no no- lice of his favorite Madonna picture on being | wheeled from his rcom. He would not be turned as he had previously been with his back to the | light, and remained with his hands clasped, looking Sey out of the window at the sky. ‘The Prince of Wales was sent for by the physt- and while the doctors endeavored to reas- sure the Queen they all felt it was a struggle lor life. Every hour, every minute was a gaia, and Sir James Clark was very hopeful, only breatping was alarming, and about te and*ahds was a dusky hue.” Albert folded his arms and began “arranging his hair, just as he used to do when well and | he was dressing. These were said to be bad signs.” While the doctors continually reassured the Queen it was evident that the Ilie of ner hus- bard was ebbing away. “At hall-past five,” Her Majesty writes, “ia the afternoon, I went {n and sat down beside bis bed, which had been wheeled to the iniddle of the room. He called me “Guttes Fraulein’ and ed me and then give # sort Of piteous moan.” Later in the day she fourd the Prinee bathed 1n perspiration; which the doctor said might be an effort of nature to throw off the fever. Bending over him, sue _ * franwin, Qt AS your Hite and then he bent his he&d and kissed “At Unis time he seemed quite calm, and only wished to be leit quite alone, as he used to be when tired and not well.” As evening advanced Her Ma, retired to give way lo her griet in the adjoining room. She had not been long a rapid change set in, a Ss Alice was requested by Sir James ask the Queen to return, The import of the summons was too When the (Queen entered she took the Prince’s left hand, which was very cold, and knelt down by his side. On the other side of the bed was the Princess Alice, while at its foot knelt the Prince of Wales and Princess Eleanor. Not far trom Ahe foot of the bed were Prince Ernest of Letn- ingen and the Prince’s valet, Lobletn. General the Honorable Robert Bruce knelt bestde the Queen, and the Dean of Windsor, Sir Charles Phipps and General Gray were also tn the room. “ In the solemn hush of that mournful chamber there was such grief as has rarely held any deathbed.” “* The casule clock chimed the third quarter after ten. Calm and peaceful grew the beloved form, the features settled [nto the beauty of a perfectly serene repose; two or three long but gentle breaths were drawn, and that great soul had tled to seek a nobler scope for its aspirations in the world within the veil for which he had yearned, where there fs rest for the worn and Weary ahd the spirits of the jast are made perfect. Who Die for Wantof Kind Words, [Detroit Free Press. } “Come, now, Judge, I have to wash for a living. ‘That little trifle last night can be over- looked in such a big world as Ubis. Just look al the blisters on my hands.” “I know you do work, and I'm sorry to see a woman of your age here on a charge of drunk- enbess.” I'm growing “Please pass over it, Judge. old and I won't be here long to bother the offt cers and the courts.” olay” «Yes, Mary Shanter, you are WI he said, as he leaned back and waked at “1 see wrinkles in your face, gray hairs on your head, and I know that you are breaking down. per- “Ab, Your Honor, if you only knew what it Was to be a poor old ‘lonely woman—no home to go to—no friends to turn to—no memories of Anything but shadows,” he hid her face in her apron and sobbed like a child. “You may go,” he quietly said: “you can be good, live a life, and Sunshine may come hope to never by, Why women’s underwear should be a deli- cate subject is to me, a woman, most wonder- ful; but so itis. Even the two girls who were looking at some reform goods as { entered the store Seemed desirous of escaping. Sut there was astrong-mannered woman there who did not shrink; and I observed that she bought sev- eral of the curious combinations, while the comely Ts went out without making any pur- chase. I talked with the old one for the sake of finding out her motive for decreasing the num- ber and increasing the comprehensiveness of her Eaperrpnnegs, and was astonished when I ““Tisn't SO much that they're handier to get on and off,”she said, “though that’s some- thing; but the fact is my washerwoman charges by the dozen. A shirt is one oe) and a pair of drawers is another, which es LWO; Dutshirt and drawers {n one count but one. These Washerwomen, bless you, are so grasping.” ‘The garment to which she referred is called a chemtloon. I looked carelessly at the various pes for I had no intention of buying any,and the salesgirl grew persuasive. “You can hardly appreciate how becomin, rot pes she said, in reply to my remark as their appearance, ‘‘unless you see them worn. Please step this way and see a model.” She conducted me into a rear apartment—a Sort of dressing room for the trying on of gar- ments—and called out, “Lizzie! Lizzie!” In're- sponse a handsome young woman came in. Re- moving a loose wrapper, She unconcernedly dis- played several of the establishment’s devices. “The lady wishes to see the chemiloon,” the sales-girl said. The young woman doffed her skirts of novel Shapes, and stood revealed in the chemiloon. ‘There was pey, of simplicity and nothing very interesting about the garment. Bathing dresses for children are sometimes cut in about the same fashion. Any ordinary ingenious lady could make it without a pattern. The model was well nigh faultless ef figure, and so, of course, looked well in It. The clotn was fine bleached muslin; the neck was moderately low, and edged with dainty lace; the sleeves were short, showing the wearer's shapely arms near- ly to the shoulders; the watst was’ half-titting, and there was an inset bosom of embroidery; the legs reached to just below the knees. In putting on the chemiloon the legs are drawn on first, trousers lke; then the arms are thrust through, and finally the garment fastened by its row of buttons behind. Tight Lacing. The circumference of the w: in a woman of medium height and dimensions measures on an average—when not cramped and distorted— about 30 inches; butin those who have long adopted Bent lacing it may measure no more than 20 inches, and sometimes even much less. Now, what becomes, in these latter cases, of the several organs contained within the chest and abdomen? They are, of course, compressed and pushed and squeezed out of their natural shapes, and made to protrude Into places in which they have no business, because never meant to occupy such places. It was intended by nature, as a matter of course, that the chest and abdomen should respect! hold their various contents in their allotted and relative positions, occupying certain portions of space, and having ample room for the due perform- ance of their individual duties, without that = jostling and interference with one another | ecessari which ne ly accompanies disorder and bad arrangement. But, on the other hand, there ts no vacuum or empty space In elther of | the two cavities—there is no region without its own particular organ or part; ‘and each organ or part, though provided by nature with ample room for the needful and unobstructed dis- charge of its special function, has not yet much tospare. When, then, any one particular organ is, by the system of tight lacing, &c., unduly pressed upon and pushed and squetzed, it must. ike a man in a crowd—since it cannot get out of the way—be seriously hampered in {ts move- ments, and its Important duties imperfectly dls- charged, tothe no small injury and be sooner or later of the foolish self-torturer. An‘ this in. propor on: to the unnatural pressure and squeezing to which the organ has had to submit. The excessive crushing, however, which results from this much-to-be-deplored custom, as well as the consequences arising from it, is not contined to one organ only, bul it is transmitted to those lying in its imme- diate proximity—these having to bear the pressure from the organs which are di- Tectly implicated, though they themselves mnay be entirely removed from the di- rect load. The practice of tght-lacing brings about this crushing and displacement of organs most completely and effectually—hampering and Unwaiting them in the performance of their assigned aud indispensable duties, and with the consequent production of a whole host of very serfous troubles, and not a few real and grave diseases. There are few natural diseases, in- deed, which so thoroughly displace and jam and wedge together so great a number of the inter- nal organs, and so generally disseminate among if them Incapacity for the discharge of their mul tifarious duties, as does this positively sinful practice of tight-lacing. Shortness of breath, congestion, and even inflammation of the lung congestion of the liver, of the kidneys, &e.; pa pen and subsequent diseases of the heart; faintings, bronchitis, indigestion, jaundice, ob- struction of the bowels, rupture, & few of the many evils arising from the custom which we are so emphatically condemning; a list, one Would think, quite formidable enough to cause the most thoughtless and the most fashlon-berladen subject to immediately re- nounce all allegiance to a practice so fraught with misch.ef; aad one, moreover, which has not asingle redeeming point, even ia the oceastoa- aily 1oolish eyes of the sterner sex, in its favor. Good Wor Changes in Pronunciation. A language and its pronunciation must change from generation to generation in spite of all tie efforts of the printers and pedants to put them {nto a strait-waistcoat. We have only to use our ears to perceive that the pronunciation of culti- vated English is even at the present moment slowly but surely undergoing alteration, I wonder how many still cling, like m; if, to the old pronunciation of eter and neither, and bave not yet passed over to the ever-multiply- ing camp of those who change the pure vowel ofthe first syllable into a diphthong, or agree with the Poet Laurate in accentlng vontemplate and refinve after the fashion of our grand- So long as a language lives it must grow and change like a living organism, and UunUl this fact is recognized by our schoolmas- ters, our boys will bever reaiize the true nature of the language they speak and the grammar they learn’ fn childhood. ‘The change that has passed over the pronunciation of ngush since the days of Shakespeare 1s greater than can be easily conceived. Were he to come to life again among us, the English that we speak Would be almost’as unintelligible to him as an Australian jargon, in spite of tne fact that our vocabularly and grammar differ but slightly from bis. Buta familiar word sounds strangely when its pronunciation is altered ever so little, and when the outward form of a whole group of words ts thus changed, the most skilled phtlo!- st would find himself at fault. Can anything, erefore, be more absurd than an endeavor to Tnuminify an extinct phrase of pronuncelation, especially when the muramy-shroud was at its best but a rude and inadequate covering which portrayed but faintly and distinctly the feavures of the corpse beneath? English spelling has become a mere series of arb{trary enigmas, an ensbrinement of the wild guesses and etyiaol- ogies of a pre-scientific age and the hap-hazard caprice of ignorant printers. It ts good for Hitle else but to disguise our language, to hinder edu- cation, and to suggest false etymologies. We spell we know not why, except that it is so or- dained in dictionaries. When Voltatre was told that ague was ered ague, and p-l-a-g-u-" plague, he said he wished the agie would take one-half the English ena and the plague the other half; but the fault lay, not with the English language, but with English spelling.— Prof. Sayre, in Nature. Is Mars Inhabited. ‘There fs no other planet of the solar sys- tem, says Science for AU, which offers 0 close an analogy to the earth as Mars. The teles- cope reveals to us the figures of broad tracts of Jand and expanses of sea upon his surface. ‘The durations of his day and night almost coin- cide with our own. His exterior experiences the alternating of the seasons. His nights are illumined by two satellites, which Present all the phenomena of our own moon, and more frequently, owing to their greater yelocity, An ati here probably surrounds ‘this planet; in fact, the existence of air is in- dispensable to his other features. Hence the inference that Mars is a habitable globe ap- pears a very obvious and fair conclusion, and it would be inconsistent to Lon that this mtly with all the re- planet, provided aj quisite natural 1es to Fender life a_neces- sary ant le feature of his surface, is a sphere of desolation, a mass of inert matter, which, though to the laws of gra- Mngece is otherwise ae. useful as logy and ra onal speetiation giation to conclude that rat Mars is the centre of life and activity, and that his surface is teeming with living be! York senate Thursday, the of John D, Lawson as superintend- insurance it, vice John 8. resigned, was received and referred. “She's goin in among the panthers; she's training them,’ sald the keeper. “The girl went up close to the cage, whip in hand, and with the assistance of the keeper— who was her husband—the panthers were driven back in one end of the cage, the man us- ing a long stick, with the end of which he gave them some vigorous raps on the nose. After a great deal of snapping and sciiMiing among each other they were all gotten back in the end farthest from the cage door. The man then proceeded to unfasten it. The young woman, who had been standing beside him with her whip in hand and a pleasant, smile on her face, without a moment’s hesitation stepped up ani the next moment was inside the The moment she got In there was the most terrific screaming and fighting of any time yet. The panthers would jump over each other in their eagerness to spring upon her, and would spring half-way up the page, but would get no further, being held back fear. They would then spring upon one another and tear each other's ears and scratch and Apne, this being appar- ey ee only means that would satisfy their ferocity. “Meantime the woman stood perfectly still, holding her whip out and speaking to them ina soothing manner, ag though she was pacitying a favorite dog or cat. Gradually the screams and pore to get lower and lower ‘and the Highting among one another began to cease. Stil they kept growling and looking at her and showing their teeth and snapping now and then until she had advanced astep. Then they be- gan to growl and one of them spran; over the others and got nearest to her, but h: no sooner alighted than he was pounced upon by another, and they again oh coe ht, Then the young woman, with a bold step advanced a pace further and struck one of the animals with ne but end of her whip, at the same time scold- ing him. He sprang back to the end of the caj among the others, while the woman, careless] letting her whip fall, proceeded to soothe and caress the panther nearest her, patting him on the top of the head and stroking him on the neck until his growls had almost subsided, and then sullenly allowed herself to be petted, wink- ing his eyes and mouthing like a cat. The other panthers meantime having grouped them- selves together in the end of the cage looked on with sullen growls. Jf any advanced she gave them a sharp rap on the head and ordered them to go back, and they obeyed. While she kept petting the one in question she never lost sight of the others, weed her eyes on their every movement and be! ng always prepared to use the whip on the slightest provocation. Some- times three or four, as though jealous of the other, would spring forward and approach sul- lenly, as though inviting her to caress them, too. ‘Then she would take one to each hand and pat And stroke them until they became pacified and quiet, and she seemed as much at home with them’ as though they were so many cats. But this pacific state of things would not last long. They seemed to be taking their caresses under rotest and to be eves on the brink of a revolt. his would be signalized by a deep growl from some one of them, which would instantly commu nicate itself to the others, and the next instant there would be a ae Spring and one of the animals would find himself pounced upon by another, and they would claw and gnash each other until the young woman would raise her whip and give them some sharp blows, which would send them into the corner and make them settle down for a little time. «What would be the consequence if she was to show any fear and retreat toward the door?” asked one of the bystanders, who had been al- most spellbound by the scene before him and had not found himself able to speak before. ‘The consequence,’ said the keeper, shaking his head, ‘would be that every animal in that cage would spring upon her and tear her to pieces in a minute.’ ” FIRST TIME AT CHUROH. {The Argosy.] Just three years old! and without a thought of all the rites and creeds and creeds; Just three years old! and'unconscious quite of the soul's unbounded needs; _ Content it should draw what’ Jifeit may from the food on which it feeds. Just three years old! and brought to church to sit in the narrowpew, And ies ‘at all the mysteries that rise before licr iew- The noiseless movement down the aisle; the crowd, and the faces new; ‘The organ that peals out magic straing, though hiaden trom the sight - The arches, and windows of pictured glass that tow'r to such a height; ‘The eagle that bears the Bible up; the choir in their robes of white. To wonder and watch with childish awe that is more than mere surprise, ‘That seems to catch in the tones of earth someecho of the skiew, And reflects iteelf in the tender face, in the solemn, wide gray eyes. Out of whore cloudless, dewy depths climmers the earliest Tay Of the awak’ning love, whose dawn heralds a fallsr When, though the shadows may darker lie, the ists will melt away; When the types shall find their antitypes, and the mysteries be made clear, i Thouxh the deeper mysteries beyond willyather yet anore near, Awaiting a new and brighter dawn e’er they shall disappear. Just three years old! and brought to churek, though she can take no share 2 In the praises risiug to God’s high throne, in con- fession or earnest pray'r; Brought but to learn the reverence due to the awful presence there. Just three years old! with folded hands, she kneels when the others knee! ; And surely the blessing which falls on them may also gently steal : Over the pa npeent, buby head, bent down in mute appeal. The Novelist Hardy and America. {London Letter to the Philadelphia Press. | Mr. Thomas Hardy author of “A Patr or Blue Eyes,” “Far from the Madding Crowd,” ete., etc., is a native English novelist, whose works have a wider reading tn our own land than his own, and who would probably receive more personal attention amoug us than he does in England. When J spoke to him of his wide fame and innumerable readers across the Atlan- Ue I found he knew all about it, and only wished he had even a very minute royalty from all the American editions of the novels. If I mistake not, I have seen them in some of the cheap tea- cent circulating periodicals reprints of the west. Turged him to consider the glory of a fame, which extended over prairies and wigwams ana log cabins, untarnished by the touch of lucre; bul these modern authors are intensely prac: tical, and he said unblushingly, he preferred shilings. Mr. Hardy is a young man of thirty-three or thirty: Who ‘started life in an engineer's Office, but_as Sir Walter Scott abandoned the Jaw so Hardy left surveying and conveyancing for something more genial. His plots and char- acters, however, often, by force of association, turn on engineering, where his early knowledge comes well into play, ie {3 a man of unassu:n- ing, manners, and extremely laborious and con- sclentious in working out the details of his work. My attention wus first directed to him before I had ever met or seen him by hearing a gentleman attemping to settle, with the ald ot a knot of iriends, what was the wine or drink at dinner of a well-to-do English merchant in the sixteenth century. It was Hardy foraging fora new novel. Mr. Hardy writes specially of the life of the middle and -lower middle classes of England, drawing bis scenes and characters mainly from them. Itis this fact which gives him his hold on the general American public, who readily recognize and appreciate the picturing of a life that comes most nearly to their own. As a ie ee painter of English village and rural life, he has few, if any, equals among contem- porary Engltsh ‘novelists, In conversation, Mr. Hardy expressed much modest gratification at the popularity of his works in America, and he cherishes a strong hope some day soon to come and see us. I hope {t will be soon. ‘The English Working Classes. Much has lately been said about the tressed state of the English working classes, which 1s hardly borne out by actual statistics. Inreallty, despite the occasional pressure of severe privation, their condition has been Steadily improving ever since the cotton famine Of 1862. The statistics of the small savings banks, always a sure criterion of the state or ep oon labor, tell their own story. The total of depositors in 1863 was 3,089, 402, and the total of their deposits 27,187,401, an a’ erage of less than £9 (45) per man By 1873, the former figure had risen to 4,002,507, and the latter to £63,471,412, Ray, £16 per min; while the Statistics of the past twelvemonth, notwith- anaes. the marked depression of trale, show a considerabie advance fn both. ‘The “Friendly ,” too, which have an aggregate of 1,787,201 members, and a total capital of £3,630, 525, largely recruited from i, are the workin classes. Even the tural iaborers, worst of all—neld wages in site Dorsetshire. &c., being only 25 cents a day— have formed an ‘association of thelr own, on the RM bDUEN PRES and Cod mm Ve- ment mu sitccesstul as yet, Js nol Without siguitleance. N.Y, Times. 2 two hares out of three. Now, it yous mee ae logs, why not put say twenty ral a barrel with a rat terrier?” i! Oh! dry up and mind your own business.” J 5 hate to see you wasting so much Now, how would it strike you to you let it start. It can’t get at When the dogs fall behind all you to bear on the reel and kinder slow it off. Now—” “Will nobody put this man off the grounds,” yelled an umpire. “Put your Aunt Middy off,” retorted the practical fisherman. “Fact is,’ your dogs ain’t worth four bits aplece, any way. Bet forty oe I can catch a hare better than they a ine.” “What's that?” said old Judge Van Snyder, who had come up just then. “I say,” repeated the man, emphatically, “that I'll bet forty dollars I can catch hare by casting this line every time.” “Done!” says the Judge. “Put up,” and to the surprise of everybody the intruder at once covered the money the Judge had handed to a bystander, and then began reeling out his line and getting his pole ready for a throw, while all hands crowded up to watch the result of the singular wager. “Now, then!” shouted the scorer, as the hare was released, and the next moment the Judge’s hat flew off and his wig dangled out in front of the crowd on the fisherman’s hook. There was a terrible row after that, when the latter claimed the coin on the strength of the “hair” he had caught, and if it hadn’t been shortly discovered that the stakeholder had lit out with the purse, the meeting would have ended in a free fight all around. Unfavorable Point of Observauon. (Virginia (Nev.) Enterprise. } A son of Erin who by some strange chance got into a fight yesterday afternoon was asked by an acquaintance some particulars in regard to the affair. Said he: “Well, sur, to tell you the truth, ee ie io of the fight. I was on the und- ers OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. THE EVENING STAR THE WEEKLY STAR, WASHINGTON, D.C. The EVENING STAR, (on Saturday's a double sheet or eight page paper of fifty-six columns, the size of the N@w York dailles), is everywhere recognized as the leading newspaper of Wash- ington. With two exceptions only, it has the largest circulation of any daily paper published south of New York, AND MORE THAN DOUBLE THAT OF ANY OTHER PAPER IN THE CITY. 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