Evening Star Newspaper, October 17, 1883, Page 2

THE AMERICAN BOY. At Home and Abroad, Written for Tar Evaxrvo Stas by G. H. 8. The most remarkabie member of the boy fam- fly is the puer Americanus. Busy, venturesome, shrewd, audacious, self-reliant, he is the incar- nation of that spirit of irreverence which is said to threaten democracies. He knows the world ‘at ten, goes into business at fourteen, and a few years later has either amassed a fortune or been sent to a reform school. Blowing tin horns, torturing the cat, stealing and eating green apples, these, in our fallen state, we must look Upon as Necessary expressions of boy nature, as such. But, when it comes to worrying the School mistress, driving a sharp bargain with an unwary mate, or slapping the parson familiarly on the back there we b et the real American flavor. Any other boy can be put out of countenance; your true Yankee urchin, never. No ei y flads unprepared, no sho Kaoek him dowa, and he upand at youinatwinkling. Neither the iceman nor the prospect of purgatory holds jim in check. He is simply irrepressible. Yes, we should realize that we are a favored people. Th sol oursare sui generis; there | fre none like them the world over. The Ameri- can youngster is a genius among boys. Failing to know this, we are in danger of miszuiding our own offspring and ot eliminating at its birth all that picturesque smartness which distin- guishes us from other nations. Hereafter,when some distracted father thinks to curb his son's artless playfulness, which is expressing itself in explodinza torpedo under a visitor’schair, let him pause and ask himself it this Innocent freedom in first principles of civil service reform. At Iast we have found the secret of their userulness. They are a little irreverent, eomewhat con- temptuous of authority, a trifle self-asserting, but by virtue of these qualities they help on the good work of tempering the minds of tutors and fathers. All good American school¢eachers, uiter tiveir release from purgatory here, pass to a state of bliss in Germany. Without the puri- fying work of our boys it might be many years before beatified American teachers would be numerous cnongh in the fatherland to start acol- ony. With it they are sure to ripen and fall off very fast. Oh, the raseally scoundrels! Yet, when we are ready to give them over and ask ourselves, in sheer’ despalr, if they will never learn by cuffs nor kisses to stand in awe of anything, all at once we see them hushed and tender by the bedside of a sick mother, risking life and limb to bring her wild flowers, and softenins into tears at the mention of her name. What an unaccountable contradiction our boy ist What an amiable scoffer! What an irreverent saint! Shall we preserve the type? Well, I wasa boy once myself. eo Down With the Chalk Fiend! To the Editor of Tuz Evextye Stan: Will you kindly call the attention of the police to the small boy chalk fiend who has beenshame- fully distiguring fences, railings and houses in the vicinity of the orphan asylum, at 14th and 8 streets, noticeably the fence of that institution, which has been outrageously defaced. This is bad enough 1 the perpetrators stopped there, but afew mornings since I found my doorsteps embellished with the vilest obscenity, done in the treatment of new acquaintance, this unspoiled Naturalness of deportment, 1 not ‘ust the quality that will give success" in social and busi- ness life. Let him consider, more than all, whether he is willing to be respot le for a share in destroying the American type ot boy- hood,—in reducing our rising generation to the Jevel of tame European docility and good breed- ing. It is small wonder that many of our distin- guished visitors from abroad have made special etudy of our boys. They deserve it. Wall street and the Bet Exchange present, in general. the same aspect, but the New York street Arab is ike nothing else in the world; the typical Amer- ican schoolboy has no double on the whole Eastern Continent. There is such variety in him! You never know when youhaveexhausted him. It can't be done, unless you get him under the receiver of an air pump. Foreigners criticise us on many points, but I have never seen a single count in their articles of arraignment that coald not be very well ap- large characters. Is there no remedy for this? eS A Pictmre of British Workingmen’s Life. THE CHESAPEAKE AND POTOMAC FISHERIES, The U.S, Fish Commission—The “Look- Correspondence of Tam Evextxe Stan. Oxp Pornt Comrort, Va., Oct. 15, 1883. The schooner-rigged steam yacht, the Look- out, of the U. S. fish commissien, enlivens the Roads just now. It is a pert and lively-looking craft, that moves with the ease and grace of race-horse. During the spring andthe early sum- mer it is utilized in hatching shad and other fishes, and oysters, and in the full bloom of sumuner carries on investigations that are fur- ther’parsued by the Albatross and Fish Hawk in open sea. The arrival of the Lookout was followed by that of Senator Lapham and sub-committee of the committee on foreign relations, of which he is chairman, appointed to inquire Into the condition of the menhaden fisheries on the At- lantic coast. To the dwellers on the Chesapeake bay it Seemed at firstan undue promotion of the de- spised little fish known as the Bug fish, whose captureis rather avoided than sought by the gen- eral fisherman. And although not esteemed for food, avery large fleet ofschooners, hundreds by the hundreds, whose satls constantly whiten its waters, are engaged the entire summer sea- son in their capture. The oil 1s highly esteemed, and extensively used in tanning. The scraps are valuable as a component of tertiiizers, the transfer of which to the interior is pro- Bounced to the olfactories of the traveler in Dassing the trains laden with these compounds. The testimony elicited - and the investigations made by Senator Lapham and his confreres, headquarters at the Hygeia, concludes the in- vestigations of the last two years, prosecuted from Cape May, on the Jersey coast, to the shores of Maine. The millions of capital The following, from an editorial correspondent of the Pittsburg Dispatch sent to England to examine into the wage and labor question, must have produced something ot a sensation in the Iron City, where people have been steadfastly taught that under protection they are vastly better off than the operatives of England: “A walk from Wolverhampton, with its 100,000 inhabitants, to Birmingham, with its 400,000, Is through a succession of villages, which form an almost continuous town, through a forest of chimneys which send forth pillars of cloud which obscure the sun by day, and pillars of fire which outshine the moon at night. The vast bulk of the smoke is outside of Birmingham, so that it is f nce to America as represented by her latest ope. Certain Germans. i is true, who have gained their knowledge of America from Cooper's tales, picture us all as red Indians in fact and in deportment. But. really, an error in the mere matter of color is a small point. The Leipziger Tageblatl, some years ago, com- menting on the prospective visit of Renz’s circus to this country, generously expressed the hope that it would help to elevate the low standard of artistic taste which prevailed here. But that excellent sheet gould scarcely be expected to know that Barnum was already worshipped by our grateful youth for hating supplied their higher spiritual needs with his great moral shows. ‘The inadvertent use of the word worship in onnection with our hopeful offspring requires explanation, and suggests another European Judgment of us, as fonnd in a text-book on geozraphy widely used throughout Saxony. “The United States.” this learned and teresting work, ited by arude, uncul- tivated people, od is the Almighty Del- lar, (about four m Ask any boy on our Streets what is licking in this definition of his Supreme 5: and he will fill out the Trinity by adding the circus man and the base ball player. ‘This remarkable aptness in certain European criticisms which we have been accustomed thoughtlessly to call unj can probably be traced to the foreizn expivits of some of our younz rangers. A good, smart Yankee, ten Jear old. has been known to make a German dynasty There was one in this same city of Leipsic who may weil, in his own person. have suggested the unpleasant gen- eralization implied in the words of the Tageblalt. Moreover, he m: ‘gested to Herr Ren: . as man, would naturally heed to the philanthropic side of the question than an incorruptible presa, the hope- Jessness of finding in America a suitable public for his highly asthetic entertainments. To the manager of a circus a suitable public isa paying pabiic, and the only experience Herr Renz ever ad with our young Leipsic friend was when he caught him trying to dig his way under the sides of his booth, after the manuer of his gentle cousins in Boston. It is to be hoped that the strictures contained in the scientific work above mentioned were based upon a wider range of observations than 2 single specimen of our race could furnish ma- terial for. However that may be, nothing in the behavior of our little representative ever caused the slightest suspicion in Leipsic as to the accuracy of the learned geographer. It is certain that one of the Leipsic schools, while engaged upon the particular lesson cited above, looked to him as bearing out in a remarkable degree the statements of thetext. And Charlie, it must be suid, was equal to the oceasion. He illustrated the letter-press with object lessons that were exceedingly forcible. No wonder the scholars thought him a worshipper of the Al- might Dollar, when he was so unremitting in his efforts to gull them out of their ious mark: Not a boy in the school that he did not physic with after repentance when his smooth- tongued words had gained their object. It was about this time, too, that Charlie in- troduced the American custom of rattling dried peas along the school room floor. And here, y, he very nearly came to grief. The exploit, being a novelty in the land, did not favor due to the genius required ting it, and the bey was called up to But Charlie was of too sensitive a mbmit to any indignity. He re- ment with such effect that the iled toretire for reinforcements, and Charlie, seizing his opportunity, also re- tired—for repairs. The adventures of this young defier of Ger- man despotisin, as related by himself, from a pathetic commeutary on the degenerate con- dition of German urebins, and give us one more assuranee that we area people happy in our sons. He is of opinion that the only salvation for the Fat! and lies ina social revolution. ‘The boasted Saxon courage isno more. He had been in Leipsic three years, and had alwayskepta sharp eye for the chances; yet hehad never been able to up a good street fight among the boys. Personally he was disgustedat such cow- There wasn't a boy of his acquaintance y that wasn't as afraid of a policeman as death. For his part he hadn't much reapect for the lubberly fellows. They had often chased him when he had greeted them with the Ameri- can salute of thumb on nose, and fingers twirl- Ing, but they had never caught him yet. The Dovs couldn't talk horse, didn’t understamd base ball. and didn't dare to’ play hookey. He was glad he was going home. A few weeks after Charlie had relieved his mind to me, as above related, he happened to be walking with several companions through the Rosenthal, along the bank of the river Pleisse, when suddenly one oi his mates fell down a steep Incline and rolled helplessly in the muddy stream below. He would certainly have been drowned had not Charlie quickly siezed hold of some bushes crowing at the water's ed. nd launched himself out, so that his teet grasped by his sinking playmate. Thus wed his friend, and became at once a hero, while 1, who bal often been called upon to blush at the sorry comparison between our pert, dare-devil Yau and his sedater companions, bexan to take quite a liking to the little feliow, and rinined to write him up. I take it, is a typical American boy. all we do with him and ali the rest of them—the pe incorrizible, generous fel- lows? They are all, like him, prematurely know- ing. all obey their eleventh commandment. “Be bot easily biuffed,” more zealously than all the rest. It does make them wonderfully self-rel ant, and thus gives them extraordinary com- mand ever their native powers. If they would only cultivate a little reverence, withal! If they would only take kindly to the schools, or were ‘@& precocious In their thinking as in their pow- ets of observation! If they were only a little Jess in sympathy with a rationallstic age, at least not going so far as to deny the authority of reason itself! They may knock down the schoolmaster, if he tosists upon his own ideas in spelling, but let them admit the validity of a mathematical demonstration. The Saxon lad begins to tall: philosophy at six; Is exercised ‘at nine over the personvlity of of, the nature of sin, and the catezorical im- ve. At fidteen he is engaged ina search the hidden law of beauty. Our boys are two ears ahead of him in this respect, but as their study is confined to the single form of female beauty it may be questioned whether they con- tribute much to our knowledge of abstract Principles. Altogether, their German cousin is ® teachable, receptive boy—thoughtful, not without orizinality—looking up to his iustract- ors with limitiess respect. That is where our impious scamps fail to stard the test. espect for either parents or lesa beclouded than one would anticipate from its reputation. It is not by any means so en- shrouded as the ‘Birmingham of America;’ but its smoke and soot are not hemmed in by high hills, but are constantly dispersed by the breezes from the channel and the Welsh mountains. Yet in this fleld are manufactured not only in-, computable quantities of raw iron and large Machinery, but thousands of kinds of small articles in immense bulk, guns, swords, all kinds of brass and ormolu articles, jewelry, presses, pins, buttons, bicycles, needles, fish- hooks, money, not only for the home goyern- ment. but for a dozen ‘other governments, and innumerable other things which one always knew were made somewhere but never knew the place. © “And now, let me say briefly, and once for all, that a careful inspection of the localities where working people most do congregate in this ‘wonderful world of manufactures, has proved to me, as it will prove to any one taking similar pains, that here, where one expects to find ‘pauper labor,’ by comparison with America, there is a condition of comfort im habitation, clothing and food, which cannot be excelled in any American manufacturing locality. This may be treason, but if it is, my protectionist friends are at liberty to make the most of it. I do not assert that the condition of these work- men is what it ought to be. I only assert that ifitbe worse than that of"Ame.ican work- men, then the difference is concealed with wonderful success. I am not advancing by any means the opinion that it is time to apply the theory of free-trade to America, but merely, reiterating what I have often said and always believed, that the asser- tion of republican politicians that protection was inthe interest of the workingman was bun- combe, for if it was of any benefit at all the workingman got none of it, but the capitalist all. If I was not altogether certain of my premises then I am now. I will agree to exhibit better houses for working people, with just as ample food and comfortable clothing, and as many bank depositorsein this Birminzham dis- trict. according to ratio of population, as can be found in any manufacturing district of America. It would make the most prejudiced and most loyal Pittsburger ashamed of his own city to note here the actual superiority in comfort and cleanliness of the streets and houses where live the common working classes. Courts, alleys and domiciles are clean, and lack the foul odors which are smelled everywhere on the back streets and alleys of Pittsburg. I searched in vain fora plague spot. I asked for the locali- ties where there were the most poor, and went there; I propounded all sorts of impudent ques- tions to the inhabitants; I penetrated to the al courts and alleys, making inquiries for imaginary persons my excuse, and my con- clusion was that, so long as we must have a |g class—a class which must struggle hard for ire hecessities—it would be well to have them live as they do here, if possible. Everything, too, speaks of good government. Hell -holes, such as exist in some parts of Pittsburg, seem to be unknown here. The gin-mills and tap- Tooms are compelled to close promptly at the hour fixed bylaw. To Judge from the police Statistics, crime is here reduced to a minimum.” me See SSeS Savings of the English Peopfe. From the London Times. Throughout England and Wales there are 344 banks, which at the close of November, 1852,had 1,172,167 accounts remaining open. There was then owing to the depositors nearly £35.000,000. Scotland has 53 banks, which had 303,391 ac- counts open in November, with upward of! £7,000,000 owing to de} ‘ors. The number of accounts and the amounts deposited,when com- pared with the number of banks, were consid- erably larger in Scotland than in the southern part ofthe kingdom. In Ireland the accounts and mouey are still smaller. in proportion. for while she had 31 banks she had only 52.161 ac- counts, with £2,082,413 due to depositora. For last year alone, however, the average amount of receipts from depositors was largest in Ireland, reaching £6 1s. 1d. In Eng- land and Wales the averace was £4 8s., and in Scotland £3 43. 10d. In Enyland and Wales the average amount of payments to depositors was £8 1s. 6d., in Scotland it was £5 18s. 7d., and in Ireland £7 83. 7d. The rate of Interest paid to depositors averaged in England £2 14s. 6d., In Scotiand £2 14s. 1d., and in Ireland £3 13s. 2d. With regard to annuities since the commence- ment of the banks 10,025 annuities have been granted in England for life, and 28 for terms of years; in Scotland there have been 1.603 life annuities, and only seven others: while in Ire- land the numbers were much smaller still, viz.: 269 life annuities and nine for special terms. total amount of money represented in the annuities is about a quarter of a million sterling. There was some difficulty in getting a return from the Limerick Savings bank, although, repeated applications were made for it. Ulti- mately a substitutionary statement was pre- pared from accounts in the national debt office. +9 Dear Father! on my bended knee Tearnest ask this boon of Thee— Make clean this sinful heart of mine, And Mil It with Thy grace divine. Suspicion, jealor and doubt ‘With atte, envy cast out; Ambition and all selnish ‘Tone down with cure for others’ need, Lord, make me mer¢iful to all, Witt charity for those who fall, Judging not frailties by their length, But by man’s weakness or his strength, Nee with Thy love all passion’: Iclp me control each mad desire; ‘Tuou knowst I am tempest tossed, Lord save me! oF Lshall be lost I" Withdraw the shadows of dead years, ‘Make smooth the furrows made by tears, Take from me all this fear and pain, And give me childlike trust again. Mary B. Lambert, BTS Dic A Georgia Merchants Order. From the Macon Telegraph. One of our merchants received the following order from acustomer a few days since: “Mr, B—, please send me $1-worth of coffy and $1 Tad a baby lat kite, aso two. padlocks @ baby two anda monkey reneh.” ZI ee ‘The English Public Debt, ‘From the New York Commercial Advertiser. One-half of the national debt of Great Britain 1s being converted Into annuity bondsextending My wife | if 1 and the thousands or men em- poser in these fisheries haye raised ux fish sufficiently in the estimation of Con- gress to give it the dignity of a Senatorial inves- tigation. And thia investigation will no doubt develop many interesting facts as to the migra- tion and uses of this once abundant fish. The session of the committee will extend over ten days, and the local ‘uliarities of the work in the bay will certamly repay them for the long stay The resolution under which the investigation was inaugurated prov.ded for the co-operation of the fish commission in the work, and they were aided in their investigation, prior to this summer, by Professor Baird and Major Fergu- son. But as it was arranged that Major Fergu- son was to visit Europe for the purpose of at- tending the London exhibition, for further in- quiry in the oyster culture. as prosecuted on the coasts of England and France, he designated Mr. Marsball McDonald, one of his assistants, to fi ghee the commission before tie commit- ec. The party will visit several of the factories on the Chesapeake bay, on both sides, and hold ses- sions at the Hyaele. They are under the guid- ance of Mr. Sneed, the assistant Sergeant-at- Arms of the Senate. Apropos of the advent ot the Lookout, we are led to hope that the Fish- hawk will resume her ‘ruises in these waters, now that she is again fit forduty, having stranded last summer it Ocean View, owing to the carelessnes of her sommander, and injuring herselt to the extent c’ costing the commission quite a sum to set her afloat once more. The Albatross will make her winter sorties into the deep waters of the South Atlantic coast from this point, and will continue to pursue the investigations which have proved so fruitfnl in her summer cruises off New England. It is highly probable that she will add to the twenty newly discovered varieties of fish as many more in the southern types. Some of these remarkable specimen of fish have been brought to light from the depth of 18,000 feet, for it is asserted that the Albatross has made captures in this depth, astounding as it may seein, and attained the prestige of having made the deepest and most successful dredging on Tecord. Will our naturalist give us a theory that will lead to the explanation of the unnaturally huge heads and teeth with which these creatures, that live and move and have their being so far below the struggles and turmoils of this lite, are invested? 1s it that it requires more head and cheek to exist in their world than ours? We will here repeat a fish story, vouched for by no leas celebrated an ichthyologist-than Prof. Gill. Among the strange fish brought from be- neath the mighty deep by the Albatross, there is one, not very large, that amuses itselt after the matinal meal by swallowing fishthree times its own size as an appetiser for dinner, and un- like the frog of the table that tried to entend it- self into an ox, it does not boast. Such is the curiosity of your correspondent and others to behsid this curious freak of nature, and witness the voracious repast, that we with many will be inducéd to visit the National Museum as soon as this specimen is brought there from Wood’s Holl, where it appears it now is. Wanpa. —— Mountaineering in the Himalayas. The Calcutta correspondent of the London Times in a recent @clegram mentioned the ar- rival of Mr. Graham,an experienced climber, with two Swiss guides at Darjeering. en route for Sikkim. whence he was about to attempt the ascent of the Kinchinjunga Mountain, which is upward of 28,000feet high. We have been favored with two private letters from Mr. Graham to a triend in London describing his mountaineering experience in the Himalayas up to the date ot writing. Our informant believes that no one. had previously climbed as high, elther in the Himalayas or elsewhere. We extract the follow- ing from Mr. Graham's letters: “Camp under Nanda Devi, 14,000 feet, July 22, 1853.—* * We left Nynee Tal on the 24th, and reached Rini, close to the peaks, in twelve days. Very little sport and a great deal of rain. Then at Rini our troubles begal First, it is al- impossible even to reach the mountains, as they stand back, and are only reached by deep and impassable gullies, through which enormous streams dash. The result is that you-have to make a series of ascents to reach the hizhest peaks. Weil, we started for Dunagiri, 23.184 feet. after twice passing over peaks of 17,000 teetand 18,000 feet, respectively, we reached its foot onthe fifth day, and camped on the glacier, at the height of 18,400 feet. I had to send coolies back, as the brutes had eaten a for night's food in five days. Well, we started early next morning. The climb was decidedly difficuit. All these peaks are much steeper than the average Swiss peaks. About halt way up. Kaufman, who had the least touch of fever, gave out, and Boss and I went on alone. At 1:30 we had reached at least 22,500 feet, as we were considerably above a neighboring’ peak, 22,300 feet. The summit was in sight, a steep snow slope broken with rock. Another halt hour would have put us on the top, when a sud- den and violent snow-storm arose, and we were obliged to turn back. How we got down some very awkward slopes I do not know. It wasthe most dangerous work I ever did. We reached our camp, but could get no fire, everything wet, and passed a most awful night. The next day we had to leave, as provisions were short, and the — would not be ready for another week. Thouch beaten back, we have solved the air problem. There is no more difficulty in breathing at 22,500 than at 12,500 feet. We returned to Rini, and have since been trying to get to Nanda’ Devi, 25.669 feet, the Indian Matterhorn. We should have reached it yesterday, but ten coolies out of sixteen bolted, so we are reduced to swagging, andshall reach the peak to-morrow. The weather is very bad, rain every day; but we have got twenty days ‘ovisions with us, and will ex- haust them before we turn. My feet are very sore to-day,so that I am stopping incamp. Boss is shooting and the rest swagging. There is not much sport, but I was lucky enough to get a fine ounce or snow leopard. One thing I should have mentioned in my last; the peak Kang La, which Imboden and [ ascended, Is either 20, feet or 20,800 feet, according to the two known surveys; 80 that I shall not return quite empty- handed. However. you will hear more of our doings shortly, I hope.” “Nynee Tal, August 18, 1888—Returned to civilization yesterday after great troubles. The Test of our coolies bulted from Nanda Devi; the weather became hopeless, and we had to sw: back, ries Pounds per man, over most awful ground. My back still aches when I think of it. We managed to baz another peak, which I have tuken the liberty of calling Mount Monal, on ac- count of the quantity of these fine birds on its lower slopes. Helht, 23,326 ment survey. We also tried as a toar de force a magaiticent aiguille 21.001 teet,but were stopped about 800 feet from the top. Photos were an entire failure, all the Gogh) having been smashed or Injured over the villainous ground. lam starting for Darjeeling to-morrow, where Thope to have one more try at the giants, and il, leave it for better men than myself.” SEED pei eS een The Irishman’s Mistake. ‘From the Brooklyn Eagle. Mr. Evarts was pointed out to an Irishman at Si Watch His and You May Judge og fa, Character. va ‘From the Commesetsl Travelers Magazine “It's twenty years,” eald a Chicago dealer, I have iy. .studied the characters of m: rons, forming,my conclusions from the kin of compat they keep, I mean by the kind ofcigara they ny {can always tell. An even-tempered, ‘quiet fellow never goes to an extreme in choosing a tobacco; a nervous man wants somethi strong and furious; a mild man something smokes and nothing more. Then there is. great deal in the way men han- dle their cigars. Ifa man smokes his cigar only enough to,keep Jt lighted, and relishes taking it from between pls lips to cast a whirling curl of blue smoke into the alr, set him down as an easy-going fellow, who cares little for how the world goes, and no more tor himself. He has keen perceptions and delicate sensibilities. He will not create trouble, but is apt to see it out when it isonce begun. Beware of the man who never releases thecizar from the grip of his teeth, and is indifferent whether it burns or dies. He is cool, calculating and exacting. He is seldom energetic, physically, but lives easily off of those who perform the labor. A man who smokes a bit, rests a bit, and fum- bles the cfrar more or less, is apt to be easily affected by circumstances. He may be energetic, careful, generous and courageous, but he ia vacillating and liable to change on moment's notice. If the cigar goes out frequently, the man has a whole-souled disposition, is a devil- may-care sort of a fellow, with alively brain and a glib tongue, and generally a fine fund of anec- dotes and yarns. To hold halt of tho cigar in the mouth and smoke indifferently is a lazy man’s habit. They are generally of little force, and thelr characters are not of the highest strata. . A nervous man, or one under exciting influ- ences, “fumbles his cigar a great deal. Hels a kind of popinjay among men, Holding the ci- gar constantly between his teeth, chewing it has been lighted at all, are characteristics of men with the tenacity of bulldogs. They never forget anything and never release ahold. Tho-' fop stands his cigar on end, andan inexperienced emoker either points it straight ahead or almost, at right angles with bis course.” Searching the Scriptures. From the Brooklyn Engle. “My dear,” said Mrs. Spoopendyke, glancing up trom the letter she was writing and pressing the nib of the pen on her thumb-nafl to see why it didn't work any better, ‘say, my dear, do you know where to find that text, ‘For the unbe- lieving husband is sanctified in the wife?’ ” In Exodus, isn’t it?” replied Mr. Spoopen- ake it sounds like Exodus. Where's the le?” was looking for it to-day,” returned Mrs, Spoopendyke, getting up and preparing tor another search. ‘I don’t think it is in Exodus, because it sounds more like Paul. I think some one must have stolen the Bible, for I haven’t seen it since we came from the country.’ That’s kind of curious,” soliloquised Mr. Spoopendyke, arousing himself to assist in the Investigation. “I don't know who would want to steal a Bible. Don’t you remember where you put it? Think it’s in here?” and Mr. Spoop- endyke upset the bandbox containing his wife's new hat, and then made a lunge for the fancy coal scuttle behind the stove. ‘You had it st: what did you do with it?” it wouldn't be apt toget in there, would it?” suggested Mra. Spoopendyke, trying to divert her husband’s attention by rattling the vases on the bureau. “If it’s the orthodox Bible, it’s liable to pene- trate anywhere and everywhere!” retorted Mr. Spoopendyke, abandoning the scutt ing a dive for the:button bag. ‘strikes me that Bible is keeping pretty quiet for the Word,” he Tuminated: as he tipped the buttons out on the fluor, and darted across the room to try the bureau drawers, ; ‘Be ina fine fix if a minister should happen todropin now and ask for tamily worship. Have to tell him to go on hisrecollec- tion or start a new theory of his own,” and Mr. Spoopendyke puted the shams off the bed and then got down on his hands and knees to look under it. “I'll pet a hat it’s where I said it was. c ?” asked Mrs. Spoopen- dyke, supposing he had found it. n Exodus,” snorted Mr. Spoopendyke, wip- ing the ormaiments off the mantelptece and look- ing behind theclock. “Can't you remember what I say trom one moment to another? If you had any memory. with your habits of classifica- tion, you'd only need the coat-of-arms of all na- tions and a little more: incoherence to be a first rate dictionary! I don’t know though,” cot tinued Mr. Speopendyke, ruminating on this preposition while he tore the things out of the wardrobe. don’t know but what you would have to get w binding and have your sides marblized. You don't suppose that Bible got lonely and went off into the country on its own hook, do you?’ “I'm sure I don’t know,” murmured Mrs. Spoopendyke. ‘I can’t imagine how it would do a thing like that. I think it is only mislaid. We'll find it.” “Well, [should remark!” replied Mr. Spoo- pendyke, without meaning the slightest irrever- ence. “There may be only one small fish or a crust of the bread left, but we'll find what there is before we go to bed! Unless that Bible’s gone to get itself revised there'll be no sleep in the Spoopendyke apartments until we lay our hands lovingly on that dear old family Bible! | Maybe it’s hid under a bushel!” and he capsiz the waste paper basket and scattered the con- tents over the room. “I don’t know but what It Is in Exodus,” said Mrs. Spoopendyke, with her finger in her mouth. “Now I come to think it over, I'm sure it’s in Exodus, so you needn't look for it any more.” I know it’s in Exodus,” said Mr. Spoopen- dyke, kicking his wife's work basket across Occasionally, and not caring whether or not it | TATTOOING IN NCW YORK. ‘What May be Seen in a Dime Museum, New York Correspondence To get money without work may not be a Peculiarly American ambition, but certainly it is very strong on our sofl. Nothing else would brace up a girl to bear the pain and shame of being tattooed In public. A signboard en a second Bowery dime museum said that such an operation was going on within. I expected to find a frand, for I did not believe that a person could be obtained from that sex tc submit her- self to disfiguration. My supposition was that the tattoo would be found to consist of mere coloring on the surfaceof the skin. The show was a miserable affair, aside from her, the Management evidently relying upon her as a sole attraction. She had a platform for her- self and the man who was marking her for life. A score of visitors were crowding up to her. She was a good-looking and araiable creature, probably 18, with hands too stained by toil to indicate an altogether vicious career. Her bared arms were closely and intricately covered with @ great variety of figures. Serpents, fish, birds and inanimate objects were joined and discolorations, blue and red, stopped at her wrists, so that in a long-sleeved dress they would be hidden, and her tace and neck were left with their natural blonde complexion of unusual delicacy. ‘But I had these put on,” she said, as she drew down the top of her corsage. S Three doves of half life size were shown pricked into the upper part of her breast. “Sho selected the pictures for those,” said the artist, “and is rather proud of her taste.” “Yes, she assented, “I am fondof pigeons, and thought I'd have them, so long as ‘twas something I'd never get rid of.” There was no doubt of the genuineness of the tattoo work that the man was doing. He was engaged on her right leg, the left having been completed. The member was bare for its whole length, but did not seem so, because | thi juarters of its surface was In effect clothed as with colored hose by the indelible marks. The man used a small steel instrument that bad a point like aneedie. With this he pricked rapidly into the skin, extending a line about half aninch and then rubbing inthe Coloring matter with the end of his forefinger. “Doesn't it hurt?” I asked. “A little,” she answered, with a brave smile, “but not more than the prick of a pin.” “A hundred ping, you mean,” I suggested. “Well, the points do come pretty often, but T've stood four hours of it every day for a month, and I guess I'm getting used to it.” “She's got aheap of fortitude,” said the tor- turer. “The work I’m doing on her is full as elaborate as that on Capt. Constantenus, the Greek, who tells it that they had to tie him fast to make him stand the pain; of course, he exaggerates it, but there's mighty few men that would undergo it voluntarily. A eailor thinks he has borne a good deal when he's had his breast covered by a shield or something. Look at what there is on this leg.” An elephant was occupying the flank, a spaniel lay on the thigh, flowers and foliage were scattered over the calf and shin, and just above the heel behind was a curled snake. “T wanted that nasty thing out of my sight as much as possible,” the girl remarked, as to the serpent. “And what shall we put in here?” the man asked, indicating a two-inch space just above the knee in front. ° “T think I will have a rose there,” she re- plied. 5 oe we're getting too many flowers, arn't we?” “Never you mind. I'm the onethat’s to wear ; this suit, and you must let me select the pat- terns.” They Declared. From the Wall Street News. Over in Chicago, the other day, an organiza- | tion which we will call “The Great Humboldt Rail and Water Line,” had a meeting of the | stockholders. When all, were assembled the secretary reported a deficiency of $180,000 for the year; also that the stock had depreciated one-half, and that future prospects were ex- |tremely dark and dubious. Indeed, he argued that the company had better wind up and get out from under the b it could “We owe $180,000, eh ?” queried one of the stockholders. “Yes, slr. ane income won't meet current expenses?” «No, sir.” “Fact is, we are as good as bankrupt ?” “That's it, sir. We can’t run another month.” “Then, sir.” continued the speaker, **I move that we declare a dividend of 22 per cent, and begin to unload stock on the confiding public!” A Boon fer the Deaf. One of the most elegant contrivances for as- sisting the hearing is a small ear-trumpet set in the head of a cane, a French invention. The curved handle of the cane, which forms tne audi- phone, is not any larger than other stout cane- heads, and a small hard robber tube, which closes directly under it, of the same length, is concealed when not in use, but springs round on either side for insertion in the ear when needed. Then the appearance of this novel tramret is simply that the wearer is holding up the cane to his cheek, a very ordinary attitude in a lecture room. Persons with defective hearing object to the large conspicuous ear trumpet, because it seems to advertise and display their defect, but this is really ingenious and undiscoverable. The same idea might well be applied to an opera- glass or a fan-handle, as the tubes of most ordi- nary lorgnettes are larger than is required by the floor and turning the contents over with the toe of his boot. “But Pm) going to find out which end of Exoaus| it is in before I go to business again! | How do you suppose any one’s to know when | we were married or when the baby was born or | when we died if we don’t find that Bible? Think I'm going through fife without a Bible to refer to when I'm lonely and depressed? Got some kind of notion because I'm good and pious that zion comes Datural to me, haven't ye? Well, it don’t. I've got to keep posted just as well a3 any one elgg! Where's that Bible ?” demanded | Mr. Spoopendyke, rising in wrath as the book seemed to evade his search. ‘What's become ofthe pious injunctions of my youth? How'm I going to be able to tell Solomon’s wives from the rest of his family unless I have the book be- fore me? Where's my Maccabees and my Zac- cheus? Where are the friends of my boyhood?” and Mr.Spoopendykestraightened upinthe mid- dle of the room and glared at ins wife as though she had inflicted on him a mortal injury. “ They've been dead some time,” replied Mrs. Spoopendyke, who always took everything liter- ally. “Anyway, you don't care about them to- nd my Abraham begat Isaac, and Isaac be- gat Jacob, and Jacob begat Judah and his brethren! ‘Where are they? Suppose aome fel- low asks me to-morrow who Judah's brethren begat, what am I to say? What're ye standing there for, looking like a hole in the fence for? Think that helps you any?” Say. dear,” commenced Mrs. Spoopendyke. “Don't you remember the nizht you and Mr. Specktewottle gob into a dispnte as to whether the prodigal son was thrown into the pit. or was the one whose ear Peter cut off for hiding his talents in a napkin? I haven't seen the Bible since thens Yow had it out, and when ees got through you put it in your silk hat, and here it is now!” and Mrs. Spoopendyke ‘held | this trumpet. The appearance of this French novelty is merely that of a cane with a hooked handle of agate or jet. With an opera-glass or @ fan-handle for deat ladiesat church or concerts, and who would appear to be merely resting their cheek upon the hand that holds the arti- cle, the conspicuousness would be nothing, and the comfort everytning. — Se State Elections in November. The state elections yet to occur this year will be held on Tuesday, November 6th. The com- plete list is as follows: Connecticut will elect one-half its senate and its full house of representatives. Maryland will elect governor, controller, at- torney general and legislature. Massachusetts will elect governor, lieutenant ‘governor, secretary of state, treasurer, attorney general, auditor and legislature. Minnesota will elect governor, lieutenant gov- ernor, secretory of state, treasurer, attorney general and railroad commissioner, and vote upon three proposed amendments to the Con- stitution of the state, which provide (1) that the general elections shall be held hereafter in November in each even year; (2) that the secretary ot state, the treasurer, and the attor- ney general shall serve two years and the state auditor four years, and (8) fix the terms of ser- vice of the judges and the clerk of the supreme court and of the judges of the district court of e state. ie rstesippl will elect its legislature. Nebraska willelect a justice of its supreme court and regents of the state university. New Jersey will elect governor, part of its senate and its fall house of representatives. New York will elect secretary of state. con- up the missing volume, her face wreathed in smiles of delight that things had not been Gog haha “Found it, didn’t you?” growled Mr.Spoopen- dyke, snatehing ‘the book out of her hands. “Another time, when I.get through with :t, you remember what ¥ do with it. Now, let’s find that measly text you were so anxious about.” And Mr. Spoopendyke pored through Exodus and then laid dowa the book in disgust. “There's no such thing iv the Bible,” he said. “I knew there wasn’t all the time, but I wanted to prove it to you.” aa “Let me look,”buggested Mrs. Spoopendyk and, turniig to £€orinthians, vil:14, she foun and read it to lim. “I had ano idea that it was in some of Paul's writings,” she remarked as she shut the book and put it away. “That's what you always have!” roared Mr. Spoopendyke, enraged by his defeat. “If you should ever run short of ideas you'd be a com- paratively smart woman! Some day I am going |- to put a apiggot on your dod mouth and start a public school with you, unless I change my mifd and conclude to open a branch college for the pre} nn of married women for the ieee asy] loe - aa i with this business outlook, Mr, lyke dropped his clothes in the middle of the floor for his wife the entrance to the Academy of Musio last | she Thureday evening as Lord Chief Justice Cole- over thirty years, under an act of partiament for |, the ofredemption. The entire ‘debt. is dollars | retary trolier, treasurer, attorney general, engineer and surveyor, and both branches of the legis- lature, and vote upon a proposition to abolish contract labor from the state prisons. - Pennsylvania will elect auditor general’ and state treasurer. Virginia will elect part of its senate and its full assembly. +o iddem Sweets. From T. ‘exan Biftings, “What can I do for you, my little man?” she asked. “J dunno,” said Sam. “Mamma told me not to ask for cake or pie, as I did last time, and T'm sorter at a loss to Know what to ask for, for anyhow, bur Lean, put 2p with most abpthicg anyhow, can pl wi that's handy.” se sebcrs.! ———___e2___ Wisdom of Uncle Ned. “De reason dat we thinks dat our mudders could beat anybody cookin’ is because we kain't carry de boy's appertite inter ole age.” When my wife says, ‘‘Doan yer think yer'd better dogo and so?” I commence ters argy wid her, but when she says, “Go an’ do so an” so, I hus'les den an’ dar. “I knowed one man what was 80 blended with an eye to artistic effect. The | What to Wear and How to Wear It— Seme Valuable Information That ‘From the Philadelphia Call. DRESS SUITS. The demand is tor English and French cloths and fine diagonal worsteds, the preference being slightly in favor of the former. In the finishing and trimming neatness and richness is the aim. DEMI-DRESS SUITS. Dark gray worsteds are used largely for this Purpose. This color is attractive, and to most gentlemen very becoming. It Is less tiresome tothe sight than any other shade, pleasing in its effect and very popular for demi-dress and promenade. Except a slight increase in length there ts little change in the general proportions of the double-breasted frock coat, which is the demi-dress coat. WALKING SUTTS. This class of garments ts confined to one, three, four and five buttoned cutaway coats, the four-button being the most popular. It ismade ‘up with soft fronts and just sufficient stiffness in | Seems to be coming into universal favor again. the shoulders to keep them in proper shape. ‘Small collars and necessarily narrow lapels but- toned well up to the neck prevail. BUSINESS SUITS. Under this head, any garment would, to a cer- tain degree, be appropriate; nevertheless, the generally accepted coat for business purposes is the sack. This is to be attributed to the fact of the ease and comfort generally round in wear- in@snch a coat. They are made in straight fronts, with slightly rounded corners and closed with four, and, in some cases, five buttons. The AN AVALANCHE OF FLAME. eee ee Dewn the jountain Side im From of a Blazing Oil Train. “I don't expect to live much longer, and after Tam dead I want you to put in the papers the story of that ride I had from Prospect to Broo- ton in 1809.” The speaker was Duff Brown, an old locomo- tive engineer, who was lying at his home in Portland, dying witt consumption. This was Several weeks azo. On the 7th of last month be died. He was nearly 60 yearsold. His story of the awful mde is this: “In 1800 1 was running a mixed train Buffalo, Corry & Erie railway. The t tween Prospect or Mayville ~umumit ton Junction in so crooked that, wilh tance is actually only ten mile rail ake it fourteen. The grade for the whole distance Is over seventy feet to the mile. About 9 o'clock on the night of Aug. 17, 1369 we reached the summit with a train of two ii cars and a box car. The talned two valuable trotting porses, keepers with U on their way, I believe, to the Cleveland meeting, There were fifty or sixty passeners i two cam. 1 got the signal from the conductor to start. and I alled out. We had got under considerable Poadway, when, looking back, I saw that an oll car inthe middle of the train was on dre, 1 reversed my engine and whistled tor ‘brakes, The conductor and brakemen Jumped off. They uncoupled the passenger cars and set the brakes on them. bringing thea to # stop, Supposing that the brakes on the burning oll cars would also be put on, I called to a brakes man on the box car todraw the coupling pin between that car and the head oil tauk, backing So that he could do it, intending to run far the dine the curves by double-breasted sack has many admirers, aud is more popular this season than for several years past. Allsack coats are a trifle longer than Jast season. OvERcoars. Plain kerseys, in all shades, is the overcoat for fall and winter wear. The Newmarket over- coat, both single and double-breasted, is pro- vided for extreme weather and will supplant the ulster. It is In great favor as a cover garment for dress suits and very popular for traveling purposes. Single-breasted overcoats with bor- Jy fronts is, perhaps, more generally called for than any other style; the borly gives them a neat and firm edge and does not allow of open- ing of the fronts. . PANTALOONS. But slight changes have been made in panta- loons. They are cut shapely to the form of the leg, and are well hollowed up in the instep. Dress pantaloons occasionally have a strip of binding stitched on side seams, and there Is a desire to have all other pantaloons finished with & welt or corded side seam. VESTS. For business purposes close high up to the neck with six or seven buttens. Dress vests close with three buttons and rolling collar, and are hollowed out so as to present a liberal dis- play of the shirt bosom. NECKWEAR. Plain colors are seen a good deal. Fine satins are iu fayor. Bright grounds and bright figures are the rule, and of shapes the puffs are retain- ing the lead. In fact, the dazzling richness and coloring can hardly be described. Fruit and flower effects are new features, and very beautiful. ° GLOVES. Gay and bright colors in English knit gloves are provided in great variety. A fine grade of camel's hair in neat effects and mixtures will be in request during the winter. These, it shoula be said, are very pleasant things to wear, their peculiarity.being a soft feel and » warmth equal to that of fur; but then we might devote a page to gloves alone, so great is the variety and uses required of them. HATS. The most fitting and elegant head-dress ever designed tor gentlemen's wear—the silk hat— The correct style for the season is comparatively straight in the crown, the brim slightly rolled with a heavy curl The opera hat, the indispen- sible requisite of evening dress, conforming in shape with the silk hat, is made up in satin. drab and corded silk, the most elegantly finished hats being lined all through with black satin. The Derby hat has a taper crown, roll brim, and is, as are all other styles of hats, being made higher in the crown and narrower in the brim thon jn seasons just past. UMBRELLAS AND CANES. Umbreilas run into the finest silk fabrics, with handles in endless variety, the carver’s and sil- versmith's art being brought into service with some really elegant results. Of canes the same can be said as to workmanship and finish, the cunning of the workmen producing effects most charming. SHOES. * Anitem in which fashion tas led humanity into all sorts of notions, some of them positively cruel, seems to have entered on a season of com- mon sense principally and the broader toed shoe made solely for comfort has now again taken its place as the fashionable shoe. LITTLE THINGS. The many other little things and trinkets brought into use in a gentleman's toilet are mere a matter of personal whims than demands offashion. Of them we do not therefore think it of interest to treat. 2 ee ‘The Utility of School-Recesses, Joseph Carter, in Popular Science Monthly for Nov. There is a growing tendency to abandon the school-recess. The editor of the Boston Journal of Education says of the no-recess ex- periment, adopted in Rochester, N. ¥., that it has given “perfect satisfaction.” Among the advantages gained, he mentions, “a continuous school-session without interruption in school- work”; ‘better health of pupils, on account of freedom from exposure to cold and wet weather in the midst of each session”; ‘discipline easter, on account of freedom from recess-troubles”; “‘more time for a etc.; “less tardiness and absenteeism”; and less frequent opportunities for vicious pupils to come in contect with and corrupt other pupils.” Believing that these reasons are unsatisfactory, and that the tendency is a bad one, I propose to offer some general considerations that weigh strongly against it. The schools are utilitarian In thelr aim; to fit the child for living successfully is the of their existence. As animal strength is the foundation of all moral and physical welfare, and is the chief condition of success in all the ursuits of life, the future welfare of the child every way depends upon the normal develop- ment of his body. An effeminate man is half sick; and when it comes to any of the severer trials of life, either Todeare ts required, Chp weakest most tserftabty or is m be the first to succumb. ‘This is as true of moral I physical doubted if anything that is taught In the schools 1s of so much value to the child that it Would not better be foregone than to be obtained by the loss of any physical vigor whatever, Taken in the sense, that city has the beat schools where the school restrains atdip reat ermehe gae the physical growth and normal development of the pupils, and not the one where pupils show the greatest proficiency in acquiring in a a sabre meen caine facts which happen irrationally current for an education. But because in so many schools the test to be applied at the end of the term, or at the end of the course, is the memori- ter one, and because no teacher expects pupils to be examined as to their health, or as to whether they are forming habits of life that will be con- ducive to it is not to be wondered at that all the plans of the teacher look more to the of conventional than to the more matter health. “Dad’s Under That Lead of Hay ‘From John Swinton’s Paper. enongh away to save the box car and locomotive. As I ran on down the hill, after the pin had been. drawn, what was my horrow to see that the burning cars were following me at a speod that Was rapidly increasing. The men had not anc- ceeded in putting on the brakes. I saw that the only thing to be done was to run for it to Brocton, and the chances were that we would never reach there at the which we would be obliged to make feces those sharp reverse curves, where we had never run over twenty mi a hour. en I eaw the flaming cars—for the whole six were on fire by this time—plunging after me, and only a few feet away, I pulled the throt- tle open. The oil cars caught me, though, be- fore I got away. They*came with fuil force against the rear of the box car, sinashing in one end and knocking the horses and their keepers flat on the floor. The heat was almost unbear- able, and, do my best, I couldn't place more | than thirty feet between the pursuing column of fire and ourselves. By the light from the tur- nace, as my fireman opened the door to pile it the coal, I caught sight of the face ot one of the horsemen in the box car, he cys f climbed up tothe grated opening in the end. It war as pale as death, and he begged me for God's sake to give her more steam. 1 was giving her then all the steam she could carry, and the grade itself was enough to carry us down at the rate of fifty miles an hour. We went so fast that the engine couldn't pump. Every time we strack one of those curves the old girl would almost run on one set of wheels, and why in the world she didn’t topple over is something I never could understand. She seemed tu know that it was a race of life and de: and worked as if she were alive. “The night was dark, and the road ran thi woods, deep rock cuts, and along high embanl ments. There we were, thundering along at lightning speed, and, only a few paces behind us, that flery demon tn fall pursuit. There were 50,000 gallons of oil In those tanks, at least, and it was all Ir flame, making a flying avalanche of fire 500 feet long. The flames leaped into the air nearly ahundred feet. Their roar was like that of some great cataract. Now and then a tank would explode with a noise like a cannon, when @ column of flame and pitchy smoke would mount high above the body of the flames, and showers of burning oil would be scattered about in the woods. whole coun- try was lighted up for miles around. “Well, It wasn't long, going at the rate we made, before the lights of Brocton came in sight in the valley. The relief I felt when these came in view was short-lived, for I remembered that train No. 8, on the Lake Shore, would be due at the Junction about the time we would reach it. No. 8 was the Cincinnati express. Our only hope all along during the race had been that the Switchman at the junction would think far enough to open the switch there connecting the cross-cut track with the Lake Shore track, and let us run.in on. the latter. where the grade would be against us, if anything, and where we could soon get out of the way of the oil cars. The switch, of course, would be closed now for the express, and our last hope was gone un eas the express was late, or somebody had sense enough to flag it. While we were thinking of this we saw the ex; tearing along toward the junction. Gould we reach the Junction, get the switch, and the switch be set back for the express betore the latter got there? If not, there would be an in- evitable crash, in which not only we but proba- bly scores of others would be crushed to death. All this coni did not eccupy two sec- onds, but in that two seconds I liv years. “ood Ged!” I said to my fireman, “what are we to do now?” “The fireman promptly replied—and he wana brave little fellow—that I should whistle for the switch and take the chance. I didso. That 3 whistle was one prolonged yell of agony. It was ashriek that seemed to tell us that our brave old engine knew our danger and had her fears. Neither the fireman nor myself spoke another word. The engineer on the ex- “Thanks be to God! train, seeing us tearing down that moun- in with an ith ofa mile of solid fire in close pursuit of us, knew in a moment that only one thing could save us. He whistled for brakes, and got hie train toa stand not ten feet away from the switch. The switchman now answered our signal. and we shot in on the Shore track and whizzed on up by the depot and through the place like a rocket. The burning care fol- lowed us in, of course, but their race was run. They had no propelling power now, and after chasing us for a mile they cave up the pursuit, and in three hours there was nothing left of them but smoking ruins. “My fireman and I were so weak when we brought our locomotive to a stop that we could not get outot thecab. -The two horsemen were unconscious inthe box car. The horses were ruined. And how long do you think we were in making that sixteen miles? We ran two miles up the Lake Share track. Just twelve epreel py fd begere vd to ws spot where we etopped! A plum! 'y miles an hour, not counting the time lost getting under beyond Brocton.” The flesh of domestic animals fit for food is al- most a waste substance in many countries, since tt cannot be locally consumed nor profit- ably preserved. In the River Plate republics alone there are 80,060,000 and 25,000,000 cattle to a population af 2,500,000. For years ly valued there for their wool, rt api greet i i] Hi Hits a =