Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 28, 1886, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. {4 AXD U6 B AUSAN STHRST i NE B WO T ST ATA OPPICR, N Fw ¥ ORK OFFICr NNt VaRON OPF I, Publiahed every moming, axeopt Sunda e only Mon dny miorning paper published in the <tate, TERME WY MATE One_Yenr 100 | hr Hix Months » Months, nth e WKLy Ry, Published Fvery TERME, POSTRAID Ono Your, with premiim One Year, withoit oremiim x Months, without preimim One Month, on trinl v 19 Wednesda CORMESPONDENCE Al communieations relutin torial matters should be address TOROF THE DR BUSINPES LETTERE Wnd e Lt to news o the ters and romittances should be PURLISHING COMPANY, OMANA Afts, oheeks nnd postoffice ord to be made payable to the orter of the compan THE BEE POBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, B ROSEWATER, Boiron. Bworn Stateme State of Nebraska, |, o County of Do Petvd Geo. 13, Tzschuck,secretary of the Bee Pub- Nshine eompany, does solemniy swear that the actnal circnlation of the Dailv Bee for the wock ending July 234, 1885, was as follow: Saturday, 100, Tuesday, 15th Wednesday, 14th Thursday Friday, 16t) Average.. Vo, B, Tzscnton. Bubseribed and sworn to before me this 20th day ot July, 1855 o Notary Publie. *tduly sworn,de- of the Boe <-Il‘||nl average T<KAL.| B. "Tzschuck, being fi l m and says that ho i se \blishing coniy, that irculation of ‘the Da o for the nmn hof January, 185, was 10,378 copies; for F v, 159, 10,808 copies;’ for March., 16, copies; for Awril| 188, 12,101 copies: for May, 189, 12,436 copies; for June, 158, 15,208 coples. Gro. B, Tzscnuvek, fubscribed and sworn to betore me, this Bth day of July, A. D. N Fr, Notary Pubiie. faeAr.| Tuere n‘lu\\lll;., mmnm “of are \nlu tion in Mexico that may become interest ing fust about the time congress ceases to furnish entertainment to the country. R, “I A it, but I have it not,” is the reply of the editor of the Repnbtican when challenged to vroduce the General Thayer letier, whose existence he de- nies. This is decidedly watery, Tue motto of the Republican onght to be “No Rejected Manuscripts Returned,’” That letter of General Thayer's which sneaked out of the office when most wanted should teach it a lesson. Tiie: United states senate did an active business on Monduy 1n the matter of pri- vate pension bills, having passed fifty. This will keep Mr, Cleveland out of bed beyond the usual hour of retiring for sev- eral evenings. Wiy real estato becomes less profit- able, Omaha camtalists wili perhaps di- rect their attention to the crying need of an air line railroad up the Elkhorn Val ley. There’s millions in it for the people of this growing cit, Oxana is once more confronted with the certainty of being ‘“hard up” for funds before the end of the year. A score of tax shirkers who are now platting broad acres which were assessed 'on Apri 1 as farm lands know the reason why. ERVOUS prostration and malaria are the fashionable disoases this summer. An eastern physician who ought to know claims that nine-tenths of the so called malaria is pure laziness and the majority of cases of ‘‘heart disease'’ are indiges: tion caused by over-eating. “Tux enterprising burglar coutinues to “burgle” and will keep up his profession until every block in Omaha is patrolled by 2 watchman and every daor and win- dow protected by an alarm. Marshal Commings should go right down in his pocket and see that these needed im- proyements materialize, — ‘T'rik secretary of the treasury let down the custom bars to permit an original portrait of George Washington, imported from London for presentation to the city of Philadelphia, to enter free of duty. This was the correct thing to do for sev- oral reasons, among them the fact that George, as we remeanber, was a revenue reformer. Mx. Keeny, of motor fame, has just comploted another ongine of his inven- tion for which he promises most wonder- ful achievements, He ontertained, or rather amused a number of gentlemen a fow days ago, with an exhibition of this machine, which an unscientific and drreverent reporter terms ‘‘queer.,” Mr. Keely's 1s one of the most remarkable onsos of porsistent failure on record. As the politioal euccess of Lord Ran- dolph Churchill is very largely due to the cfforts of his American wife, it would seeni Lo be the proper thing to congratu- late Lady Churchill on the promised ad- vancement of her husband to the posi- tion in the new cabinet as chancellor of the exchequer and leader of the com- mons. But Randolph wil! not stay long in oftice, —— Tue democratic organ has laid the in- ternal revonue abolition programme on the shelf for a few days while it 1s vainly floundering about in the mire and trymng * to explain what its views on the ta aotually are. The attempt is quite un- mocossury, During the past two weeks the Herald has expounded such a variety _ of contradictory opinions upon the tarift " question that it will take its editor ponths to unravel the stitckos from the old crazy quilt, me——————— It is time congress took coguizance of the allegea illogal detention of Mr. Cut- ting, the El Paso editor, who is kept in by the Mexican authorities at del Norte. If correctly reported - tho offouse of the editor, which was sim- Ply a newspaper attack upon a Mexiean @itizen, is not of & character to justify the summary treatment he is receiving, and ‘the refusal of the Moxican authorities to rd the demands of the American ter and consul for his release is a breach of international courtesy which our government should not tolerate. A ' mesolution in congress, introduced Mon- ~ day, calling for information in the mat- ~ %or, may have the offoct of inducing the Mexican authorities to ohango their pres- ant defiant attitade. That Thayer Letter, And now comes Fred Nye and deposes and says that he made a slight mistake when he he 1 through the Repubiican that he hadin his possession a letter writ ten by General Thayer denouncing Sena | tor Van Wyck. He insists that such a lot- ter was on his table for months, but somebody from Grand Teland whispers that Thayer pocket while the editor had his back turned. This is the usual Nye method of crawling into a hole and puling the hole in after him To cover his graceful retreat Mr. Nye takes up a great deal of space with what he elaims were the contents of this contraband letter. He still insists that this letter was first offered to the Bekand rejocted. We a8 positively deny that any such letter has ever been offered at this office. General Thayer most emphati s that he ever wiote a letier nator Van Wyck ot that he ||'|= taken sides on the senatorial sue cession. The quostion about the exist ence of gach a letter is now reduced toan issue of veravity between General Thayer and Fred Nve, leaving out of view en- tirely our own denial that such a letter has ever passed through our hands. There the matter can safely rest. public ean draw its own conelusions. ———— The The Decline of the Cattle Companies. The rage for orgamzing cattle com panies with large forcign eapital and highly paid managers1s on the decline It veached its height in 1882, when more corporations of this class were formed thav any year before or since. The results of the two years sncceeding in loss of cattle, small ealf crops and divi dends which ran from only 6 per cent. to worse than nothing have exercised a de pressinginfluence on foreign mvestors. Dundee and Edmburgh and London have locked their to the Ame pro- moter of ranch investments, and o thou sand stockholders in the older enterprises are wishing heartily that they were woll out of the business and had their pounds, shiling and pence seeurely placed in British consuls In the last of the consy sporls s sned by the state department, Mr. Wood, the United States representative at Dun dee, makes some startiing exhibits of the returns for the past three years made by twenty-three British companies. From the tables given, Mr. Wood shows that the average dividends for the past three years have been little more than four per cent. OF these, two paid 10 per cent.; one 7§ per cent.; three 6 per cent.; two, 5 per cent.; two less than 5 per cent., and thirteen no dividend atall. To Eng- lishmen who had been dazzled by promis of 83 per cent profit and lured by report of the wonderfal success of the milliona cattle barons of the plains such an out- come is naturally depressing. The trouble with most of the great eat- tle companies arises from overcapitali- zation. Formed from the consolidation of smaller herds turned in at high figures, the first cost has, in most instances, greatly exceeded the value. Expensive management, restricted and overstocked ranges, and three hard winters in suc- cession, make heavy dividend returns an impossibility, If the truth were really known, the actual condition of affairs on the ranges would still further decrcase the figures on the books. Thousands of cattle are to-day bemg moved into British America at heavy expense be- cause sottiement and the prohibition of fencing render their profitable foeding on Wyoming, Montana and Nebraska ranges an impossibility. The day for the large cattle companies in this section of the west is rapidly passing away. Their place will be taken up by the large stock farms where feed will be carefully pro- vided all the year around and the loss by storm and starvation deci sed to o minimum, This is the profitable form ol cattle raising of the future. It gives 1o room for ecxtensive swindling by “‘boolk count'’ or double sale, reduces the expensive ranch system of feeding armies of cowboys to hold the hords and attend distant round-ups, and replaces caveless handling of herds by a detailed supervision which can onrefully improve stock by cross breeding and furnish the murkets with the best class and thevefore the highest priced meat animals. e The Business Situation. The evidences of a continued improve- mentin the trade situation are numerous, There is more doing in most lines than usual at this time of year and everything points to a steady and healthful expan- sion of business from now until fall. There are substuntial reasons for the ex- peetation of a gradual bettorment of business, among which may be ineluded the abundant crops of londing staples, the increased consumption of iron and steel in the extension of railroad building and equipmeont, tho adjustment of serious labor troubles and general advance in wages, the rise in wool prices throughout the world, and the growth of contidence in the stability of prices and in the se- curity of credits in all pmts of the ocountry. All these are favorable augu- ries of the future of trade, and amply justify the hopeful fecling that now finds expression among all classes of trades and manufacturers. Corn prices have moved upward, while wheat has been going down. The rise is the result of strong bullish manipulation in Chicago and of the scare among the shorts, growing out of the exaggerated reports of the effect of the dry weather on the growing crop. Compared with this time lust week, prices are 8 vents per bushel higher in Chicago and 1j@1} cents per bushel higher on the seaboard. Export demand for corn is light. Hog products have not shured in the strength in corn, but hive slightly declined under the nflucnee of speculation. The gen- eral position of the provision trade, Low- over, continues strong, with a good dis- tribution in progress both for home con- sumption and for export. Cotton is quict and steady. Wool shows unabated strength, with the demand running chiefly on low and wedium grades. Steel rails are in brisk demand and very firm. There is & fuir demand for plate, sheet, wrought and struetural iron, and the muarket is well sustained. The clearings throunghout the country show a large iucreasc, 1u which Owaba, as usual, leads. E———— The New Star in France's Folitical Firmament, Unquestionably the foremost figure’ in French politics at this moment is General Boulanger, the niinister of war, Although not old in years, Boulanger is old in ser- vice as a soldier, and his wilitary record is an honorable one. Ho was calied to | patriotism. It w might have slipped it in his | | tablishment of the nation THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: Nnm-«m position |n Hu- ‘mommom | mente and the chioftisexpeeted to obey neot alone In recognition of that . record, but quite as much becanse of his ad vanced republican and, in the opinion of the people at least, his ardent s probably not expected that, educated and trained as a Boulanger wonld originate any new or startling policy, but that he would fine himself, asis the habit of when placed in purely administrative po sitions, to maintaining the military on sforming and improving it VIews, soldier, soldiers good basis, r a« it became necessary to do o 1 order to keep it in a condition con forming to the poliey and traditions which have governed ft, deemed I to national sceurity But the mew minister appears to have entered upon his duties not as a machine, to follow the routine hnes of tradition i policy, but with ideas, These found expression in the military measure some time ago introduced in the parlinment, which immediately challenged the atten tion of Germany as involving a menace that country. But while there could justly be no such inference from thoe measure, and Boulanger doubtless had no such thought in framing it, the ap- preliension it ereated in Germany did not ssen the popularity of the measure or author with the French people Boulanger hias steadily grown in popu- lar attention and undountedly also in popular favor. Within a fortnight he bas fought a harmless duel, but it is qyite enough for his reputation with the Irench people that he fought, and ho has in o brief time effc the organiza- ticn of a great military c¢lub at Paris of which he is the central figure and contvolling pirit. The name of Boulanger, more 1 that of any other man in France, has become one to conjure with, and; beyond the boun- daries of that nation the opinions and movements of the war minister have be- come matters of commanding interest. It is not extraordinary that a man who has thus risen suddenly to such an eleva on in public attention, and who has ex hibited such remarkable energy, courage and cleverness, should have his motives and aims called in question. The most self-sacrilicing patriotis not less amenable to this law of human suspicion, or envy, or malice, than the most self-seeking plot- ter. The ¢ history of the American republic is replete with examples of this nd it would be irrational to ex- peot less, even at this day, of the feverish- tempered and mercurial Fronchmen. The direction and intensity of the senti- ment in opposition to Boulanger are shown in the article which appearcd on Monday in the Paris Figaro and Wi republished in Tue Tuesday morning. The suthor the minister of war as an ambitious plot- ter who is paving the way to a coup d'etat, and with incisive logic and tren- chant facts warns France to beware of the danger that confronts her in the dar- and which are exsent - H ing exploits and ambitious designs of I'oulnngu Certain of the republican leaders dismis: this ignment as unworthy of ser consideration, and there is doubtle just reason to question the republicanism or the patriotism of General Boulanger. But the opposition he has arvoused will not be put down by contefupt or ridicule, and what its effect will be with the sus- ceptible French people, if persistently followed up, is the question. How seri- ous this question is appears in the fact that there is a growing belief, though s yet vaguely defined, in European polit- ical circles that the French republic is nearing its end. 1t is noted as a curfous ecircumstance of French history during the t century that no government has lasted longer than twenty years, and tha present ro- public 18 approaching thatterm. Trifl as this may seem of itself, when associ- ated with other events and circumstances of recent occurrence, of which the reader of current Irish history is famuliar, it as- sumes a certain significance, at least to the superstitious politiciun, There been many radical changes in the politi- cal system in France within a few years, and evidence isnot wanting that the eftect of some of these has been to in- crease popular dissatisfaction with the republican experiment. There are other strains to come which will still further and perhaps more severely test the strength of the republic. Hence every frosh politieal development in Franoe possesses a vital interest for all people, and particaiarly so for the American people. z No Malaria Here. The dry summer has been a blessing in disguise for Omaha, It has started the perspiration, it is true, and burned out some of the lawns, but it has been a good conservator of heaith, Omaha has becn muking great headway in public improve- ment during the pastthree months, Acres on aeres of streets and alleys have been graded, BSewers have been laid, and miles of trenches dug. There has been an enormous amount of dirt turned over and exposed to the air. For all this we have been remarkably free from malarial affections. There has been no epidemic of typhoid or typho malaral fever, while the old-fashioned shukes have made a summer excursion to Missouri and Ar- kansas, disgusted with the prospects in these regions. If Omnnha had experienced a wet sum- mer the result would have been very dif- ferent. The spores and germs of mala- rial disease would have propagated them- selyos jn the wetsoil. The odors from the viy turned up earth, stagnant pools of water in ditches and trenches and streets soggy with mioisture would cer- tainly have given steady employment to our doetors. Quinine would have had u large consumption 1 families which have had no ooccasion to pay druggists’ bills. Instead of this we have had u season so dry and wargy that malanal disease has not been afforded a chunce to secure lodgment. There have bven some ad- vantages, after all, in the dry spell, e Who Is Holding Him? When Cuief Butler resigned from the fire department the Bee expressed its views with regard to the necessity of discipline in the fire departmient without reseive. We declared that as & watter of public safety, discipline must be main- tained in the force and drunkeness should not be tolerated. These views we still hold. But when disaipline 15 requisite it should extend to the chief as well as to his subordinates. ‘The mayor and coun- «cil are by law placed in control of the fire department, The council is especially charged with the purchases and disburse- only | | | their orders and report his transactions for thelr approval Chief Butler, we! are told, has shown himself insubordinate by dehiberately ignoring the ordersof the council in the of and m | purchase supplics, matters which the council very properly regarls as its prerogative, Viewed from that standpoint it becomes n serfous question whether the conneil can, with any degree of self-respect, bog My, Butler to with draw his resignation There is a saying that there are as good fish in the sea as ever were drawn out of it. My, Butleris by no means the only man in Omalia competent to supervise the fire department. In fact, there is no man in office whose place cannot be filled inan emergeney. Chief Butler expeet the council to humiliate itself and get on its kees to him, [f he feels that he made a mistak let him withdraw resignation < holding him £ Tuk chronic eroakers against the pol management of Omahy, with its insuftiei ent foree, may find food for reflection in the account which apveared in Tre Bry of Monday afternoon of the assanlt and robbery of o Sunday even ing. This outrage oceured ina populons part of the city, early in the evening, in the full glave of the electrie lights of the Leland house, ana while the lady was Iking with others Furthermore the thief made good his eseape. No such daring and successful outrage is recovded in the criminal annals of Omaha, but the numerical weakness of our police force offers an invitation that some reckless scoundrel may some ¢ aceept. cannot QuEEN VICToRIA exhibits the weak side of hier character in never allowing an op nortunity to pass for showing her dislike of Mr. Gladstone. Tt is observed that in necepting the resignation of the late pre mier without inviting him to advise her as to his successor, the queen violated a precedent and comnutted a breach of state etiquette, which, however gratify- ing it may be to the classes, will not im- prove respect for her with the people Tuk immigration for the fi ended with June was a little less than that of the previous year, the whole num- ber being 828,917 —about one-third the present population of Nebraska. The classitication shows ling off of about one-third in emigration from Germany during the year, while Italy largely in creused its contribution. Tre Omaba underwriters have peti- tioned the councilinot to accent Chief Butler's resignation. Why don’t they petition the chief to withdeaw it? It is a good deal easier to induce one man to back down than l\\‘('l\'e. AND now only honest bntter dfte omeone ‘tugg sts that the the goat. PROMIN Salvini’s fortune is set down at half a mil- lion dollars. William W. Astor, \\llu has 37,000 houses to look aft s taking time to write a play, John A. Logan, fr., has becomen partner in a loan and real estate firm of Washington. Mme. Ristori is about to publish her auto- biozraphy in Itallan; Eng“sll, Freneh and German, Prince Bismarek 1 ent a large photo- graph of himself to President Cleveland. 1t is framed in carved oak and bears the Prince’s antograph. Captain Eads, the Mississippi fmprover, is alittle man with a white beard, a fringe of white hair round a bald head, and a pale, bloodless complexion. Lord Rothschild sent Mime, Patti, as a little present, a paver-knite of blonde tortoise shell, “the handle and the name of Mme, Patti one blaze of dinmonds.” €. Crawford, the Washiugton correspon- dent of the New York World, on three min- utes' notice can write a rair biography of every comsplcuous public man in the country. Mr. Ruskin's condition is very serious, His triends admit that his present illness is similar to the last, which was simply insan- ity, with symptoms which his physician thought peculiarly dangerous. e was ordered to take absolute rest, but he pem..ml inworking. The present is the ifth attack — He Lu-nernll\ Tak(‘s Ie, tica Herald. Speaking of drinking, it may be observed that a man who “can tuke or leave alone” generally tak ournal. to look for the north pole, may eome back a great man or he may return a cannibal. — - A Little Off. New Orleans Picavune. There is something the matter with the man’s head when a railway postal clerk thinks that his vesignation will paralyze the government, e —— He Willbe a Very Old Liar. Chieago Herald, Ewpires riso and fall, but the man who has shaken hands with ali the presidents tarries with us. A hundred years or 5o from now he will be a very old liar, - She Oarries a Razor, Chicago Herald, Slugging being played out, a desperate at- tempt is making in some places to involye Gall Hamilton and Miss Rose Cleveland in a controyersy, But no friend of the latter will help the matter on, She carries a razor, i ey Her Hityle. St. Louis Reyublican. Miss Rose Elizabeth, Clgveland has taken charge of her Chicago wagazine, and the next number will no doubt give marked ev dence of that litergly style which was so striking in productions marketed while was the president’s m.-inl sister. Wanted Fresh T New Base ball manager (to applieant)—1 want a new pitcher. Cpn yow curve a ball? Applicant—Yes, siry1 ékn curve it twice around the batter befote it reaches the catch- er's hands. Manager—Only '“"f Applicant—That's all Manager—1"w afraid you won't do. What 1 want is « phenowmenon, and a lelt-landed one at that, - A Savant, Rambler A kunowin lu.ul is Mr. Jones: Discourseth fxe on veins and bones; Ou arteries he seems Informed to such & Ligh degree That evey one his knowledge owns, On politics, in loudest tones He arguoth, and quick dethrones AN Elkuments. | He Is you see, A Snewing wan. Iu seience, too, he's leflt no ston Unnmu.“ln Lruth, IM List'ner: When he doth prate, in agony, So lurluvd. ‘d 80 dull, bl lie 1y R loaug— An owing wan. WEDNESDAY PENSION LISt mnsrwm o JULY 28. 1834 Reminizcences of Several Venerable Vet- orans of the Army and Navy, General Harney's Career in the Army ~ Famons Seadogs of the Olden Time—Ancient and Honor able Marines, “I was looking over the new army and navy registers the other day, d an unpensioned veteran of the war to the Chieago Herald man, a< he wheeled in his chair and lighted a fresh cigar, “and [ found some curions things. One thing I fornd is that salt w and salt br are conducive to longevity, and that if A man wants to live to a ripe old age he ought to try and get into the navy Another thing I found was that the oldest living ofticer of the army was in his aay the grentest of frontier eampaigners, and probably went through hardship enough to kill the ordinary West Pointer ot our time before the age of forty. And vet 1 this veteran is over eightysix. refer %0 old Generat Harnoy. | wonder liow many remember that the old warrior is yet living. But he is. He is the oidest offiver in the army, both in years and length of seryice, and yel ongress would never give him a higher ok than brigadier general, though it did brevet him major gencral as an et of deceney ufter he had been retived, Gen- eral Harney entered in the army as sec- )3 in lieutenant in ond lientenant nf the rstinfantry 1818, He b 3 nm 18 captain in a coionel in lieutenant colonel in w.m brig: h.» 1846 ana a llnnk of ity dier on the retir years, Me sinee the war of 181 l]mhln war under § and came ne; En, t foy menrly twenty-six in all the wars He served m the ott, in the Mexic r bringing on a il by his m»rumnmm( when acting as military governor of Oe, gon. e was too olil to do much in Iln' civil w but wnh Juan island, Vancouver, e was empioyed the tirst year or so in organizing western troops at St. Louis, Harney was a great explorerin the north- west, — Harn P in the Black Hills, is a geographic ["landmnrk. The old man cannot live much longer, and when he goes there departs the oldest, of: ficer in point of service by nearly twenty y 1 Ihll pid veteran. continued the unpensioned 18 he struck a fresh mateh and up a blue \L\l1\|||||4~(. which he s the official gister, ‘it the salts ul' |h( 10 nd up under the weight of Here is old Commodore J oseph B Hull, horn in 1795 and entered the navy November 9, 1813, and still alive and hale, think of thaty the navy and roll, . tle months What do_you Seventy-three years in the government pay- entered the navy exacily two after Perry” on Lako had b by tho r .md two months when the battle of New Or- “had been two shipman when Waterloo w fought, and when Victoria_ascended the throne ot England he had “been a lieutenant fur- teen yes The old man has sailed in and in ey line-of-battle ship country ever owned, and some overnment never heard of, For n 1815 he served in the Wash- din the frigate hese old ships were that this instance, ington 74, and af United States, broken up half a century ago. Commo- dore Hull was a very old man when the civil war broke ont, too old to go to_sea, but he did eflicient duu at St. Louis for two years superintending the construe- tion of the western gunboats. Though he was retived in 1861 he sti 1 doing duty. and as the fz short of officers it kept him at work until 1873, He commanded the Phils navy yard up to 1867, but after that th old hull was hauled up in ordinary. Thoe commodore is ninety-one yeacs oid, but his J[friends say he still wants to go to sea. “Here's another old _chestnut,” con- tinued the unpensioned veteran as ho thumbed the leaves of the register. ‘Com- modore Henry Bruce entered the navy November 9, 1813, precisely the same date that Huil did, and is yet alive. Neither of these old sea dogs is therefore entitled cedence in point of years in the ice, though Hull has much the more ngiished record. It has been so long since Commodore Bruce has seen blue water that perhaps he onught not to onsidered a sailor at all. Probably A dozen people outside the keepers of the navy rolls know_that such a nam borne on them. Yet for over years this old officer has been drawing 2,800 a year from the treasury. The old man’s record is & singul ) Though he has been seventy-three yoars in the nayy he never saw but fifteen ye: service at the sea and eight on shore. He is shown on the register to huve been un- employed fort; yoars And six months. Here is u pensioner as is a pen- sioner. Fifty years in receipt of a hand- some income with not a day’s duty as an equivalent, And {l-llhuy Say republics ure |m’n teful. What makes the mutter worse Is that Bruce is shown here to have been retired in 18535, under the first retir- ing act which was pused to weed out the incompetents and other deadwood of the sorvice. Bruce c-mu under the nmgnry but he has got amply even with the gov- ernment by living for thirty-one years since and enjoying his three-fourths pay ll{n threatens to live for thirty-one years lon, b m to show you further what the sea breezes will do in promoting longovity,” the speaker continued, “here is & lisi of twenty-seven rear admirals and fourtcon commodores, who have reached throe score and ten and over and have the service over fifty years. Some of them have been retived a great many years, and not one done duty for a decade or more. The admirals receive $4,500 & year and the commodores §3,300, 1find that the oldest oflicer of that Rll lant but_eredulous corps, the marines, is Major Isaac T, Doug’hlf The major was retired in 1864, having reached tho age of sixty-two. He must iherefore, now he eighty-six )L.ll‘ old, just the age of General Harney. The major has only been in_the service, though, forty-nine years. In those days officers were ap- pointed to the marine corps from civil l ife sud there was no limit to their age 50 Major Doughty must have been over thirty when he entered the service, There is another gallant but credulous marine who comes within two weoks of having seen as much service as Major Dought and that is Capta Mattox, but the la ter is entitled to be vegarded us the vete- ran of his corps bt Slang in Modern Speech, Puiladelphia Becord. There is & German proverb whick tells us that “‘speech is silvern, silence is gol- aen;” but, in accordance with the rule which seems to preveil either in economic, industrial or mental affairs, it is the baser metal of tha two that is to be found n commonest use. It is ouly ocea- sionally that we are culled upon to ex- ercise the very highest of the moral qualities which belong w0 humanity, and which are started into activity by un- looked-for eyents or unexpected exigen- cies. But thore is o constant demand in daily life for gontleness of denieanor, politeuces, regard for the foeling of others, and modesty in speech aud be- or: and the enltivation of ‘"H,'. sential in ordinary aflaivs, 7T than the nothing more singnla of evolution through which common speech seems to b From a carefnl and almost me precision of expression, which sounded stilted and unnatural, pass Most 1incorss jously into an ex trava, and an exhuber ssir anic aink use of meaningloss would almost It the } much-vaunted possibilitios the glish Janguage. This 18 able among young people fortunately, more especially among our givls, who in posscasion of advanta gos in the field of edueation and eulture at were unknown o their sc last contary. We smilo to-day over quaint style in which Paritan or Quaker maidens talked Many of our girls talk slang ove o adjectives, and, ke who playe ‘ona violin witha single st they s on which they delight to the changes Whenever they wish to qualify or inten sify their |~\|v\1-“|nn of the feeling either of wonder, of annoyance wiu\‘h for the timo be 1r dominates and possesss few ad they To |hnm the Hele- coins in their transactions most glorious sunset is simply gant.' the pen of the poet and the” pencit of the painter, it bears no higher value to them spring bonnet or at the smiling trasttul ness and innocent piayfuluess of chila hood, And then, when ther to express the very highest condition of fecling, the narrowness of the modern vocabulary is more plainly scen, and distorted superlatives are Iunuifl\\ pluy. 1f one thing is " then, according to the my of the feminine mind, its opposite must be “awiully” good; while Di who fares sumptuously every day,is 1y" rich, vus, who begs tor crumbs at Dives' gate, by w parity of Sawfully bad, ions logic not intended to assert urally volgar. But there ceakness in huinanity for vvnlng s near the objectionable as possible wit uot actually coming into contact with it, just as a boy often delights in frightening his parants by ~lm\nnw|u>“ near he can 20 to the edge of a dangerous ¢liff with out falling ove ishment is order to pro equally as ne that correction should be administered for the use of overworked adjectives. A practice such as a most insidions growth, and ds 1o the loss of the habit of \|\|up' proper words. It it be asked why ve been seleeted ag the subjeet of l|u~m when men are eqi s guilty, can be answercd that it is beeause the intluence which refinemen woman, cither in specch ot 8 ereised on thr The most brilliant epochs 1e civilization, the richest periods in the progress of thought, and the growth of a Land literature, owe their existence to and she has Iargely been their ation and their eradle. The salon Madame de Stael, the dy Holland ana the quiet nulur of George Elot attr men of genins, and in the presence of that subtle and mysterions atmosphere which surrounad woman there has been an_interchangeof e which haye shsi- eated new ideas and 1 commuu(u-q Woman, as a more of a conversati 1st than He is too much inclined to mo- ehuke or pun 1 case in nd it is of in in manne world. thought and (’nn\o) pened diplomacy, ¢ is mav, nopoiize the oceasion, to speak a set piece, to indulge in monologue, with vrobably an occasional fla But woman 1s more ver draw out thought, not by 1 tions but by suggestions, until, in the contact of associations, ideas t have been lying dormant ain to move, to nu,nnm-u]m e other and lity, roundness and complete- from a lesser lm;.,ln than this it is easy to understand of what benefit purity of specch would rove in preserving ‘the purity of our Janrunge In doveloning its fluxibilit i for the expression of the most ed thong] nd the deepest emo tions. Our s s olleges, with their plans for higher their influence wenkened if the flower of English speech be planted inx wilderness of small talk; and the parents and ers sbould see to it that woman her ngher and her faire of being lowered so that, in th go, she oan only chronicle small becr.” sh of silence. ilo; she can mg_ques Ohfongo dustice. 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