Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 27, 1888, Page 16

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, MAY | Tallk About BARCAINS in WALL PAPER You can get MORE WALL PAPER for less money from T. J. BEARD & BRO,, 1410 Douglas Street, than at any so-called Bargain House. We offer You the Largest Assortment in the Cily, and Will Give You White, Blanks, Satins, Fine Grounds and Gilts, ot the Unheard of Low Price of from Five to Tenn Cents Per ROll. Now is the time. 'T. J. BEARD % BROTHER, The Place, “And Don’t You Forget It,” 410 Douglas St THE TALKATIVE GRIPMAN. He Relates a Lot of Amusing and Very Recent Incidents. HIS OPINION ON BASE BALL. What He Thinks of Judge Wakeley's Opinion—How an Englishman Came to a Sudden and Untimely End. “Hello ! said the gripman, as the reporter climbed into his accustomed place yesterday. “You have caught me just in time. Do you know that nine-tenths of the people in this city are so accustomed to walking up and dropping a nickle in the box that it is hard to break them of tho habit? Why, only last Thursday a man boarded the train on Tenth street and the conductor, who was on the rear platform, did not take up his fare right away. Hang me if that man didn’t pulla quarter out of his pocket and hand it through the crack of the door and shout ‘Change.’ He soon saw his mistake and sat down. But 1 don't think from the way the other passen- gers laughed that he enjoyed the rest of the trip. But that isn't a circumstance,” continued the gripman, as he stopped to take a gradu- ate of the cooking school, who had a pie under her arm, on the car. ‘‘Yesterday a youngster got on and after looking around for awhile and not seeing any cash box con- cluded the bell punch around the conductor’s neck was the article of furniture he was looking for, and tried to drop his nickle into that. Of course it didn’t work, but when the young man discovered that this was no one-horse institution and that there was actually a conductor on this line he acted as though he was surprised, and I guess was, too. “I have a little yarn I guess 1 will tell you if you will agree not to give it away,” said the gripman, “We have on this line a con- ductor with large flowing whiskers of a bright sunset color. Well, you know it is customary forthe kids who sell papers to Jump on the cars for a moment and then off again, and no one, not even the horse railwiy company, has dreamed of charging them any fare. But this duck with the sorrel manc said he proposed to bust the combination and accordingly fired vvery boy who got on the train. But say,” said the gripman, asthe cooking school graduate with the pie got off and made a bee line for the board of educa- tion rooms, ‘‘you just ought to have seen the fun next d Just as his train was leaving Paxton & Gallagher’s a boy with a bundle of Begs under his arm swung on the rear end and putting his head in the car sang out, ‘Eres your hevening BEE, a white 'orse hand a red whisker with hevery copy.’ “1Get out you little devil, said the con, and the boy got. “When we got to Jim Stephenson’s stable alittle cub came aboard and stopped just long enough to inquire if it wasn't ‘a little early tor crushed strawberry “At Hardin’s gun store a lad sailed out with a stub of a eigar and struck the Kaiser for a ‘light’ and if you ever saw a mad man that chap was one. At the top of the hill on Dodge street another kid was waiting and s the car came up the ‘con’ was checking up his trip in his book,” *‘Look out for the book, said the lad, you'll burn it up and then he sneaked.” “At Twentieth and Cass where the switch 18, another imp was waiting and this is what hesaid: ‘Say, mister, why don’t you put your lamp in the headlight?’ ‘Go to thunder, will you,’ said the conductor, us he reached for a paving block. The boy ducked out |Inxln£ll he went *While the lamp holds sut to burn.” “Well, sir,” said the gripman, “anybody can sell papers on that man’s train now. Barkalow Bros. think seriously of patting a man on and I will bet @ hat the “con” would Bot kick u bit.”” Last Monday I had an Englishman, a gen- niue raw Englishman for a passenger. He wasone of this short-trousered, Seymour- eoated, double visar-capped,siagle eye-glassed fellows, don’t you know, and he got on the ear, don't you know, and awsked me wheah the first claws compartment was, don't you %know. And I told him it was up on the roof of the caw, don’t you know. And what do think that English rooster smd?! ‘Au, deah me, and 'ow amn I going to get my twaps up there, deah boy’ Say, did you write that item about the young Englishman falling off a cable car and killing himselft Well, he did not fall unussisted, he was helped. Even B gripman’s patience gives out some times." ‘I notice that we are going to have Sunday base ball just the same and that Parmalee will gontinue to keep his children in the ey- clone cellar as usual. I think Judge Wakeley is @ right level headed old chap, and [ am glad the matter came out as it did. ““You can look for some great work on ex- tensions of this cable line during this present year,” continued the gripman, “‘and although what I say is not officlal, still I overhe lots of things now and then. Next we will tell you something about it.” And with these words tue gribman waved the reporter off with a remark to the effect that his pres- ent supply of knowledge was exhausted. - PEPPERMINT DROF There's one man whom nobody hutes, For every one wishes him well: "Tis the fellow who anticipates The joke of a story you tell, 1t is & mighty forward spring that can keep up with the spring fashion. WNot every one's happy who dances,” I8 @ proverb you frequently see Exemplified when a wan prances. Just after he sits on a beg. And after he'll dance like a Derv ‘When bitten by a ved-bug or flea Then his morals wi'l turn topsy-turvish, And he'll swear like & pirate at sea. The midnight serenader’s come His bullad wild to tame, And though old boots around him hum He'll guitar just the same. He dressed himself in white one night; The girl be tried to scare A pistol drow—her aim was true— climbed the golden stair. Pay as you go, and don’t go till you pay. The man who hunts in the swamps should wear duck pants, Net cue of the champion pedestiians who- Hchours are walking for prizes could go out én a_mud road and keep an old farmer in sight over an hour. Trusts manifest an inclination to go where the combine twineth. A Philadelphia murderer bears the appro- priate name of Killer. Time waits for no man because some men are so long in coming to time. The crab must move in the best of society, for it does everything with eclat. _ A rolling stone_gathers no moss and a set- ting hen hatehes no celluloid eggs. (A landed proprietor may not be proud of his broad acres when his teeth ache. A new paper is_called The Ocean. be hoped it will not make people sick. You can generally tell a tree by its bark. especially is this so of the dog-wood tree. Violin playing tramps are rare. The move- m';:m. of the bow 18 too suggestive of & wood pile. Gossips are not egotistical; they find more pleasure in talking of others than of them- selves. It isn't every newspaper reader who can tell a typographical error from a great Amer- ican joke. The boy who commences to steal his mother's preserves may end by having his father's jim-jams, “Does poetry pay?” asks a querist. It pays a good deal more than most editors are in the habit of paying for poetry. The reason some men can’t make both ends meet is because they are too busily engaged in making one end drink. _ Afterall, the old-fashioned meter by moon- light is about the only one that has stood the test of time and the experts. The man who expects to see himself as others scehim_puts on green glasses and looks at himself 1n the mirror. ) was eyerybody little once?"asked a little girl. “Yes, my darling.” “Well then, mamma, who took care of them?? Au old proverb says_that promises are like plecrust. They are like custard pie crust. They never show up when the pie needs a friend. It is said that Tennyson sometimes spends on a single line. We have seen sleepy old fishermen who would spend days on a sin- gle line. Following in the wake of modern citics, Damascus is to have a street_car. This will enable the roving blades of Damascus to get about eas icr. The queen of May may recover. People who cannot understand this paragraph with- out the use of 1talics ought never to read the newspapers anyway. What's in a name! One Jacob Walkawai was killed by a locomotive at East Buffalo on Fri But if Jacob had been able to walk away he wouldn't have been run over. Daughter—Mamma, the chimney sweep on the roof of the house has just kissed his hand to me. Mother—How shocking! Run at once into the bedroom and wash yourself. Father—I learn with sorrow, my son, that You are getting to be very fast. Son—You've been misinformed, father. My tailor says I'm the slowest man he's got on his books. A puppy becomes a dog, a_ kitten becomes a cat, a piggie becomes a hog, a mou se be- comes a rat, but what makes men rear and punt is when a mortgage becomes an ele- phant, “Indians make just as good angels as any- body else,” says a friend and defznder of the red man, Most of the people on the frontier, we think, are perfectly willing that they should. 'Tis a wise child, ete.—Papa, (of Calvinis- tic faith, hasjust heard that Mollie was at the theater last evening)—~Good morning, daughter of Satan, Mollie—Good morning, father. A Kansas schoolma’am has introduced a new feature in her school. When one of the girls misses a word the boy who spells it gets permission to kissher. AS a result the boys ave impro ving rapidly. Young physician (to patient)—What you need is exercise, sir, You should walk more. Patient (reaching for his pocket- book)—How much, young man! I walked all last night with the baby. Frank Stockton does mnot believe that an author need feel gri in order to produce it in others. Certainly not; in nine cases out ten all he has to do is to write and the grief is sure to come to the reade: At a dinner given to celebrate the comple- tion of a country cburch the builder was toasted. Thereupon he rather queerly re- plied that he was *‘more fitted for the scaf- fold than for public speaking.” A coroner’s jury, summoned to inquire into the death of a or who was thrown from his bunk and killed, reached the sage conclusion that *‘the deccased met his death through an accideut of berth,” People are inclined to look upon Mrs, Weider, of Lancaster, Pa.,, who has b forty-five days without food, usa wonder, but they should recollect that there are Jots of people who live in bourding houses, A New York correspondent wants @ remedy for loud snoring. Before his query is answered he should define what he means by “loud snoring.”’ For soft snoring a spiit clothespin on the nose is suid to work well, We are willing to take a certain amount of stock phrases in newspaper accounts concern ing blizzards, but when & paper tells us about @ zephyr carrying a bed quilt sixty-one miles and then going back for the sheet ~ we aren't It is to tress of a cigar shop to a Pres club man, *This is the sixth been here without sayi money you owe me,” ne," the clever journalist, *when I see you I for- get everything.” A Brooklyn debating society is dis the question as to which is the madder- husband who goes home and finds t 't y, or the wife who has dinner reudy and v and doesn’t go homet It is believed that the debate will end in o draw. “Why, John, said his wife impatiently, as 4 the door and found him still in bed, “‘you promised fuithfully lust night that you would™ get up in ii@ to go to church " TSI meant in tioe for evening service,” explained Johr wrning over lux- uriously. " observed Mr. Snaggs, “that some eminent men think the g Vi located in the Mississippi may be true,” replied Mrs. Suages, *‘for the ark rested in the southern states.” It did ¢ “Yes, Noah came out of the Arkansaw land, you know." ANew England man has beaten the groen- goods sawdust men at their own game. He &ol one of their circulars, aud in reply asked for a sample of their goods. They sent him e one-dollar bill, and the gentleman v England stopped the correspondence then and there. - The Departed. Tid-Bits. She came, sho went; it scems a day That she was with us here, So short and fleeting was her stay Within our little sphere. No footfall on the parlor floor— Alas! We are bereft— No peeping face at the front door. Yes, yes; our cook has left! clingp oty MUSICAL AND DRAMATIO. Pat Rooney is rated at $50,000 strong. Mantell closes the season in New York, May 2 ’ Coquelin and Jane Hading left Paris May 4 for their tour of America. Arthur B. Chase will again direct the Booth-Barret tour next season. Buffalo Bill's Wild West will open at Staten Island on Decoration day. Jennie Yeamans goes to Harrigan's theatre next year to do the soubrette parts. Frank Danicls denies that he is to give up starring. He says “‘Little Puck’ suits him. John A. Stephens’ play “Narrow Rs- cape,” scored a success in Jersey City on Monday. Vernona Jarbeau continues to star next year in “‘Starlight.”” John Stetson will not back her. Maud Granger will sail this week for Europe, and deciaras that she will not return to America. De Wolf Hopper is busy arranging for a base ball club to consist of members of the profession only. Miss Lillian Conway has made a great hit in the part of the king in “The Queen’s Lace Handkerchief,” in Philadelphia. A phenomenon only half as old_as Josef Hofman, Leopold Spiclman, is having a great run at Vienna, He is only five, “Erminie’s” run _in New York extended over 758 nights, and has been surpassed in this country only by *Humpty Dumpty.” The woman whom Actor Kyrie Bellew is is Mrs. Leslie Carter of Chicago, ded she shall get the necessary divorce. The New York Bijou opera house will be sold at auction on May 24, There is an eight years lease on the place, held by Rice and Dixey. Henry Dixey may follow the Pearl of F kinat the Bijou opera house. The Pear will retire after next week, to resume early next season. Johnny Graus, partner of Lew Dock- stader, the minstrel, started in life as did most, of our wealthiest showmen, a candy butcher with a cross road circus, Mary Anderson is doing the principal cities of Great Britain and Ireland before starting for this country next fall, when she will be seen in ‘“The Winter's Tale.” A. M. Palmer has secured the right to Robert Buchanan’s “Joscph's Sweet- heart,” a dramatization of I “Joseph I‘\mlrc\\'s.” which is now being done in Lon- don. American Joseph Murphy has given up his idea of | resting next season, and will_go on the_road again with his Irish plays, He is havi panorama descriptive of the Lakes of Killar: ney painted, and will make it a feature of one of his picces. Wallack’s theater, New York, will inaug- urate 1ts career as A combination house on October 10 with Constant Coquelin, the French comedian. Mary Anderson’ and Mrs. Potter are also booked for dates after Coquelin’s engagement. Messrs Gilbert and Sullivan's new opera will be produced during the present London season, (Great secrecy is maintained as to the subject of the book, but it has oozed out that it is taken from an old Persian legend. Geraldie Ulmar is to have the leading part. It scems strange to connect Billy Emer- son’s name with the drama, but certain it is ne has joined Katie Putnam’s company, and reports favor his metamorphosis from burnt cork to grease paint and powder. In other words he is proving himseli a very accept- able actor. Sanderson, y who has béey singing so_suc- ces russcls, where she created the rolo of Nanon Lescaut, has been engaged to sing the at the Opera Comique, Paris. is now at work on a new opera for Miss Sanderson. The story that Colonel John A. McCaull is negotiating for the old Broad strect theater in Philadelphia or any other house in _this city is emphatically denied by him. “I have enjoyed the luxury of the proprictorship of a Philadelphia t v he said recently, “and I found it very agrecable but expen- sive.” Nat Goodwin has secured William Yard- ley's version of * o, which he “A Royal Revenge.! Lawrenco Bal played o version of the same ‘‘Gringoire’ and called it “The King's Pleasure.” Good- win has aspi 1 the legitimate, and this play is to introduce him to the pub- lic in a serious part. All the way from Bangor, Me.,comes news that Mrs. Richard Golden. professionally known as Dora Wiley, will sing “Home, Sweet Home" at President Cleveland's re- ception at the Metropolitan opera house, Neiv York, on Memorial day. 'Tis an excellent and audacious advertisement; would ’twere true for Dora’s sake, the young San ovens' play, “A Narrow E: ted for the first time in Amer- ica May 14 at Jersey City, N.J. _Marion Russell, Emily Lytion, Ge Dickson, Henry Holland, H. Liston, W. H. Lytell, W, Paul Bowne, Fred Lennox and Margaret Lannar are enzaged. ‘The drama was done in London, for copyright purposes, during March “ranklin H. Sa School of Acting Academy of the Dran gaged by a newspaper syndicate to write series of illustrated articles on dramatic attitudes and facial expressions. For that purpose he will go to the Adriondacks in June, and commecnce work with a pho- tographer. The details of the tour of the London Gaiety company in this country have been arran; After an eight weeks' engage- ment at the Standard in this city, they go to the Globe, Boston, for two weeks, then to Brooklyn and Baltimore for a week each, Philadelphia for two weeks, Washington one week, Chicago two weeks, Cincinnati one week, then returning to this city weeks, boginning March 18, ana bome on April 2 nt, of the New York hristened the American tic Arts, has been en- AN HOUR AMONG THE POETS. The Olassic' Bards of Nebraska's Prairies. THOSE WHO RHYME AND REASON. Contributions to The Bee by Those Who Love the Muse—In the Realms of Poesy and Song. Soma poets have sung. It appeared to be natural with them and they seemed to have nothing clse to do. There are many species of the poet. Perhaps however, there wero never more atrocious productions than the following, received by Tnr Ber during the past few weeks. Genius,as these samples of rhyme bear witness, will not down. If put under a bushel it would work its way through the top. If confined in a room it would seek its way out on a fire escape, The first pro- duction is from a born humorist. He was guilty of writing four verses—or, more prop- erly stated, sixteen lines. The poem was dedicated to a scab on the “Q' road, the first four and last four lines reading: 80 —— they say you are going; Y ou have dotie all the dirtyou could do; No more we will liear you & crowing For the scabs on the C., B. & Q. The days are numbered like grains of corn, When your friends will bs asking for you, softly murmur, “He's gone up horn,"” ‘With the scabs on thcf«‘ B.& Q. we'll the *x Sample number two, was written by & arcamy Philosopher who pumped the well- springs of his soul dry, and apparently dragged thent into the stree The author seemed to have but little respect for the Eng- lish language, and no regard for his fellow citizens, We unhesitatingly pronounce the entire production one of the few real poetic , it, might be hid in great gobs et it would shine resplendent through them all—even as it otherwise would have shown in the yawning maw of our waste-basket : On the stream of time we boatmen drift, And on either hand a shore we see, et nothing know of what is to be, For altho we dimly see each shore ‘And our vessels niake- too close before Lie heavy shadows that never lift, If some shadow lifter will send a derrick to the genius who perpetrated the above thought, hie willdoubtless confer a lasting avor. ' The next, and with pain, we regret not the last, is a weeping wonder on Decoration Day—thrown off by a lady in an idle hour to while the time awa; The last verse 1s suffi- cient to give the casual reader an idea of how lucky he is in not seing the entire work. Softly, tread softiy, the heroes sleep, No more to Know S0rrow, 1o more to weep. O'extheir country's distress, your flowers lay O'er their graves, 'Tis “Decoration Day,” * And this one—oh, 1is1'to this one on spring —balmy spring. It will be noticed that in Jag 2, as Bill Nye would say, the gifted au- thoress grapples the divine aflatus squarely by th of the neck and fairly makes the poetry hum : *And methinks the buds of the tres Are likely to burst in their glee, They are growing and swelling so bad.” And yet in all human probability author s janitor at a tannery. The north wind has ceased his roar; At last the snowfall 1s o'ers And warm, balmy spring s at hand, Ol !let u$ hear the voice the Of man and beast rejolce With one accord throughout the land, The north wind's ceased his roar; At last the winter 18 o'er; All nature seems happy and glad. And methinks the buds of the treo Are likely to burst in their glee, They are growing and swelling 5o bad. The streams are The blackbirds are cawiug To'the trees; “It 13 thne you wero up aud dresse For your bright screen Of emerald groen Will so0n be needed to shield the future nest.” Why such a versatile and brilliant_person should stalk around through the shadows of this world for such @ long, long time, un- Known to fame, until now, passes compre hension. Oh! that some modern Diogenes ‘would get out with a lantern and a gun, look- ing for such unappreciated creatures. These few sample ‘liles herewith given, together with the author's letter, is suflicient to explain itself, The lines are written on the subject of the return of the rebel flags: Fditor Omaha Bl i If you have Space in your Paper and think this worth) of coming before the Bublie Publish it—if not cast it in the waist Box—I Start West in 10 or 12 days to Explore Some new and un- settled country—Should you desire—I will give you my travells and all I di Should you wish to corispon with me ri soon, as 1 expect to start the 1st of May. For years this things heon coming on Oir rites refused and honors seorned While they, the Traitors of onr Land Are reaching forth their treacherous hands And Should your course bring on a War We stand just as we did before Yet some of us is getting Old Our Boys—is justas true and bold This ravishing ditty, dediented to the first robin of spring, will, perhaps, cause the bird to fly away: + Dear robin, thou art come again, 1 hear thy well-known volce; Awaking me atearly dawn, Bidding my heart rejoice. And when at last thy gentle notes Fell on my listening How loudly beat my b heart, For robin, thou wist near, Thy sweet voice holds me now, as then A willing captive bouud, As wood, and nd eloud-capped hill, Thy mélody N Verse the second,’ from a soul inspiring poein on life reads: He who sells his soul for gold Brings misery to himself untold, Life 1s leeting— twiil not be long, Let us keep from doiug wrong. Every wrong thought that we sla Riuicas us attonger and better all fay; "Ti. for kindness we Were meant, Eise on this earth we' d not been sent., But' here'is the production of & man who cowbined the brilliancy f genius with the solid virtue of common sense, and took front place on the first round: My republican friend, dear Whitelaw Reld, You are a man that clings to my political creed— 1t was only some papers crying for news Andiso T thought ] would tell them that I would refuse. 1 You may rest assured I will not fail For blessed America and home to sail My nomination to accept again 1f tendered to yours respectfully—Blaine. While the rhythm of the above would throw a cable car off the track, we continue to insist that rare minds must be tolerated. * »*u q This extract is from a contribution bearing the caption, “Relics of the Past.” Had not been that we wished to use it in this column it would have gone down to posterity marked, “‘A Relic of the Waste Basket.” The wind whistles by, mad and flercely, And 1 shiver as through me it creeps, To spend its wild course on the water That falls on the sand with loud leaps. Like broken hearts, sobbing and crying, Moans the tall, ihick grass on the lea, And its woeful whispering and weeping Tirings the past, long since dead, back to me. © agony which the authoress suffered partially palliates the enormity of the crime of writing the above. These are only a few choice excepts from hundreds of 'alleged ‘“poums” coming to Tue Be office cach month. It is our de- sire to encourage all persons engaged 1n lit- erary work, especially those who court the grim old poetic muse. Accordingly our in- structions to those who hereafter contribute can be understood by the following advice prepared by a scholar from the science de- partment of this paper. No matter what you say, but make the lines dove-tail. Do not try to write poetry with a drayman's license. 1f machine poetry, oil the machine. N.B. Donotuse fusil oil. For instance this epic will illustrate. The milkmaid cuts a pretty fiqure While skipping ac s the green, ‘Where an Irishman, wede and nigger. Are running a threshing machine, ig & thréshing m No Harm ina Middle Name. A writer in an eastern review believes not only that therc is some- thing in a name, but a very great deai, urges the people to e giving middle names to their children. He finds that individual greatn, and worth in America has been represented largely by those who had no middle names. Thus, of the 53 signatures of the Declaration of Independence only three had more than one name. In the first American commercial convention not a solitary delegate had a middle name. In the convention of 1787 to revise the constitution, of the 56 delegates 51 had but one name. Of the 41 signers of the articles of confederation four had two ‘‘given” Of the 86 speakers house in the first half of the century only 12 had middle names. Of the five chief justices in the same period none had middle names, and of 81 agsociate justices in that time only 5 had mor than one name. Of the 18 secretaries of the treasury only 8, of the taries of war only 9, and of the 21 secre taries of the navy but § had middle names. We have had 22 presidents and 15 of them had no middle name given them at birth. Of 5 senators who be- came president only 1 wasdoubly named This is amusing but is really not an in- genious device . to discourage double naming and impress peovle with the suspicion that there may be some “subtle forces directing the fate of men,” and that “‘a name bestowed upon the helpless infant may produce ef- fects” marring the career of the man, But let us seo how statistics of this character prove nothing. The output of a very few minutes of search enables us to make thisshowing: Of the 83 ministers of the United States at for- eign courts 27 have two and 5 have three given names. Of the 76 United States senators 62 have middle names, Of the governors of the 48 stutes and territor- ies 40 have double names. Of the 27 lieutenant-governors 26 have two names. Of the 980 names of distinguished poets, authors, philosophers, clergymen,states- men, and literary lights of many cen- turies quoted in Hoyt & Ward’s adm ble encyelepedia had two or more given nam Of nearly 300 men and women distinguished in~ American lit- erature, treated in C. F. Richardson’s work, (the latest on American litera- ture,) the division is e between double and single names. sort of y might be con indefi- . Statistics in such a matter are scarcely valuable encugh to be amusing. who Thi nued - Claude Duval the Second. Texas has a very siderate i) robb Siftings, He doesn’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings and he will do almost anything, except restoring money and valuables, to free his vietims from a charge of cowardice in giving them up. Not long ago this lone highwayman stopped a mail stage near San Angelo containing thirteen passengers. He ordered them to de- scend, which they did ve pr and alter drawing caps down oy faces, to hide th blushes own cowardice, probably, he pro in a calm antl dispassionate manner to relieve them of their personal prop- erty. He kept them holding up their hands about four hours, awaiting an extra hack that a passenger said was coming behind them, but it was delayed in somne manner and the stage ui\hl ”i' ed. y generously gave ger enough money to pay for b fast at the next stopping place. An- ticipating that they might be charged with lack of courage when the circum- stances became kno v them a written certif as follows: I hereby certify that all of men, honest and brave, but thi not ‘armed and prepared to defend your sel SraGE ROVLER Such consideration is ravely met with in ahighwayman nowadays. it is worthy of the courfeous Claude Duval in his best days, which r you are gentle _effort to form DECORATION DAY. Henry Wawdsforth Longfellow\ Sleep, comrades, sleep and rest On 'this field of grounded arms, Where foes no more molest, Nor sentry’s shot alarms, Yo have slept on the ground before. And started to your feet At_the cannon’s sudden roar, Or the drum's redoubling beat. But in this camp of Death No sound your slumber breaks, Here is no_fevered breath, No wound that bleeds and aches. All is repose and peace. Untrampled lies the sod; The shouts of battle cease, It is the truce of God! Rest, comrades, rest and sleep! The thoughts of men shall be As sentinels to keep Your rest from danger free. Your stlent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers; Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours. e 5 The Origin of Decoration Day. Twenty years ago the 30th of May was setapart in national commemoration of the soldiers, who fell in the armies of the north during the war of the rebel- lion. Its design was suggested by the Roman custom of honoring on one day of the year the memory of heroes in a body, acustom adopted afterwards, in a spirit- ual sense, by the Catholic church, founded on the ruins of the Roman em- pire and known in its eccl stical cal- endar as All Souls’ day. Asan Ameri- can hohday, the 30th of May becomes the ceremonial of the Grand Army of the Republic; the histories of both the body and the day began together. In march, 18v5, the organization of the Grand Army was outlined by s num- ber of ex-soldiers, who met at the resi- dence of Dr. Benjumin F. Stephenson, in Springfield, TIl. The object of the meeting was stated in the call to be the selection of the means best caleulated to perpetuate the sentiment of comrade- ship that had characterized the soldie while engaged in the defense of the country. The permanent organization effected until the following April, when Dunham Post was instituted, ‘Then followed one or two other posts and a ritual was prescribed. B. I, Stephenson was recognized by olution and otherwise as founder of order and provisional commander- chief. No effort had yet been made, except by correspondence, to extend the order to the eastern soldiery, and with the exception of Wisconsin the new ory ation was mainly confined to the state of Illinois, its birth place. It is suid that the movement was re- garded with suspicion in some quar- ters, and it was thought to be an an organization what similar to the society of the C cinnati. The same charge was m as in the case of the earlier society,that the the tendency was to establish a mil- itary aristocracy whichsome day might become powerful enough to overturn the constitutio However, in spite of misrepresenta- tion on the part of enemies and lack of zeal on the part of friends the organi- zation m'ml\ml]y gained ground. In September, 1866, the National Soldiers’ and Sailors’ convention met at Pitts- burg , Pa., and the Grand Army was talked up among the delega The result was most favorable to the infant izati Prominent eastern sol- diers were obligated and posts organi: in Philadelpha, Pittsburg and Wash- ington. D. C. In 1868 General John A, TLogan was communde shief of the Grand Army and in a proclamation set apart the 30th May as Memorial day. his order al 3 30th day of May, 1868, is desig- nated for the purnose of strewing with flow or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades whodied in defense of their country during the rebell- ion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city and hamlet church- In this observance i but land. .mony 18 prese \d comradés will in the such fitting servac of respect as circumstances We are orgamzed, com- tell us, for the things, of pr testimonial may permit. rades, as our regulation purpose, among othe serving und strengthening those kind and fraternal feelings which have bound together the soldiers, sailors and marines who united to suppress the late rebellion, What can aid more to assure this result than ishing tenderly the memory of our heroie dead, who made their hearts a barricade between our country and its foes? ANOTHER ACCOUN ih Nicholas k 1 1554, who died was one of arvanc tion day originated. On April just one yeaur after the fall of umter, Mrs, Evans, with the wife and two daughters of Chaplain May of the Second regiment, Michigan volun- rs, decora the graves of a num- ar of soldiers bumed on Arlington Heights. | , the next ! same 1 f ceagain at the sume place. , the next year, they rendeved the same wdlfy pleasant attention to the graves of sol- diers buried at Frede 1874 congress took notice of a céremo- nial o significant of the nations obliga- tion to the dead and mude May 30 a legal holiday. It was becoming, after such a record, that Mrs, Evaus should have a formal recognition by the Grand Army. This was given her by Crocker post No. 12, Des Moines, February, 1873, the sanie recognition being extended to Miss Ella May. - Slavery in China. Minister Denby sends the state de- partment saysa Washington dispatch to the St. Louis Globe, a report on slavery in China, which is interesting in view of the controversy going on. He says: Slaves were never numerous in China and of late years they have decreased in numbers. All China knows, says the writer, that an edict of the emperor was necessary to oblige his Tartars on duty to have slaves for domestic servants, and that this edict is hardly observi All modern writers agree that slavery still exists. Lvery native may purchase slaves, and the condition is hereditary. Freedom is forfeited by crimes or mortgaged for debt. Slaves are so few that they attract little attention. At Pekin girls bring higher prices than boys, varying according toage up to eighteen ‘years, from 30 to 800 tuels. Needy parents sell their children, and orphans are sold in times of famine for a few taels in cash. The origin of slavery in China is given in an ancient writing, the Fong- ng, in substance as follows: In antiquity there were no slaves, neither male nor female. The first slaves were felons who lost their liberty by reason of their crimes. But they were slaves simply in the sense that their labor be- longed to the public. Prisoners and captives taken in war introduced a sec- ond species of slavery, Finally, in the troubles and misfortunes of the third the poor. who were without re- gave themselyes with their to the great and rich who were willing to support them. These two last forms of slavery caused the condi- tion to be regarded rather as a misfor- tune than a shame. In the memaoirs prepared by the early Catholic missionaries, and "printed in 1777, there are treatises on slavery. Marringe of slaves was encouraged for the sake of the increase, Slaves were usually kindness, and were supported by their masters in their old age. Manumissi was common, and instances ar wherein slaves refused the tender of their freedom. The missionaries wax cloquent in defense of slavery, and re- gard the institution as developing “a mode of thought and sentiment worthy of the authors of ‘Telemachus’ and of the ‘Friend of Man.’” The traditional Chinese patriarch’s idea of the family, they say, modifies and tempers slavery 80 that masters and slaves become one great family. A gentleman living here who has de- his life outside of all missionar, societies and alone to charity, Mr. J. Fisher Crossette gi ome infor- uys there is on in the Men are in- treated with a system of vitude car coal mines west of Pekin. volved in gambling debts and then taken to a conl mine. Their liv and labor are mortgaged for the existin debt and for others subsequently et and they remain slaves, The Chinese have a great horror of this condition, and the law has done much to put a'stop to this abuse and in certain districts has succeeded. Mr. Crossetteo personally knows that large numbers of girls were carried off and sold in slavery during timés of famine in the province of Shantung, A Chinese convert at Tsi-nan-fu sold his little daughter for $16 to serye as a maid of all work in a rich man’s family. Boys were not marketable. Another Chris- tian sold his wife for $2.50 to pay a debt of that amount Mr. Crossetie says thatthere e some parts of China a peasant servitude such as formerly existed in Russia, Al The Story of a Hotel Man, Kingston Freeman: “It pays to be decent,” said a Kingston hotel man, the other day, *‘as 1 know by experience. Not long ago an actress came to me, telling me that she was in trouble be- cause of a drunken agent, that she needed a small amount of mon: than $100, to reach the city whe show was billec ance, and would arrived there, sume_ reguest myself, but they xists in when she had made the il men besides, had refused. T talked a while with the the woman and made up my mind that she was honest, and that she would pay me back. I loaned her the money, and she took h people and went her /. B my friends, who knew the stances, came to me and commise me upon the fact that I never would see the money again. Isaid, ‘Never mind, I ne et lost much by opening And I didn’t lose a cent by , for a few days afterward I ved a check for the amount. Not alone that, but house has had a number of gu who, no doubt, came here through her recommenda~ tion. It shows that she has not forgot- ten the act of kindness on my part, and I will probably continue to receive cus- tom because of her good words for many a day to come, I could tell you a number of other instances. Once by acting good-natured and decent under trying circumstances 10 & number of respect able white ktied, black-coal indi= viduals; who came from all parts of the country to attend a convention, I ree ceived” favors through their remem- brance of me in a number of ways. have known men who hailed from other as far away as Maine, to come quire for my place and pass all the houses, simply because they had been told to come to my house by one of these ministers. Acting as a wan should act gave me an advertisement T could not have received by expending any amount of woney.”