Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 8, 1895, Page 22

o e WHERE MIGHTY ARMIES MET Tho Survivors to Meet Again on a Peaceful Mission Bent, DEDICATING THE CHICKAMAUGA FIELD A Thrilling Patrlotic Event Unlqus In the History of Netions—Detuils of the Exercises—The Park and Its Monuments, The coming dedication of the Chickamauga and Chattancoga National Military park promises to be an affalr of great magritude, not only In the multitude assembled, but also in the spectacle of surviving thousands of both armies soleminly conscerating one of the famous battlefields of the The dedlcatory exercises will be the termination of five years' work on the part of the national government In the making of this military park, comprizing 7,000 acres. Cortrol of the territory has been ceded to the government by the states of Tennessee and Georgla, as well as control of the connecting roads, forty-iwo miles in length. They form delightful drives, running through all the five battlefields—Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain, Brown’s Ferry and Orchard Knob. September 19 and 20 aro the days set for the celebration. It has been estimated that about 400,000 visitors will make the jourvey to East Tennessee to participate in or wit- ness the events which will bring together the ren nts of the armles who fought in the bitterest battles of the war. One rail- road alone has already contracted for the transportation of 100,000 visitors. Fully 76 per cent of those who attend the national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic at Loulsville on September 11 and the same proportion of those at the cn- campment of the Sons of Veterans at Knox- ville, a few days later, will go to Cbatta- nooga. FEATURES OF THE CELEBRATION. There are peculiar features of the cele- bration which will make the warriors of the south and north meet on terms of firmer affability than has been the case at avy similar celebration, For instance, the slato of Missourl, which had regiments of infantry and artillery on both the union and n federate sides at Chickamauga, made an ap- propriation of $5,000 some time ago for the erection of monuments on the battlefield com- memorative of the deeds of both her con- fede e and unfon sons. The appropriation has been spent impartially by the state com- mission and the monuments are now ready for the formal dedication. Kentucky and Tennessee also had troops in both armies. The national government has also made a departure which will further cement the gen- eral good feeling. It has had built efght monuments to eight generals who were killed in the Chickamauga fights. Four of these are for confederate generals and the other four for union generals. Every state in the union will be repre- mented at the celebration. Twenty-cight states, both southern and union, had mili- tary organizations in the Chickamauga bat- tles, and there has been considerable rivalry among them to make the greatest showing with monuments and tablets. Ohid heads the list with fifty-five monuments at a total cost of $95,000. New York made an appropriation of $87,000, of which $83,000 is to be spent on an observation tower, which will be the finest individual monument In the fleld. Nine tablets will be erected at small cost. The New York commission decided that it would be better to have one large monument to its troops than a number of small ones. The bulk of visitors to the dedication will bo accommodated in barracks especially con- structed at Chattanooga, fitted with bunk. Tickets are sold at §2'each, entitling the holders to comfortable sleeping quarters, with safe storage for hand baggage and toilet accommodations. It will only be necty- sary for each person to provide his own blankets and towels. Meals and lunches at reasonable prices will be furnished within convenient distances from the barracks. DETAILS OF THE EXERCISES, The official exercises in outline will be as follows: September 19—Grand parade of veterans, north and south; dedication of the Chicka- mauga section of the park; exercises at Snodgrass Hill, to be opened by Secretary Lamont; orators, General John M. Palmer of Illinols (union), and General John B. Gordon of Georgla (confederate); 8 p. m., at Chattanooga, exercises conducted by the So- ciety of the Army of the Tennessee (union) and the Army of the Tennessee (confeder- ate), General Granville M. Dodge, presiding; orators, General O. 0. Howard, U, §. A., and _General Joseph Wheeler of Alabama (confederate.) September 20—Dedlcatlon of the Ol nooga section of the park, exerclses be ning at noon at Chattanooga; orators, Gen- eral Charles H. Grosvenor of Ohio (union), and General Willlam H. Bate of Tennessee (confedera @ ; 8 p. m., at Chattanooga, exer- | clses conducfed by veterans of the Army ot the Potomac (union), and the Army of North- ern_Virginia (confederate), General Edward ©. Walthall of Mississippi (confederate), pre- siding; orators, General Orlando Smith and Governor Willlam C. Oates of Alabama. General W. 8. Rosecrans, who commanded the union forces at Chickamauga, s in Cali- fornia, too i1l and feeble to bear the journey to Chattanooga. General James B. Long- street, who commanded the confederate left wing at Chickamauga, and General A. P. Stewart, one of his brigade commanders, will be present and take part in the celebration. On September 18, the day before the begin- ning of the official ceremonies, the Ohlo monu- ments in the park, fifty-five in number, will be dedicated and turned over to the United States government. The ceremonles will be- gin on Snodgrass Hill at moon, when the president of the Ohlo State commission, Gen- eral John Beatty, will formally turn over the monuments fo Governor William Mc- Kinley, who wil' accept them and in turn formaliy transfer them to the secretary of war in behalt of the United States. Gov- ernor McKinley will be escorted by a full regiment of the Ohlo National guard and the Columbus_ troop. At 8 p. m. of the 18th, at Chattanooga, will occur the annual reunion of the Soclety of the Army of the Cumberland, at which seats will be provided on the platform for the ex- ecutive and congressional partles, the gov- ernors of states and thelr staffs and the rep- resentatives of all army societies from the north and the United Confederate veterans from the south. The orator will be General Charles H. Manderson of Nebraska. Other states besides Ohlo, including Michigan, In- diana and Missourl, will also probably trans- fer thelr monuments to the government with appropriate exercises during the same weelk. Should rain fall on the day set for the offi- clal ceremonles, an enormous tent at Chat- tanooga will bo used, capable of accommo- dating many thousands of spectators, THE MONUMENTS. The park is in many respects the most comprehensive and extensive military object lesson in the world, The United States gov- ernment has spent on it $750,000 since its establishment was authorized In 1590, and varlous state goveraments about $500,000 more, making a total of §1,250,000. The plan was to restore the old lines of the Chick: mauga and Chattanooga campaign (September 19-20 and November 24-25, 1863) as they were when the battles were fought, to mark all the points of attack or defense by either side, to set up monuments commemorating the troops engaged and so far as practicable to restore the flelds to thelr orlginal condition, and this design has been happily carried out to_the letter, Within the park the government has set up 400 historical tablets, and will set up some 1,600 more hereafter, each 3x4 feet, consisting of cast-iron plates, glazed black, tened to fron posts set in concrete. On these tablets 1n embossed white letters are set forth briefly and impartially the historic details of the six battles—Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain, Orchard Knob, Wauhatchie and Brown's Ferry, They also mark the posi- tions of army headquarters, corps, divisions and brigades, both union and confederate, and the parts borne by each organization are coneisely stated, without censure and without praise. Besides theso tablots the government has erected nine handsome granite monuments, all different, one for each of the organiza- tions of regular army troops engaged in the battles. It has also bullt elght pyramidal monuments of novel design, each ten foet high, constructed of elght-inch shells, in honor of four unlon officers and four con- federate ofticers killed in action, on the #pots whero they fell. The union offcers &0 Lonored are: Colonel P, P, Baldwin, Colanel Hena €. Heg, Colonsl Edward A. Kiog Brigadier General Willilam H. Lytie, confederata_ oft are: v G Hardin Helm el Regton . Colquitt, Bilgadler Goverai James Dessohler and Drigadier, General Preston Smith, In addi tion, the government has built fve tail ervation (owery of Jron and steel se fect b 2 Missicnary R thres ou Chickamanga f ~from which the whole landscape below |8 seen clearly and ensily rocognizable from its markings. The fines of carthworks used by the contending armles have also heen found and have been carefully restored. Aud, finally, the government has marked the most bmportant Aghting positions oe- cupied by each of the twenty-five union batteries and thirty e confederate bat- terles engaged In the battles Ly 400 mounted Annon of the types and appeats then used, giving to the felds an Impressive ele- ment of reallsm But whils all theze matkel by the government it has been Jeft to the states having treops In the battles to erect monuments to state re nts and or nd y socisties to commemorate the particular services of thelr membership, Nine states have done this al- rendy and th remaining ninetean states which had troops in the battles are preparing ‘o do likewis K far 1 monuments bave been set up by states in honor cf thelr troops. positions have been i - CYNICAL SOCIAL QUER Clifcago Post “*Tig love that niake the world go ‘round,” we hear (he pocts su It may have becn in ancient times, but ie it We hear some talk of widely known to fame, Dut when comes (0 marr in the game? Mg love t we hear on ¢ But don't we auentiy defied We find a lot we read, But isn't it a title that our g Uil Lhs Cupld, who's so is he really s the w Ty side, the love god very rid go 'round,"” out him in the novels that s all think fre- is love that makes the world go ‘round,"” Las ever been the claim, But_=n’'t wealth too cor only aim? speaks about her Leauty and he speaks about her birth, But fsn't most the' g is worth? monly a suitor's He ip of the money she *"Tis love that makes the world go 'round,” but even in the press what important items greatest stress? In speaking of the oclal world, if all these things are so, Can_any moftal’ really claim it's love that makes it go? . - - oLT o E ORDIN The atmosphere is £o clear in Zululand that it 1s said objects can be seen by star- light at a distance of seven miles, A new magazine rifle invented by an Italian fires twenty cartridges automatically without requiring any change of position on the part of tho soldier. An odd monument, in the shape of a Rox- bury pudding stone welghing 13,000 pounds, has just been placed over the grave of Sam- uel Jones at Kennebunkport, Me. A princess, a countess, a_ duchess and the daughter of ‘a relgning prince were among the 4,000 thleves, professional and unprofes- sional, arrested in Paris during the first six months of this year. London has maintained for pre-em’nence in the fur trade. American and Russian buyers both visit that city to buy furs originally taken in their own respective countries. The sales amount to £4,000,000 a year. Girls employed In the crepe manufacture are under a curlous contract not to engage in any housework after their hours of labo The reason is lest their hands become coarze and unfit for the delicate nature of their em- ployment. A whole village of well-to-do Italians, speaking English with an accent, is one of the most astonishing things that Ttaly offers to the tourist. They are retired organ grinders, who have acquired comfortable for- tunes in this country. The milk of the reindeer and its cheese product are said to be most excellent for all lung discases. The natives who live largely on the same are remarkably free from ail forms of disease, and are among the hardiest and most robust people in the world. The British crown s made up of diamonds, rubles, sapphires, pearls and emeralds, set in silver and gold bands. It weighs thirty-nine ounces and flve pennyweights, troy. In it there are 3452 diamonds, 273 pearls, nine rubles, seventeen sapphires and eleven emer- alds. T. B. Watson of Essex, Conn., returned home last week after a long absence. On entering the house he found that wasps had come through a hole in the pantry window and had made their nest in a large bread bowl. He took up the bowl to throw it, when he was instantly covered with the wasps. They stung him about the head and face in a terrible manner and it will be some time before he is able to attend to business. Flve years ago a 12-year-old son of Bernard Hogan, a prominent business man of Hunting- ton, Va., mysterlously disappeared from home. Thousands of dollars were spent in trying to find him, all the leading detectives being put to work on the case, but to mno avail. One night lmst week the boy, now a stalwart youth of 17, appeared at his father's residence and none of the family recognized him at first. The boy has traveled all over the United States under an assumed name. Sir John Herschel once compared the re'a- tive size of Jupiter, the giant of the planets, to Venus, whose brightness causes some to consider it one of the largest of the sun's train, as an orange to a pea. Of late years Sir Robert Ball has stated that the earth, as compared with the sun, would be as the smallest gnat to a condor. Using the figure 1,000 as a basis of calculation, we find that the mass of Jupiter is represented by the figures 300,860, while that of Venus is but 885; the earth, 1,000; Saturn, 89,692; Uranus, 12,650; Neptume, 16,733; Mars, 118, and Mer- cury, 65. All the asteroids together are rep- resented by the figure 100, while the sun's mass, on the same scale, is 315,000,000, et T A FIGHTING SWORDFISH. On do we lay the ARY. many years s Its Weapon Through n Bont and Sends a Man Flying. The schooner Abden Keene, Captain Elward Doughty, arrived Wednesday from a swordfish cruise, bringing a good quantity of fish, says the Portland Press. From the crew was learncd a very interesting story of an exciting adventure with a glant swordfish, by which Samuel Gregory nearly lost his life, The Keene had been out three da; nd was off the South Shore lightship Nantucket, when a large swordfish was speared. As is the custom, Sam Gregory was sent off in a dory to_secure the prize. He got along very well in his efforts for a time, when suddenly the fish became wild and made the water white with foam as he thrust madly at the boat. Several thrusts were made, and, at last, with a terrific blow, the glant fish stabbed the boat full and fair on her quart 1t was a terrific blow, and Gregory was thrown sevéral feet into the air and over- board, the sword just missing his leg as it plerced the boat. Gregory cannot swim, and thought his last days had come. The fish gave a powerful lunge and broke his sword short off and left fourteen inches of it stick- ing n the boat's bottom. Luckily the move- ments of the fish pushed the boat toward Gregory, who was struggling in the water, and he managed to scramble in again. It would seem as if he had seen enough of the swordfish for one day, but his fish- erman_instinct was strong and in an hour's time he had his marine assassin_ safely landed. It & narrow escape for Gregory. He carries a big scar on his side from a wound recelved from a swordflsh some years ago. skt — A Petrified Oyster: A bed of petrified oysters has been found on the top of Big mountaln, just back of Forkston, Wyoming county, Pa. A short time since A. Judson Stark and Willlam N. Reynolds, jr,, of Lafayette college, amateur geologlsts of Tunkhannock, spent a day on the mountain and brought back a fine col- lection of the petrified bivalves Some of the specimens are of mammoth size, one in Mr, Reynold's possession measuring twenty-two :nchnkl long by nine inches wide and weigh- ng forty pounds, The specimens range in all sizes, oy (=1 German Struggle for Liberty. Mr. Bigelow in his history of “The German ruggle for Liberty,” now running in Har- per's, continues to exhibit the weak and brutal sides to Napoleon's character. The exiract given here Is a typlcal example. poleon went to Erfurt because he felt confident that he could gain control of Alex- ander through personal contact. He re- garded the Russian as an impetuous and chiva nature, whom he could readily dazzle by dreams of eastern conquest. And Alexander pretended to be dazzled. But un- der this pretense lurked a large amount of criental cunning, which wae quite equal to anytiing of that nature provided by the Cor- sican, Four full-fledged kings and several dozen princes, who were dependent upon Napoleon, also came to Erfurt and made a very bril- lant pleture to lock at. Napoleon ordered his theater from Parls and promised his actors a parterre of kings” Those were wonderful days In Erfurt—a vast display of power for the purpose of dazzling Europe in general and Alexander in particular. A Prussian general who was officially pres- nt (Mufling, page 25) records that one day Napoleon took Alexander to a grand review near Erfurt, the troops parading being such a8 were returning to France from the battle- fields of East Prussia. “Arrived on the fleld Napoleon put purs to his horse and galloped down the front, leaving the czar to follow on a Napoleonic horse, with much the appearance of an adju- tant, “Whon the regiment was massed Napoleon called out: ‘Les braves en avant!'—the brave men stepped forward—at which a number of officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates came out of the line and formed a n dismounted and invited the czar to stand at his right. On his left stood tha prince of Neuchatel with a notebook. The remainder of the semi-circle was closed by the princes and their suites. “The regimental commander called each one by name and presented him scparately to Napoleon, who thereupon asked him where and in what manner he had distinguished himselt.” Now, the particular regiment selected had distinguished itself mainly by killing a great many of Alexander's subjects at Friedland. This one had killed three Russians with his own sword, that one had captured a Russian flag, the other had driven a Russian battalion into the river and seen them drown and so on through the list of glorious deeds at the expense of the Russians, The czar had to listen to all this with the air of one who rather enjoyed it, but he remembered this in 1512 while his Cossacks were pursuing half- frozen Frenchmen from the Beresina to the Memel, “To the honor of Frenchmen,” wrote the Prussian general who was present, “‘many of them showed that they did not approve of their master’s behavior.” It is indeed strange that Napoleon, with all his cleverness in diplomacy, should have been guilty of several conspicuous acts of tactless brutality such as the one above re- corded—brutality by which he lost very much, and gained notking that he did not possess before, For instance, during these Erfurt days he invited his royal guests to shoot hares with him over the battlefield of Jena. His guests were mainly German princes, and not men of much character, to be sure, But yet many of them were bound with ties of kinship to such as had suffered on that battlefield two years before—and, after all, he was in Ger- and that ficld had been strewn with German corpses. And yet, which was most strange, that Napoleon should have indulged in such’sport, or that German princes should have shared it with such a man in such a place? It was on the 7th of October that Napoleon drove to Jena in 1805, The battle had been fought October 14, 1806. On the hare hunting occaslon his host was the duke of Weimar, who had been a general in the Prussian army on the day of battle. On this occasion he begged the French emperor's permission to change the name of Landgrafenberg into Na- poleonberg—Napoleon Hili—for on that hill Napoleon had killed most of the Prussians who fell on the dreadful October 14, In driving to this field Napoleon took with him in the same carriage a brother of the Prussian king, Prince William, This was a refinement of cruelty superior. to what he had practiced on the czar. Oddly enough, it was this that saved Napoleon's life in 1808, Two Prussian_students were awalting the carriage of the French oppressor in the road leading from Weimar to Jena. They had armed themselves with short blunderbusses, were well mounted, and had arranged to ride close up to Napoleon and kill him. But when the carriage came in view, and they saw the brother of their King in it, their purpose gave way, and Napoleon escaped. And yet, in the eyes of Prussia, who was tho most deserving of punishment, Napoleon, who fought, conquered, and oppressed a war- like nation, or the prince of that nation who, in the midst of that oppression, goes out for a day's shooting over the battlefield where German liberty was lost? Napoleon was such a bad shot, however, that he nearly accomplished with his own hands what the student assassins shrank from. When the game was driven at him he fired right and left, without reference to whether he might hit a King, a rabbit, or a fleld marshal. Luckily for his suite, they had been provided with rifle pits, into which they carefully shrunk themselves when their master pointed his gun in that direction. When the day’s sport was over, and it was reported that none of the guests had been killed or wounded, the master of ceremonies gave a sigh of happiness, and said, “God be thanked for His mercy!’ Omaha Indlan Romance. Allce C. Fletcher in the Century: In couples and in small companies the Indlans hunteq the deer, elk and antelope, and while danger was always present, tragedies some- times occurred in which neither wild beast nor inimical tribes had part, but which arose from feelings and Impulses common to human nature. The following well authenticated ad- venture took place fn the last century. Two brothers loved the same woman. She favored the younger, but by some means the elder took her to 'wife. They were married in the fall of the year and winter passed by, and one day in spring the brothers went forth to hunt together. Walking near the banks of the Clearwater the elder stopped to look over the edge of the canon, where a thousand feet below the river glistened in the morning sun. Half way down the rocky wall, upon a ledge that jutted out from the sheer face of the precipice he saw a nest of young eagles. He called to his brother, who turned and looked down upon the nest. “I know what I will do," he sald; “I will make a rope.” So the two set to work. They stripped the bark from young willows and plaited it into a rope strong enough to hold a man. This done they threw one end over the preci- pice to see if it was long enough to reach the nest, but it fell far short. Then they worked on, lengthening the rope until it finally rested upon the ledge. They agreed that one was to let the other down to secure the eagles. The elder tied the rope about his body and the younger lowered him carefully until his feet were well on the ledge. As he walked along the ledge he saw the roye suddenly tossed over the cliff; instinctivel - he steadied himself, caught the rope and pu! ed it in. He was alone, with a preciplce ibove and a precipice below on a narrow I 1ge, with no living thing but himself and tta half-grown eagles. By and by the old eagles returned, and, seeing the intruder, were inclined to be hostile, but the man was careful not to anger them, and when they went away again he secured a part of the me they had brought to their young. Days wore on, and the man's life was sus- talned by the food the old eagles brought; but his distress from thirst was great, so he cleared out the little hollows in the rock to catch the rain, covering them carefully to prevent evaporation. The young eagles be- came accustomed to his companionship and the touch of his hand; but by and by the time came when they were ready to fly, and death looked the lonely man in the face, He resolved ta make an effort to reach the ground. He had hidden his rope In a crevice in the rock to keep it from drying; he now tied it firmly about his body, fastening each end strongly to an eagle, leaving sufficient length between the birds and himself to give full play for thelr wings. He reasoned th 3 B BRI B WL EY SRICY by it the cagles werainog able to fly with his welght, they would bréak: his fall with their endeavors to save selves. At all events it was death to remalff upon the ledge after they had gone. When all was ready, with his bow and quiver fastened upon his back, he pushed the wondering eagles off their nest over the cliff, and they bore their strange burden down, down the canon, and finally, weary with their enforced flight, alighted upon a tree at the bottom. The man took a feather from each of his preservers and re- leased them; then he swung himself down through the branches to the ground, and, taking the shortest trail to his home, came upon his brother and his wife sitting to- gether outside the tent. It took but a mo- ment to send an arrow through the unsus- pecting man who had so cruelly betrayed him; then, confronting the woman, in in- tensity of hope he asked, “Are you glad I have come?’ She was silent, but her face told him the truth, and a second arrow plerced her heart. Her body fell over the prostrate form of the younger brother before any one in camp realized that he who had long been given up as dead had returned to avenge his grievous wrongs. rogress. D. McG. Means in The Forum: Very splen- did and beautiful visions of municipal progress are indulged in by soclal reformers. Their views are denounced as impracticable, but the examples of some forelgn cities prove that there is no impossibility involved in the improvement of our own. While we may not realize the civitas del, we are not pre- cluded by any unalterable conditions from raising our municipal governments out of the miry pit in which they are now struggling. We know how to deal with crime on scientific principles, and if we should apply our knowl- edge the criminal classes would in a short time be nearly extirpated. We know how to ensure good sanitary conditions, and if we should use what we know, the terrible over- crowding of the poor would be arrested, and only habitations fit for human use would be built. We are not ignorant of what Is beautiful in architecture, and might make our public buildings the delight of our eyes. The children of the common people might receive such education as would fill their lives with sweetness and light. In a thousand ways we might engage in the service of the devotion of ‘man. These ideals can be re- alized. But they can never be realized it the government of our cities is to remain in the future in such hands as have con- trolled it in the past. It appears, therefore, that all our prospects of nobler civie life hang upon the reform of the civil service. If we can make admission to this service de- pend upon fitness, and if we can maintain permanency of tenure, a great future opens before our cities. But the opposing forces are mighty, and thelr hostility will be un- ceasing. Unless their power for mischief can be reduced it wjll be almost impossible to maintain the prificiple of permanency of tenure of office. At all events this principle can be maintained only by the most incessant vigilance. It the reform of the civil service it to be loaded down with the doctrine of the “living wage," or evem if it is not explicitly connected with the doctrine and the practice of paying the market rate of wages and salaries, it can never be established on a permanent basis. It may maintain iteelf, but it will be in perpetually unstable equilibrium. The offices will continue to be looked on as prizes, and the struggle to secure them by other ‘means than competitive examfnations will be perennial. Civil service reform can be carried through, and all that it means for improved civic life be secured, if it embodies the principles on which alone ordinary busi- ness can be safely conducted. Otherwise it cannot permanently succeed, and Jn the judgment of many well disposed citizens it will be better that it should not succeed. It would result in fastening upon the com- munity a privileged class of officeholders, too numerous and too expensive to be borne. To imperil this reform for the sake of ex- perimenting with a theory which is at best unproved, it not altogether fallacious, is to assume a responsibility of the gravest kind. It is certainly the part of prudence to make sure of the reform of the civil service before everything else. If that is done we may find that the question of the “living wage™ has lost its importance In the general im- provement of our social condition, Muni Learning to Take Life Honestly. Robert Grant in Scribner: The change in the avowed aims and aspirations of man has not been without certain apparently melan- choly results and manifestations of which soclety s feeling the effect at present and which if allowed to prevail too far will undo us. The removal of the gaze of the priest poet and devotee of culture from the stars in contempt of earth and the substitution of earthgazing as a method for understanding the stars, has seemed to cast a damper on human imagination and has thereby caused many excellent women and some men to weep. If materfalism be the sclence of trying to get the most out of this life, this is & ma- terial age, but at the same time it should be remembered that man in this age has ceased for the first time to be either a hypo- crite or a fool. Undoubtedly the process of becoming both sincere and sensible, especially as it has substituted concern for the ignor- ant, the oppressed and the vicious of this earth about whom we know next to nothing in place of pre-Raphaelite heavenly choirs, alabaster halls and saints in glory about whom we thought we knew everything, has been a little trying for the rest of us as well as for the priests, poets and devotees of culture. But the women must not be dis- couraged; we shall grow to the situation fn time, and even the poets, who seem to be down in the mouth at present, will sooner or later find a fresh well of inspiration by learn- ing to study the reflection of the stars on the earth instead of looking directly at them. Let them be patient, though it be to death, and some day through others, if not through themselves, the immortal verse will flow and the immortal lyre sound again, Avold Debt. Harvey L. Biddle in the Chautauquan: observed recently in a daily paper published in a city of 10,000 Inhabitants, this statement: “There are 500 people on the blacklist of the traders in this community.” Dry goods men, grocers, butchers, milliners, all the shop keepers had combined and they made weekly and monthly reports to their head- quarters of every man and woman in the community who would run a bill and then falling to pay would go to some other store of the same kind to run another bill. These traders refused credit to every person whose name was on the blacklist and the 500 made one-tenth of the whole population of the community, Though it was considered a prosperous town, there were few paupers in it, the poorer people lived in comfortable homes and there was every indication of thrift in the appearance of the people and general tone of the.community. As Poor Richard says again, “If you would know the value of money, ko a8d borrow some.” 1t one will be independent in business and have a free course in the world he must be selt-reliant and build up a_ sturdy, strong manhood. One is strong who is conscious that It all the business of the world around him should fail his possessions will abide be- cause he has no debis to pay. A panic can- not hurt such an one except in the volume of his trade. His home will continue to be a shelter for his family and no man can touch it. His occupation may be gone for a time, but “no debts to pay'" will be the sweetest song that can ring”in his goul as the days and the months go rolling on. Such a man is ready for the race of life when opportunity presents itself. He Is a free man and it s a fregdom which contributes to the enjoy- ment’ as well as to the prosperity of life. It will help to banish care and keep grief away, Above all things avoid debt. CURRENT LITERATURE, A very original departure in the pleasant art and recreation of amateur photography furnishes a_richly illustrated article called “In Greek Costume at Pelham Bay," to the current number of the Monthly Iliustrator. Two gentlemen of the camera obtain the assistance of two ledies, who understand the art of posing, and procure for them costumes of the anclent Greek style. The girls don this classic garb, and under the trees and among the rocks on the shore of Long Island Sound place themselves as living figures in_composition with natural land- pes. The result is a series of very noteworthy pictures, full of grace and ural out-of-doors beauty and of great value as studies in open-air composition, The general contents Jnclude an unusually varied ssortment of illustrated literary matter Outlook,” “Industrial Niagara,” “Wind as a ealing with fography, Harry C. York. A novel and attractive brochure bearin the title of The State of Maine is Issyed with the pages all appropriately cut in the shape of a map of the state. The front cover presents a neat map showing the route taken by the Bangor & Aroostook railroad, which penetrates the northeastern section 'of the state. Beautiful pletorials illustrate the sights to be seen along the route of this road, and a large compen- dium_of facts pertalning to this largest of the New Bngland states make it a desirable memento. Of the manuscripts left Robert Louis Stevenson at his death, the first to reach the public is a collection of very original “Fables” in the September number of McClure's Magazine, One of them is a conversation between John Silver and “Cap'n’ Smollgtt of “‘Treasure Island.” | Anuthony Hope relates another adventure of the ever-charming Princess Osra, an en- counter in the forests of Zenda with an attractive and most courteous highwayman. There Is also a romantic tale of court in- trigue by Stanley J. Weyman, and a new Drumtochty story by Ian Maclaren, the au- thor of “Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush.' Of the fllustrated articles, Cleveland Mof- fett’s interesting account of the artist, Will H. Low, and his work, with the beautiful reproductions of drawings and paintings, nust be mentioned. §. 8. McClure, Ltd., Now York. Among_the best of the stories In the Sep- tember Romance is “The Flowing Source,” by Quiller-Couch, who stands in the front rank of modern English writers of fiction, and Jules Claretie, J. M. Barrie and Max Pemberton are represented by well selected tales. Current Literature Publishing Com- pany, New York, Grant and Galena, an fllustrated paper, by Leigh Leslie, in the September Midiand Monthly, Des Moines, tells for the first time the inwardness of Grant's loyalty to James F. Wilson, and of his break with Washburne, General Johnson of St. Paul, who commanded a division at Chickamauga, and Colonel Hatry of Pittsburg, vividly picture the battle of Chickamauga. The fiction department in- cludes four strong stories. Johnson Brig- ham, Des Moines, Ia. The Review of Reviews contains the usual Interesting editorial review of the month, and articles on “Nikola Tesla and the Electrical tho graphio arte, ceramies, history, travel and fiction. Jones, 92-08 Fifth Avenus, New unpublished by Motive Power in the United States,” “The Value of Weather Forecasts to Agriculture and Inland Commerce,” “Deep Waterway Transportation from the Great Lakes to the Sea,”” “The Careless Construction and Willful Destruction of Buildings,” “The Poster in Politics,” and a_character sketch of Arch- bishop Croke of Ireland, The Review of Re- views Company, New York. The Smithsonian_ institution at Washington has awarded its prize of $10,000 to Lord Ray- leigh and Prof. Ramsay of London, Eng., for their discovery of argon, the new elementary constituent of the atmosphere. This remark- able discovery is the subject of a fiftecn-page article in the present number of Current History (2d quarter, 1895), giving in detail the history of the investigations, and the chemical, physical and spectroscopic proper- ties of argon o far as known, and illustrated with photographs of the discoverers, cuts of apparatus, and photographs of spectra. In ad- dition the magazine (264 pages) gives a re- view of all topics absorbing men’s attention in all parts of the world. Garretson & Cox, Buffalo, N. Y. In the September number of Paving and Municipal Engineer'ng Mr. L. C. 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