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THE GREAT AMERICP DESERT. One f tke Strange Corners of .Our . . Country. , - St. Nicholas. The great American desert was al most better known a generation ago than it is to-day. Then thousands of the hardy Argonauts on their way to California had traversed (that fear ful waste on foot with their dawd ling ox teams, and hundreds of them left their bones to bleach, in that . thirsty land. The survivors of those deadly journeys had a very vivid idea of what that desert was ; but now that we can roll across it in less than a day in Pullman palace cars its real and still existing horrors are largely forgotton. I have waited its hideous length alone and wounded, and realized something more of it from that than a great many railroad journeys across it have told me. Now every transcon tinental railroad crosses the, great desert which stretches up and down "the icontinent, west of the Rocky mountains, for nearly two thousand miles. The northern routes cut its least terrible parts; but the two railroads which traverse its southern half the Atlantic & Pacific railroad and the Southern Pacific pierce some of its grimmest recesses. The first scientific exploration of this region was Lieut. Wheeler's survey, about 1850, and. he was first to give scientific assuran had here a desert asBsolute as the Sahara: JEHtTparched sands could might tell of sufferings and death; of slow-plodding caravans, whose patient oxen lifted their - feet cease lessly from the blistering gravel; of drawn human faces that peered at some lying image of . a placid lake, and toiled frantically on : to sink at last, hopeless and strenghless, in the , . . . , t -i i i ? not uusi wmcn toe mirage nau paiui od with the hues and the very waves ef water. No one will ever know how many have yielded to the long sleep in that inhospitable land.-Not a year passes, even now, without record of many dying upon that desert and of many more who wander back, in a delirium of thirst; Even people at the rail road station sometimes rove off, lured by the strange fascination of the desert and never come backhand of the adventurous miners who seek to probe the .golden secrets of. those barren .. and strange-hued ranges there are countless victims. . A desert is not necessarily an end less, level waste of burning sand. The great .' American desert is full of strange, burnt, ragged mountain ranges, with deceptive, slopihg broad valleys between though as we near its southern end the mountains be come somewhat less numerous and the sandy wastes more prominent. There are many extinct volcanoes upon it, and hundreds of . square miles of black, bristling lava flows.' A large , part of it is sparsely cloth ed with the hardy grease wood; but in places not a plant of any sort breaks the surface, as far as the eye can reach. The summer heat is un bearable, often reaching 136 in the shade; and a piece of metal which has been in the sun can no more be han dled than can a red-hot stove. Even in winter the mid-day heat is insuf ferable, while at night ice frequently forms, on the water tanks. The daily range of temperature ' there is said to be the greatest ever record ed anywhere, and a change of 80 de grees in a few hours is not rare. THE CONGO RAILROAD'S PROGRESS Hewing a Roadbed Through Solid Rock The Work Advancing Rap Idly. Chicago Herald. The builders of the Congo Rail road are now in the midst of their greatest difficulties. Nine-tenths of the engineering problems are cen tered in the first fifteen miles. Near Matadi, on the Lower Congo, the engineers are compelled to blast out the rock nearly every step of the way. For about three miles the road-bed is dug in the solid rock that trises almost precipitously above the Congo. It then turns up the Mpsoi valley, one of the roughest spots Im aginable. Every quarter of a mile or less the track will have to be carried across the river on bridges. The first five miles of this difficult part of the road have now been completed, and the work is making good progress on the second section.. By the end of this year the engineers expect to have all their bridges in place and to have the road completed to Palaba la, at the summit of the plateau, and then the work will advance rapidly to Kinchassa, on Stanley pool. The number of workmen has been largely increased of late. The latest, mail reports that 2,750 native labor ers are grading the roadbed ajid ex cavating the rock. The managers are well pleased with the progress they are making. The building of the bridges in Belgium has advanced far ahead of the work on the Congo, and a great deal ot material is now on the river ready to be put in its place. - . The need of the road is increasing every month. The trading stations - aboveStanley pool maintained by , Belgium, Dutch and French traders have increased about 100 in number, and they are collecting a great deal of ivory and rubber, which is now sent to the coast on the backs of men. About 30,000 porters are now employed in the transportation busi ness. The railroad company is carrying out oie work which is unique in the history of railroad enterprises. It has constructed in. Belgium three iron buildings for the use of Belgian missionaries. The whole cost is de frayed by the railroad company whose officials- say that it will pay to give this ' assistance to the mis sionaries on account of the excellent - influence they have upon the work- - men and the solicitude with which they, look after the health of the black personnel. The company has - also taken steps to establish a sani tarium at Kinkanda and has a com petent medical staff to care for the sick.' - .If, as seems certain, Mr Hill carries the New York delegation at Chicago, and the Cleveland revolution-' ary element now organizing, supplies a suggestion that the State cannot be car ; ried for Hill at the election, the spirit may move the Democratic party to "go west" for a candidate or to Maryland. Washington Star, Ind. HUMAN NATURE. X HearUeee Man Trifle With It and Has a Little Quiet Fun. Detroit Free Press. There was a man at the Wabash depot the other afternoon who took a $5 bill out of his vest pocket and spread it out on his knee and 'atten tively examined it. Then he took it over to the" window, and held it to a pane of glass and examined it still more critically. Then he went back to his seat and said to the man on his right, who had become much in terested, together with half a dozen dozen others: "Well, they say there has got to be a first time with everybody, but I thought I had travelled far enough to cut my eye teeth." "Got stuck, eh?" queried the other as he reached for the bill. "Well, you are not so much to blame. That bill is pretty well gotten up." "Yes, fairly well, but feel of , it. Does it feel like a genuine greenback1 to you?" N o. it doesn't, though I should never have stopped to feel of it. I can see now that it is rougher, and coarser." "They might have passed that off on me in the night," said a second man who took up the bill, "but never by daylight. I should have spotted it at once." "Pretty ; well executed, isn't it?" queried the owner. "I don't think so. The inks used were not first-class and the printing is bad.. I could tell- it was queer, ven if held out at arm's length." 'Counterfeit, eh?" said the man as he took the'bill in his hands. "Wall, now, I call that pooty well done pooty well done. I'd a taken that bill any whar fur a good one." lIt somebody didn't take 'em fer good," said a man with a pair of steel bowed spectacles on, as he joined the group, "the counterfeiters couldn't make a living. There are plenty of yahoos still alive." "Are you callin me a yahoo?" de manded the third man. "I'm only speaking in a general . . . . , .1 - t:ii way. l u nave spouea mai uui among a, thousand. Just one look at the back of it is enough for me. Where'd you get it?" . "Can't tell," solemnly replied the owner. , - "You ought to be more careful." "Yes, I know." "What are you going to do with it?" "I think I'll try and "pass it off on some one. Let's see if the ticket man will drop to it." ' He advanced to the -window, bought a ticket for a town fifty-miles down the road and the ticket man pulled in the bill and made change like chain lightning. Twenty people were watching and each drew along breath and opened his eyes. The owner of the bill coolly pocketed the change and ticket and calmly sat down and opened a newspaper and began to read. It was some time be fore the crowd tumbled to the fact that it had been guyed. , Then, one by one, they sneaked around or went out for fresh air. All. but one. It was the man who resented being called a yahoo. He went over to the joker with a grin on his face, slapped him on the back in a hearty, way and said: :-: "It was a good joke and it's jest such adventures as this that make travellin' around all-fired pleasant to me! Come out and have some lem onade!" .. KNOWN "ms BOOTS. The Banco Steerers All Got on to Hie Home-Made Foot Covering. San Francisco Examiner. " John L. Beard, of Mission San Jose, is a well known wine maker, was one of the early graduates from the old College of California, has been a memoer 'of the Bohemian Club for years and has travelled ex tensively. As he came over on the boat the other day he told one of his early experiences in New York: "Out here I considered myself fairly well dressed,'' he said, "but I hardly touched New York before I knew I wasn't quite in it. A man rushed up to me, grabbed my hands and said unctiously: 'Hello, Tomp kins. How's everything in Kanka kee?' I wasn't as green as I looked, however, and merely said: 'Fine, Smith, fine. But let go, for I'm working that game myself.' "I at once ordered a suit of clothes from a Broadway tailor, bought a Dunlap hat, patronized the swellest haberdasher I could find, and kept to my hotel until the clothes were ready. When I was attired in my new suit I fancied that I couldn't be singled out from the loungers of the avenue on Sunday afternoon. But my friends, the bunco steerers, kept right after me. I couldn't go half a dozen biocks before I'd be hailed and have my hand shaken. I was Patterson from Helena, Boyd from Bodie, Clancy from Muskingum, and Smith, Jones and Robinson from all sections of the broad land which the impressionable jay rules as his de mesne. It got to be a dreadful bore. "Finally, when I had been accosted twice in one block I said to my new acquaintance : "'See here,: old man, I'm on to you. But if you'll tell me how in the devil you fellows all spot me for a wild Westerner I'll give you ten.' " " 'That's easy,' he said, reaching for the money. 'Those high-heeled boots were called in here in New York when I was a baby."' "So I have concluded that the old adage must be changed to read : 'Every man is known by his boots.' " BLACK INK. A Few Facta Worth Eveeybody's While to Learn. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. No chemical black ink has yet been made which will write black immediately on exposure. The com mon black ink is made of nut galls, and is by all odds the best ink ever made. Manuscripts written five .or six hundred years ago are just as legible to-day as when first written. The chemical inks of to-day ; are of too recent invention to determine whether they will last, but it is quite probable that most of them will be as legible at the end of fifty or seventy-five years as they are to-day. There is, however, a fortune in store for the man who will invent a chem ical black ink which will write black at first and remain so. Salem Press: JThe parties who are boring for oil near Walnut Cove have reached a depth of over one hun dred feet in the new location. FIFTY tSCOND CONGRESS. FIRST SESSION. Florida's Contested Election Case Before the SenateThe Code of Bales Furtner Debated in the House and Finally ' Agreed to. . ' bENATE. Washington, D. C, Feb. 4. The Senate was called to order , by Mr. Manderson, President pro tern. Mr. Chandler, member of the Com mittee on Privileges and Elections, stated that the report was unanimous, and that the Committee had wisely con cluded that the question was neither a political nor a personal one, but was of constitutional and statutory construc tion. It was whether the mere absence of a quorum of one house of the Legis lature (provided there was a majority present of the members of both Houses) was sufficient to defeat an election of a United States Senator. That question seemed to be settled conclusively in the negative by United States Statute. Dissent from the position taken by Mr. Chandler on the constitutional and statutory question involved was . the oc casion for a long legal discussion, in which Messrs. Mitchell, Stewart, Gray, Teller George and Sherman took part. There was no contention as to the cor rectness of the resolution reported, but the discussion turned simply upon the construction of the statute and its con stitutionality. : i Mr. Sherman argued that a fair con struction of the law of Congress (on the election of Senators) was that if two Houses failed to elect in separate meet ing, then a joint convention of . the two Houses should be held and the ma jority of that convention, as in the case of Florida, should decide the 'question. It made no difference, in his opinion, whether a quorum of one House was or was not oresent. . Finally the resolution was agreed to without division. Adjourned till Monday. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The consideration of the rules having been resumed. Mr. Enloe, of Tennessee. offered an amendment providing that eulogies to deceased members shall be delivered Sundays (and Sundays only). on which day the ceremonies shall be opened with prayer - by the Chaplain. These services, he said, were in the na ture of religious services, and no more appropriate day could be selected for giving tribute to the deceased members than bundav. Mr. Morse, of Massachusetts, second ed the amendment, He believed that memorial services were educational and proper, and the Lord's day was the most suitable one that could be cnosen. . Mr. Ray. of New York, opposed the amendment. It was evidently offered in the interest of those persons who never attended church, but who could come here on the Sabbath day and listen to oratory. Mr. Reed, of Maine, gave the infor mation that the consumption of time in the first session of the last Congress for memorial services was twenty-four days. ..Although the standing vote showeda majority of 96 to 68 in favor of the amendment, this majority vanished be fore the dreaded roll call and the amend ment was defeated yeas 91, nays 155. . Mr. UMiell, of.Missoun, onered an amendment making it obligatory on the House to consider the private calendar on Friday. Lost 57 to 111. Various propositions were made having for their obiect the abolition or restriction ot the custom of setting apart days for delivery of eulogies upon deceased members, but they were all reiected. ' Mr. Reed offered a substitute for rule 24, relating to the order of business, The only change proposed is that the morning hour, which under the code is limited to sixty minutes, may be ex tended indefinitel at the pleasure of the House. The substitute was lost 80 to 104. Mr. Chipman, of Michigan, offered an amendment providing for a Friday night session for the consideration of private Pension bills. Agree to. In speaking to an informal amend ment, J. D. Taylor, of Ohio, sent to the Clerk s desk and had read a letter sent by Mr. Wise, of Virginia, Messrs. Hen derson, of North Carolina, and Randall of Pennsylvania, to Speaker Carlisle, asking for recognition to move the sus pension of the rules and the passage of a bill for the repeal of Internal Revenue taxes upon tobacco. Mr. Taylor said that he meant to make no attack upon Speaker Carlisle. He pointed to these letters only as an illustration ot the great power which the rules conferred upon the Speaker. Consideration of rules reported by the Committee on Rules having been concluded, Mr. Reed, Jon behalf ot the Republicans, "offered as a substitute therefor the rales of the 51st Congress Lost; without division. The code of rules was then agreed to, Mr. Sayres. from the Committee on Appropriations, reported a bill to sup ply the deficiency in the appropriations lor the Eleventh Census, and it was re ferred to the Committee of the Whole. Also, a resolution directing an inquiry into the affairs of the World's Colum bian Exposition, stating that he would call it up tor action to-morrow. Mr. Durborrow, of Illinois, presented a substitute, which was ordered printed, and which will be considered at the same time. Mr. Dickerson, of Kentucky, offered a resolution directing the Committee on the j udiciary to make an investiga tion, and report whether Congress has the constitutional authority to appro priate money forthe World's Columbian Exposition. Adopted. . The House then adjourned. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Washington, D. C, Feb. 5. Mr. Fithian, of Illinois, sent to the Speaker for reference the bill placing farming implements upon the tree list He wished to have the bill printed in the Record, but the Speaker declined to recognize him for the purpose of making that request at the present time. ; Speaker Crisp is very hoarse, and his voice is hardly audible. The calling of committees for reports, which is usually made Dy tne speaker in person, was delegated to one or the reading clerks, the Speaker being desirous ot saving his voice as much as possible. Finally he left the chair and yielded the gavel to Mr. McMiinn, ot lennessee. - The call of committees having been completed. Mr. Fithian made his request that the , bill introduced by him be printed in the Record, and the request was acceaea to. The House then went Into committee ,of the whole, Mr. Richardson, of Tenn in the chair, on the census deficiency bill. ; Mr. Sayers, of Texas, in charge of the bill, made an explanation as to its pro visions, and brought the charge of ex travagance against the administration of the census bureau. He said that hun dreds of men and women who never ought to have been employed, had been employed in that office at the instance of members of Congress. Had the superintendent of the census been left to operate his bureau without pressure from outside to put in, office a large numner ot incompetent persons. exoen ditures would have been very much less. Mr. Henderson, qi Iowa Do you re- ier to tne numoer or quality t -' Mr. Sayers To both. Mr. Henderson replied to Mr. Sayers ana aeienaea tne census omce.v Mr. Dingley also defended Superin tendentof Cisus Porter.- He said if expenditures of the Census Bureau had been increased, this was due to the fact that Congress had imposed upon it the new and unheard ot duty of inquiring into the private business of citizens and compelling them to disclose the amount j OI ineir iarrn. mortgages. . - Mr. Dungon, of Ohio, opposed an ap propriation forthe Census Bureau until charges made against it had been an swered satisfactorily. It had been, said that tons and tons of statistics had .been destroyed after compilation, and that a lot of punching ;. machines (the inven tion of a relative) which could be pur chased for $10, had been employed at a royalty of $3. - : ; ; . : ,i v Mr. Cooper, of Indiana, criticised the Census Office on the ground that it bad discriminated against certain limestone industries of Indiana, and in favor of othersi In the taking of the census great inaccuracy if not dishonesty, had been committed as far as the limestone workings were concerned, i r " - Mr. Stone, of Kentucky, paid a high tribute to the ability and efficiency of the Superintendent of the Census. . Mr. Sayers offered an amendment ap propriating $115,514 for the subsistence of the. Sioux Indians, and calling -upon the Secretary of the - Interior to report to the House the names of all employes under the direction and supervision ot the Indian Bureau. The latter clause of this amendment was the first general legislation to be incorporated upon an appropriation bill, but no objection being made the amendment was adopted and the bill was passed. The private calendar was then taken up tor consideration, Dut no progress was made, and the House adjourned un til 12.45 o'clock to-morrow, when eulo gies will be delivered upon the late Rep resentative Lee, ot Virginia, v. MOUSE Or REPRESENTATIVES. Washington, D. C, Feb. 6. The House did not meet until a quar ter before 1 o'clock to-day t The at tendance of members was not large as the day was devoted to the delivery of eulogies. Minister Montt, of Chili, oc cupied a seat on the floor. At l o clock resolutions expressive oi the sorrow with which the House had heard of the death ot its esteemed mem ber, Mr- Lee, of Virginia, were presented by Mr. Meredith, of Virginia. Eulo gistic addresses were delivered by Messrs. Mereaun, curuunus, i ucucr, Wise, j Hermann, Washington, Herbert; Wilson, West Va.; Cummings,' Cbwles, . . . . t" j j - nr.. -.1 Eliott. Breckenndge of Kentucky, and Culberson. Resolutions were then adopted and the House out of respect to the memory of the deceased adjourned. HE KNEW ALL ABOUT IT. Mr. Gladstone Was Altogether Too Sharp for These Two men. Youth's Companion. anecdote is told of Mr. Glad An stone which illustrates strikingly the versatility, and breadth of knowledge of, that remarkable man. Two per sonal friends of Mr. Gladstone once laid a plan to amuse themselves and play a joke upon him. ml ' . i; T i ney were to uiscuss in nis pre seAce some subject of which he might be presumed to be ignorant, and then, having pretended to dis agree1 decidedly, to appeal : to Mr. Gladstone to settle the point. The fun was to come when he was forced to confess that there was one; sub ject which he had not studied. This plan they carried out ; but it was not so easy to find the topic on which Mr. Gladstone must confess himself "stumped." At last there was discovered in an old newspaper an article on Chinese chess. 1 he description of the . game had been copied from a well-known magazine, This seemed promising. The conspirators studied the ar ticle assiduously, until they had be come thoroughly, familiar with it. Then they waited for their oppor tunity. It came when they were in vited to a dinner where Mr. Glad stone was to be present. Seated on each side of their intended victim, by'afrangement with the host, they began to put their scheme in opera tion. Mir. Gladstone had maintained 'his reputation throughout . the evening for jbeing thoroughly . acquainted with; not only the leading questions of the day, but every subject which had been thus far introduced by those around him. His neighbors on either side began to discuss games of skill and chance generally. Every few minutes one or the other would appeal to Mr. Gladstone to clear up some oarticularly compli cated point or disputed question. Between them they skillfully led the conversation up to ''Chinese chess, and soon found their opportunity to argue somewhat warmly in regard to a certain matter connected with the game. l hey had studied the article so closely that they repeated much of it almost verbatim. Mr. Gladstone seemed interested, but said nothing, The! two jokers, inwardly congratu lating themselnes tor-: their success, continued the conversation with more animation than ever. The host, who had been taken into the pecret, was an amused spectator ot what he thought was his honored guest's embarrassment. When they had finished their mock battle Mr. Gladstone, who had not uttered a word, took asip of coffee, replaced the cup in the saucer, and remarked, pleasantly: "Gentlemen, 1 observe - that you have been reading an article on Chinese chess in the- Review which I wrote." A NEW WONDER. A. Rival to the Giant's Causeway Found In Yosemlte Park. Special Field Agent Nelson, of the Government exDloriner partv inDeath Valley who has just reached San i a a Francisco, says that the party dis covered, near the Yosemite Valley, a wonder that rivals the famous Giant s Causeway of Ireland. He says: On me Doraer ot tne hitherto unex plored part of Yosemite Park back of Mount Lyell, at the .head of the north ; fork of the San Joaquin, we one day came upon a sight so strange ano interesting that we did not care to move on until we had made a full exploration. . w nat we discovered were curious cliffs of basaltic spires, some reach ing; fifty feet high, and all six-sided. one tnirty leet nign stood out un supported. At - the base of the great cliff were thousands of pieces of basaltic spires which had fallen an4 broken. The pieces were from ten; to i fourteen Inches thick. I do not doubt that these columnar cliffs will- -: eventually become famous. Their location at the head of the north fork of the San Joaquin is one ot great picturesqueness and beauty. A Washington, D. C.. dispatch says: MrS. Sehneider, who was shot Sunday night by her husband, Howard J. Schneider, died yesterday. Her brother, young Hamlink, was instantly killed at the! same time she was shot. Young Schneider is in prison, awaiting action of the grand jury upon the killing of Hamlink. - - c m t kat c p f rim iww n saw a ww a w w wwwn mil nrr OUWUMI OLLCOI UNO. - I aaassi a? ajpvs. saa&aiu xa a.- , - Oft the; cloud that wraps the present hour serves but to brighten all our future days. Wm. Browne. '- "Evil men understand not judg ment ; but they that seek .the Lord un derstand all things." Ram's Horn. ? -Manners are the shadows of virtues, the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow-creatures love and respect.- Rev, Sydney Smith. - God's providence is a -lesson book. Ths best way to understand fullv the next page is to diligently study and improve the one before us. Edwards. -If a man is passionate, mali cious, resentful, sullen, or morose after his conversion' as ' before it, what is b converted from or to 7 John Aneell James. ; . ' ' : - -The being of God is the guard of the world ; the sense of a God is the foundation of civil order. - Without this there is no tie upon the conscience of -men. Charnock. : To be full of goodness, full of cheerfulness,' - full of sympathy, full of helpful hope, causes a man to carry blessings of which be is himself not un conscious as a lamp of its own shining. H. W. -Beecher. ; The Lord is faithful to accept even "the very small part of us we are sometimes willing to give up to htm, but we want it remembered how much greater blessing we shall have by. giving ourselves entirely up to him. Mary Frazee. ,' . It needs no sharp ordeal, no costly passport, no painful expiration, to bring you to the mercy seat or, rather, it needs the costliest of all; but the blood of atonement, the Savior's merit, the name of Jesus, priceless as they are, cost the sinner nothing. Hamilton, f The soul., in its highest sense, is a vase capacity for God.. It is like a curious chamber added to a 7 being a chamber with elastic contractile walls which can be expanded, with God as its guest, inimitably; but which, ' without God. shrinks and shivers until every ves tige of the divine is gone, and God's image is left without God's spirit. Na ture has her revenge upon neglect as well as upon extravagance. Misuse, with her, is as mortal a sin as abuse. Henry Drummond. . 1 Rev. Charles H. Spurgebn. who died Sunday night, was one of the mostxremarkable preachers of the cen tury. He was eccentric and doubtless in his day had received more than his fair share of ridicule and caricature. But despite his peculiarities of speech and theology he was unquestionably a torce for great good, and if bis life is to be judged by results he certainly wrought a noble and substantial work. He was to London what Talmage is to New York and Brooklyn. In the last thirty-seven years be had written and preached two thousand sermons, all of which were published weekly. The great majority of these productions have been forgot ten, but some of them are still favorites in current theological literature. A SILVER-TONGUED TEXAN. The ITonngest Member ot the House Proves Himself to be an Orator. Mr. Bailey, of Texas, the young est member of Congress, partici pated in the debate on the new rules in the House yesterday, and in a ten minute speech against one-man power and the power granted by- the rules to the rules committee, the Washington correspondent of the New York World says, he captivated both Democrats and Republicans and established himself as an orator of great promise. He was applauded to the echo and nearly every mem ber of the Democratic side filed past his desk and gave him the warm grasp of congratulation. The young statesman looks as the late Samuel J. Randall might have looked at his age. The resemblance ws strangely striking even to the dress, and made a marked impression upon the o.d members. He is a little over twenty-nine years old, is-rather tall and broad-shouldered and has a smooth, strong, earnest face. His bearing is that of the statesman; his clothes have the cut of the old school. When he began to speak there was a din ot conversation in the rear of the chamber, but his robust voice made him heard and every member listened. He spoke with a deliberate direct ness that was convincing. His lan guage was simple and to the point. His gestures were few and fitting. Old members gazed with astonish ment at the young man. A new member commanding such attention and creating such a; strong impres sion upset their ideas of the negative part the novitiate should play in the Congress. Even ex-Speaker Reed clasped his hand when he had fin ished. Young ,Bailey s bound into prominence was a hard blow at pre cedent, and his appearance was the chief subject of comment during the proceedings. . , PERSONAL. Hon. Thomas W. Palmer, pre sident of the World's Fair Columbian Commission; has become a 33 degree Mason. Cardinal Manning and" Cardinal Sirrieoni, it is mentioned as a coinci dence, were elevated to the Cardinalate at the same time, and died on the same day. ' William Lloyd Garrison told the Massachusetts Woman's Suffrage Association a few days ago that he hoped that his children might live to see a woman President of Harvard College. " .i- Peter Oliver, a 12-vear old bov at the fJew York immigration, bureau, gets the magnificent salary of $3 a week as an interpreter. He speaks English, uerman, bwedish and Italian fluently. Mrs. La Favre, the New York leader of the vegetarians, subsists almost entirely upon water' and fruit which has ripened in the sun. These, with the ce reals and nuts, make up Mrs. La Favre's daily menu. The late Grand Duke Consian- tme, the Czar's uncle, was in general ap pearance the image ot an Englishman. He has a fair and somewhat ruddy com plexion, light blue eyes that were so near-sighted that he wore spectacles, and auburn hair. " Cardinal - Manning is said to have been so careless in his dress as to be positively shabby in appearance at times. They even relate that on one oc casion when he took a drunkard'sbottle away on the street, the wretch gazed at him - a moment and then exclaimed: ?Take it, poor fellow, take it, ye need it more than l do. While a student in Vienna the Khedive of Egypt was greatly averse to ceremony and allusions to his rank. In Paris one day, being permitted to walk the boulevards with a single companion, he met one f his future subjects, who saluted him and addressed him as "Your highness." Thereupon Abbas replied in 5 excellent French: "You are mis taken; I am a Parisian." . There should be no higgling in a Democratic Congress over the bill to put wool on the free list, and to repeal the compensatory duties on woolens in tended to give back to the manufacturer the duty paid on his raw material. Pass the bill ! Let the other fellows do the higgling I Phil. Record, Dem. WALTER W. SKEAT. Who- would not haste to do some mighty thing, -" If safe occasion gave it to bis hand, - ' Knowing that, at its close, his name would ring. Coupled with praises, through a grateful land? Who would not hear with joy some s great command, ' - Bidding him dare to earn a glorious ' name ? " The task is easy that secures' us fame. - But, ah! how seldom comes jthat trum- net call v,-;';;;- - -:..-.r -.r That stirs the pulse andfills the veins '-'! with flame," f'--'J--' - - When victory asks fierce effort," once for all, . . --' And smiling fortune points a way to I fame . . - " . -Along some path of honor, free from "i ' blame. v To one. the call to do great deeds speaks ! loud, " ; . 1 '"'-'.-; - -To one; amidst a vast unhonored crowd. Far otherwise the common lot of man Our hourly toil but seeks the means to i live; -:1 - - : Our dull, monotonous labor knows no ! plan, : ... ';v'."": Save that which stern necessity doth '' give. ' Our earnings Mil an ever-leaking sieve; Our task fulfilled, another still succeeds, And brief neglect brings overgrowth of ' weeds. . : ;.-. What wonder, then, if suffering men re- ' : pine, " -.V i . And hopelessness gives way to mute de- ! . . spair ? - Some murmur at, yea, curse the scheme .. divine -.... - That, placed them where the saws of I frettingcare " . i Across their brows a deepening channel wear, For them, no springtide speaks of hope i 'renewed, ': But changeless wintry skies above them j brood. . Oh, fools and blind ! This world is not J the goal, . . .. ! ' . But shapes us for a larger world un- ! known: -The vilest slave, that ! soul. keeps a patient Shall yet rank higher than the sensual drone . v ! Who seeks to please his' worthless self alone. I . If humblest toil be hardest, yet be sure. He most shall merit who can most en- . ": dute. . 'mL j TWINKLINGS.. "Hello, Johnny," said the man who always has time to talk to children. "You are in a hurry, ain't you ?" f "Yes, sir." - j ' "I know your father. He's always in a hurry. You take after him don't you?" j "No. sir, I sassed him an he just took after me. That's why I'm in such a hurry. Washington Post, i Sweet Tempered- Wife Don't you know, Jim, it looks very bad tor y u to come home so late every night ? . Jim Looks bad ! How? : Sweet Tempered Wife The neigh bors will think you are dissipated. . ! Jim Why, that is the very reason why I come home sq late. So the neighbors will not see me. Boston Post. : Mrs. Bleek James, what color are your typewriter's eyes? Bleeks (thoughtlessly) Deeply, beau tifully blue. . Mrs. Bleeks I'll scratch her eyes out, the husse. ! " Bleekjs O, my typewriter is of the tobacco chewing variety. He is the father of a family. Minneapolis Tri bune. "My darling," she murmured, "you know that I love you. Is tnis not enough for the present? Be assured that I will set a day for our wedding as soon as it is possible." i "That's all right Miranda," doggedly replied the young man, "but I hope you will remember that 1 ve got to be mar ried in this dress suit, and it won't last forever." Clothier and Furnisher. Annual Meeting. rpHE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK holders of the Bank ol New Hanover will be held at that Bank, on Thursday, 11th inst., at IS o'clock. , WM. L. SMITH, feb 5 St Cashier. Dividend Notice. rpHE BANK OK NEW HANOVER HAS THIS day declared a semi-annual dividend of three per cent., payable to Stockholders of this date, on 11th mst. - W. L. SMITH, feb5 3t Cashier. " WORTH A GUINEA A BOX." Laborers and all troubled with Cod stlpatloa or Sick Headache will find a prompt, safe and J economical cure in a dose of EEGHAM' PILLS; A specific for all Billoas and Kerroas DIs- t orders, arising from Impaired Digestion, Constipation, Disordered LWer, etc. rt ii j - T-:.. mm . i X j new x oric ucpot, 305 anai st. a feb 4 D eod th sat tne &Wly omit june jul aug O OOOOOO OOO 0 TUTT'S o gTiny Liuor PillsS w an avntl-Dillous sad amttanalavrlal O remedy aura wonderful la thalr eiracta a in fraeins; the systam of billouaneea V stnd malaria. No one Hrlng; in O Malarial Regions ( should bat without tham. Their vm a praventa attacks or ehiua ana amr, a asmbsfne, billons collo, and alvas J the system strength to resist all the O arils of aa nnheaJthy and Impure at-A mo.phr.re. Elegantly surar-ooated. W Priee-XAo. Offloe. 39 Park Place, W.X. 0000000 OOO mar 19 DW ly th Mothers1 Friend" makes child birth easy. CoIyln,Ija De0. g, 1836. My wife used MOTHER'S JFETEND before her third confinement, tmd says she would not be without it for hundreds of dollars. BOCK HTTT1T18. Sent by express on receipt of pries, 1J50 per bot tle. Book To Mothers "mailed free. BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO won auua mt aiLORueaisra. . , ATLANTA, OA. aptD4Wly tuthsa ' nrm ' Sp Early Ohio Seed. A limited stock to arrive. Par ties -wishing these' Potatoes, will please apply at once. HALL & PEARSALL, v No. 11 & 18 South Water St. Early Rose. Extra Maine Stock. Low prices. jan80DWtf I a&dWhUkeyHablte . noma wun , Book of par- 1 sent FREE. .WOOLIiEY.M.IX ' Atlanta. Ctas, Office 10134 ' Atlanta, 6at. Offloe 104J4 Whitehall St 3 dec 28 D&Wly tu th tat Isaac hA-n President Geo. W. Wiluams ..Vice President W. L. Smith. , . ,. . . . . ..... ...... . . , Cashier Bank of Nei HanoYer. CAPITAL PAID IN $300,000 '$1,000,000 AUTHORIZED CAPITAL1 - - DJEECTOES: W, I. Gore. Isaac Bates, . -Clayton Giles- -. Jas. A. Leak, of Wades . boro.N. C. E. B. Borden, of Golds boro, N. C -3D. MacRae. G. W. Williams, of Wil liams & Nurchison. H. Vollers, of Adrian & - Vollers.! . John W. Atkinson, -F. Rheinstein,.of Aaron & ltlunnttMn. laac sates, rrestaent. -Wadeslioro Braflc&.J-&J' Presidenti DIRECTORS i T. A. Leak K. T. Bennett I J. C. Marshall. Issues Certificates of Deposit bearing interest. Is authoriz 1 ed by Charter to receiva on deposit mo neys held i trust by Executors , Adminin iators,Gnar dians, &c, i&c., &c - - -. Strict attention given to the orders and requests of our country friends by mail or otherwise. f novl6wtf THE qLDEST DAILY PAPER IN NORTH CAROLINA. v pHE DAILY MORNING ST Alt, A Ffrst Class Democratic Newspaper Published at the following low ' RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Year j postage paid.... '. .....$S CO Six Months, " 1 ". inree One THE DAILY STAR Contains full Kepuns" of the Wilmington Markets Telegraphic! Reports of the Northern and European Markets, and the Latest Geaeral News, by Telegraph i' Mait from all parts of the world. and WILLIAM H. BERNARD' Edito and Prop'r, Wilmington, N. C. FOUNDED IN 1864 by the present executive 27 YEARS of continuous and successful man agementIncreased annual attendanceNow pocupyttng sfour buildings Stands unrivaled in facilities for educating YOUNG MEN AND WOMJEN for success in life. In deciding upon school for their children, PARENTS should end them to THE BEST, because it pays. It may require the expenditure of a few dollars more at first, bnt it will prove the cheapest in the end- CHEAP tuition Li very dear, because it meansi cheap teachers, cheap surroundings, infe rior facilities, and offers NO opportunities for ecuriag POSITIONS for its pupils and graduates. ; This Institution, owing to its H IC H standard of excellence, has placed in desirable posrtiqns piore younw men and women from Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Caro lina and Georgia, than all similar institutions combined. -Catalogue and particulars mailed on application. Address, W. H. SADLER, President, and Founder; lor F. A. SADLER. Secretary. 6, 8, io & 1 2 N.Charles Street. 1 I DAI EQ. r. f mm ' 1 DHbi nnunt, KlUi sepip&W6m . .- i , ; JAPANESt ILE CURE A guaranteed Care far Plies of whatever kind or degree External, Internal, Blind or Bleeding, Itching, Chronic, Kecent or Heredi tary;; $1.00 a box; 6 boxes, $5.00. Sent by mai, prepaid, on receiptor price. We guar antee to cure any case of PDes. Gaanntesd aold only by J.-ri. HARDIN. Wholesale and Retail Druesist. f A 1 tf EAW New Market. WuininetonTN. C. 1 1 . j500 Reward I WE will pay the above reward for any ease of liver Complaint, UyBpepsia, 8ick Headache, Indigestion. Coo. stlpatloa or Costiveness we cannot cure wita West's Veiretable Liver Pills, when tne directions are strictly compiled with. They fe purely Vegetable, and never fall to grive satisfaction. Sugar Coated. Large boxes, containing 3d Pills, E5 cents. Beware of counterfeit and imitations. The genome manuxactnrea only oy CUF 'ORW a WEST COMPAITY. CHICAGO. ILL. So'.d by . ROBERT R. BELLAMY, N. w. Cor. Front and Market streets. eblDftWlv Wilmington N. C. w w- w w -mtw Kcabunb wii y 5 1 YOU SHOULD ORDER YOUB BEDS! W I - FROM CT.W.WOOD &. SONS RICHMOND, VA. GARDEN SEEDS. At 1,000 miles distance we make It Just as easy for yon to obtain tbe best and most improved varieties and lat est novelties, as we DELIVER POSTPAID anywhere all Garden Beeds at packet and ounce rates, and give zo eta. wortn extra pict. tseeas lor eacn f l.uu worm uraereu. weaisuiiave special low rates on Beeds in balk. W Our GRASS, CLOVER, and Field Seed trade is tbe largest in V the Southern States most convincing proof or our man-grade eeeas ana rea- Bonaoie pricts. NO RISK .:. IN SENDING MONEY through the . mails, and we guarantee the safe ' arrival of all orders filled by us.. ( Tnll Information end cultural directions . k of all Farm and Oar den Oons 1 civen In ' ' our New Caratogne, which Is the most In-1 I structive ever issued, i Called ree. Bend foi It. .w.wood & sons; Seedsmen, RSCKf&OMD, fa. jn SO D 4t we sat W 4t ANTED .Thousands and thous and thousands of old Confederate Postage Stamps that have been used on letters: also, unused specimens, Dut par ticularly those that have been used, Ajlow all such to remain on the usual erivelooes. Wanted, also, old issues of tjl L. Stamps, prior to 1870 issue, and anything above the three-cent denomi nation. For both the above we win pay the hiehest cash orices. Whatever you hivjC send to us by mail or express for otr examination. Prompt returns maae, ighest references given. Address T. DICKSON MUNUb, ian ay w am .wumingiuu, in. ? mmrmr i 117:1 : m. Pk.1 ST D M A BQTnHJe TREATMENT ill itimiwi vii w roRTHCcuncor err Debility, Lat Manhood, i. Iiaetr of DevelaBainL ney and Blatdderr Ulaoraen, Nia-lai sweats, varicocele and all diseases brought on by imprudence or neglect. Witbnnt Stoanaea MeaUeiBei Has never failed in ten years. Illustrative Treatise tree, sentJ sesueov Address. MA8ST0N REMEDY CO. 19 Park Puoe. New Yomc.N.Y. dec23D4W17 tuthi FOR .MJ nniY! ir (TP jjuai - alilii nuuiii . nin eiTTTirrl V A WTTArtTti anerta and NEHVOUS BEBELIT I; Weakness of Body and Kind. Effect of Errors or Exoemses in Oldor Youor. -ui. ait; unnn iiw Uw4AMa nw at.iaM J . a.ni- UiH0 s-DPiiraDII .11. I. a Amw. The Daily Star, mm peierlutl Book, nplsjisilom twd oroor salM (HtM) rroo. 4iMnM uufi iieoiCAk co.t buffaLo, m. y. Clearance Sale STILL. CONTINUES! Those who have called at our place during -the past week knrjW ml 1 ma rffef - T'z-v wrat w yuwa... aU fliers We Say come and see what our conception of a bareain-is. h Simrjlv tekt ti, ...i - . vdiue of advert siug. The good work win go on during! the coming week. .. -:;. , ; j PrimeCost, BLANKETS AND COMFORTS The remainder of this stock we- propose to close out at tfie above price. JACKETS AND WRAPS .- i ' We are showi. an assortment whichwe believe to be exactly suited to the best trade. The garments all possessthat intrinsic worth which stands out against the "only made to sell" class, just as the genuine iewpl 1 'ii , 1 1, c goous win aiso ue s ua tor rRIMr' i . . CARPETS AND MATTINGS. Our exteniiive Carpet and- Matting Department embraces ever variety; and style of reliable gor-ds in ntw designs and attractive colorings. We make a prominent feature of offering Special Patterns, which we do not in" tend duplicating, at prices that will insure their ready sale. LACE CURTAINS & PORTIERES. We have a few good things in these goods whichjean be bought at a re markably low, figure. TRACK LINEN AND OIL CLOTH. A splendid line of these goods on hand at all times. TRUNKS AND SATCHELS. We are receiving a supply of these gqods daily. BROWN! & RODDIC .No. 9 NORTH FRONT STREET. rrjl feb 7 tf A GREAT SACRIFICE. FOR TEN DAYS ONLY! . OAK SUIT, 10 PIECES, FRENCH PLATE MIRROR, 1 . ' . For $25 J Worth S35. Walnut Suit, ten Dieees. French Plate Mi ror. for $47.60, worth $60.00 This is n humbue, bu the above prices can't be duplicated Al o, tbe b g$est stock in he city io select anything else from ia ihe utuiiurc que. (.omc aaa Day ac your own price. mattresses of am Kina made to order, and ro ova ea. Ask for a bo tie of oar Furniture Pulish Best in the world. Shdooc3- & Co, THE CHEAPEST Furniture House in Nort- Carfllk- jan 24 tf GOLD MEDAL, PASIS, 1S73. . Baker & Co.'e Breakfast ocoe from' which the excess of oil has been removed, Is Absolutely Pure and it is Soluble. No Chemicals are used in its preparation. It has more than three times the strength of Cocoa mixed with . Starch, Arrowroot or Sugar, and is therefore far more economical, costing less than one cent a cup. It is delicious, nourishing, strengthening, easily digested, and admirahly adapted for invalids us well as for persons in health, v Sold by Crocers everywhere. W. BAKER & CO., DORCHESTER, MASS jan 1 D&WOm we fr su Wealth ! I ID.. E. C. West Naavs and Brain Theatjiiwt, a guaranteed specific for Hysteria, Dimness, Coo Ynuions, Fits, Nerrons Neuralgia. Headache, tier Tons Prostration caused by the use of - cohol or to bacco, Wakefulness. Mental Depression, Softening ol the Brain resulting in insanity and leading to miser)', decay anc" death, Premature Old Age, Barrenue. Loss of Power in either sex, Involuntary Losses ano Spermatorrhoea caused by over-exertion of the brais self-abuse or over-indulgence. Each box contains oat month's treatment. $1.00 a box, or six boxes K $5.00, sent by mail prepaid on receipt of price. WE GUARANTEE SIX BOX! S To core any case. With each order received by for six boxes, accompanied with $5.00 we wiil the purchaser our written I guarantee to refund v" mam if the treatment does not effect a core. Guar antees issned only by ROBERT R. BELLAMY, Druggist. Sole Act. N. W. Cot. Front and Market So, feblD&WlT 1 Wilmington, N. C A MAN PU.SaforS450 HIS NEIGHBOR paid only S375. For thevcry same Fiano. j Narft hRr one was v(XVi a nickel over IP1- insure Yourself LUDDEN & BATES, Savannah, Oa-1 Ainwt. froiD B Too can't pay thorn more tlitn !ntrjni"n g are aotually worth. - Thei are not bruit tn.t "' K Write for Latest PPECIAT. OFFi'H K i , . If Health is s lUMLfl
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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Feb. 12, 1892, edition 1
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