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And sweet sang the thrash on the spray, Aud bright was the glamour of sunshine That made the world fair on that day. . But, oh !-uot so sweet the red roses, , So sweet the bird's song from above, So bright the gold glamour of suifshine, As was the sweet glamour of love . That fell on that pair iu the garden, As 'mid the fair flowers they strolled ; Aud there, as 'twas first told in Eden, Asjain was Love's tender tale told. if there ever , were NEW ORLEANS. THE BIG SHOW THAT IS TO BE. Some Crescent city Wart, Correspondence of the Ralkiob Register. Sew Orleans, La.,' November 4. -The telegraph wires have told the world that thi! Exposition will not be opened until December 10th. The object La the post-)(iu-im-!it is to give it the international sjtatnp which it ought to bear, and which will effect the greatest good to the coun try by having here on the half way ground, "eoruphicaHy, and at the great Southern cis atlantic port, commercially, -the Exec utive Heads of the American Republics or their representatives. ! For the President of the United States, the President of Mexico and the Presidents ,A the Central and South American States to meet to witness the friendly -emulation of their people in arts and industries is a greater event than a score of meetings of three emperors at out-of-the-way, unpro nounceable places, ostensibly to consult about the peace of Europe, really to plot against the Nihilists, and the world will so recognize. The immediate result of the delay of in auguration will be to get things in ship shape for the installation of articles and to enable exhibitors to erect their displays in a manner more attractive to visitors and more satisfactory to themselves. By this means the Exposition will in itself be a better Fair. The social phases of life here are very interesting, as every one knows in an in definite way, and as the readers of Mr. Ca- ble's lxoks know more particularly. It is at once an American, city, with all the vim and pluck and self-assertion of an Ameri can city, and it is a city of Southern Eu rope. (There is a foreign suggestion in the otit-do6r life; all the old town seems to live inline streets or the verandahs or the cafes. I People talk with their shoulders and eyebrow s with a volubility that would startle; one of our trained professional stump speakers. The dress, the cigarettes, the lotteries, all are foreign. People drink in the suniigat ana gamole m tne open air.. and vast possibilities of aback door to a bar room or beer saloon are not sus pecteil by these simple children of the South. The churches are. open always, and there are a great many of them. The 'people seem to understand what they are for, too, because they go" there in troops to prayjand worship, and they let others go and jtiad happiness as their dispositions led them. Church going seems to be a per sonal act and not a result of reflected in fluences of more or less worth. Elect-ions have for them the same fasci naiionsias for old Americans. They talk of them, bet on them, fight over them, etc., and when .they are over laugh over them and go to work on the next one. To-night crowds are surging around the iiuiietin boards and newspaper offices Over them hangs a cloud of smoke from. thousands of cigars and cigarettes. Cheers from Democrats or Republicans greet eve ry announcement. David M. Vance, who is regarded here as one of the most promising lournalists, surrounded by crowds of eager friends looking for the very latest word from New York. Stephen D. Pool, another North Carolinian, can hardly read the despatches for the press that ison him. It is all confusion, and it is feared here that the election will bdgin after the polls have been closed in NeW Jersey and Indi ana, i At a restaurant to-nigit on Canal street oiill be seen quite a nbtaole gathering. "Colonel William Preston Johnson and a party of literary friends were at one table, N". I'.. Kellogg and a gang of politicians very eager in discussing political chances at another, while at a third was the Mexi can Commissioner surrounded by quite a coterie of subaltern officers all smoking ami eating and drinking. It is a curious eiistom to our people, but it is smoke at meal, before meals, between meals. They never seem-to have time to leave off smok ing. As a matter of business why should our North Carolina tobacco growers wish that they should? P. M. W. as manv before. The Southern Normal is one ofi the permanent insuiuuoBs oi tne town, and is wortn more to Lexington Ahan -almost any other enterprise in the place. - ' ", Mr. ' A J ' D.f Farmer. the nrocrressive County Superintendent .of Macon, is hold ing montinly institutes for his teachers. Tie says: ("la the general examination of July, 188?, there must, lie a weeding out pf incompetent teachers. It is high time tnat the public money should be paid to those only who are qualified to teach what the law requires tci be taught." i ; Changes on the Earth's 8arfee. I fNew York Sun. J - ' n i a, jkj njniia, tile southwest point of Iceland, discovered on July 29 last that a new island had sudden ly appeared above, the water, about nine miles from the mainland. Nine weeks ago the British Consul in Iceland visited the island, which he describes as a black volcanic rock j of small extent. In this neighborhood ; several islands have from time to time risen to the surface or sunk out of sight. ; . ueoiogical writings give a great many instances of important changes on the earth's surface that have been made within historical times. ! The stupendous volcanic eruption Of Krakatau on August '27 last year entirely changed the physical aspect ot the sunda straits. A part of Krakatau was ahoti out of the sea and dropped into the straits eight miles northward. The greater portion of the island, , containing several thousand million cubic yards of earth, was hurled through the air over Zaug Island, and plunged into the channel seven miles to the northeast. These two new pieces of land, which have been named Steers and Calmeyer Islands, now appear above the sea where previously 240 feet of water existed. Where the volcano oi ivrakatau stood a- sea fathomless by a line of liQOO feet now exists. General Sir J. H. Lefroy recently called attention to the fact that ninety-six more or less extensive tracts of land are known to be rising ox sinking. Geologists tell us that the Atlantic coast between Cape Cod and. Cape Hatteras has been sinking for centuries, and that the subsidence has not yet ceased on the coasts of New York and New Jersey. The Indians who lived on Manhattan Island when the Dutch col onized it two centuries ago, said that in the time of their great grandfathers it was possible to cross Hell Gate dry shod from one bank to the other. Prof. Guyot esti mated that since the. colonization of the country! this part of the coast has subsid ed .twenjty-threc and one-half inches every century Scienpe is not yet able to tell in accord ance wi)th what laws these upheavals and depressions . of the earth s crust occur. Geologists, however, have been able to fix almost exactly the limits of the areas both of upheaval and subsidence. There is now no doubt that many of the islands of the 'southern Pacific Ocean are the lofty portions of a continent which sapk until the waters covered it. , Other parts of the Pacific Ocean bed are gradually rising, and arc thrusting here and there new islands above the sea. White the greater part of the American continent is slowly rising, Australia is gradually sinking. Lieutenant-Commander De Long found evidence that Bennett Island had risen one hundred feet within quite recent times. Thus year by year the earth is reconstituting its seas and conti- BLAINE. WAS lT FOBERieini Or Wis It Better Hindsight nents. CLINCSMAWS FREE TOBACCO CUBE. Call for m Testimonial to Him. What We Hear from Our Sehoola. North Carolina Teacher. Kinston College has one hundred and seventeen pupils. Winston Graded School has 400 pupils urolled. Salem Female Academy has 100 scholars. Koekv Mount Graded School has over 1W ivipils. ' Surithdeal Business College, at Greens--loro, h;is seventy-two students. Henderson, Vance countv, proposes to ouild a 20.000 female colleore. Newborn Graded School has an cnroll '"ent of nearly 400 pupils. -North Carolina has twenty-two Graded Schools in successful operation. Charlotte boasts 1300 children in attend- iiee her two graded schools. ik Uidge has 125 students, and still 'li'-.v come. ' Vail kin Mineral Springs Institute, Mr. " C. Hamilton, Principal, has over sev '"ty pupils, including 40 boarders. 1 lie Oxford Female Seminary is enjoy an unusually successful term. The patronage is fifty per cent, larger than ever before. Tin- Colored Normal School, at Fayctte--ville is tilled to its utmost capacity with - 'indents. The opening is larger than ever l fore in the history of the school. The editor of th Mnnntnin. Yinrt. of Mitc hell county,' says-: Passing about the county, we notice the school-rooms are better filled than usual, the teachers are letter paid, and a better class of teachers employed." Capt. J. I. White, Superintendent of i' ltie, says: "There are evident signs of progress in the schools. 'Teachers are be 'vmiing more efficient, better and more 'onvenient bouses are being built, and greater interest is leing manifested in edu cation." j I lie Davidson D'uqtutth says there are "'on school-boy and girls in Lexington "I tins time than has been known in vears. Washington Health and Home. . We are pleased to announce that a move ment s now on foot to reward General Clingman for the great good he has be stowed upon the human race in making known; the wonderful curative virtues of tobacco. The proposed reward is to be a presentation of a well-filled pocket-book; and Messrs. Riggs & Co., bankers of this city, will receive all moneys and place the same to the General's credit. In this connection we wish to Ray that there is scarcely a single reader of Jleafth and Horns but should contribute his mite towards this well-merited tribute. There is scarcely a home in the land but will be benefited by General Clingman's discovery ; thousands have already been saved weeks and months of suffering, and scores have actually been saved, from falling into pre mature graves. Headers, one and all, we now appeal to you to make this testimonal one that will be remembered for years. The ' General gave you, we might almost say, the results of his life's labor without money and with out price. Had he been of a sordid na ture he would have had his discovery pat ented and then have doled it out to you at so much a bottle, but his great sympathetic nature and his love of doing good impelled him to act otherwise.. We sincerely hope, therefore, that each and every reader will give his mite towards this fund, it is usual to-day to offer large sums of money for remedies to cure cholera, small-pox, yellow fever, and the like, which ailments may only visit our country once jn a gene ration. Yet here we have in our midst a philanthropist who gives us a cure, a spe cific, for a score or more ailments that are of daily occurrence and that often end iu loss of life. .Now did our niggardly na ture refuse to reward such a benefactor then we surely ought to suffer and even die, for the world would certainly be bet ter without us. Of course, those who have been directly benefited by the General's discovery will be apt to be the largest contributors, but we ask all our readers to contribute" at least from $1 upwards, for by so doing they will pay a just tribute to a deserving man Address all moneys as follows: Messrs. Riggs & Co., Bankers, Washington, D. C. Gentlemen : Inclosed find which please place to the credit of General Thomas L'. Clingman. Signed In our next issue we shall publish the name of each contributor and the amotin contributed. Hoping to have at least a whole column of such names and contri butions, we now leave the matter wholly in the hands of our readers. Wanted tne Snbatance. New York Tribune. ' It comes pretty hard on some servants to give up their positions, where they can run things, and settle down into the humble position of wives. "Mary," said a lady to "one such recently, "have you come back to be a hired girl again? I thought you left us to get married and have a house of your own." '"So I did mum." Well, what have you come back for?" "Well, you sec, mum, John's done purty well, an' we kep" a hired girl, too, and-I'm kind o' tired av Ihe way of life. I, thought I'd like to come back' an' be boss agin for a while." New York Sun. Washington. November 11. One of the things that those who determined upon the nomination of Mr. Blaine had to con tend against was his own seeming indif ference. The reports that went abroad last winter that the politicians who visited him at his Washington residence were driven almost to despair by his refusal to advise, encourage, sometimes even to lis ten to anything respecting his contempla ted nomination were in the main true. His old friends could not understand this.. The Blaine that they had known in former canvasses tor the nomination was resolute, resourceful, almost imperious. He never made .any pretence of what he deemed false modesty about seeking for political honors and seeking with all his might. Last winter, however, and through the spring up to a short time before his nomi nation, lie was so indifferent, dfsplaying even less interest than he would . if the proposed candidate was a man whom be neither knew nor cared about, that the friends, who were so hot in his cause fi nally decided not to bother him, but to go ahead in their own way. Mr. Elkins, who kriew Mr. Blaine as well as the candidate ever permitted any man to know him, and Mr. Phelps, who regards his relationship as of the most intimate character, both agreed that, if they were successful in their efforts to nominate Mr. Blaine, the old fire would blaze up again, and that he would be at the head of his party in the canvass before many weeks passed by. It was supposed that Mr. Blaine's indiffer ence arose from the fact that he was worn and weary with the turmoil, personal vex ations, and risks of active political life, and that be found greater delight than he had believed to be possible in the library with his pen, and in the quiet and refined social life that was possible in Washington to a man of his eminence and political standing. While there was undoubtedly some foundation for this surmise, yet it by no means explained the reason for Mr. Blaine's indifference. There is the best of authori ty for saying that Mr. Blaine, while he be lieved his nomination could be secured, was convinced that he could not be elect ed, and that in spite of hope raised dur ing the canvass, and the stifling of that conviction by the excitement caused by the extraordinary personal canvass that he made, the conviction has, in fact, never left him. If the truth were known, it would probably be found that Mr. Blaine was prepared for a much larger plurality against him than really has been devel oped in New York State. Last spring Mr. Blaine was visited in Washington by an eminent business man, who is at the head of one of the largest corporations in the United States. To this man Mr. Blaine said, in effect, that he should not be sur prised if he was nominated at Chicago, but that he should be far from disappoint ed if he was not. When, with some sur prise, he was asked why not. Mr. Blaine replied that a nomination would only en tail a long season of personal excitement, labor, and annoyance, without result. In other words, he believed that it was not possible for him to be elected. When asked again why he so believed, he said he was satisfied that he could not carry New York State. He was convinced that while the factional warfare in the party in that State had practically died out, yet his nomination would revive it, sufficiently at least, to lead enough Stalwarts to care more for revenge than for party success. "In other words," said Mr. Blaine. cnougn stalwarts will knife me to defeat the party." That conviction Mr. Blaine carried with him through the canvass, though until within a short time before election day his party managers aid not share it. Mr. Blaine never thought that there would be any organized opposition on the part of the Stalwarts, bnt he suspected that the word would be passed along quietly among them, or those of them that could be trusted, that their opportunity had come. The result shows, in part at least, how well Mr. Blaine's anticipations were real ized. Ihe National Committee received a hint or suggestion some weeks ago that quiet understanding existed among the Stalwarts in some parts of the State, and this, coupled with certain decidedly un pleasant symptoms of apathy, unskilfully veiled by pretended energy on the part of certain members of the state Committee, led the National Committee to attempt to take steps to counteract this danger There were men on the State Committee who were never fully trusted either by Mr. Blaine or those who were managing his canvass. Mr. Blaine could not bring himself to put entire confidence in Mr. Piatt, though he was assured that no one was working for him with more zeal than Mr. Piatt, as no one displayed more energy and skill in securing his nomination, l et Mr. Blaine remembered that but for the nomi nation of Mr.: Robertson for Collector, Mr. Piatt would have been in the United States Senate to-day, and that the extraor dinary spectacle that Mr. Piatt gave oppor tunity for witnessing by reason oMiis pres ence in Chicago as a most effective Blaine worker was probably not because he loved Blaine more, but because he had for cer tain well-known reasons come to love President Arthur less. Mr. Blaine could not wholly conquer a suspicion that Mr. Piatt was subtle and able enough to con template a game in -politics whereby when it was finished he could say: "Well played; I have seen one man beaten for the nomination by the man by whom of all others he would have wished not to be beaten, and then I have seen the success ful one requited for what he caused to happen four years ago." Whether Mr. Piatt is capable of conceiving and execute ing such exquisite double revenge as this or not, it is certain that he was compli mented by Mr. Blaine and some of his friends with the suspicion of such ability. It became kKwn, too, that Mr. Conk ling without price, so far as could be learned, lifting his finger to influence any one, had been asked for advice by friends, many of whom were still devoted to him, and had not hesitated to sav that he should not vote for Mr. Blaine. Mr. George C. Gorham, too, the brfght Stalwart who so vigorously defended Conkling in the mem orable contest that preceded his resigns tion from the Senate, and who never hesi tated to attack Mr. Blaine in vigorous English in his paper, the Washington Re publican, was the object of suspicion. For, though Mr. Gorham went to Chicago, where he astonished hisfriends by doing most effective work for Blaine, yet Mr. Blaine's intimates were disposed to regard him as a Greek bearing gifts. The suspi cion was not allayed after Mr. Blaine's nomination when Mr. Gorham made mys terious, and apparently purposeless visits to the hot bed of Stahvartism and Blaine- phobia in the central part of the State. Can it be, then, Mr. Blaine's friends ask themselves, that his suspicions were well grounded, and that the Stalwarts who fell out with President Arthur have conceived and executed; the subtlest of all political double revenges! Are Mr. Conkling, Mr. Piatt, Mr. Gorham. and other Stalwarts quietly smiling and saying, We are quits now with both Arthur and. Blaine? Mr. Blaine, though extremely practical and hard-headed,' is a firm believer in des tiny or fate, and. as his nearest friends know, has been for some years firmly con vinced thiat there were coincidences be tween his career and that of Henry Clay that would be continued to the end of the chapter. In what shape destiny would defeat him for the Presidency he was un able to tell until it was pointed out to him by the death of Garfield, which ended the factional fight in 3jew York, but left scars sensitive only' to Blaine's touch. Like Clay, defeat was hidden for him in New York, and was controlled by a handful of men. LEFT BOWERS IN POLITICS: WASHINGTON SOCIETY LADIES WHO TAKE A HAND IN THE NATIONAL 6 ABIE. Wives and Daughters and Other Rela tive T Professional Politician Who May be Clan aa Expert Mrs. tiO- Sob, nira. WUllaaaaa Mrs. Vance, Jin. wlejr and Mrs. Hadd. Tbe Associated Press. (New York Journal of Commerce.) Newark. N. J., Nov. 7, 1884. Editor of the Journal. of Commerce. Will you please explain to your many readers what the Associated Press is, who composed of, &c, and why it is run in the favor of the Republican party. Merchant. Reply. The New York Associated Press which is "The Associated Press" is composed of seven papers named by it in the following order: The New York Journal of Commerce, Herald, Tribune, Timet, Erpreu, Sun, and World. When Mr. Jay Gould owned a controlling inter est in the World, and Mr. Ilnrlljert repre sented it in the association, the following gentlemen in behalf of their respective papers, viz., Mr. Charles A. Dana of the Sun, Mr. Whitelaw Reid of the Tribune, Mr. Hurlbert of the World, and Mr. Cyrus W. Field of the Mail and Express, by a bare majority of one vote, aud against the earnest protest of the Herald, Times, and Journal of Commerce, who were in the minority, reorganized the management, appointing Messrs. Dana and Reid, and Dr. Hosmer, of the Herald, an Executive Committee, (together with two members of the Western Press,) and giving them new powers in the business of tbe associa tion. They appointed a new general agent from the West, Mr. William Henry Smith, and Mr. W. H. French was appointed his chief assistant. The editor-in-chief of this paper is President of the organization, and for 25 years has been active in the conduct of its affairs. He has found that for the most part the new agent was dis posed to conduct the business fairly, and in the best interests of the papers and the public, who are .alike most faithfully served when the news is impartially col lected and distributed. It is an open secret that the Herald has not recently participated to any considerable extent in the sessions of the committee, if any such have been held, nor has Mr. Dana, we be lieve, been very active; and the recent election returns appear to have been col lected under the entire supervision of the editor of the Tribune. Tbe partisan char acter of the service is most painfully ap parent, and we do not believe that the other members of the association will quietly submit to lose the good name of the body in any such fashion. The World (meaning the paper of that name) has un dergone a revolution, and the present owuer is not a satellite of Gould. Our Legislators. Kinston Free Press. J Below we give a short pen picture of our Representatives in the next Legisla ture. DR. F. M. ROUNTKEE is the gentleman elected to the senate from the 11th Senatorial District, which is composed of Greene and Lenoir coun tics. He is a fine-looking, portly man, of about hfty years old, genial, whole-souled and outspoken. He is a practicing physi cian who moved to Kinston a little over f year ago trom tireene county, lie repre sented Greene county in the House of Representatives in the Legislature of '67 68 the last time that county was repre sented by any one except a Republican. He will make a useful and influential member. JESSE W. GRAINGER. Mr. Grainger is a man of about thirty- eight years of age, of much practical com mon sense, a good talker and one of the most persistent workers we ever saw. His efforts in the campaign told greatly in the result. He, too, is a native of Greene county, but has been engaged in this coun ty in the machinery and buggy business for about eight years and knows all the wants of the people of this county. Mr. Grainger makes no pretensions to being speaker, but he makes a good, practical speech upon anything that he is interested in. He knows how to tell what he thinks. He will be one of the most valuable mem bers of the next Legislature. Post Offlee Prospects. New York Times. The estimates of expenditures for the Post Office Department for fhe next fiscal year show an increase of more than $7, 000,000 over the appropriations for the present year and an excess of nearly fo, 000,000 over the estimated revenues of the department. A part of the increase of cost of the service is said to be apparent only. The relation of the increase of cost to the amount of business does not appear from the figures now given, and of course the latter cannot be accurately estimated. The report on the free delivery service for the last fiscal year shows an increase of cost over the year preceding of about per cent., while the increase in business was considerably greater. The falling off in" the ratio of revenue to expenditures is due to the reduction in letter postage and was to lie anticipated. The Smart Connecticut Boy. Washington Post. There are several reasons why Washing ton society is especially interested in the election, even to a greater degree than is society elsewhere. One of these is the fact that what is known as "society" here is made up very largely of wives and daugh ters and other relatives of professional politicians. They are accustomed to hear ing the subject discussed in a business way, and come to look upon the success of a party as interwoven with the success of their respective relations who are associ ated with party. More than that, many of these wives and daughters and sisters are very acute politicians themselves. The exigencies of some political contests in which their male relative was vitally interested has sometimes led them to take an active part in political life, and, like the lion, which never forgets the smell of blood, or the war-horse who is always ex cited by the smell of powder and the sound of battle, they are thoroughly inter ested when any contest political comes on. And there are some excellent politicians among the ladies. Every one knows the traditional effectiveness of women in po litical intrigue, and, whether this be well founded or not, it is at least a fact that some of the shrewdest politicians of Wash ington are of the gentler sex. That Gen. Logan owes much of his success to his wife is a fact so well recognized as to need scarcely be mentioned. "She is the better politician of the two," said a gentleman who knows them well and has known them for a quarter of a century. "She is a hard worker, a careful reader, a method ical and close student of the subject, is blessed with a good memory both for facts and faces, and with her large acquaintance in social and political circles, and her very effective ways, she is a power. I tell you Logan would never have been where he is now but for his wife. The help that she has been to him in his Senatorial fights has been something wonderful, and can only be appreciated by those who have witnessed them." Mrs. Logan is by no means the only (-woman here who may be counted an ex pert politician. Mrs. General Williams, the wife of Senator Williams, is another who stands fairly abreast of her husband as a political expert. In fact, the bluff war ways of old "Cerro Gordo," the hero of two wars, arc not of the sort calculated to find favor with all sorts of people, and the aid that his wife has been to him in the numerous political contests has been something remarkable. That was a mem orable contest at Frankfort, when old Cerro Gordo and his wife and daughter entered battle against Governor McCreary and one of the ablest and most prominent judges of tne western portion of the State, with a number of smaller fry also against him. The odds were against the General. and the press everywhere was predicting ms defeat, but .they did not know the host that he bad in his wife and her The General's rooms at the Capitol Hotel were constantly open, and Mrs. Williams never flagged in her work in his behalf. Day and evening she was busy, her keen woman's wit and calm self-possession never deserting, her in the hottest of the hght, and when old Cerro Gordo stood victori ous at the end of a long struggle she was honored by friend and adversary as prominent factor in the fight which made him successful. Another woman who is an acute ob server of politics and a great aid to her husband in his work here and elsewhere is Mrs. Hawley, the wife of the Senator from Connecticut. She has, for almost quarter of a century, been active in the affairs of the nation. From the day she came from her New England home to upon the battle-field as nurse and to whatever her hand found to do in behalf of the suffering soldiers in the late war she has felt a personal interest in politics. To her husband she is an invaluable aid in the political work and in his labors here in Congress. Although she has been an invalid for more than half the time of his Congressional service, she has assisted him greatly in his work here, keeping up his correspondence, arranging his work, attending to pension and other cases of this sort for his constituents, and keeping all the time her finger on the political pulse, not alone in his State but in the whole country as well. Mrs. Vance, the wife of Senator Vance, is well posted on political affairs, and is taking a deep interest in her nusband's fight for re-election. One of the hardest of political workers is Mrs. Budd, the wife of the member of this name from California. Her husband's district is a very large one, yet she trav eled all over it with him in a " buckboard," talking to the women at their homes or at the political gatherings where her husband made speeches, passing judgment on the babies and the preserves, while Mr. Budd literally painted the district red with a marking brush and paint-pot which he carried, placarding every rock and big tree along the roadside. "Vote for Budd." Nobody expected him to be successful, except his wife, for he had a large majori ty to overcome, but together tncy were successful. "My wife helped me nobly, he said, in talking over his wonderful success. "She travelled all over the dis trict with me, and it was so large a one that it took many weeks to cover it once, and her quiet talk among the women and the men, too, did very much in helping me in the tremendous hght 1 had to make. We .would drive about the district, and when we came to a big rock or tree and there are plenty of both there I would paint on it in large letters : 'Vote for Budd.' When we would find a little knot of mi ners we would Etop and chat with them. I. The St. Petersburg Academy of Sci ences will decide on the merits of the dif ferent performances sent in, and award the prize, which will by that time amount to the enormous sum of 1,918,000 roubles about 300,000. A fifth of the amount will be deducted for the cost of printing the work. The remainder will go to the fortunate author; and so for once in away there will be a literary man millionaire. AMERICAN GENIUS ABROAD, In Physics and In Finance. CHAPTER OK SOUPS. SOMETHING OF INTEREST TO ALL GOOD HOUSEWIVES. The Basis of Good Soap How Cheap and Nourishing Pots ire Can he Pre pared Utilizing the Catflsh Dellel oas Tomato and Onion Soaps. New York Sun. In most scientific pursuits which require inventive smartness, Americans have leen for yeara past acquiring a very brilliant reputation abroad. The best dentists in Europe are acknowledged to be Ameri cans. Several American surgeons and makers of surgical instruments enjoy also a high reputation. And now comes to the front a Brooklyn doctor, Mr. T. Ii. French, who has managed to do what nobody could do before photograph the human larynx when in action. Dr. Lenox Brown. of London, has obtained some photographs of a professional singer's larynx while in the act of singing, lie made even a pho tograph of the chords when they were producing falsetto notes. But he succeed ed in doing it only in this particular case. iu wuicu me singer, possessing an unusual ly unirritable throat, did his best to help him in his experiments. Mr. French, on the other hand, managed by the use of a kind of pistol camera and a magnifying glass to obtain photographs of all kinds of throats, healthy as well as infirm, irri table as well as unirritable. working as well as at rest. The great point was to catch the impression quickly as possible, and by means of his pistol camera he man aged to snap impressions of deep inspira tions as well as expirations, of contralto, soprano, and all kinds of deep and high notes. He obtained even impressions of the posterior nares so difficult of access in a living being. The well known special ist for throat disease, Prof. G. W. Lefferts, on showing yesterday some of these pho- tograpns to tne writer, spoke oi tnem as most brilliant productions of the combined efforts of science and mechanical skill. If America goes on this way the old Western braggadacio that "we beat the whole world," will become a reality. Wherever one goes nowadays in Europe, Asia, Africa, or Australia, one finds Amer ican inventions. iL,ven in Siberia you find horse cars and telephones, and you travel in sleeping cars wherever there is a railroad. In Belgium a public telephone service was recently opened between the principal towns of the kingdom. Inhabi tants of any town of that talkativcand busy land can talk as much as they like with their friends and customers located in any other town, and all thev have to Day for it is four cents for every five minutes of use of the telephone wire. True that we have been selling a good deal of worthless stocks and bonds to Europe, but we are now con ferring upon her m any great blessings for next to nothing. Our great object was, of course, to "beat the world," and we achieved the greatest success on earth in that line; we beat them out of their money as well as in inventions, machinery and everything we go for. Look at our banks alone. Our bank officers become million aires in no time, and retire to Canada or some other eligible place, while in Europe they have to live all their lives long on a mere pittance. A short time ago there was a vacancy in the office of one of the Paris banks with a salary of not more than $500 a year, and there were over 5, 000 applicants for it, none of whom ex pected to make a cent above his regular pay- POKER LITERATURE. In Prose. "I used to be fond of poker," he said, and the expression of his face became ret rospective, "but sence I got four aces downed out in Missoury, I hev sorter gi'n up play in' the game." "Your opponent had a straight flush, did he?" "No, he hed five jacks." "That's impossible." "Stranger, hev you ever played poker in Missoury?" "No, sir." "Well, if you ever do set down to a game out thare, and a red-eyed man whose clothes smell of cattle whittles a corner off the table, and allows that he hfez five jacks, jest bunch your kiards in the pack and say, 'That s good. " Aew lork Sun. Boston Globe. One of the most humorous affairs has re cently occurred in Connecticut, yet it is scarcely probable that the chief actors therein appreciate the funny part of it. In two adjoining towns a bounty was offered for woodchucks, one town demanding the prodnction of the tails and the other the ears of the proscribed animals as proof of death. It appears that the boys near the dividing line of the two towns, with tra ditional shrewdness, were accustomed to meet at solitary places in the woods and there exchange ears for tails. The au thorities of the two towns at length "tum bled to the rncket," as the gamins say, and took a novel method of thwarting the financial schemes of the rising generation. Both towns rescinded the vote, whereby the reward was offered for woodchucks, leaving the farmers as well as the boys in the lurch. my wife among tne women and babies and I talking to the men. The result was that we were successful, and the worst sur prised man on the day after election was the Republican candidate on the other side, who had no sort of doubt of his election." In Verse. She raised her arms, soft shining links of love, And wound tnem round ntm : ttieu, as rose sprays rear Their buds of morn, she raised her Hps above Unto responsive lips that bent anear. What is the matter, sweet, my own " she sobbed, And for au answer he but softly sighed Sad sound to her in whose white bosom throbbed The anxious heart of a half-frightened bride. Still, still she queried, then at last he said His eyes reiuigent witn devotion's ugnt, His hand caressing her sunbeamy head '"My pet, I saw Tom Robinson hmt night." She, wondering, gazed upon him. Always cause you eucn woe 7" "And does he He crushed a blush And answered, "When I saw him, dear, you see, I bad four queens against his straight club flush ! " Washington Hatchet. Plainly She Needs No Spark. A Great Chance for Literary men. St. James's Gazette, j The highest prize by a very long way ever offered for a literary performance will be awarded in 1925 to the successful author of a simple biography. Fifty years ago, according to a weekly contemporary, General Arantschcjeff, the friend and con fidential adviser of the -Emperor Alexan der I., deposited in the Imperial Bank of Russia the sum of 50,000 roubles, which is to lie allowed to accumulate at interest till the 1st of December, 1925, when the entire amount, principal and interest, is to be handed over to the author of the best work on the life and reign of Alexander New York Sun. The editor of the Proyres Medical has had an electric girl under observation for the last three years and calls attention to some of the more intense manifestations of her condition. Her fingers, for instance, at tract all sorts of light bodies, such as rib bons and fragments of paper, and slight friction applied to the hair will cause the filaments to separate in a remarkable man ner. A pass of her hand will cause a napkin to adhere strongly to a piece of furniture, and any one who attempts to remove the cloth will receive a half-inch spark from it. When portions of the girl's garments happen to come in close and sudden 'contact with her skin, bright and crackling sparks are perceived, and the material clings lightly to her. Intense emotion greatly heightens the electrical effect, and whenever she hears an affecting piece of music, the cracklings of the elec trie sparks are heard all over her body. The Inconvenient Small Boy. St. Paul Day. "Mr. Smith, is ague catching just like the measles?" No, my dear, what made you think so?" "Coz, when you was here the other night, you know, petting sister Jane, when she had the ague, ma said, af ter you had gone, that you was no good and hadn't got any money, and that Jane had better give you the shake. I thought maybe it was catching." . r fNew York World. Of all soups the most common and sus ceptible to variations is one in which the stock is prepared of beef. The trouble with the average American-prepared meat soup is that it is too greasy and thick. German soups are often thick, but seldom greasy. Everything is liable to be run across in a Scandinavian soup.f rom a small sardine to a raisin or a grain of allspice.. But the delicious French soups are always clear. During cold weather the stock for beef soup can be kept on hand. At any season it should always be, prepared the day be fore using. The shin is a good piece for this purpose. Have the bones well crack ed and extract the marrow, which should be put in the soup. To each pound of lean beef allow one quart of water. Put tne ueei, bones and water into a close ket tle and set it where it will heat gradually. uei it Don very slowly for six or seven hours. Look at it once in a while to see if the water is sinking too rapidly. Should this be the case, replenish with boilinsr water, taking care, however, not to add too much of it. When it has boiled seven hours, set it away and let it stand closely covered tin tne next day. Almost an hour before it is wanted for dinner take off the cake of fat which will be found on the surface of the stock; remove the meat, which can be used for mince meat or in making a nice salad with cold potatoes and onions. Set the stock over the fire and throw in a little salt to bring up the scum. When this has all been carefully removed, put in such vegetables as are de sired. If these are cut fine it is "Julien" soup. If young cabbage, quartered and boiled, and young carrots and turnips are put in whole and dished up with the soup, with the addition of toasted crusts, it is the French family soup, according to the taste. The vegetables are better when cooked by themselves and added with their juices to the soup. The seasoning, too, is a matter of taste. Vermicelli or macaroni which has been boiled tender can be added if desired There is no more absurd notion in regard to soup making than the idea that all sorts of scraps can be thrown into a pot and make good soup. A skilful cook can create a good soup from chicken or turkey bones, but for meat soup only fresh and uncooked meat must be used. Veal soup can be prepared in a similar manner to beef soup. It is unnecessary, however, to boil the meat the day before it is wanted. Three hours is sufficient length of time for it to be over the fire. The same proportions of meat and water are used as for the beef. Be careful to skim it close, and if not clear to strain it through a colander. If macaroni is used, put a little butter in with it before adding to tne soup. To make mutton or lamb broth allow, as for the preceding soups, a quart of water to a pound of meat. Boil it for two hours slowly. Add half a teacupful of cooked rice at the expiration of this time to the boiling soup. Cook one hour longer, stir ring frequently to keep the rice from set tling to the bottom. Beat an egg to a froth and stir into a cup of milk into which has been rubbed a tablcspoonful of flour. Mix' this a little at a time with some of the scalding liquor until the egg is cooked so tnat it will not curdle the soup, lake out the meat and put the egg and milk into the pot. Season with pep per, salt and such herbs as desired. Cathsh can be made into excellent soup. The bloated scavenger of this name which does duty about the city wharves is not a tempting specimen. He is an un clean dissipated glutton. But the small catfish of the streams and lakes is quite another fish. To six of the fish averaging half a pound apiece take two quarts of water and one-quarter of a pound of salt pork. Skim clean and cut up the fish. Chop the pork in small pieces. Put all into the pot with the water and a head of celery or some celery and such other sweet herbs as are convenient. Boil for an hour and strain. ' Return to the kettle and add one pint of milk, two beaten eggs and a large piece of butter. Have bread toasted and cut in squares to serve on top of the soup. s The most common 6f vegetable soups is bean soup. Any kind will do, although the best are the French beans. Soak a quart of them over night in lukewarm wa ter. Put them over the fire next morning with one gallon of cold water. Boil for three or four hours. Add celery, onions if desired, and one or two thinly sliced potatoes. Simmer until the vegetables arc done. Carraway or dilj-seed is a good addition to the seasoning of bean soup. split pea soup can be made in the same way as bean soup, except that it requires less boiling, Tomato soup can be made in the two following ways, and no one who has not eaten it can have any idea how good it is: To one pint of canned tomatoes or four large raw ones, add one quart of boiling water. Let the vegetables boil till thor oughly mixed through the boiling water. Then add one teaspoonful of soda, when it will foam. Immediately add one pint of milk. Put in plenty of butter, salt and pepper to taste. It is then jcady to serve. Tomato soup can be made without milk. To six large tomatoes, or a pint and a half of the canned vegetables, allow one gallon of water and boil thoroughly. Add a A FAST MARRIAGE At Ohio's Gretna Green. Maysville Letter to Philadelphia Times. Opposite Maysville is the little village of Aberdeen, O. It has been very aptly -termed the "American Gretna Green," and within its municipality there have probably been more runaway marriages celebrated than in any oth'er place of equal size on the globe. For the last fifteen years 'Squire Beas lcy, self -titled "The Great American Mat rimonializer," has carried on the business of marrying runaway couples at Aberdeen, with no small profit to himself. The 'Squire is a tough, grizzled old fellow of sixty-five or seventy years of age, with a great fund of hard, practical horse-sense at his command. He claims that 99 per cent, of the marriages he solemnizes turn out well, which is a strong statistical point -in favor of the Aberdeen article. He is available for the purpose day or night. His house, a large comfortable double structure of wood, stands near the river banje. The marriages are performed in a great front room,' which was once a par lor. His scale of fees is a graduating one, and is gauged according to the financial standing of the happy groom. If he is the son of a rich blue-grass farmer the old 'Squire hints that a XX treasury note would be about the proper compensation. If he is a poor mountaineer, however, in rough homespun, the kindly old disposer of matrimonial felicity will-do the job for nothing, and frequently presents the blushing, rosy-cheeked bride with a $5 note to begin housekeeping with. He told me the other day that he had made one over 15,000 couples since he first began business, and judging by the numerous Aberdeen marriage notices which I see in the Kentucky local papers, I don't think his figures are much out of the way. He can tell a hundred interesting stories born of his experience, and claim to have per formed some years since the quickest mar riage ceremony on record. A couple from Nicholas county, young, romantic and of high social position, fled from home one bright, starlight night in midsummer, and mounted on fleet horses galloped across the country towards Maysville. Soon their absence was discovered and a party of angry relatives started in pursuit. Just as the runaways were descending the ridge which overlooked the sleeping city, they heard the quick clatter of horse-hoofs and . the excited shouts of the pursuing party. Not a minute was to be lost. They spur red up their jaded steeds and at last reach ed the river bank. . Their pursuers had been steadily gaining on them, however, and the broad Ohio rolled remorselessly between them and the haven of their hopes. A boat was drawn up on the levee, and pusning it on, tne expectant groom helped his trembling sweetheart to a seat in the stern thwarts. Then leaping in himself he seized the oars and pulled for the opposite shore with all his strength. When he reached the middle of the river the pursuing party galloped down the Kentucky bank. Another boat was pro cured, quickly manned and a half dozen pair of strong arms propelled it toward the runaways. When the first boat touch ed the Ohio bank and the young couple leaped ashore the pursuing party was with in two hundred yards of them. Quickly they ran to the house of 'Squire Beasley. The old 'Squire had been called upon to unite a couple, and having performed the ceremony, was about retiring. Suddenly the door flew open and the hunted couple dashed into the room. "Quick!" cried the man. "We re closely pursued. Marry us !" There was borne to their ears a faint shout, and the 'Squire knew there was no time to lose. "Jine hands," he cried. They obeyed. "Have him?" he began, turning to the "Yes!" " "Have her?" he demanded of the man. "Yes!" "Hitched !" was the 'Squire's laconic ben- ediction, and then, as the newly-made hus band displayed a well-filled pocket-book, he added: "Ten dollars." The words had hardly left his lips when the pursuing party rushed into the house, only to witness the young couples triumph.' A Blind Statesman. Hon. Henry Fawcett, Postmaster-General of England, died on Friday last, aged fifty years. Suddenly made totally blind by accident at the age of twenty-five, but with the advantage of the solid foundation of an excellent education firmly laid al ready, he abandoned his intention of be coming a barrister, resolving to make him self in every sense a statesman. How well he succeeded, in the face of such an ap parently insuparable barrier as blindness, is now a mere matter of current history. He has ably filled a seat in Parliament; in addition he has been Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge, and he died lite rally "at his post" as the very efficient , Postmaster-General of England, introduc ing many important reforms in that de partment during his term of service. As an author he has not alone been distin guished for his work on political ebonomy, of which science he made himself master, but he has been conspicuous as an earnest writer, speaker and worker in the cause of the poor, and in suggesting remedies for the relief, if not eventual removal, of at least some of the needless pauperism that oppresses all England. Fawcett's career of work for almost any fully endowed and equipped man would be wonderful for a blind man his life was fairly luminous. large piece of butter. Beat an egg to a froth, add a little milk or cream and put into the soup jlist before it is sent to the table. Onion soup is made by frying finely sliced onions in butter and turning boiling water over them. To six good sized on ions allow a gallon of boiling water. Throw in some parsley, pepper and salt to taste. Serve with a slice of bread fried to a light brown in each plate. Pumpkin or squash soup is almost a na tional dish in France. Indeed, the first mentioned vegetable is scarcely employed there for any otber purpose than for soup. making. To two quarts of thoroughly cooked pumpkin or squash allow one quart of milk, plenty or butter, pepper and salt. Serve with toasted bread. Sorrel is a pest to many a farmer, and almost takes possession of his freshly bro ken fields. However, sorrel makes a fine soup, albeit, like the pumpkin, it is essen tially French. To two quarts of sorrel add a good handful of spinach and a few leaves of lettuce. Put them into a frying pan with a large piece of butter and cook until thoroughly done. Then put them into a kettle with a gallon of boiling wa ter. . Just before serving add two beaten eggs with a little cream. Have squares of toasted bread in the soup tureen. This soup is highly esteemed for invalids. The Cholera In Paris. New York Times. At last the cholera plague has entered Paris. From Wednesday morning until yesterday noon there had been 21 cases and 13 deaths in the city. The people are not alarmed, probably because winter is at hand, but it does not appear that the pro gress of this disease is always interrupted by cold weather, although it is retarded. It did not disappear from St. Petersburg in 1831 until the middle of December, and Christmas of that year found 5 cases in Berlin and 86 cases of which 45 were new in Prague. The disease raged in England in the same winter. The author ities of Paris have had ample time for preparation, and nothing but stupidity or inexcusable carelessness can have prevent ed them from putting the city in good sanitary condition. Before and After In Politics, f Arkansaw Traveller. Before Gribley's election, a citizen says "That fellow, he hasn't got sense enoug' to shake when he has a chill. He should never be' elected." After Gribley's elec tion: "Yes, he is elected," and in my opinion will make a fine .officer. I have aj ways been his friend and I regard his success as a great triumph of brains." tr