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THE GALVESTON DAILY .NEWS. SUNDAY M"A'" 23, 1880.
FENCILINGS FROM PARIS.
BFANDLR MATTHEWS REM IN13CEMCE.
The
Capital of the tmpire, and of
Republic—The Changes of Thir-
ty Years.
the
Special Correspondence of The News.
Pahis, May 10.—Although I am not one o£
the Americans who seem to think that
Paris is " short" for paradise, it is always
with acute pleasure that 1 find my foot again
on the asphaltumof its broad sidewalks and
that X focus my eyes to the rolling panorama
of its vivacious boulevards. Paris is the
most hospitable city in the world, and very
cordially does it hold out its hands to the
stranger within its gates. Shenstone record-
ed that only too often the traveler fiuds his
warmest welcome at an inn; now, Paris is
not only a city of inns of all sizes, to suit all
pursee—it is itself a huge hotel, the inn of
Europe, the caravansary of the world,
where all mankind may meet and mingle
and get his fill of pleasure. It bids all
mankind to make himself at home and
it tenders to all a front seat at the show,
incessantly varying, of its daily life. There
are theaters and churches, museums and
picture galleries, race courses nnd courses
of lectures, all changing from day to day,
and , et all preserving the essential Paris-
ian quality which has been modified but
little and accentuated only the more sharp-
ly by the current of years. The pleasant
masque of Parisian life is now, in the main,
very much what it was half a century ago.
There are more people in the city and more
strangers; Haussmann has come and gone,
leaving behindJiiiu his good deeds and his
bad deeds. The empire nourished like an
ill w eed for eighteen years, and the republic
has been gaining in strength and solidity
for now sixteen years; but Paris is in
its essential quality what Paris was.
Men may come and men may gi»,
but Paris stands where she did—and
stands for what she did—fifty years ago.
It was my good fortune in my early youth
to see the beginning of the reign of Napoleon
III, the middle of it and its sudden and sor-
ry end. I was a very little boy when the
exhibition of 1855 was opened in Paris, but
I can recall distinctly the evening when I
was held up to the window of a hotel in the
rue Castiglione to see the queen drive past.
There was a sudden clatter of hoofs, a
flashing of lights, a rattle of wheels, and a
regiment of cavalry swept Ay, escorting a
state carriage wherein sat the queen of
England. The bloody day of December 2
was not yet three years past, and here was
that model of the domestic virtues, the
queen of moral England, crossing the chan-
nel to give the kiss of friendship to the
profligate adventurer who had thrust
himself on the throne of his uncle. To
afford an excuse for meetings like this, and
to show that his rule was firmly established,
the exhibition of 18S5 had been projected.
And these, with a growing desire for dis-
play, were the chief motives in the organi-
zation of the exhibition of 1867, twelve years
later. This was the culmination of the lower
empire. There were then royal and impe-
rial visitors in plenty, who came to be en-
tertained at the Tuileries and to see Mile.
Schneider as the Grand Duchesse de Crei ol-
stein at the Varieties. It was after a great
review of the garrison of Paris at Long-
champs that the emperor drove home, with
the emperor of all the Eussias seated
beside him. I was in the Bois de
Boulogne as the imperial landau passed,
and it was only a little in advance
of me, when some poor devil snapped
his pittol at their majesties, and was
promptly haled away by the omnipresent
gens d'armes. I heard the sharp report of
the htti mless shot, and I recall the anec-
dote. immediately put in circulation, that
the emperor of the French said to his guest:
"That was for me," while the emperor of
all the Russias, not to be outdone in polite-
ness, replied: "No, no; it was for me, I
am sure." About this time the prizes were
distributed to the successful exhibitors in
thePalsis de l'Industrie, the fine building
in the Champs Elysees, which had been
erected for the exhibition of 1855, and
which now serves for the annual salon and
for all sorts of shows of pictures and
horses. The Palais de l'Industrie was
magnificently accoutered for the unwonted
ceremony, and when the exercises begau
it offered a splendid spectacle. A seat al-
most in front gave me a good view of
the grand stand—as it might be called—
wheie were assembled the representatives
of every monarchy in Europe, headed by
the sultan of Turkey in person, and his al-
leged dependent, the viceroy of Egypt.
Talma was wont to say that at Tilsitt lie
had played before a parterre de rois; but I
doubt if the kingly audiences before whom
the great French tragedian appeared sur-
passed the cluster of royalty surrounding
the Empress Eugenie as she distributed the
prizes. But the memory of ;he scene is vul-
garized not a little by the recollection of a
remark made at the time by Dr. Evans, the
American dentist in Paris. In answer to a
remark that such a meeting of inonarchs
was a thing to have seen, he replied: " Yes;
it is the first time I had ever beheld them
all together. But as 1 looked along the ulat-
forin 1 was pleased to find that there wasn't
one of them I haven't had by the nose."
Three years later, in July, 1870, I was
again in Paris, when the cry of the crowd
in the streets was " a' Berlin!" and when a
robust songstress at a cafe-chantant rudely
chanted the praise of the honest poor to the
refrain, "Sic'est de la canaille—eh bien,
j' en suis!" With the first shock of war the
power of Napoleon tottered, and in Septem-
ber it fell into the dust. I was in at the
death. No one who saw can forget the
feverish excitement of Paris on the bright
Sunday morning when the news came of
the defeat at Sedan. Long before noon the
people besieged the Corps Legislate until it
—creature as it was of the imperial will-
decreed the abolition of the empire. I was
at the window of the hotel Bristol, in the
place Vendome, when the throng surged
through the rue Castiglione bearing in tri-
umph the great lawyer Cremieux, who was
taken to the ministry of justice,
where he had ruled under the re-
public of 1848, and from a window
of which he made a brief and eloquent
address to his fellow-citizens. The hatred
of the empire—perhaps also the fear of the
mob—caused a sudden slaughter of the im-
perial eagles which decorated the shop
fronts: and when golden letters on a black
ground set forth that the owner of the es-
tablishment had been a fournisseur brevete
de S. M. l'Empereur, the gilt letters were
soon hidden under a thick coating of black-
ing hastily applied with a shoebrush. The
fall of a tyranny just as the enemy was in
full marcli on the capital gave a double
meaning to the burning words of the Mar-
seillaise sung unceasingly by the intermi-
nable throngs which filled the boulevards.
That night, as we threaded our way through
the crowds, we were besought violently,
" Criez done ' Vive la Kepublique,' " which
we did with a good grace; and within a
week we left Paris by almost the last
train which escaped before the Prussians
threw their black ring of blood and iron
about the city of art and pleasure.
W hen I next saw Paris, three years later,
the wounds the Commune had made with
fire and sword were still gaping wide, and
the black and broken walls of the Tuileries
with its sightless windows bore witness to
the fact that somebody had blundered with
one of the blunders which are worse than
crimes. But in the main Paris was again
what Paris had been before. Five years
later, in 1878. there was another exhibition,
and the republic invited the world to visit
Paris, as the empire had done twice before,
to show that it was firmly established. Yet
the Koyalist conspiracy of the Kith of May,
just before the exhibition opened, was on
the verge of success. It was the firm hand
of Crambetta which kept the peace and
persuaded the friends of the republic
to bear in silence insults and out-
rages intended to provoke riots, which
P
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the military were ready to repress with a
heavy hanu. For the first time almost the
Latin acted in politics like a Teuton and
preferred the ballot to the bullet. Cram-
betta held his friends in leash and bade
them bide their time and rely on the next
election, and not on barricades' in the boule-
vards. His success sank the foundations of
the republic far deeper than they had ever
been before, for it proved to the timid mid-
dle class that, while the royalists conspired
on one side and the anarchists were ready
to take to the streets on the other, the re-
publican center was solid and could keep
its temper and its own counsel. The lesson
has nevi'r been forgotten. I have not come
to Pans for years without hearing awful
rumors of impending revolution, but the
revolution seems further off now than
ever, and the third republic is nearly six-
teen years old and is making ready to cele-
brate, with another exhibition, the cente-
nary of the establishment of the first re-
public in 1780. This substitution in poli-
tics of cold common sense for crude emo-
tion is due mainly to the influence of Gam-
fcetta, himself a fiery southerner, whom M.
Thiers called a fou furieux or a faux furl-
eux—probably the latter. The influence
abides, although the man has gone and al-
though his place is empty since. No later
French statesman has shown one-half his
force or skill. As M. Coquelin, the great
comedian of the Theatre Francais, who was
Gambetta's closest personal friend, once
said to me, picturesquely, "the French
politicians of to day are not the small
change for Gambetta!"
C'arlyle saw in Napoleon the Great the
man who ended the French revolution with
a " whiff of grapeshot." Perhaps it was to
prepare for the administration of these
whiffs of grapeshot that Napoleon the Lit-
tle remade the map of Paris as his uucle
had remade the map of Europe. The broad,
straight streets which replaced the crooked
alleys of old Paris are not only more at-
tractive and hospitable to strangers, they
are far better fitted for the charge of a
regiment of dragoons or the sweep of a
battery of artillery. Even the joiniug ot
the Louvre with the Tuileries, completed
by Napoleon III, may be explained as the
military device of an uncertain usurper, al-
though none of these pretty schemes de-
layed for a day the downfall of the dynasty.
From different motives the repub-
lic has continued the work of the empire.
The half-made avenue de l'Opera was soon
completed, and it was indeed, in 1873, the
first street in the world to be lighted by
electricity. The opera itself, a typical
monument of the second empire, was
finished hastily when the old opera-house
in the rue de Pelletier went the way of all
theaters in an auto-da-fe. Other great
public works are in contemplation, notably
a metropolitan railroad, either elevated or
underground, probably the latter, and ex-
pected to be ready for the exhibition of 1880.
All these things cost money, and taxes bear
heavily on Paris. The empire and the in-
demnity to Prussia left a weary burden.
As the pun said in 1867: " L'Etnpire, e'est
la paie." Living in Paris is much more
expensive than it was twenty years ago.
There are in consequence fewer strangers—
relatively fewer. There is now an immense
number of vacant apartments- There are
more beggars to be seen in the streets. Pos-
sibly this is not very significant, for under
the empire poverty was not permitted, and
begging was a crime, punished by instant
arrest. This increase of beggars is perhaps
the most marked change in the streets of
Paris in twenty years. Only less marked,
however, has been the gradual disappear-
ance of the distinctive costumes of the la-
boring classes, the blouse of the man and
the cap of the woman. The blouse is not
frequent nor, and the cap is rare. Most of
the women wear bonnets or go bareheaded,
a particular Parsian custom, which seems
to be growing. Despite the dampness of
the climate, the streets are kept as clean as
ever—perhaps a little cleaner now wooden
pavements have been introduced. Another
American invention only recently adopted
here is the street-car, introduced into Paris
after it had been acclimated in London, and
here calWd by the English name of tram-
way. An invention ingenious enough to be
American is the pneumatic clock, lighted at
night by gas, and standing at prominent
coiners. These clocks in the streets, with
mfny in hotels and in private houses, are
connected by pneumatic tubes and are
driven by an air blast sent from a cen-
tral station once in a minute. Thus all the
street clocks in the city and most of those
in the hotels keep the same time—a sweet
bcon, as Artemus Ward would say—of
w hieh no traveler will deny the saccharine
quality. This is a sample of the great
strides which Paris has taken of late years
in making life easier. The French are no
longer backward in a
applying the modern
ill the newer houses
and hotels there are gas and water, even on
the upper floors: and in most of them there
are bath rooms with baths. Now, it is not
a score of years ago that a visitor to even
a first-rate hotel in Paris had to send out
for a bath when he wanted one.
In these changes the influence of the
Americans and the English has been felt,
and since the war Paris is more open to ex-
traneous influences. Time was when the
French were girt about by a Chinese wall
of self-sufficiency. A Parisian still thinks
Paris the center of life and light, but he is
not quite so sure as he was that you think
so too. And the great trouble with Paris is
that the rest of the world is beginning not
to think so too. Paris is no longer the ex-
clusive center of art and fashion and skill,
as it was twenty years ago. Americans, for
example,have discovered that clothes can be
had in London, and shoes also. American
women get their tailor-made dresses in Lon-
don now; and American men, if they buy
their clothes in Paris, get them from one of
the English tailors here, of whom there are
now scores. Paris is still the place where the
fashions are made, but the fashions seem to
spread by telegraph, and they are so adroitly
copied that not a few buyers for large Ameri-
can houses purchase their dress models
from German dealers, who sell cheaper
than the Parisian inventors. Even the
famous articles de Paris, the pretty
trifles made of ingenuity and taste and
fantasy, are made admirably in Vienua.
It is ' not, perhaps, that the French
have fallen behind so much as that
the rest of the world has gone forward.
Now and again the French awake and
make another step in advance. For in-
stance, this Easter the.shop windows were
full of delightfully attractive little noth-
ings. quite worthy of their reputation as
articles de Paris. In other respects they
are still asleep. For example, a quarter of
a century ago all instruments of precision
were made in Paris with the utmost dex-
terity and skill, but they are no better here
now "than they were then, while the instru-
ment makers of London and New York have
gone ahead, and are now much superior
to the Parisian. This is especially
true of surgical instruments of cer-
tain kinds. In silverware, too, the Parisian
has been satisfied to repeat himself. He
had taste, and French silverware has never
sunk as low as English, but American sil-
verware has pushed to the front. Perhaps
as significant as any of the changes in Paris
in twenty years is the existence in the ave-
nue de l'Opera, almost facing each other,
of the salesrooms of two American houses
for the sale of silverware—Tiffany's and
Howard's. That one of them is also agent
for the Waltliam watches is perhaps even
more significant. Bbakder Matthews.
A folio volume bound in blue morocco,
containing seventy-two autograph letters of
Lord Nelson to Hamilton, some written
with the right hand and others witn the
left, with various copies of dispatches,
traveling expenses and admiralty docu-
ments. was sold recently in London for
$1725.
By means of an extremely sensitive
"thermo-electric calorimeter," a French
physiologist is enabled to measure the heat
liberated by cold-blooded animals, such as
frogs and fishes, and even by insects and
larvie.
Hotel St. George, 51 Clark st., Brooklyn,
fire proof, best construction, splendidly lo-
cated on Brooklyn Heights; close to bridge,
handy to central points of New York city
and Coney Island, with more luxury at
prices; 40 rooms, all electric lighted (109
bath rooms) handsomely decorated; very
best upholstered furniture; finest bedding;
conceded to be one of the finest hotels in the
country. Transient rates f2 50 per day, with
private toilet. Single rooms $1 per night;
open all night; cuisine unsurpassed.
The Clock of Destiny.
For Tlic News—By James D. Lynch.
In the beginning, thus Jeliovali spake:
"Come, let us man in our own Imago make,
And let him power anil full dominion have
O'er all that dwell on earth, in air, or wave;
Subdue all things, increase and multiply,
A lid make the earth the nursery ot the sky."
No sooner said—the Aichltoct Divine
struck from the dust and fashioned his de-
sign ;
Then stooping clown he breathed upon the
clod,
And man came forth In likeness of his God.
His lamp ol life was trimmed with fateful wick,
And Destiny's great Clock began Its tick-
Unheard, unknown to man's then pure estate,
t'r conscious of the pending laws of fate,
While he in Eden's nptnrnus garden walked,
Gazed into Heaven and with his Maker talked.
His meat, the luscious fruit of golden lines;
Ills drink, tlie nectar of celestial dews-
Alone in purest ways of virtue taught,
His raiment was his purity of thought.
One tree there was, of which his Maker said:
" Touch not, and taste it not, or thou art
dead."
Vet, through the serpant's charm, this tast jd
lie;
Ven, plucked and feasted from the fatal tree-
Then was the train of human woes begun,
/»"d the great Clock of Destiny struck—I.
i,,.i ue the close of that eventful day,
O'eiwhelmed with conscious nudoness and
dismay,
He heard his Maker's footsteps In the breeze,
And hid himself among the clustered trees.
But in his ears Jehovah thundered " Go;
Hence thorns und thistles iu thy path shall
grow ;
lhc fields' coarse herb henceforth shall bothy
meat,
And In the sweat of labor slialt thou eat;
Yea, through eternity's all endless strand,
shalt leel and rue my disobeyed command—
1 he first that ever dared to disobey,
.Save him to whom this day thou art the prey,
And w ilt be, if thou eliooscst not to hood
Sly laws, und him I'll send for this to blood."
"Tick, tick," he now first heard the solemn
chime.
" Tick, tick," it was the knell of wasting time;
Yet more, and while he groped Ills way
along,
It ticked to him the alternatives, " light-
wrong;"
And when to Heaven now ho raised Ills
eyes,
lie saw the couplet written 'cross the skies;
On eveiy side he saw, in every look,
" Bight—wrong," on every page of Nature's
book.
Hut in the drift of time all thought of right
Was checked, while wrong rushed on with
glow ing might.
Jehovah from his throne had viewed the race,
And view ing, vengeance gathered In ills fu-ie,
And thus decreed: "The guilty world mast
drown."
Ills arm omnipotent extending down,
He gathered up the waters in his hand
Anu heaved the seas upon the peopled land.
His purpose wrought, he back the waters
blew,
And the great Clock of Dcstiuv struck—II.
let not all perished—yet enough were saved
To seed the new world from corruption laved,
Jehovah saw a lingering gleam of right,
And that one ray found favor in his sight.
Iu Nnali's heart was found the heavenly spark
Which spurned the waters and buoyed the
ark—
Which drew the smile of Heaven's averted
grace,
And saved the seed of Adam's guilty race.
And, in obedience to the great command,
Now Nc all was in turn to try his hand
At peopling worlds—fulfill the high decree
For which were made the heavens, earth and
sea.
And in the wake of the retiring floods.
O'er hills and vales, and through the silent
woods,
The lone household in couples wandered
forth-
Some southward went, some east, some west,
some north.
Slun, beast and bird at their own pleasure
went,
And each one sought his sphere and element.
"Tick, tick," the Clock—"tick, tick" it ever
said-
Ticked in the born to life, ticked out the dead;
Ticked time away with ever constant chime,
Till lo' 'tw as now another ringing time;
When Abram heard the great Jehovah's call,
Which bade him leave his country, kindred,
all,
And journey to an unknown, distant land;
And did he murmur at the harsh command?
No, there the promise was that he should rest,
And in hi? seed all nations should be blest—
Possess the lrultful land from sea to sea,
And then the Clock of Destiny struck—111.
Now Jacob's sons conspired fraternal hate,
Which but long years of woe could expiate;
And famine, handmaid of their wicked guile,
liiove lsiael suppliant to the land of Nile;
Where Moses w ith the might of Aaron's rod
Should teach proud Pharaoh the strength of
God.
Ileie long the chosen race their fato be-
moaned,
And long in Egypt's iron bondage groaned.
Though from Jehovah they could hear no
word,
Vet all their sighs and groanings he had
heard.
And sent them Moses with his sword of wrath,
lor tin ir release to hew the rugged path.
They started, through the wilderness their
route,
While cloud or fire did serve them as a scout;
llut Egypt's chariots hung upon their rear
And Israel trembled with its slavish fear.
Before them spread the waters of the sea;
Behind them Egypt's armies swarmed the lea;
Vet," Forward," they obeyed the high com-
mand,
And frightened Israel gathered on the strand;
u hen lo! both sides the friendly floods retreat
And shrink away before tlioir timid feet.
When Egypt's host rnsliel in the beaten track
Deep o'er their heads the waters thundered
back;
But Israel dry-shod stepped upon the shore,
And the great Clock of Destiny struck—IV.
" Tick, tick," it said, the Clock still labored on,
Ticked out the countless dead, ticked in the
born;
Ticked, while from Sinai's thundering, light-
ning crest,
Jehovah gave to man his great behest;
Ticked while the manna fell like driveling
snow,
Ticked down the embattled walls of Jericho,
Ticked while the host swept over field and
flood,
Till the great temple on Sloriah stood;
Until that morning brought the Light of
Lights,
When midday stars emblazoned Judah's
heights;
Till chanting angels hovered o'er the earth,
And to the shepherds sang the Savidr's birth-
Proclaimed: "The lost are found, the dead,
alive,"
And then the Clock of Destiny struck—V.
And hark! those joyous pealings yet doth roll
Across the Christian world from polo to pole,
And to all hearts bring peace and hope and
c heer,
Which mingle w ith the tickings that wo hear.
The peals that ushered in that morning's ray
Will thunder through the hours of the day,
And echo far and wide to every shore,
Till the great Clock of Time shall strike no
more.
Now Bome sits crowned the mistress of the
world,
And o'er all lands her eagles are unfurled;
Arrayed in grandeur on her seven hills,
She wills her pleasure and does what she wills.
Is there no power that can Home destroy?
Where are Palmyra, Nineveh and Troy?
They heard the knell of that same solemn
Clock,
And Home must fall from Fate's Tarpeian rock.
See yonder gathering line of Goth and Hun;
Already her death-struggle has begun;
No more shall she the fate of nations lix—
She fell, and Destiny's great Cioek struck—VI.
And all. was dark, the gloom of blackest night
Hung o'er the mental world; there was no
light,
Save in the glow of Nature and the glance
Of hermit's torch and knighthood's bloody
lance.
Both art and science fled the reach of man,
And simple nature was beyond Ills scan-
Grim barbarism, with its savage pi hie,
llolied dow n the work of ages on its tide,
While the fierce might of superstition's arm,
Dashed down religion as a demon's charm.
But ic! a light in yon horizon far;
It is the rising Ileformation's star,
Which v.aked the human conscience, pierced
the mind.
And man again beheld himself mankind,
Turned up his blinded eves once more to
heaven,
And the great Clock of Destiny struck—VII.
Proud Science spread again its gilded wings,
And new-born leason leaped up from its
springs; ,
The Bible came forth from the hermit's rave,
And Art rushed out upon the land and wave,
Till, hand in hand, and with undaunted breast,
They found at last a region for their rest-
Beyond the reach of Superstition's chain.
They found a world beyond the trackless
main,
Whore Freedom was to rear its proudest dome
And build for all earth's wanderers aliorae—
Yea build the pillars of a mighty state,
And tlieu the Clock of Destiny struck—VIII.
And yet Oppression reached her heavy hand
Across the seas, and laid it oil this land;
In vain did her grim fingers clutch, in vain!
Her shriveled carcass whitened on the plain.
The patriots met in Independence Hall,
Not for the ruin of a Tyriau wall.
Nor to lay waste some rival Libyan shore,
But to proclaim their freedom evermore.
They wrought their mighty purpose and de
sign,
And the great Clock of Destiny struck—IX.
The flag oi freedom fluttered In the breeze,
Waved o'< r (lie land anu floatodon the seas;
\Y Idle white winged Commerce kissed the far-
thest shore,
And Janus slept within his bolted door;
Peace passed her pipe and suuny nature
sailed,
The summer spread her fruits and autumn
piled—
Gieat God! are there not charms enough in
life,
That man should rush into unhallowed strife;
Should spurn the sanction of T'liy righteous
law,
And fly to the arbitrament of war?
Its eloucs now gathered in Columbia's skies
And wreathed ten thousand death-fraught ar-
gosies. •
But lo! the Clock now tuned Its solemn chime
To ring a nation oil the stago of time;
And by the Alabama's sunny stream,
Appeared, full armor-clad, the ivory dream.
The cannon roared, the welkin rang, and then
The mighty Clock of Destiny struck—X.
And still tlicy roared and hung the nation's
morn
With wreaths sulphurous at its early dawn;
But ere the Clock had scarcely tolled the
hour,
Its guardian ungel left its trembling tower;
The star that rose upon the gloom so bl ight
Now sank into the sable clouds of night;
But not until its bright and glorious ray
Had shot Its golden beams along the day,
Had stamped its brightness on the face of
time,
Ai d lit a beacon torch iu every clime;
\\ here glory's anthems still Its praises swell,
Ai d Fame's eternal fingers tunes It knell.
But hulk! the Clock now points to other
lands,
Where prophecy doth move Its faithful hands,
Where towering mosque and minaret must
fall,
And lunldcr 'neath the Christian's rising
wall-
When, stripped of power and superstition's
gloss,
The Crescent shall eclipse behind the Cross:
When Pngod shout Muezzin's call to prayer,
No more shall shriek upon the midnight ulr;
But one vast, universal chant of praise
Shall rise in unison of christian lays.
In notes resounding to the choir of Heaven,
Then Destiny's great Clock will strike—XI.
And then those faithful hands will tick their
flight
Beyond the bounds of nature's dreamy night,
And from the lofty summit of its dome
1 he Clock will strike Jehovah's kingdom come;
Tho great high 110011 of carch, high noon of
heaven,
When law and mcrey shall bo balanced even,
And man 110 more in sin and sorrowdelve,
Then Destiny's Great Clock will thunder—XII;
And heaven's High Host, ail nature's labor
ceased,
Will spread the banquet of Ills sumptuous
feast.
Thoughts.
For The News.
A rosy dawn,
A11 April morn,
Light fleecy clouds drift to and fro.
1 Idly wait
At the garden gate
For coming fate,
While thoughts, as shadows, come andgo.
How long shall I,
While time flits by,
Gaze out and over the bars?
Will cruel fate
Cause my love to wait,
Until, too late,
Naught shall remain but heart scars?]
The
The falling mist
T he leaves have kissed,
ic April day is dark and sad;
To the gate there clings,
With drooping wings,
A bird who sings
No cheerful note to make me glad.
0 gentle dove,
Slourn'st thou thy love,
And is the day so dark and drear?
The sun will shine;
Why should we pine?
1'hy heart and mine
Will lighter be next year, next year.
And is this life—
This weary strife—
That was to bring so much to me?
I11 days long since,
1 dreamed a prince,
In rainbow tints,
Ere this would ride across the lea.
A little rift,
Seen through the, drift
Of clouds that slowly roll away—
The sun foith breaks,
The song-bird wakes—
His plumage shakes—
The dove forgets her mournful lay.
And Is this life?
With nit ailing rife,
The birds and flowers seem all aglow;
'Neath these sunbeams
Life joyous seems,
Ami liappj dreams
Of love and labor mingled flow.
I plucked the flowers,
Dreamt net of showers—
I hummed a tune in careless glee;
With heart so light—
The dove took flight,
A merry sprite—
I thought that life held love for me.
I laughed aloud;
And like a shroud
A dark, gray cloud
Came slowly drifting o'er tho lea;
'twas eliiii as death—
1 gasped for breath—
And know the shadows were for me.
Independence, Tex . May 13. Stella.
A Word, a Smile and a Tear.
F or Tho News.
There is a charm about the mother's tongue,
Soft is her word and sweet her geutle song
That cheers the heart and dries the bitter
tear.
To child, to youth and to the maiden fair,
As to the man with silver in Ills lialr,
The sound of mother's voice Is sweet and
dear,
We felt in mother's gentle voice that charm
When she to sleep us lulled upon her arm,
And it to-day is charming as of old.
Though all the world may find It hoarse or
shrill,
Our hearts It touches like the softest thrill
Struck from the harp's vibrating string of
gold.
There is a sweetness in the mother's smile,
When to her loving heart she clasps her child,
The fairest on earth to her belief.
Slay others llnd it bad, or rude, or wild,
To her it always is the da*ling child,
Whom the can only love, bless and forgive.
There Is a sadness in a mother's tear,
That sorrow's dew drop flowing bright and
clear,
When death doth merciless her darling
crave.
Although from sorrow's well so blttersalt,
No purer drop there fell from heaven's vault
Than mother's tear upon her darling's grave.
A. J. I'l;rmosK.N.
Burton, Slay, 1S80.
Changing the Voice.
As the result of an experimental inquiry,
Dr. Sandras, a physician of Paris, claims
to be able to change the nature, intensity,
pitch and extent of the voice in a surpris-
ing degree by the use of different inhala-
tions. A few inspirations of alcoholic va-
por impart a decided hoarseness, some
vapors weaken the voice, while others
strengthen it to such an extent that it ao.
quires new notes, high and low. If the
same effects are produced upon people gen-
erally, this curious discovery must prove
of great practical value to public speakers,
singers, and all who use the voice consid-
erably.
THE GREAT REGULATOR.
No medicine is so
unhemtlly used as
Simmons Liver Reg-
ulator. It won its
way into every home
by pure, sterling mer-
it. It takes the place
of a doctor and costly
prescriptions. It is a
family medicine con-
taining no dangerous
qualities, but purely
vegetable, gentle in
its action and can be
safely given to any
person, no matter what age.
WORKING PEOPLE
can tnke Simmons Liver Regulator without
loss of time or danger from exposure, and tho
system will be built up and invigorated by it.
It promotes digestion, dissipates sick head-
ache, and gives a strong full tone to the sys-
tem. It lias no equal as a preparatory medi-
cine, and can be safely used in any sickness.
It acts gently on the liowels and Kidneys and
corrects the'action of the Liver. Indorsed by
pei sons of the highest character & eminence as
THE BEST FAMILY MEDICINE.
If a child has the colic it is a sure and safe
remedy. It will restore strength to the over-
worked father and relieve the wife from low
spirits, headache, dyspepsia, constipation and
like ills. Genuine nas our Z stamp in red on
front of wrapper, prepared*only by
J. H. ZEILIN & CO., Philadelphia, Pa.
3EEJ3
iBaSEEH;
The Great Invention
FOR WASHING
IN HOT OR COLD WATER.
Sold by Grocers Everywhere.
RELIEF!
Fertr Years a Sufferer From
CATARRH.
WONDERFUL TO RELATE I
" FOR FORTY YEARS T have been a victim
to CATARRH—three-fourths of the time a suf-
ferer from EXCRUCIATING PAINS ACROSS
MY FOREHEAD and MY NOSTRILS. Tile ills
charges were so offensive thnt I hositate to
mention It, cxcept for the good It may do some
other sufferer. 1 have spent a young fortune
from r.iy earnings during my forty years of
suffering to obtain relief from the doctors. I
have tried patent medicines—every one I could
learn of — from the four corners of the
earth, wltli 110 relief. And AT LAST (57 years
of age) have met with a remedy that has cured
me entirely—made nie a new man. I weighed
12b pound/and now weigh H6 I used thirteen
bottles of the medicine, and the only regret I
have Is that being In the humble walks of life
I may not have Influence to prevail on all ca-
tarrh sufferers to use what has cured me,
Guinn's Pioneer Blood Renewer
" HENRY CHEVES,
" No. 261 Second St., Macon, Ha."
" Mr. Henry Clievcs, the writer of the above,
formerly of Crawford county, now of Macon,
Georgia, merits the confidence of all interested
ill catarrh. W. A. HUFF,
" Ex-Mayor of Macon."
A SUPERB
FLESH PRODUCES AM TONIC!
Guinn's Pioneer Blood Renewer.
Cures all Blood and Skin Diseases, Rheumatism,
Scrofula, Old Sores. A perfect Spring Medicine.
If not In your market it will be forwarded
on receipt of price. Small bottles $1 00, large
{1 75.
Essay 011 Blood and Skin Diseases mailed
free.
MACON MEDICINE COMPANY,
MACON, GA.
Sold In powdered form, easy to prepare at
home, with or without spirits; small size, 25
cents; large size, $1 00, mailed to any address
011 receipt of price. Liquid form, small size,
fl 00; large size, $1 75.
FOK SALE BY ED. J. McCULLOUGH & CO.
AND
J. J. SCH0TT & CO.
ST YLB,
COMFORT AND DURABILITY
WHAT wearers of Fine Shoes desire Is com-
blnatlon of Style, Comfort and Durability,
l'lils is found in the CHA8.1IEISER SHOE.They
arc made from the best selected stock, are per-
fect in fit, easy and pliable, comfortable from
the very first,and are noted fortheirdurabUlty.
Ask your dealer for them. For sale throughout
the State. CI1AS. HEISER, Baltimore, Md.
LOUIS SCHLESINGER,
AGENT FOR GALVESTON.
ASK FOR THE
W. L. DOUGLAS
Best material, perfect fit, oqnnla nny f 5 or $6shooi
every pair warranted. Take none unless stamped
"W. 1,. Douglas' 13.00 ^
Bhoe, warranted." .Con-
gress, Putton and Lace.
If you cannot pet these
shoes from dealers, send
address on postaf card
to W. L. Douglas, Brock-
ton, Mass.
rroMst
You will never suffer from tobacco-chewers'
heartburn, nor any other ill caused by either
nicotine or noxious drugs, if you chew only
FINZER'S Patent Havana Cured Brands,
"TURF" plug and "SUNLIGHT" (nuggets),
which are guaranteed to surpass all other
chews In seven separate points of merit: 1,
Old-fashioned brandy-peach flavor. 2. Thirty
per cent less nicotine than the mildest. 3. Out-
lasts and holds its flavor longer than the
strongest. 4. Plugs ever pliant, never brittle.
5. No bitter " after-taste." (!. Not an atom of
dirt or grit; and 7th, Picked leaves from turf-
land crops, to which is added nothing but
what Is good to eat with our daily bread. If
your dealer happens not to keep "TURF" or
" SUNLIGHT," write his name on a postal
and send to
R. C. GARDNER,
Manufacturers' Agent, Galveston, Texas.
Or to Sunlight Tobacco Works, Louisville, Ky..
and get by return mail,free, a sample for your)
self and one for your dealer.
A Skin of Beauty is a «iov Forever.
IR. T. FELIX GrOUKAUD'S
Oriental Cream, or Magical Beantifler.
Remove? Tan, Pimple.-, Fleck
log, Mnth-l'atcbi*?, Ra?h a'W
Sk.u Diseases, ard every bl«no
J.ih on beauty, an J defies detec
Vioa, It ha; stood the to fc c"
thirty years, am! it
so h.triiiletn wo iiusti
it to be «ar« the pre
jiaratiou ii-pntpel lj
made. Accept lie
countaifeit of sini
ilar name. Th.'du
tinguithed Dr. I.
A. Savr» mid to fi
lady of the houf t >k
ia "mtK-nt)—"At
v"i /attic i 1 ri/f "f
I rr>oiHH'md
lni"t fuirmfkl
(/aUthi Skini<rtp
aralhn*." Oiv
bottl- Will iH't fll
mouths, ^ usin* It
every day. Also Paudre Subtile remove* superfluous hair without
tojurv to the skin. .
a*ne. 2*1. II. T. fiOl'KU'I), 8ol* Prop., 4S Pond St.. N. »-
For s-ile by all Druppl'ts and Fancy Goods Dealers
THE NONPAREIL REFRIGERATOR.
The best common-
P sense economical pa-
_ . , tent (lry-alr Kelrige-
; rator, with water-
a ilii fl.ys« cooler attached, ever
H-5®ite 6 sjB pUt on the market.
No family should be
without one. Special
orders lor Butchers,
Hotels and Saloons.
J. LEE BURTON,
sole owner and m'f'r
Office and sample rooms 166 Postoffice street
Factory, 18th, between Strand and A.
WEAK, UNDEVELOPED PARTS
<>f tho body enlarged and strengthened. Simple, unfailing
self treatment. Full explanation, reference^ Ac., sent sealed
ERIE MEDICAL CO., BUFFALO, M. „
m
ii
SODTHERN PACIFIC CO!
ATLANTIC SYSTEM.
"Sunset anfl Star aafl CrescentRaale"
64
HOURS FROM
64
TEXAS TO NEW YORK CITY
Arriving Honrs in Advanca d
Rival Line*.
2 DAILY TRAINS 2
BETWEEN
San Antonio, El Paso, Houtou tal
New Orleans.
Making rlose and reliable connections In Iba
Crescent City with lines diverging for all
points EAST and NORTH. Tlie ftireot lies
for all points In OT.I) MICXICO, NEW MEXICO.
AUIZONA and CALIFORNIA,
Poilman Palace Buffet Sleepers on ill
Passenger Trains.
QUICK TIME-LOW RATES.
Trains leave HOUSTON for NEW OK LEA HI
B.4S p. in. For the VV EST (California Express)
9 40 a. m.
J. G. SCHRIEVER,
Traffic Manager, New Orleans, La, I
W. C. WATSON, 1
O. F. A., New Orleans, I*.
CAPITAL PRIZE, *150,000.
L.SL.
" Wc (lo hereby certify thnt wo supervise the
arrangements for nil the Monthly and Quarter-
ly Drawings of the Louisiana State Lottery
Company, and in person manago and control
the drawings themselves, and that the same ;|
are conducted with honesty, fairness, and In ill
good faith toward all parties, and we. authorize* II
the company to use this certificate, with fao\ il
similes of our signatures attached, In Itsad^JU
vertlsements. " G. T. BEAUltEUAltD,
" J. A. EARLY,
" Commissioners."
We the undersigned Banks and Bankers will
pay nil Prizes drawn in the Louisiana State
Lotteries which may be presented at our coun-
ters. J. H. OGI.KSBY, Pres. La. Nat. Bank.
J. W. KILBRETH, Pres. State Nat. Bank.
A. BALDWIN, Pres. N. O. Nat. Bank.
UNPRECEDENTED ATTRACTION!
OVER QUARTER MILLION DISTRIBUTED.
Louisiana State Lottery Co.
Incorporated In ISliB for 25 years by the Legis-
lature for Educational and Charitable pm poses
—with a capital of Jl,f!CO,000—to which a reserve
fund of $550,000 has since been added.
By an overwhelmirg popular vote its fran-
chise was made apart of the present State Con-
stitution adopted December 2, A. 1). 1875.
Its Grand Single Number Drawings
will take place monthlv. It never scales or
postpones. Look at the following distribution:
EXTBAORDINARY QUARTERLY DRAWING
At the Academy of Music, Now Orleans,
Tuesday, June 15, 18S6.
100,CC0 Tickets at $1U each. Halves, $5. Fifths,
$2. Tenths, $1.
list of phizes.
1 Capital Prize of $150,000 $150,000
1 Grand Prize ot 50,000 50,000
J Grand Prize of 20,000 20,000
2 Liu>e Prizes of 10,000 20,000
4 Large Prizes ot 5,0! 0 20,000
£270 Prizes, amounting to $522,500
Application for rates to clubs should be made
only to the office of the company In N. Orleans.
lor further information w rite clearly, giving
full address. POSTAL NOTES, Express Money
Orders or New York Exchange in ordinary lot-
ter. Currency invariably by Express at our
expense. Addressed,
M. A. DAUPHIN, New Orleans, La.
Make P. O. Money Orders payable and ad-
dress Registered Letters to New Orleans Na
tional Bank, New Orleans, La.
J. 1). SAWYER, Agt., Gaivetton, Tex.
IS DECIDED BY
ROYAL HAVANA LOTTERY
(A GOVERNMENT INSTITUTION,)
DRAWN AT HAVANA, CUBA,
MAY 1, 15 AND 20, 1888.
Tickets In fifths—Wholes, $5; fractions pro rata.
See that the name of Gould & Co. is on the
ticket.
Subject to no manipulations, not controlled
by parties In Interest, it Is the fairest thing In
the nature of chance In existence.
For Information and particulars apply to
SHIPSEY CO., General Agent, 1240 Broadway.
N. Y. City, or J. D. SAWYER,
123 and 1'25 Tremont street Galveston Tex.
RIGE, BADLABD & CO.,
PAINTS, OILS,
Glass, Wall Paper *
AND I
WINDOW SHADES. '
Sole Manufacturers of Galveston Co.'i |
Ready Mixed Paints
GALVESTON, TEX.
DOUBLE ANCHOR,
TEXAS MILLS
AND OTHER
BRANDS OF BAGGING.
Genuine McComb Arrow Ties.
M
ERCIIANTS AND DEALERS DESIRING TO
make purchases of Bagging and Ties for
FUTURE DELIVERY
during the coming season, will find it to their
interest to ask our prices before buying else-
where.
MILLER, CANNON & CO.,
STATE AGENTS,
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
FOUTZ' S
MORSE AND CATTLE POWDERS
FOUTZ
No Horse will rile of Colic. Bots or Lung f»
Tf-b, if Foutz's Powders are used in time.
Foutz's Powders will oure-anri prevent Iloo Cnoi.KRA.
Foutz's Powders will prevent Gapr* in Fowls.
Fontz's Powders will increase the quantity of milk
and cream twenty per cent, and make, tlie butter firm
and sweet.
Foutz's Powders will cure or prevent almost kykbt
Diseasr to which Horses and Cattle are subject.
Foutz's Powukrs will give satisfaction.
5old everywhere.
david e. foutz. Proprietor,
baltimore, mr
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