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THE GALVESTON DAILY NEWS, MONDAY. NOVEMBER 3,1884.
FOREIGN SEWS.
WHAT IS flOINtt ON IN THE OLD
WORLD.
Tho Congo Conference.
London*, November 2.—Official invitations
to the Congo conference at Berlin fix the day
of the meeting on the 13th of November. The
assistant delegates will hold a preparatory
sitting on the Hh of November. England,
France ard Germany have already agreed
upon the leading points in the programme, and
the adhering thereto by the othor powers is
expected to bo obtained without prolonged
discussion. 1'iiiKu Bismarck will preside at
the opening and closing of the conference, bat
will not be present during the debate.
The lilaagow Theater Horror.
Glasgow, November 2.—The man whose
cry «f tire caused the panic in the Stir
theater, last evening, has been arrested. He
was dninlt when he raised the false alarm
Persons in the theater at the time describe the
scene on the stair case as terrible. The steps
were strewn with ribbons, hats, sacks and
shawls.
The victims were first suffocated and then
trampled upon. The panic lasted fifteen min
utes. It is a noteworthy fact that the authori-
ties had disapproved of the means of exit, and
were contemplating tho construction of an
additional means of exit from the gallery.
The scenes witnessed when the relatives iden-
tified the dead were most affecting. Among
the victims were eight females.
Klretlon for .Member. of the Heteh.tag.
Berlin, November 2.—The election for
members of the Reichstag resulted as follows:
CcDEervotives, 69; Center, 95: Imperials, 24;
Nationals, 45: German Liberals, 81; Poles, 18;
Yalkstartei, 2; Alsatians, 14; Guelnhs, 5; So
cialists, 10, including Siebknicht, 97. Second
ballots are jet cece=sar.v. The Socialist com-
mittees have instructed their supporters ti
eppose in the second ballots candidates who
reluse to support the re-enacting of the social
1st laws and the levying of fresh taxes. This
Older is specially aimed at Conservatives.
Serlou. Illot. nt lljdrrsliid.
LcKBOtr, November 2.—India advices report
riots of Arabs at Hyderabad during the Ma-
hurrum festival. Eleven policemen were killed
and wounded. Arabs looted the pot ■« stations
and several houses. A panic wasl -ted iu
the city, ard all the houses were cloJbu. Troops
from Golconda restored order. The council
at which the Nizam presided ordered an in-
quiry into affairs.
Challenged to Fight a Duel.
Berlin, November 2.—Professor Sch Wen-
ninger, Bismarck's physician, has challenged
Dubois Raymond to fight a duel, the professor
having taken offense at the remarks of Ray-
mond on bis appointment to a chair iu the
Berlin university. Raymond declined to flight.
1 lie Pattl Divorce Case.
Paris, November 2.—The decision of tho
court in the Patti divorce case will be gives
November 7. The court will grant a divorce
on the demand of the Marquis de Caux.
Dark from Bgypt.
London, November 2.—Lord Northbrook
arrived here from Egypt. He did not visit
Prime Minister Perry while in Paris.
EUIPTIAN AFFAIRS.
£1 Malidi Endeavors to Reduce Khartouui—tior.
don Said to be a Prisoner.
Paris, November 2.—A dispatch from
Cairo to the Morning News says: The mtthdi,
in the beginning of September, hearing of the
advance of the British forces, made supreme
efforts to reduce Khartoum, which pljife, at
the eDd of September, was surrounded by 150,-
CfcO rebel?. The supplies failing^the garrison
began to waver. /. -'r
A deputatiou of ofJjg»ra complained bitterly
to General GordpaTthat they bad been de-
ceived by aj^wnise of British assistance, and
tfcey accjjftffd biui of aiding in the deception.
The,.deputation also demanded that a retreat
..IU made to Docgola, and threatened, if this
action was not taken, that they would joiu El
Kahdi.
General Gordon thereupon consented to the
jrlan proposed. Meanwhile a pauic arcue and
HCO soldiers and civilians deserted in a body.
Two thousand men remained faithful an l em
lai ked with Gordon. The rebels were advised
cf w hat had occurred and harassed the retreat
to Shend.v, where masses of rebels, provided
vtilb artillery, disabled the flotilla Only
( clone 1 Stewart's vessel succeeded iu pissing
Berber, and shortly afterward it was wreckei.
The remainder of the flotilla was obliged t>
return southward, andon reaching Shen ly the
entire force was captured. About the 5th of
October, General Gordon was sent under a
ftrorg escort lo the mahdi's camp, where he is
bow a close prisoner.
The Dispatch Discredited.
London, November 2.—The foreign ollice
discieaits the dispatch to the Paris Morning
News aiiDouncing tho capture of General Gor-
don.
The Muhdl'. Prestige Waning.
London, November 2.—A dispatch to the
Daily News, from Debbeb, says that the pow-
erful Takare tribes, who are inimical to the
mabdi, have captured El Obeid. It is said that
tie mabdi's prestige is waning among the
tubes between Debbehand El Obeid.
Helpmeets or Compnnions?
[San Francisco Call.]
The daily papers ere constantly sprinkled
ard stained wi'.h records of quarrels between
husbands and wives, says the Philadelphia
Times. Divorces are as frequent as they are
destructive cf every finer domestic feeling and
debasing to every higher quality of hum\u
character. And the eases of domestic tragedy
that, get into the papers are as units compared
with the unwritten thousands of cases that
ache the mselves out to some sanity and chari-
ty or into silent graves. Plainly, the remedy
for all this is neither in multiplied divorces,
wLich simply multiply the wrongs, nor in
bachelor hood and prostitution, nor in polyga-
my. Per haps the reform, if any is possible,
niu6t come from a different view of the mar-
riage relationship, from a renewed and higher
conception cf domestic duties, or a sort of
swirgii g back to the old biblical conception of
things.
No man in bis senses will war against modern
education. No man who has tasted the ad-
vantages of 1 nowledge will throw anything,
even a hint, in the way of others who are seek-
ing the same possession. But that modern
education in its purely narrow secularism,
with its eye on individual rights rather than
on individual duties to a higher law in the
first instance, has invaded the sanctity of mar-
riage and made i by-word of marriage vows,
few people will deny who have watched the
tusini ss in communities where the secular
idea*, have had most perfect, sway.
The old notion of a wife was that she was a
belt meet. 1 he mo iern termagant idea is that
must be a companion or nothing. There is
more difference in these two conceptions than at
first (Tppears. The secular person says cer-
tainly there is. Your Bible idea was that a
mcman should be a drudge to her lordly hus-
1 and. So the secular person gets in bis abuse
of the Bible and at the same time adds to his
own poor bindness. Plainly, the Scriptural
idea of a wife, as a helpmeet, was that iu all
conceivable ways and especially in the temper
ard tone of her life she should be a joy and an
inspiration to her husband, who, as shepherd or
warrior or mechanic or priest, was recognized
as the main burden bearer in the outside
world.
Because today there are perhaps a Iarg rr
number of won en who take up these outside
burdens ardcairy them, that does not altar
the essential, prevailing and eternal order of
ihirgs. Nor docs ir. follow that women the
world over ate any more fitted for compan-
ions to men in the sense of sharing their
actual world's work than they were of old.
Mrs. C'arlyle wanted to be n companion to her
The mas, and so made his life miserable aud
ier own. if, ins'ead of pratinsr about co .u-
janionship and stitching his boots for spice,
ste had wrought the hidd en charm of her
nature into his weary hours, Mr. Frou le
v.cni 10 have )•«,) „ different story to tell. George
Le-Wcs ard " George Eliutf' tried th? corupiu-
ic rsliip theory tint sunk the best of both their
lives in the business, s-o ( id John Stuart Mill
and his Mrs. Taylor. These are noted exam-
ples that Ji*tie people of chrcmo culture are
cpirp, and foe *:;:.g burning example* fo:- a
giddy world. Perhaps there is a distinction
worth considering iu the coutrast of tUU old
Bible and this modern idea of marriage, an I
the young people, at all events, may as well
lor k" at the vision through both glasses for a
while.
THK \ WOF.HillLTH.
'I he Mating and Dissipation of Great Fortunes.
[Boston Herald.]
Commodore Vanderbilt was a marvel of
physical and manly beauty. He was tall,
straight as a ramrod, with a profile which
would adorn auy cameo ever cut. lie was
scrupulously neat in his dress, aud had an old-
fashioned politeness about him which never
failed to charm where ho desired to accom-
plish that end. His early life was a tough one.
He never went to school; he never wore a
medal; ho never got a prize, He was fortu-
nate to get boots in the winter. He pushed
Hat-boats, he drove mules; he sold vegetables;
he served as a deck hand; ho worked himself
liter ally and absolutely, by his clean-cut intel-
lect, to a plane of independence, and from
there he made a bound into the realms of su-
periority which made all his fellows wonder,
woishixi and admire.
George Law aud Cornelius Vanderbilt were
American born, and started as low as boys
could start. See where they rose to. Astor
was almut as poor and friendless an emigrant
as ever landed on these shores, and see what
he grew to. I don't know what Commodore
Vanderbilt would think if . to-day he could
come from his spirit home and see the wasting
millions of his son. I very much fear he
would be tempted to reiterate his oft quoted
expression about the ''booby." I don't know
what he would think of the series of Vander-
bilt palaces that do so much to beautify and
adorn Fifth avenue, but which very rarely
pfford scenes of hospitality. I don't know
w hat he would think to see his favorite sou,
day in and day out, week in and week out,
jear in and year out, consorting with
jockeys, spending time and strength
and interest in the stables, while his
properties decrease in value, and the
gaping world looks at his fat face, smiling de
rifively as the game goes on. Old man Van-
derbilt made his mouey by hard knocks anil
by ingenious twisting of his fellowuien; the
present Vanderbilt is being sucked dry gradu-
ally by the smart fellows in Wall streat, by
the follies of his son and by the rapid growth
of rivals. No one for a moment Imagines that
a fortune of $150,000,000 could be ruined in a
lifetime, but everybody who knows anything
knows that Mr. Vanderbilt no longer bolls
United States bonds to the extent he boasted,
while there are found saddled upon him In
numerable trades aud dickers, made either by
or for him, in consequence of which many,
yen, very many, millions have been
taken, not alono from what he has
made, but from what his father left
him. Old man Vanderbilt was a very singu-
lar fellow. He would spend a million
rather than be beaten in a fight, but he would
grip a sixpence tight rather than be cheated
in a trade. He was reckless and saving—a
angular combination of New York reckless-
ness and Staten island penuriousness. Tne
present Vanderbilt seems to have no system of
expenditure. He has a magnificent house,
with costly pictures, and has lived in it for
years, yet the entertainments given to society
in general can bo counted on the fiagers of one
hand, while those to his intimate friends could
be counted by the fingers of both hands. Ho
is not generous to rich or poor. Subscrintion
papers, liberally responded to by ali his
neighbors, get front him the cold
shoulder only. It may be that the
festive William is following the scriptural
injunction, and d'Jes not let bis right hand
know the good his left hand doeth, and for his
own ofiij.fort's sake I trust that it is so; but the
Biblt? didn't mean that a man should hide his
l.ght under a bushel, particularly when he has
an electric light, and its example is likely to
be followed lor the good or ill of the human
race. If Vanderbilt declines to give to this,
that, cr the other, poorer men can weli afford
to say: " Well, if ho doesn't give, I won't." It
really is a pity that not one of the very ri eh
n.eu in New York city cau be quoted as a con-
spicuous benefactor of his race. Of the three,
George Law is ihe best hearted. He gives
freely and spends largely. Although not ra-
ce gnized as a humanitarian in the popular
tei.se, I doubt if a poor devil in distress ever
wc nt to him without being in some way re-
lieved.
( hodting a IlfiHbnnd. /
[tan Francisco Call.]
It is not, of course, every girl who has power
of (bcosirga husband, in the pense of selecti-
ng and appropriating the one among h^r
iLale acquaintances who pleases her best. It
it; m t i;atuf aJ that she should do so, and when
r.ature is not followed there is generally a fin-
est ere us ending. It is true that love some-
times begets iove; but, on the other hand,
^jothirg is more likely to check it than a too
leedy repose in the earlier stages. If a man's
love is genuine, he is not deceiving himself in
farcyirig that he has an affection which he
dots really fetl, he wants no encouragement
beyond the ordinary conduct which po iteness
and good feeliug dictate. If, without any
\ui ther encouragement, love dies away, it is
pretty certain that it had very weak roots.
ifajTopesal comes before a girl has allowed
ben.eJf to believe that little attentions offered
to ber brd any special meaning—before she
has permitted her feelings to shape them-
felves as they might have done—no harm
will follow. It is unfair to expect
that a girl should be ready to yield the
moment the word is speken, and yet be
ieady tu go her own way, without any caus?
of cc mpJalnt if tLe word is not spoken. No
sensible man, no man whose affection is worth
retaining, is driven away by being told by the
lady of his choice that she likes him, that s'ae
feels that in time s>he may come to love him,
but that her heait is not yet his. If he really
loves her he will come back agaiu, and it is
pretty certain that he will learn before a sec-
ond at-king whether his affection is returned or
not. But a gii 1, if she can not always choose,
can always refuse; and generally her difficulty
is this: It is evident that this man is making
love to me. I do not love him, but I think I
might do so if I choose; shall I choose or shall
I forbear i It is here that the power of choice
ctrncs in; and it is here that the voice of pru-
dence must be ht ard, if it is to be heard at all.
In fuch circumstances a girl will act wisely if
the gives considerable weight to the general
opinion that is held of the gentleman ia ques-
tion by his professional brethren or business
acquaintances. It is, iu short, not the man who
is agreeable among women, but he who is liked
I y his ow n sex, who is the man to choose for
a bufetand. There are certain persons, how-
ever, of the opposite sex who are almost as
good judges of a man's disposition as those of
his own, and th*y are his sisters. A girl can
always tell how a man stauds with his sisters;
if they are really fond of him, she may feel
almost sure that he will make a good husbaud,
A mother cf course always speaks well of her
ten; it is not what she says of him, but his
l chavior to her, that is to be looked to. Aud
a lady may feel certain on this point, that as
a man now treats his mother and his sisters,
fro be will treat her six months after marriage.
All this may seem very cold blooded, very far
removed from the tender feelings which court
frlrip induces. But after all, a girl has a choice
to make—a choice upon which the happiness
of her whole life will depend; and there is
always a time, whether she notices it or not,
before she parts wuh the control of her heart,
at *bich she ought to listen to her judgment.
Without letter evidence than her own feel-
ings she is very likely co make a mistake; but
if f«he can assure herself that her lover is a man
wl.o is respected and liked by his malo friends,
tnd is a favorite at heme, she may be pretty
mre that in listening to his love she is choos-
ii g wisely. _
He was a Texas cattle man,
TTpon this drizzly morn,
win
To
sk
1 coi
fd a new acquaintance
tne and take a horn.'1
" Nay," said the man, "I do not booze;
i never take a horn;
Whisky's the worst thing, I am sure,
'Iliat can be made from corn.
" I n«ed to drink,'1 the man went on;
" My rath was strewn with thorns.
But I'm an Angus breeder now.
And I've sworn off froin horns.'1
Denver News.
Horace Greeley never said 4(gooi mora-
irg,'' c.r '* p.o od evening;" '• how do you do^'or
" geed by," or inquired after anybody's health.
But he sci upuiously answered ever letter thit
earre to him, nnd auswered it on the spot, so
that the writer generally got the reply in the
i est n?e>H. He i rol at iy wrote 20.0 )0 1 i: >r
that did not need writing, and died sooner for
it.
THE STAKED PLAIN.
BHILLIANT PHOHPBCT8 OK A (ill km
FlTl'BB FOIl KOHTWBMT TBX VS.
Mnrli'nfeM and It* Growth ninl Pro.perlty— An
Imrri'ntlng Unman Settlement--How n
Party or Speculator. Collared a
Hand.ome Pile — .lohn
Howard'. Midland.
[Special C rreapondence of The Newa.l
Maiuenkkld, Tex., October 25, 1.S84.—This
place is now one of the most interesting spots
in Texas to nie, and has been since its founda-
tion. Wherever I have wandered my thoughts
Lave often gone buck to Murienfeld, became
It involved an experiment which, if succo^-
ful, would prove that vast region of Texas
known as the Staked Plain to be one of the
most desirable parts of the Btato. It wai the
it.oro interesting to me because I had luu%
held, in numeious publications, that the
Staked Plain would prove so whenever the ex-
periment was made by the rljjht sort of poo-
ple. Marienfeld is situated In Martin county,
about twenty mile.) west of Big Springs, woll
up on the Staked Plain. It was established
by a colony of German farmers from the
Northwestern States, who bought large tracts
of land and immediately tackled tho farrni i?
problem. Now let "us see the re3ult<
1 learn from the Rev. Mr. Peters, who
is the leader of the colony, and a most in-
telligent and interesting man, that the wh-jit
■Pt
bushels per acre, or an average of fourteen
eiops have yielded from twelve to sixtean
igi
bushels. Considering that this was on sod
ground, turned by the plow for the first time,
and that the wheat is of uncommonly heavy
grain, it is a very fine showing. It had but
one good rain on it from sowing to harvest.
Suppose it had had two good rains on it, is it
net nasonable to suppose that the yield would
have been nearly or quite twice as great) At
all everts, that much wheat from sod ground,
with but one rain on it, Hxes the fact that the
Staked Plain is a good wheat country, with a
reasonable ccrtainty that it will become better
and better. There could hardly be a year
when less rain would fall on the wheat, an l
the ground would never be in a less favorable
condition than when sown for the first time. 1
can not well see, therefore, how these German
fanners can hereafter make less than fourteen
bushels to the acre as an average, unless
through accident or storms, and that is a bet-
ter average than most of the most favored
wheat-growing regions of the Union. From
the altitude aud climate, I consider the wheat
here entirely free from danger of blight or
rust. Oats yielded from sixty to eighty bushels
per acre under the same conditions. Is not
that good enough for a beginning? Millet aud
sorghum have also proved a fine success,aud
Dourocorn yielded 100 bushels to the acre. I
am not much acquainted wiih this Douro corn,
but it is claimed as n good food for stock,an ad-
mirable food for poultry; and they say, ooo,
that it makes good flour or meal.
It is to be hoped that it is a
good thing, for it has proved it-
self to be entirely at home in these elevated
regions. As to eommou corn or maize, I am
told that the yield in one instance was forty
bushels to the acre, but the average may b«
placed at twenty. That, too, is good for a be-
ginning, considering the sod ground and the
fact that it was a very bad crop year through-
out the State. An experimental crop of broom-
corn was planted. 1 never saw better broom-
corn than that patch produced. An experi-
mental patch was nlso put in cotton. It looks
as green and rich as summer, but soems to
have gone more to stalk and leaf than bolls.
But the fiber of the cotton is very long and
silky. One would hardly have expected this
on these lofty uplands, but it may be account-
ed for in the fact that salt lakes are numerous
on the Staked Plain, and these may give the
atmosphere the same saline properties which
are said to make the silkiness of the sea i3lau l
cotton. It must tie remembered, too, that the
soil here is exceedingly rich. However, I have
ti e suspicion that the Staked Plain will new>r
cut n great figure as a cotton countn-, aud it
would lie l etter if it should not. I think it
would make a fine mulberry country, and
therefore a fine silk country. El Paso onions
panned out gloriously, and these are the best
onions in the world. Next year the Germaus
will grow the onion in large quantities, and
will no doubt make handsome profits there-
frc m. No onion is better for shipping than the
El Pai o, for it is unsurpassed in keeping quali-
ties wh. n grown in regions suitab'e to it. The
smeet potato known as the '* nigger choice "
made a great crop, but it is only fit for chok-
irg bad Democrats and hogs, who seem to me
to be- animals of very much the same nature.
The better varieties of potatoes did not do so
well on the fiist experiment. Doubtless they
will do better year by year.
Several hundred cuttings of El Paso grapes
were planted, but of these only about thirty
escaped the jackass rabbits, who attacked
them as so< n as tliey throw out their tender
buds in spring. The escaping ones have grown
vigorously and will produce crops next sum-
mer. This fall the colonists will plant several
hundred more; and Father Peters thinks be
has invented a plan by which the jackass rab-
bits will be circumvented. I wisu to say of
the El Paso grape that I know of none that is
better, and I have had a very wide and varied
experience in tte eating of grapes, as well as
in the drinking of the wines which have been
madi of them. The wine which they make at
El Paso of the El Paso grajie, is the same stuff
which the gods drank on Olympus, calling it
nectar. At least if it were not so, they surely
would have discarded their nectar for it, had
they known the El Paso grape wine. At least
if they bad not done so, they would have
shown thtmselves, in my judgment, to be
gods <_f very poor and vulgar tastes.
The Germans have brought many
fine-blooded shorthorn cattle here from
the northwestern States. Some of these
cattle have now passed through two summers,
and there^has not been a case among them of
what is known as Spanish or Texas fever.
Perhaps this may prove that imported fine
stock may not be subject to that disease on
the Staked Plain. I believe it to be so, but
perhaps longer time should be giveu to deter-
mine the fact. If it should prove so, the Staked
Plain will become the great acclimating
ground from which fine stock-breeders in other
portions of the State will be supplied; for I
suppose that fine stock raised oti the plain
w ould bo little, if at all, subject to the disease
when moved to the lower grounds,
1 he population of Marienfeld is now between
800 and 400, with a prospect of a large increase
this fall and winter. A very pleasing feature
of tbe place is that you do not see a single
shanty or mean-looking house anywhere in the
settlement. The houses are all neat, tasty,
roomy, freshly painted, and of a very thrifty
aspect. No one can pass the place without
conceiving a high opinion of the populatiou.
1 hey are now building a convent on a con-
spicuous eminence, which will present quite au
imposing appearance when finished.
1 also visited Midland, about twenty miles
west of Marienfeld—a new town started last
spring by John Howard, tbe famous Bee line
man, and a party of Illinois gentlemen. Their
manner of putting the new town in motion
was this: Having a keen eye for business, and
being quick to spy a good thing, they bought
a section of land on the Texas and Pacific
rail)r ad. Then they sent out flaming at
vertisements of a new metropolis to
be started on the rich soil under
the Italian skies of the Staked Plain. j\ day
was appointed for a grand sale of town lots,
and a great excursion from Illinois and the
rest of Ihe world was organized. On the day
of sale tbe Staked Plain thereabouts was
ciowded with gentlemen with full purses and
a speculative turn of mind, and the result was
that, over 152,000 was realized iu tv/o days
from the sale of luts at auction. The section
r f land had cost them probably not above a
dollar per acre, or $040. Here, then, John
Howard and his Illinois friends—known as the
Midland Town company—had made a net
profit on that small investment, in about
ninety days, of $53,000! No, they dm not mike
all of that in net profit, because they had in-
curred excess's of about £4000—leaving a
net profit Of about $48,000, which
in so short a tirtif, on so small nn investment,
is surely not to lie sneezed at. Btilly for John
lovard and the Midland Town company! Bit
tb»y did not stick ail this money in their pack-
et and hide it away. They went to work ener-
getically buildiup up tbe town aud blowing its
praises into the four quarters of the earth, ft
n beautiful hotel, two fliutlahloz
itky and beer saloons, two or three stores,
,e booie for immigrants, a pretty passen-
ger and freight depot, a windmill factory, and
private houses are shooting up in evory direc-
tion. The population is now 150 to 1300, and
they say that the whole country round about
will bo filled up this fall and winter with Illi
nols aud Indiana farmers. Twenty-one of
these hardy fellows arrived tho day before my
visit, llullv, again let us say, for John llow-
aid and the Bee-line!
But tho Town company overreached them-
selves in the sale of lots to speculators, and
are now iu trouble for so eloiug. Most of these
speculators live abroad, ami nave no idea of
ever living at Midland. They will not build,
and they w ill not sell, and the result is that
the town is buildiup all around tho t iwn site
proper, leaving a great achiug void iu the
middle. The Town company is in a rage, and
orders bavo been issued that no more lot) shall
be sold except to actual settlers. I am told
that Howard has been in a perfect fury for
sixty days, abusing himself for a denied fool.
They have recently bought back from the
speculators two lots for $£15 each, being about
double w hat they received for them. Howard
turns blue, and swears that if this
process is to continue, eternal bankruptcy
awaits him. He continually soliloquizes about
the "Dead sea apples which turn to ashes on
the lips." I advised the Town comnauy to
move the town about a half a mile west, to a
beautiful eminenco wheie it ought to liivo
been laid out in tho first place, thus leaving
the speculators high aud dry. They offered
me large pay for this advice, and I believe
they intended to accept it, but unfortunately
a milkman bad got possossion of the emi-
nence, establishing his dairy ami calf pens
thereon, and be being a very stubborn fellow,
it was thought he would not easily be dis-
possessed. If they would throw a shell or two
about his premises, I warrant he wouid not
hold that eminence long. 1 feel doep sympa-
thy for my friends of the Town company.
If they can not movo tho milkman either by
persuasion, money or shells, the'' cau movo
the town to another eminence about a mile
west of him and get ahead of the speculators
at Inst. There are more ways, you know, of
killing a cat than by cremating ter tail.
Hall' way between Marienfeld and Midland
is another new settlement called Gerruinla,
but I did not stop to take it iu. It was
founded last year by a company, forty or fifty
strong, fresh from Saxony. They are spread-
ing out side farms and seem to be prosperous
like the rest. Let me close with a cheer for
John Howard and the Bee line. N. A. T.
How Snake. Swallow Frogs.
" I'll tell you a snake story," said a gentle-
mau to an Easton (Md.) Ledger reporter, last
week, "if you won't give me away when you
publish it. It is a true story, but there are
seme incredulous people who may be skeptical
about believing it, and I don't wa.it to be too
closely identified in the public estimation with
snake stories, or with snakes in any style."
" Go on with your snake story," said the re-
Eorter, "jour personality shall be rasp jo ted
y the Ledger, even your initials shall basafe;
and nothing shall be said that will give a clow
to the man who told the story, be he the author
or the inventor of it."
"It's not invented, it's true; and this is tho
way it was:
" The other day I was going up the road to-
ward Wye mills in a wagon. A man name I
Morris was with me. This side of Potts'smills
we noticed a snake by the roadside. I'm death
on snakes, and so stopper! the wagon, an 1
Morris and I got out and killed the snake with
a stick. It didn't try to get away. After we
killed it—it was a black runner—we noticed a
protuberance in its stomach toward the tail
tnd of half way its length. ' Ho's got a frog
in him,' suggested Morris, ' let's cut him open.'
A knife was produced, and we proceeded to
dissect the alimentary canal of the snake.
Sure enough, the protuberance was a frog,
but tbe strangest part of it was that tho frog
was alive and well, and as soon as released
hopped aw ay as lively and as joyful as you
ever saw a frog. About the time we released
the flog Mr. Lex Pascault and his son came
along and saw him leave the snako and make
his way off. Don't you think this a remark-
able story to be true?"
"Oh, no," said the Ledger reporter, "it's
not remarkable. In the first place no new
snake story is remarkable, on general prlnci-
frles. All tho remarkable ones have been told
ong ego. And, in the second place, I myself
once suw on instance very similar to this, only
more so. Twenty-five years ago, three of lis
were walking one afternoon on a farm iu this
county some twenty miles from Easton. We
fouDd a snake witb a frog in his mouth. Tho
frog was making desperate efforts to get away,
and bad power to jump and drag the suako
with him. But tbe snake meant business, and
kept 011 swollowing the frog. Ono of tho
partj went to the house and got a hatchet,
and when the snake had got the
frog entirely swallowed he cut it
ojen with tbe hatchet, just to the star-
board of where the frog wus lodged, and the
frog jumped out and hopped away, winking
bis left eye at the man with tbe hatcliet as he
w ent, for all the world like some men winking
when ordering soda water. Not a bono of him
was broken, and it did not appear that oven
bis feelings were hurt. So, you see, having
been there myself, I dou't think your story ro-
markable."
"But I always thought snaltos swallowed
frogs bead first. The one I've told you about
was swallowed in that way."
"Well, it may be so; but iu tolling a story
of this kind the narrator must certainly h ive
tbe faculty of placing the frog in the way it
will do the most gcod to the interest of the
story. If my frog had been swallowed head
first he could not have jumped and pulled the
s-uake after bim, and a dramatic iucident iu
the story would have been lost. See?" lie
said he did.
Hoinance. Alioul Mr. Edison.
[New York Times.]
Thomas Alva Edison is at the present mo
ment the subject of numerous extraordinary
ar.ecdotes, evolved from the fertile imagina-
tions of telegraph operators at Montreal. The
latest anecdotal fiction is to the effect that the
gi eat electrician, when employed in his boy-
hood on the Grand Trunk railway, west of To-
ronto, as operator aud train-dispatcher, caused
a serious accident by his carelessness. The ex-
uberant story-teller tbeu goes on to say that
$26 S5 were owiDg to him at tho time of his
dismissal. Tbe sum wus never paid, and Mr.
Edison's father, says the authority, is about to
institute legal proceedings for its recovery, as
a matter of principle, unless it is settled at
once. General Manager Hickson is supposed
to be at t resent occupied in looking into the
claim.
Mr. Edison, in his studio at No. 05 Fifth
avenue, yesterday afternoon was highly
amused at tbe story. " Yes," be said, laugh-
ing, "tbe telegraph operators in Montreal
seem to be wiring into me most vivaciously at
tbe present time. The extraordinary things I
am constantly hearing about my own boyhood
cause me much delectation, and I find myself
wondering occasionally whether it is possible
for a man to loose his memory to such an ex-
tent as to forget tbe circumstances of his early
life. But I think my recollection is tolerable
sound. Now, when a boy, I certainly was em-
ploj ed as operator and train dispatcher at a
small way station on the Grand Trunk rail-
way.
" Yes," he said, passing his hand through his
fray streaked hair, " and I certainly was
ouneed. The reason was that I caused two
freight trains to approach one another conti ary
to regulations. But there was no collision.
They never came within a mile of ouo another,
W ben I was bounced I have no recollection
of any money being owed me, aud this story
about $20 25 is absolutely false. As to my
father taking proceedings in such a matter—
well, it is too absurd to think of. No, the boys
are amusing themselves at my expanse, but
ibis is certainly tbe best I have heard."
It was during Hendricks's first race for the
Senate, and a member of the legislature was
in the same car. He was very bitter against
Henoricks for some reason or other, and took
no [rains to conceal it. He was going up to the
capital with bis wife, who bad a little baby in
ber arms. Tbe baby was crying violently, aud
the mother seemed unable to soothe it. " Let
me have the little fellow," said Hendricks,
walking up aud reaching out his arms Tha
mother handed him the child reluctautly, and
be started to dandle it up and down, aud did
it so successfully that the baby stopped crying,
and scon fell asleep. He carried the child all
the way to Indianapolis, aud when be left tha
car tbe member was his warm supporter. So
a crying baby helped to make a United States
senator. [Courier-Journal.
Sorg (in one flat). "Suite, suite buna."
[Bosun Courier.
I IIIVKHB IN NBIV YOKK.
Their 8uperdition, and Thi'lr FatalUm.
[New York Commercial Advertiser.]
Soon after the first batch of Chluamon put
in their appearance in New York they began
to surround themselves with heathen access-
ories to which they had been accustomed in
San Francisco. Before three months had
gone by they had several flourishing opium
dens, half a dozen "fan-ton" games and lot-
tery points, and a dozen stores for tha sail of
oriental commodities. Having provided for
the amusements of their daily lives, the moon-
eyed strangers set up relations with the pow-
ers above, by establishing n Jois housa,
wherein they bang their prayers with com
n endable regularity und punctuality. Next
they set about encompassing order bv tbe
founding of a Chinese law court, and lastly
and very recently they completed tbe social
circle of Chinese life by opening a hospital, or
more properly, a house wherein the sick may
die without bothering their friends aud rela-
tives.
Chinamen ore well known to be fatalists.
This trait in their national character makes
Chinamen, who are otherwise onwardly, meet
death witb tbe utmost stoicism. Ou tho PuclBo
slope executions of Chinamen have been by no
means infrequent, and in no case has tha vic-
tim of the law failed to inarch to tho scaffold
with the fortitude of an Indian. The belief
that what is to be, and no act of a person may
avert a catastrophe, renders the healing art
rr.ost difficult of application to Chiuauieu.
Once John becomes really sick be is pretty sure
to die, because he gives up all hope, refuses to
take medicine, and resigns himself stoically to
the faie in store for him. He is superstitious,
and places what little faith he has in cura-
tives, not in drugs, but in queer amulots,
funny bags, and nauseating liquids, blessed by
the priests. This superstition affects his rota-
tions, and occo the hand of death is considered
to have set its mark upon the sick ra in'j saf
fron foiehead he is an outcast, lie is carrion,
and no moie fit to remain in human habita-
tion, for should he die under tho roof all man-
ner of ills will fall upon the inmates. There-
fore he is hustled out to die.
In San Francisco dying men aro often found
upon the streets. Parents are as ruthlessly
sacrificed, once their ailinont is considered
hopeless, as the veriest stranger—and yet the
children of a Chinaman are the most dutiful
of any children of any peoole.
Hearing that a hospital, or sick-houso, as the
Chinese term it. had been established iD China-
town, a representative of the Commercial Ad-
vertiser set out to find the place and explore it
if opportunity offered. From inquiries made
among the white people of the neighborhood,
the house was founded on the north side of the
street, five or six doors from the corner of
Chatham street The entrance was under a
stoop, and opened into a long, dark hallway,
that in turn led into a blind court between the
front and rear buildings. The drains from the
adjoining houses emptied into the stone-
flagged court, and the sewage lay in pools in
the broken stone, sending up an overpowering
stench. Garbage was scattered over tbe ground,
where it had been thrown from the windows,
and lumber, boxes and barrels filled up tha in-
tervening spaces. Picking his way across the
court, tbe writer reached a deal door which
appeared to open in the rear house, but
which really opened into a long alloy, at the
end of which was another^ on which was
passed a red sign in black Chinese characters.
Knocking produced no response. The visitor
lifted the latch and pushed tbe door open. A
volume of foul air and smoke poured out,
nearly stilling tbe reporter, who drew back
for a moment ; but recovering he entered.
The place was dark, but gradually, the eye
beci miug accustomed to tho gloom, it was
possible to distinguish the limits of tho place.
Not a stick of furniture was in the place, but a
biezier, made of au old coal oil can, burued in
tfce middle of the room. Ou one side were
their bunks, ananged end for end, and on
one, covered by a quilt made of gunny sacks
and rags, lay a human form. As the visitor
approached tbe miserable creature half raised
upon bis elt^rw, aud asked in a hollow voice:
"What for?"
" You sick?" interrogated the reDortar.
" Me belly sick," answered the Chiuamau,
falling back with a groan.
" Hungiy?"
"Nc—eo can eat."
'• Where are your friends?"
" No got fiieuds. All gone."
As the poor fellow ceased, a hollow cough
told tbe story. He was dying from consump-
tien which carries off fully half of bis race iu
this country. Poor food, insufficient clothing
and an unsanitary mode of life soon work
havoc with the v.eak physique of the cooly,
ai d bis vicious habits of opium smoking and
gambling hurry him on until, too weak to
stand, his friends carry him to the sick-house.
There was nothing more to learn. John was
dying, and be would do nothing to help him-
self, for was not the hand of death upon him?
So, leaving a small piece of silver in the talou-
like hand of the sick man, the reporter left.
As he stepped into the court the proprietor of
tbe sick-house was coming in with a tin plate
of rice aud a diminutive cracked cup of tea.
" What is the matter with that man, John,"
asked the reporter.
" Ob, him die."
"Hie bad sickness?" (Consumption.)
"Yes. Him die to-mollow."
"Where are bis friends?"
" Him fliends plenty lich. Got'em store.
Payee Sam lvee plenty money keep Ab Jim."
"Why don't you get a doctor?"
" Wba' for? Him die. Wha'for spend um
money doctor?"
"Why don't his friends keep him home
where he can be comfortable?"
" All sBine bad Joss come, he die there. An
Jim all lite. Him die plenty c.lick'n have big
fiun'ral. Send'uin bones back to China.'
The next day when the reporter called, Ah
Jim lay iu a pine box. He had on a new suit
of blue gluzed muslin, and a skull cap with a
bright red button. His face wore a calm ex-
Eression, and the thin bauds were crossed over
is breast. Funeral punk burned, aud little
gilded paper cornucopias were scattered
around. Across tbe street grand preparations
were making for a great funeral feast, for Ah
Jim hud died out of the house, and he could
cow be honored.
Catherine Cordon's Dowry.
[London World.]
Tbe valley of the Ythan, iu whi'h lias
Haeldo house, is the only picturesque part of
that portion of Aberdeenshire. Hai'do park is
very beautiful and of great extent, but tha
house itself is uninteresting. It ua.i not. i,ja»t
of antiquity eveu iu name—the place used to
be called Kelly—nor are tha Haddo Gordons a
family of very ancient or august lmaago.
Perched on the brink of a rocky eminence
overlooking most charming saauery, ana al
most within sight from Haddo house, stands
the gaunt ruin of the old house of (ii;-hthe
dowry, witb tho lands attached, which Uathe-
iine Gordon, the mother of Lord Byron,
brought to her graceless husband. One of old
Thomas tbe Rhymer's legends ran:
When the heron leaves the tree
The lord of Uight shall landless be.
And the local tradition has it that when the
heiress of Gigbt wedded the Hon. John Byron,
the denizens of the heronry that ha t endured
for centuries iu a great old tree close to the
" auld house" migrated to new quarters on
tbe Haddo estate. The lands wore not loug iu
following the herons, for soou after the uu
bappy marriage tho Gight property passed, by
purchase, to the Aberdeen family.
Cholera and Macaroni,
[Pall Mall Gazatta.]
An ingenious correspondent writes to us to
sv ggest the connection there may be between
cholera and macaroni. Auy one who has fol-
lowed the road along the coast from Naples to
Pompeii must have noticed the numberless
rows of macaroni tubes along the wide margin
ot the roadway. "Now imagine,"says our
correspondent, " a gusty day after a period of
drouth, and perhaps of endemic diseaso.
Clouds of dust would in that case be whirled
along the street, with all that it might contain
of the seeds of pestilence in ono or another
shape, of which some at least must alight on
every filament of vermicelli or macaroni stick
which might be still damp enough to arrest
their flight, to be afterward disseminated
v hci ever the pastry should go."
Ulm cathedral, one of the largest in Germa-
ny, will soon be completed, after having re
mained unfinished for nearly 400 years. It
t^as begun in 11117. ard finished in ll!)i, excapt
the towers, which are now being erected ac-
coidiug to the ancient design.
FARM NOTES.
Western New York is reckoning upon har-
vesting 4,000,000 barrels of apples.
In 1879 the average of the winter wheat
ciop was iy}< bushels per acre. With the
Bnme average this year it will yield a total of
513,000,(K)0 bushels. Last year it was Id:),003,-
000. 'I he corn crop was 1,551,000,000 bushels.
This country docs not need as many roots for
stock as European countries do in view of tha
ease with which it grows Indiun corn.
Professor 8, Johnson, of the Michigan Agri-
cultural college, has made many experiments
with ensilage during the past few years, says
the American Agriculturist. He finds it bat-
ter to have several small s'los, or divisions,
than ono large oub; that weigbtlug with
stones, barrels of earth, etc., is more satisfac-
tory than a screw, nnd that the silo is ono of
the most economical methods of storing fol-
der. Professor Johnson finds three tons of
ensilage equal in feeding value to one ton of
bay, and therefore a fair crop of ensi'.ago
tneans the growing of au equivalent to s'xto
ten tons of hay per acre. Ensilage is a cheap
substitute for roots—so desimble for cattle—
1 ut an expensive crop for tbe general farmer.
There are great differences' in the average
growth of some of tho more common trees In
iwelve j ears white maple increase lone fort in
diameter and thirty feet in height: ash leaf
maple or l ex alder, one foot and twenty foet;
Mbtto willow, one foot and a half and fifty-
feet; yellow willow, one foot and a half and
thirty-five feet; blue and white ash, ten inches
in diameter and tweuty-five feet in height;
Lombardy poplar, ten inches and forty f«efc;
black nainut and butternut, ten inches and
tweity feet.
Whectvirn farmer gets a labor-saving im-
plement for himself, let him think if some-
tbirg so save his wife from kitchen labor can
not also be secured
The frrmer who lets everything go to waste
about him will gererally be one who coriplains
that " farming don't pay."
Every month is a harvest season for soma
scction of the world, though tho harvest rloos
not always consist of hay or grain. There is
a fiaiit harvest as veil as a wheat harvest, ani
harvest also of other products.
One of tbe hardest of all crops to " raise," in
tbe financial sense, is a mortgage, but it is
easy to ulant. The less one plants of mortgages
tbe better.
Koeky forest land had better lie kept in
woods until the rest of the farm is in the high-
est possible state of cultivation. There aro
millions of acres of poor land partly cultivated
that ought never to have been "cleared off.
But when farmers have such land, think of
sheep; tbey will make it valuable if any thing-
can. Also think of tbe dogs, and have them
exterminated as far as possible.
A Los Angeles (Cal.) gentleman has brought
from Guatemala a plant called the " melon
shrub," which grows to the height of about
three feet. It is an evergreen, with a beauti-
ful purple aud white flower, and bears a fruit
shaped like a rifled cannon shell, about four
inches long by from two to three inches in di-
ameter, a melon of most excellent taste, with
the outside streaked with yellow aud brown,
and an inside the color ot the cantaloupe. Tha
shrub blossoms and bears in four mouths from
the seed.
Tbe best of all rules for successful house-
keeping and making both ends of the year
meet is, pay as you go. Beyond all coun-
tries in tbo world, ours is the ono in which
the credit system is the most used and abused.^
Pass books are tbe baue and pest of domestic?
economy—a perpetual plague, vexation and
swindle. Abused by servants at tho store and
bouse, disputed constantly by housekeepers
and dealers, they are temptations to bjth par-
ties to do wrong. " I never had thit." " Wa
neglected to enter this." " I forgot to Ving
tbe book." "Never mind, we'll make a note
of it," and so it goes. But the worst of io is
that housekeepers are tempted to order what
they have not tl e means to pay for, aud whan
tbe time for settlement comes they are strait-
ened. A family can live resprctably on a
very moderate income, if they always tak9 tho
cash iu hand and buy where they cau buy to
tbe best advantage. Then they ■ ' —<r«-
ful first to get what is necessary.
forts will be had if thoy can
But it is bad policy to buy of
wise dealei sells so cheaply on
cash.
Last year I received from Fleu., ,re»
called the Conch pes. I planted the^, . < l ite
spring, or early summer, I forget which. They-
grew well and I would have had a fine crop for
the amount of seed planted, but stock got to
them and destroy ed most of them. I sowed
enough seed to plant another little patch this
year, and for safe keeping gave them quite a
space of ground in my garden. Such a luxu-
riant growth of vines as I now have I never
saw before. They have covered every
inch of the ground on which thoy
were planted, and spread far out be-
yond. Tbey have literally covered some small
fiuit trees and a line of fence within their
leaeb. Though planted in May, they hive
just commenced bearing. I believe they never
bear until fall. Iu the looks of the pea l sae no
difference between it and the common black-
eyed field pea, but the vine of the Conch is
much larger, besides being a greater runner.
Now, I would like to hear from some reader of
Home and Farm who has had some exparionce
in raising the Conch pea, aud get his opinion
upon its peculiar merits, if it possosses any.
[F. A. It, Columbus, Tex.
Intelligent agriculturists no longer pay any
attention to tbe moon when they are abort to
plaut crops, cut timber or traiu the hair, eta,
but when the air is warm enough and tho
ground dry enough in the spring tha mojn is
left unconsulted now a days, aud the farmer
goes ou and plants. The moon humbug is ex-
ploded to unmendable fragments, and is beard
of now only in remote regious wheiv the
methods of Noah and Mathusaleb are still ia
operation.
Eggs packed in well dried ashes, and sa as
not to touch each other, have been leapt per-
fectly sweet for twelve months.
The growing of pecans ought to ba a profit-
able business on all farms that are suitably lo-
cated. Pecan trees have been known to "pro-
duce as many as 435 pounds of nuts, or three
barrels, while 295 pounds, or two barrels, are
considered as ordinary bearing trees. One
acre of ground will grow from forty to seven-
ty-five trees.
Salsify and parsnips are very hardy, aud
may be left in the ground all winter without
damage.
All manures deposited by nature are left on
or near the surface. The whole tendency of
manure is to go down Into the soil rather than
to rise from it. There is probably very little
it' any less of nitrogen from evaporation of
manure, unless it is put in piles so as to fer-
ment. Bains aud dews return to the soil as
much ammonia in a year as is carried off in
the atmosphere.
The Patience or a Meek Man at Laiit IJIve*
Way.
[Chicago Herald.]
"Heard you had a little row over at your
place, yesterday?" inquired a young man of a
Gtrn an coming in on a suburban train.
" Yah, we had a leetle row. I tell you how
itvos. Tree weeks ago I bought a biano for
my lager pier sa'oon. My wife she blay on it
ar d blease the gustomers. Dere vos a young
feller bangin' arount all to dime. He seemC
bet ofer heels in luf mit my biano. Ouo day I
vos owut, nnd ven I coom back I lookt troo de
vindow und taw dat young feller schtandin'
at de biano singin', mit his arm arount my
wife's waist. I vos mat about it right avay,
uud ves going in the schtuflin' to kick him
owut; ven I tawt to myself: ' Jacob, don't pe
liai t em de young feller—you vos youug your-
sellu fence.' So I set noddings.
" Tbe next, tay I coom back from down town
nnd looked troo de window uud saw dat young
idler bcltin' my wife on his lap. Mino Gottr
put I v(.s mat apout it, und vos goia' ia liis
chaw to kick, ven I again tawt: 'Jacob, go
sehlow- you was young yourselluf once.' So I
set nodings. De next day I caught dot young
feller keesing my wife. I vos so mat apout it
cot 1 vented to broke bim up, but ou dor
secoi.ittawt, I set to myself: ' Don't gat oxcited
apont it, Jacob; you vos young yourselluf
once.' So I set nodings. Put vot you tink?
Yesterday I coom back from der town down,
ven 1 looked troo der window und der vos d?.t
yourg filler Wlpin' himselluf to my paer und
di r bum sandwitcbcs und de scheese. It mtta
n c so mat dot I kiekt him owut my sr.! <ri und
to der cildei side of de stroet .i . "V.y.
Dot % i s vbat der row vos apout."
A chii.d actress in New York, M irgaret Fer-
rier, has been takeu from the stage by tbe
authorities and sent to the Dominican convent.
She has been on the stage since she was three
j ears old.
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