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NUMBER 2
MBMfeEBS OF COKORES8.
A Brief Sketch of the History
of Each One.
Washington, Dec. 25.—The Con-
gressional Record, which contains a
brief sketch of the history of each
• member of Congress, gives some in-
formation which will prove very in-
teresting for the boys. It will be es-
pecially interesting to a class of boys
who are having a struggle for a liveli-
hood, and who are obliged to content
themselves with such education as
tfcay pan gain by their own personal
efforts. Likewise it is interesting to
farmer boys, many of whom are in-
cited to suppose that they are un-
fortunate, by reason of the fact that
they are born and reared on the
farm instead of the villages or cities.
A large proportion of the men who
have attained to such success, and
who have induced their fellow-citi-
zens to send them to congress, at-
tained that success by the constant,
steady, persistent fight with fortune
from childhood and young men who
feel that their lot in early life is a
hanl one that the following facts
from the statements furnished by the
members themselves in regard to
their early lives are cited.
Senator Hearst of California, who is
■"counted one of the wealthiest mem-
bers of the Senate, was a farmer boy,
educated in the public schools, work
ed on his father's farm in Missouri
until be reached manhood, then
was a miner in California until he be-
came a mine owner in the Blue Bidge.
Three of the Alabama men put them-
selves down as "self-educated" men,
two of them being /armors at present
Congressman De Haven of California
received a common school education,
and was a printer until SJO years of
age, accumulated an education while
working at the case. Congressman
Biggs of the same State is a farmer.
S 'uator Pasco of Florida paid his
... through Harvaad College by
teaching school during portions of .the
year. Congressman Lawler of Illinois
was compelled *© leave^ the public
schools f nd get employaat*4 in a
brick yard where be labored
ear**t the yajE
agent on railroads, then a ship car-
penter. Congressman Henderson of
Illinois, who was a farmer boy, has
now been fifteen years in Congress
Congressman Hill of Illinois obtained
his education by working on a farm
at $7 a month to buy books and pay
tuition, attending school winters and
working on a farm in summer. Con-
gressman Fithian of Illinois was a
farmer boy and a printer in his early
manhood. Congressman Smith, also
of that State, was reared on the farm
and learned the blacksmith trade,
wot educated in the common schools.
Congressman Parrett of Indiana
worked on the farm in summer and
attended school in the winter- Con-
gressman O'Neill of Indiana worked
on the farm in summer and attended
country ^schools iu winter, finally at-
tuned to the State University of
which he graduuted. Congressman
Browne of Iudiana earned his own
ifving when a boy, and, tlieiefore, had
little opportunity to acquire an educa-
tion. Congressman Holman, and
Brown, also of Indiana, received a
common school education in that
State*. Senator Wilson of Iowa
worked as a harness-maker eight
years, during which tune he pursued
his educational labors with success.
Congressman Henderson of Iowa,
wno was a candidate for the speaker-
ship, was a farmer boy until he
reached the age of twenty one. Con-
gressman Lacey of Iowa obtained the
means of educating himself by follow-
ing his trade of bricklaying and
plastering in his early years. Senator
Plumb was educated in a common
school, and supported himself in early
manhood "by following the art of
printing. Congressman Kelley of
Kansas was reared on a farm and re-
ceived a common school education.
Congressman Peters, also of Kansas,
had a similar experience. Congress-
man Stone of Kentucky was a farmer
boy and is still a farmer. Congress-
man Goodnight of Kentucky lived on
a farm until he was 21 yeais of' age.
Mr. Carlisle of Kentucky taught
school to support himself in early
life. Congressman Finley worked on
a farm until 21 and began life for
himself without education sufficient
to transact business and penniless.
Senator Gormon of Maryland was
educated in the public school which
he attended for a brief period, after
which he was appointed, at the age of
13, a page in the United States Sen-
ate chamber, where he is now serving
as a Senator. Congressman Morse
of Massachusetts, one of the wealth-
iest members of the House, was edu-
cated in the public school. Congress-
man Walker of Massachusetts worked
years. Congressman Allen of Mich-
igan worked on a farm until he was
20 years old, attending school and
teaching during winter. Congress-
man O'Donnell of Michigan enjoyed
no educational advantages, but after
commencing to learn the printer's
trade had made up this deficiency af-
ter working hours. Congressman
Bliss of Michigan worked «n the
farm in the summer and attended
country schools in the winter. Sen-
ator George lost his father when he
was 8 years of age and obtained what
education was given him in boyhood
in the common schools of Mississippi.
Congressman Lewis worked on the
farm and attended the- country
schools, until 15. Congressman Neid-
ringhaus of St. Louis, who is one of
the wealthiest members in the house
of representatives, received a common
school education, and after learning
the spinners' trade began to work at
$4 per week of which he saved one
dollar and fifty cents per week until
he was enabled to establish himself
in business. Congressman Wade of
Missouri was reared on a farm in
Ohio. Senator Stewart of Nevada
began to work in California with a
pick and shovel. Congressman Bar-
tine of Nevada fifteen years ago was
a mill hand in Nevada. Congressman
Moore of New Hampshire was edu-
cated in the public schools,and learned
the trade of a printer, which he fol-
lowed for a considerable time. Sena-
tor Blodgett of New Jersey received
a common school education, worked
in a printing office until he became of
age, and has set type in nearly every
state in the country. Congressman
Quackenboss of New York, was edu-
cated in the public schools, and is a
firmer. Congressman Farquhur of
New York gave a sketch of his own
life, that he had been a printer, editor,
or publisher for thirty-three years.
Congressman Wiley of New York
was a farmer boy until the age of 18.
Senator Casey of Noith Dakota has a
little farm up in his State with some
5000 acres already under cultivation
on his farui. Congressman Hansbor-
ough of North Dakota was a printer
editor and then publisher. Con-
isman Boothman, who lost a leg
in the war at the age of 18, -worked
and taught school after he had re-
turned from the war, and completed
his education. Congressman Gros-
venor of Ohio got his education in a
log school house in that Stale. Con-
gressman Kelley of Pennsylvania, a
distinguished leader of the 'Republi-
can side for many years, was a proof
reader in a newspaper office! |Brun-
ner of Pennsylvania was a carpenter.
Houk of Tennessee attended school
three months, and finished his educa-
tion by studying evenings while work-
ing at his trade as a cabinet maker.
THE JEWS.
Why they Succeed in Business
Austin Globe.
It is proverbial that the Jews
make money. The fact is Ithat a
large portion of them get rich, and
why is it? Some people are un-
generous enough to say that they
cheat, lie and occasionally you hear
symebody say they steal.
We do not believe this, we have
been having dealings with business
men to a considerable extent for most
all our life, and much of our busi-
ness has been with Jews, and we are
ready to affirm that we have always
found them clever aud as honest as
other business men, and business
men are just as honorable as any
other class. The Jews as a rule are
shrewd traders; and they very fre-
quently get the best of somebody in
a trade, the same as any other
shrewd business man, and it is a
fact that occasionally you find one
who is dishonest and will swindle
yon if he can. But to denounce
them as a nation of swindlers is a
libel, and a false accusation. We
spent several years clerking and cot-
ton buying for Jews, and during
that time we had ample opportuni-
ties to study their character and ob-
serve their habits, and we think we
know how it is that they can beat
the American merchant making
money. In the first place they cul-
tivate and practice habits of econo-
my, and they instill this principle
into their children, their youths are
seldom seen bumming around town
of a night .blowing in perhaps a
weeks wages in one night, as is so
common with our young American
youths.
Then the Jew studies his business,
and he knows that iu order to sell
his goods cheap he must first buy
them cheap, hence when he goes to
market he exercises good judgement
in buying goods, and of course he
takes time and buys his goods low,
he can sell them low.
But the great secret ls.th jir strong
in a boot and shoe factory in his earlyl faith in advertising; they believe as
strong iu the power of printers ink
as they do in the law of Moses; they
know that in order to sell their
goods they must let the people know
that they have them to sell, hence
they advertise.
A Jew merchant will come into a
town and open up a stock of goods
and the first man he hunts up is the
newspaper man, and he will publish
to the world what he has got to sell,
will keep publishing it, until the peo-
ple will go hunt him up to see these
goods that he keeps making so much
fuss about, and in this way he be-
comes better known thau the ordi-
nary American merchant who does
not advertise will in three years.
He may possibly spend all of his
profits in advertising for the first
six months, but suppose he does, he
then has a business built up that is
worth thousands of dollars to him,
and an acquaintance that he could
not have got in five years had he not
advertised. Then some old moss-
back right next door to him is ready
to say, "just look at that d—d Jew;
he is swindling the people out of
their money, why 1 haye been here
over ten years and he has only been
here six months and he makes dol-
lars where I don't make nickels.''
Then this old mossback will stop the
newspaper men and say, "look-a-
here, why don't you newspaper fel-
lows pitch into these d—d foreign-
ers. and give them h—1? don't you
see that they are absorbing all the
business of the country?"
Then the newspaper majj says:
•Jwell, yes, it does begin to look like
they were getting a big slice of bus-
iness," but when he goes back to bis
oflice and looks at the advertising
columns of his paper, and finds that
about two-thirds of his support
conies from these same foreigners,
he can't help but wish away down in
his heart that they may absorb all
the balance of the business, for news-
paper men are human, and they are
certain to be friendly to the men
that*help them along in the world.
Then why abuse the Jew? he is kind,
he is charitable, he is true to his ob-
ligations.
They make the best Odd Fellows
in the world, and also good Masons,
they pay their debts, they are strict-
ly law-abiding people, they never
become paupers. We don't remem-
ber to have ever seen a Jew beggar
in our life. They are not penurious,
they live well though not wasteful,
then why it is that there are so many
people who hate Jews is something
we cannot understand.
' THE ROAD QUESTION.
A Strong Paper from Hon. D.
O. Robinson.
(D. C. Robinson in San Antonio Express.)
The road question seems the all-
absorbing subject ot discussion by
the press of the state and of the
people generally. The impression
prevails almost universally that the
legislature is responsible for the bad
roads, or at least for the absence of
good permanent roads in the coun-
ties of the state. The question has
been asked me why the legislature
did not give us a good road law, just
if the legislature could build our
roads for us by passing what might
be termed a good r ad law, perma-
nent thoroughfares would be had in
each and all the counties of the state,
built by legislation.
Now the way to have good roads
is to make them—and whose busi-
ness is it to make them? The funda-
mental principle of our government,
in the constitution of the United
States and every state in the union,
is local self-government, and the
framers of our constitution wisely
remitted to the counties the right to
manage their own affairs, limited by
the constitution and the general
laws.
The counties (commissioners'
courts) by section 9, article 8, of the
constitution, are authorized to levy
a tax not to exceed 25 cents on the
$100 valuation for county purposes,
not more than 15 cents for roads and
bridges, and for the erection of pub-
lic buildings, streets, sewers and
other permanent improvements not
to exceed 25 cents. Here is given
to the commissioners' courts a pow-
er which the legislature connot di-
minish or control.
Levy the maximum allowed in
their section upon the taxable values
in Bexar county and see what an
enormous sum you have to be ex-
pended by the commissioners' court
for county purposes. Surely good
turnpike roads are the permanent
improvements contemplated and ex-
pressed in section 9. Then whose
fault is«it that we have no good
roads? If the people of the counties
are unwilling to tax themselves to
raise the money necessary to build
them, the legislature cannot aid
them. In fact, when the money is
raised and in the hands of the coun-
ty treasurer the legislature has no
authority to say how it shall be ex-
pended. The county commissioners
are the financial agents of the coun-
ty. They can contract debts, bor-
row money, build roads, bridges and
other permanent improvements and
apply the money secured by taxation
to the payment of the same. So
long as they keep within the limit
fixed by the constitution, they are
responsible alone to the people of
the county.
Edison's Beginning in Boston.
Thomas Echson had been in several
Western telegraph offices, where, he
was looked upon as an expert, and
was at length ordered to Boston to
fill a vacancy. The weather was
warm and he donned linen clothes
and a broad brim hat. Before he
reached Boston the weather turned
cold and stormy, but just as he was
linen duster and all, he reported at
the telegraph office.
He walked into the superintendent's
room and said, i'Here I am."
The superintendent looked the
Can the county issue its bonds j0UI1g fellow over with a critical eye
without an enabling act of the legis-
lature? I know of no law prohibit-
ing the same. The legislature from
time to time has passed acts author-
izing counties to issue bonds, as the
refunding act of March 22, 1879, and
levying a special tax for the same.
In all these instances authorizing the
issuing of bonds, the power to levy
tax was given. If capitalists should
buy the bonds of the county issued
without an enabling act of the legis-
lature, it would be a transaction that
concerns the county and the capi-
talists—a business arrangement ex-
clusively between the parties inter-
ested, and no authority exists any
where to interfere.
Bonds issued by an act of the leg-
islature would be more favorably
considered in the money market
and perhaps sold to a better advant-
age, and would also be purchased by
the comptroller of the state as an
inyestment foi the school fund.
Judging from the yote of the last
legislature on this bond question,
we have very little to hope for from
that source. The vote in the house
uuon the bill was yeas 43, nays 54.
The opposition comes from members
representing constituents mostly to
l>e benefitted by the measure.
The adyantages of the bond sys-
tem are so apparent that I deem it
unnecessary to go into details. In-
stead ot levying the maximum al-
lowed by the constitution, how much
better to issue bonds bearing 5 per
cent, interest and 2 per cent, sinking
fund and levy a tax to pay the same,
said bonds running for twenty years,
redeemable after three or five years
at the option of the county. By
this method a levy of one-half the
amount now levied would give as
much money as could be used by the
commissioners and the burden of
taxation upon the present property
owners would be distributed through
a series of years, and those who
come after us be made to pay their
share for improvements made for
their benefit.
An Infidel's Opinion.
Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll, the
greatest free thinker and outspoken
disbeliever of the present era, has
never giyen his opinions on the
great midwinter holiday. In a
special to the Republic his review
of the subject is given with his
characteristic freedem of interpre-
tation and language. Among other
tilings, he says:
"The probability is that the wor-
ship of the sun was once substan-
tially universal, and consequently
the festival of Christmas was equal-
ly widespread. As other religions
have been produced the old cus-
toms have been adopted and con-
tinued—sij that the result is this
festival of Christinas is almost
world-wide.
"It is popular because it is a hol-
iday. Overworked people are glad
of days that bring rest and recrea-
tion and allow them to meet their
families and their friends. They
are glad of days when they give
and receive gifts—evidences of
friendship, of remembrance and l ive.
It is popular because it is really
human and because it is now inter-
woven with our customs, habits,
literature and thoughts.
"For my part I am perfectly
willing to have two or three a year
—the more holidays the better.
Many people have an idea that I
am opposed to Sunday. I am per-
fectly willing-to have two a week.
All I insist on is that these days
shall be for the benefit of the peo-
ple, and that they shall be kept—
not in a way to make folks misera-
ble or sad or hungry, but in a way
to make people happy and to add a
little to the joy of life.
"Of course I am in favor of ev-
erybody keeging holidays to suit
himself, provided he does not inter-
fere with others, and I am perfectly
willing that everybody should go to
church on that day, provided he is
willing that I should go some-
where else."
Mrs. Jefferson Davis is engaged in
a life of her husband, wliich will soon
be ready for the press. She has not
yet decided where the final resting
place of her husband will be.
and asked, "Who are you?"
"Tom Edison," was the reply.
"Who's Tom Edison1?"
The young operator explained that
he had been ordered to report for
duty, and the superintendent told
him to sit down in the operating
room. His advent there created con-
siderable amusement, and the oper-
ators there guyed him not a little.
Edison sat quietly, making no out-
ward sign of disturbance. An hour
or more passed, and then a New
York sender, noted for his swiftness,
signaled the office. There was no one
to receive his message, the operators
being otherwise engaged.
"Let the^new fellow take him," said
the superintendent.
Young Edison sat down at the in-
strument and for four hours' and a
half wrote out messages in a clear
round hand, stuck a date and number
on them and threw them on the
floor for the office boy to pick up.
Faster and faster ticked the instru
ment and faster moved Edison's fin-
gers, till the rapidity with which the
messages came tnmbling out attracted
the attention of the other operators,
who, when their work was done,
gathered around to witness the spec-
tacle. At the close of four hours
and a half, and of the New York bus-
iness, there flashed from New York
Lhe salutation:
"Hello!"
"iietlo, yourseii'i" ticked back Edi-
i.son-.
•'Who are you?" sounded the in-
struoiOAt.
"Tom Edison," \vas ticked back.
"Tern Edison, I'm glad to know
you," came over the wires. "You are
the only man that can take me at my
fastest, and the first man that has
ever sat at the other end of my wire
for over two hours and a half. I con-
gratulate the office in getting) you
there"
The young man iu the limp duster
and slouch hat had won his first lau-
rels in the Boston office. He was
never guyed after the fi.ist day.
No Union for Them.
The following preamble and reso-
lutions of Una, Tenn., Alliance re-
garding the federation scheme are
self-explanatory:
Whereas, the Knights of Labor,
at their recent convention in Atlan-
ta, boldly proclaimed iliemselves in
favor of the virtual confiscation of
all land titles, and th(^ National
Farmers' and Laborers' Union soon
afterwards at St. Louis agreed^ to
co-operate with the Knights of La-
bor (thus practically indorsing the
policy of confiscating the farmers'
land) and then followed up this out-
rageous action by making provision
for the admission of negroes into
the order, although the members
had joined with the distinct under-
standing. guaranteed by a constitu-
tional provision, that it was a white
man's organization; therefore,
Resolyed, that we, the members of
Una Alliauce 570, consider this ac-
tion of the national union a base be-
trayal of the jfarmers it claims to
represent, and we hereby ask all
subordinate county aud State unions
to join us in repudiating the nation-
al union and refusing to be goyerned
by its acts.
Victim of a False Rumor.
Detroit Free Press.
It having been rumored that a
prominent Detroiter had been buncoed
out of $400 in New York City, a
friend called upon him and told him
what was said and asked him if there
was auy truth in the report.
"Not an iota, sir!" was the indig-
nant response.
"It is singular how the report
started."
"So it is, and if I could trace it
back I'd make the liar eat his words."
"I thought it was odd."
"So it is. The only thing JI can
think of to give rise to such a story
is the fact that I met a young man
in New York who said he had drawn
two valuable books in a lottery. He
offered me one if I would go along
and get it. I went and found they
had a lottery drawing in the same
room, I bought $400 worth of tickets
and drew a Waterbury Watch, but
was never lucky in such things. The
idea that I could be taken in by such
a bunco man! I'd like to get my
hands on some of those fellows who
start such lying reports!"
Millionaire for a Day.
George Sluthour, born and raised
in this place a poor boy, started
West about fifteen years ago, deter-
mined to make his fortune, says a
New Philadelphia (O.) special to the
Cincinnati Enquirer. He embarked
in the faro business, and from the
very start luck was with him. In an
incrediblyt short space of time he was
worth $200,000. His associates were
congressmen, leading politicians and
all the rich nabobs of the day.
Sluthour was anxious to be worth a
million before returning to his old
home, and one night, when the room
was filled with well known spoiling
men, many of them worth their half
million, he determined to try for a
big strike. Luck again favored him
and by 3 o'clock in the morning he
had broken the bank and raked in
enough to make his fortune count a
cool million. He would have done
wisely to stop there, but he ' thought
in his run of extremely good luck he
could double it. The very next night
he began losing, and before morning
every dollar he had won the night
before had vanished. He was a mil-
lionaire, however, for one short day..
Even with this loss he was still pos-
sessed of an ample fortune, but he
began playiing a desperate game,
risking thousands of dollars at a time
but luck was against him. His
princely fortune entirely disappeared.
The sad sequel to the case is that he
has been brought home hopelessly in-
sane. It was thought the scenes and
faces of his boyhood days would re-
store his shattered mind in a degree,
but he grew worse.
The past four weeks he has wan-
dered aimlessly about the streets,
scarcely recognizing his best friends.
Finally it was found necessary to
take him to the County Infirmary,
where he is now confined in the in-
sane ward, with his mind shattered
and hope of ultimate recovery almost
impossible.
How Texas Congressmen Live
in the Capital City.
Washington, Jan. 2.—Only four
of the Texas Representatives,
Messrs. Stewart,- Lanham, Sayers
and Mills, have their families with
them beie, but none of them keep
house. The others liye around at
boarding houses and hotels. A trio
of congenial cronies are Abbott,
Culbertson and Kilgore, who are
much together around the Metropo-
tan hotel, the favorite stopping
place for Southerners. Grain also
stays at the Metropolitan, but he
runs mostly with New Yorkers.
Senator Coke likes to have a few
friends around him at his pleasant
rooms, and never fails to offer them
a good cigar. Major Martin felt
keenly the gibes aud ridicule cast on
him by the newspaper men, when he
first came, and it had the effect ap-
parently of causing him to shun
public gaze. He boards at a modest
place on Capitol Hill, and is seldom
seen on the Avenue or about the
hotels. He is the only Texas mem-
ber who wasn't left to the extent of
a month's pay by the rascality of
Silcott, having drawn his stipend be-
forjjpfche cashier skipped. Mills ap-
pears to be the least social man in
the delegation. He doesn't frater-
nize much with anybody, and while
his relations with his colleagues could
not be termed strained, still there
isn't much association between
them, there being little of the bon
camerade in Mr. Mills' make up.
Lanham and Sayers are both of ge-
nial disposition, but are too much
attached to the domestic circle to
care for outside allurements, though
the former seeks diversion now and
then at the theatre. An occasional
masonic banquet is about the limit
of Colonel Stewart's reoreations.
A Firm Foundation.
One of the talented staff of the
Atlanta Constitution, a woman,
pays a feeling tribute to tbe memory
of Henry W. Grady, m the course of
which she says:
"Well do I remember how he sj. ut
his last year's holiday season and the
little story he told me of it as I sat
in his office one morning after New
Year's.
He had visited his mother in Ath-
ens Christmas week and he said: 'I
don't think I ever felt happier than
when I reached the little home of
my boyhood. I got there at night.
She had saved supper for me and
she had remembered all things I
liked. She toasted me some cheese
over the fire. Why, I hadn't tasted
anything like it since I put off my
round jackets. And then she had
some home-made candy, she knew I
used to loye and bless her heart!
I just felt 16 again as we sat and
talked and she told me how she
prayed for me and thought of me
always and what a brightness I had
been to her life, and how she heard
me coming home in eyery boy that
whistled along the street. When I
went to bed she came and tucked
the covers all around me in the dear
old way that none but a mother's
hands know, and I felt so happy and
so peaceful and so full of tender love
and tender memories that I cried
happy, grateful tears until I went to
sleep.' «
When he finished his eyes were
full of tears and so- were mine. He
brushed his hand across his brow
swiftly and said, laughingly: 'Why,
what are you crying about? What
do you <now about all this sort of
feeling."'
There is no surer foundation upon
which to build a grand character
than that of love of home and moth-
er.
STANLEY HAS COME.
A New Book of His Wonder-
ful Adventures.
Henry M. Stanley stands now as
the greatest, explorer and adventurer
the world has known. He is the hero
of the most remarkable discoveries in
all the records of daring and explora-
tions.
Emin Pasha was wondering some-
where in the tropical wilderness, and
struggling to hold the country of
which he was ruler. Stanley hastens
to the rescue. He vanishes from the
sight of the civilized world; months
and seasons pass, and still no news
from Stanley.
After untold privations and amaz-
ing triumphs, he emerges from the
wilds of the dark continent, accompa-
nied by Emin Pasha. In his great
triumph he has put the climax upon
all his previous explorations and vic-
tories.
His adventures and discoveries
have been grand, wonderful and mar-
velous The full and authentic ac-
counts will be related in the new
genuine Stanley book, from his first
entrance into Africa, and richly illus-
trated with over 400 of the grandest
and most wonderful new engravings
and colored plates ever seen iu a book
of trayels The History Company,
723 Market St., San Francisco, Cal.,
are the publishers. The book will be
sold by subscription only. Agents
are wanted to sell the book to whom
most liberal inducements will be of-
fered on application. We call atten-
tion to the advertisement in another
column.
Striking Facts.
The following is an extract from
one of Mr. Grady's letters, recently
contributed'to a northern journal:
"A few years ago I told in a speech
of a burial in Pickens county, Geor-
gia. The graye was dug through
solid marble, but the marble head-
stone came from Vermont. It was
in a pine wilderness, but the pine
coffin came from Cincinnati. An
iron mountain overshadowed it, but
the coffin nails and screws and the
shovels came from Pittsburg. With
hard woods and metals abounding,
the corpse was hauled on a wagon
from South Bend, Indiana. A hick-
ory groye near by, but the pick and
shovel handles came from New
York. The cotton shirt on the dead
man came from Cincinnati; the coat
and breeches from Chicago, the
shoes from Boston; tInfolded hands
were incased in whit^^gloves from
New York, and round the poor neck,
that had worn all its living days the
bondage of lost opportunity was
twisted a cheap crayat from Phila-
delphia. That country so rich in
undeveloped resources, furnished
nothing for the funeral except the
corpse and the hole in the ground,
and would probably have imported
both of those if it could have done
so. And as the poor fellow was
lowered to his rest, on coffin bands
from Lowell, he carried nothing into
the next world as a reminder of his
home in this, save the halted blood
in his veins, the chilled marrow in
his bones, and the echo of the dull
clods that tell on his coffin lid."
The St. Louis Globe-Democra^
gets very much excited over the pos-
sibility of Mrs. Davis seeking and
obtaining a pension from the Gov-
ernment as the widow of a Mexican
soldier. It might have been in bet
ter taste for the esteemed Globe-
Democrat to wait until Mrs. Davis
applies for the pension before get-
ting mad about it, but it is hardly
worth while to discuss questions of
taste with a newspaper which
thought the time of Mr. Davis' last
illness an appropriate occasion for
assailing him with coarse and scur-
rilous epithets. Besides, Mrs. Davis
may never apply for the pension,
and hence the opportunity for raving
about it may never come.—Nash-
ville American.
"THE BLOODY SHIRT."
a Phrase That May Have Sprang from ml
Incident in Scottish History.
A short time since my attention was
attracted to an inquiry in the Louis-
ville Oourier-Jourual as to the origin
uf the popular phrase "lhe Bloody
Shirt." The answer given to tbe
query ascribes it to the recent period
of reconstruction. Contrary to the
I i-cviuung belief, this political weapcta
was forged and effectively used long
before any differences had arisen be-
tween certain portions of our Union,
and before, in fact, a union of states
existed.
The incident which gave the ex-
pression birth is to some extent leg-
endary, and is related by Sir Walter
Scott in the preface to his novel "Rob
Roy," and briefly is as follows: The
clan MacGregor possessed lands and
flocks which excited the cupidity of
their less fortunate neighbors, who, by
force and other methods, gradually
despoiled them of their property and
drove them from their homes. The
clan, thus impoverished resisted the
encroachments upon their rights, and
in the frequent collisions that occurred
used every temporary advantage
they gained cruelly enough. Their
conduct, which was perhaps' not un-
natural under the circumstances, was
studiously represented at the capital
as arising from an innate and untam-
able ferocity, for which the only rem-
edy was extermination.
These suggestions resulted in the
proscription of the clan by act of £9
privy council at Sterling, and per-
mission was given certain powerful
chieftains to pursue the MacGregors
with fire and sword, and all persons
were prohibited from affording them
meat, arink or shelter. As might be
expected, civilization progi
slowly during this period,
Gregors, foelinsr all th<
Mad-
very
and the
ae severity of
fregors, feeling
the law and none 0? its protection,"be-
came wilder and more lawless than
ever. As the legend runs, two men
of the clan MacGregor, overtaken by
night, asked shelter from a dependent
of the Colquhouns, and, on being re-
fused, retired to an outhouse, seized a
wedder from the fold, and supped fru-
gally off the carcass, for which they
offered payment The laird of Luss,
hearing of this onforced hospitality,
caused the offenders to be apprehended
and summarily executed.
To avenge this act the MacGregors
assembled to the number of several
hundred, and marched toward Luss.
Sir Humphrey Colquhoun received
early notice of the raid, and as-
sembled an army of superior numbers
to meet them. A battle took place in
the valley of Glenfruin (Glen of ■ Sor-
row) where, encouraged by the proph-
ecy of a seer, and aided by a supftnor
position and skillful generals&ip, the
MacGregors were victorious pursuing
the enemy furiously, apd mercilessly
slaughtering all who M:ere unable to
escape.
This battle und the fury of the pro-
scribed afar wo- •sp^sfcsd J
James VI ir. a mariner most unfavora-
ble to that', nfortunatp. clan, and, more
strongly o impress that impressiona-
ble mor arch, the widows of the slain
to the ni aiber of eleven score, dressed
in mour ing, riding on white pal-
freys, and each bearing her husband's
bloody shirt upon the point of a
spear, appeared before the king at
Sterling, and demanded vengeance
upon those who had made their homes
desolate. By act of privy council A.
D. 1618, the old acts against the clan
were revived, and others of the great-
est severity enacted, The bloody
shirt had unquestionably accom-
plished its purpose.—New York Tri-
bune. •
Botteslnl's Warning: of Death.
.Bottesini's last concert was at Par-
ma, on a rainy night, and, his man-
agers having forgotten to send a car-
nage, the veteran had to walk most of
the way to the hall. On arriving
there he began to rosin his bow. The
rosin crumbled in his hands and turn-
to his friends with a sad smile, he
said, "See, it is so that Bottesini. too,
will break." Then he grasped his
loved instrument and drew tne bow
across the strings; but he stopped with
a wondering look, for there was some-
thing strange in the tone; his touch
was answered less, readily and certain-
ly than of oftL Once more he tried
and once more he stopped—this time
with "a smile, saying only, "It answers
no more." His audience perceived
nothing unusual in the performance,
which they applauded as warmly as
ever; but Bottesini felt the shadow of
coming death. Next day he was
stricken with illness, and the wonder-
ful hand was soon stilled forever.—
Exchange.
Tied the Child to the Door Hell.
A five-year-old youngster living on
High street is in the habit of making
excursions down town every time he
has an opportunity of .getting out of
the house. As his sojourns are unat-
tended, and, as far as his parents are
concerned, unannounced, they have
occasioned the latter no end of
anxiety.
Recently, however, the young ad-
venturer's papa hit upon a scheme to
check these undesirable wanderings.
One end of a clothes line about thirty
feet in length was fastened to the
front door bell, and the other end se-
cured about the youngster's waist, and
thus he is allowed to play about the
front yard. If he tries to get away a
ring of the door bell exposes his guilty
intentions. It's pretty hard on the
bell, but it saves his parents a good
deal of anxfetv.—Detroit News.
Prosperity aud Uooealy.
Joaquin Miller says that "in Spo-
kane Falls, at the Grand hotel. I saw a
little box with a few dollars of change
in it on the end of the counter in the
midst of a dozen or two of the $aily
papers from various placcs. No one,
so far as I ever saw, was in charge of
either the papers or the money. Any
man who wanted a paper took it. toss-
ed the money into the box, and took
whatever change was his. I set this
down us an incontestable sign of pros-
perity and—let us admit, as we bow
our heads in humility to the need of
that portion of the Lord's prayer
which says 'lead us not into tempta-
tion'—of honesty, which is the nrst
born of prosperity."—Exchange.
Money Tells.
For cosmopolitan financiers who
have realized their booty there is no
place like England. Provided that
they will entertain largely, no ques-
tions are asked. It is a matter of ab-
solute unimportance whether they ar«
vulgar or polished, stupid or clever,
black, white or brown. Society unites
to do them honor, and the very high-
est circles greedily open their arms to
them.—London Truth.
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