| OCR Text |
Show PRESIDENT EiREISOira How He Receives the Offlce-Sosk-e- rs Who Call on Him. The man who wants to get a special Interview with President Harrison in his private office muse have staying qualities. It is not difficult to get an audience, but you must wait your turn, and there is no telling with certainty when that turn is to come, says a Washington correspondent of tho Philadelphia Telegraph. As far as Harrison himself is concerned, there is no red tape about getting at him within the proper hours, but he oan see only so many in a given time, and each in order of his coming. Senators and representatives and cabinet ministers may walk into his private office unannounced, but when they get there they must each take his proper turn to have his say. All other callers must send in their cards. They are received after tho hour for congress has expired. Har- risons manner of receiving visitors ' NAPOLEON AT ELBA. MANNER in The Great Conquerors Reign Over That Little Island. The scene of Napoleon's landing at Porto Ferraio was a curious one. He had taken the municipality by surprise, so that the proposed decorations and triumphal arch were incomplete. Eighty pounds sterling had been voted for these preparations, and the council had also decreed that 10 should be expended in the purchase of suitable furniture for the palace wnicu was ses apart for him. But, if their means wore small, the Elbans hearts were warm. Napoleon was met on the mole by the mayor and corporation, the vicario, and other clergy. Tho people crowded around the harbor and waved bunting from their winJows. The keys of the city were offored him in a silver dish by tho mayor. He did not touch them with his fingers. His troops thon escorted him through the little piazza of white houses with green jalousies, now known as Piazza Cuvour, into the adjacent piazza (Vittorio Emanuele) by one side of which is tho plain little cathedral of the city. Hero a Te Deum was sung with enthusiasm. Napoleon stood throughout tho function, with y bent knees and a look. He was afterward presented with a map of the island. Then he lunched, mounted his white horso Tihertin, and rode out of the battlemontod little town to see something of this residuoof this great empire. The vicarios vision oi the opulence that was to come upon Elba with tho emperor was illusive. The revenue of the island, all told, was only 387,000 francs. Of this, as soon as tho figures were before him, Napoleon devoted 200,000 francs to public works, such as roads and fortifications. Tho balance was little enough for tho maintenance of a court and several hundred soldiers of the old guard who had followed him into exile. By the treaty of Fontaino-bloa- u an annual allowance of 2,000,000 francs was allowed to him. But he received not a franc of this, and had he not carried with him a sum of 3,400,000 francs he would have been at the mercy of the Elbans for the means of existence. As it was he did not eke out his funds very judiciously. Had his mother kept the bag the Elba establishment might have held out for two or three years instead of less than one year and Waterloo be postponed. n During the first few months he passed a child or a peasant in the road without a brief inquisitorial chat, which ended in the gift of a couple of gold pieces. He gave ragged boys money to buy clothing, and little girls napoleons in exchange for flowers. Such lavishness could not last. Retrenchment had to be the order of the day. Thus, at length, the worthy, astonished Elbans found such burdens of taxes laid upon them as they had never dreamed of. At Capoliveri, indeed, there was a revolt The people entrenched themselves in their village and took up stones of resistance So Capoliagainst tho tax collector. veri wants to make war with me! exclaimed Napoleon, with a brisk air, when he hoard this. But, upon yielded to the bidding of the victor of Marengo. Uornhill Magazine. his private offico is quite his own. Ills room is just oft' the large room where tho cabinet sittings are held, communicating with it by a small door in ono corner, and through it with the offico of Private Secretary Halford. Through tho cabinet room all callors must pass to get the president, unless they are so highly distinguished as to bo admitted through the library. It is seldom that President Harrison receives ono man alono in his offico. Generally as many as twenty or thirty are standingaround him waiting a chance at his car while ho is talking to ono. There is not much chance for general conversation and discussion of health or weather. Thoy must get right down to business and be quick about it Yet Harrison has a way of making a man feel as if ho has been especially well treated and has not been hurried at all. This display of tact is appreciated tho more because it was unexpected. Like some others who dont deserve-IHarrison has got tho reputation of being cold and unapproachable. His conduct belies this reputation. He has a way of quickly getting out of a man what the man has to say, and is very quick to show his appreciation. Ha stands usually in front of his desk, which is between the two windows, lie shakes hands with the caller, and if it is a man ho knows well of, eithor personally or by reputation, he is apt to hold the hand for a moment, giving the impression of one in a mood to be receptive of confidence, such as office-seekehave to make. He is always ready, if the caller makes a move that way, to retire to the recess of a window or elsewhere out of the earshot of the others in the room. Otherwise he stands still and listens courteously, lie has a way of taking hold of a mans coat sleeve while listening to him, and sometimes he will rest tho other hand on the speaker's shoulder in a way to give an impression of earnestness and sympathy in what is being said. Garfield had a way, when arguing the matter of office, of throwing one arm around the shoulders of the man senator or member, as it might be, with whom he was talking. Harrison doesnt go quite this far, but when ho is trying to impress a statesman with the fact that he is anxious to do the very best he can, but must not be expected to do more, ho takes him by the hand and places one hand on his Slow Promotions. shoulder. There is nothing undignified A suggeSlive fact connected with the or effusive about this action. It is ex- now Army Register is that it shows no pressive merely of sympathy and cour- fewer than ninety-si- x first lieutenants teous earnestness. on the aotive list who have sorvice iu civil war to their credit. Tho rank A Trip From Spook Land. We commend to the attention of the and pay of a first lieutenant are not an enormous remuneration for tho length Society for Psychical Research tho latest dream story in connection with and value of the service whic h some of theso officers have rendered. Tho reA well known racing. tired list shows also thirty-oi- g first for some weeks past has lieutenants who have soen war ht sportsman service made up his mini that he would try and while tho causes of retirement and' dream the winner of tho Lincoln have been various, yet they include This ingenious idea of his some compulsory retirements for age. Handicap. ho announced to several of his friends, Only a year or two ago occurred tho retirement of a first lieutenant at tho who naturally smiled somewhat skepage of 64. Of course these exceptional Howtically on the would bo seer. cases result from the fact that some ever, on Monday night five times in succession he dreamt that No. 13 had volunteer officers received commissions won tho race. As there was no horso in the regular army after the war when of that name tho sportsman in question already some considerably advanced in officamo to the conclusion that his vision years, and also must refer to tho number on tho card. cers averaging older than the Millitary Ho made no secret of his belief and Academy graduates have boen made second lieutenants. But whatever the yesterday morning ho sent a messen- facte, it is remarkable that with tho ger to Kings Cross to get tho card and war a quarter of a century in tho past back his dream number. There were there should ho nearly a hundred offino cards to ho had at the station. Accers in our little army who served in cordingly, he wired to Messrs. V. II. those campaigns and are still on tho Smith .t Sons bookstall at Lincoln for the name of No. 13 on tho days card active list without having reached the for the handicap. The answer camo grade of captain. Ex. back promptly, Wise Man. Tho It Had No Terrors for Him. resolute dreamer immediately backed So this is my claim, is it? mused tho horse, with the happy result that all wise racing men now' wot of. Every the newcomer. My good man, I detail of this singular story is absolute- don't wish to to any trouble you put ly true, and there are many who can but on my patch of ground. you're to heard the prophecy testify having g "I am, hey? said tho of No. 13 delivered on Tuesday afterOklahoma friend, My squatter. dye noon. London Telegraph. see that inclosure staked off thar the other side of the cabin? Well, thats But He Was Mistaken. my private buryiu ground, an its Can I speak to you a moment? full o fellers that thought they hed a quietly asked a young man of Officer claim on this ranch. I see it, replied the visitor, careButton at the Third street dopot the and it doesn't scare mo any. lessly, other day. I umpired ten baseball games in Yes, Sir. What is it? Why, sir, Detroit last year, he added, with a you are all battered up. You look as capacious yawn. if you had been run over. For heavens sake, mister! exDont you remember that I landed claimed the squatter, his face turning here yesterday forenoon with my hat frightfully pale and his knees knockon my ear and conceit in my eye? I ing together, give me five minutes tc Bpoko to you right over there. pack up my traps and light out. Oh, yos. Chicago Tribune. I told you I was no hayseod. Yes, you did. A Scriptural Exposition. Anu that flies didn't stay on me. Says a Scotch clergyman: An elder Yes. And that the man who took me for was reading and commenting upon the thirty-fourt- h Psalm, and tho book bea spring chicken would got left. "I remember. ing printed in the old stylo, when he Well. I want to apologize to you. camo to verse thirteen ho read To me? What for? Keep thy tongue from evil and thy For treating your your fatherly ad- tongue from speaking guile. lie real vice with scorn and contempt. I it spe akinggirls, and then remarked It is evident thought I had scon the elephant. I by way of exposition: boasted that I knew the ropes, I have from this passage that Scripture does been swindled, drugged. licked, not absolutely forbid kissing, but, as knocked out, stepped on, robbed and in Christianity every thing is to be rolled in the mud, and am going homo done decently and in order, wo are to drink pumpkin tonic for tho rest of here encouraged by the passage to ( tfficer, i'ne year. forgive mo and choose rather those girls that take it sometimes think - kindly of me when I quietly and not those that squeak am far, faraway.Detroit Free Dress. under the operation. far-awa- t sel-do- rs fierco-lookin- a Fighting Bob. The man who has never had ny. thing to do with game chickens ,nl give a rooster credit for what thjp i in him. One of the right blood 1$, s battle, and the right sort of a tin iei can teach him tactics which you y0 qfi think only human beings could lea n Down in L j- - thirty years ago we ad the champion fighting cock of he state. He was picked up in the to by a chicken buyer, and no, mo knew his breed. He was big and to jj, and after he had been taught tojgva y and to use his spun his wind ho cleaned out everything which eoip be put down before him. His longt battle lasted only seven minutes nd the number of cocks he knocked om ir two or three minutes would fill a movan. He was in his zenith, ncl tho half dozen of us who owned him were in financial clover when a lir peddler drove into the village quo night and began to banter us tosqll. He offered us $5, 1 10, $30 for Fitting Bob, but we would not have taken ving $200. I Ive made a big offer for a secopj-elasbird, he said as we laughed a! him. j Second-class- Where is the ! one U whip him? Right in this yero wagon. He car lick the stuffin outer that rooster minutes. Bet you two to one. Go a leetle slow, boys, a leellt slow. Ive got a fightin bird there, and dont you forget it, hut he got i peooliarity. He wont fight with the lights on. If he would I'd hot you tec to one. If your bird could only fight in the dark wo might make a match.1 I How in the dark? Wall, s'posen wo put em in a in the barn? The lamp jil) throw some light, but itll be dai-enuff for Jinuary, as I call hinuto feel his oats. Well shot em uplo gether fur half an hour, and if 4u unterrined terror ant licked by Mat time you kin tako my $100. if ycjui bird licks mine wall, Ill bet twoto one ho don't. j We were wild for a fight, and we scraped up $50 and bet it against doc that our Bob would lick the stranjir. He had good eyesight, and a9 wo ijad the privilege of putting gaffs on hire wc felt that he could take care of hinaol! against anything. The peddler gotbis bird out of the wagon, keeping lire covered with a piece of cloth, and by and by the pair were placed in a stall near the back end of tho barn. All oi us withdrew to the lantern hanging in front. In a couple of minutes we heard a sort of Who-whfollowed by a cackle of alarm and a flapping of wings, and we nudged the peddler in the riba and expressed our sympathies. Thats all right, boys all right,'1 he replied. Give em three pninut more and then seo which is on top. At the end of five minutes we carried the lantern down and opened the door. Our Bob lay there, dead as a herring, and stauding over him was an ow' almost as big as a goose. That war. the bird the peddler had rung in on us, and as we looked from one to tho other iii our amazement he said: Kinder sorry for you gents, but you orter sold mo that ere rooster when 1 offered you $30 for him. New York Sun. ; lie-sta- o! OF BRAVE MEN. Terrible Experience of a Party of Lost Elasiie garter on the Banks of with silver buckle, near Clark Yellowstone In 1863. the and Washington streets. Please reMany are the tales told of hairState street and get re- breadth turn te escapes and encounters with ward. the red man in Montana by the early Such was the advertisement that a iettlers who came to the territory in Mail reporter happened to light upon of gold, says a correspondent of search the other morning. St. Louis Republic. None, perthe Curious to see how the owner would had a more exciting experience receive the finder should the discoverer haps than a party of fifteen people, which prove to be a man, the wicked reporter left Bannock in April, 1863, under the called at the address given and asked of James Stuart. This for the young lady who had recently leadership had determined to explore a been separated from a portion of her party hitherto unknown region in eastern wearing apparel. Montana in search of the precios In answer to his query a pretty young metal. blonde came sailing toward him, with Nineteen days after leaving Bannock a smile on her lips and a bright bit of the party, while camped on the north color in her cheeks. bank of the Yellowstone, were startled Just behind her stood a group of one evening by the sudden appearance girls, their eyes sparkling with a keen of a band of Indians on the opappreciation of the humorous side of posite bank, thirty who, firing their guns the situation. dashed pellmell into the stream, which deand of ministers Angels grace they crossed and came into camp, prefend us! ejaculated the now thoroughtending friendship, bnt conducting ly frightened reporter on catching themselves in such an aggressive mansight of this formidable array. ner that hostilities were at one time When the fair and blushing blonde imminent. Finally they withdrew. had approached she was asked: No one in the party slept that night, Are you the young lady who lost knowing the country was full of Inher er er dians and fearful that the red devils Yes, was the reply, "and here is might attack them. The next mornthe mate to it, producing a large garthe Indians returned to the camp ter similar to the one described in the ing after just daylight, and after helping paper. to whatever seemed to themselves I Well, represent a friend, said strike their fancy forcibly prevented the reporter, who found an article of the party from saddling their any very much resembling this one. My horses. A BAND She Lost Her Garter. (black-and-white- ). Gold-Hunte- rs friend, however, is too diffident to present himself in person, and asked me to call and see if the two were the same. This one, he continued, seems to be an unusually large one, and I think is much wider than the one my friend found. Oh, this one has been stretched more, that is all, eagerly responded You see this one goes the blondo. on my right "I didnt catch that last, said the reporter, innocently bending forward and preserving a grave face. What did you say?'1 said the I didnt say anything, blonde, blushing furiously, except that this one is more elastic than the other, which makes the difference in their size. How did you come to lose It? said the reporter, gently toying with the silver buckle. It just slipped off, I reckon. Slipped off, did you say? No, I didnt mean that. I mean the buckle became unfastened and it dropped off. Is it customary," pursued the reporter, after a respectful interval of silence had followed, for ladies to decorate their persons with such costly articles as these? Oh, I didnt buy them, replied the blonde. You see, they were given to me by a young . Look here, Pm busy. I cant talk to you any longer, and if you will toll your friend to bring that around here I will give him a re ward. Chicago Mail. Literary Styles. We may test contemporary literature, says Charles Dudley Warner in the Attantic, by its conformity to the canon of simplicity; that is, if it has not that, we may conclude that it lacks one essential lasting quality. It may Making Himself Solid. please; it may be ingenius, brilliant The wife of Politieus, who had been even; it may be the fashion of the day, electioneering, lets him in at 3 o'clock and a fashion that will hold its power in the morning. of pleasing for half a century, but it Politieus wont work, will be a fashion. Mannerisms, of Lashkey dear. course, will not deceive us, nor exWife What have you been doing travagances, eccentricities, affectaall night?" tions, nor the straining after effect by Hie! Making the use of coined or Politieus (smiling) words and prodigality in adjectives. But, myself solid with the boys, liic! Wife No, sir, you have been making style? Yes, there is such a thing as yourseiniquid. style, good and bad, and the style should bo the writers own and characValue of the Best Gems. teristic of hitn as his speech is. But the moment I admire a style for its Opal is worth $15 to $10 per carat Cat's eye is worth $15 to $50 a own sake, a style that attracts my atfar-fetch- To-da- carat tention Oriental ruby is worth $100 carat. Emerald is worth $50 to $200 carat. A diamond is worth carat. A sapphire carat per $50 to $150 per worth $100 to $150 pet , Modifying the Prescription. friend of mine laid down the medical law the other clay, lie said the first thing a doctor finds out when you send for him is your pet taste, habit, article of diet or beverage. Thou ho orders you to stop it If you aren't a very big patient you have got to do it. But, said my friend, I know a raar. who was a little sick the other day and consulted his physician. "Stop drinking whisky! said the doctor. Is it as serious as that? asked the man, in alarm. Yes, it is. They had a bottle of wine, a fine cigar, and a long chat, ami the doctor became very agreeable. When he got up to go the patient said: I wish there was something else than whisky I could stop. You sea A o Well I don't know, said the docLemme see. I)o vou cat butor. tter?' Yes. Then stop butter and the whisky. Chronicle. Good-day.- " go on with San so constantly that I How good that it is! I begin to be suspicious. If it is too good too pronouncedly good I fear I shall not like it so well on a second reading. If it comes to stand between me and tho thought, or the personality behind the thought, I grow more and more suspicious. Is the book a window, through which I am to see life? Then I am still more disturbed by any affectations. Is it to produce the effect of a picture? Then I know I want tho simplest harmony of color. And I have learned that tho most effective a3 it is called, is the simplest. This is true if it is a question only of present enjoyment. But we may be sure that any piece of literature which attracts only by some trick of style, however it may blazo up for a day and startle the world with its flash, lacks the element of endurance. We do not need much experience to toll us the difference between a lamp and a Roman candle. Even in our day we have seen many reputations flare up, illuminate the sky, and then go out in utter darkness. When we take a proper historical perspective wo see that it is tho universal, the simple, that lasts. per say, l'.au-cisc- The Hon. S. T. Houser, a former resident of St. Louis, who was one of the party, afterward governor of Montana and now president of the First national bank of Helena, in describing the events which followed says: Our leader, seeing that something had to bo done, formed a plan, showing at the same time no evidence of being alarmed at the turn affairs were taking. Passing by me he said in an undertone: Tell tho boys there is going to be trouble to be ready keep a close watch, do as I do, and for their lives do not fire until I do. With this ho went to work in the most unconcerned Indifferent way imaginable, and moving around quietly, giving directions here and there, interspersing them with dry, witty remarks, and doing nothing to give us a clew to what his plans were. "The mystery was finally solved when the opportunity came. Stuart had been waiting to throw the Crow chief off his guard and catch him apart from his warriors. Our first warning came with his quick, sharp order to fork out, and the same instant he covered the chief's heart with his unerring rifle, the muzzle of which was not more than two feet from the old warrior's breast. Instantly we all followed suit, each one covering an Indian with a cocked rifle or revolver, and like a flash their robes fell from their shoulders and they were naked, with their guns leveled on us in return. The suspense and anxiety we endured for a few minutes were fearful. To realize it ono has only to imagino us surrounded by these savage fiends, hundreds of miles from any relief, with two of them to our one, whose arms are oqual to our own, and several hundred more of them but a few miles away. Fortunately they ali looked to their chief and saw that he was lost if a gun was fired. We also looked to our captain and our danger was almost forgotten in admiration. Ilis whole bearing and manner had changed; he seemed and was taller. His usually calm face was afire, his quiet bluo eyes were now flashing like an eagless, and seemingly looking directly through the fierce and for a time undaunted savage who stood before him. For several seconds it was doubtful whether the old warrior chief would cower before his white foe or meet li is fate then and there. Capt. Stuart, with his flashing eye rivited upon him, was fiercely anil eloquently reproaching the Indian with his bad faith, winding up in a voice of stern determination: Signal you warriors off, or I'll send you to your last hunting-ground- s! For an instant the suspense was indescribable, and a deathlike sileneo reigned. The dark, fierce, snakelike eyes of the fiends about us was enough to unnerve most men. None could decide, from the defiant air of the chief, whethor ho was going to give the desired signal or die; but finally a wave of the hand removed our doubts, and his braves all lowered their weapons and sullenly sought their robes and ponies. For fourteen days these savages followed the party, seeking an opportunity to murder them. On the night of May 13 the Crows crept to the edge of the camp and fired a volley into it which wounded seven men, two mortally: five horses were killed and five wounded at this first volley: and although the savages continued tho attack until daylight, using their bows and arrows at so short a range the could bo twang of their thoy worked no distinctly beard, further injury upon tho besieged camp. The Princa of Humbugs. The morning cam' to look upon a You remember the Arabs with Barnums circus last Cummer? I see scene which would have sickened a stone. Watkins was shot they've left him and sailed for Ara- heart of bia. through the heat, and, though dying, What unde the sun are they going was unconsciously crawling upon his to do in Arabia? Why dont thoy go elbows and knees round and round in d of the unforthe tent. Tho back to New Jersey? Chicago was Bostwick tunate flowing from five word-paintin- g, bow-strin- life-bloo- wotrods, and wltft both thighs and a shoulder broken he lay awaiting death. H. A- - Bell, shot twice through the body, was supposed to be mortally wounded, and S. T. Hauser had a bullet lodged against a rib over his heart. Just beyond rill 3 range the Indians still hovered in plain sight, watching for a favorable opportunity to complete their work. One-ha(seven ouly) of the white men were left unharmed and the wounded were to be cared for. It was decided to stay with the mortally wounded until death came to their relief, then to run the gantlet of the Sioux as well as the Crows in the effort to reach a place of safety. It was also determined to give battle to the enemy before starting. Hauser, Geery and Underwood made an agreement that if either of them was mortally wounded he should put an end to his own to prevent unnecessary sacrifice of the party by remaining to defend a man who would die any way. All being ready the party started in single file for an elevated plateau about 300 yards off. Arriving at tho place selected for the fight the captain tried to draw the Indians into battle, but they refused the challenge, and tho party returned to the camp, packed up, and started on their perilous journey. Just before leaving Bose wick, knowing he could not live, blew his brains out. On the second day of tho homeward trip, while in the midst of preparations for supper, the party were startled by the report of a rifle in their lf exis-tan- midst. ce It was Geery, who, remember- ing his agreement and knowing ha could not live shot himself in the head. Turning to his friends who came rushComrades, I ing up to him he said: am fatally wounded and must die soon, and the fact that you would all stay by me and die for me has determined me. Remember (putting the muzzle of his pistol against his breast), I am not committing suicide; bear witness to my friends that I only shortened my life a few hours to prevent you from uselessly sacrificing yours iu defense of mine; that, though I have a Christian hope in eternity, I fear death; yet must meet it at once to prevent useless sacrifices. Here strong men were all weeping over him as he continued: God bless all of you, comrades; I must die, and in time for you to bury me before dark. Bury me in this coat (his soldier overcoat) and here. He was about- to fire the fatal shot when Stewart said: For God's sake, Geery, dont, but if you will do it dont shoot yourself there; it will only prolong your agony. If you must do it To place the pistol to your temple.. which Geery replied: Thanks, Jim; may God bless you all and take you safely out of this. As he turned to place the pistol to his temple the men with weeping eye3 and full hearts all turned to walk awayf He pressed the trigger and the cap only exploded. Hauser then appealed to him, saying: For Gods sake de sist; this is a warning. To this Geery made no reply, but seeming to solioquize with himself, I don't know what to think said: cf that; it never snapped before. Cocking the pistol again he engaged in prayer for a few minutes and then pulled the trigger that lannched him into eternity. After burying their comrade the party proceeded on their way, with tho reds in sight all the time. After several days marching they came to a trail overhung with a hill, where the Indians assembled in large numbers. Hauser, seeing the only salvation for at least a portion of the party was for some one to go over and around the hill, thus drawing the Indians fire while the others went through tho pass, for this volunteered duty. Obtaining Stuart's consent ho cocked his rifle, spurred his pony, and was off. Underwood, whose left arm was useless, determined to share the danger, and with his bridle in his right hand he started after Ilauscr. The appearance of these two bravo men seemed to have a paralyzing effect upon the Crows, and before they could recover from their surprise tho party was out of the pass and on open After this the Indians gradground. ually drew off and twolvo days later the party reduced reached a place of safety. one-hul- f, At Last. t Lay away the little That our darling boy once wore; In tho gently shove it, He won't need it anymore. With a pair of red suspenders Wo must soon our boy endow, For the fact is most apparent Papa's pants fit Johnnie now. Lay aside tho knickerbockers With the fringe around the knees; Take the marbles from the pocket, All the strings and nails and keys. Buy him socks instead of stockings, Or the boy will raise a row ; For our darling has been growing Papa's pants fit Johnnie now. Drake's Magazine. shirt-wais- rag-ba- On the Big Board. Three years ago I went onto the board with $25,ftO, and in less than two years I retired. With an independent fortune?" No; until I could raise a little money to go into something else. Chicago Herald. At the Theater Miss Jones (to Smith, who has just been out to see a man) : Yor ought to go once more and toboggan a little Because they say it take Why so! away one's breath." Texas Siftings. |
