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Show K( r-- reUt " . 0 t. - hr,',- a.ta Groom in Trouble. "!- dtoy - rejU1,e Oftha matter for the young tl,is we:e the p: ineipal actors h.ho Jethera. home of the re- as. at iel people w ho may read ,h ir 6 'nave a keener appreciation of than )aUiAy of the young people a M-Iii- ? , tha-- . Major Jreelys Hperie:ue. Une of the many wue tilings done bv Major Gree!y dining the three years of his life in the Arctic regions, was his observance of all festive, religious and national holidays. As soon as the habitation at Fort Conger was finished, he assembled his command of J3 men on Sunday morning, and delivered a short address on their situation, and the duties which it suggested. He said to them, that, although they were separated from the rest of the world, it was most proper and right that Sunday should he observed and he informed them that he should have been married longer correspondent writes: "A and innocent looking couple n bv!y into the otlice of the 0re tb clerk in our town. He was so 8 man L; hat his 'act' flowed, and a tuitoua 'lustre seemed to have been re cheap and very shiny black esiden ' the nNi0 jlothes in which he was dressed. on every Sunday morning publicly k a white necktie, and black read a selection from the P'.ilms. He ie s ms fr 'vr.h red and green st itching on expected every member of the expedition to he president unless any one 'huiiok. s conscientious scruples against lishad ? with wore woman young a iral l0l,lil1 dress, plenti-,ts- tening to the reading of the Bible. t0 After the servieeany parties i espiiukled with white ribbon ,er hands were in white cotton to leave the station for hunting or lit it01' Ul),t a white hat, with a white tissue other recreation should have permis3 go ft na up all ovei it, and falling sion to do so, as such exercise was es'otnted was on her head. pecially needed to break the monotony i offer, h' knew very well of their lives. clerk county his en: He then read the psalms appointed ms style of costume indicated ed thf i not In the least surprised when for the twenty-eightday of the month, d a ca!V, man came forward and said, one verse of which reminded them jng 'n. how delightful a thing it is for breth(."""'fs'iiper, firm.; i like This to- - to buy a marriage ren to dwell together in unity. if you text was so appropriate to their situttion, y g) said the clerk. ation that the commander felt im)U con, )iv much is it? pelled to preach a little sermon upon 111Lht nidit. iree dollars. He dwelt upon the depressing effect yai-- of s, thats what I thought, and I die hd; t , of a monotonous life in the darkness 'died fai; smile on his round face gave of ail arctic winter. He hoped that rs and h an almost ghastly pallor, as he every one would endeavor to avoid rs of his - drew his empty hand out of his discouraging words and irritating conduct, and would endeavor to conciliate saidtp.. in are e. by, I I put that pocketbook and reconcile any who might get into a till tell n here! disagreeable controversy. jc Every Sunday during their stay, lry. tilery pocket was searclied. The Ionian t i face assumed an anxious ex-- i even when tliecircumstances were most bet netJu by this time, disheartening, the commander never indent Ip other said I ought to pin my failed to repeat the brief Sunday serhis Iifc or put my money in my vice, and to distinguish the day by :nce." per, he said as he stood before some little indulgences or extras in the tde a picture of distress. matter of diet. The birthday of each member of the e brides voice trembled, as she ,i TatoO;,, it anywhere, party was also observed, the man himyou sian fro;; self beingallowed to choose thedinner, he to which the commander always addI said with cant n officeHandy, gpstion of tears in his voice, ed some unusual luxury as long as luxjvegot fiyedollars more at home, uries remained. amggfe Such days as the Fourth of July, leg'll como .to town agin re ffithor f Washingtons birthday, Decoration The s? ' Jason, dont you know its a Day, Christmas and Thanksgiving were i death to dress for a weddin celebrated with all the eclat and fesand t; p,.n I10t git married? tivity w hich their circumstances perri?bt, sjut I dont bleeve in them fore mitted. Even the last Thanksgiving, when the whole party tvere shut uti e sentinel! Handy, odon'1 do. Anyhow, whatll folks say for the sunless winter in a miserable iwe go back home no more mer-lU- little smoky hut, was honored with a all the means at their command. lvi u we was when wecomeaway? d lie put her handerchief to her They were living then upon quarter-rations- ; aptain i but the commander thought unit, nliu fb !. theres no use bellerin, it right and best to give the men one 4 Jason, the tears in his more tolerable meal, perhaps the last prisor.c id, ; they would ever enjoy. .They had been lid tlit ill: there's everybody invited to looking forward to the day for weeks, him. a fe for they were almost mail with huna' party to our house 1 don't see what ever made Cap:. you ger whenever they were awake. urderl1 jd lose that money! Their Tnanksgiving feast consisted, in addition to their usual quarter-ration- , iiidjinier-- f couldn't help it, Mainly. of six pounds of rice, five pounds pror. I; Fou ought to have been careful, of raisins, two pounds each of coffee ous at bar! oh, dear! atters bought I was careful, Mandy! and chocolate, a little rum and a few lemons. The psalms of the day were that thl knows Im as crazy for this are! :. r' read, and the banquet was enjoyed !'.; aordiarC01'- 'n't. you please sir Mr. most keenly. It seemed to me, Major Groely ;as to h. couldnt you trust us for the We'H bring the money right in says, officer that making this a great and sake '"'t an(l itll make such fools happy day would so break in on our back home as single as wretchedness and misery as to give us tons op t0 new courage and determination. Iam and that tmilvo.;i e brutes tearful blue eyes and convinced that the idea was a most of her appeal were too wise one. h for the clerk. He hastily made we have been almost happy, and had almost enough to eat. . . . , - the license, becoming responsible vinni biniself, and the bride and groom Longs stories and merriment in genI away happy. eral, kept us all amused and cheerful lly doakforo noon the next day the until midnight. Never was a party of forlorn and nedict came in with the three ited.tt 5 nn,f a w hole basket full of fix- desperate men commanded more ab!y ds " of the or governed more wisely, more tenthe wedding-suppe- r derly, or with more judicial firmness, go am. i than the party which served under hem f Major Greely in the Arctic regions. Illustrated Sermons. f Xeat I'Y York Special. The Rev. J. Ben-- ; The Duke and the Bishop. his tb Hamilton, the new pastor of the The Duke de Iloquelaire when travMemorial Methodist Episco--y- j used a very mean equipage and eling Sbiirch, has preached his first Afn his pretty church building, dressed in a very shabby manner. title of his sermon was Howto Passing through Lj'ons in this guise he g was observed by the bishop of the M1', Empty Churches. The church diocese, who was afflicted with an inT rs. j full of parishioners who wanted satiable appetite for news. The Bishse " hat he had to say on the op, seeing a stranger traveler of mean J'ear ,het- Jnst or Hamilton comes irom appearance, thought he had only a A huge screen, hidden plebian to deal with, and wishing to ?!le Island. 'j ?nf fol'f3 f crimson cloth, stood gratify his ruling passion, cried out Roquelaire immediately . rlnf bim as he rose to preach. His Hi! hi! desired his postillion to stop, and the He bl'ol'?ht bim to Jesus, Tlf lN wo nf'erva-lbi the discourse curious prelate, advancing to the carWhere have you drew aside the crim- - riage, demanded. about, nn' ,re come from? was the curt and a revea'ed Paris, two fJ'fs pict-large p. s in bright colors What is there fresh in Paris? the reply. illustrating me. Beside the screen stood a Green peas. But what were the card in large black letters inscribed people saying when you came away? Coair n the uiderent topics of the ser-,Goodness, man! who are Vespers. called? What Ignoyou? aieyou 0' nstor Hamilton started out with rant persons call me Hi! hi! but genw t idea of tlemen term me the Duke de Roquejn preaching illustrated on the same basis as the laire. Drive on, postillion. The FSchool object lesson. The new Duke passed on, leaving the astonished )nnu;iit certainly took with his Bishop staling after the carriage. w riAiionsrs. Pastor Hamilton said 'If l J" tbe rut repeated sneer and taunt Mary Anderson is computed to be ar the caviller: The worth V.o $300,000, which is said to be is full and the church Is rij are", p.y, could be answered only by safely invested in real estate, gas s imnister and the congregation stocks and railway shares, both in ;ytls tumg a personal effort to fill the England and America. i B.jun.h. Maria Louise, only child of the late Horace F. Clark, granddaughter of nrJoh n G. Whittier, in a recent let the late Cornelius Vanderbilt, and . widow of Bertram Eustace Mitford, 3Iaji lViS. b iend of more than half a c ' Ty E l vin late of the First Royals,, was married 1 Thompson, said: to Mariano Edouard Souberbielle, at gafftg hard Winter has left me v the Mairie of the Ninth Arrondisse-men- t urly in health. I am glad to in Paris, France, on the 3d of pen 13 stiU busy. For mys thJ f1 H and in London, England, on March, ap. liCsid to touch pen And paper the 8th of March. ing and wVlio d n0t i" ? mani-nsh-?ft- wi-hi- ng i I11 . 1 - rj e- - - to-mo- r- S , f ? 1 to-th- e j 1 s 1 wed-inin- li-- 1 To-da- I- 5,i " a!' ser-ej- y theli-- - - Or i-- lo-- n. Sun-iri- 16 anti-Christia- n 8 . in co." V , S SOME STB AY STORIES. ami Savings reritonal Kperiente 'Ifn. ell- - Kuo of An old Boston man said tome recently that I should get some Boston ian to repeat to me some of the many things that are told as the sayings of Isaac O. Barries, an old politician and citizen of the Hub. He was for a number of years Clerk of the I nited States Court. A high falsetto voice was one One of the of his peculiarities. said my of his remarks, quaintest been had out for he was after friend, a horseback ride. lie was asked how he enjoyed his horse and responded, Well, if I decide to go out riding again and can get no other horse than that one, I'll just pay a boy $- - to kick me It for an hour and stay at home. was evident that riding on horseback had not agreed with his anatomy. Another story that my Boston friend told me was of a loml father who went to Mr Barnes tor advice, Barnes, I have a son as you saving: know, who is a little inclined to be wild. You know the world pretty well and I want your advice as to what I shall do with the young man. Baines started off in his and shrill voice, which reached a pierc"If 1 ing pitch at the concludon: had such a boy, said he and v:as in your place 1 would make more of a companion of him. I would take him out to the theatre with me. I would have him go into the library with me after dinner and would offer him a good cigar and sit down and smoke with him. If it was good weather I would take him up on the roof and smoke up there. I would walk around and point out the houses of Blank and Blank and Blank, and 1 would tell him how they rose in life by thtir unaided efforts, and I would try and interest him in their histories, as examples of what he ought to do, and all the time I would get him closer and closer to the edge of the roof and when 1 got him near enough Id throw the confounded little scoundrel off. I would, so help me Moses. It is related of Mr. Barno3 on another occasion that a colored clergyman went to him to ask a subscription for building a church. Barnes had an inveterate dislike of black men. He was always expressing it i.isome form or other. He looked at the clergyman for a wdiile and then said, in his shrill I will give you $300. lie voice, stopped to take off his glasses and wipe them, and his visitor seized the opportunity to make the most profuse acknowledgements of gratitude. But Mr. Barnes paid no attention to them and in due time finished his sentence. It will he subject to one condiThe colored brothtion, however. er hastened to pledge himself that any condition attached to the gift should he faithfully carried out, whereupon Barnes rejoined: Well, I hope so. My Hit of 11 XV high-keye- d condition is that every darkey who joins the church shall he baptized in There was never any scalding water call for the money. Mr. Barnes had a friend who was ill. He went to see the sick man and after hearing ail about his case issued the discomforting edict that the man would never get well. The physician was present and spoke up: Why, Barnes, our friend is not so bad as that. His extremities are warm. You never heard of a man being in immediate danger of death whose extremities are Oh; yes I have, warm, have you? Why, who? docter, piped Barnes. innocently inquired the physician, whereupon Barnes replied like a Hash, John Rogers. It is said that the sick man enjoyed this joking on a serious subject to much that, he disappointed tlie prediction and got well. I was chatting recently with II. C. Parsons, of Natural Bridge, Va., about the colored men in the .South, when he said: You know how the darkeys all Hocked to the villages and eit,ies at the close of the war. They seemed to think that all they had to do was to get to a city, in order to be sumptuously taken care of. They became a burden on many communities. I know of one place where the people managed to get rid of them through the wit of an old storekeeper. The darkeys had swarmed around his town, which was in South Carolina, until it wasnt safe for a chicken to be out in the day time or on a roost at night. One night five or six of the colored men at the inold storestance of this in taken were custody quietly keeper and put away where they could not communicate with their fellows. There was some little stir over their disappearance and the next day the old man sent for five or six of the leading colored men. He took them into a back room and said to them that he had a matter of stupendous moment to relate to them, lie told them that the disappearance of several of their number coupled with a vision which had appeared to him the night before had troubled him I was aroused from rny sleep greatly. by a noise as of some one calling, he explained to them, while their eyes and mouth3 hung open as he proceeded. I went out into the street and found an enormous man on a horse larger than any I ever saw. He said to me that he wanted a drink ol water and asked me to bring him a from pail full. I brought the bucket the well and he took it up and emptied it at one drink. It went down with a sissing sound. He asked for another drink and I got it for him. He wanted another, and before I got it I mustered up courage to ask his name. lit said he was the Devil. I asked him il long-heade- d lie had Ken around long and lor twenty four hour.--. I lie .-d "hat hams. Postal Saving's Banks. sai 1 him From Harper's Weekly. lie lived oil and he -- aid nigger Tiieu lie lode oil in a snicd ol The second day alter this relation there was not above twenty darkeys in the place. They had all gone ba k to the plantations or skipped to other places. I heard a story a few days ago from the lips of Senator John Elkins of Colorado about his disgust over t. the deleat of Mr. Blaine for brim-ton- e. lre-ideu- He was in Denver when the muvs hashed over the wires that New York was so close that it was thought Cleveland had it. lie took the train, that night to come East. He was in the sleeper, and at a station some distance this side of Denver a man got on the train, who after inquiries of the porter came back where the Senator was sitting and asked: Are you not Mr. Elkins? Are you not a relative of Stephen B. Elkins? I want to find out about election. The senators response was: I'm not related to Steve Elkins in the slightest degree. Before election I was Ids brother. There were no more questions asked as the stranger seemed to understand from the answer how the election had gone. Stories of General George A. Sheridan, the stump speaker and lecturer, who is generally paraded as of are often to be heard in the places where public men gather, lleis said to have once declared the axiom that the one thing which. a stump orator does not need to burden himself with is facts. It is the general's idea that a facile speaker can create all the facts he wants as he goes along in his speech. In illustration of his meaning he told a story of an occurrence when he was out on a tour with General Garfield. He had made an with reference to the tariff which seemed to him to need some bolstering and he said that his statement had been based on a decision of the higher couit of the state of New York. He was about to pass on, when a young. man in the audience interrupted him and begged permission to ask where this decision could be found- The general was up a stump and as a light for time in the hope that Garfield might help him out, lie asked the inquirer, Are you a lawyer? The stranger I thought replied in the affirmative. You look like a so, said Sheridan. lawyer and like a smart and intelligent one at that. You havedoubtless read this decision many times. By this time it became apparent to Sheridan that Garfield was enjoying his discomfiture and that he must get out of his scrape the best he could. It Hashed across his mind that there was a report in New York known as Demos and he said: The report is m 3th Denio. page so and so. The young lawyer wavered a minute and then sat down, saying meekly, Ah, yes I do remember now hav ing read it myself. Sheridan says that he had curiosity years afterward to look up the particular page to which he refemd the inquisitive young fellow, and found that it was the middle of a report of a case involving questions of idiocy. Major Morgan of Kentucky, who is a relative, I believe, of the famous General Morgan of Confederate fame, who raided Ohio, is living in New York city. He has been quite wealthy, but I am told has lost much of his property. When I met him the other night he told me a story about the Jeff General famous guerilla, Thompson. The General had been captured and was in prison at Alton, when it was decided to send him to Johnsons Island. The lieutenant in whose charge he was placed to make the trip to Johnson Island, went in plain clothes. On the train they could not find seats together. The General sat down alongside a little Hebrew traveller, while the lieutenant sat in the seat behind. was The Gererals companion earnestly reading a paper from which he looked up presently and said to strike up a conversation: Dot Lincum was a gurreat The generals only reply was, man? The conversation ran on Humph. like this. You bin fur Mr. Lincun? Ish dot so? Den you Not much. Not by a blanked bin for McClellan? sight. Why, den, who bin Jeff Davis, by the Eternal. yon for? Who are you, anyhow? Jeff Thompson. Och, mine Gott in Himmel; der gorilla! Major Morgan tells me that Thompson, who is an extremely homely man, related his story with great gusto whenever his friends in social conversation alluded to his appearance. Lou-istann- a, - ( No-o-o- ? Yha-a-at- ? Widow and Children of Barrios. A New York correspondent writes: Walking through Central Park recently with a friend, we met eight children walking and presided over by three teachers. Who do yon suppose they are? asked my friend. A little aristocratic private school, I said. No, he said, those infants are not all of an age as they look. The oldest i3 nine. They are the children of President Barrios of Guatemala, who was slain in battle. His widow lives in that house yonder on the other side of Fifth avenue, in the double house. Barrios, the dictator, was worth $30,000,000, they say, but some of it got away. She has only $8,000,000, poor thing. She is a splendid Spanish beaut, one of the handsomest women in New York. Those eight children are hers. The eldest is not ten and the youngest is over two. There are 1,273 United Statessoldier3 in Washington Territory. There are about $130,000,000 of savings in the savings banks of New York, and from $1 2,000,000 to are deposited annually. In the city of New York during less than seven, years twentyd wo savings banka failed, and 7(3,831 depositors from among t lie poorest people lost $ 1,575, 0(31. During the two years that Mr. Faiichild was attorney general of the state he was officially obliged to put $13,-000,0- 00 -- into bankruptcy institutions repre- senting about $ 1,0H),000 of savings, and he says that the state laws were unable to helptlie depositors, who had absolutely nothing to depend upon but the good faith of the managers. These facts show what an uncertain reliance for the very poor even these excellent institutions are. But there is another important fact, and that is the unequal distribution of savings banks, so that in some parts of the country where they would be of the greatest service they do not exist. report tor 18s0 Comptrolsaid that in New England there were 422 such banks, and in the middle states 181. But in the western states and territories there were but fifty, ami in the southern states only five. The committee on the postofflee reported to the house of representative: in 1 8S that in the dense population of New England there is a savings bank to every U,43(3 persons; but in the other thirty-twstates tlie average is but one bank to every 225,000 persons. To supply the people of these states as Neiv England is supplied would require nearly 5,000 banks more. This situation, and the great desirability of furnishing both a convenient and a secure place of deposit for the savings of the poorest persons, have led to the suggestion of government or postal savings banks. In England the plan was proposed eighty years ago. But it was stoutly and successfully resisted for r years, until in 18(51 300 postal banks were opened in England for business. At the close of thefirstyear there were 2,(533 posto(lice3 engaged in savings-banbusiness, and the amount of deposits was $8,270,33(5.-27- , and at the close of the year 1880 the amount was $1(54, 33(3, 3S3. 19. The postofflee pays two and a half per cent, interest on deposits. The feasibility and value of the system have been so fully demonstrated in England, and its convenience and desirability here are so clear, that the committee recommended the passage of a carefully-preparebill establishing such banks to pay interest at two per cent., to be paid from the investment in United States bonds or bonds guaranteed by the United States. The interest should be low, so as to promote withdrawal of proper sums to In liis ler Knox o fifty-fou- k d be invested elsewhere, when, in the course of paying off the national obligations, interest could he paid no longer, there would remain absolute security for the depositor. It is not a scheme to supercede private savings banks. On the contrary, in England the private banks held on deposit in 187(5 about $10,000,000 more than in the year before the opening of the postal banks. Tlie scheme conflicts with private banks only as the postal carriage of merchandise conflicts with the express companies. Both have plenty of business. The postal banks have been urgently recommended by postmasters general and committees of congress, and it is understood that the present committee is favorably inclined to the bill. The system is so convenient and excellent that its friends will not be disheartened by any disappointment, and the plan will ba pushed until its usefulness secures its adoption. Debate in a School Lyceum. The Editors Drawer in Harpers Monthly is prolific of good stories. Here is a laughable thing in the latest issue: A western correspondent sends tha following: I recently listened to a debate in one of the school Ivceunia of this city upon the novel and momentous question of woman suffrage. The debater upon the side was doubtless engaged in liis first effort, and this fact, together with a slitght impediment of speech and a most anti-woma- n original series of arguments, combined to produce one of the funniest and most unanswerable speeches that I had ever heard. Here it is, almost in full: Ladies and gentlemen, the first man was thing to find out is was made for, and what made for. God created Adam first, and put him in the garden of Eden. her he made Eve, and there too. If he hadnt Eve, there never would have been all t ho there is now in this If he hadnt made Eve, she never would have the apple and eaten it. she never would have it to Adam to eat. picked it and Paul in his epistles says should still. And besides, and gentlemen, women couldnt fill the offices. I any one to out a woman in this city or that could be sheriff. out in tha j Would a woman dead of night to track and arrest a ' Ten to ; I say him! one she would elope And amid thunders of applause and laughter the gallant defender of mans f rights triumphantly took his seat. n nvm-murdere- p-p- |