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Daily Clarion-Ledger. STATE CLARION. Established 1871. JACKSON. MISSISSIPPI.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1890. NO. 27 1837. STATE LEGISLATURE. OF YESTERDAY'S A SUMMARY PROCEEDINGS.

Kills Both the Senate PenitenBill and the Bill to Abolish House tiary Office of Superintendent of the the State Penitentiary. SENATE- TWENTY-EIGHTH DAY. FRIDAY, February 7, 1890. Senate met pursuant to adjournment. Evans the chair.

CONSIDERATION OF BILLS. S. B. 124- -To provide for a new regisand the holding of an election in tration Amite stock of the New Orleans county to vote on a subscription to and capital Northwestern Railroad. Passed.

S. B. 198-To protect crops in Copiah county. Passed. B.

81-To provide a general law for S. incorporation of railroads. Passed. the 9. B.

149-To incorporate Antioch church county. Passed. in Kemper B. 95- To resell certain lands in the S. of Warren held under void tax titles county collect the taxes due thereon.

to nitely postponed. S. B. 145-To amend see. 1244, Code, with reference to exemption of wages of laborers.

Passed. B. 150-Tc amend an act to S. incorHolly Springs Cotton Mill norate Manufacturing Company. Passed.

S. B. 45-To amend sec. 1993, Code, in relation to granting letters of administratien. Indetinitely postponed.

S. B. 164-To exempt from taxation a hotel to be constructed in the city of Natchez, Passed. S. B.

134-To authorize the Board of superuisors of Sharkey county to employ an attordoy. Passed. B. 105-To provide for an additional justice of the peace and constable in district No. 3 in Tallahatchie county.

Passed. S. B. 141-To amend and reduce one act the act incorporating the town of Durant and the acts amendatory thereto. Passed.

S. B. 19-To authorize treasurer of Alcorn county to settle certain claims. Passed. H.

B. 5-To amend chapter 45, Code, in relation to exempt property. Passed. S. B.

3-To exempt from execution, attachment or garnishment money derived from insurance on exempt property. Indefinitely postponed. S. B. 118--To fix time for holding circuit courts of Marion county.

Passed. S. B. 155-To amend an act to anthorize the construction and use of railroads in the citp of Jackson. Passed.

INTRODUCTION OF BILLS. Mr. McDonald- -No. 212-To prevent sale of liquors within the corporate limits of Hickory Flat, Benton county. Temperance.

Mr. Williamson- -No. 213-To authorize the board of niayor and aldermen of the city of Jackson to procure and put in operation an electric fire alarm system. Judiciary. Mr.

Jayne- 214-To authorize and empower the Louisville, Now Orleans and Texas Railway to purchase other railroads. RailroadMr. Jayne- -No. 215-To amend sec. 539.

Revised Code, in relation to roads, ferries and bridges. Judiciary. Mr. Dodds -No. 216-To amend charter of the town of Haziehurst.

Corporations. Mr. 217-To authorize Judges of the Supreme Court to make and enforce rules and regulations governing the preparation of records for appeals to said court. Judiciary. Mr.

Bloomfield -No. 218-To incorporate the Mobile end Natchez Railroad Company. Railroads, Mr. Martin--No. 219-To amend and continue in full force an act to incorporate the Mississippi and Louisiana Bridge and Railroad company.

Railroads. Mr. Martin- -No. 220-To authorize the Board of Supervisors of Adams county to receive pay for services rendered in performing committee work. Counties and County Boundaries.

Mr. Caruthers- -No. 221-To protect game in county of Pauola. Counties and Connty Boundaries. Mr.

Dillard--No. 222-To repeal that part of section 8 of an pot entitled an act Valley incorporating the Yazoo and Mississippi Railroad Company and declaring its powers, approved February 17th, 1882, which requires taxes to be paid into the State Treasury. Mr. Dillard-223-To Finance. secure the payment of taxes on bonds of the State, counties and towns.

Finance. Mr. Foote-224-Authorizing sale of goods under attachment. Judiciary. Mr.

Wilson-225-To authorize the of Supervisors of Holmes Board to make county an allowance to pay for repairs on Zeiglerville white school. Counties and Connty Mr. Boundaries. Jayne--No. 226--To incorporate the Greenville, Nashville and Chattanooga Railway Company.

Railroads. At 2:15 Senats adjourned. HOUSE--TWEN DAY. Friday, February 7. met pursuant to House Speaker Madison in the chair.

adjournment; Leave absence was granted to Messrs. Witherspoon, Terry Gillespie -Introduced and Reid. H. 634, revisors the clerk of the Board of Superquiring docket. of Leake county to keep a claim Passed.

S. B. 2. Code -To amend chap. 50 Revised so as to extend for rent the right to distrain notes and supplies to assignees of rents, plies.

and contracts and accounts for supPassed. S. B. 169-In relation to sureties on bonds. Vote whereby this bill official indefinitely postponed was reconsidered was the bill was referred S.

B. 86-To provide for the engrossment. of the penitentiary and establishment regulation of a prison farm. Mr. Houston section moved to strike out the The motion providing was for tabled.

the convict farm. Mr. Sharp moved the Senate bill be tabled. S. Carried.

B. 86-To superintendent of abolish the the penitentiary. office of the Inpostponed. H. B.

330-To provide for the establishment of a house for youthfal offenders. In definitely postponed. S. B. 186-To provide for the expenses of the joint committee who visited Beauvoir to await on Mrs.

Jefferson Davis. Passed. H. B. 229-To prevent fishing with gill nets in any of the waters in Hancock county.

Passed. special order of the day was taken up, being consideration of S. B. No. 1.

in relation to trusts, and H. B. 22. The House resolved itself in Committee of the Whole, Mr. Witherspoon in the chair.

The committee recommended that H. B. amended pass. The report was adopted. And the substitute was read a third time and passed, entitled as follows: An act to prevent public fraud and for other purposes.

INTRODUCTION OF BILLS. Mr. Vardaman- 636-To incorporate the Greenwood, Alabama and Texas Railroad Company. Mr. Cook -No.

637-To adjust losses on fire insurance policies and for other purposes. Insurance. Mr. Magruder- -No. 638-To require Insurance Companies to pay judgments rendered against them.

Insurance. S. B. 124-To provide for new registration in Amite county. Registration and Election.

S. B. 120-Ratifiying consolidation heretofore made Natchez and Fort Scott Railway Company. Railroads. O'Neill--No.

639--To prevent frauds by persons under contract for service. diciary. Mr. O'Neill -No. 640-To provide for recovery of value of property, by the owner in cases of larceny.

Judiciary. Mr. Johnson--No. 641-To aid in the suppression of traffic in stolen seed cotton. County affairs.

Mr. Griffin- No. 642-To repeal act to amend sec. 2194, Revised Code, in relation to appeals from justices of the peace. Judiciary.

Magruder- -No. 643-To provide for the sale of certain interest in land. Judiciary. At 1:45 p. adjourned.

NIGHT SESSION. House met pursuant to adjournment. Speaker Madison in the chair. INTRODUCTION OF BILLS. H.

B. 75-To authorize the city of Aberdien to issue bonds for school purposes. Senate amendment concurred in. H. B.

644-For the relief of certain townships situated in Tallahatchie county. Claims. Mr. Jones--No. 645--Relative to the repeal of Sheet Acts of 1888 wherein nonpayment of poll tax was made a misdemeanor.

Fees and Salaries. H. B. 215-For relief of Commercial Bank ef Brokhaven. Senate amendment concurred in.

Mr. McKnight--No. 646-To amend sec. 2001 of Revised Code 1888, in relation to guardians. Judiciary.

Thomas of the re lief of Dr. John L. Hebron. Public Health and Quarantine. A number of Senate Bills were read twice and referred to appropriate comI mittees.

S. B. 191-To repeal an act to incorporate the town of Clarksdale. Passed. S.

B. 200-To provide for inspections of public roads in Tate county. Passed. S. B.

198-To protect crops in Copiah county. Passed. S. B. 151-For the relief of Julia and Ayres Shields, of Adams county, and Nanmie J.

Spell, of Holmes county. Passed, S. B. 152-To autnorize the city of Natchez to appropriate money, in aid of the erection of a Confederate monument in said city. Passed.

S. B. 102-For the relief of assessors in the State and for other purposes. Passed. H.

B. 100--To require fire escapes to be kept in hotels, universities, boardinghouses, restaurants, colleges, theatres, etc. Passed. H. B.

242--To double poll tax for school purposes. Indefinitely poetponed. H. B. 246--To protect minors and for other purposes.

Indefinitely postponed. H. B. 283-- Amending law regarding admission to the bar. Same.

H. B. 274-In regard to judgments. Same. H.

B. 253-In relation to costs in cases tried before Justices of the Peace. Same. H. B.

257--To authorize judge of the 5th Judicial District to a stenographer. Same. H. B. 365- -To amend an act to enable defendant and third person to replevin property seized under attachment for rent or supplies without bond.

Passed. 249-In relation to the recording of deeds and other instruments. Passed. H. B.

272-To amend section 1753 Revised Code in relation to enrolled judgments. Passed. H. B. 263--To amend section 1611 Revised Code in reference to taking depositions.

Passed. H. B. 277-To remove the civil disabilities of minority of Cephas Barton, of Calhoun county. Passed.

H. B. 333-For relif of Wm. D. Potter, of Pontotoc county.

Passed, H. B. 169-To prescribe the liability of sureties on official bonds. Passed, H. B.

376-To define the meaning of the word money in indictments. Passed. H. B. 379-To amend ch.

54, Acts 1888, in relation to carrying concealed weapons. Indefinitely postponed. B. 391-To amend sec. 1733, Revised Code.

Indefinitely postponed. H. B. 293-For the relief of George W. Anderson, of Coahoma county.

Passed. H. B. 392-To validate sales of land in Quitman county. Indefinitely postponed.

H. B. 396 -To amend sec. 1975, Revised Coda, in relation to filing of wills. Passed.

H. B. 397-To repeal sec. 1567, Revised Code. in relation to special demurrers.

Passed. H. B. 403-To amend sec. 403, Revised Code, in relation to replevin.

Indefinitely postponed. H. B. 409-To amend sec. 1610, Revised Code, so as to authorize notaries public to take depositions.

Passed. H. B. 413-To protect passengers on railway trains. The bill prohibits any road company doing basiness this State, to use for heating purposes in passenger coaches any coal or wood stoves, to go into after let day of January, 1891.

Passed. H. B. 416-To amend sec. 2106 Revised Code.

Indefinitely postponed. H. B. 417-To amend sec. 1768 Revisen Code.

Indefinitely postponed. H. B. 461-To amend ch. 36, Sheet Acts of 1886.

Indefinitely postponed. H. B. 459--To abate the State tax on State lands in Issaquena county. Indefnitely postponed.

H. B. 506-For relief of Lizzie Lorraine West of Washington county. Passed. INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.

Mr. Watson- -No. 648-To amend ch. 27, law of 1884, in relation to railroads. Railroads.

Mr. Watson -No. 649--To provide for publication of delinquent poll tax. lic Printing. -No.

650--Authorizing the appointment of a stenographer for the circuit courts of certain counties in the third judicial district. Judiciary. Mr. Robinson--No. 651-To prevent the advertising of lotteries in the State.

Li(quor Traffic. Mr. Beeman--No. 652-To provide for a ballast ground for Pascagoula Bay. diciary.

Mr. Pelham--No. 653-To provide for the lands struck off to the State at tax sales. Judiciary. Mr.

Magee -No. 654-In relation to cancelling certain entries of swamp land and for other purposes. Public Lands. Mr. Perkins- -No.

655-To incorporate the town of Eden in Yazoo county. Corporations, Mr. Baker-No. 656-To repeal ch. 3, acts 1888, as far as relates to transient venders of fruit trees and grape dines.

Agriculture. Mr. Gillespie-Ne. 657-For the relief of Dr. L.

P. Young. Claims. -No. 658-For the relief of Jim Bell.

Claims. Mr. -No. 659-To authorize the board of supervisors of Oktibbeha county to establish boundary lines and for other purposes. County Affairs.

Mr. Hudson--No. 660--To erect a cotton bagging factory and operate the same by convict labor in the penitentiary. Corporations. Mr.

Henry- -No, 661-In relation to petit lareeny. Judiciary. Mr. Denton- -No. 662-To exempt the firemen of the city of Meridian from county taxes.

Ways and Means. Mr. Muldrow- No. 663-To require the publication of annual statements by insurance companles. Public Printing.

Mr. Baker--No. 664-To amend section 433, ch. 8, Revised Code in relation to salaries of public officials. Fees and Salaries.

Mr. Whitman -No. repeal act to amend section 2901 and section 2902 Revised Code in regard to grand and petty larceny. Judiciary. By Mr.

Washington--Resolved by the House, the concurring that both Houses meet in joint session Tuesday, February 11th, at 7 p. to elect a Superintendent of the penitentiary. Adopted. Mr. -Resoved, that it" is the sense of this House that the privilege-tax law passed in 1888 should be so revised as as to reduce the privilege tax on various avocations and enterprises.

Ways and Means. Mr. Taylor of Montgomery -A resolution reviewing the recent complaints of overcharges by the Public Printer and the action of the Attorney-General in the premises; therefore resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring that, the AttorneyGeneral be authorized and requested to take proper for the collection from the Public Printer of said sum of $871.20 and for the return of the same to theftresrury of the State or any other sum that may be legally due. Pablic Printing. H.

374-To further amend the school laws of Mississippi. Ordered printed and made special order for Tuesday night. At 8:55 the House adjourned. The Two Speakers. The new Speaker in the House of the Mississippi Legislature, Mr.

Madison, is very much like Reed, Speaker of Congress. Madison is fatter than Reed by fifty pounds, and has a balder pate. Reed may be wittier, but in solid "horse sense" and in avoirdupoise, Madison first kicks the beam. Then Madison is of royal blood, of most illustrious Virginians. These two men will serve at least to show how corporeal fatness affects partisan conceptions -race relations.

The oleaginousness of Reed's harrangues, when dealing with Northern sentimentalism sickens his Mississippi counterpart, who uses Reed's phillipics as he does seltzer powders, to blow himself up, and then he blows up Reed. His breezy speeches, under these circumstances, won for the honor he has achieved at Jackson. Reed is proud of his greasy obesity; Madison of his practical wisdom, aud both have been heard soliloquizing: "I'm longer round from head to tail, 'Than mammoth elephant or whale, Inflated with supreme intensity, I fill these quarters of immensity." Reed, when thus happily sentimental, rubs his prodigous paunch, and Madison has a coal -black barber "shining up" his luminous News. Important Resolution. Hon.

L. S. Terry, of Attala, has introduced the following resolution in the House: Resolved, That the committee on Ways and Means be requested to consider the advisability of making failure to give into the assessor for assessment any debt which should be so given in, a ground of defence against a recovery of such debt in any court, and to prevent recovery in any court, on any policy of insurance, or in any action for damages, against a corporation or individual for property which should be given for assessment, which was not of a greater sum than such property was valued at for the assessment; to entitle any tenant, or other person in his behalf, to defeat recovery of rent for one year which exceed one-third of the assessed value of the land rented. THE speech of the Hon. W.

D. Witherspoon, ef Meridian, in favor of the Constitational Convention bill is said to be one of the ablest made on that great question. Dowd is an old Oxford boy, educated here at the State University, and the GLOBE notes with pride the fact that he is one of the rising young men of the State -sustaining the reputation won at college application and hard Globe. THE APPROPRIATION BILL. Liberal Provision Made for the Different Institutions.

The Appropriation bill will be on the desks of members this morning. Following is a general summary of the bill: For the support of the Lunatic Asylum at Jaekson: the year 1890......... $60,000 00 For the year 1891..... 60,000 00 For the support of the East Mis. sissippi Insane Asylum: For the year 1890......

37,624 61 For the year 1891 32.250 00 For salary Superintendent East Mississippi Insane Asylum: For the year 1890 1,800 00 For the 1891 1,800 00 For the Deaf and Dumb Asylum: the year 1890.......... 19.343 72 For the year 1891... 16,371 93 For support of the Blind Alylum: For the the year 1890 1891............. 6,700 7,930 00 00 year For salary of Superintendent of the Lunatic Asylum at Jackson: For the year 1890......... 2,500 00 For the year 1891......

2.500 00 For expenses of the member of the State Board of Registration not residing at the capital: For the year 1890.............. 20 00 For the year 1891 20 00 For clerk of the supreme For the vear 1890...... 250 00 For the year 1891 00 For books and blanks for the anpreme court: For the year 1890...... 100 00 For the year 100 00 For porter to capitol: For the year 1890......... 300 C0 For the year 1891 300 00 For stationery, postage and excharges for the departments, fuel and gas for the capitol building and contingent fund for all State officers except for Governor: For the year 1890.....

3,000 00 the year 1891. 3,500 00 For salary of the superintendent of the penitentiary: For 1890...... 1,200 00 For the year 1891... 1,200 00 For traveling expenses the Superintendent of the Penitentiary: For the 1890......... 250 00 the year 1891.........

250 00 For the support of Alcorn University including interest on the Agricultural Land Scrip Fund: For the year 1890......... 9,500 00 For the year 1891. 9,500 00 For the support of the State NorSchool at Holly Springs: For the year 1890........ 2,500 00 the year 1891......... 2,500 00 For the support of the Normal Department of Tougaloo Univer- For the 1,500 00 For the year 1891 1,500 00 For printing the several reports of the departments and the benevolent institutions, laws and journals, all other printing and advertising ordered by the Legislature for the session of 1890 and for miscellaneous printing: For the year 1890........

13,500 00 For the year 1891......... 7,000 00 For salary of the Secretary of the State Beard of Election Commissioners: For the year 1890. 150 00 For the year 1891 150 00 For Contigent Expenses of the 1,000 00 For Contingent Expenses of the 1,000 00 For salary of Railroad Commissiouers pay of clerk, traveling expenses of Commissioners: For the year 1890 9,500 00 For the 1891......... 9,500 00 For traveling expenses of the Board of control of the Penitentiary: For the year 1890......... 250 00 For the year 1891.

250 For contingent fund for the Executive: For the year 1890. 2,500 00 For the year 1891......... 00 For support of the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Starkville: For the year 1890.. 33,000 00 For the year 1891 29,000 00 For Library for 1890......... 2,000 00 Far building president's 2,500 00 For support of the Industrial Institute and College at Columbus: For the year 1890 26,000 00 For the year 1891 24,000 00 For the Natchez Hospital: For the 1890 5,000 00 For the year 1891..

5,000 00 For interest on the Chickasaw School Fund at 6 percentum per annum: For the year 1890......... 48,997 02 For the year 1891..... 48,997 02 For salary of Librarian and Keeper of the Capitol: For the year 1890 1,080 00 For the year 1891. 1,080 00 For support of the hospital at Vicksburg: For the year 1890 10,000 00 For the year 1891 10,000 00 Kind, Generous Words. 'The editor of the CLARION-LEDGER returns his warmest thanks to the State press for complimentary mention, the following being among the best he has received: New Mississippian-The re-election of Mr.

R. H. Henry as public printer, is certaialy a compliment of the highest personal character. Indeed, few men have ever made a successful fight against such odds. His opponents, Messrs Banks and McNeily were men occupying most enviable positions in journalistic and political circles; besides being possessed of the greatest personal popularity aud representing two hitherto invincible sectionseast and west Mississippi.

The mistake, which in our a opinion, proved a fatal one, was that of friends injecting into the canvase very serious charges against his character as a man and official, which the majority of the people believed to be without basis, and from which his re-election proves a vindication. Tupelo Ledger--The election for State Printer was a deserved compliment and victory for R. H. Henry, the present incumbent. The vote stood 67 to 78 in his favor, notwithstanding the combined forces of some of the shrewdest politicians in the State were against him, and used every means in their power to defeat him.

THE INSURANCE LAWS. A Much Needed Change' Suggested from Vicksbtrg. VICKSBURG, Feb. 6, 1390. Editor of the Clarion-Ledger: We wish through you to call the attention of the Legislature to a much needed.

change the insurance laws of the State and can best do so by relating the facts of a case which suggests the necessity of the change. In 1887 the Fidelity and Casualty Company, of New York, an accident insurance company, through an itinerant agent, doing business in this State without a license and in violation of law. issued an accident policy on the life of W. M. Cotton, a resident of this place and baggage checker on the V.

M. R. R. On January 26th, 1888, young Cotton was accidently killed by the in Jackson, Miss. He had given an order on his employer for the premium, which order was mislaid by the company and not presented for payment, but was mailed to Vicksburg for collection from Chicago on the day of and before young Cotton's death.

The mother of Cotton, a poor old lady, and 2 widow, put the claim in our hands for collection, the company having refused to pay because the premium had not been paid before the death. We succeeded in getting service of process, in suit brought in the Federal Circuit Court here, on an agent of the company who came here to look into the matter. The first fight was to put us out of court on the ground that the court had no The claim being that the agent was not authorized to receive service, and the company at that time had not take out a license and establish agencies (in the State. That motion being overruled, every technical or other defence that could he offered was set up. Judge Hill, however, instructed the jury to find a verdict for plaintiff (Mrs.

Cotten), which they did, and judgment was rendered for her January 17, 1890, for $3,277.50. Now, there is no way to make the money without suing the judgment in New York, and company will not pay. In 1888 the Legislature passed an act changing the insurance law, (acts 1888, p. 9,) by which it was provided, that Accident Insurance Companies should not be required to make deposits, also reducing the privilege tax, as to them, to $250. In February, 1889, this company took out a license to do business in Mississippi, and has its agents throughout the State, and yet we cannot make a cent out of it, on a judgment standing in the State, and it will not pay.

The act, referred to, of 1888 should be amended so to provide: That if any Accident Insurance Company doing business in this State, should permit any judgment heretofore or here after rendered in the State, to remain unsatisfied for sixty days, except where appeals have been taken in that time, the license should be thereby revoked and cancelled, and that it should be unlawful for them to thereafter engage in business in the State before satisfying, such judgment. justice and propriety of such a provision, if not its necessity for the protection of the widows and orphans of holders of accident policies in Mississippi. Very truly, yours, DABNEY, McCABE ANDERSON. Down with the Insurance Monopoly. It looks as though the Insurance would have to go.

A more complete monopoly was never foisted upon a State. It looks strange that an agricultural State like Mississippi, bitterly opposed to the tariff, should through her own Legislature, have enacted laws that amount to high protection to a few insurance companies. The best evidence that this is true, is that these companies oppose the repeal of the present insurance law. The reason is clear. The law is greatly to their benefit.

It gives them a monopoly of the insurance business in this State, and enables them to charge increased rates for insurance. It is not to the interest of the people to continue the law, unless it is desired that a few insurance companies shall fleece them. Mississippi wants tarriff reform and she wants insurance reform. She is opposed to a high tariff on the necessaries of life and insurance in these days to a poor man is a necessity. Her legislators have it in their power to abolish the Insurance Trust and give the people what they demand -free trade in insurance.

We believe the present Legislature will respond to the demand of the people in this regard. -Yazoo Sentinel. The Jackson CLARION-LEDGEP has gun a lively fight for the repeal of the law requiring a deposit of $25,000 from insurande companies before they can transact business in Mississippi. It is contended that this a many good companies out of the State and gives those who came in a monopoly and makes insurance higher than it would be was there free competition. Representative Peyton, of Hinda county, has introduced 8 bill in the House repealing the deposit feature of the law.

-Tupelo Ledger. What Are the Thoughts of the Dying? In The Societe de Biologie, Fere affirmed that a dying person in his last moments thinks of the chief events of his life. Persons resuscitated from drowning, epileptics with grave attacks, persons dying and already, unconscious, but momentarily brought back to consciousness by ether injections to utter last thoughts, all acknowledge that their last thoughts revert to momentous events of their life. Such an ether injection revives once more the normal disposition of cerebral activity, already nearly extinguished, and it might be possible at this moment to learn of certain important events of the past life. Brown- mentions the remarkable fact that persons who, in consequence of grave cerebral affections, have been paralyzed for years, get back at once when dying their sensibility, mobility and intelligence.

All such facts clearly show that at the moment of dis solution important changes take place, re acting upon the composition of the blood and the functions of the -Wiener Zeitung. The beard of Henry S. Cook, a tailor of Norwich, is as long as he is. Mr. Cook is a small man, 60 years old.

His beard is jet black and fine and silky, and so is his hair. When he is erect and his beard unfurled, he can step on six inches of it. He wears it ordinarily coiled in a wad inside his vest. Barnum wanted Mr. Cook to travel with his circus; but Cook is prosperous, and does not care to be a freak.

The natives of the Feejee Islands have taken up cricket through the efforts of an enthusiast, Mr. Wallington. They like the game much, although they do not like to confine themselves to the orthodox eleven on each side. They play their matches with forty or fifty a side, or tribe against tribe. A LITTLE VISITOR.

Somebody tum to us las' night, The dearest little midget; He's des as wee as he tan be; He tum all by hisself, an' he Des laughs, an' cries, an' winks at me, An' keeps me in a fidget. He des tum in from babyland, The angels bwung him over; And papa told me that he found The little fellow on the ground, An' he was sleeping des as sound As I do. in the clover. 'Tourse I ain't sorry that he tum I'se glad to see him -only da I wants some love and tisses, too; For since he tum, they hoot wis me like they ust to do. Play, I is awful lovely He's des bran new -an' that is why They fuss about him! maybe; An' papa said I musn't ewy he'd det bigger by an' by, But ain't he little now? Oh, only des a baby Dood -won't he ever stop? I tan't hear nuflin near him.

No wonder all the angels thought That they could spare this little totHe ewies so much; that's why they brought Him where they touldn't hear him! -C. M. Snyder in Pittsburg Bulletin. Painted in 850 A. D.

A story comes from Japan of the recovery of a picture painted over a thousand years ago (in 859 A. by Kanaoka, the father of Japanese pictorial art. It represents a figure about two feet high, every detail being finished with the elaborate care lavished by the old Japanese masters on their choicest works. According to a description in The Japan Mail the only parts of the body exposed were the face, arms and feet, but the lines and colorings of these portions plainly showed the hand of a great expert. "The flesh was firm, the contours were delicate, and the coloring, though centuries had passed since the time of its application, remained mellow if not fresh.

in the treatment of the drapery that the artist had put forth his greatest strength. The folds hung with indescribable softness and fidelity to nature, and the splendid brocades of the priestly vestments were depicted so inimitably that one felt inclined to caress the soft rich stuff." The picture in the course of ages passed into the hands of the famous artist Kano Motonobu, and on his death in 1859 it was among the treasures he left behind, with a certificate from him that it was the work of the great Kanaoka. What happened to it after Motonobu's death is not known, but quite recently it was found in a pawn shop in Tokio. It was purchased by a dealer and was offered abroad, but efforts which were made to prevent this remarkable work from going out of the country were successful, and it was purchased by a wealthy Japanese merchant, who intends presenting it to the National museum. It has been said by experts that the uine works of Kanaoka now extant may be counted on the fingers of one hand, and that the whereabouts of each is well known.

Dr. Anderson, in his recent work on Japanese pictorial arts, says of Kanaoka that "as a student of the works of the great Chinese masters of the Tang dynasty he most probably adopted their teaching, with unimportant modifications suggested by Corean example, must hence be regarded as the apostle of an ancient and foreign art rather than the originator of a native York Times. "Madame Bovary." The cause of my going so slowly is just this, that nothing in that book is drawn from myself. Never has my own personality been so use less to me. It may be, perhaps, that hereafter I shall do stronger things.

hope so, but I can hardly imagine I shall do anything more skillful. Here everything is of the head. If it has been false in aim, I shall always feel that it has been a good mental exercise. But, after all, what is the non-natural to others is the natural to me--the extraordinary, the fantastic, the wild chase, mythologic, or metaphysic. "Saint Antoine" did not require of me one quarter of the tension of mind "Madame Bovary" has caused me.

"Saint Antoine" was a discharge. I had nothing but pleasure in writing it, and the eighteen months devoted to the composition of its 500 pages were the most thoroughly voluptuous of my life hitherto. Judge then of my condition in writing "Madame Bovary." I must needs put myself every minute into a skin not mine and antipathetic to me. For six months now I have been making love platonically, and at the present moment my exaltation of mind is that of a good Catholic. I am longing to go tc confession.

-Correspondence de Gustave Flaubert. The similes used by children are often so flavored by delicious honesty that they become anything but complimentary to those to whom they are applied. A lady, somewhere in the thirties, had an enthusiastic admirer in a little boy of 10. He followed her about with unwearying devotion, and made her many a pretty speech, bashful but fervent. One evening she came down stairs ready for a walk, with a fleecy white shawl thrown over her head.

Its soft folds proved very becoming to the face, bringing out its best characteristics, and softening incipient wrinkles. The little boy was waiting at the foot of the stairs, and when his friend appeared he started forward to meet her. "Oh, Miss Helen," he cried, clasping his hands, "you look like an angel!" Then, as she advanced still further, and the bright light of the chandelier disclosed the fact that she had by no means the aspect of immortal youth, the child added, innocently, "A worn out Companion. Faded..