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DEPOPULATING DENVER. Exodus From ths Capital tha Plains Large, Bat tit City ttill Full of People, BECAUSE OF SEW-COMEKi CorrMondec of tha Dxxyco, Cou, March 9. There is an Unusual coming to and going from. Denver. It baa been so for months.

It might be called, in on respect, an exodus. Many hare departed, and many more are going whose placet can be filled by people more useful to the community. The Coeur D'Alene mining country and the numerous business points on the Northern Pacific offer inducements that art opportune to the great surplus of population which has drifted tit her. There are reasons for believing that their places will soon be filled by a more thrifty class. There are many business enterprises en foot which Till make Colorado mora attractive than ever enterprise subsidiary to the mining business and the development of products of untold wealth which hare never been touched by the hand of industry.

The treasure of nature do not belong to the precious metals. In these Colorado does not cesd LZlDTnJLS, or a great boom of any kind to promote her welfare. The mining business might remain just what it is for a century, and still be just what it ought to be. In the mining re- fiotis and on the plains, where the cattle usiness is growing to enormous proportions, and where the new irrigation facilities open op hundreds of thousands of acres of spteadid agricultural lands, there could be iappy homes and profitable employment for all the people of the flooded districts along the Ohio and the Mississippi, with perfect security front the violence of winds or superabundance of water, and with ail the sunshine the heart could wish. It is a mistake, though, that "it never rains in Colorado." We have so much water sometimes tbat the little unpretentious Piatt river, which rolls placidly at the foot of the city, is called the raging Platte.

Cherry creek, which sometimes in summer or winter fas not a drop of water, has been known to flood the west side of the town in the primitive days of Denver, destroying houses and drowning many people, But it don't do tbat way now, becau4 the channel is so confined that it can't. Excessive rains nowadays have become a bene tit rather than a detriment. Last season in many place, for the first time in the bLtory of Colorado, crops were raised without the necessity of Irrigation. CONXICTIOXS WITH OLD MEXICO. The news which came from FresuElo, Etate of Zacatecas, Mexico, whispers promise to Colorado, for.

lu the completion of the' Mexican Central railroad yesterday, con- uecting with the Atchison, Topeka and banta Fe, the United States and the Mexican capital were united, Colorado tecoming one of the last links in the chain which binds tu two republics together. It will be a tnatter of only a short time when a new Laase of Denver business and popn-ition will to seen; that will te when the reciprocal relations between Mexico and Colorado begin. There la a significance la this railroad enterprise which is likely to be overlooked by most people in the United This significance was made manifest by the visit of Penor Zamacona, whom President Diaz sent to Washington in 1877 in the interest of commercial reciprocity between Mexico and the United States. This feeling sprang out cf Grant's policy in bis second term. Zamacona was cordially received by President Hayes, but no steps taken by the Administration of an authoritiv nature, but there 7 was a sanction and an encouragement by the Government which induced private capital to a large investment in railroad enterprises looking to the consummation of to-day, Gen.

Grant, after bis terrestrial tour, made a trip through Mexico. It can not be denied that this visit was greatly in fiuential to the projectors of enterprises which sire destined soon to unite the two republics in a reciprocity far exceeding Benor Zamacona's Intentions. Between the United (States and Mexico there will be more commercial comity. In Mexico there will be more education, more- freedom and less religious nonsense. SOCIAL CrSTOMS MEXICO to-day, which are controlled by a sort of mongrel monasticism, belong no less to teat ben customs.

Roman Catholicism in liexico doe not mean Koinan Catholicism in 1misville, Ky. In Mexico there is a combination of the religious absurdities, which belong alike to Christianity, Mohammedanism and the Pagan world. This species of fceatnenism is very well adapted to tue wants of our Christian missionaries who are looking for a Cold, and would rather go to a sunny clime than Greenland's icy mountains. Some of thi specimens that I have seen would do better If they would let China and Japan alone for a season and try their hand in Mexico. treeing the Chinese, as I have seen them in the est, I think it very nonsense to try to convert their nation or any part of the race.

They are so utterly distinct from the Caucasian that they can not be induced, even while living among us, having all the advantages of our civilization, to even try to imitate our ways. It hi a singular fact that the negro only tries to be like us. In this, if jsotbiog else, he is faithful. As to the Japanese, well the Government knows how bard it is to deal wiLh them. lu Mexico things are different.

We will soon have plenty of communication. There a great deal of wort for American mis- s.onanea Udo down there Annexation is 7" But necessary, nor do I think it desirable, except to a few newspaper idiot who have ben writing about it. We don't want Mexico. The nation is large but it Slight be that in the commercial and social reciprocity which is to follow the railroad connection American missionaries, both of a religious and secular order, might soon begin to regulate affairs in Mexico. KCCTSFAFER CHANGES art fashionable in Denver just now.

After the long agony about the ribune was over llr. Witliam A. Hamill, the principal owner, old to Mr. T. C.

Henry anJ others. The sal ws effected through Messrs. O. H. Kothacker and F.

V. Skiff, the latter becoming general manager and part owner, Mr. Charles 8. Gleed, of Kansas, becoming the managing editor. Mr.

Kothacker having resigned as editor-' In-chief, will begin next Sunday toe publication of a ttrst-class weekly paper, to be, devoted to literature, politics, science and news, similar in some respects to the Sunday Argt in Louisville when it was under bis administration. Ho will return from Chicago Tuesday with a complete outfit for a first-class printing- office. Mis paper is designed for circulation abroad as well as at home, and. will doubtless reach many homes in Louisville. There is still a lull and painful suspense in Colorado politics.

It is plain to be seen that Logan is the favorite among the Republicans. The Democrats are anxious for his nomination, as they say, so that they can be sure of a Democratic President. McDonald seems to be the favorite among Democrats tare. Ex-Senator H. A.

W. Tabor and X.leut. Gov. Billy layers are the. leading aspirants for Governor.

Jo Brow. A Beat Asaerleatj GlrU f-V Tort Letter to St. Louit Post-DispatcK American girls In London of late have completely eclipsed the fame of such professional peauues as Air, juangtry. Airs. Cornwallis aad Lady Dudley.

Having fallen at the feet of Miss Chamberlain. Marv Ander son and Minnie Palmer, they are now raving over the charms of Julia Jackson, the daughter of the heroicIStonewall Jackson, She tnnst have been riding in Hotten Row when she captured the nobility and gentry of the Unitad Kingdom, for, in this country at least, her beauty would hardly attract attention in a crowd. But she is the most graceful and magnificent horsewoman I ever saw. I was introduced to her at the White Kul. phur Springs, Virginia, a few years ago, and rode with her frequently over the difficult mountain roads iu the neighborhood.

Sue seemed born to the saddle, guiding her teed with all the ease imaginable, and challenging the emulation of her male companions by bar fearlessness in galloping along lb edg of a yawning caasra hundreds of feet deep, jumping stone wails and leaping iitehes. Her figure is petite and willowy, but ber complexion is sallow aad the plain? Bess of ber features are only relieved by the sssgnificent luster and sparkle of a pair Of big black eyes. bh will certainly astonish Britishers by her com Sanation of good sense aad culture with ays attar fc-eedwa frem coayntlonsiity. Oa is horseback ahe is every inch her father's daughter, and by no great stretch of imagination one could fancy her leading a desperate chars; with all the spirit and ardor of martial inspiration. Miss ackson quite young, stilt in ber teens, is fact.

Her life has been mostly spent tn the country and she was hardly thrown into Northern society until a few months before her departure, when she visited Boston, was handsomely received and created a genuine sensa tion, tier xamiiy is comparatively poor, having lost netrly everything by the war. But it is to be hoped that by way of legitimate reprisal for the captor of so many of our heiresses by impecunious lords, she may make captive some wealthy scion of the British nobility. OHIO JIIVMH AXD JTM MOODS. Written for. the Courier-Journal by Col B.

T. Ohio, the name by which we designate the great river that flows from "Pittsburgh to Cairo along the dividing line between the States of Kentucky and West Virginia on iu southeast and Ohio, Indiana and Illinois on its northwest, is said to bare been derived from the Seneca Indians, in whose language it signifle the beautiful river. While La Salle, the great French explorer, was laying out his seignory of Lachine, a few miles from Montreal, in the bleak wilds of Canada', and dreaming of a water-way across the American continent connecting the Atlantic with the Pacific ocean, some Indians of the Seneca tribe spent with him the winter of 1658. They told him a river called Ohio that rose near Lake Erie in their country and ran to the sea in the direction of the setting sun, at so great a distance tbat it required nine months journey to reach its mouth. This was evidently blending into one great river what we separately call the Mississippi, the Ohio and the Monongahela, but however opposed to that hydrogi aphic law which makes the main stream greater than its tributary, it was the very river that was flowing through the imagination of La Salle.

The Indians, though wrong in making the Mississippi a continuation of the Ohio, are right in the Allegheny being its prolongation. The two streams are one in origin, in continuance, snd in determinate characteristics. They have the same gradual slope and the same gentle current. They were regarded as one stream before- civilized man set foot upon their shores, and it. might have been well if the barbarian's designation had been preserved.

The French, who claimed the Ohio and the Vast territory watered by it from the discovery of La Salle, and occupied it before the English, translated its Indian name into their own language by the words la belle riviere, meaning the beautiful river. The English, however, when they conquered it from the French, preferred the original to the translation, and retained' the Indian name of Ohio with its associated memories of an aboriginal race long since passed away. The French and Indians paid fitting honors to this noble stream by calling it the beautiful river. Beautiful in its Incipient waters as they drop from the clouds upon a dividing ridge in Potter county, Pennsylvania, and hesitate for a moment whether they will go to the ocean by the St. Lawrence of tbu north, the Susquehanna of the east, or the Mississippi of the south; beautiful in the economy with which it stretches its countless tributaries into a dozen different States and gathers their varied waters into a single channel; beautiful in the gradual and unitorm descent down which' it conducts its aqueous treasures from its source to its mouth; beautiful in the graceful curves by which it winds its way between bigh bills aad along broad plains and around impeding islands; beautiful in the picturesque mounds which adorn its high banks and point back to a people who once flourished and then passed away upon its shores without a history, a tradition or a name; beautiful in the commerce that floats upon its bosom and the industries that prosper upon its banks; beautiful in its bright skies above and it fair lands beneath why should it not be called Ohio, the beautiful riverl But beautiful as the river is in its ordinary stage of water, it now and then exhibit exceedingly naughty, ways.

When the wild waters rush down in floods it wears the habiliments of terror instead of the garb of beauty. To all the dweiiers upon its shores, whether civilized or savage, in remote times or recent, its inundations have beu full of menace and disaster. Modern philosophers teach as. however. that the floods of the Ohio are yearly in-Creasing in intensity, and that man is the author of the enlarged disasters which now accompany the inundation.

They tell us that the destruction, of the forests, the removal of the beaver clams, the draining of the land for cultivation and such like causes are yearly adding to the volume of the floods, and making them more destructive. They draw tbess conclusions from a knowledge of the river which only reaches back to about the middle of the last century, while such a period is only as a moment 'in the long life of this stream. If we should ask one of these scientists bow old the Ohio might be, he would probably answer by giving data for a calculation. He might say that experiments to determine the quantity of sediment in the waters of the Mississippi had shown that enough of the surface soil was thus borne to the gulf to lay a stratum one foot thick over the entiro valley in ax-out years; that the Ohio bad probably cut down its channel about three times as fast as this erosion from the general surface of the there were points along the Ooio where it was evident the river had cut down the channel to the depth of 250 feet, and such data deCerminod this river to have been cutting down its present channel for about 600,000 Tears! it would seera that hasty observations during less than 150 of this entire 600,000 years would hardly warrant the conclusion that tbennodern floods of the Ohio exceed its aacient. The Ohio presents some evidence itself of there having been more water and greater floods along its channel in ancient than in modern times.

The broad channel cut out of tne solid rock from hill to hill two miles in width, and the torraces ruing like giant stops from the present low bed to the higher levels of former periods indicate that, a mightier stream swept along its course in the past than at present. There are works of man also along this river that indicate high waters at very remote periods. Tbat mysterious people we call Mound-builders, who perished so long ago that not even a tradition of them has-survived, em to have observed inundations covering the lower terraces and to Lave avoided them by building their mounds where modern floods have never reached. Trees have been found ou these, mounds eight hundred years old, which, while not deciding that these structures were only that old; suggests that they were at least eight hundred years ago erected on these high grounds to avoid tue inundations which then covered the lower terraces as they do in our day. The great mound on the Ohio, near the mouth of Oraw creek, looked down upon the flood of the present year as it had others in the distant past, and saw the inundations of civilization, as it had those of barbarism, stop within a few feet of its base.

But we have some anthentio accounts of great floods in the Ohio before a tree was cut, or a beaver-dam drained, or a field opened to cultivation. About the year 1750 Col. George Crogbam, the Indian agent, was at the mouth of the Scioto and saw the Shawnee village, on the high bank at that point, swept away by an inundation. It is not likely that accurate measurements were made, but the bank was stated to be 40 feet high and the water 0 feet over its top. Again, it related by S.

P. HUdreth, in his sketch of Isaao Williams, that in the year 1774 the flood in the Ohio left marks on Wheeling creek which Indicated it to have been as great aa that of 1S33. It Albach's annals of the West it is recorded that the flood of 1789 drove the soldiers, in the garrison at Columbia, to the loft of the block-house, from which they escaped in a boat. There was another great flood in 1797, which lodged orif in the trees along the shore that served as marks of comparison for other in- nndations. Here, then, were four great floods within the last half of the lost century, two of which occurred before a tree was cut from the forest or a farm opened for cultivation, and the other two while the mighty river may be said to have flowed through the primitive woods.

It is hardly wise, therefore, to attach too msek importance so the theory of denuded forest, cultivated lands, etc, lacreoiiaj the THE COURIER-JOURNALj LQXTISVILiifc SUXD ASjkARCHr 16, -1884. SIXTEEN PAGES, -volumes of the Hoeds. It is not denied tbat something of the excess of inundations may be due to these causes. It is equally true that such structures as our great railijad bridge across the river at Louisville add to the height of the waters. This bridge has So piers, which average 12 feet in thickness, and all combined present a solid wall 800 feet in extent against the current.

The river where the bridge crosses is about 4,500 feet wide, so that these piers take np one-fifteenth of it ebannel, and must increase the inundation in front of our city proportionately in height. It may be said, also, that if a levee were made along the river front aud Beargrass creek to shot off the high water from the low parts of the city, the height of the flood would be, increased thereby in proportion to the amountof water that was previously held by tb inundated portions of the city Far better than discussing these minor elements of the floods would be a due appreciation of the grand fundamental truth that when there is aa excess of -snow on the land ana copious rains to melt it we shall have floods proportioned to the quantity of water that comes of the snow and rain. Aad when we have thus brought ourselves face to face with the great leadiug facts, oar next consideration should be the application of a remedy adequate to the evil. can't go bark to barbarism by restoring the forests and turning out the cultivated fields to the savage and the wild beast. We must seek a remedy that conforms to the efforts which the arts and sciences are making to adapt the whole face of the globe to the want of advancing civilization.

The Ohio drains about 200,000 equare miles of territory, and when tue rains aud melted snows cover this vast area with more water than can be absorbed by the earth or borne off by the ordinary channel, an inundation must follow. Th ramfall that led to the flood of 1834 was about eight inches at Lou is riiie, aud if we assume it to have been tne same Over the whole valley, and allow four inches more for the melted snow, we1 should have water enough to spread one foot deep over a space miles long and 4UO miles wide, all of which must be absorbed by the earth, or pass through the single channel of the Ohio in a few short days. Is such a result possible i The amount of water to be disposed of in our assumed conditions would be represented in cubic feet by the frightful figure of 6,575, esO.OOO.OOO! If we allow the Ohio a length of 1,000 miles from Pittsburgh to Cairo, with an average breadth of half a mile, and concentrate this amount ot water within these limits, we should have a stream 1,000 miles long, half a mile wide and 400 feet deep. It is physically impossible for the chaunel of the Ohio to receive sucb a volume of water, or even the half of it.and the result must be an inundation whenever the tailing rains and the melting suOws precipitate sucb a deluge upon it. The ancient Egyptians hid equal, if not greattr, didiculties to contend with in the floods of the 2i Ue, aud they met them in a far wiser way than discussing the evils which civilization had doue in clearing away tbe forests and opening the lands of their delta to cultivation.

Herodotus tells us that King Moeris, 3,300 years ago, dug a lake in tie valley of the Xiis 400 nines iu circumfer ence and 300 feet in depth, into which tbe destructive floods conducted by a and there held until the rivor had resumed its normal stage. These waters wsre then let out of tue lake aS wanted to enricben and irrigate the lands of the valley. In this way the inundations were not only rendered harmless, but turned to good account in tbe assistance of agriculture and the supply of lih. We need no such lake as that of the Egyptians to control the floods of the Ohio. A single lake eighty miles lonj, fifty miles wide and fifty faet deep would hold the entire volume of water we have assigned to tne flood of 1834.

Not balf of tbe water, however, supplied by rain and melted snows ever reaches the channel of the main river. The absorbing earth, witu its subterranean reservoirs and superficial basins and evaporating heats, makes way with fully one-half, and of tne remaining portion oniy a moiety 14 harmful. It is tbe last fourth of a great flood the upmost ten or twenty feet of tbe vast inundating wave that does tbe mischief; so that if we could provide for one-fourth of the volume of water of such a flood as that or we should render it innocuious. A single lake forty niilos long, twenty-five miles wide and fifty feot deep would hold suca a volume of water. But even a lake of this size would not suit the conditions of tbe Ohio valley as it might the Kile.

Tbe various tributaries of the Ohio run their courses and add their quotas to tbe destroying flood at points too far separated for the protection of a common lake. Artincial reservoirs must be made near the sources of th tributaries where the lands to be submerKed of little value, and the hurtful waters in i be arrested before reaching the localities' to be protected. Toward the heads of most of tbe tributaries are valleys across which walls mar be erected to dam up tbe waters at comparatively little cost. Here instead of one grand lake a sufficient number of reservoirs of less dimensions may be distributed among tbe tributaries to hold all the waters necessary to render the most violent floods harmless. And then, again, these pent-up waters may be let out by flood-gates as wanted to make the rivers navigable when they would otherwise be too low for the passage of boats.

We should tbu, in imitation of tbe wise Egyptians, not only render the Hoods harmless, but turn them to good account in' the assistance of navigation. More than this, we should make mill sites where these waters were dammed up that would be of inestimable value in th manufacturing interests of the country. The theory of protecting ourselves against the dangers of the floods and turning them to practical good is not new. Besides having bten demonstrated by the building of the pyramids thirty-three centuries ago, it was ably discussed by the eminent engineer, Charles Kllet. in a valuable work on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, published at Philadelphia in 1853.

Mr. Ellet's book was hastily condemned as visionary by those who dreamed the more unpractical dreams of the levee system, but the time is coming, if not already at hand, when tbe great rivers about which this book was written may force the reluctant to heed the wisdom of its teachings. A system of artificial reservoirs toward the heads of tho tributaries which feed the Ohio, to hold back it destructive waters, and let them out again as needed for nav igation, demands the attention of Congress, under control our navigable rivers are placed. The cost of the dams and gates necessary to tbe accomplishment of the great beuefite in view would be small compared with the damages of the disastrous floods of 1SS3 and 1S84. If all the inhabitants located on tbe Ohio and its tnbntarias would turn their attention to the subject, and urge upon their members of Congress the necessity of such improvements an irresistible power would be at work and the improvements would be made.

Where shall the movement bocint Will it be Louisville, or Cincinnati, or Pittsburgh, or one of the lesser cities along the great tbat inaugurates the enterprise Lot it not turn out in this instance as in too many others, that what is everybody's business is nobody's. The millions of dwellers in the Ohio valley, and tbe niiliious of wealth they have invested in cities and farms affected by its floods, are entitled to something of the national consideration which is from year to year lavished upon sea, and lake, and river Improvements of far less importance to the nation at large. Tue alluvial lands recovered from the inundation along the rivers would more than pay for the improvements necessary to protect us agamst tue floods and give ns navigable streams tbe year round. Why Freaks Are Papular. Drake' Traveler's Magazine.

"It's deuced queer, y' know," said a dudish Englishman to the conductor during a brief chat in a smoker on th Pennsylvania road, "and I cawn't understand it." "Can't understand what!" asked a drummer who sat in a seat behind. "I beg pardon, v' know, but I think it is, ah, very strange that yon Americans make so much fuss over human monstrosities, know," "Xotat all strange," said the drummer; "in fact, we take a pardonable pride la them ''You surprise me, sir," gasped the Britisher, opening his eyes so wide tbat bis single-barreled glass fell out of lu socket. "Why should such horrid creature be though of so highly, 7 knowf "Because this is a freak country," chuckled tb commercial traveler. Effects of the Uent iTew York Commercial Advtt titr.J If the foot has tbe gout, the hand, accord-fog to Mr. Beecher, knows it.

lie might have added tbat tb temper is also frequently acquainted with the fact. Blemarrk Caa'S Hole It. lltlatUa Constitution. The King of Italy seasons his 'salad with olive oU made out of Georgia coUon-seed. is As Wlater Guars Selmctaatly te Bprlag, Bo Bo-dsty Eaags On at the Saturn's Capital, BawiHiag te Give Up, TALI, SOCIAL, AID OTHERWISE.

"Wasiusgto, March 10. The promise last week of spring weather was mad to th nope and broken to the ear, for old Boreas bowled np on ot the severest snow storms of the year. Budding hopes are blighted and lie prostrate under weather calamities. Not even Mr. George Bancroft's early hyacinths were spared.

His front yard has a southern exposure, aad bis hyacinth bed the delight of all who enjoy these first emblems of spring. One large purple flower of the doable variety bloomed, and even asserted its right to live and prosper while the snow descended upon Its unprotected head. It has bad the courage to survive the storms and disasters, and, like some human beings, has shaken oil its weight of woe, and still preserves its vitality and beauty. John Burroughs, of book and magazine fame, is revisiting Washington. Mr.

Burroughs formerly lived in Washington for a doxen or more years, being a clerk in the office of Controller of Currency. He was familiar with every inch of ground in the neighborhood of Bock Creek, and understood the note of every bird which haunted the forests. These woods have disap peared and been replaced by concrete street and stately dwellings. Penetrating beyond the "city limits Mr. Burroughs in February sought a distant spot where on certain dates be never failed to find liverwort in bloom.

Ue was not disappointed in bis search, but his tramps have been discontinued on account of the persistent rains which have succeeded the snow-storms. STUTX THIATIB HaXAGKRS always wait until the backbone of the gay season is brokeu by the period of Lent before they storm "Washington. Abbey gave four nights of Italian opera tbe first week of tbe season of repentance, and crowded tbe theater with those who had made some good resolutions about their neglected church duties. The only nicht which gave satisfaction was the night when Bembrich sang. Nihtson disappointed ail of her old admirers, and then too the wretched scenery and accessories of Washington theaters disgust every one.

Last week tbe temptation was in the form of Irving and Ellen Terry. There is more sin in seeing things which are badly done than in witnessing that which is brought to Everything which elevates the mind and forces it out of its deep ruts and accustomed channels is a benefit to humanity. if Mr. Irving fails to do that by his superior acting, be accomplishes tho same thing by the finished manner in which every detail of a play is presented. On Friday night and at the Saturday matinee the play was "Much Ado About Nothing.

Irving does not appear to auy advantage in tuis play, for he is neither a handsome nor a sprightly Iienediet; but EUeu Terry is a fainathrz Beatrice, and all of the characters were well portrayed. The scenery charmed the eye and the costumes educated tbe audience in regard to tue picturesque styles cf that period. Irving is bot a handsome man, and tbat saves him from oue fault personal vanity. This is a weakness tbat ruins ns many men of genius as it does women. But why split hairs to criticise the acting of either Irving or Ellen Terry I They have shown American audiences how fine plays should be presented, and bow intelligence and conscientious study can elevate mimicry to a fine art, which leaves elevating impressions.

After the performance Saturday niht the President gave a supper to Mr. Irvinsj. Ladies as well as gentlemen were invited, to meet tbe distinguished actor. Among these were Secretaries Lincoln and Teller, Mr. and Mrs.

George M. Pullman, Senators Miller and Aid rich, Gen. Sheridan, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hat ton.

Mr. Stilson Hutchinn, of tne Washington Poet; Pulitzer, of the New York Homing Assistant Secretary of State John DavU, Mr. Charles E. Miller and Mr. Elliott; of "ew York.

The Metropolitan Club gave him a supper after tbe performance Wednesday night. As the invitations were for 11 r. there were a few of the invited guests who declined remaining later tuan midnight. One of these was Speaker Carlisle, who steadily declines all invitations which would interfere with tbe discharge of his official duties. He went to the club and was introduced to Mr.

Irv iug, and invited him to call on him in tbe speaker's room at the Capitol. Before sup per was announced he withdrew. Owm to official duties. Mr. Carlisle declined an iuvi tiou from a gentleman to meet Mr.

Irviu; at breakfast at 1 1. o'clock a. if. Tuesday. Mr.

Irving gave a supper Thursday night at Chamberhn's. He called on the Speaker at the Capitol Thursday, aud afterwar 1 occupied a seat in tbe Speaker's reserved bench in tbe gallery. While here Ellen Terry was the guest of Miss Olive Kisley Seward, who gave a lunch in her honor, but the names of tne ladies present are not given. Life is rendered endurable in the absence of large bails and receptions by amusements, for which there was no time from the 1st of January to the STth of February. BOCIKTT AND SlLcSH.

Last week Marshal and Mrs. McMichael held their usual Wednesday evening recep tion. The snow had become slush, but many braved the inclement weather and attended the reception. Secretary and Mrs. Chandler bad a large reception Saturday eveuing.

They have fine music and a delicious hot supper at their receptions. It has happened this year, as it did last winter, that the weather is almost without exception, bad on Satnrday, aud especially inclement at nicht. Those who were invited to Mrs. Chandler's last year and this winter have bad to brave either sleet or rain when accepting th invitations. The most successful coquetry of the day is adopted by tne girls who preside at tea tables, mere must nave been a large in crease in the consumption of tea in this city.

for it is offered in every bouse you enter and at all hours. Only two ladies in Washing ton are the fortunate possessors of 'sarni-vars." Mrs. Will Emery brought one with her on her return from Europe two years ago. Miss Dora, the daughter of Senator Miller, of California, recently received one from Russia. It is of burnubed copper, larger and handsomer than Mrs.

Emery's. The "samivar" is an urn-like vessel in which, by the aid of burning charcoal in a cylinder, the water boils whioh is poured on the tea. the pot being almost full of the dry leave. One cup of vvater is drawn from the samivar and poured in tbe teapot, and tne tea is immediately poured into a cup. No time is allowed for what tea- makers term drawing.

The quantity of fresh tea in the pot insures sufficient strength. and as soon as this appears to be extracted the pot is emptied and again filled with tea. The same results could be obtained by using a copper or silver teakettle with an alcohol lamp underneath to boil the water, but Rus sian tea would not preserve it distinctive features if there was no samivar. This is the picture I saw Thursday noon: benator Miller's house is a corner one, and there is a tower on tbe corner side which makes a pretty recess room in the front parlors. There are three windows in the tower, facinz north, east and south A Persian rug covers the bighls polished floor, and the walls between the windows are covered with choice water-colors: the pictures were selected during a long residence in Europe br Mr.

and Mrs. Thomas Wilson, who own the house and designed this annex to the) rarlor especially for these gems ot art. Mr. Wilson is Consul at Nice. France, and be and his wife rented this new and elegant home, pictures, furniture snd bric-a-brac to the Senator from California.

One sofa, a few chairs and win dow seats constitute tb furniture of th tower. On a seat, with a tea-table in front of ber, sat Miss Dora Miller. She is pretty and piquante a spoiled, indulged and idol ized only child: dearer than ever to her parents since th death of ber brother four years ago. She wore maroon colored satin rhadamir. with petticoat of currant colored satin laid in kilt plaits, each plait lined with pink satin; the Louis XlVta vest was ot pink satin and low in tbe neck.

and a bigh standing collar rising at th back: the collar was of the maroon satin, lined with pink: frills of lac enshrined ber white throat and toned the rich colors ot ber dress. Resting on a dainty footstool were the tiny feet, in lac stockings aad rank satin flip pers. A prominent object on tbe tea-table was the gliUaring "samivar." and in front of it was tn tempos aad can and as KotwopiasaofJ cidnA wart alike in shape or painting; each was xquisim design and finish. Slices of lemon were on a cut-class dish, with a silver pickle-fork, and plate of waters was near it. There were also glass dishes filled with conserves.

as om persons refer these in the cup of tea to tbe slice of mon or tbe old-fashioned sugar and eream. The test and preference ot every on were consulted. The beaux like bees warmed around these sweets, caring only for th tea because it was made by such pretty little hands and by such a charming hostess. 'o better artiflce was ever contrived for concentrating attention than that of presiding over a tea table. There are opportunities for the display of charms which do not exist even in tbe gerraaa.

The oung lady can lizbtly touch upon so many topics of conversation she can indulge in badinage if she has an aptness for repartee; there are opportunities offered. She can get np a pretty panio if th water gets low in the "samivar," and fear that there may bean Tbe most incorrigible Benedicts must yield to th fascinations of our modern Beatrices, when seated in front of a samivar dispensing tea in a highly bewitching toilet. THE W0XIX'8 COSVKTTIOX. Whether or no the Woman's Convention last week will bear any good fruits remains to be seen. This much has been accomplished.

The convention was not treated with ridicul and th papers gave fair and respectful reports of the proceedings. The good order which prevailed during the sessions was a rebuke to U. noise ana disorder which reign in the House of Representatives. Every address was logical, sensible and fairly presented. Nothing which was unwomanly, or undignified, was said or done, and while men are still unconvinced in regard to the woman's right to tbe ballot, they are forced to admit that a woman has as much right as a man to life and litierty.

Tbe Government departments are the slowest to rwc-ognize a woman's right to be paid the same as a man for the same work. I have in mind one, case. A boy of fifteen was appointed as meAenger fifteen years ago. lie has been steadily promoted since he arrived at bis majority. He is bead of a room, the master of ladies who have served longer than he, women of education, aristocratic families.

and who posses every qualification, and yet nave never bad their salaries increased. These ladies have as many family responsibilities as any of tbe men, are required to work as many hours, and are constantly called upon in a man's absence to do bis work. No one presumes to ask a high-priced clerk to do any other work than that which belongs to bis desk, but a t'JOO woman is subject to the beck and call of any man in tbe bureau who desires her assistance. Thus much for that beautiful chivalry which we are told that woman loses by on- sexing herself and laboring for ber own and the support of tbow dependant upon ber. in connection with tbe pioposed law lor copyrighting news by the papers which pay for its collection, the experience oi some writers for certain Washington dailies, whose news items form the chief part of the stock in trade of some of the correspondents of leading Eastern and Western papers.

hich are abundantly able to pay for tho collection of special news, becomes ot interest. AJf INCIDENT. I A lady whom we will call because that is not her name, was engaged to write daily reports of social events tor an aliernoon pa per in Washington, and also to send one let ter per week to an iastern paper giving general items of social news and gossip. The editors of each journal were well aware of ber engagement with the other newspaper, and perfectly villing that she should add to her income by writing for two papers which did not conflict with each other, especially as neithar paper made her any allowance for carriage hire or any other expenses incurred in the collection of material for ber daily pr weekly letters. She could not have ailorded to incur these necessary expenses for the price paid her by either one of the papers alone.

She was not in tin habit of using the same material for both papers, but while col lecting special items ior one locality, could also get material of interest pi another, though, of course, some items of general interest were ued with different treatment her articles in both papers. hile oulv praise was received by ber for her work from the editors for whose journals she wrote, a man succeeded in ousting ber. rpm her place on tne Eastern journal by' collecting ber items published from day to day in tho Washington paper, pasting them together in letter form, without even taking the trouble to alter local allusions, and send- lii 2 the letter, with a woman's name signed thereto, each week to tbe paper for which she had been writing. In this way he could furnish tbe social gossip so much cheaper than she could. afford to do, as be incurred no expense of labor for collecting the material, and she had no many heavy expenses and daily toil, tint she could not successfully compete with him, so lost the engagement, which he secured by using the fruits of her luttor.

This same experience B. bad also with more than one other journal published out of uslnniTton, and found each case expos tulation with the editors of both Eastern and extern newspapers in vain, they invaria bly permitting the man. who supplanted her by using her own work, to continue to do so, though the papers in every instance were rich and could well afford to pay for special news. As these name men writers had free use of the telegraph for the transmission of tlwir news, it was in their power to prevent B. from getting any engagements where the papers for which they wrote circulated, as they constantly telegraphed items of social news collected by iier to their papers whenever such items fouud favor in their eyes or they wanted to send off a batch of nen-s by special wire without putting themselves to toe trouble of collecting enough to "nil the honoer" each niiiht.

Yet these same writers who would de nounce one who published a book, or poem, containing passage from other authors without credit, as a plagiarist, and would scornfully write of the alleged author of a tly or an opera whose plot or some of its eading features were taken from the works of earlier writers, as a literary thief, hav continued for years to make up Washington letters in tbe styla indicated above, and to receive pay for them as if they were wholly original. OXDIT. A para graph has been going the rounds of the papers in regard to tbe etiquette of precedence. Some one has said "that she is first lady wuq can raaxe the best; buckwheat cakes." Then Mrs. Carlble takes the cake Bin.

is a notable Kentucky housekeeper, and can mike every kind of cake as well as other gooi tmngs. Some other test will have to be applied before she is dethroned from the high position she now occupies. This is spicy and may meet the eye of Doc Griffin. About the time tbat the cable was used to send tbe important information to America that Miss Mary Anderson had refused an introduction to the Prince of Wales because she feared contamination from the acquaintance, a lady expressed her disguot that the old dotard knew no better than to advertise even the virtue of bis gifted stepdaughter. A young lady who was quietly usteuing to tbe conversation said laconically: Don't he understand that thins are never advertised which are not for sale!" The latest news from Miss Mary is tbat she has taken her affairs in ber own hands.

If this is true tben her friends will be glad. It is taken for granted that there will be less nonsensical advertising than there was when Doc manipulated tbe press. Fat. "In yesterday's sunshine there rose against a blue sky the calm, brave figure known so well and loved so dearly." Vnvailimg of the Lee ttat'ie, yew Orleans Times-Democrat, February Calm and serene when storms have spent their force. The oak may stand that felt the lightning's shock.

And waves high-sweeping in the whirlwind's course. Impotent break ajrainst the uplifted rock. Tboiurh all around in devistatiou vast, Swept by resistless fury none may check, Calm must succeed to storm eereue at last, Eternal nature smiles above the wreck 1 He stood, the central figure, when the cloud Of war. dark-rolling, vailed the land in night; When surging forces met in thunder loud. And swords flashed crimson in the lurid UrhL Cnfalteringly he bore heavy yoke iaio on mm nis iaou unswerving trust; Bravely he fought, until the shock that broke tits sora ana laid his banner In tn dust! Bis name his proudest epitaph shall be; It nveds not poet's sonz nor sculnter's art To keep forever reah his memory.

vt no wrote uis name upon a people oeart I Peace sin lies across the land in peace we meet. io nooor mm wnose ran esa bos hiis esa For nobler he who' bravely bears defeat. Than he who wears the honors oi sneoeesJ Bersis H. Utprsov, Karen 8, At Baaraias-keu Beef. CalL Tb California ostrich farmer has lost ten birds thi winters Bona tarn of b' m-1 firopptd a rouurant pie Inti r.J a FLOWER LAND.

Sojourner la Florida Tails ef Borne ef Things Be Saw aai ef tas Places He Visited. tbe PLOBIDa PECULTa nITH3. XCorretoondencefof the 1 DzLaitD, Fuu, March 8, 18S4. I have Just returned from a tri-i through portions ot Polk and Hernando counties, and as they are attracting more attention at this time than any other part of tbe State, what I law there may be of interest to the mmy persons who are now preparing to emigrate to this interesting country. Taking steamer at Jacksonville, we had a delightful trip to Sanford.

a distance of about 200 miles. Sanford is situated on Lake Monroe, which is the head of navigation, for large boats, on the St. Johns river. It is a thriving little town of about 2,000 inhabitants, and promises to be quite a place, as it is tbe natural outlet for tbe produce of all the country south of it. After spending day ber we took tb train for 8anataria, which is the present terminus ot the Sanford and Tampa road.

Sanataria at present contains but three or four bouses, but it is happily situated among th lakes of Polk county, and for many points of attraction. A few miles south of this, on Lake Wire, Mr. A. G. Muim, of LouUvilie, has laid off a town, and is now busily engaged in its de velopment.

1 did not reach his place, but learn from other parties that it is so favorably located, and so surrounded with beautiful lakes, that it can not fail to be quit a success. We procui a team at Sanataria, and took the road to Bartow, tbe capital of Polk county, which is distant about twenty miles. We saw but little evidence of progress on the route, as we passed but two houses. To tbe outside ot one of tbe houses was nailed the skin of a huge bear. Bruin seized a pig for his the pig kicked and squealed, the dogs barked, the master seized his gun and sallied forth, and thus tbe bear lost his pig, his life and his glossy coat of fur.

The shades of night closed around ns before reaching Bartow, and in fording a creek whose waters reached the bed of the buggy, we were several times lodged on stumps and nearly capsized, but finally got over safe, and in a short time arrived at our destination. We placed our foot on the wheel to alight, the horse started, and our bosom quickly reposed on the bosom of onr mother earth. But Florida is not our native State, nor ber earth our mother earth; she is our mother-in-law earth, and we are mad and silent. They are now building a railroad from ban ataxia to Bartow, which will soon be finished. Heretofore they have had to bring all their supplies by wagon from Tampa, a distance of 40 miles.

The prospect of a railroad has put new life into the ph new buildings are going up, and the price of real estate rapidly advancing. From Bartow to Fort Meale the lands are very rich and settling up rapidly. Many strangers are coniiu-u and tbe natives are beginning to realize that all they want is capital and labor to make them rich and prosperous. They here raise oranges, com, bananas, potatoes, and other vegetables. Every farmer has bis crib of corn, and his table supplied with sugar and syrup from his own field.

Tbe principle export is are raised in great abundance, but neither milk or butter is to be had. Tbeir cattle are driven to Charlotte harbor, and from there shipped to Cuba, where they find a ready market. Many persons BATI MADE FORTUNES at the business, and Spr.nisi gold is the principle circulating medium. This is a very inviting field for both settlers and speculators. ndor the guidance of Mr.

G. W. Hendry, of Fort Meade, who is a native Fl u-Mian, and familiar every acre of ground in southeastern Polk county, we procured a team and struck out for the wilderness and Itsnpogny axees which is situated among the hills about 20 miles east of Fort Meade. Part of the time we traveled an old military road, made by the United States army to facilitate their movements in tbe war against the Indians; at other times ue struck, off through the woods, and reached tbe shoivs of ltsnpojj-ayaxeo in time to encamp for the night. itn the earth for our couch, and the ftar-gemme 1 vault of heaven for our canopy, in the midst of a dens hummock inhabited by cnakes, panthers, bears, and' other and on the shore of a lake tilled with alligators, we wrapped our blankeis around us nud sought repose.

Aroused iu t'ua middle of uibt by a disturbance among the borses, we our arms and rushed to the rescue, but the cause of the disturbance, whatever it may have been, had made good its retreat and fadod into the darkness. Around our camping ground were the skulls of many rude, rugged bears and graceful fawns, the victims ot former hunters. I do not believe it possible to tiud in the world a healthier spot than tbe elevated lake region of southeastern Polk county. A person 4f the most delicate constitution can sleep on the ground wi'ta perfect impunity. The air is ladyu with the odor of the the promise of health and longevity is patent to ail observers.

Deer, turkey and bear are abundant, and her beautiful lakes are rilled with fish. Oranges, limes, lemons, guavas, pineapples anJ bananas can be cultivated with perfect security from tbe frost. This region is still a wilderness, the same as creation's dawn beheld it; but the tide of emigration is moving in this direction, and, with bettor facilities for transportation, it will soon be dotted with happy homes. Mr. John McDonald, of Fort Mason, with a keen eye for all tbat is best in Florida, has invested largely for his clients in this region.

The great want of this country is railroads and laborers; but this want is now being rapidly supplied. We had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Rowland Cox, of Taylorsvllle, at Fort Meade, and took him with us in one of our trips to the bill country. Retracing onr steps, we passed through Fort Meade. Bartow and Sanataria to San ford, and, taking passage on tbe steamer Anita after breakfast, were landed inPalatka in time for supper.

From here we took tbe cars toOcala, and, hiring a team, we crossed the country to the Withlacoochee river, on crossing which we found ourselves in BXB5AND0 C0U.1TY, famous for its rich soil, bigh rolling bills, and streams filled with fish. In this, the northern portion of Hernando county, there are occasional settlers, and it is not altogather a wilderness, but we failed to se wild game in the same abundance as in Polk county. The soil is undoubtedly rich, and the bigh pine lands of Hernando county are the richest I have seen anywhere in the State. Tbe farmers here raiso oranges, corn, sugar-cane, cotton, potatoes and other vegetables. Tbe land is heavily timbered end underlaid with clay, while at intervals rock, a scarce article in Florida, is seen above the surface of the ground.

I had beard much of the richness of Hernando county land, and found that all which I had heard was true. Tbe people hare a ruddier and more healthy look than in any part cf the State which I have visited. Most Floridians are thin and sallow-complexioned, but here, much to my surprise. .1 found, for I did not believe it possible in this latitude, rosy complexions and fall, well-rounded bodies. These people are not rich in this world's goods, bot much given to kindness and hospitality, and gladly welcome all those' who desire to settle among them.

-As to the much discussed frost line, I find that it certainly does not exist in any part of the Stat north of tbe south line of Polk county, for I saw as much damage done by the frost along Peace creek in Folk county as I saw a hundred mils north of it. It is a favorite theory with many tbat th frost falls in spots, and 1 saw that it did fall in spot, but these spots were always identical a position they were always and invariably th low spots. Along Fae creek in Folk county tbe frost bad don considerable damage to tbe trees and to the fruit. Moving eastward, into a higher and drier country, and on the same parallel of latitude, Kom tn mile from Feac creek, I found orange, uninjured bj tu su it frost, and still farther east, about tweatT -miles, around Lake Istopogeeyaxee, found tbat th guava, a plant mack more tender than either tbe lime or th lemon, was green and succulent as in tho me r-tlme of its glory. Tb cans of this difference is not to be found in parallels of latitude, bat in topographical position: aad is very important for those who propose settling in Florida to understand this very thoroughly.

Those whose grott are protected by a lake on the north, or are on elevated portions of land, will be comparatively free from any injury from frost, wail groves not so situated, or on low damp places may expect to suffer ia each extreme weather as the present winter. Capt. John Howard, of Jeffersonvfile, has a grove near De Land which undulates at an angle of about 30. I found on an examination of this grove that the more elevated portion was not at all injured by tb frost. As I moved down the incline I found tbe trees more or less touched by frost, until I reached tbe lowest portion of tbe grove, where I found several of the trees killed.

And this bis been mv observation in all parts of the Stat. In our rrove. which is bait a nail east of Caps. Howard's, on aa elevated plateau, not a single orange tree, big or little, Las been killed by tb frost. Some of the young tree lost a part of their leaves, but they are now on new robes of green, and the air laden with the fragrauc of their blooms.

PECCLIaETTIXS OF. FLORIDA. Passing over the lands of Hernando conn- ty, my attention was called to a place nndtr tb pin trees where th grass was beaten down aad imoothsd over as if for a gam of some kind. I was informed by my guide, Mr. F.

W. Ross. of Camp Izard, that it was a battle-field of gophers. The gopher, be it known to the reader, is a different animal, in different countries. In Canada and Illinois it is a gray burrowing animal; west of the Mississippi and' in Wisconsin it is a striped squirrel.

In Missouri it is a spacies of pouched rat. In Georgia a snake, and in Florida a turtle. It seems, or at least I was so informed that th gophers, like their fellow-mortals man, are in the habit of meeting in bodies of from tea to fifty, and engaging in regular battles. blood is shed in these battles, but tbey match off in pairs, and the objective point of each gopher is to turn bis opponent on his back. One in this position he can never regain bis.

feet, and becomes a victim to slow starvation. His successful enmy retires to his hole, and 1 comes out only occasionally to witness the death agouies of bis defeated foe. ben death ensues and -the buzzards come to the feast, the victors retire to their homes to rest from their labors and prepare for another day of battle. Mr. Charles Kirk, of DeLand, bad a brood of favorite chickens, which he was ganrding with jealous car.

had a coop mad of lathes, tbe space between the lathes being about one inch. He put tbem in the coop carefully every night, bnt one morning when he opened the coop, much to his surprise, the old ben came out, but no chickens. On an examination he found all the young chickens in the coop or rather tbeir bodies, minus the head. It seems that an oposram cam ia inserting his tad, which is pre- hensile, between tbe lathes, seized the young chickens, and tried to drag them from tn coop. Tbe chickens were too large for the 'space between the lathes, so the opossum caught them one by on with his tail by the head, drew them to the space between the laths, and as their bodies were too large to come through, gave tbem a jerk and pulled oil their heads, on which be feasted, and left their bodies in the coop.

There is no word or combination of words in the English language capable of expressing Mr. Kirk's feelings on this occasion, or his opinion of tbat marsupial. Onsomeof the boats on the St. Johns river, claiming to be first-class, and being so in many rewpects, it has become th custom for tbe oilicers to partake of their meals first, and kindly bestow what remains on tb passengers. To an average Kentuckian it seems passing strange and wonderful that men can sit down to a meal and eat without choking, while refined, beautiful and often delicate ladios are waiting to be served.

Tbe boat is the otiicers home, the passengers ior tbe time being their guests, and such a custom, it strikes us. is a great corrupter of manners, and merits very severe censure. Being most of tbe time in the wilderness and off of the general line ot travel, 1 did not meet as many bora people as usual. Passing through Orlando on the cars, 1 saw the familiar faoes of Messrs. John 1.

Morton and Howard Oris-wold taking a morning drive. At Sanford I mot Capt. A. T. Gilmore- and Mr.

VV. B. Carson. Mrs. li.

Leathers and Mrs. G. W. Swearingen came down the river on tha same boat with me. Tbey were much disappointed at not Bering any -alligators on their trip up tbe river, but I had the pleasure of pointing out several hu-a monsters on the downward trip, and, what was more pleasant still, the kindly and familiar face of Dr.

Preston B. Hcott on a passing boat. At DeLand I met Miss Sal lie Warfield, Rev. Dr. Jones, late of the Church of the Mes-1-inh; Mr.

T. E. C. Brinly. Mr.

J. Mr. A. C. Bowen and family, Mr.

Clark Smith and many others. Wsi. F. Wood. A JERSEY HERO.

Aa Old Man Who lias Havre 63 Lives His i Meaner Reward. A Trenton, N. letter says: Archie Parks, an old man living by the canal feeder in this city, has saved U3 lives in bis time. He saved a little giri's life only last week. He was interviewed this morning an 1 asked to give an account of his rescues.

He said: "I can't go over them all, but I'll mention some. I aved Seve Wyucoop, who fell into the prison basin. I bad a narrow escape that time, for be was a heavy weight. I was in bad another night when call came for me, and that a man was -making for the feeder for suicide. I jumped out and got- there in time to uab bim as he went down the third time.

Tbat roan is about wn ret. Another day I was coming "through Montgomery street, when I saw a boy riding on a sled. He had bitched to a milkman's wagoa. The sled-rope had rot around his neck and he was choking. The milkman wouldn't stop, not seeing the boy, so I grabbed bis horse and saved tne lad.

I had to carry bim home. He is an ex-t3n- ator sson. At rennlngtou, another day, a iady with two -children was getting off a morning train. Hhe was on the point of falling under, whin I grabbed tbe woman and one child and pushed the other on the plat- form. At least one have been run over." And bow much have you got, Archie," was aslcod, ''tor your serviced" "Once I got an old soldier's overcoat for stopping two burglars from stealing a valuable team back of Hanover stret t.

1 got tbe suit of clothes I told you about, and 1 got 2b cents for saving a rich man's son. that's all I ever saw for saving sixty-two lives; but never mind, I haveu't told you all. One winter night, while I ws constable near the Star rubberworks, I beard a cry of murder. 1 ran out and saw two fellows on tbe go. Close by, in ttie water, a man was struggling.

It was mighty cold weather, but I jumped in and saved bim. Another time Jack Donnelly would have smothered while fixing a boiler at the rubber-works if I bad not hauled him oat. One New-year's eve I was in bed in the swamp wben I heard 'murder. I got out quickly and found a man, bead down, in a big bank of snow, ua- able to get up. Ms bad been assaulted and robbed.

I got bim oat and caught th robbers, who went to prison. I saved a Ewing-township farmer twice from robbery, and maybe murder ta the swamp. About tws years ago I was at tbe Clinton-street depot, -wben some one called that a boy was in the creek. I slipped off my shoes and jumped In, aud, with John Bradley's help, got out the boy; but a spike bad ran clean through my foot and 1 was laid np six weeks, narrowly escaping A few months ago I bad my wrist sprained saving a boy ia th feeder, and couldn't work tor weeks. Archie belongs to a family of rescuers of human life.

Hi father died from injuries in saving the life of a lady who was riding behind a wild runaway horse. 'His son Elwoud claims to have saved seventeen lives about Trenton, some from drowning and others on tho railroad and runaways, etc His seventeen-year -old daughter saved her own sister and auotbtr little girl from burning to death. His Vine-year-old boy. dragged a child off th trak in front of aa approaching train. i A Wast of Water.

Xew York Commureial Advertiser. According to tbo who favor tbe Breok- lyn Water Extension BiU, 20,000,000 gallons of water are daily wasted between Hockviil Center and South Oyster bay. It does not appear from their statement that any other kind of Democratic fluid is wasUd. Terif let Revesas Oat v. Aw rr rreief.

An essential characteristic of a just tax system is that it shall fail equally upon all aaa sot favor ess files or grout' at tb aa- puMot Uar group,.