must recognize, in Mr. Goode's action in the Pan-Electric case, a too-ready lending of himself to a course which, as an unprejudiced officer of the Government, he should, properly, have given more careful consideration. The statement of Senator Edmunds concerning alleged trafficking in offices for confirmation, which carries weight, because of the source from which it proceeds, is, of itself, sufficient cause for the rejection of the appointment. The position is one that can be filled by another quite as satisfactorily as by Mr. Goode.

New York Star (Dem.), July 11.

HITHERTO it has been the credit of the Administration that caused our opponents such solicitude. It shocked them, remembering the pellucid purity of Republican rule, to think that, under Democratic management, a public officer should not straightway resign when he found himself even suspected of having a pecuniary interest in any matter pending before Congress or the courts. When a rumor came, however, that those concerned were to be forced out of office, the President is promptly informed that that will not save him-that it is, in fact, of little consequence. What the Bell organs want is the withdrawal of that suit.

Baltimore Sun (Ind.), July 13.

THE partisan spirit shown so constantly by the Republican majority of the Senate cropped out again in the rejection of Mr. Goode as Solicitor General. If this act stood alone, some importance might be attached to it as an honest exercise of the power vested in the Senate. But, coupled as it is with a line of conduct showing the greatest animosity toward the Executive in the matter of appointments, it will be regarded, as it deserves to be, as an uncalled-for reflection upon an intelligent and worthy gentleman, whose substantial offense is not his connection with Attorney-General Garland, but his services to the Democratic party.

Albany Journal (Rep.), July 12.

IF Mr. Goode had been rejected as a Solicitor-General several months ago, as the exposure in the Senate of his connection with election frauds in Virginia and his peculiar relations to an insolvent bank showed that he should have been, the PanElectric crowd might not have worked its schemes so easily in the Department of Justice. The declaration of the Senate that he was an unfit man for the place has an indirect bearing on this scandal, although the matter was not referred to in the debate. Now let Mr. Garland follow Mr. Goode into private life

New York Mail and Express (Rep.).

THE rejection of the nomination of John Goode to be Solicitor-General of the United States is a judgment on his immediate superior, Mr. Garland, and on the President, who has kept a dishonored Attorney-General and his "wicked partner,” the Solicitor-General, in office, after exposures that would have been sufficient to have fired officers at the head of the Department of Justice, of all places in the Government, out of their places, long ago, under any President the country had up to the time of Mr. Cleveland.

Terre Haute Express (Rep.), July 11.

BOURBON Senators said what they could in favor of the Solicitor-General, but about all they attempted to show was that he was being held to too strict an account for political asperities" which ought to be buried." Goode's official acts with refence to the Pan-Electric telephone scandal also came in for censure. Mr. Goode can well be spared from the employ of the Government, as also could a great many more of his stripe who have stepped into office since the reform Administration took place.

New York Evening Post (Ind.), July 10.

MR. GOODE has long borne a bad reputation for his participation in the election fraud by which he was elected to Congress years ago, and his connection with the Pan-Electric business, since he went into the Department of Justice, has still further discredited him. If Attorney-General Garland can interpret the signs of the times, he must see in the popular endorsement of Mr. Goode's rejection evidence of the satisfaction with which the country would hail his too-long postponed resignation. New York Herald (Ind.), July 12.

THE Senate did right to reject him. But can the President do less now than ask Mr. Garland, Mr. Goode's chief, to step down and out? Washington reports say that Mr. Cleveland will not go back on any man while he is" under fire." Well, several Presidents have acted on that foolish theory, and if Mr. Cleveland will ask the older members of his party in Congress, they will tell him that it has been found about the worst policy a President can pursue.

Washington Post (Dem.), July 12.

THE Bell Telephone Company is possessed of a good many hundred millions of dollars, and is determined that no suit shall be continued to inquire into the valid. ity of its patents, if it can be prevented by any means. The defeat of Mr. Goode

is its first triumph. We shall see now of what kind of stuff the President is made. Perhaps the Bell Telephone Company can control him, too, and possibly it can not. Baltimore Herald (Ind.), July 12.

SENATOR MAHONE, though not the "boss" he once was, still manages to carry a point now and then. The rejection of the nomination of Solicitor-General Goode was his work, and in view of the very determined fight which he had to make the result is creditable to the old man. In fact, it was a personal issue between Goode and Mahone, and the latter proved that in this instance, at least, he was a "boss."

Chicago Journal (Rep.), July 10.

THE Democrats in the Senate all voted to confirm Goode, and assumed their share of the disgrace which he has brought on the Administration, of which he was a part. It is to be regretted that the chief officer of the Department of Justice can not be again brought before the Senate for its judgment on his fitness for the office that he holds. The decision would, doubtless, be prompt and emphatic.

Philadelphia Record (Ind.), July 12.

IN the rejection of the nomination of Solicitor-General Goode the triumph of partisanship brings along with it a victory for the Bell Telephone Company and for Senator Mahone. Neither the powerful monopoly nor the repudiated repudiator should gather much comfort from the decision of the Senate. The fact that they are pleased of itself makes the action of the Senate displeasing to the people.

Washington Critic (Ind.), July 12.

MR. MAHONE wanted Goode's nomination rejected, and it was rejected. The Senate dared not refuse the request of the man who carries in his pocket the delegation of Virginia to the next Republican National Convention. So that in this instance Senatorial courtesy simply means abject submission to one Senator's dictation. That's about all there is of it. General Mahone is still "boss."

Troy Times (Rep.), July 10.

NO DOUBT the votes of Senators were more or less influenced by the knowledge that Goode used his office to promote the financial schemes of Mr. Garland, his principal, and the other crooked "impecunious statesmen." The President's appointment of a tissue-ballot fraud like Goode was an insult to the country, which the Senate has properly rebuked. It ought to have done it before.

Manchester Union (Dem.), July 12.

We really wish our Republican friends would agree on the reason why the Senate failed to confirm Solicitor Goode. The only thing they succeed in making us understand is that they all considered him a Democrat. In a certain sense this is enough, for your "trooly loil" Republican considers it an outrage against the Republic to give a Democrat an office, anyhow.

Boston Advertiser (Rep.), July 10.

IT IS an unpleasant duty for Mr. Cleveland to perform, but if the Pan-Electric statesmen will not resign, and Mr. Garland ought first to be considered, for his position is the most open to criticism, then the President owes it to the country to put at the head of the Department of Justice a man who is not pecuniarily interested in suits being conducted under his direction.

Richmond Whig (Dem.), July 11.

WHEN the hired attorneys of subsidized railroad corporations strenuously oppose the confirmation of an important law officer of the Government, the country will not be slow in coming to the conclusion that he is the right man for the place. President Cleveland will meet a general expectation by reappointing Mr. Goode after Congress adjourns.

Washington Sunday Gazette (Rep.), July 11.

NO HONEST man in the country needed to be told that Mr. Garland was the soul of honor, but when the great political leader of the Republican party takes occasion publicly in the Senate to attest the Attorney-General's high character, then the pack of snarling hounds who have been snapping at his heels slink away in mortification and shame.

Springfield Republican (Ind.), July 11. ATTORNEY-GENERAL GARLAND is tired out, and will take two months of rest in Arkansas. This does not fill the bill. A permanent retirement would be much better. That would relieve the old gentlemen from any fears that he may be compelled to don a swallow-tail coat, and would relieve the Administration in more important ways.

Indianapolis Journal (Rep.), July 10.

A WASHINGTON special to the Atlanta Constitution declares that Attorney-General Garland has recently said to his friends that he will never resign while under fire. This settles the matter, then, for unless there is a miraculous interposition, Mr. Garland will be under fire just so long as he remains in the Cabinet.

New York World (Dem.), July 10.

MR. GOODE is a victim of that scandal. His rejection is a rebuke to Pan-Electric statesmanship. Who can say where that rebuke will end? Nevertheless, a few ringing, honest words from President Cleveland might yet avert its further effects from the Administration.

Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem.), July 12. RIDDLEBERGER thinks it was Bell Telephone stock that knocked out Solicitor Goode's appointment in the Senate. Very likely that had its influence, but it is not improbable that Pan-Electric took a hand also.

withhold the nomination from himself, especially as the repeated defeats of Clay when a candidate ruled that statesman out of the race. Webster's refusal of the Vice-Presidential nomination in 1840 deprived him of the Presidency for three years and eleven months, on the death of President Harrison. His refusal of the second place on the ticket in 1848 lost him the Presidency during two years and a half, after the death in office of President Taylor. Had Webster filled the second place on the ticket in 1840, instead of Tyler, thus becoming Pesident, the attitude of the Administration toward the national bank question would have been different, although Webster, as Secretary of State under Harrison and Tyler, mildly supported the latter in his war on the bank. Webster, as President, would, it is probable, also have strongly opposed the movement which ended in 1844 in a treaty with Texas, and in war with Mexico on that account two years later. The Whigs strongly favored the national bank and as strongly opposed Texas annexation. Webster, at heart, was in sympathy with his party on both measures, although his service in Tyler's Cabinet made him appear to oppose the former. His course would have made Webster the most popular Whig in the country, having reinvigorated the party, and have given him instead of Clay the nomination in 1844. In that event he would have been elected, Texas would not have come into the Union until years afterward, war with Mexico would not have taken place, the Southern desire to acquire new territory in which slavery could be extended would have been thwarted, the Kansas border wars would not have occurred, certainly not so early as they did, and the rebellion itself would have been postponed, and might have been averted altogether. The possibilities attending the second place on the Presidential ticket have not received the consideration from our statesmen which its importance warrants.

THE PORT OF BATOUM.

THE closing of the port of Batoum by the Emperor of Russia to the free commerce of the powers of Europe has excited deep interest, which is voiced in the appended extracts:

Brooklyn Eagle (Dem.), July 10.

THE excuses put forward by Russia for its violation of the Berlin treaty in closing the port of Batoum will not impress any unprejudiced person by their adequacy or truthfulness. Instead of defending his action by one good, solid, and sufficient reason, the Czar resorts to no less than four, neither of which is of the slightest value. As to three of them, indeed, they relate wholly to matters between the Czar himself and the residents of Batoum, and are no more to be considered as valid than an excuse which a man might put forward against paying his honest debts, on the ground that it would take money out of his pocket if he paid them. The pretense that the trade of Batoum has been injured by being made a free port is nothing to the purpose, even if it were true, and every man of sense knows that such a statement cannot be true. The only thing resembling a reason, then, which the Czar gives to justify his breach of faith is the statement that the article of the treaty of Berlin making Batoum a free port was not the result of any understanding, but of a free and spontaneous declaration that Russia was willing to make Batoum a free port. This is surely a very singular reason for a breach of contract, and seems to involve the proposition that the spontaneous offer that a man may make for the purpose of inducing another to enter into a bargain with him is not to be regarded as of the same force or validity as a concession made after long haggling between two contending parties. This, of course, is nonsense, and its absurdity becomes more glaring when the conditions under which Russia obtained Batoum are taken into account. Russia did not conquer that city in the late war, but by the treaty of San Stefano, Batoum, Bayazid, Kars, Ardahan, and the territory between the Russian frontier and the Soghanly Mountains were ceded to Russia in lieu of the payment of 1,100,000,000 roubles of the indemnity claimed by Russia on account of the war. At the Berlin Congress England demanded that Batoum should be made a free port, if ceded to Russia, and its fortifications demolished, although she had agreed with Russia previously that Batoum should go to that power. Finally, the Czar declared that Batoum should be a free port. There was nothing spontaneous about the act, for it was one of the conditions of making the treaty of Berlin and was embodied in one of the articles of that treaty. Now it is broken on the flimsiest of excuses. Unfortunately for England, the moral strength of her position as protesting against the violation of a solemn treaty is much weakened by the crooked policy pursued by, Beaconsfield and Salisbury prior to the Berlin Congress. These two men, while posing there as England's champions and offering a pretended resistance to Russia's claims, had in their pockets a secret treaty with that power in which all the conditions to be embodied in the Berlin treaty were laid down. The demand that Batoum should be made a free port seems to have been an after-thought on the part of Beaconsfield, and the Czar at that time had good reason to complain that faith had been broken with him, for Beaconsfield had certainly agreed to the cession of Batoum without any conditions. Russia's object in this move is, of course, to keep the trade of that region to herself. A free port, in an international sense, is a port where the ships of all nations may enter and load and unload. Free ports form depots where goods may be stored in warehouses without paying duty and afterward either shipped for export on paying a mere transit duty or entered for home consumption on paying the full amount of customs duty. In this way free ports facilitate transit trade, and form, as it were, a foreign district within a State. Thus English or Germans or Greeks might compete with Russian merchants at Batoum for all the Asiastic trade that place can control, and no doubt were doing so successfully. This the Czar does not want; the foreigner must be kept out, and thus Batoum is no longer to be a free port. This is the second treaty that Russia has repudiated within the last twenty years on her own mere motion. The fact does not show a very high code of political morality in Russia, and it is just possible that other nations will hereafter regard making new treaties with that powers as a needjess ess task. Of course, if one power can repudiate the treaty of Berlin another is

equally free to do so, and it is just possible that Russia imagines that it would benefit her to tear up that compact entirely and begin again. If so, it is not unlikely that she may endeavor to bring about this state of affairs, and, in that case, there will be lively times in Europe before the snow flies.

Boston Journal (Rep.), July 10.

SUCH a government as that of England is necessarily at a disadvantage in dealing with a power like Russia. In England, administrations come and go at the command of the people, and the foreign, not less than the domestic, policy is changed accordingly. But the Russian government is free from constitutional restrictions, and its policy is the will of an individual. Hence it comes to pass that with a sleepless and always consistent purpose it pushes its schemes, and when its movements are viewed in the retrospect they resemble the slow but resistless and crushing movement of a great glacier. It is no surprise, therefore, to find that while the attention of the English government and people has been concentrated upon home affairs, and especially upon the relations of Ireland, Russia has been using the time to push forward along her chosen line of advance. She has the additional advantage of carrying on her movements at points remote from observation, and being able to deny and conceal them until the necessity for concealment is over. This is true particularly of her operations in Asia. She has strengthened her hold upon Persia with a view to utilizing Persian territory as a base of operations toward Afghanistan and India. She has organized and placed under effective Russian administration the territory secured from the Turcomans and the Afghans. She has won nearly every point at issue in the work of the Afghan frontier commission, and every concession has been followed by a fresh claim. She has pushed her railway rapidly toward Herat, and has perfected telegraph communication. Elsewhere, she has not been inactive. Her recent announcement that Batoum is no longer to be regarded as an open port is almost a challenge to the Powers. She is concentrating troops in Bessarabia, and her attitude toward Bulgaria is unquestionably hostile. The signs point to a concerted movement in European Asia toward the accomplishment of the long-cherished Russian plans. Prudential considerations may delay operations, but it certainly looks as if the Czar had concluded that the time had come for a forward movement, and there is ample ground for the disquietude occasioned by the symptoms of Russian restlessness. The Courrier des Etats-Unis, July 11.

[Translated for PUBLIC OPINION.]

RUSSIA, in declaring to the European powers that the port of Batoum would cease to be a port of free entry to general commerce, has produced the impression that she intended to obliterate the last vestiges of the treaty of Berlin, and to release itself from all the obligations imposed upon her at the conclusion of peace. This manifestation, allied to many symptoms of a disquieting character, has been followed by explanations destined to calm the first apprehensions. It is officially declared at St. Petersburg that in deciding upon the closing of the port of Batoum to commerce, the Russian government has in nowise a thought of violating the treaty of Berlin, in which the freedom of that port is mentioned only as an act of initiative, not obligatory on the part of that government. This decision, it adds, moreover, has not been taken from political motives, but for reasons purely economical, the experience of eight years having demonstrated that the commercial importance of the port of Batoum does not justify the sacrifices which its maintenance imposed. These explanations will doubtless suffice to cause the measure to be accepted without any apparent conflict of interests by the powers, which, like England, would at least have believed it their duty to protect their dignity by a more or less energetic protest. But it will not change, at bottom, the character of the act in itself, which simply signifies that the Czar, having patiently re-established his empire over the Black Sea, intends to remain absolute master of it, and for the future to admit into it those only whom he deems proper.

Las Novedades, New York, July 10.

[Translated for PUBLIC OPINION.]

It is needless to say how lively is the sensation produced in political circles by this resolution of the Czar, a presage of future complications, and the occasion, possibly, of fresh conflicts. The cable has informed us that Lord Rosebery, the English Minister of Foreign Affairs, commenced immediately the draft of a note to the imperial government, after expressing to the Russian Ambassador "the surprise" which this attitude of Russia and the closing of the port of Batoum have produced on his government. The declaration of Russia, however it may be regarded, an evident infraction of the treaty, and a fresh challenge thrown out to the power of England, who, in her turn, has lost no time in manifesting her purpose to take the initiative in the measures which the attitude of Russia suggests to the powers in general, and especially to the four which recently united their squadrons to blockade the Greek ports, and prevent a Turco-Hellenic war. Russian government has never distinguished itself in the diplomatic and concilatory character of its explanations to England, and, for carrying out its schemes in the future in the East, has elected the most favorable moment in the situation in Europe, anl, above all, in that of its rival, England.

Der Deutsche Correspondent, Baltimore, July 12.

[Translated for PUBLIC OPINION.]

The

We have for some years past seen, repeatedly, that in every fresh alarm of impending war the same game has been repeated in the same old circle, without anything coming out of it. In view of this stereotype course of events, the role of a prophet has become somewhat hazardous. But, some day, surely the impending storm will burst upon us. All the signs portend that the Czar is now on the point of inaugurating a struggle that must enkindle a general conflagration, and redden the battle-field of three divisions of the globe. The simple fact that he has closed the port of Batoum to the free commerce of the merchant-shipping and has fortified the place is, in itself, of slight significance; but the manner in which he has done so, the formal and, so to speak, dramatic proclamation, the massing of troops at

different points along the Black Sea and in the Caucasus, the dispatch of two regimens of the Imperial Guard to Bessarabia, the menacing deportment of Russia toward the Sublime Porte, with his stern position toward Alexander of Bulgaria, and the demands made upon Austria, show that the thoughts of the Czar are bent

on war,

The New Yorker Staats-Zeitung, July 10.

[Translated for PUBLIC OPINION.]

THE Russian official explanation of the closing of the port of Batoum to the merchant-marine of all nations is one of the most threadbare imaginable. Russian diplomacy is well enough aware that no chicanery in the world can get rid of the fact of the obligations assumed in article 59 of the Berlin treaty, that Batoum was to be considered as a port of traffic, and open to the commerce of the world. She, therefore, creeps behind the folding-screen which covers all and every infraction of treaty-the theory of "altered relations." Russian cynicism, it is known, enjoys a not very enviable reputation, even in the world of diplomacy. This time, however, she has excelled herself. The mockery is really cruel. "Altered," to be sure, are the "relations," but only in this particular, that at the time of the Berlin treaty Russia found herself opposed by a united Europe; but now she can do, or leave undone, pretty much whatever she pleases. And so, then, will the Berlin treaty, that proudest achievement of Bismarck, fall also a victim to his friendship for Russia.

MISCELLANEOUS.

I

A MOONLIGHT FOX CHASE.-Some fifteen years ago I was a boy in my 'teens, but an enthusiastic lover of the chase and an ardent admirer of the fair sex. could never quite decide in my own mind which was dearest to my heart-the girls or the hounds. It is true I went to see the girls oftener than I went foxhunting, but many a time and oft have I cut short a visit when the fire was warm and the girl was pretty, to go home to give to Rowdy and Rival their evening meal and see that they were comfortably housed for the night. I had learned to hunt under the old Squire, an old-time Virginia gentleman, who, although past threescore years, was a boy in his ardent admiration of the chase, and a desirable partner but dreaded opponent in a game of marbles or quoits. Oh, many a game of seven-up, of euchre, of whist, and of draw poker have I enjoyed around his hospitable board. Peace be to his ashes; he is now no more, but his memory shall ever be dear to my heart. He once paid me a compliment I can never forget. After an unusually long and unsuccessful day's ride he turned to me, calling me by name, said: "I have raised eight sons and taught them all to hunt, and have also taught a good many other boys, but you are the only one who would ever ride with me all day and be as eager to hunt at night as you were in the morning; like myself, you never know when to quit." We had had a very dry season the latter part of the Summer and early Fall and could not take the dogs out, somewhat to our chagrin. One day by way of consolation I rode over to see my elderly friend, and while there the rain began to fall and we hoped for an old-fashioned "dog-mire," but were disappointed, for just before sundown the clouds broke away and the beautiful rainbow declared that the rain was over. "If we had your dogs and George's we would go out to-night on McGraw Bridge and start a young fox." This was enough for me. "I will have my dogs and George's here in less than an hour," was my reply. The distance from his house to my grandfather's, where I lived, was between three and four miles, and almost an unlimited number of gates and draw bars to contend with; but my pony, Old Rabbit, was fond of the sport and I whispered in his ear and told him what was on hand. In an hour's time I had returned with my two hounds and with George and his two, which, added to the old Squire's five, made nine as good, rattling red-fox hounds as any neighborhood ever had. The Squire was ready, as were two or three of his sons. Two black boys employed on the farm were told that if they desired it they might get a pair of unused horses and accompany us, and this they did with great gusto, thinking it a great thing to go fox-hunting along with the "gentmen" on horseback. These boys were very useful that night pulling down and putting up fences. We had gone about a mile when the glorious full moon arose in its splendor, making it almost light enough to see to read. In a few moments after we entered a bank of mist which was so dense that in the moonlight it looked almost like wool. After passing through it we skirted its eastern border, with the moon on one side and the bank on the other, and then saw what I never saw before or since-a lunar bow. I had supposed that it was colored like the solar bow, but I was mistaken; it was as white as a sheet and not more than ten steps from us. It was an arc of a circle of about fifteen feet radius and about one and a half to two feet in breadth. The Squire told the colored boys if they did not ride up close to us that the ghost would catch them. This made their teeth chatter, and had it not been for repeated assurances of safety I have no idea what would have been the result, for, as it was, they shadowed us closely the balance of the evening. We started a young red, and after an interesting chase the dogs put him in the ground. Another was started-an old red, we thought, for he led the dogs at once to where no rain had fallen in this partial shower, and soon got away from them. We got home early, but I shall ever remember this as one of the pleasantest evenings of my life.—The American Field.

AN EMPEROR'S MODES OF LIFE.-Emperor William does not smoke nor take snuff. Neither does he wear spectacles. When reading or writing he uses an eyeglass, although he does not wish to admit that his sight is growing weak. His majesty sleeps as soundly as the healthiest of youths, and never takes a rest during the course of the day. He always receives standing up in his salon, after having changed his old uniform for a more correct one. Should he receive a prince who has conferred on him the purely honorary command of a regiment that bears his name, his majesty always wears the uniform of that particular regiment. In this

respect there is never the slightest derogation from the rigid rule of etiquette. Hence his majesty has frequently to change his uniform three or four times within an hour or two. The emperor was always distinguished for his exquisite courtesy and gallantry, and now, although nearly ninety years of age, he bestows on the empress the most delicate attentions. He loves to go and spend an hour at the opera, which is quite near, but he never disposes of his time during the evenings they take tea together, and the emperor is never absent without having first acquainted the empress of his intention and receiving her permission. It is during dinner, which takes place at six o'clock, that his majesty decides as to how he shall spend the evening. These dinners are of the simplest kind, never more than three courses, and the repast rarely lasts more than half an hour. When the emperor receives permission to pass the evening in his own way, he may be seen at the opera, not in the grand reception box, which occupies all the center of the hall, but in an avant-scene of the first story, where, near the actors, he can see better and can catch every word. The official box is filled with chamberlains in grand tenue, officials in brilliant uniforms, and ladies of the palace in gorgeous toilet, while the emperor himself, in his plain uniform, bows and smiles to the aristocratic ladies and distinguished dames in the body of the house. When the play is over, which is generally a little after 9 o'clock, his majesty returns to the palace; he takes a cup of tea, and at 10 o'clock, if more important receptions do not detain him in the apartments of the empress, he retires to rest like a simple workman, satisfied with his day's toil, and ready to resume it again on the following morning.-Brooklyn Magazine.

In the

WHAT $120 DID IN A COTTAGE AT THE THOUSAND ISLANDS.-Thirty-one dollars went into the sitting-room and never came out; $18.00 sat down round in the form of rattan rockers, two painted in cherry and interwoven in the back and arms with pink tissue paper rolled tightly, two in black, with yellow, and two in the original, with blue; $5.00 lay on the floor in golden brown and seal-checked matting; $4.00 looked very cheery in 49 cent yellow China pongee, hung with small brass rings on a bamboo cane, covering a number of shelves, on which were the light novels of the day; $0.75 dropped into the carpenter's hand when the last nail was driven in a tete-a-tete, and $2.60 looked radiant in its lightflowered, cretonne-covered cushions; $1.00 in two gilded kitchen stools, gaily decorated at the top of each leg with different shades of tissue paper. dining-room, $8.00 was metamorphosed into eight pine chairs, varnished with white varnish, which, with a cushion, each covered with a different shade of China pongee silk, and tied to the legs with a pretty bow, looked well worth the money; $6.00 appeared very substantial in dining table; $1.50 in a leather lambrequin, around a wide shelf, cheaply does the service of a buffet, and seemed proud of the family silver; $2.60 in 22 cent cheese cloth and lace, used as sash draperies in all the windows, gave a clean cottage prettiness to the whole house; $16.00 in an ivory white-painted bedroom set, lighted up the cherry-stained walls and floor of the first bedroom. The opposite room appeared cool and sweet, with its walls of baby blue and $16.00 set of the same hue. The golden brown and seal matting 314 cents per yard left $25.00 to skip into the next room and be changed into an ash-stained set and cherry-colored matting. When the summer came around the boys of the family shouted with joy, "Hurrah for the Thousand Islands!" The girls danced with glee, and the proud father called from the deck of the boat, as he waved his hand in farewell to his friend on the shore, "Come up and see us now Robert, in our island home." The friend enviously muttered under his teeth, but he never knew that the " Island Home" only cost $620 to build and furnish.The Decorator and Furnisher.

WHAT A FRENCHMAN CAN DO WITH A HAIR.—Of Gen, von Manteuffel, the late German military governor of conquered Alsace, who hated all that was French, it is said that he once, at a public dinner, engaged in a dispute with a French diplomate, who maintained the superiority of the French workmen over the artisans of all other countries. "A thing so ugly does not exist that the skill and genius of a Frenchman can not make of it a thing of beauty," he said. Angered by the contradiction, the old soldier pulled a hair from his bristly gray moustache, and, handing it to the Frenchman, said curtly, "Let him make a thing of beauty out of that, then, and prove your claim." The Frenchman took the hair and sent it in a letter to a well-known Parisian jeweler, with a statement of the case and an appeal to his patriotic pride, giving him no limit of expense in executing the order. A week later the mail from Paris brought a neat little box for the General. In it was a handsome scarf-pin made like a Prussian eagle, that held in its talons a stiff gray bristle, from either end of which dangled a tiny golden ball. One was inscribed "Alsace," and the other "Lorraine;" and on the eagle's perch were the words, "You hold them, but by a hair."

RELIGIOUS.

A PREACHER DRUNK.-The secular papers that print Sunday editions take a special interest in the preachers. In a leading daily last week there was a half column of telegraphic special under this head, in bold face, " A Preacher Drunk." The facts were as follows: A young minister who had been intemperate before his conversion and call to the ministry was persuaded to take a glass of wine by one who pretended to be his friend. The old appetite revived, and he was led on step by step until he was found in a saloon dead drunk. The men who plotted his ruin summoned the reporters to see him in his degradation. It was a big item and the enterprising caterers for those who read the daily papers telegraphed it all over the country. A preacher drunk! Why, it was as good as a cyclone. They worked it up in their best style, and expected it to make a sensation. And it did. I have a neighbor who gets his religion from the Sunday newspapers, and, of course, has a buzzard's appetite for carrion. He came to me with that paragraph marked, and said, "See here, Oldschool, you believe in preachers and I don't,

Tell me what you think of that!" I read it and replied: "I think the editor and the reporter have paid the Christian ministry a high and deserved compliment in that dispatch."

Why so? A compliment to the cloth to report that one of them was drunk last night in a saloon?"

"Yes, and I can make you see it if you will listen to me. many preachers there are in the United States?"

Do you know how "No; but I reckon there's lots of them, for it's an easy way of getting a living."

"I'm not so sure of that. People are mighty particular nowadays. A preacher has got to be smart or they won't hear him. A man who has brains enough to get a living by preaching in these times could get rich in any other profession. But as you can't answer my question, I shall have to answer it myself. According to the census of 1880, there are over 75,000; and now, mark you, when one of these 75,000 falls it is considered so remarkable that it is telegraphed all over the land. The Bible says that ministers are but men. It speaks of them as 'earthen vessels.' And the great wonder is that among so many so few turn out badly. So you see the publication of this case three thousand miles from where it occurred shows how rare and remarkable it is. They don't have common-place and every-day occurrences telegraphed across the continent. And now let me ask you another question. Suppose, when you opened your daily paper to-morrow, you found a dispatch at the head of a column from Cranberry, N. J., or Dover, Del., with the heading, A Lawyer Drunk,' and that in the dispatch all the details were given of A. B., a promising young lawyer, who had become intoxicated, and was found in a low groggery dead drunk; what would you think in that case?" "I would think that the editor was a fool."

Why so?"

Yes, and don't you see the result of your own admissions? The fall of a Christian minister is regarded by telegraph operators as a first-class item, like an earthquake, a cyclone, or a million-dollar conflagration. It is a thing so rare, so unexpected, so out of the usual course of things, that it must be sent flashing around the world. You don't believe in ministers, but you do believe in rumsellers? You don't go to church to hear our preacher, but you spend your Sundays in Tom O'Flanagan's saloon. You think, of course, that Tom is a better man than Rev. Dr. Abell, or you wouldn't prefer his society. Now, suppose you read in your daily paper that Jim McGrady, over in some town on the Atlantic coast, was found drunk this morning behind his own bar; would you come to me and say, 'Read that?””

Why, no, of course?"

Well, why not?"

Because, that's a thing that happens every day in hundreds of places. It wouldn't be news. A man who handles edged tools will cut his own fingers once in a while, no matter how careful he is. And besides, it's no great matter if a fellow does get a little too much now and then."

"No, not a great matter, as it seems, for your chosen companions-the model men whose society you cultivate; but a very great matter for one preacher out of 75,000, and he evidently tempted and led astray by a rum-seller. Some heartless saloonist, knowing that this young preacher had once been dissipated, and that the appetite for strong drink might be revived, watched for him as a spider watches for a fly, and enticed him into his den on purpose to destroy him. You know that nearly all of your friends, the bar-tenders, will do such things and glory in them, and yet you admire and patronize them. But when they succeed in bringing a preacher, one out of 75,000, down to their level and yours, you denounce the whole ministry as a nuisance and a fraud. It is to cater to just such buzzard appetites as yours that the daily papers have these scandals telegraphed. But they don't realize that in so doing they are paying the highest possible compliment to the general purity of the Christian ministry."-Obediah Oldschool, in The Interior.

THE PLANTING AND EXHUMING OF A PRAYER.-It may not be generally known that Mrs. Colonel Stevenson brought with her from New Mexico, last autumn, WaWah, a Zuni woman, the most expert weaver and potter in her pueblo, and one of the five priestesses of the order of Ko-Ko. For six months this woman has taught her patroness the language, myths, and arts of the Zunis-now explaining some intricate ceremony, at another time weaving belt or blanket under the eye of the camera, or with wonderful dignity and self-possession moving among the most enlightened society of the metropolis. As the season of the summer solstice, or, more correctly, the summer moon, approached, Wa-Wah expressed the greatest anxiety to join with her distant people in the semi-annual plume-planting, the other festival occurring at the time of the winter moon. Letters were written to New Mexico, and the very day ascertained upon which the ceremony would take place in Zuni. Wa-Wah was all excitement to make her preparation of meal, sticks, paint, and feathers. All of these were abundant enough in the stores, but nothing of that kind would suffice. Various diplomatic schemes were tried, but her heart was fixed. The prayer must be right to infinitesimal particulars, or she would have nought to do with it. Meal must be fixed with powdered shells and turquoise; the treasures of the National Museum had to be opened, and the very pieces of yellow, blue and black pigment collected in former years by the bureau of ethnology must be laid under contribution for the stems of the sacred prayer-sticks. Mr. Ridgway's department of ornithology was invoked to supply feathers of the golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos), the wild turkey (Meleagris mexicana), the mallard (Anas boschas), and the bluebird (Scialia arctica).

Fresh twigs from the cottonwood-trees were gathered for stems to the plumes. The plumes, which form the material instrument or accompaniment of the prayer we are describing, are made as follows: Take a straight piece of wood about the size of a lead-pencil and as long as the distance from the crease in the palm of the hand to the end of the middle finger. Make a slight incision around the stick near one end. Take a short, stiff feather of the eagle, the turkey, the duck, and the bluebird, and one or two downy feathers of the eagle. Lay them together so that all the under sides will be toward the stick, and wrap their quill ends and the stick securely together with a cord made of native cotton, sufficiently long to leave free ends five or six inches in length after the tying. To these free ends tie another bunch of smaller feathers from the four kinds of birds. The upright feathers indicate the prayer as addressed to the sun, moon, and Ko-Ko; the trailing feathers, that the suppliant asks for help to walk in the straight path of Zuni morality. Ten plumes were thus finished on Friday, June 18, and dedicated to the several spiritual powers by painting the stems as follows:

1. Sun-Plume.—Blue stem; feathers of eagle, duck, and bluebird on stem and streamer; 2. Moon Plume.-Yellow stem; feathers of eagle, duck, and bluebird on stem and streamer; 3-6. Ko-Ko Plumes.-Black stems; feathers of eagle, turkey, duck, and bluebird on stem or streamer; 7–10. Ancestral Plumes.-Black stems; feathers of eagle, turkey, duck, and bluebird on stems or streamer.

On Saturday, June 19, at two o'clock in the afternoon, in a retired garden in Washington, Wa-Wah performed the ceremony of planting the plumes. Her time was arranged so as to act simultaneously with her people at Zuni.

A hole was dug six inches square and fourteen inches deep, three inches of loose earth being left in the bottom. Around the top for a foot or more the surface dirt was smoothed like a garden-bed. Meal mixed with powdered shells and turquoise was sprinkled freely about and in the hole. Wa-Wah, arranged in her best attire, holding all of her plumes in her left hand, kneeled by the excavation. Taking the sun-plume in her right hand, she prayed for the good influences of the sun upon herself, her people, the crops, and her friends, and then forced the blue stem into the loose dirt of the cavity on the extreme west side, the inner sides of the feathers toward the east. The prayer continuing, the moon-plume, then the four Ko-Ko plumes, and lastly the four ancestral plumes, were planted in order, all with feathers inclining eastward. Wa-Wah then arose, drew forth her little bag of sacred meal, poured a small quantity into her own hand and that of each of her two friends, who were watching with the deepest interest. Each, in turn, sprinkled the meal over the shrine, blowing gently with the breath. The utmost sincerity manifested itself in every portion of this ceremony. It seemed to those who gazed in rapt silence at this simple devotion that they were witnesses to the surviving worship of the primitive world. It was necessary that the sunlight should look upon this prayer during the rest of the day; therefore every precaution was taken to protect the place from intrusion. On Monday morning, with the consent of Wa-Wah, the prayer-plumes, and the earth containing them were carefully dug up, without disturbing a feather, and deposited in the National Museum, perhaps the most unique object ever placed among its precious collections.-O. T. Mason, in Science.

NOTES. The learned and eloquent Pere Monsabre, in a discourse lately delivered in the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris, defined the laity of the church as an "exterior ministry." A judge at Dallas, Texas, has granted an injunction prohibiting the Antioch Baptist Church (colored) from making unnecessary noise during religious services. -A correspondent in the Interior is authority for the statement that there is much demand for Presbyterian Churches in and around Boston. In 1881 the island of Jamaica contained a population of 580,804. Of. these there were Baptists, 82,403; Congregationalists, 6,000; Episcopalians, 116,000; Moravians, 16,000; Presbyterians, 20,000; Roman Catholics, 10,000; Wes leyans, 58,000; Jews, 2,500; Christians, sect not given, 263,000; Mohammedans, 1,137; Hindoos, 3,245; Parsees, 10; Lutherans, 31. This leaves about 5,500 heathen, or persons of no religion. There are in the island 261 ministers of religion and 1,270 teachers and governesses. -Bonaparte Park, N. J., has been leased for a term of three years by the priests of the Catholic Seminary of Germantown as a summer home. The large mansion is being repainted and refitted. A new chapel has been erected at Bryn Mawr, Pa., for the convenience of the Catholics who frequent this summer resort. It is a temporary frame building, 30 by 60 feet in dimensions, and with a seating capacity for 250. Archbishop Ryan blessed it on Sunday, July 4. It is dedicated to Our Lady of Good Counsel, and is under the charge of the Augustine Fathers.- A new Convent of the Perpetual Adoration has been founded at South Mims, near Barnet, England. It is called St. Monica's Priory. The resident nuns are canonesses of St. Augustine, and follow the rule of life written by that great doctor of the Church. This house was first established in Louvain, in Belgium, about 300 years ago, by Margaret Clemant, who had been brought up in the house of the great Chancellor, Sir Thomas More. -An English official in India tells of a French Catholic priest who, receiving a legacy of a few thousand francs, started on a visit to Europe after long service and with most joyful anticipations. He got as far as Jubbulpore, where he found a very needy church, to which he gave all his money, and returned to his field and his work. -On behalf of the citizens of Quebec, Can., Mayor Sanglier recently presented Cardinal-elect Tascherau with an address of congratulation and a purse containing over $5,000.- -The mother of the ex-King of Bavaria has expressed her intention of retiring into a convent.- -Monsignor Giovanni Batista Savarese, the head of the Catholic Liberal Church in Rome, has followed the example set by his friend, Father Curci, and has surrendered to the Pontifical authority. At Father Curci's solicitation he went to see the Cardinal Vicar Parocchi. He was received with such patience and kindness that he shut off his new Italian Catholic Church business in the Via Nazionale, and went into retreat in the religious House of St. Alphonsus. His submission has startled the city of Rome, and has given great joy to the Pope.- -The Nova Scotia Methodist Conference met at Amherst on the 16th ult., with sixty-two ministers present and accompanying laymen. The year had been one of great success. Net increase of membership, 1,144; increase in Mission Fund, nearly $1,200.- -The committee on church membership of the New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island Methodist Conference, in their report,