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some time, took her departure Satur
day. At the matinee she appeared a,
Jane Shore in which character shs
distinguished herself as a superior
dramatic artistic.
&The Honduras delegation are among
the characters here. They think
Chicago a truly wonderful city. The
names of the distinguished party are
Governor Jose NJ. Auguirre, Hon.
Carlos +. Alvarado, senator, and Hon.
x-GOvernor w. C. Burchard.
The officer Race murder case will
come up before the Criminal Court
to-day for final action.
A marriage of unusual interest ex-
cited fashionable society last Thurs
day, Nh. Graeme Stewart and Miss
Nellie Pullman were the happy ones.
Miss p. Isl daughter Of the celebrated
palace car Pullman, and a most be-
witching lady. Mr.. Stewart is the
son Of Mr.. William Stewart, Of the
wholesale grocery house Of Stewart,
Aldrich & Co., of this city. He is a
splendid young business man. Astrue
love is supposed to never run smooth,
Mr.. Stewart was opposed in bis desire
to crafty his heart BY the disapprOval
of his father, in whose employ he was.
But the young lover overstepped
the barrier and informed his irate
''parient' that he was his own boss,
This capped the climax, and the old
gent bounced his undutiful son out of
the store. This did not mend mat
tiers. The marriage took place, and
the reception, at the home of the
brides father, was one of the most
brilliant that ever occurred in Chica-
go. 1t is to be hoped the young couple
will enjoy a long and happy life.
1t is showing as l write, and quite
cold.
Madame LaGhapelle finished her
extraordinary task of walking 200
quarter miles in as many consecutive
quarter hours, at IL o'clock on Satur-
day night. An immense crowd was
present. Now Chicago boasts of hav-
ing produced the champion male and
female walkists of the world-Dan
0'Leary and Madame LaChapelle.
Business still dull and times hard.
NAYR.
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Whinnering Women.

People are agreed as to the desira-
bility Of low voice in woman. There
was a time when the demand was
greater than the supply, but such is
certainly not the case now. In print
tive days, when girls called the COWS.
or conversed with their neighbors
across a ten-acre field, there was a de-
mand for good, strong voices, and the
conversational keynote was naturally
a trile higher. Civilization of the
ordinary standard had a terrific strug-
gle with the gushing laughter and
clear-toned voices of the girls Of the
succeeding period. 1t was not much
Of a trick to jump a girl out of home
spun simplicity into fashionable inery,
but 1t was like pulling teeth to tone
down her laugh and her voice.
but poets sang of the charm of a
low voice in woman. The young wo-
man of to-day is never satisfied with
half way measures, or with incomplete
results. One young woman 6nds an
other admired because Of her soft
tones. Ambitious to excel, and de-,
termined to out do, she brings her
naturally sweet voice down in the scale
to a key in which there is little room
for meditation or infection, She
drops tho natural key, cuts off the
capprs, orimples and graceful move
ment, and talks In a distressed mono
tone. She puts a voice that every ore
admires-voice having in it not the
remotest suggestion Of %vulgarity, but
as nature made II, full Of beautiful
surprises and sweet iptonations-she
puts this gallQning, dancing, musical
yelea into a straight jacket, and
marches at a snale's pace along the
dead level of an exasperating mono
tone. There is no opportunity for
delicate shading, no chance for en-
phasis, no room for expression. There
is no charm in this sort Of a low voice.
II this young woman is a society
leader she will have im%itatOrs, and
among these there will DO many who
will not hesitate to give tho screw an
other turn, aud bring tho voice down
still lower. They will hold in the
natural volume with studious care,
and talk with batcd breath and a Ian
guild air, in a tone more like a hoarso
whisper or a eramped, squeezed fall
sotto than the natural voice Of wo-
man.
Suoh women cannot converse, be-
cause conversation involves modula-
ton, emphasis, and an ability to ex-
press every shade Of meaning and
sentiment, A woman's words, 90 he
attractive. must be understood, and a
womsn's voice, 70 DO charming, must
have all tho elements that attract and
please. Men may listen to the rasping
monotone or the hoarse whisper Of a
woman in tolerance, but they will
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some country place that he knew long
ago before he was a long-distance
walker, and mirage floats before him,
Ike that which cheats wanderers in
the desert. When bis hour is up, he
staggers into his bedroom, and there,
let us hope, has the good fortune to
become quite senseless and indifferent.
As the last day Of the competition
approaches, the softer hearted lockers
on wish to have some Of the walkers
removed; but their hackers will not
permit this. Men are compelled to
subject themselves to this voluntary
torture, which equals those to which
red Indian braves expose themselves.
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leave her nrosence depressea. bod o

leave her presence depressed, not 10
say exasperated.
Peculiar influences often cause
graceful styles of dress to degenerate
into whimsical follies. Exaggerated
sentimentalism often brings good, true
sentiment into disrepute. SO mistaken
notions as TO what constitutes a low
voice may cause the charm of a low
voice in woman to be less appreciated.
Women's voices are attuned naturally
to the atmosphere of home. They
carry in them, or should carry, all the
associations of refined homes, and
should suggest all the graces of
womanly kinds.
There is no danger that a low voice
in woman will lose its charm, unless
it is through abuse in the name of
refinement or something else. Young
girls should be made to see the differ
ence between the voice of a cultivated
woman and the voice of an affected
one between the graces Of the one
and the distortion Of the other, be-
tween the presence of meditation,
emphasis and tone, and the presence
of all.
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JONATHAN MUST GO.
RetaliatOry Measures from a Chinese
IA Point Of View.

Alleged Hong Kong Letter to the World.l
We had fondly hoped, despite fire.
quent annoyances and occasional out
RACES, that the American residents
of China would be sure of protection
whenever they invoked the imperial
power. The Burlingame treaty, we
knew, existed, and under its provis-
ions the most ample security was
offered to law-abiding citizens of the
United States sojourning in the Celes-
tial empire. But, alas! we seemed to
have labored under a hallucination
when we fancied hat a heather ma
ton of small knowledge and scanty
civilization would for a moment re-
speet treaty rights unless under
constraint. The United States
example has been lost upon the
Chinese. While the Americans have
cast the triple egis of the law around
the meanest Chinaman within their
borders, protecting his person from
harm, his property from spoliation and
his religious and social habits from
ridicule while, / say, they have de-
clared that the nations faith pledged
by a solemn treaty with a friendly
power is to be kept secret, no matter
how advantageous it would be to break
it, what have the Chinese done? They
have faithlessly and ~insolenty, with
out warning, without justification.
abrogated the Burlingame treaty
The heads of the six boards have laid
at the foot of the throne" a proclama-
tiOn against the "red-haired foreign
devils couched in this offensive
style:
Whereas, Now for many years the
bowels Of the Empire Of Heaven have
been unsalubrious because of the
presence in the FloWery Dominions of
the Brother of the Sun and Moon of
red haired foreign devils, Yankee
Mclean men, Sans, who do not eat
dog or drink saki, but defle their tea
with the milk of oxen and feed like
swine upon unseemly things, washing
clothes likewise with the might Of
white breathing devils tormented in
iron boxes, introducing p~estiIencesI
and ~neglecting the worship of the
dead and the ~progenitors
Whereas, BY reason of their per-
nicious presence, there have been
famines and earthquakes, and tho
butchers shops are full of big blue
flies and whereas, the excellent poet.
Tup Pur, hath said: He whocometh
from abroad is a stranger-yea, the
stranger cometh from abroad now,
therefore, the King, the Emperor Who
Rules the Porter of the Earth the
CockolOrum who is Elevated above
all, Brother of the Sun and Moon.
Father of the Planetary System. and
who hath the Asteroids for his Sisters
and his Cousins, and his Aunts. Wear
or of the Peacock's Feather and the
Jade Button, who hath a thousand
wives save one, nine hundred and
ninety and nine Mothers-in law, and
the Key Of the Combination com
mands
First-That no junk shall hereafter
bring to the Flowery Kingdom red
haired foreign devils, Yankees, Nell
can men, Sans, to any number exceed
ing fifteen at one voyage.
.Socond-That if any junk shall
bring more than fifteen red haired
foreign devils, Yankees, Mclean men,
Sans, at one voyage, headman boss
alice same captain catchee plison six
moons, pungle bundle dollals to top
side pleececoult's desk fol each China
man he catchee mole fifteen sabbee?
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LOng.Distance walking.

The Saturday Reyiew.l
Long-distance walking was imported
from the United States, where ii seems
to have come into existence about the
time when negro slavery wasabolished.
Perhaps in viewing the agonies of a
half-dead man staggering along a track
to tho music Of a band, and much to
the anxiety Of a doctor, the public
found some compensation for the loss
of the privilege Of thrashing its own
niger. Nor, again, as prize fighting
deeayed, long.distanee walking may
naturally have taken its place. Two
men who have walked 100 miles in a
week are almost as agreeable ia look
upon as two men who have been
pounding each Others faces for three
hours with their fists. In the lat.
ter case, to DO sure, there is the
fierce delight OF battle, which every
one a enjoy if he hardens his heart.
Long walking, on the other hand. is
scarcely more diverting than the
slower fortunes Of the Inquisition.
which qnlY. bpgia IA afford tho spcota
tor entertainment after tho victim had
suffered for some considerable time.
AS longas a long. distance walker is
tolerably fresh and going within him.
self thero is little excitement in
watching him. II is about the fifth
day that sleeplessness and fatigue tell
on him, and the sport begins. He
llmpS slogs. ~gpfferigs tornonts nom A
fostering heel. His brain is bemused
with exceeding toll, and, as he Mag.
gers mechanically round. II Is said
that curious visions beguile him.
he does not see the crowd,
whist, elares, spokss sed drlaks,
dc does Dot bear tie music.
which mixes in a dream Of the past
life. He thinks that he is workiny ia
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ON THE BATTLE FIELD.
Meeting Of General Barlow and Senator
Gordon at Gettysburg.

Boston Transcript
You may not be aware that it was
General Gordon's command which
struck the flank Of the Eleventh
Corps on the afternoon of the first
day at Gettysburg, and after a short
but desperate conflict broke its line
and swept it from the field.
In that fight General Barlow. Of
New York, commander of the first
division, fell dangerously, and, it was
thought, mortally wounded. He was
shot directly through the body. Two
Of his men attempted to bear him
through that shower of lead from the
field; but one was instantly killed.
and General Barlow magnanimously
said to the other You can do me
no good save yourself if you can"
GordOn's brigade Of Gcorgians in its
Wild charge swept over him, and he
was found by General Gordon himself.
lying with upturned face in the hot
July sun, nearly ~paralyzed and appar-
emily dying. General Gordon dis
mounted from his horse, gave him a
drink Of water from his ~canteen. and
inquired Of General Barlow his name
and wishes.
General Barlow said IL shall prob
ably live but a short time. Please
take from my breast pocket the pack.
age Of my wife's letters and read one
of them to me, which was done. He
then asked that the others be torn up.
as he did not wish them to fall into
other hands. This General Gordon
did and then asked Can | do any,
thing else for you, general? ?" Yes"
replied General Barlow earnestly.
My wife is behind our army. Can
you send a message through the lines?"
Certainly | will" said Gordon, and
he did. Then directing General Bar
low to be borne to the shade of tree
at the rear, he rode on with his com
mand. The wife received the mes
sage and came harmlessly through
both lines of battle and found het
husband, who eventually recovered,
Since General Gordon's election to
the United States senate, both he and
General Barlow were invited to a din
ner party in Washington, and occu-
pied opposite seats at the table. Af.pr
ntroductions, General Gordon sid !.
General Barlow, are you related to
the officer of your name who was
killed at Gettysburg" Il am the
man., said Barlow. "Are Won related
to the Gordon who is supposed to have
killed me?' II am the man" said
General Gordon. The hearty greeting
which followed the touching story. as
related to the interested guests bv
General Barlow, and the thrilling Of.
feet upon the company, can better be
imagined than described.
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INSURANCE.
WARMING.

VNHlS il TO notify tho public that we arc Tho
I only persons now residing hore who are
Or eteA nose Deen duly autheri1ed and
EEil Tire Insurance Company Of New York.
and WESTERN Fire InsuraRee Company az
Toronto, aud IN person og persons repye.
sontlng anything TO the contrary arc I'm,
posters y unworthy Of credit
MURPHY a MURPHY.
0oncral JnsWreAcs Agents, No, 5 Msdim,
street, Memphis, Tenn. iI.fse
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When an old backwoodsman was
about " take bis FIRST ride on a Miss.
issippi steamer ~ vas asked whether
be would take deck o. e4pjl pssssss
We'll" said he, in a resigned seRt ~
vey, I've lived all my life in a esbiD,
and | guess cabin passage will be good.
enough foy = rough chap like me.
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There died a few days ago in Paris a
lady whose decease was!duIy and legally
attested. The funeral was fixed for
Sunday afternoon, and when the bonr
arrived the undertaken made his an
pearanee, and was placing the corps in
the coffin, when suddenly one Of his
assistants exclaimed that the body
was warm. At the same moment the
lady moved her eyes opened slowly,
and regarded with a stupefed express
sion those who were standing around
The police were Immediately appraised
OF the strange occurrence, and several
doctors hurried in, hastily summoned
The lady was really alive, but was only
temporarily snatched from the grave
and actually expired at the end Of a
few hours. Perhaps the shock on dis
covering her awful situation had
proved too much;for her enfeebled CON
stitptiOn. The funeral, after all, was
only postponed for a day.
The New York herald., 1879-12-18

The brisk little seaside village of Asbury
Park is not going without its diversions
merely because the season for camp meet
ings and summer boarders is over and the
great liquor selling case decided. A steam
fire engine has just been purchased, loyalty
christened John Wesley, and the fire de-
partments ofthe other villages of Monmouth
county came to help the town rejoice. AS
no incendiary had curiosity enough to set
fire to q house the public spirited Mayor
presented large icehouse for experimental
purposes, and the structure burned so
fiercely that the surrounding dwellings de-
msnded prompt attention from the new
engine before the icehouse could receive its
The New York herald., 1879-12-18
General Roberts q. c.bul.

The news from Cabul printed this morn
ing gives further proof that the small English
force now within the fortified cantonments
General Roberts has only some six or seven
thousand men with him, while there
are at the lowest calculation thirty
thousand wild Afghans on the hills
around him, and an Afghan army
which recently started from Herat may
be soon expected in front Of Yakoob
Khan's former capital Roberts is said to
have provisions enough for five months
siege, and his position is well protected by
earthworks, walls, a moat, and soldiers in
ured to their work. An intense effort is
being made to send reinforcements up to
the surrounded army, but the difficulties
of the troops making their way up
the passes may prove insurmount-
able. From Peshawur to Cabul is a
terrible march, especially in winter, with
every mountain side covering the passes
guarded by the savage hillmen. General
Cough telegraphs from Jugdallak that all
the tribes on his front have risen, and that
he cannot consequently advance to the as
sistance of Roberts at Cabul. The relief
of General Pearson's command, i'm
prisoned by the Zulus at Ekowe,
was child's play compared with what the
attempt to succor General Roberts at
Sharpur promisesato be. Winter and the
hillmen may prevent the release of the i'm
prisoned men until the spring, and it would
not surprise the world very much to hear
that General Abramoff. who was recently
heard of from the Hindoo Koosh, took it
into his head to bring freedom to the i'm
prisoned British.
The New York herald., 1879-12-18

1t is quite possible that a man may be-
lieve earnestly in cremation as a method Of
disposing of the bodies of the dead, and
yet, like Christian Frederick Funch, late q
prominent merchant and most esteemed
gentleman, object to the publicity which
has attended all crematory affairs that have
taken place in the United States It is i'm
possible, however, to stifle the curiosity
and interest of the public in method Of
final disposition SO different from that
which has been practised by all civilized
peoples for many centuries. Custom, senti-
ment and religion have SO long been agreed
upon the nature of4he last human atten-
tions to the dead that wide publicity will
for years be unavoidable in the cases of the
few who may prefer cremation to burial.
Even at Milan the fiery finale of Mr..
Funch's remains will hardly escape COM
ment, for Italians are as curious as any one
else, especially about anything foreign and
mysterious.
The New York herald., 1879-12-18

Letters and dispatches from and about
Hanlan and Courtney continue to exas-
perate the public. The latest say that
Courtney does not want to row until June;
that Hanlan will not wait, but demand the
six thousand dollars after the 22d inst, and
base his subsequent action upon Mr.. Soule's
reply. In the light of the statements
already made by the giver of the prize it
seems that Hanlan will have to sue for his
money, and it is to be hoped that he will
do SO. A suit would allow the givers of
the prize and the thousands of other
victims of the Chautauqua Lake iasco an
opportunity to investigate the whole mat
ter. The many men who mysteriously
profess to 'know something" could then
be examined under oath. the stories Of the
principals and their trainers and attend
ants would bo analysed, the outing of
Courtney's boat might be explained, and,
more important than everything else, q
suit might be the means of discovering
whether the two men really meant to row
against each other at all.
The New York herald., 1879-12-18

mate good of any nation. II is far less i'm
portant than good institutions. under what
ever auspices, and it may prove the worst
boon that could be conferred. as in the
cases of st. Domingo, Hayti and Para
quay. Annexation to the United States
is not to be thought of now. There was a
time. as we all remember, when certain
American administration, through its rep
resentatives in Europe, openly plotted the
annexation Of Cuba in the interest of
slavery. That time has happily gone by,
never to return. There will always be
shortsighted and unquiet spirits, to whom
territorial aggrandizement is On end in
itself, irrespective of circumstances. But
their number among us is small. Our
interests in Cuba are large, but they are
confined politically to the peace, prosperity
and progress of the island. The prime
condition of these blessings obviously con-
sists in speedy emancipation, and the only
justification of the present ill-advised re-
newal OF the Cuban insurrection is that it
may hasten that measure. Should it prove
otherwise this movement, condemned by
the leaders of the new liberal party, and
certainly impotent to achieve indepen-
dence, will be one altogether to be deplored
and condemned.
The New York herald., 1879-12-18

MIR. Cox's report, of which we print the
substance, sets forth the. facts clearly
though concisely and asks for ''the prompt
action" of the House of Representatives,
declaring that "the necessity for Congress
sionai legislation is urgent" Congress
scarcely could do better work than to de-
vote morning to this immigration bill.
In justice to New York. where six millions
OF the eight million immigrants have landed
since 1S47, and where the old and sick and
infirm delay, while the young. healthy and
vigorous pass rapidly through to the West
and the South, Western and Southern
Representatives should be eager to fulfil the
neglected duty of federal legislation.
The New York herald., 1879-12-18

The first report made to the House Of
Representatives from any committee at this
session of Congress is submitted from the
Committee on Foreign Affairs in fatbr of q
bill, which was originally reported by the
Committee of Commerce in the last Con-
gress, to provide for the care of immigrants
under federal authority and to require the
return of immigrant paupers, lunatics and
criminals to the ports from which they
came. The decision of the Supreme Court
of the United States, nearly four years ago,
invalidating our State immigration laws,
monopolized this charge to the federal gov
ernment, which has postponed too long
the fulfilment of the duties arising from
that monopoly. More than three and
half years have elapsed since
the New York Legislature memorialized
Congress on the subject, and meanwhile
temporary provision has been made by the
State so that the work at Castle Garden and
Wards Island might not DO interrupted.