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afford to hazard our success by the
indulgence OF personal or political sent
mentality.
The names regarded with most favor
in Alabama at this time are Bayard,
Thurman, Hancock and Field. We
have high regard for Hendricks, but
we know that he would not accept the
place of Vice. President on our ticket,
with Tilden as President. To nominate
either him or Tilden without the other
being placed on the ticket would be an
unwise and invidious distinction. l
therefore regard both Tilden and Hen
bricks as out of the race.
General Hancock is a great favorite
with the South, and 80 is Judge Thur
man. And Field has recently loomed
up, with amazing rapidity, owing to his
very able and sound constitutional
opinions delivered in late cases.
We regard Governor Seymour as out
of the way, by reason of his age and in
firmities, and by the fact, especially,
that he has positively declined to allow
the use of his name.
If | could elect President by my
single vote, should perhaps take Judge
Thurman. l have very high option
of his ability and purity. But | incline
BILE man for the times. My present be-
lief is that Bayard is the available man.
Bayard and Field would make very
srrong ticket. There is but one thing
which could make me hesitate as to
Bayard. and that is, his speech in 1861.
For such speech | admire him and |
admire him still more because he says
now that he has nothing of that speech
TO take back. The fear | have is that
the fanaticism of the North may base
on that speech the hackneyed cry of
"Bloody shirt" Yet | have faith in
the intelligence of the people, and |
believe good men everywhere would
admire Bayard for such a speech. The
manliness of its tone, the love Of the
Constitution and the Union displayed
in it, and the eloquent plea for peace
pervading it ought, now that the pas
sions and prejudices of the past are
dying out, to enlist for him enthusiastic
support in all portions of the Union.
have an abiding hope that the next
contest for the Presidency will be
fought on principle. trust that the
people, North, South, East and West,
will no longer be governed by the
"hates of the past" but rather "by
the hopes of the future" And fond
ly hope that in the next Presidential
election d" this great people will fold up
the scarlet shirt and lay it away in
some secluded spot with no headstone
to mark the place of its eternal rest"
! have written cTreHte cdiam0 and
without even looking back to see what
| have said or how | have said it.
Very truly yours,
I. ii. WATTS, Sr.
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Sons OF Mighty Sires.

THE CHARACTER AND APPEARANCE OF ROB
ERT LINCOLN AND STEPHEN 4. DOUGLAS.
From the Cincinnati Commercial.
In my specials | alluded to the
cats-paws that were being made of the
sons of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen
A. Douglas to enable the machinists
to rake the Grant chestnuts out of the
Illinois fire. These young men need
guardians. 1t was not a bad idea,
viewed from a poetic standpoint, that
the old-timers had of burning the
kings household-women, babes and
boys-with the kings body! Itdidn't
give the heirs n chance to tarnish the
reputation of the dead. All the ro-
nance in Illinois politics clusters
about the names of Douglas and Lin
coin. They are the political idols of
Suckerdom. Their names ornament
counties, townships, hotels, streets,
saloons ahd cemeteries. AS you enter
the unfinished Capitol you are greeted
with the names of Douglas and Lin
coin. Their statues stand ON either
side of the main entrance, and full
length portraits of each hang in the
Hall of the House of Representatives,
where the convention was held. Young
Douglas and young Lincoln were
both brought here to give respecta-
bility to the Grant boilers from Cook
county. They permitted themselves
and the names they wear to be used
as sort of door-mats. Stephen A.
Douglas resembles his father only in
body. His figure is short and dumpy.
His head sets on a neck so thick and
TO tell where the shoulders leave off
and the skull begins. His face is
pock.marked, and is not at all pre-
possessing or intellectual. He is en-
ergetic and tonguey, and possesses
some wit, which with a gift of CAB and
a name constitute his stock in trade.
When Grant gets third term, Doug
las reward might be post Office
Robert Lincoln is about thirty-five
years of age. He is tall, has a manly
form and bearing, and carries his head
erect and thrown backward. His
face is covered with full beard, worn
after the English style. He moved
very quietly among the crowd, and is
not as fussy as Douglas. Dark cir
Giles surround his eyes, and he looked
to me like a man who indulges in
spells of illness. He is a man Of char
acter and integrity. He enjoys the
good opinion of his neighbors, is a
good lawyer and fair talker.
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The Army and the Signals.

The Manual of Signals "for the use of
signal officers in the field embraces $50
pages. 1t is interesting to read therein
what Poly bius and Captain John Smith
did; how the code of ten elements may
be per.nuted; how to estimate approx.
mately the power Of n telescope. and we
are glad to learn from its pages that
1.-THE" signalist, since we'll taught, be-
comes independent of books. codes. or
ospecial apparatus, &c; but life is short
and "signal officers in the field" are re-
stricted in transportation. Then, too,
adopts tell us that the student may omit
certain portions as obsolete, impractical
or twice told tales" That General
Meyers work is not a compendium is
because so many cooks from Norton and
Totten down to Gruzan, have had their
fingers in the pie. The volume is like
Joseph's coat in the illustrations. and
patchwork as literary production. 1t
is too cumbersome and diffuse for a
textbook.
The code is in as universal use for
signal men as the house for telegraphers
is called the general service code, and
occupies one half OF page 545. A know.
ledge of this code renders visual aerial
communication practicable; hence came
code cards. These latter were bits of
printed paste boards. less than four
inches square, and supplanted the bulky
manual. To the student either horn of
n dilemma was thus then offered The
red-covered book was Too much of
good thing. The code cards did not
convey enough information.
First Lieutenant Hugh T. Reed, First
Infantry, and exacting signal officer,
recognized the necessity for a work EN-.
bracing the signal tactics and essential
points connected with the instruction
Of a signal man; so he compiled and
condensed within the space of sixty
pages all of the information required.
and he placed his modest venture where
he thought it would do the most good !:
that is, in the hands of the Secretary of
War. As a tactical text book and inan.
ual, Lieutenant Reeds treatise received
the commentator of General Emory
Upton. As a practical, reliable work,
containing the leading principles of the
special branch to which it pertains, and
excluding non. essentials, the treatise
tLerited kinder treatment than it re-
ceived at the hands of General Meyers
board of assistants, who sat down upon
the presumptuous author in the most
approved Dogberry style. So If the
book is adopted for the use of the army
of the United Stetes it will be in spite of
and not because of the chief signal off.
Ger OF the army. AT present no work
in signalism is "by authority" other
than that assumed by the writer, and it
remains to be seen whether Lieutenant
Reeds tactics will be accepted by the
parties most interested in the applica.
ton OF signals TO the army system.
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The Excavation Of Troy.
scHLIEaASS's WORK COMPLETED AND ITS
RESULTS.

scHLEMASS's WORK COMPLETED AND ITS
RESULTS.
sehlismanps Letter to So. Petersburg Golos.
/ have just returned from Asia Minor,
where have at last finished that dig.
ging out of Troy which began in 1870.
During ten years have struggled with
great difficulties, among which, perhaps,
the most troublesome has been the large
amount Of debris under which the an.
cient city was buried. Il has been
necessary to dig down and dig up the
ground for more than sixteen yards
below the surface. But am fully rec.
ompensed for all my trouble. found
the remains of seven different ancient
cities the last of them was the lion of
Homer. That city was built by the
Eolians, banished from Greece by the
Dorians in the eleventh century before
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our era. In one of the buried cities
found many statues OF Minerva with the
owls head, whence her name of Glauco.
pis. In another city were found many
images of the divinities. But the most
interesting and important of all discov-
cries is, of course, the city of King
Priam. Every article found in the ruins
of that city bear unmstakable signs OF
having been destroyed by fire and in a
time of war. There were discovered
many remains of human bodies in full
armor. dug out and cleared away the
debris from the entire wall that sur
rounded the city and also from all the
principal buildings. Now | am finish.
ing large volume in English describing
with full details all my discoveries and
containing 200 illustrations of the most
important of the discoveries. My Tro.
jan collection is now in London, but at
the end of this year | shall take it to
my villa in Athens, which is fire. proof,
built only of marble and iron. have
received large offers for my collection
from the United States, England, France
and Germany, but cannot part with it
for any money in the world.
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reached the utmost height, he is per-
mitted to behold the land afar in its ut
most extent of hills and valleys, wild
forests and fertilizing streams. North
ward the range of snow-shining Her
mon hangs like white cloud in the sky.
And there is a vision of beauty and
verdure which the meek old man had
longed and prayed with a child's fond
ness of desire 20 behold. There is
Lebanon, the goodly mountain. cloth
ed in its royal robe of purple cedars,
sending forth the life giving tribute of
perpetual streams. The oak groves of
the table lands Of Gilead and Tabor
and Gilboa and little Hermon, and
the sunny hills of Galilee rise in near
er prospects. Far away westward to
the utmost sea, extends the excellency
of Carmel, the teaming plains of Meg
lido and the rose crowned beauty Of
Sharon. Right beneath him Jericho
sits like queen beneath her canopy of
feathery palms, and just beyond a
shapely-defned point in the clear air
rise the heights of Olivet and Bethle-
hem and Hebron and the rocky shad-
ow of Moriah just seen through the
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enter a church with flowers in it, be it
ON Palm Sunday or at harvest feast,
or on any ordinary service, we are,
after all, only carrying on the tradi-
tion of worsbipping with flowers which
is older than the Feast Of Tabernacles,
with its palm, myrtle, and willow, and
as old indeed as Abel's altar. 1t is
we'll to draw memory now and again
to these links of the present with the
past and to remind ourselves in our
busy nineteenth century life how the
trees of our woods and the flowers Of
our gardens are all eloquent of the
history of the human heart and in
stinct with the most beautiful legends
of our race. We would not see the
Circus Maximus rebuilt to celebrate
the Floralia, nor should we care to
have all our plants invested with their
old superstitious interest but every
one must be glad when such a cere-
mony as that of yesterday recalls for
a passing hour the gratitude we owe
to the world Of flowers and the lesson
which among SO many others they
still teach us, that evea though ephem-
eral nations of men grow up and die
away and the harlequin empires glitter
and go, they, the frail flowers, bloom
on forever, keeping record of time
and linking the ages to each other.
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The Hills-Moses on Nebo.
Prom the Altoona Tribune.

Prom the Altoona Tribune.
Moses turning sadly and slowly from
the sacred tabernacle over which the
pillar of cloud lowered and in which
he had so many times communed with
Jehovah face to face, as a man talks
to friend, and from the goodly tents
of Israel which were spread forth upon
the plain like gardens by the riverside,
he sets his face toward the mountain
and begins to climb the steep ascent of
Nebo to find the place of his death.
An old man, 120 years of age, leaves
behind the people whom he has loved
with love still stronger than death,
he goes. away into the solitude of the
uninhabited heights to die alone. No
friendly hand to smooth the pillow for
him to lay down for his last sleep no
human face to bend over him with its
look of sympathy; no human voice to
whisper words of peace and comfort TO
cheer him in his departure. The
chiefs and the elders of the tribes.were
not permitted to come and tell him
how dear he had been to them, not
withstanding oil their murmurings
and rebellions. No loving eye wept
when death cast its pale shadow upon
his aged brow.
Slowly, step by step. he climbs the
stony mountain path, now hiding him.
self in the shadow of deep ravines and
now coming out upon projecting crags,
and looking down upon the great en-
campment of his people in the plains
below. He would gladly bear their
murmurings and share their conflicts
if he might go over Jordan with them
and possess the goOdly land beyond.
Many time with deep earnestness
had he besought the Lord that this Joy
might be given to his long life of suf-
fering and toll. But no It nust not
be. There is no forgetting, no resist
ing the stern command get thee up
into the mountain and die.
As last peculiar favor, when he
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Tilden and His Lost Love.


From the LcavenwoTth Mines.
The story of Tildens love is the sad.
dest page in all the long history of his
eventful life. Let him tell the people
how, in the first bloom of early man.
hood, he was betrothed to a beautiful
lady of one of the old families of New
York how her parents decreed that,
on account Of her youth, she should
spend two years in Europe before her
marriage; how they pledged eternal
fidelity to each other, and registered
their vows at parting that, no matter
how many years might intervene, each
heart should beat sacredly for the other
till kindlier fate should reunite them;
how the loved one sailed away in the
famous but illfated steamship President,
from which no tidings have ever yet
been brough, back how annually, on
the day that farewells were spoken, he
repairs TO the sea sh ore and listening to
the sad murmur of the waves renews
his VOWS, and how, through all the
temptations that have come with a
long life of influence, wealth and power
the pledge of his youth has been faith
fully kept, and his heart remains sa.
credly true to his first love while the
years glide by.
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packs of hills. Southwark lying deep
beneath its melancholy shores, the sea
of death spreads its steel-bright waves
in the morning sun, and the blasted
plain Of Sodom appears TO heighten the
beauty of the living landscape every
where else rising to view.
On all these things Moses gazed
with undimmed and enraptured eve
which the Lord showed them unto him
for his longing heart, before he laid
down on the rocky height Of Nebo 10
die in silence and alone. 1t means
much that infinite God in conferring
a last and special favor upon his ut
most honored servant, should have
displayed before him the sight Of a
land of hills and valleys, drinking wa
ter of the rain Of heaven and basking
beneath the smile OF its Creator from
the beginning to the end Of the year.
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THOSE who give not till they die,
show that they would not then if they
could keep it any longer.
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CoSFIDE not in him who has once
deceived you.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-06-26
Drinking Ice Water.

There is no more doubt that drinking
ice water arrests digestion than there is
that refrigerator would arrest perspira
ton. 1t drives from the stomach its
natural heat, suspends the flow of gas
trio juice and shocks and weakens the
delicate organs with which it comes in
contact. An able writer on human dis
eases says habitual ice drinkers are u.s.
ually fabby about the regions of the
stomach They complain that their food
lies heavy on that patient organ. They
taste their dinner for hours after it is
bolted. They cultivate the use of stimu-
lants to aid digestion. If they are intel
ligenf, they read upon food and what the
Psychologist has to say about it,-how
long it takes cabbage, and pork, and
beef, and potatoes, and other meats and
esculents, to go through the process of
assimilation. They roar at new bread,
hot cakes and fried meat, imagining
these to have been the cause of their
maladies. But the ice water goes down
all the same, and finally friends are called
In to take farewell look at one whom q
mysterious Providence has called to
cline where, as far as is known, ice
water is not used. The number of inn
mortal beings who go hence, to return
no more, on account of an iniudicious
use of ice water. can hardly be estimated.
= Baltimore Sua. -
Never blow down lamp chimney to
extinguish the fame, for it is quite
liable to return the compliment and blow
you up.
A white married woman at Evansville.
Ind, was so fascinated by the banjo
playing of q wandering negro that she
eioped with him. This is terrible
warning to those persons disposed to play
the banjo,
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wAsHlNoros CRY.
4,ns rlexlcan Ratdsr.


WAsHTEeToN, June Is al cabinet meet
ing this afternoon q telegram from Gen.
Hatch requesting permission to follow VIC
toria's Indians across the Mexican border
was referred to the state department. with
view of obtaining the consent of the Mexi-
can government. The military authorities
here have been directed to prevent the de-
parture of the expedition from southern
Arizona to take possession of the state OF So
NORA, Mexico.
Long Pending Case Settled.
WASHINGTON, June 10 "A patent has been
issued and transmitted to- day to Surveyor
General Wagner for delivery for the two
tracts of land constituting portion ofrancho
Aqua Caliente confirmed to Mariana g Val
lejo. The survey as patented contains 1864
acres, situated in Sonoma county. 4 patent
has also been issued in favor of Anasta Car
clio, or his heirs and assignees, for The 100
acres reserved by the government in 1852 as
q lighthouse site at Point concep ion Santa
Barbara county, but which Secretary Sehu z
last April decided Was enormously excluded
from the patent issued to Carelio ia 1868 for
the remainder of rancho Punta de la Concep-
ton, and which therefore the lighthouse
authorities will now have to acquire by
amicab.e purchase or proceedings of con-
demnation.
President Hayes Coming TO the Pacific
WAsHISGroE, June 19.-It is the intention
OF President Hayes, with his son Webb, to
start for the Pacific coast as soon as business
az Washington will allow. which will proba-
bly, be within two weeks,
Fer the Nerth.
WASHINGTON, June 20.-Th. GaInore, Capt
Howgate's arctic vessel, lea es Monday for
arctic regi ons. The vessel ia British and can
not carry the American flag. The expedition
will be personal enterprise Of Captain How
gate who will bear all ex penses
The B.lIs which Uncle sam Has TO Pay.
Receipts and expenditures of the treasury
from July L, 1879. to June /, 1885, Receipts
of customs, Sl71, ,012, 1926; internal revenue,
$113U8S, $50 miscellaneous, $11, ,1S1, ,739 to-
tai, 1906, 49,, ,S17: expenditures. civil ard mis-
cellaneous S4S $40 ,473; war. S35. .92f 24o; navy,
bl3, l9l, 800; interior (Indians), $519, ,64l in
terror (pensionsl, S4S ,215,l73; interest on the
public debt, S92, 1888 ,514 total, $243, ,761 ,944
This exhibit does not include the postal reve-
nues or postal expenditures.
Postal Changes.
WASHINGTON, June 20.-Paci &c coast postal
changes last week Estabished-Rye Val
ley, Baker county, 0gn; John s. Locke, post
master. Diseon eontinued-Burkvilie, Columbia
county, w. T.; Irene, Whitman county, w.
I. Postnasters appointed-Mrs Minerva ].
Smith, Helex. Umatilla county, ogn Justin
Seaman, GoIdendale, Klickitat county, ogn.
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they
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and a st. I4o
good sense d
been making St
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The Porte ana sal

VIENNA, June IL
to the Identical nosa
ticipased, as 1t accep.
powers and places !
with them. j hefe5ss1lv
that mediation should no
free decisions of the porte
expected that the porte wot
knowing the decision OF
inference is that the acti
not failed 10 produse sofn
the sultan ss to the eefions
ton.
CoNsTAkTrEoPLE, june IL
the porte will not openly OF
siens of The conferepce. buf
them. Albaniaps on the g
being urged to resist, Large
and ammunition have been s
ton. The finaaeia1 dif7eui.;,
Notwithstanding the ecArcity
stant additions ere being mad
chest al the war ofhee, slp2c
ticipation of war with sreees
that Russia Is secretly inE
with the idea Of fesisssnce.
hope CT Turkey acceptiii
Europe while the iufi.
aud Sid Pa ~s
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FOREIGN.
The Chiuese-Russlan Frontier.

ST. PETERSBURG, June l6.-Adyices from
Kuldja and Fort Naryn state thai siiie
Chinese prevent Russian caravans from
crossing the frontier It is rumored that
the Chinese have taken Fort Naryns
Eastern Ahairs.
PERA, June 16.-The porte has informed
the ambassadors of the s3owers that what
ever conclusions the Berlin conference
may arrive at they cannot be obligatory
upon Turkey as parties interested in the
matters to be disguised are to be excluded
from deliberations of conference The
identical note to the power, which was
presented Saturday, states that the porte
recognize that it is the interest of Europe
that an end be put to present difficulties
and points; but that Lord Saisbury's CON-
munieation in favor of the appointment
of a technical commission to fix the Turco-
Greek frontier, remains unanswered by
the Porte. The conference at Berlin has
therefore been acted upon. The note
proceeds to call attention to the Monten-
egrin and American questions, and con-
cludes by directing the attention OF the
porte to the gravity and responsibility it
would assume in leaving the execution of
the treaty of Berlin any iongerinsuspense.
The Porte Refuses.
PERA, June 16.l-The porte has forward
ed its reply to the identical note, to each
ambassador. Itrefuses to recognize the
right of the powers TO arbitrarily dispose
of any portion ofTurkey in favor of Greece
without consulting the porte. A majority
OF the ambassadors disapproye the sugef
ton of Goschen to send commission
inquiry to Roumelia as>it might int
wite the operations of the local &C
sion on the spot.
ResOrf In Panutar Eoree II,