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Beautv,s Homage TO Beauty.

Mrs Langtry, the English actress, whose
personal charms, owing to the lavish way in
which her photographs have been used as
advertisements of various popular nostrums.
have become as well known to the general
public as the figure of the Goddess of Lib
erty which adorns our silver CURRENCY. has
been pleased to confde to New York re-
porter her opinion of American women, and
as it is upon the whole a rather favorable
opinion it may be of interest to note the
points upon which it is based. an the first
place. says Mrs. Langtry, :" think Ameri-
can women have very pretty faces-so bright
and winning. One sees many more pretty
faces here than in England" This is GER
tainly a very frank admission, although
it is no more than due regard for the
truth requires The faces of American
women-and particularly those just emerg-
ing from girlhood-are, indeed, bright and
winning, and what is still better, the bright
ness is not merely skin-deep, but is usually
the glow of quick intelligence and the re-
Election of pure and cultivated mind.
American women enjoy degree of personal
liberty that is enjoyed by the women of no
other nation, and it is but natural that their
faces should reflect something of the pleas
ure aud happiness resulting therefrom. But.
descending to details, they have beautiful
hair and very pretty hands and feet,n Mrs.
Langtry remarks. This is undeniably the
case also, though we do not know that they
are exceptionally fortunate in these respects.
The tresses of our English cousins are doubt
less quite as glossy and luxuriant and was
it not the slender feet of British maiden
that q famous poet compared to little mice
peeping in and out as she tripped along the
road? However, we shall not quarrel with
this Jersey lily for emitting to mention the
circumstance, and especially as she is very
frank when it comes to the question of
dress, and does not hesitate to declare
in the most positive terms that Ameri-
can women are lacking in taste aThey
dress too smartly for the street." she says,
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NEW PUBLICATIONS.

Reference has already been made in these
columns to the publication by Henry A. Sum-
ner ~ Co., OF Chicago, of a new story of the war,
entitled 1.-The Red Acorn by John McElroy,
author of "Andersonyille" and editor of the
Toledo Blade. The book has already had an
immense sale and it deserves to have place in
every soldiers library. As the author states
in his preface, "the name given this story is
that made glorious by the valor and achieve
ments of the splendid First division of the Four
teenth Army Corps, the cognizance of which
was a crimson acorn, worn on the breasts of its
gallant soldiers and borne upon their battle
flags" and the characters of the novel all be-
longed to.or eo-operated with that portion of
the grand old Army of the Cumberland with
which General Thomas won the first real VIC
tory that blessed our arms; wrung victory
from defeat on the bloody fields of Stone River
and Chlckamauga, and dealt the final crushing
blow OF the Atlanta campaign
The story opens with the departure of the
first company of volunteers from the village of
Sardis, Ohio, and gives us at the outset a char
acteristic picture of the stirring scenes that
were witnessed in almost every Northern
hamlet in the early summer of 1861. Among
those who respond to the call is the hero of the
novel, Harry Glen, who, at parting with his
sweetheart, Rachel Bond, receives the promise
of her hand. 1t falls to the lot of the company
to do their first campaigning in West Virginia,
and there Lieutenant Glen shows the white
feather. The news-as bad news always does
travels fast, and when Glen returns, just before
the expiration of his enlistment, he finds HIM
self disgraced, not merely in the eyes of the
public, but in the estimation of his own family
and Rachel his fiancee, who dismisses him forth
with with shame and modification. 1t proves
a salutary lesson for young Glen, however, and
re-enlisting as private, he returns to the front
determined to retrieve his reputation. Ra-
chel, too inspired with patriotic purpose,
leaves her pleasant home to enter the hospital
service, and the accidents of war finally bring
these two together at the battle of Stone River,
where her heart is cheered by the spectacle of
his bravery and he, on his part, finds in her q
loving nurse to dress his wounds.
But the charm of the story does not lie wholly
in the experiences of the lovers by any means.
The scenes in camp, on the march and upon
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Memorial Sermons.

The second paragraph of Commander-in-
Chief Van Dervoort's Memorial Day order
is worthy of special attention. 1t is as
follows:
earnestly request all ministers and priests of
every denomination to deliver appropriate sermons
or lectures, calling attention to the duties of the
day-the sacrifices made and the lessons taught
on Sunday, May 9th. hereby command Posts
of the Grand Army of the Republic TO attend said
services, in uniform. In cities and villages where
it viii be practicable, recommend union SER
vices.
Similar recommendations have been made
by the commanders of the several Depart
.ments, and it is to be presumed that they
will be strictly complied with.
During the war the pulpit was mighty
ally of the Union cause, and it is but meet
that its aid should thus be annually
invoked in doing honor to the memory
of the Nations late defenders and keep
ing alive the spirit of patriotism which
inspired them. And indeed 1t would be
difficult matter to find anywhere a
nobler text for sermon than is afforded in
the imperishable example of devotion to
principle, fidelity to duty and love of
country which these dead heroes of ours
have left behind them. In these days of
sordid ambitions and ignoble aspirations
well may the clergy turn that earlier page
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WASHINGTON c. THURSDAY MAY TO- 1883

of our history which records the sacrifices,
the fortitude and the valor of the American
soldier, and from the pursuit of wealth and
the struggle for fame call back the men of
the present generation to the contemplation
of his rugged virtues! 1t is for the pulpit,
too, to enforce upon the Nation the lessons
of gratitude and patriotism, and it cannot
wax too eloquent in depicting the blessings
which the country has reaped as the fruit
of wars red sowing, nor set forth in too
glowing colors the heroism which made that
harvest possible. 1t is well to strew bios
SONS on the green graves of our comrades,
butthat would be a meaningless act did it
not typify fond and grateful recollection
of their services by their countrymen, and
to insure such a heartfelt remembrance
should be the aim of all memorial sermons.
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TIMELY TOPICS.

In Hudson, Columbia county, n. Y, is the
largest apple orchard in the world-30, 900 trees
on 300 acres.
Seeding is finished in Dakota ON the Missouri
slope. The wheat on ex-President Hayes
farm is six inches high.
A heavy fall of snow in Montana is inter-
fering with the progress of the building of the
Northern Pacific Railroad.
The crops of North Texas are in splendid
condition. There is a fine stand of corn and
other grain, and all growing nicely.
Since the 1st of January plans fpr buildings
in New York city have been filed the estimated
cost of which aggregates S13,2e2, 400.
The California wine production, as measured
by receipts at San Francisco has risen from
1864, COZ gallons in 1879 to 100000 in 1852.
The United States has 1904 saw mills, with
637 in Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba In
1881 these mills cut 750,o00,000 feet of lumber.
A sheep pasture in Dimmitt and Webb conn
ties Texas, contains 100000 acres and feeds
100000 sheep. 1t is believed to be the largest
in the world.
A 100000 cotton factory is to be started at
Florence, S. G. The company has been organ
lied and over 100000 was subscribed ut the
first meeting.
thOio are oiA tcitpHOl6 iAClOIlcS III inc
United States, all doing prosperous business.
In one alone orders have been received for
5000 instruments in six weeks time.
The seasons lumber drive on the Connecti-
cut River is now progressing and consists of
100000 feet of logs. The expenses Of the
drive are estimated at 81 500 per day.
Phil Armour, the Chicago packer, says the
action of Germany in prohibiting the importa-
ton of American pork has had hardly any ef-
feet upon the trade, but he regards it as arbi-
trary and dishonest, and thinks our Govern
ment should retalate.
The extensive machine shops belonging to
Foster & Mckay, manufacturers of boilers and
engines at Titusville Pa were closed last week
by the sheriff Liabilities estimated from
100000 to S25O000. One hundred and forty
men were thrown out of employment.
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The iudierous announcement is made that the
huge volume containing the names of the United
States pensioners and the amounts they receive,
which the Government Printing Office is about to
publish. is to be regarded as confidential" and
kept strictly under lock and key in the Pension
Office This amounts to saying that the people
have no right to know where the money they pay
in taxes goes to, and that how much each recipient
of their bounty gets is private matter between
him and-not the people who pay the money but
the servant Dudley of their servant, the Pesi-
dent.} Were this explained to Frenchman, Ger
man, Englishman, or other representative of the
effete monarchies of Europe they would assuredly
make very merry it. Over there, one
thinks of keeping the pension rolls secret. The
pensioners themselves are proud and not ashamed
TO be on the lists. Anybody can look up the pen
sion record of any body.-Pitsburg Leader.
By whom this ludicrous announcement u
was made the Leader altogether fails to men
ton, and we suspect that the statement had
its origin in its own fevered imagination. So
far from it being the intention to keep the
pension list under lock and key at the Pen
sion Office, it is to be printed and transmit
ted to the Senate for the information of its
members, and when that shall have been
done it will be as accessible as the pension
lists of any foreign nation. The thing to
which our pensioners object is not the pub
LEGATION of the pension list as source of Off
cial information, but the proposed placard-
ing of the list ON the walls of every post
office and its insertion in the columns of the
newspapers in such way as to subject them
all to public suspicion. Neither England
nor any other European power has ever re-
sorted to such an unjust and heartless pro-
cedure as this, and the Leader viii search
the records in vain for parallel
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the battlefield are sketched by Mr. McElroy
with bold and vigorous touch, and he is
equally happy in his delineation of character
and introduction of stirring incident. Indeed,
there is not dull or commonplace chapter in
the whole book and we can commend it to our
readers as well worth buying and reading.
The price is but one dollar, and it can be had
by mail, by addressing Henry A. Summer & Co.,
205 Wabash avenue, Chicago
The Bridal Eve; or Rose Elmer" power
full and absorbing novel by the celebrated au-
thor Mrs. Emma d. E. n Southworth, has Just
been issued by T. B. Peterson & Brothers, Phil
adelphia. Mrs Southworth has but few equals
in her line, and her numerous romances have
been read with delight by thousands
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and too simply for the theater. think
they mix their colors badly and have
too many bows and ends on their dresses"
By way of illustration, she instances lady
that she saw promenading the street in a
gray ulster, blue dress, and scarlet gloves.
This was a display of very questionable
taste, we must confess, but our fair critic
should not form her judgment ON such an
isolated case as that. Indeed, if we may be-
heve what the importers say, our women are
almost as fastidious in matters of dress as
the Parisians; and, as it is from the latter
that our fashions are borrowed, reflection
upon the taste of our countrywomen would
seem to imply censure of that which pre-
walls at the French capital. However, the
criticism is kindly meant, and, perhaps, loud
dressing is too much the vogue in our large
cities
1t is when Mrs. Langtry comes to speak of
the contour of American women that she
makes the only serious error in her estimate
Their figures she distinctly says, " are
generally bad The American standard of
figure is altogether too plump to please me-"
This is the last charge in the world that one
would expect an English beauty to bring
against her American cousins. Heretofore
the opinion generally expressed by visitors
from the mother country has been just the
other way, and the slender delicate, figures
of our women have been contrasted with the
stout, buxom person of the English matron,
much to the formers disparagement. 1t is
possible that increasing luxury and habits
Of ease have somewhat modified the char
acteristics of female beauty in this country,
but certainly it is still airy and graceful
compared with the ponderous British type.
Mrs Langtry must have had in mind the pro-
fessional fat woman of some dime museum
But, upon the whole, as we have said her
opinion is quite favorable, and as she
sums up her impressions of the American
woman in the statement that she thinks her
every beautiful and charming" and would
recognize her anywhere by her frank and
open manner and her independence" she
certainly cannot be accused of lack of APP
probation. And when beautiful foreigner
declares that American women are beautiful
it must needs be so.
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The Future OF The freedman,

A call, signed by Ex-Marshal Douglass,
Professor Greener and other men of note,
has recently been issued for National con-
vention of colored citizens to be held in this
city next September, for the purpose of con-
sidering various questions more or less inti-
mately connected with the welfare of the
race. The topics announced for discussion
are partly industrial, partly educational and
partly political, and have reference to the
state of wages, public school facilities, the
execution of the civil rights laws and the
distribution of political patronage. Ofthese
the first two are undoubtedly of the first
Importance, although it is quite possible
that the last of all will receive the most at
tention. In our judgment the future of the
colored race now depends chiefly upon the
opportunities which it may be able to secure
for itself in the way of industrial training and
public school education During the inter-
val that has elapsed since the war, it has
unquestionably greatly improved its mate
rial condition, and it is by no means an I'M
common thing now in the South to find the
old plantations owned and cultivated by the
very men who once titled them as slaves,
but it is almost solely in the line of agricul-
ture that genuine progress has been made.
The trades are still practically closed to the
colored laborer, and the number of those
who have received the education necessary
to fit them for the learned professions is
comparatively inconsiderable. Aside FROM
the prejudice which has operated to prevent
the employment of colored labor in associa-
ton with white labor, it is undeniable that
the former, by reason of lack of industrial
training, has not been in condition to COM
pete with the latter 1t is claimed by some
manufacturers, we are aware, that the col
ored laborer is lacking in natural aptitude
for mechanical pursuits, but that conclusion
is hardly warranted by the facts. It could
hardly be expected that people just emerg-
ing from a state of mental darkness, and
familiar hitherto with only the most servile
forms of labor, should, display such an apti-
tude, and up to the present time no adequate
opportunity has been afforded them for the
acquisition of the special skill required in the
trades. There are not only no industrial
schools for colored youth in the South but no
apprentice system by which they can benefit,
and they are thus shut out from all share in
the manufacturing enterprise of the country.
To open this avenue to prosperity and indie
pendence, is certainly an object of the high
est Importance to the race-of far greater
consequence than the realization of any
dream of political power can possibly be- 1t
is to the accomplishment of this object, in
connection with the augmentation of educa-
tional facilities generally, that the labors of
the coming convention should be chiefly adj
dressed. Now, as twenty years ago, it is
upon the school-house and the workshop,
rather than the machinery of politics, that
the colored man must rely for the elevation
of the race.
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ALTHOUGH our veterans VIII be deprived
OF the presence Of several Of their old COM
manders whose attendance at the Army of
the Potomac Reunion, next week, had been
confidently relied upon, they are not likely.
TO find the occasion either spiritless or un-
eFentful The programme, as heretofore out
lined in THE TRIBUNE, viii be carried out
TO the letter, and additional interest viii at
tach to the Reunion from the fact that it
VIII be signaiized by the consolidation of the
Society Of the Army Of the James with the
Society OF the Army of the Potomac. A
cordial greeting awaits every old vet who
comes this way.
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OUR space is again largely taken up, this
week, with soldiers letters descriptive of
battles, skirmishes and military movements
generally in which they participated These
personal narratives, if not always couched
in the most polished language, have the
merit at least, Of truthfulness and possess
the distinctive favor Of The camp. As one
of our correspondents aptly remarks, they
are rich Ii the material out of which some
future Macaulay viii fashion the true his
tory Of the war;
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A New London, Conn., veteran Of the late war
applied for pension four years ago It was
granted and notification sent Saturday that $500
were due linn but he had died the day before
L1clarsge.
Gases like the above are by no means I'M
usual, yet because Commissioner Dudley is
making great efforts to dispose of these
long-pending claims he Is charged by ire
sponsible newspapers with wasting the
peoples money!
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Enclosed please find ss5 Tor thirty-ve new SUBJ
scrlbers to THE TRIBUEE. Give US as good paper
as was your issue Of April l2th and am sure you
VII soon have large army Of veterans as sub
scribers. am not done YET and think you viii
hear from me again soon.'--d. r. johnson, EIgin.
III
The above is striking illustration of what
can be accomplished by individual effort. 1t
would be very easy matter TO recruit The
ranks Of The TRTBUSE's subscribers to one
hundred thousand if our readers generally
were as much in earnest as Comrade John
son.
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facturer or the consumer? And if to the
advantage of the former solely, is it not clear
that in advocating the removal of the tax,
the Times made a serious blunder? The
Government is so much the poorer and the
public are none the richer by the abatement
of the internal revenue taxes
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CHEF VAN DERvooRT
suggests that the representatives of the Sons
of Veterans meet at Denver during the Ma
tional Eneampment and take steps to or
game under one head. That is a capital
ides, and we trust win be put into execu-
lion.
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THE description of the battle of Cedar
Mountain, which appears on our first page,
is taken from "The Army under Pope,n by
John G. Ropes, constituting Vol. " of the
Scribner's series of Campaigns of the Civil
War" These volumes, replete with interest
to every participant in the great military
campaigns in the East and West, should be
in the library of every soldier, and at the
price at which they are offered by THE
NATIONAL TRIBUNE they are very cheap,
indeed.
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man of Unsuitable ambitions He has un-
questionably greatly increased the vast for
tune entrusted to his care, but it has been
for long time apparent that to secure this
fortune against the accidents of business was
an object of greater concern to him than
mere money-making. His heavy invest
ments in Government bonds - exceeding
fifty millions of dollars and reaching perhaps
one hundred millions-are enough in them
selves to prove that such has been the bent
OF his purpose. Having practically attained
that purpose, therefore, it is but natural
that he should wish to lay aside all I'M
necessary burdens, and particularly those
which, Unpopular rumor be well-founded, he no
longer has any personal reasons for continu-
ing to bear. Were the old Commodore still
alive he would doubtless resent this sum-
mary retirement as an act at once of in
gratitude towards himself and indifference
to the family interests, but perhaps the son
is IN this case more farsighted than his sire.
1t is an old saying that in this country,
where nearly every man is the architect of
his own fortunes, every third generation
finds itself in its shirt-sleeves, but the his
tory of the Yanderbilts seems likely to dis
prove the adage. Indeed, for aught that
any one can now foresee, it may be destined
to vindicate the truth of the ominous pre-
diction by Henry George that inasmuch as
:" all the tendencies of the present are not
merely to concentration, but to perpetual
ton of great fortunes" the new world is
destined to witness the establishment of a
moneyed and perhaps hereditary aristoc-
racy as powerful as that which now domi-
mates the old.
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CoMRADE W. W. WAGNER, Dayton Ohio,
In calling our attention to the fact that be
has sent us tTenty-one new subscribers,
sententiously remarks: It is not a large
club, but you could not ask more, since every
old soldier who gets his mail at this post
Office is now a subscriber" This is, indeed,
a notable achievement. yet every reader Of
THE TRIBUNE could accomplish as much, if
he were disposed to make the effort.