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Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-03-29
japanese Commerce.
N. Y, Telegram.

The Kiyodo I'm Yn, or Union Steam
ship company of Japan, is constantly en-
larging its feet, and now has half doz-
en- large steamers at present only uln in
the Japan seas, carrying passengers and
freight. In short time they will go to
Hong Kong and Shanghai, and as soon
as the company's fleet, which is to con-
sist of about forty steamers, is complet-
ed, they will trade with this country, and
possibly with Europe. AT present the
only other steamship line of Japan, be-
sides the Kiyodo Un Yu, is the Mitsu
Bishi steamship company. The latter
runs to Hong Kong and Shanghai, The
Kiyodo I'm Yu line was started early
last year for the purpose of developing
the trade of Japan. Not only the gov
ernment but alsothe japanese merchants
were interested the former subscribing
to half of the capital stock, which is $S,-
600 900, and the latter to the other half
Mr.. H. Kirino, secretary of the japanese
consulate in this city, said to Telegram
reporter to-day: "Many new steamers
will soon be built by the Kiyodo Un Yu
company. This viii be great benefit
to the United States as well as Japan, or
account of the trade that will be devel
oped. Our vessels are built on the same
plan as American vessels. We have nov
large number of ship building yards
There are two yards at the capital of ia
pan owned by private concerns, one eacl
in Kobe, Hakodati and Nagasaki, tn,
open ports of Japan, and the steamship
yards in Yokosuka, owned by the govern
ment. At the latter place many vessel
stop and make repairs. Our vessels ar
now mostly manned by japanese officer
where formerly French officers were EN-
ployed.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-03-29

the undignified salutation Of the miner
"No, Bill" said the Senator. 81 reckon
/ am about the same"
The two held conversation for a
short time, when the miner was over
heard to say:
"Tom stake me; I'm dead bursted.
Amt got dollar"
The Senator pulled from his pocket a
large roll OF bills and counted out about
$50 in money and handed it to his friend.
They then separated. The Senator
went to his room, and the other walked
toward the bar, where friend was await
ing him. ....
"Oh," said he, 81 scooped the boys in
for $4,000"
tom fixed me-" said he; but, after all
he only did what have done for him
many time. Away back in the good
old DAYS, before Tom struck it rich, |
would often stake him. | remember one
time that he borrowed five ounces of
gold to get into game of poHer with.
You know Tom is keen, shrewd poker
player and can come as near holding
four aces in lis sleeves and playing them
on the boys as any one l ever saw. Well"
he continued, TON got into the game
and it lasted forty eight hours. When
he came to pay me the borrowed money
| asked him how he made out"
;"But," resumed the miner, latter that
time it wrs common thing for Tom
Bowen to make as high as a S25, 900 in
aiming" ...
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-03-29
GOING WEST.
A Tenderfoot Fool Who Goes West to Show
Detroit Free Press.

on.
Detroit Free Press.
A young man with plated watch
chain that would do to tie up a sacred ell
phant came into Denver the other day
from the East on the Julesburg Short
Line, and told the hotel clerk that he
had Just returned from Europe, and was
on his way across the continent with the
intention of publishing book on inter
national information. He handed an
oilcloth grip across the counter, register
ed in bold bad way, and with flourish
that scattered the ink all over the clerks
white shirt front ..
He was assigned to quiet room on the
fifth floor that had been damaged by wa
ter few weeks before by the Fire De
partment. After an hour or two was
spent in riding up and down the eleva-
tor and ringing for things that didn't
cost anything, he oiled his hair and
strolled into the dining room with Sc.
we're air and sat down opposite big cat
tie man who never oiled his hair or stuck
ais nose into other peoples business.
The European traveller entered into
conversation with the cattle man. He
told him about Paris and the continent
meanwhile polishing his hands on the
tablecloth and eating everything within
reach. While he ate another mans des.
sert he chatted on gaily about Cologne
and pitied the cattle man who had to
stay on the bleak plains and watch the
cows while others padded around Ven.
ice ana acquired information in foreign
land. .-..
At first the cattle man showed some
interest in Europe, but after awhile he
grew quiet and didn't seem to enjoy it
Later on the European tourist, with soil
ed cuffs and auburn name, ordered the
walters around in majestic way to i'm
press people with his greatness, tipped
over the vinegar cruet into the salt, and
ate slice of boiled egg out of anothe
mans salad. .....
Casually, tall Kansas man, strolleC
in, and asked the European tourist wha
he was doing in Denver. The cattle maj
who, by the way, had been abroad five
or six times, and is as much at home IL
Paris as he is in Omaha, investigated th'
matter, and learned that the fresl
French tourist had been herding on
chicken ranch in Kansas for six years
and had neverseen blue water. He thel
took few personal friends to the din
ing room door, and they watched tn
alleged travler. He had just taken lon
refreshing drink from the finger bowl o
his neighbor on the left and was at tina
moment trying to scoop up lump of su
gar with the wrong end of the tongs.
There are a good many fools who drii
around through the world and dodge tn
authorities, but the most disastrous as
that Jaknow is the man who goes Wes
with two dollars and forty cents in hi
pocket, without brains enough to sol
the most delicate cambria handkerchie
and tries to play himself for a sravan
with so much knowledge that he has
, shed information all the time to kee
his abnormal knowledge from hurtin
! him.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-03-29
DEVOTED TO THE WELFARE OF MADISON PARISH.


and his progress upward will be slow if
he gets up at all. He will have to work
hard and submit to indifference AMI
what seems to him injustice. Besides he
will get poor pay at the beginning, and
will be lucky if he can secu.e an engage
ment which will give him even that
steadily. Instead of making a grand
success in the great city, he may be OBJ
liged to travel with strolling companions
and have to wait for years before obtain
ing an opportunity to appear in leading
theater, at least in any except small
part, where he has no chance to gain the
particular attention of the audience.
A woman cannot hope to fare any bet
ter. Her stage trials may even be hard
or to bear, and most destructive of her
peace and happiness. Scarcely any girl
thinks of acting in other than the lead
ing parts in which she has seen the most
famous and most experienced artists,
She wants to jump up to the top at once,
and all her theatri, al dreams are based
on the assumption that she will do it
that she will be the heroine of the play
and that she will live in an atmosphere
of intoxicating applause and adulation
Instead Of that, if she gets on the stage
at all, she is likely to be at first only one
of the supernumeraries who stand about
to watch the triumph of the heroine and
to assist in making up the stage picture Of
which another is the central figure.
These are facts which the two Southern
girls must look squarely in the face if
they think of going on the stage. They
must understand that they propose tc
enter very difficult profession, and one
in which there are ten, nay, a hun dred
chances of their falling to one of theil
succeeding. Ifa woman rises high in
the theater she gets better pay than she
can earn elsewhere, but if she remains
in the lower or middle ranks of the thea
trical profession she will only make mod
crate wages for very hard work.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-03-29
An Englishman on Arnold.

Sir Lepel Grifin's amusing "Visit to
Philistia," in the new number of The
F,rtnightly Review, contains this des-
cription of Matthew Arnold's lecture in
Chickering hall: Reading his lecture
with the manuscript close to his eyes,
placing strong accent on the penulti-
mate or anti-penultimate syllable and
dropping the last altogether, allowing
the voice to so sink al the close Of a
sentence that the last words were maud
ible, without gesture or expression, Mr..
Matthew Arnold combines in himself all
the possible defects of public lecturer.
Sitting ten rows in front of the reader, l
found it impossible to hear the whole OF
any sentence, or to follow the argument
of the address. Occasionally quota
ton more or less familiar could be pick
ed out from the general monotone. But
these were were mere Oases of sounds
| i'm a desert of inaudibility; and, of th'
500 persons present, perhaps hundred
understood the lecture, to some 400 al
occasional sentence was vouchsafed
while 1000 heard nothing"
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-03-29
They want to Go ON the Stage.

A correspondent in Southern city
asks question which agitates 30 many
minds that it deserves careful considera-
ton:
"There are two young ladies here who
are exceedingly anxious to 60 on the
stage, and have requested me to write
YOU and see if you couldn't give ttem all
the necessary information in regard to
the matter. Is there any place in New
York where persons are taught for the
Stage? Who are the parties, and what
terms do they charge? How long would
they have to study before they are allow
ed to appear in public? Ihave done all
in my power to dissuade them from their
intention, but without avail. / have
seen one of the ladies on the stage sever
al times, that is in private theatricals,
and must admit that she has great
deal of talent in that line. Besides that
she is very highly educated, and think
If she had chance would make a sue
cess"
There are in New York several mem
bers Of the theatrical profession who de-
vote their spare time to preparing pupils
for the stage, and some of them are art
lists of high standing, who must be alto
gether competent for the duty. We dc
not know what are their prices for tut
ton but they are probably reasonable
Al co the time required to get the ade
auate training, that must depend on th'
aptitude of the pupil. A whole lifetime
of study would not make an actor OF ont
man. while another might master in
few months all that his professional tea
cher had to offer him in the way @
technical instruction.
But even after the pupil has passe'
from the hands of Ibis theatrical preceE
tor. il is likely that it will be impossibl
for him TO get chance to actually az
pear on the stage in any part which sa'
isfieshis ambition and gratiies his vanit.
He will come in competition with man
experienced artists who are standin
around Union square waiting for an er
gaeement and whose illusions as to thei
abilities and opportunities have bee
pretty thoroughly dispelled by harsh e1
perience. The novice, if he gets on tn
stage at all, must expect nothing NOR
than a very minor and humble par
He must be prepared to encounter shar
criticism in the greenroom and do witt
: out the praise of his professional ass
! ciates. What seems historionic genius
, his partial friends who applaud his am
|, teur performances will be very cold
Judged in the green room.
In fine, he win have to make bis WI
a against Obstacles which will subdue q
spirit and hurt his self-love most keen
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-03-29

years, the husband being 7S years old
and the wife "A, applied for divorce a
few years ago, alleging that they could
not live harmoniouslv together. The
Judge gave them long talking to and
refused their applica ion.
Nancy Buckalew, a Revolutionary
persioner, has died at Northumberland.
She was the widow of Peter Buckalew,
who died in 1916. She was S3 years old
and Peter would have been 124. He was
76 when he married Nancy. There is
only one surviving Revolutionary pen
sioner in Pennsylvania.
DIR. c. c. Graham, at the age of 100
wears, writes forcibly on the cause of the
food ia the Ohio Valley. Fifty years
ago he wrote in the Frankfort, KY, Ar
gus that the reckless telling of trees
would ruin the valley before the end of
century. DR.. Graham, still vigorous in
mind and body, lives in retirement at
Louisville.
Throughout large portions ofMaine
and Vermont the people have long
known Charli., .Barnum, a travelling
tinker, who mends pots, kettles, umbrel-
las, clocks, chairs, china, or anything
that breaks. He is "a years old and SO
decrepit that he is obliged tous twocanes.
He carries his pack strapped to his
shoulders. His children are well to do,
and have tried every means of inducing
him to quit his wandering life, but he
will not.
Miss Lois Baker, the Oldest resident
80 W I .n1 hat fnu
March !, in the 89th year of her age.
She was native of Warren and had re-
sided there during her whole life. She
attended the services held at the Baptist
Church in 1899, to solemnize the funer-
al of George Washington, of which she
retained vivid recollections late in life.
She was also present at the Garfield
memorial services held in the M. E.
| Church in 1881.
The death of Gen. De SchIamm snaps
another of the few remaining links that
connect the France o. to-day with the
France of the first empire. He was a
sous-lieutenant in 1900, and earned his
| lieutenancy at Austerliiz. Gen. DE
Wimpften, whose death is simultaneous
ly announced, will be longest remember
ed as the brave but unfortunate officer
whom the late Emperor forced, solel'
against his will. to surrender the French
army to the Germans at Sedan.
In Scotch family of eight sons and
one daughter the united ages of the nine
amount to 572. Their great-great-grand
father was born in 1924. One of hi:
great granddaughters is still alive, in hel
SOth year, while a grandson lived to bt
one of the founders of the Scottish rail
way system, having projected the lint
from Renfrew TO Paisley. He was pro
vost of Renfrew during the French revo
luton, and died in 1887, 213 years aftel
the birth of his grandfather.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-03-29
Statistics of Divorce.
Pail Mall Gazette.

A French philosopher has been col
lecting the statistics of divorce and lee
turing on the theories with which they
supply him. The results are interest
ing; and in some respects singular.
Some well-worn theories are quite upset
by his facts and figures. Taking fixed
standard of 1000 marriages, the phllo-
sopher distributes all countries into three
groups group A, where the divorces
average from to in 1000; group B,
where they run from to 10; group c,
where in a thousand marriages there
are from IL to 2S divorces. 1t is strange
to find among the first class the Italian
the Russians, and the Scotch. 1t seems
the only point in common among ma
tionalists otherwise so opposed. The
Swedes, the Norwegians, the Dutch, and
the Hungarians are In the second class
while the third class includes most 9TH
er European people. The philosopher
| insists that the laws OF a country have
no influence on these results. Norwey
| and Denmark have the same laws, and
| Norway is moral and Denmark loose
Switzerland is one republic, but in the
canton of Lucerne there is scarcely evel
a divorce, and in Appenzell there are
great many. In Catholic countries, as {
mile. there are few and in Protestan
there are many. Much depends on pro
fession. Artists and men Of letters seen
very unfortunate in their unions. More
over. the statistics Of suicide run parable
with those of divorces. Saxony is tn
country where both are found in great
est numbers. For space Of three year
the number of suicides remained station
arv in Sweden, and 30 did the divorce.
Both are checked by the birth OF chi
| dren
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-03-29
FASHION NOTES.

At the marriage of the Marquis of Kill
dare the bride and bridemaids all wore
yellow terry velvet.
Velvet-brocaded grenadines are being
prepared for ladies going South to escape
the cold winds of March and April In the
East and North.
Gentlemen's evening suits are to be
made of diagonal and ribbed materials,
ir order that walters and guests may not
he confounded as heretofore.
A capote of garnet-colored straw, is
lined with shrimp-pink satin; outside
the ribbon is earnet.red and the flowers
are apple blossoms of the same pink az
the lining.
The new round hats have high, large
crowns like those of mems silk hats, but
the brims are very narrow, shelving out
sl;ghtly IN mont, but narrower on the
sides. and still narrower behind.
Capotes protrudeover the brow ans
are trimmed inside with bows OF flowers
Colored straws are lined with pleateo
velvet. satin, or faille OF another coior
Outside the ribbon is matched TO ths
straw but the flowers or feathers arr
matched 20 the lining.
Small bonnets and round hats OF me
dunn sizes continue to make up the bull
,of the importations of millinery; Som'
ofthese bonnets have pointed sides com
inc low down behind the ears, Will
others are rounded off quite short on tn
sides. and have the long crown with
round top now used in the Langtry bon
net.
People in England often wear Gloss
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-03-29
CHAFF.

The road to rue in-The way of the
ransgressor.-Life
A Chicago girl threatens to box the
ears of an editor of that city. What a
thrill of life this would infuse into the
lumber market-Bismark Tribune.
This is to be Presidential and leap
year, and us fellows who are neither
Presidents or women will have to remain
seated until invited to dance.-White-
hall Times.
'Isidore Ferblantin, this is the thir-
teenth time you have been arrested for
stealing" "Ah, Monsieur II PCommissaire,
it is so humiliating to beg."-From the
French.
A young man in Georgia has received
sixteen duel challenges, and has accept
ed them all. He means to be either a
lead mine or the owner of a graveyard.
San Francisco Post.
Don't forget the poor" urges a coun-
try editor. 1t isn't very often that an
editor puts in puff for himself, but oc-
casionally he is driven to it by necessity.
Burlington Free Press.
A musical writer says that "The mos'
important recent invention is the power
of modifying the intensity of pianofortt
notes." We hardly agree with him.
Burlington Free Press.
Most any cat can raise its voice five
octaves higher than any human singer
and yet very few people will admit tina
there is any music in the cats voice.
Philadelphia Cbronicle-Herald.
In few short weeks the papers vii
be printing spring poetry, and lots o
men will be growing because the dis
carding of their overcoats will reveal
ragged dsuit-Montezuma Record.
\ lot of scientists in New York hav
come to the conclusion that the prevail
ing fogs iu the East are due to the re
cent red sunsets. We. think the recen
red sunsets are due to the prevailing fogs
and Our theory is just as reasoable an
valuable as theirs.-San Francisco Pos
recollect a nurse called Ann,
Who carried me about the grass,
And one fine day q fine young man
Came up and kissed the pretty lass.
She did not make the least objection.
| Thinks /: AHA,
When can talk I'll tell mamma"
And that's my earliest recollection.
New Orleans Iten
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-03-29
A Pigs Tail.
Texas Strings.

An elderly gentleman from Wisconsin,
wearing plug hat and gold headed
cane, has been prospecting out in the Vi
cinity of Onion Creek, eight miles from
Austin. He met local granger, and the
following conversation took place:
"The soil is rich, and you seem to have
plenty of oak trees. should think you
might raise hogs here to great advan'
tage."
The granger shook his head and repli-
ed:
"Hogs do well in dry weather, but as
soon as we have wet spell they all die
off," .. .t
"You don't say SO. How does the wet
weather come to effect them so fatally?
Does it give them pleuro-pneumonia?"
"No, sir, 1 don't think their lungs are
affected by the dampness. The hogs die
of sleeplessness."
"Sleeplessness, insomnia"
"Yes, sir, they peri.h of insomnia, caus-
ed by the richness and sickness of the
soil"
"My friend, your conversation is unin-
telligible to me. How does the all
uviai fertility of the soil and the humi-
dity of the atmosphere produce insomnia
among the swine?" ....
"There is very simple explanation
for it. You see, they lie down when it is
midday, and little mud adheres to the
tu.t of hair at the end of their tails. The
mud continues to accumulate until a
large ball is formed weighing several
hundred-I say several pounds, not sew
eral hundred pounds"
"Proceed, if you please. j am yet in
the dark as to the cause OF sleeplessnest
among the swine"
"Why, don't you understand that the
weight of the ball of mud pulls the hog'i
skin so tight that he can't shut his eyes
and as he can't 90 to sleep without shut
ting his eyes, he soon dies in great ago
n.y."
, Onion Creek granger for several minute
and then he remarked with cynlca
smile:
"I should think it might have occurred
TO as practical man as yourself TO ale
yiate the difficulty by cutting OH th'
tails of the piglets at an early PERIOD o
their existence"
awe do, but owing TO the fertile natur
of the soil in which they wallow, thei
0 tails grow out faster tnan we can c'i
r them off, replied Truthful Jeems,' o
4 Onion Creek, without moving muscl
O of his face. AIM
ats wonderful, sir, wonderful"
: "What is wonderful, the pigs, tails!"
g "Oh, no; it is iswonderful that Texas cal
r produce simultaneously two such prevai
lcators as Yourself and Hon. Thomas Po
cahontas Ochiitree."
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-03-29
sere and Yellow Leaves.
w. P. Elliot. of Lewiston, Pa, 81 yeal
of age. is still editing a paper.

w. P. Elliot. of Lewiston, Pa, 81 years
of age, is still editing paper.
Every CONN union Sunday Mrs. Annie
Gordon, of Button, s. c., walks four
miles to church. She is Ill years old.
Mrs. Tobeatha Clardy, now living
with Hugh Mcclellan, at Carrolton, LII ,,
is over SO years old, and has great-great-
grandchildren.
A lady go years of age, residing in Ro-
chester, n. Y, recently skated from that
CITY to Brockport, distance of twenty
miles, in one hour and twenty-five min
utes.
Senator Morrill,, of Vermont, is the
Oldest member ofthe upper house, he
having Just passed his 74th birthday.
Mr.. Kenna, of West Virginia, who is
but "a, is the youngest.
Truman Smith, the oldest living Unit
ed States Senator from Connecticut, now
| in his 95th year, continues active IN
mind, though weak physically, at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. George A.
Hoyt. in Stamford.
Elder Jabez S. Swan, one of the last oi
the old-time revivalists, celebrated his
eirhty-fourth birthday at his home in
New London Saturday. For years he
was the most noted revivalist in New
| ENGLAND; the number OF his converts
could hardly be estimated.
The late Richard Somers Smith, o
Philadelphia, was the third Of six broth
ers, all of whom lived to celebrate thell
golden weddings. He was born in l7S9
Consequently lived under the admins
tration O, every President the Unite'
States has yet had.
Mrs. Betsy L. Moody, of Cape Eliza
beth. Me-, celebrated few days sine
her iO2d birthday. She has still livinI
three children, fourteen grandchildrer
one OF whom is the so-called Evangehs
Moody, thirty great-grandchildren, an
six great-great-grandchildren.
A respected couple in Belmont cour
ty, Ohio, who had been married fort
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-03-29

fitting, long-basqued jackets, bordered
with fur. One of the newest is shot
velvet, brocaded as well as shot, and bor-
dered with fur. Fur flounces appear on
mantles and on dresses. The rage for
fur is nearly as great as when the Ouch
ess of Edinburgh came over rom Russia
as bride.
A bonnet of dark blue straw is lined
with pale blue pleated fallle; the out
side Is trimmed with dark blue faille
ribbon and clusters of pale blue forget
me-nots. A black straw is lined with
pale gold satin and trimmed with black
velvet and punches of yellow cow-slips.
Another is lined with bright red velvet
and trimmed with poppies.