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Alkazar.

Dreamer. say. viii you dream for me
wild, sweet dream of a foreign land
Whose border sips of foaming sea
With lips of coral and silver sand:
Where warm winds loll on the shady deeps,
Or lave themselves in the fearful mist
The great wild wave of the breaker weeps
Der crags of opal and amethyst!
Dreamer say, will you dream dream
Of tropic shades in a land of shine,
Where the lily leans Ger an amber stream
That flows like rill of wasted wine,--
Where the palm trees lift their shields of green
Against the shafts of the Indian sun,
Whose splintered vengeance falls between
The reeds below where the waters run!
Dreamer, say, will you dream of love
That lives in land of sweet perfume,
Where stars drip down from the skies above
In molten spatters of bud and bloom;
Where never the weary eyes are wet,
And never sob in the balmy air.
And only the laugh of the paroquette
To break the sleep of the silence there?
james Whtcomb Riley.
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MINOR MATTERS.

A LoGANsPoRT paper, whose editor seems to
have given the subject careful personal atten-
ton, describes, with much particularly, the way
in which the various "sets" of girls at Maxim
kuckee battle in tha pellucid waters of the lake
The peculiarities of costume affected by the
visitors from surrounding towns are set forth in
detail, and the preferences of the girls from
Plymouth. Logansport and Peru as to swimming
with their heels or their heads in the air, or to
being supported in the 'surf" by stout arms, are
circumstantial;y narrated. It is very interest
ing, not tcsay thrilling, account; but inasmuch
as the Logansport editor has Disseminated
against the young women of the indianapolis
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SCORING COMMISSIONERS BLACK.

West Virginia Veteran Writes a Singing
Letter to That Official.
Wheeling Intellgencer tRep)
The Intelligencer is favored with the following
copy of a letter just forwarded to Washington:
GLEN EAsToN, w. Va, July 81, 1886
General Black, Commissioner of Pensions, Washing
ton. ID. g..
Sir-Your letter notifying me that nv pension
claim was rejected because the who saw me in
jured are dead is received.
the government will restore me physically to the
condition / when I enlisted will sign clear re-
ceipt or if you will state that Mr. Cleveland needs
the money / should have received for carpets and
flowers for the White House. will forgive the claim
and try forget lost my health and have for legacy
deformed body the result of serving my country in
her hour of need. Respectfully,
HARMON Crow
Mr.. Grow was crippled in the service, and will
remain cripple till Judgment day makes all
men whole. The comrades who saw him injured
have all gone to their last account though a
lieutenant of his company testifies that Harmon
Crow was an able bodied man when he was de-
tailed upon the duty from which he was brought
back crippled.
Unfortunately for Mr.. Crow, he is Repub-
lican of the Marshall county type, and the
patriot who draws a pension of 500 month, in
addition to his salary as Commissioner of Pen
slons, has no special love for m5n of the Grow
kind. Betweed General Black and President
Cleveland good many deserving veterans are
left to look for their reward in the next world.
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this store was kept open at the back door lthe
clerk said just like all other saloons), till
o'clock for the sale of bread and milk only, with
the emphasis on the only. From this the infer
ence is drawn that Sunday commences at
o'clock A. NJ. Perhaps this is as it shoaid DC,
especially when bread and milk are wanted.
The general impression exists that the admis-
sion to these grounds is ten cents. To-day,
when the honest wayfarer who is not fortunate
to have cottage here wanted in TO hear Bishop
Mallalieu preach, he was charged just twenty
five cents. Had Bishop Mallalieu known this,
the chances are that he would not have preached,
as he is strongly opposed to all this Sunday basi-
ness. This afternoon, while standing at the
gate: in five minutes time, four people offered to
pay an admission of ten cents, and all went
away, one gentleman and his wife declaring that
they could not afford to pay TWENTY-FIVE Genus
and preach to all nations was forgotten.
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CONFIDENCE In HONESTY.

An exchange, in commenting upon recent
embezzlement case remarks that it is strange
that the frequent reports of defalcations of
trusted clerks never seem to lead to the detec-
ton of other trusted clerks who may be going
wrong. That the delinquency of one offender
of this sort does not lead to the discovery of
others is a fact patent to any observer, but
that it is so is creditable to human nature,
faulters are always men who have been in po-
sitions of trust usually for years, and have
the entire confidence of their employers
This confidence is not alone because
Of the clerks ability to perform their
duties, nor the result Of a study
of their characters, but is often equally the
outgrowth of an instructive faith in the bon
esty of ones nearest associates in business.
When the community is shocked by the de-
falcation of cashier or other trusted agent
the merchant or banker is not thereby moved
TO investigate his cashier and clerks. After
having taken all reasonable precautions to
avoid such disaster, and keeping such over
sight over the details of his business as is pos
sible, he sees no occasion in the downfall Of
one man for suspecting his own employees of
"crookedness." He may be wrong in his es-
innate Of their integrity, as other men have
been in like cases; but he assumed that
risk on taking them into his en-
ploy, and will not insult them
and lower his own self-respect by establishing
a spy aud detective system merely because of
q strangers breach of trust. 1t may be said
that no honest clerk will resent investigation
of his books and accounts; but, though this is
true in a general sense, it is not the case
when the motive for such inspection and in
quiry is suspicion. It is not the examination
that ne objects to, but the fact that he is dis
trusted. The vast majority of employers pre-
Ger, merely as a matter of policy, without re-
gard to their own inclinations, to be frank
and open with their assistants, holding that
the exhibition of confidence in their upright
ness encourages if it does not be-
get corresponding faithfulness in
carrying the responsibilities of their positions.
In all relations of life trust must be placed in
others by every man and woman. 1t may
happen in any Of these cases that confidence
viii be betrayed, but even in business life
where care and caution is the rule, it will be a
sad day when every one who is in charge Of
other mems property is suspected of being a
thief until he proves the contrary. 1t is I'M
fortunately true that great many defalca-
tons are reported from year to year, but
when the vast number Of people who handle
wealth and valuables not their own and scorn
the temptation to inappropriate penny is
considered, the list by comparison is not
large. We are not Nation of embezzlers
despite the showing in the Canadian colony.
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ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

PRINCE BISMARCK has seventy-six decorations
and monument
SOME one suggests that Charles Dixie might
take up politics again in Utah.
The North pole is such hoary chestnut that
the Australians are preparing South pole ex-
petition.
Mr.. L. @. c. LAMAR, JR., has beer appointed
private secretary to his father, the Secretary of
the Interior.
IT is announced that Col. Robert g. Ineersoll
will have two new lectures next season, not Of
an anti-religious character.
THE publishers Of the Encyclopedia Britain
MICA" estimate that four additional volumes will
be required to complete the work.
Miss FARRAR, a wealthy London spinster, re-
Gently left 1000 to be applied in granting
pensions to aged widows and spinsters.
ST NEVER talked with a superintendent, said
Mr. Tiden. once, that didn't tell him some
thing about his road that he did not know"
PITTsBURa Chronicle: A colored woman was
heard this morning informing a neighbor that
last nights storm frightened her so that she
''shook like an ash-pan."
SIR CHARLES dixie has left England for his
small property near Touon. in the south of
France. where he is expected to remain with
Lady Dixie for some time
wITH the surplus wood from Burns's bedroom
at Dumfries. after binding the fac-simile of the
poems, Mr. Elliot Stock will make paper-kniyes,
in commemoration of the Burns centenary.
GENERAL SHERMAN is now grandfather, his
son, the Rev. Fred. F. Sherman, rector of St.
Thomas Episcopal Church, of Lawrence. Mass,
having last week become the father of fine
boy.
PROBABLY the youngest preacher in the world
il J. e. Bill. Baptist, only twelve years of age
who preached sermon on the 9th ult., at ST.
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Kew York World
Jean Terad, who arrived on the steamer Wis
consin, accompanied by servant, was in Castle
Garden yesterday. He is a high priest of the
Greek branch of the Catholic Church, and an
Arab, and comes to this country on canyassing
tour Among his papers are letters from the
Mother Superior of the Convent of Notre Dame
and another from the United States consul at
Jerusalem from whence be comes Both docu-
ments commend him, and state that he comes
here to collect money for the erection of chapel
In Jerusalem near the spot where our Savior was
buried. He has in his possession number of
packages containing earth said 20 have been
taken from spot near the sepulchre at Geth-
semane, which he will dispose of To religious en-
thusiasts. The packages are about one inch long
and one half-inch wide, sealed with wax, in
which Is an imprint showing four KEYS crossed:
the Greek Church and sent dispatch TO Father
jules Jollan, of ST. Lonis's Church, Brooklyns
to whom the Greek priest had letters.i
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ORIGINATING TEE DEAD.

Cremation is making rapid progress in France,
and it has now reached such point that the
body of an adult can be thus disposed of at a
cost of 49, This is a great item to the poor,
of which there are many in France and its fine
capital To say nothing of the other advan-
tages of this way Of disposing of the dead,
this one feature is worth careful consideration.
There are thousands Of families in this coun-
try upon whom the expense Of afuneral falls
as an almost intolerable burden Widows and
orphans have gone - bed hungry for weeks
and months and have worn shabby and in
sufficient clothing because of the expense
connected with funerals as now conducted.
This is all wrong. Certain it is that in nearly
or. quite every case the enc thus honored
would, if he could speak, pronounce against
it. There should be a change in the way OF
disposing of the dead, and it should be radi-
cal one. The objection to cremation is preju-
dice in nearly every particular. The idea Of in
terring the dead, so beautifully set forth
in poetry and song, is, after all, very revolt
ing one if it be considered in its every feat
ure. 1t is needless to recount tine objections
to this ancient and honored custom. They
will suggest themselves to all who care to
think about it. If, in this country the body
of the father of a poor family could be decent
ly and honorably disposed of at cost of So,
or even So, it would prove blessing to thou
sands of Gods poor, who can i'll afford the ex-
pense of funeral. It will not do to fail to in
ter the dead with as much respect as our
neighbors do, is the argument, and this is the
secret of so much distress arising from this
custom of putting unnecessary expense upon
the way the dead are buried. The time will
come when the prevailing way to dispose of
the dead will be by cremation, for there is
everything in it to recommend it to the PEG.
pie. 1t is not only much cheaper, but it is
likewise much more decent and safe to the
living and to the remains of the dead. It
would be great thing for the people Of this
country if cremation could be made as cheap
as it has been in France.
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SATURDAY,! Independent
Now that the outlines of the State House are
completes, and it's general appearance can be
fully comprehended, the contrast with the cheap
surroundings become more disgustngly and Of
fensively apparent There should be no quib-
bling nor debating, but the coming Legislature
should at once make sufficient appropriation to
purchase the two quarter squares in front of the
State House, remove the unsightly old rookeries
and make handsome and inviting foreground
commensurate with a four million dollar build
ing No member of the Legislature, unless he
is demented and incurable s'moss back and
old fogy, will oppose move of this kind. Pos
sibly some acquisitive genius among them, who
comes here in his own interest more than in the
interest of the State. and who will turn an hon.
est penny In any capacity, may get it into his
head that it is altogether for the benefit of the
citv and hold out for bid, but men of that
class can't we'll hide their motives and are made
quite suddenly to change their minds as was the
case with three four mombers in the passage
of the State-house bill. The probabilities are
that the necessity of the thing will be seen at
once, ard the Legislature will unanimously ia
vor it.
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How the German Emperor Travels.

Pail Mall Gazette.
When the Emperor William travels every pos
sible measure Is taken to provide for his com
fort. The Emperor's special train consists Of
three saloon carriages connected with each other
by covered way. The imperial carriage proper
is richly hung with blue damask, and at one end
there is a small compartment in which the En-
peror likes to stand at the window when making
short journeys A small saloon next to this
coupe contains a sofa and spring seat opposite
which is the Emperors camp bed. Near the
salon is the study, in which stands desk with
writing materials, whose appearance shows good
wear. Upon bracket above the desk is q small
model of the Column of Victory in Berlin Ad-
jacent TO the study is a dressing-room, fitted ND
with extreme care and good taste. A final room
contains too small sofas, a leaf table and large
mirror With the Emperors own carriage is q
carriage for his suite, and that Is of course quite
differently fitted up. 1t contains five or six
apartments. each containing a table and two
small touches. All the rooms are connected by
telegraph with the Emperors apartments. Tie
carriages are provided with gas throughout
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An Eastern exchange, in discussing college
education, boldly declares that either Latin or
Greek must CO." There is no use in hurry.
ing matters. Latin and Greek both go fast
enough after the student gets home and gives
his attention to selling calico and coffee, or to
adding up figures in ledger Give the young
man time, say year, or year and half, lii
which to get rid of his dead languages.
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several tongues must be accounted for It will
be safe only to count the gross returns at the
same rate as that given for the larger nnmber
This estimate will give:
For manufacturing 600
For distribution and sale ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 800 600
Of the remaining $3O0,000 Mrs Grant viii re
ceive 900 and Messrs. Webster e. Co. 500
000 It is altogether reasonable, as the facts
given me demonstrates that the sales of Grant's
Memoirs will reach the enormous total Of 400.
OOO Webster & Co. have acted as no other pub
fishing firm have heard mention OF has done,
and it is pleasure to know that they also are to
reap proper reward.
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Profits on the Grant Memoirs.


The lowest subscription price of General
Grants memoirs is $3.50. The cost of manufact-
uring is 70 cents per volume. The contract bids
ran from SO to n cents per volume The cost of
distribution is JUST double that amount, or ST. 80
per volume These figures. which are given to
me as correct make the cost of manufacturing and
selling the two volumes. on the writing of which
u. s. Grant spent the last hours of his remarka-
BILE lifs, Just 81 so, or 81 25 per volume. OF the
remai1 ine So Mrs. Grant receives 20 and e. l..
Webster e. CO. 30 per cent. Considering the rel
alive nature of the work done, its quality and
character, this is adjustment which expresses
justice on its face. OF the sets already sold 300,
900 in number are of this general edition. The
account at present viii stand very nearly in this
wise:
Received for 600, 900 volumes So. Csc. 900
Paid for manufacturing ......... $3.50, 900
Paid for distributing and sale. 100000
Cost or publication. ,00O, OUU
This leaves 5000. 900 for Mrs. Grant and the
publishing firm, divided as follows:
Mrs. Grant at So 10 royalty per set. $500 600
Z. L. Webster at 9Oc. for profits 270. 900
The foreign and future sales are estimated at
another 100000. The cost of translation into
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Letter in Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
This is Sunday; at least everybody thinks so,
il they don't act it out A question here arises:
When does Sunday really commence in the
Acton camp-ground2 There is single grocery
store here Co supply such goods as the cottagers
do not bring from their homes. This morning
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Heah dat ole campmeeting hawA
Blowing far across de Gavin!
For de Angus sun am hot
An de chickens in de pot,
An de dumplin' an de later IL soon be dar;
So Penina stir de fab
While de hymns agittin' highah,
For de preachah an de saint
Dey mus eat or dey mus faint
When dey tackle de ole debble in dis war.
Hark. sinnahl Heah dem shout!
See dem mo ners comm QUIT
Heah dem preachahs preachin' loud!
See dem edahs lookin' proud
AS de glory OBJ de magniied
D we'll climb de golden stair
Ar de pinnaeles of air.
Well be de crownin' gems
In dem new Jerusalems,
When de chariot's done an swung us twudder side.
Oh! dis ole camp.meetin' kline
Of religum suit de mine
Oats not biggoty vain,
Noh contented to remain
In de wo'mwood, an de spicknand, an de gall;
An de step dem shepahds keep
Is so natchel for de sheep,
Dat de sheep deg trot SO fas'
Dat de shepads dey would pass
If de lambs dey didn't slip som etimes, an fall.
Heah de sistahs sing an shout
As de 'zorters go about
Wild de warnin an de hope
Dat'll break de debble's rope
Dat he bine de sinnah wild, so hard an fas'
For it snap as quick SIS sin
When he lets religum in,
An de joy dem postles fine
Is de halleluyah kine
An de glory oh de story always las.
On dis ole camp meetin' groun'
Listnin' to de gospel soun'
When de preachah shed his coat
An de sweat begin to float
An de 'amenst' an de ''glorys! beat de air.
Den de joy come full an strong
Den de chariot move along
Den de sinnah gin to shake,
Den de debble gin to quake
An de skies bend down'ad to de ri'chus prayer.
See de- ole camp meetin' grace
Shinn in each cullahd face, ~
As dey tramp de tremlin groun
In de ole time walk aroun';
0 de white folks has powah such as dey.
When de walls OBJ Jericho
Gets rocken to an fro
An de halieuyahs ring
To de glory oh de King
It's de time to be upon de hebenly way.
VII.
Hank. to dat camp -meetin' hawn
How it rings across de Gavin,
How it hollahs Climb up highah
From de birthstone and de fah!"
How it warns 20 dat de day am passin' by;
Dat 20, po', sick shivrin' soul
Soon mus feel de Johdan roll
An yo' needin by 20 side.
One to lead yo fru de tide,
An pint out de glory places in de sky.
VIII
So, Penfna, stir de fab,
For dem preachahs soon viii tah;
Let de pot-pie be well done
Fo de turner OBJ de sun
Pass de spot where dem shadders gets de leas'
Oh dis glorus lgious fight
Sharps de preachah's appetite.
An de sistahs. brudders. too
Mus dey mohtal strenth renew
Wild de pot-pie an de later of de feas'.
BENZ. $. Parker.
KNIGHTsTowN, Ind, Aug. 5, 1886.
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all win be better pleased. The illuminated
poster and the shop-window hanger viii soon
60, and with them the army Of deadheads.
The place to advertise is in the newspaper.
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The oldest and one of the best newspaper re
porters in California is Miss Genevieve Green
who is by no means as verdant as her name
would indicate
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The labor question is becoming very badly
complicated by the strike of twelve girls who
have been engaged in wrapping tolu at a tolu
foundry in Louisville. There are not less than
l2,OO00OO girls in this country who are ready
and willing to take the places of the twelve
who have left their FORCES there. The chance of
chewing tolu nineteen hours day is one not to
be despised.
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THERE is said to be no less than IL, SAC. 900
hotel keepers in France. Send the gentleman
up to 6, 493. oh sankeya aim
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THERE is one satisfaction guaranteed Mr. j.
Pierce Weaver that few mortals are permitted
grave of the fellow who looked like him. The
fellow that looks like you is never as handsome
as you are. and nobody knows it better than
yourself. There should be some kind of law per-
uniting the putting away of such disagreeable
persons.
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THE son of Paul II. Hayne, the Southern poet
is trying to prove that the stories that his father
was improvident aud cranky are not true. This
would make his father one of the most remarka-
BILE versifiers of the age.
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If Brother Sam Jones keeps on he will estab-
lish himself in the affections of the children,
whatever preindices their elders may cherish.
In recent sermon the evangelist declared that
'any father at the table who will palm off the
neck or back of chicken upon his children is not
Christian"
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Mrs. Hussey's story of ''Davy."a pictureE'of
Brazil mining life, has received the second prize
$3.50, from the Youths Companion. Mrs. Hussey
resides at Brazil, and the story is exceedingly
interesting and cleverly told.
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INDIANAPOLIS is coming along in some things,
and now blind man has waived examination on
charge of having picked pocket and taken a
gold watch There are few cities that can pro-
duce blind pick-pockets, and few with men stupid
enough to allow blind man to get away with
their valuables.
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IT is now definitely announced that the maya
zine to be issued by Charles Scribners Sons will
be illustrated, and will be called ''Scribners
Magazine" though in no sense revival of the
old monthly which was merged in the Century. y
The editor will be Mr.. E. L. Burlingame. A
large outlay Of money and labor will doubtless
be required before the new venture reaches the
standing gained by the DID, but the firm is GER
tainly not entering into it without knowledge
of the risks.
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MISS EMMA THURsBY is tarryng at Ems jus
now to enjoy the benefit of the waters there
Wonder how Miss Thursby likes to be spoken Of
as Emf 1t would be much more respectful te
say she is stopping at Emma's.