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The picture here given of the African cx-
plorer will present him to our readers in a
new face Tho portrait of him familiar to
most people is that OF n worn, thin looking
Young man with white hair and n black
mustache lie showed in every feature tho
perils he had passed.
Here, however, we have handsome, well
fed man, who looks as if the world went very
well with him. Let US hope it does There
is nobody in America who tries to bclittle
the services Stanley performed for geo.-
raphy. 1t took the savantS OF Europe TO do
that. Stanley has just arrived III his own
country, to make a tour of lecturing this
winter May he be successful. He is
brave man and true. Besides that, he is n
newspaper man, and these deserve success in
their ndertakings if anybody does. They
mostly work hard enough. 1t is said St;in-
ley's hair turned from white to dark again
after lie got rested from his Congo explora-
ton.
A romantic history is Stanlcy's. An orphan
asylum in the Old World is hardly the place
whence genius and fame would take their
rise, yet thence starts Stanley He was born
in Deiihigh, Wales, and his original name was
John Rowlaulls He had right to change
it if be wanted to, and he did so. Stanley
was the name of New Orleans merchant
for whom the boy worked. Wren he was IL
years old he left the orphan asylum in Wales
and started out to shift for himself. He
shipped as cabin boy from Liverpool to New
Orleans, and thus he first came to America.
Few men have had so adventurous life.
During the war he served both in the Con-
federate and the Union armies. Then he
G.,.1 .,,.,,
another journey explored the Congo Those
are his two greatest exploits After be found
Livingstone, Queen Victoria presented to tho
nameless orphan Welsh boy gold snuff box.
His Congo explorations opened up to civilized
man water way nearly 6,OO0 miles long,
through a rich and populous country.
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INTERIOR OF LIBRARY.

Around the four sides of the library a
gallery containing many eases of rare hooks
is supported from the main floor by Corinthian
pillars Along the front of this gallery arc
number of remarkably. fine portraits OF the
famous soldiers and statesmen who have fig
urcd in the history of the state or country.
Especially deserving of mention Is life size
canvas of Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock. Tho
entire interior is painted a soft white color,
and is well lighted by skyights and windows,
and from these windows, while one reads at
the cozy little tables, view OF the distant
hills and valleys may bc obtained,
Several years ago, while rummaging through
tho loft of the capitol. number of old
parchment deeds were found by the work.
men engaged in repairing the dome. They
were covered with dust and cobwebS, but
after little cleaning proved to be the origi-
nal parcl,meut deeds whereby the lands bur-
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NOTES ABOUT ADJUSTMENTS.

Margaret Mather played in Detroit last
week
Mime. Patti is back in New York and
drawing big and enthusiastic audiences as of
yore
William j. Florence and his wife have had
very successful engagement in San Fran
cisco. .=-.. - -s
Theodore Thomas is paid SIS 900 for fifteen
weeks of work Us manager Of the American
Opera company.
Dion Boucicault is at work on n new Irish
play of tho ''Shaughraun" order, which he
will produce soon in Boston.
1.-THE Chouans," Modjeska's new play, has
been very successful in New York. On Dec.
6 she will produce another new play
"Daniela'-an adaptation from the German,
OF which little is known.
Fanny Davenport says the part OF " "Fedoras
is the hardest female role now played She
cannot play it more than three or four times
week, becausing it is, so fatiguing. She is
going to revive the custom of playing
double bill on Saturday night, and SO are
number of other first-class artists.
heAmerican Opera company has begun
its season In blaze of glory, and the papers
of Philadelphia, in which city the first per-
formances of the year were given, have ex-
hausted Noah Webster's stock of superlatives
telling of the wonderful singing and the agile
dancing. And every patriotic American will
rejoice thereat
DeBensaude, husband Of Violet Cameron,
has followed Lonsdale, the bespangled actress
lordly manager back to England. There is
some mystery about it all. It is held by some
that Bensaude was shipped" back and that
Lonsdale was at the bottom of it all. ltlooks
as if the last act i'll wild scheme Of adver-
tising an Indifferent variety actress had been
played out For once the American public
has refused to be humbugged.
Philadelphia has an old theatrical shoe
maker who has builded foot gear for most Of
the stage lights of the last quarter century.
He declares that Mary Anderson has corn
ON each little toe and that her shoes have to
be padded with wool on that account. The
old man says that the time was when no actor
would think of playing ''boot part" in low
cut shoes, but now it won't be surprising if
some day Julius Caesar is played in CATERS
with pink rosettes.
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Just then side door opens and smilingly
enters Col Lamont. This slight, very fair
and not particularly striking person, dressed
in tightly buttoned and tight fitting frock
coat and pan.aloons of gray material, is
enters, with his quick, noiseless, yet
somewhat sliding, step; the small, quite
round head-sparsely covered with thin,
smooth, fair hair-bent expectantly forward;
the mouth made quite invisible by thin,
stiff and protruding red mustache; the small,
restless, gray eyes; the continual smile; occa-
sionally rubbing the thin, white hands with
their sharply pointed fingers quickly glanc-
ing round the room, slightly bowing to the
r,Sht and left in recognizing familiar faces.
What capital listener and what guarded
and careful speaker is this all powerful secFe-
taryl
It was just glimpse obtained, but quite
long enough for an instantaneous exposure,
securing d picture OF Grover Cleveland at his
desk. The library is an elliptic shaped room in
the second story, above and OF the same dis
mensons as the blue room; it is not only the
most pleasantly situated apartment, but bears
in contrast to tho others a. jock of comfort
able grandeur, although its decorations. fur
nitnre and fixtures are. with the exception of
n really magnificent chandelier, By no means
fitting its size and character. This is indeed
i fine rsom and the view from its windows
charming, the massive pillars supporting the
roof Of the veranla in front of them forming
a frame for this beautiful picture. Far in
the distance tho blue hills OF Virginia, the
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WHOLE NO. 900.
a PRESIDENTS BIRTHPLACE.


The House in Fairfield. VT, where Chess
ter Alan Artiiur First Saw Light.
A remarkable fact about a long line OF the
presidents of the United States is the exeep-
tionally humble surroundings of their birth.
The pictures of the houses in which Lincoln,
Grant and Garfield were born have been pub
lished, and strange to say were all about OF
type with the illustration herewith OF the
late President Arthurs birthplace The plain,
squatty one story structure, with a single door
and q few windows, seems to be the lucky one
as starting point for the presidential aspi-
rant Our public men possessing the epresi-
Dental bee in their bonnets' should first find
what style Of house they were born in and
risk their chances accordingly. And unborn
Americans intending to run for president
should take advantage OF this point and see
to it that their careers are begun right.
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Fiction and Crime.

A very grave thing is the sanguinnry tone
of so much French story writing. There is
an obvious love of describing brutality for
its own sake and laboriously inventing the
details of hideous murders. Along with this
criminal fiction there is development of
crime which is almost unparalleled, and it is
impossible not to see a connection between
the two. Some time ago it was calculated
that in one month murders had been COM
mitted, or at least attempted, at the rate Of
rather more than one day. Since then the
record has been wei kept up. One assassina-
t;9n follows another, and they are adorned
with a degree of art which seems to indicate
the existence In the mind of the murderer Of
certain feeling of emulation. Whenever
ruffian makes his mind up now to kill his
mistress he seems to cast about for the NEST
striking and public way of doing it, as if he
wished to see whether he or the author of
the last tale of horror had the lyelier imag-
ination. Saturday Review.
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ART AND ARTISTS.


The pictures shown at this winters exhibi-
tion OF the Metropolitan museum are of
much better artistic quality than is usual.
The school of the Art Institute in Chicago
nas opened with $50 students in drawing,
painting and modelling. OF the 65 members
in the evening classes only a dozen do nothing
else the rest are engravers on wood, stone
or metal, teachers, draughtsmen Of architec-
ture, machinery or patents, sign, wagon, or
wall painters, designers of furniture, and
craftsmen of the most various trades.
When the companion obelisk to that in
Central Park was offered to England, many
years ago, the same that now stands on the
Thames embankment, o statue of Rameses
II, partially unearthed, was added to the
gift. 1t is to be accepted now, and will be
placed near the Albert ball, on Hyde Park,
not far from the glittering monument to
Prince Albert.
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BIRTHPLACE OF PRESIDENT ARTHUR.

BIRTHPLACE OF PRESIDENT ARTHUR.
The father of the late President Arthur
was q Baptist clergyman, graduate of the
University Of Belfast. near his native place,
in Ireland Fine scholar and able minister
that he was, this building of which we give
sketch is interesting as showing the sort of
parsonages clergyman was expected to put
up with in those days. The Rev. William
Arthur's liberal education, particularly in
the classics, was of great advantage in pre-
pairing his son Chester for college. But this
event did not take place until they were liv-
ing in better quarters in Union village, Wash
ingtons county, N. Y. Young Chester was
scarcely more than babe when his family
left the house he was born in.
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LITERARY NOTES.

Professor Lyman, of Yale, is slowly recov-
ering from his recent stroke of paralysis.
Although Ignatius Donnelly has been elect
ed to the Minnesota legislature, this will not
deter him from continuing his researches ON
the Shakespeare-Baco strife.
One of the most morbid of literary produc-
tions lately gotten out is M. Tolstois "Ivan
Hitch" story of death, and how it came
upon the subject of the sketch.
According to The Boston Transcript Mr..
Lowell remarked, on receiving telegram
announcing Julian Hawthornes visit, that he
couldn't imagine what he was coming for.
Hon. Geo. Bancroft, the historian, is still
gathering material for another volume of his
history. He is said to be failing slightly,
ard is not seen out of doors as much as for
merly.
A number of publishers in this country
have found that it rays to get their work
done in Europe The constant dissensions
with printers is not known there, and book
can be contracted for year or two ahead.
@The Professor in the Machine Shop" con-
sists of q series of papers reprinted from The
Mechanical Engineer. They discuss matters
pertaining to machinery and the machine
shop in q practical and entertaining manner
Tn his aChildren of the Cold" Lieut. Fred
eric Schwatka has produced an interesting
account OF domestic life among the Esquimo
of the arctic regions, with particular refer
ence to the habits, occupations and anuse-
ments OF the boys 1t liz handsomely Illus
trated.
@The Terrace of Mon Desir" Is q novel OF
Russian life. said to have been written by an
American woman married to Russian diplo-
matist, It is rather colorless as study OF
character. or even as a narrative, but en-
bodies many pleasant pictures of country life
among the Russian nobility In fashionable
summer resort near st. Petersburg.
aThe Labor Movement--the Problem OF
To-day.ni is a compilation of articles by the
most distinguished champions OF the cause OF
the workingnen. such as Henry George, I.
v. PowderIy, r. Heber Newton and others.
1t presents nm interesting array OF historical
facts. and furnishes great deal OF valuable
information on the subject OF trades unions.
the Knights OF Labor and similar organiza-
tions
Tn his aStudies in Social Life" Mr.. George
n I,ori,ner holds that the faithful application
os the principles of American liberty, as dis
t;nouishesi from the theories of liberty cur
rent in France and Germany, can alone
promote the general amelioration OF society.
His views are conveyed in clear and ami
mated language Those chapters in which
he discusses the taxation theories OF MIR.
Henry George and trades unions are interest
ing.
Helen Ainslie Smiths "One Hundred Fa-
80 An,arican,sn may be regarded as sort
OF condensed biographical dictionary Ior .ne
use OF Juvenile readers, although the styie =
less dry and formal than belongs % wo'h
of that class. As u matter OF Iaes, CONSIDER
ably more than hundred Americans are ~
troduced, OF whom tie author writes WIN
intelligence and impartiality. The iikenesses
of these worthless are good, bad and ihdiIef-
sn&.
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cuRsoslTlEs OF LIFE.

p a
A unique marriage took place in Erie
county, New York, last week The bride
was only SO years old, while the groom had
reached the comfortable age of 10.
A year-old ostrich egg burst in the New
Haven Peabody museum the other day with
force enough to knock DIR. George Baur
down. The smell was indescribabie.
One of the querest facts ia the fire insur-
ance business is that ice houses are classed as
"extra hazardous" and some insurance COM
panies will not issue policies on them at any
rate
Mr. Henry Garden, OF Lafayette, Ind,
owns a tall eight day clock made sixty years
ago ON Luny's run, O., by Jeremiah G. Cleve-
land, an uncle of the president. 1t still keeps
good time o. s... z., -.sss s,s
A few days ago Park Policeman Holden,
In New York, saw horse running away
with its rider, and, being mounted, spurred
up his own horse and started in hot pursuit.
A moment later the policeman and his horse
were struggling together on the ground. The
animals shoes had struck together and
'locked" and this caused the downfall. It
was for time feared that Holden would die.
A small farmer of Buckinghamshire, Eng
land, brought his Child to the parish church
the other day to be baptized. When the rec
tor asked him to "name this child" the proud
father ratified off twenty-six biblical names
representing every letter in the alphabet, be-
ginning with Abel and ending with Zach
ariah. The rector was staggered for mo-
ment, but finally persuaded the farmer to be
content with the first and last Of the proposed
names. fE 5H tg & .s..-s
An Essex, Conn.,, clergyman recently at
tempted to enter his house late at night, hav-
ing arrived home from New York unex-
pectedly by boat A barrel under the pantry
window offered him an easy mode of enter
ing, and he sprang upon it. His feet had
hardly touched the head before it caved in,
and he found himself plunged in bath of
soft soap. TO extricate himself from his un-
pleasant predicament he was obliged TO call
for assistance, but before it was rendered he
had q narrow escape from being shot for a
burglar by neighbor.
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dering on the Susqne-
hanna river were ceded
to the white settlers by
the chiefs of the vari-
Gus Indian tribes of
this state. Prominent
among the articles re-
ceived in exchange for
their lands by the
Indians were rum,
heads, looking glasses
and red paint, nnd
from the last named
article it may he sup
posed that even at
that early date in our
country's history the
practice of painting
the town redn was
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r. G. CRAWFORD AND W. sTAHLNECKER, JR.
Here on couches and chairs placed against
the walls are sitting several people waiting,
most of them are acquaintance of the col
onel, enjoying the privilege of free entrance
at all times. Two of them recognized at
once, sitting together, deeply engaged in con-
versation; the one toll, handsome man OF
dark complexion, jet black hair, mustache
and well-trimmed side whiskers, is w. Stahl-
necker, Jr. late mayor of Yonkers and now
one of the New York representatives to
congress The other, with that sharp, finely
cut Roman nose, cold, penetrating gray eyes
and sarcastic lines well defined from the
nostrils down to the corners of the severe,
firm mouth, is the correspondent OF The New
York World, who, without dread, fearlessly
signs his sometimes scourging articles Il. C.
Crawford,
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THE FKESIDENT AT HIS UEsh.
toise shell framed "grandfathers specs" with
lenses about the size of small saucers, between
his lips fragrant Havana, fixed into small
rubber holder, several of which are to be seen
upon the large inkstand before him. Apro-
pos, catching the eye of the locker on, to tho
left of the president on the upper corner OF
the spacious desk are quite number OF auto
graph albums of all sizes and coverings,
awaiting the great mans autograph
~. JULIUS HELIos.
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was in his seventies,
and had been one
of the most iinpor-
tant citizens OF his
adopted state. He
came to Missouri
from the east in
1887 and settled in
Springfield, in the
southwestern por-
tioli of the state,
and was elected to
the legislature in
IS42 and to con-
gress In 1874. He
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years In congress and for seven terms
was chairman of the ways md means
committee. He left congress in 1869
10 enter the Union army as colorel of a
Missouri regiment which was employed III tho
home guard service. In 1876 he was elected
governor of Missouri Us Democrat and
served four years. He was governor during
the big strike OF 1877.
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SPORTING .RAGRAPHs.

Paddy Ryan is going to open a saloon in
San Francisco.
The Dryers will work about thirty horses
for the 2-ysar-old lists next year.
John p Glow has arrived in the east and
is open to meet any one who looks for him.
Yale has challenged Harvard for fresh
man eight-oared race at New London next
year.
Mervine Thompson, the heavy weight
pugilist of Cleveland, is out with challenge
to fight any man in America.
Tho announcement that Jack Dempsey is
willing to fight Sullivan is creating great
deal of talk in sporting circles. 81 s#t
Lucky Baldwin of California is to pay
$4,000 for his two jockeys next year--
$4,000 to Isaac Murphy and s., 900 to Billy
West.
An event of great interest in the trottiRg
world will be the meeting OF the board OF re-
view of the National Trotting association,
which will be held in New York, Dec. 8.
W. G. George after making a trip to Aus
tralia, where he may probably make q match
with Malone, will return to New York and
accept position offered him in a drug
house.
The Louisiana Jockey club course has been
leased for the purpose of holding winter
meeting, which will begin in December and
continue until April I. A ten days pre-
liminary meeting will !, held in December.
According 10 the new baseball league rules
the home plato must hereafter be of india
rnbber. A New York paper finds fault with
this because it doesn't go far enough, and
AYERS that the catchers' hands should also be
of rubber
Dates for the spring and fall meetings Of
the American Jockey club for 1887 have been
announced. There will be eight racing days
in the spring, beginning with May "a and
ending June I. The fall meeting will consist
of ten days racing. opening Sept. "A and
closing Oct. s.
They tell me story about a Chicago man
who is a BASEBALL enthusiast and who invited
the members OF the ball club OF that city TO
dinner at his house. There was discussion
among the boys as to whether they should
wear dress suits or baseball uniforms, but
they finally settled down to plain business
salts. When the hostess tried To talk with
Kelly about Burns poetry, Kelly saw he
didn't know Tommy had ever written any.
and declared further that he had never played
with Browning and didn't believe he was ia
the league. The occasion proved pretty con
clusively that the Chicago ball tossers ara
not "sassietyn fellows
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i'm lS42. His father
and grandfather
were clergylnen. In
addition to his nlin-
isterial duties his
father edited and
published the only
paper in Irvington,
The Christian Mes
senger and Herald.
Amos entered his
fathers prin ting
office when II years
old as q conlpositor
and has worked at
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CAP TO L
building at
Harris b urg,
Pa, is on the
unlnlit of a
inll in the very
neart of that
pretty little
ci t y a II d
though the ele-
walton is in
considera bic,
it is sufficient
to give an ex-
ceilent view OF
the surround
ng country
from the win
dows of the
capitol. The
winding Sus-
quehanrla, the
distant range
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24 DEER LODGE, MONTANA, DECEMBER TO- 1886.
THE pslas

4
THE DRkABhaER.
The drummer sap = e way
When he SAs To Ill:
He spreads before Sen On IRA
OF samples that II
Then talks and talks with NRG f III
Until you Dl grow.
And, feeling he's your NINE,
An IC manner show.
You say you don't wan ME- thing;
No PIT he displays,
Then, getting mad, say UL fling
Him out in KC stays
Hell SO then to take q ''smsle''
And tell HIS nut tale
And thus LA your anger while
In PC he makes sale.
II you should OK place 70 hide
With gIee he'll CO, too,
And when at EV leaves your side
He's sold his goods -kf. st
A drummer catnot 81 sfia6 g
And aiilI Nsa's 4 Kick, ~aa
Like YZ doesn't feas club
And to UE VIII stick.
., what HEX drummer shows
And what an IN jaw.
He saves IL sense for he knows
That BIT can the law.
III. c. Dodge in Detroit Free Press.
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AWAITING AUDIENCE

AWAITING AUDIENCE. a. m. u
hour of opening the building to the public
there are already more than score
of people waiting to lay their wants
and wishes before the great private secre-
tary, with perhaps lingering hope Of
being ultimately admitted to the presi-
dent. The electric bell sounds with whir
and a whiz. Alleges are directed to the light,
swinging screen door. Through the small
aperture the clumsy finger of the fat negro
commandingly beckons and a fine looking,
gray headed gentleman, whose appearance
pronounces him man of high social stand
ing, jumps from his seat with the agility of a
young steer, and, bowling as If grateful to the
negro, is admitted to the office of the T. s.
Who is this just coming up the few steps
leading from the hall into the waiting rooma
Head erect, looking about with the confidence
of man well knowing his own worth, the
corners of his pointed, waxed mustache turned
up somewhat defiantly, the sharp, piercing
eyes looking with a sort of humorous twinkle,
from underneath q well shaped forehead,
fearlessly into the world. On entering the
room he carelessly pushes back the thick,
curly hair, already somewhat streaked with
gray. A finely proportioned, manly figure,
dressed scrupulously, yet without any sign
of dudishness, in finest black broadcloth, the
patent leather boots covering rather aristo-
cratic foot. Such is the face and figure, once
seen always remembered, of Joseph Keppler,
of Puck. Scarcely seated, and dropping
ncgligently his card into his high silk hat, he
Is shown, with exceptional promptitude and
courtesy, by Arthur Simons to the library,