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according to law; or that the defendants
policy of absolute non-iatercourse as, de-
clared in the orders and letters of its
agents, was in any respect altered.
AN INTERVIEW.
AMSTERDAM, N. Y, April 3.-Thomas
Mcclure, of the general executive board
Knights of Labor, who has been in town
for the past week, was interviewed by a
reporter to-day. He was asked:
What do you think of the railroad
troubles in the west?"
"The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
engineers are virtuelly beaten" Mcclure
replied, "and there is no use in their pro-
longing the conflict. 1t is the Knights of
Labor that have beaten them. Our peo-
pie have been getting even with the
Brotherhood for its course in the South
western and Reading strikes"
"Do you think their defeat in this
strike will be fatal blow to the Brother
hood?"
"Oh, this may be a good thing for the
Brotherhood. 1t may teach them a use
full lesson think that the end will be
that this Brotherhood will either come 10 to
the order of the Knights of Labor or will
enter into some kind of a contract with
them"
THE BRoTHERHooD's RESPONSIBILITY.
CHICAGO, April "A local paper says:
The general advisory committee of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
held meeting last night for the purpose
of considt ring what steps were necessary
TO prevent the radicals pursuing course
that, it is feared, will end in the disin-
tegration of the Brotherhood. The con-
servatige members have become greatly
alarmed over the lawless actions of the
swItchmen, as the blame for the actions
of the latter is placed on the shoulders of
the engineers. The switchmen, aided by
the radicals in the Brotherhood, it is
claimed, have assumed the manage ment
of the strike, and the officers of the
Brotherhood are no longer consulted as to
the steps necessary to be taken.
Most members of the committee
strongly urged the adoption of fesolu-
ton declaring that the Brotherhood of
Engineers had nothing in common with
the switchmen, and is in no way res ponsi-
be for their actions.
Mr.. Hoge, chairman of the Burlington
grievance committee, and two or three
others, were the only ones opposed
to such action, claiming that the aid of
the switchmen was needed to help the en-
gineers against the Burlington.
After long and animated discussion,
it was decided that the advisory commit
tee depart at once for Cleveland and con-
suit with Chief Arthur as to the best
course to be pursued hereafter.
AS a result of yesterdays notice, that
the Rock Island will not handle 80"
freight the Burlington has reinstated its
complaint against the Rock Island in the
United States circuit court. Judge
Gresham viii hear the arguments to-mor
row.
WEST MILWAUKEE YARDS.
MILWAUKEE, April 3.-In the West Mil
waukee yards there was rather more &C.
tivlty than yesterday and more received
at the freight houses than on any day
since the trouble began. General Mau
ager Dalton, of the Milwaukee and North.
ern, said about 200 men had been laid of
by his com pany, but as soon as the strike
on the Burlington road is settled and
things get running smoothly again they
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Judicial Election

COLUMBUS, o. April 3.-Returns from
three counties in this Judicial district. iu-
dictate that Pugh (rePublican) will be
elected judge over Abrenathy (democrat),
by from 400 to 600. Pugh pesided in the
recent tally sheet prosecutions.
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CHICAGO.
--latest Phases of the Strike, and
Its Effect Upon Freight
Transportation.
Report of the Grand Secretary of
the Order of Railway
Conductors.

CH1oLGo, April 3.-Not a wheel has
turned in the Michigan Central yards
since o'clock this morning, and, while
no strike has been declared, the Chicago
end of the road at least is for the present
completely tied up, engineers, firemen and
switchmen all having deserted their posts
The cause of the present state of affairs
in the Michigan Central yards is the pres
ence there of 20" freight, which was de-
livered there yesterday, and the announce
ment by the Michigan Central that they
would handle all the freight delivered.
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SECRET MEETING OF swITCHMEN.

KANSAS CRY, April 3.-At general and
secret meeting of swiichmen in the yards,
held here last night, reliable information
was presented to the effect that ths Santa
Fe company would not force the men to
handle "Q' freight The meeting there
upon ordered that, if that be the case, the
yardmen on that road who went out last
evening should resume. work this morn
ing. In accordance with this, the men all
took their places again this morning. The
Santa Fe has posted notice that that
road will receive no freight whatever, of
any kind, to-day. All other roads are
working all right, excepting the Burling-
ton.
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control of its traffic department, or
granted permission to the defendant to
conduct its business as a public carrier
according to law; or that the defendants
policy of absolute non-iatercourse as, de-
clared in the orders and letters of its
agents, was in any respect altered.
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Boards,

The modern habit Of wearing full
beard and mustache, which has come
into common use since the days of the
Crimean War, is but return to a bygone
fashion, which may be studied by the
curious on such subjects in any collec-
ton of portraits. The main difference
between boards Of the present day and
those worn by our ancestors seems to be
that their earlier taste displayed itself in
a variety of shape and form, which seems
to have changed, even in the same per-
son, according to the will of the wea rer,
For instance in sheBayeux Tapestry King
Ed ward the Confessor is represented with
either beard like bunch of radishes
or forked beard and long mustachois
hanging down, while quite another sort
of appendage adorns his chin in paint
ing at Westminster Abbey. Such illus
trations, however, cannot always be de-
pended upon. since, In many cases, the
artist has finished off the portraits ac-
cording to the fashion of his own time
without regard to absolute accuracy.
Thus, there are portraits, taken from the
screen of York Cathedral, in which Will
liam the Oonqueror and his sons appear
with long corkscrew boards, although
history and the Bsyeux Tapestry make it
certain that the Normans did not wear
them.
Far back in Scripture history we find
abundant indics tons of the value that
was set upon beard, which the Jews
especially esteemed great addition to
its wearer's dignity, as may be gathered
in a note to Mant's Bible, Isaiah, chap.
vii
"The hairs of the head are those of
highest order in the state; those of the
feet are the common people; the beard,
the king, the high priest, the very su-
preme in dignity and majesty"
That it has been considered a sign OF
sovereignty in later days is shown by
Beaumont and Fletcher, where the choice
of the King of Beggsrs is made to rest
upon him who had the longest and the
largest beard
By that beard thou vert found out and
mark'd for sovereignty.
o, happy beard! but happier Prince whose
beard
Was so remark'd as marked out our Prince,
Not batting us hair. Long may it grow,
And thick and fair, that Who lives under It
May live as safe as under beggar's bush.
Of which this is the thing, that but the type.
An altogether different view was taken
of the matter by writer in l765, who, in
his "Free Advice to Young Clergyman"
advised him mot to come into that jew
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JOHN SEWER AS A COMMON.
WEALTH BUILDER.

Few States of the American Union
have had a more romantic and eventful
history than Tennessee. Among the first
of the commemorative west of the Ale
ghanies to be settled, she was also the
first after Kentucky to be admitted to
the Union. Her history for the few pre-
vious years had been most eventful one.
During the most of the Revolutionary
War that central and oblong block of ter
ritory lying to the west OF the present
State of North Carolina, and extending
from the Alleghanies to the Mississippi,
was known as the West Country, and then
as Washington county, North Carolina,
the latter name being given it in 1777.
1t was later divided into two counties.
and still later into three, under the names
of Washington, Greene and Sullivan.
Soon after the close of the Revolution,
North Carolina, not unwilling to get rid
of county the inhabitants of which were
loud in their demands for courts and pro-
lection against the Indians, and which it
felt to be more troublesome than profita-
BILE, offered to cede that portion of her
territory west Of the mountains to Con
gress as her share Of the expenses of the
Revolution, provided Congress would &C
cept the grant within two years.
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BUCKLES GRAVE.

"Olose beside the space allotted for
the camels which make the long caravans
for Damascus, came across the little
English cemetery. It is quiet spot,
surrounded by high wall. The gate
was locked, and there was no way of get
ting within it. I could not tell where
the key was to be found; wherever it
was, it was long distance off in the
heart of the city. So, by the aid of our
dragoman, [ succeeded in climbing to
the top of the wall, and seeing the one
grave in which was the most interested
that of Henry Thomas Buckle, the au-
thor of the History of Civilization"
Buckle had wearied himself out with lit
erary work. His methods were not the
most wise nor expeditions. He was an
indetatigable CLEANER of facts, and pa
tient gatherer of notes from all quarters,
and he piled up his note books in great
heterogeneous masses. He seems to have
had but little help, and not to have hus-
blnded bis strength. So, like many men
who begin to rest when it is too late, he
went off on distant travel He reached
Damascus. His mind must have kindl-
ed afresh as he saw the city of weav-
ers and STANCE oriental combinations, and
thought of the long and hoary history OF
the place. But he was too weary to
think longer. He lay down to die, and
here he rests, under the shadow of the
thick and high walls OF little graveyard
where only seldom an Anglo Saxon comes
to visit the sacred place. The accumula-
ton of years is beginning to tell upon
the inscription. But it is still very le2i-
BILE, and gives the record OF his brief and
to ling life.
"There is something singularly touch
ing in this little graveyard. There are
only few graves, yet among them, be-
sides Buckles, are several English no
blemen and titled ladies The inscrip-
tions repeat the story of love and tears,
as everywhere else None who come here
expect to die. But the difficulties of re-
movsl are great. There are great and
long settled superstitions against the
transportation of the dead in all these
eastern countries The best way is to
let our friends lie where they fall, and to
care for the perpetual beauty of their
resting place. The little grayeyards of
the Anglo Saxons in all the eastern GEM
eteries make strange appeal to the SYM
pathies. have seen many of them, and
always they teach the suddenness of
death, of the pilgrimage which we call
life. and of the burning love of those
who remain behind, and who write their
words OF tenderest affection on a stone
in far-off lands"
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The settlers of this tra,t which it was
proposed to cede, learning of this, and
hearing the details incorrectly, feared a
two years interval of no government at
all, and at once set up government of
their own, declaring their independence
of North Carolina. That State, therefore,
repealed her act of cession and made
claim to her property. The settlers across
the mountains, not fully approaching or
comprehending the benefit of the capri
cious treatment they had received, and
having tasted the sweets Of independence,
completed the organization OF their State
by adopting State constitution, choos-
ing governor and legislature, establish
ing courts and other State institutions,
and applying for admission into the
Union. North Carolina called this re-
bellion, and proceeded to apply mild
form of coercion to the seeding, SO called,
State. A period of distraction and tur-
bulence ensued with two sets of Off Gals
in all the settlements, one appointed by
North Carolina, the other by the State of
Franklin. This lasted for some three
years, but at last, owing to the concilia-
tory policy of Governor @ iswell, of North
CAROLINA, and the disloyalty to the new
State of many of its citizens, the State of
Franklin gradually melted away, and
Governor John Sewer, who had been
moving spirit in its organization. was
left without government. North Caro-
lima forgave all the settlers but Sewer,
who was the idol of the Western country,
whose people had not forgotten his ex-
ploits at Kings mountain. He was ex-
cepted from the amnesty, and was cap
tured and brought prisoner to Morgan
town, in Burke county, to be tried for
treason. John Sewer is one of the nota-
BILE figures of early Western history. The
story of his timely and heroic service at
the head of his band of Tennesseeans at
Kings mountain has been told by James
N. Gilmore Edmund Kirke) in his "Rear-
Guard Of the Revolution" The story of
his subsequent career as leader of the
settlers revolt against North Carolina,
as governor of the State of Franklin, is
now told by Mr. Gilmore in. his "John
Sewer the Commonwealth Builder" He
was rescued during his trial by half.
dozsn of his followers, who entered the
courtroom, and, by creating confusion,
made his es ,ape easy. He returned to
North Carolina the next year as mem
Der of the legislature, and was forgiven;
he was the first governor OF Tennessee,
serving for twelve years in that ca pacity,
and was three times elected to Congress
from the new State. In his graphic and
apprecistive account Of Sewers notable
career Mr.. Gilmore has made valuable
contribution to American biography and
to the early history of the State of Ten
nessee.-B oSton Advertiser
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HAUNTED HOUSES WANTED.

The following from Science, may be of
use to persons who happen to have on
hand any of the article in question:
"The American Society for Psychical
Research evidently finds diff guilty in Sc
curing haunted houses to be submit sd
to their searching investigations. Pro-
lessor Royce, who is the chairman of the
committee on apparitiops and haunted
houses, PECULIARLY referred to this diff
Guilty in his report at the recent meeting
of the Society in Boston. As Professor
Royce said, the name suggesting as it
does thai the time of the committee is
mainly spent in visiting haunted houses
and gaost-ridden graveysrds, does not
describe it's actual office. The committee
has often expressed its willingness to visit
haunted houses, or to pass the night in
any promising place, for the sake of see.
ing, explaining, or of converting from
the error of its ways, any genuine ghost
in the city or in the neighborhood of Bos-
ton. The committee has heard of sever
al houses that once were believed to be
haunted, but in no case has the present
condition Of these houses warranted any
interference on the committees part
The phenomena have in all cases so far
reported ceased for some time, usually
for many years.
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ORIGIN OF 1.-THE STRANGE CASE
OF DR.. JEKYLL AND MR..
HYDE"

can but give an instance or SO OF what
part is done sleeping and what part
awake, and leave the reader to share what
laurels there are, at his own nod, between
myself and my collaborators; and to do
this / will first take a book that num-
Der of persons have been polite enough
to read, "The Strange Case of DIR. Jekyll
and Mr.. Hyde" had long been trying
to write story on this subject, to find
body, voiuiio.e: for that strong sense of
mans double being which must at times
come liz upoc and overwhelm the mind
Of every thinking creature. 1 had even
written one, "The Travelling Companion"
which was returned by an editor on the
plea that it was u work OF genius and in
decent, and which burned the other day
on the ground that it was not work of
genius, and thft Jekyll had supplanted
it. Then came one of those financial
fluctuations o which with an elegant
modesty) I have hitherto referred in the
third person. For two days went about
racking my brains for plot of any sort;
and on the second night dreamed the
scene at the window, and a scene after
ward split in two, in which Hyde, pur-
sued for some crime, took the powder and
underwent the change in the presence of
his pursuers. All the rest was made
awake, and consciously, although think
can trace in much of it the manner of
my Brownies. The meaning of the tale is
therefore mine, and had long pre-. existed
in my garden of Adonis, and tried one
body after another in vain; indeed, do
most Of the morality, worse luck and my
Brownies have not rudiment of what
we call a conscience Mine, too, is the
setting, mine the characters. All that
was given me was the matter of three
scenes, and the central idea of voluntary
change becoming involuntary. Will it
be thought ungenerous, after have been
so literally ladling out praise to my I'M
seen collaborators, if I here toss them
over, bound hand and foot, into the arena
of the critics? For the business of the
powders, which so many have censured,
| is, / am relieved to say, not mine at all,
but the Brownies Robert Louis Steven-
SON, IN Scribner's Magazine.
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/ SHALL FIND REST.

A little further on
There will be time-I shall find rest anon;
Thus do we say, while eager youth invites
Young hope to try her wings ia wanton flights,
And nimble fancy builds the soul nest
On some far crag; but soon youths fame is
gone
Burned lightly out--while we repeat the jest
With smiling confidence-I shall find rest
A little further on.
A little further on
l shall find rest; half fiercely we avow
When noon beats on the dusty field and care
Threats to unjoint our armor, and the glare
Throbs with the pulse of battle, while lifes best
Flies with the fitting stars: the freDzied brow
Pains for the laurel m ore than for the breast
Where Love soft nesting waits. Not now,
not now,
With feverish breath we cry, l shall find rest
A little further on.
A little further on
shall find rest; half-sad. at last, we say.
When sorrows settling cloud blurs out the
CLEAN
OF glory's torch, and to vanished dream
Loves palace hath been turned; then all de-
pressed,
Despairing, sick at heart-we may not stay
Our weary feet SO lonely then doth seem
This shadow-haunted world. We, so unblest,
Weep not to see the grave which waits its
guest;
And feeling round our feet the cool, sweet
clay,
We speak the fading world farewell, and say:
Not on this side-alasl-I shall find rest
A little further on.
Robert Burns wilson, in the CenturyM MAJ ID
inc
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The Home Pa9e.
THE COMMON VOYAGE.
BY ARTHUR HUGH CLoUGH.

AS ships becalmd at eve. that lay
With canvas dro ping, side by side,
Two towers of sail at dawn of day,
Are scarce, long leagues apart, deserted,
When fell the night, inspiring the breeze
And all the darkling hours they piled,
Nor dreamt but each the self-same seas
By each was cleaving. side by side.
Fen so-But why the tale reveal
OF those whom. year by year unchanged,
Brief absence Joined anew to feel,
Astounded, soul from soul estranged?
At dead of night their sails were f1lPd
And onward each rejoicing steer'd;
An, neither blame, for neither WILD
Or wist what first with dawn appeared
To veer how vanl On, onward strain,
Brave barksl In light, in darkness too,
Through winds and tides one compass guides
To that and your own selves be true.
But, o blithe breeze. and great seas,
Though Meier, that earliest parting past,
On your wide plain they join again,
Together lead them home at lastl
One port, methou yht, alike they sought,
One purpose hold whereer they fare
o bounding breeze, o rushing seas,
At last, at last. unite them therel
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TURNED TO STONE.

1t always seems very wonderful to me
to see anything which would generally
decay with the progress of time, turned
instead into stone. Petrifed wood hav-
ing the appearance of wood but with its
light fibers changed to heavy stone is a
curiosity, but greater wonder is fish
that has petrifed. A petrifed salmon
has recently been found in California, the
heshy parts keeping their pinkish yellow
color, and what was the skin being now
sort of porcelain or white flint. The
whole is like the very hardest quartz.
A lady once found a petrified cucum-
Der in Germany. She took it to jsweler
and had it "sliced," when it was found
that it had the natural colors of the Gu
cumber-green skin, greenish white pulp
and pure white seeds. The slices were
polished and set as jewels, forming, when
fastened together, strange bat beauti-
full necklace, brooch, and bracelets. 1t
was considered more beautiful than ag-
ates or onyx, and was certainly more rare
than diamonds, and of greater value than
any other cucumber ever was. This in
cident ought to upset the theory that
fresh cucumbers are worth more than
those that have been picked long time,
and prove that age makes them more val
uable-though perhaps not more digesti
blel
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praise, wae the chief part of the 'provis-
ion suffi ,ient to sustain the mind so
often recommended by him to the officers
and men. This was the only notable
demonstration which he made before
landing
Remarkable was the Sabbath morn
ing salutatioD, in which an American
feet, with such music as those hillsides
never re-echoed before, chanted the
glories OF Jehovah before the gates OF a
heaihen nation. It was strange sum-
mons to the Japanese It's echoes are
now heard in thousand glens and in the
cities of the Mikado's empire. The waters
of Yeddo Bay have since become bap-
tismal flood. Where cannon were cast
to resist Perry, now stands the I'm
perlal Femals Normal College. On the
treaty grounds rises the spire of Christ
ian church."
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A HINT FOR THE NEW YEAR.

1t is great preservative to a high
standard of taste and achievement, to
take every year some one great book as
an especial study, not only to be read,
but to be conned, studied, brooded over;
to go into the country with it, travel with
it, be devotedly faithful to it, be without
any other book for the time; compel
yourself thus to read it again and again.
Who can be dull enough to pass long
days in the intimate, close, familiar in
tercourse of some transcendent mind,
and not feel the benefit of it, when he re-
turns to the common worldP.-EdUard
Bulaver, Lord Lytton.
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Q WORKING THE PUMPS

When the vessel has sprung leak,
and the sailors are engaged in working
the pumps, the ship cannot make much
Roadway over the waters. To keep
adoat is the great thing. If the haven
shall be at last reached, yet the advance
OF the voyage must be retarded. Often
when we are expecting activity from an
individual, such as would be like the
happy progress of yoyaglng ship, we
find on inquiry that he is working the
pumps. The tempest has been upon
him, and the waters have broken in
through leaks of disappointment, sick
ness and bereavement. 1t is much if he
can but keep ahoat; and if he can ad-
vance some little, that is his utmost. The
time is one OF anxiety, but of labor
strenuous labor, too.-T. T. Lynch.