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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-05-07

Business chances Of many kinds are mede Known In
the varied collection OF short adverisemens on tho
fourth and fifth pages Of The Tribune this morning
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-05-07

c. Fl wETMoRE Proprietor
NOW ON EXHIBITION DAY AND EVENING
Superb Collection Of
165 ORIENTAL CARPETS AND RUGS.
PoRTIEREs, TABLE COVERS. 30,
To DO sold 1T auction tomorrow
"WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY AFTERNOONS
May and o. at 2 D.
Catalogues containing description and sizes mailed App
cauoD.
A Casweli, Massey g. Co.,
SIS FTFTHAVE. AND 1,l2l BROADWAY
call attention to their two perfume powders
DOUBLE VIOLET"
AND
WHITE HELIOTROPE."
single trial win prove concusiyely their lasting deli
cate fragrance Tho most refined taste tho
use OF these saches In writing desks and among handksr
chiefs, laces and underwear. 80 cents each.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-05-07
5perial Notices.

Joha II. Draper, Aaetionser.
FIFTH AVENUE AUCTION RooMA
240 6TH.AYE
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UNABLE TO GIVE AN EXPLANATION.

Mr. King was unable 10 explain why the Canadian
Grand Trunk road ablo 70 gov 50 much business,
unless It was by gIvine rebates as Drawbacks" lie
cI1d az an instance The fact that two wesks ago
IL had taken 80 per cent Of the business coming cast
from Chicago. "wo do not ask any advantage over
the Canadian roads whien come into this country
Mr. King added, "but we do wish
them TO obey the same laws that wc
are Obliged 10 obey. That change Is necessary and
should be ahvocatcl' In answer tO Senator Dlar's
question as ~ what good the Interstate Commerce
law had done he said lat had showed the railroads
that tbere was power stronger than themselves, hnt
n had forced the roads into competition with each
uhrr: that IL mad increased expenses by forcing the
pOorrr roads 10 spend money in improvements. He
thought too that pooling should not have been
abolished, at least until some bettor substitute had
been found.
Mr. King was then asked what improvements he
could suggest 10 the Interstate Commerce law. In
answer he said " The greatest banoh' to American
railroads would be 10 put the Canadian roads which
cross the border par with our own roads. II
they violate any provision OF tho law, lot them be
punished There Is certainly no reason why they
cannot be punished stringent provisions should be
mado 10 accomplish this At least, II u Is impossible
az present" In reply 20 the question az to tho effect
OF a law ~ Congress prohibiting competitive rates
for freight, Mr. Ring said that IL would probably
have little influence and he OF but slight benefit .
shortly after ) o'clock the examination OF MI;
King was e"ded and the committee Nlourned untu
10 o'clock this morning whom Chauhcey NJ Dcpew
Will appear a. the first witness.
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idea is a practical one, uniting the balm Of
consolation to bachelors, who have vainly
struggled with buttons and socks, with the
hope of renumeratiue occupation for poor
gentlewomen. Those are the most success
full philanthrcpists who dovetail the needs
OF one section of the community into the
capacities of another.
y The associations also advise npon dress
and etiquette. Some of the lady guides
make it their business to act as superin-
tendents of weddings. A member is de-
tailed to the house of the bride prospective
some little time before the ceremony. She
selects the trousseau, advises what is latest
and finest in underwear, buys the material,
designs and makes or watches over the
making of the gowns. She is au fait in
stockings, boots, gloves, laces and handker-
chiefs. She sees to the millinery and the
jackets and wraps. She gowns the brides
mother and the younger sisters, If any. She
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AN INDIGNANT PASSENGER
Objects to Sharing His Sleeping Car Section
With a Stranger.
Chicago Herald,

win u StfAnRers
Chicago Herald:
81 see some queer things while knocking
around the country" said travelling man yes
terday, land one of the funniest circumstances
that can recall happened last Friday night
was running upehe Milwaukee road few hun
dred miles. and when left Sioux City my only
fellow passengers were an old man and his
wife, who occupied the lower section across
from me. They had their berth made up early
and soon retired. 1 guess 1t was the first time
they had ever Travelled in sleeper by the way
about undressing and heard the old lady
lecture her husband for not getting a larger
room. After much mutual grumbling all was
quiet, and then came deep snore accompanied
by one a trife more subdued. 1t was evident
the old people were asleep. At Manila juno
ton a large party came in and taxed the sleeper
to its full extent :,
"The porter had to remove the baggage of the
couple, which was slowed above them, and as
signed the birth TO a little inoffensive citizen
weighing about 120 pounds. He removed his
old lady woke up and began screaming. This
aroused her husband and he yelled for the
porter, who came running now the aisle. Say
old Gentleman % gasped out. The portep trisd Ife fe
explain that he would not annoy them, and had
a right to be there. But neither would believe
this, and the old nan declared the porter had
let him in to rob them. He was also indignant
to think anyone should be allowed to sleep in
the same compartment with his wife, and
finally he and the old lady got up and dressed,
and insisted on the porter removing the bed
ding from 'rheir berth. SO they could use the
Seats
~ peeped through the curtains and saw both
sitting there nodding. but every few minutes
they would suddenly remember and sit bolt
upright. 1pitied the poor, deluded couple, and
really the situation was not lacking in pathos
for they were thoroughly in earnest. When
got off the train early next morning they were
still sitting there, but both were sound asleep.
the old gentleman with his arm around his
wife's waist, and her head pillowed on his
shoulder"
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Thoughts for the Sa bbnth.

THE substance of duty is: Admit, submit,
commit transmit.-Canon Wil6erJorce.
In creation God shows us His hand; but in
redemption God shows us His heart.-Adolphe
Monod.
ALWAYS hold fast to love. We win BY ten
derness, and conquer by forgiveness.-F. ".
Robertson
The serene, silent beauty of a good life Is
the most powerful influence in the next world
next to the might of God.-PdscdL.
MANY indeed think of being happy with God
in heaven; but the being happy in God on earth
never enters their thought-John Wesley.
Do to-day's duty, fight to-day's temptation.
and do not weaken and distract yourself by
looking forward to things which you cannot
see, and could not understand il you saw them,
Charles Kingsley.
'BY their fruits ye shall know them.n is the
text which our Lord asked to have applied to
himself. When John was in prison and won
dered whether Jesus was the Messiah, no
direct answer was given. The messengers
wero kept near to Jesus for time and then
sent home with the command to tell what they
own question. The best evidence of Chris
tianity is what it does for humanity.-Amory
FL. Bradford
A GERMAN anatomist has dissected many a
human body, and declares that he has never
found the soul. Astonishingl If there is a
soul he surely would have discovered it. Did
he dnd any life in the dead body1 No. OF
course; then there was none before the body
died. Did he fnd any mind, any thought, any
affection? No. Therefore there are no mind.
no thonght, no affection. The following reply
has been given to the anatomist. A cat listened
with admiration to the song of . nightingale
Ambitious to learn the secret of such charms
and to acquire, them himself. he caught the
d. y. = :
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686-NUMERICAL ENIGMA.

A barrister tolls at a wearying task
That is growing ponderous burden;
Before him are lying the papers to ask
The State for a criminals pardon;
But the problem that wearies that barrister's
mind
Is the failure to l 2 8
How the help of missing witness to find.
And to gam his untoward 2
He seems hidden as If spirited away
To l 8 of 2 8;
And tits thus that our attorney grows wrinkled.
and gray
In considering how to get out of the fix.
But no 8 has been able to show
The locus of his concealment
30 the barrister. grievously harassed TO know,
How TO compass this crowning achievements
At his own l 3
6, as we see,
Is consuming his being with thought,
just as you may each do,
And most properly, too,
Until this enigma is wrought. in.
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THE ODDITIES OF GENIUS.
Amusing Anecdotes of the Founder of Na.
tionnI Geological Survey.

tional Geological Survey.
Prof. F. V. Hayden was the founder of the
system which developed into the Geological
Survey of the United States. He was man of
great genius and . renowned scholar but
erratic and peculiar.
1t was not uncommon for strangers to follow
him several blocks, their attention arrested by
his bowed figure as he almost ran for a few
steps-then suddenly stopped. with his gray
sharp eyes fixed on the pavement-then ran
again as If q sudden thought had struck him;
then they would inquire 'who can that poor
insane man be?"
While Prof. Hayden was exploring the land
of the Sioux Indians some years ago, he once,
in his enthusiastic passion for geological re-
search, wandered away from his party; he had
loaded himself down with large specimens of
mineral, and while tramping slowly along in
his ahsent-minded way the Indians captured
him. They whooped and yelled at their prize
at first but upon seeing all the ''rocks and
worthless stones' which the poor man was stag
gering under, and his composed, abstracted
manner, they decided that he was
him without protest on his part, which
only confirmed their fears; and after a few
hours captivity the old scientist with "his
rocks" was led to the nearest point of civiliza-
tion, and turned loose" lest the Great Spirit
should punish them for any "harm done the
foolish or simpleminded.
He was daring, fearless and reckless in dan
ger; a most distinguished scientific man, and
much beloved by the young men of his survey.
His death during the past year was greatly
mourned.
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dictates to the bridemaids and is the fairy
godmother who thinks of everything and
lets the engaged couple enjoy themselves
with unanxious mind.
AMUSEMENT AND INSTRUCTION BLENDED
Besides lady guides we'll up in their own
"pure well of English unde6led," the asso-
citation has secured the services of those who
are able to converse with fuency in different
languages. What splendid opportunities in
an educational point of view are here offered,
where parents desire that their children should
be combining conversation lessons with sight
seeing! The museums, churches, geological
gardens, the monuments and statues, nay, the
very streets and houses in towns like London
and Paris are replete with instructions for the
young; and the idiosyncracies of the rising gen.
Grafton might be more rapidly developed by
committing boys and girls-say on holidays or
Saturday afternoons-to intelligent lady guides
well up in history or science or art whose OBJ
ject would be to teach the young idea how to
shoot'' in way far more effectual than that
which now obtains in any classroom.
Pleasant excursions in the suburbs of the
capital, which would have nothing in common
with the ordinary routine of tourists agencies,
might vary the theme: they would extend over
unbeaten paths. such as are known only 70 the
artist, the historian or the poet and through
country places full of the loveliest scenery to
be found in districts bordering on the immedi-
ate outskirts of those great cities. They might
include old chateaux, abbey churches, antique
priories. dismantled towers, ruined monas-
terles, megalithic remains, historic houses.
Roman ways and walls and bridges, strange
and romantic sights. the tabled haunts of the
goblin and the fairy.
I feel confident that ere long the institution
of lady guides will spread all over Europe, and
that the association will have to open branch
agencies in almost every capital. The field is
new, and it is entirely free from competition
with men, great advantage, for the competi-
tion Of the weak with the strong must always
end in the weak being worsted
SARA TERESA HALL.
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soon they arrived at the spot. Now the Prince
began to hunt and dig for a hole, hoping he
would detect the place where the snake had
come from. To his great satisfaction he at
last discovered hole, and big snake all coiled
up was lying dead at the bottom of it. But the
Prince would not have known this was the
snake he was looking for but on her back he
read these words: II killed the fair and beauti-
full Florencer'
The Prince then picked the snake up and
carried it to his fathers castle. When the
wise tutor saw the animal he asked the Prince
to give it to him. He then cut piece off the
extreme end of the snakes tail, and, boiling it,
he made broth of the snake. The tutor then
went into the marble hall and, lifting the lid
off the crystal casket, he poured the liquid into
Florences mouth. No sooner had it touched
her lips when the little girls limbs began to
move. After awhile she began to breathe, and
at last she got up from the casket as fresh and
bright and beautiful as ever she had been.
The Prince was delighted beyond measure,
and he took Florence into his castle to present
the beautiful maiden to his parents. They
we're all very pleased to see her, and when Ben
Bromley and his wife heard that Florence was
alive again they nearly died with joy.
Not many years afterward the Prince mar
ried Florence and on the wedding day there
were four bridemaids present, who were dressed
in milky white garments. No one knew who
they were, but the four white doves that had
watched at the crystal casket were never seen
again.
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THE CRYSTAL CASKET.
ERNEST H. HEINRICHS.

world so lovely as this one, said the Prince,
land there is none that could love so much
as this. If there is one thing that VIII
wish above all others, should like to pos
sess this casket with the beautiful face. 1
would have it taken home and placed In a
marble hall, where I might gaze upon it
every day for the rest of my life"
Thus said the Prince, and the King
quietly sent a servant TO Ben Bromley and
asked him whether he might take the
crystal casket with him. Ben at first was
loath to part with it, but of course he soon
was made to understand that it was not a
good thing to refuse the King anything. So
he consented. Then the King told his son
that he might take the crystal casket along
with him, aud do with it as he wished.
The Prince was overjoyed at this, and he
made at once preparations for the trans
portation of the dead Florence. When the
casket was carried away the four doves fol-
lowed it, and when the Prince had it put in
the marble hall the doves again took up
their position at each corner Of the casket.
There they stayed and never moved.
The Prince came into the marble hall every
day, and kneeIing down in the front of the
casket he would pray that the beautiful Flor
ence might become alive again. But every day
he was disappointed. The Prince, however.
had tutor, who instructed him in all the arts
and sciences of the worlds knowledge. One
very melancholy, and SO he asked him for the
cause of his sorrow.
"Ah. my dear master" replied the Prince.
81 love the dead girl in the crystal casket, and
shall never be happy again unless she comes
TO life"
As the tutor was very fond of the Prince he
said to him:
Let me go and see her once, perhaps she is
not dead at ALL"
The Prince Immediately took his master into
the marble hall, and showed him the face Of
dead Florence.
what did she die Off" the wise man asked
''She was bitten by q snaker' the Prince
dolefully remarked.
What Kind of snake?'
"That do not know"
''Well. then. my Prince" !" the tutor said, ''if
you can find OUT what kind of snake killed this
girl will call her to life again"
When the Prince heard this he jumped for
joy and he almost Rugged and kissed the wise
old tutor: He at once set out to the village
where old Ben Bromley lived and there he
called all the children together who had been
with Florence on the day she was bitten by the
snake. He asked them all around whether
they could tell him where the place might be
found in the woods in which Florence had
fallen dead. They all told him they knew and
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685-rHE MAGIC PASTURE.

A farmer had 256 sheep and a square pasture.
which was divided into Is square fields of equal
size. As the grazing was very uneven in the
different pastures, the farmer distributed the
sheep so as to put the greatest number in the
best fields and the least number in the poorest
fields. He put an odd number of sheep in each
field, and then found that the total number OF
sheep in every four adjacent fields was a. This
was true from east to west from north to south
and diagonally; also for any four fields which
of sheep in the four corner fields was also g.
How did the farmer distribute the sheepf
j. n. FEzANDIE
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The Factor of Modern Life.

Some one points out the fact that thought is
not the supreme factor in modern life. News
Is this factor. Sensation has taken the place
of thinking Germany. "the land of thought. -
furnishes interesting illustrations Say what
you will of the great universities and the mag
ni6cent libraries. they are, after all, for the
few. The daily press is the daily food of the
nation. Now Mackenzie is the sensation; then
an empress; then Bismarck; Geffken comes to
the front, disappears in prison. and Morrier Is
the theme; the English Ambassador is lost
sight of when the tragedy of Crown Prince
Rudolf and Baroness Vetsera furnish an in
teresting and exciting sensations: then King
Milan leaves his throne and becomes the hero
of the press for a week. Then the interest
centers around the divorced Queen, and the
papers wonder whether she will now return to
Servia and influence her son and national af-
fairs in favor of Russia. In the intervals, the
pause, or between the acts, Boulanger poses or
the French Ministry dances before the public
or Parnell and Irish affairs are excitedly dis
cussed. Prospects of war are also made INFER
esting episodes. Crime and fraud and filth are
the pepper and salt and mustard always ready
for proper seasoning. Is that thoughtf Is that
intellectual culture? Is that solid daily food?
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6ss-poUBLE REcrANeLE.

obstruct 4. A covering for the head. & A
prefix. G. A vehicle. :. Sick. 8. A wagon.
8. A quadruped. 10. Humor. IL. The sun.
II Soft hair. l3 Relations. IA. A carriage
15 A negative prefix. 16. a vehicle.
/. Duration of life. 2. Replete [phonetic1 & A
catching instrument. 4 Frozen water. s A male
sheep. 6. Not empty Iphoneticl. Z. Indisposed
g. Foremost division. g. Part of the face. 10.
Not at home. IL. A citizen. p A single point
on a card. Is. A posr-fix. A. Track OF wheel.
10. A Turkish Governor. l6. A period of time.
Join with the letters forming the name of a
great American. i. Necessaries of a traveller
2 Poisonous. g. A title 4. A whim. & A
transposition of letters. g. Cautious. T. Hos
tile feeling. s. A travelling procession. g. A
flower. 10 Lacking. IL To canvass Il An
oven. Is. A monarchy. A. Track of wheels,
Is. Not to comply with orders. 16. Slaughterer.
SALEM, o. j. BOSCH.
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HIS WIFE NOT SATISFIED.
Story Told by Lincoln by Way Of IIlustra.
tion.

August Wide Awake.l
President Lincoln had been during our most
stormy weather to visit the camps of the Gen.
erals in Virginia, and taken a violent cold
Mrs. Lincoln was in dispair, and one day said
to Secretary Stanton, Il do wish you would
lock Mr.. Lincoln ont of the rooms for a weeki
He is ill enough to be in bed now. and suffers
agonies with his arm from acute rheumatism
/ don't know what to dol He goes out, and
keeps at work every moment"
Mr.. Lincoln waved his long arm at the Secre-
tary, saying. We'll, Stanton. there ought to
be one comfort for my poor wife, anyhow-the
same that the poor man Jefferson had, whose
only son died. Did you ever hear the story?
His friends. family, neighbors, and church
1amented, extolied and grieved over the loss, at
the funeral when Jefferson himself arose and
said, My dear friends: We have the blessed
consolation of knowing that everything was
done that could be done. He was bled no less
than "a times in "a hours But he had no
strength and had to diep
Now, I've been wrapped in no less than "a
pieces of red flannel and linimenr since yester-
day, and still my wife isn't satisfied"
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The straight brimmed, wide-band straw hat
of this year will look we'll on any man OF
ordinarily passable features. For years the
hatters have endeavored vainly to construct a
straw hat that would look at least as neat as
the ugliest felt hat they could turn out Shapes
of all sorts have been put upon the market
and men of all ages and degrees OF beauty have
groaned under the affliction until the chorus OF
their lamentations has reached the designers
in the very nick of time for of all materials for
headwear straw is by all odds the hghtest anu
coolest.
THE COOLEST HAT
is made of Mackinaw straw and has flexible
brim. Its dome is loose woven and the breeze
plays through it freely. The stiff -brimmed nat
straw hats the hottest is the Panama. These
range in price from $40 to 500 and are better
suited for the Arctic regions than the streets
of New York. The best qualities are woven SO
tightly that they will hold water like cup.
Derby hats of felt are made lighter and cooler
than ever before, but they are never as cool as
straw. For fishing o. country wear the Indian
pith helmet hats may be found extremely ser
viceable They project the head from sun.
They answer at once for hat and umbrella. but
for men who speno most of their time in the
shade, they must yield the palm to the sol.
from So to Sc, and is worth that amount OF any
mans money.
This ends the list.
If the patriotic sculptor of the future desires
to secure a model for his statue of the flannel
shirt emancipator let him select stalwart,
broad-chested young man and let him clothe
him as follows:
With soft-brimmed Mackinaw straw hat
the color of ripe corn silk, French twilled
flannel shirt with narrow stripes of blue silk.
blue silk Windsor bow gathered under the chin
in a graceful sailor knot, undergarments of
Australian wool, long sleeved and neatly 1T
ting socks of Isle thread, shoes of russet seal
skin, a wide coat of blue serge hanging loosely
over a pair of suspenderless trousers caught at
the waist with a narrow belt of cohite silk.
The cost of the costume neatly designed by
any outfitter of moderate charges would be $50,
the effect would be harmonious and the monu-
ment would be a credit alike to the sculptor
and the worthy revolution his work commem-
CRATES BENJAMIN NoRTHRoP,