davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-08-09

The democrats of Jefferson county
should spare no efforts in electing
democratic senator to succeed Fisher.
The next senate will certainly be demo-
cratic if good work is done in the eight
counties in which senators are to be
elected.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-08-09

THE recent election in Salt Lake
seems to have been satisfactory to all.
The newspapers Of both parties claim
"a glorious victory"
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-08-09
Mutiny ut Chatham.

LONDON, Aug. s.-A portion of the army
service corps attached to the garrison at
Chatham has mutinied. They alleee that
their sergeants are imposing yexatious and
needless duties upon them without
authority from their superior ON
GERS. The men refused TO paradr and bar
ricaded themselves in q storehouse. Twenty
have been arrested.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-08-09
Cholera Ahatins.

CAmo, Aug. 6.--Ths cholera elbows NO
signs Of abatement at Jeddsh. There are
40 cases Of the worst type. The authori.
ties have Forbidden pilgrims 10 Mecca 10
embark aA Jeddah.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-08-09
Call % Is and Look Up ssns d The
FOLLOWING BARGAINS

On tho installment plan ~ have:
One good z-room house on Hoback It,,
$500.
One good 4-room house On Brecken-
ridge 1T, $4,000.
-Four good 4-room cottages on Lgn-
dale ave-, 1880 each.
One Groom dwelling il Broadwater
add, o26O0
Two 4-room houses in Broadwater
add, el,e0Q
One Groom dwelling on Madison ave-,
o2,6O0.
One Groom dwelling on Ninth ave..
$4,000; and number Of other snaps.
Two hundred feet on Broadway at
rock bottom figures.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-15
A srRANeER's GRAVE.
Romance OF "A Slab in the Quaint Oi,
gity of AIoxnndrIn

Romance of "A Slab In the Quaint Old
city of Alexandria.
In the quaint little neighboring town
Of Alexandria there is picturesque and
historic spot which Is always pointed
out by the inhabitants to visitors as
point OF more than usual interest. 1t
is a lonely and ancient.looking marble
slab over grave in the most pictur-
esque portion Of old st. Pauls grave.
yard, where the winds sing their sad.
dest requiems to the dead through the
tree tops and where the shade is height
ened by the closely. clustering foliage
The slab is supported over the mound
by six stone pillars, like a roof, and
bears an inscription in ancient char
acters that it is Sacred to the memory
of female stranger" who was buried
there away back near the beginning of
the present century. There is nothing
on the slab to indicate who she was nor
whence she came, only the statement
that her crief.stritken husband had it
erected to her memory and the aldi-
tional statement that she died in his
arms.
From what THE CRITIC could learn
Of the mysterious case 1t appears that
many years ago, when Alexandria was
thriving commercial city and port, n
stranger and his bride arrived one day
on an English ship from foreign shores
and took quarters at the historic old
Braddock House, wherein General
Washington had received while a
young man his original commission in
| II o1, A l,A l. &c
| General Braddock himself. The
strangers kept to themselves, and the
hotel employees and gossips could no,
| learn from them their names, whence
they came or whittier they were going.
Finally the bride sickened and died,
but still her name and that of her hus.
band was kept profound secret After
her burial the husband had the stone
erected over her grave and one night
he quietly disappeared never again to
return.
This set the tongues Of the old
| fashioned gossips wagging, and several
theories of the strange case were ad
vanced by them. One of these was
that the bride was the daughter OF
nobleman and had eloped with one OF
her fathers servants, or an inferior
and that the secresy was maintained tC
prevent detection. Another was tha
the young woman was an heiress ant
the so.called husband was an assassin
hired to get her out of the way of tn,
other heirs; that he accomplished thi
by means of some subtle poison. A
any rate, the mystery is still unsolved
and old AleXandrians poiut to tn,
strangers grave, but when they ar,
asked to explain, gravely shake thei
heads.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-15
THE SOCIAL WORLD.


The date of Miss Margaret Blaines
marriage to Mr. Walter Damroscb has
al last been definitely settled for Nav
II. That time was chosen with es.
pecial reference to the movements of
Mr. Andrew Carnegie, upon whose
coaching trip through Scotland, Il will
be remembered, Mr.. Damrosch mot his
fiance several years since. Mr.. Carne.
gle will leave Washington on Friday.
the 18th instant, with, the Pan. Ameri.
cans on their Southern trip, from which
they will not return until May 10. Mr..
Carnegie and his wife, after being pres.
ent at the marriage on the nth proximo,
will sail Tor Europe May %, and 1t is
probable that the newly. married pair
will accompany them and spend the
summer abroad.
Vice President and Mrs Morton gave
a dinner party last evening, at which
the following guests were present:
Speaker and Mrs. Reed, Lord Morpeth.
exMinister Robert McLaue. General
Johnston, Ex-Governor and Mrs. Car
roll, Collector and Mrs. Erhardt Gen
eral and Mrs. McCook, Mr.. aud Mrs
John Bancroft. Mr.. and Mrs. Cropper
Mr.. and Mrs. Tuckerman, Senator and
Mrs. Butler, Senator and Mrs. Gray
and Senator Allison.
The President will be the guest Of
honor at the dinner given this evening
by the Pan Americans at the Arlington.
Senator Morrill, celebrated his S0th
birthday last evening by large reccp-
ton, at which several hundred guests
were present, including the President
and Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. Russell Har-
rison, members of the Cabinet, the
Judiciary and the Congress. The parlors
were prettily decorated with the nu.
merous floral offerings sent by
various friends during the course of
the day. Many handsome presents of
silver and briC.a- brac were also re.
ceived by Senator Morrill,, whose birth.
day was remembered in characteristic
fashion by Mrs. Dahlgren and Mr..
Horatio King, each of whom sent SON
nets commemorative of the occasion.
| Mrs Morrill, wore gown of olive green
and gold brocade and was assisted in
receiving by Miss Swami, in white
satin and thread lace.
Surgeon General and Mrs. Moore
have issued invitations for breakfast
at 1880 Saturday morning.
Mrs. Seaton Perry will give lunch.
con on Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. William d. Cabell lent
their house last evening for Hahne-
mann reception at which they were as,
sisted in receiving by Madam Romero
Mrs. Springer, Mrs. Clarkson, Mrs
German, Mrs. Nordhoff, Mrs. Soule
Mrs. Thompson and Mrs Butterworth
In the supper room, from which the
proceeds went to the Homeopathic
Hospital, the table was in charge Of
Mrs. Spaulding, Mrs. Richards, Mrs
Wadsworth, Mrs. McGill, Mrs. Spencer
Mrs. Birney and Mrs. Stearns. Miss
! Richards dispensed lemonade, assisted
by Miss Hillyer, Miss Fassett, Mis-,
Vail, Miss Hill and Miss Lyman.
| Among the numerous theatre parties
given last evening were those by Si
Julian Pauncefote, the Portuguese
Swiss and Belgian Ministers and Mr.
Won Mumm of the German Legation.
Mrs. Marshal O. Roberts has leaset
Spencer House, ST. James, London
where she will entertain lavishly durin.
the season. Spencer House, for whicl
an enormous rental was paid, was bull
for the first Earl of Spencer by Vardy
o pupil of Kent.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-15
PERSONAL.

Mr. s. G. Wells, one of the proprie.
tors of the Philadelphia Press, Is regis
tered at the Langham.
Hon. Samuel Hayes, Columbus, Ohio;
W A. Bryant, New York Frank Miller
Chicago, are at the Langham today.
The Duchess of Fife has a reputation
for making butter
Major Serpa Pinto, the African ex-
plOfer, has left ST. Paul de LoNndo for
Lisbon.
Henry Irving will in the autumn
open the private theatre built by Patti
at Craig-y Nos, Wales.
Stagg, the famous Yale pitcher, will
play baseball this season. He will 90
into the ministry eventually.
Nine. Patti it is said, has an insatia-
ble appetite for stewed prunes, which
she eats for her complexion.
Ernest Renan, the French philoso-
pher, indulges In hobby of not riding
in vehicles of any kind, preferring TO
walk, although his health Is feeble and
stout cane is necessary to support him
Walt Whitman, the poet, is seriously
i'll. Last week the bright spring
weather lured him ont to trip along
Camdens business streets in his wheel.
ing chair. A day or two afterward he
was prostrated with all the symptoms
of the influenza.
Mr.. Carroll, an American sportsman,
has returned to Zanzibar from three
months hunt in Masailand. He met
with unusual success, 200 head of large
game, including many elephants and
lions, being killed. The caravan suf-
fered severely from influenza.
Sir Edward Guinness has selected sew.
eral sites in London for the erection Of
dwellings for the working classes,
which are to differ from the famous
Peabody houses in that they will be let
only to the poorest class of laborers and
that the rent will be almost nominal.
The beautiful Duchess of Marlborough
wears three gold bracelets from which
three gold keys hang in pendant. One
opens the lock of her grace's jewel box,
the other belongs to her writing folio
and the third to a small sachel, brass
bound, in which she keeps her loose
money,
Mr.. Gladstone has always been more
scrupulous in his attentions to the hum
bier classes than to the nobility and
wealthy. Once, when prime minister
he called personally on a tradesman one
Sunday morning to deliver a ticket fol
admission to the House of Commons
which had been requested.
Alphonse Daudet, whom Henry
James and other critics consider the
greatest living author, is still young
man. He has not yet reached his 50th
year He went to Paris in 1857, with.
out money or friends. His success is OF
his own making. Personally he is O
very delightful man, a genial conversa
tionalist, and an agreeable host. Hi,
family consists of clever wife, two
SONS and daughter. His elder son i!
q years of age. Daudet dedicated his
"Sappho" to his two sons, to be reaG
when they reached their majority.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-15
DECEIVED BY A WILLIAM.
The Short But Spicy Matrimonial Ex-
perience of Female Clerk.

perionce OF FemRI0 clerk.
A story with a large.sized moral at
tacbed is being quietly discussed in
temperance circles in this city, and
something of a social explosion is prom
ised in the near future. 1t was related
to CRITIC reporter by responsible
party, but for obvious reasons the
names of the principals are withheld for
the present. 1t Is story of mans de-
ception and woman's trusting fidelity
The woman In the case has been for
some time past an employe in a Gov
ernment department., in addition to
being an active and influential tenn
perance worker She is pretty aud
her general appearance Is such as
would attract almost any man--not a
giddy, gauzy butterfly, but what might
be called substantial middle-aged
beauty, with a pretty form and suave
manners.
A few weeks ago she became ac-
quainted with whiskered knight of
manly bearing, who, to all appearances,
had money in abundance. The knight
made love to the lady and spent his
funds in princely manner. Marriage
soon followed their bethrothal and the
lady gave up her Government position,
at her husbands request, and went
with him TO spend their honeymoon in
New York. 1t was there the ugly and
naked truth was forced upon her.
Her so-called husband was one day
apprehended by a detective who had
been on his track and placed behind
the bars, charged with embezzlement
The money he had been spending so
freely had been stolen from his EN-
ployers, and he was in reality a poor
man. Following this clap of thunder
came another. The gay and festive de
eeiveI was a married man, and his wife
and children were living in New York
State.
Upon being convinced of these facts
the Washington lady returned to this
city and communicated her secret to a
few trusted friends, and the latter are
now endeavoring to have her reinstated
in the Department She is terribly wor.
ried about the affair and says she will
never try another matrimonial expert.
ment in such a hap.hazard fashion. In
the meantime, considerable whispering
Is being done in certain cold water cir
Cles
The Washington critic., 1890-04-15
POSSIBILITIES OF Hy rNorIsM.
what One Under Its influence May be
Made to Do

what One Under Its Influence May be
Made to DO.
Dr. j. N, Charcot In he Apyi Forum.
Let us consider a case. I set sub
ject to sleep and place him in SOM
nambulic state. l then say to him.
"YOu know A. he is contempt
BILE fellow and is ever trying
to injure you. He must be
put out of the way. Here is a dagger
To-morrow'-or ten days hence, for the
suggestion may extend over a consider
able interval-''youwill make your way
to'his home; you will wait till he quits
the house and will stab him without any
pity. He must die. You are not to re-
member at all that l ordered you to
kill him, even If you be hypnotized
again" The subject takes the sugges.
tion, and promises to kill the one who
has become his enemy At the appointed
hour he will be at the place nam ed, and
will deal the blow with steady hand
Whether arrested or not for the
deed, he will find it out of his power to
reveal the name OF the one who put the
dagger in his hand The theme is an
attractive one, but can the thing be
done?
The Washington critic., 1890-04-15
roLIrIcs AND REELECTION.
Discussion Tabooed by Men About
Town-One OF Them Tells Why.

Discussion Tabooed bv Mem About
Town--one of Them Tells Why.
From tho NetD York Press.
There are two things about which the
average man about town will not
argue. He can be drawn into contro-
versies on everything else pertaining
to life, from the material of which
pin Is made to the source of volcanic
eruptlons or the Gulf Stream, but he
will not have disputation about poll
tics or religion. Yet sometimes your
average man about town sparkles with
wit and wisdom. on both of these
tabooed topics without controversial ex-
preston. 1t was in a club up town
last nieht that / heard well-known
gentleman Of this type say:
whoever knows me knows that |
am partisan of partisans, and yet |
never discuss politics with my friends.
! ] belong to the district committee of my
organization; do my best to secure
| victory for my party; you couldn't give
me an office If the commission came on
silver platter. Now, you think II
| will tell you why don't. 1t breeds
Duu DlOOui dHu, pulIOSOpHlCdllJ SpSIh-
ing, ] believe the other fellows politics
are as good as mine, and | will not
quarrel with him over them.
81 believe the principles advocated
by my party are best for the country.
He believes the principles advocated by
his party are best for the country. |
cant convert him. He can't convert
me. Then what is the use of getting
in heat becaue we differ in our belief
as to the best means of attainining what
we both desire? Life is too short to
discuss politics, ANYHOW"
I've got the same feeling about re-
ligion," continued the speaker. Like
every other man about town, / expect
some time or other to become good, to
join the church and make my peace
with my Creator. But / want to put
1t off to the last moment. That may be
all wrong, but we are all procrasti
nators where religion is concerned,
The means of reaching'the end we all
desire are not worth fighting over. Now
l was bred Presbyterian, but 1 have
come to have such respect for the Cath
olic religion that shall some day turr
that way for religious consolation.
know it.
"But wouldn't discuss with friend
whether he should follow me, or allow
him to discuss with me whether l wa.
going in the right direction, for the
same reason that Twill not enter int
a controversy about politics. Ny owr
Judgment about the Catholic Churcl
has come through my appreciation o
its dealings with the poor and will
women. No man or woman is so hum
BILE that the Catholic Church does no
put its arms around him or her. NJ
devout Catholic woman ever goe
astray; marriage is sacrament will
her, and rather than violate her mar
riage vows she will die. But no fallel
woman fails TO find consolation in tn,
same Church if she is penitent. Tha
is true religion to my notion"
The Washington critic., 1890-04-15
UNCLE SAM AND COMPANY.
The Rise of the Greatest Firm ths
World Has Known.
From The M,,o York Ledger.

World Has Known.
From The Nta0 York Ledger.
A great firm, this. Can the world
show a greater? We think not. Look
at its God d-given capital. A soil full Of
mineral wealth and the rich bases Of
agricultural prosperity; great water
courses running from its agriculture and
mineral centres to the sea; fountains of
oil spouting up in its midst, and literally
raining riches on large tracts of terri
tory; vast forests Of the finest timber in
the world; all the varieties of climate
necessary for the production of nearly
all the products of the earth; immense
inland seas affording facilities for q
domestic commerce almost equal to that
which its far extended coast line secures
to it on two great oceans-these are its
resources, or rather part of them, for
the grand schedule cannot be COM
pressed into paragraph.
Then look at the firm itself. A
people energetic, enterprising, self-re.
liant, shrewd and brave, living under a
government that gives the largest scope
to their capabilities. True, there has
been trouble in the house at times; but
the firm of Uncle Sam g. Co., is young
firm and vigorous one. and the old
concerns of Europe are fast accepting
the idea of its vitality and indomita-
bility.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-15
AN OLD SEA DOG.
Sergeant Doolan's Remarkable Career
in the Marine Corps.

in the Marine Corps.
Around the corner from THE CRITIC
office, in the branch of the Sixth Aud
itor's office, is man who has mad an
extended and varied career in Uncle
Sans navy. Sergeant p. Doolau,
although only about "a years of age,
has served twenty nine years, seven
months and eleven days in the Marine
Corps--considerably more than half Of
his life.
He first enlisted in 1858 in the city of
New York. Sergeant Doolan served op
the following old time ships of war in
his day: The Savannah on the Brazilian
station, the Mississippi on the coast of
China in 1857, the Roanoake at the
blockade of Charleston in 1861, the
transport Connecticut, the Mississippi
again when she was blown skyward at
the battle of Port Hudson, the Tennes-
see with Farragut, where he carried this
old sea dogs dispatches at New Orleans;
the Brooklyn at the battle of Mobile and
Fort Fisher, the Portsmouth, Lancaster,
Ticonderoga and Powhattan.
He was master al. arms on the u. s.
S. Richmond, when she carried Gen
eral Grant on the Asiatic portion of his
tour around the world, and relates
some interesting "reminiscences of the
great General. The latter once ap-
preached Doolan and asked him where
lie served during the war.
"Why, General" was the reply,
when you was in the rear of Vicks-
burg we were shelling the city from
the front.
This remark pleased the General
who handed Doolan a good cigar. 1t
was Sergeant Doolan also who placed
Arnold and others of the Lincoln con-
spirators in double irons at the Wash
ington Navy-Yard soon after the as.
ssassination, and helped to guard them
Surely the sergeant's career with Uncle
Sans floaters was long and eventful
The Washington critic., 1890-04-15
Written for THE CRITIo.
THE ANGEL OF PEACE.
RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED TO THE PA
AMERICAN CONFERENCE.


RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED TO THE PAN
AMERICAN CONFERENCE.
Sweet angel from yon heaven of peace--Oh,
come
And dwell a guest within our heart and
home,
To heal our woe!
But when the music of his wing Is heard,
An evil demon in the heart is stirred,
That bids him go.
The chanting priest and Jealous preacher
call,
In chapel plain or grand cathedral hall
Oh, angel, stay
And when, in pity, at each temple gate
He knocks, the strife and theologic hate
Drive him away.
The Prince of Peace their leader--in His
name
They call the world
Alas! the wondering heathen see afar,
In Christian lands, the avalanche of war
In thunder hurled.
What, If the angel on his track return
What, If the morning star Should cease TO
burn
Before the day.
Well might we fear that day itself would
fade
And universal chaos swift invade
With black dismay.
But see the angel fingers in the air.
The star still kindles DER the black despair
OF souls unblest
Mid all the strife we hear the blessed word
Which once in Galilee the weary heard
h, He jul rest
Sure Ills the music Of the angels wing,
When now the three Americas would sing
The choral hymn,
As when erstwhile that sail from Britain
came,
And DER the wave the song was still the
same
or peace sublime.
All hail the day Of which the prophet sung!
When wars red frobrand shall afar be
flung,
And strife shall cease!
Then the sweet angel that we grieyed
away
Bright morning star-will herald In that
day
The Prince Of Peace!
J. II. CuTHBERT.
Washington, April IA, 1890.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-15
RETURN JONATHAN MEIGs.

To-day Mr.. II. j. Meigs clerk of the
Supreme Court of the District of Colum-
bia, has entered upon his Goth year.
Born In 1901, on the 14th day of April,
Mr.. Meigs In his long span of life has
seen two important foreign wars, one of
which witnessed the capture and de-
stTuction of the Capital and threatened
the integrity of the country. The other
resulted in vast acquisition of ter
ritory, now among the most valuable of
our possessions. Indeed, he was a
healthy, growing child when President
jefferson, by sldllful comp 6'etat, ac-
quired the vast region then known as
Louisiana from the great Napoleon.
Mr.. Meigs was a young man when
Lafayette paid his second visit to this
country. He saw the rise of that strange
religious delusion, Mormonism, which
still remains among us, puzzle to
philosophers and a problem statesmen
find difficult of solution. He witnessed
the rise, from small beginnings, of the
agitation against slav cry. its progress
and final triumph after four years of
bloody civil war.
He lived during the Augustan era of
American literature and read the pro-
dUetions of Irving, Hawthorne, Cooper,
Bryant, Longfellow, Poe and their fell
lows in the original editions. He was a
sturdy youngster when Fulton's "Cler-
mont first cleaved the waters of the
Hudson, and was young man when
Ike railway was doubted, the telegraph
dcrided and the telephone undreamt
II He lived when Illuminating gas
was unknown and petroleum undis-
covered.
He was a middle-aged man when gold
was discovered in California and the
modern Argonauts set out upon their
voyages. He has seen the methods of
warfare which prevailed when Wash
(ingtOn was captured revolutionized.
The flint-lock muzzle loader has given
way to the multiple shot Winchester,
and the horse pistol has been replaced
by the 44-calibre revolver. The white
winged clippers of the sea have made
way for the swift greyhounds of the
+ eScon Science. cold and exact, has
put girdle about the earth swifter than
that evolved from the burning fancy of
Shakespeare.
Verify, the world upon which Mr..
Meigs looks on the beginning of his
ninth decade is vastly different one
from that upon which his babyish eyes
opened. 1t is vastly different from the
world in which, as young man, he
made his first essay in active business
life. He has seen his own country ad-
vance from weak and obscure position
TO that of one of the Great Powers of
the earth.
And now in the serene evening of a
well.spent life, in the full enjoyment OF
green old age, with all his faculties
bright, surrounded by his children and
his children's children, he can look
back to that far-off day in the first year
ef this century, the path lined with the
splendid scientific achievements and
the moral and material advancements
which make the nineteenth the most
glorious of all the centuries since the
first, and. wondering If indeed he has
seen, all these things, thank the Creator
that his lines are fallen in such time
and in such pleasant places.
In common with all his friends, THE
CmTIc wishes the genial nonagenariar
many happy returns of the day.