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A late decree ofthe German emperor
forbids the use OF baptismal names
of n political character.
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The largest locomotive yet built in
Europe was recently sent out of the
Hirschau works in Munich. 1t is 4G
feet over all and weighs 81 tons.
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BUSINESS CARDS.
I. NJ. GEORGE & CO.

/. NJ. GEORGE. T. 4. HARDING.
f IOMMISSION MERCH NTS in butter,
~ cheese, eggs. beans, poultry, maple sugar
and syrup. Also dealers in Foreign and Domes-
tic fruits. ConSignments solicited and orders
solicited. ia South Market ST.. BOSTON, Mass
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nENTAL SURGEON, MoRRIsvILLE. VT.
II ONCE open Sundays from - to l p M for
extracting. Patients from out of town, please
make engagements by mail in advance.
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A. A. NILES,

A TT0RNEY AT LAW, MoRRIsvILLE. VT.
IN Agent for Life and Fire Insurance. In
suranee placed at lowest rates. Also Pension
Claim Agent Collections a specialty
OFFICE IN HALLS BLOCK.
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e. e. FOSTER.

MANUFACTURE and dealer in all kinds of
IVA Marble and Granite. Work Guaranteed
rs Good and Prices as Low as any in Vermont
Portland Street. WORTHWHILE. VT
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Hyde PARK, VT, Feb. 10, 'oI.
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listening to the speeches that are made
later in the afternoon.
To name the hard workers of the Senate
would be nearly to call the en- tire roll.
Senators Paddock, Allison, Jones of Neya-
da, Dolph, Frye, Blair, Dawes, Cullom,
Evarts, Stewart, Sawyer, Mander son, RAM
som, Stanford, Wilson of Iowa, Aldrich,
Platt, Quay, Harris, Higgins, Stock
bridge, Chandler. Mcmillan, Hawley, Cam
eron, Hoar, Mcpherson, Morgan, Vance,
Voorhees,, Butler, Vest, Moody and Far
well, being chairmen of exacting commit
tees, are all busy men, while Senator
Geor &c, who is one Of the closest students
of constitutional questions, Senator Cor
man, who attends to the politics Of his
state as well as to his senatorial duties,
Senator Turpie and all the senators from
the new states are by no means indolent
ones.
There are few genuinely lazy men in
the Senate. Senator Hiscock of New York
is by long way the leader in this respect.
He Tolls physically and mentally. Senator
Eustis Of Louisiana is a pretty comfortable
sort of man, and Senator Blackburn of
Kentucky is not wasting any from over
work. Others, too, would he eligible to the
Lazy Mans Club, but they are few COM
pared to the number who really do six
hard days. work week and who ought to
be regarded as sufficiently in majority to
rescue the Sc nate from the reputation of .
body of loungers. WILLIS b. HAWKINS.
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litical battle. He has son in Winnipeg
TO whom his title will 60 in case of his ele-
Walton to the English house of lords.
Sir Inhn,s rsun1 e. a., ..-<,.,. ;orsh;,, Z.

ilticai battle. He has son in Winnipeg
TO whom his title will 60 in case Of his ele-
walton to the English house of lords.
Sir johns rival for the premiership is
Sir Richard Cartwright. leader of the OPP
position. a representative of the old United
Empire Loyalists, and man with deadly
sarcastic tongue. He is brilliant and able,
but he does not put his hands on the
shoulder of some old friend who suddenly
accosfs him and ask him to come away
ana have drink, as Sir John used to do.
But ne is becoming very broad of late
years, and even affable toward the com
mon people, the term applied on British
soil TO one and all, rich tradesmen and
poor who have not family pedigrees and
ancestral crests.
SIT Richard has gone 50 far as to give
support to the movement among young
Canadians for an Independent nationality;
but, when he found out that such posi-
bility lay too far in the future, he turned
kindly to the scheme for commercial union
with the United States. Sir Johns organ
denounces Sir Richard as q traitor, and as
serts that he is standing in" with Yankee
lntriguers to bring about annexation. /
know Sir Richard and his views very we'll,
and declare these allegations to be with
out foundation. But I am equally posi-
tive that It is Sir Richards greatest wish
that trade should be as free as possible be-
tween the states and Canada. that conflict
between the two should cease, and that the
two peoples, living side by side, should
work out harmoniously their great conti-
mental destiny.
Sir Hector Langevin leads the Tory or
government French, as Sir John leads the
English. He stands strongly with the
clergy, for he has always been champion
OF the Jesuits and the church, and his
brother is an influential bishop. He de-
nounceS the scheme of commercial union,
contcnding that that would beget political
union, and political union with the United
States, he declares, would be the death of
Quebec as province, privileged with her
own Language, religion and laws" for it
must be remembered that Quebec is an
Emporium i,s impeyio by virtue of the terms
between France and England when Wolfe
and Montcalm, the opposing generals, fell
on the plains Of Abraham. Sir Hector is q
suave and polished diplomat, . good
speaker, and very elegant in dress and
manners. He will very likely succeed Sir
John in the virtual leadership of the Con-
servative party.
The leader of the French portion of the
opposition is Wilfred Laurier, cultivated
man and one of the greatest orators in the
country. His feelings toward the United
States are cordial, and he is advocating
with power and passion just now closer
and greater business intercourse between
the two countries EDMUND COLLINS,
Author of 1.-THE Life and Times of Sir John
Macdonald.
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dustrious; he merely makes fewer false
motions.
Senator Wolcott, who, although young
man and new senator, has already made
an impression and given promise of extra
ordinary influence, is full of fight and ac-
tiyitv. 1t is said that he has had his quar-
rel with every politician in Colorado, and
that it is because of his belligerence and
industry that he has made them give him
the highest Office within their reach. An
impulsive man, he holds few hatreds, but
settles with his enemies on the spot ana
has done with the quarrel at once. Most
of the men with whom he has fought are
said to be now his friends. He is admira-
BILE and they admire him. 1t need not be
added that he is industrious as a senator.
When he ceases to be industrious it will be
in order to shovel little dirt upon his re-
mains and set up headstone.
Senator Teller, the other gentleman from
Colorado, is hard worker in another man.
ner. He is of the patient, deiving sort.
There is probably no closer student in the
Senate than he; no senator more scrupu-
Ions in getting information. 1t has been
said that Senator Edmunds knows every
thing and his seeming familiarity with all
questions that come before the Senate gives
some warrant to this extravagant asser-
ton. but memory helps him more than
present study. His many years Of expert
ence have stored his mind with wonder
full amount Of knowledge and his memory
Il 20 retentive that nothing he has once
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only man in the establishment who could
read word of English, the printing was
exceedingly correct. The blocks had
turned out q complete success, though, of
as well as they would when mounted and
creped. The japanese have process by
which they can make paper crepe book
covers as stiff as buckram.
well, Mr.. Mayeda, how did your little
boy like the stamp book you mended up
for him SO beautifully"
All! it is very sad; he has gone to hell.
book so that he has taken it to hell with
him. 1t is on his grave, do you call it?"
"A few weeks more passed. Mr.. Mayeda
brought US the perfect book. He was so
flushed and fearful that r poured him a
couple Of bumpers of Yarmouth which he
drank on with the excitement of an unem-
ployed workman in England when he
right on on his beloved gin. !" Is anything
the matter, Mr.. Mayeda7" asked.
1t is SO sad. My other little boy, he has
gone to hell, too. And am so poor, and
] have to keep my wife's uncles, and my
father is very silly, and SO get drunk
The books he had brought were exqui-
site. The printing was really very correct.
and the effect of the long hexameter lines
in the handsome small plea type on the
oblong japanese double leaf of silky ivory
tinted paper, every page lowered with
maple leaves in delicate pearl gray under
the type, was as lovely as it was unique,
and the block printings on every single
leaf were done by hand-the leaf being laid
over the block and rubbed into it by q
queer pad burnisher. The covers were
marvels of beauty, made of steel gray pa
per crepe, ornamented, the back one with
three little sere and curled up maple
leaves drifting before the wind, and the
front one with spray of maple leaves in
all their autumn glory and va
riety of tints, reproduced to
the life. Across the right hand
end Of. the sprig. was pasted long white
silk label in the Japrnese style. The good
taste, the elegance, the colors of this cover
fairly amazed me. l would not leave q
copy in Japan. j sent them all off to
England to be kept unopened till ar
ranged for their publication in America,
where they will be brought out shortly.
When the account came in there was
some slight variation in every item
knowing Mr.. Nagao to be too honorable q
man for this, asked Mr.. Mayeda about it,
and the account was rectified.
After the first two or three interviews
always avoided seeing Mr.. Nagao in per-
son. hadn't time for all the bowings
and compliments, and tea and oranges,
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~, Tss.ness ! found that had hit upon the
81 Err ~ .I - MI Nagao proved to be one
{, az .1eading authorities on the etiuuette
h.s ..le form Of books. In Japan everything
-, .ss etlquette and its symbolism. The
basement Of flowers ia cottage vase
az o1oosly obeys it. 1t descends even to
. 49, PIPE cases Of the various classes 81
s pipe case picked up on the
-. q the room In which the heroic
-. missionary, LANCE, was assassin
49,, proved that one Of his assailants. at
eny rate, was bette (groom).
Est Mr. Nagao had brought in, each by
: separate servant, and each carefully
Trapped IN silken cloth, tied round Il A
sne nr1tish workman ties his red cotton
nsndkerchief round his lunch. famous
oooks Of fabulous antiquity, very likely
autographs of the thirty-six poets them
Selves, OF these twin stars of eighth CEN
.uiy Japanese poetry, Hitomaro and Aka
nito. Beautiful books they were. bound
~ stlks that hundreds Of years after
retained their delicate hues and brocades
~ the marvellous Japanese patterns.
uound with the superlative Japanese finish
snas leaves nothing to be desired, though
simple Is unstained ar wood. Some Of them
Gn1fnd lsho !, :.
- - lAAe screens, though they had nifty
:. -1oa0 y the double japanese leaves
eeme we're stitched between flexible covers
% costly fabrics, the stitching being done
Win hossy silk outside the covers. about
naIf an inch from the back Of the book. In
mese books the covers had no backs, and
tnc double leaves were bound in double,
w1tn Their backs outward. In Japan they
only use one SIDE OF the paper. and books
ere invariably printed from top to bottom.
Vn some of these books blocks had been
used; but they nearly always were written
anu Illustrated by hand. Japanese fancy
Wrung IS as beautiful, AZ elegant and deli
cate as . maidenhair fern.
THESE priceless books that had taken pa
uent hands months and months to make,
on paper that could not be bought for
money now, were hardly in my line, con-
siderlng that wanted 500 copies. And so
the servants bore them off in procession.
moreover, as the ordinary Japanese poem
consists only of thirty-one syllables, such
- the famous one of which the translation
~: When gaze toward the place where
the cuckoo has been singing, naught re-
mains but the moon in the early dawn"
one copy Of poem of 900 hexameters
would take up as much space as $50 of
them.
The procession returned with books in
the modern style, very few of them poetry.
Can 1t be that even the unprogressive
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How . Nobleman Lost . Wife.
Miss Grundy. Jr.


Another young lady, the daughter Of .
Western senator, has for the last half dozen
years enjoyed the international distinction
of beauty, the verdict Of her countrymen
in this respect having been confirmed by
the Prince of Wales upon the occasion Of
her many visits to England. In addition
TO this fact, there is a decided romance in
the life of the young Westerner, who since
early childhood has made her home in
Washington. Having made successful
debut in London, Miss Blank, during
her first season, met the Duke de ROUGH
foncauld, to whom she became engaged
after brief courtship. All went merry al
the proverbial marriage bell, the trousseau
was ordered and the marriage as an event
Of the near future, lacked only the parental
blessing in the fDrm of papers necessary
for the settlement of the dot. This de.
mand. however, the senator did not care
TO meet and notwithstanding every effort
to the contrary on the part of the parents,
the engagement was broken Miss Blank
then returned home and the duke sought
diversion in Algerian travel. Within the
past two years the Duke de Rouchfoncauld
has married.
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which are necessary to the etiquette of
business. One day. while 1 was waiting
for my account, l watched one of the
treasurers writing it out in Japanese, and
with some difficulty, from his modesty,
persuaded him to come TO finish it in the
sun, where could photograph him. He
was writing as the Japanese always writes
his letters. Sitting like tailor behind
long, low table, about foot high, he holds
a roll of their soft tissue letter paper
balanced in his left hand, with the edge
turned toward the right. He begins on
the right hand side, writing down the
page perpendicularly with the fine brush
that constitutes his pen, dipped from time
to time into the Chinese ink which he has
rubbed on his palette inkstand. He jots
dowu his words with great rapidity and
unrolls more paper as he wants it. When
he has finished he swiftly tears off what
ever he has filled. folds it up lengthwise
till il is about two inches across Japanese
writing paper is always the same width
about six inchesl, and thrusts it into
long. narrow envelope of about these di-
mansions. You buy the paper III rolls of
apout 100 feet long for Is or ~ cents, and
a letter is usually about a yard long.
DoUGLAs SLADES.
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surrounded on two sides by glass
1utters, through which the sun flooded
winter morning.
mere was good deal of bowling to be
- through before we sat down-not in the
~. sus'iul Japanesy room, but round the
1--WE clearinghouse table in the other
Ou, We We're each provided with char
- stove Tor warming the fingers, pipe
ouered to us, and then the honorable
IVA vas brought with honorable oranges
Az Az honorable cakes and honorable cam
1 made up my mind TO swallow the
Inc interpreter seemed TO think this
-. necessary to the validity of the BUSH
- - but soon found that could not
p up. Fresh tea was brought about
ven minutes, and the business took
4, Whole morning.
NJ. - oook was going to publish, must
r was Lester. the Loyalist," a
Inee OF the founding of CANADIAN
I poem of eight or nine hundred
when once We had got down to
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tors natural disposition to industry the
fact that he is q senator would count for
something. It is not by Incidence that
men procure such positions. If it be an
swered that many of them purchased their
seats with money, it must still be held
that most of these earned that money; and
this argues against innate laziness.
But there is ample and convincing testi-
mony in favor of senatorial industry, and
he who will may see it. An hours care
full observation from the gallery ought to
convince anybody that most of the sena-
tors are nervous men; and nervous men are
not apt to be lazy. There are hut few SEN
ators who can sit still two minutes at
time Senator Morrill, is perhaps the most
striking example of quiescence. He sinks
down into HIS chair until he seems to be
sitting on the middle of his back, rests his
elbow on the arm of his chair and his
cheek upon his hand, and there he sits
without moving muscle for an hour or
more at q stretch. Senator Payne is
another of this class. He is almost always
in his seat and when he is not reading
newspaper Che is very close newspaper
reader) he sits in almost perfect quietude.
paying close attention to the proceedings,
but seldom taking active part in them.
His favorite position is low in his chair,
with his thin legs crossed and his hand to
his ear in q listening attitude. Two or
three others are of this class of quiet sit
tiers, but the rest are nervous, active men,
always doing something. Senator Plumb
is perhaps the most restless man of them
ali. He cannot sit still. He comes into
the chamber after the prayer and goes to
his desk az matter of habit. If he sits
down it is only for q moment, and during
even this time he is constantly doing
something, moving books and papers upon
his desk, shifting things here and there,
whirling in his chair to call out to some
body, always on the move. Then be hobs
up and goes across the chamber, talks to
senator's, gesticulating all the time with
his hands and his head in q sort of wide
open manner. If he has no part in the
matters then under consideration he has
tens away to his committee room where he
behaves in the same manner. He is an
impatient man, of tremendous vigor and
overlooking animal spirits.
Senator Ingalls,, now about to take
permanent rest from senatorial duty, has
been very active. He has learned that re-
poseful manner which his successor proba-
bly never will learn, but he is no less in
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THE LAKE OF THE DISMAL SWAMP.
Written at Norfolk, VI

Written ct Norfolk, Va
"They made her Q grave, too cold and damp
For soul SO warm and true:
And she gone to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp,
Where, all night long, by FREELY lamp,
She paddles her white canoe.
"And her FREELY lamp soon shall ses,
And her paddle soon shall hear;
Long and loving our life shall be,
And Ill hide the maid in a cypress tree,
When the footstep of Death is near"
Away to the Dismal Swamp he speeds
His path was rugged and sore
Through tangled Juniper, beds of reeds,
Through many fen, where the serpent feeds,
And man never trod before.
And when on earth he sunk to sleep,
Ii slumber his eyelids knew,
He lay where the deadly vine doth weep
Its yenomous tear, aud nightly steep
The flesh with biistering dew!
And near him the she-wolf stirred the brake,
And the copper snake breathed in his ear,
Till he starting cried. from his dream awake,
''ohl when shall see the dusky Lake,
And the white canoe OF my d0rg"
He saw the Lake, and meteor bright
Quick over it's surface played
Welcome he said. ..my dear ones light"
And the dim shore echoed, for many night,
The name OF the death-cold maid!
Then he followed boat of the birchen bark,
Which carried him of from shore;
Far he followed the meteor spayk,
The wind was high and the clouds were dark,
And the boat returned no more.
But oft, from the Indian hunters camp,
This lover and maid so true
Are seen, at the hour of midnight damp,
To cross the lake. by FREELY lamp,
And paddle their white canoe.
Thomas Moore.
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pas Jap Of the old school, who had
lot his hair shaved off and the rest
tiqued up into . top-knot at the back
head. He wore no hat, and quiet
gray silk kimono, white split-toed
and handsome sandals, and he
1Idn { talk any English at all-not one
I'd. He really was a Japanese gentle
8 ~ . member of the Maple Club, brother
4 the court chamberlain, and with quite
& 4ettngue manners, which made him dis
Z net bore when one was in hurry.
He invited as upstairs to his private
5oom. Mr.. Shundo. the interpreter
I'D TO speak of him as Man Sunday
1cked his boots off at the foot of the spot
lssly clean deal stairs (which Sir Edwin
GOULD have called .'hand-dressed fir
4ood'1 but Mr.. MACAO, the publisher,
Aade signs that we were on no account to
80 30. Otherwise that business would
have been conducted in the shop. In
winter, especially, it is by no means
pleasant to take ones boots off to
& II in an ill-hcated, draughty Jap
1 1nsse room. Upstairs we found Mr..
Nagaos private room divided into two,
~ corner being screened off and carpeted
~ provided with silt little table and
Ss@exos % uiuIc impressive W CuStOlueIS
I'm the charming room left q Ia Japonais,
IN Its beautiful pale straw mating, its
aoma and chigai dana recess, with the
1eppendages, q screen or two, little
klegged scarlet table. the size of q
lool, to support blue and white
lain pot containing one of the
eesRied and trained plum trees Zone mass
adouble pink blossom), and a huge ex-
mple of the NOTCH, triple bun-shaped
new Year cakes. made of pounded rice
: lour dough, which have a semi-sacred
thasacter until they have been kept so
many days after the New Year, when they
se eaten. vase of flowers, symbolically
selected, stood before them, and they were
nased on one of those queer little fat
nmmed tables, like a japanese tea tray on
ess. The room itself was delightful
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larry delighted because we allowed him to
examine the European things We had about
the room. He had the greatest ambition
20 possess European article, but he was
TOO poor. He supported al his relations
put his brother, who lived in much bet
Yer mousse. just about that time my little
boy had been changing his foreign stamps
rom an old album into new one. He
nad cut most Of the stamps out showed
Mayeda-San the old album, and offered it
70 him for his little hoy to see what he
would say. His eyes fairly sparkled. and
ne carried 1t on in triumph and pasted up
every hole and ruled the red lines over the
patches to fit in with the uniniured squares
with that marvellous skill the japanese
nave Tor patching artistically
NOT long after this, having settled the
question Of estimates, left the manuscript
with MI. Mayeda to be printed while We
were away We we're just going down to
aongkong for the races. When We came
PACK from China several weeks afterward,
wrote from Yokohama to ask for the
proofs. found that, with true japanese
representation. they hadn't even begun
them. Mr.. Mayeda wrote
"Gentismcn: duly received your letter at Z
o'clock this p m. and I understand very well
that we are being in q hurry some other printing
things, because Il Is thing OF limited days, and
= must be printed all up till the end OF the
o er not IS set i up Of your poem
humble servant. =. MAyrpA.
."f: SIT is so bad climate, but are your
iamiiy well? II 90 am exceedingly glad Of It."
few days afterward-it was the rainy
season now-we heard the shutting out Of
clogs outside the never-to- be-forgoften sit
tng-room of ours on the sea front of the
Club hotel, Yokohama--a delightful room
with great bay window, from which you
could throw an orange into the sea, and
two other windows. its private entrance to
the street, and its two bedrooms en- suite.
1t vas Mr. Maycda-very much umbrella
to the Japanese a European umbrella is as
precious and paraded as cross of the Lee
gion of Honor. He had brought the
proofs. We forgot all the delays when We
saw them, they were SO beautiful, and re-
ally, considering that Mr.. Mayeda was tho