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The St. Johns herald., 1893-08-03
MAKE-BELIEvE APPRECIATION.
The Kind Generally Given to Classical
 Music-Vanity the Prime Mover.

Music-Vanity the Prime Mover.
 ''I am tired of hearing people rave over classical music" said James H. Fuller to Globe-Dcmocrat man. Ut is certainly queer, but in classical mu- sic you have actually something that is existing upon nothing more nor less than the vanity of human nature. You can say what you will. vanity is the name for it and nothing else. People have an innate desire to make believe. They want to appear what they are not. Every body does. If people can not do anything else they put on black coat and look wise, which places them in malle-believe position and sat isfies or keeps their vanity from being wounded. No one will admit that he does not desire to enjoy classical music. Everybody desires to. They have heard critics, who do not enjoy the classical rot poured upon the world any more than the conmOnest laborer, say that beautiful songs are mere ballads and not music. The critics have told them that a series of thumps and wild piano beatings make up classical music, and that if they study . long time and have any music in them they will under stand and enjoy it. Then when a re- puted musician comes who is well ad- vertised, the social world, filled with vanity and the desire for appearances, rushes forward, fills great music halls and makes believe that such music is grand and enjoyable. They hear sweet strain in the great musicians playing, they begin to think that it is pretty, when all at once it is broken off by a series of wild rot that is no more musical than a cracked dOorbel. They credit the latter with being clas- sical, and applaud it because some one else applauds it. They don't enjoy it. Classical music never paid and never will Grand opera and choral sym phonies have never paid and never will. People do not want 1t. Their ears have been trained by grander voice than that of man-naturc. Classical music doesn't recall tAe signing voice of the wind nor the ripple of the brook. It doesn't repeat the moan of pain we have all heard, nor the music of laugh. You can't string out such voices through long half hour of humping. Let the make believers and praise seekers open their cars and they will hear in the simple ballads of any nation moro of real soul-inspiring music than exists at present in the hun dreds of volumes of classical so-called music for which ohey pay"
The St. Johns herald., 1893-08-03
CANNOT BE CHRISTIANS.
The Plan of Salvation Is Beyond the Com
 prehensiOI of Indians.

prehensiOI of Indians.
 The Victoria Colonist representative at Vancouver, B. C., had an interest ing conversation a few days since with R. J. Skinner, government timber agent, in reference to the Haida h. dians and the coast Indians in gen eral Mir. Skinner said: Although I have the greatest respect for mission aries among the Indians, no matter what their denomination, and while I have not the least doubt that most of them are very earnest men, I am sorry to say that the reports that they send to the outside world are rather too highly colored.
 q have been a resident among the Indians for. twenty-five years and have talked with hundreds of the natives on the Queen Charlotte islands and other places on the coast. It was always the rule, while all the tribes acknowledged Supreme Being, that those who had not met the missionaries knew nothing of a spiritual life, prayer, purgatory or the atonenent for sins, but those who had come in contact with the mis- sionaries solemniy aver that their re- ligion had always been similar to the Christian religion. It is very, very difficult to convert the Siwash for these reasons. They cannot tell the truth as we define it. If asked direct question they will answer as they think would please you, and not neces- sarily according to the facts of the case.
 Again, it is foreign to the nature of the coast Indian to believe in any such thing as vicarious punishment. The suffering of Christ upon the cross in atonement for our sins is simply be- yond their comprehension, although, of course, in superficial way they will smilingly acquiescc in anything. There is little doubt that the mission aries are doing a grand work in ele- vating the morals of the red men, but this talk about white people taking an example from Indians in morality is not justified"
The St. Johns herald., 1893-08-03
Countrr Gentleman.s surprlse.

A story is told of gentleman in the Kings county, England, who died only the other day full of years and hon. ors. When Mir. Mooney of the Doom paid his first visit to London very long ago-perhaps in the forties-he found himself with checlboo,1, but no cash; and to put an end to the situation he turned into a well known bank. filled up check, and presented it to the cashier, who told him that he would be delighted to pay it if pro perly in dorsed, or if he were vouched for by one of their clients. This could not be done offhand, and Mr. Mooney, who was quite parsonage in his coun- ty, representing Q fair estate and 8 good family, added: But I'm Moon ey of the Doonr' However, the cash fer, who in his way was a wit, regret ted that he did not know such gentle man, and that even if he were "Dooney of the Moon" he could not comply with his reoueSt
The St. Johns herald., 1893-08-03
Pronhets in Lnva.

There is a good deal of profit in the prophet business in Java. \ prophet of that island has been paid four hun cred dollars a year for the last fifteen ears flor not predicting Q tidal wave which will sweep clear over the
 iand." But, after all. he cant be very enterprising. With the amount os credulity recdy at hand to worE upon. he could get one thousand dol ..rs year just as easily as not.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-08-03
ybv Lord sherbroorze Broke Down.

The late Lord Sherbrooke was an albino, and to this defect in his eye sight a painful scene in the house Of commons was due just before he be- came a peer. He was a speaker of un- usual briIiance and power and came into the house prepared to make a slashing onslaught on the ministry. His introductory remarks gave promise of a notable speech, but he had hardly opened fire on the ministry before he was reduced to utter helplessness by the discovery that there was some con fusion in his notes, which owing to his weak sight he could not rectify. 4 colleague attempted to assist him, but the orator was so unnerved and mOrti- fed by this accident that he complete ly lost himself. The other members of the house were profoundly touched by the painful breakdown. The death of Lord Sherbroolze leaves but five living cS-chancellors of the exchequer-4Ir. Chi1ders, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Sir William Vernon Harcourt, Lord Ran dolph Churchill and Mr. Gladstone, who has four times held that high of fee. The present incumbent Is Mr. Goachen.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-08-03
CATTLE BRANDS

Ear marks: Clean split from root to point left ear u?peri il in right ear. Watte (varuga) on jaw, under outh. c On left Jaw (chcek, bulls . on left cheek only. Hooded stock c Cn left cheek and c on left ribs
 HENRY RUNiNG Post office: Show Low, Arizona, 3RHnge: show Low creek, Silver creek, Laguna Orega and Laguna Salada. = Horse brand c left shoulder,T
The St. Johns herald., 1893-08-03

A, H. PRATT. Post office, Springerville, Arizona. Range, Esquidilla mountains. Horse brand, [ l N left hip.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-17
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Cholera has appeared in Russia ana
France, the disease being vlrnlent III
the former country.
Mr.. Charles f. Pugh has been elected
to succeed the late J. n. DuBarry as di-
rector of the Pennsylvania railroad.
1t is reported from Chicago that TIE
railway switchmen have not given up
their intention Of striking when the
Worlds Fair is in full blast.
Bishop Brown, of the African Meth
odist Episcopal Church. died in Wash
ington Yesterday, aged seventy,ilye'
He had been i'll for some time, and bis
death was not unexpected.
Riotous scenes followed a unionist
meeting in Dublin yesterday, three
hundred students of Trinity College:
CARRYING the British ensign, being at
tackled by mob, which they soon re
pulsed.
Senator Murphy, of New York says
the New York Senators will do nothing
to delay the confirmation OF President
Cleyeland's New York appointments.
On the contrary, they will aid III nav
ing them confirmed.
The crew of tho schooner n. d.
Price, with oysters from Chesapeake
Bay, for New Haven, Conn.,, abandon
ed at sea or lost, were landed in Liver
pool recently, having been picked mp
by steamer from Norfolk.
A telegram was received yesterday
evening at the War Department from
General Wheaton, commanding the de
partment of Texas, announcing the
surrender to the United States troops
at Fort Rnggold of six more OF the
CARA revolutionists. They will be
turned over to the civil authorities.
A Reading smallpox patient was
placed in the pest house, three miles
from the city, recently. He escaped
on Wednesday night and made his way
to Reading, creating great excitement
when it became known. The man
is now in his own residence quaran'
tined. So far there have been thirty.
two cases of smallpox and varioloid
in the city and vicinity.
Two clerks attached to the most I'M
portant committees of the Senate viii
not he observation-disclosures p. Clcaves
clerk of the committee on approprla
tons for twenty-five years, and Benja'
min Durfec, clerk of the finance com
mittee since 1873, whose duties will be
virtually the same as in the past, al
though a son of Senator Voorhees, has
been appointed to the clerkship.
As stated yesterday Recorder Smyth
in New York, denied the motion t'
give a new trial TO Carlyle w. Harris
condemned to death for numbering
Helen Nelson Potts, his schoolgirl!
wife. Harris received the news calm
ly. His counsel says he will appeal fol
full pardon on the ground that the
new evidence, showing that Helen took
morphine habitually, shows Harrls's in
nocence.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-17
BY TELEGRAPH.
Foreign News.

ROME, Mar. 17.-Early this morning
a bomb exploded in the Ancient Mattel
palace, the residence Of United States
Minister Porter. The explosion did
but slight damage to the building and
nobody was injured. Nothing definite
has yet been ascertained in regard to
the affair.
BERLIN, Mar. 1.-THE committee Of
the Reichstag on the army bill to-day
rejected the second reading of the bill,
six conservatives alone supporting the
motion for a second reading. The COM
mittee then adjourned until after
Easter. This vote is another blow to
any hope that remained to Chancellor
Caprivi OF the ultimate passage of the
measure.
LONDON, Mar l7.-Lord Salisbury
is in better health, an announcement
which has caused much relief to his
friends. To-day he drove to the House
of Commons.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-17

TIE TALE OF a SoNIBRERo.-On one
of my early trips to Mexico, when |
was green and gay, l bought a big
sombrero of the straw variety, witha
brim near foot wide, and the whole
business gorgeously ornamented with
silver braid. They are picturesque,
but often, on some people, picturesque
Iy idiotic. | paid S25 for it, and was so
proud ofit-so proud, and also so new
that | wore it home on the cars.
While running through Kansas, over
the Sante Fe, one morning, | started
through the train with my sombrero
pcrchcd over my left ear. Crossing
platform gust of wind caught my
treasured headgear and whirled it
gracefully away, landing it in the mid
die of newly pIoughed field and turn
ing it over and over in the wet soil.
OF course | swore little, and the pas
scngers smiled a good deal, but there
was nothing else to do.
went over the same section of the
road some two or three months later,
and Fate, with intent of cruel irony,
fixed me at the window and kept me
staring intently at the cornfelds. Sud
denly we slowed up, for no apparent
reason, and my attention was attracted,
forced rather, to a frightful, fearful
scarecrow in a field near the track.
Growing the atrocity, and tied in q
jaunty position above the most hideous
caricature of face. was my lost, once
beautiful sombrero-torn, furnished,
dilapidated, yet grewsomely gay. The
horrible thing stared me in the face as
we stopped directly before it, and nod
icd in the breeze with bow Of ghastly
irony. Then the engine shrieked with
hoarse laughter, and we whirled away.
And I wondered then, and have won
dered since, what Fate's object was.
had, and still have, lurking no
ton that it was not merely gleeful
malice but that she wanted TO sober
my garish tastes and cure my tendency
to make a show of myself by showing
me in the scarecrow inst about how,
as verify believd, must have looked
during that trip from Mexico under my
gay sombrero. ANY way, it was po-
tent lesson to me, and did me good
maybe others won't see it just as did.
81 Louis Giobe-Dem0crGt.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-17
TELEGRAPIIIC BREVITIES.

st. Patrick's Day was observed in the
principal cities of the country to-day
with appropriate ceremonies.
Mrs. Frances Hitler, who is said to
be worth $5,000,G00, was married last
night, at Boston, to her former coach
man, Peter Surrctic
John II. Macdough, chairman Of the
democratic committee, dropped dead at
4 o'clock this morning ut the dinner of
the Tammany Club in Boston.
Felipe Osante, Il prominent and
wealthy merchant of Guanal Junalto.
has been arrested on the charge Of be-
ing connected with the recent defalca-
ton in the Guanal Junalto branch Of the
National Bank Of Mexico.
Mrs. Vincent Oliver. her sister, Mrs
Walker and the latter's child, while at
tempting to drive across the railroad
track near Iberia station. La, ycster-
day, were struck by train, the vehicle
smashed and the occupants killed.
Recorder Smythe's adverse decision
may not mean death for Carlyle W.
Harris. A mass meeting is to be held
in Madison Square Garden, New York,
next week and n popular demand will
be made on Governor Flower for full
and free pardon.
The New York Clothing Cutters
Union started series of strikes yester-
day which, if persisted in, is likely to
cause lockout of about 800 cutters by
the Clothing Manufacturers Association
next week, and this will have the effect
of throwing between 5000 and 1000
tailors out of work. The men say that
they are striking for $40 week for
shear cutters, $2i week for knife cut
tiers, an agreement with the union, and
a Saturday half-holiday six months in
the year.
Rev p a. Trcacy, the communicated
priest of Burlington, n. j., has rented pr-
waite house, where he will celebrate mass be-
ginning tomorrow.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-17
ALExAN DRIA, " "A
FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH II, 1893.

THE New YORK Press is so bindly
partisan that it cannot see what is i'm
mediately before its eyes. 1t calls Mr.
Blount, the recently appointed com
missioner" to Hawaii, "bitter parti-
san democrat" Why, it was only three
or four days before the close of the last
session of Congress that the republican
members of the foreign affairs commit
tee of that body, of which Mr.. Blount
was chairman, We'd with each other in
praising, not only his unsectionalism,
but his unpartisanism, and in extolling
his broad and liberal nationalism and
patriotism. And everybody, except the
Press, knows that Mr., Blount pigeon
holed a resolution calling for the Chill
ian correspondence, lest the production
of that correspondence ''misht embar-
rass Mr.. Harrison's administration
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-17

FIT be true, as announced, that un-
der the present administration no man
will be appointed consul unless he be
thoroughly familiar with all sorts OF
commercial affairs and, in short, be a
drummer for the sale of American
goods in the country to which he may
be sent, precious few of the many Vir-
sinians who are applying for such
places will get them. Under the old
system the sale of American products
abroad has increased as much as was
possible under tariff that enforces
payment with scarce gold instead of
with plentiful foreign goods. Bat old
things have passed away, and the one
referred to is not alone in its departure
from democratic ways.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-17

Godey'x Magazine for April has been
received from its publishers in New
York Its contents are Light Out of
Darkness, a complete novel, by Mrs.
Henry Ward Beecher; \ Saraha Pic
fure. Schools and Schools, by Lydia 5.
Cody; Luncheons and Teas, by Eva
Marie Kennedy; Easter Morn, Paris
Wet. Portrait of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Ward Beecher, Saw Them Do 1t, The
Earliest Stage Costumer, At Dusk,
Sketch of Her ROYAL Highness Princess
Victoria Mary of Teck. Sketch of Mrs.
chester w. Chaplin, Water Color Per-
trait of Mrs. Chester w. Chaplin, Flow
er Talks, The Truth About England,
Disillusion, Music in America, April,
Philip and Filippo, The Romance ma; of
Miniature. All the Books, The Search
Light, Sense and Nonsense,and Godey's
Fashions Illustrated.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-17

As A democratic House of Repre-
sentatives refused to adopt the report
of its partisan and non-sectional
committee, which convicted Commits
sioner Raum of official fraud and cor
ruption, and as the democratic admin
istration seemed 10th to disturb him, he
has taken the matter in his own hands
and has resigned. But better that way
than no way at all, for the simple fact
that a man OF Mr.. Raum's character is
no longer the disburser of halfa million
dollars day affords an appreciate
feeling ofrelief to the poor people from
whom that money is eXtorted by taxes
on their necessaries of life.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-17
Napoleon the Great.

Mai. Gen. Yakovitch, of the Russian
army, is one of the few men now wing
who saw the great Napoleon on bat
tlelield. The old gentleman saw the
French emperor at Borodino. At that
battle Yakolitch, then Il mere boy,
served with grand redoubt, which
was the center of the Russian line. He
gives vivid description of the battle.
When morning broke Il sea ofgray mist
shut ont the field from view. The
voices of the enemy were heard, the
neighing of their horses, and the rum
bling of artillery wheels. Then came
the thunder of cannon, making the
very earth tremble. Three times all
the Russian gunners were killed and
three times new men took their places.
Bullets flew thick as hail and men
dropped dead or mangled every mo-
ment.
At last strange sound was heard in
the distance like rain pattering on
withered leaves. 1t grew louder and
louder, until it filled the air like the
roar of Il stormy sea. All at
once a great wave of bright
swords and helmets and horses
heads came surging up over the
breastworks. 1t was the cavalry of the
imperial guard. Before the shock OF
that mighty wave the Russian center
crumbled away shattered wreck.
When Yakovitch came to his senses
and opened his eyes he saw around him
the corpses of his father and comrades.
Suddenly the trampling of hoofs called
his attention to q group of gayly dressed
officers, and Napolcons staff came rid
ing over the field The young Russian
peered anxiously into their faces. In
his graphic language:
'sThere were the hard faces of Knpp
and Daru and broad-chested Sebastian
and Nansouty, with the sabre scar
across his cheek, and the low. broad
forehead and bull dog jaw of grim old
Ney, the bravest of them all. There,
too, was Murat, with his white plumes
and his braided jacket, his riding whip
in his hand, just like circus rider
And then the group parted suddenly
and there was the man himself in the
midst Of them, with his face hard
and immovable as marble amid all
that blood and agony, and far
away look in those cold, gray
eyes of his as if he saw Moscow some
where up in the sky but could see no.
thing between. "A glorious victory !"
cried Murat. waving his hand. What
stir there'll be among the good folks
in Paris when the bulletin arrives"
We've lost half our army in doing it,
though growled Ney. Hadn't we
better fall back little and wait there
for reinforcements ~ Then Napoleon
turned his head slowly, just as the
statue might do, and looked him in the
face. Thou advising retreat, Mich
ael? That is something new, indeed
Mono falling back now. | must date
my bulletin from Moscow. As for the
army, you can't make an omelette with
out breaking a few eggs" Yakovitch
saws when he heard that he knew that
God had forsaken Napoleon, for no
man save one doomed to destruction
could have spoken so lightly of the
slaughter of thousands of brave men.
In three months from that day the
French Emperor was flying for his life
across the border with the Cossacks at
his heels like hungry wolyes-Chicago
HterOcean.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-17

SECRETARY CARLISLE has notified
the many republican partisan light
house keepers that they will not be re-
moved during his control of the Treas
ury Department, Mr.. Carlisle has also
declined to accept the resignation of q
republican immigration agent in New
York, who, knowing that he ought to
DC removed by democratic admins
tration, rendered his resignation, and
told him to continue in the discharge
of his duties, and that he would not be
disturbed on account of his politics. In
former times the appointment of repub-
licans to Cabinet positions, and the
retention of pernicious republicans in
Office. by democratic administration
would have presaged the near approach
of the millennium.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-17

RECENT testimony of Massachusetts
cotton manufacturers before a commit
tee of the legislature of their State, was
to the effect that they could not com
pete successfully with their competi-
tors in the South. Certain northern
iron manufacturers talk the same way.
Well, everybody knew that before.
The existing tariff is the only thing
that enables northern manufacturers to
conduct profitable business. Were the
tariff removed, rs it should be, they
would move thcir plants to the South
in order to partale of the benefits to be
derived from the superior natural ia
cilitics for manufacturing possessed by
this section, and the southern States
would soon become the store house from
which the world would obtain its sup
niles.