The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-06-11

ago. The remnants here are civilized, and a
tTusty as white men.
Indian curiosities abound, arrowheads es
pecaly, and there are petrfied specimens il
the lava-rocks which very beautiful
will send three of these curios no two alike
TO anyone forwarding % cents for postage and
packing. This may help soldiers family
whose main dependence is Sc Denth pension
Mrs. Mary Davis Waco, Ore.
PASSING IN REVIEW.
Leonard and Leon Gilbert, whose names were
on the rol-csll May z 1885, request ex.
change OF letters and autographs with the &C
John NJ. Murphy. Nhestand, Mo-, writes
=" / think the &C. columns at the present time
more interesting than they have ever been be-
fore, not excepting any time"
Cora Davidsons Memorial tribute was very
sweet, but received too late for use.
Julius w. Gogarn is on a visit to his home,
Munising, among the scented pines Of Mchi-
gan. His description arouses great longing to
| share his Summer vacation in those hyper
borean realms" He says: am, and always
was, child of nature, and pride myself in yet
| being unspoiled. How dear to my heart are
the virgin forests, the familiar brooks abound
ing in the speckled fnny tribe; the hills, the
/ waterfalls, the pine and cedar-scented air; the
bays, channels, lakes and what not! / love to
reyel in all the natural delights which they
afford"
ADVANTAGES OF THE CITY.
&C. FRIENDS: ! have read with interest in
c. C. columns what one of the members wrote
concerning the Advantages of the Country
She writes very nicely, and i wish her long
and joyous life out in the country.
But to those who have gone from the coun-
try into almost any city must the advantages
of city life be apparent Here in this city of
Syracuse, city OF 127, 900 people, vast avenues
! open up for progress in countless ways We
I I.uxra r. Al .
churches, q parks, 153 miles of street railroad,
1000 miles paved Streets thousands of stores,
aud many public buildings.
Everything except rent is cheaper in the
city than in the country. OF course, we work
in the city. but after the work is over for the
day countless amuSemeDts are open to enter
tain and instruct, and you live more in
one day in the city than you can in the coun-
try in a thousand years.
Imagine the country with its muddy roads,
no walks, miles from store, shop, and school.
no pavements no exhilarating music, no clo-
quent sermons or lectures no beautiful parks,
no monuments and fountains, no roses and
flowers of countless perfumes and the angling
OF sweet song birds making the very air en-
chRnted like some ideal fairy land the poets
dream and sigh Of
But to number all the advantages OF city life
over the country, with it's weekly paper or no
paper at all, must be amusing to those Who
know the difference between them.
L. r. Jones' 3l6 Pine ST., Syracuse, NY.
TIE BOND OF PERFEcTNEss.
&C FRIENDS: After reading the many use
full papers that have been in the &C. columns
during the past four months thought to add
my mite.
Many persons have a marked antipathy
against boing the recipients of charity yet
almost daily everyone is the receiver OF some
charitable act at the hands OF his associates,
and il is right
The child at play with his playmates will do
many little acts of kindness solely for the pleas.
ure OF pleasing. little realizing the noble i'm
pulse actuating him.
Charity is disposition TO think favorably of
others and do them good
Let all your things be done in charity" and
The darkened ways Of many, almost ready to
give up in despair, will soon become lighted up
by the sun of a new-found hope.
We are too prone in our ordinary survey of
the acts of our associates to overlook their
sacrifices for US. Frequently we search afar off
for what is near by.
once read OF q botanist who hearing of a /
very peculiar flower growing in distant land. |
wandered there in search Of it. He spent the |
best years of his life in fruitiess search aud |
reiured, an old man, only to End the flower for |
which he had searched almost lifetime near /
his own door. He, like many of u.s. had for |
gotten to look beneath bis own bearthstore.
And SO II must ever be; we lose sight of the |
real IN blind worship of the ideal. All of l
which causes as some times TO be uucharitabl Die |
when least INTENDED. Such day dreaming is a |
positive injGry,zs it creates a morbid state of |
the mind, little capable of helping to the bet /
tertnebt Of the race
IL is always best to be alive to the evercbang-
ing present, always ready to lend helping
hand 10 the needy and careworn.
SPEAK kind word To some friendless dog and |
see now quickly his appearance will change |
owe meal TO some wandering outcast, and
ms coantenanee will almost always imme-
dlately beam with unexpressed thankfulness.
no matter how low down in the scale of exist |
ence be may be.
Ia all the affairs Of life put on charity,
which is the bond OF periectness"
j. Marshall Murphy, Wheatland, Mo.
IMMIGRANTS HE HAS SEEN.
MEMBERS OF THE &C: Is it violation of
your code OF ethics FOR a stranger friend adj
m.rer, veterans son, and for sometime
reader of your workings, TO invite himself into
your sanctum2 If not, may ! say word on
that large questlon-immigratien? the ques-
toH on which Miss Davis wrote her admirable
paper, and upon which Mr. McKenna has
heaped dire criticism.
1 wonder if our critic, Mr. McKenna. has
CLEANED any positive knowledge of the immi.
grant from personal study OF him IL he ever
sat IN Castle Garden aud saw a thousand foreipu |
sonls tread the gang plank from out the steer.
age OF single ship; If be ever glanced over
their many signatures consisting mainly of an
\ sign; II he ever followed "single drive"
OF loo strangers ia our land out Of Castle
Garden and up Greenwich street 10 the noted
cheap Lodging houses; if he ever made an in
voice OF the earthly possession carried on the
shoulder, or in the hand, in a red covered |
bundle; II he ever, in this mournful corner of
New York City, made a house 10. house and
room-to room visit from Battery Park 10 Chris.
TOPPER street; did he see unclothed, unfed and
uncom forted babes dying Of I" insnition Chats
the reading OF the death certi6cate) while the
fumes OF int0xicants and tobacco were chok ing: |
If he ever saw the dead ON the floor uncarei for
while IT'S own countryBen reveled in convivi-
atty; IL he over sat in the office of the Super.
iutenoent OF Charities and Corrections, GO
Third avenue, and studied the countless faces
passing daily ia monotonous procession before
the desk, asking admission to Bellevue Hos.
pital leave to visit friends in the aims |
house. workhouse lunatic asylum, or other
institutions for the INDECENT aud afflicted; if
he ever took peep into our great mines from
Pennsylvania TO the Rocky Mountains; if he
ever trsyersed the Pacific Slope, China Town."
San Francisco. and Mott street, \. Y, to see the
mass Of foreigners who ship "a illions to China
as well their bodies or bones: il he ever in.
terTogated these lonely fellow-human beings to
hear a common story of visions of wealth and |
return 10 the old home rirh"?
If a line of study of wandering humanity has
thus been presented 10 Mr.. McKenna he will
have seen, as saw. the most abjectI su fferinc |
want, Ignorance, dissipation, crime mental alb