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MO'DAT, NOVEMBER 1888.
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IMDEX TO HEW ADTEBnSfiMEHTS,
Meeting—Do Kalb Lodge No. 9.1. O. O. F.
Special notick—Chatham Real Estae and
improvemenl Cos.
Steamship Scbedi t ;—Ocean Steamship
Co#
Notice—Kavananah & Brennan. 9FP>
Tf.gal Notice—Application to Sell Ileal
Estate.
Woun— D. I!. Thomas.
Pro corals—For the General Renovation of
Ihe Extenor of 'he * hraham’s Home
Cheap Colcmn Advertisements—Lost;
Misc • i in' ous.
A potion Sals—Sundries, by .1. McLaugh
lin ,t 'on.
I’utti sailed for America yesterday. She
and Xicl'ni have not yet leat ned to sing:
••Patti-cake-pan.”
It looks as if the Hon. Ben. Harrison,
Republican Untied states senator, would
be knocked 1 ut in Indiana.
Even Dtkma appeais :obe a udiy be
etmine D' mi crate, aid now tr,e Repub.
Mean; are n t howling very loudly lor its
admission to t' e U' ,, on.
If Mr. Beau, C usul General to Con
stantinople, should re appointed to suc
ceed Minister Cox, as-en Ted, there will
be a heap'd mighty good men disappoint
ed in this country.
Henry George the other day inti cnantly
denied the retiort ihat he had called on
Blaine, and said be had nev“r seen that
ind vidua! In his life. Score one to the
credit of Mr. Geirtre.
The Vir.lma K-pUb icons claim that
their success in the Congressional elec
tion- was due to the (act that they repu
diated Mabone. Are none socjrrupt now
as t > do him reverence?
The Solid South is not disnosed to be
erclus ve. If Massachusetts, New Ramp
shire, Minnesota and Colorado want to
join it p> rmanently, let them send in
tbelr applications at once, accompanied
by appropriate vouchers.
The home stretch is always the most
important one in a rao-* and the heauty of
the Democratic campaigners is that
they nearly always snow up well on the
last qua* ter. The laiest and most reliable
eltCtion r turns seem to be the best.
It rema ii io ue eu whether the new
Tower ol Babel, which it is proposed to
er*-ct in Paris, will be any greater i-uccess
as a business venture than the old one,
a*sout which the great international
“misunderstanding” took place, was.
If Snoalla starts a war of races In the
Beaufort dieo ct by bis Incendiary her
anguea no doubt he will repent ot his
folly beiore It is over with. The bottom
rail is no longer on top, and the sooner the
and saausded colored folks of that part of
South Carolina And the fact out tha better
for them.
And now it is be ie>,d tsat Henry
Gcige will step forward as the Labor
candidate tor Pres dent in 1888. That
eminent workingman, Gen. Butler, has
lost his grip, an t the great talking man
of Gotham is achieving a world-wide rep
utation a-t a demagogue, or “false dema
gogue,” as Aiexa idur H. Stepheus used
to term It.
A R eh itoud special vay, toe bones of
t ie Confederate dead found at Seven Pinos
were interred ou Gettysburg Hill, at
Hollywood, Friday by Comrade J. J. Sin
n >it. They were all placed In one com
mon grave, and no formal ceremor.v
marked tue occasion. The silver watch
and other war rel cs t"Und by the search
ing party will be placed In the Soidieis’
Hume museum.
The survivor* of thd Second Maryland
(Confederate) regiment have perfected
arrangements to erect a monument on
toe battlefield ot Gettysburg, and it Is to
be hoped ot her Souluern survivors of that
historic STUtfitlt* wilt do likewise, the
monume . has been completed, and it is
to lit d-dlcated on Nov. 19. All ex-Con
federates and their triend* are mvlted to
participa’e in the ceremonies.
The fact mat a large torpedo was re
cently exploded a a nstlbe new British
Ironc ad Kesi-ianee without materially
shaking the ves-el has rather shaken the
iai b it naval experts in the torped • as a
means ol offense and deleuse. The time
seems to be rapidly approaching when it
will be necessary to disarm the fighting
coutur es ot the world and, bv means of
an international arbitration scheme, put
the more dangerous powers under bonds
to keep the peace.
There is said to oe a prooauility that
the Republicans in the lnd ,aua House of
Representatives contemplate trying me
Uuio idea and counting out enough Demo
cratic members to give them a majority
or. joint ballot. The Democrats, however,
say that they will to crate no such vil.
lalny, but will, if necessary, count out
enough R publican Senator* to offae t e
swindling iu the House. It ts doubtlul if
the Republicans will date to resort to such
• desperate expedient to ro e.ect benator
Harrison.
The la.k about Democratic losses being
flue to a growth of protection sentiment
seems to be the veriest buso. Ex-Seusti r
McDonald, of Indiana, was In Washing
ton the cl her day, and he loid a New York
fttsr correspondent that lbs tariff entered
loto the campaign and proved u benefit to
tile party, lie bad dismissed tan question
iiuu-ell at allot bis meeting*, amt always
with good effect. Asa fact in the Highest
degieo eoniiiinaiory o'this slateiiieo , le
mentioned that all ,x of the Dent >ert o
oaedidaU-s eiecUd loi cm ten in lidiena
had advocated a low tariff policy tin Ut
alu ana.
Mr. Blaine s Tariff Talk.
Mr. J S. Moore, in a letter to the New
| York Times, points out some of the false
I statements of Mr. Blaine by which he at
i tempted in his reo nt speeches in Penn
! sylvania and New Jersey to deceive the
j workln-men. Iu one of his speeches Mr.
| Blaine said:
It was about 1867 or 1868 that the first
steel rail was laid in England. When
we dee rrd to Inn ort them here it wa*
found th' they could not he laid down
short ol $l7O per ton, and some were laid
upon wfcai are known as the Vanderbilt
roads at that price. In 1870 these rail
way men came to Congress—the iron
manulaciurers and steel manufacturers
—and said, "if you will give us an ade
quate tariff, we will manufacture steel
rails here and reduce the price;”
and on t p of the enormous
price at which rails then were furnished
the Congieesol the United States unocs-d
a specific doty in g Id c in of $-8 per ton.
Those of you who pay spec al attention to
the tariff question will remember the tn
slantaneousandennrmous t ow 1 that went
up from the free trade journals and the
tree trade oraolet ad over this country.
“Why,” they saitl, “ his steel rail is
alrcaily £'.7o in currency, and you are go
iviA'W'jiut S2B in gold on top of that”—the
g' Id itself being worth ab uit 30 percent,
premium. “You have simply gone stark
mad, and Congress deseivos to be sent
bodily to an insane asylum.”
Asa matter of lnc\ as Mr. Moore
shows, steel rails in 1870 were not wor b
in England $l7O per ton. They sold from
SSO to $.55 per ton. The premium ou gold
was not 30 per cent. The average ior the
year was about 16 per cent.
The duty on steel rails was greater be
fore tbe S2B per ton duty was put on them
than aiterwards, ii what Mr. Blame says
about the price of steel rails in England
at that time is true, because it was 45 per
cent, ad valorem—equal to about $75 50
per ton. Assuming that Mr. Blaine’s
statement is true respecting the premium
on gold the duty in currency, which the
importer had to pay alter the establish
ment of the duty of S2B per ton, was $36 40.
Now if Mr. B'aine’s other statement
about the price of rails in Englaud is
true then tbe new duty that was imoosed
in 1870 was onlv 2180 per ceat, ad va
lorem. It is diffi ult to see, therefore,
why “the free trade journals” should have
rais’ed an enormous howl of dissent re
specting tbe duty of S2B per ton. They
ought to have shouted for joy because
of the reduction of more than one-half.
Tbe high tariff is not entitled to the
credit of promoting the steel rail indus
try in this c untry. Its development here
is due to the expiration of tbe Bessemer
patent In 1870—a fact, doubtless, which
Mr. Blame well knows.
There is one statement of Mr. Blaine’s
relative to this steel rail business that Is
true. He said that the high tariff had
enabled the steel rail manufacturers of
this country to put $250,000,000 in their
po ike's. How many of these man
uiacturers are there? Not more
than a handful, as it were,
and they are among the greatest monopo
lists of the country. Did they pav their
workmenextraprdinary wages? Did they
say totjie. mgn who made the rails. We
are making millions out of this business
and will therefore divide with you by in
creasing your wages? They did nothing
of the kind. Oq the contrary, they got
labor for as imtl a price as they could
and poeketedthelr enormous nroflts. Mr.
Blaine ought not to put tbe credulity of
his audienoes to too great a teet.
The Knights and the Tariff.
There seems to be less harmonv among
the Knights of Labor on the tariff ques-
Don than In either of the great political
parties. The Republicans are almost
unanimously in favor of maintaining t e
present protective tariff, while the Demo
crats sre very largely in favor of its re
duction to a revenue basis. What are
call'd low tariff Republicans and high
tariff D mocrats are not in strict accord
with ibeir respective parties on the tariff
question, and their adherence to these
parties is due to other issues, or, doubt
less. in very many instances, to personal
considerations.
In some parts of the country the
Knigbtsof Labor appear to incline to
ward the Repuolican idea of prolection,
but the better sentiment among the
Knights in the North and East, where
their ablest leaders reside, tends toward
tariff reduction, if not absolute free trade.
Where the protection doctrine is strong.
et among the workingman, it will almost
invariably be noticed that Republican
politicians are very influential in their
local councils and the workingmen have
been p'ied with specious arguments
snowing the beauties ol a system that is
| supposed to benefit them by levying a
I burdensome tax on consumers, and thus
| making sure a profitable borne market
j lor the principal manufactured ar-
I tides. The fallacy of these argu
ment* ami the misleading nature of
j the statements and statistics by whicn
! they are sought to be sustained
j nas become apparent to the better In
i lorm-d workingmen in many of the mauu
tacturiog centres. They s-e that the
workingmen are being Injured rather than
benefited by the present lariff, and that
tuelronly hope for better times is de
pendent on the contingency of so reform
ing tbat tariff that our products will be
lit'reduced Into the markets of the world
and the labor market—*o called, which
is now glutted so that employment is in
many section* very uncertain and unsat.
islactory—can be placid on a steady and
prosperous toundation. They see that
while the protected manufacturers have
grown rapidly to Be millionaires their euj.
idoiea are generally less liberally paid
than are the employesof those manulac
turers who are not engaged in protected
industries, and tbat these pro
tected manulaeturers have usu
ally been quite fr c in availing
themselves of tne cheap labor markets ot
Europe and Asia, wito little regard to the
ioterestsorsentimeuuof American vvork
i in. men.
W'uatever shapes the labor movement
baa assumed or is assuming in certain
lunulitie* there seems to he little reason
to believe that the workingmen of the
country cau be organized into a great
party with tne present tariff system as
its fundamental idea, it there is any
other great national issue on which the
workingmen can form a distinctive partv
it Is not tiow apparent to student* ot cur
rent political history.
There is little dount tbat lilalre is
litigering in N* w Yolk not to rest, as
oka uud by bun, but lo study the situa
tion and get some idi * as to the best
dodge* to eaten tne labor vote. Jny
. Gull'd might Imi title to make >uiu stig-
I trostion* that would ihj valuable to huh.
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. NOVEMBER 8. 1880.
Reformed Civil Service.
The objects of genuine civil service re
form are not simply fanciful and sc9-
thetic, but practical and necessary. It
is an undoubted fact ibat “offensive par
tiSHnship,” such as was tne rule in the
civil service under Republican adminis
trations, mpaired that service and pre
vented the prompt and proper pertorm
ance of official, clerical and adminis
trative duties. A natural conse
quence was that tbe people to a great ex
tent lost confidence in and respect for
publ c officials, and regarded them as
components of a great political machine,
which was ODerated to secure certain
ends—primarily the plunder of the pub
lic purse and people and the perpetua
tion ol tbe power of the plunderers.
The country has had a short trial of
civil service reform, and the question is,
what has it accomplished? Its effects are
apparent in all the government depart
ments at Washington in increased effici
ency and economy. In some of the de
partmen’s tbe public business heretofore
has been in a chronic stale of delay. In
scarcely one of them has the busi
ness been kept up with and
handled promptly and properly, no mat
ter bow large the force of subordinate offi
cials and clerks was. Insomeot the de
partments the business at the beginning
of the present administration was said to
be months behind hard, and bringing itur>
seemed to be a hopeless task. Tbe trouble
was that the officials and employes of the
government wore expected to do a great
d“al of political work, and this had to be
done no matter how much the public ser
vice suffered.
A notable instance of the effects of civil
service reform is said to be visible in the
Patent Office. It is stated that although
tbe business has Increased wonderfully
during the past year, that it is now being
handled more promptly than ever, and
that it is probable that in three or four
months all the business in arrears will
have been disposed of, and applica'ions
for patents can then receive immedia’e
attention. This announcement will be
received with joy by the large class of
persons interested in this Important
bureau.
Civil service reform affects the public
in many important respects. It increases
the efficiency of the public service, tend3
to the introduction of purer political
methods, and gives confidence in the in
tegrity and stability of the government
and in tbe future prosperity of the coun
try, and hence its effects are really patri
otic as well as practical from a mere
business point of view.
Gambling a Felony.
The growth of public sentiment against
gambling bouses has been remarkable in
many sections of the country. Four
years ago the keeping of a gambling
house was made a felony in Tennessee,
and only last spring a similar law was
enacted in Kentucky. The effect of these
laws was practically to suppress public
gambling in the States named, and to
make it a mailer of extreme difficulty for
gambling houses to be operated at all.
In Tennessee especially the good effects
of the law have been apparent ever since
its constitutionality was sustained by tbe
Supreme Court, and Gov. Bate refused to
pardon tbe high-toned gambler who was
selected by the sporting fraternity to test
the question.
A movement to secure the passage of a
similar law has been started in Alabama,
and the probabilities are that it will be
successful. In Montgomery the better
classes of citizens appear almost unani.
mously to favor such a law, and a strong
petition to the General Assembly asking
the desired legislation will be presented
at the approaching session. A large num
ber of people in that city have formed
what may be called a law and order
league, pledging themselves “to an bon.
estand earnest endeavor to uproot the
gambling bouses that nave proven such a
social and moral cutse to the communi
ty.” They disavow any political or per.
sonal end-, and they have the promise of
support Irotn nearly every section of the
State. There seems to be little room to
dottDt the desired law will be enacted,
and it is pretty certaip that, if enacted, it
will be enforced.
The reason for the movement in favor
of making the kceplngof gambling houst s
a lelony is that under the m sdemeanor
laws the courts could rarely be depended
on to punish the guilty partite heavily
enough to make their business unprofit
able. Too many Judges winked at the of
fense, and administered only nominal
fines when the offender* were brought
betore them. In outer words they abused
the discretion given them by the law, and
Instead of exercising the functions of
their office to make the law respected,
they indirectly encourage its violation by
ibetr leniency.
The gambling laws ought to either be
enforced or repealed. Nothing is more
demoralizing than to have statutes which
the courts dare not or care not to enloroe
by means of adequate penalties inflicted
on those who violate such laws. Instances
are said to be on tecord in Tennessee and
Kentucky where tne Judges went through
the farce of fining the keepers of gam
bling houses mere nomiual sums without
costs, and so brought upon themselves the
o ntempt of all decent citizens; but they
secured the ardent support of the rich
gamblers and the disreputable classes
tuat controlled local politics.
Strange as it may seem, one of the
sbrewdestof the Standard Oil monopolists,
Mr. Rogers, is inclined totheopiuion that
it would have been better for Henry
George to have been elected Mayor of Mew
York. Rogers was In Sau Frauoisco when
Kalloeb was elected Mayor, uud he ay*
tout Kalloco vot things so mixed up tout
at the end of his term be was destroyed
politically by the very instruments that
bad elevated him lo the position, lie said
in New York the other day: “Kalloch’s
hands were tied, and so would George'*
have been, and when his trieuds realized
that be couldn’t keep one in u thousand of
h.s ante-election promises they would
have kicked like droves ol Kansas mules
and wound up by aui.itulaUtig George and
kicking flinders out of any organic*iion
they might have.” New Yorkers, now.
uvi r, would not like lo risk that policy of
monkeying wrb the boolulUl agitation.
They have too many Important interests
inv ol\' ii i hut inigiit lie d> sttoy ed or mate
rially Injun (I oefoie the revolution could
i uu Us course,
Bulgaria cannot hope for peace as Inn r
as its i tticiitis ate ufiaid to punish Rue
i staniznU cohspirslots.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Northwestern Convert.
From th 6 I.oviiri ’l*. C nr.eT—Journal ( Dm.)
Minnesota is Democratic at heart. She is
for tariff reform, aod there is no better De
mocracy than that.
Now Rally for 1888.
From the **mo\i* Avalanche (Deno.)
Democratic losses and gains are scattered
and the net Republic*!) gam is so sma 1 that
noi ev-u the ios- of the flrk c Mate of India' a,
which we of eiflose in off years and generally
carry in Presidential vears, need disturb
Democrats, it ig just ’enough to mobilize
every Democrat,
Don’t Be l>i*c<iur|;<*d.
From the AV ic York Star (.Don.)
The defeat of Mr. Mormon is the greatest
victory that our cause has won. It is the
Hunker ni I ol the i ew war of independence.
A defeat, indeed.' Our troops have lotreatcd.
and onr leader lies upon the field! But tbe
hI"W has b-en struck which begins the battle
ai! a<ong the line. Let no one be discouraged !
The blood of the marivrs is ttie seed of the
church.
A Alaewumi) Made Happy.
From thr Barton He raid. [lnd.)
We are verv glad to see indications that it
is no* obe a SC! u Smith arrayed against a
s> id North. With rhat in view, we are dc
'i hted to see breaks in i tie delegations ironi
Virginia arid Kontuckv on the one hand, and
Massachu-etts ad Mmne-o a oil the other.
Anything, alums', to get tii- sectional line
effac* and, though Mr. Blame’s plan of campaigu
is to keep it verv distinct and make it per
petual.
BRIGHT BU'.
Wikk—l do wish yon would join the chnrch,
Sam.
Wicked Skeptic—Good heavens! We quar
rel enough as it is. If 1 \ver6 to become a
Christian we should be lighting all the time.—
Ufa.
“Artkr ye’ve ate t>nt mince pie an’ them
hard bded eg;,” asked the generens woman,
“wilt y e carry iu some wood for me?”
“Certainly, madam.” gratefull* replied the
traoip; ’-that is,” he added, "if f live.”—-Veto
York sun.
Mabel—Won’t you come in, Charlie?
Charlie (gloomily;—You forget that your
father wounded mv tenderest feelings last
evening, when I was leaving.
Mabei—Yi s. darling, but he wore his carpet
slippers at the time, and now ids foot is done
lip in a bandage and he goes on a crutch.
Cutne iu, darling. —into.’; Citizen.
Ax old farmer was asked by his neighbor
for advice iu regard to a sick horse. He re
plied:'Try corn upon Him.” Dr.M.i* Whar
ton suit! nut in a speech tir H ward Uoliege,
and added . "It’s not advice qrfaud findingor
praise, but money, Howard needs.” It may
be hat it would pay to “try corn on your
pastor.” —Richmond He'igioue Herald.
As Indiana Justice of the Peace who bad
twen y-seven of ins twenty-eight decisions
reversed by the higher curt I)s* re-ig ed in
(lisgustaud o cued aim at market, ffesays
■that ihe prole smual courtesy which used io
be a di-tiuguiching feature of the bench and
bar has entirely petered out, and that a .Jus
tice of tha Peace of to-day is of no account.—
Detroit tee Pi ere.
“What do you think of the Association for
the Protect ou of G me?” asked a man on the
cars of his neighbor.
“I don’t know much about it,” was the re
plv, “but I think it is about time game was
protected. Why. in several cities I’ve been
in la e y son can’t enjoy s dt le game of far i
without the police coming in suddenly.”—
Pi ioburg Ci>r nicle.
Omaha Max—You don’t say prohibition is
making any headway in your section?
Kentucky Man—W ed, I’ll just tell you. We
had a prohibition parade the other ev ning,
and it t os nearly all night ior the procession
to pass a given point.
•• ell, well.”
‘ It’s so. You see, one of the rascally saloon
keepers went to setting out free drinks.”—
Omaha Hor Id.
"Mary, suppose you sing something.”
“Oh, i.’s too 1 ite, Charlie, I’m airaid it’ll
airs ke everyone.”
••Thai’s too bad! ’exclaimed Charlie, with
everv appearance of distress.
“But why do you want me to sing, dear?”
spe tenner y inqu red.
“Why, you see,” he replied, “a fellow I owe
five debars lo lias been waiting outside all
evening for me. aud 1 thought mavbe if you’d
slug a little he’d go tt\sa.i."—PitteburgDU
lKllCh,
The citizen who has sent $3,000 in Conti,
nentul currency to W siiington for redemp
tion hhs shown a laudable desire to keep
(l"'rn the Treasury surplus. But Continental
currency is not redeemable, and it isn’t well
to recall the fact that in his earh manhood
Uncle .Samuel had to take ihe bankrupt act.
The proi er thing to do with Continental
paper is to seno it to the British Treasury
Ti e present Tory Government might cash it
in honor of the late Lord Cornwallis.— L ,ui
mils Courier. J u n<il.
A Liter aey Explanation —lt was at an
evening party. Mr. 1. St. Ueorga smith was
reciting a poem consisting of forty-six
hta iz .s. Mr. Brown, a guest, comes m late.
*■ What’s going on ?” he wbisp-red to Briggs
“ Smith’s reading anew poem. He has
just finished the thirtieth stanza,” auswered
Briggs savagely,
•• What is the subject—the motive ?”
’’ 1 don’t know what ihe subject is, but I
expect his motive must be revenge. I can't
see any other reason forit.” -Huck.
‘•Hut. there! You've got mv umbrella.
I’ve found it at last, have I?” exclaimed a
larg -sized man In a loud and menacing tone,
as lie sioort in a doorway on one of the p Inn
pal streets one raiuv m rnmg recently while
a number of bedesmans were hurrving past.
A dozen men turn' and at once nn hearing Inm,
and came toward him holding out then
umbrellas and making profuse apologies.
With the air of an injured individual the
large man selected a fine silk one from among
the number, and the procession moved on
again.—CA/copo Tritmnr.
I'EItHONAL
Prof. Darin Swing’s daughter. Miss Helen
Swing, was married in Chicago a few days
ago.
M. Got. the French actor, has been serving
for ihe tlist time in his life as ihe foreman of
a jury.
Wade Hampton’s health grows better as
he grows older a id his old wounds now cause
him litt'e pain.
Mbs. ( leveland is a skillful pianist, but
shakes her head mournfully from side to side
when asked if she cau sing.
Henry Ward Beecher declares that he
will not cro s the Atlantic i g on till there is a
bridge spanning its turbulent waters.
Mrs. Mahai,a-Bvett Lawrence, of War
saw. Ji. Y.. ceebratei her 90tri blnhdav re
cently. ad tire or the guests were ladies aged
90, Ml. 37, 8S aud 80.
Sknor Terry, probably the richest man in
Cuba, who died recently leaving *30.000 000.
begau his bit-mess life as a peddler, became
rich, married a wealthy lady and kept on
adding to Ins fortune.
On Wednesday the remains of Gen. Israel
Putnam were lemoved to the sito for he
monument st Brooklyn. Conn., aud buried
there in a metallic casket. The bones were
fouud m a remarkably good state of preserva
tion.
Gen. Henry B. Carrington, of Boston,has
presented to the library ot Yule University
tbe original manuscript of an address de
livered *y the Kev. James Boeb<\ Vale class
of 1745, to the soldiers ho led to Cauada iu the
Freuch and Indian war.
Ki.ua Holaro, whose other name is Maud
Smith, and who hails, not from Italy, hut
ir mi Nashville, T’enn., has quite chained
Chicago by her singing in sun c opera • s o
heal# anybody who ins sung li re in comic.
opera for a year,” says the Mail, “and, as
ever.ibody knows, a great many clever wo
men have sung here lu the last twelve
months.”
PROF. Epwabps A. P 4UK. formerly of An
dover i’tieo og cal seminary. Is now 7$ year
onl, IIU intellectual face uitracts uunution
wherever seen, and lie still wears the broad
brimmed high hat w hose counterpart Is or.
eas'oually bhmii on thesti ecis of > biladclphi...
To runic in, raucous profe-aor- of rheology In*
ms a huts waik of conservatism, hut
twenty-five years ago ho was cou-iaaily com
p>-Ill'll to di fend limioed agalust the charge ol
tioeraiistn.
” When I svas young,” says Anton Dvorak,
the great Hohotuuii musician, ” I miu|>nsed
ver\ ipiiekiy Indeed; 1 bad a real fury for
w ruing and I cared not whit they weir as
boo s— I could ouly gel my ideas on paper. Is
11ini, li i'.v ** r, I hive learned in he m ire i
cap ; and. ami a' praept. a. er f gel n pew
• ii. I try to gel H ciuar lu lily own mind he.
bus Ia rite anything al all I plsv it over
twenty, thin i, ngy. a hundred tunes, nil I
have go! raaetlv wlisll wsiii. Alb r that
the writing *lmis not take >ong, ami wtiai loss
lei' l in iny mltjd for some moiilhg is on
paper ut tout a t.o. •veu lvis. ’
MRS. WHITE’S SNAKE SKIN
Relic of a Rattlesnake with Which She
Had an Exciting Adventure.
From the tfe :t> York Sun .
Hawley, Pa.. Oct. 29.—Mrs. John White,
living a few miles from this vil age, has a
mounted rattlesnake skiu, four feet and a half
loDg, with an imperfect set of rattles in ihe
tail, which she is proud to show to visitors,
wb,le relating how the snake, when alive,
chased her, ab h ugh involuntarily, for nearly
halt a mile, and kent up the cliase even alter
it wa* "cad. Mrs. Wniie was standing by the
roadside o*e warm day. v> iicn she heard a
rattlesnake sound its “iie’ls” immediately be
hind her. and at ihe same time felt a tug at
tbe skirt of her dress. Bhe looked around
quickly, and saw that a big rattlesnake bad
struck at her, and that its fanes were fast in
the bottom of her dress. Mrs. White slanted
on a run tor iioms. Tne snak-’s fangs w re
so securely fastened in the dress that the
snake was carried along. Mrs. White ran so
fast that the rattlesnake was whipped and
snapped about like the rail of a kite.
The house wasalmost half a mile away, and
when Mrs. White reached her door she was so
much overcome bv tbe run and her Tight that
she faimed on tile doorstep. Her daughter
ran out. When she -aw ihe snake, with its
fangs fast in her mother’s dress, and her
mother lying pale on the step, she supposed
the snake ha i bitten her mo:her and k lied
her. and the girl ran screaming to a ne gh
nor's, ha fa mile further on. where she
alarmed the household with tne news that her
mother had been killed by a rattlesnake. A
man ran back to White's. Mrs. White had
revived -ufficleniiy to drag ba.-self into the
house. The snake was dead, and was s ill
fast in the dress. The threshing on the s'ones
and ng unst the ground bad beaten ibo life out
ol ;t B'i broken off thR lower part of its rat
tle. Seven were left, from the size and g*a
d diooof which it was calculated that the
perfect set contained at least thirteen. The
i-rake wasskinoed aud mounted, and ha* ever
since been an object of great curiosity in the
community. The shock to Mrs. White pros
trated her for several days.
“Things In the Bottom Drawer.”
[A mother supposed to be looking over the
rein * of her lost children.]
There are whips and trpsaud piecesof strings;
There are shoes tha b > little feet wear;
There are piecesof smugs end broken rings,
And tresses of golden hair:
There are little dresses folded away
Out of the light of the sunny day.
There are dainty jackets that never are worn:
Tnere are toys an l modeU of ships;
Tncre are books aud pictures, all faded and
torn, #
And marked with the fingertips
Of dimpled hand* that have faden to dust—
Yet I strive to think that the Lord is just.
But a feeling of bitterness fills my soul
Sometimes, when I irv to pray.
That ih Reaper has spared so many flowers.
And taken mine away;
And I sometimes doubt if the Lord can know
That a mother's heart could love them so.
Then I think of the many weary ones
T a' are waiting ana watching to-night
For the rlow return ot the faltoiing feet
That have strayed from the paths of right;
Woo have darkened their lives by shame and
sin;
Whom tbe Bnares of the tempter have gath
ered m.
They wander far in distant clime*;
They perish by fire and flood;
And tbeir bands are black with the direst
cri ines
That have kindled the wrath of God—
Tei a mother's song has soothed them to rest;
She baa hushed them to slumber upon her
breast.
And then I think of my children three—
My babies that never grow old—
Aud I know they are waiting and watching
for me
In the city with the streets of gold,
Safe—safe from the cares nt the, weary years.
From sin and sorrow and war;
And I thank my God,llhrough my failing tear*,
lor the things in the bottom drawer
—Mines Levick.
Odorous.
From the Detroit Free Freee.
The Rev. Jonas D , a well known Metho
dist minister still living in the Sta eof Massa
chusetts, lias a'l bis lire bad what bis triends
regard as fanatical ideas regarding the ob
servance oi the Sabbath. Hr is very careful
that no work of a dome-tic nature is done on
that dav m his borne. No meals are c .oke ,
no sweeping or dusting Is done, and the day
is one of solemnity and p.ous meditation
combined with church and Sunday school
going.
On one occasion the Rev. Mr. D. spent Sun
day with his son’s family. His daughter-in
law, a very pious women, concluded, in honor
of the guest, to forego her usual coid dinner
on .'unuay. and just before starting to church,
she slipped a fine fat turkey into ihe oven to
roast under a siow fire while she was gone.
On returning an odor of burning meat tilled
the houac. and smoke was seen coming from
the oven.
‘•Why, daughter, what Is that-” asked the
Ret. Jonas O , as his nostrils snuffed the
unpleasant odor
r fne dauabier-ln-law, conscience-stricken
and abashed, said meekly:
*‘a broken Sabbath, father; a broken Sab
bath.”
••Humph! ’was the old gentleman’s imme
diaie reply, ‘ don’t break another one, please,
if it's going to smell like tnat.”
Horace Greeley’# Imagination,
From the Imilanapoli* Journal.
‘‘Stories about Horace Greelev are always
interesting,” remarked Charles M. Walker in
conversation. ‘ The other day I met one ot
the proprietors of the Kuighletovrn Banner,
who gave me two that have never been in
print Ho Worked in the New Vork Tribune
office ten years during Mr. Greeley’s time,
atid had many anecdotes of that great editor.
It was Mr. Gieeley's custom on Sunday after
noon to attend Or. Chapin’s chtircli, after
winch he would s iuuter dowu to the Tribune
office aud look through the exchanges. One
remarkably cold Sunday he came down to the
office alter church. The janitor had neg
lected to buil t any Arcs. .'lr. Greeley went
into the editorial room. and. his feet feeling
coid, he took off his siloes and hung bin feet
in llie register. Presently the foreman cauie
down ou some en and ot business. It was
fre< zing cold, and there was a cold draft
rushing through the register where Mr. Gree
lev sat immersed in exchanges, wholly ob
livious of ad sublunary discomiorts.
*• -Why. Mr. Greeley!’ exoUitned the fore
man, ’vvnat in the world are you doing?
’[here’s no dre there, aud you'll take your
death of cold.’
•• ’D—n it!’ said the philosopher, pettishly,
‘whv did you tell me? I was wanning myself
very nicely”
Uncle Harvey’s Slippers.
From the t'hicagn Herald,
While the Herald Is talking about the ex
press business it may as well tell a joke on
t'lc le tlurvey Colvin, that amiable gentle
man who draws a nice salary for walking
into the United Slates Fx press Company's
office ouch a day, planting his lug cane ou the
II .r :.ud watching the ooys w. r< for ten or
lllteen minutes. When Uncle Harvey was
Mayor he tu some way did an act oi kindness
for "a good woman, who uever forgot him and
w lie, alter removing from Ghtcago, used fre
quently to send turn little articles to show
tnat her gratitude still survived. Just before
Cliri-tuias, a few years ago, Air. Colvin re
ceived a letter from Hie lady in wmch she
asked rhe size of his shoes, as she wished to
make him a nice pair of slippers. Uncle Har
vey, with nu eve to saving, rep ied l giving
the n . her of his shoe, which is ten, and
adding.
“You had better send them by express,
Mark them *l>. H.' ”
In a week or so along came the .slippers,
with 50c. charges to be paid ua ler the ru es.
Kadi of the slippers was neatly marked with
orange aud b ue silk need evvoi K “U. II."
Salmon Won dn t Tell.
From the Cleveland i,e,id r,
Salmon I’. l. base wout to f> irtmouth Col
le r o. and I Hunk radua'ed there, lie was a
live y unv. and while in school was noted for
his ■HUMS Pi -l of tug sell.col life was
spent lb Gmcinnall, and during this time
there ws-a lire made In one of the rooms.
Toe mye v ere all called up aud cateehued as
to us origin. A:t except Chase denied all
knowledge of Ihe affair, vv hen tue question
was in to him us lo w hether he knew who
had i willed the tire he replied:
“i do.”
'• W III) w-s It?”
”1 will uov tell."
The l’rotessor grew angry. The President
was called in aud Chase vv s again asked, lie
again refused, saying: “Mr. t’reaident. I did
not intend to insult Prof. Blank, but I am not
going to ito I know who made Hie dre, but I
will leave the acuool before 1 will become a
led tale,"
a a he said tliia hit large lutnlleclual eve
looked aipiarelv into that of tbe President,
nau tbe isuey hilly approriated that oe meant
It. lie said that ho Would acute Cba-c
th e nine, sad dismissed Uttn with a slight
reprimand. I
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The Canadian Indians at Whitcfish Lake
and J.ac la Biclie are dying in large numbers
from nu epidemic of measles. So virulent is
the disease til ’ the agents have not dared to
pay the anm at treaty money.
Henry Raynor, aslave dealer, whosecamp
was nearDoub'e Lake,Mo.,with twelve of his
men. made a raid on a rattlesnake den aud
killed thirty-eight, ranging from eighteen
inches to six and a naif feet in length.
A pet dog belonging to a woman who died
reci n !y near North Sidney, N. S., was so at
tached to her that after her death he refused
food of every kind. and. following her re
mains to the grave, stayed there and starved
to death.
Wild geese are being slaughtered by the
thousan i at Beaver lake, in Northwestern
Canada. Two men recently killed 1.000 and
dried tbemest for winter use, and it is not
unusual for the local gunners to bag fifty and
100 in a day’s shooting.
A few London papers which do not know
the Bohemian equivalent for “Mr.” insist
upon putting “ Herr ” before Dvorak’sname.
i his ir- a source .f great, annoyance to the
composer, who insists that the prefix “ Mr.”
or Us Bohemian equivalent “ Pau ” shall be
used.
It is now said, apparently on good authori
ty, that the rare and costly co’loctiou of paint
ings belonging to the estate of tbe late Mrs.
A. T. Stewart will be divided among the
heirs and removed in lots from the Fifth ave
nue mansion. It was originally reported
that the collection would not he broken up.
Benjamin Moore, who died Pi Berlin re
cently, left by will a reward of $1 for every
policeman reoorting a case of crueltv to ani
mals. “As men have no hearts,” he wrote in
h s will, ••! leave my money to the brutes.”
And be did, enriching the Berlin -ociety for
the Protection of Animals by nearly $lOO,OOO.
The soap manufacturers do not look with
favor ou the introduction of natural gas as a
fuel in Pittsburg instead of soft coal. The
people are now so much cleaner that they use
only one-half the amount of soap tnat they
formerly used. Furniture men and upholster
ers aiso say that they sell less goods in that
city than formerly.
During a severe thunder storm at Wells
ville. Mo., last August, a vivid Hash of light
ning photographed on ti e smooth while ceil
ing of the Methodist church the lace of an old
man with long flowing huir and beard. It is
described as a weird aud shadowy portrait,
and the superstitions av that it is the photo
graph of the Storm Kini.
The largest wooden structure! in the world
is said to be the government btiiidings in the
capiial of New Zealand. The block is four
stories high and occupies an area of nearly
two a'-res. The city itself is mostly wooden
on account of the eart quakes of the region,
and is called ilie “City ot Packing Gases” and
the “city of Aiatch Boxes.”
In Charlestown, Alase., there Is a family tho
paternal head of which is connected with the
city works, two sons arc policemen, one son
occupies a position in a reformatory belonging
to the city, one is a letter carrier, two daugh
ters are clerks in the employ of the city, and
onedaugh er. ihe youngc-t, hopes soon to ob
tain a position as teacher in a public school.
Anew use for the tobacco plant has been
discovered. Its stems and waste,it isclaimed.
are equal to linen rags in the manufacture of
paper, li bacco was e costs le-s than $lO a
ton, linen rags $7O to s<o. There is no ex
pense in assorting the former, and very little
shrinkage, as against a loss of one third of
rags. The year y tobacco waste is estimated
by thecen us reports at lrom 3,000,000 to
4,000,000 pounds.
The Oxford system of allowing students to
attend lec ures as they choose results in some
pathetic experiences. One professor of moral
philosophy siys: “Lectures were announced
and Hie professor attended.” Another pro
fessor confesses; “Lectures offered, fifty,
four, but some not delivered owing to ab
sence of audience.” white one professor de
clares that he atmouftced three course- of
lectures, but no studeuis sent in their names.
Gen. Sheridan hasn’t niueh faith In the In
dian, and has a poor opinion of people wno
have. He sugge-ted to Secretary Endicott,
when the question of finding a place for
Geronimo and his band was under considera
tion. that they be >ent to Fort Warren, at
80-'on. He recommended the Hub because
he thought most of the Indian sentimentalists
lived here, and he wanted them to have a it
tlw practical experience with the Indian
character.
The Congregatlonaliet, of London, tells the
following incident as illustrating the feeling
among the common people in Wa'es in re
gard to tithes: ‘*A few days ago we had acon
versatiin on a railway platform with a Webh
farmer, which was ex'tremelv suggestive. ‘I
know a farmer’s wife over ihe hill there,' -aid
my friei’d. ‘and ihe parson came to c .lleet
tithe. She said to him : Parson, I haveelevsu
children; willyout ke oneof ihem? Ton take
the lentil pig: w ill yon have Hie tenth child?'
Tbe argument seemed lo the farmer quite
convincing, ard the st"rv seemed to be keen
ly appreciated by the bystanders.”
The prescribed statutory Ballistic tests of
the naval li-inch and 8-incb steel breech load
ing rifles intended for the new cruis. rs took
place before the board Friday at the Naval
Academy proving ground at Annapolis. The
8-mch gun t-stod was the piece recently
erroneously reported as having burst. The
velocities recorded with eacli were ah ut
2,000 feet per second, with less than fifteen
tons pressure. The rapidity of fire obtained
during ten rounds wassomewhat remarkable,
being for the 8-mch gun tif eon minutes and
for the 6-inch gun eleven minutes. A number
of officers ana civilians were present at the
tests.
He was the son of a worthy Chicagoan and
he had just returned from college. The father
was a brusque, matter-of-fact roan, wno had
no liking for anything dudish, and he noticed
with sorrow that his son returned with bangs
and various other insignia of uudednm. The
old gentleman surveyed him critically w hen
he ap. eared in his office and then blurted out:
“Young man, you look like a fool.” Just at
that moment, and before ihe young man had
time 10 make a fitting reply, a friend walked
in. “Why, helii, Geui-ge. have voo re
lurn d?” he atied. ‘Dear me. how mu-h
you resemble your fattier.” “So he has just
beeu telling me,” replied tbe youth.
Dr. Morin, a French physician, in his new
work on the hygienics of beauty makes a dead
act against earrings. In numbers of cases he
has known erysipelas to proceed from their
u e. The idea tb it they are good for weak
eyes he quite disposes of. it is possible, h e
says, that in eases of inflamed eyes they might
act as a counter irritant, but it they did thev
would keep the lobe of the ear, which, not
being rich in blood vessels,has little recupera
tive vitality, in a vtateof permanent u c ia.
lion. There is no surer test of a good or bad
constitution than the state of an ear which
has been pierced and exposed to the irritation
of heavy earrings. Ir the lobes keep red aud
swollen they pluclaun bad blood aud scrofu
lous tendencies
Italy lias twenty-one universities--one
more than Germany. They are divided into
two classes, those which receive State sup
port and tlio-e which do not. Tbe first class
includes Turin, Genoa, Pavtu, Padua, Pi-a,
liologna, Rome, Naples, Palermo and Ales
siua. Naples has .ha largest number of
students - 3,fion—while the smallest number
—thirty-nine—is found at Ferrara, which
was once for Italy want Weimar was to Ger
many— tho seal, of tue grealest Bunds if the
age—and which, therefore, desperately
e mgs to the privilege of be ug a university
town. Turin has 2,100, Rome 1.200, 80-ogua
l.ooi) students. Al ibi! others excepting t'avi
have fewer thau lpOo Futile efforts have
been repeatedly made to reduce this uselessly
large number of high schools Theology is
not taug it at any Italian university, but lec
tures on church hist ’y are lucluued somc
t.mus in tbe philosophic courses,
ST PAri-'s Cathedral in London has a
relic ot the ancicut i.. mastic library; it is a
vellum folio of Latin, with its old chain at
tached. Tho library of Wells Cathedral was
chained in former days, ands une of Its vol
umes si II retain the rmgsto which ihe chains
we e linked. In 1481 &ir Thomas Lvttletou
bequeathed to tue convent oi Ifales-Uwena
book “which I wu I be laid anil bounded with
an yron cliayne lu some convcuent pane
within tin said elinreh, at mv costs, so in.it
all prees.s an l o hers mav *■> and redo it
wlienne It pleiun-tli them.” FoX's “Book of
Martyrs” Wasol in rn,lined lu ho churcho-.
Many of the rare pnosof ihe Oxford Bod
leian lorarv used to be cha cod. and when
■lnines t, visit* and i: lie declared Hut were tic
uota ktug h won and desire no other prison
than to lie chained wan so many good Hu
ll) rs. IVlien John del leu’s books were giv. u
to ttis B dl nan in lifiVt, o’.or xjk weres'aiui
lu providing them sun f t • r*. No. mild the
latter h .If of tne la t • cuierr did tbe li >d
ieiau library .aku off all u shackles.
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