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FRIIUY, APRIL 1887.
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INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS
Special Notice— Savannah Board of Trade.
Steamship Schedules -Baltimore Steamship
Lino; Ocean Steamship Cos.
Cheap Column Advertisements— Help Want
ed; For Rent; For Sale; Miscellaneous.
Auction Sales— Administrator’s Sale, by J,
McLaughlin & Son; Sundries, by I. D. Laltocbe’s
Sons.
Fashion able Goons—Barnard Brady.
Building railroads on paper lias one ad
vantage over the old plan—it is not ex
pensive.
It is alleged that ex-Senator Mahono ex
pects to'be nominated for Vice President on
the Republican ticket. Southern Democrats
would take great pleasure in voting aguinst
him.
There is some fear that Congress failed to
give the Civil Service Commissioners money
enough to pay their expenses. Perhaps the
(Mugwumps will assist them by taking tip a
Collection.
Tom Ochiltree says that if Roscoe Conk
ling would accept the Lalior nomination for
President he would sweep the country.
Perhaps he would, but it would be the poor
vet job of sweeping ever known.
It is a mistake to say that Georgia will
have no representatives at the Washington
drill. Information collected from State ex
changes indicates that there will be at least
•a battalion of Georgia Colonels present.
At Indianapolis the other day forty boys
between the ages of twelve and twenty years
were caught in a barroom playing poker
They were all of “highly respectable fami
lies.” It is not improbable that they were
led astray by “highly respectable gentle
men.”
There is at least one substantial building
In the United States. Four men have been
trying six weeks to make a hole through the
floor of the Senate wing of the capitol
at Washington, but they have not made
much progress. The floor is of concrete and
granite, six feet thick.
The Ohio Democrats want Senator Thur
man to accept the nomination for Governor
of that State. It is believed that he will do
so, if the convention makes the nomination
unanimous. The Senator’s Democracy is of
the genuine stripe, and Ohio could very
well afTord to be proud of him as her chief
magistrate.
Some days ago the story was circulated
that Mr. Dorsheimer, of the New York Star,
held a letter from the President in which
the latter stated that ho would not be a can
didate for renomination. Mr. Dorsheimer
says that there is no foundation for the
story. It doubtless rests upon the unstable
inundation of a Washington correspondent's
Imagination.
interesting incident occurred the other
at the fair now in progress at Chatta-
for the bcnciit of disabled ex-Con
soldiers. A little boy covered with
foot-sore nnd wear}’, entered the build
in which the fair is being held and
as a contribution a miniature set of
furniture made of twigs cut on the battle
field of Lookout Mountain. He mude the
furniture with a penknife.
Mr. James G. Blaine v who is in Chicago,
was invited to become the guest of Mr. and
Mrs. Wirt Dexter, who entertained James
Russell Lowell when he made his recent visit
to that centre of anarchy. Mr. Walker
slaine declined the invitation for his father,
saying that the latter would not be enter
tained by Mugwumps. Perhaps Mr. Walker
Blaine will also not ullow his father to re
ceive the votes of Mugwumps'.
A lady who for twenty-four years has
been a clerk in the Treasury Department at
Washington says that there has been a
great improvement as to cleanliness In the
public buildings in the sense of the word ns
it is used by housekeepers. The corridors
are kept neater than ever before, and even
the sidewalks are regularly swept. The fact
is not surprising. Tbe Democratic ] tarty
believes in cleanliness, not only in the jxiliti
cal sense, but in'all othere.
A Western Congressman predicts that t he
Interstate commerce law will lie repealed
Within sixty days after Congress assembles
He thinks the commission bus already prac
tically repealed it by suspending the short
and long haul clause. He says Umt his con
stituents, who were formerly anxious to
have the law enacted, are now crazy to have
it repealed. “If it isn’t repealed,” he con
tinues, “it will lie so modified tlrnt it will
lio useless us a means of correcting the evils
It was intended to remedy." This Western
Congressman talks rashly.
A genius who hails from New York has
•invented a “vaeeuuin car” with which he
says he can fly through the air at a high
rate of speed and drop explosives ii)Kin the
decks of war vessels or in fortiiied plaivs
Tbe Navy Dejjurtment considers the inven
tion of sufficient imjioi’tance to warrant in
quiry, and uu oflicer has been detailed to
communicate in |ierson with tbe inventor.
If tile ear turns out to lie what is claimed
for it, tho United Htales will not need much
of a navy. Tho thought is a jMtinful one,
for if the navy is alsilishod, what will Is
outlet of the naval oflicer*(
Tbe Washington Federate >ti of Isn't tor
seem* to be ootu|jo*M| of sensible men. At
one <if its recent meeting* a *jeuker named
Hpobo said that there must 1m *oiiM lung
wr<Aig wlwn from earnest men, who an
■either |jmj|sn* nor criminals, Is foronl the
ary: “Away with tie- government. Anarchy
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Secret Council Meetings.
Are the Aldermen of this city afraid to let
their constituents watch them transact pub
lic business? It would seem so from the way
they shut the public out from their meet
ings. On Wednesday night their secret ses
sion lasted until 10 o’clock in the evening,
but then the secret session at about every
meeting continues quite late.
It would he interesting to know why they
deem it necessary to transact public busi
ness in secret. Do they have the same sort
of contempt for the people which the late
Mr. Vanderbilt had, who is reported to ha wo
said on one occasion “the public bo d—d,”or
are they too bashful to speak their minds in
the presence of those whoso servants they
are?
We know of no w r rong doing in these
secret sessions. In fact, the public knows
nothing about what is done in them except
in so far as is indicated by votes taken in
open session. The public thinks it strange,
however, that all discussions of the city’s
affairs should bo conducted in secret, and
all matters of importance should bo deter
mined w ith closed doors.
If the Aldermen are timid they should
favor open meetings in order to rid them
selves of their infirmity by frequently
facing their constituents. They do not look
like timid men, however, and it is probable
that they could manage to express them
selves fairly well in an open meeting and
without visible signs of embarrassment.
Nobody knows now who proposes or op
poses many measures. The men of character
and brains are leveled to the plane of those
who play the part of ciphors, if there are
any of that sort. A policy with respect to
important matters is adopted without any
body’s being responsible for it. It is not
improbable that a very different course
would be pursued in some important cases
if the public had the privilege of being pres
ent at Council meetings. An official does
not always act and speak in the presence of
Die people as he does behind a locked door.
What are the questions w’hich the Coun
cil consider which the public hasn’t a
right to know about? There may be now
and then a matter that it would be better
to net upon in secret, but there are not half
a dozen such matters in a year. It certainly
was never intended that about the entire
business of the city should be transacted
behind closed doors, and, as it were, with a
hat over the keyhole. Secrecy breeds sus
picion whether there is any reason for it
or not.
The Aldermen do themselves injustice by
their policy of secrecy. They ran the risk
of having impure motives attributed to
them when there is no ground for such im
putation, and the public is quick to accept
a suggestion of wrong doing when it does
not know the reasons which led to a course
of action which meets with opposition.
Secret legislation, either in national, State
or municipal affairs, is not popular with the
people of this country. They want their
public servants to legislate openly, and to
state frankly their reasons for doing this or
that thing. They know very well that se
crecy eventually leads to abuses and corrupt
practices,and they are opposed to it. Officials
who desire only to promote the public good
may entertain the mistaken idea that they
can do their work better in secret, but a
careful consideration of the question can
hardly fail to convince them that their best
and wisest course is not to hide from the
public.
The Florida Senatorship.
The Senatorial contest in Florida is in
creasing in interest. The indications are
that a good many more ballots will have to
be taken before a choice is made. The
friends of ex-Gov. Bloxliam and Gov. Perry
show a disposition to stand by their respect
ive candidates as long as there is any pros
pect for success.
There appears to be some growling on the
part of the friends of ex-Gov. Bloxham
because Gov. Perry refuses to make the
judicial appointments at once. They think
that he is holding them back in order to
utilize them to assist him iu securing the
Senatorship. Of course there is nothing
positively known relative to the purpose
of the Governor in delaying the
appointments, but there is nothing in
the constitution nor tho laws which
requires him to make them immediately. It is
probable that he will use every legitimate
means to secure tho Senatorship, and his
delay with respect to the appointments may
have something to do with the Senatorial
contest. There is no ground for saying,
however, that he is trading upon these
appointments. His record indicates that he
Is above that sort of thing. He may delay
making the appointments until the Sena
torial contest is over, aud the delay may
bring him votes for Senator. Members of
the Legislature may vote for him with the
expectation of making their votes the basis
for demanding recognition when the judicial
officers arc selected, but it is pretty certain
that the Governor will consider fitness alone
in appoint ing Judges and District Attorneys.
There is not much doubt that if the choice
of u Senator were by popular vote ex-Gov.
Bloxham would lie successful. He certainly
has a strong hold on the people of Florida.
Gov. Perry is recognized as an honest and
able man, and it is apparent that his party
friends iu the Legislature fully recognize his
merits. Some of ex-Gov. Bloxham's sup
porters are rather unpopular, but that ought
not to be used against him. He cannot pre
vent those from supporting him whose sup
l>ori may do him liurm.
Senator Call is reported to have expressed
the opinion in Washington, a day or so ago.
that if ex-Senator Jones hod offered
himself for re-election when tho Leg
islature met he might have been
re-elected. The Senator is a man of
very good judgment, but in this instance he
is probably mistaken. Ex-Senator Jones
was {Mipular with tho people of Florida lio
foro bo ls*gnn playing the Detroit farce, but
t hey don’t want a man to represent them in
tho Henute who is likely to atiaudou
the grave duties of u Senator
to go in pursuit of every
woman who may happen to smile
upon him. Ex-Senator Jones took a high
stand in the Senate, and Florida would have
been glad to have kept him there if he hud
coStinued to care for her interests through
out his term. Hi* career, so far as Florida
is ooneernod, however, Is ended, But the
State is not lucking in men qualified to suc
ceed him in the Semite.
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TIIE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1887.
Tho West Virginia Senators hip.
The Legislature of West Virginia
met in extra session on Wednes
day, and it is expected that the Sena
torial contest will be at once renewed.
It will Ixi remembered that balloting was
carried on during the whole of the regular
session without making a choice, and that
after adjournment the Governor appointed
Mr. Lucas Senator. Ex-Senator Camden,
who was a candidate for re-election at the
regular session, has already made his ap
pearance at the capital of the State ready to
renew the contest.
A question has arisen whether a Senator
can be elected at this extra session. The
friends of Mr. Lucas say no, while those of
Mr. Camden say yes. The State constitu
tion says that no business can be transacted
at an extra session except that specially
mentioned in the Governor’s proclamation.
The Governor did not mention the Senato
rial matter. The friends of Mr. Lucas con
tend that the State constitution, being tho
supreme law of the State, must bo obeyed
strictly.
Tho Federal constitution, however, pro
vides that when a vacancy happens the Leg
islature at its next meeting shall till it.
This extra session is the next session, and it
is difficult to see how the Legislature can
avoid electing a Senator. Mr. Lucas’
friends would, of course, like him to have a
couple of years in the Senate as the ap
pointee of the Governor, but the chances
are that if he were to present himself at
Washington underthe present circumstances
he would not be admitted to the Senate.
Years ago this question which lias been
raised in West Virginia was raised in
Illinois. The State constitution provided
that no one should be elected United States
Senator who had occupied a judicial
position at any time during
twelve months lief ore tho date
fixed for tho Senatorial election. Lyinan
Trumbull, who was n judge at the time of
his election, was admitted to a seat in th i
Senate, notwithstanding the prohibition of
the Stato constitution. The Federal, not the
State, constitution fixes the qualifications of
Senators, and if the Legislature of West
Virginia doesn’t elect a Senator at its extra
session the chances are that she will have
only one representative in the Senate dering
the next two years.
The New York Boodlemen.
Tho report that tho briber of the New
York boodlemen proposes to tell all he
knows and become a witness for the State
has probably caused a good deal of uneasi
ness among Aldermen and legislators who
have shared the b<xxlle which he has dis
tributed, and if the report is confirmed
not a few New Yorkers might find it con
venient to jiay a visit to Canada.
Mr. Jake Sharp is the man who, it Is an
nounced, has expressed his willingness to
tell what he knows about bribing in tho
city and State of New York, and it is un
derstood that he knows a great
deal. He has dealt with Aldermen and
Assemblymen for several years, and has,
it is asserted, paid them a great deal of
money. He was unable to get what he
wanted without paying for it, and some
times what he had to pay amounted to black
mail. He feels no compunctions of con
science, therefore, in turning the men he
bought over to the authorities and appeal
ing against them as a witness. He thinks
that somebody has got to go to prison and
he doesn’t propose to go if he can
help it. To save himself he will
help send the men there who accepted his
bribes. It seems that the District Attorney
has Sharp's proposition under consideration.
If he accepts it there will, it is believed, be
some unhappy mon in New York against
whom the finger of suspicion has never yet
pointed. There ought to be no sympathy,
however, for men who violate the trust re
posed in them by the people.
Concerning the stabbing of ex-Marslml
Bazaine it is said that the would-be assassin
gained access to him by pretending to boa
newspaper correspondent. Nearly a year
ago Mme. Bazuino and her younger children
went to Mexico to recover possession of an
estate presented to her husband by the Em
peror Maximilian. She left her husband in
Mudrid with their oldest son, who is an
officer in the Spanish army. The ex-
Marshal lives in a small room with a man
servant Six months ugo, while out for a
walk, he fell and broke his leg, and since has
been confined to his room. He is helpless,
having to sjicnd his days seated in an arm
chair. When the would-be assassin tried to
enter the ex-Marshal's room he was at first
prevented by the man-servant, but urgent
appeals finally prevailed and he was ad
mitted with the result ali'eady told in our
dispatches.
One of the negro orators at the emancipa
tion celebration in Washington the other
day arraigned the President for not protest
ing against alleged outrages committed
upon negroes in the South. In closing
his oration ho said: “The Northern negro
who claims to lie a friend of his race and
accepts office from an administration that
refuses to interpose its protest against out
rage and murder forgets that his commis
sion is signed with the blood of murdered
men, and that every dollar he receives in
salary is the price of blood, and he will see
the time when, if he has courage enough, he
will, like Judas, go out and bang himself."
The orator’s venom was equaled ouly by
his ignorance. The negroes in the South do
not indorse such utterances.
The editor of the Washington Critic, Mr.
Hallett KUbourn, has proposed a reunion
which promises not only to lie popular but
to bring together as remarkable a lot of
men us can be found in this or uny other
country. Mr. Kilbourn's proposition is that
the California pioneers, the men of ’4l),
shall meet together during the month of
May and have a big shad bake on the
banks of the Pot* unite.
Gov. Church, of Dakota Territory, says:
“Wo cau raise enough wheat in Dakota to
supply the world, anil it is equal to the l*wt
Mediterranean wheat, which commands the
highest price In tli" European markets."
Tliis may he true, but, considering that the
snow lies; twenty-two feet deep in Dakota
during winter, the Governor'* statement
ought not to lure many luunigrantM.
The Berlin Geographical Society has re
eidvcd from Dr. Wagner a unique present
ill tin* sli.'ij*' of a complete net of all the
l**iks, | iinipblet*. essays, etc., published by
Alexander von llumlsildt. It would take
about thirty years, It ha* Imen observed, to
make such a uolleethitl again, even if it were
at nil puMsitile.
Carry lug pistiils to selionl Haems to lie a
cmi.ituu piMcliiw uiuotig tluu small boy* of
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Color Line in Politics.
Prom the New York World (Dem,)
Intelligent and stiusiOle negroes know that the
worst thing that can happen to their race is to
liave the color line maintained in politics at the
South. And they have become tired of acting
as unrewarded hewers of wood and drawers of
water for Republican nest leathering politicians.
Effect of the Breezes.
Prom the Nashville Union, (Dem.)
Canada has taken a hand in protesting against
tho coercion policy, and an anti-eviction fund
has been started in Toronto on the heels of a
rousing meeting. Canada hasn't had any coer
cive experience, but the breezes that blow over
her from the United States have carried a good
deal of fairplay and justice into the Kanuck at
mosphere, aud these germs are bearing very
fair fruit.
The Handsomest Member.
From the Hamilton Journal (Dem.)
The Savannah News has donned anew dress.
Its old clothes were not noticeably worn, but the
News has always been the handsomest member
of our Georgia press and her vanity is to be
excused if she appears often in anew dress.
Her worth and true merit are matched only by
her modesty and good taste, and these virtues
make a model newspaper that all Georgia and
the South regard with great pride.
Good Advice to Workingmen.
Prom the New York Herald (Ind.)
You waut to check monopoly and reclaim
this stolen land? It can be done and you can
help to do it. When Mr. Cleveland went to the
White House, at your bidding, ho was pledged
to rip open these plots for aggrandizement. He
lias been opposed by Interested parties, by pew
erful cattle syndicates, by railroad corporations
with millions at command and shrewd lobbyists
in the capital to "Influence” legislation. But he
is a good fighter. Your party, the party of the
Democracy, must stand by him. During the
last two years an area of territory more than
twice the extent of Ireland has heeu reclaimed,
and the land grabbers have been told, “You
can’t have it. Empty your pockets of stoleu
property.” _ _
BRIGHT BITS.
In the spring the young man takes to wearing
fancy colored socks,
kieh he purchases as soon as ho his winter
ulster "hocks.”— Boston Courier.
Henry Bergh, the animal's friend, has print
ed. rules on “How to approach a kicking horse.”
It appears that the safest way is to hire a man
to uo the approaching for you NonMown
Herald.
“I’m out of butter," said the lady of the
house.
“So am I," remarked the fly ns he flapped his
wings on the edge of the butter plate.— Yonkers
Statesman.
Augustus, dear,” Said the gentle girl, tenderly
pushing him from her, as the moonlight flooded
the bay window whore they were standing. “I
think you had better try some other hair dye;
your moustache tastes like turpentine.— Waif.
A Lockport correspondent tells this: A man
stepped into the First National Bank at Lock
port one day reeently with a check for S2,(XX).
The Teller asked him if he wanted currency.
“No, confound it,” he replied, “I iyant the
money ."—Niagara, Falls Courier.
Invalid (fretfully to his nurse)— What is that
infernal row in the other ro< un? Is anybody get
ting killed? Who is that calling for the police?]
Nurse (reassuringlyi—Oh! don’t mind that sir.
It’s Mrs. Dr. Pellets, Miss Dr. Calomel and Mine.
Dr. Juniper holding a consultation, sir.—Yew
York Hail.
“No. sir,” be said emphatically, “I have trav
eled for forty years on the load, and I never
went through an accident.”
“How do you account for it?"
“Well, sometimes I think it's Providence and
sometimes I think it’s liecause I never happened
to get on a train that was wrecked. "-Tid-Bits.
Bank President—Sony, but I cau't accom
modate you; your paper is not good
Indignant Customer I remember when you
were a poor inan. twenty years ago, I lent you
SI,OOO without security.
Bank President fpleasantly)—l remember the
circumstance, and I also remember how I won
dered at your greenness. You probably have
more sease now, and so have I. Good morning
—Philadelpli irk &jl. b
“There are three things," said Broughne to
his wife, “that a woman cau't be persuaded to
do without."
“She can’t, eh!" said Mrs. 8.. in an incred
ulous tone. “I guess she can do without them
as well as man can, if not better. What are
they?”
“Food, clothes and life,” quietly replied
Broughne, and lifi* wife retorted:
“You think you're smart, don't you P—Drake's
Magazine.
Omaha Dame— What! you have elected a Chi
naman president of the Church Club?
Hartford Slap -Yes, madam, and a very line
presiding officer he is,
“But doesn't ho worship idols?”
“Only one. and tiiat is made of gold.”
“Horrors.”
“It is a disk in shape."
“Merry on us!"
“Has an eagle engraved on one side.”
“Heaven preserve us!”
“And passes current everywhere at its face
value, $lO.
"Oh! that’s different.”— Omaha World.
PERSONAL.
The Emperor of Japan has been making a
tour of the chief cities of his kingdom.
The Pope's juhfleo promises already to ex
ceed in magnifleouev that of the Empress Vic
toria.
Prixce Ecokxe, of-Sweden, is in Paris study
ing art with Hi meat, who regards him as one of
the most promising of his students.
John L. Suluvan says that he broke his arm
while sparring for fun, and lie proposes here
after to he a champion for revenue only.
The young King ot Atinm, who was recently
placed on the throne by Gen. Courcy, is called
uy the anti-foreign party the “Valet of the
French."
Mrs. Howe, the Woman’s Bank “financier,”
left in Boston sixty fine oil paintings and some
rare and costly bric-a-brac. She was cultured
as well as crooked.
C. P. Hake, of Detroit. Mich., is the possessor
of a document that he believes to be the original
copy of Gen. R. E. Dec's farewell order to the
Army of Northern Virginia.
Moody, the evangelist, received from an Eng
lishmau now in tliis country a letter urging him
to make an evangelistic tour through India, and
inclosing a check for $25,000.
One of the oldest men in government service
Is Capt. J. M. Easton, of Charleston. 111., who
has lately been made Indian agent at Devil's
Lake, Dak. lie is HO years old, and was a friend
of Abrahntn Lincoln.
Ohio has been the mother of artists. Among
her sons who have won fame with the brush or
knife are Thomas Cole, Hiram IViwers. James 11.
Heard, W. 11. Powell, Worthington Whitt ridge’
J. Q. A. Ward, A. S. Wynant, W. L. Sontag,
John J. Eiuekin, the late B. F. Reinhart aud the
late J. 8. Wales.
Malviui Bev, the new Turkish Minister to the
United States. :s a very accomplished man lie
speaks six languages, including the best English
and the Kronen of Paris, where he was educated,
lie likes the English so much that, like other
Turkish gentlemen, he uses it often in his
private correspondence as well as in his conver
sation.
The President and Mrs. Cleveland have gone
into summer quarters at Oak View, sometimes
called Red Top. Chef Perin has returned to
Sew York, leaving the Presidential cuisine in
charge of an ordinary oook. The President has
made absolutely no plans for the summer as
yet. It is not improbable that he will take a
trip to the Northwest late in summer, but for
the present he will pans his time between Wash
ington and Oak View.
Ross Hahxkn is amiine well renictnliei-ed in
bane hall circles. Bnrne* is one of the few pro
fesxiounl bull players who kuew how to save
money. He is now a nieiid**r of the Chicago
Hoard of Trade and lie is making money. II Is
|s>pular among hi* business asHoulates and Is s
member of the Board of Trade lans'' lull nine.
Ho is still fond of the gallic in which, twelve
years ago. hr had won a place as the best a!U
round player in the country.
Gkoimk tV. Ctm.il* lias two maxims which
stand him in goisl stead They art- "Bo the
Is st lUMI leave the re- I .' and “What can't lie
cured must I*' endured “ These hits of philoso
pity and the habit of taking long walks ki-cp Mr.
i'ldlds 111 n state of unruffled temper, JJe is a
gi-eul pedixrtrtsii lie will not go anywhere u, a
vehicle If lie can travel on fisit lie sulks from
Ids town It* sis" to his office and hack every day.
As ismiii as he hail recovered from Ills recent fali
he InriHtcd on rfwuiiitng Ills walks
Gi.tr M (iMtr.MK. author of M<Kec Rankin's
new I'lay a* hist year at tins lime a Havling
actoi and Vsi a week lie Is now rasping large
Dtiine fr"iu five *uos'isfiii plays.
H* l a good looking yising nuu
iiMkii in hi* i hut ) Cmii th v sal. of medium height
fM I* as luloiHSling i .noeisMtl'insllsl He was
‘-V wln ii * i dip*
MRS JAMES BROWN POTTER.
Interesting 1 Story of How She Achieved
Prominence.
From Washington tetter to the Chicago News.
The dramatic endeavor of Mrs. James Brown
Potter in Europe interests a great many society
people here, where she first gained a reputation,
or rather a notoriety. I met at the dub the other
day a gentleman of prominence who made a
confession tvs to his connection with the Potter
boom.
“I had no idea it would turn out as it has,” he
said, ”t>r I might have thought twice before go
ing into it. However, no harm has been done
so far. Mrs. Potter has got what she was after,
a chance on the public stage, and may turn
out well. I’m sure I hope so. Well, the
facts of the case are these: Mrs. Potter
came over to Washington as the guest of
Mrs. Whitney to appear in private theatri
cals for the benefit of a charity. She came
with the expectation and intention of creating
a sensation, of getting an advertisement which
would make her available as theatrical material.
In other words, she had the stage fever, and
knew that if she could get notoriety enough she
might appear in a play as a professional without
going through the hard school in w'hich legiti
mate actors liave to study. The Russian Honey
moon’ was the play in which she appeared at
the National Theatre, and although the house
was crowded with a fashionable audience, and
Mrs. Potter appeared at her best, she did not
make any sort of a sensation. The honors were
carried off by Miss Riddle, the daughter of
Judge Riddle, an ex-member of Congress from
Ohio, and a young fellow by the name of Hub
bard, who has appeared in comic operas.
TBS CONCERT REPEATED.
“Mrs. Potter was disappointed and disgusted.
Through her manipulation the play was re
peated at Baltimore, but she made no sensation
there. Then she got up a charity entertain
ment at Mrs. Whitney’s, at which the tickets
were $lO and sold only to invited guests. It was
announced that the creme de la oreme of Wash
ington would be there and that the list of those
who attended would be printed in the newspa
pers, so that every seat was sold. It isn't often
one has the chance to get in the catalogue of
the aristocracy for $lO. Well, the British Min
ister’s daughter played a solo on the zither, a
member of the Cferman Legation banged awhile
on the piano, two or three pretty girls sang love
songs, anti Mrs. James Brown Potter recited a
poem. Mrs. Whitney served champagne and
ices during the performance, and everybody
had a good time, but Mrs. Potter failed again
to create the sensation she expected.
“The performance was on Wednesday night.
On Saturday an army officer came to me and
asked if I could not assist in working the Sim
day papers in the interest of Mrs. Potter, whose
husband was an intimate friend of his, he said,
and would be greatly gratified at any notice his
wife received. I wasn't in the swim, and asked
him to tell me about the Whitney entertainment
—to give me some points to work on. He said
that Mrs. Potter read a pathetic poem of George
R. Sims, called ‘ 'Ostler Joe,’ in the same line as
Hood's 'One More Unfortunate.’ I had ques
tioned him some, aud soon discovered that it was
notoriety the lady was after, so I suggested that
I write a communication accusing her of shock
ing the audience by reading an indecent poem
He was frightened and remonstrated. It would
never do in the world, he said. I argued with
him awhile, and showed that such an attack
would bring every friend she had to her defense.
I convinced him that it would be the best sort of
an advertisement, but he would not consent to it
till he had consulted with Mrs. Potter.
WORKING THE P.VI'ERS.
“He jumped in a cab, rode upto Whitney’s,
and soon returned to say that Mrs. Potter was
not only willing to stand the racket, but thought
it was a splendid scheme. I then went to the
office of the Sunday Capital and asked the ed
itor if he had heard what a shock Mrs. Potter
had caused the aristocracy by reading a poem
that was off-color at the Whitney reception. Of
course he jumped at the bait aiid was flopping
around in a minute. He sent up and got a copy
of the poem, interviewed Mrs. Potter, who said
she had no intention to offend public sentiment,
and acted as if she was awfully sorry she hail
committed such a horrible blunder. In the
meantime I had seen the editors of the other
Sunday papers and the New York correspond
ents, and got them all crazy about the insult
Mrs. Potter had offered to Washington society.
Two of the correspondents, the Sun and IVorld.
I believe, telegraphed the entire poem to New
York.
“There is one old hen here who writes for the
newspapers who is always smelling around for
a scandal. All the women correspondents were
mad because they had not been asked to the
private theatricals and were thirsting for ven
geance. X had the old hen seen, and within a
tew hours there was not a woman correspond
ent but what knew that something disgraceful
had happened at Mrs. Whitney's, but they could
not And out exactly what. Everybody they
went to professed ignorance, but it was believed
to be a studied attempt to keep the scandal out
of the newspapers. Some professional gossips
winked knowingly and gave the story a shove,
so that before midnight there was the greatest
sort of a sensation, which Mrs. Potter gave a
color to by confessing naively that some people
might thiuk the poem off color, but she had in
tended no harm, and it was such a touching lit
tle thing she did not think people ought to be
offended. Her part was very well played, and
she enjoyed it, but I got scared at the excite
ment myself.
“There wasn't anything wrong about ‘ ’Ostler
Joe’ any more than there is with 'Hazel Kirke'
or nine-tenths of the plays on the stage, and the
people who heard it recited at Mrs. Whitney's
did not suspect any impropriety till the papers
began to talk about it, when, of course, they
chimed in like the three old crows. Mrs. Potter
was delighted. Within ten days every newspaper
hail her name in it. anil her recitation was dis
cussed at almost every dinner table in the land.
Nobody ever had a better advertisement and it
didn't cost a cent. It was the turning point of
her life.”
Pucker.
His highness young Pucker,
In bib and in tucker,
Lay screaming one night for the moon.
‘•I will have it,” he said,
“Brought and laid on my bed!
So hasten and take it down soon.”
“It is too far away,”
Said his nurse in dismay;
“And no one can reach it my dear.”
“Get a ladder," ho cries.
“That will reach to the skies"—
Then he gave her a box on the ear.
The queen-mother heard.
And she came at his word;
“Oh: why is my darling boy crying?”
"I want—boo! hoos—the moon.”
Tile queen fell in a swoon,
And they thought for a time she was dying.
The king hastened near,
And said to his dear:
“I'll send up a royal balloon;
Every m*n shall he bung.
Or bis neck jfli ill be wiimg,
Unless he brings Pucker the moon.
Tlie courtiers all ran
To the king as one map,
And each began quickly to pack;
They said their good-bys,
With tears in thru: oyitiv- .
But none of them evfep Ofutieback!
Doctors came and they went!
But none could invent
A cure to keep Pucker from crying;
Then a wise doctor came—
Dr. Spanker by n.im**—
Who growled when he heard Pucker sighing,
•ok/ I.
“What’s the matter?" he said,
The poor child is most dead.”
Said the queen mother wiping her eyes;
“He cries for the moon,
And we've sent a balloon.
But they can’t take it down from the skies.”
“Well, mum, if that’s all,
I should let the child bawl,
Although it is hard to endure,
I would give him a spank
Notwithstanding his rank
Which 1 think will effect a real euro "
Soon a shiujjle was found—
It was smoothed all around,
Until it was polished like gold,
It was carved very nice-
It was scented with spice—
With handle most fair to liehold.
Then poor crying Pucker
in bib and in tucker,
(Tho’ the maids were all dying with laughterl
Keeeived a good spank
Notwithstanding ills rank 1
And was always a model boy after.
—Oi.aua E. Brainy,
A Bran New Suit.
From lltr JnrkumviUe Hr raid
The Kavannaii Nrwti linn treated itself to a
brim new null of clear-faced minion tyjs nml Itk
ap|s'Anine k now In keeping wllb Its rm i lli-iii
servnv Tin* Nkwh Is ’altiiitd alf" loilt lor
(leorgla nml half for Florida. nml la an loyal mi l
true io him' us On* ol na The well-know n moil
oaty of Cos! bjatlll la still maintiillied In thin now
purehase. not saying a word about It, ami It
ilimlilleanis*l upward of fhl.iali Tin- Ngws
win* favor by genuine ui*|il nml not by i'oii
tinned hlajda Mown from ita own born aa lo Ha
tHui'baaM, feirtnanoa, Hi Tin* Nrw* anpre< iau-a
tiy Ita mmloaty whllr oihor h<aai*r light* ilepre
•'Win for lbe wain 4 11
ITEMS OP INTEREST.
There is an economical man in Norristown,
Pa., who drives five miles around to avoid atoll
gate and the payment of 5c., and speeds 50c. tor
a drink at the next hotel.
A farmer in Toms River, N. J., noticed a crow
flapping abound on the ground the other day,
ana upon investigation found that a common
laud turtle held the crow fast by one of its legs.
A sheep raiser in Runnels county, Tex., has
a beard five feet four inches long, and twenty
one inches wide in its broadest part. It is of a
rich chestnut color, and its owner is very proud
of it.
The latest addition to the French language
is “Bisvigum,” a compound of the words “Bis
cuit, viande, legume.” It is an edible concocted
on the system of the famous sausage of the
German army. It is for the French soldier.
A New Haven grocer, thinking someone was
making too free with his hams, attached a bell
to one of them, and when some time afterward
he heard the bell ring, he found a neighbor with
the ham in his hand. Thereupon he told the
man’s wife that her husband stole hams, and
now the pair have sued him for slander, laying
the damage at SIOO.
Inhabitants of Northern Idaho are complain
ing of the tricks in trade of the Chinese. It is
said that they mix gold dust worth $8 an ounce
with that worth $lO, and dispose of it at the
maximum figure. Beside this, they fail to burn
their flue dust sufficiently, thereby retaining
much quicksilver, and also file up silver dollars
and mix the filings with the gold.
The only piece of ground possessed by the
United States of America, elsewhere than in
America itself, is the little plot of land on which
the American Legation is built in the town of
Tangier. This was given to the American na
tion by the Sultan of Morocco. The legations
in all other countries stand on ground rented,
but not owned, by the American government.
Near Dolores, Argentine Republic, there was
recently a shower of stones. A few moments
after the plains were covered with the bodies of
geese, storks, and other birds and animals
killed by the stones. One inhabitant of the
place carried forty-eight head of geese home in
the space of half an hour. Great loss was sus
tained. Many animals were killed, and crops
and trees were destroyed.
Somebody wrote to the editor of a village
paper to ask how he would “break an ox.” The
editor replied as follows; “If only one ox, a
good way would be to hoist him, by means of a
long chain attached to his tail, to the top of a
pole 40 feet from the ground. Then hoist him
by a rope tied to his horns to another pole.
Then descend on his back a live-ton pile-driver,
and if that don’t break liim let him start a coun
try newspaper and trust people for subscription.
One of the two ways will do it sure.”
Cincinnati capitausts, looking for natural
gas, not long ago bought an option on a farm in
Findlay, 0., for $65,000 cash, with the privilege
of buying outright within six months for $150,.
000 more. Wells were put down and gas found,
but before the option expired the farmer died.
Then it was found that the farm was in his wife’s
name ami that neither the wife nor children
knew anything of the $65,000 that had been paid,
The speculators could not get the place even for
$150,000. It is supposed that the farmer buried
the money paid him.
Perhaps the most unique celebration of the
German Emperor 'William’s birthday was that
which took place 7,000 feet high on the southern
summit of the Bavarian Alps. Two moun
taineers—Stanzl and Walch by name —ascended
to this elevation, aud then kindled a bonfire, tho
materials for which they had laboriously
dragged with them. They had intended climb
ing to the very summit of the Watzmann, hut
deep snow prevented this, and the bonfire of
wood and petroleum was l'it on the Falzkopfl.
The ascent of the mountain often brought the
climbers up to the shoulders in snow, but they
were determined to perform the feat, and they
did it.
The Prince of Wales, in his capacity of Duke
of Cornwall, has had a considerably better year
than the Queen in her capacity of Duchess of
Lancaster. The Queen was able to draw during
1886 only .£50.000 for her private use from her
duchy revenues, whereas the heir-apparent has
had no less than £60,563 3s 3d placed to his
banker's credit in the shape of the net profits of
his valuable Cornish property. Things are look
ing up in the mining country. Arrears of rent,
which were considerably over £13,000 at the be
ginning of 1886, barely exceeded £IO.OOO at its
close, while the royalties due on mining proper
ty had been all paid up with the exception of
some £BOO or £7OO.
A marriage is in process of arrangement, says
London 2Yt Uh, between the Grand Duke Paul,
youngest brother of the Czar, aud the Princess
Alexandra, eldest daughter of George of Greece.
The eccentric proceedings of the proposed
bridegroom during his recent visit to Athens
nearly led to the breaking off of the match, and
the marriage will certainly not be one “of affec
tion.” The young Princess, who is in her 17th
year, might take warning from the fate of
Princess Elizabeth of Hesse, who married the
Grand Duke Serge, from w hom she would long
ago have been separated but for the interfer
ence of the Emperor and Empress. The two
younger brothers of the Czar are barbarians of
the pure Russian type of the last century.”
A few days aoo John Workman, a farmer of
Chatham, 111., drew $6,000 from the bank pre
paratory to Starting on a cattle-buying trip.
Just before he was to leave home a gentlemanly
appearing man, who said that he was buying
land, drove up and asked Workman to show him
over the farm. Workman got in the buggy
and the two men rode together. Soon an ele
gant two-horse rig came to the farm, bringing
another stylish-looking man, who claimed to be
an agent for the sale of agricultural implements.
The three men engaged in conversation for a
while, and suddenly the strangers seized Work
man, threw him to the ground and took from
his [lockets $6,000 iu money. They succeeded in
getting away before their victim’could give the
alarm.
In further explanation of his suggestion of a
monument to Sir Francis Drake, the very first
English-speaking “pioneer” who landed on the
coast of California, to be placed on the summit
of Strawberry bill, the highest peak in the
Golden Gate Park, Mr. Horace F. Cutter writes
to the San Francisco Argonaut: “My idea would
be to have erected an open temple of sav 75
feet iu height, of four or more pillars, with a
burnished dome surmounted liy a glistening
sphere, which would be visible far out to sea,
and emblematical of the globe around which he
had so successfully sailed his little bark; and In
the interior, on a pedestal, a bronze statue of
the circumnavigator, to he of heroic size and
clad in the picturesque costume of that period,
naval or military (rather than that of the cour
tier), us he went forth, after conquering at that
game of bowls, on that glorious afternoon, as
Vice Admiral of tlic fleet which was to vanquish
and drive away the arrogantly styled ‘invincible
Armada.’ ”
Commissioner Brago, of the Interstate Com
merce Commission, has made himself known to
Washingtonians by wearing a hat the like of
which is only possessed by three other promi
nent citizens in that city. At any distance the
owners of these hats can lie identified. They
are distinct badges of statesmen, soldiers and
lecturers. They are black, stiff-brimmed and
soft crowned telt. Gen. Sparks, of the land
Office, has made his fortune in politics by wear
ing one of these lints. Although never in the
army, he was appointed ( hairman on Military
Affairs in the House of which he was a member,
on account of the distinguished military look
which his hat gave him. The other wearers of
these hats are Gen. George Sheridan, the friend
of Ingersoll, who is now annihilating that cele
brated pagan on the lecture platform ns a mat
ter of business, and Gen McKlbbon, who has
an honorable military record and u rank of
Brigadier General obtained during the war.
Bragg's lint looks to lie anew one, and it is sus
pected that he lias adopted It under a hint from
Gen. Sparks of tts conspicuous merits.
Thb monument mania la raging in France, and
Cherbourg has caught it and will try to erect a
memorial of J. F. Millet, who waa born there.
This commendable project him brought out
many reminiscences of the injustice, neglect
ami wretchedness that were so largely the Ulus
irlous artist's lot In life. For example, It is told
that one ipiurter day, Ills rent being due anil his
fairs*', ns usunl. empty, Millet succeeded In coax
ug a picture dealer to visit Ins studio, lo see If
there was not, something there worth the siw
which lie owed his lundlord. Tbo dealer rumc,
turned over canvas after canvas stipe rcllliously,
hut ill but consented to give the sum ivqijired
In exchange for three iiii|irlunt works As im
laid the tbrtv 100 frane notes on the table. Mllh t
suddenly reniends-reil thu' Hie next day was Ins
wife's fete. "1 should like tin Invite a few
friend' , he said eagerly; "could you not take
something else, so Hint I may have enough in
pay for tlw dinner?" The dealer shrugged hla
shoulders, but Ihe poor |siinier wusao |. 1 • - ,u
tliat lie agised, lint wll limit ditTlriilty, to 1.0 I&l
sketch w tin h was mi Hie easel for ft "ImS
/inmi, sighed Millet. ‘ nuns sens s'um, .1*
metae jitii >h dessert “ "Yon wish a lies 1, '*
replied the dealei 'Well, as you've gia ml ja
a geoetoiis uesal. ITI give you 111 fraiu-s for
wns struck 3 J
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