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6 CkHIo ruing itftos I Warning News Building, Savannah, Ga. M Ninv, M w 8,188 T. Kegistered at the Post Office in Savannah. The MorsiNf; Nm in published every day in be yew. and is served to subecriliei-s in the city, j bv newsdealers and carriers, on their own ao eonnt, at 26 cents a week, fl 00 a month, fo 00 for six mouths and $lO 00 for one year. The Moaxisa News. !/ ntail. one month, fl 00: throe months. $3 60: sis months, $6 00; ■ one year. $lO 00. y Tlie Morning News. hy wait, six tunes n wtHk (without Sunday issue), three months, $2 00; six months. $l tit one year. $3 On. Tlie Morning Nkws. Tri Weekly. Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, tliree months, $1 26; six months. $2 60: one year, $6 00. Tlie Sunday News, by mail, one year. $2 00. _ Tlie Weekly News, by mail, one year. $1 is Subscriptions pavoMe in advance ltemit, by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur fetcv sent by mail at risk of senders. jitters and telegrams should be addressed '• Morning News. Savannah, Ga.” Advertising rates made known on application ST TO .\i;w' advhrtisdients. Meet: ng k— Cb i ppeva Tribe No 4,1. O. R. M.; Tyler Cotton Press Company. Special Notices- Engine for Sale; Public Schools; As to Bills against Br. Bark Pahona; Savannah Bouds Wanted; Dr. Henry S. folding, Dentist: Savannah Cadets; “Maggie (.'loud” for Baffle; Townsend the Printer. Auction Sale—Closing Sale of Pictures, by J. McLaughlin & Son. Medicinal— P. P. P. Largest Dry Goons House -A. R. Attmayer & Cos. Cheap Colton Advertisements— Help Want ed; Employment Wanted; For Kent; For Sale; Personal; Boarding; lost: Miscellaneous. Ice Cream Freezers, Etc.—John A. Doug lass & Cos. Grand Attractive Sales— At Platshek's. Hardwauk and Stoves- -Lovell & Lattimore. AmcskMexts —St. John's Parish Picnic; Mam moth Picnic under auspices of Branch 38, C. K. Of A. Exceptional Inducements in Hosiery—Cro han & Doouer. Pictures— L. & 15. S. M. 11. Popular Dry Goods' House— Gustave Eck ttein. The social season having closed, promi nent New York people are amusing them selves by getting divorces from each other. Senator Edmunds, who is visiting New York, says that at present lie has no ideas he cares to express to the public. He couldn’t have chosen a better way to gain the public’s gratitude. The Philadelphia Press alludes to the Morning News as “misguided." Consider ing the perturbed state of the Press on ac count of Democratic gains in Pennsylvania tlie mistake is excusable. jfyfr psy*- ;s that the object of MkfPip MiVßHltyMril lecture tour was to and liioki u, ■ with, 4 Lr surprlslßS ~ a fuilure. of Missis sippi, who is noWHjHHHi of Washington, says that a ci;, is a man without a ex- Congressman ought toto Missis sippi- The recent warlike demonstrations in At lanta will doubtless increase the respect which European powers have for the Gat? City Guard. France and Germany especially ought to entertain the liighest regard for the doughty warriors. A member of the General Assembly, who resides in the neighborhood of Gainesville, intends to try and get a “cat law” passed at the summer session. Ho wants every cat in the State taxed 10c. Perhaps some ancient maiden Ims been trifling with his affections. Some of Mr. Blaine’s friends claim that if he is nominated next year he will gain more votes from the Democrats than he will lose from the Republicans. The claim is with out foundation. Democrats have greater incentive than ever to vote for the candidate of their own party. A bill embodying some of the provisions of the United States interstate commerce law has been introduced in the Canadian Parliament. As the Canadians claim that our interstate commerce law has ruined their trade with tlds country, it is hardly probable that the bill will pass. Tlie Shah of Persia is anxious that the resources of his kingdom shall lie developed hv capital furnished by citizens of the United States. It is said that there are fine opportunities for the construction of rail roads in Persia. The “developers” who en riched themselves in the South just after the war would doubtless liko to go to the Shah’s assistance. The Washington Star quotes a leading Republican as saying that President Cleve land is popular with many of the best Re publican statesmen. He thinks that if Mr. Blaine is nominated next year President Cleveland will have the :e.ip]xirt of most of them. It is significant that this particular lending Republican believes that Mr. Blaine will he nominated. '. 'ten Adelina Patti was in Washington she, didn’t call upon Mrs. Cleveland, hut the two ladies exchanged photographs mul autographs. Patti also gave Private Secre tary Lament her photograph with the in scription; “To Mr. Lament, in kind re membrance. Adelina Patti-Nicolini." -"There is now no room to doubt that the ad ministration is solid with tlie greut singer. Robot Garrett, the Baltimore railroad magnate, wears a bright, pink hud in the buttonhole of his light gray, English-cut coat, encase? his hands in tan-color, and gloves and carries a big stick of English witch hazel. When ho takes a walk upon the streets peoplo who don’t know him think that he is an English nobleman in disguise. It doesn’t follow, however, that Garrett is an anglomaniac. Sam Small has created a sensation in Minneapolis by attacking Sarah Bernhardt. In one of his sermons ho told his hearers that they would endanger their salvation by going to see a woman w-hose only claim to notoriety was her bad reputation. Bern hardt hail but small success in Cincinnati and Chicago, and now the evangelist’s at tack upon her will proltably cause her to leave the West in disgust. Prince Frederick Leopold, the German Emperor’s kinsman, seems to dislike the Democratic freedom which prevails in this country. While on his way to Chicago ho refused to admit the rear hrakeman of the train into the car occupied by himself and his servants, thus forcing the brake twirler to ride on the rear platform from Quincy to Galesburg, 111., in a cold wind and mill. Tlie hrakeman was entitled to ride in the car and ought to have insisted upon his right Enforcing Sunday Laws. New York, Washington and several other cities are considerably agitated by the en forcement. of the law which prohibits the sale of intoxicating liquors on Sundays. In New York, particularly, there is a great deal of excitement Mayor Hewitt is en forcing the law by arresting all who violate it. Inst Sunday, and the Sunday before last, the number of saloon-keepers arrested was largo, and it is probable that the num ber to-day will exceed that of last Suuday. No attempt has lieen made yet to arrest hotel-keepers who supply their guests with liquors at their meals, but they have been notified that stiles of liquor in that way will no longer lie permitted. Tlie leading hotcl keepers have formed an association to test the law, and a contest in the courts mat- be expected. When the law was passed it was not gen erally thought, that it would l>e enforced. The politicians yielded to the sentiment in favor of it and depended upon the authori ties to wink at its violation. The saloon keepers offered very little opposition to the enactment of it because they were satisfied that it would not materially interfere with their business. They did not take into consideration the pos sibility of the election of such a man as Mr. Hewitt is for Mayor. Knowing their power in elections, they felt confident that no government of the city would oppose their wishes. For once they were mistaken. Mayor Hewitt is not opposed to the sale of beer on Sundays, but he does object to the sale of whisky and other strong drinks. He believes that the foreign population of the city, which lias been educated to beer drinking on Sunday, would be much better satisfied and much more peaceful if beer were sold on Sundays as on other days. He does not permit his views, however, to in terfere with the enforcement of the law. He doesn’t believe in nullifying a law l>y permitting it to become a de;td letter. The people of New York, therefore, if they want whisky and beer on Sundays must have the law repealed. .The course he is pursuing is the right one. If one law is evaded the respect for other laws is diminished. Laws are made for the benefit of society. No of ficial has the right to nullify any one of them by permitting it to be violated with impunity. The official who adopts such a policy is unworthy of the trust re posed in him. If a law is thought to be a bad one let it be enforced in order that pub lic sentiment may he crystalized against it. In that way its repeal may be brought about. The saloon-keepers of New York, as well as elsewhere, are responsible for laws against liquor selling on Sundays. If per mitted to carry on their businass under cer taiu restrictions they violate their privilege. They aro no sooner granted one point than they take two. They cease to respect the wishes and feelings of those who regard Sunday as a day for worship, and sell whisky freely to all who want it. The consequence is that the streets are obstructed by noisy, drunken men, who, by them brawls and fights and other disorderly conduct, make it impossible for those who respect the Sabbath to enjoy the day as they want to. If the sale of intoxicating liquora were so conducted on Sundays as not to force itself upon the attention of the public the demand for restraining laws would not be so imperative as it is. j Until those who soil whisky and lieer consent to recognize that onler-loving, church-going peoplo an entitled to freedom from exhibitions of drunkenness and from disturbances caused by whisky, they may expect the enactment mul enforcement of laws against the sale of intoxicating liquors on Sundays.) The South Broad Street Cemetery. Another grand jury has called attention to the neglected and unsightly condition of the oid cemetery on South Broad street, and has recommended that steps bo taken to utilize it for county purposes.) It is unnec essary to enumerate the grand juries which have pointed out the necessity for improving the ground occupied by that old graveyard. It is enough to say that the number is sufficient to justify the statement that public sentiment is strongly in favor of having the old walls and tombs removed, the remains of tlie dead transferred to other cemeteries and the place improved. It might be pertinent to inquire how long the public must vvuit for those to act in the matter who are authorized to do so. If authority is lodged anywhere to make the improvement why not exercise it? What is the use of waiting year after year when the thing can be done now ns well its ten or twenty yenr.-s hence? If there isn’t any authority let that fact be understood and then grand juries can direct their efforts to securing such legislation as will give somebody the authority. The impression is that the City Council can order the walls anil tombs removed for sanitary reasons. If it can’t, let it get authority to do so from the Legislature. Tltis constant agitation without action is getting to t>e monotonous, and even tire some. It shows an, indifference and a lack of public spirit that are entirely incon sistent with the progress the city is now making. \lt is said that there Is a suit in court which prevents anything from being done to improve tlie cemetery. Well, why isn’t the suit called up and disposed of. 11 has cer tainly been in court long enough to permit all parties to get ready to try it. A part of the cemetery Is claimed by Christ church. Let the claim bo tested at once, and if it is a valid one let the church have what belongs to it. It is doubtful if there is a desire anywhere to deprive the church of any of its property, Wiiat the public wants Is that tlie old cemetery shall not continue to be a neglected, tinusued and an unsightly graveyard. It wants the place utilized and made attractive. Let the city authorities see if they cannot comply with public sentiment with regard to it before another grand jury has a chance to report upon it. Tlie New York Tribune o? Friday con tained a singular outburst relative to Savan nah. Without an accompanying diagram its meaning is not clear, but for the benefit of those who liko to worry over puzzles it is hero reproduced: “The Savannah section of the New South boom would seem to have received t* decided set-back. The Savannah Ixtse ball club, which of course Is the con summate flower of the institutions of the city, has lost four consecutive games. Hadn’t Savannah better secede from (hat club before her reputation is futally im paired? The four games which the Savan nah club lost were all won by the Mobile club. It is understood (hat the price of unencumbered lots in Mobile has sensibly advanced. Savannah will re ceive the sympathy of the entire country, and if she would like to have a relief fund started for her benefit she has only to say BO." THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MAY 8, 1887-TWELVE PAGES. His Treacherous Memory. Tt is not often that a prospective bride groom forgets that he is to be married, hut such a case occurred in New Haven, Conn., a few tlays ago. Two hundred guests were gathered in the Second Advent church of that city to witness the marriage of Mr. Thomas Allen and Miss Ella Hill. Tlie par son was ready, hut they failed to appear at the api>ointed time. Finally a messenger was sent to the home of the prospective bride to inquire the reason of the delay. He soon returned and informed the parson and the guests that the marriage had been indefinitely postponed. The cause of the postponement was strange. Mr. Allen, it seems, not only for got that ho was to be married, but he claimed that he had never heist engaged to Miss Hill. Shortly before the hour he was expected to take Miss Hill to the church he left his lodgings and went to the home of his aunt. When found there by a reporter he said that he had known Miss Hill just two weeks. Ho had heard her and her mother talking of a marriage, and had also heard hitnself spoken of as the groom, but ho supposed the matter was a joke. He de- < dared Miss Hill’s age to be 28 and his own 24, and lit) expressed the belief that Miss Hill had already been married. He had never had the remotest idea of marrying, and appeared to be overwhelmed with sur prise when informed that the parson and the guests bail waited for him at the church. Miss Hill’s friends told a different story. They insisted that she and Mr. Allen had been engaged a long time, and that he had fixed the time for tlie marriage. They charged his failure to appear according to appointment to his loss of memory. Perhaps it was well that the marriage did not take place. Mu. Allen’s treacherous memory might have caused many serious misunderstandings. He might, for instance, have forgotten that he h;ul a wife, and might have unconsciously committed big amy. If children had blessed the union he might have forgotten that they were his, thus causing them to become a charge upon his wife’s relatives or the State. Indeed, there is no telling to what —is treacherous memory might not have led; and, instead of weep ing her pretty eyes out, as Miss Hill is re ported to have done, she should have con gratulated herself upon her fortunate escape from a fata too horrible to bo de scribed in detail. Street Paving Suggestions. The City Council having determined to pave Congress street in November, would it not be advisable to pave Bull and Barnard streets between Congress and State streets at the same time? The parts of the two streets mentioned ought to be paved, und that, too, as soon as The property owners interested would doubtless bear their share of the expense, and, as experience proves that it takes a good deal of time to get the Council to do, in the way of paving, what is wanted done, it would he well to begin the work of getting the consent of the adjacent property owners at once. Perhaps the property owners on Broughton street, between Abcrcorn and East Broad, are about ready to ask to have that part of that street paved. If so, let them starta petition at o:ice. Broughton street ought throughout its entire length, and all obsta cles in the way of paving it etui Ino'over come easily if the proper effort is made. Whatever paving is done is thdSidijtj' be done in a small way, because the city is not able to go into the paving business on an extensive scale. If a little paving "fs done each year, however, it will not be long before Savannah will have several miles of streets paved with asphalt. [ One of the greatest hindrances to the city’s growth is the sandy stri'ets. Is there not somo cheap method of improving the streets? At the present slow rate of putting down the asphalt pavement it will be years lieforo the principal streets in the residence portion of the city arc reclaimed from their present; deplorable condition. It is said that Vineland, N. J., has excellent dirt streets, although its site is very sandy. Indeed, its streets were about impassable before they were im proved. Clay nnd some other substance were mixed with the sand, and the result was good, hard roadways. The cost was not great. It was, in fact, very small in comparison with the benefits obtained. A little inquiry might result in securing in formation that would enable the Council to greatly improve our streets. Excellent clay can bo obtained in any quantity in different parts of the county. Why would not a low grade of rosin mixed with the sand make a cheap and good roadway? The Second Term Sensation. Nothing more is heard of the story that the President doesn’t want a second term. Senator Vest has been pumped dry by the reporters, and other would-be eminent states men who have attempted to contribute some thing to the second term sensational story, have nothing more to say. Nothing has appeared in print, however, that satisfies the country that the President is tired of his office, and lias made up his mind not to he a candidate for another term if his party wants him. llf the President has made up his mind not to continue in public lifo after his pres ent term expires ho has had a splendid oppor tunity to say so. He has held his peace, and it is fair to conclude, therefore, that the stories published a week or so ago of his de termination to be satisfied with one term had a very slender, if any, foundation. In all parts of the country there are ex pressions of satisfaction with his aihninistra tion. Even the Kentucky State Democratic Convention endorsed hint heartily, notwith standing the efforts of the Courier-Journal to make the Kentuckians lielievo tliat he isn’t much of a Democrat. The fact that he is an honest man, and has given the country an honest, clean and economical administra tion satisfies the jwople, nnd they want him to serve them a while longer. They haven’t had the sort of a President that he is for a long time, and they are afraid they won’t got another like him. The complainings of a few sorehead politicians don’t influence them in tlie least. They know when they have what they want, and they aro not going to give him up unless they have to. Henry Clews is now called the author of Wall street The title was given to him on account of the letters he wrote regarding the refusal of the New York Cotton Exchange to elect him a member. Clews is also the author of a number of letters concerning certain fraudulent Georgia bonds. So far his authorship lias not I teen profitable to him in either case. The Springfield Ilepnhliean says that the night watch to prevent President Cleveland from walking off with Massachusetts is to be doubled. There aro signs that the pre caution will not effect the desired result. CURRENT COMMENT. Their Co-operative Movement. From the Washington Star (Vent.) There seems to lie a co-operative movement in the Cleveland family. The President U making history while his sister is teaching it. The Kentucky Platform. From the Washington Post Devi.) It would Ik: unprofitable to try to estimate what is likely to lie the majority of Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner for Governor of Kentucky. It is sure to lie enormous, for the platform de nounces the war tariff and earnestly endorses the administration of President Cleveland. Iu this sign shall the Democracy of every State conquer wherever we have half a chance. A Respectful Hearing for Mr. Blaine. From the Birmingham Age (Dem.) They say tliat Blaine is seriously contemplat ing a trip South. Why not) Tlie Southern peo ple would like to hear him spenk and would give as respectful hearing as it would to any other public man. A citizen who aspires to be Presi dent of the United States should not confine his time to the enlightenment of one section, shak ing hands with its people, to the exclusion of any other. A Suggestion to Mr. Hoa”. From the New York World (Dem.) The colored voters of Massachusetts, having acted as faithful and unrewarded servitors of the Republican party fur a long time, have de cided to ask for a State office as a “recogni tion.” They modestly indicate the And I tor.ship as a starter. If Mr. Hoar can withdraw his gaze from the neglected colored people at the South long enough to consider their grievances at home the dominant party then may give them something better than fair words where with to butter their unpalatable parsnips. BRIGHT BITS. “How it all comes back to me!” dramatically exclaimed the poet, opening a thick parcel of rejected verse.- -Puck. Is the Alps: Guide—lf the ladles will only stop talking, your honor may hear theroariug of the waterfall across the valley.— Fligende Hide tt nr. Considering how many questions a small boy cau ask his mother in a quarter of an hour, it is astonishing how little he seems to know when a stranger asks him any.— Somerville (Mass) Journal. She was admiring a big Newfoundland at the dog show. and. throwing her arms around bis neck, said: “You dear old fellow, I love you I” A youth who heard her remarked: "How I wish I was a dog.” The answer came from the same sweet lips: “Never mind, dear; you'll grow.”— The Judge. In the parlor they were sitting— Sitting by the firelight's glow, Quickly were the minutes Hitting, Till at last he rose to go. With his overcoat she puttered, From her eye escaped a tear— “ Must you go so soon?” she muttered. “Won’t you stay to breakfast, dear)” —Life. “And now, Bobby,” said his mother, as she buttoned her gloves, “be a good little boy while I am out, and do everything you can to amuse the baby.” On tier return she discovered that Bobby had emptied the contents of the molasses jug over tlie baby's head, and the happy laughter which came from the infantile lips told her more elo quently than mere words could ever hope to tell liow eminently successful Hobby’s efforts in the amusement line had been.— New York Sun. First Omaha Man—l just tell you this real estate business is a great thing. I make a nice income every year just buying and selling one house. Second Omaha Man —Tlie same house every time? "Yes, the one next to mine. I buy it in at a low price ami sell it at a big one. By the way, can’t you drop around to-night ? We are going to have a little entertainment.” “With pleasure. Musical?” “Yes. my boys have been practicing on flutes and fiddles and cornets and things for years.— Omaha Worlds S. S. Merrill, the dead manager of the Mil waukee road, had a handy trick of knowing per sonally all the employes of his road. He was loth to permit a man to remain in the service if he was unacquainted with him. When he came to make his California trip, a short time iiefore his death, he called his lieutenants around him to give them final instructions. At last he asked them: “Is there anything more to lie looked after?” “Kab" Atkins saw the opportunity for a joke on the old man's weakness and accepted it. “Well, Mr. Merrill,he said, “there's anew hrakeman on the H. and I). division that you ought to know before you leave.”— St. Paul Pioneer Press. “It's all his fault, your honor!” exclaimed a wife as she was arraigned in the l’oliee Court the other day. “Who’s fault?” “My husband’s!” “How's that?” “Well, sir, lie came home half tight just as I had finished a hard day's work and was making my supper off of cold potatoes. 1 felt mad and desperate, and he begun to argue about heaven." “What did he say?” “He said there wasn’t no such place, nor bade*, either, and he argued the case so well that 1 believed him.” “And then what?” •Toon, sir, thinking that if that was the case I might as well waltz in and have a good time on earth, I picked up a stick of wood and run the old man all over the neighborhood and made him roar for mercy.” Sentence suspended, owing to mitigating cir cumstances. — Dei roil Free Press. PERSONAL.. Auoustin Daly at 13 wrote a tragedy that was played in a barn. Senator Sherman lins been invited to deliver the Decoration day oration at Nashville, Tenn. Twenty thousand dollars have been collected for a monument at Hanau to the Grimm brothers. T. TANARUS,. Frank, a naturalized Chinaman, has asked the New Haven authorities to make him a constable. An unrestrained Western critic says: “The ‘Camille' of Sarah Bernhardt is the ‘Hamlet’ of femininity.” Mrs. Craiitree, Lotto's mother, has the credit of being an exceptionally shrewd and daring business woman. Senator-elect Farwkll, of Illinois, has taken the Washington house left vacant by ex- Secretary Manning, Zola is said to make SOAOOO a year. He gets more out of the dirt of Paris than the street cleaning department. Dion Horne ault says that one reason why he rad lies his youth is because “drink writes no wrinkles on his brow. He never was tipsy in his life. Cot. Sam C. Reid, famous as a Confederate war correspondent, is on his way through the South to Sun Francisco and the Sandwich Islands. Patti has a duplicate paste of every diamond she owns, and on the stage half the diamonds she wears are paste. This is done to guard against robliery. Franz, Lenbach, the famous German portrait painter, has been betrothed at Rome to the Countess Magdalena von Moltke, a distant rela the of Marshal von Voltko. Albert Dei-pit, author of tho drama "Made moiselle tie Dressier,” which Mi’s. James Brown Potter has purchased, is from New Orleans, the home of Mrs. Potter's childhood, Walt Whitman is in better health than for some years past, it is said; bis complexion is still clear and rosy, anil he iH nt work oil a lx>ok ■ailed ‘‘November Boughs,” to be brought out tho coming full. Susan Cooi.idoe is one of the few who have become rich from literary work. Long ago she built a handsome house in Newport from the profits of her stories. She is notably fond of children and parrots. Henry PRotusro, of Cincinnati, the widowed millionaire who recently sold in New York his magnificent coll-i'tlon of pictures, is said to contemplate replacing it in liis palatial house hold by a young bride. The valuable collection of coins made by the late John T. Raymond is now in the hands of Mr. Lyman 11. Low, of New York, who is cata loguing them for a public sale to take place in the latter part of June. William .1 Florence Intends to shine socially In liis decliningyears. On the $1.1,000 site which he has purchased in the fashionable West End ol Washington ho will erect a costly residence and entertain his friends handsomely. I’roe Wallace, the English naturalist, says he is more than ever convinced of the truth of evolution, ills faith I,as been confirmed by a careful inspection of the singular tribe of angles maniac dudes found only In New York. As soon ns the weather is pleasant again the President and Mrs Cleveland will retire to Oak Mewagain fcra<|ulet visit. Before .Mrs. Cleve lands return to the White House was a dav old the mantelpiece in the vestibule hod its piles of cards, which some correspondents did not hesi to look over and add their own to the collection. THE GEORGIA MINSTRELS. How One of Thair Posters Caused Bernhardt to Lose Her Temper. From the Chicago hrr'j. When Sara Bernhardt drove up in front of the Columbia Theatre last Saturday evening and waited for her ancient and tardy valet to come to assist her from her coopay she was ineffably shocked to see a monstrous three-sheet poster pasted up on the bill board at the entrance to the theatre. This poster announced tin the seven colors of Iris,) that, beginning with the morrow night and continuing for a week there after, Blythe's Only Original and Genuine Geor gia minstrels would hold high carnival upon the boards which the divine Sara herself had hal lowed with her tread. The divine Sara is, as perhaps the public is aware, not the most even tempered creature in the world; this tawdry pro fanation sent the bile coursing through every artery and vein in her system. When her ven tos secumlui came to her she gasped "mong dew;” then she cried ‘‘par blew," and a moment thereafter she shrieked “sackrer blew.” Immediately following this monosyllabic trilogy there burst from her pale, thin lips a stentorian soliloquy which we shall not attempt to record —suffice it to sav that it partook so largely of the character of the prefatory expletives that the atmosphere circumambient and circumja cent was "blue,” in fact (to use the French for it) "tray blew.” Monsura Alphonse, the ancient lacquey, came bustling from the theatre to find liis sweet mistress tottering (as it were) upon the very verge of hysterics, and great was his consternation. Manager J. M. Hill, too. rushed down from his private office—bounding five steps at a time—and in a moment was at the door of the coopay. “Mong dew l” moaned Safa, with her lips and nostrils flecked with foam. "Tell me,” demanded Col. Hill, “tell me what has happened! Has anybody squeezed her hand? Has any passing loafer winked at her? 1 have been expect ing some spicy denoomong all the week—for heaven's sake, speak, woman, and tell me if it has come at last!” But all that Sara could do was to point one quivering index finger at the awful three-sheet poster and sob “mong dew.” "Do what!” asked Col. Hill. "Par blew!” cried .Sara. "But what did he blow!" demanded the now thoroughly aroused manager. “Oh, zat. bill—zat meenstril bill,” moaned Sara. “I zink he shall make me to die.” “Die? Bill? What mean you, mong share?” asked the Colonel in the impassioned, lute-like tones of a Romeo climbing up Margaret Capu let’s rope ladder. "For a week,” said Sara, bitterly, “I haf been doing ze grond trazhadee for zis perbleek, ond ong zis Saturday I haf done Tayoddayra one time and Ido him to-night again! Is zis not an eensult to ze great Sara to put zis meenstril bill in zis theatre while Sara eez here? Take him down toot sweet else I do not play to-night.” Sara meant it, too. She was assisted into her dressing-room and was placed on a sofa, where she lay gasping and sobbing and plucking out her hair in a wild, foreign way. There was but one alternative; the three-sheet poster had to come down. Be Careful. From the Detroit Free Press Be careful what you sow, toys! For seed will surely grow, boys' The dew will fall. The rain will splash, The clouds will darken. And the sunshine Hash, And the boy who sows good seed to day Shall reap the crop to-morrow. Be careful what you sow, girls I For every seed will grow, girls! Though it may fall Where you cannot know, Yet in summer and shade It will surely grow; And the girl who sows good seed to-day Shall reap the crop to-morrow. Be careful what you sow, toys! For the weeds will surely grow, boys? If you plant bad seed By the wayside high, You must reap the harvest By and by. And the boy who sows wild oats to-day Must reap the wild oats to-morrow. Be careful what you sow, girls! For all the bad will grow, girlsl And the girl who now. With a careless hand, Is scattering thistles Over the land, Must know that, whatever she sows to-day, She must reap the same to-morrow. Then let us sow good seeds now! And not the briers and weeds now 1 That when the harvest For tts shall come, We may have good sheaves To carry home. * For the seed we sow in our lives to-day' Shall grow and bear fruit to-morrow. > Proposed Burlesque on “Elaine.” From, Die Washington Post. I see that, after many trials and much suffer ing. Lathrop has hewn a play out of “Elaine,” the melancholy story that Tennyson tells. lam glad. The deed has been waiting to be done, lo! these many years. It is live years since I was approached on the subject by a rather forward manager and theat rical caterer, whom 1 will call Tapioca. It was shortly after the so-called comic opera of “Deseret” was born of Dudley Buck and me, after many tribulations, and it was then facing the vicissitudes of the road. Tapioca called on me at the office, and he sat down and twirled his hat around his hand in a thoughtful manner, and he coughed depreeatingly and said: "See here; I want you to write an operator me. It must be howling funny and must lie called 'Ellen.’ ” “'Ellen?’” I said, “who is she! What is the storvf” “Why. ‘Ellen,’” he repeated, with additional emphasis, “ 'Ellen—you remember her. Tenny son’s poem, you know.” I faded to remember any such poem, and told him so. “Well, it has been a great deal talked about," he persisted; “it is one of the chief things lie wrote, I always understood.” Then it occurred to me that he meant “Elaine.” "Yes,” he said; “that’s it.” Is that the way you pronounce it?” “How would you treat it?” I asked. “Fan,” he said; "deadloads; ridicule every thing. ‘Evangeline,’you know, pile in the ab surd situations. Make a lot of noise, Knock things around.” “An audience might resent it.” I suggested. “Elaine" is a most serious a nd patbet ie character. The actors might he howled down and cabbages and things thrown at them for the desecration If you want anybody to make fun of you you had better take Martha Washington and build up a comic opera about her. I wouldn't venture to try Elaine.” That ended it. Tapioca never said “comic opera” to me again. Going' for the Supreme Court. From Washington Letter to Cincinnati En quirer. O. P. McMains, a rather eccentric gentleman, who used to be a preacher in Illinois, who has since been a claim agent, and who signs himself as agent for the settlers on the Maxwell land grant case, has addressed an open letter to the Justices of the Supreme Court. The following paragraphs are quoted to show how an Ameri can citizen can "suss” the highest judicial tri bunal in the land when he sets his mind to it: “Because of your recent decision in the Max well land grant case, I have not the honor to address you as pure-minded jurists to whom we, as Western settlers, can tow with respect. I address you rather as a set of corrnp. tioni.-ts who have sought to aid ex-Com missioner Williamson and Hon. S. B- Elkins out of a bad scrape by covering up their iniquity with jtalpable falsehoods * * • You ought to to ushamed of yourselves, gentlemen: As agent for many years of the wronged set tlers, I am ashamed of you. I used to think, too. so highly of you. I have gone up to your court room and when you came tllitig in I really thought your judicial robes were nice and clean and quite becoming; now it makes me sick to think of your old black gowns—no longer em blems of judicial purity, but of ways that are dark, magical, diabolical. I therefore, iu con clusion, denounce and impeach you toforc the American people as a set of corruptionists. Smoke that in guilty, cowardly silence—Elkins and Williamson included—or proceed at once to business." Senator Evarts and Hia Voice. From the Washington Post. “Is Mr. Thornton in?” Vs The answer was not audible. "See if lie's iu.” Those who heard the voice and did not see the speaker thought it was John 1,, Sullivan. But it was not. It was only Secretary Evarts, as thin as a shadow, notwithstanding the black overcoat that hung iu folds from his drooping shoulders, the wide trousers that wobbled about his thin legs and the big silk hat that took in the back of his neck and extended awav down Ills back. _ Although when in silence anil repose the New York Senator looks feeble and almost fos silized, yet when lie raises his voice the vocal energy is wonderful. Tills is more apparent, even, in private conversation than in public speaking. There is perhaps mit another voice in Washington so well calculated to terrify a waiter and make b m move mound in a lively manner. ITEMS OP INTEREST. At a fire alarm in Birmingham, Ala., the hook and ladder truck was driven out, and after going around several blicks the driver returned to the station house and asked Treasurer Evans where the fire was. A Fi/iraiMi mill in Oregon pays an adjacent law mill ?50 a day for its sawdust, which it uses for fuel iu its big furnaces. Their fuel cost them S!Gc a day before they found that they could burn what most Western saw mills thr ow away. At a fancy dress ball in Baris the great suc cess of the evening was accorded to a group of “earthquakers,” a party of young men who were attired in overcoats, crush hats and night gowns. while each of them carried a black leather hand (lag.. The realism and appropriate ness of the disguise called forth much laughter and applause. As Henry Taylor, night watchman in a Lou isville tobacco warehouse, was making his rounds the other night, a big coon jumped from a rafter upon his he rd and buried his teeth and claws in his face and neck. Taylor couldn't pull the animal off. try as lie might, and so he rail from the warehouse until he met a policeman, who shot the animal twice before he released his hold. No one knows where the coon came from. Capt. Johnson Sides, an intelligent Piute In dian, says that the idea prevalent among the whites that tire Piutes are gradually diminishing in numbers is incorrect. The census returns of ISBO show that there were at that time only 3,700. hut he says many of them were not counted, and that there were fully 8.000. He es timates the present number of the tribe at fully 9,000, and probably 9,600. Franklin D. Smith, of Portland, Ore., a ne gro, who served as a soldier during the war, has been blackmailed by the Grand Army men out there, and, in a letter of remonstrance, says: "I fought side by side with white men then, sat side by side with them around our camp fires then, and color was not thought of. Our coun try was our thought. I was white enough then to offer my life for the salvation of my country, and T am not man enough to belong to Garfield Post No. 3, Grand Army of the Republic?” The London Court Journal has this story of the Queen: “In one of the great picture gal leries at Windsor Castle are several precious caskets, among other exquisite objects de vertu , The Queen entered one day with a small hook in her hand, and asked the keeper of these treasures which was the most rare and valuable of all the caskets. He showed iier one made of pure rock cry stal, ornamented with gold and enamel. In this casket the Queen placed the small took—Gen. Gordon's pocket bible. an notated and marked by his own hand, and in this precious casket will remain this most pre cious relic of one of England's greatest heroes.” An Essex man has the biggest appetite in all Massachusetts, if not in the United States. He eats vast quantities of food, but all to no pur pose, for he is growing weaker and thinner. Doctors have tried in vain to cure him, and once, at the advice of one of them, he abstained for fifty-two hours from eating anything. But the suffering during that period was most intense, and finding he could stand it no longer he started in and ate continuously for twenty-seven minutes as fast as he could holt down the food. Then he walked out into the yard, and still feel ing hungry, immediately re-entered the house and repeated the operation of a few moments before. At the end of the second meal he was still hungry, hut was afraid to eat any more. Tiie Boston Transcript tells of a rich Boston man who had moved out of town and located in a little village community where the ways of life had always been rather primitive and the expenditure small. One day the assessors of the town came to him, rather fearfully. They didn't want to tax him out of the town, and yet they proposed to have him bear his share of the taxation. "Ah, gentlemen,” said he, after they had timidly pumped him a little as to the amount of his property, “what is the amount of money you have to raise here by taxation?” “Twelve thousand dollars this year, sir.” “Twelve thousand dollars, eh? Well, send the bill to me and I’ll pay the whole of it.” Not a single ructie in the place paid any taxes that year, and the Boston man got off a good deal cheaper than he had for some years. Mr. Gladstone’s visit to Buffalo Bill’s “Wild West” exhibition is the best “boom” that show has yet had. Lord Ronald Gower is credited with having induced the Grand Old Man to make this expedition to the wilds of Earl's Court. His cautious reference to the exhibition as a com mercial speculation does not conciliate English men. who think his panvgeric on America over strained. “His speech,” remarks the Times, “would have been iu place as a reply to a great national embassy sent over to pay him respect and receive compliments in return.” Americans may be permitted to think its cordiality not out of place anywhere. The Indian interviews be came the occasion of Torv wit. “Red Shirt” and “White Collar” is the title under which one evening paper discusses them. Another heads a long article “Great White Chief," and treats him as much occupied with the cowboys and “Buffalo Bill.” It is related of Gen. Manteuffel, the late Ger man Military Governor of Alsace, who hated all that was French, that he once at a public dinner engaged in a dispute with a French diplomat who maintained the superiority of the French workmen over the artisans of all other nations. "A thing so ugly does not exist that the skill and genius of u Frenchman cannot make of it a thing of beauty,” he said. Angered by the con tradiction, the old soldier pulled a hair from his bristly gray moustache, and, handing it to the Frenchman, suid curtly, "tot him make a thing of beauty out of that, then, and prove your claim.” The Frenchman took the hair and sent it in a letter to a well known Parisian jeweler with a statement of the ease and an appeal to his patriotic pride, giving him no limit of ex pense iu executing his order. A week later the mail from Paris brought a neat little box for the General. In it was a handsome scarf pin made like a Prussian eagle, that held in its talons asi iff gray bristle, from either end of which dangled a tiny golden ball. One was in scribed Alsact, the other Lorraine, ami on the eagle's perch were the words, "You hold them but by a hail'.” Willis Isaacs, of West Chester, N. Y., has an ordinary bottle in which he has displayed some smqirising results of patient laborand ingenuity. Ail inspection shows the bottle to contain a cross erect that reaches to the neck of the bot tle, and the cross piece is about as long as the size of the bottle will admit of. A ladder com plete and of symmetrical proportions is in posi tion. reaching from the bottom of the bottle to one of the arms of the cross. A large arrow, aimed diagonally across the back of the cross, is pinned fast to it by a little staple. At one side of the cross stands a miniature ship full rigged, on (iie other side a boat with oars set in its side rests on a pedestal. A wooden ax, with edge set iiito a chopping block, and a maul standing upright at its side complete the contents of the bottle. These articles were pqf in place piece by piece and secured in their various positions by Mr. Isaacs, although (to neck of the bottle will but little more than allow of the passage of some of the larger pieces endwise. He put them there one piece at a time, and secured them in place, drove the pins and other fastening de vices with no other implements than a small wire with the end flattened. A further important advance has just been made in utilizing hydro carbons for steam rais ing purposes on board ships. A legitimate ob jection to the adoption of liquid fuel at sea under certain circumstances has been that the use of steam for the diffusion of the oil in the toiler furnaces entails a considerable loss of fresh water from the boilers. As this loss has to bi made good by salt water on long ocean voyages, the density of the water is rapidly raised to a dangerous point. This is, however, entirely overcome by the system adopted in the steamship Charles Howard, owned by Messrs. Alfred Suart & Cos., of London, which has recent ly been fitted with tanks for carrying refilled petroleum in hulk, and also with Tarbutt's system of burning residual oils under the boil el’s in place of coal. She is 249 feet ill length, with 80 feet beam .ml 23 feet depth of hold. The whole of the cargo space in the vessel is oc cupied by tanks for carrying the refined petro leum, while the re-fuse oil to be used for fuel is carried in the water ballast tanks. Her toiler is of the ordinary marine type, with three fines of 3 feet IS inches diameter each. These Hues are fitted with a brick combustion chamber and superheater, as In the case of other vessels fitted on the Tarbutt system. Another point of de parture In the present instance consists in the substitution of highly heated and expanded compressed nil- for the steam ordinarily used in liquid fuel fires. The si cam used for compress ing the air is exhausted into the condenser, the water from which is, of course, available for feeding the toiler along with that condensed from thf main engines. The Charles Howard left the Tyne dock lost Saturday for the Black -Sea. and as she si can ied down the river at full speed not n particle of smoke was visible from tne funnel, the Area working admirably from the first start. It is stated that, the owners pro pose to fit the. remainder of their fleet with sim ilar apparatus. The storage of the oil In the water ballast, tanks has, we. helieve, never to forc toon introduced in practice. It is an Im portant feature, as It saves the ship owner the heavy expenditure incidental to the titling of tanks in the bunker spaces, and, combined with the substitution of air for steam, marks a de cided departure in liquid fuel practice. DRY GOODS. Exceptional Imtaii H OSI ER Y AT Grohan & Dooner's SUCCESSORS TO B. F. 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GENTLEMEN’S HALF HOSE 250 dozen Gentlemen’s British Half Hose at 15c. a pair. 200 dozeu Gentlemen’s unbleached striped and solid colored British and Balbriggan Half Hose at 25c. a pair. Summer Underwear A complete assortment of all grades and sizes in Summer Underwear for Ladies, Gentlemen and Misses. White Goods! White Goods! 3,750 yards Corded Pique at 3V£c. a yard. 200 pieces India Linen, .30 inches wide, at B)4c. a yard. 150 pieces India Linen, 32 inches wide at 10c. a yard. 100 pieces India Linen, 32 inches wide, at 12(43. a yard. 75 pieces checked Nainsook, Cambric finish, 10 different patterns, at a yard. 40 pieces shear finished Plaid Lawns, 30 inchei wide, at I2(£c. a yard. A full line of Bleached, Unbleached and Tur key Red Table Damask, Damask and Huek Towels, Napkins and Doylies, Marseilles and Honey Comb Quilts. A SPECIAL DRIVE. 100 dozen bleached Huck Towels, 23 inches wide and 45 inches long, at $3 per dozen; regu lar price $4 25. CBOMMDiIC. 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