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4 C|c||lonung Ildus Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1887. RegistcretlWt the Post Office in Savannah. The Morning News is published every day in fhe year, and is served to subscribers in the city, by newsdealers and camera, on their own ac count. at 25 cents a week. $1 00 a month, $5 (X) for six months and $lO 00 for one year. The Morning News, by mail , one month, $1 00: three months, 50; six mouths, $5 00; one year, $lO 00. Tlie Morning News, by mail . six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $2 00; six months. $1 (X) one year, $8 00. The Morning News, Tri-weekly, Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, $1 25; six months, $2 50; one year, $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail , one year. $2 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year, $1 25. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. Letters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning News, Savannah, Ga/' Advertising rates made know n on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings —Chippewa Tribp No. 4, I. O. R. 51.; Jasper Mutual Loan Association; Isle, of Hope Yacht Club; Policy Holders of Alabama Hold Life Insurance Company: Forest City Gun Club. Special Notice— Notice of Dissolution, Etc., Ham & Ilaar. Steamship Scheduler General Transatlan tic: Baltimore Steamship Company. Legal Notices— Application for a Stock Law for Cumberland Island; Application for Incor poration of “The Catholic Library Hall Asso ciation.'' Cheap Column Advertisements- -Help Want ed; For Rent; Board: Personal; Miscellaneous. Summer Resorts— Mountain Lake, Giles Coun ty, Va.; Montvale Springs, Blount County, Tenn. Summer Clothing, Etc —A. Falk & Son. Auction Sales— Sundries, by I. D. ijvßoehe's Sons; The Most Central Wharf, The Old South ern Bank Building, by D. R. Kennedy; Fine Pictures, by J. McLaughlin & Son. The protective tariff “gentlemen” who allude to free trade “fellows” were doubtless never entered in the school of manners. Mr. Edward Atkinson claims that there is no slave labor in this country. What about that Massachusetts man who has been selling immigrants ? If Editor O’Brien should become the cause of civil war in Canada perhaps immigration from that country would repay the United Stats for the loss of certain aldermen and bank officials. A charming young lady said yesterday at of the Woman’s Christian Tem- Uni->n: ‘Chivalry. i other pV^Hu-spapei t as well as charming that Mr Lime-. ’.\ 1! . ha- -I ’ uL - |" • MBtlor iK*iiig t" ‘ 'mvw.'.i . I,i IBBmv "X (-i i as a truthful prophet. as a U s'- EB^Bjtit. ■HI St feet. e \pi * W many "i uat knial stntoriifii in stocks and arc inter,•st.eil in ■. belief is well fournhd. 'din : i !>•• . ■< York poll.-. tie day f. jni i '.i •> a . Tin* Jttsti V.Twllehli.d by the nHk's 'iiri'k. iiarg.sl 1 ini l! wa |Br-t r pi f ■ "ii" HBp voided by the commission of another. Gen. Cllngman, of North Carolina, who, sometime l ago, invented a medicine from the tobacco Beat', warranted to cure-all and everythimg, lias bought an interest in anew electric light scheme. Perhaps he wants to furnish light to those who arc too much in tine dark to put their faith in liis medicine. It is thought that the killing of Editor Qambrell at Jackson, Miss., will lead to more bloodshed. The editors of the ,Vcir Mixirixsippinn, which is published in Jack son. bitterly condemn Gambrell’s slayers, and express themselves as ready to lay down their lives rather than falter in what they consider their duty. Oambrell is now called “Prohibition’s Third Martyr.” Doubtless acting ujion the suggestion of the Morning News, Mr. Daniel Hand, of Guilford, Conn., to whom Mr. George W. Williams, of Charleston, recently restored S7OO,(XJO, has made a will providing a fund of $lOO,OOO, the interest of which is to be used for educating the negro children of the South. Asa set-off some Southerner ought to give $lOO,OOO for the education of white children. It is worthy of notice that Henry George and Dr. McGlynn, who are engineering the anti-Poverty Society movement, are very careful tc take up collections at their meet ings, and to demand a fee for admission to them. It is probable that thoy liave their tables supplied with the best the market affords, notwithstanding there are hungry men, women and children in the grout city where they are trying to nurse their society into a healthy condition. Por baps, after all, they are not so much inter ested in abolishing poverty as they are in improving their own fortunes. At the Academy of Music in Newark, N. J.. the other day Dr. McGlynn and Henry Georg© failed to appeal- ntan entertainment to which they had been invited. It was Raid that they refused to come “because there was no money in it.” AVlien asked about the matter George replied: “It is a lie.” It seems that the two lalxtr reformers failed to appear not “boccuse there was no money in it,” but because there was more money in a meeting which they attended m Breoklyn. Dr. McGlynn awl George are wise in their day and generation, mid they arc making their wisdom profitable. 'Tlie Hon. 8. AV'. Dorsey and the Hon. 8. B. Elkins are very angry. The Federal Club, a Republican organization of Now York, gave a banquet the other night to the Hon. Theoiloro Roosevelt. Borne of the members, including the lion. Theodore, ob jected to inviting Dorsey and Elkins. AVhen Dorsey heard of the intended slight he snid some very pointed things about the Hon. Theodore. Forifcistariec, he remarked: "It appears that the time has conic when the line must be drawn ondudeism in politics in this country. If tins little person, to whom some unwiso people are giving o dinner, was not to piffod up and exaggerated in his own conceit he would remember that tlie man who has sawed wood under a No. 6 hat when he comes to be a member of the Assembly wants to wear u No. 8.” How delightful are such evidences of ItouuLlican han-vny. | Thing's Which Malco the President Popular. The two things in President Cleveland’s i administration which outside of his con scientious enforcement of Lhe laws and hisre spect for his pledges, tend to make him pop ular with the people, are his veto of the de pendent pension bill and Ms letter in the Guilford Miller case. By the veto he savod to the Treasury hundreds of millions of dol lars and cheeked a policy which promised not only to imposo uporl the country a heavy burden that could not have been got rid of in half a century but also to create an im mense number of paupers. Both political parties deplored the extravagance iu pen sion legislation, but neither had the cour - age to oppose it. The fear of losing the soldier vote forced them into doing what they knew to bo wrong. The President, however, did what Congress had not the courage to do, and to the surprise of the jioliticians the people ap plauded his act.' Other great pension bills will, of course, lie introduced into Congress because there are plenty of demagogues who still hope to make capital out of pension leg islation, but it is not probable that such bills will ever again have such general support as they once had. The President’s firm and wise course with regard to pension matters has given sufficient courage to well-meaning but timid Congressmen to oppose them. The Guilford Miller letter showed the people that the President was on their side in their light against rich corporations and giant monopolies. For many years appeals had been made to Congress for relief from the encroachments of the land grant rail roads on the public lands. The roads, with out pretending to carry out their part of their contracts with the government, held on to their lands which their contracts called for. They did more than that. ' They suc ceeded in keeping out of market millions of acres of lands to which they had no right, hut which they hoped to get hold of in some way. The rights of settlers were ignored, and the appeals to Congress of those wlio were evicted from their home steads brought no response. An appeal to the President, however, was heard. The Guilford Miller letter made thousands of hearts all over the great West lighter and was greeted with satisfaction by toilers and home seekers in other parts of the coun try. Mr. Powderly, the Grand Master Workman of the Knights of Labor, said: "The President is in sympathy with the people, as this splendid and bold letter shows very plainly. We s’ual' to a man support any administration which enters earnestly and boldly upon land reform, and stand by it until the last gun is fired.” And yet, Mr. Henry Watterson, who figures as a Democratic leader, has little to say in praise of the President. In the Ken tucky State Democratic Convention the other day ho made a speech which attracted some attention. His whole talk, however, was about "the boys in the trenches.” The dependent pension bill veto and the Guilford Miller letter do not appear to have im pressed him. And who are Mr. AVatterson’s “boys in the trenches?’ Why a few sore head politicians who are howling for the spoils of office? AVhat has become of Mr. Watterson’s star-eyed goddess of reform? Has she boon driven into retirement by his advocacy of the claims of the “boys in the trenches?’ Woman's Work and Wages. Every year the number of women who seek employment other than that to be found in the household increases. It lias been found that women are peculiarly fitted for certain kinds of labor once monopolized by men, and the result has been that the former have been given more opportuni ties for making their own living. The National Bureau of Education and Labor has recognized the fact that women are no longer compelled to confine them selves to household occupations, and is pre paring to make nn exhaustive investigation of the subject during the presqpt year. Some careful estimates have already been made, a synopsis of which will doubtless en chain the attention of those who are inter ested in "woman’s work nnd woman’s wages.” On July 1, IBHO, it was estimated that fi,000,000 women in this country were en gaged in occupations other than those of the household. Of the nuuiliev 600,000 wore agricultural laborers, mainly in the cotton fields of the South, ud, of course, the ma jority were negroes. In manufactories of various kinds (’40,000 were employed. In the laundries 502,800 found work at fair wages. The number of milliners was 250,000, and the number of dressmakers 200,000. In the ta'lor shops OO.iKH) were employed, and the number engaged as teachers, telegraph operators, type-writers, type setters, book keepers, saleswomen, and nurses was: (100.000. The number of women entitled to be ranked as physicians was 2,500. It is stated that while some of the women employed as mentioned are properly pro vided for in the matters of healthful sur roundings, physical comfort and wages, most of them are shamefully treated and miserably paid. The Bureau of Education and Labor hopes by its investigation to bring about nn impro> jinent in behalf of working women, and there is no room to doubt that a majority of the people of the country will wish the bureau success. In common witli other papers, the Morn ing Nkws published the story of how Wal ter Ridgley, an Eastern college graduate nnd wealthy planter, residing near Tex arkana, Ark., slew one after the other all tile members of a family of desperadoes named Murphy. Ridgley, it was said, killed the Murphys while defending an inoffensive Northern drummer from their impositions. The business men of Chicago determined to present a suitable token to Ridgley, testify ing the regard they entertained for him on account of his bravery. Inquiry was made of the Mayor of Texarkana as to Uidgley’s place of residence, and a reply was received to the effect tha t the story was a canard,manu factured by a drummer on a wager that he could eclipse the stories told by Joe Mul hatton. Not satisfied with the reply, the Chicago Tribune made inquiries, nnd claims to have verified the story. It is now said that Ridgley is on his way to Chicago, where he will Iki entertained by the busi ness men. A large sum lias been collected with which to purchase the token to be pre- i seuted to him. Hereafter Ridgley will be J regarded ns a here by drummers. Should the English government carry‘out i its reported intention to airest ull the Far- ! nellite members of the House of Commons and incarcerate them in Miibauk prison, serious trouble would at once be the result, both in Ire land and England. The Irish have stood about nil the coercion they will sub mit to, and there are not a few Englishmen who threaten to join them in nn uprising should tlie government imprison the Far neUi’ss. THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1887. One Code for All the States. There are thirty-eight States in tho Union, each of which lias its own peculiar laws, differing each from the other, so that a citi zen, well informed respecting the laws of his own State, and, therefore, able to shajie liis conduct so as to conform to the law, is all at sea as soon as he. crosses the State line. This gives rise to innumerable conflicting de cisions in tho courts and is sometimes the source of much confusion and many com plications.] For instance, a citizen of Geor gia, suddehly taken ill in New York, and making his will there disposing of his prop erty in liis own State, is liable to have his wishes defeated 1 localise the statute of New York requires only two witnesses, while that of Georgia requires three. The New York lawyer, as a general tiling, naturally does not look beyond the law of his own domicile. There are many lawyers who have had this very thing, referred to above, to occur in their practice. There is no necessity for anything of the kind. There is not a State in which tho condi tions of society are so different from those of others that the same system of laws which answers for them would not answer equally well for it. There might lie some variation necessary between States, the interests of which differ in tho matters of agriculture, manufacturing, commerce or mining; but these variations would not be extensive, while for general subjects of law the statutes of one would bo equally applicable to all. Could not a wise and well considered Code be constructed, which, being adopted by all the States in convention, would make tbe laws as well as tho decisions under them, uniform in all. There does not appear to lie any reason why this couldn’t be done. It would greatly simplify the jurisprudence of the country at large, and give the people a chance for knowing what the laws are abroad as well as at home? As the matter stands there are entirely too many laws diverse in their nature, and, therefore, producing conflicts of laws. A felony in one State is but a misdemeanor in another, and an offense which renders an offender extraditable in one State does not in another. Surely all tliis confusion can be and ought to be avoided. Perhaps a good anil proper system might avoid the expense of so many meetings of State Legislatures. It would be necessary to have, perhaps, stated meetings or conventions of law making delegates front all the States to change or amend the Code, but such con ventions would be necessary only at long intervals. It might not lie necessary for years, if ever. Such a code would in no way affect tbe sovereignty of the States, as they would be untrammeled as to their adoption of any code or law that might be proposed. An Extra Session Advisable. There are sonic pretty strong reasons for an extra session of Congress, beginning about Oct. 1, and it is believed that the President is thinking seriously of calling ono. There is no doubt that the increasing surplus in the Treasury is regarded in finan cial circles with foelings of uneasiness. Every dollar that goes into the surplus is so much taken out of active circulation. Very soon all the 3 per cents, will be paid, and there will then be a still more rapid in crease in tile surplus. If Congress do3s not meet until December nothing in tho way of legislation will be seriously undertaken before January. Tbe work of organizing the House and the holi days will consume the first few weeks of the sossion. The Presidential nominating con ventions will occur next year, aud Congress nnd the country will be disturbed, by the Presidential campaign from the beginning of the year until the elections are over. Congressmen will not be disposed to attend closely to their duties, and it will be a difficult matter to get any measure looking to a reduction of the surplus passed. There are several ways in which the surplus may lie reduced, but there is only one that the country will consent to, and that is by reducing the revenues. ’lt is certain that a long debate will precede any reduction of the revenues bocauso of the differences of opinion as to whether the re dir tiii: should be effected by repealing the internal taxes or by lowering the customs duties. It would seem to tie wise, therefore, for Congress to meet early next fall and provide for getting rid of the surplus before the regular session begins. There will be enough important matters to occupy Con gress during the regular session without the troublesome surplus question. The Thoebo-Carlisle Contest. It is not probable that Mr. Thoebe, who ran against Mr. Carlisle for Congress last fall, and who claimed that he had been counted out, intends to contest Mr. Carlisle’s right to the seat. Tho time for filing the testimony in tho case expired some weeks ago, aud Mr. Thoelio can make a contest now only by the unanimous consent of the House. If ho wants to make a contest, however, Mr. Carlisle will see that he has the chance. Mr. Carlisle isn’t the man to take advantage of a technicality in a caso in which ho is so deeply interested. Tho truth doubtless is that 'rtioebe has found out that there is no testimony to support his claim, aud has, therefore, abandoned it. Mr. Carlisle, as soon as the count in his district was com pleted, announced that there was no doubt about his election, and as he is thoroughly familiar with the distinct his announcement was accepted as virtually settling the matter. Doubtless tho Republicaas were resjwnsiblo for Thoelio’s statement that be had been counted out, and it may lie that he was sincere in what he said. It may lie, also, that at one time ho really intended to make a contest. AVhon he found out what the facts were, however, he saw the folly of making a claim for which there was no foundation whatever. Frfun present indications there will be no cloud upon Mr. Carlisle’s title to his seat, and it is about certain that he will be re elected Speaker without opposition. Replying to a Morning News paragraph, tho Griffin Keren suys: “The young Demo crats of Georgia do a groat deal of talking, hut when it comes to business it is tho old political hocks who get in tho work.” To tliis the Columbus Enqvrrcr-Sun replies: "■Such talk ns this is all bosh and our con temporary ought to know it. Asa rule it is the young men who shape tho politics of Georgia. But granting it tree that it is generally the old political hack:: who pet in the work, who i to blame for it.? Certainly the young men are largely in the majority.” The Enquirer-Sun is quite right. The young men are in the majority, and they control the politic,* of tho State. Tho Thistle, the Scotch yacht which is coming over to race a Yankee yacht, will have an enormous spread of canvas, It i* stated that the leech of her mainsail is 125 feat in length and the hoist till feet. CURRENT COMMENT. Noecls Democratic Control. Prom the Philadelphia Press (Rep.) Pennsylvania is threatened with another sea son of big stipes. Folly und Pennsylvania are evidently complete strangers as they Rhould be. “y It Will Not Fail. Prom the New York Times (Pep.) The administration lias shown itself too keenly sensitive to its responsibility for tho un interrupted prosperity of the country, and too intelligent in deuling with that responsibility, to fail now in any duty that the situation may impqao. Regulation That Will Regulate. Prom the Missouri Republican (Dan.) Col. Morrison is quoted as expressing tho opinion that some people will not get all they expected out of the interstate commerce law. This is a safe prediction, but it is just as safe to predict that government regulation of interstate commerce is here to stay. If the present law does not regulate some other law will. George Not Entirely Responsible. Prom the Nashville American (Dem.) People who make a fetich of the State and think it can solve everything, who imagine that all things may lie accomplished hy statute, who are eternally waiting for help from somewhere instead of going to work and clearing away diffi culties for themselves, arc to lie found in num bers outside of the Anti-Poverty Society, nnd the tendency which is “breeding up’’ such a race of men must, be charged up to others t han Mr. George. BRIGHT BITS. A Rugg street youngster who has been the possessor of cats of several colors and sizes felt like having a change, and so remarked to his mother the other day, as he stroked the cat he held in his lap: “Mamma, I hope the next cat I have will be a dog!”— St. Albans Messenger. New Yorker—Have you any new slang out here? i imaha Girl -Oh, yes. When we hear an old, old story, or something that we know is n lie, we say “chestnut.” It’s great fun—but what’s the matter ? Are you ill ? No, he had died; that was all.— Judge. “Humph! but vou are wearing your father's hat,” he said, as he looked over tho fence at the other boy. “I know it," was the reply. “Hey! hut you are ashamed.” “Not much’ I. ain’t. A fellow who cau’t mako use of his father hadn't outer havfe one.”— Detroit Pree Press. Countryman (in dime museum)—What’s your specialty, friend? Freak—l'm the man who can pass a door with the legend “Paint” on it without daubing it with the index finger to see if it is dry, Countryman—Gosh! How much d’ye git a week? Freak—Thousand dollars, same's all the rest. —New York Sun. Omaha Domestic—AVe want ten pounds of sugar, five pounds coffee, eight pounds— Grocer—See here, you tell Mr. Blinks I’ll not sell another cents worth to him except for cash. “Cash? Why, I’ve got the money to pay for ’em.” “You have?” “Dearie me! I’ve made a mistake. He told me to go to the other store."— Omaha World. Bishop AVhite, of Pennsylvania, was sitting one day at dinner with that hold financier of the revolutionary times, Robert Morris, when the latter said: “Bishop, X have made my will and have devised to you all my impudence.” “In that case,” replied the Bishop, “you have cer tainly left me the greater part of your estate." “Yes, Bishop,” interposed Mrs. White, “and it is plain that you have entered immediately upon you inheritance.”— Buffalo Commercial. Gray—Smith insulted me so terribly to-day that 1 feel ind enough to kill him. Green—What’s the matter? Gray—Nothing. A mere matter of $lO I owe him for a couple of years or so. The mean fel low that he is, called me a swindler and a scoun drel, and a great many other names. Green - And you feci mad enough to kill him? Gray—l do. Green—Then do it. I ’ay him his $lO and the surprise will kill him.— Boston Courier. Little Dick—Ain’t those heathens funny what think elephants and cows and things is sacred? Little Dot—A r es; why don’t they have a sa cred eagle like we have —it s a good deal nicer. “Eagles ain’t sacred: they is only patriotic, like the Fourth of July —that’s all.” “Yes, they is sacred, too.” “They ain’t." “Oh, you bad boy, you. In our chijrch we have a great big eagle with its wings out, and the minister puts the Bible t>u it, so there now.” —Omaha World. “There is a young man In the parlor wishes to see you, miss," remarked the nail door at tendant at a down-town residence. “Did he bring anything with him—any box or parcel ?” “Only a cane, miss." "Did his coat tail rattle when he walked, as if there was a package of candy in the pocket?” “Nothing of the sort, miss.” “Then tell him I've gone to visit a sick friend aud won't be home for a week,” replied the fair girl, falling back into a horizontal position and reading “Truth Stranger Thau Fiction; or, The Liar Unmasked.”— Clinton Bugle, When the “moustache movement” had ac quired some headway here in Boston an eccen tric merchant of the old school, who had ole served that some of his clerks had yielded to its attractions, gave notice that while be opposed the tendency he was willing to make a compro mise with such of his employes as were In favor of it. Calling bis clerks together, be made a short address on the dangers of trifling with the pro prieties which custom had established in regard to shaving. nd ended by saying: “I do nut pro pose to wholly restrict tho gentlemen in my em ploy from wearing moustaches, hut I cannot allow them to be Worn in business hours.”— Boston Post.’ PERSONAL. llarrv Miner says he has a play by Admiral Porter for Mrs. James Brown Potter. Cardinal Gibbons is expected in Baltimore the first, week In June. A movement is on foot to give him a public reception. Gen. S. 15. Buckner, whom the Democrats have nominated for Governor of Kentucky, is a man of great wealth. He has more than $500,- 000 worth of real estate iu Chicago. Sir John Akti.ey, the well-known I,ondon sporting patron, captured a stalwart pickpocket lately who had stolon his watch and gave him a severe thrashing before handing him over to the police. Prince Komatsu, of Japan, who has been spending some mouths at V ienna, has fallen in love with the liveries of the court servants there and has obtained permission to have them copied at the court of the Mikado, powdered periwigs, silk stockings and all. Robert Burns Thompson, whose death has been recorded at Thornliebauk, Scotland, was a successful mill-furnisher and brush-maker, but found time also to cultivate his marked abilities as a musician and verse-writer. He was a grand child of the famous poet whose name he boro. George Lont.enbauher, n machinist of Leba non, Pa., has lieen recalled to Germany hy tbe government for duty in the army. Tne threat ening nspoct of oifidiK in Europe is assigned as the reason for summoning all subject ! liable to military duty. Longeubaoher immediately com plied with the order. Miss Rose Cleveland, besides ticing asso ciated with Mrs. Sylvmius Reed in the manage ment of her New York school, will also have control of (lie editorial department of the American Vagtiiinc of History, in which publi cation her lectures will ap)iear. She has already assumed her editorship duties, and will take up her proiessional work in connection with the school in September next. A NKWLY-MADE BENEDICT, while lazily strolling along one day last week, was met by a friend who in bachelor days had been a boon com panion. “Hello, old fellow, glad to soo you once more.” was the salutation; then, in tuc same breath, accompanying n hearty handshake, came the natural query: “How do you like mar ri" l life?" “Well, you know," drawled the Ben edict, with a limp smile, "J never get very en thusiastic alxmt anything."— Washington Capi tal. K. Berry Wall, the New York dude, bos a new hat. It is a high hat, mid is the color of a light MsMJUcigar. ji js lid fit of lAllj. It lias just uitlnsi from London, tvVm it <HI mode to order fdr'Mr. Wall h is tho onlp'fcio of the kind iu America. Tho hot is designed to excite the envy of all dudedoiti. It cannot tip dupli cated within six wc-ek.i, an the blbek on which it was moulded has linen destroyed, and the makers ore under a guarantee not to put any more on the market until tho middle of June. William T. Walters, of Baltimore, values his art collection ut more than dljUuO.ilW. Mr. Walters is a Pennsylvanian of Kentyh Irish an cestry. His hms for art has lieen the ruling passion of his life. The first' $5 in- ever - nent was for a picture. Every year he put aside a )>art of bis income for art purchase*. 'He- re suit has been a private art gallery which many critic* consider the moist harmonious and beau tiful In the world. The interest in Mr. Walters' ceramics and pictures is increased bv the fact that the vast fortune of the owner ,vii made by hi* own exertions. He Is iu the liquor business. THAT POOR MOTHER. The Affecting Story of An Outcast Found on the Street. From the Chicago News. Ono cold, bitter night last winter Col. and Mrs. Ela had returned from a meeting of the North Side B"owning Club and were about to enter their palatial residence on Elm street when the wail as of a lost soul fell upon their ears. " Whew, what a big cat," exclaimed C'ol. Ela. The cat was on the window-sill, and hearing the sound of the good man's voice jt raised its monstrous tail, blinked amicably, and purred loud enough to be heard all over ilie ward. "Poor thing,” sighed Mrs. Ela; "we must take her into the house.” "But we’ve got ono cat already," said the Col onel. "I know,” said Mrs. Ela, “but I haven’t got the heart to leave this poor creature out here to perish in the storm.” Col. Ela pooh-poohed, blit Mrs. Ela, whose heart is ever intent upon good, pious and char itable deeds, was not to be moved from her hu mane purpose, and while Col. Ela was discuss ing his regular midnight lunch of nice rich skimmed milk and palatable dry crusts of gra ham bread, Mrs. Ela lugged that iJB-pound cat down into the basement and made it a cozy bed by the furnace. Then she locked the family cat (a demure tabby named after Mrs. Ela s favorite poet, Mrs llemaus) in the cold, dark garret. “John," said Mrs. Ela in a confidential tone, as she settled down at last by the Colonel's side and nibbled a cream cake while he munched at his bread and milk, "John. 1 have a secret to tell you.” The Judge shivered with apprehension; his wife’s solemn tones boded ill. "They say that women’s eyes are quick," con tinued Mrs. Ela. “At any rate, while you have been faring sumptuously' at this board I have detected about that plethoric cat the promise of maternity.” “Great heavens, George!” cried Col. Ela, “are we going to have a houseful of cats?” “How can you he so heartless, John?” ex claimed Mrs. Eia, and she betook herself up stairs with the positive conviction that men were certainly the most unfeeling creatures m the world. Betimes next morning Mrs. Ela was aroused from a dream wherein she saw herself sur rounded by platoons of sleek and grateful kit tens, which purred forth the most harmonious music in her praise. From this ecstatic vision was Mrs. Ela aroused bv a violent hubbub,above which she distinctly heard the querulous tones of her maid .servant. Bridget, raised in oppro brious invective. “Bridget,” cried Mrs. Ella, "what are yon do ing?" "Sure, Olme dhriving this cat out nv the house,” said Bridget. “Cat—house—what do you mean?” asked Mrs. Ela, while doubts and fears surged through her mind with seismic force and electrical rapidity. “01 caught him in the basement,” explained the faithful minion, “and I’ll bate him for the mate he sthole lasht week.” “Bridget," said Mrs. Ela, sternly, “I hope you’re not seeking to drive that poor mother from her helpless little brood.” “Mother, is it?” cried Bridget; “faix, I know him well for a thaving Tom as he is the tirror av the alley.” BATHING THE “HANG-UPS.” A New and Profitable Amusement In vented by a Bartender. He walked briskly into a saloon on Centre street, says the New York Mail, and, sidling up to the bar, whispered into the ear of the polite bartender. “Certainly, sir! Certainly!” the bartender said in response to the whisper. “What’ll it be?" “Ah-h—make it whisky, with a dash of gum,” and the newcomer’s nose blushed a blush of autieipation. The blaek bottle was produced, and the new comer poured out a drink, the size of which prompted one of the loungers at the stove to mutter the old chestnut about taking a bath. But the prospective drinker heed and him not. He was admiring the beverage as he held the glass up to the light. Meanwhile the hurtender’s hand was resting innocently on something under the bar. Just as the glass was lieiug carefully and fondly lifted to a level with the capacious mouth of the man outside of the bar, the arm of the white aproned bartender raised, there was a sharp fizz, and the newcomer dropped the whisky and made a bee line for the street, look ing somewhat as though a shower bath had been let loose on him. "His jags has worked that racket out," sen tentiously remarked the bartender as he re moved his thumb from the siphon of the seitzer water bottle, and placed it under the bar. He's been makin’ this a part of his route, an’ wants charity whisky half a pint at a time.” "But as it is he spilled the whisky, and that's lost, and you wasted a good deal of seltzer,” suggested the reporter. “That's where you're are wrong!” was the re ply. "That wasn't whisky he spilled. It was colored water made for ‘hang ups’ like him. There’s a gang of 'em been trying to work me because I’m anew comer here, an’ I'm going to stop it. And the best of it is." continued the bartender, "that ‘hang-up’ will worry all day over gpillin’that whisky, and it wasn't whisky at all. It will gall him more than the seltzer bath.” "Is this anew way of treating deadbeats?” “Well, I guess it is. I get a whole lot of fun out of it. 1 call it Imthing the ’hangup.’” A Romance in the Rough. Nathan It. Heath in May Cosmopolitan. listen, partners, to a story That 1 haveu t told before; One witli more of gush than glory, And without a drop of gore. Partners, since I left camp quarters There's a change come over me, Till I shadder one man’s daughter, Quite as sailor’s do the sea. Till I see in eyes that glisten All a tar sees in the wave When he sort o’ thinks it's his’rf; And the notion makes him brave I’m in love—l, gruff old feller!— With a girl ns good as gold; One with cheeks as rich and meller Asa peach too ripe to hold. She has hair the hue of nuggets That we’ve washed from mountain streams; And her waist—l'd like to hug it, As I sometimes do in dreams ! On each hand a little dimple Marks each knuckle as a smile Sometimes marks the sweet and simple Checks of girls not spoiled by style. And her voice—it seldom utters .Sounds you wouldn’t like to hear ’Way out there where Gulch creek sputters Ami where women don't appear. " Hush! "you say,“we thought you’re married And you claimed you'd picked a jiearl!" Bight, old perils ! hut that love carried This love—to my baby girl! Electricity of Ghosta. From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. My brother, the stage man of Dodge City, tells me that there is a wonderful valley down cn his Fun Handle of Texas stake line. It is a narrow, long valley, with jagged, rough and pro dpi tons sides. Evidences of comparatively re cent volcanic action are visible all through that section, and especially in that immediate local ity. Justus the mild stars are drawing their sweet faces from the sky try brother tells me that not one, but fifty, electric lights appear rising front the ground in various (tarts of the valley. The stage drivers say that the lights are brought by the ghosts of murdered men who comeback to revisit their earthly scenes. Oth ers think there is valuable mineral in that sec tion, and still others -and of the most supersti tious sort—think this is the valley in which the Bender butchers were hung, as it is a very se cluded valley, and that the restless spirits of these flends come back to haunt their captors. 1 don't know anything about the causes of the weird and womlcrtul lights. I only know that my brother i.vnstilT Methodist and his state ments us to the lights can be implicitly relied upon. He has been engaged in the stage busi ness for twelve years out on the plains, and knows a Jack-'o-lautorn from a tallow dip when he sees it. Wliat Sort of Girls aro Loveable. "What, kind of girls are loveable 1" asks nn old bachelor sternly, in the Boston Globe. "That, good sir, depends a great deal upon what kina of person i going to lore them." Here is a rather pretty summing up from the thought and exponent)©—of a ]verson who has pride in lieiug in some sort a connoisseur of lovnbility. “The girls that are lovable," says he, "are these: Girls without an undesirable love of lib erty and erase for Individualism: girls who will let themselves be guided; girls who have the filial sentiment wrell developed, and who feel the love of a daughter for the woman who acts na their mother; girls who know that every day and all day long can not he devoted to holiday making without the interveuiinn of duties more or- less Irksome: girls who, when they can gather them, accept iheir roses with frank ami girlish sincerity of pleasure and, when they are deified, submit without repining to the Inevitable hardships of circumstances these ore the girls whose com iianiouahip gladdens and does not oppress or detract t lie o!;l, whoa** sweetness and ready sub mission to the reasonable control of authority make life so pleasant and then charge av light to these whose cure they arc." j ITEMS OF INTEREST. A Parisian recently sent a bathtub to a gen tleman in Naples as a present and received a note a day or two after asking when the oars were coming. It is growing fashionable for superintendents of almshouses in Michigan to insure the lives of paupers under their charge, and there Is a marked increase in the death rate at such in stitutions. f A rnEK library is being established in New York by the Odd Fellows of that city, and nearly 23,000 books have been secured by charging one hook for each admission to entertainments in the interest of the enterprise. At Forli, Italy, what appears to be a very ancient tomb lias been found under a street con taining the remains of the skeleton of a warrior, leaf-shaped lance heads of iron, fibula, and a great number of small vases and urns of pot tery. Peanuts, a correspondent of the Boston Transcript avers, worked a cure of “nervous dyspeusia. insomnia and great thirst,” in his u,r "her) case. The peanuts were eaten for desert after each meal, all drugs being let alone. Gun. Lee one day found Dr. Cutting, an army surgeon, who was a handsome and dressy man, arranging his cravat complacently before a glass. “Cutting,” said Lee, “you must be the happiest man in creation.” “Why, General?” “Because you are in love with yourself, and have not a rival on the earth.” The Japanese have a queer way of speaking to their wives. Not long ago one of the mis sionaries was visiting in the country. When he arrived at the place where he. was going to stop the farmer met him at the door, took him into a cosy room, and then called his wife and intro duced her as "my fool of a wife.” A young woman of Heaver Falls, Pa., is so charged with electricity that a hairpin which she wore in her head all day was magnetized enough to hold up sixty-nine needles by their points. When the young woman’s hair is stroked in the dark it emits sparks, and to touch her is to receive a shock as from a mag netic battery. As illustrating the advance made in ocean steamship service, the Captain of a Cunarder says that the Brittania, built in 1839, burned forty-four tons of coni a day, and made eight knots an hour, hut the vessel he now commands burns 800 tons a day and makes eighteen knots an hour. The carrying capacity has increased more even than the speed, in proportion to the amount of coal used. The coni used by the Cunarders foot* up 350.76-1 tons a year, or nearly 1,000 tons a day. A “ghost,” London papers state, greatly scared the people of a suburb of that city late ly until one night a number of men secreted themselves near one of its haunts The spectre duly appeared in the form of a figure clothed in white, with blackened face. Hands were in stantly laid upon the ghost, who was discovered to be a prominent member of the Salvation Army. He was ruthlessly stripped of his gar ments and a sound flogging was administered, notwithstanding his entreaties and protestations that it was only a joke. M. H. Mosman, the sculptor, has been given the commission to execute in bronze the eques trian statue of Ulysses S. Grant for the city of Chicago. The statue is now being modeled by the sculptor Redissoat Cincinnati, 0., and it -will be the largest equestrian figure ever cast in this country, being IHJ4 feet high from the base to the top or the rider s head. Mr. Mosman has. among many finished statues at his studio and workshop in Chicopee, Mass., one of Ericson, the Norseman, soon to be erected in Boston; a soldiers’ statue, with accompanying tablets and reliefs, for the town of Brat t leboro; and he is busy on a statue of Hale for the Capitol at Hartford. Canon Farrar suffered some of the trials of fame while in Wilmington, where he lectured for one night. There was a three-day's tennis tournament in progress at the time, and on the day following the lecture a local sheet appeared with the following paragraph: “Mr. , the champion htwn tennis player of the Southern States, is a guest of the Rt. Rev. Bishop Lee. Canon Farrar is also a guest of Bishop Lee.” When the Canon was shown the paragraph he laughed at the place given him and said: “It would be just the same at home. I might save a great many souls indeed if I could get as many people to come to hear me preach as would go to see the Renshaws play tennis.” In an article published in one of the French scientific journals the writer states that, from a comparison made by him of the results of ani mal and steam power, as employed in France at least, the first named is really the cheaper motor; that is, in the conversion of chemical to mechanical energy, 80 per cent, was found to he lost in the machine, against 68 in the animal. He has also found that the steam horse power, contrary to the belief generally entertained, is often materially exceeded by that of the horse. Thus the cost of traction on the Montparnasse- Bastille line of railways proved to he for each car. daily, some 57f., while the same work when performed by the horse cost not exceeding 47f. In view of these and similar facts bearing on the question, the conclusion arrived at is that, for moderate powers, the conversion of chemical to mechanical energy is more economically effected through animals than through steam engines. A very valuable MONKEY is the chacma of Africa. When young this babboon is very teachable, and is often kept by the Kaffirs as a domestic animal. He takes the place of a dog, growling when a stranger comes near; and if it becomes necessary to defend his master’s prop erty he is much stronger than any dog. The chacma easily learns to blow the bellows of a smith and to drive horses or oxen; but his great est use in that country is to find water. In the hot season, when the earth is parched, and springs and streams are dry, the owner of a tame chacma takes him out to hunt for the water they all must have. The intelligent monkey seems to know what, is wanted, or perhaps he knows by his own feelings what to look for, and he goes carefully over the ground, looking earnestly at every tuft of grass and eagerly sniffing the breeze on every side. Whether he scents it or not is not known, but if there is water in the neighborhood he is sure to find it, it may be a deep spring, in which case he sets to work digging down to it: and it mnv be a certain very juicy root, which often serves instead of water. He gets that out also, and let us hope he has his full share of it in pay for his work. A professor in a certain musical college once told me of a pupil who attended his lectures—a young woman from some remote place like Seattle or Los Angeles, who attracted his atten tion hy her extreme devotion to her work, her regularity—in fact, by all that goes to make a puuil "solid” with the faculty. Moreover, she was beautiful as the day, with a large and statuesque beauty, as of a strong, full nature, serene, calm, and undisturbed. But, alas! when the examinations came and papers were handed in, hers was found to he simply impossible. It was evident that behind that Juno-like brow there were no brains. In fact, such a paper was never seen before; even the spell ing was ludicrous. while grammar and music were equally injured and outraged in every line. Tears could not move my stern friend, and the report was “not passed.” But it was intimated to him that there were reasons why it was absolutely essential that the pupil should graduate, while her knowledge might be acquired 'afterward. Ac cordingly. she applied for a re-examination, ami the questions were something like this: 1. Is not the symphony the highest form of purely musical expression? 9. Was not Berlioz re markable for his mastery of ingenious orches tral effects? 3. Is not Bach called the father of modern music? “And to my astonlshmert and gratification," said the professor, gravely, “to every one or these puzzling questions she an swered, with great perspicacity, 'Yes,' ami passed triumphantly—average mark hi my class 100 per cent.'' I The fleeting years have brought to the down trodden women of Chicago a real, live Woman's Club, regularly organized and opened and lo cated In luxurious quarters on one of the princi pal streets of that city. At the head of the or ganization stands Mrs. Potter Palmer, the fascinating wife of the great hotel man, who recently tmid off the last installment on a debt of $980,1)00 incurred in rebuilding bis famous hotel after the disastrous fire. Under the rules which govern this club no man is [icrmifted to enter the rooms unless his “harmlessness" bus first been vouched for by some reliable mem ber. It lx lasts of a library, music and billiard rooms and all the usual number of club apart ments. A cafe, presided over by a eonk with an unpronounceable name, is nevertheless the rhief attraction, even cultured Chicago not l*-ing whollycontent with ont some mint'd ration to the baser man or wo man. There are hints, too. of a dainty-looking bnr. half concealed and half revealed by mosses off linging drit|siry, over w hich a charming young woman in the whitest of white runs and apron* serve light wines to the elect, receiving ihe regulation checks therefor. The fad is not, as some impious man may imagine, to go to this club in the evening and, after a game of draw, roll home in the morning to n snd-eyed ami weeping husband. On the contrary, it is a place for afternoon association and the nurimiids who take long drives with other men's wives, lie tween the luncheon and sunset hours, are firm in the belie* Hint it is a noble institution. MILLINERY. PLATSHEK’s; 138 Broughton Street. GRAND SELECTED VALDES! LACES! LACES! 650 yards SU-inches deep, White and Beim. Egyptian and Oriental Laces this week onlvrV per yard, regular price 20c. J CORSETS! CORSETS! 10J dozen Ladies' White 5-llook Corsets eliho. rare Si’.k Stitched and guaranteed bone-fillet only 50e. each. • HOSIERY! HOSIERY! 25 dozen Ladies’ Brown Genuine Balbrig-an Hose, regular made and London lengths Th champion 25e. Hose of this market, ‘ ’ HANDKERCHIEFS! HANDKERCHIEFS! 150 dozen Ladies’ Fine Linen Mournin* Bordered Handkerchiefs, size 14V£xl4U, with il inch, genuine hemstitch, this week, only 10? each; regular price 18c. GENTS’ UNDERWEAR! To make a run, we offer 75 dozen Gents' it regular made India Gauze Vests, with ha'v satin fronts and silk bound, at jp.'S a box (W do£ en); the regular price for them is 75c. each' Embroidered Dress Robes! 150 elegant Dress Robes we will offer at cost from this week until entire lot is closed. Don't miss this chance. Ladies’Muslin Underwear! 30 dozen Ladies’ Cambric Chemise, elegantly designed and trimmed with Torchon lace auj embroidery; the best 75e. article in the States. LADIES,’ JERSEYS! 65 dozen Ladies’ Pure Wool Bouele Jersey* (summer weight), pleat backs, in brown, black, navy, garnet, at the great bargain price of sl. Ladies’ Gauze Underwear! 120 dozen Ladies’ Jersey-fitting Gauze Under, vests, the best finished goods in America, at 33c. and 50c. Give them a trial. Ladies’ Linen Collars. 200 dozen Ladies’ 3-ply All-Linen Clerical Shape Collars, with capes, for this week only, our regular 15c. value. The Leading Parasol, Fan and Glove House of Savannah. >VIUSKY. ’ LAWRENCE,MROITcrS Famous “ Belle of Bourbon" Is death to Malaria, Chills and Fever, Typhoid Fever, Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Surgical Fevers, Blood Poisoning, Consumption, Sleeplessness or Insomnia, and Dissimulation of Food. lO YEARS OLD. ABSOLUTELY PUReT NO FUSEL OIL IN PRODUCING OUR jCjBELLE orBOURBOH’ WE USE ONLY THE FLINTY OR HOMINY RART OFTHE GRAIN THUS FREEING IT OF FUSEL OIL BEFORE IT IS DISTILLED Z&wie-nee' THE GREAT APPETIZER Louisville, Ky., May 22,1886. This will certify that I have examined the Sample of Belle or Bouriion Whisky received from Lawrence. Ostrom & Cos., and found the same to be perfectly free from Fusel Oil and all other deleterious substances and strictly pure I cheerfully recommend the same for Family and Medicinal purposes. J. P. Baiinum, M. D., Analytical Chemist, Louisville, Ky. For sale by Druggists, Wine Merchants and Grocers everywhere. Price, $1 25 per bottle. If not found at the above, half dozen bottles iti plain boxes will lie sent to any address in the United States on receipt of $6. Express paid to all [joints east of Missouri river. LAWRENCE, OSTROM & CO., Louisville, Ky. At Wholesale by S. GUCKENHEIMER&SON, Wholesale Grocers; LIPPMAN BROS., Whole sale Druggists, Savannah, Ga. QtriVIFORM PLASTER. ENORMOUS CONSUMPTION OF QUININE. Quinine, Belladonna and Capsicum, Favorite Remedies among Physicians. 6,000,000 ounces of Quinine are consumed annually. No other remedy known to physicians is used to the same extent, though Belladonna and Capsicum are prime favorites among physicians. Qulniform Is a substitute for Quinine, having all the remedial virtues of Quinine, without its disagreeable and dangerous effects, and ©Qulniform Plaster Is a happy combination ol Qulniform, Belladonna and Capsicum, with other Ingredients, and is, as common sense would In dicate, a much higher grade of plaster than the public hae hitherto Ami* ,* !„ Known. The Malaria or rrw.T*R Ague-subduing snd tonlo runii water. virtue of Qulniform. and the pam-killing action of its other ingre dients, are applied to the system through the pores of the skin. Qulniform Plaster is a phenomenal pain-relieving and curative remedy. Fur Malaria and all of the aches, pains and Ills Tor which Quinine and Plasters have been used. It will be found to be decidedly preferable. Qulniform Plaster can be obtained of any druggist, or will by mail, on receipt of 25 cents, by NBON & Johnson, 23 Cedar St., N. Y. For sale by LIPPMAN BROS., Lippman’s Block, Savannah. POROUS PLASTERS.