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4 C|c|Hflrning|letus Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. MONDAY, MAY lfi. 188 7.' Registered at the Post Office in Savannah. The Morning News is published every day in the year, and is served to suliseribers in the city , by newsdealers and carriers, on fheir own ae count, at 25 cents a week, $1 00 a month. $5 00 for six months ami $lO 00 for one year. The Morning News, by mail, one month, (1 00; three months, $2 50; six months, $5 00; one year. $lO 00. The Morning News, by mail , six times a week (without Sunday issuei, three months, $2 00; six months. $4 00 one year, $8 00. The Morning Nkwk Tri weekly. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturday's, three months, $i 25; six months, $2 50; one year. So 00. The Sunday News, bu 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 arid telegrams snould be addressed “Morning News, .Savannah, Ga.” Advertising rates made known on application. Index" to new advektiskments. Meetings— Railroad Loan Association; Clin ton Lodge No. 54, F. &A. M.; Tattnall Council No. BS4, A. L. of H.; DeKalb Lodge No. 9, I. O. O. F.; The Most Worthy Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons; Royal Arch Chapter F. & A. M. Special Notice —Closing cf Shoe Stores at 7 o'clock p. m. Mammoth Millinery House—S. Krouskoff. Steamship Schedule —Ocean Steamship Cos.; General Transatlantic Cos. Bargains— At Gray & O’Brien’s. Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Want ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous. Lottery— Drawing Louisiana State. Starch—A. M. &C. W. West. Lottery— l/misiana State. Legal Notices—Petitions for Incorporation of Tybee Beach Company; Harmonie Club of Savannah. Washington hotel keepers are softly smil ing. The time for the national drill to be gin is near at hand. Mr. Blaine has been ominously silent for more than a week. Something dreadful is in store for the country. The man condemned to death, whose case has been apixialod to the Supreme Court, never objects to the law’s delays. The American eagle is the only bird that is respected in all parte of the world—that is, of course, when it is on an American dol lar. The school children of Pittsburg have struck for shorter hours. Their parents and teachers ought to strike for better dis cipline. In Camden, N. J., donkey parties are the rage. Down South such jiarties are gener ally confined to the towns in which the Leg islatures meet. The Hon. J. Warren Keifer has been re stored to the grave of obscurity, and it is pot probable tlmt he will again be disturbed by body-snatchers. Texas expects during the present year to lay a thousand miles of railroad track. Texas is ’way down South, but it means to keep up with the march of progress. The Mexicans want to whip the United States. The quickest way to do it would be to bring the United States under the influ ence of the famous City of Mexico Jockey Club. Henry Ward Beecher didn't like palmis try. He once wrote: “My father used to practice palmistry, but under afflictive cir cumstances which disgusted me early with this science applied.” Georgia plays on important part in the legislation of every State in the Union. The Georgia peanut is eaten by the members of all the Legislatures. Without its inspiring aid laws would doubtless cease to lie made. The Chicago variety of walking delegate is not different from other varieties. Those who ordered the strike in the Lake City last week rode in street cars to their various ap pointments. The men that struck paid the fares. Life says that “Henry George is the first man we ever met that doesn’t want the earth. He only wants what is on it.” There are indications that he doesn't want that, if he has to work for it. It is exjiected that the new United States Treasurer Hyatt will file his bond and take possession of his office this week. Mr. Hyatt has a good record as a bank examiner, and is backed by some of the staunchest Demo crats of New England. The New York Times' expedition to Alaska doesn't seem to have resulted in ob taining much information about the geogra phy of that country. In Washingoon in ftyirics were recently made ns to whether Alaska was surrounded by water or land. Menator John Sherman has accepted an invitatiou to address the Republican mem bers of tlie Illinois Legislature on national politics. The time fixed is June 1. The Senator is solid with the Ohio Republicans, and the outlook is that he will soon be solid with those of Illinois. In Western lowa, last week, a bank ca shier stoic SIO,OOO and fled. In a note he left behind he explained that his downfall ■was due to f the interstate commerce law. The directors of the bank think of suing Senator Culiom in order to get even. The trial of the alleged briber of the boodler Aldermen of New York, Jacob Bliarpe, will, it is expected, begin in that city to-day. He is not anxious to be tried, but the prosecuting attorney thinks he hat, waited for him to get ready for- trial about long enough. The country doesn't manifest much entlrii eiam over the suggestion of a Southern man for Vice President. The truth is, the subject is an mi interesting one. Perhaps in ten years a Southern man may be nominated for President and then the enthusiasm will be unbounded. Mrs. Mcßride, of New York, who is try ing to got a divorce, says that her husband abused ber on the very day they were married. Commenting on the fact, on ex change makes the bullish suggestion that if he had abused her the day before she wouldn’t have married him. Joseph Howard, Jr., has finished his life of Henry Ward Beecher. It makes a vol ume of (151 pages. Howard dictated to a stenographer three hoars a day, three days a week, for three weeks. The rapidity with _ which the life was written was almost equal to making biography by electricity- Points About Petroleum. Anew oil field is about to be opened. It is in Burmah, the country lately acquired by England in India. The oil field is located on the Irawady river, less than a hundred miles from the terminus of the Rangoon rail way. Oil lias also been discovered in Assam and in a couple of islands off Burmah’s coast. A geologist who has inspected these new oil fields expresses the opinion that they are capable of producing enough oil to sup ply the world for the next half century. The existence of oil in Burmah has been known for a century or more, but its value was unknown by the natives. It is proba ble that England will now become the com petitor of this country and Russia in the markets of the world as an oil producer. In the markets ol India, Australia and some other countries she will have ad vantages over her competitors, and in a few years, perhaps, will have a monopoly of those markets. The Russian wells at Baku arc wonderful pro ducers. It is only alxmt twelve years since they were opened, but in that period they have yielded many millions of barrels of oil. One has produced 1,800,000 barrels and twenty-two 7,(500,000 barrels. The average depth of the wells is about 500 feet, the shallowest being about 200, and the deepest about 1,000 feet. Baku is a walled city and formerly be longed to Persia. For many years, how ever, it has been under the jurisdiction of Russia. It is located on the Eastern shore of the Caspian sea, and is nearly (500 miles from Batoum, on the Black sea. The wells are eight miles north of Baku where the re fining is done, and to which the oil is con veyed in pipes. The territory in which they are located is desolate. The wells do not occupy more than four miles square, but it is believed that there is an immense region that will produce oil and only awaits development. There is a proposition to run a pipe from Baku to Batoum to save the heavy railroad freight. The cost would lie about $8,000,000, but capitalist* are afraid to invest in it. They do not feel certain that the wells will bo per manent. The oil of neither the Russian nor the Bur mah wells is as valuable as that found in this country. From 100 gallons of crude Pennsylvania oil 75 gallons of refined oil are obtained, while from the same amount of crude Russian oil only 30 gallons are secured. The Burmah oil is not so good as the Russian. v The American oil, there fore, may be able to hold its place in the markets of the world unless a change in the kerosene lamp is made.' The Yankee now makes the lamp for the world and it is in tended for the high grade American oil. A lamp could be made, though it would not be so convenient, to burn a low grade oil. The light would be just as good but the lamp would lie open to several objections. If a lamp of that sort were in troduced the refiners of the Burmah and Russian oils would be able to realize (50 instead of 30 gallons of oil from 100 gallons of the crude material. It is not improbable that within the next few years there will be some very marked changes in the petroleum business owing to England’s entrance into it as an oil pro ducer. Immigration to the South. The question of immigration continues to excite interest in Georgia, due, no doubt, to the attention which the press is giving to the subject. The suggestions which the Morning News has made regarding the proper way to induce immigration to the Htate have caused considerable comment, most of it of a commendatory nature. The Columbus Enquirer-Sun calls atten tion to the fact that within the last fifteen years 5,421,000 immigrants havo sought homes in the United States, the greatest number being Germans and the next great est being Irish. The number of English and Scandinavians is also large. These, with their descendants, the Enquirer-Sun thinks, must now number about 12,000,000, or one fifth of the population of the country. Compared with other sections the South has received but little benefit from this im migration, a fact which the Enquirer-Sun seems to think is not to bo regretted. The Mousing News is of tho opposite opinion. The growth ami prosperity of other soctions is largely due to immigration, and however rapid the South’s development may have been within the last few years, it can never lie as rapid as it should be until a large part of tho immigrants come in this direction. The Enquirer-Sun doubts tho advisability of encouraging any but Germans and Irish to come South. These two classes are among those that the Morning News regards as desirable, but why shouldn’t the English and Scotch be welcomed also? It is not often that immigrants of the four nationalities men tioned become paupers and consequently burdens upon the States in which they set tle. On the contrary, the vast majority add strength to the communities in which they find homes, and in the course of a few years they become so thoroughly American ized that they deservedly rank among the better classes of citizens. There are those who think that this coun try has hail enough immigration. It is certainly true that the country would be better off if certain foreign elements had been denied citizenship. It is not likely, however, that this government will take any stejis to check immigration, and as long as this is true the South ought to share in whatever lienefite flow from immigration. The Chicago Tribune, says that a photog rapher of that city became much interested in the subject of composite photograph} - , as illustrated in the March Century. A few days ago he took a negative of a Chinese idol, by way of experiment, and by succes sively super-imposing thereupon the nega tives of a rhinoceros, a donkey, a King Charles spaniel, a pelican, a gorilla, a Flat head Indian and a Dutch cheese he secured a pretty fair photograph of a Mfigmump. It is such little pleasantries as this that serve to make good Democrats out of tho Mug wumps. _____ Rhode Island will inaugurate her Demo cratic Governor on the last Tuesday in this month. It is proposed to make the occasion a grand one. President Cleveland and his Cabinet have been invited to be present, and distinguished Democrats from all parts of the country have also been invited. Rhode Island may well afford to rejoice, and it is to Is- hoped that all those that liavo been invited will be present to rejoice with her. General Master Workman Powderly has issued an official circular addressed to the ' Knights of iMibor in all parte of the Lniterl States recommending that they celebrate the Fourth of July this year in honor of the foundation of the republic. He also enjoins the Knights to use only one flag—the stars and stripes. All right, score oue in the i General Master Workman's favor. TIIE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, MAY 16, 1887. Tho State Fair. Macon is 1 tending all her energies to make the approaching State Fair a success. She ought to have the co-operation of ail Geor gia, if there is a well-settled determination to make the fair a jiermanent institution. Several counties havo announced their in tention to coiiqiete for the prize offered for the best comity display, and most of the towns and cities are also preparing exhibits. The State Agricultural Society has ceased to be a political machine, and is now di rected by gentlemen whose sole purpose is to make it a means of accomplishing good for the fanners. The committees that have charge of the various departments of the fair are composed of enthusiastic farmers, and their plans liave been so well prepared that there is no doubt of their being success fully canned out. Tiie Commissioner of Agriculture, lion. J. T. Henderson, who is interested in ail agricultural matters, will no doubt lend valuable aid. The section of tho State w r hich is immedi ately tributary to Savannah ought not to neglect the opportunity which the fair will afford of making known the advantages peculiar to the timber region. It is under stood that extraordinary efforts will be made to bring representative citizens of Northern and Western States to Macon while the fair is in progress, and they ought to be given an adequate idea of the the timlier resources of South Georgia. Mobile is preparing to build ships. The country around Savannah alxiunds in material suit able for shipbuilding, and a proper exhibit at the fair may draw attention to it. The timlier interest, however, is not tho only one that should be represented. South Georgia is an importanrttgrieulturalregion, and the a; r'cultural interest should by all means be represented. Through Savan nah all the principal markets of the world are easily reached, and a complete exhibit of the agricultural products of South Georgia, together with a proper explanation of Savannah’s advan tages as a port of exiiorts could not fail to make a favorable impression upon the Northern and Western visitors to the fair. When the immigrant is invited to settle in a particular section of the country he natu rally asks: “What inducements do you of fer?” The State Fair will afford a fine op portunity for answering tills question as far as the region around Savannah is concerned, ami the opportunity ought to be utilized. Happy Valdosta. Valdosta, the metropolis of the wire-grass section of Georgia, is contented in her prosperity. Her merchants are satisfied with their business for this season of the year, and regard their prospects for the coining season as very bright. Their prosperity is mainly due to the cultivation of sea island cotton by far mers who make Valdosta their market, but their energy and push con tribute ’a great deal to their success. It is expected that one or more of the new railroads which are being projected from the upper part of the State toward tho Florida line will touch Valdosta, but if they do not there will be no great disappointment, as every citizen apparently is friendly to the Savannah, Florida and Western railway, and has nothing but praise for its manage ment. There appears to boa feeling that the interests of the town will never suffer at its bands. Valdosta not only has enterprising lAerchante and able professional men, but she has first class hotels, and one of the best conducted, well edited newspapers (the Valsosta Times) in the State. One of Valdosta's gifted orators, at the late press banquet, iu speaking of the prosperity of the town, said that to no one was more credit due for it than to Capt. C. R. the editor of the Times. Another citizen of the United States languishes in a Mexican jail. His name is J. D. Garcia. Ho writes from Sahnasipa that on the third Sunday in April he was asked by the Prefect of the district to vote for him in an election then being held. Garcia refused on the ground that he was a citizen of the United States, and the Prefect at once sent him to jail, where he has been ever since, with just food enough to prevent starvation. Secretary Bayard should send down another special envoy. Vlginians are discussing a rumor to the effect that the British bondholders of the State will give ex-Senntor Mahone the money with which to elect a Legislature next year. In return he Is to sec that the Legislature passes a bill that Anil divert money now given to the public school fund ami the “maimed Confederate” fund to pay the bondholders what they demand. The scheme is a very nice one, but the Virginians are not likely to let it suc ceed. Some of the Republican organs are of fended lx 'cause Mr. Jefferson Davis sug gested, the other day, that if the Union is ever divided again the Southern people should take no part in bringing about the event. The organs regard the suggestion ns evidence that Mr. Davis has been recon structed, and they are angry because they lun-e lost an Issue. They now have but one left—Gen. Rosser's attack on Gen. Sheridan —and that is likely soon to wear out. Henry Ward Beecher’s body still lies in the receiving vault at. Green aa oml Cemetery, Brooklyn. Recently the authorities of the cemetery were informed that an attempt Avould be made to steal the body. Two po lieenion Avere nt once detailed as a special guard at the receiving vault to assist the regular watchmen to keep off vandals. In the next few days the body will bo interred in the Beecher lot, which is in the south eastern part of the cemetery. An Atlanta man, avlio boards nt the Kim ball House, stopped a reporter the other day and inquired: “Who is this fellow Comity that the Governors of Georgy and South Caroliny are kickin’ up such a row about f” The reporter said that Comity AA-as a leading Prohibitionist “Is that so?’ exclaimed the Atlanta man. “Well, I’vo always said the Prohibitionists would git Georgy into a row!” If the Gate City Guard’s proposed Euro jx>an tour was intended to give the company notoriety, success has been the'result The pawl's all over the country arc printing funny things about Queen Victoria's refusal to allow the warriors to land in England. There is a whisper in Atlanta that if tlio Guard doesn’t compromise on an excursion to Big Shanty it will disltand. There are men whose souls are so full of music that they are charmed by every sweet sound. They can never know, however, what it is to be entranced by a sweet sound Aintil they bear a member of the Salva tion Army play “Hold the Port” on a con certina, while another member pounds an , obligato ou a bate drum. | CURRENT COMMENT. Coleman, of California. From the Philadelphia Press IRcpt The Presidential boom of William T.K'olenrin, of Calif' irain, is gradually working its way Eastward. So far it has found the walking very fair. It Is a Pity. From the PliiladelplHa Times tied.) The labor war in Chicago promises to suspend ali building operations in that city for an indefi nite period. The contest, if long continued, cannot fail to Is; disastrous to all concerned, in cluding not only workmen and employers, but every business man in the city. It is a great pity that so much time and money must Iw thrown away nowadays in these wasteful aud destructive contests between capital and labor. One Will Be in the Field. From the Boston Herald (Ind.) Some of the papers are discussing as to whether there wili Ia labor candidate for President iu the field next year. We venture a confident guess tlmt there will be. It is not at all sure that there will be a popular call for such nominee: but the same parties that were smart enough to put Gen. Butler into the canvass in IMS4 will be equal to the coming exigency, and will be equal to paying the bills for it, too. One Way to Abolish Poverty. From the New York Wot Id (Item.) - Near the little town of Rising Star, in East man county, Tex. a curious secret society lias been organized. The object of the order is to suppress idleness and make everylwxiy work. When mi able-bodied man is found to be habit ually idle he is warned by a committee to go to work or leave the community This society is said to have converted the southern pari of Eastman county into a perfect lilvo of industry. It is an unlawful organization, liut it seems to be fining some good in the world. One way to aliolish poverty is to abolish idleness. BRIGHT BITS. The proof reader's wife was the girl who first ran a tyi>e Tighter.— Boston Commarial Bulle tin “Why, Esther! What have you done with the rest of it, anyway* I gave you a SSO bill, and you have bought the bonnet for $27.” ‘Gly tlear boy. how am Ito know? You know I never can count change.”— Town Topics. Teacher—Now we have had the Stone Age, the Brow n Age, anil so on. Who can tell me wuat the present age is? Johnny Harris, you are holding up your hand. You can tell me. johnny (who reads the papers)—'The age of steal ma’ra.— Pittsburg Chronicle. Omaha Doctor—Ah, little one. tell your mother I have come to vaccinate the baby. Refined Child—l’m afraid you can’t see baby now. Mamma is giving him a bath. “That won t matter. Jt won’t take but a min ute.” “Y'es, but he’s entirely decollete.”— Omaha World. About this time the country aunts and cous ins begin to receive affectionate and highly per fumed letters from their city relatives, who have been too busy to write all’ winter. They want to know if the farmer man has planted any of “those nice fresh eggs we had last summer,” aud if the dear old cow has liegun to set on the fresh butter.— Springfield Union. Little Eddie, 3 years old, had an attack of croup one night. The next evening, when he kneeled down to say his prayers, his mamma told him he must thank Goa for making him well. So he said, “I thank thee, O God, for making me well, but my nose goes this way vet"- here he sniffed several times to show that he still had a cold in his head .—Babyhood. On the Avenue— “ Been to the Brunswick?” “Yaa^i.” “See coach awf?" “Yaas.” “Jolly pawty, hay?” “So, so. But theah wasn’t a heliotwope scawf among all the men. Pon honaw, thali wasn’t.” "Gad! I'm glad I didn't book faw the twip." —Town Topics. “I see, pa," said a young Hartford hopeful, “that a member of Parliament the other day said ‘the honorable gentleman is a liar.’ ” “And very properly, too,” was the patronizing reply. "Now, now can ‘an honorable gentleman’ be’a liar?” “Simplest thing in the world. Now, I'm an honorable gentleman—” “Hold on, pa. Your logic will trip you up if you're not careful.”— Hartford Post. Teacher—With whom did Archilles fight at Troy; Boy—With Pluto. 1 "Wrong.” ‘‘With Nero.” - “Wrong.” “Then it Avas Hector," "What made you think of Pluto and Nero?" “Oh. I knew it Avas one of our dogs. Their names are Pluto, Nero and Hector.— Frankfurter Zeitung. , The train hands on the Boston and Maine, when a train is entering the Boston depot, call: “Boston: this train goes no further.” This is a thoughtful provision that prevents passengers being carried by Boston. That it is not uncalled for is shown by an incident that happened the other day when an elderly traveler asked of the conductor, in apparent good faith: "Does this tram stop at Boston?” The conductor said it did when they had passengers for that station. —Boston Transcript. “I aai going to starta magazine in the South," said a shrewd speculator. “Do you think that it Avill pay?" someone asked. “Pay? Why, it can't help hut pay. You see, I Avill make it pay by selling out.” “But will any one buy you out?” “Of course. All I have to do is to publish a few Avar articles, then the proprietors of the Eastern magazines will offer me a fair price for my establishment, oh, I tell you, there is money in It." —Arkansaw Traveler. PERSONAL. Elia Wheeler Wilcox hopes to publish a new volume of poems in the fall. Rider Haggard has received but £lB from the sale of his books in this country, so he says. Don Carlos has gone to Brazil with a suite consisting of two servants and an interpreter. Dr. Coma is his nom du A-oyage. Lady Lyttos’s ciraa'e in Shirley ChurchA'ard is an unmarked grassy mound. Friends have recently purchased the adjoining plot and erected thereon a monument to her memory. The Duke of Norfolk, avlio so recently lost his young wife, is already Icing regarded with longing eyes by every British matron of high degree possessed of a marriageable daughter. Gov. Daa’is. of Rhode Island, has appointed his staff officers. There svere thirty appli cants for the six positions. Darius li. Davis, a brother of the Governor, is one of the appoin tees. The late Rev. Dr. J. 11. McFcrrin. of Nashville. Tenn.. Itook agent of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, was in the ministry more than sixty years, and was also for eighteen years an editor. Mr. Hyatt is th second United Stales Treas urer from Connecticut within a few years, •lames Gilflllan, who was Treasurer under the late President Garfield, was a native of Con nect icut. Georoe Alfred Townsend, who has just com pleted a charming country home in the moun tains of Virginia, Avill taken little relaxation in Europe this summer. He expects to sail some time in June. John W. Mack ay says in San Francisco that Mrs. Mackay is sujxwvising the education of her two sons and their schooling will not be com pleted in a time short of three years. She is very Avell satisfied with her residence abroad. 3, Ahmoy Knox, of Texas Siftings, who is commonly called Armory because he carries two revolver* anti a bowk knife, in the ablest coin matcher in the country since John T. Raymond died. He has a lucky quarter with which he has won over S3OO this month. While Kapiolani is in Boßton looking at the Institutions and people of the New England capital, a young New Englander is at work under her very rooftree, making her palace more pleasant than ever bv putting electric light into the mansion. The youug man is W. O. Faulkner, formerly of Lyun. The time Is near at hand when James O'Rourke, catcher on tlio New York League nine, will present himself nt the Vale Law School to stand examination for the dogive of LL. B. O'Rourke is said to be rather uncertain as to his success, and may have to wait another year for the desired parchment. Poor Mr. Raskin! ill an advanced English school tlie question wns asked in examination, "What do you know of John Ruskin?" One re plied that lie was lately Prime Minister, an other that be was editor of Punch, and a third that he Avas a gentleman tvho tvrote for the pa pers and ust-d lia l language. Diplomatic circlkh in Washington are gos siping about v hut i- suiil to be a slight to lYuice Leopold of Germany by tbe United States gov ernment, Tlie Prince did not go to Washington as he had Intended, and it is said that the eatise of his change of plan lay in the fact that the government took no notice of his presence in this country. After the jubilee reception given to Queen Kapiolani the neglect shown by the 'government to Leopold seems especially pe culiar. AN IDYL OF THE WAR. The Heroism of the Wife of Gen. George 'E. Pickett. From Washington letter to the Baltimore American. The recent recovery, in this city, from a severe illness of the widow of the late Gen. George E. Pickett, recalls one of the most interesting stories that comes hack to us from the war. Its chief interest is her unflagging devotion to her husband in allthehoursof his hardship and dan ger. Privation, sickness or suffering of any kind only served to bring out more beaut ifully her heroic and womanly nature. During the closing year of the war site followed him cn the battlefields, lived under canvas, and went through camp life like a soldier, being rejieat edly under lire and making narrow escapes, yet still remaining faithfully by his side. When site married him she was but 15 years of age, beauti ful in face and form, gifted in intellect and gen tle in nature. She was, too, a petrfect and fear less rider. When the war was over an effort was made to take from Gen. Pickett the privileges given hint- by the Grant-Lee cartel, and they went to (iVmada. There they had no friends, no money, and no prospect of either, with a young child to care for. But her bravo nature never faltered. With that indom itable courage which never deserted her, and aided by her superior education, she obtained a professorship in belles-lettres, and took care of the family until Gen. Grant insisted that the cartel should lie kept, and they once more re turned totbeir home. Gen. Grant then tendered (ien. Pickett the position of Marshal of Virgin ia, but he accepted a position in an insurance company, with a handsome salary attached, Though all, then, seemed bright, the worst sor row was yet to come. In a lew years Ger . Pic kett died, and she was left to her own resources. It was then that her heipless condition aroused tbe sympathy of the South, and a subscription was stai ted for lier, headed with $3,000 by one State. Stic firmly declined to receive this, upon hearing of it. anil shortly afterwards secured a small government position, sufficient to sup port herself and family. Among her friends and visitors hero arc : mne of the leading society and official people, whom she occasionally en tertains in a modest but dignified way. CAN SIZE A MAN UP. * President Cleveland’s Method in Mak ing Appointments. From Washington Inciter to the Boston Post. Appointment Clerk Hassler, of the Interior Denrtment, talking about the newspaper stories In regard to President Cleveland’s desire for a re nomination, said to-day: There is one thing that can be set down as absolutely certain about the whole business, aud that is the fact that Cleveland is not trying in the matter of appoint ments to “fix” himself for renomination in the political sense. He does not appoint a man be cause he is a ward politician, who can Ire de pended upon to vote for him at the next elec tion in return for liis appointment. The main idea in all the appoint ments which Cleveland has made has been to secure an honest man who will be capable in the best sense of the word to fill the position for which he is chosen. Cleve land is a great man for seeing the men he thinks of appointing before committing himself, for he says he can "size a man up" much better by a few minutes’ talk with him ilian he can by a whole pile of recommendations. He, how ever. d6es not throw aside the letters and in dorsements which are filed with the papers of applicants, but no matter how many of them there are, he examines each one carefully, and sometimes spends a whole day in picking out the best. Then he will go through the list of indorsers and examine their characters, so that it is a matter of considerable time to decide upon every single appointment. That he does not shirk his work is shown by a very significant fact. This administration has been iti office u little over two years, and during all that time not one of the persons appointed by the Presi dent has been found deficient, dishonest, or In any way has brought scandal uj >' in the adminis tration. That is a record which cannot be lieaten or even approached by any previous ad ministration. Advice to a Young Man. Burdette in Brooklyn Eagle. My boy, when you meet a good hearted, genial fellow, open-handed and generous, who spends money freely when he has it, who "doesn’t know the value of money,” who only esteems it for the good it can do, who believes in the lively shilling, aud always does his best to make if lively, who can’t hoard up money for the life of him, who gets it and spends it, and then gets more to spend, so that all of us may get a little of it, who doesn't put down every cent he lets a friend have, as though he was a money lender, who, if he has only $1 in the world let you have 90c. of it if you ask for it; a good, whole-souled, generous fellow, who knows no more and cares no more about money than a pig does about Greek, and he is ' a little hard up, and wants to borrow $lO of you for a few days—my troy, don't you lend him a cent; don’t lend him a cent. Eh? Do I want you to be mean, close fisted, stingy, weighing all friendship and good fellowship on the scales of the money lender? Oh no, my hoy, I didn't say anything of the kind. I said, and repeat it, “don’t lend him a cent.” I don't want you to be mean, 1 only want you to be business-like. Give him $lO, if you have it to subscribe and feel like it: give him what money you can spare, and your heart and head justify you in giving, but never lend that kind of a man a dollar. Only lend money where there is at least a remote pos sibility of its being paid hack. That's all. You may go, now. By the way, I took care of that note of Jack Merrihart's that you didn't tell me anything about; it's all right now. only don't lend Jack any more than you can afford to give him. A man who has no Idea of the value of his own money has just as little comprehension of the value of yours. The Wretched Wren’s Wild Wail. From the Audubon Magazine. The following: charming story comes to us from Warner, 111.: “Close to my office window, a.i I write this. I see a wren's nest. Three years ago I drove some nails in a sheltered corner; a pair of wren's built their nest there. The old birds often come into my office and sing. One of them lias repeatedly alighted on my desk as I have been writing, saying plainly by his ac tions; ‘You wmi’t hurt me. We are friends.’ A few years since, in a knothole in a dead tree, near a path from my office to my house, lived a family of wrens, with whom I had formed a very’ intimate acquaintance. One day while I was passing in a hurry 1 heard the two old birds uttering cri<*s of fear and anger, and as 1 got past the tree one of the wrens followed me, and by its peculiar motions and uries induced me to turn Imek. *T examined the nest and found the young birds all right; looked into the tree's branches, but saw no enemies there, and started away. Both lards then followed me with renewed cries, and when 1 was a few yards away they (lew in front of me, fluttered a moment and then darted back to the tree. Then one of them came back to me fluttering and cryifig, then darted from me near to the ground under the tree. I looked and there lay a rattlesnake, coiled ready to strike. I secured t stick and killed him. the wrens looking on from the tree, and the moment I did so they changed their song to a lively, happy one, seeming to say ’Thank you’.' in every note. W. W. W.” Maying Time. From the Boston Budget. Backward goes my memory straying To the merry, sunny past. To the day we went a-Jlaying— Days whose brightness could not last; Well the joy do 1 remember Of that May-day long ago, Hecllection keeps an ember Of th'Hileasure still aglow. Twenty years have told their story, Brought their gladness and their pain, And to-day the old-time glory Beams upon the nilml again; Called by mem'ry's hock'ulng finger. Backward down life's path 1 tread, And again raid scenes I linger Known in days long past and dead. Foolish dream I We're somewhat old; Earth is older, too. we know; Climates change and blood grows colder After twenty years or so; Ne'ertbeless, I'm off a-Maying— limit the fields for flowers: -Oh, no! To the florist's shop I'm straying,„■ There's, now, where the May flowers grow. A Slight Confusion. From Ihe Detroit Free Prrxa. “Boss. Ize a bit confused "bout suthin',” said one of the negro whitewash*rs nt the market to Detective Webb the other day. "Well, what is it?” "Wliat does per annum meant” "Per year, of course.” “.V hull yiir!” "Ye;:." “Can’t be no mistake V “No, sir.” “If I horry ?a of Abraham Johnson an’ agree to pay ofta. per annum dat means 20c. a y’ar does it?" “It does." "Hul Car’s gwlne to be do biggest row in Kaintuck to-night you eher heuru * *P of " "Atxnit what?” “About dat tier annum. I borryed f t of de pusson tneushunod at tf) per cent, pcrltnnum. an’ fur de Ins' fo'teen mouth he’s bln collecting Stic, a week as regular as a clock. Stuck right to it, he did, dat per annum meant ebery Satur day ulgbt. law : but when I gits dose paws on him won’t per umium lake a flop ! ” ITEMS OF INTEREST. A French art joras.u. states that there are in France alone 22.357 painter-, acid that of that number kDJOO have had opportunities of dis playing their works at exhibitions. Oscar B. Faknum, of Boston, tired of life, took a big dose of laudanum, tied his necktie tightly around his throat, hung himself thereby to the chandeli-a*, turned on the gas and tried to da*. The necktie broke, the poison didn't work, he was discovered before the gas killed him, and at last accounts was alive. An Athenian newspaper relates that a mer chant named Kosts Staggos, 100 years of age, recently undertook a two days' journey on horse back in order to see his old home once more. He owes his health to the pure water and air tor which his present home, Kissiora, which lies m a high, mountainous region, is famous. Col. Richard M. Hoe collected a fine library upon the subject of the history of printing, in cluding in it all the medals that could be found that had been struck in commemoration of the art, over 130 in number. Col. Hoe talked of giving this library to the public, but he died without making any detailed plan, and now the books, etc., will be sold at auction. West Virginia can qoyv boast of having the two youngest members of the Senate. Senator Kernut was born in 1848, and is consequently less than 10 years of age, and Senator-elect Faulkner first saw light about the year 1846. The only other Senator who might be classed with these two in youth is Spooner, of Wiscon sin, who was born in Lawrenceburg, lad., in 1843. New York business signs present some curious coincidences. Taylor & Cutter is a clothing firm in the Bowery. A dealer in curled hair is named Willcome. A Bleeker street sign reads, “I. Gcd love.” Of metropolitan milk dealers, one is Well and another Water. Currie & Rice do business together. Manhelp is a name on a sign next to one bearing the name of Godlove on Broadway. Last February- William Brown, of Somerset, N Y., asked Eleanor Pierce to marry him, and when she refused shot her. When- the girl re covered from the wound she visited him in jail and offered to lie his wife as soon as he could lie released, ami Tuesday she went into court aud pleaded for his pardon. Luckily the judge hail not a tender heart, and sentenced the man to the penitentiary. Amono the attractions of the convict settle ment of Noumea is an orchestra which is said to be the best in Oceania. It is composed of 120 instrumentalists and is conducted by a former musician of the Paris Opera, who is under a life sentence to hard labor for murder. On Sundays and Thursdays this baud plays for three hours on the public square before an assemblage of the authorities and principal tradesmen. Yesterday morning, says a Vienna dispatch to the London -Vet rs, Kreitter, the mendicant who stabbed a gentleman close to St. Stephen's last November, because he refused to give him alms, was hanged. He showed great stoicism to the last and burst out laughing while the rope was put around his neck. His last request was for a pair of new boots, as he did not like to ap pear in shabby attire before the uistinguished public that would witness his death. Ex-Senator Tabor, of Colorado, the million aire mine owner, has just built anew opera house in Leadville, meant to be finer then the one in Denver. A few days ago Tabor employed an artist to fresco the wails, While tie >vas at work on a portrait of Shakespeare. Tabor en tered the building and asked who it was the artist was painting. “Shakespeare” was the reply. “Who is he?” "The greatest dramatist, poet, etc.. that over lived.” "Ever done any thing for Leadville?" “No; I think not," replied the artist, sadly. “Then paint him right out and put me in." It is said that a syndicate of capitalists have secured the right to introduce the telephone into China. They don't know what trouble they are bringing on themselves. In the Chinese language delicate shades of meaning are given to the same word by a very- slight inflection of the voice, and it is doubtful if the telephone will register or convey these inflections. If, for in stance, a Chinese merchant wanted to have a lunch sent into his place of business, and gave the appropriate order '‘Wang wang” through the telephone, it would very seriously disturb his equanimity if the telephone people thought that he ordered a large and ferocious bull pup. Referring to the statement that he had called Mr. Pitt England’s greatest peace Minister, and yet was now drumming out of his ranks all who would not combine with him in talking of the blackguardism and baseness of Mr. Pitt, Mr. Gladstone writes: “I think that Mr. Pitt was, and promised to be, our greatest peace Minister, but Mr. Goldwin Smith has well said there are two Mr. Pitts beside Lord Chatham. I have never praised the Mr. Pitt of 1752-1806. In condemna tion of the proceedings which were used to bring about the Union, I once used the word blackguardism in a private letter, but I did not apply it to Mr. Pitt. To divide and bring home the responsibility to persons, as I showed thirty six years ago about the King of Naples, is be yond my power or duty.” The forthcoming report of the Department of Agriculture on the English sparrow will be a very interesting document. It will contain about 400 printed pages, in which will appear the experiences of about 3.200 people with this destructive biped. Dr. Merriam. the ornitho logist of the department, who has charge of the preparation of the report, says that the indict ment against the sparrow is a terrible one, and it has scarcely a friend in the whole country. Farmers who devote their time to the cultiva tion of grain report t’.ia; the sparrows, wherever they are thick, do frightful uemage to cereals. Market gardeners and the raisers of small fruit in the vicinity of cities say that since sparrows began to multiply the profits of market garden ing have almost vanished. It is proposed to have at the Paris Exposition of 1889 a captive balloon of the enormous vol ume of 60,000 cubic metres. The maximum alti tude for the ascensions will be 1,000 metres, and it will be possible to take 100 passengers, a wind ing engine of 600 horse power being employed. In the construction of this balloon, the follow ing point is of some interest: The surface of the balloon must always lie tight in order to prevent the damage which otherwise a strong wind might cause To preserve tightness, notwith standing variations in temperature, another small balloon is placed inside the large one, and the volume of this small baloon, which is filled with atmospheric air, can be increased or dimin ished by pumping in or exhausting air by means of an air pump, worked by an electric motor on tbe car, the current being supplied by u twin cable from a dynamo on the ground. The Cleveland Leader , speaking of the wed ding-historic in Ohio—of Kate Chase and Gov. Sprague, says: “Chief among the guests, smil ing, witty, and everywhere honored and wel come, was seen the tall form and winning face of Abraham Lincoln, President of the republic. Carefully dressed in plain evening attire, he reached the house a few moments after the ceremony had been performed. Stepping directly up to the bride and kissing her' in a fatherly manner, he extended his hearty con gratulations to both the young people, and then asked if it were really tine that the marriage ceremony had actually taken place before his arrival. Upon being informed that it had, he expressed his regret at his late appearance, and said: “Well, if it is so, I must submit as grace fully ns possible. 1 suppose you can’t burn that gunpowder twice even for a President.” “It really looks as if the milkman may, after all, be a grievously wronged individual,” says London Truth. “In a milk adulteration case at Cheltenham the other day a sample of ‘babies’ milk,’ sold by the defendant, was proved to con tain 10 per cent, of added water. At the re quest ef Ihe defendant, however, the cow re sponsible for this sample was milked in the pres eueo of the inspector, and the bull;, in legal phraseology, proved to correspond exactly- with the sample 1 have always urged that, to deal with adulteration effectually we must go to the fountain bead: but, under these circumstances, the question arises, what are we to do w lien wo get there? The analyst in this instance said that it was the worst sample of genuine milk on record, and that he should report on thecae,.;. Hut what then? A cow capable of producing tobies’ milk wit h 10 per cent, of added water cl'iarly dov flves no mercy: but can she lie dealt with under the food and drug act?” So nervous and irrltablo has the Czar barome that the causes of bin troubles must never l e mentioned to him In any way. J.n order to obey his wishes in this iesj*ct, the very newspapers he reads have to be specially prepared. He uoyv receives no other papers but those expressly printed for him; the veriest penny magazines of old, containing at best a few inoffensive dis patches. tlie rest being made up of society gos sip and theatrical notes, with at best a leader or two thrown la, recounting Ihe blessings of his autocratic government. w-lthout an over-strict adherence to truth In their enumeration. The editor of this special sheet, to which the Czar is the only subscriber, and w hieh appears in a sin gle number, saw no harm in inserting the re ports of the festivities on the (si-anion of Km jsM-or William's 90th anniversary, which caused the Czar to exclaim sadly: “1 shall never live to reach fourscore years and ten, and have the benediction of millions of ray subjects showered upor my head.” CUTICURA REMEDIES. SKINS SCALP Cleansed, Purified and Beauti fied by the Cuticura Remedies. For cleansing the Skin and Scalp of Disfigur ing Humors, for allaying Itching, Burning, an! 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