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Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga.
WEDNESDAY. M AY *5, 1887.
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings— Golden Rule Lodge No. 12,1. O. O.
F.; Chatham Gun Chib; Georgia Chapter No. 3,
R. A. M.
Special Notices—To Water Takers; Ocean
Steamship Co.’s Notice; German Volunteers;
The Independent Presbyterian Sunday School
Picnic Postponed.
Railroad Schedcle— S., F. and W. Ry.
Coal and Wood— D. R. Thomas.
Annual Picnic -Savannah Baptist Sunday
School.
Summer Resort— Prospect Park Hotel, Cats
kill, N. Y.
Steamship Schedule- Ocean Steamship Cos.
Pickled Tongues, Etc. —Strauss Bros.
Cmeap Colcmn Advertisements— Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
Miscellaneous.
Auction Salx—Sundries, by I. D. Laßoche’s
Sons.
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quickest routes.
The Canadian policeman appears to under
stand his business. He manages to be on
hand just after the row.
St. Louis once wanted to be the capital of
thg United States. She will lie satisfied now
if she can entertain the President a few
days.
The people who say that the South is not
prospering have never come within sound
of the tuneful voices of the real estate
agents.
Prince Bismarck is playing “Brer Rabbit”
just now, but if France and Germany go to
war he will show the world how well he can
play “Brer Wolf.”
“We view with alarm” has become the
pet phrase of the Republicans. The Demo
crats find delight in the good old phrase,
“We point with pride.”
The Vnssar College girls have agreed to
discard corsets, but they threaten to lynch
the first reformer that tries to induce them
to give up chewing gum.
In New York city a Spanish restaurant is
the favorite lounging place of prominent
Republicans. Perhaps they are learning
bow to “walk Spanish” next year.
It is announced that Mr. Chauncey M.
Depew, of New York, will soon visit
Europe. Does he mean to imitate Mr.
Blaine, and run his campaign for the Presi
dency by proxy?
Since Mobile’s base ball club has disband
ed perhaps the New' York Tribune, and the
Montgomery Advertiser will admit that
there is still a chance for an advance in the
price of Savannah real estate.
The astronomer who recently discovered
anew comet is a popular man at%oug the
young people. They propose to gaze the
comet out of countenance during tho balmy
nights of the spring and summer.
It is said that the Rockefellers are grad
ually weeding out from official po
sition in the Standard Oil Company every
man who persists in dabbling in politics. If
it be true the millennium cannot be far off.
The Vermont woman recently licensed as
a pilot was not the first of her sex to have
charge of a steamboat. Capt. Mary Miller
once commanded the Saline on Louisiana
waters, and they say she made things move
while out on a trip.
A Georgian recently returned from a
visit to Massachusetts says he felt entirely
at home in that State. “Why,” he ex
claimed, “they actually speak the United
States language up there. They say ‘Ueor
gy! just as we do.”
Queen Kapiolani will soon dejiart for
England. The attentions bestowed on her
in this country have convinced her that the
color line has been rubbed out. It should
be rememliered, however, that she has not
yet visited Pcnnsyl vania.
An observant Georgian says that paying
more attention to the education of girls than
to the education of boys in the South U hav
ing its legitimate results. “The most famous
Ip them writers are womon," ho declares,
■socially in the realm of fiction.”
■OB. Jefferson Davis ha* accepted an in-
Kttion to address the literary societies of
indolph Macon College, Vo., at the ap
oaebing commencement. Thus the Re
ihlican newspapers will have material for
itorlals until next year's campaign opens.
Lawrence Barrett says that tho interstate
mmerce law will force local theatrical
managers to lie “something more than mere
Janitors, as they are at present.” Then,
w-hile Mrs. Brown Potter elevates the stage,
the intei-state commerce law will elevate the
managers.
Now that it is positively announced that
Qen. Moore, commander of the Salvation
Army, is soon to visit Savannah, why
wouldn't it be tho proper thing to petition
him, when he arrives, to prevent his soldiers
from using bass drums that are not pro-
with a mute attaehimnU
The Indemnity Lands.
Secretary Lamar is proving himself to be
a tine reformer. He is doing work in the
Interior Department which will be remem
bered long after he has left it. It was on
his advice that Congress passed the law au
thorizing the allotment of lands to Indians.
That law will soon la- in operation, and the
Indian Bureau, with all of its fraudulent
practices, will bo wiped out of existence.
The Indian policy, which was so carefully
fostered by the Republicans when they wore
in power, at an expense of aliout $7,000,000
a year, will be a thing of the past.)
The thing that Secretary Lamar has in
hand now is the opening of the indemnity
lands to settlement. There are about 100,-
(XX),000 acres of these lands, and they will
quickly be taken up by settlers seeking
homesteads. The greater portion of them
has been withdrawn from market for
jieriods varying from two to thirty-five
years, in order to give the land grant rail
roads an opportunity to make selections
from them whenever they got ready to do so.
Tho President, in his letter in the Guilford
Miller case, said that millions of acres had
been kept out of market for fifteen years at
tho request of the Northern Pacific railroad,
although that corporation had no more
right to the land than the humblest settler.
Why have these indemnity lands been
kept for the land grant railroads so long?
Simply because the railroads were owned by
men who were more influential with tho
Republican part}' than the humble seekers
of homes in the West. But there is to be a
change. These lands belong to the nation
nnd not to the railroads, and while the rail
roads will bo treated justly, they will not lie
shown favoritism at tho expense of the peo
ple. If the railroads are entitled to more
lands than are to be found w ithin the limits
of their original grants they will get them,
but they must show that they have complied
with their contracts with the government
and must prove without delay that they are
entitled to all they claim.
The land grant roads have been too grasp
ing. They thought that they could control
the present administration as they had con
trolled previous ones. Had the Northern
Pacific rail rood suspected that its wishes
respecting the indemnity lands would not
he complied with it would never have com
mitted the foolish blunder of trying to evict
Guilford Miller from his farm. It would have
willingly admitted his claim. By insisting
upon having his homestead it gave the ad
ministration tho opportunity to adopt a
policy that will deprive the railroads of
millions of acres upon which they have been
looking with covetous eyes.
If the administration had done nothing
else in the way of reform than to open up
to settlement, the indemnity lands it would
have done enough to entitle it to the grati -
ttlde of the people. But it has done many
other things, and they are not likely to lie
forgotten.
There are a few disappointed politicians
who, having failed to get enough of the
spoils of office to satisfy them, wonder
why the administration is so populnr. They
cannot understand that the jieople are more
interested in having an honest government
than in having oflieo-seekers provided for.
It is just such things as the opening of the
Indemnity lands to settlement, the discon
tinuance of tho expensive nnd altogether
useless Indian Bureau and the cheeking of
ruinous pension legislation, that apjieal to
the judgment of the people and command
their approval.
AVhat did Mr. Teller, the predecessor of
Mr. Lamar, do, as the head of the Interior
Department, that the people remember with
grnt itu<le' What reform did he inaugurate ?
There is no great public act of liis that adds
honor to his name. He was w'ith the land
grant, railroads and against tho people, and
was happy if he could place some of his
political friends in desirable places in the
Indian Bureau. But will not MI - . I/imar
have (lone something that will add addi
tional lustre to his namef If he only finishes
the work he has already mapped out he will
have done enough to entitle him to a place
with the greatest of those who have directed
departments of the government.
The Thistle’s Owner.
It turns out that the principal owner of
tho yacht Thistle, built on tho Clyde by a
syndicate of Scotchmen, and intended to
compete for the American cup, is William
Clark, of Newark, N. J. Since the building
of the yacht began until now' it has been un
derstood that she was owned in Scotland. It
was not suspected that the greater part of
the money to build her was furnished
by an American manufacturer.
Mr. Clark is a Scotchman, and is the mil
lionaire proprietor of the Clark Thread
Works. He took great interest in tho inter
national race last year Ix 4 wren tho May
flower and the Galatia, and he mudo up his
mind that a vessel could be built that would
beat the Mayflower, or any other vessel mod
eled exactly like her. He determined to put
his views into practical shape, and he sent
for Mr. Watson, the builder, nnd presented
his views to him. They were approved and
Mr. Clark visited Scotland and formed the
syndicate. It was agreed that Mr. Bell
should represent the syndicate, and that the
names of the gentlemen who composed it
should be kept secret.
Mr. Clark hail the vessel built on the
Clyde lieoause he wants to win the cur
The Thistle will cost alxnit $.’15,000, nnd will
be sold immediately after the race if a fair
price can lie obtained for her. Her fii-st
race will be sailed next Satun ay, when she
will show what she can do. If she should
w'in the America’s cup Amo; leans will not
feel so badly alxiut it as if all the money for
her construction had been furnished by
foreigners.
At Chicago Sunday night Gen. George A.
Sheridan made a great hit. Prominent pol
iticians who never see the inside of a church
found themselves elbow to elbow with
equally prominent clergymen in tho au
dience, and meinlxirs of Modjoskn’s com
pany and Haverly’s minstrels wore sand
wiched lxitweon Sundny-sohool teachers nnd
scholars. Gen. Sheridan handlist Col. In
got-soil without gloves. The latter may vet
have the props so completely knocked from
under him that he will stop ’‘fighting God."
Tho Houston Post says: “Now that the
blackberry season is in its fullness, tho
Georgia paixu-s begin to point out how crsv
it Is to mti no a living in that State, nnd to
print faklsh stories about Texas.” The Post
is mistakon. The Georgia pu]>ers nevor
print fakish stories alxmt Texas. On the
contrary they froely admit tliat Texas Ims
no equal—as a graveyard.
Mr. Getorgo W. Cable’s lecture date at
Columbia, S. C., has boon canceled. Tho
people objected to hoaring him on account
of his severe criticisms of social life in the
Houth. There are indications that Mr.
Cable will soon learn what it is to bo boy
cotted.
THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1887.
Thursday’s Steamship Collision.
Collisions at sea are not unusual or unex
pected, but it is rather remarkable that
two great steamers, of the same line, going
in opposito directions, should pui'sue the
same route of travel so closely as to strike
each other. If the Britannic had not re
sponded promptly to her helm she and the
Celtic, it is believed, would have hail a stem
to-stem collision, and both, in all probabil
ity, would have gone to the bottom with all
on board. They were running in a dense
fog, and neither was seen by the other until
it was too late for either to change her
course sufficiently to avoid a collision.
The routes of steamers to and from
Europe is called tho lane - oute, for the
reason that it is a rather narrow one. It
might be a wise thing to do to widen it a
little, although if that were done a disabled
steamer would not stand as good a chance
of being discovered as at present. Four
steamers approached the disabled Celtic
and Britannic very soon after they collided.
It is a source of satisfaction that the com
partments of both steamei-s were in good
order. If they had not been the Britannic
would have sunk very quickly, and it might
not have been possible to save the Celtic.
The Oregon, which was lost off the New
Jersey coast, would have beensajed had her
compartments been closed.
The discipline on both of the injured ves
sels was, from all accounts, main
tained. A few firemen from the Britan
nic got away with a couple of the ship’s
lifeboats, notwithstanding the Captain’s
threat to shoot them. The firemen of a
great ocean steamer are not, as a rule, tho
sort of men to act the part of heroes in time
of danger. Nobody cares much for them,
and it is but natural that they shouldn’t
care much for anylxxly.
There does not appear to have been
enough life preservers on the Britannic, and
it is probable that there would not have
been boats enough if tho occasion had been
one which required the accommodation of
all the passengers and crew at once.
Improvements in steam vessels keep pace
with the increase of ocean travel, and by
far the greatest, if not the only real danger
now in making the trip between this coun
try and Europe is that of collision. But
after ail how small is the number of those
lost in proportion to the number carried safe
ly. The number of passengers carried yearly
between the two countries, exclusive of emi
grants, is over 150,000. l lt is impossible to
wholly overcome the danger due to fogs, and
as there will be fogs as long as there is a gulf
stream, those who cross the North Atlantic
in the great steamers must expect to run
the risk of a collision.
The Justices of the Supreme Court did
not attend the funeral of the. late Justice
Woods at Newark. 0., for the same reason
that the President did not attend the funeral
of Vice PresidentriHendricks. It was sug
gested to the Justices that it would not be
well for all of them to leave Washington at
once, and on the same car, as some crank
might take it into his head to win notoriety
by trying to wreck the car. It seems that
only two Justices of the Supreme Court,
prior to the decease of Justice Woods, died
in Washington while the court was in ses
sion. The first was Justice Todd, of Ken
tucky, who died in 182(1, and the second,
Justice Barbour, of Virginia, who died in
1841. In the ease of Juetioo Todd, the
republican simplicity of our early days,
which was then still in force, was observed.
The court did not take any notey of his
death for several days, and then in very
brief manner, and no member of the court
went to Kentucky. In the case of Justice
Barbour, the court did not go to Virginia,
but delegated two of its officers to accom
pany the remains.
A State exchange mournfully exclaims:
“Why doesn’t Georgia send her sons to the
front?” That is just what she has done
ami what she means to continue to do. The
Secretary of the Interior is n Georgian, so
are the Ministers to Austria and Japan, and
so are many others prominent in public
life. The most distinguished educator con
nected witli the University of Virginia is a
Georgian, and Florida, Alabama, Missis
sippi, Tennessee, Arkansas nnd Texas send
to Georgia for teachers every year. Some
of the most influential preachers in the
country are Georgians, and when it comes
to newspaper men Georgia will lie found
represented from New York to Texas. Don’t
worry about Georgia’s sons. It will be a
very cold day when they are not found at
the front.
The meeting of therMcGlynn-George Anti-
Poverty Society in New York on Sunday
night was a stormy one. Archbishop Cor
rigan’s name was hissed, and when Mayor
Hewitt was mentioned cries of “Down with
Hewitt 1” Hang him!” were heard on all
sides. One speaker said: “We are going to
turn this rotten old town of New York into
a New Jerusalem, and Henry George will
be Mayor.” The collection, an Important
item, amounted to S2OO. Unless the Anti-
Poverty Swiety becomes a little more mod
erate, it will not tie long before the police
will prevent its meetings. Then Dr. Mc-
Glynn and Henry George will have to de
vise some other plan for making money.
Rev. Father Bailies, of St. Francis’
church, Brooklyn, vigorously criticised Dr.
McGlynn on Sunday last. He said that Dr.
MeGlynn’s own words “brand him ns a
Nihilist and a dangerous man to the com
munity at large.” Continuing, the reverend
father denounced the doctor as a “disgrace
to the American nation, nnd especially tho
Irish-Americans, whom lie represents.” In
twelve months more Dr. McGlynn will lx>
wiser, but sadder and poorer than he ever
was before.
The Baltimore American in its Washing
ton dispatches says that last Friday the
President, at Ids reception, said to a Georgia
lady, who congratulated him on the success
of Ills administration and expressed a desire
to see him re-elected, that he was afraid that
he would not live to see tho end of his term.
Tho American wants to know what the
President meant. It would l>e well to estab
lish first that the President made any such
remark as the American attributes to luin.
Editor Coyle, the Texan who smashed a
statuette of St. Theresa in tho old Alamo
building at Han Antonio, has been released
from prison. His health is so bad that pro
longed confinement would have caused his
death. Editor Coyle will probably not
make another attempt to exterminate the
Masonic fraternity.
A protective tariff advocate in search of
information has made the discovery that in
the entire South there are just twelve influ
ential newspapers that favor his si(le of the
tariff question. The fact ought to be suf
ficient answer to the assertion that the pro
tective tariff is growing in favor in the
South.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Sunday Morning News.
From the Augusta Chronicle (Deni.)
Yesterday’s issue of the Savannah Morning
News was us fine a paper us has ever come from
a Southern press. Savannah should feel proud
of the Xf.wß.
Ye.*, a Llttlp Odd.
From the Galveston Xyics (Dem.)
The refusal of hotel accommodations to a col
ored club in Bethlehem, l’a. a little odd
in the light of Republican pr-tei. -.ms. when it
is considered that Pennsylvania is a Republican
State by 80,000 majority,.
He Will Think Twice.
From the Few York Herald Kind.)
Don Carlos, of Spain, will think twice before
sailing for Mexico, nnd if lie is v ise will then
sell his ticket to the highest bidder and stay at
home. Maximilian met his fat- 1 on Mexican soil,
and it should not be duplicated. Our neigh bora
down yonder can’t dig out of all t heir mines gold
enough to make a crown that will stay long on
any man’s head.
He Accomplished His Aim.
From the Chattanooga Times (Dem.)
Those editors in Canada and the United States
who cry out that O’Brien made a mistake in dis
cussing the infamous landlord system of Ire
land as Lansdowne is related to it. in the Domin
ion. admit in the same breath that the plucky
fellow’s trip has greatly strengthened the Irish
cause in that quarter. The paradox is not un
natural. Those who flouted andseolded O’Brien
for going to Canada could not consent to admit
they were wrong and he right so soon; but they
came as near that as they well can by saying he
accomplished all he aimed to do by laying Lans
downe’s record before the people.
BRIGHT BITS.
“Colonel,” said a well-known citizen, “I’m
sorry that they beat you for vestryman the
other day."
"I didn’t make any effort to get the place,”
the Coionel replied. “In fact I told the boys
the other day that I was out of politics.”—
Arkansaw Traveler.
Lady Vere de Vere’s American cousin, buying
dress goods (in doubt) —I really—don't- know.
Stunning Salesgirl—lt suits your style perfect
ly, miss. ,
American Cousin—Well, I’ll take twelve yards.
Stunning Salesgirl (communicatively)—l'm
having a dress oIT the same jiattern myself.
American Cousin (with emphasis) I don’t
wish the goods, thank you ana flounces out.
Stunning Salesgirl thinks, and thinks.—
Washington Critic.
“This is Arbor day, my son.’’ said a fond
mother to |)er hopeful, “and I want to impress
you with the beauty of nature as shown forth in
her trees.”
"Yessum,” was the response.
“Don’t you think that the trees are beautiful
when they spread their swaying branches and
green leaves heavenward?”
"Yessum, 'specially when they is cherry an’
apple an’ peach trees.”
It is impossible to get some children’s minds
above their appetites.— Hartford Post.
The world at large has lost faith in Donnelly’s
Baconian cipher. The latest story relative to it
comes from Washington, and it is told by Col
Dudley as follows: Several Shakespearean ex
ports in Washington have been much interested
in the work, and one of them especially took an
outline of Donnelly's key and applied it to "As
You Like It.” Great was his surprise on one of
these essays to see the cipher form this sentence:
“Ignatius Donnelly will find it out.” The dis
covery has created tremendous excitement in
circles that had hitherto doubted Mr. Donnelly’s
ability to find anything out.— St. Paul Pioneer-
Press.
A bishop, a curate and a layman were fishing
in Canadian waters one very hot day last sum
mer. When it came time for luncheon the bishop
produced from under the scat of the boat a
bottle—presumably containing apollinaris—and
a lump of ice, which he proceeded to break into
small pieces. A broad smile played over his
heated face as he began to extract the cork from
the bottle. The smile changed to an expression
of agony as the hot bottle, shooting out its cork
with, a tremendous explosion, split from neck to,
bottom and lost its every drop. With a look of
heartrending appeal the bisliop turned to the
layman and exciainfrd: “You're a layman; say
it for me!" — Exchange.
Omaha Man— Are you making a fair living out
of your Kansas farm?
Kansas Man—Living? Why, I’m rich. You
see there was a little piece of poor ground liack
of the dugout which was not fit for anything.
Well, one day hint her Jake dreamed there was
gold under it, and the next morning he offered
me $lOO for it, on long time of course, for he
hadn’t any money, and I sold it."
“Yes.”
“Well, brother Bill heard of Jake's dream and
bought the lot of him for st,ooo, in the same
way, you know. Tnen I got scared and bought
it back for $5,000. Then 1 sold it to Bill for $lO,-
000, and so it went on until a few days ago when
I got the lot again and solo it to Jake for $lOO,-
000. Just think of it. No more farming
for me.”
“But what security have you to show for all
that value if Jake has no money?”
“Why. 1 vc got a mortgage on the lot.”—
Omaha World.
The Modern School.—
They look up like children
And say to each other:
“We’re famous; you’re a poet,
And you know I’m another.
“Your lyrical talent is startling.
As for me, why, my
Dramatical works are worthy
A place in the Sky."
One praises the chi inty dactyl.
Allot her the loud spondee.
And talks of other forms of rhyme,
Alexandrine, Trochaic or Fiddledeedee.
Quotes Homer and Dope in a critical tone,
And Caedmon and Dante.
He thinks lie knows better and can do quite as
well.
Now, can't he?
And they never know that in every ago
Some stupid fools
Float along the sea of life
Like fish— in schools.
—Cincinnati Commercial -Gazette.
PERSONAL.
Gounod is composing a cantata to bo dedi
cated to the Pope.
It is said that' W. H. Doane, of Cincinnati,
makes $20,000 a year writing hymns.
The manuscript of Burns’ poem, “The Whis
tle,” has recently been purchased for £283 by
Lord Rosebery.
It will be a great day in London when Buffalo
Bill, Mr. Gladstone and the Prince of Wales sit
down to a genuine Indian barbecue and rib
roast.
A venturesome Englishman named Mnckay
and Father Livinhac are held on the Congo as
slaves bv King Maianga, who murdered Bishop
Hannington.
Mr. Boehm’s statue of the Queen, which the
people of Windsor will erect on Castle Ilill as a
jubilee memorial, is to Is- unveiled in the pres
ence of her majesty on June 20.
Fort of the items of the bill which Boston
paid for the ehteatatpment of Queen Kapiolani
vivas follows: Hotel expenses. $3,8)0; car
riage hire, S!HJO; tiowers, Si.vOO; music, $1,200.
Daniel Drew, in the palmy days when he
was cornering the market and making millions,
kept his books in bis head, and never lost any
money until be began a more elaborate system
of bookkeeping.
Commodore Vanderbilt laid the basis of his
fortune when he unit steambonting and went
into railroading. J<lhn 11. Starin'* great wealth
began to come hen he quit railroading and be
gati to manage steamboat lines.
Tue Duchess of Galliora and 83,000 of her
countrywomen have presented a petition to tits
municipality of Genoa, asking for the restora
tion of the statue of the Madonna above the
gates, in recognition of the preservation of the
town during the recent eat thquakes.
Rider llaooaud, the author of "She,” was re
cent ly In a look-seller's shop. A smartly-dressed
lady entered, ami inquired for Mr. Haggard's
Imoks. She demurred at the price, remarking,
"The fact is. 1 am to meet the author at dinner
to-night, and i want to read him up u bit, but he
is not worth 30s.
Mr. Ksekiel, the famous American sculptor,
lm just sent to a Baltimorean a life-size bust of
the Ablie Lift. It is said to be :>te only one of
the great musician taken wholly from life. is In
bronze and was cast in Berlin. It was pt'Ngarily
for this work that Sculptor Ezekiel was dSvor
ated by the Kings of Belgium and Italy
I’aui, Bremond left New York to seek his for
tune in Texas more than forty years ago. The
Toxas Central Kailroad owes its origin and
construction to his energy and ability. Mr.
Bremond is now well advanced in age, but still
retains his activity. Mrs. Bremond, his wife, 'is
a Southern woman who has made a name as a
poet and writer of marked talent.
I/Ot ts L. Lorillard has taken possession of
the villa at Newport bequeathed to him by Miss
Wolfe. Since tlie death of Miss Woife he has
learned that during his two years' aliscnce in
Europe site instructed her agent, who was buy
ing the treasures for the adornment of the
house to consult his tastes in all matters, in
order that he might ho the better pleased when
he came into possession.
IT WILL BE ALL LIGHT THERE.
A Pathetic Story of Home Life that
Has Sadness in Every Lino.
From the Detroit Free Press.
Children are happy counselors. They are to
our hard, practical, everyday lives what the
stars are to the heavens, or the flowers and birds
to the earth.
Ah! what would the world Is- to us
If the children were no more'
We should dread the desert behind us
Worse than the dark 1 adore.
There is a family in this city who are depend
ent at this moment upon a little child for all the
present sunshine of their lives.
A few weeks ago the young wife and mother
was stricken down to die.
It was so sudden, so dreadful when the grave
family physician r ailed them together in the
parlor, and in his solemn, professional way
intimated to them the truth—there was uo
hope!
Then the question arose among them, who
would tell her?
Not the doctor! It would be cruel to let the
man of science go to their dear ono on such an
errand.
Not the aged mother, who would be left child
less and alone.
Nor the young husband, who was walking
the floor with clinched hands ami rebellious
heart.
Not—there was only one other, and at this
moment lie looked up from the book he had
lieen playing with, unnoticed by them all and
asked gravely:
"Is my mamma doin’ to die?”
Then, without waiting for an answer, he sped
from the room and up stairs as fast as little feet
would carry him.
Friends and neighbors were watching by the
sick woman. They wonderingly noticed the
pale face of the child as he climbed on the bed
and laid his small head on his mother's pillow.
‘ Mam ina, ” he asked, in sweet, caressing tones,
“is you 'fraid to die?”
The mother looked at him with swift intelli
gence. Perhaps she had been thinking of this.
“Who—told—you—Charlie?” she asked,
faintly.
‘ Doctor an’ papa an' gamma—everybody.” he
whispered. “Mamma, dear little mamma, doan'
be ’fraid to die, ill you?”
“No, Charlie,” said the young mother after
one supreme pang of grief; "tlo, mamma won’t
be afraid."
“Jus' shut your eyes in 'e dark, mamma, teep
hold my hand, an' when you open ’em.
mamma, it'll be all light there.”
When the family gathered awe-stricken at the
bedside, Charlie held up his little hand.
“Hu-s-h! My mamma doan to sleep. Her
won’t wake up here any more!”
And so it proved. There was no heart-rending
farewell, no agony of parting, for when the
young mother woke she bad passed beyond, and
as baby Charlie said, “it was ail light there.”
GETTING THE BEST OF IT.
A Disappointment Followed by Tri
umph Over the Banana.
From the Few York Tribune.
He was a short man pervaded by a generally
rural air, and wore a derby hat that looked like
a chocolate drop.
He paused near the post office building in
front of an Italian banana cart, and inspected
the fruit with great interest. "How 's bernan
ners?” he inquired.
“Ze best bananas in ze city,” said the mer
chant from Italy earnestly. “Zis is ze banana
season. All of zem sound and ripe.”
“How much for the yeller ones?”
“Two for five.”
“Well, give me one,” said the short man. He
passed over 3c., and selecting a banana began
to remove the skin. The fruit was slightly over
ripe, however, and being exposed a soft spot on
one side gave way, and the edible portion of
that banana vanished into the gutter.
There was an expression of intense surprise
on the purchaser’s face. He looked at the empty
banana skin in his hand, and t hen said to the
vender: “I thought you said this w r as the season
for bernanners?”
"So it is."
“Maybe that was a last season's bernanner.”
“No. no,” said the dealer impatiently, “zat
was all l ight. You should have eaten him."
"I didn't get a chance to eat it. Gimme
another.”
“The dealer objected, so they compromised
on another banana for 2c.
The man with a chocolate-drop derby
passed over the pennies, and as he grasped the
second bananas he remarked:
"I ain’t agoin’ to let no Eyetalyun fruit beat
me. Plagued if I don’t eat skin and all this
time.”
And he did.
THE TABLES NEATLY TURNED.
How the Lager Beer Man Settled With
the Clothing Firm.
From the Chicago Herald.
A clothing firm occupying a prominent corner
in Chicago concluded some weeks ago that on
May 1 it would extend its first floor room by
leasing the quarters then occupied by a German
saloon keeper. The clothing people already
occupied the floors above the saloon on lease,
and by a sort of agreement with the owner of
the block had a call on the ground floor when
ever they were ready to pay the rental de
manded. This time having arrived, the man
ager of the clothing store, in order to avoid a
misunderstanding with the German, and possi
bly to prevent ruinous competition in bids for
the lease, called on the saloon keeper, and in a
friendly way remarked that he guessed his firm
would take "the storeroom after May 1. and that
the dispenser of beer and pretzels had better be
lookiug for new quarters.
“But I don’t vaut to move,” protested the
German
“Well, but you'll have to. You’re a poor man
and we are rich, and we can pay three times as
much for this room as you can. If you'll go out
quietly aud make no trouble about it. we'll hell)
you find anew place. If you stay here at all
you'll pay a rent that'll make you sick—mind
that.”
“Veil, you come in two weeks und I dell you
vot I do/’
Two weeks later, or shortly before May 1, the
manager caied again. The German was all
smiles.
"Dot’s all right, mine vriend. Youmayschtay
up stairs, und I'll schtay here. I don’t pay no
rent at all. put you’ll pay seex hundred tollers a
more as you paid lasht. 1 haf bought de
HER PURPLE MOUSTACHE.
Misadventure of a Girl Who Wanted to
Sweeten Her Lips.
From the Albany Journal.
“To catch up a bottle of perfume and dab the
stopploat one’s upper lip,” said a fashionable
girl to me, “is a fashionable trick with many
women I know. I’ve seen lots of women do it,
and did it myself till the other night. Starting
to see Langtry I did that trick in a dark room,
and have quit it altogether. You see I ran back
for a glove button'*!', and prowling over the
dressing case struck the glass stopple of a
bottle of ‘Cherry Blossom,' caught ft up and
smoothed it across my upper lip and gave
two little dabs behind my ears so
my neighbors should have a smell.
'Tisn't ‘Cherry Blossom’ after all, thought
I; it's the ‘White Rose' extract ail ttie same.
And I pranced down and joined my party. We
had got into a car when someone snid: ‘Good
mercy, what have you got on your face?’ ‘The
usual amount of powder, I suppose,' 1 replied
aggressively. ‘Why, you’ve gut. a dark purple
moustache.’ Great heavens, it broke on me in
a minute. That nasty bottle of scented ink
that I myself had carelessly left on the dressing
bureau There was no Langtry for me that
night. Ninety-six washings only weakened the
stain, band paper and pumice stone have re
moved some of my lip, but it’s so dark now (ten
days ago it happened! that folks say to me:
'You must stop using that vaseline: you cer
tainly are getting a moustache;’ and just be
hind my ears are two spots that look as if mpr
titlcation had taken place." r
Love’s Progress.
From the Inter-Occaii.
The maid he idolizes
Is "a dove;”
He very highly prizes
E’en her glove.
He sentiment devises,
Prosaic things despises
So every one surmises
He’s in love.
If not congratulated
He’s enraged;
Her virtues intimated,
He’s Msauged.
With bliss intoxicated-
His vices are uliated.
He is not dissipated
He’s engaged.
’MX"liisses brightly clinking
Hbn we see.
And thoughtlessly he’s drinking,
Though it’s three.
While silver’s sweetly chinking,
O’er cards he’s Mindly blinking,
Of poker he is thinking—
Married he.
A little oiftL in the primary school was
ankeil to toil ibe difference between the words
“foot" and “feet." She said: “One feet is a
foot, and a whole lot of foota U a feet."—
Harper' liazar.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Woken in Zanzibar pierce their ears, or rather
bore them, and for decoration they insert rolls
of twisted paper, corncorbs and the like.
A MAN in the Duchy of Anhalt has waggered
2,000 marks that within two years he can copy
the whole of the Bible, punctuation and all,
without a single mistake.
A Decatur, (III.) man who has been testing
the capacity of the sparrow to withstand the
effects of poison, gave one bird a grain of
crystal styehnino without effect.
There was recently unearthed at Jackson
ville. 111, while excavations were being made
for the asylum for the insane, an apple which is
believed to have been buried fourteen years.
A soap making concern advertised that it
would give away, on application, 1,000 washing
machines. A Norristown, Conn., man wrote
for one of the machines, and received a cake of
soap and a wash rag.
A span of colts ran away in Portland, Ore.,
the other day, and coming to a railroad bridge
ran out fully fifty feet on the ties before either
stepped through. Then both went down in a
heap and were afterward pulled out, with hard
ly a scratch.
James N. Gloucester, son of the richest col
ored woman in America, is under arrest in
Brooklyn oua charge of burglary, His mother
made her money by keeping a fashionable board
ing house. The son ran through his portioa in
dissipation and then resorted to theft .
One of the new rules of a Western railroad is
that clergymen making requisition for half fare
tickets are obliged to make affidavit that they
are regularly ordained, and are engaged in no
other occupation. A certificate was recently re
ceived from a preacher at Salina, Neb., who
added after the words, “I am engaged iu no
other business or occupation,” the phrase, “But
in preaching the unsuchible riens of God's
word,”
The most expensive bead-dress in use in the
British army, an English writer says, is the
bear skin, which lends such an imposing air to
the members of the Foot Guards. Each bear
skin helmet costs £4 95., aud lasts six yearn.
Every man, therefore, in the Foot Guards is pro
vided with head-gear at an annual cost of 14s. lOd.
Next in expense comes the "leather bonnet” of
the Highlanders, which costs £29s. 3d., ai;dlasts
eight years, at an expense of SJaJd. for each
year.
According to Miss Mattie Watts, who has
been a missionary in Brazil for five years, the
people in that country are decidedly behind the
age. The men are regarded as a superior race,
and the women are designedly kept in ignor
ance. The fathers think the boys must be
educated, but not the girls. Of the 6.000,000
women, not more than half a million can so
much as read or write. When company comes
in a Brazilian house the gentlemen go to the
gentlemen’s parlor and the ladies to the ladies’
parlor. The only way the women ever got to
see the men was to look through the keyhole,
and they did this.
Col. White’s experiments on the resistance
offered by a bank of snow to a rifle bullet,
which were made recently at Ottawa, were most
interesting. It was found that the Martini
bullets fired into a bank of well-packed snow
were completely spent after traversing a dis
tance of not more than four feet. Snider bullets,
in hard-packed snow mixed with ice, but not
hard enough to prevent digging into it with a
sheet-iron shovel, did not penetrate more than
about four feet; in perfectly dry snow, packed
by natural drift, but capable of- being easily
crushed in the hand, a bullet penetrated about
four feet, and in loose drifted dry snow less
than seven feet, though fired from points only
twenty or thirty yards distant.
There’s one man in Buffalo who has lost his
faith in revolvers. A slight noise awoke him
and without moving he intently listened for the
cause, at the same time experiencing that pecu
liar sensation which people have when they feel
certain that soffie one is near them but invisible.
He thought he heard someone at his window,
and a moment later a form stood between him
and the dim light. He drew his revolver from
under his pillow, loaded in every chamber,cocked
it, and pointing at the figure said: "Who’s
there?” A quiet voice answered. “Me, what’s
the matter?” *lt was his good old mother who
came into his room for something. The revolver
dropped from his nerveless grasp, and when he
thought how close a call he had had he made up
his mind to go out of the revolver business, and
he has done so.
The women of San Francisco are being seized
with the mania of wearing men’s clothes;
There have been many more scandals of this
character lately titan have ever gotten into the
columns of the daily press. There is something
delightfully morbid about reversing one's sex.
And there are few tilings delightfully morbid to
which the women of San Francisco have not
attained. Nothing, indeed, shows how fast this
gay young town is becoming old in sin like
Paris, Vienna and Berlin. The strangest thing
about it all is that women invariably think they
are disguised when dressed up as men. Even
the ingenious Mme. Dudevant (Georges Sand)
thought to enter a Trappist monastery disguised
as a young man. Her failure to do this is his
toric. "Sir!" said the porter gravely, “we do
not permit ladies to enter here.”
In Guttenburg Platz there is erected a statue
to the inventor of types, of which Strasburg
claims to have seen the first essays. On the
square pedestal are four bronze plates, which
relieve figures representing the four quarters of
the globe. The American one consists of some
thirty figures, with Washington, I.afayette and
Franklin most prominent, and then a whole
background of contemporary portraits, al!
named, and all obviously copied from Trum
bull's “Declaration of Independence.” The
droll thing is that the artist had no idea which
of the signers were important otherwise and
which were not, but seems to have chosen his
men solely with a view to their physical effec
tiveness. The result is that there are here in
Strasburg bronze portraits of a number of
Americans who probably never had so much as
a plaster cash of themselves set up at home.
Two nice looking young ladies in a Massachu
setts town a little more than three years ago,
says an exchange, looked about them and saw
that there were many spinsters in that portion
of the country. They bethought them of a
scheme, which was to be kept a profound secret
for a considerable period of time. They formed
themselves into a society and adopted a con
stitution. declaring that marriage is a humbug,
that the wedding ring is a fetter, and that men
are a nuisance. They pledged themselves very
solemnly that they would never marry. Time
passed, as it has a way of doing. Those girls
immediately came into good demand. They
were forbidden fruit, as it were. How the boys
did long for them. To-day the society exists iio
longer. It has been deader than Cleopatra for
almost two years. Eleven of those girls have
husbands and bailies, six others have husbands
and no babies, and two are engaged to be mar
ried when “the flowers bloom in the spring tra
la.”
The reports of the Challenger exploring ex
pedition form jierhaps the most elaborate and
expensive single work ever published by any
government, the net cost to Great Britain having
been thus far about $265,000, an additional
$60,000 having been Recovered from sales. No
less than twenty-seven large quarto volumes
have been issued, illustrated by übout 2,000 full
pages lithographic plates, some eighty ( harts
and diagrams, and many hundred photographs
und woodcuts. At least seven volumes more
will be necessary; but it is expected that the
whole work will lie completed by March, 1888.
The famous expedition, which has thrown so
much light on tin* darkness of the deep sea. left
England, it will lie remembered, Dee. 21, 1872
aud returned May 2'>. 1876, after a voyage of
more than 80,000 miles. Tin* party, under Dr.
Vv’yville Thompson, made dredgings and sound
ings in all the oceans, and secured important
collections, representing a host of new dis
coveries concerning submarine life and condi
tions.
New London (Conn.) people are fond of telling
about Gov. Tom Waller’s early romance. It
seems that when Mr. Waller was yet struggling
aa an impecunious law clerk, long before he hail
begun to lift his head aliove the crowd, he fell in
love with the Mayor's daughter. His suit was
eminently successful so far os the lady was con
cerned, but Mayor Loomis was an august per
sonage, who looked askance it the seedy young
lawyer and his prospects. The stern parent not
only objected to the desired union, but prevented
it. This setback put the spur to Waller's pride
mid his energy, an I he forthwith determined to
lx* a bigger man I’vu the Mayor of New London
or perish in the attempt, lie devoted himself
to business, kept a weather eye on politics, and
was soon elected Mayor. Mayor Loomis was
meanwhile credited with yearning for the Gov
ernorship, but hod to stand aside ami see it
go to his would-be son-in-law. And by and by
Mr. Waller was mentioned for the Vice Presi
dency, made a national reputation, ami was as
signed to an important place in the diplomatic
service. It Is said t hat Mr. Loomis feels an eternal
regret for his mistake In judgment. The sequel,
of course, ought to b that Mr. Waller flnllay won
the father s consent and married the daughter,
but. as a matter of fact, each found a mate
years ago, und now Mr, Waller’s house is next
door to that occupied by the daughter of the
Mayor and her husband, and the two families
arc ou the best of let ms.
GERMS.
Thoir Universal Prevalence, Dangerous
Character and How They Live
aud are Killed.
The Germans consume large amounts ot
uncooked pork, and often got living animals
called trichinae info their blood, which cau-e
the* most terrible death. Americans draw
iu the germs of disease and death with every
breath. Malaria, miasma, sewer gas anil
the thousand poisons in the air, in food and
in water are at war with health and life all
the while. The blood that circulates in hu
man veins is composed of numbers of small
corpuscles that resemble animals, and when
anything poisonous gets into the blood it
becomes just like stagnant water, lull of
living animals that feed upon each other
and upon the blood itself. And yet no one
perscfn in fifty is free from blood poisoning
in some form. Every moment of the life
whether awake or asleep, a million poison
ous animals, invisible to the naked eye, are
feeding upon the very elements that nutke
and sustain life.
These are facts—they are solemn truths—
and they demand the most serious attention.
These germs must be killed; they must lie
annihilated. But how; Prof. Austin Flint
of Bellevue Hospital College, New York
says: “The judicious use of alcoholic stimu
lants is one of the striking characteristics
of progress iu the practice of medicine dur
ing the last half century,” while Dr. J. p.
Gilbert, of Lyons, N. Y., says: “From my
experience in the treatment of chronic dis
eases of a wasting and debilitating nature I
have frequent ly found it necessary to advise
the use of stimulants, and in my opinion
Duffy’s Pure Malt Whiskey for purity and
other desirable qualities cannot be surpassed
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and death it is causing, and when we realize
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the value of this Whiskey, and many whose
prejudices have heretofore kept them en
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pure and valuable qualities in warding off
diseases, and use it regularly in their homes.
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