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4 C|c||lorningllttos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. WEDNESDAY. M AY *5, 1887. Registered 'it the Post Office in Savannah. The Monxnws News is published every day In fbe year. and is nerved to subscribers in the city, by newsdealers and carriers, on their own ac count. at 25 cents a week. $1 00 a month, 35 00 lor six months nnd $lO 00 for one year. The Morntno Nmvs, by mail, one month, $1 (X); three months, $2 50; six months, S5 00; one v ear. $lO 00. The Horning Nfwr, by mail, six times a week (without. Sunday issue), three mouths, $2 00; six months. $4 00 one year. $8 00. The Morning News. Tri-Weekly. Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and 'Saturdays, three months, $1 25; six months. *2 50; one year. 35 00. The Sunday News. by mail, one year. 32 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year, $1 25. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, cheek or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. letters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning News. Savannah. Ga.” Advertising rates mafic known on application. 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. The Morning News for the Summer. Persons leaving the city for the summer can have the Morning News forwarded by the earliest fast mails to any address at the rate of 25c. a week, $1 for a month or 32 50 for three months, cash invariably in ad vance. The address may be changed as often as desired. In directing a change care should be taken to mention the old ns well as the new address. Those who desire to have their home paper promptly delivered to them while away, should leave their subscriptions at the Busi ness Office. Special attention will be given to make this summer service satisfactory and to forward papers by the most direct and 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. 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