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SUNDAY. MAY SO, 1887.
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ness Office. Special attention will be given
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to forward papers by the most direct and
quickest routes.
It is said to be the rule that one great Are
is quickly followed by another. The disas
ters in Paris and New York are illustra
tions.
It is said that the English take more in
terest in Secretary Whitney’s bull dogs than
in the new ships he is building. Fellow feel
ing, no doubt.
In six weetts more the Hon. Potiphar Pea
green will have to put on his coat and go to
Atlanta. * His eloquence is likely to make
July warmer than usual.
Mobile ought to be a happy city. They
say that Miss Voss, the sponsor of the Lomax
Rifles at the national drill, is so beautiful
that almost anybody would take her to be a
Savannah girl.
William B. Barns, of Kansas, writes to
the Governor of that State that the only
way to prevent tornadoes is to plant trees
along the streams. There are others who
agree with Burns.
It is reported that Anarchist Spies, of
Chicago, has lost his vdice. If the report is
true he is doubtless willing to lie hung with
out further delay. An Anarchist without
his voice has lost his occupation.
A Maine Republican offers a novel objec
tion to Mr. Blaine’s European trip. “Sup
pose Mr. Blaine should become seasick,” ho
is reported to have said, “along with other
things he might throw up his race for the
Presidency 1”
The announcement that Prince Bismarck
is suffering from muscular rheumatism is
important if it is true. The disease is very
irritating, and it may cause the Prince to
lose his temper over the complications with
France and precipitate war.
The Legislature of Illinois has legalized
gambling. Illinois is the State in which
Chicago is situated, and Chicago is the city
whose newspapers so often condemn South
ern civilization. Honors are easy haul, for
Louisiana and Illinois are in the same t>oat.
When a Republican newspaj)or patroniz
ingly announces that “the Southern people
are not worrying themselves about politics,
they are devoting themselves to the devel
opment of their material interests,” a
sweet feeling of peace pervades the country.
The Galveston AVto.t attacks the Hon.
N. J. Hammond, of Atlanta, because his
friends want him to fill the vacancy on the
bench of the United States Supreme Court.
The Aries couldn’t do anything else quite as
foolish if it should try every day until the
crack o’ doom.
Here are some of tho “isms” which a
Philadelphia preacher thinks are hurrying
mankind to eternal destruction: “Mormon
tern, secularism, socialism, liberalism, seerct
bni. saloonism, Sundavism, iuebrieism, and
atheism.” Strange that he should have
omitted Republicanism.
In New York a carpenter ha* been dis
covered who is not u Knight of Labor. I!o
manages his own business and will not
brook Interferon''' from walking (legates
and similar disturbers. Ho has money iu
the bank, and doubtless returns than lit
every night that he has never sacriftocd his
independence.
Evangelist Ham Jones will bo in Tennes
see this week, speaking iu tho interest of the
proposed amendment to the constitution of
that Ktate prohibiting tho inmiufaetui'e and
salo of intoxicating liquors. Iu the meal -
time Romo will probably try and move
away from the warm place near which tho
evangelist says she is situated.
On board the steamship Thancinore, from
Ijivorpool for Queliec, forty-three stowaways
were found the other day. They were all
young men and boys. Too poor to pay their
pnjsage they secreted them:.elves in the hold,
being determined to seek fortune in the new
world. The incident is an indication of the
•iiaernofvi of Euintxauß to omiri'sfo
A Hopeless Effort.
Protectionists are making an extraordi
nary iffoit to convert the Sontii to the pio
tcction doctrine. Congressman Kelley, of
Pennsylvania, has written a series of articles
for the Manufacturers' lie cord, of Balti
more on the South and her resources, and,
judging from the lirst one, all of them are
intended to convince the Southern people
that without a protective tariff they need
not expect prosperity. The Philadelphia
Press, one of the ablest of the protection
organs, is laboring earnestly to convince the
people of the South that they are making a
mistake in not sending protectionists to Con
gress. It is having the South written up
from a protection standpoint, and supports
its Southern letters with editorial articles.
Last Friday it said that the Southern peo
ple “cannot much longer afford to be mis
represented in Congress by free trade
theorists. The whole substantial business
cause of the South is being more or less in
jured by free trade Congressmen from that
section. They are living on the traditions
of the Calhoun days when there was noth
ing in the South to protect, and they have
not generally kept up, as the people them
selves have, with the purposes and demands
of the present time.” This is a rather
severe criticism on Southern Congressmen,
but as it is manifestly unjust it will not
annoy them very much. It is safe to assume
that they understand much better than the
protectionists do what their constituents
want. If they did not represent the wishes
and sentiments of the people they would not
be in Congress. The people are not so in
different to their own interests as to send to '
Washington year after year men who mis
represent them.
' A few days ago the Morning News
called attention to a statement going the
rounds of the Southern press that Southern
farmers are becoming poorer every year.
While this statement will not be accepted as
true, there is no doubt that the farmers of
the South are not very prosperous. One of
the reasons why they are not is that they
are burdened with a high protective tariff.
What benefit is a protective tariff to them?
Their great crop is cotton, and the tariff
doesn’t add anything to the price which they
receive for it. The price is fixed in Liver
pool, and it is regulated by the demand. If
the tariff were increased or reduced the
price of cotton would not Ik* affected.
But a protective tariff does affect farmers,
and, that too, very injuriously. It com
pels them to pay a very high price for cot
ton ties, trace chains, plows, harrows, hoes,
cotton gin machinery, harness, shoes,
blankets, and, in fact, for about everything
they buy. Will the protectionists tell the
farmer who cultivates cotton, or, in fact,
any other crop, how a protective tariff ben
efits him?
Doubtless the protectionists will say that
a protective tariff will encourage the build
ing of cotton and iron mills in the South.
Well, the present protective tariff has been
in operation a good many years, and it
hasn’t helped to build either cotton or iron
mills. The oldest and most prosperous cot
ton manufactures in the South don’t ask
for a protective tariff. They are of the
opinion that if the tariff were removed
their business would grow very quickly to
much greater proportions. New markets
would open up to them. Within the last
year or two there has been a boom In the
iron business in the South, not because of the
protective tariff, but in spite of it. Iron can
be produced much cheaper at the South than
at the North, and if it were not for the im
mense cost of iron manufacturing plants,
due largely to the high tariff, the centre of
the iron industry would soon be in the South.
Cut down the tariff and there will be a dozen
iron mills in the South within five years
where there is one now.
The Press says “that liberal as the North
has been with its capital in the South, who
can say how much more literal it would
have been had the attitude of Southern Con
gressmen tet'n different 1”. It is nonsense to
say that the attitude of Southern Congress
men has hindered the flow of Northern
capital to the South. Northern capital has
come South because it has found good in
vestments hej’o. and a great deal more would
come if it were not well invested at the
North. The amount of it coming South,
however, will continue to increase whatever
is done about the tariff because it can be
profitably invested.
The truth is the protectionists are losing
their grip in New England and the West
and they hope to gain in the South what
they are losing there. They will be disap
pointed. The Southern people understand
their interest* well enough not to permit
themselves to be used by protectionists.
They will continue to send tariff reformers
to Congress, f
The Typical Southerner.
Commenting upon an editorial on South
ern literature which recently appeared in
the Morning News, the Boston Adver
tiser, suggests that if the Southerner is
represented in an objectionable light it is
because the writers that represent him nre
realistic.
The Advertiser, in common with other
journals that have commented upon the edi
torial in question, cither inisnuderstaruls or
willfuly perverts the position assumed
by the Morning News. No objection
was urged to the portrayal of characters
selected from the uneducated and unculti
vated classes. Such characters are types,
and it is the business of the story-tellers to
make them as realistic as jiossible. The ob
jection offered was to the (lispoeition in the
new Southern school to portray a half-edu
cated, half-dressed, and altogether ill-man
nered individual as the typical Southerner.
The Advertiser, and other commentators,
ought to have observed the distinction bi
tween “the typical Southerner” and types of
certain classes.
AVI ion Dickens hold up the monstrosities
in Martin Chuzzlewit :vf typical Americans
there was naturally widespread indignation.
If a writer should portray a ward politician
of Boston as the typical citizen of
Massachusetts, the Advertiser would
resent It, although noliody will deny
that there are plenty of ward jx>li
ticians in the Bay State. Tho indignation
caused By Dickens or tho resentment which
the Advertiser would manifest, is just what
is felt in the South when a
creature arrayed in slouch hat,
homespun breeches, raw-hide boots,
without vest or coat, and who uses n bar
barous dialect, is pushed to tho fore and
labeled: “The Typical Southerner.” The
Morning News insists that this sort of
thing is unfair. It is certainly unbecoming
in Southern writers, and when they ore
guilty of thus caricaturing their own jssiple
the only legitimate ('/inclusion is that they
do it because it pays.
It is stated that clocks are oxjinrted from
this country to the number of 1,0000 day.
At this rate the United States will soon bo
setting tho time for all the world.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JIB 9, 1887-TWELVE PAGES.
Barring Out Reporters.
Every once in awhile an official body of
some sort wants to prohibit the reporters
from attending its meetings. The shutting
ont of the reporters means the shutting out
of the public, because the reporters aro
really the representatives of the public, and
the main object they have in view is to keep
the public informed, through the medium of
their respective journals, of what is going
on.
There are officials who forget that they
aro the servants of the people. As soon ax
they become clothed with the authority of
office they think they are the masters and
that the people are their servants. They do
pretty much as they please until the people
become tirol of them, and then they are
made aware of the fact that they are ser
vants and must obey the public will.
When officials meet in secret there is
ground for suspecting that they are afraid
to have their acts and expressions of opinion
made public. They lack the courage to face
their constituents, and while they may not
do anything wrong and may not
Intend to, nevertheless they are in much
greater danger of being led into crooked
ways than if they submitted all their acts
to the scrutiny of the public.
Even ministers of the gospel are not
al ways so confident of their ability to do
what is honorable and right as to be willing
to be judged by the public. A few days
ago an attempt was made at a meeting of
Methodist ministers in Philadelphia to shut
out reporters because, at a previous meet
ing, an unseemly wrangle hail occurred and
had fouud its way into the newspapers. It
would have been much wiser in the minis
ters to have resolved that in future their
meetings should not be marred by language
more becoming to ward bummers and
shoulder hitters than to religious teachers.
There was no pretense that the meetings
were incorrectly reported. On the con
trary, it was admitted that only the exact
truth was told.
When it is proposed to shut out reporters
it is safe to conclude that those who make
such a proposition are afraid that they will
do or say something they will be ashamed
of, or that they have in contemplation
schemes that won’t bear inquiry*.
An English Coroner was taught a lesson
a few days ago by* a jury summoned to in
quire into the cause of the death of a person
who was supposed to have committed sui
cido. Thero were those who wanted the
facts suppressed, and the Coroner ordered
the reporter out of the room. They re
fused to go, and the officers were directed
to put them out. The jurors took the side
of the reporters and refused to inquire into
the case unless the reporters were present,
and the reporters remained.
Secrecy encourages wrong doing, and
publicity helps to raise the standard of pub
lic and private morals. Officials and official
bodies have no occasion to fear reporters if
their purposes are of the right kind.
A Boom in Maine.
All of the real estate booms are not con
fined to Southern and Western towns. One
of the biggest of those that have attracted
general attention is now being enjoyed by
Maine’s favorite summer resort, Mount
Desert. Avery few years ago this place
was scarcely known. It was difficult to
reach and not a great many people cared to
reach it. Since it has been connected with
the great cities by railroad, however, it has
grown into favor with wonderful rapidity.
It is now one of the most fashionable resorts,
and threatens to become a rival of Newport
for its fine and expensive cottages.
Mount Desert is an island, and it is said
that every foot of its shore line, and all of
its best elevated positions which command
a view of the sea, have been sold at enor
mous prices. Lots which a few years ago
were sold at from SSOO to SI,OOO apiece now
sell readily for prices ranging from $25,000
to $30,000. One instance is mentioned were
an acre that was sold in 1879 for S3OO was
sold last week for $25,000. A 40-acre lot
that brought SO,OOO six years ago was sold
recently for SIOO,OOO. A Boston man
bought a small tract last September
for $50,000, and has already sold it for
SIOI,OOO. A lot that was sold last June
for 87,000 was sold again the other day for
B*o,ooo. During the past winter Mr. Blaine
made an investment of 83,000 and has been
offered a profit of $12,000.
These are not paper sales. The purchasers,
in most instances, are rich men, who pro
jiose to build handsome summer residences
on their lots. Every house that is Built en
hances the value of tho land irf its vicinity.
From being a poor man’s summer pleasure
ground Mount Desert is getting to be a sort
of rich man's paradise.
The New York Sun, in commenting on
the recent edict of Mr. Phelps, Minister to
England, that ho will not present at court
American women who are not persons of
genuine distinction in the United States,
discusses tho question who are the distin
guislusi wianeu in the United States: The
Sun mentions Susan B. Anthony, Miss Abi
gail Dodge, Lvdia E. Pinkham, Mrs. Wins
low and others, hut ignores Dr. Mnry
Walker. Does the Sun mean to slight Dr.
Mary, or docs it assume that Minister Phelps
would’ refuse to present her at court,
although enjoying “genuine distinction” in
this country l
The New York Tribune prints a dispatch
from St. I/mis to the effect that a secession
is about to take place in the Presbyterian
church. “Two-thirds of the bod y now
known as the Southern Presbyterian
church,” says the dispatch, “will secede
and join the Northern Presbyterian
church. The fragment left is imbued yvith
the old spirit and will hold out until death.”
All this will te interesting news to tho
Presbyterians.
W. J. Arkell, the proprietor of the Judge,
made an unsuccessful attempt tho other day
to liavo tho life of his city editor, H. J. Ten
Eyck, insured lor SIOO,OOO. It seems that
Ten Eyck Is one of tho writers that have
Iks'll selected to go up from St. Louis in the
big balloon which will ascend on June 10. A
son of the iate Gen. Ila/.on, of the United
States Signal Service, will accompany Ten
Eyck. An aeronaut and a photographer will
also make the ascent.
For inconsistency and insincerity the Re
publican press takes the lead. The Repub
lican organs of Philadelphia, for instance,
ore criticising the Southern companies
alleged to have dropped out of t he parade at
Washington, the other day, because negro
companies were placed ahead of them. Tho
same organs have not yet condemned tho
Pennsylvania hotelkeeper who refused to
entertain negroes.
All Alutemu man claims to have discov
ered a newspaper iu his State which advises
farmers to stick to their farms and let iron
and town lots alone. He will have to be
sworn 1 >ofors ninnv will believe him.
CURRENT OOMMEJff.
Cleveland and the Democracy.
Prom the. Fort Worth Gazette (Dem.)
Democracy, through Cleveland,' has given
;>eaoe to the country and a business boom to
tin-South because of that peace and restored
confidence. Why. then, should the country de
sire to substitute Republicanism for Democracy,
and why should the South desire to substitute
any Democrat for Cleveland:
Suspicious Joffersonianism.
From the Boston Globe ( Dem.)
We observe that of late several of our Repub
con contemporaries are iljsp* wed to adopt the
Jeffersonian idea that the best government is
that which governs least. The doctrine is a
wood one, but the Republican )>arty has never
accepted or acted upon it, and its praises have a
suspicious sound when snug by Republican
organs.
Nothing- But Good Wishes.
From the .Yew York Evening Sun (Ind.)
. There can be nothing but good wishes for Mr.
Cleveland and his wife, except the thanks of all
the people whom he rules for such delightful
example of true domesticity as tie sets. He has
gone away where nature is grand and solitude is
deep to celebrate the first anniversary of a day
•sweeter to him than any wherein his great vic
tories in the busy world were recorded.
Congressman Randall’s Impudence.
From the Washington Post (Dem.)
Representative Randall is greatly displeased
and -surprised" because the President aid not
appoint to the office of Marshal the man whom
he recommended. “I told the President that I
could not yield ray choice," he says. There is
impudence in this, considering the persistence
with which this same Randall last winter ex
pended all his strength in defeating the declared
polfcy of his party and the wishes of the Presi
dent, as an open and avowed ally of the Repub
lican party. How is it that Col. Randall has the
audacity to ask anything of the administration?
BRIGHT BITS.
School teacher, illustrating the difference be
tween plants and animals—Plants are not sus
ceptible of attachment to man as animals are.
Small boy at foot of class— How about burrs,
teacher?— Exchange.
"Hello, Smith! Did you know Boston’s most
illustrious was in tfiwn?"
"No! Is he going to plav with the boys?"
“Play! the idea of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes
"O. pshaw! I thought you meant Kelly."—
Binghamton Republican,
Susie— Oh, mamma. I’ll never disobey you
again.
Mamma—Why, Susie, what have you done?
Susie—Well, I drank my milk at lunch and
then ate—-a pickle; and the milk said to the
pickle, "get out.” andthe pickle said, “I won’t,"
and they are having an awful time.— Life.
One day the children were having an object
lesson on the blue heron. The teacher called
attention to its small tail, saying, "The bird has
no tail to speak of." The next day she asked
the scholars to write a description of the bird,
and a little German girl wound up by saying:
"The blue heron has a tail, but it must not be
talked about.”— Exchange.
“Shall I sing ‘Kathleen Mavoureen' for you,
Augustus, dear?" she asked, after they had
been married something over a year.
“No, you needn't mind."
“But I heard you say the other day that you
liked that song ever so much."
"Ido. Perhaps that will explain to you why
I don't want to hear you sing it."— Merchant
Traveller.
The stars looked dpwn on the slumbering town
As softly to bed last night we crept;
He had yelled his fill, the house was still.
And we knew that the little tyrant slept.
So glad 1
But v% stubbed our toe 'gainst the crib and lo!
A yell of twenty-lung power
The stillness broke, for the tyrant woke
And we walked the floor for another hour.
So mad! —Boston Courier.
Aoent— Don't you wish to subscribe to this
book? #
South Carolinian—Jleekon not.
"It tells all ahom earthquakes. Here is a
picture of Charleston just after the earth
quake.”
"I don't think that book will do me any good.
What I want is a picture showing how the land
scape looks just before the earthquake. I
might learn to get out of the way." —Texas Sift
ings.
A few days ago there was a small civil suit
tried before the Justice of Pizen Switch. It is
al ways customary in such cases to have the
winner of the suit pay the fees. The plaintiff,
a big, raw-boned rancher, was called upon to
pay the jury of six $2 apiece. He immediately
stood up and querried: "Pay the jury $12?”
“Yes," replied the Court.
"Look a-here. Judge, ain't that sorter piling it
on thick? I just paid four of them fellers S2O
apiece. Do they want the earth, summer fal
lowed?”
The dead silence in the room was broken by a
slight snicker from defendant’s attorney. The
bailiff called everybody to order and the jury
filed out without asking for fees .—Carson (Jveu.)
Appeal.
To the question, “How’s business?" the tailor
answers: sew, sew; the acrobat, jumping; the
yachtsman, I looming; the distiller, still; the
Laker, rising: the writing master, flourishing;
the trial justice, fine; the apartment hotel
keeper, flat; the weather bureau clerk, fluctu
ating; the plumber, piping: the gardener, spring
ing up; the furniture teamster, on the move; the
minister whose church is in debt, fair; the shoe
maker, awl right, with an upper tendency; the
rag gatherer, picking up; the hod earner and
the elevator boy, now up and now down: the un
dertaker, run into the ground; the doctor, re
covering; the cobbler, on the mend;the astrono
mer, looking up; the lolwter catcher, gone to
pot; the cooper, (wihoopiug her up; the aero
naut, going up; the diver, going. down. —Boston
Courier.
PERSONAL.
Millionaire Crocker, of the Central Pacific
railroad, loves best his wayward son.
Phillips Brooks will wake the sacred echoes
of Westminster Abbey while abroad the coming
summer.
Dennis Kil Bride is the way the evicted ten
ant who travels with Editor O'Brien spells his
name. It looks as though the Orangemen were
trying to s;iell it with two L’s.
Senator Stewart, of Nevada, worked up his
candidacy laboriously. He took a whole year
and went over the State making speeches on
the silver question aud other things.
Fravlein von Bclow has just left Berlin for
Zanzibar, to establish there a hospital iu the
interest, of the Nationul German “Fruuenbund,”
or Samaritan Society of German Women.
D. O. Mills, Whitelaw Reid's father in-law,
has given Sso.OOOJor the purpose of erecting a
new building on the grounds of the Bellevue
Hospital, New York, to be used as a training
school for male nuraes.
Oscar Wilde, the apostle of aestheticism,
after uiild attempts at poetry, has at length
blossomed forth as a novelist. One of the Lon
don society pajs'i'H contains a s"r!al story of the
hlood-aud-thiuider species entitled, “Lord Arthur
Savill's Crime; Tale of Chcii jjiaanoy.”
Tiik Princess Beatrice’s .jubilee present to ihe
Queen Is to consist of a tiny miniature of the
late Prince Consort, whteh will be enclosed in
the interior of a sovereign. This work lias been
intrusted to Mr. David Mossnian, whose por
traits on ivory of the twin daughters of Lord
Bligi *’ e exhibited in this year’s academy.
Mme. Christine NnasoN Miranda will return
to England shortly and sing at a state concert.
Previous to her marriage she announced in a
J white letter te Queen Regent Christina, of
Spain, that she would not sing any more, except
in Spain for charitable objects. Mme. Nilsson-
Miranda is like Patti—each of her appearances
is the final one.
Representative Rkriah Wilkins tells of an
Indiana Granger who recently called on the
President, shook hands with him vigorously mul
long, looked him over front head to foot, and
then remarked: "Wa-al, wa-all Ileus 1 hev
bon votin' for Presidents nigti onto fifty yecr,
an' I'll be golhlasted of you ain’t the fust ono I
ever see! Jes' shake agin, will yor"
Prince Louise Bonaparte, who was In New
York at the time of the Bartholdi celebration,
has entered upon his duties ns a Lieutenant of
Cavalry in the Italian army, ills uncle, the
Duke u'Aoste, ex iling of Spain, accompanied
him to Milan, when l his regiment Is garrisoned.
The young Prince is prevented by the laws
passed last summer from serving his time in tho
French army.
Lotus Shaiu'e. Mr. MeVleker and a number of
other Chicago theatrical managers recently re
cciveii presents consisting of handsome marble
paper weights, "with the compliments of Joseph
C. Moekiu." MaoUin, the ex-Chicago politician,
is now nil inmate of Joliet prison and is em
ployed in the marble works there. In his days
of freedom lie was '‘solid” with the managers
and lias not forgotten them.
Some yen -s ago Maj. Jared Hath bone, of Cali
fornia, lately appointed Consul General at
Paris, lost u great deal of money lie owns a
place at Menlo Park next to the estate of te
land Htanford. lie anil Senator Stanford nro
great friends, ami the latter at once made Mat.
Ratlibolio superintendent of the Menlo Park
ra-’ch at a good sal try. This position ho has
inert uulv and accrt’ttv'lv flllc-i
Flooring a Senator.
By Lxiurence Oliphant.
Senator Toombs was a large, pompous man.
with a tendency not unconimoq among Ameri
can politicians, to orate rather than converse
in society. He waited for a pause in the discus
sion. and then addressing Lord Elgin In sten
torian tones, remarked apropos of the engross
ing topic: "Yes, my lord, wo are about to relume
the torch of liberty upon the altar of liberty."
Upon which our hostess, with a winning smile,
and with the most silvery accents imaginable,
said: “Oh, I am so glad to hear you say that
again. Senator: for I told my husband that you
hail made use of exactly the same expression to
me yesterday, and he said you would not have
talked such nonsense to anyhodybut a woman."
The shouts of laughter w hich greeted this sally
abashed even the worthy Senator, which was
the more gratifying to those present as to do so
was an achievement not easily accomplished.
The Human Auction.
Ho! here are lives by the score to sell.
Up to the platform, gents, and bid;
Make me an offer, they'll pay you well—
All of ’em ripe for trie coffin lid.
Here is a woman pinched and pale.
Plying her needle for daily bread:
Give me a shirt for her—more on sale,
Dying! gentlemen—dying!—dead!
A family, six in number, here.
Fresh from a cellar in Somers’ Town;
Mother her sixth confinement near,
Father and brats with fever down.
"Twas Pestilence spoke then, was it not?
"An open sewer." I think hn said;
Well, his offer shall buy the lot,
Dying', gentlemen—dying!— dead!
Now, good customers, here’s a chance:
A thousand men in the prime of life,
Wielders of musket, sword and lance.
Armed and drilled for the deadly strife.
General Warfare lifts his hand—
"A bullet for each,” cries the gent in red,
No offer but his—fast flows the sand.
Dying! gentlemen—dying! dead!
A body of toilers worn and weak,
Clerks and curates and writing men—
Look at the flush on each sunken cheek,
Mark the fingers that grasp the pen!
Come, good gentlemen, can t we deal?
Has Drudgery's eye for bargains fled?
He offers, at least, the price of a meal—
Dying! gentlemen—dying!—dead!
George R. Sims.
The Interstate Commerce Bill in Rhyme.
From the Boston Record.
Section five forbids the pooling of freights.
This might be summed up as follows:
Be kind to your patrons!
Oh, do not forget,
That pooling may injure
The dry and the wet!
In section eleven the Commissioners are pro
hibited from engaging in other business. .As
showing how mindful they are of their duty,
this clause could be rendered:
Break, break, break from my business home so
free,
And I will not even mutter the thoughts that
arise in me.
The long and short haul section, which is sup
posed to give a chance for varied interpretations,
might be left somewhat enigmatical in Emerso
nian verse as follows:
If the short haul cloud his days,
Or if the hauled thinks he is hauled,
They know uot well the law’s queer haze;
I keep my pass and turn again.
But for a real rollicking stanza, try the sec
tion commanding common carriers to send an
nual reports to the commission:
Your report. Wild or tame;
And we reckon that you
Are no stranger to blame?
Well, we thought it was true,—
But there isn’t a page you have written as don’t
show just where you’re askew.
The scalper now his tomahawk lays high upon
the shelf,
And seeks some other avenue to gain his paltry
pelf;
While traveling bagmen, too, can get no more
a special rate
Because the railroads now must heed the law
of interstate.
Mr. and Mrs. Bowser.
From the Detroit Free Press.
“Well, I’m going to have a garden this
spring,’’ announced Mr. Bowser as he entered
the house the other day.
"You—can’t mean it!”
“Mrs. Bowser, when I say I’m going to have a
garden, I don’t want to be understood as mean
ing that I’m going to have a brickyard.”
“But you remember last year?”
“Certainly, I remember last year. What of it?
I set out to'make a garden, and you and the dog
and the neighbor's hens and a hailstorm and
the bugs beat me out of it.”
“Well, of course you will do as you think
best, but I’m sorry to see the yard all torn up
for nothing."
“For nothing! That's just like you! No mat
ter what enterprise I have on hand, you always
try to discourage me. You area nice helpmeet,
you are! I might as well fold my hands and
sit down and wait for the poor house. I shall
begin on the garden to-morrow.”
A year ago he came rushing into the house
one spring day with some seeds someone had
given him, and announced that he was going to
have a garden. Most of *our backyard is in the
shade, and no one of sense would expeet any
thing to grow there, but Mr. Bowser had it
spaded up and made into beds, and his enthusi
asm was wonderful.
“Don’t wanta garden, eh?” he chuckled, as he
brought me to the back door to survey the beds.
“Doesn’t this remind you of old times on the
farm?”
“Y-e-s, but I’m afraid the soil will be too
cold.”
"Oh, you are! Perhaps you have been reading
up on soils and are preparing a series of articles
for some agricultural paper! You can go in and
attend to your rick-rack.’’
"But you can warm the soil by running steam
pipes under it, and I don’t think the cost would
be over $1,500!"
If 1 hadn't shut the door I think Mr. Bowser
would have hurled the spade at me in his sudden
anger, but after a few minutes spent in reflec
tion he began measuring back and forth and
sticking stakes, and he afterward acknowledged
to me in a burst of confluence that he intended
to try hot bricks at live feet apart. He mude a
list of the stuff he put into the ground. There
were pumpkins, squash, cucumber, watermelon,
cautelope and turnip seeds, and he put in some
seed onions, made a bed for lettuce, and his work
was done for the time. He had broken three
pairs of suspenders, beyond repair, spoiled two
pairs of pantaloons, ripped three shirts down
the back and lost' a S2O gold piece in the dirt,
but he was happy and enthusiastic.
“Just think, Sirs. Bowser!” he exclaimed as he
waved his hand over his garden, “of walking
out and culling your own vegetables grown on
your own land, and covered with the dews fresh
from heaven!"
“And covered with our own worms and bugs,
I suppose."
“There you are! You’d die if you couldn't
say something mean. I used to wonder why
some families didn't get along better, but now I
see through the mystery.”
"Has anything sprouted yet?"
“None of your business! Don’t you dare to
even look over my garden! If 1 raise 50.000 big.
luscious melons you shan't even have a piece of
rind!”
The next week he brought home two dozen
tomato plants and set them out. While he was
down town I went out to ltx>k at them, and when
he returned I asked him if he was certain they
were tomato plants.
“Am I certain that I am alive at this mo
ment!" he roared, “Perhaps I have traveled this
country from Maine to Texas to ho taken in by
a farmer!"
“Well, 1 hope they'll turn out tomato plants,
but they look to me like ”
"Bosh! Most anything looks queer to a cross
eyed woman!"
lam satisfied I hat Mr. Bowser used seed
enough on that garden to plant it live fis t deep.
Whatever he could hear of he got, and what
ever he brought home went into the ground lie
fore he could rest. His tomato plants didn’t do
well. They got liver complaint and turned yel
low, and they got malaria and shivered ail day
!■ ng, and one afternoon ho brought a friend up
to ve what ailed t’ mi. The man pulled one up
by the roots, put it to his nose for a second and
thou laughed.
"Bowser, that's a potato stalk or I’m a fool!"
“No!"
“Weil, it is, and you might as well pull up
and throw the others away!"
I beard it all, but never let on. In June some
of the things began to sprout, and our garden
was the talk of the neighborhood. There were
wheat, oats, lettuce, barley, clover, onions,
broom corn, watermelons, trfg weeds and Issds
all coining tip together, and men hung over the
fence Hud laughed till they cried. Mr. Bowser
treated the subject with such a lofty air that 1
asked no questions, but one day when I had been
over to mother's I returned to find the garden
gone and the soda restored.
"Wasn't it a success, darling?" I asked that
evening.
"Wasn’t what a success!"
“The garden, of course."
“Could a garden lie a success with people
throwing hot water and hair oil bottles and old
shoes at every sprout that showed its heoil
above ground? Mrs. Bowser, you were, mali
ciously determined that I should not have a gar
den. and you’ve triumphed for the hour, out
beware! It's a long road that has no turn."
A gorgeous funeral la the only imposing
procession in which the man most interested
takes no interest whatever.— fall Hi tier Ad
vance.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A Hindu, a negro and representatives of sev
eral European countries were among the theo
logical students who graduated from Auburn
Theological College some days ago.
An English statistician has discovered that
married men live longer and live better lives
than bachelors. Among every 1,000 bachelors
there are 38 criminals; among married mou the
ratio is only 18 per 1.000
One of the most remarkable thefts on rooord
is reported from Whatcom, W. TANARUS., where a thief
stole an entire orchard, just planted, billing his
work tor a time by sticking willow twigs in holes
where the fruit trees bad been.
It is said that a Baltimore doctor proscribes a
good many love powders to anxious patients,
and a druggist of that city makes a good thing
out of comoounding the prescription, which is
as follows; '"Pure sacchara alba, hydrant aqua.
Take as directed."
The Lutheran Church complains of a lack in
the ministerial supply. The new ministers are
not numerous enough to HU the places vacated
by death, superannuation and otherwise. The
demands are very pressing just now as immi
gration is very large.
Newcastle. Pa., has a hen of extraordinary
egg laying ability. One day recently she layed
two good-sized eggs; the day following she re
peated the operation; on the third day she
rested and laid no eggs, but on the fourth day
she made up by laying three eggs.
Rather an odd accident happened to a young
girl employed in a Cincinnati tailoring estab
lishment. She was leaning over a pot of boiling
■coffee when suddenly it exploded, throwing the
fluid in all directions. She was so badly burned
it is feared her eyesight has been destroyed.
Four medical students, who started out in a
3scht from Burlington, Vt., last week in search
of the sea serpent, were becalmed a short dis
tance off shore, and being minus oars, had to
make the best of things until a breeze came
along the next day. Their diet meanwhilo con
sisted of air and water.
According to the London Spectator there is a
great deal of Jewish pauperism in London.
Last year, it says, every third Jew received aid
from the State. The reason for this state of
affairs is that a large number of Spanish, Por
tuguese, 1 lurch. Sephardine and ?fogreb Jews
have immigrated to London.
A bantam hen belonging to Julia Hannon, of
West Chester, Pa., recently bocame the mother
of a curiously deformed chick. Its legs are
joined to its body near the back and project out
behind the body'as stiff as stakes, and are quite
useless either for pedestrian purposes or for
anything else but ornament.
Recently the Independent Eoston Fusilecrs
celebrated its l°oth anniversary as a military
organization. The Journal states although not
the oldest military organization in the* country,
it is the oldest infantry company now in ex
istence. The organization was formed and a
charter issued to it on May 11, 1787.
The grand ladies of Vienna are to repeat their
performances of last year; that is to say, early
in June, under the direction of Princess Pauline*
Metternich, they will again put on the skirts of
ballet girls, and turn, ami twist, and posture for
the edification of the Austrian “bloods," then
excuse being that they do it for charity.
The Pieoan Indians of Montana have made
over SI,OOO this spring skinning the carcasses of
cattle which perished in the snow. The Indians
receive-:! 75c. for every hide they brought in, and
they exhibited such industry that it became
necessary to watch the herds to prevent them
from skinning every animal in the territory, dead
or alive.
Live bears are not infrequently a part of an
express messenger's load In California. They
are quite as easily managed as dogs; the novelty
of the situation, in connection with the rumble
and jar of the train, no doubt drives all thought
of mischief out of their heads. A short time
ago a young bear got loose in the Los Angeles
office during the night and had quite a picnic all
by himself.
John W. Moore's famous St. Bernard dog
died at Melrose, Mass., on Monday. He was
probably the best dog of his class in the world.
He measured 34 inches across the shoulders and
weighed over 200 pounds. He had taken 15 first
class gold prizes in England, and since his im
portation has taken about 20 first-class prizes in
this country. Mr. Moore received an offer of
SIO,OOO for him.
While John O. Collier, of Dauphin county,
Pa., was tearing down an old dwelling house on
his property he found hidden in a corner,wrapped
in a linen poueh, twenty silver half dollars, with
dates from 1795 to 1830. in good condition. It is
thought that they were placed there by Isaac
Ogle, and old settler, who built the house and
lived there until his death, which was caused by
falling from a tree and breaking his neck.
A few nights ago someone put on the bulletin
board of the Los Angeles Tribune the startling
statement that President Cleveland was assas
sinated. The Tribune strongly suspects that
an attache of its rival, the Times , did the deed
from the fact that the Times had the story tele
graphed to San Francisco. Consequently the
relations between the two papers are more
strained than ever.
A boy, aged 7 years, who had been swim
ming at a wharf in New York, ran at the cry of
“police,” on Tuesday evening, and, raising the
lid of a box on an ice wagon jumped in it to
hide. A snap lock fastened the end down, and,
as nobody heard the poor lad's shouts and
screams, lie suffocated to death in what must
have been horrible agony. His fingers and body
were full of cuts and bruises, showing the fruit
less efforts he had made to get out of the box.
A Chicago man paid $l5O a few weeks ago for
a now and improved incubator. He placed
therein $25 worth of high-priced eggs and hired
a boy to attend it at a further expense of $25.
The time having fully expired he went to inspect
the incubator and see bow many of the eggs had
hatched. The only living thing was a large
bluebottle fly, whioh he caught and put iu a
bottle. He exhibits this insect to inquiring
friends as the only S2OO fly in the United States.
The Methodist ministers of Philadelphia have
apjiointed a committee of five to consider the
advisability of excluding reporters from their
Monday morning meetings. There is no charge
that the reporters have reported incorrectly, but
it is Said that sometimes they make public inci
dents tnat might as well be kept quiet. The
Rev. .1. H. Kiddick is against excluding the
newspaper men. “We ought not to do anything
we are ashamed of,” he said. “I say turn on
the gas.”
The Coroner of Ipswich, a London suburb,
before commencing an inquest lately on the
case of a young lady whose dead body had been
found in a pond, requested the newspaper re
porters to withdraw. They refused to do so,and
the Jury also stated that they should decline to
serve unless the court were an open one. The
Cormier threatened to fine the jurymen, and the
Chief Constable, at his request, proceeded to re
move the reporters by form'. The Jury persist
ing in refusing to receive evidence unless the re
porters were admitted, the Coroner adjourned
the inquiry for a week.
Albert Palmer, a well-known Bostonian
lately deceased, was president of an ice com
pany. During an exceedingly mild winter the
ice company people, whose stock was very short,
were In a serious doubt whether they would
have an opportunity to fill their Ice houses.
Palmer, in jiurticular, watched the thermometer
Will a feverish interest. One evening the indi
cations had promised "colder weather," and his
anxiety led him to get up in the night and put
his hand out of the window. As he did so he
uttered a loud exclamation. “Wbat is it doing,
Albert ." his wife inquired. “Freezing?" “Freez
ing? Great Scott, no!” exclaimed Palmer; “it’s
raining hot water!"
A tiger tamer performing in Vienna very
near lost his life the other day through the neg
ligence of his servant. He is attached to a largo
menagerie in the Prater, and in the same tinge
as the tiger he has tamed there is another one
that is particularly savage. A partition is slip
ped Into the cage when he performs, and the
tame tiger is let Into the compartment with him.
On this occasion his attendant let in the wrong
one, which immediately sprang on the tamer.
He got out of its way. and dealt It a blow on the
head with a heavy whip he bad with him. His
attendant then kept the animal at bay with an
iron bar, and Anally sueceded in driving it back
to the other compartment.
Clara Morris is sometimes rather frisky on
the stage. While her own nerves and those of
the audience are at full tension she will at
tempt to “break up” her vis-a-vis with some
flippant teinark deftly delivered. Before “Miss
Multon’’ was first produced at the Union Square
Theatre there was some doubt as to,its success,
owing to the similarity of the story to "Kant
Lynne." The eventful night came, and the
play progressed to tne la (i. ■ the death of the
weary, worn Mis-- Midton. As sh struggled In
that terrible si.nidation of death, and while the
audience was stamping the play with the Real
of a great success, the actress turned to J. H,
.Stoddard, the “old man,' and hastily whispered:
• AVI. nultv, we’vo got ’eml"
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Q- INCH WIDE CHECK NAINSOOKS that
i were 10c., reduced now to 6Ue.
27-inch wide CHECK NAINSOOKS that were
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24-inch wide IMPORTED XX CHECK NAIN
SOOKS that were 15c. we have reduced to 10c.
29-inch wide LACE CHECKED. SATIN' and
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29-inch wide LACE STRIPE ORGANDIES,
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Numerous qualities PERSIAN LAWNS. Plain
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