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4 Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. SUNDAY. MAY SO, 1887. Registered al the Post Office in Savannah. The 'tor. n't si; News is published ovary day in the year, and is served to nttMeribeni m the city, by newsdealers and carriers, on their own ac count at 25 cents a week. §1 (XI a month, $5 00 for six mouths and fit) 00 for one year. The Morm.no Nrw*, by mad, one mouth, $1 00: three months, $2 50; six montlts, $5 00; one year. 8)0 0(). Tile Morning News, bfi mail , six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, 82 IX': six montlis. 84 00 one year. $s 00. The Morning News, Tri weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays three months, 8l 25; six months. ?2 50; one rear, 85 00. The Sunday News by marl one year. 82 00. The Weekly News, hy mail , one year, Si 25. Subscriptions parable fn 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 made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings —German Volunteers; German Friendly Society; Savannah Turn Verein; Teu tonia Lodge No. 7, K. of I’.; Tutonia Division No. 3. U. R., K. of P. Special Notices— As to Cyclopedias; F.nter lainment for Benefit of Cathedral Choir; Faust Beer, George Merer, Agent; Early Closing of Clothing Merchants; Townsend, the Printer. Picnic— St. John the Baptist T. A. and B. So ciety. Cheat* Column Advertisements—Employ ment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost: Per sonal: Summer Resorts; Miscellaneous. New Line op Goods—At Eckstein's. Clothing. Etc.—Appel * Sehaul. Notice—As to Stone for Congressional Li brary. Great Clearance Sale op White Goods— At Platshek's. Active Fortune Range— Cornwell & Chip man. Picnic Goods— -John R. Withington, Agent. Mourning Goods— Crohan A Dooner. Auction Rales— Mirrors. Etc., by C. H. Dor sett; Fine Horses, 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, 81 for a month or 82 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 as 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. 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. 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