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4 C|c|Horninglletos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. MONDAY. JUNE 0. 188 7. Registered at thr Post Office in Savannah. The Morning News is published every day in rhe year, and is served to subscribers in the city, by newsdealers and carriers, on their own ac count, at 35 cents a week, $1 00 a month, §5 00 for six months and $lO 00 for one year. The Morning News, by mail, one month, $1 00; three months, $2 50; six months, ®5 00; one year, $lO 00. The Morning News, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $2 00; six months. $4 <X) one vear, $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, $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail, one year, $2 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year. $1 25.. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. Letters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning News, Savannah, Ga." Advertising rates made known on application. INDEX TO N F.W “ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings —DeKalb Lodge No. 9, I. O. O. F.; Tattnall Council No. 884. A. L. of H.; Georgia Historical Society; Georgia Tent No. 151,1.0. R. Special Notices— As to Withdrawal of Steam er Katie for Overhauling; Notice, L. Q. C. La mar, Secretary of Interior. Steamship Schedule— General Transatlantic Cos. Furniture, Ktc.- Lindsay A Morgan. Hardware, Etc. Lovell A lattiraore. Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Want ed; Miscellaneous Auction Saleh—Sundries, by I I). Laßoche's Sons; Mirrors, Pianos, Etc., by C. H. Dorsett; Furniture, Etc., by J. McLaughlin A Son. Legal Notices- Application for leave to Sell Central Railroad Stock; As to Application for Passage of a Local Law as to Magistrates' Fees, Etc. 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 $2 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. Mrs. Langtry has made her beauty pay. Ince beginning her career on the American age she has invested $200,000 in New ork. Jay Oould is on his way South in his icht, the Atalanta. A doctor is with him. ould would doubtless like to exchange ime of his wealth for better health. C. P. Huntington sailed for Europe last eek. The Celtic-Britannic collision, it sms, had no terrors for him. The only ting that frightens him is a Congressional ivestigating committee. It is announced that Mr. Theodore Roose sit, of New York, will soon return to his r ßrtom ranch. He is nursing an incipient residential boom, hut it is not of sufficient ze to warrant his taking a trip to Europe. Another death has been caused by an Grange seed. Miss Marion Elsie Blackman, a teacher of Norwich, Conn., was the vic tim. Soon after she swallowed the seed in flammation resulted, and she died in less than a week. Col. James B. Andrews, of Allegheny City, Pa., is to lie elected ('apt, Eads’ suc cessor as engineer of the Tehuantepec Whip Railway. Thirty wealthy men of Pittsburg have $15,000,000 invested in the scheme. It will be vigorously pushed. It is said teriMHKfUicst and largest flag ging be seen in front of tht JteiljigaMSßl*- i Xeiv York. The $10,(810. Wlhmi % ' flHgjMMney don't like to lie worried sidewalk. ■HpKr O'Brien has received an anony- PKTts letter warning him that if he visits S’hiladelphia he will be shot. He had already determined that he would not visit that city. The writer of the letter intended, no doubt, merely to create a sensation. The Atlgemeine Zcitxmg, of Vienna, is authority lor the statement that a project is on foot to make the Pope King of Pales tine under a guarantee of protection on his throne by all the Catholic powers. The Pope is not likely to consent to remove from Rome. When Henry George addressed the stu dents of Packard's Institute, of New York, ten days ago, they appeared to lie much interested in what he said. On Saturday last the principal of the institute invited all the students who were willing to accept George’s doctrine to stand up. Only two responded. The students in the institute number 400. George doesn’t make converts rapidly. It is possible that New York’s so-called “bluejaws” may cause some hard drinkers to reform. A veteran rounder of that city declares that it is a cruelty to a drinking man to allow him his liquors six days and then prohibit his. Ln.vma,.tkem on the seventh. He in favor of prohibition, as tbaMHUM of denial on the “olT” day ure UHpfljSßisubcd for by the indulgence other six. Eugene Shaffer, a sMtfllAAshnffer. the belligerent New VorkjMHDkot drunk in Albany, N. Y., the ot)|A_Bj2yand was ar rested and lodged ialapjtTWhcn brought into court next moriiidj hw under the influence of drinkarrested. Investigation devc)npedjHk|ifit|ki< I bought whisky at 'Sx\ a drink Down ia, a prisoner twMpipl voting. It seems that Downing a bar in the jail ever since* was Boa i inittod. The prison reformers on |Mt Albany and do a little work. ■ Gov. Ames has |lardiKlT Franklin; J. Mottos, ex-Governor of Houth Carolina, and he has been released from the Massachusetts State prison. The strange career of Moses culminated In the forgery of the name of Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the author, early in 1885. In October of that year he was sentenced to nerve a term of three years in the State prison. He was pardoned lte cause it was represented that he was in bad health and could not live long. The fate of Moses, and of so t retributive Justice it u-.-t Tax Evading Corporations. The people of Pennsylvania are excited over the success of the corporations of that State in escaping the payment, of about $2,000,000 in taxes. There was shrewd and secret work done by somebody during the last day of the session of the Legislature that has just adjourned, but as yet it has been itnjiossihle to discover who is responsi ble for it. It seems that for years there has leen complaint of unequal taxation, and laws have been passed from time to time to remove the cause of it. The corporations somehow escaped the burden it was intended they should bear, while the people were forced to pay more taxes than they thought they ought to. In 1886 a law was passed authorizing the taxing of all mortgages, and the courts decided that it covered all kinds of mortgages except those of corpora tions. The Legislature this year passed a bill placing corporation mortgages on a footing with other mortgages in the matter of taxa tion. It was not until the last day of the session that this bill received the sanction of both houses, and t hose who were interest ed in having it passed watched it very care fully. The Speaker signed it and then it was given to a messenger to carry to the President of the Senate for his signature. It was put into the hands of that officer and then its friends were satisfied and relaxed their vigilance. They regard their work as done. They knew the Governor would sign it wheu it reached him. Strange as it tnay seem when the Legisla ture adjourned it was discovered that it had not been signed by th# President of the Senate and, of course, it failed to become a law. The $2,000,000 which would have gone into the State Treasury, and to that extent lightened the burdens of the people, will remain in the pockets of the stockholders of the corporations. It is not a matter of surprise that the lieople are indignant, and it ispretty certain that they will not be satisfied until it is found out who is responsible for what is be lieved to have been an intentional blunder. The Governor has been asked to call an extra session of the Legislature to sift the matter to the bottom, but the cost of such a session would be so great that it is hardly probable that he will grant the request. Corporations complain loudly that they are oppressed, but cases like this in Pennsyl vania would seem to justify the conclusion that they are the oppressors rather than the oppressed. Having plenty of money at their command, some of them at least do not hesitate to use it to corrupt the sources of power. Drifting From Their Moorings. There are several things being agitated within the organization of the Knights of Labor, which, if adopted, will not he of advantage to that organiza tion. One of them, it is alleged, is to permit men who are Socialists to have a voice in its councils. Socialists and Anarchists have nothing in common with workingmen, and they could not get along with them harmoniously. The Socialists and Anarchists would all the time be trying to get control of the organization, and they would not he satisfied until they accom plished their object. Another of the things agitated is to per mit liquor sellers to become members. Why do the liquor sellers want to join the order f Clearly for the purpose of influencing it to support their schemes. They have nothing in common with workingmen. They are not toilers. They have a business, however, which to be prosperous must have the cus tom of toilers. It is even projiosod to remove the restriction which prohibits the sale of intoxicating liquors at the picnics of the Knights. It looks as if there were danger of the or ganization drifting away from safe moor ings. The prohibition against liquor deal ers and the sale of intoxicating liquors at picnics is a good one. Those of the Knights whose only aim is to benefit workingmen must begin to wonder whether they are as serting themselves as they ought, and whether those who want to use their order rather than to aid it*re not getting the upper hand. Some rather curious develop ments may he looked for at the convention of the Knights, which meets at Minneapo lis next fall. Cotton to tjie Front. The Cotton World , in its last issue, under takes to prove that in the commercial world “cotton is still king,” and its effort is quite satisfactory. Prior to 1800, there was no doubt that cotton was king. It occupied a larger place in our exports than any other article, and kept the balance of trade in our favor. Immediately after the war the yearly balance of trade was heavily against us. This was because the South had not got fully to work again raising cotton. Our gold had to be sent to Europe to adjust the trade balance. In the thirteen years, from 1885 to 1877, the South furnished .three-fourths of all the exports of the country, exclusive of coin and bullion. This she did in the face of many obstacles. The North and West export vast quantities of bread stuffs, provisions and dairy products, and up to 1880 their exports gradually increased. Since that year, however, the amount of their exports has fallen off considerably. For that year the exports of cotton amounted to 9311,535,105, of breadstuffs $28(1,704,897, and of provisions and dairy products $132,488,201. In 1880, however, while the exports of cotton fell off only about $6,000,000, while those of breadstuffs, provisions and dairy products fell off over $200,000,000. By stating the ease differently this showing is made: 'ln 1880 the exports of breadstuffs, provisions and dairy products were about double those of cotton, but in 1880 the export* of cotton tame within $11,000,000 of being equal to those of bread stuff s, provisions and dairy products. It be gins to look as if cotton were going to be king again. A short time ago Secretary Lamar ap pointed Col. Dick Wintersmith, of Ken tucky, a special timber agent. The office pays about $1,500 a year. Col. Wintersmith thought he would he detailed to inspect tim ber frauds in California. Instead, however, he was ordered to go to Southwestern Ne braska. He refused to go, and resigned. Explaining his resignation, he said: “There isn’t a stick of timber to inspect in Ne braska. The country is full of rattlesnakes and it would be as much as ray life is worth to go out theie.” Col. Wintersmith seems to have forgotten that in his native State a reputed infallible cure for snake bites is manufactured in large quantities. Hon. Frank Hatton, the owner and editor of the Chicago Mail, wants to sell his paper, provided he can get $150,000 for it. As both editor anil jaiper arc against Mr. THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1887. “Old Confed.” A paragraph which appeared in the Morning News some time ago gave an ac count of a box said to lie kept by Capt. W. H. Harrison on his desk in the executive of fice in Atlanta. The box was called “Old Confed," and it was said that contributions were put into it for the benefit of disabled ex-Confederate soldiers. The paragraph was liased u]H>n a statement found in an Alabama paper. It was reprinted by {ta pers in all parte of the South. It will lie remembered that a few weeks ago a resident of Savannah sent $1 to Cant. Harrison, requesting him to put it in “Old Confed.’’ The letter accompanying the con tribution stated that the writer was an ex- Union soldier. Capt. Harrison acknowledged the receipt of the dollar, but stated that “Old Confed” was a myth. Recently a disabled ex-Confederate soldier wrote to Capt. Harrison explaining that he had read the paragraph about “Old Confed," and asking assistance. The old soldier’s letter gave a jiathetic account of his mis fortunes. He said that lie was unable to work as men blessed with good health and strength do, and in consequence he and his family were dependent. He had never asked for help before. Capt. Harrison ap peals for contributions for the benefit of the old soldier. They may be sent either to Capt. Harrison or to Comptroller General W. A. Wright. It is well known that Georgia is one of the States that give pecuniary aid to ex- Confederate soldiers. She does not pension them, but she gives artificial limbs to those who have lost arms or legs, or, if preferred, she gives the cash instead of the limbs. During the last session of the General As sembly the House of Representatives passed a bill authorizing the periodical payment of certain sums to all ex-Confederate soldiers in the State who received permanent inju ries during the war. The bill was not passed by the Senate, becaiuse it reached that body just as the hour of adjournment for the re cess arrived. The Senate, doubtless, will pass the hill at the approaching summer session. What Georgia does and intends to do for her old soldiers is creditable to her. Unfor tunately, however, she cannot afford to do enough. The sum heretofore periodically cxis-nded under what is sometimes called “the maimed soldiers’ act” has been small, and the bill mentioned as pending in the Senate will not greatly increase it in the fu ture. There are some old soldiers who are absolutely dependent, and tlies > require more #ubstantial aid than the State is likely to give. It has not been long since one of this class attempted to commit suicide in Atlanta because he was unable to provide means for the supixirt of himself and family. To unfortunates such as this unhappy vet eran “Old Confed’’ would be a boon. Doubtless Capt. Harrison’s duties would not allow him to act as the disbursing agent of those who would he willing to contribute to a fund for the benefit of old soldiei*s such as have been described. There are, how ever, veterans’ associations in the State, and they, no doubt, would gladly arrange for the proper care of a fund devoted to the purpose mentioned. As the war period re cedes its disabled veterans become more helpless, and unless some adequate provision is made for them not a few will end their lives in abject want. The Oats Swindle. The fanners of Pennsylvania have the reputation of being very intelligent. Good newspapers are published in all the great, agricultural counties of the State and in the large cities in that and the adjoining States. Is it possible that the - f’ennsyl - vania farmers do not read the newspapers! It would seem so fr.om the fact that a very large number of them in the rich and pros jierous Cumberland valley have been swindled out of a large amount of money, as ntueh ns $500,000, it is said, by the Bohemian oats method. This method of swindling farmers has been written up time and again, in about all the nowspajiers in the country, during the last two years, and It is rather remarkable that there are intelligent farmers anywhere who have not heard of it. A year or so ago it attracted a great deal of attention in Ohio, and hundreds of farmers were swin dl'd by it. The swindlers move from one section of the country to another, and they appear to meet with success wherever they g- The Bohemian oats are no better, from all accounts, than any other kind of oats, But the swindlers succeed in making the farm ers believe they are. They sell them at $lO per bushel, and sign contracts to buy the oat crops at s(’> per bushel. The farmers are generally induced to take anywhere from five to fifty bushels each, but the swindlers are not around when the oats are harvested. The swindlers get the cash whenever they can, but are not averse *to taking notes, which they find little difficulty in selling at a discount. If farmers read the newspapers more generally they would not easily be come the victims of any kind of swindlers. The mountebanks who have been parad ing at Pea Ridge, N. J., as evangelists for the [>ast month have <>soaped tar and feath ers so far, but the outlook for them is not very inviting. Lust week the harangues of one of the mountebanks, Mnason by name, caused Mrs. John Storms to liecome insane. Very soon after she die*!. Her insanity led her to think that it was her duty' not to live with her lmsbapd, who was not a Christian. Mnason advised her to leave her home, from which, he said, “the children of God were driven away by the imps of the devil.” Re plying to threats against him, Mnason said: “The devils about here must lie careful that they don’t find themselves full of dirt in hell. Some of them will soon roll in their own ashes.” Mnason and all others like him ought to lie locked up where their ravings cannot be heard. The New York Times is authority for the statement tiiat the Cotton Seed Oil Trust people do not seem to be worried much over the prospect of having to go into court and answer a lot of questions about the true in wardness of their organization. All the trustees that ever admitted knowing any thing about the mysterious Trust have gone to Europe. A trustee recently subpoenaed to testily in the Louisiana suit said, the other dry: “There isn’t a single one of all the questions they are going to ask us that any of us can answer, except what our ages and occupations are.” It is possible that the trustees still in this country are troubled with bad memories. It was announced a few day* ago that Mr. Blaine would remain In Europe at least, a year. The New York Tribune says that., he has not determined the length of h||| stay. Mr. Blaine will doubtless keep self in readiness to return to the Uni Mid Staten at a moment's notice. He mean to remain abroad to thq. doti imeutjof j ins I’t esideutial boom. ' J CURRENT COMMENT. The Labor Vote. From the Houston Post (Dem.) The labor vote might hold the lialance of power in a few of the close States, but that would lie the extent of the movement, ami it is seriously questioned that it can l*i solidified sufficiently to accomplish even this much. There would be no apparent incentive for a solid labor movement, no direct benefit to ac crue therefrom, and without such incentive the vote will be hard to control. The Danger of Negro Suffrage. From the Mobile Register ( Dem .) The great danger of negro suffrage will come when the whites of the South divide into two political parties. Then it is greatly to be feared this section will see an era of bribery in politics. But at present there is no danger of such di vision among the whites of the South, and in the meantime we should endeaFor to educate the negro into understanding the duties devolv ing upon him as a citizen. Entitled to a Good Long Rest. From the Few York World (Dem.) Gen. Butler expressed to (he Boston club named in his honor a "doubt whether the country or the State has any right to call upon me unless some emergency comes forward." The jxipular vote in 1884 indicated that the emergency was more liackward in coming for ward than was Benjamin himself. The preva lent feeling seems still to be that this horny handed son of toil is entitled to a good long rest. Hope for Senator Sherman. From the Philadelphia Record (Dem.) There is some faint hope of Senator Sherman yet. He said in his Springfield speech: “There are some things the law. cannot do. They can not regulate the price of labor or anything else. This can only be done by the law of supply and deniand.” Why, then, do the Protectionists insist that the tariff laws raise the wages of labor* If the law of supply and demand alone regulates prices, why do Senator Sherman and his associates attempt to overrule this law by a prohibitory tariff? BRIGHT BITS. Patti has returned to Europe, and the United States Treasury at Washington still lives.— Puck, Liquor law s are generally so badly construct ed that they will not hold water .—.Veto Orleans Picayune, The woman with a disagreeable bang is she who hammers on a piano in the house next door.—Boston Bulletin. A woman woke her husband during the storm the other night, and said: “I do wish you would stop snoring for I want to hear it thunder.”— Otago Witness. It is an old story, but worth remembering. The Quaker's consideration for his better half: “AH the world is queer, excepting thee and me, and thee is a little queer,"— Exchange. Miss B.—Why is it. Mr. A., that whenever you refer to a Boston friend you invariably use the word "fellow?" New Yorker—Oh. because be belongs around the Hub, of course.— Boston Globe. The teacher takes out his watch. “As we have a few minutes before we close, you can ask any question you wish.” One little kid comes forward "Teacher, what time is it, please*’’— San Francisco Chronicle. Old Gentleman (putting a few questions)— Now, boys—ah—can any of you tell me what commandment Adam broke when he took the forbidden fruit? Small Scholar (like a shot)—Please, sir, th’ worn't no commandments then, sir? Questioner sits corrected. — Town and Country Journal. • A well-known gentleman in Rosedale has an old fashioned timepiece. Of course there is nothing singular in this, but there is in that clock having to be rakeu to Kansas City for re pairs on every circus day. La.4t Saturday as usual, the great clock in hand.he stepped on the morning train for Kansas City.— Kansas City Journal. A Washington reporter has heen inter viewing a chronic office-seeker: “How are you feeling this morning. Col. Placehunter?” "Poorly; I only wish I was a fish in Saranac Lake.” "Why so. Colonel?” "If 1 was, perhaps the President mightdrop a line to come in out of the wet. That’s what I've been wanting him to do for some time past."— Texas Siftings. The irreverent messenger boys of Svracuse bad better tnend their ways if they would avoid the awful predicament known as “contempt of court." A messenger boy accosted a Deputy Sheriff at the court house in that town yester day with, "Say, Mister, does you know a feller named Williams round here?” and he held up to the horrified deputy a telegraph dispatch ad dressed to "Hon. P. C. Williams, Justice Su preme Court, at court house, Syracuse, N. Y.”— Utica Herald. "Suppose.” said the railroad superintendent, who was examining the applicant tor a place as engineer, “that you were out on the road and discovered that you were carrying fifty pounds more steam than you should, what w ould you do?” "I’d have the fireman hang on to the safety valve till we got to a town and then let it off through the whistle.” "That’s right—l guess you understand your business.”— Dakota Bell. Tommy, walking with his father, saw him give a beggar 5c , and inquired into the matter: “What did you give that than sc. for, papa?” asked Tommy. "So that he might eat bread, my bov," said the father. That evening at the supper table it was observed that Tommy declined to eat bread in any shape "Aren't you eating bread nowa days. by boy?" his mother asked. "No, mamma.” "Why not?” “So papa'll give me sc.— Youth's Companion. PERSONAL. Queen Victoria is exactly five feet high. Miss Kate Field has left Salt Lake City for California, Oregon and Alaska. A. O. Bayley. Vice Commodore of the Royal Albert Yacht Club, has been declared bankrupt. His liabilities are stated to be .£67,000. Alexander ( ’oxe. who is this year graduated from Yale, is the heaviest man who ever receiv ed a diploma from that institution. He weighs 285 pounds. Prince Albert Victor, eldest son of the Prince of Wales, will go to Dublin on June 27 as the Queen’s representative at the jubilee cele bration there. The Puke of Newcastle, who was a visitor iu Philadelphia a year or two ago, is [laying mark ed Attention to an American girl to whom he was Introduced by Mr. Phelps. Charles Coohlan. who edits the Dawson iMinn.) Sent.tie/, wants it understood that he is not the Charles Cogblan that does the kissing act with Mrs. Langtry on the stage. Miss (In. her, of the Critic, has her own way of saying things. Of a silly new story called “Wee Wide,” she says: "The heroine goes on growing weer and wifer to the end of the vol ume.” The Beecher Memorial Committee have de termined to place the statue of the great preach er in the Brooklyn City Hull Square. The sum needed for it is sßß,ouo. of which nearly two thirds lias been secured. One of the last acts performed by Ben: Perley Poore before he was stricken down was on the recent birthday of George IT. Childs. Mr. Poore went to the government printing office and set his 1,000 ems for the Childs fund like the rest of the printers. Gen. Sacssier. of Paris, delights to show his friends a bratina, or silver punch-howl, which he recently received from Ivan llaritonenko, the "Claus Spreckles" of Russia. Haritoneuko is an ignorant Russian who lias made a vast for tune in sugar He is an enthusiastic admirer of the French. In spite of Ids illiteracy his en thusiasm for France tel him to learn the French language in his <)!Hh year. He was the leader in the movement which clone<sthe doors of Russia to foreign sugar. I'r. R. C. Ft.ower, of Boston, is visiting Silver Cliff, Col. He has an Interest in the silver mines at that place which he values at $14,000,000. He alaoowns one of the .lnest orange plantations in Florida. He liven in a SBOO,OOO residence In Bos ton. l)r. Flower was horn at Albion, 111., which town his grandfather, George Flower, founded. George Flower was an Englishman of good family and went to Illinois in 1818. A few months after his arrival in that State he laid cut the town of Albion. He was a personal friend of Jefferson and LaFayette. M. Vianesi, an Italian who has become a nat uralized Frenchman, has succeeded M. Altos as master of the orchestra in the opera of Paris. Vianesi was educated in Paria. directed for a time the orchestra of Drury lane, London, and thence came to New York In charge of nil artis tic mmail'll by Mario ami (trim. He afterwards servnmln the imperial theatres of St. Peters bur*®!-! Moscow. The greatest artiste* of the •fabAc sung and assumed their raise under bis ns Albanl. Mines. Vianlut. Persiani, MM. Marin, Tamberlick. Faure, and < uiyarre. In his long career he lias with such eminent composers Meyetveer, Verdi. Gounod. Wagner, Thomas, Liszt, Rubinstein and other*. COULDN’T ANSWER. Why the Proprietor of Two Cafes On Broadway Remains a Bachelor. From the. Xew York Eveninu Sun. Mr. William Koch, who owns two cafes on Broadway, is extremely' popular. When asked the other day why he did not get married he said that he once proposed for the hand of a rich man's daughter, and was put through the following searching examination by the old gen tleman: t. Don’t yon think you are rather young to ge.t married* 2. AVhat is your weekly income? 3. How long before you will be admitted a partner in the firm? 4. Do you expect any dowry’ with my daugh ter? 5- How many things have you at the pawn brokers’ * 6. Do you attend the races or buck the tiger? 7. Have you any idea what it costs to support a wife? Mr. Koch thought this was worse than any’ civil service examination, and was afraid that he had not secured a very high percentage. The old gentleman left the room and sent in his wife, who soon began to get in her fine work: 1. How much money have you in the bank? 2. Do you love your mother and sisters? 3. Are you in the habit of staying out late at night? 4. Do y’ou know how to make the kitchen fire? 5. Do you smoke, chew or drink? 0. Do y’ou make enough to keep a servant girl? 7. Would you let me come and live with you if anything should happen to my husband? Mr. Koch felt pretty down in the mouth after lieing thus raked fore and aft. He hadn't fig ured on being scrutinized from such different standpoints, and hadn’t as good an opinion of himself as he had a few moments before. W’hen his charmer came down and they were alone he began to breathe freer, but he soon found that he wasn’t yet out of the woods. The, girl be came inquisitive, and her questions, while per haps less disingenuous, were nevertheless rather insinuating: 1. Don’t you think you will ever be able to raise a moustache? 2. Did |>apa promise to furnish the house? 3. Don’t you think we could be happy in a cottage by the sea in the summer? 4. You’re just a nice age to marry, aren't you? 5. Do you like going to the theatre? 6. Can you write poetry? 7. Do you speak to that red headed Smith girl any more? HERCAT KNEW HIM WELL. This Is the Story that the Magician Tells About Hijnself. From the Xew York Star. Few persons would imagine that Hercat, the magician of Old London, would ever be taken by the confidence fraternity for an easy victim. Nevertheless, he had an interesting experience with one of the fraternity yesterday morning, on his way up town from the Chambers street ferry. As he stopped at Warren and Church streets to let a car pass by he was confronted by a tall man, who, greeting him most cordially, exclaimed: “Why, how do you do, Laughlin, old man! When did you come to town? “I beg your pardon," replied Hercat, taking in the situation at a glance. “You have made some mistake, sir. sxy name is Reynolds, and I came from Fernandina.” The stranger apologized, and of course his partner soon stepped up and said: “Isn't this Mr. Reynolds, of Fernandina? Don’t you recognize me?" he added, with a smile. “Ah, yes; I recollect. lam very glad to meet you again. By the way, I heard that your uncle had a very severe accident the very day I left Fernandina. He broke his leg.’" “You don’t say so. How cud it happen?” in quired the young man, anxiously. “Kicking a bunco man around a block," re plied the. wizard, sotto voce. The young man suddenly remembered that he had promised to meet a friend up-town. Bees at Sea on the Warpath. From the Providence Journal. Capt. Noyes, the veteran keeper of the Lati mer's Reef lighthouse, had a peculiar adventure at his ocean retreat on Wednesday. The light house is about midway between Fisher’s Island and the Connecticut shore, and about three miles from the nearest point of land. On that day a buzzing sound was heard outside the tower, and investigation showed that a large swarm of bees filled the air around the tight tower, evidently with the intention of making this place their fii ture residence. As the regulations governing this branch of the public service would not admit of this, the Captain and his assistant made efforts to dis lodge the intruders, but were only partially successful, as every inch of the ground was closely contested, the bees having evidently staked their all on the result.of the contest, and fought valiantly. Three times the keeper and his assistant were forced to retreat within the walls of the lighthouse for protection, smarting under the stinging received from the invaders. For hours the unequal contest was kept up, and victory seemrel about to perch upom the banners of the invaders, when one more charge was decided upon by the valiant Captain, and a coup de main of unusual force decided the dav, and the invaders heat a hasty retreat in the direction of Fisher's Island, only a few of the intruders remaining to annoy the light-keeper and his assistant. He Thought That the String Broke. From the Loe Anqeles Times. Ex-Sheriff George Gard, when he was in San Francisco last, happened to he riding on the front platform of a cable car, and a Chinaman got aboard. "You savvy Leavenworth stleet," asked the Mongol of the gripmau after he had ridden some distance. “Yes, I savvy Leavenworth street." answered ffrip. "Me likee catcher Leavenworth stleet." "All right. John: you’ll catch Leavenworth street." was the assuring rejoinder, and turning to Gard the gripmau said in an undertone: "Hold on to the rail: I’m going to dump him." The car was running at a rather high speed as it approached the |>oint indicated, and the grip man sung out. "Here's Leavenworth street, John.” The Chinaman took his basket and prepared to step off, when the gripman, letting go the cable and putting his brake down hard, stopped the car so suddenly that it shot the washes man off as if from a catapult. John tumbled over and over with his basket, and then picking him self up, an astonished look on his face, and brushing the (hist from his face and brushing his pantalettes, exclaimed: "Hell! Damm! Wachemalla ? Stling bloke ?" The Czar’s Pleasure Trip. The Czar started out on a pleasure excursion, To travel a few miles by rail, With stockings of iron that be had to prv on. and a steel undershirt that wouldn't show the dirt, and a riveted ulster of mail “I need for this trip stout clothes that won’t rip," Said the Czar, "when they catch on a nail." And he took for his friends on this pleasure excursion An army of soldiers so rough. With gun and with cannon, with flag and with pennon, with carloads of shot, and a mon strous big lot of muskets and rifles and stuff. Says he: “’Twill be tame if we find any game. And don't have ammunition enough!" So he startd forth on his pleasure excursion. This jolly and fun-loving C zar: % And they halted, 'tin reckoned, on every third second, hit the wheels with a whack, and examined the track, and tore up the floor of t he car. "What a jolly sweet life," said the Czar to his wife, “This pleasure excursion, ha! hn!" Mr, Lont's Little Joke on Barnum. from the Detroit Free Preen. Mr. Lent (the circus man) was at onetime a partner of P. T. Barnum, touring the country with a “greatest show on earth," having for Its principal attraction Tom Thumb and ten ele phants. Then Chicago was a "two days' stand," and Bariuim's waggish partner used to relate with much gusto a joke ne played on Barnum The partners were unaltered in u tavern that stood on the site of the present Tremont. House, and on retiring Mr. Lem gave orders that Mr. Barnum should he called at an early hour, and served with a cocktail. Everyone knows of Mr. Barnum's hatred of liquor, and his feeling van well he imagined wheu he was aroused the next morning hy a darkey, who pouuded on his door and called out: "Time to get up, Mr. Barnum. Open do doo' an' let me in wid yoo' cocktail." Gov. Gordon Kisses a Beauty. f'rom. the Baltimore Sun. After Gov. Gordon, of Georgia, had finished his address at Nashville the other day, a large number of ladies were presented to him. Among them was one who fc quite a Jbelle In local society for her beauty as well ns her wit and maidenly accomplishments. G >v. Gor don chatted in most pleasant conversation for a few moments, then shook hands, in bidding farewell to the ladles, until he enme to the 10- year-old beauty, when he put her face between his hands, and turning u|sas pretty a pair of lifis as poet ever dreamed of. imprinted thereon a gubernatorial kiss. The young lady blushed slightly, but could, of course, take no offense It was truly an act of homage on the part of greatness to beauty. ITEMS OF INTEREST. The women of the Presbyterian church are said to have raised in this country within the last sixteen years $2,150,000 for missions. Charles H. Hoke, of St. Louis, includes in his collection of coins the original of a medal struck to commemorate the capture of a Roman city by Attilla iu 111, A. D. H. W. Stevens and W. J. Spencer engaged in an eating match in Salem, 111., last week. The match was to see which could increase his w eight most by eating. Spencer increased his weight six and a quarter and Stevens his six and a half pounds. The school officials of Boston have posted no tices in all the school buildings of that city, for bidding the chewing of tobacco by the pupils. They have even posted the notice in the Girls’ High School building, much to the indignation of the young women. The “Church Army," the Anglican rival of the Salvation Army, was started about five years ago by the Rev. William Garble, a young curate of Loudon. It employs workingmen to reach workingmen, and seems to be growing in strength and influence. A.v English paper tells a w ild tale about an old German w’ho has invented a safe, that on its lock being tampered with, throws open Its doors, seizes and drags ami locks in the burglar, and handcuffs and holds him in readiness to be con ducted to the police court in the morning. The trustees of Harvard University, com posed of G. F. Hoar, ex-Gov. Winthrop, Profs. Putnam, Heaton, and others, have bought sixty acres of land in Baton township. Adams county, 0.. on which is situated the famous Serpent Mound, paying therefore 840,000. The party will make a national park of the tract. Mas. Catherine Barberry, of Niles. Mich., 62 years old, has an invalid husband, and, though she weighs but 05 pounds, she shears sheep, builds fences, shells corn, digs potatoes, makes garden, makes clothing, takes care of the stock and has done all fhe other odd jobs that go to make life one continuous round of hilarity. Drummers practice a scheme to circumvent that clause of the interstate law relating to charges for excess of baggage. When the drum mer’s baggage exceeds 150 pounds he buys sev eral tickets to his place of destination. On these he cheexs his baggage. Then he sells the tickets he doesn’t want, and of course he is all right. Hartington, Neb., furnishes a specimen of brutality to a dumb beast that entitles Char!' y Miller to a fat berth in the penitentiary stone pile Miller found a neighbor's horse on his land. Armed with the wrath of a maniac and a fish spear he pursued and butchered the animal in a horrible manner. He was arrested and bound over to the District Court for trial. Jim Shanks, a young farm hand, of Genessee county, Mich., was smitten with the charms of a pretty school ma’am in the village, and asked her one evening if he might escort her to an en tertainment. She declined the invitation rather curtly, whereupon the enraged gallant smashed all the windows in the school house. He was ar rested and fined for his reprehensible conduct. The latest remedy for dyspepsia is “Gofio," w’hich a recent writer has discovered in the Canary Islands. It is an article of diet pleasant to the taste, nutritious and easily digested. Ib is made of roasted corn, wheat, maize or barley, or a mixture of two of these grains. The grain is more than parched: it is, so to speak, cooked before it is ground. Gofio, therefore, needs no other preparation than to be mixed with w r ater or some other liquid into a paste. Joe Welch, 11 years old, has arrived in Hele na, Mont,, from county Armagh. Irelaud, after traveling all the way alone. He had a tag pinned on his coat labeled. “Send this boy to Helena. Montana, and lie good to him. He is an orphan.” Although the boy talks little but Irish Gaelic he understands English, and at times on his long trip he would go astray while in transit from the steamer to the railroad, and eeaoh to vessel, but his label got him around all right. Tennessee has two streams called Daddy and Mammy creeks. They were named away back when the State was first settled. A husband and wife riding along on horseback began quar reling. and when they arrived at the first stream the former soundly cuffed his wife. He then named the stream Daddy creek. They jogged along still quarreling till they came to 'the sec ond creek, when the woman picked up the Bmb of a tree and felled her companion, and tri umphantly named the water Mammy creek. A hen. half black Spanish and half game, has been doing a land office business in Rolla, Mo. She laid her first egg on May 10,1886, and has laid an egg every day since. She went to setting as soon as she laved her first egg, and is still on her nest, She comes off every morning to get water and food, and then goes back. She has hatched one egg a day except the first three weeks of her career. She has now been laving one year, and is the mother and hatcher of 344 chickens, one-half pullets and the other half roosters—and she still looks well. When Col. John Hay is asked what decidedly seems an impertinent question. “Are you the author of “The Bread Winners?" he answers with a bland smile: “In general I have not much to conceal, but this thing Is a secret of s’x of us who have been accused by the public of this flagraney. Now. if five of us separately confess that we are not the guilty party, it ccii victs the sixth defendant, and we have mutu ally decided to stand by the author of The Bread Winners’ in his secret sin. You see the situation!" The correspondent of the Balti more Xeu-3 saw it, when presented to him the other day. Tnr.RE arrived in San Francisco recently a little Gcrrpan girl who traveled alone from her native land. Her name is Cresencis Schwartz, and her age is 11 years. Without underetanding one word of English this little Teutonic maiden traversed the broad Atlantic Ocean and crossed the American continent without a companion, trusting solely for her safety during her 7,000 miles Journey on the kindness of the people whom she cfianced to meet. Her widowed mother in Germany was too poor to support her, and an uncle in Ran Francisco having offered to adopt her, the mother prepared a little lvaggage. gave a kiss of farewell, and dispatched her daughter on the long journey, which occupied two months. The same diversity of opinion as to the best form of locomotive for general use appears to prevail in England asin America. While coupled wheels are mostly preferred for passenger en gines, five feet to six feet six inches in diam eter. a few’ leading American engineers prefer single drivers, and are disposed to revert to even seven feet, a diameter which has been tried and abandoned in the past as not meeting the expectations entertained of it. About fif teen years is the estimated average life of an American locomotive. It is generally admitted that railway trains in England are driven at a faster rate of speed than in the United States— say about 20 per cent, in excess of the lat ter. There are express trains, however, between some of our principal cities, that compare fa vorably with those in England. About five years ago Mr. Felkin, one of the Uganda missionaries, complained to Mtesa that his majesty had not kept th missionary larder well stocked, as he hod agreed, and the mis sionaries were actually suffering for food. A happy thought stria:!: the Kiug. He gave an order to an attendant, and in a few minutes eighteen buxom young women came marching in with big baskets of bauanas on their heads. "Take these women for your wives," said Mtesa. "They will dig in your garden, raise vour food and cook it. Take them and don't bother me any more. Send me the other men and I will give them wives, too. Now take your women and go." Mtesa was greatly enraged when the poor missionary ventured to protest against being married in this wholesale fashion. He told Mr. Felkin that he and his fellows might shift for themselves. They had a hard time of it until the King long after became better na tured. Speaking of the recent royal pageant at the People's Pn'aee. ut the Fast End of London, the Pall Mall Gazette remarks that while the cere mony of laying a foundation stone is one of the most ridiculous tliat has ever been contrived hy human ingenuity, the Queen, whether from past experience or recent coaching, discharged the absurd duties in a business-like manner. First, she look the shining trowel and proceeded to spread the mortar ou the lower stone, quite horrifying some ladles, who cried: "Oh, what a shame! Why, she's scratching the silver." But the right bund of majesty wavered not in Its duty. Then a great glass retort was placed in her hand into which she dropped coins os deftly ,as a conjurer about to perform a trick, the pa pers followed the coins, the cap was put on the retort, which was placed In the cavity. The episode of the plummet followed, and then the top stone was lowered and the deed was done. The crowd craned to get a view of its sovereign and the Archbishop's prayers were subjected to unseemly interruptions, such us: "On, laird, save Tb.v people—" "Now, then, take your hat off there." "The jieaee of God, which passetb all understanding ■" “Sit down in front, will your" -amid a titter. At last all was over; the helmets and breast plates of tbe Horse Guards flashed In the sun as they faced around to make way for the royal carriages, the crowd gave a co', and the Queen disappeared. BAKING POWDER. H P® issi NciKjj B? JffiST PERFECT MADE and Public Food Analysts as The Strn tUiH Purest,andmostHealthful. 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