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4 (Djc^flontingltcfos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. TUESDAY. .1 t'NE 14, 188?. Registered at thr Fast Ofl re m .SSamnnaA. Tbe Mormso News Li published every day In fbf year, and is served to subscribers in the city, by newsdealers and carriers, on their own ac count, at 35 cents a nwk. $1 00 a month, §5 00 for six months and $lO 00 for one year. The Morning News, ft;/ mail, one month, $1 00; three months, §2 SO; six months, §5 00, one year, $lO 00. The Morning N’k ws. by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $2 00; six months, $4 do one year. $8 00. The Morning News, Tri-Weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three mouths, $1 35; six months. S3 50; one year, $5 00. The Sunday News, ftt/ mail, one year, $2 00. The Weekly News, by mad, one year, 81 25. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, cheek or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders Letters and telegrams should lie addressed "Morning News, Savannah, Ga.’’ Advertising rates made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meeting® —Chippewa Tribe No. 4, I. O. R. M; Ancient. Landmark Lodge No. 231, F. A. M.; Savannah Cadets. Special Notices—To the Bondholders of the Savannah Schuetzen Gesellschaft; Closing to Travel of Isle of Hope Causeway; As to Crews of Norwegian Bark Norma and German Bark Meteor; To Consignees per Schooner Charmer; Hats at Jaudou's. Cheap Column Advertisements Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale: Personal; Summer Resorts; Miscellaneous; Educational—New England Conservatory of Music, Boston. Steamship Schedule Baltimore Steamship Company. Legal Notices— lncorporation of Metropol itan Trust Association; In Bankruptcy. Cow Peas, Etc.—G. S. McAlpin. 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 83 30 for three months, cash invariably in ad vance. The address may lie changed as often as desired. In directing a change care 6hould be taken to mention the old as well as the new address. Tbose who desire to have their home paper promptly delivered to them while away should leave their subscriptions at the Busi ness Office. Special attention will be given to make this summer service satisfactory and to forward papers by the most direct and quickest routes. The Morning News will begin the pub lication next Sunday of a very bright and intensely interesting story, entitled “Nora of the Adirondacks,” by Anne E. Ellis. This story was written for the Morning News, and it will be found to be well worth read ing. It contains thirty-eight chapters, and grows in interest with each chapter. The President’s annual fishing excursion to the Adirondacks lends new in tercet to that sec tion of country, and a story in which some of its features am described can hardly fail to be appreciated. Suspiciously large shipments of peanuts have recently been made to Atlanta. Some body is after the salaries of the members of the General Assembly. Capt. Samuel Donelson, doorkeeper of the lower honse of Congress, believes that the Democratic national ticket will be Cleve land and Carlisle. It is a ticket that would easily command enough votes to sleet it. The Philadelphia News is very well in formed on most subjects, but it is not easy to understand what it is driving at when it says editorially that “Hon. George Owens, of Savannah, (4a., is the handsomest lawyer In South Carolina.’ 1 F. C. Hollins, of New York, says that the land boom in the South has collapsed, but that in Missouri a tioom may be found in every fence comer. He doesn’t say so, but there is no reason to doubt that Hollins hus money in Missouri dirt. At Chicago the other day Sarah Bern hardt's pet tiger, Minottc, severely bit the bond of a waiter in a hotel. Saruh was very sorry—for the tiger, but soou regained her equanimity when she found that none of the animal's teeth were broken. Two years ago Mile. Marie Van Zandt the American singer, was hooted off the stage at the Opera Comique in Paris. She has just had her revenge. A concert given by her for the benefit of the sufferers by the tu e at the Ojiera Comique realized SI,OOO. One of the mediums advertised to he at the spiritualists' comp-meeting on Lookout mountain in July was exjKwed not long ago In New York while materializing a sailor boy. Hhe will reap a harvest of silver dol lars, nevertheless, for a large number of in nocents will attend the camp-meeting. 11l summer time the only really happy people are those who stay at home. They *re not cramped in small, hot rooms in rrowded sununer resoi-t hotels, nor are they compelled to he “dressed up” all day and most of the night. Home—cool and com fortable home—is the best place, and it is the cheapest. It is authoritatively announced that Chief Ilattice Blcckloy, of the State Supreme Court, •will be a candidate lief ore the General As lembly for the position to which he was ap pointed by Gov. Gordon. When he was appointed it was quite positively stated that he would not ask the General Assembly to Sect him. It is, however, hard for most Men lu give up office. Since President Cleveland returned to Washington, speculation touching the Su preme tkiurt vacancy has been renewed, l'he impression is tliat Secretary Lamar fun have Use place If ho desires it. It is thought that his visit to Georgia is for the purpose of consulting with his friends übout the matter. In case ho is given the seat on the bench, tho suggestion is mode that. Assistant Secretary Muljrow will probably •nocsod him ns decretory of the Interior. Congressman Van Eaton, of Mississippi, was in Illinois when Senator Sherman made his bloody shirt sjiecch. He nays thut Re publicans nnd Democrats alike condemned tho speech as nil attempt to revive that sec- Uonnl bitterness which good men North and South desire to see eliminated from politics. Tliere is no reason why anybody should worry about anything Senator Sherman hoa *>d or may say. Sectional bitterness will driappear, one of theso days, in spite of Republican Issues. The indications are increasing that it is the purpose of the Republican leaders to conduct the next Presidential campaign, so far as they are concerned, on soctiona! issues. Mr. Sherman in his recent speech at Springfield, 111., outlined the Republican policy, and Mr. William B. Chandler in his speech to the caucus at Concord, N. 11., after lie had been nominated for United States Senator, expressed about the same views as those Contained in Mr. Sherman’s speech. Mr. Chandler said that it was the duty of the Republican party to maintain the “difference between freedom and slavery, loyalty and treason, the Union army and the Confederate army.” Mr. Sherman, Mr. Chandler and others who think as they do, see no chance of gnin ing a foothold in the South. They believe that their only hope of success in 1888 is in trying to strengthen the Republican party at the North by arousing sectional fettling. It may be expected, therefore, that in the next national campaign the same old stories of political outrages at. the South will bo re told and enlarged upon. It may be that efforts will be made to stir up strife in some localities in the South in order to get mate rial for new outrage stories. In his Concord speech Mr. Chandler al luded to the alleged Texas outrage which the Senate investigated last winter, and which was found to have been nothing more than a local squabble, inaugurated by a lot of politicians that would be a disgrace to any community. Even tho Republican members of the Senate Committee which conducted tho investigation were disap pointed in not discovering a jiolitical out rage that could t>o used advantageously by their party. Mr. Chandler, however, is ready to ignore the truth and assert that the Texas affair was an attack by Demo crats upon the freedom of the ballot, and that such attacks are common all over the South. When the campaign fairly opens the peo ple of the North will lie told that the South is disloyal; that tho negro is not permitted to vote in any of the Southern States; that ex-Confederates have captured Congress; that they are shaping legislation and are being appointed to all the best offices. It will be strange indeed if statements like these find much favor with the Northern people. There may be a few extremists who will believe them because they want to, but the masses of tho people, who watch current events and think for themselves, will hardly accept them. They will want something more than mere assertions to convince them that the South is not ns loyal and law-abiding as the North, and that the ballot is not as free and the count as fair in this section as in any other of the country. Indeed, in view of tl;e enormous ballot-box frauds in Cincin nati and Chicago, it is safe to assert that greater care is taken to preserve the purit y of the ballot-box at the South than at the North. It is true that ex-Confeder atos have been appointed to office, but there is neither a written nor on unwritten law against that. The Republicans were glad to appoint those of them to office who joined their party. Very few of them, however, cared to join that party. Sherman himself was instru mental i if having one of them appointed Postmaster General in Hayes’ administra tion. The ]>eople of the Nort h are not blind to the truth, and if the Republican party depends upon “bloody shirt” issues it will suffer a much more severe defeat in 1888 than it did in 1884. Jacksonville’s Motives Questioned. Tlie Secretary of the Tampa Board of Health,in a letter to the New York Tribune , expresses great indignation at the action of Jacksonville in imposing a quarantine uixm Tampa. He insists that the latter city is in no danger of becoming infected from Key West, not only because it is in a pine coun try, but, also, because it is kept in an ex cellent sanitary condition and precautions are taken against the introduction of the fever. He calls attention to the fact that during previous epidemics at Key West free communication was maintained with Key West without any harmful results, ami he docs not, therefore, apprehend any danger this year when a strict quarantine is main tained against both that place and Havana. The main point which ho makes is that Jacksonville was influenced to quarantine against Tampa, not because of any fear of the fever, but to injure the latter place in tho estimation of Northern people. Lost, winter, he says, Northern visitors did not stop in Jacksonville as they had done in previous years, but went at once to South Florida. Jacksonville’s hotels were empty, while those of Tampa were crowded. Doubtless the secretary of the Tampa Board of Health is very sincere in what he says, but it can hardly lie probable that Jacksonville, in the course she has pursued in this fever matter, was influenced by the motives which he attributes to her. There may have been no necessity for establishing a quarantine against Tampa. There is oer tatnly no case < >f infectious disease there, and there are good reasons for hoping there will be none. If it had not been for the fact that Tampa has direct communication with both Havana ami Key West no quarantine, in nil probability, would have been established against her. It was the fear, doubtless, that infected parties or baggage might escape tho vigilance of the Tampa authorities that induced Jacksonville to take the course she did. It will certainly take more than has yet appeared on the surface to induce the public to believe that in declaring quaran tine against Tampa she was influenced by malice, or the hope of destroying Tampa’s popularity as a winter resort. There are very few visitors going to Florida now, ami there will not ho many before next winter. If no epidemic occurs on tho Florida main land, all apprehension with regard to fever will have disappeared before the travel to the South begins again. Jacksonville’s quarantine against Tampa, therefore, can not do the latter much harm. At Parkersburg, West Va., tho other day Mrs. Henry Unush celebrated her 100th birthday. She was married at 15 and had thirteen children, eight of whom are still living, aged respectively 78, 73,(10,05, 00, 58, 58 and 50. Her descendants number alto gether 008. She is still lmlo and hearty, her eyesight Is good and she expects to live ipany years longer. Only one thing pre vents Mrs. Raush from being a phenomenon —she doesn't’use tobacco, poor creature! Joseph Ycarger, a citizen of Cincinnati, has a buxom daughter named I sum,. A year ago she lent Policeman Dean nil unibivllu, which ho failed to return. Yearger non mukea eornplaint against Policeman Dean, charging him with stealing the umbrella. Of course, Ycarger will get no satisfaction, for ever since the invention of the umbrella there lias been un unwritten law that it is i everybody’s property. THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1887. Au Unpleasant Development. The report of the Board of Visitors to tho State University contains much that is in teresting. Facility ami students are com mended for the high grade of scholarship maintained, and the discipline is declared to bo very good. Since tho Board is composed of gentlemen well known for their learning and honesty, the report may bo considered a fair statement of the condition of the af fairs at the University. The law makes it the duty of tho board to examine into the affairs of the Atlanta University, the institution which the State supports for the lienefit ol' the negroes. The rejiort compliments the faculty and students for the excellent work done during the past term, hut calls attention to a matter which is objectionable. It was found that white students are received into the University. Most of these are the children of mem bers of the faculty.* The board was informed, however, that it was the intention of the faculty to admit all white students that might apply, the purpose being to break down the social linrriers between the two races. Tho Board expresses the opinion that such a course is illegal, the University having been established solely for the bene fit of the negroes. The Governor will doubtless .direct the attention of the General Assembly to the mutter, hut it is probable that it can bo settled only by the courts. The laws of Georgia relating to public schools distinctly provide that whites and negroes shall lie educated separately. As the act establishing the Atlanta University declares that the institution is solely for the benefit of tho negroes, the opinion of the hoard as to the illegality of admitting white students is doubtless correct. The State does not appropriate SB,OOO a year to assist in bringing about social equality. If the members of the faculty of tho At lanta University feel that it is their mission to teach and practice social equality they should do so under different circumstances. In other words they should try the experiment in a private school supjxirted by contributions from those who favor social equality. The whites of the State pay most of the SB,OOO appropriated to the Atlanta University, and it is very certain that they are opposed to what has been going on in the institution. Presidential Excursions. The report circulated a short time ago that the President intended to make a some what extended tour of the country provoked much comment, mqgft of it of an unfavora ble nature. It was suggested, among other things, that such a tour would be a “free lunch” excursion, intended to catch votes. One critic, with more zeal than knowledge, declared that the President had no right to spend the people’s money “in running about the country.” The President, it seems, not only does not intend to make a tour of the country, but it is not probable that he will even visit St. Louis. It is also understood that he will not come to Georgia. Following the prece dents set by his predecessors, ho will stay in Washington and devote himself closely to the public business. There are many reasons why it would be well for the President to make a tour of the country. Indeed, it would be well for each succeeding President to make such a tour. The country covers an immense territory. Its interests are numerous and varied. Its people differ widely in their characteristics and feelings. If the I‘resident should visit every section, familiarize himself with all interests and become acquainted with the people, he would necessarily lie better fitted to discharge his duties. The truth is, in no other way can a President qualify himself to be entirely independent. If he does not know the country he must learn the wants of different sections from members of Con gress, or a few interested politicians whose desire to obtain office for themselves or their friends leads them to visit Washington. Exjierienee has proved that the information obtained from such sources is not always trustworthy. Those who sneer at every effort to induce the President to visit a given part of the country are unwise. Instead of sneers, there should bo hearty commendation. There is always time in the summer or fall when the President can leave Washington without injury to the public business. If, however, the small people who do the sneer ing have sufficient influence to keep him at the capital, then no man ought ever to be elected President until he has visited every section and studied the condition and possi bilities of the country from the most favor able standpoints. The New York World asks this question: “Why does President Cleveland take so much interest in Jacob Sharp:” This is a very unjust and unfair attack on the Presi dent by a journal which claims to have a larger circulation than any other paper in the country. In the same issue the World attacks tho Sun for its indecent publications about the President, and yet this effort of the World to connect the President with Jacob Sharp is calculated to do him more harm than the publication of the Sun. The World does not assert that the President sympathizes with Sharp, and furnishes no evidence that he does. It simply throws out an insinuation. Is that decent journalism? Is it creditable to tho journal which boasts the largest circulation? Ex-Congressman J. Floyd King, of Louisi ana, gives tho public a glimpse of some of • tho troubles of a statesman. Ho says that for one year his bill for postage alone was S7OO, and his clerk hire amounted to more than his salary as a Congressman. His cor respondence was immense. He once spent Sunday and Monday endeavoring to open and answer the letters received on Satur day. No doubt the ex-Congressman tells the truth, but no man that wants to go to Congress will believe him or be deterred from carrying out his purpose, if it is pos sible to do so. Mrs. Langtry doesn’t seem to be satisfied with her success as a beauty and an actress. She is now writing a serial story, which will bo published simultaneously in Ameri can and English periodicals. Afterward she will write an autobiography, which, by permission, will lie dedicated to the Princess of Wall's. Mrs. Langtry is now in Cali fornia, where she is making botlf reputation and money. There are no signs that she intends to obtain a divorce from her hus band and marry Fml Gebhard, although Gebhard is still devoted to her. ——. .■.—- ■— r - - - It seems that Editor William O’Brien is ho horo of a romance. Early in his jour nalistic career in Dublin he fell in love with a soubretto at one of the theatres and married her. They didn't get along well together, and a separation was tho result. As he is a Catholic he cannot obtain a divorce. Perhaps if ho could he would many again and rid himtclf of his loneli ness. CURRENT COMMENT. Reversal of Missionary Effort. From the Washingtvn Star (Jnd). Africa sends a thousand dollars to Ik- used to convert England to Christianity iu her treat ment of Ireland. This Is reversal of missionary elTort with a vengeance. The Forgiving Nature of the Irish. From the .Veto York Herald llnd.) The injunction to “heap coals of fife on an enemy’s head" cannot always he obeyed, when floor tenants have only bog neat for fuel; tint the forgiving nature of the Irish is shown by their coming as near obedience as possible pouring hot water on heads of their evictors. Sherman and Blaine. From the Boston Herald (Ind.) Mr. John Sherman has done Mr. Blaine the fa vor of making him appear, for the time 1 icing, more favorably before the American people, under tho effect of comparison with his rival. It would lie an astute thing on the part of Mr. Blaine to take a more liberal tack next, aban doning, to some extent, the ground which Mr. Sherman has sought to occupy with him. Yet it will not be safe for the American people to forget Mr. Blaine’s record, however much Mr. Sherman's later course muy have disgusted them. Powderly’a Great Scheme. From the New York Evening Post (lnd.) Accounts come from ail tarts of the country showing a rapidly increasing friction between the Knights of Labor as a national organization and local trade unions which have been induced to become branches of the Knights. Trouble of this kind has been inevitable from the start. Mr. Powderly’s great scheme for organizing all labor into a solid mass, to be used to raise the wages of all workingmen, was bound from the beginning to result in nothing but disappoint ment and wrangling. BRIGHT BITS. Jins. Smith —Good afternoon, Mr. Robinson; excuse my left hand. Jlr. R. (who is deaf, and thinks she is allud ing to the bad weather;- Yes, it is rather dirty. —Life. “Who is that pretty girl you walked home from church with last Sunday?” “Oh, she sings in the choir.” “Ah, yes, 1 see; a chants acquaintance.”— Melrose Journal. Jones— Have you a family, Mr. Smith? Smith—l have two daughters. Jones—Have yon no sons? Smith (sighing heavily) —I have no sonstoper petiuite my name. It will die with me.— Texas Siftings. “I won’t believe anything I can’t explain.” “Will you explain why some cows have horns and others have not ?” “I mean I don’t believe anything I can’t see.” “Have you ever seen your backbone?”—Rich mond Religious Herald. As an item of interest it might be stated that n pile of strength that would reach half way to the moon is wasted in this country every year by people holding up hymn books in church who don’t know a B flat note from the howl of a brindle cat .—Dakota Belt. Bascomr (just returned from Australia)—Well, sir, w hat would you say if I told you I had seen a snake out there Hint measures forty feet in circumference and ninety-three feet in length? Darnley—l should say -er -that Australia does not produce good whisky. The Judge. The Journal of Education says: “Never al low a child to use a short pencil, lead or slate. It spoils the hamlwriting.” Pshaw! There’s a man in this office who tins written constantly with short pencils for thirty years, and he writes alxiut as well to-day as when he was a child.— Springfield Union. Neighbor—What beautiful hens you have, Mrs. Stuckup. Mrs. Stuckup—Yes, they are all imported fowls. Neighbor—You don’t tell me so! I suppose they lay eggs every day? Mrs. Stuckup (proudly)—They could do so if they saw proper, but our circumstances are such that my hens are not required to lay eggs every day.— Texas Siftings. “I will have to owe you a dime," said Schuy ler Jewett to the tobacconist as he bit the end off a cigar. “But I haven't got confidence in you to that extent. You will have to leave that diamond pin here as collateral.” “That diamond pin is worth $1.50, and 1 haven’t got confidence in you to that extent,” replied Schuyler, as he strolled out into Austin avenue puffing his cheap cigar.—Texas Siftings. Mrs. Deßagos —John is overrun with business cares just now. By the way, is Mr. DeKaggs in business? Mrs. DeKaggs—Wbv. yes, deeply. He told me that yesterday he bought 1.000 bales of cot ton, 1,000 barrels of oil, and I don’t know how many bushels of wheat. “He must be doing a large business. Where is his store?” “He has no store. He says he has the goods on a ‘margin’—some sort of vessel, I pre sume." “Hear me. I'm so glad.”— Philadelphia Call. PERSONAL. Henry Irving, Ellen Terry and company leave London for New York on Oct. 20. Jlary Anderson has bought SOO,OOO worth of property at Manehester-by-the-Sea, Mass. President McCosh. of Princeton, is getting well and will soon be able to attend to his duties. Mmk. Antoinette Sterling takes great pride in her ancestry. The first of her family in America was Gov. William Bradford, arid another of her kin was Prepemlary John Brad ford, of St. Paul's London, who was burned at the stake iu 1555. E. E. Dennis, of Browsburg. 0., is probably the most industrious editor in the world. He gets out a weekly paper with pen and ink and does all tho work himself. He writes out care fully every copy of the paper, and his chirogra phy is as handsome'as his little journal is bright. Coi NT Hei st left a written statement of the manner in which his estate was to lie disposed of, hut no formal will; for, lie said in the state ment referred to, "to make a will is a repulsive thing.” lie directed that the simple stone above his grave should bear only his naipe, the dates of his birth and death, and the words "Peace to his ashes, justice to his memory.” So.me sensation has been caused in Viennese society by the conversion of Mile. Melanie Bias kovics, a member of one of the oldest families in Hungary, to Judaism. This young lady pub licly abjured in the principal Viennese' syna gogue. She will he married soon to Baron Her mann Konigswnrter, sou of Baron Moritz Konlgs warter, the well-known Jewish banker. Moritz Lesser, a wealthy Hebrew, of Chicago about a month ago married Miss Donning, tlie daughter of a prominent Catholic family of Arkansas. The marriage as opposed by her family, lint he persuaded her to elope with him. They settled iu a handsome house in Chicago hut the honeymoon had barely passed lie fore the bride repented, and has left, him to enter a convent. Apropos of Lord Salisbury's reported remark at the recent Royal Academy banquet that he could not call to mind a statue of a man attired In a “claw hammer coat,' and George Augustus Sala's wish that some sculptor would trv the experiment of making one, the Pottsville .Millers’ Jounutl invites them to come to l'otts villeat their earliest convenience and take a view of tho Clay monument. Prop. Henry Whitaia, who died in London on Sunday, was a well known figure in the scientific world and a ripe astronomical student He was the inventor of the planisphere in use iti the common schools In this country, and made t lie astronomical calculations for almanacs. He was a native of New Jersey, and visited England for the purpose of introducing his astronomical instruments in the educational institutions there. It is sain a writer in tho literary department of the London Times once wrote a gushing no tice of one of Dickens’ later works, and as a re ward was presented with the manuscript of tho same which in less than a week he sold to an American publisher for $1,00(1. Anew story was recently given a lot of fulsome praise in the same paiier, and as a result all of two copies were sold. The lesson is transparent. The "thunderer" thunders no more. Kknator Lafayette Foster, of Connecticut told a story about Gov. Trumbull, of ids State, who, on the occasion of a grand riot, ascended it block and attempted by a speech to quiet the people, when a random missile hitting hint In the tiead felled him to the ground He was badly hurt, and as his friends were carrying him Into ills house his wife met him at the iloor and exclaimed: "Why, my tmstiand, they have knix-ked your brains out.” "No they haven't " said tin* Governor. "If I'd hud any brains 1 shouldn't have gone there." A mov portrait of Thomas Bailey Aldrich is being printed in the newspapers which is a striking example of how faithful is the resrm. blanoe of the average newspaper picture ami I the original. Looking leisurely over a pile of I exchanges in his office last week, Mr. Vldrlcb i casually glanced at not less t han four paiiers I containing his portrait without, making tne dis covery that the counterpart tliere re|ir> serited was intended for himself. A friend slttine at his elbow finally called the authors attention to r *i'. ' It a moment, Mr. Aldrich said: Well, 1 think I may bo I,J- 1,1 lor not having recognized t^uit,” CATS POOL THEIR ISSUES. Each Assists the Other in Bringing Up Her Family. From the Cape Ann Breeze. For some (lays it has been known that there were kittens of a very tender age in the hay in George B. Shepherd's stable in the rear of his store, but such a number of kittens as were dis covered on the removal of a bale of hay none had expected to see. There were a dozen of them snugly stowed away in a nest -rather a large number for any feline to care for. it was thought. The problem was soon solved. It was found that there was a division of labor; in fact, three cats had charge of this community. Sometimes one cat would bring them food, and sometime* another. Now one cat would be at home with her happy fatniiy, which disported about her, at times covering her person; again there would be two cats enjoying the sport: and next time, perchance, all three would be there. It is pre sumed that these three eats are the mothers of the twelve kittens, but which particular kittens are the descendants of each particular eat is, perhaps, one of those thing which are not to lie found out, unless one is able to trace the family resemblance, and of course .that is not practi cable in those cases in which “they look just like their papas.'' It may he that this aggregation of families may be a common tiling with cats, but I never heard of anything of the sort bef < ire, and none with whom I have talked on the subject is better posted. If any one knows of other instances of this kind I should be pleased to hear from them. “LORD, CAP’N, DON’T SHOOT!” An Incident That Made the Darkey Tremble Even the Next Day. From the Norwich Bulletin. Norwich has no river police, but the Thames river is more or less infested by thieves, and the captains of boats and barges often miss little articles of value from their vessels. Of a recent night someone boarded a barge and cast oil the line. The captain did not like thaidea of having his boat set adrift while asleep, so he came to town and bought a horse pistol, having made up his mind to take care of the thieves himself. The next night he stood guard and his vigilance was rewarded by the appearance of a boat in charge of two well-known colored individuals, late in the night. Just as one of them was quietly dipping his pail into a barrel of liquid paint on deck he felt something cold touch his cheek, and tnrning round cautiously to see what it meant, beheld the Captain of the barge by his side. Tho thief never moved, bux yelled in a tone of agony. “Lord, Cap'n don’t yer shoot! I'll settle, cap’n! I’ll settle!” The Captain laughed at the fellow's fear, gave him a bucket of the paint and told him “to git and to keep clear of the vessel hereafter!” The thief left in a hurry, thanking his stars that he had neither been killed nor arrested The next day the Captain met the invader on Water street, and accosting him. said: “Well, how are you feeling to-day?” “Don’t mention it, Cap’n,” replied the colored man, “I’se trembling now. I never had the shakes like this befo’!” The Wind and the Stars and the Sea William Prescott Foster , in the Century. The wind and the stare and the sea, What song can be sung of these three, With words that are written in lines? Ah, God of the stars and the sea, The voice of the song, it should be The voice of the wind in the pines. The voice of the song, it should be The voice of the coast of the sea, Stepmother and wrecker of ships; As deep and as hoarse as the tune Bleak Labrador sings to the moon, With rocky and cavernous lips. The wind and the stars and the sea, The Arctic night knoweth the three; No other sojourner it hath. Save death and these three from of old, To whose abode throned in the cold, No living thing knoweth the path. There nothing to grieve or rejoice E’er lifts up the sound of its voice— A world ere the birth of a soul; A thousand long ages speed by, Still glimmer the stars in the sky, Still whistles the gale from the Pole. Amid the unharvested plains. The blossomless land where death reigns, The wind sings of doom and of graves; It sings of the days when the world Shall crumble to sand, and be whirled Like dust in the teeth of the waves. Where ice-mountains thunder and crash, Where frozen waves gurgle and dash, Where love never came with its tears, Like a lost world's desolate cry, Shrills sea-w ind to sea aud to sky, And only the ear of God hears. A Discouraged Short Hand Reporter. From the Boston Transcript. Short-hand reporters are common enough now. and it is a far cry to the time when the veteran, but still active, alert Yerrington was the only name that suggested itself when the odd-sounding word “stenographer” fell on Bos ton hearing. As the number of short-hand writers has increased the charges have come down, and every little job is competed for. Not long ago one of the State House force was ap proached by a rural statesman who wanted to place himself on re,cord for the satisfaction of the Prohibitionists among his constituents. "What'll yer ask?” said Hon. Wilkins Hay seed. "Twenty-five cents a hundred words and 10c a folio for writing out,” was the prompt reply. “Well, 't won't take mor'n thousand words to tell my folks where Ibe on this question. When you see me get up this afternoon, you just catch on an’ go ahead, and I’ll pay the bill an’ put the speech in our local paper.” The time came; Hon. Mr. Hayseed rose; the reporter opened his trusty notebook and set his pencil at work. Mr. Hayseed—Mr. President, if all the sobs of anguish, if all the tears of despair were to be agglomerated and distilled into one deadly draught— Here an envious Senator rose to a point of order that there was no subject before the Senate. The President ruled that the point was well taken; Mr. Hayseed subsided, and the re porter remarked the short-hand business was not keeping him in pencils this season. Dictating a Sermon. Edward Everett Hale in the Writer. If I have exactly my own way I like to ad dress myself to the business of sermon-writing at a time when I shall not !• interrupted, even for a second, and when I may write or dictate with as nearly the conditions of public address as possible. I begin them, and make, as clearly and distinctly as I can, in the very outset of what I have to say, a statement of my object what I expect to prove or what I have to fell’ And. as I have intimated, lam hurt and troubled if. while I am engaged in doing this, a man comes in who wants to talk to me about a nor mal school in Bertie-Richards county, or about the education of widows at Thibet. I like to have a fair chance at that statenieni, and 1 like to do this alone, with my own hand and my own pen. After this beginning, I am perfectly willing to work with an amanuensis, and, in fact, 1 gene rally do. lam disposed to think that the habit of using the voice in the composition of a ser mon is a good one, as holding one to the normal conditions of the. sermon, which, as 1 said, are the conditions of any simple public address.’ Of course a man can train himself to do this when he is writina*utb his own hand; hut if he is walking down the room with an intelli gent amenuensis he is, so to speak, trying bis address n such a way that he ut least 'hears it And the audience which is to be has t,be advan tage that the very words which they listen to have been already formed upon the ear and have reverberated upon the ear-drum of some body. A A A Dog Trained to Steal. From the. Providence. Journal. was only a small and fragrant dog of the Mir species, and his sol" ambit ion seemed to I*, to catch a pigeon, for he raced up ami down Broad street after the birds, missed them every time, and, in no way discouraged, started off aftera new lot. Hewas only a common yellow wire-haired dog, but he could give Bruce's spider points on perseverance, for lie chased the pigeons tip and down the street time mid time again until it really became monotonous to watch him. All this time no one for mi instant would have believed that the pup was bent on nuytbing but bird catching, but suddenly he gave up the pursuit, dashed into an open yard, and a second later came out holding a paint brush in his mouth and started for home, keeping close to the buildings all the way, and slinking along like n thorough thief. Doubtless lie bad visionH in his mind of a good supper when his master should receive the stolen goods, but the vision was soon to fade, for a small boy with a yell and a section of a paving stone arrested hint in his flight, and the brush drop tied t 0 the ground The boy and the dog each seized it at the same t ime, and a brief but vigorous struggle ensued which resulted in the boy securing the brush while the dog. dejected mitt so I. began to look around for something else that lie could steal and carry away. With a little additional train ins; that tloir would In* a treasure to a poor nmu having an elastic conscience. ITEMS OF INTEREST. A Vermont., 111., fanner plants a sunflower seed to each hill of beaus. The stalk serves for a pole while the seed makes excellent chicken feed. Tut: West Lebanon CPa.) Rolling Mill Company Ims shipped a chain weighing twenty-five tons for use on a five-inast lake schooner. It required two cars to carry it. The rapidity with which railroads have been constructed in Japan, recites a local journal, is shown by the fact that there are now 311) miles in daily work on the island. Gopher tails are currency for the face value of the county bounty—3c. each—Barnes county. Dak. Newspapers take them on subscrip tion, merchants for goods, and they occasion ally lind their way into the contribution basket at church. Modern warfare is returning fast to the use of weapons which wore long ago given up as useless. The lance is being restored. Roman soldiers once carried a spade; English troops have recently done the same. The dog lias yet to figure in a war, though the pigeon did useful w ork in 1810. Three appees, so green and colicky in appear ance that one would suppose them to ha' e been grown during this summer in May, were found in the grass below- an apple tree on the farm of John Ayer, of Minot, of Me., where they had lain all winter long covered by snow; There may be a hint in this for the orchardists. The scaffold timbers from which John Brown was hanged are in the possession of the Coyle family, of Charleston, W. Va. Coyle first utilized them for a porch, hut finding that they were in danger of quick destruction from relic hunters he took down the scaffold timbers and put them away, replacing them w ith ordinary lumber. There still are wolves in Missouri, and one of them, a big gray fellow, has been doing some damage in Johnson county. Ho is too fleet - flooted for the horses of hunters aud has whipped all the dogs in the neighborhood until they are cowed. The other day he treed a small boy on the way from school, and kept him treed until the boy’s father came. An Italian organ boy was summoned the other day for playing an organ to tho annoyance of a gentleman living in Gloucester Terrace, Hyde Park, London. The Magistrate said that in his opinion a more unmitigated nuisance than bar rel organs did not exist, and fined the boy 40s. Whereupon a well-dressed lady standing in the court room promptly paid tho fine. On Sunday before Decoration day Mr. Hilary Ball, of Saybrook, 111., missed from his pasture his best three-year old. He fired three dyna mite cartridges, the signal for the assembling of the Anti-Horse Thief Association, and by 3 o'clock Monday morning the association was in pursuit. At 7a. ui. fifty men were in saddle. The horse was found in Robert Mean’s pasture. Thu “Ba Trignometry classes of the Cleve land high schools gave themselves a picnic and a rustic dinner the other day. They bad a “chemico-mathematical menu” which was a wonderful combination of chemical, mathemati cal and Latin terms. Ice cream was put down as “Vocifero,” and when it is explaihod that “vocifero"’ may be translated “I scream” the hilarious character of the joke will be ap parent. AFiRMof Birmingham (Eng.) music dealers was required to tune an organ to accord with a piano in Moseley. It was impracticable to uring the instruments together, but a happy plan was at length stumbled upon. A note of the piano was struck in front of a telephone, and the sound was so accurately transmitted to the dis tant t uner that he was soon able to accomplish his task, and the organ was sent in season tor its intended use with the jiauo in a concert. In view of forthcoming troubles, all the Paris Rothschilds have had packing cases made lined with rad morocco leather, each numbered and labeled, and shaped to receive not only their pictures and objects of art, but also their pre cious eighteenth century furniture. These c ases, numbering many hundreds, are stored in the Rothschild houses in convenient places, so that at a moment's notice the objects may he packed, each in its box, and conveyed to some place of security. Here is the way they make sparrows useful in Germany: Long troughs, placed at the eaves of houses, are occupied by the sparrows in building their nests. When the young are hatched and the mother goes out to procure food, wire screens are placed over them, with interstices large enough to permit the passage of food in to the younglings, but too small to allow them to escape. As soon as they become plump they are killed, and make a desirable article of food. When James Holroyd, of Waterford, N. Y., died last January, he bequeathed his property to his fiancee, Miss Bessie M. McDonald, of Northside. But there had been a family feud between the Holroyds and McDonalds, and wden the will was read it broke out afresh. On memorial day Miss McDonald decorated her lover’s grave with a pillow of flowers. The brothers of the deceased removed the flowers, and when the young woman approached the grave again they drove her away. The drum major of West Point is a symphony' in color. Not Solomon in all his glory was ar rayed like one of these. His simplest ornament is the nineteen rows of buttons trimming his coat tail. The rest of him is laced, frogged zoned, embroidered and mottled with gold: he has four giant plumes nodding on high and four yards of filagree blazing on his legs; his coat is a tangle of glitter, his arms are paragons of burnish and sheen, his belt is as the stars of frostland, and the towering head of him is furred and starred and spangled to the blinding of the sons of men. “I know how it was that Horace Greeley’s famous advice, ’ Young man, go West,’ came to be written,” says Orange Judd, formerly pub lisher of the American Agriculturist. “I was connected with the New York Tribune then, and Mr. Greeley and I frequently went out to dinner together. One day, while we were at the table he took a letter from his pocket and read it to me. It was from a young man asking advice as to the best course to take in locating himself ‘Tell him to go out West, stake out a claim somewhere, and cultivate it,’ said I; ‘there is where the opportunity for young men exists now.' Greeley did not say much in response to my suggestion, but the next day appeared in the paper an editorial article the refrain of which was that expression, since so often quoted: ‘Young man, go West.’ ” The London correspondent of the New York World describes Lady Cook, nee Tennio C, Claflin, as looking as grim, sedate and respecta ble as a Roman matron. She has, continues the scribe, almost, the face of a religious recluse without the slightest expression of a woman of the world. Her face is regular in its lines and almost hard in its regularity. Her eyes are a cold, steely blue and are small. She looks to be at least 15 years of age. Her light, sandy brown hair is beginning to show gray. She wore a long seal fur mantle over a dark green doth dress Her boots were of the stoutest thick-soled Engl ltsb make. Her bonnet was a square uglv brown, tied in grim lines in the most Puritani cal of knots under her angular chin. The posi -1 ion that Lady Cook occupies is a most con servative one now upon all social questions where she used to provoke so much discussion and attention. ".My parrot is 100 years old," said Eraßtus Judd, living at 008 Kim street. “I have had him for thirty years and my father hail him about forty years. ‘Old Putnam.’ as we call him, used to belong to my grandfather, Seth Judrl who who lived at Shelburne Falls. Mass. The old gentlemen got him from a sailor in Boston I have family letters dated in 1790 In which ’Old Putnam is referred to as ’a prattle bird which iiutii been taught to say after one much of our New England primer and certain of Dr Watts’ hymns for the young.’ Ido not see that the parrot Is not as young as ever. He is very do cile and he talks as cleverly os a child of O' His plumage is still bright, but his sight has fail.d him somewhat. The way to tell the ago of a parrot is lo count the rings on his claws. Anew ring (or wrinkle) comes every tenth year. ‘Old Putnam’ has nine of these rings and a starter Joe Mulhatton, famous as the originator of a hundred mountainous stories, is living now in Louisville. He is a queer fellow, a successful commercial traveler, one who never drinks nor smokes, ami who is not worth SI,OOO He gives away his money. "He can’t help It," raid a friend: hi'has to empty his pockets when he runs upon any pitiable ease.'' Mulhatton’s one weakness is his fancy for telling awful lies in print. He will work for a month upon some fabrication not a quarter of a column in length until he* ha Riven if a tonu of inganunuKm*Ks which makes It travel. A Mr. Peters. 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