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Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga.
THURSDAY. JUNE Ki. 1887.
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meeting— Solomon’s Lodge No. 1, F. and A.
M.
Special Notices— Notice to Stockholders
Southwestern Railroad, Paris Novelty Stock,
A. 3. Cohen.
Aroand Stoves- Cornwell & Cbipman.
• Fashion Magazines- At Estill’s News Depot.
Auction Sale— Cigars, Cigarettes, Etc., by J.
McLaughlin & Son.
A Large House eor Sale— C. H. Pqrsett.
Oak Tuns—A. M. <6 C. W. West.
Railroad Schedule— South Florida Railroad.
Cement— Andrew Hanley.
IttoN Founders, Machinists, Etc.—McDon
ough & Ballantyne.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Sale; Personal; Miscellaneous.
A Yacht Race— L. &8.8. M. H.
The Morning News for the Summer.
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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 interest to that sec
tion of country, and a story in which some
of its features are described can hardly fail
to be appreciated.
Senator Colquitt announces himself in
favor of free trade. In doing so he voices
the sentiment of tht people of the State.
It is announced that Boston newspaper
talent is preparing to spread itself over
Georgia. In the shape of canned lieans?
Francis Murphy, the temperance lecturer,
declares that a dollar goes further now than
it used to. Perhaps this is the reason why
when once it is gone it is so hard to get
back.
John Most, the New York Anarchist,
says; “Let me stand at the bar of my coun
try.” If John's country is the 11 nited States
he probably means that he wants to stand at
the bar reported to be kept in the capitol at
Washington.
The yacht Atlantic continues to win races
and reputation. In the Corinthian Yacht
Club race at New York, on Monday last,
she outsailed all her eonqiotitors, winning
her fourth cup. On June 21 she will sail in
the race at Marblehead.
It is rumored in New York that Mayor
Hewitt may be a candidate for President
before the next Democratic national con
vention. It is significant that nobody but
the opponents of President Cleveland take
any interest in the rumor.
The liondoners, it is said, are in a stew
over the question whether to name the
Wild West show the “Yankeries” or the
“Buffalo Billeries.” An appropriate name
would be the “Catch Ponnyries,” as it is
pence that the Wild West is trying to catch.
A McGlynn-George anti-poverty society
was organized in Philadelphia on Monday
night last, and John Russell Young, ex-
Minister to China, was elected President.
Young’s residence among the celestials
made him just cranky enough to be the
Pi-esident of such a society.
It is announced that New York capitalists
have loaned money in the West on farm
mortgages to the extent of millions of dol
lars. Everybody knows that n similar
thing has been done in the South. It begins
to look as if the whole country would be
owned by New York capitalists in the course
of a few more years.
It is announced from Pittsburg, Pa., that
considering the inmienso quantity that has
been turned out in this country in the last
year, the demand for iron and steel is still
great. Orders are being received at the rate
of GOO tons a day. There is not a ton of un
sold pig iron within several hundred miles
of Pittsburg. All the iron and steel mills
In the city, except two, are in operation.
Col. Roliert Ingenoll saya he doesn’t
know who is going to be the next President,
and he doesn’t care. “To be a candidate for
any office,” ho declares, “is a very moon
thing. Office-holding should bo but an inci
dent,” Whether to be a candidate is n mean
thing or not, there ore many men that are
in that position, and the last one of them
hopes that in his case office-holding will be
anything but an incident.
On his way from Macon to Washington,
Becretary kmnr jiermitted himself to be 1
interviewed at Richmond. According to !
the interviewer the Secretary said that he
did not expect to succeed the late Justice
W nods, ami that the President hud never
mentioned the matter to him one wav or
It” ? U T r / *** ** kratifying news to
, V " ~f candidates for the ]**<ition,
| and will c.ouliUcfe cause another brigade to
, conn,- to the h unt.
Powderly’s Talk at Lynn.
General blaster Workman Powderly, in
his address at Lynn, Mass., on Sunday after
noon, said several things to the assembled
Knights of Labor that have excited con
siderable comment. He condemned the
lockout and the lioycott, and warned work
ingmen against strong drink. He con
demned anarchy,,and insisted that sectarian
and religious prejudices should have no in
fluence ui>on the conduct of the organization
of the Knights of Laiior.
Mr. Powderly’s speeches generally attract
a good deal of attention. If the organiza
tion of which he is the head always acted in
accordance with the ideas which he ex
presses on the platform it would not often be
adversely criticised. The truth, however,
apiiears to lie that he cannot direct it as he
would like to. He sees in most eases the
course it ought to take for its own good, but
he lacks the influence and power to
make it take t.haj course. He understands
plainly that the strike and the boycott do
the Knights more harm than good, but
he lia". not been able to prevent either. In
most of the strikes that have been declared
the Knights have been defeated, and of the
boycotts which have lieen declared not 5
per cent, of them have been based on justice
or reason. A desire for retaliation or the
determination to accomplish a certain thing
that could not lie accomplished by lawful
means, has •been the cause of most of
them. Eventually strikes and boycotts,
if they are continued, will be the destruc
tion of the organization. These two weap
ons would tie more effective if they were
used only after arbitration had lieett re
sorted to and failed, hut to use them upon
very slight provocation brings them into
disrepute, atul deprives the Knights of the
support of public sentiment.
A lockout w ithout cause is, of course, un
fair, and ought not to receive any support
from the public. A proprietor has the right
to close Ins mill or factory, but he ought
not to close it until after he has given his
employes fair notice so that they may se
cure places elsewhere without loss of time.
But the Knights of Labor have not taken
the notice of the drink evil that they ought
to. They waste their time and vex them
selves with minor matters, while they pass
over in comparative silence the greatest,
thing with which they have to contend, and
which brings them more misery than any
thing else. If it were not for strong drink
the workingmen of this country could live
in comfort and enjoy many of the luxurins
of life. It is estimated that they spend
between $400,000,000 and *500,000,000 an
nually for whisky and beer. If this
enormous sum were applied to the
purchase of homes, or invested, the work
ingmen would never have occasion to be
uneasy respecting the future. It must be
said to Mr. Powderly’s credit that he has
alwayS advocated temperance, but his
words have not been heeded. Nothing could
happqp to the Knights that would tend
more to their material benefit than a vigor
ous temperance revival within their organ
ization. It will take a stronger man than
Mr. Powderly, however, to inaugurate and
carry forward successfully such a revival.
In fact his announcement that he will not
accept a re-election to his present position is
pretty good evidence that the organization
is beyond his control.
A Chance for Sanitary Work.
There was a good deal of talk a day or
two ago about cleaning up the city. There
ought to be work as well as talk. The re
moving of garbage, from the streets is not
all that is necessary to be done in order to
put the city in first-class sanitary condition.-
There have been complaints of offensive
odors arising from outbuildings and vaults
in the older part of the city. These places
are so old and so saturated with the filth of
years that no amount of disinfectants
will put them in a harmless condition.
Asa rule, they are on premises rented by
the room, and crowded with people. All
the filth, slops and soap-suds go into these
receptacles, to become offensive and danger
ous to the public health, under the influence
of the summer sun. People living in the
vicinity of these places keep as from
them us they can, because they are not only
offensive but also because sickness has been
traced to them.
These places should be thoroughly in
spected by persons competent for the work,
and the Sanitary Board should see to it that
they are put in good sanitary condition.
Those who own the premises on which they
are situated should lie made to bear the
expenses of the abatement of such danger
ous nuisances. Whatever sanitary work of
this sort that is to be done should be done at
once.
In a craftily worded editorial the New
York Evening Sun vftinly tries to prove
that the girls of New York are as beautiful
as those of Savannah, and then throws this
cop to the latter: “Then, too, the stately
and most dignified girls of Savannah are no
doubt well worthy of the admiration of all
who behold them, and none would acknowl
edge these merits sooner than those whb
observe the beautiful young women who arc
to be found any fine afternoon ujion Four
teenth street or Twenty-third.” Acknowl
edge these merits, indeed! If the Evening
Sun will send one of its young men to
Savannah he may behold any fine afternoon
upon Bull and Broughton streets such a
vlson of female loveliness as w ill cause him
to declare that the girls of New York have
never come within touching distance of
beauty*.
The New York Herald is authority for
the statement that Wewha, the Zuni
priestess, who was in Washington so long
last year, greatly admires President Cleve
land. She wants him to have a second
term, and when she returned to her home
prayed that he might continue in office. She
induced the Zunis to hold a Cleveland
nominating convention, at which the whole
trilie prayed that he might have another
term. It rained next day, which the trilxi
considered a favorable answer to the
prayers. The President, it seems, has
treated the Zunis kindly, and has given
them an honest agent.
Jay Gould has returned to New York
from his cruise in his yacht Atalanta much
improved in health. He says that ho in
tends to take it easy during the summer,
and that he will enjoy many short cruises
in his yacht. It is said that Gould wants
to get into society, so that his son Goorge
and the latter’s pretty wife may shine.
He ought to be üble to carry out his pur
pose. Money Ijoh heretofore bought a place
in New York society for almost anybody.
It is said, also, that George and his wife are
very pleasant young people, and no doubt
society will be glad to receive them.
Vi omen in Mother Hubbards are not
allowed on the streets of Albuquerque, N.
M. Mou in shirt-sleeves, however, may be
found ut ovary comer.
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, JUNE l(i, 1887.
Protect the Terrapin.
An effort is to be made at the approach*
] ing session of the I-egislature to have strin
[ gent laws passed for the protection of terra
pin. It is stated that they are rapidly dis
appearing in this section of the country, and
j the reason is that they are c-aught in large
I numbers prior to and during
the laying season. A few weeks ago the
Morning News published some facts bear
ing upon the disappearance of the terrapin
from our waters, furnished by Dr. Falligant.
The doctor lately addressed a communica
tion to the Fish Commissioner of the State,
and it is expected that that official will have
the matter brought lief ore the Legislature,
and will at the same time present such argu
ments ami facts in favor of affording pro
tection to terrapin during their laying sea
son that laws will he enacted on the subject
which will meet, with very general ap
proval.
There is quite a large number of persons
engaged in catching terrapin in the vicinity
of this city. It is estimated that between
SIO,OOO and $15,000 worth of them are taken
to market every year. This estimate indi
cates that a good many families, partly or
wholly, depend upon them for a living. It
is apparent, therefore, that those who make
a business cif catching them are more inter
ested in having them protected from being
caught out of season than those who only
enjoy them as an article of food. In locali
ties where they were once plentiful they are
now becoming quite scarce. They will lie
come still more scarce if they are permitted
to lie taken in future with the same disre
gard of the laws of their propogation as at
present.
The laying season of the terrapin includes
May, June and July, during which period
they lay several times—seven or eight eggs
at a time. When they are caught in March
and April their natural product, w hich is
from twenty to thirty young terrapin to
each okl one in May, June and July, is
totally lost to future supply and increase.
The very general conclusion reached by the
fishermen is that no terrapin should be
caught between Jan. I and July 15. At the
latter date the laying season is about over.
The dealers advocate the catching of ter
rapin in the spring. It is apparent, how
ever, that if permission to catch them at
any time between the dates named is grant
ed the object aimed at by protection laws
will not be accomplished. If they are per
mitted to lie caught at any time between Jan.
1 and May 1 they will be brought to market
in May and June under the pretense that
they were caught prior to May 1. The only
safe plan is to prohibit the catching of them
lietween Jan. 1 and July 15, and fishermen
will willingly assist in enforcing such pro
hibition.
The Prohibition Idea Abroad.
A committee of anti-prohiliitionists from
Texas is visiting Western cities soliciting
subscriptions from brewers, distillers and
wholesale liquor dealers, with which to fight
prohibition in their State. They say that
unless they make a very vigorous campaign
they will be beaten. The vote tin the pro
hibition amendment to the constitution is to
lie taken in August, and the Prohibitionists
are already organized, and are making the
liveliest sort of a campaign. In the towns
the liquor men are certain Of majorities, but
in the country districts they are outnum
bered more than two to one.
The chief trouble the liquor men are ex
periencing at present Is that of getting good
campaign speakers. There appears to be an
impression that there is a big fund some
where in the keeping of the anti-Prohibi
tionists, and the best speakers want big pay
for going on the stump. The fact is said to
be, however, that the liquor men are with
out funds. The Texas saloon men have
been taxed so often and so heavily lately to
prevent the enactment of hostile laws that
they are poor.
The committee that is soliciting help in
Western cities doesn’t meet with a great
deal of success. It Is told by the brewers
and distillers that the prohibition idea is
abroad in about all the States, and that they
are unable to answer all the calls upon them
for help.
It is expected that the prohibition issue in
Texas will hurt the Democratic jmrty pretty
badly there, though if the party keeps out of
the contest it is difficult to see why it should
lie harmed. Democrats are divided on the
liquor issue, but that, need not keep them
apart on other State issues or upon national
issues.
The papers, just now, are printing some
interesting sketches of people who have
passed three score and ten. Mrs. Dice Bob
bills, who lives near Moberly, Mo., is 95,
and is still active. A short time ago, near
Platte City, Mo., Valentine Winston Ber
nard died at the age of 93. He retained his
vigor until the day of his death. Hon. John H.
Ewing died at his home in Washington, Pa.,
a few days ago, aged 91. He
was an uncle of Mr. James G.
Blaine, of Maine, who wants to be President.
Mine. Candelaria, of San Antonio, Tex., is
!*9. She is in the full possession of all
her faculties, and moves about her house as
bright and as busy as a bee. She nursed the
wounded at the siege of the Alamo, and saw
all of its noble defenders die. She saved
the life of Henry Cannon, a child who
escaped from the Alamo, and when he ro
rcturned to San Antonio the other tiny,
after an absence of fifty years, she had the
pleasure of seeing him and talking over old
times with him. Mix Ellen Rudden, of
Newark, N. J., died on June 11, agod 105.
She was a native of Ireland. She was
always a hard-working woman, and re
tained her faculties until a short time be
fore her death.
On June 15 a statue of Nathan Hale, the
“martyr spy” of the revolution, was un
veiled at the eapitol in Hartford, Conn.
Charles Dudley Warner delivered the ad
dress presenting the statue to the State, and
Gov. Lounsbury delivered the address
receiving it. The statue was male by the
sculptor ICurl Gerhardt. Connecticut
waited a long time before showing proper
appreciation of Hale’s services to the coun
try, but it was lietter late than never.
The statement is male that of the Har
vard students who want to work this sum
mer, most want to teach, several want
manual or farm work, two want places as
deck hands on steamers, several want to lie
hotel clerks or salesmen, two want to lie
horse ear drivers or ticket takers, one wants
a place in n box factory, while several want
“anything but canvassing.” It is not stated
how many want no work, but no doubt the
number is large.
There seems to be a determination in all
parts of the country, this year, to hnve an
“old-fashioned Fourth of July.” Many of
the large cities in the North ami West are
making gi-eat preparations for the event.
Southern cities should seize tho occasion to
show their patriotism.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Buryingr a Relic of the War.
fVom the New York Evening Post ( Ind.)
When anybody talks about burying the in
ternal revenue system as a relie of the war he
means that free liquor is a better thing for the
country than free sugar, free wool, or tree shirts.
The Anarchists’ Tyrant.
From the New York Evening Sun (Ind.)
There is one tyrant to whom the Anarchists of
this city, and every other city, pay most willing
and abject homage, and be is ttie monarch or
guzzling. The Anarchists yesterday paid tribute
to King Whisky, and then obeyed his behests by
trying to kill half a dozen persons.
Red Shirt of the Republican Sioux.
From the Poston Globe iDem.)
William E. Chandler is the Red Shirt of the
Republican Sioux,and after reading his Concord
speech we ate ready to predict that he could
tomahawk a whole family while Buffalo Bill's
leading man of the same gory name would lie
wrestling with the watchdog. The sanguinary
Hampshire man ought to bo sent to a reserva
tion. He makes us nervous.
Not as a Reminiscence.
From the New York World (Item.)
A glorious effort is being made by the Chicago
Inter-Ocean to boost Robert T. Lincoln into
prominence as a Republican candidate for
President. Mr. Lincoln is a sensible, modest,
well-behaved gentleman, but no man can be
elected President of this country as a reminis
cence. The Republican party will not make the
mistake of placing a man in nomination for this
great office simply upon a platform recounting
the deeds of his illustrious father and.under a
banner bearing the inscription, "Stat Mag in
Noniinis Umbra.” Here in New York it has
just snubbed the son of Gen. Grant, who was
willing to accept the small office of Quarantine
Commissioner.
BRIGHT BITS.
Honesty is more precious than gold, although
it cannot equal gold in opening the way into a
fashiouable city church. Whitehall Times.
Patient (dissatisfied witli dietaryrestrictions.)
—Say, Doc, I'm blamed if I'm going to starve
to death, just for the sake of living a little
lynger. Harper's Weekly.
“Let's go fishing, Johnny.”
“.Saw. i dou t uaufc to.
“Why!”
“(lb. I can’t catch anything.”
"Well, I can. I catch a lickin'every time 1
go." —Newman Independent.
Cassvillb, Wis.. has a cow which has lieen
struck by a locomotive and hurled from the
track three different times without affecting the
quantity or quality of her milk. The stock of
the railroad which passes through Ccssville is
probably highly watered. —New Haven News.
"What occupation did you say your friend
followed?”
"1 said he was abroker, sir.”
"A broker? In what way?”
“Why, a broker in jail, to be sure. He’s broke
jail oftener than any. gentleman of his class I
know.” —Yonkers Gazette.
Fl ip -They say virtue is its own reward, but 1
don’t believe it.
Flap—Why?
Flip Because my mother-in law, according to
herself, possesses every virtue, and still Ui< an
gels don t seem to think she’s ripe for paradise
yet.—Charlestown Enterprise.
“Going to Newport?”
Miss Flighty—Yes. Then to Bar Harbor and
Norragansett. anil possibly to the Catskills.
“You will enjoy yourself immensely, no
doubt,”
"Yes. indeed, and by the middle of September
(’ll )>■ made to go somewhere and rest.”—Phila
delphia Call.
Fair evuestrian (coquettishly)—What ! not
going to keep a horse this season! Then we
snail t have any more delightful rides together!
Stout Adonis twith deep emotion)—Ah, yes. I
shall lose a great deal by not riding!
Facetious Youth—Well, that won’t do vou any
barm. Just a couple of stone or so! — London
Punch.
Miss Strainer— l’m just through with trigo
nometry, and next week I review the different
enlculni for the .Tune examinations. How far
are you advanced?
• Mr. Harold—l Know how many apples John
had if he had two and his father gave him one
more, and I can knock a Imlltoshort step before
it touches the ground.— Puck.
“O'Grady, the base hall man, is the most
tender-hearted fellow in the world,” remarked a
traveling man the other evening. “Why, he
wouldn’t harm a fly.”
"Yes,” was the reply, “I guess that's so. I've
seen him many a t ime when he seemed to he
positively getting out of the way of flies for fear
of doing them some damage.”— Merchant Trav
eler.
Among some old papers sent to the Austin jail
was the election circular of one of the local
candidates. One of the prisoners, who has been
in the jail fqr the last year, looked at it and
said;
"ixiok here, boys, this is not intended for us.
It is addressed To the people at large.' That
don’t mean as."— Texas Siftings.
“See what athletics are doing for our young
men?" exclaims a writer. Yes. we see. Our
young men's hands look aR if they had be#i
struck by lightning. Our young men's shoulders
are so round from riding bicycles that you can’t
fit, ’em with ass coat. Last week one of our
young men was carried off the field at Charter
Oak Park, Hartford, Conn., a raving maniac.
He had overtrained. Yes, athletics are doing
lots for our young men—almost as much as
cigarettes.— Burlington Free Press.
PERSONAL.
Gov. Hill likes Mrs. Cleveland because she is
entertaining and “a good Democrat.”
Secretary Lamar is a Jersey cattle fancier,
and has a small herd at his home in Oxford.
Miss.
Lewis Morris will write the inaugural ode for
the Imperial Institute, which Mr. Tennyson
could not undertake on account of the gout.
F.x-Oov. James L. Kemper, of Virginia, hns
been nominated for Vice President by a country
-•pier, which says its ticket is Thurman and
Kemper. t
Slit. Swift, the “dresfced lieef king.” has signs
ill over bis business promises in Chicago, “No
profane language allowed here.” He is a fre
quent leader in prayer meetings.
Coi.. Mike Warren. of North Carolina, is or
ganizing an evi,edition to the new gold fields in
Alaska. Col. Warren has a fist so hard he can
crush a nugget in it without trouble.
Mrs. Hcbraud, the mother of Attorney Gen
eral Garland. who presides over liis household,
hns been ill She will come. North ns soon as she
is strong enough to travl. The Attorney Urn
oral Will visit Hominy Hill about Aug. 1.
, The. Emperor of Austria lately attended a
matinee performance for the first time. The
oeeasion was the rendering of “l’atienee” by Mr.
Il'Ovlv Carte's company in aid of the fund for
establishing in Vienna a Jubilee Memorial Home
for British Governesses.
Mae. M A roar FT Df.!.AN'D, the poetess, of Bos
ton, takes long strolls about the city, and is nl
ways accompanied in tier walks by a big mastiff,
who is k“pt muzzled liecause of his eagerness to
enter into fierce combat with every other dog
he meets—a ddeided literary trait.
Mrs. Ober. once manager of the Boston Ideal
Opera Company, purchased last fall of ev-See
ret ary Rob will a tract of land on the heights to
the north of tlje city of Washington. She paid
<tHi),noo for the property. She has just sold If to
a syndicate for SIIO,OOO. The land consists of
eighteen acres and was once the home of John
Quincy Adams.
Frank James, the famous desperado, is at
present acting as salesman in a clothing store al
Balias. Tex. He says he has never carried a
weapon since he surrendered his revolvers to
Gov. Crittenden, of Missouri. He does not drink
liquor. He attributes liis success ns a highway
man to the fact that, ho never heated his blood
by alcoholic stimulants.
Dion Borcicacvr has had the usual experi
ence in money matters that waits upon most
artis's. "Fortune hns perched upon my ban
ners,” he says, “and 1 have earned large sums
of money, but 1 have not reserved very much
My family have had it. Besides. I hope that i
shall die without more than enough to bury
me decently"—a wish it will not be hard to re
alize.
There is in Philadelphia a pianist of consid
erable renown, who was a warm personal friend
and great admirer of the late Abbe Liszt, anti to
whom belongs the honor of compiling a most
lieatllifl'l album in memory of the doth of the
great master. It is Mr. E. Zerdahelyi, a musi
clan of the highest rank, and in all probability
the only person in America who ever appeared
in public with Liszt.
UroiiriK W. Beach, the superintendent of the
Naugatuck railroad, lust leaned by the New
York. New Haven and Hartford railroad, lias.
I tee 11 with that corporation slr.ee be was 17
years of age. Is*ginning ns a brakeman and
rising to conductor, then to assistant siiperin
Undent. He has mndo It a practice to walk
over the entire length of the road, examining
its tied, rails aud bridges and rolling xt|r
snrlug and autumn, fils son Henry. I Kirn when
Mr Botch was conductor, is assistant superin
tendent of the road aud suucruit eudeut of the
roilL - stock.
CARL DUNDER.
He Tells the Children a Story About a
Boy Who Lied.
From the Detroit Free Press.
If you shildren vhill kliecp stbill some more 1
go on mit iny sthorjes. I like to shpeak mlt
shildren. In a leedle time you vhas all grown
oop and pecome men and vhomans und us olt
folks vhas all in der graveyards. It vhas petter
dot you pegin all right.
Now, shildren. once upon a time dere vhas a
poy who tells lies. He lies mit his mother und
mit his fodder. If he preaks something—if he
loses something— if he stheajs sugar or shweet
cake he uoan’ slitaml oop like Sheorge Washing
ton vhen he cut dot cherry tree, but he lies
aboudt her. I like you to know dot der liar
vhas more to be despised as a tief, und dot vhen
he vhas in trouble nobody feels batit for him.
Vhell, dis poy, who vhas named Shoseph,
keeps on lying for a goodt while, und he gets
• aferybody arouudt him into troubles. One day
lie goes oudt to walk py himself, und he finds a
ring in der roadt. it vnas a gold ring, und vhas
wort ten dollar. Shoseph puts him in his pocket
und says he vhill sell him und puy a pistol. lie
vhas going along when he meets a leedle oldt
womans who vitas crying mit all her tears, and
she wants to know:
“My poy, I vhas in grout grief. In coming
along dis roadt I lost a gold ring. It vhas come
down to me from my great-grandmother, und if
I can't find hint I vhas all proke oop. Maybe
you find him?”
“No, I doan 1 *ee him,” says Shoseph, und he
doan’ e \ en plush mit shame.
“You vhas sure?”
“Oh, yes. I vhas sooch a goot poy dot if I
find somepody's ring I gif him oop right off
queck."
“Doan’ you meet somepody?” asks der oldt
womans.
"All? Yes! It vhas a poy like me. only he
haf on an oldt hat mul vhas parefoot. I see
him shtoop down in der roadt. und I vhas sure
he finds dot ring. Poor oldt womans, but how
sorry I vhas for you!”
“You see, shildrens, dot vhas all a liie. und
Shoseph haf der ring all der time, like I told
you. He laughs, ha! ha! ha! to himself to
relief he vhas so shmart, and lie doan' care for
dot oldt woman's tears. Of you pelief dot vhas
right? You shall see how he came audt.
“do my ring vnas gone!” screams der oldt
womans. “Vhell, I plow oafer my finger like
dot, und I cross my tnums like dot, und I wish
dot ring to turn into a serpent und bite tier poy
who finds him und lies aboudt it.”
Shildren. dot vhas awful! Shust as quick as
I drop my hat dot gold ring vhas a snake, und
dot snake he bites Shoseph all oafer his body!
Der poy shnmp and yell und call for his mother,
but it vhas no use. He vhas gone oop In a
leedle time he falls deadt; und der poison shwell
him oop until he vhas almost too big for a
wagon. Dot vhas his sadt end. He vhas butted
in der graveyard, und sometime vhen you see
der shpot eatery body vhill tell you dot a liar
vhas buried dere. Dot vhas all. shildren. It
vhas now time to go to bedt, und I ask you to
took notice dot der poy who tells der truth vnas
all right.
A Society Incident.
From the San Francisco Chronicle.
There is a story about two Bowery gentlemen
in New York that’s not too dried. -One of them
was moving in what the other considered swell
society, and he was puzzled how he managed to
keep up the style.
“How do you do it?” he asked.
“Veil, you see, I buys me a dress coat mit
tails at an auction, an’ when I gets on dat coat
I gets blenty of invitations, an’ I goes oud.”
“But vere does you get the monish?”
“The monish? You see venever I goes I takes
away mit me a silver spoon or a knife or some
things, an’ I gets $3 or $3 for them. It’s easy as
pie. Vy don't you try it?”
“Me! I vas honest. I couldn't do no such
pizness.”
flow ever, he was persuaded to buy a cheap
dress suit and go into society under the guidance
of his iugenious friend. The first party they at
tended the old bird said:
"Vy don't you make away mit somethings?
It’ll never be known. We’s pizness men.”
“No; I couldn't. Vat? accept of their hospi
tality. an' den —no—no. I couldn't do it.”
“Look here. This is de vay.”
And he pulled up his trousers and showed two
knives and a spoon sticking in his boot. The
other was too honest to follow his example.
'Vhen the supper w-as in progress the honest one
got up and said:
“Ladies and gentlemen, I vas much obliged
for your hospitality. I was not good at speech
making. but I vas able to do some sleight-of
hand tricks. You see I takes dem two knives
undone spoon, so You see I puts dem in my
pocket, so. Now, I say presto, queeck! You
looks in dat man's boots und you finds dem
knives and spoon.”
Then he said good night and went home.
Tribulations of Two “Johns.”
From the San Francisco Bulletin.
Two Chinamen were looking into a Kearney
street shop window yesterday when a mischiev
ous small hoy slipped up behind them with an
impish grin on Ins physiognomy and tied the
two pig tails together. The rogue then seated
himself on a hydrant nearby to wait the fun.
Presently one of the heathen started off on his
way down the street, but of course came to a
sudden halt when the limit of the tails was
reached. His surprise was only equalled by that
of his countryman. For a second both glared
at each other. Then, perceiving the cause of
their predicament sitting on the hy
drant convulsed with laughter. they
simultaneously made a rush for him. Of
course the boy ran. The Chinamen, their queues
still fastened securely together as the voung
imr> left them, followed at a breakneck speed,
yelling and gesticulating at every step. The boy
suddenly turned off the sidewalk just where a
telegraph pole stands and sped across the street.
The enraged Mongols turned off too, but, for
getful of their united condition, passed on op
posite sides of the telegraph pole. If js needless
to say that they were rather forclhiy reminded
of their blunder a second later. They came to
gether on the other side of the mast like two
locomotives moving in opposite directions. A
crowd gathered about and a kind-hearted po
liceman, who happened by. untangled the de
moralized and chagrined Chinese. The small
boy vanished.
Keep Out of the Past.
Keep out of the past! For its highways
Are damp with malarial gloom;
Its gardens are sere and its forests are drear,
And everywhere molders a tomb.
Who seeks to regain its lost pleasures
Finds only a rose turned to dust.
And its storehouse of wonderful treasures
Is covered and coated with rust.
Keep out, of the past! It is haunted;
He who in its avenue gropes
Shall find there the ghost of a joy prized the
most,
And a skeleton throng of dead hopes.
In place of its beautiful rivers
Lie pools that are stagnant with slime,
And those graves gleaming white in the phos
phorus light ,
Cover dreams that were slain in their prime.
Keep out of the past: It is lonely
And barren and bleak to the view;
Its fires have (trown a Id arid its stories are old.
Turn, turn to the present, the new!
To-day leads you up to the hilltops
That are kissed by the radiant sun;
To-dav shows no tomb- all life's hopes are in
bloom
And to-day holds a prize to lie won.
Ella 11 A, < U r Wilcox.
Powdorly on Rum.
From hi* Recent Ra*ton Speech.
Now.a won! about the great curse of the labor
ini' man drink. Had I 10,000,000 tongues
and a th®P for each tongue, I would say to
each man, woman and child here to night:
"Throw strong drink aside as you would uti
ounce of liquid hell." [Tremendous applause.]
Its sears the conscience, it destroys everything
it touches. It reaches into the family circle and
it takes the wife you have sworn to protect and
druf from her pinnacle of purity into
fffini which no decent woman ever
alive. | Applause.] It induces the father
®take tim furniture from his house, exchange
ft for money at the pawn shop, and spend the
proceeds In rum. It damns everythin* It
touches. I have seen it in every citjfeast of the
Mississippi, and I know that the m'ost damning
curw to the laborer Ls that which gurgles from
the neck of the bottle. [Cheers,] I had rather
tie at the head of an organization having JflO.Onn
temperate, honest, earnest men than at, the
head of an organization of Id.ooo.Ode drinkers
whether moderate or any other kind.
Hadn’t Seen His Name Lately.
From the Concord Monitor.
A well preserved old gentleman walked into
the Senate R ullery a day or two a*o when that
body was in .session and took a front seat. Af
ter taklnp in the situation lie leaned over the
railing and engaged in conversation with one of
the Senate officers who happened to 1* present
Asa leading question he asked:
"Are those the pictures of the Governors*"
“No, sir! Those are the Presidents of the
Senate.'
“Which is Franklin Pierce?"
"Neither of them. His picture is in the Ren
resentatlves’ hall.'’
"Let's see. Is Pierce alive?"
“No, sir. He died in IWW, 1 believe."
"Well. well. | hadn't heard of It. but, I hadn't
seen his name In my paper lately, and I didn't
know but lie might tie dead 1 voted for him
for President, ami rye tUointUt a sight of him
ever slue*.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A long, thin youth of Pittsburg can imitate a
steam whistle perfectly. The other day the
hands in one of the factories quit work at 11:3(5
when they heard him toot. They thought it was
noon.
Di.sqt.-K, who was hangod in Jersey City the
other day, was formally introduced to the hang
man, and he bowed and said: “Glad to see you,
sir—hope to know- you better.” Twenty min
utes later he was dangling from the end of a
rope.
The Pima Indians have as much talent for
imitation as the Chinamen. They are all busily
engaged now- iu the manufacture of old relics,
which they bring to Phoenix and sell for 10c.
apiece. The latest is a good imitation of a Gila
monster, life-size.
In the pockets of a negro killed by lightning
in Texas were found two horseshoe magnets,
two copper cents that had melted together, a
nickel that was partly melted and stuck to his
watch, and the nickel rim around his money
pur3e was also melted.
Two sailors of a wrecked Gloucester schooner
were adrift on the ocean for six days without a
morsel of food or drop of water. After trying
all imaginable experiments to allay their thirst,
one man cut his arms in order that they might
drink his blood, but blood would not flow. They
were picked up shortly afterward.
The Boston street directory, a Providence
Journal man has discovered, shows H. W. Long
fellow to be pursuing the avocation of grocer.
K. \V. Emerson sells shoes in Boston, Walter
Scott is both baker and tailor, Francis Bacon
sells shirts, Charles Lamb is a salesman, while
Matthew Arnold works humbly in brass, with no
more fitness of place than may be found in the
fact that he dwells on Athens street.
A noted rebel chief in Tonquin was recently
captured and executed. After ho was taken, to
the questions put to him the prisoner would
give no answer, but as soon as he was captured
he tried to commit suicide by tearing open bis
stomach with his nails, biting liis tongue,
scratching his eyes out, and mutilating himself
in still more horrible ways. He had very great
influence with the literati. At his last examina
tion he obtained first place and he was president
of the important association of Tliuu-ban.
Mrs. Gordon, of Clayton, 111., was lying on a
sofa in the sitting-room the other evening think
ing of her little Nora, who died several years
ago. A strange feeling seemed to come over
her, and looking up, as if by accident, at the
mirror in the room, she saw distinctly- outlined
there the features of her dead child. She could
not believe her eyes at first, but the picture is
still there and hat, been seen by her neighbgrs.
It is natural and lifelike, and represents the
little child in the dress she had on when she was
seized with her fatal illness.
There is a great deal of phosphorescent light
at night on the marshy land around the sloughs
which run into the Mississippi between Keokuk
and Quincy, and belated duck huntei-s claim to
have seen some uncanny beings roaming around
the marshes this spi-jng. One party beard soft
and ghostly- music one night, und following it
up. saw a group of weird beings dancing around
a stump in the open to the music of a white
robed flute-player. After watching the strange
group forawhile one of the hunters fired his
gun, w hereupon the ghost-like dancers vanished
into thin air. It is to be noted,, however, that
the huntsmen’s bait bottle was absolutely empty
when they- returned to the city.
Mohn. a Norwegian physician, is reported to
have been able to cure whooping-cough by
means of inhalations of sulphurous anhydride.
In the first instance this was done accidentally
while disinfecting some rooms, subsequently it
was done by burning six drachms of sulphur
per cubic metre of space, the lied ding, etc., be
ing well exposed to- its influence. After the
room had been elosed.fwr fpur hours, ventilation
was restored, and the children put to sleep in
the beds impregnated, -with the sulphurous
vapors. In the morning the congh had ceased.
As there is a decided epidemic of the distressing
complaint all over the country, there will be no
lack of opportunities for putting this treatment
to test.
The gentlemen who advertise that they “will
not be responsible for debts contracted by
their wives,” says the St. James' Gazette, should
digest a case recently tried at Aix. The Count
de Chamhrun, who had issued such an intima
tion, was sued by a dressmaker for articles
supplied to bis wife. He was ordered to pay the
full sum owing, and the Judge, in summing up,
delivered a homily on the privilege of husbands.
One of these is to “render the wife’s existence
agreeable," and a way to do it is by “embellish
ing” her. If a man has an “elegant” wife, and
her toilettes an* admired, this “benefits the hus
band in a direct manner."’ It is not stated
whether the learned Judge in this case was a
married man himself, but that is immaterial.
Senator Conger, of Michigan, was married
for the second time, when he was a member of
the House, to a stout, pleasant old lady, who
had dark hair, arranged in the old style, and
gold-bowed spectacles. She was his first love,
A quarrel separated them. Each married.
Twenty years after, he, a widower, was in Con
gress; she, a widow, sat in the gallery and lis
tened to his speech, It was the first time they
hnd seen each other since their early- days. She
sent her card to him: he came at once to the
gallery. After a little talk she asked him to
call upon her at her friend's, Mrs. Dahlgreen's.
He said he would call if he could come as he
used to in those long past days of youth. In a
few weeks they were married at Mrs. Admiral
Dahlgreen's residence, and were completely
infatuated with each other.
One of the best known of the French vine
yards—the famous Clos-Vougeot—is soon to be
sold at auction. It is only a plot of a little over
100 acres, but the product which it yields heads
the list of the great Burgundy vintages, which
is equivalent, in the opinion o"f many, to saying
that it is the first wine in the world. As the
French owe their choicest liquer to the Carthu
sians, so they owe their finest Burgundy to the
Cistercians: for it was they who. in the twelfth
century, first planted the grape which produces
it and from which it has taken its name. It
soon acquired a European reputation. A hogs
head of the generous eru was a gift for a king.
Jean de Bussieres, one of the priors of the order,
received a red hat from Gregory XI. in exchange
for thirty casks of the wine—a tithe of one
year’s produce. The yield rose to 700 casks in
1835, but it does not average more than about
half that quantity.
Mrs. Steckel, of Allentown. Pa., has been
immortalized by an account that was given of
her walking into church last Easter Sunday and
presenting the minister with a basket of eggs.
On a recent Sunday she made an improvement
on that gift. Just as the minister was disnvss
ing the congregation she appeared in church
clad in n white dress and having a flaming red
sash bound about her head and crossed over her
breast, the ends hanging loosely to the ground.
A yellow girdle was bound around her waist.
On her head she carried a hoy’s express wagon,
the tongue of which pointed upward, and was
trimmed with evergreens. The body of the
wagon was full of oranges, lemons, onions, and
other fruits ami vegetables. A large live goose*
securely fastened to the wheel, with outstretched
pinions, was seated in the wagon. The goose
made a great noise as it was borne aloft. With
out saying a word Mrs. Steckel deposited her
burden in the church and departed.
The old practical joke of half a dozen young
fellows raising dripping wet umbrellas In the
main doorway of a public hall at, the close of an
entertainment before a crowded house on a
starlight night was played with entire success a
few evenings ago in Harlem. N. Y. The news of
(he unexpected and most unwelcome storm was
communicated to others by those of the audi
ence that first saw the umbrellas, und in that
way it became the exciting and exclusive sub
ject of conversation throughout the building
Gentleman carefully covered their silk tiles
with their handkerchiefs, rolled up the ends of
the legs of their trousers, and turned up their
mat collars Indies prepared themselves in
the conventional way for n provoking walk to
the cam, and others sent their gait ant escorts
flying after umbrellas, coaches and water
proofs. In about ten minutes the real state of
things, the pretty how-to-do, had heen discov
ered, and then came unbounded hilarity and
a resolve on the part of the went her-bound boys
to try it on somewhere themselves.
A man, who requested that his name should
not lie asked for, lately called upon the I’l-asl
deat of the Teachers’ Mutual Benefit Associa-
Mon, of New York, and, after talking over the
obiects and plans of the assoc atlm, left an cn
velopc containing three SI,OBO gold notes with a
request (hat the amount he handed over to the
association ns a contribution from himself and
wife. He was enthusiastic over the objects of
the association, a id expressed great plensur> in
being able to assist in earn ing out its plans
During the lost two years it lias accumulated a
permanent fund of $8',510 from admission lees I
und dues. It now enters on the third year of its
existence, arid the first of its practical useful- i
ness, with a membership of over l,a)0 and a 1
permanent fund of over $85,000. Hereafter one
half of the receipts will be used as benefits to re I
tired members Under the provisions of Itscon i
st. tut lon iieeunbry aid will lie extended to such I
of Its members as Mfome Incapacitated for I
school work, and also to those who have served !
long terms— females thirty-five years and males
fort; years. I
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