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4 CklHonunq Httos o v --' Mom ng News Building, Savannah, Ga. FRIDAY, JI NK 41, 1887. JgeyMtred at the Post Office in SaivinnnA. Th. Monjnxo News Is published every day in (be year, and is nerved to subscribes lit the city, by newsdealers and earners, on their own ac ecu;.' at —• cents a w#l (Via month, $3 00 lor six months and sl‘> 0> for one year. Ttie Moaxixn Ndvj, by mail, one month, il 00; thre*- mouths, 30; Six mouths, $5 00; one rear, #.b ft>. The Moastt'o Xnrs. ty mail, she times a week 'Without Sum lay issue \ three months, f; ft); six months. ?t 00 • ne year. $s ftl. The Morning News. Tri-Weekly. Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays. or Tuevlays, Thurs dai- and Saturdays, three months, ?1 23; sex mo; tii . S* 30: on*- yiar. $5 On. The sr.vtuY News, hi; mini’, one year. $2 'X). The M eekly News, by mail, oue year. Jl 23. SultscriftiODK pnvahte in advance Remit by porta, order, check or registered letter. Cur ren< v ent by mail at risk i>f senders. Leiiers and telegrams should be addressed “NejßSnro News. Savannah, (la " Advertising rates made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVKRMMENtT Mtmxor-Live Oak Lodge No. 3, I. O. O. F.: Savanneb Rifle Association. Special Notices—School for Boys, John A. Crowther, Principal; University of Georgia, Commencement. Cheap Cohux Advertisements Help Wanted; For Kent; For hale; Lost; JliseeUa ■eous. Bbick Mancfacttrers- Wm. P. Bailey A Cos. 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 #3 50 for throe months, cash invariably in ad vance. TUo 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. The fact that the farmers are not grumb ling is evidence that mother earth is doing her fluty. If oil has really been found in Wilkes county, Georgia millionaires will cease to be curiosities. • Perhaps the Atlanta glass works were burned by some indignant citizen who didn’t believe in substituting glass-blowing for horn-blowing If the Washington correspondents tell the truth,the President is going to visit all over the country between now and November. If he does the people will lie gratified. Among the graduates of Cornell Univer sity this year Anarchist. American institutions of learning seem to lie willing to educate and graduate anything that walks and talks. Senator Sherman manifests a disposition to withdraw the bloody shirt from pubi c view. It is too late. The exhibition he made at Springfield, 111., has effectually shelved him as a Presidential jif*ssibility. It is said that the pension office at Tope ka, Kan., disbursed #341,5*90 87 during the past quarter. There are 38,072 honorably discharged soldiers on the roll. The pension is one “relic’’ of the war that will outlast all the others. Regarding his failure to fiay the #SOO directed by his mother to be given to the Little Sisters of the Poor, Dr. McGiynn ex plains that when she died she left no prop erty. The doctor’s friends say that he paid some of the smaller jiersonal legacies with his own money. The statement tlrnt the jieople at the London hotel at which Mr. Blaine is staying took him for u dynamiter, gives the Repub lican papers great pain. They doubtless thought that the Plumed Knight would be , instantly recognized as the “Great Ameri can Statesman.' 1 At Boyertown, Pa., last week, Mrs. Mary Gehrig died at the age of 1)1. She was the last of seven sisters, all but one of whom lived to be over 90. Hannah died at 1)7, Nancy at 96, Kate at 93, Betsy at 94, Susan nah at 92 and Sarah at 88. No particular reason is assigned for their long lives. The managers of the recent national drill at Washington are by no means happy. They are out of pocket to the amount of $20,000, and have levied an as sessment of 40 per cent, on the stock holders. The promoters of prize drills are beginning to recognize the fact that such things are not money-making institu tions. The color line is causing trouble at Asbury Park, N. J. Ex-Mayor James A. Bradley, owner of the resort, publisher! rules exclud ing the negroes from the walks anti pavil ious. The negroes jiaid no attention to the rules and the ex-Mayor has called on the police for protection. Republican pajx-re dismiss this bit of news in four lines. If it was from the South instead of from Asbury Park, it would have been spread over at least a column. A steamship and two sailing vessels which left Kan Francisco for Honolulu, the other day, carrier! 9,<XK) rifles, 66,000 cartridges, 23,000 primers, 0,000 bullets, 2 caw* of shot, and 4 cases of revolvers. The consignees are W. G. Irwin & Cos., who are the brokers for Spreckds ami a number of the so-called missionary planters who have fallen out with King Kalaknua. Those shipments loem to confirm the rejxirts of n proposed revolution in the Hawaiian Islands. From JBHI to 1885, inclusive, 148 persons were sentenced to death in France. Hewn were women and seventeen were between the ages of 16 and 20. Woventy were agri cultural laborers, which show s that crime is not conn mil to cities in France, as some lielieve. Among the remaining number forty-eight were workmen, fiftren commer cial employe*, eight servants, one was a notary and one was a private gentleman. Of the total number 113 could read and write. At New Haven, Conn., the other <lay, the standard liearer of aG. A. R. jxwt entered a saloon and left his standard, a United States flag, in •’are of the bar-tender. When the G. A. It. man returned from n visit to a friend, the standard had disappeared and no truce of it could be found. Tills incident wggests that the G. A. R. sometimes care* tew about “t,he old flag" than about the oap tured Confederate flag*. General Lucius Fairchild ought to let hUnaelf loose on the ’ Mbject, Holman and the Labor Movement Congressman Holman was asked in Washington a day or two ago what effect he thought the labor movement would have upon the two great political parties. He is reported to have said that, in his opinion, the movement was a groat political prob lem. and that nobody could foretell wljatits infinence wonld be. He said that he thought that the Democratic party was in a good shajie, and that the administration was strong with the people, because it was sin cere and honest in guarding the interests of the people, but this labor movement, he admitted, "may upset all calculations." The politicians of bn#i political par-tie ure watching th' labor movement easeful! v. They all seem satisfied that the labor part v wiil make a -how of strength next year. In localities it will make a show of its strengt h this year. Although there are dissensions among the labor organizations, and the number in them is not as large as it was a year or so ago. there is, nevertheless, a growing disposition among them to take a prominent part in politics. There are am bitious men in them who intend to use them if they can to advance their political for tunes. One of the reasons why Mr. Powderly is not as popular as he might be is his opposi tion to the Knight s of Labor becoming a po litical organization. Already quite a strong combination has been formed to go to the convention which meets at Minneapolis to antagonize Mr. Powderly, the men who stand by him and their ideas. It is noticeable that there is the utmost harmony between the latior organizations, the followers of Henry George, and Dr. MoGiynn's Anti-Poverty Society people. Steps have already been taken to unite them all for political purposes. Canvassers have visited the tenement quarters in New York city and pledged the voters found there to support a Labor ticket. It is said that between 50,000 and 75,000 pledges have been obtained. This looks as if the labor movement would have a strong support in that city. Doubtless the same programme will be carries! out in other industrial cities next year. Indeed, it is not improbable that it may be inaugur ated this year, because those who are man aging this labor movement are impatient to achieve reshits. If they cannot exercise a potent influence in national affairs they at least hope to control the labor of the coun try mid manage municipal matters in the larger cities. It may be thought that Congressman Holman attaches too much importance to the labor movement, but it will hardly be denied that the facts already disclosed with regard to it are sufficient to arrest the at tention of the leaders of lioth the Demo cratic and Republican parties. If it proves to be as formidable as it at present promises to be one or the other of these parties will suffer a very considerable loss of strength. It is hardly probable that one will lose about as many votes us the other. The in teresting question is, which will be the heavier loser? programme of the Protectionists. Senator Sherman, in his Springfield speech, advocated the total repeal of the sugar duties anil the payment of a bounty to the sugar planters of this country as the most satisfactory way to reduce the reve nues of the government. Several of the Republican )W]>ers agree with the Senator, and also favor the repeal of the toliaceotax. The proposition to repeal the sugar duties and pay sugar planters a bounty Ls not a new one, but it seems to meet with more favor from the protectionists than ever before. They are determined that the duties upon clothing, agricultural imple ments and many other articles wiiich the people are compelled to have shall not be reduced, ami they will, therefore, make an extraordinary effort, when Congress meets, to carry out tiie programme which Senator Sherman lias mapped out. They have very little to say now alxiut reducing the tax on whisky. The prohibition sentiment is so strong that they are afraid of offending the Prohibitionists by advocating free whisky. The revenue from sugar is about $51,000,- 000 a year and from tobacco atxiut $20,000,- 000. There are several objections in the way of carrying out this Republican pro gramme. In tho first place the sugar duty is a revenue duty. The amount of sugar that is produced in this country is so small that it is an iasignifleant (uirt of tho total consumption. The duty, therefore, unlike the duties on many manufactured articles, goes into the Treasury. It is by no means certain that the reix'ul of the sugar duty would make sugar cheaper to the consumer. The chances are that an oxjxirt duty would be placed upon it, as in the case of coffee, and the revenue which now goes into our Treasury would go into foreign treasuries. It would also be difficult to determine the amount of bounty .which ought to be paid to the sugar planters. It is pretty certain that, those who cultivate wheat, cotton, oats, etc., would object to paying a bounty to sugar growers unless a similar provision were made for their benefit. There are plenty of cotton planters who claim that they can not raise cotton profitably at the present price of that product, and doubtless there are farmers who cultivate wheat and corn who are ready' to say' the same thing. If an at tempt were made to assist one class of farmers there would be trouble at once. The only plan for reducing the revenue that will give general satisfaction is that proposed by the tariff reformers. Their purpose is to benefit all classes. The pur pose of the protectionists is to liencfit a few, and these few are chiefly thoso w hom the protective system has made rich. It is reported in "Washington that Mr. C. A. Dana, of tho New York Sun, has gone to Europe to fight a duel with Mr. Joseph Pulitzer, of tho N t -’ w York World. The report is based on an alleged dispatch received from u United States consul at Pottzdorff, or Rottendorff, or some other place in Germany, asking the State Depart ment what should be done to prevent tho intended conflict. Nolxxly in the State Department will admit that such a dispatch wax received. If Mr. Dana and Mr. Pulit zer are really'going to tight they will fur nish a very interesting bit of cable news. i A cook in Fall Hiv<>r, Mass., named Ernest K i ruler fate r, has fallen heir to a for tune of $500,000. If he does his duty he will pay the doctors’ bills of the unfortu nates who suffer from dyspepsia by reason of eating his pies. The Washington I‘ost says: “Jay Gould says his yachting trip to Washington did him ‘a great deal of good.”’ No doubt; it was on that trip that he opened his purse and made the country u present. The young tubes of the senior class at Handy Creek Academy, N. Y., graduated in calico gowns. They set an example that deserve* imitation, provided, of course, the gowns were blylishly made. TIIE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1887. New York’s Car Heating: Law. The New York papers very generally commend the law recently enacted by the New York Legislature, and signed a day or two ago by the Governor,making it unlawful for any steam railway to heat its ears by moans of stoves. Tiie penalty for a viola tion of the law is #I,OOO. It is expected that preparations will be lx?gun at once by New York railroads for heating their cars by means of steam. Experiments have proven that the heating of cars by that method is feasible. If the heating by steam proves to be a silver in New York the railroads of other States doubtless will adopt the system, and if they are stow to adopt it appeals will be made to the legislatures for laws requirin'.; them to do so. Asa very large percentage of the Pullman cars pass over New York roads that company will be put to considerable trouble mi's- the railroads of other State, f, th>s- of New York in adopting -••■am. If it continues, however, to run its '•nr- across State hues it will, for the time being, have to g provide its cal's with both ' ifoves and -Tu.m heating apparatus, TO the Static where stoves are used it wifi have to depend upon stoves, and in New York it will have to lie prepared for steam. As other cars than sleepers are run from other States into New York it is apparent that the New York law wifi cause some trouble until steam is very generally adopted. It may lie that in the very near future some better way, than by either steam or stoves, will he discovered for heating cars. The inventive genius of ihe country has always lieen found equal to every emergency. An Expensive Commission. The Interstate Commerce Commission al ready begins to talk about the need of more money for its ex]enses. The appropriation for the present year is $100,(MX), two-fifths of which are required for salaries of com missioners, two-fifths for traveling ex- Ileases and one-filth for clerk hire. The Commissioners say that they must have a great many more clerks than the present ap propriation permits them. It is probable that the next thing that will be suggested will be an Interstate pom merce Bureau, ard finally there will be a movement to have a department of the government, with a cab inet officer at its head, to manage the rail roads It i remarkable how commissions develop into bureaus, and bureaus into de partments. The Agricultural Department started in a very modest way, and without accomplish ing much for the farmers as far as anylnxly can see. has grown into a pretty big institu tion, and doubtless will soon have a Cabinet officer at the head of it. The Executive part of the government will soon be a' pretty cumbersome nort of an affair if it keeps on spi-pading out. The buildings it occupies cover a very cousiderable portion of Washington now, and the need of other buildings has been suggested. There are so many people who want an office, however, that it is not to be wondered at that Con gress is all the while hunting for ways to gratify them. Probably it would be well for the Interstate Commerce Commission to prove that it is doing beneficial work before it begins to talk about a bigger appropria tion and more clerks. For many years the good Sisters of Char ity at New Orleans have done a noble work in the Charity Hospital of that city. Strangers who are brought into contact with them are impressed with the sweetnes of their dispositions and their fidelity to the trust re) nisei lin them. A Cincinnati lady who visited the hospital thus speaks of them: “To these plain-habited women, so quiet and so fearless, New Orleans has ten dered the freedom of the city for all time. No money is asked of them on the bridge or boat; they alone, of all the throng, ride in the street cars without paying fare— their habit is tlieir jiassport every where. Ladies bow to them us they pass along the streets, gentlemen lift their hats, and under those white bonnets I have seen faces so sweet and saintly that I have thought they were fashioned thus pure be cause so many dying were to look at them throughout the years; because they had so often symtiolized mother, sister, God, to the wrecked and homeless and plague-stricken of the land. There was one sister to whom I talked in the charity hospital, and who took me over the immense building, whose voice was the sweetest I ever listened to. Even her cheeriest talk had in it that little quiver of sympathy that is like the minor tones amidst harmonious chords of music.” John Tobin, of Kansas City, is about to institute suit against Salt Lake City for property valued at $1,0(X),000. He alleges that in 1808 lie was obliged to leave Salt Lake City, with the penalty of death hang ing over him should lie return. Just before John D. Leo was hanged for the Mountain Meadow massacre he confessed that he had been ordered by Brigham Young to murder Tobin. He had, in fact, attacked Tobin’s family and killed several of its members, but had only succeeded in wounding Tobin himself. At the time Tobin fled he owned considerable property in Salt Lake City, which has increased in value until it is now estimated to be worth #1,000,000. The case will excite much interest, for it is said that it will bring to light more than one crime committed by order of the Mormon leaders. A gentleman of Richmond, Va., has of fered a prize bf $25, or a gold medal of that value, at the option of the winner, ns a special premium for the best essay on the subject of “Self-supporting Employment for Indies in the Southern States,” Tho award will be made at the Virginia State Fair by a committee of three Judies and three gentlemen, to be appointed by the ex ecutive committee of the Agricultural So ciety. It wouldn’t be a bad idea for some body to offer a prize for a similar essay to lie read at the approaching Georgia State Fair. E. S. McDonald was tho first of the Chicago IsKsllers to bo convicted. On Mon day- last his little son had a terrible fall, which fractured his skull. Efforts were made to obtain permission for McDonald to Ixi present at the bedside of tile little suf ferer, but they failed. The hoy died in n few hours. When McDonald was informed of tho death of his son he said nothing, but placed his head lx.'tween his hands and wept as if his heart would break. The way of the transgressor is hard. ! J ; Rev. J. H. Barrett, of Allegheny City, Pa., preached a sermon against the Young Men’s Christian Association of Pittsburg last Sunday for holding a field meeting for athletic sports llev. Mr. Barrett is the clergyman who brought himself into notice last year by preaching against l>ase ball. He should join forces with the Georgia clergyman ho spent, two horn's preaching against that dreadfully wicked game— cro.net. CURRENT COMMENT. The Glorious Fourth. Front (Ac lftmawri Republican {Drin.) Money comribnted to niake the Fourth of July celebration a success go > :o keen alive the Jeffersonian principles ot liberty and indepen dence on which this government was founded. Help tc make the Fourth glorious. Carlisle and the Speakership. From the Philadelphia HecordiDeut). A few so-called Democratic organs in the South are industriously assailing Mr. Carlisle in the vain hope of forcing him into a surrender of Democratic principles’ am inticy. Though these organs may not t>- aware of it. the Speakership is nut of such value to Mr. Carlisle that he would stoop to secure it at the sacrifice of his honor or h:s party. A Futilo Effort. From the .Vw York Ttn.es t'Bepl Proofs accumulate that th- mass of the Union veterans an* not in sympathy with the violent demonstrations of noiay <jere i ; ‘uues like Gov. ForakeroramMtiouapartisan- like Gen. Far child over th'incident of the battle flags. No sol<li**r of patriotic feeling end seLer sense has any fear that this or any other will do anything to make the ,4p*ults of the Union victories less secure or lessepermanent. The Knights of Labor. From the Chattanooga Time* iDemi. The Knights of Latxyr an- going to pieces in the North very rapidly. Tile radicals got con trol: the order became too large and unwieldy I there were too many openings for extremists and demagogues; there w ere too many interests of diverse character associated. It was doomed to fail. Mr. Powderly has declined further service as chief, and when his conserving in fluence goes. the whole that is valuable in the order wiii follow him into another mid lietrer association. We are of opinion the Knights have done great good in it negative way by showing that such an association of all trades is impracticable, and does more harm than good inevitably. BRIGHT BITS. Eve never bothered Ailam about the spring fashion, hut che was the first woman to adopt the fall style.— Poston Gazette. Honesty is more precious than gold, although it cannot equal gold in opening the way into a fashionable city church.— Whitehall Times. In a Bowery Lodging House: Guest—Say. boss, dey -a bloke snorin' so In dor next suite I can t sleep. Pri iprietor—Yer don't expect us to show folks how to breathe for ten cents a night, do ver- Tid-Bits. "L.i'-rtA.” said Mrs. Parvenu, on the hotel Piazza to her daughter. “Laura, go and ask the loader of them orchestras to play that ‘Sympa thy from Meddtojohn' over again. It’s such an awful favorite of mine and your father's, too.” — Exchange. Wife (to late husband i—What time is it. John' Husband (consulting his watch unsteadily)— One o'clock, Benedict's time. Wife (reproachfully)— No, it isn't, John; that's Imehelor's time. Benedicts' time is not later than 9 o'clock.—.Vetc York Sun. Eminent Scientist— The planetary indications give assurance that there will be no rain for the next three days. Man with a bunion (smiling with lofty supe riorty)—There will be rain, sir, in less than twelve hours. And there vox.- Boston Beacon. Yoi-no man (to messenger boy)—What did 'he voting lady say w hen you gave her the flowers? Messenger boy—She asiced the young feller who was sittin’ on the porch with her if he didn't want some for a buttonhole bouquet -V ew York Sun. “All the witnesses in this case may consider themselves discharged till further notice." called out the court crier. “Be gob,” said an Irishman who had given testimony, “an" it’s just loike my luck. I never could kape a pleasant, agreeable job more nor a day or two."— Washington Critic. Omaha tiiim —O! O! (hicago girl—What's the matter? "That man winked at me.” “That handsome man over there?” “Yes, the hrufc.X “Unto! I should oy he was a brute. He didu't even look atfEje?’— Omaha World. “Theodore. I don't believe you love me any more, "said a K street girl plaintively as her best fellow pulled her hastily past an ice cream saloon. “Oh, don't say that dearest.” said he re proachfully. “Why, I named fourteen post offices after you last week."— Washington Critic. “Why are you so cold and distant to night, dear?" he asked. “Have I offended you in any way?” “All is over between us. George." replied the girl firmly. “I cannot trust my future to a man who possesses such wretched judgment. 1 saw you umpire a game of base ball to-day.”— New York Sun. Some fifty yf.ars ado the programme of a concert, given during the Norwich (Eng. i musi cal festival, read as follows (it can scarcely lie regarded as overloaded with punctuation marks): “Comfort ye Mr. Hobbs, But who may abide Mr. Balfe, Behold a virgin Mr. Young, Behold darkness shall cover Mr. Philips, Rejoice greatly Miss Birch, He shall feed Miss Hawes, Come unto me Mine, Stockhausen.”— Musical Items. “Father," he said, as he ceased dusting off some of the garments hanging at the (lour. “I see dot der Treasury Department has called in all der outstanding threes.” “Moses, you look at me,” replied the father as he came to the door. “If der Treasury call in some bonds vve can't help it. If you let a man go by dot wants some second hand pants you iloau't get some oafereoat nor undershirts next winter.”--. Wall Street Daily News. PERSONAL. Queen Victoria has offered a considerable sum for a collection of letters of the late John Brown, written to an humble Scotch acquaint ance. Allan Podwouth, who is in Europe, says that over there, in a ball room, every one dances with every one else without an introduction. He docs not approve of the custom. The library of Henry Ward Beecher, now in the keeping of the American Art Association, contains very lew novels. There is not even a copy of Mr. Beecher's "Norwood.” The presentation to the Sultan of Mr. Strauss, the new United States Minister to Turkey, has I av 11 postponed until after t he approaching cele bration of the feast of the Bairam. Cabin* have lieen engaged for Mr. Irving, Miss Terry, and party in the North German Lloyd steamer After, which is to leave South ampton for New York on Thursday, Oct. 20. At the Tammany Society Fourth of July feast "talks" w ill be made by Gov. Lee. Secretary Lamar, Senators Vance and Blackburn, Speaker Carlisle. Henry Watterson ami Messrs. Randall and Morrison. Mrs. Alexander Mitchell has kindly con sented not to contest her late husband's will, and will try to sernpe along with #209,000 cash and #50,000 annual Income. There 13 weeping in the tents of the lawyers. I'niLlP D Armour is a pretty good man to have for a father. The son who lately came out of college has been taken into partnership and fitted out with a little, bafik account of bis own to the tune of $1,000,000. Thu. Armour, it is stated, will bo the next millionaire owner of a traveling steamer. He talks of having a yacht built similar to Lord Brassey’s Sunbeam, and for the same purpose, a voyage round the world. Count Tolstoi not only wears peasants’ clothes, but he makes shoes for tils iieasants and sends his own daughters to help them in haying. Georg Braudes, the Danish critic, calls him the "Russian Rousseau." Trinity Colleoe, Hartford. Conn., this year celebrates the sixtieth anniversary of the grad uation of its first class .in IKgT. But one meni- Ixsrofthe class survives--Itev. Oliver Hopson, of Modalin. Dutchess county, N. Y. Ohandos Fulton, oue of the directors of the Lotos Club In New York, ordered and paid for his own coftin several years ago, and keeps it in his room, not as a memento mori, but as a closet for choice liquors and cigars. Albert Menier, the heir of the late French chocolate manufacturer, who iR traveling In this country, Is spending his hugefortun* very lib erally. For awhile he was a private soldier in the French army, and had to help clean out a stable every morning. Mrs. Livkhmore has delivered more than 800 temperance addresses, nearly 1 00 of these in Boston. For many jeers she lias lectured five nights n we-k for five months in the year; she 1 travels yearly 25,000 miles, besides working 1 ite into the night to maintain her immense eorres pottden**** A lit Lr. m California Mrs. Langtry will make her headquarters in Oakland. A small house, prettily furnished, will serve ns a home for the Lily during the summer, ami she intends to leave a large twirl of her wardrobe and n few servants at Oakland when she visits the Yi Sem ite. Mrs. Langtry will give two performances la Oakland during her sojourn there, but her visit will lor the most port be devoted to rest uiid rvoreaLoa. SIZING UP THE MUGWUMP. An Apt Story That was Told at the West Point Dinner. Says a Washington dispatch to the Louisville Courier-Journal: Among the members of the Board of Visitors to West Point this year was Dr. William Everett, of Massachusetts. He is a bright, clever man. and a son of the distin guished American orator. Edward Everett. At the banquet given to the Board of Visitors dur ing the closing exercises at the academy, tne doctor took occasion to inform the guests that he was a Mugwump, and wanted everybody to know it. This statement brought Mayor Court enay. of Charleston, S. CV. to his feet, and he said it reminded him of a story. About the time the mugwump first sprung into exist ence. an English lord was visitin'; this country, and devoted much attention to the study- of our institutions and manners. The constant use of the term “mugwump'' during the political cam paign attracted his notice, so or.e day he made bold to ask an American friend what the word “mugwump” meant. “A Republican who votes the Democratic ticket,' was the reply. “And what do you call a Democrat who votes the Republican ticket?” next inquired the curi ous Englishman. “I'd call him ad nfool!” was the friend's prompt response. The guests are said to have indorsed the hit immensely, with, perhaps, the possible excep tion of the mugwump from the Bay State. Scandal Mongers. From the Xecc Orleans Picayune. Do you hear the scandal mongers Passing by. Breathing poison in a whisper, In a sigh? Moving cautiously and slow. Smiling sweetly as they go. Never noisy- gliding smoothly as a snake— Slipping here and -lifting there Through tiie meadows fresh and fair. Leaving subtle slime and poison in their wake. Saw you not the scandal monger As she sat. Beaming brightly neath the roses im her hat? In her dainty gloves and dress Angel-like, and nothing less, ■Seemed she, casting smiles and pleasing words about, Once she shrugged and shook her head. Raised her eyes and not hing said. When you sjxike of friends, and yet it left a doubt. Did you watch the scandal monger At the hall? Through the music, rhythm, beauty, Ijght and ail. Moving here and moving there. With a whisper light as air. Casting shadows on a sister-woman’s fame— Just a whispered word or glance, As she floated through the dance. And a doubt forever hangs upon a name. You will fiiid the scandal mongers everywhere; Sometimes men. but often women. Young and fair: Vet their tongues drip foulest slime, And they spend their leisure time Casting nuid on those who climb by work and worth! Shun them, shun them as you go— Shun them, whether high or low. They are but the cursed serpents of the earth. How Miss Wolfe Moved Two Trees. Xeirport Letter in the Boston Herald. There are two trees in the grounds at Vine land which were brought from the country seat of Miss Wolfe's fathers coming up on the’ Hud son. “Can it lie done?" she asked of the landscape gardener who had undertaken to make her do mails what ihev ought to lie in the matter of trees and shrubs. She referred to the trans planting. The landscape gardener was astonished. “Pray, madam.' said he. hesitatingly, “have you considered the cnormons’expense of carry ing out such a whim? It would cost at least—” His questioner broke in impatiently: "That has nothing to do with it.” sh- said. “I did not ask you what it would cost, but if it could be done. I repeat, is it possible?" “Yes," answered the landscape-maker, “it is possible." "Doit then." ordered the lady, “and let the ex pense be what it may. I want those trees in Newport.” And the trees came to Newport. They were taken up carefully, laid upon canal boat’s, car ried down the Hudson and along the Sound, making the entire journey by water. What riiust have been the astonishment of the sailors who saw- the remarkable spectacle of what looked like a forest moving on the face of the deep, Dame Gossip saith not. It was only a modern instance of BirnainWood and Dunsinane. But the operation was successful. The much trav eled trees are flourishing with great vigor in Rhode Island soil, and never seemed a bit the worse for their long and remarkable journey, which cost about $1,500. A “Very Prominent” Brother. Picked up by the TJetroit Tribune. The Central Mirror, published by the pastor of the Central Methodist Episcopal church in Detroit, tells the following story of a rebuke given a “very prominent member of another denomination in the southern part of this State.” He was always prominent at conven tions, and usually presided, being a man ot fine presence and ability One day when on the train, and so far from home he thought he would not lie known, lie engaged in playing cards, hut he was recognized by two gentlemen, one of w hom w-as an equally prominent man in . the same denomination, and ho decided to severely rebuke the card-player. So he went to him and said: "Are you not Mr. A. of the church in the city of J—?” The answer was, “Yes, lam." "Well, lam Mr. B. of the city of 1, , and as I take a great interest in all the churches of our denomination and knew you were very promi nent in your church. I thought I would’ ask vou if you had had any extensive revival of religion in it recently?" The sarcasm was biting, and with blushes the victim had to confess that there had not. He did not relish the game after that, and as word of his actions reached bis town he Las not been made prominent as a leader since. Stella Surprised Him. From the San Francisco Chronicle. It was at the play of “Princess Andrea," at the Bush Street Theatre, last week. The piece is a quiet 011 c of the emotional order, and it be gins with but little sign of interest of that kind usually credited as being specially attractive to the people in the front rows of the orchestra. The old gentleman sat down close to the stage, and finding the first act of rattier an unpictur esque character, he calmly allowed himself to sinx into a gentle slumber. He slept peacefully for a long time. The second act of the play takes place in the dressing-room of the ballet dancer, and of course site's in costume. Tiiis act was in pro gress, when some noise awoke the old gentle man. He jump'd. The first things his eyes caught was the figure of Stella in beautiful pink tights and decollete costume, and Stella in this case Is remarkably attractive. The old gentle man stared a moment, then he rubbed his eyes vigorously, found Stella still there, and a look came over liis face that told everybody that he was saying to himself: “Great Scott 1 I wonder how much of this I've missed?” He was widely awake well into the third act, and then he saw that Stella wasn't coming on again, and he went peacefully to sleep and slept till the curtain fi ll." The Teacher Didn’t Know it All. 1' Fhihifit lphin Record. Short kinds are at a premium in ! Wall of course quick methods of I con studied there with grr.il mk-0.-si her day a lad in Hoboken cam - liomc r with a cumbrous method of learned o' school. The father Mm how to do the thing in one tenth the lad came home the next day with this message from Lin* teacher: “Tell your father that he is wrong.' The boy went to school next morning with the message from his father: “Tell the teacher I'm right. The schoolmistress suppressed a reproof and said: “What is your father's business 1" “A bookkeeper in Wall street," answered the lad. That night the bookkeeper received a note from the schoolmistress hogging that he send her a full exijosition of his method that she might teach it to her pupils. An Extremely Clever Boy. from the Pittsburg Vis/latch. Officer Mike Carr marched a stumpy, crying hoy into tin- Mayor's office yesterday afternoon. The boy carried a tray of cheap jewelry - . Carr stated that four times during the week the youth set up a shout that he was robbed, and would sit on the iuink steps along Fourth avenue Iso wailing his loss. Of course, he attracted a big crowd, and the shekels fell fast into the bands of the grief-stricken rifltbed kid. Yesterday he tried the dodge and said he had is - - n robbed of $1 9Q, The crowd came around, ami so did Carr, who promptly collared the youth. He was so scared when Drought before Mayor Met'allin that he could hardly s|ieak. lie said finally that he came from the old country, that his parents were dead, and that he lived with his aunt and did the “robbed boy" act to pay for his hoard. He was told to go and not no likewise again, and a crowd of gamins es corted him to lus haunt*. ITEMS OF INTEREST. The new university at Upsaia. in Sweden, has a building that cost about $1,250,000. The ox-cart is still used as a conveyance in some of the Mexican towns and cities. The oxen draw by their horns, after the old method of the Egyptians. The cultivation of the bamboo for fencing material has been begun in California. It is said that an acre will produce pickets enougn .each year to make six miles of fence. The postmaster of Grass Lake, Mich., has be come famous, not because he is the oldest or the youngest living postmaster, but because he recently ate twenty-three bananas at one sit ting. i No frown of fortune can stop the Ohio people when they feel like rejoicing. On the very day that the natural gas celebration was held, $359,090 of paper went to protest in Findlay's hanks. The widow Jane A. Manly has sued Burrell A. Oluey, of Hartford, Mich. She is plump and comelv and 50, and he is 80 years old and worth $300,000. Tiie widow wants $50,000 for her dam aged affections. Willie Woo is the title under which the Os coda, i Mich.) washee washeo hamrs out his shingle, and he has prospered so well under it that he has taken a partner, who is also a na tive of the squint-eyed empire. The sign now reads: "Willie Woo, He Will.” Judge Thayer, of Philadelphia, sustained the position that the Women’s Christian Associa tion building, hi which there are a home for young women, an employment bureau, a res taurant. a lecture room and a free library, is for charitable purposes and therefore exempt from taxation. The abuse of alcohol, tobacco, opium and quinine seriously affects the sight, but tea has not been eonsiden*d liable to have such infiu enct. The greatest of Russian tea merchants, M. Molchanoff, has, however, been seeking treatment in Paris for weakness of vision in duced by the prolonged practice of tea-tasting. It is estimated that more than 100,000 em ployes received a half holiday in New York on Saturday by the operation of the new law. As tne law does not close dry goods stores Satur day afternoon, many fashionable ladies are signing a pledge to only patronize those stores which grant their employes a half holiday once a week. A convivial Buffalo printer went to sleep in a second-story window. He fell out and would undoubtedly have received severe injuries had he not been lucky enough to fall squarely on two reporters. They were knocked down and badly shaken, but ivere able to get an ambu lance and send the unconscious .ypesetter to the hospital. Workmen digging on North Clark street. Chi cago, the other day found a silver coin im bedded in the sand and clay about 20 feet below the surface of the street. It is an Austrian piece, worth about sl. and bears the image and superscription of the Archduchess Maria Theresa. It was coined in the year 1780, the year of her death. A medical journal says that the body of Ed ward 1., who died in 1307. was found 4fi3 years afterward a little wasted but not decayed. Canute died in 1017, but his body was fresh in 1700, as were those of William the Conquerer and his wife in 1552. Three Roman soldiers dis interred from a peat moss near Aberdeen, Scot land. were found but little changed after years. A chicken thief has recently been arrested at Xenia, 0., who seems to be at the head of his profession. He operated with a two-horse cov ered spring wagon, and was always careful to do his stealing out of bis county. It is known th.U his profits '-an as hierh as SIOO per week for several months. He would drive to the scene of his depredations in the night, and would some times capture as mauy as 300 fowl. Among the visitors at the Yassar College com mencement was a graduate who has made $lO,- 000 in a unique manner. I’pon her graduation she was promised hv her father a dollar for every cent she earned by working at anything. She accepted the offer, and, entering* factor) - , where she obtained $0 a week, kept on working until her father had pai l her SIO,OOO, and broke the contract because his little joke was becom ing too costly. Danbi ry is rather fond of its 1A year-old girl bail player, but her parents are not. She is said to catch with perfect ease, grace and ac curacy, even the highest fly being captured with rare judgment. She does not throw over handed like girls in general, but puts it in from the shoulder in the true style. Her parents have punished her in various ways for playing ball on the street. It does no good, as her pas sion for it amounts to a mania. The agent of the S. P. C. A. in Detroit was shocked at the receipt of the following message by telephone: “There is a horse in front of blank Michigan avenue that hasn't had anything to eat nr drink for two days: it might be well to look after it." "All right, sir," replied he; "I'm much obliged to you for calling my attention to it; 111 r.o right up." The agent found a wooden horse in front of a harness shop at the number given, but he saw no occasion for official inter ference. V. hen the Czar visited the Don Cossacks, two whole regiments of boys, about 1,400 strong, from 9to 14 years of age. took part in his re ception. Mounted on lean, shaggy native horses and wielding huge swords, bigger than themselves, and lances eight feet long, they formed th“ most wonderful infant cavalry ever seen. These boys can already ride at a headlong pace, cling on to their stirrups like monkeys and pick up handkerchiefs from the ground as they careen along. A citizen of Albany and his wife, wearied by the prosiness and long sermons of the |>astr- of the church that they attended, decided to change their place of worship. So on a recent Sunday they attended a neighboring church to see how they liked it. Hardly were they seated when their pastor entered the pulpit. He hail ex changed pulpits for that service, and that morn ing preached an unusually lung sermon. At the close of tin- services he met his two parishioners and thanked thei* very heartily for feeling such an interest in his preaching as to follow him to a strange church. The managers of Bellevue Park, at Pittsburg, recently bought seven fine deer in Michigan and had them .shipped to the park, where a nice big yard with a seven-foot fence wns waiting for them. Tiie boxes were carefully placed in the yard and opened anti the animals came out one by one. Tie n the biggest deer turned her large, dreamy eyes toward the seven-toot fence, and in a moment made for.it, followed by the other six. Those who were present were willing to swear that that dreamy-eyed animal leaped twenty-live feet high over the fence if she cleared it at all, and she certainly cleared it, as did the other six. A reward is now offered for the Michigan jumpers. A hygienist writes at last in favor of the bustle. This comes in a letter, but it is good enough to print: "A bustle is the outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace— that of modernism anti mental braced-up ness. I used to have my doubts about the hustle i have tiie in. still in regard to tiie huge ami hideous ones, but I find in practical life that ihu woman to he depended upon in affairs Is not disilninful of a bustle. It may be very light- it biigld to he very light and fashioned to the un derwaist instead of strapped around (he waist ami allowed to 'lop.' lint the hustle with a street cs cannot he gainsaid. Depend upon bouffant draperies for the house If you like, but remern liei- that tile bustle la the juatifler of the plain street r,uit." As interesting literary secret is out. Early ill the year Roberts .Bros, published a little book called “Through the Gates of Gold." It was a philosophical treatise, mystical in its nature, and the extraordinary beauty of its style and the unwonted and daring quality of Its thought caused many conjectures ns to the identity of tut* author, \vhos* name wah not riven. The fact that literary criticism in, as a rule mor* generally a matter of individual temperament than of well-conhi lored judgment wan striking yconllrmed by the various comments which this book received, ranging from the most en thusiastic commendations to the bitterest de nunciation, and it was noteworthy that 1 lie favorable and unfavorable verdicts were not drawn on liberal and conservative lines of thought, hut that while some radical nnd Uni tarian writers called the book mere nonaoiixe it was heartily praised by some orthodox journals whence praise would he least expected. 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