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4 C|c IHorningHcius Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. MONDAY, mi I, I**7. Registered at the Post office in Savannah. IMMlornijco Nf.ws is j>tiMi-h**<! **vry day in ftc yar. and is to subscribers in th* city, by newdii<*rs and carri<*r*t, on tH**ir own a<• count, at & cent:; a w**k. $1 00a month, $5 00 for idx months and $lO 00 /or on- y ■ -. Tin* Morxino N e rs, by man. on** month, $1 00; months, &2 30; six itiontbs, s.'j UU; otu.- year. $lO 00. Th*? Morhixo Nrwy by mail. six tim**s a w#-*k (without Sunday issu#*t. rhrv* months, $5? 00; six months. $1 <*o one vear. $m 00. The Morsixo Nrvrs, Tri \W-kly. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or TiMsday#, Thurs daya and Saturdays, tlirp** months, $1 25; six months. $2 30; on* year, $5 Oi). The SrXDAV Nkwk, by mail, one year. $2 00. The Weekly Nkwk. by mail , one year. $1 25. Subscriptions pavable in advance Remit by postal order, ch*vl or rcfouterf* I letter. Cur rency sent by mad at risk of Benders. Letter*. aild telcffrairis should be addressed M Morning News. Savannah, fin." Advertising rat/f< made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings—DeKalb !xlge Nu. 9, L O. O. F,; Tattnall Council No. 881, A. I. H.; Georgia His torical Society. Sncut Notice—Grand Free Lunch, Cbas. Kolshorn & Bro. Kaii.roAn Schedule Central Kailroad. Cheap ( 'olumn Advertisements Help Want ed; For Sale; Lost; Summer Resorts; Mlscella neous. Steamship Schedule—General Transatlantic Cos.; Ocean Steamship Cos. City Delivery op the Morning News—Wm. Estill. Legal Sale United States Marshal's Rale. Auction Sales Building 1.01, House and Ixjt, by Roht H. Tatem. Bargains- I). Hogan. Base Ball Savannahs vs. Warrens. The Morning News for the Hummer. 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 35c. a week, $1 for a month or $2 50 for three months, cash invariably in ad vance. The address may bo changed as often as dewed. 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 kess Office. Special attention will be given to make this summer service satisfactory and to forward papers by the most direct and quickest routes. Senator Kherman is an adept at writing non-committal letters. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, the jioetess, put f3OO into a Wisconsin miuo and drew out $12,500. This venture of hers suggests that she knows there is not much money in poetry. It will doubtless gratify the admirers of “nature unadorned” to know that Queen Victoria's jubilee didn't cause Buffalo Hill and his Indians to lose either popularity or money. The talk almut forming u “whisky trust’’ was interesting to old topers until they dis covered that the “trust” would in no wise Increase their chanece of obtaining drinks on tick. _ Amid the hurrah and jollity of the glorious Fourth it should not bo forgotten that the General Assembly of Georgia will llogin to perspire and draw salaries on Wednesday. The reunion at Gettysburg bewteen the Philadelphia Brigade and Pickett’s Division ought to cause the people of this country to remember for all time to come that peaeo Is better than war. Perhaps the most successful venture In authorship ever made in this country was that of Gen. Grant. It is stated that the gross receipts from thp sale of his memoirs have reached $11,000,1X10. A Louisville paper says of the Kentucky Chautauqua Assembly; “The gathering will listen to Mr. Ham Jones on July H and then break up." No doubt; Ham is a great hand to “break up" people. The Hartford Fast says that the Repulili cans want one more chanco at President Cleveland. If they get it they will feel very much like the fellow who tried to stop a buzz-saw by leaning against it. Hinee it has become fashionable to trim ladies’ hats with the plumage of smaller birds, the ostrich has lost value. Hlxteen of the big birds sold in Han Francisco last week, brought only sls a ]<air. Bud eggs are thrown about so promiscu ously and frequently in the meetings held by both Prohibitionists and anti Prohibi tionists in Texas that the atmosphere all Dver the Stilt- is decidedly unpleasant. Tho Texans ought to fumigate. The approaching marriage of the Emper or of China has boon ollicially annoum-ed. The festivities upon tho occasion will cost S6,<XX),(XX>. The Chinese will doubtless wish they had no Emperor, when the tax-col lector liegius tei raise that immense sum. The Gwinnet Hr mid, of Lawrenceville, Ga.,says that the Georgia, Carolina, and Northern railroad lias employed an engi neering “corpse." The moriktuid condition of certain other projected railrouds in Geor gia suggests thnt they also have employed an engineering “corpse.” The statement is mode that Ike Davis, the Lake George rattlesnake exterminator, Hilled 3H in one week, collected a tenuity of 25c. for each, and now proposes to take a trip to England as the rival of Bulfalo Bill. XI he will call himself “Rattlesnake Ike" he will capture the English without a struggle. The Washington I'ost says that inquiries are almost daily made of tho Interstate Commerce Commission to ascertain when certain reports of post office investigations Will tei made. Those who make tho inqui ries evidently believe thnt all the business of tho government is in the hands of the coni mission. A man who lives at Walker Springs, Ala., writes to the Now York World that ho has “Invented a machine that will stop tho wind from blowing, stop all storms such as ‘sy cloues,’ straight wind storms, snow storms, bail storms, etc." Ho ought to have nodiffi culty in selling bin machine to jieoplo that own cyclone pits. Tho Ktato press is expressing itself vigor ously about the swindling watermelon brokers. The Albany News and Advertiser *1 leaks of them ns thieves, and urges that they should be arrested mid severely punished. The Morning News indorses the position taken by the News and Adver tiser. Example should be made of all such swindlers, i The Gettysburg Reunion. Tho attention of th country is turned to ward the famous battlefield of Gettysburg. The reunion that is being held there is a notable one. The survivors of Pickett's fa mens division are the guests of the survivors of th*- Pennsylvania regiments w hich resisted Pickett’s splendid final charge upon Ceme tery Ridge. Tlie.se veterans are encamped upon the field of atenit the greatest battle of the war, and are talking over the scones and incidents of that memorable contest. No trace of bitter feeling roars their inter course. They are sail only when they re call the brave and honored comrades who laid down their lives in the cause for which they fought, and those who have passed aivay since the close of the great civil strife. This reunion will lie followed by others, and each one will draw the Northern and Southern jieopki more closely together. Toe survivors of the Army the Potomac will hold their reunion at Gettysburg next year, and the survivors of tho Army of North ern Virginia have been invited to meet them there. Of course the invitation will be accepted, and a very enjoyable occasion it will doubtless be. These reunions serve to offset the reckless and irritating speeches of those who seek to keep alive sectional feeling for partisan purjioscs. County Improvements. Those who live in the country adjacent to Savannah doubtless appreciate the benefits they enjoy from the new roads which have been opened and the old ones which liavn been repaired. Nothing since its settlement has contributed more to the prosperity of this city than the improvement of the highways and drainage of this county. There is, however, a great deal yet to lie done in the way of improvements of this character, particularly west of the city. That section will lie attended to os soon as the County Engineer’s physical condition wall permit him to resume hit, duties. An improvement that ought to be made, and one that would pay the city well, is a l oad across Hutchinson’s Island. Buck a road would bring Suvannah into close re lations with a thickly settled section of country, which would greatly increase her retail trade. The section in question is that portion of South Carolina on the north bank of the Savannah river, extending from Calabogue Sound to tho Charleston and Savannah railway. The people there have no easy and cheap way of getting to this city. They want to trade here, and would do so if an easy way were opened for them to reach here. A road across Hutchinson’s Island, which could be built at a comparatively small cost, and which would also answer os a protection to the island —the greater part of which is the city’s property —against overflows, would afford them the way they want. Of course a couple of ferries would bo needed, but the outlay for the entire improve ment would lie a good investment. A large trade would flow into the city over tho road, and it would be a steudily increasing trade. The soa island cotton and rice growiug part of Beaufort county would alone contribute lurgely to our annual trade. Let us have the Hutchinson Island road, and all other improvements that will help the city forward on the road to greater pros perity. All Sorta and Conditions. Every day there is fresh proof thnt the world is filled with “all sorts and conditions of men.” Quiet people, those who obey the laws of morality and of the Htnte, are sometimes annoyed by what they see and hear of tho misdeeds of others, totally un able to account for tho motives which lead to crime. They cannot understand why all men ure not obedient to law. When some dreadful trugedy is enacted, the result of some man's uncontrolled temjier, these are the people who say to each other: “How could he have done itl” It is a fact well known that human nature is sometimes so perverted that it becomes inhuman. Thero was that man, for in stance, who not long ago put his arm around his wife, said “God bless you,” and the next instant shot her deal. Then there was another man who caressed his mother with one hand while with the other he stabbed her to the heart. These were of a sort much too common. What tlioir “con ditions” were it is easy for those who know the world to understand. Of a sort perhaps more peculiar than any other yet covered was that youug man who lived in tho village of Lockport, Ohio. Ateiut a year ago ho married a beautiful young woman. Apparently they lived happily together, for neither gave a hint of dissatisfaction. A few days ago, another man fell in love with tho young wife. Ho was wealthy, and be determined, if possible, to buy her. Ho went to the husband and offoral him $tHXi for her. Tho offer was accepted, both husband und wife agreeing to the bar gain, and tho money was paid down and the other man took his human chattel and de parted for the West. The next day the husband was filled with remorse, and deeply regn*tted that ho had been so f.-olisb ns to sell his wife for such a paltry sum. He cursod himself because he had not insisted on a larger sum. The “conditions” of this man, of the other man, and of the wife were depraved almost beyond comprehension. Ten thousand other cases might bo cited to show what u jumble of humanity there is in tho world. High und low, rich and poor, sound und lame, well and sick, good and bad —“all sorts and conditions of men”—mingle with each other and tln-n disappear to lie suocoedtxl by others of the same sorts and conditions. Tho upright and contented are the only sort whoso “conditions” make life worth living. It is a pity that all are not of this sort. The statement is mode that tho tomb of Washington at Mount Vernon was never better cared for than nt this time, and thnt the homo of Washington was never more teimtiful. To the regents of the Ladies’ Mount Vernon Association is duo the credit. The first regent of the association, by the way, was Miss I’amela Cunuingliain, of South Carolina, who believed that women should have the care of Washington's tomb nnd home, and who raised a large sum of money for the purpose. Tho Salvation Army in Atlanta is not to lie u flowed to parade to-day, because the Mayor doesn’t lielieve that religion and patriotism ought to lie mixed. Ho seems to lie vested with a largo amount of power. But then, perhaps, it pleases tho Atlanta people to worship God according to tho dic tate of the Mayor nnd not according to tho dictates of their own consciences. Mr. Blaine’s visit to England seems to have boon for the special purpose of making the acquaintance of the nobility. Ho far ho has not shown much desire to associate with anybody lowor in the social scale than a “Sir Somebody-or Other,” THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. JULY 4, 1887. Hie Ruse a Failure. Men who become tired of their wives sometimes resort to queer methods to get rid of them, but it is not often that one will feign insanity to carry out his purpose. If the dodge should t-e successful, it would re sult in the man's confinement in a lunatic asylum—a worse fate than living with an inmngenia) wife. Thomas Gray, of Richmond, Ind., tried the insanity dixlge a short time ago, vainly hoping, as the sequel showed, to force his wife to leave him. His wife, whom he mar-, riel four years ago, was the daughter of a well-to-do farmer. The wedding was a social event, and naturally there was much surprise when the couple separated in less than two years. The intervention of friends brought about a reconciliation, however, and apparently no more trouble was in store. But there was more trouble, and Gray decided that he would play lunatic long enough to frighten his wife into leaving him permanently. In u fit of assumed frenzy ho declared that he would kill himself. He procured a razor to sever bis windpipe, but it was taken away from him. Then he tied himself to a beam in the barn, but was cut down before ho choked. Next he secured a halter-strap and wie atiout to swing himself into eternity, when a meddlesome neighbor interfered and saved his life. At this stage 1 of the game some of Gray's friends liegan to fear that he wus really in earnest in his attempts to kill himself. They, therefore, secured him and placed him in jail until a commission of lunacy could inquire into his sanity. His wife did not beliovo him insane, and frankly told the commission so. Skillful questioning dis closed that she was right, and that every time he pretended to attempt to kill himself Gray arranged that somebody should be near to save his life. The commission de clared him sane, and lectured him severely for making a foolish sensation in the com munity. When he was released he an nounced his intention to get rid of his wife by tho orthodox, but none the less repre hensible, method of divorce. For the sake of relieving Mrs. Gray of the imputation of insanity for living with such a man as Gray, it is well to add that when ho files) his suit for divorce he found that she had already commenced proceedings for a permanent separation. An interesting story comes from San Francisco about one of the witnesses in the notorious Sharon divorce case. Mrs. Mas sey, a middle-aged mulatto, is the witness in question, she having lieen summoned to testify in regard to Sarah Althea Hill’s ac tions with mediums and astrologers. She was very |ioor at the time the case was tried, so that when she recently began to spend money lavishly much surprise was caused. Inquiry of Mrs. Mo-soy led to the statement that she had been married to a white man, the son of an old gentleman in New Orleans, whom she nursed during the yellow fever epidemic in that city in 18-17. She declared thnt her husband had given her SI,BOO for incidental expenses, and that in September she would go to New Orleans to join him and bo publicly recog nized as his wife. The woman’s story is improbable. It is likely ttiat her sudden wealth came to her as a reward for the tes timony she delivered in the divorce case. “Society” in Now York doesn’t seem to be above lending its influence to “vulgar tradesmen.” According to the New York Times a scion of a wealthy family recently claimed commissions from a prominent jewelry house because he influenced the trade of his set in favor of the establish ment. It is said ho contrived to get all the presents for his recently married sister pur chased at the establishment in question, nnd his commissions the past season amounted to several thousands. Ho wears jewelry borrowed from tho establishment, to which he calls attention on every possible occa sion. It is commonly reported that several other young men, whose ineonjes are not as large ns they could wish, receive commis sions from prominent wine houses for ad vertising their brands by ordering none other. In an article in the Journal of United Labor General Master Workman Powderly says on the subject of temperance; “I know lam right. I know that, in refusing to even touch a drop of strong drink, I was and am right. In refusing to treat another to that which I do not believe to be good for myself to drink I know that lam right. In not allowing a ruinseller to gain admittance into the order of the Knights of Lnlior, I know I uni right. In advising our assem blies not to rent bolls or meeting rooms over drinking places, 1 know that I am right.” The General Master Workmun has very jiositive views on the liquor question. Per haps that is one of the reasons thnt there is so much dissatisfaction with him in tho or der. Hon. N. M. McConnell, of Tennessee, re cently appointed Chief Justice of Montana, is not. popular among the free and easy peo ple of tho Territory. He has conscientious scruples against listening to tho music of the violin, calls the waltz “a loathsome kind of dance,” says card playing “is the invention of the devil,” and recently refused to apjxiint a young tnau us Clerk of Court, because ho occasionally played whist. The people speak of him as “that Eastern sharp who’s too good to live.” Arizona is in a curious predicament. Tho Inst Legislature of the Territory abolished all the laws then in force, special and gen eral, and adopted an entirely new code to go into effect on July 1. The code is still in tho printer’s hands in St. Louis, and tho of ficials and the people of the Territory are totally ignorant of tho new laws. All the courts have been elosed and will remain so until the code is distributed. No doubt the Arizona cowboy enjoys the situation. An English woman is aliout to establish “A School for Wives.” She proposes to in struct her pupils in cookery, dressmaking, physiology, bookkeeping, elocution and de bating. It is doubtful if there is any need to touch wives the art of debating. They learn that quickly enough in their little dis putes with their husbands, Tho booms down in Alabama have brought sorrow to so many people that the newspaper* are daily warning their readers to lie on tho lookout. After awhile it is probable that signs will he put up at the street corners liearing this legend: “Tho man who does a land office business will liear watching.” lonic Luton, of New Orleans, is the only millionaire of African lineage In this coun try. The Georgia negro woman, to whom David Dickson left his money, is therefore not the richest colored person. There is no profit to tho country in !mtid ing fast yacht*. What is needed is that fast merchant vessels, und plenty of them, shall be built CURRENT COMMENT. Level-Headed Farmers. From the Washington Post (Deal.) The Democratic farmers of I ampheil county, Vn.. have resolved that they will no longer sup -1 port high-tariff candidates for office. Let them nominate low-tariff men and vote for them. If they and made the fight squarely for Congress last fall they would he better represented now than they are. American Shipping Interests. From the New York World < Oem.) There is no use in trying to doctor up the American shipping business while at the same timeit is going though the perennial experi ence of being stabbed. There are men and capital waiting to build up the American ship ping trade the moment they are permitted to do so on equal terms with their competitors. All they aek is the privilege of buying their ships iri the cheapest market, as others do, and where they must huy them, or not buy them at all. The Protective Idea. From the Boston Herald, <lnd.) The “protective” idea is the same wherever you find it. The German protectionists are in veighing against the starved workingmen of Belgium, the reason being that a contract has been made for 4,300 tons of Belgian steel rail* fora new German railroad, and which has a subvention from the government. The German duty on steel rails is 35 marks, or $6 per ton. aliout two-fifths as much as the American duty. The protectionists denounce the directors who made the contract us unpatriotic, and they will probably demand an increase of duty if this sort of thing continues. Let Him Withdraw. From the Missouri Republican (Dem.) If Father M<*Glyun is the good man he affects to be he might give us a convincing proof of it, and earn our gratitude at the same time, by withdrawing himself from the public attention. He has been discussed to shreds. His quarrel with the Pope is dry and barren of interest; he does not possess the ability and importance to make it even transiently entertaining, and his advocacy of George ism has become tame and unaftractive Th- public is tired of Father Mc- Glynn, and Father McGlynn would render the public a real service by dutifully recognizing the fact and giving way to the next man with a grievance. BRIGHT BITS. “Drowning men catch at straws,” but not as often as drinking men.A’orrisfotni Herald. Minister (making a call)—And do you always do as your mamma tells you to, Flossie* Flossie (emphatically)-Ul guess I do, and so does pa pa. -.Vein York Sun. The superiority of man to nature is contin ually illustrated Nature needs an immense quantity of uuillstomake a goose with; but a man can make a goose of himself with one.— Home Journal. “You never knew effect without cause," said one disputant. "Yes.” said the other triumphantly, “I have known a hen to scratch all day without itching a )>it.” Buffalo Commercial Bulletin. “Well, Johnny, did you see the elephant this morning*'’ “Did I see him? What sort of a boy do you think I am? That's why I'm a bov—to see the elephant when he is her e."—Hartford Post. Is there a martyr who can pair In hist'ry painful annals With him whose wife still makes him wear His heavy winter flannels. —Cleveland Sun and Voice. “Hurry! hurry!” cried Brown impatiently up the stairs, “we'll be too late for church.” ”Oh, no, dear," replied Mrs. Brown, buttoning her glove as she came down, "we can't be too late. I've got on my new suit." —.Yew York Sun. Equal to the Occasion.— When lovely w oman's feet are sevens. And such a size her soul abhors, What does she then* Why. gracious heavens, She squeezes them in number fours. —Tid-Bits. “I am saddest when I sing," wailed a musical young man on Seventh street about Bp. m. “So are We, so are we," came In chorus from the neighboring porrhes. and now the voung man has liecoine a cynic and pessimistically declares that genius is nut appreciated in Buffalo.- Buf falo Courier. “I hope our chatter does not disturb you, sir," said a miss to a gentleman who was com posedly reading a iiaper in the midst of the hub bub caused by half a dozen vivacious school girls. “O, not at all," was the reply, "I have eight daughters of my own.— Pittsburg Dispatch.. Counsel— Married ? Witness— No. Counsel—Single ? Witness—No. Counsel—Ab, widow? Witness -No. Counsel But, my dear madam, surely you must tie one or ” Witness (slmix>ring)—No. engaged.— Punch. First Omaha MAN-'-What’s the matter, not out of business again, are you?” Second Omaha Man—Yes, my last venture busted the first week. "That’s queer. I t hought you started a little factory to darn stockings for young men. old bachelors and others with no women folks to look after them. That ought to pav." "Pay' I got more orders than I could fill - Idled a whole lot of nice girls who knew how to darn stockings nnd they did their work beauti fully—but then the enterprise busted.” “Why, what happened I" “Girls all left.” “Dissatisfied ?” “No, the whole crowd of customers hunted ’em up Sunday and married them.”— Omaha World. PERSONAL. • Kino Humbert of Italy is an inveterate smoker. Citizens of Richmond, Va.. have started a movement for a monument to Lieut. Gen. A. P. Mrs. Martha J. Lamb is connected with thir teen learned societies, including the Clarendon Historical Society, of Edinburgn. I r is said that Secretary Bayard is in verv poor health. His face is exceedingly pale and he has long periods of extreme exhaustion. Nilsson may undertake another farewell American concert tour this fall if she can find a manager who will pay her $2,000 per concert. E. J. Couch, the Nebraska weather prophet says there will l>e considerable cool weather in J uly, and probably light frosts about the 30th. Miss Freeman, President of Wctnliey College says she knows personally every one of the (Six') young ladies iu the college, ami loves them all Petitions are pouring in upon Gov. Hill, of New York, for clemency in the case of poor Cbiari Cignarale, who killed her brute of a hus band. It is said that “Donna Frances,” the Presi dent's wife, has under consideration a very liberal offer for a short story from a prominent magazine. Bratton Ives, of New York, owns one of the very few Gutenburg Billies in the world. Its margins still show the pinholes left by Guten berg’s press. Persons who have tired of Gov. McEnory's rule in Louisiana are urging the claims of ex- Gov. Niche ills as a suitable candidate for Gover nor next fall. It is estimated that Queen Victoria's expenses for entertaining her royal guests will amount to £100.(11X1. By strict frugality she can stand tlds every fifty years. David Watts, of Harrisburg, Pa., has a button o(T one of Washington's coats. Ou the button are the Initials “G. W.,” and around them “Long Live the President. ” Gov. Lovnsbcrv, of Connecticut, has been made an LL. I), by Wesleyan University. His staff will meet at a drug store und drink his health in soda water. Miss Bertha L Wilson, who graduated at the Milford (Muss.) High School last week, is will not to have missed a single school session during the past ten years. Mist: Keatino, of Oil City, Pa., who made SOO,OOO in oil before he was ‘JO years of age failed the other day for sll, but he is stillyoimg enough to begin life over again. loNATitia Donku.y'a Shakespeare-Bacon book is promised for October next. Each hook will contain an exact photo lit ho of the old edition of the plays published iu 1030, In which the al leged Baconian cipher is found. It is intimated that Mrs. Rose Terry Cooke and Mr. Cooke ure this month to be confirmed iu tlie Protestant Episcopal church by Bishop Williams, of Conneel lent. Hitherto they liuvo belonged to the Congi-egational communion, “The Blaines," says the Boston (}lnbr, "are not a handsome race of people. Mr. Illalne claims to be Scotch Irish, but Ills looks proclaim him Scotch. When he was young, ami slim and dapper he looked very well, but old age has not Improved him When lie licpnn to grow stout he didn't do it right Instead of adding a portly •bay window' In front lie begnn to bulge out from his armpits to hi* hips, so. while he is much wider, he isn't any thicker than when, as the editor of a Maine |>aper, he went to Con gress away back in war times. Mr. Blaine should wear corsets. ’ Why He Received His Conge. From the Boston JowrnaJ. A St. Paul paterfamilias headed off a suitor for his daugliter’s hand in a neat way. The youth had been referred to her father by the girl, and inquiries as to his character proving satisfactory the old gentleman invited him to dinner as a final test. As the senior looked around he noticed that the young man was toy ing with his salt box hi a peculiar way. “please pass me the salt." he said. The young nian gently pushed the salt hox with the ends of his fingers, at the same time making a slight for ward movement with his head. "That will do" said the girl's papa; "you can't marry my daughter." The careful and concerning fattier bad discovered from the way in which his daughter's lover ha-1 poshed forward the salt box that he was familiar with the handling of poker chips. Why They Suspected Him. From the Chicago Herald. When Frank Lincoln was on his way to Canada a few weeks ago he was made the vic tim of a rather embarrassing trick. The train was slowing up at a station where the mimic wished to stop, when the conductor, who was passing through the car, stopped and grinned. "How much did you get away with?” he asked, pointing at Lincoln's heavy satchel. “Get away with what?” shouted the mimic, a little net riel and starting far the door. The people in the car were snickering, and when the mimic alighted at the depot the loungers about the place began to giggle. Lincoln saw that something was out of joint. He felt of his raiment and found it intact. Then his laughing eyes fell upon the grip. Lincoln is about the last man one would expect to see stirred to anger. But he was mad now, for across one end of the valise was marked in large white chalk letters: “BOODLER.” Some wag on the car had done the work. With Face Down. From the Sew York Evening Sun. Along all the docks these sweltering days, when work is slack, sailors and roustabouts can be seen sprawled in sleep. They flop down on tarpaulins under the shade of big vessels, on cotton bales, in hogsheads over-tipped, on coils of rope, and in all sorts of places. But in every case they lie In the same attitude. It is with the face on the arms. "Why is it?” one was asked. “More'n likely because there aren't no posish ye can bestow your hulk into that'll give so much rest In a short bunkin' spell," said the old sailor man. 'Hain't ye ever notissed how tramps always sleep that style by the roadside ? I’ll bet you lay that way nine times outen ten for a short nap. though you rnaybee don't know it. As 1 say, it's the rest fullest of ways to bunk. Prob’ly that's one reason all these coves lays that fashion 'long the docks, sav I. Then there's another reason That's flies. Sleepiu' that way keeps 'em ofFn your nose.” Following the Watermelon. FVotn the New York Fivening Sun. Half a dozen darkeys came in on a Pennsylva nia train this morning. While crossing the ferry one was asked where they came from. ‘•Georgia, sah." ‘‘Why iio you come?” “We follers de watermelons, sah. We takes care of de supplus. sah ” “What, the surplus in the Treasury?” “Don't know nuthin' 'bout the treasure, boss. We pick up the watermelons what's lying 'round loose. Pretty right smart sixrts in watermelons, we is, sah. Dey don't hurt our plexions." “Don't you have watermelons down in Geor gia?” ‘Bakes alive, boss. Dar's whar dey iump right outer de groim'. Eat ’em day and night in old Georgia, sah.” “Well’ then, why don't you stay there and eat them?" "Well, it's just dis, boss. We'sall hankerin' to be sleeper porters and waiters up North, and we get ready to start as soon as de watermelons is ready. Dis chile can t live widout water melons after melon time am cum. We's bowdacious fond of melons, we is, and we's orful meloncholy when we can't get ’em—’deed we is.” They said they were to get $25 a month on the sleepers, find themselves, and buy their own uniforms. The President’s Methodical Habits. From Washington Letter to the Baltimore Sun. President Cleveland has from his earliest tnanlvxxl been methodical, and his habits enable him to get through an amount of business that is almost incredible. He took to Albany the business ideas which marked his administration of the office of Mayor of Buffalo, and he brought those same ideas from Albany to Washington. He will address himself to matters which were never considered by any of his predecessors, of this generation at least, and he gives of his valuable time to public audiences which afford an opportunity to the masses of the people to come into contact with the Chief Executive never heretofore enjoyed by them. It is his systematic arrangement of time and labor which enables him to do this. He is an early riser. At 8:30 o'clock in the winter and often before that in the summer he is sitting at his breakfast table. He spends no more time at the table than is necessary for a proper diges tion of his food, and 9 o'clock always finds him in his office. From 9to 10 o’clock he is rather rigorous concerning the exclusion of visitors, for this is the only hour in the day when he can have an uninterrupted interview with his able and accomplished private secretary, Coi. La ment. The President spends this hour going over his personal letters and such other matters os the morning mails have brought which are deemed of sufficient importance to require his personal attention and direction. He is very fortunate in having a secretary of such ram judgment and discrimination as Col. Lament, for this sensibly lessens his labors. Wednesdays. Fridays and Saturdays, from 10 o’clock until 1, and from 10 until noon on Tues : day and Thursdays, he receives all persons who have or who think they have business to present. In the order of reception precedence is given to cabinet members, beads of bureaus and mem bers of Congress. In the course of one week under this system quite a number of persons get to see the President, who under previous arrangements would have found it difficult if not impossible to do so except through the in tervention of a member of Congress. Then, until the advent of warm weather.Mr. Cleveland holds three afternoon public receptions a week, lasting from 1:30 to 2p. in., which are mostly availed of by tourists and strangers. In all this he shows he recognizes himself as President of the people. Grandfather Watts’ Private Fourth. If C. Banner in Harper’s Young People. Grandfather Watte used to tell us boys That a Fourth vva'n’t a Fourth without any noise. Ho would nay with a thump of his hickory stick, That it made an American right down sick To sop his sons on the Nation's Day Sit round in a sort of a listless way, With no oration or no trainband. No firework show and no root boor stand, While his grandsons, before they were out of bibs, Were ashamed—great Scott!—to fire off squibs. And so each Independence mom Grandfather Watts took his powder-horn, And the flint-lock shotgun his father had When he fought under Schuyler, a country lad. And Grandfather Watts would start and tramp Ten miles to the woods at Beaver Camp; For Grandfather Watts used to say -and scowl— That a decent chipmunk or woodchuck or owl Was better company, friendly or shy, Than folks who dldn t keep Fourth of .July; Anil so he would pidl his hat down on his brow, And march to the woods, sou’east by sou'. But once—ah! long, long years ago: For grandfather's gone where good men go— i >ne hot. hot Fourth, by ways of our own, Such short-cuts as boys have always known, We hurried and followed the dear old man Beyond where the wilderness began. To the deep black woods at the foot of the Hump, And there was a clearing and a st ump— A stump in the heart of a great wide wood; And there on that stump our grandfather stood Talking and shouting out there in the sun, And firing that funny old flint-lock gun (>nee in a minute, his head all bare. Having his Fourth of July out there— The Fourth of July he used to know Back in eighteen-and-twenty or so. First with hfs face to the beaveu's blue, He read the ’‘Deelaration" through; And then, with gestures left and right. He mode an oration erudite, Full of words six syllables long; And then our grandfather broke into song, And scaring the squirrels in the trees, Gave “Hall, Columbia," to the breeze. And I tell you, the old man never heard When we joined in the chorus word for word’ But he sang out strong to the bright, blue sky And if voices joined in his Fourt h of July, ’ He heard them as echoes from days gone by. And when he had done we all slipped back. As still as v.e came on our twisting t rack. While words more clear than the flint lock shots Rang in mfr ears. , ~ . , And Grandfather Watts* He shouldered the gun his father boon And marched off home, nor west by nor’. The latest literary movement worthy of note is reported from Missouri, where a high wind blew the library of a country justice out of tlie window, and carried several editions of statutes into the next county.—Chicago Inter-Ocean. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Edmore, Mich., is much wrought up over the fact that a dance was held in one of its churches the other night. A St. Lolis (Mich.) dentist advertises weekly the names of his patients and the number of teeth extracted for each. An albino RoniN. one of the rare curiosities, was caught in Warren county. IPa i It has pink eyes and there is not a dark feather in it. Eighteen persons have been executed since 1875 on St. Louis’ gallows, which are now in such a dilapidated condition that the authori ties ask that new ones be provided for the next hanging. Almost all the young men for ten miles around Centralia, (M 0.,) have joined the Mother Hubbard Brigade, which will give a grand parad- this evening just before the fire-works. All will be masked. Last year Los Angeles county, Cal., was as sessed at $10,000,000. This year, it is said, the assessment will be $140,000,000. To pav taxes on such an assessment will bankrupt some of the big landlords and force small speculators out of the market. At Lapeer, Mich., they strew bread smeared with poisoned butter aliout the streets for the purpose of getting away with unwary dogs. The dogs don’t take to it half so readily as tne children, however, and a child-muzzling ordi nance is talked of. A storekeeper in Providence, (R. 1.,) who had missed sums from his money-drawer, placed a detective on duty and the latter on Tuesday night caught a uniformed police officer, who famed access to the store by means of a false ey, in the act of emptying the till. The Boston Post brags that that city has a tailor named Bodkin, and the Bufialo Courier, not to be outdone, declares that Buffalo has a baker named Ovens, and a coal dealer of the name of Bums. New York has a baker named Beaupain and a restaurateur named A. La^Jprte. The project to lay a trans-Pacific cable, con necting Australia and Vancouver, B. C., will, if successful, according to a prime mover in the scheme, reduce the tariff between London. Eng., and Australia from 65c. to 27c. iter word. It is calculated that the total cost of the cable will be $10,000,000. An obstinate St. Louis citizen was arrested and bailed out six times on Sunday before he finally decided to obey the law against Sunday liquor selling. After the fifth arrest he dis pensed the beverage with closed doors, but the news reached the police official's ears, who forced an entrance and again took him into custody. A FEW DATS AGO Dr. C. H. Stubbs, of Wake field, Lancaster, county, Pa., an another man were standing in a bam door during a rain storm. A hat blew off and Dr, Stubbs went out to get it. As he stooped to pick it up a large, forked limb was blown from the tree and fell down over his body, the branches of the fork entering the ground on either side and pinning him fast to the earth, but without injuring him. The daughter of a Durham miner sent a pair of stockings to the Queen knitted by herself. She had hoarded up her savings, done her work neatly, and was rejoiced when a letter from the home office said her handiwork had been sent to Windsor, but her loyal enthusiasm was dashed by a letter from Sir Henrv Ponsonby. saying that the Queen, while gratefui for her kind expressions, was compelled to return the stockings. Lynn Jones, a Benton Harbor (Mich.) lad of only 15 years, has constructed a canoe 12 feet long, with covered ends, mast and sail, which is a marvel of strength and symmetry, consider ing the youth of the builder. He had no in structions save descriptions in a book, and did the work unaided, his own relatives being una ware of his work until it was complete. The canoe floats gracefully and swiftly and has been much admired. The Waterbury American tells of an Episco pal clergyman of Connecticut who not long ago insisted on officiating at a funeral contrary to the express wishes of all the persons interested. Inquiry re waled the fact that he had the can onical right to do so, but he was severely cen sured by all right-thinking persons for thus in sisting on a hare (•clinical right. And one of iiis own clerical brethren said that no man of fine feeling would thus thrust himself where he was not wanted, even if he had all the canons of the church behind him. Dr. Ed Herndon, of Fulton, Mo., this spring had on his farm three turkeys—two hens and a gobbler The two hens hatched out each a large brood of young ones, which they cared for, while Mr. Gobbler roosted in the top of a high oak and was totally indifferent os to the young broods. One of the hens died a couple of weeks ago. and old gob took charge of the brood; last week the other hen died, and now old gob has charge of both flocks of young ones, which he Htrains himself to cover every night, and almost wears himself out scratching for them during the day. Charles Barnard, the writer of stories, plays, and scientific articles, has gone to New Rochelle to live in a cottage on the shores of the Sound. New Rochelle is only a short distance from Larcbmont, where Bronson Howard, the play wright, has his summer home. The two gentle men are friends, and the other dav Mr. Barnard set forth in a rowboat with his wife to call upon the Howards. The time slipped away so rapidly that tlieir stay was prolonged till the tide went out. They then discovered that their rowboat was stranded on the mud flats. Here was a di lemma; but Mr. Howard, who is certainly a model host, was equal to the occasion. Taking off his shoes and stockings, and rolling bis trou sers up alKive his knees, he waded into the cold, black mud and pushed the boat out into the sound. There his guests reached it from another point and rowed home, carrying in their minds a vivid impression of the muddy legs of the playwright as he retreated in good order to his cottage. C. W. Smith, First Vice President of the Atch ison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad, is, accord ing to the Chicago Mail, a man of iron nerve. When traveling the engineer lias never been known to pull his ear too fast. When on the Ches apeake and Ohio, of which he was General Man • ager for several years, he had a “not” engineer. No other man on the line could pilot him over the rood just to his satisfaction. Over the Alle gheny and Blue Ridge mountains thev would fairly fly—through tunnels and cuts and over hills they would sail at a rate of speed often reaching sixty miles an hour. He has been in almost a countless number of accidents during his thirty odd years of railroad life, but he has never received a scratch. Another one of his freaks is his fancy for the number 99. Thnt is the number of his private car, and is presuma bly his “mascotte" number. lie never had a car with any other number but It failed to give sat isfaction. At ODe time, it is said, when tho 99 was in the shops undergoing repairs, he ven tured out on the line in a car of another num ber, but it was smashed Into splinters before it had gone 900 miles from home. Bavs a Galveston business man: “The prohlbi tlon question has given rise to more discussion in Texus than any issue ever brought before the people. Those in favor of prohibition live prin ci|silly in the thickly populated counties in the northern port ion of the State. Dallas and Fort Wortli lieing the prohibition strongholds, while Galveston. Sun Antonio and El Paso are opposed to it. Both tides are making a vigorous cam paign, and vast quantities of printed matter for and against the amendment are distributed throughout the State. The anti Prohibitionists publish an iliustrati-d paper in Dallas at I lie cost of $9,010 per month, and 90,000 copies are dis tributed each issue. It is generally reported in Texas that the brewers and liquor men of St. Bonis have sent large sums of money into the State to lie used during the campaign, and the Prohibitionists are equally liberal in expending money, so thnt the election will be stunliornly contests! on both sides, and the race will be very close. Most of the leading business men of Texas are opposed to prohibition, but it is said that fully two-thirds of the newspapers in the State are in favor of it, and many leading men are fighting on that side." The late Prof. Herrmann, the magician, wag a capital dentist and the most dexterous and accomplished pickpocket. 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