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When Liszt was a youth he practiced on
a “dumb piano.” Unhappily for mankind,
dumb pianos are no longer used.
Dr. McGiynn can very well alTord to re
gard himself as the second Galileo. There
is no Inquisition in these days to force him
to recant his theories.
It is expected that Jacob Sharp will be in
Sing Sing a week from yesterday. His
lawyers are trying to get the court to let
him off with a line of $5,000, but they
won’t succeed.
Swill milk kills more children in New
York than any other agency. Some of the
vendors of the sjtuff ought to be hung as n
warning to the others to give up their
nefarious trade.
An Irishman named Barry is coming to
this country to exhibit his taleut in throw
ing a hammer. What this country wants
is visitors from abroad who come to wield
the hammer in driving nails.
There are a great many persons who live
beyond 100 years of age. A week or so ago
Peter Barlow, who took part in the Ameri
can revolution under Gen. Washington,
died in Demerara, aged 130 years.
It isn’t likely that many members of the
General Assembly will refuse to take n re
cess every Saturday until the following
Monday as long as their railroad passes con
tinue to be recognized by conductors.
It is stated that lust year the jtoople of
Berlin ate 1,000,000 geese. If it woro possi
ble for them to gobble up human geese as
rapidly the people of Berlin would com
mand good salaries in all parts of the world.
The young man whose best girl asks him
to treat her to ice cream now excuses him
elf vi | on the ground that he is afraid of
tyrotoxioon. and the excuse is readily ac
cepted. It is sometimes a good thing to
know how to use big words.
It seems to be pretty generally agreed
among the Knights of Ijabor in Philadel
phia that General Master Workman Pow
derly will resign some time during the
present yoar. He doesn't like the way some
of bis lieutenants criticise him.
A New Jersey man died suddenly the
Other day from the effects of two glasses of
ice-cold lager beer taken on an empty
stomach. Heeding the warning, his neigh
bors have resolved not to patronize beer
saloons that fail to provide free lunches.
The powder supply of the United States is
*t a low ebb. The guns at the forte uo
longer celebrate the rising and the setting of
the sun, and foreign vessels entering United
Stabs harbors are no longer saluted. This
state of affairs is not creditable to the coun
try-
General Master Workman Powderly ad
vises the Knights of Labor to boycott men
who speculate in wheat, and declares that
there are greater rogues in Wall street than
in the temple of old. The General Master
Workman seems disposed to run the entire
country.
The Thistle is preparing to cross the At
lantic to enter the race for the America's
cup. She now flies thirteen flags to indi
cate the yumbor of .'aces she has won. It is
hardly probable that she will over fly a
fourteenth at the expense of American
yachtsmen.
The Boston girl, it is raid, never allows
herself to be photographed without her
spectacles. To do so is not considered
modest, and would cause her to be cut by
her acquaintances. It is fortunate that the
Boston variety of modesty is unknown else
where in the country.
The rooster hatched from one of the eggs
found in the basket of the unknown mur
lerod girl whose body was found near Hall
way, N. J., last March, has grown to large
*ize. Its name is “Mystery.” The owner
will not take less than $1)00 for it. A singu
lar thing about the rooster is thut its leath
ers are perfectly black.
A Reformatory School Needed.
A vigorous effort will 1* made during the
present session of the Legislature to secure
the enactment of a law establishing a State
reformatory school. There are two bills
which provide for such a school, mid if
neither of them is found to be wholly satis
factory they will doubtless form the basis
for one that will Ihj satisfactory. As the
authors of lioth of them aim to accomplish
alsmt the same thing, it is not probable that
either will insist U(>on his bill to the extent
of endangering the passage of any other
measure of the same character. One of
the pending bills provides that all women,
girls, boys under 15 years of age,
imbeciles and discrepit convicts now in the
camps, or who may be sentenced to tin; pen
itentiary in the future, shall Is; inmates of
tin; school. The other bill provides that the
same classes of convicts shall lie sent to the
school, but does not admit to it any of the
convicts who have lieen sent to the camps.
It is probable that the lessees will oppose
any bill that deprives them of convicts who
are valuable as laborers, and as they are
not without influence it will require vigor
ous effort to get the Legislature to agree to
uuy bill. The chief objection that will be
urged against the school is the expense
of maintaining it, and that objec
tion will have a great (leal of
weight with a very largo percentage
of the members. Experience hns shown
that measures of real merit stand very little
Chance of favorable consideration if they
promise to increase in the least the rate of
taxation. While it is right that extrava
gance should lie discouraged, them aro
things that should be done even if they im
pose a little heavier burden upon the people.
Without going into the merits of the con
vict system, it will not be denied that it is
wrong from every point of view to huddle
together in the camps men and women, and
to expose boys and girlsjto the influence of
hardened and degfaded criminals.
The associations in the camps
must necessarily bo bad, and
it is about impossible for youthful convicts
who may not be thoroughly bud to remain
in the camps for any length of time without
sinking to lower depths of degradation and
immorality. These young conviets when
released not only return to their evil prac
tices, but become active agents in corrupt
ing others. The question which every leg
islator ought to ask himself is this: Has the
State, for economical or any other
reasons, the right to pursuo a policy that
makes it impossible for a youth
who has been guilty of one
serious offense to ever become
an honest, man and a law-abiding citizen*
The State has no such right, and yet its
convict system is based upon the assumption
thut it has.
But isjtliere anything saved by making
youthful convicts confirmed criminals? I iocs
it not cost more to keep them, and others
whom they corrupt, within the bounds of
tlie law than it would to maintain a school
for their reformation?
Tim convict system will doubtless be pretr
ty thoroughly discussed at the present ses
sion. There is not much probability that
another system will lie substituted for it,
un|Mipular as it is, because of the difficulty
of deciding upon another tliat promises to
give better satisfaction, but if the system is
not abandoned it ought at least to be modi
fied to the extent of making some provision
for reforming youthful convicts. The Gov
ernor had something to say on this subject
at the regular session, and it may bo that
he will present it again at this session. He
is as well informed probably as any inau in
the State of the evils of the present wny of
dealing with the youthful convicts, and he
should not hesitate to use his influence in
favor of a reform.
Bulgaria’s Now Prince.
Bulgaria bus now a very fair prospect of
soon having a ruler. According to our <lis
patches, Prince Ferdinand, of RnxeCohurg-
Gotha, Ims announced his willingness to ac
cept that rather difficult and dangerous
position, und his purpose to begin the dis
charge of the duties pertaining to it as soon
as tho Porte approves of the action of tho
Sobranje in electing hini and tho great
powers recognize it as satisfactory to them.
Prince Ferdinand is twenty-seven years
of age and is a young man of excellent edu
cation and fine ability. Of course Austrian
influence is supporting him, hut that is not
the only support ho will have. Ho may
reasonably expect the sympathy of Ger
many, England and Italy. He is an Aus
trian Prince and a Hungarian magnate. He
is therefore in harmonious relations with
tho elements which are hostile to Russia’s
plans and policy. Being a memlier of the
house of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha he can at least,
reasonably depend upon tho moral support
of Germany, and his connection with the
royal family of Kngland insures him of a
certain amount of assistance from that
country if he should nets! it. In fuct, he is
quite closely connected with all the semi
royal families of Europe, and is, therefore,
pretty well lilted so fur as influence is con
cerned for the place lie proposes to occupy.
Of eouiso lie will meet with the decided
opposition of Hussia, but that, will not inter
fere with the acceptance of the honor con
ferred upon him if most of the other powers
of Europe show him the good will that lie
has u right to expect, Hussia doubtless will
try to prevent him from occupying tlio
throne, but tho measures she will take to
effect that object may not be at once appar
ent. She w ill not bo content to remain a dis
interested spectator of the efforts to thwart
her policy.
The statement is made that it will lie a
long, cold day before Dr. McGlynn is again
invited to Chicago to air liis theories before
the Knights of L-ilwr. It seems that Dis
trict Assembly 'l4, liefore which he lectured
recently, thought a golden harvest would
lie reaped. Instead, however, the lecture
cost the assembly SI.OOO. Some of the mem
bers nro very angry, and denounce tho
heavy expenditure as a "damnable waste”
of their hard-earned assessments. Dr. Mc-
Ulynu was evidently trying to abolish his
own poverty while he was in Chicago.
John Hoey, of Jamaica, L. 1., has earned
an unenviable repututlon. A few days ago
Miss Margaret Setnars, a young lady whom
he bad been courting, married I’. 11. Cas
sidy, Auditor of the New York, Wood
haven ami Hoekawny railroad. Hoey sent
her a bill for expenditures—ieo cream,
buggy rides, dinners, etc.—during his court
ship of her. Cassidy promptly sent him a
check for s'-“00. The young ladies of that
town will doubtless hoycott Hoey, for a man
so mean spirited deserves punishment.
Recent events go to show that the color
line is more marked in tho North than it is
in the Bouth. For instance, there are places
of public amusement in tho North to which
no negro is admitted, whether he agrees to
“sit by himself” or not. In the South there
u always room for the negro at such places.
TIIE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JULY 10, ISB7.
Hunting Wives and Husbands.
A young man who has spent the last
six summer* at some resort, either in the
mountains or by the sea, gives an interest
ing account of his experience. He says that
be hod two objects in view. One was recu
peration, and the other was the selection of a
wife. Ho admits that ho was successful in
the first, hut confesses failure in the second.
The jieople who frequent summer resorts,
according to this young man, are divided
into two classes. One is composed of per
sons who have tile means to live at ease and
enjoy whatever pleasures may surround
them. The other is composed of persons
wlioaro hunting wives or husbands for them
selves or for their children. The latter is by
far the larger class. Fathers and mothers
work hard all the year in order to make and
save enough to give their daughters the
means to pose as heiresses at the resorts;
while the men who seek wives use whatever
surplus is left front t heir salaries after pay
ing living expenses during the year. Asa
rule these “summer heiresses,” as they are
railed at the resorts, and the impecunious
wife-hunters are pitted against each other
during their first season. They are quite
often mutually deceived, but if they escape
such a fate when first they make the round
of the resorts, they learn to know each
other too well in succeeding seasons to lie
caught. The idea is to marry somebody
with money.
Considering how eager is the hunt for rich
wives or rich husbands at the resorts, it is
strange that the hunters meet with so little
success. The young man with whose expe
rience we are dealing says that the reason is
that the rich people at the resorts are very
prudent and are quick to detect fortune
hunters. This view of the matter suggests
that it would lie hotter for the fortune hunt
ers to stay at home.
People who do not visit the resorts aro
perhaps happier than those who do. They
arc neither seeking fortunes nor are they
avoiding those who are. In the matter of
marriage it is always better to choose life
partners at homo, for there is then much less
danger of making a mistake that may cause
life-long unhappiness.
A Rascal and His Wicked Partner.
Another rascal has been caught robbing
the government at Washington. He has
been in the employment of the government
only about two years, and the bad part of
his naturo has been developed during that
time.
Like Harper, the bank wrecker of Cincin
nati, ho seems to have had a wicked partner
who led him into doing wrongful acts.
According to his confession he was an honest
man when lie was appointed to a place in
the Treasury Department, and would havo
remained lionost, if his partner, to whom he
owed money, had not goaded him into the
performance of dishonest acts to get the
money with which to liquidate his debt.
It is rather remarkable that a man as in
telligent as this clerk is reported to bo
should not have seen that the discovery of
his dishonest practices was certain to bo
made sooner or later. He secured only about
$B,OOO, and his career has come to an end.
It is doubtful if ho can avoid spending a few
years in the penitentiary.
It is impossible to keep dishonest men out
of the public service. The wonder is thut
there are not more who secure places in it.
The civil service reform system of making
appointments is cot tain to improve the ser
vice in all respects. Indeed, a great im
provement is already noticeable. It is ap
parent, however, that those who have the
handling of public money, or are in a posi
tion to rob the Treasury, should be more
closely watched than they are. It is grati
fying that the administ ration makes public
very quickly the short comings of the gov
ernment employes. Republican adminis
trations kept such things quiet whenever
they could. The Democrats administration
is not afraid for the people to know all that
is done by their servants.
An Acknowledgment That Will Not be
Made.
Some days ago the Philadelphia North
American, an ably edited Republican jour
nal, said: “Until every influential citizen
of the South acknowledges that the war
against the Union was wrong there can bo
no real fraternization.’’ If this paper is
correct in what it says, there will be no
“real fraternization” for a very long time.
The South is loyal to the Union and is earn
estly and sincerely working for tho pro
motion of the welfare of the wholo country,
but she is not going to got on her knees, de
clare that she believes that the lost cause
whas a wrong cause and ask forgiveness,
and sho feels sure that those whom she
fought in tho field will ask nothing of the
sort of her.
The Republican leaders, however, are in
sisting that the South must admit that she
was in the wrong and that there cannot
las entire harmony until she does, not because
they hope to get such acknow lodgment, but
to bold the Northern people in the ranks of
the Republican party. The Shermans, and
Forakers and men of that stripe ore insist
ing that sectional issues shall tie kept alive
until the Mouth shows signs of reiientanco be
cause it is a matter of business with them, but
tho great mass of the Northern jieople aro
not insisting upon anything of that kind.
If the Republican leaders conduct their
next national campaign upon sectional is
sues, as they now seem inclined to do, their
defeat will be so overwhelming that they
will never want to wave the “bloody shirt”
again.
The Now York Star is authority for tho
statement that tho expenses incurred at
Gettysburg by Mrs. Pickett were defrayed
by tho members of the Philadelphia brigade.
It seems that Pickett’s division voted to pay
the expenses, but the members were nt once
notified by the brigade that Mrs. Pickett
was considered ns their guest, and that they
deemed it an honor to act as host to tho
lady whose presence on tho battlefield had
added so much to the pleasure of the reunion.
The members of the brigade are as gallant
in pouce as they were in wnr.
Because Congressman Blount, of the
Sixth Georgia district, favors building n
new White House some of tho protectionist
organs are charging him with extrarvagance.
His long ami honorable record in Congress
refutes the silly charge. The truth is, tho
protectionist organs do not liko Congress
man Blount’s well-known low tariff views,
and hence seek to injure him by declaring
that he wishes to waste tho public money.
Subterfuge instead of argument is tho stock
in trade of the protectionist organs.
Every county in Georgia ought to be rep
resented at the approaching fairs in Atlanta
and Macon. Theindicationspointtoalarge
number of visitors from the North and West
to both, and no reasonable means should bo
neglected to make a favorable impression
upon them. There is plonty of room in
Georgia for Northoru und Western settlers.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Rectitude, Courage and Candor.
From the Sere York Star litem.)
No honest and intelligent human being can
read the President’s letter in which he recalls
the promise to visit St. Louis without an ac
knowledgment of the perfect rectitude of his
purpose and the striking courage and candor of
his method.
Dignified and Patriotic.
From the .Ye tv York Times (Rep.)
The dignified and patriotic letter of the Presi
dent withdrawing his aerqilaur" of the invita
tion to visit St. bouts during the encampment
there of the Grand Army of the K.‘public is cal
culated to make that organization ashamed of
the conduct of some of its conspicuous mem
bers.
Why it Commands No Respect.
From the Sew York Evening Post (I fid.)
A few years after the war the Grand Army
was almost wrecked by being converted into a
sort of annex of the Republican political ma
chine. Subsequently it was restored to a non
partisan basis, but during the last year or two it
has lieen rapidly drifting into the former atti
tude.
Meaning of the St. Louis Perplexity.
From the Sew York Herald (Tad.)
What, then, is the meaning of the perplexity
w-hlch conies from St. Louis? In the last anal
ysis it is caused by a few disgruntled Jacobin
politicians who are envious of Democratic suc
cess It is a gross and indecent exhibition of
partisan dog ill the-mungerism, of the most con
temptible spirit of demagogy that has lieen seen
since the close of the war. It calls itself patriot
ism, but it uses the national flag as a convenient,
disguise to hide its real motives as it steals to
ward the national treasury. It cries country,
but it means office. It stands in the market
place, and like the fool Pharisee of old thanks
Gist that it is not as other men are, not even as
this poor Democrat who is not enough of a
politician to he dishonest. And all the while
under its waistcoat its false heart beats loudly
for a chance to get at the perquisites of power.
BRIGHT BITS.
Ik ever you noted four suffering men—
Us four tramps is them.
If ever four objects your purse should o-pen—
Us four tramps is them.
We’ve had nothing to eat since we cannot tell
when.
And we haven't a prospect of dining again;
Oh, if ever men needed a meal now and then—
Us four tramps is them.
If ever men traveled through muck and through
mire—
Us four tramps is them.
If ever men wore a most wretched attire—
Us four I ramps is them.
There's not the least thing about us to admire,
Our beauty is not of the, kind to inspire;
Oh, if ever four men were in misery dire—
Us four tramps is them.
Now if ever you hear of four men of good
parts—
Us four tramps Is them.
Or if you hear of four poor broken hearts —
Us four tramps is them.
So don’t be deceived by each story that starts.
Let nobody fool you with wiles anil with arts;
Remember just this, we have no counterparts—
Us four tramps is them.
—Charleston Enterprise.
Tuz difference between a poor base ball
player and black measles is that one strikes out
and the other strikes in.— Philadelphia Call.
Winks—l can’t see with these glasses.
Optician—Ah! ah No. 2's! You are very
nearsighted, sir. Try No. l's.
Winks -Yes, No. 1 suits me exactly. I can see
beautifully. Hut I say, what can Ido when I
fail to see through No. IV
Optician Y'ou’ll have to get a poodle, sir.—
Toum Topics ,
Speculator (enthusiastically) I tell you,
gentlemen, there is wealth in the Great Argent
mining country. Rock fairly glistens with
silver.
Returned Miner—l can testify to that. There
is a fortune there, gentlemen.
Speculator—Have you been prospecting in
that locality?
Returned Miner—Yes: just come back. I left
my fortune there.— Binyhamptou Republican.
Little Helen, 8 year-old, cut her thumb; she
kept very quiet alxiut it until it began to bleed,
then she screamed: “O mamma, mamma! come
quick, the gravy's all a running out!" -Our
little Walter manufactures the most convenient
riartieiples for the occasion, whenever an uucer
ain verli gets in his way. This morning he
was obliged to pick up a large number of but
tons which he had carelessly upset from their
basket, i}nd after the task was done he jumped
up and said cheerfully: "Papa, now I’ve got 'em
all puck up '."—"High Ciuiir Philosophy" in
Babyhood.
Omaha Reai, Estate Agent (in charge of a
lot-selling pienicV-Now, gentlemen, we are on
the ground, and you can't any of ytiu get away
until the 1 rain goes.
Crowd Don't w ant to.
"And the tram don’t leave until sunsst."
“Who can's?"
“I suppose you heard the brass band I brought
along playing a little on the train?"
[Groans and hisses ]
“Now, gentlemen, the sale will start up and
all I’ve got to say is you’ve got to bid lively or
I'll start that band to playing again. ’ '—Omaha
World.
The writer, while waiting in the office of the
Associated bureau of Chanties in London, took
up a large volume containing the proceedings of
the Social Science Convention. In the list of
correnspoding members he read, “David Dud
ley Field. Rhode Island, N. Y.” Calling the at
tention of the society to it, he said:
“Here is an error,"
With a blank look the Secretary said, “Oh,
yes!"
He was then informed that Rhode Island was
not a part of New York.
“No," said he. “but it was placed there be
cause it was next to New Y'orlc”
On being told that the important State of
Oonmvticut separated the t wo, he hail nothing
further to say - Christian AdiHicate.
PERSONAL.
Rev. Phillips Brooks is beiug lionized in
London.
ARCHBisnop Laeasbida, of Mexico, is to re
elve the red hat.
Tm: late Samuel Cousins, the groat English
engraver, left an estate valued at about $750,000.
Jay Gould does not smoke. He vents his
tendency in this direction to smoking the other
fellows.
The Earl of Dudley, who will ho of age next
year, is one of the greatest matrimonial catches
In the worljl
Lord Tennyson is now visiting points of in
t crest on the \\ elsh coast. lie says ho has laid
down his pen for awhile.
Philip D. Armour has presented his recently
graduated son with a check for $1,000,000 and
taken him into i>artnership.
Charles Wynpham, the London comedian, is
going to Berlin to play David Garrick in Gar
man, he having mastered the language.
The thre** sons of Hiram Powers live in Flor
entine villas. They call themselves re pec t
ively the Successor, ihc 8011 and the Pupil of
Powers.
Editor Frank Hatton says: “Sam Jones're
ligion has lieeu cooked too fast. It is burnt. Jt
is Ix ginning to smell badlv. He should disin
fect It.”
W. Clark ltrssKLL.the celebrated novelist is not
an Englishman, although he is a citizen of Great
Britain. He was l>oni lu New York forty-three
yearn ago.
Berry Wall, the king of the dudes, is at
E resent dressing for the benefit of visitors at
*mg Branch 11** is, in fact, the heaviest swell
on the const at present,
Mark Twain's service in jiassing the contribu
tion plate in the church he attends in Hartford
Is the subject of more jokes than Mark ought
to bo made responsible for, at second-hand.
Qr i:icn Victoria is in ecstasies over anew
parasol which has just lieen made for her by a
noted Ixmdon establishment. It is made of
cream-colored satin, covered with fine Brussels
lace, with a carved ivory handle.
Kino Otto of Bavaria is crazy on the subject
of shooting people. Every day hois allowed to
take a gun containing a blank cartridge and
fire at a man who is purposely skulking among
the trees 011 the grounds of the Xymphenburg
enlace. The man falls as If killed, and the mad
K ing’s desire is appeased for the day.
Yon Phon Lee, the Chinese graduate in the
Yale class of 1887, is short, slender and bright*
eyed. Ho wears spectacles. The people of New
Haven have made a great, deal of the clever
C’olestinl, and he showed his gratitude by mar
ryiug an Kim City belle Dr. CTmuneey M Do
pew- referred to him as “an orator before whom
Senator Kvarts and 1 must look to our laurels.”
Prince Batthyany gave n splendid garden
party in honor of the Queen s jubilee to l/juo
guests at Komi end Castle in Hungary. The
royal standard was hoisted and saluted by fifty
gum. The park was dotted over wit h embroid
ered Turkish tents, n to .VX) years old. and the
flags of all uations. The extensive grounds And
buildings were illuminated in the evening hv
more than 90,000 lights, and the spectacle was
magnificent. The almost royal hospitality of
the Prince uuulo u great impression.
Rescued Its Offspring.
From the New York Evening Sun.
While Uncle Rufus Hatch was visiting a friend
in Park avenue the other day he saw a remarka
ble scene. An old sparrow had routed one of its
young from the nest and was teaching it to 11/.
The little bird dropped upon the flags close to
the building and itopped into a corner. The
mother was giving it a piece of her mind, when
a gaunt cat stole softly across the street ami
flanked the old bird. Site had just time to dart
through the railing and save herself. The little
bird was left oi *.iobiug in the corner awaiting
almost certain death. The cat had not seen it,
although the fledgling was not more than fifteen
inches from its nose. A turn of the cal *s head
and the little fellow would have been gone.
The mother was just equal to the emergency.
She alighted outside the railing within three
fi*et or the cat. She fluttered ner wings and
“peeped" as though in great pain. Sparrows
flew to her from all directions. They seemed to
take in the situation at a glance. They raised
such bedlam that the neighbors rushed to the
windows to see what was going on.
Meanwhile the cat stood like a statue gazing
upon the sparrows just out of reach. Its yel
low eyes gfapeed fife. Its tail stood out like a
ramrod. Suddenly the mother darted through
the railing and alighted a the very tip of the
feline's full. Like a Mash the cat turned and
sprang fur the bird. Hut the bird was located
about three seductive feet ahead. Another
spring, and the bird again came down three feet
nwav. The cat was thus inveigled to the front
of the house, the army of sparrows following
and diverting its attention, while the mother re
turned and hustled the offspring away, admin
istering a sound drubbing interspersed with
wholesome advice and warning.
“All of which,” sa3 f s Uncle Rufus, “shows
that there is a tid* in the affairs of cats which,
taken at the llood, leads on to a good break
fast; and that a bird under the nose is worth
fifty on the sidewalk.' 1
Fifty Carloads of Toothpicks.
The Portland (Me.) Pness has the following:
“Are you are aware of the extent of the tooth
pick business in Maine?” The questioner was
Mr. J. C. Bridgman, who represents the Nation
al Toothpick Association. “That seems to tie a
{wettjr big name for small business,
suppose you think,” he continued,
“but you will )>e surprised When I tell
you that our association have contracted for
enough toot hpicks to be made in Maine the com
ing year to loud a train of fifty cars with noth
ing but toothpicks. We shall take out of Maine
before next mine five thousand million tooth
picks. A pretty fair sized wood i"t, you
see, will be slit up to go into the mouths
and vest pockets of millions of Ameri
cans. Maine furnishes the larger portion of
all the toothpicks used in the country. Our as
sociation controls the trade. It is something like
the Standard Oil Trust, the Cotton Seed Oil
Trust and the lately formed Rubber Trust. It
regulates the price and output of toothpicks as
the big trusts regulate the prices and output of
oil or rubber goods. We have not adopted the
name Tooth Pick Trust yet, however. We have
a mill at Belmont, X, Y.; Harbor Springs.
Mich., and Foil du I.ne. Wis. Besides these all
our mills are in Maine: One at Strong, one at
Farmington, one at Canton and two at Dixfleld.
There is a small mill at Mechanic Falls, also,
but It has not joined our association, lu Massa
chusetts. also, there is one small mill not in the
association. So you see Maine is the great cen
tre of the industry of toothpick making.
The Season for Bleaching'.
From the New York Evening Sun.
“This is the season of the year when society
bloods begin to bleach,” said a Delmonico
lounger the other evening. “Champagne cock
tails. and Burgundy, and dinners settled with
Cognac have produced, in the course of winter
events, the usual crop of swelled veins and Ver
million noses. Nov. the boiling out process is at
hand. A peep into IVlmouicos in toe crowded
hours of tne evening will show a change in the
bacchanalian programme. All the prigs in a
certain set have entered into a solemn compact
to abjure strong alcohols for for the hot months,
ami lavish their affections, young and old, on
light frivolous decoctions like the genial Sau
terne or mild Moselle, or the subdued claret cob
bler. A suit of clothes or a money equivalent is
generally the penalty for violation.
“This is quite the proper caper nowadays
among the bloods. By the way, if a fellow in
tends to go into the business of a professional
swell, he must change off his drinks with the
reasons just the same as Ills clothes.
“I’m no unglocmaniac, but those Britishers
have this thing down to a science. The result is
they live longer anti have more fun. I know
some fellows that make it a rale to give their
insides a complete rest on liquor so many days
out of the thirty in each month. Got to do it if you
expect to keep up with the procession any length
of time. You can't run the same old variety
show in your stomach all the year round with
out wearing out the machiue.”
Even Teachers Err Sometimes.
From the Boston Transcript.
A teacher whose school is not far from the
Hub took the lfttbofjune as a fit occasion to
tell the pupils the story of Waterloo. At the
conclusion of the narative sheasked in the famil
iar school teacher manner:
“And now children, do you know what his sol
diers called the Dyke of Wellington?”
There was silence in the schools tom. One boy
seemed to have an insane desire to say that the
Duke didn’t cart' what the soldiers called him so
long as they didn't call him late to dinner, but
suppressed the impulse.
Tne school teacher then explained, “The
Duke of Wellington's soldiers called him Old
Blucher!”
Score one against the school teachers and in
favor of the children.
The second example cited by the Listener's
friend in the narration w ith variations of the
familiar story of Hannibal and the elephant.
“Hannibal,” said the schoolmaster, “was cross
ing the Alps, when he noticed an elephant push
ing a cannon. The animal was very tired, and
the driver rebuked him. called him lazy. The
elephant, as if determined to show that it was
weakness, not unwillingness, that made him un
able to accomplish his task, gave one gigantic
push against the cannon, which enabled it to
surmount the obstruction which had impeded
its progress. Then, after darting a reproachful
glance at its driver, the elephant dropped dead.”
Cannons In Hannibal's time’
A Woman’s No.
From the San Francisco Wasp.
She had a parcel, small and round,
One lovely afternoon last summer;
I offered, as in duty bound.
To take It from her.
She thanked me with a gracious smile.
As sweet as rosy lips could make it;
It was so small't was not worth while
To let me take it.
Again 1 offered as hefnre
Of that slight burden to relieve her:
She'd rather not: “Pray say no more I"
’Twould really grieve him.
I ceased to plead; she seemed content;
The thing was small and neatly corded.
And so along our way we went
To where she boarded.
But when upon the stoop she stood,
And ere our las! adieus were uttered,
She eyed me in a roguish mood.
And softly muttered,
As swung the door to let her through,
Anil left me there all unresisting:
“I don't think very much of you
For uot insisting.”
Only Suggested the Death.
FYom the Sail Franci*co Chronicle.
Law is a very queer thing. Sometimes sug
gestion of a tiling is enough, nod other times
even absolute proof is n** go 1 1 Now when
man dies while a snit;is penning, the attorney
on his sideean procure a |KMtponcmnt hv pay
ing he's dead. Tliat. is how sensible people
would put it, but the law colls it ‘ suggestfng 1 111'
death of the plnlntifT or defendant. ' An attor
ney some time ago was making that common
tight against justice by postponement taeties.
He had about got to the end of his tether awl
he felt very blue about it. It seemed inevitable
that the case must be tried. He was on hand
when the case was culled. A bright idea occur
red to him. He got up and said: "May it please
the court, I suggest the death of the defendant
and ask an adjournment for two weeks."
“Granted." When the ease came upagaln there
was a row The attorney wascolled up. “What
did you mean, sir," asked the court, “by saying
that the defendant was dead, when he is here in
court alive and well?" “I did not say be was
dead, may it please your bonqr. 1 merely took
the law for it, which provides that counsel may
suggest tho death of the defendant. 1 sug
gested it.”
She Read His Mind.
FYom the San FYaneiteo Chronicle.
I know a lady who never dreams of judging
her husband by his talk. That is not to !• relied
upon, hot she knows all Ids moods by what ho
does, and how he behaves. Now, ttio other day
lie bought a piece of property, and she was tell
ing a lady friend.
“He lmnght It without looking at it, don't
you know?"
"That 's not very business like.”
"You don't, know my husband. He was all
right."
"How much did bo give for It?”
“I don't know; hut he went up and looked at
It and 1 know It was a bargain.”
"If he didn't tell you how do you know?"
“I know it. was a bargain, for ho never swore
once all that night.''
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The discovery that Chinese-made cigars are
being sold in Truckee, A.T , has started another
lively anti-Chinese crusade there.
Tun: attempt to abolish the garrote in Spain
and substitute the gallows has proved a failure.
It was contended that it took too long to hang a
man, thereby allowing him to live longer than
the law contemplated.
Tiie second international meeting on the sub
ject of the abuse of alcoholic drinks will he held
at Zurich on September u and 10 next. I rof.
Forel of the University of Zurich, is at the head
of the Committee of Organization.
Trie largest timing-fork probably ever made
any w’here is the one recently manufactured at
Hanau for the Physiological Institute at Lcipsic-
It weighs over t wen tv-seven kilos., and gives
fourteen double oscillations a second.
A committee is being organized in Geneva to
arrange for a celebration of the four hundredth
anniversary of the discovery of America by
Columbus, and each of the United States is to
be invited to send representatives to the cele
bration.
The United States owns about $75,000,000
worth of buildings, and has not a cent of insur
ance on any of them. Most of them are prac
tically fire proof. The government believes that
it is strong enough to curry its own insurance.
The Astors and some of the other large real
estate owners in New York act on the same
policy.
Asa case of simple justice to an humble citi
zen the New York World gives place to this per
sonal card: “Please would you correct that mis
take you made of the dancing on P. Diver's
excursion? The gentleman that danced with
Mrs. Barry was not Billy Barry; it was Billy
McGonagle, the champion Irish iig dancer of
America. Billy McGonagle.”
Uncle Tom Cady, of Champaign, 111., planted
a quantity of popcorn several days ago. He
waited anxiously to see the sprouts appear above
ground, but they came not. He examined a
number of hills and to his astonishment he
found'that each grain had popped out into a
ffakey white mass. The transformation was as
complete as though a corn-popper had been
used.
Max Weil is the richest Jew in New York,
his figure being estimated at $8,000,000. Follow
ing him art* forty other millionaires of the same
race. The Hebrew capital in the Cotton Ex
change is over $0,000,000. and of city real estate
they hold at least $100,000,000. An estimate of
tin* annual transactions of the wholesale trade
of New York done by Hebrews put the figures
at $£03,000,000.
It was supposed that the flagship Cumberland
when she was sunk by the Merrimac had $lOO,OOO
in coin in her safe for the payment of the fleet.
Many attempts have been made to recover the
safe, and as much as $60,000 have been expended
in the effort, it is said. Irately a New Haven
wrecker succeeded in raising the safe, hut on
opening it only $49 in coin were found. The pa
per money it may have contained had dissolved
or disappeared.
Two Scotch fishwives in London were talking
about the jubilee the other da} r . “Eh, wumman,”
said one to the other, “can ye tell me what a
jubilee is, for I hear a 1 the folk spakln 1 aboot
it?' 1 “Ou, ay,” replied the other, “I can tell ye
that; ye s**e, when a man and a wumrnan has
been niarrit for five and twenty year, that's a
siller waddin 1 ; and when they've been inarrit
for fifty year that's a gouden waddin 1 ; but
w hen the man is deed, that's a jubilee!”
What sort of men have the missionary socie
ties been sending out to convert the heathen
of Siam? Mrs. writes from Bangkok:
“Dear Reverend Missionary Board, pray do not
send out any more w-ine-bibbing, cigar-smoking
missionaries. There is bad example enough in
nil these lands from the ungodly men of Chris
tian lands wjio are in government employ and
engaged in business. Let Christian mission
aries ne so free from all these things that no
poor soul or body can bo injured by following
their example,”
Thf. royal poetess, the Queen of Roumania, or
“Carmen Sylva,” to use her literary pseudonym,
has sent a characteristic jubilee present to
Queen Victoria. She some time ago translated
Queen Victoria's “Journal" into the Roumanian*
language, and has now published a cheap
and abridged “people's editioa” of the work,
with a number of elucidations explanatory of
English ami Scottish topography and customs,
so as to make the book more interesting to its
Bast European readers. A magnificently print
ed and bound copy of this little work lias been
sent by the royal Roumanian translator to the
royal English author, accompanied by a grace
ful letter.
A romantic marriage occurred at the Meth
odist Episcopal parsonage in Edwarilsville, 111.,
the other day. The contracting parties were
Prof. James O. Duncan, of Vandalia, 111., a
widower, and Mrs. Lillie W. Carroll, a widow
and teacher in Springfield, 111., formerly of
Vandalia. The marriage is a culmination of a
scries of coincidences in the life of the wedded
pair. The Rev. J. B. Thompson, who performed
the ceremony, officiated in the same capacity at
Prof. Duncan's first marriage, and also at Mrs.
Carroll's first marriage, and preached the fu
neral sermon upon the death of Prof. Duncan's
wife, and was called upon to perform the last
rites at the funeral of Mrs. Carroll's former hus
band. It was this strange fatality of circum
stances which induced the couple to seek again
the services of Mr. Thompson.
“Poisonous perambulators,” says the British
Medical Journal , “are probably one of the
least suspected of dangers, yet, nevertheless,
one which experience lias shown to exist, and,
therefore, one against which the parents of a
family would do well to he on their guard. A
ease is recorded this week of a child, aged 4
months, who, on its return after being out under
a hot sun, was seized w ith sickness and vomit
ing, the vomited matter being a green-colored
fluid. From inquiries made by the medical man
it was elicited that the child had been seen to
suck a green strap of the perambulator, and
the true cause of the mischief was at once sus
pected. namely, arsenic poisoning. An analyti
cal examination of the strap confirmed this
view, arsenic l>eing found to ho present in great
abundance. In spite of all that medical aid
could effect, the child gradually sank from ex
haustion.”
“Not often is there such a gathering of royal
personages as formed the Queen's dinner party
last night,” says the St. James' Gazette. “Five
majesties, six heirs to thrones, four imperial
highnesses, forty-six royal highnesses, three
grand dural highnesses, seven serene highnesses
and five highnesses appear In the list. But the
relationships which the list embraces, and the
population and territory the rulers of which it
represents, arc still mor ■ extraordinary. Al
most every reigning family in Europe is repro
seated, the exceptions l'dag the royal family of
Holland, some of the German princelets, and
the rulers of the Balkan States. But it was also
In a very real sense a family party. for the im
perial and royal personages surrounding the
Queen were her sons, her daughters, her sons
nnd daughters-in-law, her grandchildren, and,
indeed, representatives of almost all varieties of
kinship appropriate to her age, save one."
Tut: death is announced of Francis B. Evans,
a Welshman, who was for many years well
known in San Francisco ns “the blind pencil
seller" on Kearney street. Ills affliction was
caused by n steel splinter lodging in his eye
while engaged years ago as an onglneor in one
of the Comstock mines. After losing his sight
lie in • fired with zeal (o accomplish something
beneficial to himself and others similarly situ
nted. nnd liegan an imitation for the establish
ment of an Industrial Home for the Adult Blind,
He brought the subject before the legislature
nnd personnllv advocated the measure before
that body with so much force and eloquence a*
to carry ft. The manner In which the home was
managed was, however, a sore disappointment
to him. and. hv wav of protest, ho resolutely
and to the Inst refus'd to partake of tire benefits
ft was intended to provide. Blind nnd helpless
lie threw himself upon the charity of the public
anil some of the painful details of his struggles
with poverty and darkness have found their
way into print.
AVmtv one considers the mighty Interests In
volved In the pilot system of New York harbor
alone. Mint annually hundreds of thousands of
lives and hundreds of millions In property In a
large, noteworthy sense are at the stake of these
men’s sobriety, proficiency and bravery; and
that not one In a thnnsn?id in New York or nnv
where else seem to hove tile slightest knowoldge
of such men or service: the diversity of our
tremendous every day maritime, commercial
and social Interests and the indifference of the
average human to any nnrtlcnlar class of tollers
Is most Impressively Illustrated. Then, are to
day 11 of these New York harbor pilots. Rv
law two more, or 183 nil told, are allowed Of
this numlier 133 are under the control of the
New York Bean! of pilot Commissioners, and SO
under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey honril.
Of the (.Hot Isints themselves. New York pilots
own 22 and New Jersey pilots 7; and the powers
of these boards, the regulations of pilot sendee
and daily w ork and lives of the men are practi
cally identical. They are nil New York harbor
pilots, and what t here is of interest about each
class atiukos to all
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