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4 €|esHonting|lcfos Mornirvfr News Building, Savannah, Ga MONDAY, JULY 1 1. 1887. Registered at ti.e Pont oprc in Savannah. Morning News is puhlisbod every day In fbe vear. nnd is served to f>ultf*cril>erf* in the city , by newadoek-ra and carriers, nti their u ””“U '■ count. at 25 cents <• v;tH*h. fl 00 a month. S-i 00 lor six months and $lO 00 tor one year The Morning News, by <ii.nl, one month. $1 00: throe months, $2 DO; six mouths, $5 00; one year, $lO 00. The Morning News, 6;/ ninth six times a week (without Snndav issue), three months, g 2 00; six months. $1 00 one year. St* 00. The Morning News. Tri-Weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Tlnirs dues and Saturdays, thnv months, JI ZD; six month.-. $2 50; one year, *.* 00. The Sunday News, by mail, one year, St.oo. The Weekly News, by mail, one year. $1 '£>. Subscriptions payable in advance, lienut by postal order, ebook or registered letter. Cur renev sent by mail at risk of senders. Letters and telegrams should be addressed “Morsixo News, Savannah, (la " Advertising rates made known on application INDEX TO NKW ADVERTISEMENTS. MEPTisria — DeKatli Ivice No. 0, I. O. O. F. : 8„ F. & \V. and C. .t S. Rys. E. M. R. A.; Ger man Friendly Society; Georgia Bar Association; Georgia Tent No. 151, 1. O. It.; Caluutho Lodge No. 2S, K I’. Excursion—Grand Family Excursion to Var iate. Cheap Column Advertisements —Help Want ed: Miscellaneous. To Beaufort, Etc.- Steamer Seminole. Auction Sale —Sundries, by J. McLaughlins Sou. Steamship ScHKm’LK—Baltimore Steamship Cos.; General Transatlantic Cos. City Bonds-A. I*. Wright, Chairman Finance Committee, Thomnsville, Ga. EnrcATiox.Ur Mercer University, Macon, Ga.; Kenmore University High School. Near Am herst C. H., Va.; University School, Petersburg, Ta. Trunks, Etc.—Daniel Hogan. 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 35c. u week, $1 for a month or $2 50 for three months, cash invariably in ad vance. The address may he changed as often as desired. In directing a change care should bo taken to mention the old us 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 saSsfactory and to forward papers by the most direct and quickest routes. Secretary Lamar lias subscribed $lO to the New York Star’s Grant monument fund. He did not slop over, however, in doing so. The citizens of St. Louis appear to be de termined that the President shall visit their city next fall. Probably he will make it convenient to go to St. Louis after he has been given a rousing reception in Georgia ; n October. Congressman Herbert, of Alnlmma, says that there is no prospect of a break in the solidity of the South, and that President Cleveland is stronger in every Southern State at present than he has been at any previous time. A Philadelphia paper announces with somewhat of a flourish that a Pennsylvania dog has been loft a legacy of $1,500, tho in terest to lie used for its support. There is nothing strange übout that. Much lurger legacies have been left to some other dogs —“sad dogs.” The Chattanooga Ti meg and the Mobile Register appear to have been hit hard by the Morning Nkws’ statement that the Protectionist organs substituted abusive epithets for argument. The truth is, if the Protectionist organs should pursue any other course their occupation would be gone. A prominent young memlier of the Gen eral Assembly protests against l icing called “Colonel.” He was not old enough to serve iu the war, and does not like to have a title given him which he does not deserve. He is sensible, and is just the man to head a society for the suppression of the “Colonel.’’ Mrs. Margaret Green, of Swallow Branch township. 111., died ou Thursday last aged St! years. When Abraham Lincoln had the small-pox many veal's ago, Mrs. Green was las nurse. The facts arc mentioned merely to point out that the nurses of prominent public men seem to possess the secret of liv ing to a green old age. Regarding George Francis Train, who still makes New York his home, the World says that he now allows adults to approach and address him, having abandoned his rule of not allowing them within arm’s reach and compelling them to communicate with him in writing handed him by a child. Train is one of the curiosities not possible anywhere except in the United States. The statement is made that Senator Slier man, who has recently taken up and advo cated the subject of reciprocity with Canada, will make a tour of the Dominion during August and September. Congressman But terworth, who has already made speeches on the subject iu Canada, will accompany him. Thus the Senator will follow the example of other Presidential candidates who are figuring ns tourists. A judicial crime is agitating Scottsboro, Ala. In August, George Smith, George Hughes and Asbury Hughes were hangtd for burning a barn lielonging to a man name I Porter. They were all convicted on the testimony of the women of Porter's household, who swore positively aguinst them. Adam Freeman, who was sent to the penitentiary a short time ago for for gery, now confesses that he burned the barn. The Washington correspondent of the New York Star says that it is understood that ns soon as Minister Lawton is officially received at Vienna, Mr. Fenner Lee, Sec retary of Legation uud. during the ab sence of a regular Minister, charge d'af faires, will resign. His successor has been agreed upon, and will ho announced as soon as Minister Lawton has been heard from notifying the State Department of his re ception by the Austrian government. The prevalence of democratic ideas in England is indicated by the way •ocioty people are rushing into trade. It lias recently been discovered in Loudon that one member of the aris tocracy is a look-maker, another the keeper of a cigarette shop, and a third a dress maker. Two or three other members have clubbed together and started a washing company. Perhaps the English aristocracy is preparing for the coming of a republic. Ratlway Construction. The Railway Aye for July 1 contains an interesting summary of the railway con struction in the United States during the first six months of tho present year. Be tween Jan. 1 and June 30 there were laid a little oyer 3,754 miles of new main lino track, besides several hundred miles of sidings. This is an addition of 1,403 miles since tho statement published Juno 1, which is a very large increase for a single month. During the period mentioned traeklaytng was going on in thirty -even of the forty seven Slat land Territories, the number of lines concerned Iteing 130. The showing of new construction was far larger than that for the corresponding period in any pre vious year excepting 1882, when nearly 5,000 miles wore laid in the first six months and 11,508 iu tho year. Tho nearest ap proach to this tvas in 18SI, when about 2,500 miles were reported in the first six months out of it, TOO for the year. The Railway Aye does not regard it as safe to base estimates of the total year's work very closely on the record of tho first six months, because in some years the work begins much earlier and continues much later than iu others, and various othor unforeseen conditions affect the result; yet from a study of the field the prediction is made that the total new mileage laid in 1887 will not be less than 10,000 miles, with the likelihood, perhaps, of surpassing tho record of 1888. Of the 8,7.54 miles already laid this year over 2,060 wore contributed by seven com panies. Thiy were tlio_ Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, 632 miles; the Missouri Pa cific, 332 miles; the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba, 310 mill's; tho Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, 252 miles; the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, 215 miles; the Chi cago, Burlington and Quincy, 811 miles; the Southern Pacific, 100 miles. Of the South ern States, Alabama, Georgia and Florida made the best showing, they having constructed respectively 107, ill and 78 miles. Of the Southwestern Stofcs Texas made the best showing, with ,Jsl> miles. In the New England and Eastern States very little was done. The only States and Territories from which no track laying was reported were Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rbodo Island, Connecticut, Dela ware, Maryland, West Virginia, Idaho and Nevada. The Railway Aye concludes its sum mary with the statement that the railway system of the United States now aggregates in round numbers 141,300 miles. This is almost double the total mileage of tho country thirteen years ago, and is more than three times that of twenty years ago. It is thought not improbable that tho end of the present century, twelve-and-a half years hence, will see the railway system increased to more than 800,000 miles. Christian Science Healers. It is doubtful if many of the readers of the Century Mnyazrr.e know tho extent to which “Christian Science Mind Healing” is believed in until tho publication of the Rev. Dr. Buckley’s article on that subject in the July number. It appears that there are nine institutions devoted to graduating “Christian Science Mind Healers,” and they must make good incomes, as their prices for tuition are pretty high, and they do not seem to lack students. Four of these insti tutions arc in Chicago, two in Now York, one in Milwaukee, ono in Brooklyn and one in Cincinnati. Those “Christian science mind healers” do not use mediaine of any kind, and do not pay any attention to diet or exercise. Their theory is that as flesh and bone cannot suffer, all disease is in tho mind. They, therefore, operate on tho mind, and proceed upon the theory that if a person who is ill can bo mode to Iwlicvo that he is not suffer ing and is well ho will speedily bo cured. Their whole treatment, therefore, consists in efforts to make tho sick person believe he is well. They repudiate any connection with “Faith Healers,” and say that in their system there is no dependence ujxin Divine assistance. If one have an aching tooth or a painful corn ho has only to mako himself believe that there is nothing the matter with him to lie freed from suffering. There is no doubt that those “Christian Science Mind Healers” effect some cures, but the eases, as a rule, arc those in which the jiatients have nothing serious the matter with them, but think they havo, or are physi cally prostrated from mental worry. It is probable that every physician meets with patients of this sort in his practice, and aim to cure them by inspiring them with a buoy ant, cheerful feeling, rather than by the use of medicines. He may prescribe some harm less remedy merely to satisfy them, but he does not deixaid upon medicines to effect u cure. “The Christian Science Mind Healers” make u great deal of tho eases in which an improvement is effeettd by their treatment, but they are careful to keep in the back ground those in which they fail; und if the truth were known it would probably appear that iu most of the eases in which they claim to have been successful, nature would havo worked a cure without the aid of the mind healers or of drugs. A lawyer and Democratic politician of Carson, la., was invited to respond to a toast at a G. A. It. meeting at Macedonia iu the same State, a few days ago. .Just before his name was called lie wus told that it would be better for him not to try to speak, us some of the G. A. R. men had or ganized to prevent it. He replied that he hud been invited to respond to a toast, and that he would do so unless forcibly prevent ed. When his name was called lie was im mediately surrounded by a howling mob. He was cursed and otherwise abused until he withdrew. This incident needs no com- ment. Tho question is being quite generally asked in the press of the country why Jacob Sharp's lawyeiss should bo permitted to go free while he is sent to the penitentiary. They were his agents and advisers. He took no steps apparently in tho business of bribery until he had consulted with them. They profited by his crime. They charged enormous fees, which wero jiaid in money reeeivod through illegitimate transactions. From a high moral standpoint they do not appear to be much better than Jacob Sharp. Dr. MeGlynn now baa a chance to show whpthor or not ho is able to maintain him self in the position which ho has dclilierate ly chosen. He is shut out from the church, and it is probable that many of those who gave him encouragement while he was a priest, will now abandon him. If he has the right sort of ability, however, he will be able to make for himself a place in the local politics of New York city. The marriage of Min Jennie Lamar, daughter of the Secretary of the Interior, and Mr. W. H. Lamar, of Washington, will take place at Macon, Ga., on July 21. It is expected that a large number of the Secre tary's friends will be present THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, JULY 11, 1887. Authors and Newspaper Men. Some time ago a youug man who is ambi tious to make a name in literature wrote to the editor of a leading daily newspaper ask ing advice. Tho reply was in the form of a short letter, in which the editor said: “If there is anything else you can do to make a living, let literature alone. There is room for very few literary men in this country. As to newspaper work, don't think of it. Newspapers employ none but men of ex perience.” Naturally, the young man was discour aged. He was spirited enough, however, to write to the editor and ask him these two questions: “When tho few literary men for whom there is room in this country die, who is to take their places! Where do tho men of experience employed by newspapers get their training?” There is a great deal of nonsense in tho advice given to those who tiro impressed with the belief that they may achieve liter ary success or earn a fairly good place in the ranks of newspaper workers. In litera ture it is difficult, of course, to win renown. Only a few do so. But this is no reason why those who desire to enter that field should he discouraged. Nothing is achieved with out effort. The best thing to do in what ever vocation ono may choose is to work earnestly, determined to succeed. If failure results, the ex]ierience obtained is at least worth something. Some of the most successful authors wore advised to give up their aspirations and engage in some other work. Supirise they hail accepted the ad vice? He that determines to engage in lit erature should lie as independent as he that enters upon any other vocation. Let him ask nobody’s advice, hut work out his own success or failure, just as men do in the le gal or medical profession, or in business. As to newspaper work, the young man’s ques tion is pertinent. Experienced newspaper men were once without experience. it is sometimes said that the journalist, like the poet, is born, not made; but, unless he is permitted to work for a newspaper, it goes without saying that he is not likely to dis cover for what he is born. The trouble with most young men who desire to engage in newspaper work is that they are not con tent to begin on the lowest round of tho lad der. They wish to take positions that re quire the very training they cannot obtain except by beginning at the bottom. Content to begin in this way, there is no reason why any bright young man should be deterred from undertaking newspaper work. He will soon discover w hether or not he has fitness for what he wishes to do. One thing is certain: It doesn't pay to ask ail vice on the subject. Every man should strike out for himself, following the bent of his in clinations nnd remembering that where there’s a will there’s a way. Methods of Suicides. Attention was called by the Morning News some time ago to the awkward meth ods adopted by people who take their own lives. It seems that these unhappy people exhaust ingenuity in devising painful and horrible ways out of the world. Many of the cases reported are rendered doubly re volting on this account. Among recent cases ono reported from Bullitt county, Ky., is specially horrible. The victim was George Sawder, a young farmer who was married only a few weeks ago, and who, up to ten days preceding his rash deed, appeared to be happy and con tented. At tho time mentioned, however, he lieeame suddenly morose and sullen, and refused to hold any communication with his wife or any of his relatives. His friends thought him deranged, but as he gave them no reason to believe that he contemplated suicide, they supposed his queer conduct due to some domestic trouble. His young wife, said to be of most estimable character, could give no reason for his condition. Sho was unable to do anything with him, hut as ho appeared to lx: perfectly harmless, she thought he would eventually lx: restored to his wonted reason and good humor. On the day he took his life he seemed to be more rational. He asked for his razor, and when it wus given to him, sharpened it, saying that he was going to dress himself nnd nmko a visit, hut would not return before the next day. He loekod himself in his room and remained quiet for two hours. Becoming alarmed at his silenee, his wife forced her solf into tho room. Sho found him sitting on the floor in a pool of hlixxi. He had cut himself all over tho body. He still held the open razor in his hand, and made several efforts to use it, hut from loss of blood was too weak to do so. When aroused from the stupor he was in he spoke to his wife and others, hut would give no reason for his terrible deed. He died a few duys after. In cases like that of Sawder's, where in sanity is plainly evident, it would seem that the friends of the ulflieted persons would provide for their protection. It is, however, unfortunately a fact thut the proper thing to be done under such circumstances is not generally thought of until it is too late. Baron do Gordoris, of Kara. Brazil, is in New York on his way to Portugal. On the subject of freeing tho slaves in Brazil he says that the question takes precedence of all others in politics. The general sentiment is in favor of the abolition of slavery, tho differences in opinion being upon the methods of procedure. One party desires that tlie slaves shall he freed at once with out compensation to the owners. This is known as the Liberal party. The Conserva tive party favors gradual emancipation under conditions similar to tlioso which already exist. Under present laws the chil dren born of slave parents are free, and no slave can he held after the ago of 70. Baron Gordoris does not express an opinion as to which party will succeed. At Lancaster, Pa., it seems that to grad uate costs somebody a good deal of money. At a meeting of the School Board, the other day, a comtuitteo was appointed to deviso some method of reform in the commence ments of the high schools, these affairs hav ing recently become very extravagant, checks for large sums of money, gold watches, diamonds, and even pianos being among the gifts to the graduates. It would be well to reform the commencements of other schools, some of which are situated in tho South. That man Cronan who tried to swim the Niagara river below tho cataract, was from Boston. It is snpposod that he allowed him self to bo drawn into the whirlpool and drowned because no Bostonian could be in ducod to leave Baseballist Kelley's neighbor hood long enough to witness his feat. They are criticising Gen. Sherman for run ning away from the Fourth of July celebra tion in Providence, R. I. He sought a cooler place, upon the principle, ]ierhnpt<, that there is no occasion at this |ieriod in the country's history for a man to allow his patriotism to make him too warm. CURRENT COMMENT. Effect of the President’s Letter. From the Boston Globe (Bern.) Differ as much as we may with the writer's idea of the “prevalence of unfriendly feeling" toward him among the sober and patriotic men who will attend the Grand Army encampment in St. Louis, the latter is certain to produce a feeling so general, profound and resentful as to seriously affect whatever standing and import ance ma3' have been enjoyed heretofore by the blind und self seeking partisans whose unseem ly mouthing* provoke it. Foster the Agricultural Interests. FVom the Feir York Tribune (Rep.) The new South cannot do a wiser thing than to foster her agricultural interests. Tin* Condi tion of file farmers of a State or a section is a pretty accurate index of the general condition of all classes of the people. Of late the men of the new South who own timber and mineral lauds, and the men who own valuable water privileges have been booming their respective properties. It is time that the farmere of the new South were given a chance. Patriotic, Manly, Sincere, and Dignified. From the Missouri ReptMican (Pcm.) President Cleveland’s letter withdrawing his acceptance of the invitation to the of the Republic's encampment is such a letter as the President of the United States should have written under the circumstances. To say that it is patriotic and manly, sincere aud digni fied, is to give it no higher praise than that. It shows Mr. Cleveland above the meanness of vanity, pique or petty ambition, which have ac tuated the insulting course of the Republicans of the Grand Army of the Republic. Moaning of the President’s Letter. From the Tjouimnlle Courier-Journal (Pern.) But back of ull such considerations, which are only those of courtesy, the letter of the Presi dent has a meaning and a rebuke which should not pass unheeded. Partisan rancor has in the past six months exceeded all legitimate bounds. It is not Tuttle alone who hurls threats at the President, but it is Fairchild, the head of tho veteran organization; it is Senator Sherman, who believes ho is a candidate for the Presi dency; it is a fool who happens to be Governor of Ohio; it is an experienced veteran who has in his newspaper been breathing out threaten ing* and slaughters in a wild fit of rage and malice, who have indorsed Tuttle and given him countenance and approval such as Guiteau never secured. BRIGHT BITS. The musical composition, “Warblingsat Eve," is the first intimation that Adam was a singer.— Detroit Every Saturday. A scientist declares that rocking chairs make people deaf and near-sightod. We have noticed this, especially when two young people are in the rocking chair.— Burlington Free Press. "What did Adam and Eve wear before they put on apronsV*' asked the teacher. And after a moment's silence the new boy from Hardacre Crosslots said: ‘‘Nothin' but bathin' suits.*’ Burdette. Compassionate Clara Isn't it sad? Poor Mr. Littlowit has gone out of his mind. Satirical Sallie- 1 wonder he staid there as long .'is he has. Awfully cramped quarters, you know. —Chicago Tribune. Brown T saw you cnrrvinghome a big water melon yesterday, Robinson. Aren't they rather expensive this early in the season? Robinson—Very. Including the doctor's bill, that watermelon cost me about sl7. —/hi ck. “No, Bobby,” said his mother, “one piece of pie is quite enough for you!” “It's funny, v re sponded Bobby, with an injured air, “you say you an- anxious that I should ieum to eat prop erly, and yet you won't give me a chance to pract ice V'—Puck. A DOWN-TOWN DERATING CLUB is discussing “Were the hills heaped up to make the valleys or were the valleys scooped out to make t tie bills?” Seven women and one man have already resigned, and the President's hair is turning white. Philadelphla Call. “I say, stranger,” whispered a Western inan, who had struved in an uptown theatre where the play of “ftomeoand Juliet ' was going on. “I can't make nor tail of this thing. What's the name of this play, anyway ?” "Kouieoand Juliet. * “Well, it* I'd known that,” said the disgusted Westerner, “l wouldn't have come in. I under stood the feller at the. door to say It was some thing about Omaha and Joliet.”— Life. Omaha Bride Dear me, you don't seem to have the first idea about cooking. New girl—You see, ma'am, i haven't any one to show me. “Why l don’t know anything about it. You ought to ku*u% you 6aid you had had ten years' experience.” “Yes ma'am, but I've always lived with young married leddies like you, an' every one ov' cm was as big a dunce as you are about things.”— Omaha World . A little girl who recently completed her seventh year was down town with her elder sister the other day, and they entered a store for the purple Of getting the junior a pair of overshoes. “We want some rubliers for this child,” said the lady. At this the small miss gave tbe skirl ot the other s dress a tug to at tract her attention, and exclaimed in an under tone: “Why don't you use big words?” anil then to the gentlemanly shoe clerk, “1 want a pair of erasers"- Buffalo Courier. Gintlkmin,” exclaimed an Emerald-Islander who was holding forth t. an assemblage of men on the advantage of belonging to a society of which he was President—“Gintlemin, I couldn't begin to tell ye half the privileges appertainin’ to a mimlw'rsuin in this society, out I'll thry to tell ye u few. First, whin ye are sick, it'll not l>e pertaters an’ tuy ye'll liegittiif, but foine cuts of roast bufe an' lashins of the best whisky. Nixt. whin ye are dead, ye'll have such a foine funeral that the folks on the sidewalk'll he afther askin', wid their eyes stickin* out like a lobster's, ‘Shore who's in the coflin?’ An' wliin ye arc buried we’ll take such exsadin' good care of your wives and children that they'll all l* rejoicin' greatly because they're widdcis an 1 orphans.”— Harper's Bazar. PERSONAL. Queen Victoria was badly mobbed by her S, CUM guests at the Buckingham Palace garden party. Count Corti, once Italian Minister at Wash ington. is now Ambassador at Constantinople, He is iu very poor health. Miss Lily St. Hei.ikr is the name Mrs. Lang try will assume after she has secured her di vorce from bur husband. Millionaire Mackay has sailed for England for the purpose of being presented, not to the Queen, lint to Ills cvcr-abscnt wife. William Walookk Astob, ex-minister to Italy, is noted for his unstudied dress and unaf fected maimers. His father always calls him "Hill.” Citizen ess Langtry has been talking politics to a Ban Francisco reporter. She says that the Chinese must go. It seems that lUr. Langtry will have to go also. Mas. George Gould is admitted by every body but the members of her own sex to be the prettiest woman that lull lies in the Coney Gland surf during the present season. Collector Jon At. of the port of New Orleans, is in danger of total blindness. The injury to Ins eves was caused by a copy of the Congres tiunul Record which Ills sou playfully tossed him from across the room. Frank L. Norton, D. IX, of Lynn, Mass., is spending the summer at Mount IVsert. He is considered the richest clergyman in the United States He is an eloquent preacher, and a man of much i>ersoiml magnetism. Miss Constance Fkmmore Woolbon is spend ing the summer ai Florence, at the Villa Hri chieri. mentioned l y Mrs Browning in "Aurora laugh." She thinks that poet has not done jus tice to the splendid view commanded from the terrace. In comparison with tho enormous sums some times received by specialists, who attend to pa tients at n distanee. Emperor William’s fee to Dr. Mai'Keuzie. of London, for bis three visits to the Crown Prince does not seem large. It was only sg,!>iO. The Queen Regent of Spain is described as a woman full of force belli in reserve, with intol kvtuul featui es and large expressive eyes. The whiteness of her skin, set on by golden hair, gives tlie idea of a delicate constitution to the dark-skinned Spaniards. Mrs. Pickett, widow of Gen. George E. Pick ett, was married w lien she was 15 years of age. H*t son mis horn liefore bis mother hud reached her Kith year. Mrs. Pickett in ot ill a very young looking woman, superhly handsome. Hers Is a dark, voluptuous style of beauty Since the war olio has persist out (y avoided society. Her appearanoc st Gettysburg was the first she has made in public for years. Tiir discussion as lo who is the oldest Mason bids fair to lie east into the shade by the con test regarding the first woman to become a citi zen of the United States. Mrs Isingtry cannot claim this honor, and Mrs. Hraokenridge. of Pennsylvania. Is also "out of the race." So far ns oan !■ learned from a nund>er of communi cations received. Mrs. E. C Woolson. a Cuban, living in Essex county, New York, was the first woman to liecome naturalized in this country. She took the oath of allegiance on Jan. 8. INJTf. Mrs Delacroix, of Youters, was made a citizen in 18iii. A HUNGRY PLACE. An Incident of the Attorney-General’s Sojourn to Hominy Hill. While Attorney-General Garland was sitting under a tree in bis Hominy Hill retreat, says the Arkansas Traveler, an old fellow, followed by six or eight dogs, came along, stopped, looked searchingly at Mr. Garland, seated himself on a log, slapped a brindled cur anil said: “I've been eround here several times, but this is the fust time that I’ve cotch you at home.” "Yes, I don't stay here much of the time.” “Don’t try to raise a crap it seems?" “No.” * “Didyou ever try’,” ,‘No. “Do you reckon this old dirt would sprout a black-eyed pea?" “Not if the eye were too black.” "Ef you wuz to take away the crickets, do you believe a woodpecker could make his living on it?” "Don't believe he could.” “I reckon you stay here till you git hungry an' then go way?” ’’Yes." “Is that yore eow that’s down an’ kamtgit up o\ er yander?” “I haven’t any eow.” “She’s somebody’s. I reckon she got on yore place an’ fell away so fast that she kain't git off no mo'. Wuz that yore oie boss that died out yander in the thicket the other day?” “No.’| “Them yore sheep starvin’ down yander in the bottom?" "No." . , “Is that yander yore dog that's tryin to jump over the fence?” “No." “Look a here, what in the deuce have you got, anyway?" “This farm.” “That all?” “About all, I believe." “Whar air they goin’ to bury you?" "Do 1 look like a man that’s going to be buried pretty soon?" “Well, r.o; but ef you ain’t got nothin’ but this farm you ail’ mighty apt to drap oft at any minit. What'll you take fur this old po’ place?” “If it's so poor, what do you want with it?” “Wall, you see, I've got a spite at a feller, and I want to turn his cattle in here. I’m sorter hungry. Did you fetch a snack with you?" “No.” , . "What air you goiu’ to do for somethin'? You'll starve to death before you ken git away from here.” “I’m expectin' a friend with a loaf of bread pretty soon.” “What business air you in?” “I'm the Attorney General of the United States." "What! Is this Mr. Garland?" “Yes.” “Wall, Gus, you come over to my house. I’ve got a hunk of corn bread and some sorghum molasses over there, and I'll tje dinged if I'll see you go hungry. It don’t make no diffunco to me if you air a Turney General; I’ll treat you like a white man.” The Now Fangled Fashions. From the Colonel. How loose ’round my waist were the clothes of my childhood, As my double-laced corset reminds me with pain. The slip that I wore, when I used to chop stove wood. Had more real enjoyment than this bustle and train. The bustle, I know, is a thing highly treasured Hy all ladies built on the mocking bird style, But give me that garment with looseness un measured, The old mother hubbard, which w-eak men revile. The dear mother hubbard, Fbe loose mother hubbard, The time-honored hubliard. W hich beats any style. In this modern day the loose hubbard is slighted. 'Tis not 'lowed to grace female forms on the street; But the back-action bustle is too large to be blighted, So holds perfect sway with the light weight elite. There’s all kinds of bustles, all shapes and all sizes; Thev’re all artificial, but wonderfully made; There's the cloth, steel and wooden, and each harmonizes With the size of the dear one who needs their said aid. The iron-bound bustle. The wire-woven bustle, The old-fashioned bustle So wonderfully made. Now, the work of real art is in feminine com plexion And not like the bustle, concealed from our view, But it stands out triumphant, and defies all de tection. As if we were color-blind and o’er-sighted, too. There’s the blondine decoction, the hair-wash infection “And the best hair killer," say a baldheaded few. And the war-paint complexion which greets our inspection, As the whitewashed make-up and flesh colored stew. The blondine complexion, The whitewash complexion, The war-paint complexion, Will curry you through. A Satisfactory Test. Prom the Manchester Courier. “Five pounds to the man who can prove that any two things put into this refrigerator will taste of the other" He was a cute Yorksliire man, and, having placed a refrigerator at his shop door one hot summer day with the above sigu hung over it, retired inside to await the ex pected rush of customers. People passing up aud down the street jostled each other in their hurry, glanced at the refrigerator and its sigu, and went on. After some hours of disappointed hope and expectation the tradesman saw a pedestrian halt, calmly peruse the wonderful announce ment and rather unhesitatingly advance to the door. “Do you mean it?” fie inquired in an anxions tone, pointing over his shoulder to the sign. •Yes, sir,” emphatically responded the shopkeeper. "Put down your money?" insinu ttid the stranger. “No, sir,” replied the trades man, in pompous style, “mv word is as good as cash.” “AII right, I'll take you,” responded the stranger, and departed. He returned shortly after with a box under each arm. “Stick to your agreement?” he queried. “Of course I will!” answered the shopkeeper, wondering what he hail in view The stranger set his box down on the pave ment, und a crowd began to collect. He told the tradesman that, liowasufraid that he (the tradesman) would back out of his bargain, but the latter asserted his readiness to put down the money if necessary. The strauger opened a box. lifted out a cut and placed her in the re frigerator. Then he opened the other box aud took therefrom a wire cage containing a large rat. "Now, sir,” said he, “you just shut that door in a hurry when 1 flop Ihe rut inside, and I’ll bet you another fiver that one will taste of the other in less than five minutes!" The crowd Hliouted, the shopkeeper slammed the refrigera tor door aud rushed into the shop with a remark aliout fools and swindlers. He still refuses to recognize the stranger's claim to the five pounds, but has taken iu his sign. He Poured Salt Water on Them. From the Chicarjo Tribune. “John, dear," said the young wife as she came in from the garden. “I can't und-'i sland why those choice tomufo plants over by the fence, that wo have tended with such care, should turn yellow and die ull at once." "There must be some bug or worm at work at the roots" replied John. S ‘l have taken more l<nins with those tomato plants than anything iu the garden. 1 keep them clear of weeds and I water them regularly and between times. It was only four mornings ago that I poured the water that wa* left in the ice cream freezer from the night before over those very plants. 1 don’t let any water go to waste, I tell you " “You poured that salt water on those toma toes?" screamed the young wife. 'Certainly, I—“ "Aud 3)011 didn't know it would kill them, you great big fool ?" Perhaps it would be best for us to retire from the scene. There are sacred confidences in every domestic circle upon which the prying public has no business to intrude. A Church Built of Salmon Boxes. From the Portland Oregonian, Yesterday morning for the first time in the history of Clifton Oregon, religious services were hold there. Dr. T. L. Elliot, Paster of the Unitarian Church, was visiting Messrs. J. W. A V. Cook, and they hastily built a "moetin' house." It was In the cannery warehouse. A lot of empty salmon boxes were used to make four walls, openings being left for a door in the rear and windows at the side. In the front the boxes were piled so us to form a semi-circle, ami directly hi front of this the pulpit was erected, also of salmon boxes Boxes likewise served as seals. Tile congregation numbered sixty tin to men, women and children, who listened with perfect attention to the scholarly, earnest, thoroughly Christian gentleman, and he ap peared as much at home In his novel surround mg* as 111 Ills own comfortable church in Port land The religious service was complete with one execution—u-" (vl'Zriion way mndo. ITEMS OF INTEREST. The Hindoos invariably talk to their elephants, and it is amazing how much the latter compre hend. Dr. H. B. Garner, of Hopkinsville, Ky., is the owner of a curiosity in the shape of an eight legged kitten. It is estimated that SO,OOO trees have been planted in Nebraska i '3' female hands during the past three years. The running expenses of the village of Es telline, Dak., for the last year were $4B, the chief item being the marshal's salary, $l9. An average of about 150 gallons of wat3r per day for every resident is supplied Washington, anil of this amount it is stated one-half is wasted. James Welch, of Ritchie county. West Vir ginia, cut down a hollow maple tree the other day, from which ran twenty-seven full-grown squirrels. The little old town of Paris, Me., has furnished one Vico President of the United States, two United States Senators, four Governors of Maine and eight Congressmen. Sydney, Australia, boasts a 180,000-candle electric light which throws its lays fifty miles out to sen. One of 24,000 candles, at San Jose, Cal.. is the biggest in this country. Emigrants are now flocking to the Pacific Northwest at the rate of 1000 a month, mostly from Kansas and lowa. They settle chiefly in Eastern Oregon and Washington Territory. A dog was about to attack a monkey belong ing to an organ grinder. As the dog rushed ou the monkey lifted his hat and gracefully saluted, when the dog's head aud tail dropped and he sneaked away. An owl and snake, both dead, were found by Edward Schwartz, of Gila Station. Ari. The snake was tightly entwined around the neck and left wing of the owl, the latter having the tail of the snake in its beak. Jennie Sullivan, of Fonda, N. Y., is still suf fering severely from the hiccoughs, with which she was attacked more than three months ago. Slio subsists entirely upon milk and broth, and is said to be “dying by inches.” The troops who followed the raiding Apaches through the mountains of Southern Arizona re cently say that in crossing the San Pedro Valley the hostiles traveled nearly fifteen miles on tip toe to hide the trail, but the Indian scout who accompanied the soldiers held the track just the same. A sky terrier belonging to a London gentle man says the Field , is caring for eight little chickens. They occupy a basket and the chick ens nestle in the dog's long hair and seem com fortable. They follow the dog alwut, and the brute strives to give them all the personal care possible. Nearly ail the black-headed pins in the mar ket are made from needles which are broken in the factories in testing the eyes. Any one who has handled the black headed pins has probably noticed their remarkable sharpness as compared with the ordinary white pins sold in the mar ket. This is the explanation—that they are old needles. The loss of life in India from man-eating ti gers was appalling last year, and some st udy of the fierce beast has lately been made by Eng lish officers. Tigers, it appears, do not attack hnmau brings until they liecome very large and old and unable to run down animals that are fleet of foot. One of these creatures is known to have killed 108 persons in the course of three years. Another caused thirteen villages to he deserted. A third is credited with Killing 127 travelers on a public road. Coming from California in a train recently were a number of men who, at the suggestion of the porter, got up a base hall pool on which clubs could wiu the four league games. It was SO a guess. The porter, too, went in the pool. When they got a paper the next day they found that but one man had guessed correctly, and he was the porter. He scooped in the $4O with a smile. When the guesses were made it was 3 o'clock in the afternoon out there, but 5 o'clock in the Eastern cities. The porter had got out at a small town and got the results 117 telegraph. A centenarian BEGGARMAN, Pierre lirouin by name, who has for many years been a Parisian curiosity, was unceremoniously arrested a day or two ago outside the Madeleine by a merciless policeman and inarched off .to prison For up ward of forty years he amused the nurses, the babies and the small boys by standing in the Place Vauban and allowing tame white rats to run all over him, sometimes making them climb up his long white beard until they reached his mouth, where they found a bit of meat or some other luxury protruding between their master's teeth. It is authoritatively stated in Nashville. Tenn., that quantities of the finest character of litho graphing stone have been discovered in that State, and some of it placed quietly on the mar ket in New York City. The exact point where the discovery was made has not been made public, hut a gentleman well informed says that it can be placed ou sale in Nashville at a cost of forty cents per 100 pounds. Superior qualities of stone, such as this is described to be, ought to fetch at retail from six to twenty-eight conts per pound, according to the degrees of fineness. Icebergs are quite numerous this summer in the path of European steamers, according to the reports sent the hydrographic office from the captains of various vessels. Since June 3 there have been sighted as many as thirty-three bergs. Capt Banker, of the Dutch steamer Seholter, saw one 300 feet high, at a distance of seventeen miles, and passed within a mile und a half of it. Capt. Itrockelman, of the Adolf, saw one 240 feet high, with two others 100 feet high, on succeeding days. Capt. Campbell, of t lie English ship St. Hovans, saw a berg two miles long and 200 feet high on June 16 In lati tude 4-I°, longitude 48°. Fourteen apparently new derelicts are reported this month. Dr. E. H. Bartley, chemist to the Brooklyn Health Department, has recently mode some discoveries which it will not be pleasant for beer drinkers to contemplate. His examinations of different kinds of bottled beer, including some of the Western beers, show that they contain salicylic acid. The Medical Record states that the amount of this acid required to preserve beer is about twelve or fifteen grains per gallon, and it adds that "salicylic acid, if taken contin uously, tends to injure digestion and irritate the kidneys.” The employment of this drug in the S reservation of different articles of food and rink has increased so much in Paris that the French government has already twice taken action in the matter. It is a remarkable fact, but none the less worthy of record, that Queen Henrietta of Bel gium is popular everywhere but in the country of her adoption. In Austria, while staying tinder the roof of her parents, the Emperor and Empress, the little archduchess was loved by every one, and even to this day her memory is held in deep affection. In England, also, her Majesty is much esteemed, hut in Belgium it is quite the exception to find any one who has a good word to say for her. Some stat e the reason for this is her leaning toward an open encour agement of the Jesuits, and, us the Queen affects complete contempt of public opinion, her feel ings for the Papists have never been disguised in the least. Asa general rule the Queen Is seldom seen in the town of Brussels itself, her daily ex cursions in her pony carriage, drawn by six cream-colored animals, which she drives herself, Ivins confined to the Bols de Boulogne and Ixelles, the suburbs of Brussels, or to the beau tiful grounds surrounding the summer palace of Laekcn. The Queen is ruther short, not by any means ill-lookiug, and dresses in the plainest, some say the shabbiest maimer possible. Like her cousin, the Empress of Austria, her Majesty is passionately devoted to horses, and passes most of her t Ime in her stables, which are iuva riably kept to the pink of perfection in point of cleanliness and order. The renegade Queen—or cx-Queen—of Servia was of course rapturously received in Russia, especially at her old home. Kischineff. hong before her arrival preparations had been made by the inhabitants, and on the day of her arrival the stns'ts were crowded with spectators await ing the royal visitor. In one of the finest streets of Kischineff stands a splendid mansion, for merly belonging to the late Col. Koacbko, father of the Queen, and now inhabited by her two sis ters Tb" house is situated In a garden almost smothered in beautiful plants and flowers. The Queen, ns well as her sisters, is passionately fond lif flowers, and the former has done mnen to Improve the garden. The inhabitant* of Kischineff are naturally very proud of the Qiieim of Servia, and nil kinds of anecdotes are told nlsuit her Once she is said to have rescued a little gir! at Belgrade out of the very teeth of a mad dog Tin- Russian medical men at Kisch ineff who were iu Bervia during the Kusso-Bul garian war say that the Queon was day and night to lie found at the hospitals and that she never shrank from approaching even the worst invalid. Deeply touched by the sight of her old home, the Queen left her carriage at her recent visit with tears iu her eyes, and even little Sasha, the Crown Prince, whose education is left entirely In the Quean's hands, seemed touched by the sight of his mother s former home. 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