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4 Ck’<Honmig|]flus Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. TUESDAY. AUGUST 2, 1887. Registered at the Post Office in Savannah. The Morning News is published every day In fbe year, and is served to subscribers in the city % by newsdealers and carriers, on their own ac count, at 25 cents a week. $1 00 a month, $5 00 for six months and $lO CM for one year. The Morning News, by mail, one month, $1 00; three months, $2 &0; six months, $5 00; one year, $lO 00. The Morning News, by mail , six times a week (without Sunday issue), throe months, $2 00; six months. $4 00 one year. $S 00. The Morning News. Tri-Weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, throe months, $1 25; six months, $2 50; one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail } one year. $2 00. The Weekly News, by mail , one year. $1 25. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. Letters and telegrams should bo addressed “Morning News, Savannah, Ga." Advertising rates made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings Tho German-Ameriean Mutual Loan Association; Confederate Veterans Asso ciation; Savannah Lodge No. 1153, K. of II.; Board of Trade. Special Notice —Notice, George W. Wiggins. Summer Resorts— Ocean House. Tyboe. Insurance Statement —Savannah Fire and Marine Insurance Company. Cheap Column Advertisements— Help Want ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous. Legal Sales—City Marshal's Kale. Legal Notice— Application to Sell Real Es tate. Hardware Novelties and Specialties— Lovell & Lattimore. Auction Sales—Telfair County Lands, by C. 11. Dorsett: Horses, Mules, etc., by J. McLaugh lin & Son; Guardian's Sale, Truck Garden, by I.l>. Laßoche s Sons. The Midsummer Puck—William Estill. Notice op Copartnership—Moore, Hull & Cos. Steamship Schedule— Ocean Steamship Com pany. The Morning Nows for the Summer. Persons leaving the city for the summer can have the Mokmnq News forwarded by the earliest fast ipuils to any address at the rate of 25c. a week, $1 for a month or $2 50 for throe months, cash invariubly in ad vauce. Tho address may be changed as often as desired. In directing a change care should be taken to mention the old as well as the new address. Those who desire to have their home paper promptly delivered to them while away should have their subscriptions at the Busi ness Office. Special attention will be given to make this summer service sat.isfacbjry and to forward papers by the most direct and quickest routes. The weather indication “fair,” seems lately to mean “unfair.” Both the just and the unjust would like to have the rains cease. Too much of a good thing is more than enough. Every public man that goes to New York, now-a-days, gets himself interviewed. Tho custom is a great bore to the general reader. The General Assembly seems to have hard work to escape suffocation by the del uge of local bills that continues to fall upon it. Thursday, Aug. 4, is tho day upon which Texas will hold lier election on the prohibi tion question. The day will close a contest that has been noted for its bitterness. It is reported that tho editors of the high tariff papers in Alnlmina will hold a con vention. They will probably meet in a room twelve by fourteen so ti3 not to foci lonesome. Editor IVliitelnw Reid, of the New York Tribune, is in Alaska. In the meantime his assistants manage to keep tip the reputa tion of his journal as the great porvorter of truth whore the South is concerned. The Brunswick Herald is unnec 'ssarily alarmed about the (tort of Savannah. Tho Herald, too, should learn that it can huvo but poor success in trying to build up its own city by efforts to injure another. Some of tho Republicans aro talking of dropping loth Mr. Blaine and Senator Sher man in favor of Senator Allison, of lowa, as their Presidential candidate. No doubt the talk is sweet to tho cars of Senator Allison. _ That hot-headed Mexican editor who at tacks Americans so bitterly seems to huvo forgotten that his country was once whipped by the United States. Perhaps the Cutting incident had somethiug to do with liis loss of memory. The managers of tho Chicago Interna tional Drill have revoked Geu. Butler’s order, so that colored soldiers may now attend if they wish. The Republican pnpers of Chicago were not instrumental In having the order revoked. The American* in the Hawaiian Islands are said to pay 50 per cent, more taxes than the people of any other nationality in King Kalakaua’s realm. Under tho circum stances, tho United States ought to hire a few ships to protect American interests there. The New York Herald is responsible for tho statement tliut u Salisbury, X. c., to bacco houso employs "a big, black man" os a drummer. Ho is not meeting with suc cess. The trouble with him is that ho car ries tho color lino along with him, and it is continually tripping him up. A Now York paper, declares that if the Republicans desire to carry tho election in that State nest year they must adopt “a platform without platitudes." Unfortu nately for the Republicans their entire sG >ck iu trade consists of platitudes, and their cause in New York may therefore be con sidered hopeless. A careful estimate places the number of cows in this country nt 21,000,000. They give 7,1150,000,000 gallons of milk annually. Tho total value of dairy product* last year was $505,000,000, which was (00,000,000 more than tlio value of tho wheat crop. The showing is a good one, and it is worthy of nob; that dairying in the South is a grow ing industry. Another ancient lady who danced with Lafayette, has just died. Kho was Eliza Ann Lockwood, of Follsburg, Bui li van county, N. Y. Bhe was 81 years old. When young she was a great beauty, was highly accomplished, and the ladle of her native (wwn, Newberg. When Lafayette was last in this country she led a ball with him at fifewburz, She wtw never niurned, I The Glenn Bill end Northern Papers. Some of the Republican and Mugwump I journals are very much exercised over the Gleam hill lately introduced into the- Legis lature, which prohibits the education of white children in colored schools, anil col ored children iu white schools. Tho Boston Herald says that legislat ion of this sort ‘ is very small business,” and “helps to justify sectional arguments in the North and to re tard progress in the South.” The New York Times thinks that it will cheek industrial development and prevent the best class of Northern people from settling in Georgia. Tho Boston Journal describes a convict camp and says that to such a place would the Georgia legislature sond teachers who teach mixed schools. Those journals, and others from which no quotations are made, doubtless think that they know all about the educational feature of tho race question in the South, and are sincere in expressing tho sentiments they do. They ought not to forgot, however, that they cannot possibly be as well in formed with regard to it as-the Southern people who huvo to deal with it. They should remember also that the white people of tho South feel very kindly toward the colored poople, and aro willing to assist them in improving their condition in every possiblo way they can. They understand that the colored people are in tho South to stay, and their purpose is to maintain harmonious relations between tho two races. They have no jealousy of the colored people and no dispo sition to obstruct their progress in any way. Having studied tho problem of tho educa tion of tho races carefully, and that, too, from a standpoint that afforded them every advantage for gaining information, they have reached the conclusion that it is better for both races that they should be educated separately. There would not perhaps bo any objection to tho presence of a few white children in the Atlanta University, a colored school, if it were certain no attempt would*be made elsewhere in the Stato to teach the children of tho two races in the same school, but there is, no doubt that if a mixed school were per mitted in Atlanta there would soon be a de mnnd that the white and colored children should be educated together in the public schools. Tho Atlanta school would be n sort of an entering wedge, and it would be cortain to eventually produce trouble that would greatly Impair, if not wholly destroy, tho public school system of tho State. Georgia now lias a good public school system, and it is steadily being improved. Its benefits are enjoyed by the black and white alike. The colored people have tlieir .fair share of tho school money, and their schools are well conducted. They are not fiudiug any fault with the present condition of affairs, and aro not likely to. Why then should the risk bo run of destroying tho public shools, in order that a few white teachers in the Atlanta Uuniversity may have tho privilege of educating their children in that school in definneo of public sentiment! The Boston Herald may call the legisla tion proposed by Representative Glenn, “small business” if it likes, but that will not lessen its imixirtar.ee in the estimation of the people of Georgia. The Herald sees only race prejudice, which it thinks, of so small consequence that it can bo overcome with little or no effort. Tho jxxiple of Georgia know that mixed schools mean trouble, and tho ruin of the common schools. The llcrahl would rather hnvo the satisfaction of saying that it Is above prejudice, than to see the common schools of Georgia prosper ous The people of Georgia would rather have the common schools, and seethe two races improving under their influence than to have an agitation of tho color line question. Condemnation of legislation prohibiting mixed schools conies with very poor grace from Northern journals where, except in a few localities, the white schools are not open to colored children, although tho col ored children are so few os to lie scarcely noticeable. Let tho North get rid of race prejudice and then Northern journals can, with more consistency, condemn race preju dice in tho South. For tho present Georgia will legislate oil matters relating to tho white and block races in the way which seems to her to be the wisest. Oscar G. Sawyer, tho well known cor respondent of tho Now York Herald , who died in New York Saturday from sunstroke was a member of tho MorNiso News staff in 1905-0. Ho camo to this city from Fort Royal, B. C., where ho had been stationed as a newspaper correspondent, immediately after its occupation by Sherman’s army and remained hero lining tho position of assistant editor of tho Morning News, and special correspondent of tie Herald, until ho was assigned by the latter paper to accompany Admiral Farragut on his trip to Russia us its correspondent He was an easy, fluent writer and an accomplished journalist. By his pleasant manners he ingratiated himself into every oirelo which he desired to enter iu the pursuit of his calling. Though proba bly not 50 years of age he hud traveled over nearly every part of this country, and writ ten interesting letters nlxmt it. He hud qiso visited nearly every other country in his eupapity of correspoudont. The sale of Mrs. Cleveland’s photographs is likely to lead to several lawsuits. It seems that certain Washington photogra phers Have copyrights on the photographs which give the exclusive right to sell them. A number qf tobacco h uses, cigarette man ufacturers and soap dealers havo been making Mrs. Cleveland's features common in hideous lithographs and chromes, and as they are violations of the photographers' copyrights, the offending jiarties are to lie called to account in the courts. Mrs. Cleveland will hardly relish this latest phase of the prominence she lias attained. The State Agricultural College of New Hampshire is connected with Dartmouth College at Hanover. It seems that the fac ulty and tu tents of Dartmouth consider themselves above fanners’ sons, for the pro fessors do not invite the students of the Ag ricultural College to receptions, mid tho stu dent* of Dartmouth refuse to eat at the same table with the students of the Agricul tural College. Such an exhibition of bad manners und tni’hliisl.v ess ought to cause the respectable people of New Hampshire to withdraw their support from Dartmouth. The Republicans seem to lx- generally of tho opinion that tho Indorsement givon Hen ator Sherman by tbs Ohio Republican con vention amount* to nothing as fur ns in creasing liis chances for the Fresidential nomination are concerned. The fart is, Senator Sherman is not nearly so |x>pular with his party ns Mr. Blame is. The latter is uliuost certain to he put up for another defeat by tho Democrats. ‘ THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1887. South Carolina's Child Murdoror. The case of tho South Carolina colored girl who, u couple of weeks or so ago, was convicted of murder and sentenced to be hanged is attracting some attention in dif ferent | mrt.s of the country. The girl is 11 years of age, and has, iu seems, a rather feeble intellect. Bho killed a white, infant I which was li ft in her care by giving it con j centratod Ive. It is claimed that she was not capable of understanding the wicked ness of the deed she was committing, and that, therefore, she should not bo made to suffer the penalty for it. Some of tho Northern papers are trying to make it appear that if she were not a negro she would not hnvo been convicted of murder and sentenced to death, but this view is manifestly unjust to tho court and jury that tried her. Thoso who commit i crimes liko the one committed by this col ored girl, whether white or black, receive but littlo leniency front South Carolina courts, and doubtless the criminal in this case was dealt with as mercifully ns a white gii'l would have been under similar circum stances. The girl was of responsible age anti her crime was clearly proven. No doubt the jury was satisfied that, although sho was ignorant and not very bright, sho knew perfectly well what sho was doing when sho committed tho horrible deed. If there are circumstances which tend to create a doubt whether the girl’s crime was really as great as that of which sho was convicted the Governor will no doubt take notice of them. He is a conscientious offi cial and will not permit a wrong to be done witji his sanction. He will undoubtedly have all tho facts laid before him, and will not be influenced in his action by any other consideration than that of duty. If he finds that the girl’s intellect is so weak that she could not have been fully capable of realizing what she was doing when sho ad ministered the lye to the baby, he will doubtless commute her sentence to n rea sonable term of He will certainly not permit an irresponsible human being to suffer the death penalty, and there are no people in South Carolina who want him to permit such a thing. The Jury Exemption Bill. The bill introduced into tho House on Sat urday by Representative Gordon to repeal so much of the law relating to military or ganizations as exempts fifteen members of each military company from jury duty is a wise one, and should meet with prompt and hearty approval. Tho bill was suggested by the last grand jury of this county, which was composed of men who have had ample opportunity to study the bad effects of tho present exemption law. It is often difficult to get good men for either grand or petit jurors, because so many who aro wqjl fitted for jury duty are exempt. It is difficult to find a citizen who will not say that the exemption law is a bad one; even those who take advantage of it willingly admit that it is. One of tho reasons why so many persons charged with offenses ugninst tho laws have escaped punishment is, that it has been an easy matter, because of the lack of jurors, to get those who sympathise with them into the jury box. Because a man is financially able to pay a small sum to be an honorary member of a military company he should not escape some of the most onerous burdens of citi zenship. If half the citizens escape these burdens tho other bulf have to carry a double burden. Asa rule the well-to-do and rich escape, while the poor are forced to do double duty. Let the exemption law be repealed, not only becauso justice re quires it, but also because the material from which jurors aro drawn ought to boas good as possible. The Edinburgh News is evidently not in love with Mr. Blaine, who went to Scotland hoping to make capital which ho might use (n this country in next year’s political cain puigu. In a recent issue this was said of him: “Though Mr. Blaine consented, iu company with Mr. Andrew Carnegie, to patronize Alexander 111. at Kingham, the other day, it appeal's ho draws tho line at accepting a presentation to her majesty. Ho has assigned no reason for declining the proffered honor, but an American paper suggests an explanation which is at least plausible. We are reminded that our dis tinguished visitor has his eye on the Presi dency, and it is predicted that when tho next campaign ojx'ns, and ho demands tho suffrages of his Hibernian l'ellow-uitizens, ho will point proudly to the fact that James G. Blaine scorned the pomp and pageantry of the British court and refused to lx- intro duced to the Queen of England and Em prossof India—and why, my countrymen? Why, because in tho veins of that great and good man upon his grandmother's side runs a pure current of Celtic blood, and he could not do homage to any oppressor of li is down trodden country. One is interested to learn that Mr. Blaine is an Irishman as well as a Scott” On Sunday Dr. McGlynn went to a picnic in New York. Of course lie made a speech. 110 said, among other things, that the greater portion of the human family had too much work and too littlo play, white t he smaller jxirtion had too much leisure and luxury. He believed tliut railroads should be managed by tho government, like the jiost office, not bv capitalists, who ran them so that tho poor did not have proper facili ties for travel and the mental and moral im provement tliut comes thereby. He expect ed to sou the time when the people in their own parks, to which they hod been carried by their own railroads, would enjoy them selves very much more than they can r.ow. Dr. McGlynn’s hopes, of which lie has many, are doomed to meet with disapixiintment. Especially will his hope that railroads may be used merely for picnic piu'posos be un roalizod. Mr. Stephen S. 1100. the junior member of tho firm of printing press manufacturers known a!! over tho civilized world, died in Tarrytown, N. Y., on Friday night last. Mr. Hoe was bom in lS4tl. He was a grand son of Robert Hoe. the founder of the fa mous firm. He was a man of kindly dispo sition and engaging ways, mid was much loved by a host of friends. Mr. Hoc’u ill ness wus of six month:; duration. His father. Fetor S. Iloe, is the only survivor of the first Robert’s three sons, mid is now the only member of the family bebniguig to tho firm. He has four younger sons, however, and they will doubtless be admitted to part nership with him. Now that we have a good supply of arte sian water would it not be n good idea to removo the pumps from the squares and replace them with hydrants, especially those in the neighborhood of tho schools, which should huvo attention before the schools open again? There is no reason now why tho people should bo permitted to drink polluted w ell water. CURRENT COMMENT. They Are in the Same Boat. From the Philadelphia Record (Dem.) The government at Washington an 1 the sum mer res rt landlords have now almost a mo nopoly of th" pleasing occupation known as pil ing up the surplus. The government gets its surplus by excessive taxation, and the landlrod gets his by other things that are likewise ex cess 1 ve. Mr. Ray’s Status Fixed. From the Galveston News (Deni.) Scott liay, editor of the Shelbyville D inncrat, rnitde an anti-Cleveland speech to the Indiana Democratic editors at their annual picnic last week. His principal complaint against Mr. Cleveland was that the ofil es have not been parceled out to Democrats fast enough. Mr. Hay Ixdotigs to the class of stupid spoilsmen who hove never learned that tho offices of the government belong to the people and not to the politicians. In Harmony with His Record. From the Richmond Dispatch (Dem.) No doubt John's eulogy of Foraker was as un pleasant a job as he ever undertook; but. ail the same no one will lie surprised at it. John's course was ent rely in harmony with bis record for cold-blooded hypocrisy. \ man who could make the two speeches John made ut, Nash ville, Tenn., and Springfield, 11, respectively, was not to ho expected to stop at a little thing such as extolling uu enemy, provided there was a chance of profiting by it. Dependont Upon His Parents. From the Boston Globe (Dem.) Of course no question of principle is involved. Mr. Lincoln surely would not tie selected as the representative of a policy or a theory of govern ment. Who ever read or heard an expression from bim relating to public affairs? It is re markable tliut a mun could sit in the President’s Cabinet four full years and retire without leav ing behind him tlie record of a single thought. Tins however is just whqt Mr. Lincoln did. What ever favor lie mav enjoy in public sentimeut is due not to himself but to his parents—not one of them, but both. BRIGHT BITS. • —f A squall makes sailboats capsize, but makes a baby's mouth one size larger. — New Haven News. A shark was found high and dry on the beach at Savin Hock, Conn., yesterday. It is thought he was on his way to Wall street and got wrecked. — Rochester Express. Henry (preparing for the country)—There ought to be room in one of the trunks for my things. I got you six. Considerate wife—You forget, dear, that my six dresses take a trunk each. But I did not forget you. Here is a nice little satchel you can havo all to yourself. The Judge. A clergyman calling on a Washington street family was ushered into the parlor, where Miss lletty was seated at the pianoforte. He asked the young lady, a member of his Bible class, to “play one of her favorites.” “I am not playing favorites any more," she said. “I’ll take the field against them every t line. ” — Saratogian. A Springfield (Mass.) clergyman, reading an item which stated tliat a couple desiring to get married called at the houses of ten minis ters before they could find one to marry them, suggests that the daily papers should run a list of "ministers at home'’ during the vacation season under the head, “A Guide to Wayfarers in Pursuit of connubial bliss."— Norwich Bulle tin. "Jimmy, what, did you do with all that cake?” was asked of a Third'street little boy. "What cake, mamma?" "Why, the cake on the table. You cannot have eaten it all?" “I put half of it in my mouth and ate it up.” “Well, where’s the other half?" ‘‘The other half? Oh, I put that it in too.”— Detroit Tribune. First saleslady—Marie! Second saleslady—l am here. “Are you busy ?" “Yes." “Where is the other saleslady?” “She ha* not come in yet. What do you want ?" * "I want someone to go and ask the lady cashier if she can change a 8100 bill for u woman."— Omaha World! Light of Ills Life—George, dear, would you do auythipgl asked of you? George—You know I would, darling. What is it, light of my life? Light of his life—l want you to become a criminal. George—What crime, dearest, could I commit to make you happy, Light of his lire—Embracery. (The crime is accomplished.)— Tid-Bits. Look nERE, sm!” he said at the chief clerk's window In the post office, “I’ve been trying for half an hour to unlock my post office box.” ■‘Yes, I know it.” “But the key won't fit.” “Of course it won't. No man's front door key will unlock his post office box.” “Oh, yes, I see. Yes, that’s it. I got 'em mixed o. course. But -look here. sir. I want it understood tliut I excuse none of the shortcom ings of the Post Office Department on this ac count —lint a single one”— Detroit Free Press. “Hail Columbia! Happy Land.”—American Father—Yes, I have a son. but he is in Europe. Old-time Patriot —I beg your pardon, sir, but it is a shame for an American youth, horn in a laud of liberty, tho inheritor of freedom, be queathed to him by dying ancestors on the battlefields of the Revolution, to fritter away bis best years in Europe. “I sent him there to learn a trade. The ap prentice system is no longer allowed in this country, you know." "I see: but ho will come back with no knowl edge of American Institutions.” “So much the better. Then he can pass him self off fora foreign-bom citizen and get elected to nn office.”— Omaha World. PERSONAL. Miss Minnie F. Folsom, a near relative of Mis. (irover Cleveland, lias become preceptress of the Brookings Agricultural College in Dakota. O. C. Linnv, a cattle dealer of Burnham, Me., has traveled miles by rail without meet ing witli an accident. He has sold S”, 000,000 worth of cullle in the past few years. Kellogg. the right-fielder of tho Yuli l base hull nine, played nine games without an error, lie thus ha-; the highest fielding average of any player iu the history of college base ball. Dit' un, the well-known tennis player, has just returned from England. He says that ten uis is becoming a popular Sunday amusement among the higher classes in Great Britain. AWT. Gen. Drum looks very pale. For the first time ill years he is without a florid com plexion lie is slowly recovering from his r .vent severe illness and is agaiu ut his desk. Very little credence is given in Washington to the report tha, the President Intends to appoint the widow of Gen. Hancock to the Washington postolfiee vacancy. Where the rumor originated is not known. A Walt Whitman Society is to tie formed in Boston, the most striking feature of which will be a weekly |iension paid to “the good gray poet.” Societies of this character should be very popular umoug authors. John Russell Young has been a guest at the Gran: cottage, F.ltieron, for a week or two. lie i- collecting material fora history of the <• vil life nf Gen. urant. lie has lost considera ble flesh, but his health is betterthan it has been ior set ral years. One of tlie latest rumors in Washington is to the effect tliat Mrs. Hancock, widow of Gen Hancock. Is being urged asa candidate for post master of that city. It may be remarked here that the Post (ifilee Depa< tmont does not recog nize the title of “postmistress." Roland Ltvrsox Gower, a nephew of the Marquis of Stafford, recently arrived in Sun Fran 'l.ieo (torn Hong Kong, lie bus lvn visit lag Japan, China bad I id.a. He will visit the Yosemite Valley, and thou come East. He Is traveling very un steutatiously witli his friend, F. Dugvlalo. Col. Daniel S. Lamont, M. A. mid I‘. S.. is en during the hot weather with u groat d-ul of equanimity. Like most small men he retains his activity when uion east in n larger mou and droop and wilt. Col. Lamont is about 5 feat <1 inches in height and w eighs 145 pound*, mous tache Included. ill-. face Is somewhat fuller than when he entered the White House. May Siiarrstuen is a little girl of 7 who is lieircoa to $1,(100,'Ob. she inhbrits the money from her late father, who w as a member (if the wealthy firm of Arnold, Constable A Cos., of New York. Miss Sharpyteen uurrowdy escanod death a few ilays ngo at Sea Girt. A team of horses attached to a lawn mower ran away and made straight lor the frightened child. For tunately tho horses swerved a little, and the blade or the cutter misted the little girl by a few Inches only. Chief Andrew Kelt ice, of the Canir d'Alene Indians of Idaho, was at the head of the dele gation from his tribe which called on the Presi dent a few days ago. He is a fine-looking man, about seventy years of age. His hair is gray, but Ids eyes up l liright nd his form is straight and stalwart. He was highly pleased with l*res- I dent Cleveland, and now speaks of him us "a good man. it nine man uud a man who likes good Indians," He can ho couuted on to help tbu second term boom. MUMMIES AS MEDICINE. Remains of Egyptians Turned Into Drugs a Century or Two Ago. Prom the Nineteenth Century. Among the standard .medicines quoted in the medical books of Nuremberg of INO years ago are “portions of the embalmed bodies of mans flesh, brought from the neighborhood of Mem phis, where there are many bodies that have been buried for more than a thousand years, called Mumia, which have been embalmed with costly salves and balsams, and smell strongly of myrrh, aloes, and other fragrant things.” Tin- learned doctors of Franc 1 , Germany and Italy all made great use of this eccentric drug, and in the seventeenth century grievous com plaints arose of its adulteration SI. I’oinet, chief apothecary to the French King, records tliat the King's physician went to Alexandria to judge for himself op this matter, and, having made friends with a Jewish dealer in mummies, was admitted to his storehouse, where he saw piles of bodies. He asked what kind of bodies were used and how they were prepared. The Jew ii iformed him that he took such bodies as he could get, whether they died of some disease or of some contagion. He’ embalmed them with the sweepings of various old drugs, myrrh, aloes, pin'h and gums; wound them about with a cere cloth and then dried them in an oven, after which he sent then to Europe and marveled to see the Christians wore lovers of such filthiness. But even this revelation did not suffice to put mummy physic out of fashion, and we know that Francis the First of Franco always carried with him a well filled medicine chest, of which this was the principal ingredient. A traveler also records how one of his friends found intii.■ tombs at Ohizeh a jar carefully sealed, which he opened and found to contain such excellent honey that he could not resist eating a good deal of it and was only checked in his feast by drawing out a hair, whereupon he investigated fnrther and found the body of an ancient Egyptian baby in good condition and adorned with jewels. Ho does not record how he enjoyed that meal in retrospect. Imagine dining off the honeyed esseuco of a baby Pha raoh ! A Pretty Tough Ynrn. Prom the Detroit Free Brens. “Talking about life preservers,” said the truthful mariner as he knocked the ashes out of his pipe, “you remember the old steamer Roust about that used to run from Buffalo to Chicago. I was mate on her the year before she was lost. We were about sixty miles out from Chicago when Mike Lauagan, who was doing something up on the mast, tell, struck ou his head on the roof of the cabin, and bounced clean out into the lake. Weil, the Captain he see him fall and he stopped and backed that old Roustabout quieker’n you could say ‘scat.’ Mike went down like a plummet , for he was knocked in sensible and I knqjv'd there was no use to heave a life preserver for him, so I jest hurried up the boys in getting the boat down, although I didn't expect it ltd do much good. We hail Jim King ou board. Passenger from Chicago. You remember Jim King, don't you?" “Can’t say that 1 do,” remarked a bystander. “Well, Jim was champion qnoit thrower in them days. He's dead now, poor fellow, but Jim was a hoss on throwing quoits. I tell you quoits were a great game in them days. Every village had a quoit club and the boys on the farms used to throw hoss shoes. It was some thin' like base ball in these times, although I never could see as much fun in base ball as I could see in a good game o’ quoits.” “O, come on.” cried the impatient listener. “What did Jim do, or did he do anything? Did the mAn drown?” “Now don't be too fly. Whose fellin' this yai n?” “Well, you don't seem to be.” “Go on! Go on!" said the crowd. “Well, you know, in quoits a ‘ringer’ was when you put the quoit round the stake. It counted double. Well, Jim, he picks up the round life preserver, it'k like a great big quoit, you know, and as the Cap'n came running aft, Jim he sings out, ‘Cap'n, I’ll bet you $5 I'll make a ringer on that man if he comes up within the length of this line.’ ” “ ‘Bet you fa) you can’t,’ said the Cap’n.” “ 'Take you," said Jim, and just at that minit up bobs Mike's head about sixty feet astern. Jim threw, and I'll be durned if that life pre server didn’t go plump over on Mike's head clear down ou ms shoulders aud there it stuck. We got down the boat and when we got to Mike he hadn’t come to yet and didn't for some time after. He’d Ijoen a goner if it hadn't bin fur that ringer, although it took the skin offen his nose.” "Did the Captain pay the $30?” “Pay it? You jist bet he did. And Jim he handed it over to Mike and Mike he blew it all in when wo got to Detroit. I wish some of it was here now fur I'm mighty dry. Thanks. Don't mind if I do.” Revivalist “Sam" Jones Comes Rather High. From the Cincinnati Times-Star. Mr. Samuel Jones, an evangelist of the Metho dist church, has been engaged to appear at the Loveland camp meeting this summer. That is not particularly sensational matter, for Mr. Samuel Jones appeared at the Loveland camp meeting last year. There is something about the engagement of Mr. Jones to appear, how ever, that is the least bit out of the smooth and ordinary progress of events that is making some of the good brethren who manage the affairs of the camp meeting think at the rate of sixty miles an hour. When Mr. Jones appeared at the camp grounds last summer he stayed there seven days. Asa reward for his goodness in so stay ing he was given a check for SI,OOO. The - offer ing was not wholly voluntary on the part of the management, for Mr. Jones made the 81,000 check a condition of his appearance. But he was Considered cheap for the money, aud so the check was cheerfully hapded over. Arrange ments were made this year to have Mr. Jones come and stay longer. It was the universal opinion of all concerned getting him here that lie ought to stay a week at least, and when sufficiently urged Mr. Jones at last consented to prolong the i/erlis I of reli gious enlightenment over that period. This made ttie good brethren fee! real happy, and they have been counting up the joy of a’ season with Hie great evangelist as cue of the principal delights of the year. A few weeks ago however, there began to he whisperings that Mr. Jones hail found it neces sary to deprive the faithful of a portion of the pleasures that they had so fondly anticipated. It was said tliat he had found it necessary to lop off a few days of the fourteen which ho hau agreed to spend amid tl;e wooded hills of the camp gri muds. Tho manag; rs were uppe de l to. They said that the rumors were correct, and the jov of the evangelist's admirers was turned to grief. There was not occasion for misery abso lute, however, for bo had promised to come for a short time, anyhow, so consolation was de rived from that. Then it was heard that Mr. Jones had again cut down his time here.and again and again until he had only allowed three days to the Loveland cimp meeting. All this was found to tie true too, too true, alas’ Vi hit is mere, Mr. Jones de mands s6dl> compensation for thus" three <lavs. That is the way tho nutter stands now—three days ana $5:)0. The Summer Sliower. As on n fair face, bright, as skies of May, Dark frowns may gather at a thoughtless word; So swift the heavens on this summer day With angry clouds by careless winds are blurred. A* loving smiles, in laughter wreathed, give place To grieving, quivering lips, or taunting sneer; So tossing shadows uil the sunshine clias ■ With threatening humors of the skies austere. As eves that glow with hope are drowned in tears, Ana so. no are changed to walls of dark des pair; So all the. blue of summer disappears, And jarring thuuders echo through the air. And now it rains: great sheets of moist lire pour In pelting torrents from th • angry cloud; While the grim batteries of thunder roar And sliake the frightciicJ earth with echoes loud. And I am seven miles away from home; Lost: with a rummer suit on; no timbrel; Muddy; afraid of thunder; drenched; this pome Shall hide some things 1 do not dare to tell Koußirr J. UriuiETTK. An Atholst Succumbs to the Pope. From the Pull Mall Gazette. A curious scene avas witnessed the other day at tlie Vatican. M. Leo TaxJl, whoso real name is Jong, and, formerly wrote so mo of the most "anti-clerical” works ever printed, according to his own account, while composing a diatrPio agaiust Joan of Arc he hot! to refer to the his tory of her trial and condemnation, mid was so struck with the angelic character of the heroine that he felt himself suddenly converted t > the very faith he was abusing. lie proceeded iustantcr to Romo, to implore the Pope’s forgiveness and blessing. His holi ness at once granted him a private audience, which lusted half an hour, during which lie wept at. the feet of the holy fattier. At length the Pope consented to give him Ids hii-ssing on the condition that in bis future works be would labor to undo all the harm he had done to the Catholic Church. Mr. T.< u Taxil promised ho would do bis beet, and departed, before leav ing, however, he had to make the piquant eon tension that he bad not yet boon ebio to convert hill wife. Who reui'i anal a tisMui*. - ITEMS OF INTEREST. Pay Up is the name of a post office in Geor gia, and Missouri has one called Pay Down. F oitTY-THree persons, male and female, are given employment in the Queen’s kitchen, it is said. The States of Indiana, lowa, Kentucky, Louis iana, Michigan. Mississippi and Tennessee em ploy women as librarians. The historic walnut tree at the top of the Devil's Den, on the but tlf-field of Gettysburg, was blown down a week ago. There is a parish in London in tho Sunday school of which there is a Bible class consisting of 780 members, and the rector says be ex pects that it will soon contain 1,000 members. Belgium has had one of the worst droughts this season it has experienced for thirty-two years, and now vast swarms of locusts have ap peared and are doing great damage to the crops. California contains the two largest wine vincyaids in the world—Senator Stanford's vineyard at Vina, Tehama county, of 3,500 acres, and tin- Nevada vineyard, Los Angeles county, of 2,500 acres. An increase of drunkenness is noted in France and is by 1 some authorities ascribed to the phyl loxera which has destroyed the vineyards in re cent years. While wine was cheap aud pure, it is asserted, the vice was almost unknown in France. David McO rank ah an, of Yellowstone, La fayette county, Wis., is a man of rare nerve. While reaching to pick up a board from the tall grass a rattlesnake bit him on the end of the finger. With one blow of the hatchet he ampu tated that finger in about half a second after it was bitten. Then he paid attention to tho snake and cut him into small pieces. Mtss Olive Sanborn, daughter of County Commissioner Sanborn, who was waiting in front of the post office at Gratiot, D. TANARUS., saw a runaway team dashing down the street, and at once rau into tho street, seizing the horses by the bits. They threw her into the air. but she did not release her hold, and brought, them to a halt. The business men, in token of their ad miration, raised a handsome purse for her. A recent analysis or a popular hair “re newer” shows that it was made of sixty graius of sugar of lead, sixty grains of sulphur, a lit tle glycerine aud water, with a drop or two of perfume. The sulphur gradually combines wdth the lead, forming a brown or black sul phide of lead, yvhich slowly darkens the hair— slow in action that the purchaser may persist in its use. Cost, 3jd>o. per bottle; retail price, sl. An almost exhausted street sprinkling fund that stared the authorities of a Western town iu the fnce. at a time when watering carts were most urgently needed, was quickly replenished by a little strategy on the part of the officials. The low drinking saloons were raided, and the fines levied on the frequenters and the proprie tors, together with the hack license fees that were collected, provided sufficient money to lay the dust for the entire summer. A strange accident took place at St. Ann's, Canada, a few days ago. A young child, named Paul Michaud, only 3 years old, was playing in a field, when a young and frisky horse seized Inin and tossed him up in the air several times, lifting its forelegs to receive him whenever he was about to touch the ground. The orb’s of the child gave the alarm to some farmers working near, and they rescued him. The hoy was found to have one arm broken, and it is feared that he sustained severe internal in juries. • , - - •■£< *•./ “A YOt’NO lady of Austin, Nev., says the Reveille, “who has much time to spare and who is very skillful with the needle and excels iu all fancy crochet work, has made a unique dress. The material is common spool thread, white, and the entire dress is hand-crocheted work, beautifully flowered and strongly made, auu about 10.000 yards of thread were used in its construction. The sleeves are crocheted in the proper shape and are fastened in by a 1 "ck crocheted stitch. It is a very beautiful dress, and the young lady tells us that it took her three mouths to complete it.” A few days ago two hwnters, armed with rifles, shot and killed a large white cat on the farm of James Bell, four miles southeast of Tus cola, 111. The animal had long been seen in that neighborhood, and every effort heretofore made to kill or capture it proved futile. Two rifle balls were necessary to bring the game brute to earth, ami even then he showed fight. It was a long, lank animal, of a grayish color, aud some were of the opinion it was a lynx or a catamount, but it was hardly large enough to he either. Mr. Bell aud the farmers of that vi cinity feel greatly relieved at the taking off of the animal, as their women folk can now ven ture out without fear or trembling. In the early part of the season the ladies of Vienna introduced the fashion of wearing cheap Manilla hats, and it threatened to become the rage. This made the milliners of Vienna in dignant. not only because their hitherto servile subjects bail dared to have an opinion of their own. but because the new fashion would cut into tho profits of the milliners. So they held a meeting aud decided that the only course was to bring the “ieuny hats" into contempt; and a day or two later a large number of scavengers aud crossing-sweepers made tlieir appearance wearing the detested Manillas. Vienna has had a good laugh at the cleverness of the milliners; but whether their strategy will have the desired effect remains to be seen. The effects of _ Charles Merck, the portrait painter, who committed suicide nt Stringer's Ridge, near Chattanooga, a few weeks ago, were sold at auction ou Wednesday. Three oil paintings were sold for SI 90, two of tbeip bring ing 45c. each. Merck had come from Cincin nati, and was said to be an artist of unusual ability, hut there was no market for his genius in Chattanooga. "I would rather die than starve,” was the excuse a letter found in his pocket gave for his death. He also left a letter from (bis Y. McLure. of New York, who wrote to tho Coroner that Merck had no relations iu this country that he knew of. He says: “The day before I left I offered to assist him with a few dollars, but he would not accept the money. He said that if he could tret no work and could not make a living, he would put an end to him self. 1 have r.o idea that there ever will be such fine portraits in Chattanooga as Mr. Charles Merck could do.” The children of James Wainwright, at 808 Taylor street, Boston, have a little chipmunk for a pet. Not long ago the animal injured one of its fore feet by becoming entangled in a strand of thread. The inflammation of the foot attracted the attention of Mr. Wainv. right, who found that the thread was wound around the member. He cut the thread off, but the wound did not heal, atid in a f<uv days the ilesli dropped oil and left the bones exposed. The little ani mul went to work then and did a most, remarka ble thiug. Uo hit off or amputated the foot at "hat would correspond to the wrist joint. In the course of a few tluys the bone still remained uncovered, bicause no provision had bleu made for a flap of the flesh to cover it. The chip munk then displayed a wonderful knowledge of surgery. Wit h his nose he turned back the flesh and bit off a piece qf the bone above the end of tho (lesli. so tliat it projected beyond the bone In two weeks it liud healed up, and looks as per fect as if a surgeon had done the work. The ladies of the Methodist Episcopal church at North Branch, Midi., recently hit upon a unique way to raise funds for church purposet. They made r. silk quilt, a number of ladies do nating a block each. They then selected four girls, aged from 11 to 15 years, to canvass the town for votes at 10c, each, toe one receiving tho most votes to lie awarded the quilt. The young ladies did their electioneering quietly but energetically. Tie 1 canvass was to lasi thirty days, and each girl carried a sealed box In which the votes and money were deposited. The re sult was that the canvass became a lively one in which older heads tool: a hand. Tim ladies thought if they could raise J3i on the quilt they would be well repaid for their trouble. They were much surprised when the count was hail In see the following amounts turned out of the little boxes: Miss Grace McDnugtiH, sll 13- Mis : Edith Lipplncott, $-13 NO; Miss Jennie Hrrt $lO IS; Miss Mattel Butler. $74 85; total, 3178 Bi The tnree unsuccessful conqielitors were each presented with a beautiful gold ring with a dia nioiiil j tt ing. Base Bam. pays extremely yvell in Boston. “Templeton" writes to the Hartford Courant: "The Itase ball fever still rages. The Boston management of the league club is very uniKipu lar. and deservedly so. It has been making money at the rate of over S2,?OJ net per day this week, an t its grounds are torLdirty fora lady to visit with any comfort i r4l fastidious tuau either, while the teats are crowded together in a way that is a |jovltive imposition 1 saw a game played on 'Wednesday, w ith the tnereury over 90' ill the shade, and not n breath of air stirring. Tie* perspiration just paired off of spectators as well as players without cessa tion, and three-quarters of them were in a broil lng tun that must have raised the temisTature to considerably over I<K Yet 5,*00 pei>pie left their business to witness this game, and sat it through under these eonditious, and a greut many of them pqid Jl a ticket for the privilege while none wefe admitted on less than luiif tliat sum This spectacle makes the mouths of some of our show manage rs water. There has been no amusement in Boston yet that bus paid like R **>*l it is estimated that tho iirotiiuoftbc V Whs * fi U KS&.OM. ’ BAKING POWDI IL PORE Used by the United States Government. En dorsed by the beads of the Great Universities as the Strongest, Purest and most Healthful. Dr, Price's the only Baking Powder that does not contain Ammonia, Litne or Alum. Sold only ;a C ‘ ,a '“ PRICE BAKING POWDER CO. NEW YORK. CHICAGO. ST. LOUIS. 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