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4 ®jc||lorning|lttos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, IMS'. gtgitiered at tlu Pont Office In Savannah, Thn Morning News is published every day in fhe year and is served to subscribers in t'u city, toy newsdealers and eaniers, on their own ur count, at a') cents a week, $1 00 a month, $5 00 for six months and $lO 00 for one year. The Morning News, by mail, one month. Jl 00; three months, $- 50; six months, So 00; one year, $lO 00. The Morning News, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three mouths. Si 00; six months, S t 00 one year, $S Of). The Morning News, Tn’\V<ekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tlies; lavs, thnrs days and Saturdays, three months, 51 -&> six months. $S 50; one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, bp mail, one year, O). The Weekly News, op mail, one year, $1 85. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, cheek or reyistvrel letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. Letters and teleprams should _ bo addressed ‘‘Morning News, Savannah, Gn.“ Advertising rates made known nil application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings, — Zembbabel Ix>dge No. 15, F. and A. M.; Calant he Lodge No J2N, K. P. Base Bali,—Amateurs vs. Warrens. Special Notices —Melons, J S. Collins & Cos,; Cassimere Pants, at Jaudon’s. Auction Sales -Crawford Ward Property; Household and Office Furniture. I). K. Kennedy; Hay. Etc , by I 1) laßoche’s Sons. CnEAP Column Apt* tisemf.nts Help Want ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; XiOst; Found: MisceUae. - ' Coal and Wood - P ' Thomns. Educational—Moreland Park Military Acade mv. near Atlanta, Ga. Legal Notice—Libel for Divorce. Mean whisky and n pistol form the most execrable combination conceivable. Both should be banished from all civilized coun tries. A spasm of public indignation on account of crime accomplishes but little. To make the laws respected aey must lx* enforced every day in tbe *..•. A fact neve ■ yet satisfactorily explained Is that the ir \ who ilrinks nothing but xwhisky generally complain? more than anybody elso when th; water works are out of order. Sam Jones, the vangelist, said to a Balti more audience tho other day: “You may call this silly talk, but I’m talking to a silly crowd.” Tlie fact that the audience did not withdraw proved the truth of his asser tion. The South will have :XKS votes in the National Democratic Convention. It isstul that the number cannot be 1105 or 1107. It will be remembered that 500 was tho num ber of interested patriots who wanted Gen. Grant nominated for a third term. The Georgia lunatic asylum is about to become the means of making bad blood among a number of gentlemen prominent in the State. What the pooplo want is the truth and it doesn’t make any difference to them whose toes are trodden upon in the effort to get at it. Anent the Woolfolk murder, the indlvidu al who sees a hero in every criminal is again objecting to “trial by newspaper.” If all trials were as prompt and as just as th'ise conducted by newspapers there would be less complaint about inefficient courts and openly defied laws. The Augusta Evening News says: ‘Via vannah’s invitations were sent to Washing ton last night. We'll let Grover will take our hint and accept.” If the President wishes to become a<‘(plainted with a typical Southern city and to enjoy genuine Georgia hospitality he certainly will accept. It is stated that a Parisian is construct ing a balloon which will carry up lUO ]>er sons. The Democrats of this country are preparing to send up a much larger number of persons next year, but a balloon will not be needed. They are preparing to s >ud the entire Republican party up salt river. In the bill for the divorce which she is seeking from her husband, Mrs. Charles Palmer, of California, alleges that he lias slept with his boots on for the last eighteen years, and .that she has concluded to stand it no longer. She is quite right. Under such circumstances patience ceases to lie a virtue. It is stated that one of the big redwood laws of California furnishes “4,000 feet of lumlier for Pullman car interiors. Perhaps it is the knowledge of tho fact that bis car is partly made of such a big thing that makes the Pullman porter have such a swelled head. He wants to live up to his surroundings. Says the Baltimore American: “The United States Consul at San Salvador, in a report upon the imitations of American goods sold there, says that ‘the deadliest of all the decoctions is labeled Kentucky whisky.’ The original is bad enough—how terrific, therefore must bo this imitation!” The American evidently has no subscribers in Kentucky. Now that it uppears to lie definitely de terminod that Secretary Lamar is to have a seat on the bench of tho United States Hu preme Court, there will doubtless be con siderable uneasiness among certain Georgia statesmen. If Senator Colquitt should he roine Secretary Lamar's successor what a pretty scramble there would be in the neigh borhood of Atlanta. George l’arkesisa Washington man who desires a little cheap notoriety. He an nounces that, he is willing to bet $5,000 that President Cleveland will not lie re-elected next year. If anybody should accept tho bet and President Cleveland should be re nominated, Parke? would have an opportu nity of personally illustrating the fact that a fool and his money aro soon parted. lloil Roswell P. Flower, of New York, Who is. just now in Paris, is said not to look upon either Air. Blaine or Senator Sherman as the choice of the Republican party for President. He considers that Mr. Chauncey M. Depew is the coming man. Well, it makes little difference whom tho Republi cans nominate, for the Democrats are going to win in the contest next year. President Arthur, although a Republican, had a proper conception of tho position of an office-holder. It is said .that an Indiana man, who was at the Whit* House toward the close of President Arthur’s term, said to him; “I presume you are getting ready to step down and out.” President Arthur re plied: “Out, but not down. Up, to the people.” It would be well if all office holders understood that they aro but the servants of the people aud that their posi tiuus aro below the people, not above them. How to Make Prohibition Successful. The prohibition vote in the recent election in Kentucky was very small. This is rather remarkable in view of the fact tliat several j counties of that State have adopted prolii- ; tion under n local option law. The Prcihi- I hitiou vote in Texas last week was a great deal smaller than it was expected it would lie. In fact, tho most enthusiastic of the Anti-Prohibitionists did not estimate their majority above 50,000, and they were very natch surprised when the returns showed it to he about double that. Next month Ten nessee votes on a prohibition amendment similar to that which was defeated in Texas, and before the Texas election tho opinion seemed to prevail that the Tennessee amend vent would be carried. The result of tho Texas contest, however, may so encourage the Anti-Prohibitionists and discourage the Prohibitionists as to bring about a reaction. In that event there will Vie another prohibi tion defeat to be recorded. In reviewing tho various prohibition con tests there ore several things which are quite noticeable. Ono thing is that prohi bition commands comparatively few votes when it is mixed up with politics. Tho Prohibitionists do not, in any considerable numbers, vote for prohibition candidates at either national or State election’s. Another tiling is that when prohibition is presented as an issue at a State election, although not connected with politics, it does not com mand the full prohibition strength. These things would sixtm to indicate that the people do not seem to regard prohibition as a political question nor as a national or State issue. They look upon it as a local issue. If this conclusion is a correct one then the Prohibitionists would display wis dom by giving their entire time and atten tion te the local option plan, because it has, ns a rule, beeu followed by success wher ever it hits been tried. Thero are several strong reasons in its favor. ()ne is that it does not afford politicians im opportunity to uso prohibition for the advancement of their political fortunes. Another is that prohibi tion i.s not forced upon communities that do not want it, and in which, therefore, it cannot ho enforced. It is adopted only where tho way has boon prepared for it, and where public, sentiment is sufficiently strong to insure compliance with its regulations. If Texas and Tennessee Prohibitionists will adopt the local option plan their States will accept prohibition much sooner than if prohibitory constitutional amendments are insisted upon. Maine has had a State pro hibitory law for twenty years, and yet the restriction upon the sale of intoxicating liquors in her largo towns is comparatively slight. In this State, where thero is a local option law, and where four-fifths of the counties have adopted prohibition under its authority, tho sale of intoxicating liquors Ims l>oen almost wholly stopped in the prohibition counties. Whisky is carried into some of those coun ties in jugs, but even tho jug traffic has ceased to lie as noticeable ns it once was. The young men are being educated to bo lievo in prohibition, and as tho good effects of the reform become more clearly recog nized the prohibition sentiment grows stronger. Tho anti-prohibition counties, particularly those which are adjacent to the prohibition'counties, become infected, as it were, with prohibition ideas, and, without much agitation, they aro ready almost be fore they are aware of it to join the pro hibition column. The great, difficulty with which prohibi tion has to contend is that too many of t hose who are prominent in the prohibition move ment insist ui>on making prohibition a po litical rather than a moral question. They want to make it serve their personal pur posses. Neal Dow, for instance, said a few days ago that the first duty of the prohibi tionists was to destroy the Republican party. He hopes, of course, te build up a Prohibi tion pai-ty upon the ruins of that party. Tho freer prohibition is kept from polities the greater will its success be. The truth of this experience is daily teaching. The Terrapin Bill. Representative Wilson, of Camden county, is strongly opposed to the bill to protect ter rapins which passed the House on Tuesday. Ho lias announced his purpose to ask for a reconsideration of the bill, but there is not much probability that his request will lie acceded to. The bill is a wise one, and it did not require much argument to convince the lloubo that it is. The terrapins are fast disappearing from the waters of the State, because, they are captured out of seamen and tints prevented from increasing. Representative Wilson, perhaps, thinks that the bill is in somo way intended to de prive people of bis color of a highly ap preciated privilege, but a little considera tion ought to eonvice him that, the restric tion proposed is not a discriminating one, and if it becomes a law will operate t > the IxMiefit of colored, ns well as white, jieople. Tho aim is to give terrrapins a chance to multiply. If nothing is done to protect, them there will bo none in tho waters of the State in a very few yours. Not many years ago terrapins were plentiful in this locality. They were caught in large numbers, and tho market in this city was well supplied with them. Now, however, comparatively fow are caught. Tho reason lor their scarcity is well under stood. Tho supporters of the bill do not desire to deprive anybody or any class of a privilege that ought to bo possessed, lly limiting the privilege of capturing terrapins to certain months in tlv.i year its value will bo greatly enhanced, while if it remains unlimited it wiii soon become worthless. The colored fishermen will lie as free to capture terra pins in tho months in which the bill itermite them to lie taken as the white fishermen. If Representative Wilson will give tho bill a little more consideration ho may become an advocate, rather than an opjiogent, of it. The North Georgia cracker members of the General Assembly made merry, it seems, over the bill for the protection of terrapin introduced iu tho House by Hon. Ira E. Kmitb, of Glynn. It would iterhaim benefit the cracker members in question to travel in this direction. Under competent in structors they might lte mode te learn to distinguish between terrapin and the North Georgia “tarry-pine.” There is just now a demand from several quarters in Georgia that the pistol shall be made to vacate the hip-pocket. W hen those who are sworn to execute the laws cease to carry deadly weajtons pistols will not so fre quently be found in other men’s liip-pnektts. As things aro, nearly every man vested with brief authority sets a pernicious example in the matter of carrying concealed weapons. The New York World continues to make wnr upon President Cleveland. It is diffi cult to distinguish the World's politics from those of its neighbor in the tall towor—tho Tribune. TIIK MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1887. Why Murder is Common. Tho minister who officiated at the funeral j of the murdered Woolfolk family in Macon, | on Sunday last, seized tho occasion to jioiut j out tlie failure of the law to prevent mur- j dec. He said that there were too many | loopholes by which murderers might escape punishment, and that as long as this was true murders would continue to be numer ous. illustrating tlie ease with which those who maliciously take human life escape pun ishment, he said that ho once heard a young man rejieat the advice given him by a dis tinguished lawyer, namely; “If ever you find that you must have a personal collision witli a man, get one point of the law on your side and then kill him.” It is useless to deny tho frequency of murder. Scarcely a day passes but that from ono to half a dozen aro recorded in tlie newspapers. No part of tho country is exempt; for tlie papers of tlie* Nortli and West, as well as those of the South, often contain tlie horrible details of atrocious murders committed in their respective sec tions. It is seldom that tho perpetrators escape arrest, but those that are adequately punished are few in number. The minister who stood among the coffins of the mur dered WoolfoJks and declared that there were too many loopholes by which murder ers might escape punishment told tlie truth, and ho also told tlie troth when he said that as long .as this was true murders would con tinue to be numerous. Tlie value of the advice given by the dis tinguished lawyer to the young man men tioned by the minister was fully appre ciated by tlie man who, when he saw a friend engaged in up angry controversy with another, cried: “Make him strike you and thou kill him!" It is a lamentable con dition of affairs when, with a single trivial point of tho law on his side, a man may commit murder with impunity. It is a still more lamentable condition ot affairs when, without just provocation, a man may take tho life of another and yet go unpunished. Time and again have both these conditions prevailed in tliis country, so that instead of preventing murder, as it was meant to A>, the law frequently does not even cause the hand to hesitate that is about to commit a cruel and dreadful crime. A police official who has devoted nearly all his life to the supervision of the criminal classes, recently made this statement: “There are thoso who say that tlie publica tion of the details of murders in tlie news paiters leads to other similar crimes. This is a mistake. The reason why so many murders are committed is because the news papers do not often publish the details of tho conviction and punishment of the per petrators. Of course, the newspapers would publish these details if they were ob tainable. Unfortunately the courts seldom convict murderers, and the newspajiers are forced to publish the dotaiis of acquittals when for the good of the country they should iiealiloto publish tho details of linng ings. I have repeatedly been told by mur derers that they would not have stained their hands with blood if they had believed tliat their necks would lie in danger.” Testimony like tliis cannot bo successfully refuted. Murders are frequent because the law is not properly enforced. In Georgia it is time for a change for the the better. It is well known that unpro voked murders have recently frequently disgraced the Htate. This is n plain state ment, but it admits of no contradiction. There are men in Georgia, guilty of foul murder, who walk abroad when and where they please because the courts failed to do their plain duty. In future such a shame ful tiling should lie impossible. The lietter element in every community should insist upon the rigid enforcement of tho law. Judges and solicitors and sheriffs alone do not constitute the courts. Juries are vitally important parts of them. Juries convict or acquit. In order that they may render efficient service they should be composed of the best citizens, and to this end such citi zens should not avoid jury duty. Let the needed change come, and let it come quickly;for when it is known that the law cannot lie violated with impunity tho dread ful crime of murder will cease to be so alarmingly common. Why tho Charter Cannot he Granted. Tho prospect that the Marietta and North Georgia railroad will get a charter from Marietta to Atlanta from this legislature is not promising. There may bo reasons why it should have a charter, but the reasons why it should not lmvo one at once art' much stronger. To grant it tho charter it wants would be to greatly lessen the value of tho State road. The jieople own the road and their represen tivos have no right to injure their property without excellent reasons for doing so. If the Marietta and North Georgia were per mitted to parallel the State road from Ma rietta to Atlanta (he latter property could neither l>e sold nor rented for as much as it can now. It has not l)oen very long since the Ma rietta nnd North Georgia was voted a dona tion of in bonds from the Htate. It is most too soon for it to expect to receive nnotlior favor that would damuge the Htate niueh more than SIOO.IXIO. lot tiie Htate road he sold and then the legislature will lie at liberty to consider the application of the Marietta and North Geor gia for a charter. Indeed the very great objection to granting this charter at this time is a strong argument in favor of selling the Htate rood. Col. IV. C. Lewert, of Lima, 0., is tho business nnd political associate of ex-Gov. Foster, more generally known to fame ns “Calico Charley.” Col. Lewert said to a reporter in New York a few days ago: “There has never been a time in John Hlier man’s history when ho was so certain to hnvo a divided delegation from Ohio as now. I went to Toledo and helped to got tlie Hherman resolution passed. It has left the glove thrown down to men who will take it up in the districts and divide tho Htate against Hherman surely.” All of which can hardly lie eomfortiug to Kher mau, however much he may profess to bo gratified by his little “indorsement.” The Han Francisco Alta is authority for the statement that tho voting citizens of that city come from sixty different political divisions of the world, Egypt L ing about, tho only rountry not represented. To lie successful tlie politicians out there doubt less find it necessary to master many lan guages—that, is, of course, provided tho voters have not I earn ml tlie meaning of tho word* “Insidle” and “patronage.” The insanity dodge has boon played often enough in tho courts of Georgia. There is ou record more than one cn.se in which a murderer hns osea|*sl the gallows by plead ing Insanity. If it is claimed that a mur derer Is insane lot tliat question lw settled independently of tho criminal charges. CURRENT COMMENT. Sister Bolva Ann Lockwood. From the Philadelphia Press (Rep.) Tbnv is considerable likelihood that Sister Belva Ann Ixxrkwood will run for President next year. She is solidly in favor of her nomination and she majority of tho Belva Lockwood party. Th© Days of Jobbery are Over. From the Sew York Herald (Ind.'s The Democrats no sooner reached Washing ton, however, than they demanded that the country b;* r>ut in a state of defense. The con tracts which were given out yesterday show that the party in power is both earnest and patriotic. The days of jobbery are over, and tho people will by and by have a navy. Five Possible Candidates. From the Missouri Republican (Dcm.) Ben Butler ha-snot yet joined the Anti-Poverty Society. This in liable to mean that t here will hi* live Presidential candidates in the field next year. With a Democrat. Republican, Anti-Pov ertyite, Butler and a Prohibitionist in the field, the most fastidious voter will have a chance to find someone approaching his ideal. A Boom That is Resting. From the Washington Star (liul.) Tlie little syndicate of politicians and news paper correspondents who undertook to Ket Senator Stanford “s]>oken of" as a possible Presidential candidate sufficiently to induce him to ‘’open a barT' must he intensely disgusted at tile outcome ' f the Pacific railroad inquiry in California. The Stanford boom is laid quietly to rest under the drooping branches of the weeping willow tree. BRIGHT BITS. There are and g days, and they aren’t fit for anything else.— Burlington Free Press. A Bf/TT this time look out for the man who is in the hands of his friends. — Boston Globe. The: title of George W. Cable’s latest lecture is “Cobwebs in the < ’hurch." It may le guessed that .Mr. Cable makes some sweeping state ments.—fx/uv/Z Citizen. The girl who fills her essay with “the true, the beautiful and the good" may have learned how to make cake, but we must refuse to be lieve it.— Pittsburg Dispatch. “This is n sad and bitter world," remarked a gentleman of Irish extraction. “We never strew flowers on a man's grave until after he is dead. ’ Washinyton Ha tchet. “Thisre i evidently a great deal to lie learned about women,' says a Philadelphia editor. There is, indeed. an<l the best way to learn it is to oak some other woman about it.—Somerville Journal. A neat proposal of marriage was made by a South Yonkers man the other night, who said: “Now, my dear, you say you have $50,000 in your own name, why not put it in mine? — Yottkers Statesman. Fair Saturn has a silver ring, The moon a ring of flame: The sun has got no ring at all, But he gets there just the same. —Nebraska State Journal. Mose Schaumburg, Jr.—Vader, vat ish a gap ital grime? Mose Schaumburg, Sr.—Yen a man takes less den .*> per slient a month for dot gapital vat he lends out. l)at vas von of de most gapital grimes dot der vas. Texas Siftings. Possible Patron What do you charge for your paper, mister?" Country Editor Fifty cents a year." “My stars and stripes' That’s cheap." “Yes, I put the price so low that no one sub scriber will think lie can bankrupt mo by stop ping his paper.—lndianapolis Journal. A doctor who had been attending a dairy man's hired girl called at the house the other day. “How’s your milkmaid?" he asked of the farmer when he came to t he door. “It's none of your business how our milk is made," was the indignant response, and the dor r slammed most emphatically.— St. Paul Herald. “Young Blabb is a very diverting fellow, isn't he?" “Very, indeed, sir." “He's a lawyer, is he not?" “Oh, ’yes, 1 thought you understood that. It's his business that affords him opportunity to be He's continually diverting trust funds, you know.— Yonkers Gazette. “How did it happen that, you didn't find that man guilty?" asked a New York man of the foreman of a jury in Dakota; “the evidence was dead against him." “1 know that,," was the reply, “hut if we'd a found him guilty we'd uv had to hang him." “Certainly." “Well, we’re paying taxes enough now. Hang in's expensive.— Washington Critic. “I am determined to be embalmed when T die," remarked the young man that boards on South Division street. “I’ve been reading that they can inject poison into you and wrap yon up and take you out in 3,000 years' time fresher than Lazarus. They tell me a mummy 8,000 years old is worth $*25,000, rind, as it's the only chance I'll ever have of being worth that much, I'm going to clutch on to the mummy act when I die," and tbe irreverent young inan resumed his corncob in silence.— Buffalo Courier “I wish to report a case of larceny," she said, as she entered the police station yesterday. “Yes m. When did it occur ?" “Last evening." “At what place?" “< )n a ferry boat, sir." “What are the particulars?" “Why. 1 was a with a young man—young man. and “Oh, you were. Well, go on." “Ana tell his name." “Of course." “And that I never saw him before?" “Certainly." “Then 1 wont report the case, sir. You are too particular, and the ring wasn't worth over $3 anyhow."— Detroit Free Pres*. PERSONAL. Dai A m Murska, the famous Hungarian singer, wifi come to this country next fall. Thk smallest jockey in the country is De Long, a must inappropriate name. He weighs only (W I rounds. IjONDon Truth says tho Prince of Wales hns pivs'nted Buffalo Bill with a horseshoe pin set with diamonds. Gov. Ames, of Massachusetts, has a daughter named Kvelyn, who is said to be the finest Latin scholar iu Boston. Senator Hamttojc has gone to Dagger's Springs, on tho North river. Va. It is tlie fisher man's paradise, und several notable fishermen are there. The Princess Pignatalo is now a waiter girl in a second-class Vienna e if\ She quarreled with her relatives lant winter and tried life in a Lon don music hall for a brief period. Samckt C. Davis, the richest man in Ft. Louis, is worth $8,1*10,000 all inherited at the death of his father a few years ago. Ho is about 50 years old, and works at his dry goods house from 8 to 4 o'clock daily. William Wirt, of Detroit, on returning from a Southern trip a year ago, planted some cotton seed in Ids garden. The plantsare now growing finely, and Mr. Wirt thinks if tin* heated term continues he will be able to harvest a small crop of cotton. Ma.l Gfn. Siemens, who lately died in Berlin, had hitrodm- and nuury imjxirtant improvements intollu* material of tho German artillery. It wnamainly owin' to bis influence that Rrunp mins instead of tho English were adopted in th ; German navy. Ex-Senator Thurman recently said: “I am only a poor old ghost wandering along the banks of tin* Styx anil waiting for old ChAron to come over In his boat for me." List full, in ( iticin uati, ho said: “I'm waiting for the grim ferry man to row me over the Styx." President Cleveland, if is stated, will bo en tertained for u day or t wo tlie latter part of this month at the Democratic Club house, on Slide Mountain, in the (UtskilD. The clubmen are Judge Alton B. Parker, Judge Maynard, Public Printer Benedict and a score or more of other prominent Democrats. M. (laknikr, leading man in Sarah Bernhardt's conijiany, his challenged M. Rochefort to a duel. Rochefort published in his pa|>er a do rogatory article concerning certain incidents which occurred while tlifc company was at Rio Janeiro. If Pool effort will not light. Gamier will sue him for libel. The code of laws has to take second place under the code duello in France. At a Savage rlub dinner in London recently Wayne Moveagh, of Pennsylvania, made a very doo r hit. In tho course of a long si>eoch be said to his English auditors: “We admire your pictures-aud buy them; we weleorne your actor* and pay them: vre your lv>ksand stujil there.' The s|e%k**r*s frankness was i*j> predated hr hie h-Mirers and they wtn enthusi astic Iu thou applause. Walt Whitman has lMien tho target of very oousldemble attention from artists iu the last six months. J. W. Alexander has eomploted a life size study in crayon; Mr Mone, the Boston sculptor, has modeled a head aud a statuette of the jniet in his big chair: Huliert 11. Gilchrist, of KiWittn l, has fhiidied a portrait in oils; Angus- Gis t. (iAud**u is planning a trip to Philadel phia to take studies for a bunt, aud Thomas taking has begun work on a no: ir*it. HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE. The Summer Line Between Modesty and Immodesty. It is alleged that to the pure all things are pure, and that much-abused motto is true of Narragansett, writes a correspondent from that charming summer resort. The people and their pranks ate innocent enough, and when mad emoiselle removes h**r bathing suit she removes entirely all the conditions surrounding its use, and becomes once more a young per son of great conservatism in matters of modesty. The peculiar contrast is sometimes funny. This morning a young lady of 18, whose Christian name appears to be Mary, appeared on the I**aeh in a blue bathing suit and conventional dark blue stockings. She was so little bothered by her short skirts and long legs that she fairly waltzed into the breakers, in merry indifference, and afterward took a long walk up the beach in the company of a gentle man bather, with only one thickness of cloth between the most of her and the soft clemency of the weather. When she came out she chatted unconcernedly with several ladies, and tramped around with easy indifference until, by a cir cuitous route, she reached her hath house and disapj>oare<l. This was at 1:3:30 o'clock. At 4:30 o’clock she sat down on the top step of the hotel stall’s, and soon lducame absorbed in the fascinating pages of “Allan Quatermain.” Soon she forgot everything else. Lost in the centre of Africa, she became unconscious of the social amenities of America. Becoming cramped in her position, she crossed her right knee over her left. Her gray cashmere dress was tight, and she gave it a twitch. Heratti tude to any one entering the place and ascend ing the steps thereupon became unconventional, if not picturesque. It must have been so to some extent, for her companion of the morn ing as he entered the yard and stopped at the foot of the stairs made a remark. Ilis eye twinkled and his tone was at once patronizing, mildly reproachful aud humorously malicious. He said: “You’re getting to be a big girl now, Mary.” Iu less time than it requires to road it, Mary had done several tilings. She hail straightened out her feet, slapped down her skirt, blushed to a deep ochre tint even to the hack of her neck, and hurled “Allan Quatermain” with all her strength at the gentleman, who, though he dodged, refused to stop laughing. Then, as the ludicrousness of the situation struck her, she began to laugh too. Though the stockings were different, the liml>s inside them were precisely the same that she bad exhibited that morning to a far greuter extent and without a blush. Circumstances appeared to alter the case, as they always do w ith women. COURTSHIP IN GREENLAND. Ardent Lovers Must Sometimes Find it Vexatious to Play a Go Between. From the Manchester Courier. The preacher is invariably resorted to, both by young men and maidens, as the matrimonial agent. The young man comes to the missionary house and says to him. “I want to marry.” “Whom?” asks the missionary. “Have you any one in mind?” “Yes,” answers the lover, “but, she will not have me. I want you to speak to her.” “Have you not spoken for yourself?” “Many times, hut she always says ‘No.’ ” “That is nothing,” says the pastor; “you know the ways of maidens. Does she like you?” “It is difficult to find out. She will tell you.” 1 The pastor accordingly sends for t lie girl, who comes willingly enough, knowing what the mes sage means. “Well, iny daughter,” he observes, “it is time you should’think of marriage.” “I never mean to marry,” is the invariable and conventional answer. “That is a pity,” says the minister, “because I have a good husband for thee.” “Who is he?” she asks. The missionary then tells her his name—al though she knows it as well as he does—and launches out into the lover’s praise. He is strong, good-looking, kindly; he caught two flue whales when his companions took none, or whatever else can lie said to his repute. After i he catalogue of his merits has been recited the girl replies; “But I think him a good-for-nothing.” “All, well,” says the missionary, “thou art not wise. There is no lad can fling a harpoon as he can. 1 shall soon find him a wife." He then wishes the girl a good day, affecting to believe that the interview is over. But she is sure to linger, and after a blush and sigh she whispers: “So it is particularly your wish, Herr Pastor? Tdo not quite like him,” with a deep sigh, “hut if you——” At this point she vir tually hands over the business to the minister, who has to tell her that she knows she loves the lad: that she would not have come if she bad not thought of accenting him and that nothing is wanting hut to ass the blessing of God upon their union. The marriage, curiously enough, usually takes place upon t.he very day on which the bride has emphatically protested that she w ill never have the bridegroom. Louise. You say you are not cruel, yet You tease My very heart out. Yes, you do, Louise! Of course it’s yours, to do with as You please; My heart's not mine since I saw you Louise. But barriers more bitter than The seas You put between ray heart and me, Louise. Ah, me! I envy all things, e’en The breeze That plays about your lily brow, Louise. The skies that bend above you, and The trees That shelter all your loveliness, Louise. I envy birds that sing to you, And bees That hover o’er your rosy lips, Louise. I envy blossoms blowing on The leas, Since they may lie upon your breast, Louis;. Yet I offend you! How can I Appease You? Is it my fault that I love Louise? In Cupid’s hands I’m helpless. He Decrees That I shall be the lover of Louise. Nay, do not frown, my sweet! Upon My knees, I swear I can’t stop loving you, Louise. M. N. B. A Boston Merchant With a Lone Head. From the Boston Transcript. A Briston capitalist, who is a leading merchant as well as a lrir.'c owner of real estate, is noted for the interest he takes in young men in cleri cal positions. Once a frightened hank cashier waited upon him to say Mint hy the mistake of one of the clerks a cheek of the merchant's had got into the pigeonhole marked "protested.'’ As Mr. Millions might have heard a rumor that Ids check had been protested the cashier hastened to explain and said that he would disetiarge promptly the young man who made the mis take. "And why discharge him, sir?” mildly asked Mr. Millions. “Because lie put your check in the ‘protested’ Ix>x." "It is a good many years,’’ said Mr. Millions, ns lie tilted hack in ids ofllce chair, and after his fashion harpooned his blotting pad with his p m, "since 1 was a young man, bui my memory is that I sometimes made mistakes. If I had been discharged for every mistake I made I should not have made my fortune. The young man whose mistake is pointed out to him and for given is the most careful man In the offlee ever afterward. 1 think my business relations with your bank are likely to he prolonged if the young man is not discharged.” And the young man was not discharged. Kaiser and Steam-Hammer. From the Vienna Ejctraltlatt. The Emperor displayed great interest in the working of the ste.uu hammer, and Herr Krunp took the opportunity of speaklug in high praise of the workman who had special charge of it,. "Ackertnann has a sure eye,” he said, "amt can stop the tailing hammer at any moment. A hand might tie placad on the r.nvif without fear, and tic would slot) the hammer within a hair's breadth of it. "Let us try," said tho Emp-ror. "hut Dot with a humon hand—try my watch," and he laid it, a i plondid specimen of work richly set wit b brilliant*, on tie anvil. Down cam* the jinntense mass of steel, and Acker 'mu tin. with his band on the lever, stopped it just the dxth of an-Inch from the watch. (Vljeii lie went te liaud it back the Ktmutror replied kindjy. “No, Ackermann, keep the watch in memory of an mtercet lug moment." The work man, embarrassed, stood with outstretched hamt, not. knowing what to do. Kriipp came forward and took tho watch, saying, “I'll keep it for you if you arc afraid to tak- it from Ids rnaj sty." A few minutes later they ngatn passed the spot, ami Knipp said, "Now,'you can take the Emperor's present from inv liand," mid ha died Ackermann the watch wrapped up in a I.UOU-oiark note. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Chicago is the largest railroad centre in the world. It has twenty trunk lines. Buffalo has eleven roads. The rains that have fallen in some parts of New England lately are declared to have been the most copious known for twenty-five years. The planters of Brazil are now' so successful in obtaining laborers from Europe that some of them will will free their slaves within the next two or three years. Two carriers attend to tho wants of Salem, | Or., where the rree delivery system was inaugu rated on Aug. 1. One of them rides a bicycle, the other a tricycle. . Coffee Rice is the name of a gentleman who has just been appointed three tor of one of the agricultural districts of California by the Governor of that State. Thomas Mora.v, Associate Justice of the Ap pellate Court of Illinois, says his mother, a na tive of Ireland subject of Great Britain, took out papers and became a naturalized citizen of New York State as far back as 1836 or 1837. A colored man of Hopkinsville, Ky., thought to scare a deaf mute of the place by suddenly rushing out on him as he passed. He was suc cessful, for the mute was so alarmed that he drew a revolver and shot five balls into the practical joker, killing him. Sixty thousand orange trees are on their way to California from Japan, where they were shipped on board of an English bark in the har bor of Yokohama about two weeks ago. With them also comes a miscellaneous assortment of over 00,900 trees and shrubs, indigenous to Japan, which it is proposed to acclimatize in California. A nugget of gold weighing 156 ounces and five pennyweights was recently found near Breckenridge. It is worth as a specimen close to $5,000. It is said to be the largest lump of gold ever found in California, but one almost, if not quite as large, was taken from the Little Annie mine in Sunpnit district, Rio Grande county, late in 1876. Australia produced the largest nugget of gold ever discovered. It weighed 130 pounds, and was found at Ballarat, near Geelong. An imniensedrainagc work undertaken by the Russian government contemplates the recovery of the vast region known as the Pinsk marshes, in the southwest of Russia, near the borders of Gatticia, and which hitherto has munication, not only between the Russian dis trict on either side, but also between Russia and Austro Germany. Up 1o the present time about 1.000,000 acres have been reclaimed by means of the construction of several thousand miles of ditches and canals. A remarkable family of musicians, known as the “Familia Montenegro,” have just left Chihuahua, Mexico, for an extended tour through the United SiAtes. This group is composed of Mr. Pancezo Montenegro and nine children. The father has been their instructor, and is now the director of his pupils. Some of his children are graduates of the (’onservatory of Music, located at the City of Mexico. They furnish both instru mental and vocal music, and play every instru ment from the bass violin to a drum. The youngest virtuoso of the group is Raffaela, a little girl only 3 years of age. and she, it is said, handles the drumsticks to perfection. In a young man named Hugh Fries, who had been once confined in an asylum for feeble-minded children, was taken before a court charged with theft. In reply to a question from the Judge, Fries said: “In regard to my insanity, one of the physicians in the asylum said I was crazy and the other said 1 was not. You know doctors sometimes differ.” “What is your own opinion about it ?” asked the Judge. “Self-praise is no recommendation,” smilingly answered the defendant. “The craziest man out of the asylum will say he is sane. Others may look upon me as insane. I hardly know, but I think lam perfectly sensible.” “You ap pear to lie, and it ought to lie a consolation to you that you think so,” remarked the Judge, as the prisoner was placed back in the dock. “It must lie done,” said the President, ac cepting the St. Louis invitation. “This remark,” says a Washington correspondent of the Pliiladel phia Record , “so pleased the St. Louis delega tion that they made it a watchword of their visit. While they were here, when they went to Mount Vernon and when they left for home, every other word seems to have been ‘lt must ho done.’ Whether the proposition had been to take a drink or the train, to pay a bill or a call, the reply chorused by as many of the delegates as heard it, was always the same. ‘Tt must he done.' Before they left for St. Louis they had Tt must be done’ painted on a long strip of cot ton and tacked on the side of their principal car. When the President shall get out to St. Louis he will find it everywhere. In the next campaign, according to some of the Missourians, the transparencies will all hear this legend: ’For re-election, Grover Cleveland, of New York—lt must be done.’ ” A Jersey City police officer on Friday had his attention attracted to a milk wagon in which were a middle-aged man and a girl apparently about 15 or 16 years (fid. The appearance of the couple and the rig indicated that they were from the country, and the Sergeant, after ques tioning the main took them to a station house. Idic man gave his age as 40, and sai i he was a milkman from Camden. N. J. His companion was also from Camden. He told a queer story*. He said his wife left him some time ago and went to live with a negro. He decided to drive to New York and sell his horse and wagon, and started on Sunday night. On the outskirts of Camden he met the gild, who told him she had left home because ncr father beat her. She asked him to take her with him, and he con sented. They drove all the way from Camden, journeying by night, and resting during the day in a hotel or farm house. A Justice decided to hold the couple until the authorities of Camden could be communicated with and some informa tion obtained about them. Somewhat of a sensation was caused in Phila delphia Thursday last by the death of Melville Resse Dill, brother of United States Marshal A. H. Dill, while under the influence of ether being administered by Dr. Agnew and Prof. William White, a prominent Professor of the University of Pennsylvania. The patient was undergoing a safe, but painful operation under the knife, when lu sullenly stopped breathing. Squibbs' ether was used, and was administered on a towel folded in the shape of a cone, in the ordinary way. The patient took it very well, and in about ten or fifteen minutes was completely un der its influence, whereupon the operation was begun. The ether used was pronounced by both physicians as undoubtedly the best that could be procured. The method of administra tion was the one employed by these physicians for many years. Neither of them in their indi vidual practice had had, it, v.as stated, a fatal case before. The high standing of t e physi cians and the prominence of Mr. Dill in Demo cratic political circles in the State caused a sensation. •At the time of the census of 188) there were ten cities in the United States with more than 3)0.000 inhabitants each. They were New York, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Chicago, Boston, St. Louis, Baltimore, Cincinnati, San Francisco and New Orleans. Their populations aggregated 4,914,897. In 1887 the number of cities with more than *.*00,000 inhabitants had increased to fourteen, the four additional being Buffalo. Cleveland, Pittsburg and Washington. The total jMipulation of these fourteen cities was esti mated at 6,798,090. It is estimated that there are iu addition to the cities alwive enumerated thirteen with populat ionsexccccliug 100,000 each, as follows: Albany, Alleghany. Detroit. Indianapolis, Jersey City. Kansas City, Louis ville. Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Newark, Provi dence. Rochester and St. Paul. These thirteen have au estimated population of 1,750.000. There are also thirteen cities with over 60.(XX)each, whose combined population is 902,000. Alto gether these forty cities hare 9,450,090 inhabL tains, or nearly one-sixth of the population of the United States. Archaeologists and antiquarians will rejoice to hear that an important discovery has been inadv* near the town of Adatnville, France. A few days ago a Paris architect, M. Mace, was superintending some alterations in the park of St. Maur when Ills men suddenly dug up some mouldering bones. The architect immediately stopped the works, and, jumping into the trench which had lieen dug, liegan to scoop out with his own hands what apjw ared to be parts of skeletons. He next disinterred an iron lance head. the form of which and its incrustation of rust denoted its antiquity. M. Mace now set his men to work again, and they soon brought to light a large collection of swords, helmets, laueeß and bracelets*. Next came a row of tombs, which looked as if they had lieen hastily built and arranged w.thout order. It was sup posed l hat the place Was the bury teg ground of the Itagaudi, a tribe of ancient Gauls, who were driven from the mountains of by Maximum and were shut up in tft. Maur. That • town was. in fact, called St. >U*ur-le Fo.<**•* owing to the cuttings made by the Romans, mid Adamville was known of old the camp of the Bagaudi. The Bogaudi remained in possession of their entrenchment on the little peninsularor Bt. 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