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4 C|e|Hornrag'flctos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. SATURDAY. AUGUST SO, 188 T. Registered at the Post Office in Savannah. TUe Mornino New* is published every day m *fte 8 ar, and is served to subscribers in the city, by newsdealers and carriers. on llieir own a * count, at 25 cents a week. Si 00 a month, $5 00 for six months and $lO 00 tor one year. The Mornino News, by mail, one month, $1 00; three months, $2 50; six months, $5 00; one year. $lO 00. The Mornino News ht/ mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months. $2 00; six months, $4 00 one year. $8 00. The Mornino News, Triweekly, 51 on days, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, tnree months, $1 25; six months, $2 GO; one year. $5 00. Thp Sunday News, by mail, one year. $2 60. 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 be addressed “Morning News, Savannah, Ga." Advertising rates made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Special Notices The Equitable Loan and Building Association; Coats, Vests, etc., at Jaudon's. Steamship Schedule -Ocean Steamship Cos. Cheap Column Advertisements Help Want ed; For Rent; For Sale: Lost; Miscellaneous. Auction Sale— Securities, by C. 11. Dorsett. ANNUAL SPECIAL EF T TION --OK THE Savannah Morning News —AND THE Savannah Weekly News, —TO BE— ISSIED ON SEPTEMBER 3d, 18S7. The Annual Special Edition of the Daily arid Weekly News will be issued Sept. 3. It will contain a complete and comprehensive review of the trade of the city for the past year, and will show the progress the city has made in everything that helps to make up its wealth and that contributes to its prosperity. The facts relating to cotton, naval stores and the different branches of the city’s wholesale trade will be so presented as to give a clear idea of the city's business for the year ending Sept. 1. The business men of Savannah cannot make a better investment than by Inlying copies of the Morning News Annual Sjiecial Edition and sending them to their friends and correspon dents. A newspaper like tills Special Edition, containing an accurate account of the business of this city, is the best advertisement of the energy and activity of the people of Savannah. Every citizen, whether he is a capitalist, nier chant, manufacturer, mechanic ora man of leis ure, should feel a pride in the progress the city is making, and in presenting to the world the inducements which it offers to those who are eeking homes in the South. This Special Edition will be sent to nil sub * ibers of the Daily and Weekly News, and a number of extra copies will be mailed, oroughly covering the territory tributary to uvannah. $ Advertisers will find this Special Kdition of •Tjeat value, and space in its columns can he ob lined upon application to the Business Office. *The wife of Harvey Fletcher, of Lowell, . V was killed by lightning as she lay in -fLxside him, while he was ia nowise in jured. One class of people may bo depended on to attend the fall fairs—the politicians. They will attend even if they have to walk to do so. The Pennsylvania Republicans seem de termined to maintain their reputations ns fossils. They are still feebly waving the bloody shirt. A ‘‘cold day in August” has been promised by the Signal Service Bureau, but the prom ises of that institution are unfortunately often broken. Before Mrs. Theresa Wall, of Sweet water, Tenn., committed suicide she had prepared a certified check that would meet her funer al expenses and erect a monument over her grave. There are signs tliat a few protectionists in this State will endeavor to get them selves elected to Congress next year. If they wish to avoid disappointment they will curb their ambition. The Woman’s Congress, of which Min. Julia Ward Howe is president, will meet in New York Oct. 85-28. It is ex|iectod that as far as talk is concerned the National Con gress will be put to shame. Commissioner Baird, whose death is an nounced in our dispatches, was a faithful! and capable official. His work in connec tion with the Kish Commission will cause his name to bo remembered. It is said that in Brown county, Indiana, there are 10,000 jieople, one saloon and not a foot of railroad. The saloon having fa ilod to bring the people abreast with the times, it would be well for them to chip in and build a railroad. A Chicago paper observes tliat it appears to bo the ambition of young men at the •umnicr resort, to dress as much as [>oskU)lo like circus downs. This is unfortunately true. Among many young men good taste in dress is conspicuous by its absence. It has been discovond that throe-fourths of the sunstrokes that have occurred during the present summer would have been avoided if the victims hod let liquor alone. It doesn’t, take the sun long to get In its work on the man who is well soaked with liquor. This hot weather appears to have a lad influence upon the railwuys. Accidents on them have been quite frequent lately. A couple of engines in Philadelphia yesterday got away from their engineers and had a lively run on their own account. Unfor tunately one of them dangerously wounded three men. Henator Frye, who has just returned to this land of the free from u tour in Europe, says: “Perhaps the most contemptible per son one meets abroad is tlie Anglicised American—the man who apes both in man liors and language what he regard* os the English aristocracy, affects to believe every thing in England (icrfect, and seems to be ashamed to institute any favorable com parison between his country nod England." It would lie a good thing for this country If the “Anglicised American" could lie in duced to remain abroad uu'nuuMiutlv. Big: and Little Criminals. The impression prevails in New York that Jaoob Sh'arp will secure a stay of pro ceedings in his cose. If he succeeds in get ting anew trial it is safe to predict that he will never see the inside of the penitentiary. The jury which convicted him was obtained with the greatest difficulty, and his trial cost the county of New York many thou sands of dollars. The Judge who presided at the trial is one of the ablest on the New York bench, and ho was exceedingly care ful not to make any mistakes. If flaws in the proceedings are found which are held to be sutHoiont to invalidate the verdict the opinion will be entertained by many that there is one sort of justice in New York for a rich man and another sort for a poor man. This opinion may not be correct., but there will nevertheless be somo reason for enter taining it. The belief is quito generally entertained nowadays that a man who steals hundreds of thousands of dollars is much more likoly to escape punishment for his crime than one who steals $5. The confession of the de faulter Hcoft, published in our dispatches a day or two ago, shows how prevalent this belief is. Scott was the teller of the Man hattan Bank in New York city. For ten years he stolo small sums from tho bank without lieiug detected. A change in the bank’s manage nent was about to occur, and ho was sat shod that his wrong doing would be discovered. He went to a lawyer for advice, and was informed that tho wisest course for him to pursue was to steal $1,1)00,000, if lio could get that much, and go to Canada. The lawyer informed him that the bank would be glad to compromise with him for half the amount, and that the other half would be sufficient to support him in luxury for the balance of his life. He acted on the advice to the extent of stealing $lOO,OOO He reached Canada, and finally went to London, where he made a confession to Consul General Waller. He was foolish enough, however, to leave most of tho money with the lawyer for safo-koepiug, and the lawyer appropriated the most of it to his own use. The bank did agree to compromise the mat ter, however, but Scott was unable to return any part, of the money, because tho lawyer asserted that he had lost it all in specula tions. If Scott had been able to command the money lie would have escaped punish ment, and hail enough to live a life of lect ure. Those of the Aldermen whom Sharp bribed, who have been tried, are now in tho penitentiary, hut Sharp, who made SI,OUO - out of the street railway fmnohiso which lie bribed tho Aldermen to gi ant him, is not in the penitentiary yet, and, if the report respecting the granting of a stay in his ease is true, the chances arc that he will never bean inmate of that institution. The power of gold is great. It seen is to lie great enough to sometimes stay the hand of jus tice. The Proposed Board of Pardons. The Governor, in his message to the legis lature at the beginning of tho present ses sion, suggested tho advisability of creating a board of pardons. Tho suggestion was based upon the fact that six hundred appli cations for pardon were waiting for his action. He stated that it was impossible for him to give these applications the attention which they deserved, and at tho same timo attend to his other duties. Several Mils were introduced into tjio House based upon the Governor’s sugges tion, but no one of them, it seems, was entirely satisfactory to the Penitentiary Committee, to which they wore referred. A substitute for them was offered by a member of the committee, aud it was decided to report it favorably. The substitute provides for a board consisting of throe members and a clerk. The compensation is fixed at $4 a day each, while serving the State, and mile age. The Governor is to appoint the board, and North, South and Middle Georgia are each to have a representative upon it. The board is to meet within thirty days after appointment, and to give not more than sixty days to its duties in the first year, and not more than thirty days in succeeding years. It is probable that ttao Legislature will pass this bill just as it is, or with slight modifications. It is apparent that n loard of pardons is needed. It is impossible for the Governor to make a careful examina tion of all the applications for pardon which arc presented to him, and it is very doubtful if any board can conscientiously inquire into the t>oo landing applications ijithin sixty days. To do ft it would be necessary to pass upon ten each day. It is probable that in some eases the papers filed with the application are very voluminous, and in others it wifi be necessary to hear testimony before it will be possible to reach a satisfactory decision. After the first year, however, the board doubtless will be able to discharge its duties within the time fixed by the bill. The Governor will still have a 1 great deal to do in connection with pardons as he will have to review the work of the board. He will, however, bo relieved of an immense amount of drudgery as well as of much responsibility. The New York World says that citizens of Detroit, Mich., irrespective of party, have been working for a popular invitation to President Cleveland to visit that city. Prominent among the movers in the scheme was Ira Metcalf, a leading Republican and a member of the gilt-odgod, kid-gloved Re publican Club. At a special meeting of the club it was decided that, iu the interests of harmony, Metcalf must bo quieted. He was approached by a select committee and apprised of the fact that the invitation to the President was a Democratic scheme. Every inducement wus held out to Metcalf to cause him to withdraw from the move ment, but he refused. It is now probable that ho will be expelled from the club. In this case, as in many others, Republican partisanship has passed the bounds of decency. One day last week two childen, aged 5 and 8 years, respectively, sous of Mr. Kissell, of the Hprings, 11 vo miles from Ligonior, Pa., came Into the house and informed their mother that they hud killed a rattlesnake near the house. She doubted the state ment, hut U]xm repairing to the scene of the engagement found a big rattler lying dead It is hinted that the attacks ti|>on Hon. J. T. Henderson, Commissioner of Agriculture, ore caused by the urgent desire of the “outs" to get in. One thing is certain: so far no other sufficient cause for the attacks has been shown Miss Surplus is the name of tig? treasurer of a Boston temperance club. As she is quite thin and would look better if she weighed more, nobody wishes her reduced. THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1887. The Washington Railroad Accident. The accident on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad on Wednesday, at Washington, caused a great deal of indignation in that city. It is alleged that the “Y” which caused the accident is a death-trap. It has caused several other accidents, and the at tention of the railroad management has fre quently been called to its dangerous charac ter. For some reason no effort has been made to remove it, or to so change it as to make it safe. It is alleged that the man ogoment was averse to spending any money for improving its facilities for handling its traffic at Washington because it has been expecting Congress for years to pass a law compelling the railroads to remove their depots to the boundary of the city. If this statement is correct it seems that tho Baltimore and Ohio Company has been subjecting those who travel upon the Washington branch of its rond to a very great, danger, for no other reason than to avoid the expenditure of a sum of money sufficient to insure comparative safety to it* patrons. Wednesday’s accident, how ever. will cost the company more than it would to remedy the dangerous “Y,” and the prospect is that the company will have to remove the “Y,” or at least to so change it that it w.ill no longer boa death trap. The Commissioners at Washington are making the accident the occasion for inquiring into the right of the company to run its cars into the heart of the city, and it is not improbable that they will make regu lations which will either prevent the road from running its trains within the city limits, or compel it to remove the danger ous features of its tracks. A great many railroad companies are constantly improving their roads, ami they keep in view tho necessity for adopting every possible means to niako traveling on them safe. They seek only a fair income from their property, and use their surplus in making improvements. There are other companies, however, and the number is large, which do not put a dollar in improve ments as long as they can possibly avoid doing so. The roads of theso com panies are, as a rule, in the hands of speculators, whose aim is to make all the money they can. If a road has a good earning capacity, and is capable of* paying large dividends, the stock is wntcrcd extensively, and then the money that should lie expended upon improvements is used to pay dividends on the watered stock. The market price of the stock de pends, of course, upon the dividends. Railroad companies complain of hostile legislation, but they must expect such legis lation as long as the rights which tho public is entitled toare disregarded. Unfortunate ly the roads which are honestly managed have to suffer for the wrong-doing of those which are not honestly managed. An Answer Required. Tho Pacific Railroad Commission, which for weeks past lias been engaged in investi gating the affairs of the Central Pacific Railroad, in which the government has a large interest, lias placed Senator Stanford, of California, in a very unenviable position. Ex-Gov. Pattison, the chairman of the commission, insisted upon knowing what became of some $2,000,000 which the Central Pacific had received, but which was not accounted for on the Isooks of the road. Senator Stanford, who is President of tho road, refused to tell the commission what had become of the money. He said that none of it Imd been used to corrupt Con gressmen, Stats 1 legislators or Judges, and that it had not been doducted from the amount of which the government received a jiercentage. He contended therefore that it was none of tho commission’s business what became of it. Tho commission, however, was not satis fied with the answer. It remembered that the company wante lto deduct the $2,000,- 000 from the net receipts, on which the gov ernment’s percentage was bated, and was only prevented from doing so by the refusal of the government to permit it to be done, unless it were shown what had become of the money. The secrecy which tho company observes with respect to this money justifies the suspicion that it was not properly used. If it were disposed of in a legitimate way, what possible objection could there be to making public all there is to know about it? Senator Stanford is a very rich man and occupies a high position in Congress, but neither his money nor his p isitlon ought to be permitted to shield him from the conse quences of any wrongful acts of whioh he may be gqilty. The government has had a great deal of difficulty to get oven a small part of that which Is due it from tho Pacific roads, although it is a notorious fact that quite a number of those who are lurgely in terested in their management have made colossal fortunes out of them. The government will spare no effort to ciVnpcl Senator Stanford to answer the questions of the commission. The matter is now in the courts, where, doubtless, it will rest for awhile. It is probable that the Senator's claim that the government has no right to know what tho Central Pacific did with a vast sum of mono}’, and that the company ought not to be compelled to make public its private affairs, will not be held to be valid. Tho government’s interest in tho Pacific roads is mi immense one, and for tho proper protection of that interest it must know all about their affairs. Says the Philadelphia News: “Three hundred Georgia editors will meet at Mill odgevillo on Aug. 80, and as each one walks up to register his name at the hotel ho will scowl daggers at the affable clerk unloss he is addressed with a ‘how dy,' kqjnel P" If the News were better acquainted with Georgia it would understand that tho young lawyers, not the editors, have tho exclusive right to the title “Colonel.” In one Northern State tho saloon in polities is causing trouble; in another the prison in politics is accomplishing the same thing, and in still another the lunatic asylum in politics is making life a burden to would-be statesmen. In Georgia, tho sa loon, the prison and the lunatic asylum are all in politics at once, and it is small wonder t hut the hair of certain Georgia politicians is rapidly turning gray. There is said to lie a man in Leadville, Col., who can tell by the tingling sensation in his fingers when he walks over a body of ore. He is a living mineral detector. His powers are said to have boon thoroughly tested, and he ha* earned large sums bv his peculiar gifts, hut his fondness for fnre keeps hill) poor. The New York Tribune's interviews with “prominent men” ull end about as fol lows: “Mr. O’Flarehty, who is a leading hod carrier in his town uml a devoted Kepubli enn, says that Cleveland is rapidly losing what little influence he once had, and that Mr. Blaine will sweep the county in 'BO like a whirlwind.” CURRENT COMMENT. It All Depends Upon That Little Boom. From th* fioaton Globe (Dem.) Senator Frye, of Maine, is authority for the statement that Jameti G. Blaine (same State* limy stay abroad a year and may return in November. It ail depends upon that little boom. * Interesting: and Valuable. From the Augusta Evening Neivs (Dem.) The regular annual special edition of the Sa vannah Mornino News will be isßued|rm Bept.|3. These annuals of the Morning News are among; the most interesting and valuable publications of the year of any paper in the South. They are always preserved by businessmen for future reference. An Inter-State Difference. From the New York Sun (Dem.) In the State of New York we put a man into prison for lieing drunk and disorderly. In the Commonwealth of Virginia they put a man into prison for being disorderly, and let him out for being drunk. At least this is what we make of the Itiddle berger affair. Republican Favorites. From the Galveston Feus (Dem.) A California paper nominates Leland Stanford as the Republican candidate for the Presidency. It is always the way. Whenever a prominent politician becomes involved in doubt ful relations with railroads and railroad legislation, and the fact is exposed by an investigation, he at once Sets to lie a favorite with his party as a Presi ential candidate. Not a Good Year for Socialists. From the Cincinnati Times-Star (Rep.) This is not a good year for Socialists. Even the Labor Convention,in Belgium, kicked out a Representative who had gone all the way from London to Brussels to bloviate. The results of the struggles in the district conventions in New York have been gratifying indeed, for it shows that the red mouthed scoundrels are only pow erful with their mouths. BRIGHT BITS. A stable government should be one that is ruled by horse sense. -bowell Courier. There is no use crying over spilled milk. It may lx* throe parts water. Boston Courier. Noah was doubtless the only man who has ever seen a full house on nothing but pairs.— Lowell Citizen. The th.it gets into a breach of promise suit if not caught at first is lass-sued at last.— Duluth Paragrapher. Governess -And what countryman is your papa? Pupil Papa is a bilious subject.— Moonshine. It must lie hard on a talkative woman to marry a barber. Whenever she'd think she had the last word, he'd he sure and have the ‘next.'’ —Charleston Enterprise. Train Boy—Rock can<Jy, rock candy, sir? (’rust v <>ld Party—No, ho, go away. I haven't any teeth. Train Boy—Gum drops, sir '-Judge. “A boy assassin hanged,'' mad Mrs. Bascom from a newspaper. “Well,” she remarked, “a Hassin' boy is a groat trial, hut I don't think he ought to D3 hanged for it. '— Albany Argus. Bobby—Pa, what’s the meaning of “phenome nal?" Mis Pa—Don't bother me, Bobby. It has something to do with base ball pitching.— New York Sun. A New England man has just had a patent granted to him for “an electric > witch." It is wai ranted to make the dirtiest small boy alive confess that be lias been in swimming.— Bur ling ton Free Press. Early Citizen—Horrible murder across the street during the night, wasn't it?" Police (who is supposed to have been on duty all night)- Don't know anything alxmt it; I haven’t seen the morning papers yet .-Life. They were discussing art matters. “Have you ever been done in oil, Mr. Smith?” she asked. “Oh, yes,” he replied. “Who was the artist?” “He wasn't an artist—he was a broker."— Puck. “Why Mo you not get married?” said De Fidgett to a bachelor friend the other day. “O, I detest women, and getting married would seriously interfere with my literary labors." “What kind of literary work do you do?*' “1 write love stories.” — .Cleburne Bulletin. Sister Jones—Brudder Light foot, what's de resin it's so much hotter in de summer dan it arc in de winter? Brother Light-foot--History tells us, Sister Jones, dat it ain owin' to the fact dat de nights am so short dat do sun, dat great hall ob tire, don't have time to cool o ft.—Harper's Weekly. “When do you think the moon is at its love liest, George, deart” she asked. George, dear, stole his arm and a cautious glance around the immediate vicinity, and whispered: ■* when it. Is behind a cloud, love," and they were as happy as if they had each taken a hypodermic injection of morphine.— New York Sun. PERSONAL. Postmaster General. Vilas expects to re main in Wisconsin for a month or six weeks. Delaxcoy Nicou-the Now York District Attor ney who triisl Jacob Sharp, plays lawn tennis all U ty long at Btr ilarbor. Millionaire Payne, of the Standard Oil Com pany, whose residence is in New- York, goes down to Coney Island nightly to sleep. Mrs. Mary A. Moore, 0.5 years of age, a wid ow*, of Woodland, Cal., is about to wed James Black, the :i t-yoar-old Superintendent of her ex tensive property. The value of Mrs. Jloores estate is placed at $400,u00. Tiie San Francisco Examiner undertakes to show that Miss Etta 8., whom it styles the liello of California, is more beautiful than Mr,. l*augtry. It compares the items of make-up in detail, and from shoulder to ankle awards the Lily second place every time, Gen. Neal Dow, the originator of the “Maine law ,” early in September will go to New York and make a number of speeches in favor of pro hibition. Although Gen. Dow is 84 years old, and his hair iij as white ns snow, he is in vig orous health, and Is more active than most men of 50. T. P. O’Connor has brown-gray eyes t hat like to twinkle, with a large mouth that melts most easily into u tnerry smile, and with all his fa ciUtdes of imrth or wrath, of rhetoric or fancy, or exaggerated contempt lying close to the surface, ready for use on the Hash of the instant. Mrs. Lanotry is fond of surf battling, and is a fine swimmer. East Friday she appeared on the lieaeb at Long Branch clad iu a light fitting jersey suit of deep black, tastefully trimmed with gold braid, bite dived through the billows with grace and vigor, and swam out as far as the end of the pier. Tut: liest American in England is Lord Ronald Gower. He is treiuend usly fond of Americans, and u-s he has traveled all over tho world, he has got rid, as far as an Englishman can get rid, of narrowness and insularity. He has given the American Exhibition a great lift socially, and the Gower family have backed him up. George MacDonald, the famous British nov elist, poet and preacher, is a man do years of age. though be does not look more thau*4o. lie derives a handsome income from thirty volumes of novels and nine volumes of Poetry. He re e-dves an annual pension of SBOO from the Queen’s civil list, as a compliment to Ins literary ability. Asa preacher ho has a high reputation. His delivery is most Impressive, aud his dis courses are both scltohirlv and broad minded Says Loudon Life: “A lady visitor at the hos pital in which Buck Tnylor is now recovering from the fracture of his thigh relates that when her visiting day came she asked to see him. She was informed by the matron that the patient had been so harassed by the constant and irre pressible How of female visitor* of all ranks and ages, thut in despair he had liegged to be re moved to another ward, and protected for ever more against the invasion of the unknown and gushing admirers." President Cleveland Is leading the life of a Cine lima lus at Oakview. He rises before 7. duns a blue serge suit ami a wide-brimmed straw hat, and, with a cigar In his mouth, strolls through lits big vegetable garden until break fast Is served at 8 o’clock. He spends a large part of the day on the pia/.xu. lie drives but little. There is but one horse on the place after Cql. Lament, has driven off to the White liouso in the family carriage, a female cook und Mrs. Cleveland’s comely maid are U’e oaf)' represen tatives of t he gentler vt now at Oak View. The late Hylvancs Cods made a great deal of money out ol his w ritings, and lived In a fine house ut Hyde Park, Mass. His sanctum was In a lower at the top of the holts** He wrrofe at a large, nld-f ushioned den:, covered with liens, piper*, knives and an old inkstank. Rows of books stood on shelves alj about. There was a work chair anil a rusting chair, and there wore also old guns, .sibees, ramrods, arrows, and trinkets, odds and ends, curtoeit ies, pieture.. photographs, sketches, flower*, and curious con trivances of no earthly use except to suggest odd tuin'll*s The Unexpected. From, the Boston Courier. I loved her for years, and yet. halt afraid, To tell hf r the story I never essayed. I feared that my tale might her feelings offend, And then I would lose her as even a friend. Yet onre. by the side of a calm, peaceful lake, 1 mustered up oouraze her fair hand to take; And then, while the midsummer sun hid its gold, In faltering accents the story was told. “I’ve nothing to give you; no riches have I.” Methought that I heard the faint note of a sigh; “I offer you only a fair, stainless name That never has known e’eu the shadow of shame. “I know that the gossiping world says I woo Your fortune, with never a feeling for you; lint, were you a beggar, or even a slave, Your love on my knees I would ardently crave.” Her curled lashes lifted; her eyes shining bright Like twin stars, Mushed forth on the darkening night; ‘ I know all your worth” lower drooped the fair head, “You're just a man after my own heart,” she said. A Tragedian’s Way. From the Elmira Tidings. A man walked into the principal hotel of a Western city the other day with a valise and a big appetite, and going into the dining-room tried for a few minutes to work up a breakfast. He then broke out with: “What, ho! landlord! Is there a blacksmith within the precincts of this mighty city?" Landlord- Why, yes, of course. Tragedian—'Then send one hither. Landlord -What in founder do you w’ant with a blacksmith in my dining room? Tragedian—l would have him test his steel and brawny arm by severing in twain this steak from the shoulder of the deceased bovine of many years, and then, for my physical recu peration. I would have him saw, file and chisel off a few morsels from its hardened bulk, for [ would dine the while. I pray thee haste and fetch him quickly. Stay thee! Your biscuits you can take to a stone quarry fora blast; these grits I can, with dexterous art and a of water, manage to swallow whole. Go bring the blacksmith. Away! The landlord fainted, and awoke almost a raving maniac. Why He Didn’t Get Waited On. From the Merchant Traveler. It was one of the swell drug stores of Boston, and a traveling man who was threatened with an attack of malaria had been waiting the pleas ure of the aristocratic clerk lor some time. “Will you give me half a dozen three-grain capsules of quinine?” he said as soon as the young man had sizzed the last touch of genius into a glass of aoda water. A stony start? was the only response he got. and he was tendering whether he should rejieat the question or not, when he saw* an old friend, a resident of the city, happen in. After the usual greetings, the traveler asked* “What In thunder is the matter with these people? Don't they want to sell goods?" “i snould think so. Been having trouble?” “I should say 30. Here I've been waiting for the last half hour for a little hit of quinine.” “For quinine? How* did you ask tor it?” “1 loiii him I wanted quinine, same as any white man would.” “Well, you just slip up to him and tell him you want some keo-neen, and he'll condescend to understand you. Always say kee-neen in Boston.” Blind Tom’s Transfer. From the Washington Republican. Avery exciting, yet pathetic, scene was wit nessed in the United States Court room in Alexandria on Tuesday, when Blind Tom, the negro pianist, was formally turned over to Mr. A. J. Lerche, the counsel for his new guardian. Mrs. Elsie bethune, of New r York Mr. James Belhuue appeared in court, bringing Tom with him, and delivered his charge to United States Marshal Scott, saying as he did so: “Tom, I now deliver you to the court and to that thief." indicating Mr. Lerche, who also represented Tom's mother. “I don't w ant any reflections,” commenced Mr. Lerche, when Mr Bethune continued: “But, Tom, if the people wh<t you are going with get tired of you and turn you off. come back to your old home and you shall be provided for. ’' While these remarks were being made Tom was protesting loudly against being handed over against his will, declaring with noisy vehe mence, that if he were placed in his mother's '•barge he w ould never play again for anyone. After the sightless musician was formally trans ferred, ami the papers in the case signed, Tom refused to be governed by any but his old guardian. He would not go out of the coart room, and when at last he was gotten out he declined to enter the carriage, which was wait ing for him outside Then Mr. Bethune, with the tears welling from his dark eyes, and roll ing down his face, talked kindly to ‘the semi idiotic pianist, and the stuhbon will was bent, 'or Tom took his scat in the vehicle, amid a -bower of promises that he should return if he didn't lil-3 it. He was driven to the depot, and left on the 3:20 train for New* York. How Wilkins Was Caugfh 4 -. Wa .hingion Letter to Baltimore American. The theory that a red-headed girl attracts a wh te horse has lately received a great deal of ntt -ntion from those who have u considerable am amt of spare time upon their hands. In fro it of the principal hotels there can be found any afternoon a party of department officials, att •rneys, politicians and a few stray members of Congress, who watch the approach of every woman and furtively steal a glance at her hair, if it happen to bo of a shade approaching rod, every pair of eyes in the part? will be turned towards the horses passing on the streets, The .sight of a white horse will cay forth the excla mation, “There, It is,” and tlic watchers will wait for the ne’et woman with the sunlight hair. These vigils have been kept up for several weeks now*, ami it is not recoruod that a woman with red hair has ever passed without the ac companying white horse. Among those who have pursued the investigations with a great deal of interest is Congressman Wilkins, of Ohio. This gentleman offered to bet a box of choice cigars that the theory would not hold good intho event of a collection of rod tresses. That is, he would buy the smoking material if a half dozen of red heads should lie been and as many white horses at the same time. The rest of the party, who were Arm believers in the at tractions of rod and white hair, accepted the wager. Shortly afterwards Mr. Wilkins sug gested a walk. The party started from the Ebbitt House, and proceeded to the corner of Thirteenth and F streets, where there is a store for the sale of human hair. In the window of this estaoiisimient were about a dozen “lay” heads. Seven of these were adorned with wigs of different shades of redness. There was not a horse in sight as the party approached, and Mr. Wilkins said: “There, bovs. lteinu Vic torias are good enough forme. ' Just at that moment the tramp of horses was heard coming around the corner. They nil looked up and saw a white hearse returning troin a funeral, foi-' lowed bv eight carriages, every one of which was drawn by a pair of white horses. Rcina Victorias were good enough for the rest of the party. They have been smoking that brand for a week, and now Wilkins is as Arm a believer in t he red-beaded- Kiri- white-horse theory us any of the others. The Father of Forty-One Children Killed When 00 Years Old. From the Harrisburg Patriot. “i read a few days ago, " aaid a member of tho Reading bar ou a visit to Harrisburg yes terday, “an account of a man in Western Pennsylvania who died the father of thirty - three ch ldreu, at the age of 9(1. When John Heffner, of Reading, was accidentally killed by the ears in that city in 1885, at the age of 09, he was the father of of forty-oue children, and a stepchild also called him father. Hoff nor was a dwarfed hunchback. He was bom iu Berlin in 1810, and came to this country in 1848. set tling iu Reading. Until his death he made a living by collecting and selling rags and paper. He was married lint in IK4O. In eight years his wife lx>n* hiui seventeen children. The first and second years of their msrrivge sir* gave birth to twins. For four successive years after ward she bore triplets. In the seventh year she gave birth to one child, and died soon after ward. Of the seventeen children she left, con sequently, the oldest was only 7 years of age. Heffner engaged a young woman to look after his large brood of babies, and, three mouths hirer, she became the second Mrs. Heffner. She presented her husband with two children the first two years. Five years later she had added ten more to the family, two at every birth. Then for tbrre years she added but one a year. Slie died before another year came round. Of the thirty two children that Jolm Heffner had be*n prt sen ted with twelve had died. The twenty that wen* left, however, did not appear to I** any ob stacle to a young widow with one child consent lng to become tho third wife of the jolly little humpback—for he was igjowu a* one Of the happiest and most g utal men in Reading, al though it kept him toiling like a slave to keep his score of mouths in bread. The tjhirvl Mrs. Heffner honcwie foe mother of nine children to her husband in ten wars, and the contentment and happiness of the couple were proverbial. <)seday in the fall of IBri> the father of the forty-one children was crossing the Reading track aud was run down by a 100 motive and in stantly killed But for tj.a' sad ending of his lire it is impossible to estimate what the size of the little tieddier'a family would eventually have Ims'o. Him widow a:.d a large number of Ids children—l believe there are twenty eight of the forty-two tbl living- live in Raiding. Thev are *ll thr'.t.g and "latnirl ihls Maooiti " ITEMS OF INTEREST. Athens, Mich., has an Indian bas; ball team, but it can’t play much iiail. The untutored sav age can't get over the notion that over the fence is out. The rabbits are eating out the ranchers in Steptoe valley, White Pine county, Nevada. At niffbt they come in whole armies ami devour tho growing crop. A Texas paper reports a case in which an Austin jury fined a drug clerk SSO and costs, amounting in all to $77 75, for selling a package of cigarettes on Sunday. The sect of “Soul Sleepers." in Jefferson county, Indiana, have a 10-year-old boy, Pascal Polder, for preacher. He is said to lead his con gregation with eloquent earnestness. Water is so scarce in some parts of Northern Illinois that rabbits and coons boldly come up to the farmyard watering trough to get a drink. Many of these wild animals, by their frequent visits, appear to have lost all their fear of men. A nursery carriage furnished like a toy shop is fitted up for the baby King of Spain, and :s to serve him on his way to and from the seaside in Biscay. The King of Spain's traveling nur sery library is brightly pictorial, and the images and words are stamped on linen. Frank Purdy and David Sherman, two Indian printer boys at the Genoa (Neb.) Indian school, are trying to raise $250 for a small printing out fit with w hich to issue a paper from that school, called the Pipe of Pence. Their subscription is indorsed by the superintendent of the school. Hillis Smith, of Niles, Mich., received by ex press from his brother, Frank E. of East Oakland Cal., the rib bone of some extinct ani mal. Tin; size of the animal that wore it may be guessed at from the fact that the rib is eight feet in length and three inches in diameter. A si'ckino colt at Salem, Ore., got separated from its mother, and, becoming frightened, started to run hack and forth in a lane. It con tinued to run until it became entirely exhausted and fell ou its side. It is reported that after it lay a mouieut in that position its "eyes popped entirely out of its head.” It had to be killed. Georoe M. Pullman, of the Pullman Car Com pany, proposes to introduce here the system now in vogue in one or two of the English rail road lines of storing electricity for the lighting of the cars from the friction of the car wheels. He has brought an expert over, who will soon set to work on a series of experiments at the shops at Pullman, 111. The splendid fountains and jets d'eau which the late King of Bavaria erected at his moun tain castles are to be demolished, as it costs £5,000 a year to keep them going—a charge which the Bavarian civil list cannot afford. The finest are at Herron Chlemaee, which is proba bly the most magnificent country seat m Eu rope, and they are far superior to the famous fountains at Herreuhausen, near Hanover. The Berlin Borsen-Courier learns that Em peror William has informed the jury of the Berlin Art Exhibition that he does not object to the subject of Fraulein Ilermine von Preu schen's striking picture, “Mors Imperator*’— representing death as upsetting a throne— which was rejected mainly from considerations for the feelings of tuc court. It is, therefore, likely that the much-talked of painting will be exhibited after all. A prominent merchant of Tekonsha, Mich., suffered a strange aberationof mind Saturday. From the time he arose until afternoon be knew absolutely nothing that was transpiring about him, although around the store and trying to do business. He could not tell the prices of the most common articles of merchandise, and failed to rec ignize people that he Has known- lor years, declaring that he did not know them. He has since recovered his normal condition. Jasper Bryan, a fanner near Marshalltown, la., went in search of a little pig which was. missing. He found it in a swamp, where it had been swallowed by a huge snake. It had ac tually kicked its feet through the belly of the snake and was walking about trying to find its way out of the woods, with its head still inclosed in the lower part of the snake’s body. The snake was promptly killed, and found to contain sixteen rattles. The pig was carried home, and is doing well. There is a bulldog iu Norwich, Conn., which, although muzzled, manages to bite other dogs. When he gets ready for business he slips his muzzle off his nose and casts it round near his ears and goes iu. and when the conflict is over he slips it back with bis paw, replaces his nose in the loop, and trots along so demurely that no one would dream that he ever had a cunning thought iu his cranium. Since his trick has been discovered he has felt a harder pressure on his nose, and he travels now like a dog that does not think “life is worth living.” There are now cables on almost every sea and ocean bed, the total length of wire laid being nearly 113,000 nautical miles. There are uine cables connecting Europe with America, the first that was laid dating from 1853. So great, also, has the advance been in the operative as pect of cable telegraphy that practically no more difficulty is felt in repairing submarine lines than in attending to defects in those on land. It is seldom any serious derangement of the telegraphic system takes place. When it does, it is ot comparatively brief duration. A dreadful story is told of a Chilian of Los Andes. He had a grudge against a neighbor, and, when the small-pox recently appeared in the province, he obtained a number of dried pustules and put them inside a plug of tobacco, which he placed where the people he hatod were likely to see it. The neighbors found it, made cigarettes from it, and smoked them. A few days afterword small pox broke out in the house.yuid with such virulence that no one of the family escaped. The fiend was attacked with the disease a tew days afterward and died, after confessing his crime. At the meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Iloliuess, held in Pitmen Grove, Pa., the other day. Dr. William Mc- Donald said: “I tell you that no one who uses tobacco can be entirely sanctified.” “Say! say!’’ shouted several clergymen, “that’s going a little too far, for some of our best ministers use the article.” “What I have said I have said.” re plied Mr. McDonald. “No man can lie entirely saved uud use tobacco.” “You’re a liar! ' angrily shouted a well known man in the audi ence. The man, who is said to be an influential Christian, immediately left the auditorium. A half-grown chicken in Richmond. Mo., got into an altercation with a grass snake 18 inches long. The chicken pecked away at the snake furiously for a few moments, and then gather ing the head of his snakeship in his mouth essayed to swallow tiim whole. But the snake was not quite ready to perform the Jouah act and obstinately refused to go down. Finding he could not swallow the snake, which bad tightly curled its tall around his bill, the chicken managed to throw it up, when, after pecking at it a few more times, he made a second and suc cessful effort, and his snakeship disappeared down the chicken’s throat. Two drovers in Southwestern Missouri dis covered a huge snake, yellow and spotted, coiled into a lump the size of a bushel basket. Its head was raised, and a long, forked tongue rapidly shot forth, while its tail, in air, rapidly vibrated, giving forth an ominous and well known racket troin more than twenty rattles. They began at a given signal to rain heavy blows upon the snake, which relied up into twice its original bulk, writhing and rattling under the stinging whacks from the two sturdy cattlemen, it was killed, and found to be near ly ten feet in length. Along its back was a scarp ridge, bearing long hairs like a hog's bristles, strung at short intervals along tho en tire length of the snake. Mrs. Clarissa Sidener, a colored woman, died in Adanistown, Ky., aged 118 years. She was a remarkably well preserved woman, being able to do her own washing and make her own clothes up to lost Christinas. She bad her second sight for many years before her death, and all her teeth, except four, wore per fectly sound. She was married when 25 years old, an l was the mother of nine children. Her oldest living child Is now 74 years old. She was the grandmother of forty-four children, tho great-grandmother of seventy-two, and great great-grandmother of twenty-seven. She wus a member of the Methodist Episcopal C'hmch for ninety-five years, and for a few weeks before her death prayed continuously that the Lord would take her. as she was ready to go. The Cleveland (O.) Lender reports another attempt to awoken general interest in the pres ervation ‘of ex-Presldent Harrison’s t< mb at North Bend, 0., by a pooular pilgrimage there •id the anniversary of tho battle o. the Thames, Oct. 5. “It is a good idea,” the Leader savs, “and one we hope will be carried out. If the people of tills Stale could b ■ prevailed upon to visit the spot whore ex-l’residen Harrison's re mains lie inferred, ands -e w hut a lonesome and cheerless looking plage it, Is. and how little be coming the remembrance of tho old hero who lies there, we are sure it would result in a unani mous demand that something he immediately done by the State to appropriately mark the I art rusting place of a nob.e-nearted patriot. In IH'ii the Legislature was naked f:r .in appropriation of slo,Mli) to repair tho tomb and erect a shaft It passed one House, hut was killed in the otln Now a request is to be made to Congress f. grant of jl(l,000 to keep the tomb In order. -•* m-eseoi.lt, is.to s serrv 'MeliUss.” , BAKING POWDEI ~ pftpilCfo CREAM Used by tho United States Government. En dorsed by the heads of the Great Universities as the Strongest. Purest and most Healthful Dr. Price’s the only Baking Powder that does not contain Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Sold only in Cans. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO. NEW YORK. CHICAGO. ST. LOOTS. COTTON SEED WANTED. COTTON SEED WANTED THE SOUTHERN COTTON OIL CO, CAPITAL $5,000,000, T TaS just, constructed eight new Cotton Seed J-1 Oil Mills, located at the following points, each having the capacity per day indicated. Columbia, S. C., - 100 Tons. 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