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MONDAY. AUGUST 22, 188 7.
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—DeKnlb Lodge No. 0, I. O. O. F.;
Calantlie Lodge No. 23, K. P.; Hilton Lodge No.
2, F. A. M.
Special Notices--Paris Green, Etc., Wm. M.
Bird £ 00.. Charleston, 8. C.
Steamship Schedules—-Ocean Steamship Cos.;
General Transatlantic Cos.
Railroad Schedule—Central Railroad.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help Want
ed: Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale;
Lost: Miscellaneous.
Educational— Miss Randolph's School, 1214
Eutaw Place, Baltimore, Mil.
Publications -Town Topics.
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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
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of the city’s business for the year ending Sept. 1.
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Every citizen, whether ho is a capitalist, mer
chant, manufacturer, mechanic ora man of leis
ure, should feel a pride in the prograss tho city
is making, and in presenting to the world the
inducements which it offers to those who are
seeking homes in the South.
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scribers of the Daily and Weekly News, and a
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thoroughly covering the territory tributary to
Savannah.
Advertisers will find this Special Edition of
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tained upon application to the Business Office.
Enough of the 000 l wave reached here yes
ter day to save the reputation of the signal
service. A little more of it, however,
wouldn’t have l>eru objectionable.
The owners of the Thistle expect not only
to win the America’s inp, but to carry home
■with them a good deal of Yankee money.
If they don’t want to carry homo empty
pocket-books they will bo wise if they exer
cise considerable caution ill making their
bets.
The New York Republicans pretend to be
very much eluted over the prospect that the
United Lalior party in that State will draw
its strength mainly from the Democratic
party. Thoy will hardly be so happy after
tho Prohibitionists get tlieir ticket in the
field.
Past Assistant Surgeon Crawford, of
Washington’, D. C., evidently forgot all
about the Edmunds law when he too wurmly
sought the love of the pretty Eva White.
As lie has been given a year in jail, ho will
have plenty of time to become thoroughly
acquainted with it, so ns to be able to avoid
violating it when ho gets his freedom.
Representative Felton, of Bartow, in
strongly opposed to the sale of the State
load. He proposes to show when the proper
time corns that by leasing the road the
State debt can bo paid sooner than by sell
ing it in accordance with the provisions of
the Dean bill. There is naturally a very
general desire to six.- how he figures out this
result.
In Indiana the statesmen have been so
busy looking after Federal office* that they
have neglected the State’s financial afTuirs.
The State treasury is empty, and creditors
are clamoring for their cash. And yet, the
“Tall Sycamore of the Wabash" lately
boasted that there lmd been a "clean sweep”
in that State. The treasury has been
pretty thoroughly elcanod out.
Those who have been invited to the con
stitutional centennial celebration, ut Phila
delphia, Sept. IS, by the Centennial Com
mission, are making a mistake if they ex
pect their expenses will be paid, if they ac
cept the invitation. With a few exceptions,
they must liear their own expenses. They
are not to be both honored with an invita
tion and treated to n free lunch.
.Judge Kelly, of Pennsylvania, who has
been writing a series of articles to the Bal
timore Manufacturer's Keeorrt, says, in
the current number of that publication,
that in order for tbo South to have jx'rma
nent prosperity its agricultural, commer
cial and manufacturing resources must be
harmoniously developed. There is certainly
a very strong effort being made at the pres
ent time to develop all of thorn.
Some of the New York papers liave given
considerable prominenco to the shipment of
10,000 tons of Hawaiian sugar to New York
by way of Cape Horn. The sugar men of
that city are uinused over this. One of
them remarked a day or two ugo that this
Hawaiian shipment had no more effect on
the Now York sugar market tlioii a drop of
rain on a ton acre lot. In view of the fact
that New York annually imports 700,000
tons, the remark was not a very exaggerated
OH
Ives’ Assets and Liabilities.
The statement of t.he assets and liabilities
of Ives &. Cos., of Now York, which was pub
lished in our dispatches yesterday, appears
to make a very good showing for tho insol v
ent firm, but unfortunately it will not bear
close examination. The liabilities are some
thing over 8111,000,000, and the face value of
the assets only 834,000,(X)0. It is stated,
however, that with few exceptions the secu
rities which make up tho nssots, are not
worth anywhere near their face valuo, and,
besides, a very considerable' part of thorn is
in the jxissession of President (larrett of tho
Haiti more and Ohio railroad, who received
them whoa he gave Ives an option on that
road. Tlio impression appears to bo that
when the business of tho firm is wound up,
not much more than half of its liabilities
will be liquidated.
It seems marvelous that a young man, not
more than 2*l years of age. who a few years
ago was a clerk in a lrook publishing house,
should have been able in no short a time,
withoiit any assistance other than that
which ho secured by his own efforts, to col
lect such an enormous amount of assets and
incur such vast liabilities. That Ives has
monumental cheek, iron nerves, and an
abundance of brains there can bo no doubt.
Had lie been successful in his Baltimore and
Ohio ileal ho would have boon called a great
financier. His scheme* failed, and by Wall
street he is now considered to be a trickster
and an adventurer whoso proper place is in
tho penitentiary.
There certainly is very little if anything
that is admirable in Ives’ character. He
began his Wall street career with tho inten
tion of making a great fortune without re
gard to the means to he employed to ac
complish his purpose. Kovorul transactions
in the early part of his career were of a
character to bring him into disrepute with
those of the Wall street men who pretend
to employ only honest business methods,
but as he seemed to bo successful his short
comings were overlooked, and lie was per
mitted to associate on terms of familiarity
with men whose business records were, so
far as the world knew, clean.
It is believed that there arc many men in
the great ockuereial cities, engaged in vast
enterprises, who are not more honest than
Ives is. Now and then the country is
startlqd by accounts of crooked transactions
involving men who had always enjoyed
unßpotted reputations. Harper, who wrecked
Ihe Fidelity National Bank at Cincinnati
a few weeks ago, in trying to carry through
a big wheat deal, was thought to be an hon
est man until it was discovered that he hud
cleaned out tho bank. Two of the bonanza
kings, Flood and Maekav, tried to corner the
California whoat market a few weeks ago,
and it is alleged that, they used the deposits
of tho Bank of Nevada for that purpose.
It is also stated that if it had not been for
their ability to obtain “loans" the chances
wore that the bank would have been wrecked,
and thousands of poor people would have
lost ovory dollar they had. The whoat cor
ner was a failure and, if reports are correct,
the two chief promoters of it lost about
80,000,000.
Society should turn a cold shoulder to
men like. Ivo3, Harper and others. The
only difference between them and such men
ns Ferdinand Ward and Bankor Fish, who
are now wearing striped suite, is that they
are a little more clover in evading tho con
sequences of their misdeeds.
Whisky and Murder.
At Harrison, 0., a few days ago great ex
citement prevailed on account of tho prompt
fulfillment of a prophecy made by a minis
ter of tho gospel. It seoms that Harrison
had been agitated on tho subject of prohibi
tion, and that in the course of a sermon the
Rev. Creighton Wonos warned his hearers
that murder would upon emphasize the ne
cessity of abolishing the liquor traffic. On
Tuesday following the prophecy Clifford
Woeks, aged 30, shot and killed John Pratt,
agod 50, the hoad of a family of six chil
dren.
Pratt was drunk. Early in tho morning
he went to a saloon kept by Weeks, and
provoked a quarrel. In the course of it
Pratt knocked Weeks down. He then left,
but sixin returned, and threatened to kill
Weeks. The latter warned his drunken as
sailant to leave, but to no purpose. I*ratt
advanced, brandishing his fist and cursing.
Weeks drew a pistol, aimod it at Prutt, and
fired. The latter contined to advance. Two
more shots wore fired, and then, covered
with blood, Pratt tried to tlee, but fell to
the floor dead. Weeks surrendered himself
to the Sheriff.
This case is typical of many that hnvo
occurred in this country, and, unfortu
nately, of many that are likely to occur.
The minister’s prophecy was a safe one. In
any city in which the liquor traffic is al
lowed, a similar one might bo made, from
time to time, with absolute certainty of the
fulfillment. Much has recently boon said
by the public journals of Georgia against
the dangerous practice of carrying
concealed weapons; but, with equal
justice, much might also be
said against the crazing intoxi
cant which too often causes men to
use the pistol or tho knife to take human
life. It is true that Weeks killed Prutt in
but tho liquor sold by Weeks to
Pratt was what caused the latter to provoke
a quarrel. Whenever murder occurs as the
result of the use of an irttoxicant, a large
part of the responsibility for tho crime rests
upon the liquor traffic. A large part also
rests u|k)u the community which tolerates
the traffic. Uijtil the truffle is restrained
murdor may bo exjiootod to be common.
Richard Hunt, a preacher, is in jail nt
Nashville, charged with stealing n cow.
Preacher Hunt stole the cow, sold her for
sls. and with the money began a revival.
He had converted about o dozen people
when the constable carried him to jail. The
question which is now agitating a portion
of tho people of Nashville is this: Would it
havo been belter for Hunt to have remained
honest, and these converts to have continued
in danger of being lost, than for him to have
committed the sin of theft in order to
save them! Doubtless Hunt thinks that it
would have been tetter for him not to have
bothered with the cow.
Air brakes are wonderfully satisfactory
except in great emergencies, and then they
sometimes apjiear to get stubborn and refuse
to work. Thoir failure several times lately
to respond to the demands upon them, has
resulted in disastrous accidents. Steam
brake* in addition to air brakes are pow
suggested. Suggestions are always plenti
ful whenever there is an opening for them.
A farmer in New York has advertised
himself qs a splendid subject for the fool
killer. He refused to pay more than 3c. for
a 6c. cigar, which he purchasisl on credit.
His creditor called him into a Justice's
court, and ho paid, not only tho additional
3c., but also the costs and a fee of 35 to his
lawyer.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1887.
Give Them Their Own Medicine.
A case is reported from Mississippi which
may be suggestive to certain classes in
Georgia. A man calling himself “Doctor
Portland” traveled through several counties
in that State duping the negroes. Ho sold
a medicine which he declared would not only
cure any disease, but which, when taken
according to directions, would prevent sick
ness and cause life to lie prolonged beyond
100 years. He found many purchasers, and
his profits were enormous. It is said that at
the end of every week during more than
two ( months lie sent to a bank in New Or
leans at least $l,OOO.
Of course, his medicine was a quack nos
trum and it utterly failed to do what lie
said it would do. Although ids dupes close
ly followed directions, they continued to lie
subject to sickness, and quite a large num
ber of them died. Following the course
generally pursued by men of his stamp, ho
remained only a few days in a given com
munity, thus avoiding a reckoning with the
ignorant creatures he had defrauded.
Among the dupes who purchased some of
“Dr. Portland’s” medicine was a negro who
panted for revonge. As soon as his physi
cal condition would permit he followed the
quack, determined to exposo and punish
him. After a weary tramp through three
counties the negro found the object of his
pursuit in a small town, standing upon a
dry goods ixix, in the middlo of tho street,
selling medicine and pocketing silver dol
lars. Forcing his way through the crowd
to a spot near “Dr. Portland,” tho
negro told how he had been duped and an
nounced his intention to have revenge. Tho
quack tried to escape, but the crowd sur
roundod him, pulled him off tho box, re
turn'd him of his money, and compelled him
to drink a quart of his own medicine. The
nauseous dose almost killed him, but after
two works’ violent sickness he recovered
to sneak away.
Attention has been often called to the
quacks who ply their trade in Georgia. Tho
Morning News has suggested that tho
General Assembly should enact a law to
keep them out of the State. Perhaps, how
ever, if the Mississippi plan should be put
into execution, there would bo no necessity
for the General Assembly to interfere. Few
quacks would dare to invade Georgia if
they knew that they would bo compelled
to take their own medicine.
A Strong Argument.
Increased interest has boon given the pro
hibition eoiitest in Tennessee by an occur
rence which must attract attention in all
parts of the country. Four hundred and
one convicts confined in tho main prison at
Nashville have issued, over their own signa
tures, an appeal to tho people of the State
to work for the adoption of the prohibitory
amendment to the constitution. The
nppeal states that three-fourths of the
prisoners of the State were made crimi
nals by tho use of intoxicating liquors, and
then closes as follows:
“Wearing the garb of disgrace, being dis
honored and counted unworthy to mingle
with tho people of our State, we yet have
the same love for our wives, the same devo
tion to our mothers, the same affection for
our sisters, and for their sake, and for the
sake of our children, wo appeal to you to
unite as one man and free the State from a
curse created by the hands of men discoun
tenanced by the law of God.”
If this action upon tho part of the con
victs had been the result of solicitation from
those interested in tho temperance cause it
would still have been worthy of serious con
sideration. But it was not. Tho Rev. N. W.
Utley, the chaplain of the prison, certifies
at the bottom of the list of names signed to
the appeal that it was prepared by the con
victs themselves and as a voluntary act on
their part. •
It is difficult to concoive of a stronger ar
gument in favor of the suppression of the
liquor traffic. Here are 401 coijvicts, each
of whom knows by experience what a maker
of criminals the traffic is, each with
nothing to gain from the State by favoring
tho prohibitory amendment, who declare
that throe-fourths of all the prisoners in the
State were induced to commit crime by tlio
influence of intoxicants, and who unite in
urging tho people to banish liquor from the
State. The effect cannot bo otherwise thaii
favorable to the earnest citizens of Tennes
see, who are working in the int Test of the
temiierauco cause; for this appoal of the
convicts is a temperance argument that
cannot be refuted.
Senator Reagan, of Texas, is still talking
about the prohibition defeat in that State.
11l a communication to the Now York Yoicr,
speaking of tho defeat, he says: “Undoubt
edly a majority of the native Americans
and of the Democrats of Texas have voted
for prohibition. Our defeat was caused
largely by great sums of money sent hi re
from other States by tho manufacturers of
and dealers in whisky and beer, to pay
speakers, to control newspapers and for gen
eral campaign purposes. Tho Prohibition
ist* have hail the advantage in the discus
sions and have given the public informa
tiion which I think will make this a prohi
bition State in tho near future. And I think
the prohibitionists will continue the strug
gle as a non-partisan issue.” Well, it may
lie that Texas will lie a prohibition State in
tho near future, but it is evident that a good
many Prohibition converts must he made
first. The Senator is wiso in insisting that
the prohibition issue shall lie kept froe from
partisan politics.
Mr. Bayloss \V. Hanna, our Miuister to
the Argentine Republic, was in Washing
ton on Friday, and gave the correspondent*
nil enthusiastic talk about Buenos Ayres.
He thinks that this country should take
steps at once to secure a large part of the
trade of the Argentine Republic. He ad
vocates the establishment at once of a line
of steamships between New York and
Buenos Aj’rcs, and says t.liat the Argentine
Republic will give 8125,000 a year to help
support such a line. Of course. Minister
Hamm means that Congress should grant a
subsidv to such a line, but it is not probablo
that it will do anything of the kind. It
would be wiser to amend * tho navigation
laws so as to permit the purchase of ships
by American merchants where they can be
purchased cheapest. If that should lie done
it would not Is 1 long liefore a steamship line
would bo established lietween New York
and Buenos Ayres.
The fruit rrop prevaricator is giving Jte
Mulhatton a sharp race for the champion
ship. Hl* reports of the condition of the
peach crop of Maryland and lidawaro are
calculated to leave the impression that there
will not be enough peaches in these two
States this season to satisfy the demands of
the lovers of poach brandy. Report! that
are relied upon, however, leavo the impres
sion that Delaware and Maryland will fur
nish more peaches this year than tho mar
ket cau absorb with uroflt to the Kroner*.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Etiquette is Welcome to It.
From the Norristown Herald (Dem .)
An exchange asks: “Does etiquette demand
a vest on a not day?” If it does it can have
ours.
A Needed Reform Not Considered.
From the New York Herald lDem.)
Tho American liar Association has concluded
its session at Saratoga. It discussed various
reforms in the law. but did not even consider a
great reform in the profession rendered neces
sary by the rascally doings of unscrupulous
lawyers.
“Hardly Ever.”
From the Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
Senator Stanford, placing his hand upon his
heart, says that he "never corrupted nor at
tempted to corrupt any member of the Legisla
ture or any memJier of Congress, or any public
official, or authorized any agent to do so.’’ And
be ho, startled out of her maidenly propriety,
and striking an attitude ala Pinafore, exclaims:
“What: never?"
They Como High.
From the Albany, -V. Y., Express (Dem).
Let us have no more new wine in old bottles,
no more good patches wasted on old garments.
Secretary Whitney's recent decision not to allow
extensive repairs to be made upon the old bulks
of the navy commends itself. The five new ves
sels now under way or projected represent a far
more satisfactory way of expending the funds
at the disposal of the Navy Department. New
ships, and ships that will not disgrace the flag
they fly, are what we need. They come high,
but we must have them.
BRIGHT BITS.
In a week's time the earth travels over 11,000,-
000 square miles. Fortunately there are no
wooden bridges on the line.— Norwich Bulletin.
“Two knots an hour isn't such bad time fora
clergyman." smilingly said the minister to him
telf. Just after lie had united the second couple.
- Merchant Traveler.
A mtti.e girl, wasn't far wrong when she told
iter Sunday school teacher, in answer to the
question, “What is the worst thing about
money?" that it was “ 'cause we ain’t got any."
We can all say that —Nashville American.
Every picknieker hates
With a hatred intense
The man who put up
The barbed wire fence.
IVashinyton Critic.
“Does Grimes drink?” inquired Smithers.
“Nothing intoxicating,” responded Thomp
son.
“How does that come?”
“Why, the boys have got tired buying it for
him, I guess.”— Pittsburg Dispatch.
That fellow Rafter was here again. He
wanted to know if I could sett Is that bill of his
for building my new house. I told him that be
couldn’t ex|iect me to lie as prompt as the house;
that Jicgan to settle in less than a week after we
moved into it.”— -Boston Transcript.
A witty lawyer, many of whose sayings are
famous, said to a friend:
“Did you hear that (a lawyer w r ho had
always been devious) had turned State’s evi
dence?”
“How' is that?” said the other.
“He has been converted and joined the
church.”— Boston Herald.
“Yes," said he, wearily. “I’m tired out, and I
need a vacation. I’m going to take a rest.”
“That’s right,” said his partner, cheerfully.
“You have been working hard and you do need
a rest. Where do you think you'll go to?"
“Go to?’’ asked the other iu mild surprise.
“Go to? I’m going to stay at home. I said I
was going to have a rest, didn’t I?"— Somerville
Journal.
Indignant Mistress—Bridget, what do you
mean by serving such water for breakfast? It’s
not ice water.
New Servant (who was recommended as being
of a saving turn)—Shor n 'tis ice wather, mum,
and it’s myself was afther savin’ it from last
night’s supper, not wantin’ fur to whaste so
much, mum, and then the oice companies
chargin' such robbin’ loike prices.— Elmira
Gazette.
“Mother,” said the 5-year-old demon just as
Mrs. Oldboy was preparing to leave home on a
six week's visit, “what’s become of the fur you
used to wear last winter?”
“Locked up, Willie; why?”
“Say, has wings growed on it?”
“No; why do you ask such silly questions?"
“ ’Cause I heard pep say this morning he
would make the fur fly while you are away.”
The trunks were at once unpacked, and the
look that eume into Mrs. Oldboy’s face made the
clock strike 31.— Nebraska State Journal.
Omaha Man—l have come as a committe of
one, Mr. President, to advise you to include
Omaha in your Western trip.
The President—Yes, I suppose Omaha is the
greatest metropolis of the West with with
200,000,000.
“Not at all, Mr. President, we don’t brag
about our size or our prospects."
“Eh?”
“Omaha is simply a pretty town moving along
with the current of affairs.”
“What?"
“We don’t expect to out strip New York next
year nor London the year after, and we are not
selling suburban lots at SI,OOO a foot, and what’s
more we don’t expect to.”
“Dan’l! Dan’l! for heavan’s sake send for a
watchman. Here’s a lunatic.”— Omaha News.
PERSONAL.
A monument to the memory of President Har
rison is to be erected in Cincinnati.
Daniel Douoheßty is going to visit Guernsey
and Jersey, the English Channel islands.
Oen. TchEßNatieht. it is said, will succeed M.
Katkoff as editor of tho Moscow Gazette.
CT.otscs says that he finds nothing in
European capitals to equal the comforts he en
joys in New York.
lowa statistics show that t)53 women own
farms in that State. Of the number only 18 are
carrying mortgagee.
The Shah of Tcrsia is gradually losing his
hoarlug. Two ear trumpets have been ordered
by his physician from Paris.
The Emperor of Brazil not only planted a
tree in the grounds of M. Flammarion, the
French astronomer, but dug the hole to contain
the tree.
Mas. Floyd of Boston has invented a water
proof bonnet, which is handsome and dressy
enough for almost any occasion, and is abso
lutely impervious to water.
Bishop Chatard, of Indianapolis, at a com
pllmentarv dinner at his residence, received a
plate of gold coin amounting to SI,OOO from the
clergy of Vincennes diocese.
It is said that Queen Kapiolani’s English has
been much improved by her recent tour. Kuln
kaua considers her tongue Sandwich about as
usual in its strength and piquancy.
Senator Frye says that during his trip abroad
lie found few satisfactory meals and beds. He
Blinks the English people decidedly lacking In
the essentials of eating and sleeping.
Prince Bismarck will celebrate the twenty
fifth anniversary of his assumption of the offices
of Prussian foreign minister and Prussian prime
minister on Sept. 33, and Oct. 8 respectively.
Cot-NTEss Casa Miranda, of Madrid, a ven
erabk- lady of Mil years, the mother of Christine
Nilsson’s husband, has been seized with conges
tion of the brain and is not expected to live.
And now It is said that Senator Klddleberger
wants to tight a duel with Judge Newman. Kid
dlelierger seems to hen good deal more fitted by
nature for breaking the laws thau for making
them.
Bplva Lockwood says if Mrs. Cleveland will
consent to head the woman's ticket next year,
she will receive a monster vote. Jlrs. Cleve
land properly accepts the suggestion as a bit of
humor.
Chahi.es Di’dley Warner is of tho opinion that
two-thirds nf the men of to-day would rather lie
Jay Gould than James Russell Lowell And
probably nearly all inon would rather lie George
Gould than either one of them.
Rnv. Dn Twitcbell, of Hartford. Conn., has
a largo family of children. Growing tiril of se
lecting Dames, he dubbed bis tenth child “Ten
nr,” a name as euphonious as it is significant,
since then he has had two more children, but
has not given them numerical names.
James Ashley if. thought to tie the coming
railroad man of the country. He is only 30
years old. and resides In Detroit, yet he controls
two roads and holds a controlling interest in
several others. He is ot present engages! in
pushing lines through Northern Michigan.
Charles Sumner's private secretary, Arnold
B Johnson, speaks of the great statesman's
sweet tooth in a current magazine article.
Sunnier was especially fond of chocolate
cream*, and held that as long as be could eat
candy Ills digestion was in good order He
never smoked, and never tasted of whisky but
once.
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Mrs. Cleveland has grown very brown at
Marion Her complex ton ts one which ts im
proved by* coat of tail, and sis* Dow looks like
a Spanish beauty. The name' Donna Frances,”
which was given her by her friends at Wells
College, has fallowed her to her present abiding
place, undevim the country folk about Marion
oU her bv that romantic title.
SHE, TOO, COULD SHINE.
The Way in Which the San Francisco
Millionaire’s Wife Does Thines.
From the Carton (.Vet;.) Appeal.
A few days ago a lady from San Francisco,
who had a very solid hank account, went to
Lake Tahoe on a pleasure trip with her daugh
ter. She concluded that she would have a good
time, and accordingly took along some plain,
serviceable clothes and no jewelry. When she
struck one of the fashionable resorts she found
herself in the midst of a lot of people making a
vulgar display of clothes and diamonds, and
eve.ry time she turned around she was the sub
ject of the most unmerciful snubbing. She
was put off in an obscure corner to eat.
and not one of the fashionable guests conde
scended to show her the slightest civility.
The lady bit her lips fora few days, took in the
situation and with true feminine instinct de
cided on revenge, isle- driipjied a line below,
and presently there were deposited at the hotel
twelve Saratoga trunks, waybllled to her ad
dress. She ami her daughter retired to their
rooms, and that evening came down to the din
ing-room in a hlaze of lace and diamonds that
took everybody's breath away. No such gor
geous or tasty toilets bad ever liewildered the
guests at that hotel before. It bliuded the eve
to look at the pair ns they quietly entered the
room. The steward, after recovering his poise,
rushed forward ami pulled out tw o chairs from
the most fashionable table in the hotel. She
shook her head and replied: "The old table will
do," and went to tbe obscure corner, where she
bad eaten all the time.
Tbe utmost consternation spread through the
dining-room, and the low hum of voices rose to
a fashionable buzz as they warmly discussed
tbe situation. Wasn't it awful? They had been
snubbing a woman and her daughter all the
week who could outdress them all. In the
evening they attempted to hedge, but couldn’t
to any considerable extent. Tbe dudes tried Jo
shine up to the girl, but she wouldn't have it,
and those who tried to scrape an acquaintance
w ith the mother found it like trying to run a
tunnel into an iceberg, For a while she Hashed
like a comet through that hotel into a constant
change of ravishing toilets, each mope costly
and bewildering than the others, until, like the
kings who pedestrianized in Macbeth, they
threatened to stretch out till the crack of
doom. '
At the end of the week, it was learned from
the chambermaid that she had only gone
through half of her immense Saratogas. There
were several women there who had displayed at
least a dozen different toilets, and they felt that
they would just die if beat theju record.
Hut she kppt right on, and when she was three
ahead of their score they packed up and left.
One by one she vanquisher! the leaders, and the
rank and file capitulated, displajing the rarest
generalship imaginable. If Mrs. appeared
in any special color to make a spread in the
morning, she adopted that color at once, only
in a dress that eclipsed the other as the sun
outshines the dog star.
She was the absolute John Sullivan of the
toilet ring, nnd knocked out all who had the te
merity to stand before her. The last of her op
ponents was a red-faced, vulgarly dressed
woman from San Francisco, whose llashy toilets
had attracted general attention and admira
tion from persons .ignorant of harmony and
color. Whatever dress this woman donned in
the morning the fashionable Nemesis was on
her trail with a color that literally killed the
other. The heretofore cock of the walk was un
able to stand her defeat, and, packing her
trunks, started home.
The army of snobs was routed, and one by one
dropped out of sigbt. They just settled up and
quit. Then tbe quiet little lady resumed her
plain clothes, put ou an old straw hat with her
daughter, aud went Ashing. As the last gang
left, she absolutely had the coolness to be down
at the wharf fishing In an old calico dress, cot
ton gloves and a straw- hat.
The landlord considered that she literally
cleaned his place out, and she thinks she had an
awful lot or fun.
PHOTOGRAPHED ON HIS FOREHEAD
A Bolt of Lightning Imprints a Cat’s
Silhouette on a Farmer’s Brow.
A dispatch from Hillsdale, Mich., to the Phila
delphia Acres says: A heavy storm passed over
Fayette township last night. While it was in
progress Amos J. Biggs, a trustworthy farmer,
went into his back yard to frighten away some
fighting cate, bo intent were they on extermi
nating one another as to allow Farmer Biggs to
approach within a few feet of them. At the
same instant there was a crash, and an electric
bolt struck a wood pile, scattering it, and stiff
ened the cate iu an intense rigor mortis.
Aside from a prickly sensation and sudden,
but not severe contraction of the muscles. Mr.
Biggs experienced uo unpleasant effects. When
Biggs returned to the house his wife took one
look at him and fainted. On recovering she ex
claimed: “Oh, Amos, the devil basset his mark
on you!’’ whereupon Biggs looked in the glass
and saw the image of a eat photographed in sil
houtte upon his broad forehead. All efforts to
wash it off were unavailing.
The Rattlesnake’s Awful Eye.
From Forest and Stream.
Never seeing a snake charm a bird or animal,
I concluded it, was a negro superstition or fancy,
devoid of fact. So I continued to think till a
few days ago. when a farmer friend of mine,
living four miles south of Abilene, told me what
he had lately witnessed. He said he was riding
along on the prairie and saw a prairie dog
within a few feet of him. which refused to scam
per to his hole, as prairie dogs usually do when
approached by man; on the contrary, ’he sat as
if transfixed to the spot, though making a con
stant nervous, shuddering motion, as if anxious
to get away. My friend thought this was
strange, and while considering the spectacle he
presently saw a large rattlesnake coiled up under
some bushes, his head uplifted, about six or
seven feet from the dog, which still heeded him
not, but looked steadily ujion the snake. He
dismouted, took the dog by the heud and thrust
him off, when the snake, which had up to that
moment remained quiet, immediately swelled
with rage mid began sounding his rattles Tile
prairiedog for sometime seemed bemunbed,hnrd
ly capable of motion, but grew better and finally
got into liis hole. My friend then killed the rat
tler. Now, was this a case of charming? If not,
what was it? My friend who told me this is
named .John Irving McClure, a farmer, well
known to me, a good and truthful man. I now
give it up that snakes do indeed charm, or so
paralyze birds and little animals with terror,
when they can catch their eye, that they become
hMpless and motlonless.'almost as good as dead.
What says the scientists!
And none who is familiar with the eyes of
rattlesnakes it does not lyvm unreasonable
that they should have such power. If you will
examine the eye of one when he is cold in death,
you will perceive that it lias an extremely
malignant and terrible expression. When he is
alive and excited, 1 know of nothing in all
nature of so dreadful appearance as the eye of
the rattlesuake. Tt is enough to strike not only
birds and little animals, but men with night
mare. 1 have on several occasions examined
them closely wuh strong glasses, and feci
with all force what I state, and I will tell you
that there arc few men on the face of the earth
who can look upon an angered rattlesnake
through a good glass- bringing him apparently
within a foot or two of tlio eye—and stand it
more than a moment.
She and He.
From Figaro.
When the young debutante gels sight of a lieau.
She scarcely can peep thro’ the leaves of her
fan.
Her heart doth so flutter, her cheeks do so glow.
As she asks all a trembling: ‘Who is the
man?”
Twenty doth bring her to years of discretion;
No longer sb blushes, but changes her plan;
With thoughts of the jiocket, the place, the pro
fession.
She questions the circle with; “What is the
man?”
At thirty, each day the thought doth appal hor,
That hour by hour her roses grow wan;
Her circle of lovers grow smaller and smaller—
She duns each deceiver with: “Which is the
man?”
Forty changes her tune, and she grows roman
tic—
-1 teems it charming to sin;[ter as much as she
can;
Haunts watering places, streams the Atlantic;
For the query of life now-is: “Where is the
iiian?”
The Little Francs.
From the Few York Sun.
Mr F. K. Willard, the Wall street broker, in
speaking viviterday of the announcement that
Bankers J. mV W. So!,glean had ordered “half
a million, and perhaps one million, francs” to
Is- shipped to New York, sc: i it reminded him
of the rk’b nobleman who sent his son, armed
with a carte blanche letter of credit, to mnke
the grand tour of the continent. The young
mail's drafts on bis papa astonished the l’aris
bankers, and they notified pepo that Ins son
"hat! Already drawn a million and trusted it w its
all right.” t'upu wax puzzled ami replied: “If
you mean tny son bos draitn a million pounds
you may stop his credit; but If you mean that
lie hue drawn a million ttf those and little
fmnea, you can let bun have ns many of them
os ho wants. ”
For travelers It if a ■eosaslty. Tbe genuine
Brown's Ginger. Frederiok Brown. Philadel
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The newest freak of fashion is to have the
dress, hat, gloves, boots and stockings of the
same color ax the lady’s hair.
There were 7,558 photographers in the United
States in 1870, and 9,090 in 1880. There are now
about 11.000 persons engaged In the photograph
ing business In this country.
It is said to cost about SB,OOO for a family to
spend the season at Ncw’ixirt —$3,000 for a cot
tage, 5i, 500 for horses. $1,500 for servants and
marketing, and $2,000 for clothes.
An Ann Aiibor man has cut off bis moustache,
because he thought it hoodooed the Detroit base
ball team. He didn’t care so much about the
team, but he did want to win those little bets.
Babneoat Point. N. J.. is being washed away
by the sea so rapidly that tbe lighthouse is in
danger, and will have to lie removed. During
the last ten weeks the sea has cut in over 800
feet.
At Hagerstown, Md., on Wednesday, a couple
are reported to have been married in one min
ute's time. They arrived on the 8:15 train, and
were united by a clergyman in waiting, who left
ou the 8:18 train to continue a trip he was
making.
Boston seems to be the paradise for female
stock gamblers. At one of the bucket shops
patronized by the fair sex, over a hundred ladies
can lie seen daily gesticulating wildly, with
cheer, sob or laugh, as the case may be, and oc
casionally also fainting—the last resort of lovely
woman.
The Winnemucca (Nev.) Silver State says:
“A band of Shoshones arrived here a few days
ago with several hundred dollars for the pur
pose of engaging in a gambling bout with the
Plates. Usually the Shoshones take away more
money than they bring with them, but this time
the rule was reversed and they lost all their
coin and blankets.”
A queer museum the Queen's Jubilee presents
form in the Throne Room at Windsor; a car
riage rug from the women of Heligoland: an
olive-wood eross from the British residents of
Jerusalem; boots, shoes and slippers from the
people of Stafford; felt hats, Turkish bath
towels, twine, nope, collars and cuffs, calicoes,
tobacco, marmalade’ and an almost infinite
variety of the products of the kingdom.
A London druggist, who was putting up a
prescription lately, by the aid of liis assistant,
was handl'd by the latter prussic acid for some
simple drug. The patient died two hours after
taking some of the compound. A report of the
outcome is in the London Times of Aug. 5: ‘ Tbe
jury returned a verdict of death bymisadven’
taro, hut strongly censured tbe druggist and
his assistant, who were admonished by the
Coroner.”
The oldest settlers of Orangeville, I. TANARUS., were
recently surprised by the reappearance of “Big
Mary,” an Indian squaw, who, in the White
Bird fight ten years ago, bore an active part.
She was very ililigeut in cutting the throats of
wounded soldiers who fell in that action. She
accompanied the hostiles all throughout the
war, anti was sent to Indian Territory with the
other Indians, but finally returned with Joseph’s
band to the Colville reservation.
A mad dog attacked Mrs. Henry Biekle near
Louisville, and William Eichen, a young newly
landed German employed by Biekle, went to
her rescue and strangled the brute, but not be
fore his hands and arms hd been badly bitten.
As soon as Biekle learned that the dog was mad,
and that Eichen might have tho hydrophobia,
he promptly discharged the young man who
had saved his wife’s life, and the poor fellow,
without money or friends, was admitted to the
hospital.
An Ogdensburg newspaper says that some of
the citizens of the Fourth ward of that town
have for some time been annoyed by their cows
coming home at night without the usual amount
of milk. They watched their cows in hopes of
discovering the offender, and they were success
ful, for they saw a strange dog approach one of
the cows and rub up against her legs. The cow
put her foot back, when the dog sat upon his
haunches and sucked her dry. He was as fat as
a seal from the milk he had been taking.
It is toed of Charles Stuart Calverley, who
wrote “Fly Leaves,” that when a student at
Cambridge he was a frequent visitor at the
dean's lodge. One evening when he was there
the children's bedtime came, and they said
“Good night.” One little miss, about 5 years of
age, kissed her father and mother, and was
leaving the room, when her mother said: “Why!
my dear, are you not going to kiss Mr. Calver
ley?’' “No, mamma, Mr. Calverley doesn’t
want to kiss me." “How do you know he
doesn’t?" ' Because, mamma, whenever he
meets us walking, at the back of tbe colleges,
he always kisses ilurse, but he never kisses me.”
One of the most prodigious engineering proj
ects now on the tapis is that for tunneling tho
Rocky Mountains under Tray's Peak, which
rises uo less than 14,441 feet above the level of
the sea. It is stated that at 1,441 feet below the
peak, by tunnelling from east to west for 25.000
feet, direct communication could be opened t>e
tween the valleys on the Atlantic slope nnd
those on the Pacific side. This would shorten
the distance between Denver, in Colorado, and
Salt Lake City, in Utah, and consequently the
distance between the Missouri river, say at St.
. Louis, and San Francisco, nearly 300 miles, and
there would be little more required in tbe way
of ascending or descending or tunnelling moun
tains. Part of the work has already been ac
complished.
Ernest Legouve, the author of “Adrienne
Lecouvreur,” is still, at the age of 80, one of the
best readers and causeurs of Paris. Like Auber,
he has scarcely ever left tbe French capital, and
he boasts of possessing, in addition to France
and Paris, a third “fatherland"—bis house. He
'till inhabits the stone house in which he was
bora, and his study is the one in which his father
worked The elder Legouve, who wrote some
now forgotten dramas, had also been a member
of the French Academy, be died when Ernest
was 5 years old, and the child was present when
hi3 father’s successor in the academy, Alexn rider
Duval, delivered his eulogy. Sixteen years later
Ernest Legouve again witnessed, in the same
seat, a meeting of the academy, this time as the
successfu competitor for a prize for the best
poem on "The Invention of the Art of Print
ing.”
“The father of Volapulc, or its ‘inventor,’ as
he calls himself,” says a writer In the Leipsic
ill nitrite Zeitung , “is the former Catholic
priest Johann Martin Sehleyer, born July 18,
1881, at Oberlunda, in the Grand Duchy of Ba
den, a man of fiery intellect, emotional temper
ament and childlike heart. Eight years ago,
while spending a sleepless night, thinking very
intently upon the ’misery and hard lot of man
kind,’ he gradually evolved his system of the
world language Volapuk (“vol” lieing derived
from the English world and “puk” from speak),
which exists to this very (lav, fur reforming
criticasters have not succeeded in inducing him
to •change his grammar in any rescect. It is
true, however, that he has quietly and gradually
changed some of the verbal forms and incorpo
rated them, without specially alluding to them,
in tho new edition of nis vocabulary.”
A German lady, who recently was admitted
into the presence of the Khedive's wife, de
scribes her in tbe Vienna Xeue Freic Presse as
follows: “She is still young, at most 24 to 28
years old, and has an extremely charming face.
Her whole upjiearaiicc would lie Switching
were she not an lortantul and, therefore, young
as she is, already too stout to be perfectly beau
tiful according to European notions. .She has
large clurk eyes, with long heavy eyelashes, a
dazzling complexion to which art has con
tributed nothing and the loveliest little mouth
and teeth. Her neck and arms, as well as her
small fat hands, glittered with diamonds, and
her dark, fashionably arranged hair was en
circled with wreaths of precious stones, aud
yet somehow her toilet seemed not overladen
Oil the left side of her white surab dress, whose
long trail was completely covered with rich
lnoo, she wore a broehe of fresh orange leaves
and white roses, and below it a miniature of
the Khedive set in diamonds; on a little table
lay her golden tabatiere with tbe signature of
Abdul Aziz in diamonds and a large fly flap of
ostrich feathers, whose handle glittered and
sparkled with the slightest motion-’’
TiiK citizens of Charlottetown, P. K. 1., are
greatly chagrined over the publication of the
fact that an execution hns been issued against
that city. year a policeman arrested John
Griffiths, n respectable citizen, for non-payment
of 83c. tax on personal property. (frifHths paid
bis real estate and poll tax, but resisted pay
ment of the 88c. on the ground that he din not
owe it. The policeman handcuffed nnd jailed
Griffiths, who soon after brought action against,
the city for false arrest, and got u verdict for
SSOO damages. The city appealed to the full
bench of Hupreine Court Judges, but failed to
quash the verdict. Being beaten at every point,
the oily officials neglected to respond to
Urlffliflix' request for liuymeot. The latter
issued an execution for $747, the amount of ver
dict and costs. This brought Mayor Havflund.
who is also an ex-Govetnor of the Island, to lus
senses, and be immediately signed the chock for
the amount, but the Sheriff demanded bis fees
iu connection with serving the execution. This
Mayor Havlland refuand to pay, whereupon
Griffiths declined to accept tbe city’s check.
Griffiths says Im-Is going to have lils'potuid of
flesh, and unless the eit.v pays every cent ho
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