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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings— Golden Rule Lodge No. 12, I. O. O
F. ; German Friendly Society.
Special Notices— Notice, A. S. Cohen; Im
ported Pianos, Schreiner's Music House.
Cheap Column Advertisements —Help Want
ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale;
Personal; Miscellaneous
Caption— A. Falk & Son.
Steamship Schedule—Ocean Steamship Cos.
The Morn ing News will begin next
Sunday the publication of a very interest
ing story by Miss S. Lucy Joyner, of North
Carolina, entitled “Five Old Letters.” The
story is a comparatively short one, but it
will be well worth reading.
The season of the Georgia watermelon is
about over, and a very good season it has
been. The growers made fair profits and
consumers were furnished with remarkably
fine melons.
It is said that Ur. MoGlyun is about to lie
come the editor of an evening paper in New
York. He will not Is- an editor long lx>fnre
he will regret that he ever got himself lifted
out of the church.
Tho wrinkles on Henry George’s ample
brow will extend to the crown of his bald
head before he succeeds in getting an office
in New York as tho candidate of the
United Labor party.
However deep the contempt of the public
may be for Jacob Sharp, the briber of the
New York boodlers, nothing but the most,
profound respect can be felt for Mrs. Sharp,
who has shown a devotion to her convicted
husband that is truly admirable.
The President sent SSO to an old Buffalo
acquaintance the other day who, with his
family, had reached the condition of actual
want, in Washington, frem sickness and
other causes. Doubtless the President doos
many acts of charity which never reach the
public.
The canned fruit prevaricator is trying to
impress the public with the belief that the
supply of canned fruits will be very short
next winter, and that now is the time to buy
them. This prevaricator has been heard
from so often that he succeeds only in being
amusing.
The red headed and cross-eyed men of
Canada are very indignant at being taken
for MeGarigle, the Chicago liondlor, who
sought the Dominion to escape the poniten
tiary a short time ago. The unfortunate
Canadians who resemble the boodler will
be compelled to have their hair dyed to
escape annoyances.
The New York Il’orW asks: Must the
swallow-tail go? and comes to the conclusion
that it must, for the reason that
its lease of popularity lias already boon re
markably long. It is probable that it will
not go immediately, however, and there is
therefore no occasion for young society
men who have just supplied themselves
with anew swallow tail to tie uneasy.
The Kentucky tobacco growers talked
quite savagely to the Commissioner of Agri
culture, Mr. Coleman, and tho man who
does his figuring for him, the other day, lie
cause of his estimates of the tobacco crop.
But it remains to be seen whether the eom
miwioner’s figures are not incorrect If they
prove to be about right, will the Ken
tuckians apologize to him?
Secretary Fairchild is well satisficxl with
his plan for preventing stringency in the
money market through accumulations of
the surplus in the treasury. He is proving
himself to be a much abler financier than it
■was thought he would bo when he was ap
pointed. It is not easy to judge correctly
of a man’s abilities until lie is given a chance
to show how much brains he really has.
The eccentric Mrs. Weltlia A. Emmons,
who a few months ago creat<si such a sen
sation in Washington, D. 0., is now making
the proprietors of hotels at the suburban
summer resorts in tho vicinity of that city
unhappy by applying to them for accom
modations. They are afraid to permit her
to become an inmate of their houses for
fear that she will act as if she were in an
insane asylum.
Bnrah Althea Hill, who undertook to get,
a portion of the vast wealth of the late
Senator Slmron, of California, by means of
a suit for divorce, claiming that she woe his
wife, is making it evident that tho death of
the defendant and her inurriitgo are
not a bar to further proceedings in such a
suit. Sarah Althea Is determined to have a
portion of the dead Senator's estate, if
there is any possible way of getting it.
j
The newspapers which are trying to make
it appear that President Cleveland’s boom is
not a very substantial 0:10 are making a
grave mistake. The invitations from dif
ferent cities of the country to visit them
this full show that it rests uponasobd foun
dation. When it is seen wliat kind of re
ceptions ho receives in the South and West
on his October tour, whatever doubts the
soreheads may have will quickly disappear.
The Socialist editor, Shevitch, who tried
to convert Henry George to Socialism on
the way to the Syracuse convention, is not
without a certain amount of wit. He likens
Henry George's effort, to catch the farmer
vote with his land-tax theory to fishing for
trout with a lively young tiger for bait.
Socialist Shevitch may amuse himself at the
expense of Henry Ooorgc, but if he isn’t
careful be will rouse the great American
which will not leave enough of llim
and his follow Socialists for taut.
A Word to Advertisers.
The spec ial Trade Edition of the Morning
News, containing a review of the city’s
commerce for the post year, will be issued
on Sept. 3. It will more fully represent the
trade of Savannah than any previous trade
edition. It will contain tho advertisement
of nearly every important mercantile,
manufacturing and corporate interest in
the city, and will lie a revelation to those
who are not familiar with the variety and
extent of the business undertakings which
have made Savannah about tho most pros
jierous of the commercial cities of the South.
Suvannah is known throughout the com -
meroial world. Her name is a well-known
one in all tho marts of trade. Her markets
are quote,! wherever trading is done. Tho
world is interested in her rice, cotton, naval
stores ami lumber, and steamers from every
quarter of the globe seek her wharves for
cargoes. But Savannah has an immense
trade of which very little is known outside
of a certain territory, and concerning
which many of hor own citizens are not
well informed. This is her wholesale trade
in general merchandise, which extends
throughout Georgia, Florida and South
Carolina.
There is no better way of showing the
greatness, variety and prosperity of Savan
nah’s trade intere -ts than in the advertising
columns of her lending newspaper. To
make this showing as attractive and bene
ficial as possible the Morning News has
endeavored for its Trade Edition to secure
the advertisement of every individual, firm
nn<l corporation doing business in the city.
Business men and others interested in the
city’s prosperity can send a paper of this kind
‘to correspondeqte and friends with a feeling
of pride as an indication of the city’s prog
ress and prosperity.
Advertising of this kind can only bo done
in the home paper, because in the home
paper it is looked for. The various methods
of advertising outside of well-established
newspapers do not benefit advertisers.
Money spent on them is wasted. They do
hot attract the attention of those whose at
tention is desired. The well-known news
paper which circulates in tho territory from
which trade comes, and which has the con
fidence of tho jieopio of that territory, can
oloue do for advertisers what they want
done. Tlie aim of the advertiser is to read)
new customers and to retain old ones; and
in what better way can ho do that than by
using, as a medium of communication, a
newspaper which goes into every household
and counting house of the section of coun
try to which ho looks for his t rado ?
To advertise in any other than the recog
nized mediums of the communities which it
is desired to address has long since been
abandoned by those who have made adver
tising a study, and who, therefore, know
how- to obtain the best results for their
money. The Morning News Trado Edi
tion and Annual Review is an advertising
medium of the recognized ami long estab
lished kind. It makes its appearnnee
regularly every year, and every year the
effort is to make it more completely a full
and fair exhibit of the city’s business and
development.
A copy is always sidit to every subscriber
to the daily mid weekly paper, and to thous
ands of other people who are directly or in
directly interested in Savannah, by mer
chants who take largo numbers of copies of
the edition. The Morning News desires to
have every business in Savannah repre
sented in its columns this year, and any
advertiser who may have been missed by
the solicitor, or who may have been called
upon and declined to advertise, but who has
changed his mind, will be waited upon at
his request. The prices of advertising in
this mammoth Trade Fxtition are the same
as those for the other editions.
Russia’s Unchanging Purpose.
The thrifty Germans may decry the
credit of the Russian bear. but. though he
moves slowly, he never relinquishes terri
tory once acquired. For 300 years he has
been moving steadily toward a southern
sea. Mountaias are not insurmount
able obstacles; and warlike tribes that
have turned back the adventurous
Briton, have yielded to Russian
diplomacy and valor. Russian Czars have
not, turned from tho early policy of terri
torial accession. The map of Europe is
constantly changing, hut Russia holds her
own and absorbs. For three cent uries the
end and aim of Russia has been to inarch her
armies through India to the sea, where her
navies may ride unfettered by the ice which
locks them up in northern waters. It looks
as if the time would not long be delayed to
strike tlio blow. Her railroads extend to the
mountain gateway to India, and she is
almost ready to precipitate the struggle.
Englund disturbed liy her domestic affairs,
France and Germany ready for a duel to
the death, Austria trembling for the result.
Turkey vacillating with England—Bulgaria
is tho mere excuse for Russia to move when
she will and occupy whore she can. This
century is not likely to close before a
general Europcun war will make Russin
and France tho dominating powers, or do
price thorn of much of their present
prestige.
It is reported that the Sanitary Board, at
its meeting on Monday, censured the Morn
ino News for its article on the Bills)
canal. If it did why didn't it give out its
prtxssslings for publication? The reporter
for the MornrNO N kws asked for the Board's
action, hut wasn’t told anything about a
resolution of censure. If there were such a
resolution why not let the public have it ?
This practice of public servants sitting with
cloned doors ought to lx- abolished. The
people have a right to know what their ser
vants do. Tho Morning News tries to do
what is for the public good, and wlint it
does the public knows.
John W. Mackay who, it is alleged, lost
$3,000,000 In trying to corner California
wheat during the latter part, of July and
the first part of August, doubtless feels,
since he rocciVod his apfiomtment as an
officer of the Legion of Honor of France,
that gold is not the only desirable thing in
life. When wearing his red ronotto and
diamond cross he can truthfully say that
his life has not been altogether a failure i
TTIE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1887.
Schemes of the Socialists.
A Western man, who denies that he is a
Socialist, announces that he intends to form
a party which shall strive to make the gov
ernment “truly paternal.” He explains
that lie believes it to tx the duty of tho
(State to provide for all the wants of its
citizens. He says that the theory that gov
ernment was intended only for tho protec
tion of life, liDirty and property was ex
ploded long ago, anil that nobody but a
“primitive fool” at this day advocates it.
In this country the State nndei-takes inter
nal improvements and provides education
for tho children of its citizens. It should
go much further and provide shelter, fool,
clothing, business—indeed, everything that
men now acquire by individual effort. In
addition, he believes the State should be
charged with the duty of rearing the young,
because he d<>es not think that men and
women who linvo been brought up by their
parents can be entirely independent. Of
course, with views like these, be also believes
that, all marriage laws should bo abrogated.
This man’s denial that he is a Socialist
amputit* to nothing. His doctrines not
only make him a Socialist, as the term is
generally understood, hut they make him
one of the most dangerous of that class of
deluded people.
It is not probable that the government of
this country, or of any one of tho States,
will ever beeomo as “truly paternal” as the
Socialists wish it to be. It is probable, how
ever, that tho country will experience
greater trouble with them than tho majority
of its people believe. Recent occurrences
in more than one State have shown that tho
Socialists have quite largely increased in
number, and it is easy to be seen that they
grow Gilder in their demands everyday.
The cause of their boldness is the temporiz
ing imlicy with which they are treated.
The desire not to interfere with free
speech leads tho legal authorities to
take little, if any, notice of what tho Social
ists say, although some of the utterances of
the latter havo repeatedly been of tho mo3t
incendiary character. Not only is this true,
but even when Socialistic riots have oc
curred the participants have not been
promptly and adequately punished. There
ought to tie a change. If the present law's
are not sufficient to compel these misguided
people to respect the government, then oth
ers that will Ixi sufficient should lx) enacted.
It is better to prevent an evil than to pro
vide a remedy after it has worked injury.
Society In Cities.
It has often been remarked that a man
may hide hitnself much more effectually in
a great city than anywhere else. This no
doubt is true, hut it would seem impossible,
even in a great city, for a man to marry
two women and live in soparate residences
with each, concealing his crime not only
from his dupes but from all his acquaint
ances. Nevertheless, Michael Herford, of
Cincinnati, did this for several years, and
doubtless would havo continued to do it had
not one of his dupes decided to seek anew
residence.
Nino years ago Herford married a woman
whom he met in the City Hospital. Tho
couple did not live together pleasantly, but
the w'ife never for a moment suspected that
her husband had another wife. A few days
ago she started out to find a residence that
would suit her better than the one in which
she was living. Suspended from a door in
a building she chanced to enter she observed
a sign bearing the name of Michael Herford.
Sh passed into the room and found a woman
who introduced herself as Mrs. Herford. A
stormy sceno ensued, during which it was
developed that the second wife had been
living with Herford a mmilxir of years.
Subsequently Herford was arrested on the
charge of bigamy, and, in the course of
time, lie will doubtless be duly punished.
The case is interesting, not merely because
it illustrates how easily a man may hide
himself in a great city, but also because it
throws light upon the condition of society
there. There is no doubt that crime like that
of Herford’s is more frequent in cities than
in the country, and it is true, also, that as a
whole society in cities is more corrupt than it
is in the country. It Is not necessary to ex
plain why this is so. Tho fact suggests, how
ever, that there is always need in cities
for the utmost vigilance upon
tne part of tho authorities. It
suggests, too, that every possible safeguard
should be thrown around the young by
those charged with the task of rearing and
training them. Opportunities for going
asti*iy are continually being presented to
the young in cities, and only unceasing
watchfulness will prevent them from being
used. Parents and guardians would do well
to keep their children and wards near
enough themselves not to lose their hold
upon them. The opposite course is almost
sure to cause shame and distress.
Lawyer Tom R. Dunn, who is in a New
York jail on a civil process, and who, it is
alleged, advised the defaulting teller, Scott,
of the Manhattan Bank to steal $1,000,000
and make his wav to Canada, appears to he
very contented in his prison quarters. It is
claimed that he has SIOO,OOO of the stolen
money, and there is not much prospect at
present that he will let go his grip upon it.
He knows the law thoroughly, nnd it is not
improbable that he will keep his mouth
closed and permit the law to take its course.
He has twenty days from the time he was
arrested in which to file his answer in the
Supreme Court. If he does not file any an
swer at all within that time, the bank will
take judgment by default, and the Sheriff
will have sixty days in which to
levy upon any property belonging
to the prisoner. At tho end of tbit
time, Mr. Dunn still remaining silent,
and lie finds no property, lie must return
the judgment unsatisfied, when the execu
tion may be taken against the person of the
defendant—that is, Mr. Dunn. Then he
can be confined for six months, after which
he must lie released, oven without an appli
cation on liis own part. In other words,
Mr. Dunn cannot he held in jail after those
six months unless Scott should venture be
fore the grand jury to testify against him.
The prospect that Scott will put himself in
the .clutches of justice in order to testify
against Dunn is very remote. By keeping
his mouth shut, therefore, he may not only
retain the bank’s money but also be set at.
liberty.
The coal monopolists of Pennsylvania are
showing their deep concern for the interests
of American workingmen by continuing to
import pauper labor from Europe under
contract. They will be found in the lobbies
of the capitol at, Washington next winter,
demanding, in aggressive language, the con
tinuance of the present high protective tariff
for the sole benefit of American working
men. How vory disinterested these monop
olists are!
There is but little change in cx-Socrctnrv
Manning’s condition, what little there is
being in the UirecUou of improvement.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Rather Strange.
From the New Orleans Picayune <Dem.)
Strange as it may seem, wheu the odds are
against a man it is hard for him to get even.
His Frequent Returns.
From the Boston Transcript (Rep.)
Probably no traveler has returned from the
land from whose l>ourne no traveler returns so
many times as Henry M. Stanley.
The Worm of the State.
From the Philadelphia Press (Rep.)
The syndicate to corner the whisky market
has failed of its object, owing to the opposition
of the distillers. Even a worm of the still will
turn when trod upon.
They Have Hoard of It.
From the Nashville American (Dem.)
Birmingham landlords seein to have heard of
an i approved the methods of the Nashville ice
pool, and they are making a systematic effort
to increase their rents severul fold for the com
ing season.
Yanked Into Greatne33.
From the Shelbyi'ille (Jnd.) Democrat (Dem.)
It is a dangerous experiment to place a young
man of parts in a position that is calculated to
give him the hig-nead. If Riddlelxirger had
climbed upstairs by his own efforts and l>een a
score of years on the way, instead of being
valiked upstairs bv Mahone, he would have
been an ornament, instead of a disgrace, to the
Senate.
BRIGHT BITS.
An old man keeping an ice cream saloon likes
to see young people enjoying themselves.— New
Orleans Picayune.
The most afflicted part of the house is the
window. It is full of panes; and who has not
seen more than one window blind.— American
Inventor.
Some day when Ignatius Donnally hasn't any
thing to d< be might sit down and figure it out
that the forbidden fruit was a banana, and
Adam's fall was caused by the skin.— Washing
ton Critic.
Domestic—What will 1 get for breakfast?
There isn't a bit. of bread in the house.
Mrs. Youngwlfe Dear, dear! That is too
had. I suppose you hud better have toast.—
Pittsburg Dispatch.
“How did you break that lamp?" roared Mr.
Testy.
“Just lighted it, and that broke it," said his
wife: 'darkness falls, you know, but light
breaks."— Burdette, in Brooklyn Eagle.
Mis * li has asked Brown and Jones to play
tennis and stay to dinner. They appear in ten
nis suits, each with a small hand-bag containing
linen collar and cuffs. Miss B.—“ There, I told
mamma you would have sense enough to bring
dress suits!"— Life.
“Say, bub," remarked a would be fisherman,
“are there any fish in this stream?"
“Yep."
Will they bite?"
“None or them ever hit me, mister; but you
don't need to go into the water to fish if you
don't like."— Pittsburg Dispatch.
“Yor ought to be ashamed to lend money at
0 per cent.
“Wnere's the harm?"
“It is a usurious rate, and if, as it seems, you
do not fear punishment in this world, think of
what you might expect from on high."
"That's all right. The 9 looks like a 6 from
there.— Paris Figaro.
“Papa, how do they catch monkeys?" in
quired Willie, who had been to the menagerie.
“The best way, now adays. I think, is by
means of a double-barreled bustle, and a triple
size cart-wheel hat and a tnuey parasol."
"Yes," remarked Willie's mother, musingly:
“1 used t j be very much addicted to those little
foibles before we were married."— Washington
Critic.
Young wife—O, Mr. Jones, I'm so sorry Tom
brought you home to dinner to-day. If he had
told me you were coming I'd have had some
thing nice, and I haven't a thing in the house ill
to t at.
Mr. Jones—Now please don't say a word about
it, my dear madam You needn't worry your
self a particle. I take the most of my meals at
home myself. Pittsburg Dispatch.
'‘Hello, Major," said the Judge this morn
ing. "I haven't seen you for a week: where have
you been?"
“Been home sick as a dog," replied the
Major.
“You! Why. you were always as healthy as
could be. What in the world made you ill?*
“Well, I tried to follow some rules on health
I saw' in the papers."— Pittsburg Chronicle
Tele grit ph.
St. Peter—l am ready to resume charge of
the gate. Was I gone long?
Accommodating Spirit—lt seemed only a few
moments, and 1 attended to your duties as well
as I could.
“Thank you. But see here; what did you
send those five bad men up to the highest seats
for?"
"They are millionaires."
“Humph! Who are those people crouching
back againtt the wall?"
“Oh, fhev're n ibody; just ordinary folks. I
told them 1 guessed they wouldn't be put out if
tbev kept quiet.”
“\Velf, well! Why, you have refused to allow
quite a number of good people to come in at all,
I see. They are poorly attired, to lx* sure, but
their records ore stainless. What were you on
earth, anyhow ?"
“I was a church usher."— Omaha World.
PERSONAL.
Before starting for the continent Mr.
Chauncey Depew was presented to the Prince
of Wales.
Public Printer Benedict is said to be as
active as over in weeding out Republicans of
high and low degree.
W. P. Fish, champion amateur athlete of
Canada, winner of forty-one prizes, died of
consumption in Montreal recently at the age
of 22.
Dr. McGlynn'h friends say he did not profit a
cent by his recent Western lecturing tour, but
that he paid for the use of some of the hails in
which he spoke.
And now it is said that Sarah Bernhardt has
no thought of sharing her recently acquired
wealth with her creditors. The house she will
occupy in Paris has been engaged in the name
of her manager.
Anew six-penny illustrated magazine is to be
published in England under the name of Ata
iantn. Mr. Ruskln will writ© the preface, and
Andrew* and Rider Haggard will contrib
ute to the first number.
A year ago, Tuesday, the peculations of Will
iam Gray, Jr., of Boston* Treasurer of the In
dian Orchard and Atlantic Mills, were discover
el. The court s have not yet determined which
corporation should bear the loss entailed.
Collector Jones, of New Orleans, denies the
widely circulated report that his eyesight has
l>eon endangered by being struck in the face
with n copy of the Congressional Record. It
was probably the uniform heaviness of the
Record that gave r.se to the rumor.
Lro Taxil, once notorious as a rather scurril
ous writer against the Roman Catholic church,
bus repented, lieeu pardoned, and bad nn inter
view with the Pope, during which he shed tears
copiously at the affectionate treatment be
stowed upon him. His wife Is still unconverted.
The Princess of Wales, with her daughters,
the Princesses Victoria and Maud, have arrmvl
at Klampenborg. Denmark. They were w!
colmed by all the members of the 'Danish royal
family and the King of Greece. A delegation
representing the native artisans presented the
Princess of Wales with a bouquet and an ad
dress.
Colorow, the Ute Chief wh-> is making the
disturbance in Colorado, is an enormous old
savage weighing .300 pounds. He is wbut is
known in base ball slang as “a kicker." He has
never l*en satisfied with the government, and
has been more or loss rebellious all his life He
used to visit Denver very often, and on one <*e
casion went to Gov. McCook's office an<l became
rather insolent. Gov. McCook kicked Colorow
out of his office and down a flight of stairs into
the street.
Henry T. Finck, whose recently published
book entitled ‘Romantic Love and Personal
Beauty" has attraoted considerable attention,
was ohee a Harvard student In those days, be
was a thin-faced, hollow-eyed young man, with
auburn hair and freckles He burped the mid
night oil while reading Schopenhauer nnd other
German pessimists. He came from Portland.
Ore. After graduation be went to Oernuyiy,
and wqs present nt the great Wagner festival
His hook on “Romantic Love” shows talent as
well as learning.
1 r is a fact not generally know n that Presi
dent Cleveland has a minute acquaintance with
the pei]igrNs of the short-horn cattle of this
country. "The American Short-Horn Herd
Bonk" is the standard work on the subject of
which it treats, and Is a hook known to every
cattle raiser In rhe l T lilted States. Nearly thirty
years ago President Cleveland took a personal
Interest in the compilation of many volumes of 1
this work, fie hel,*‘d to correct and arrange
the ixGigrnes iu the second, third, fourth and
fifth volumes, and has never forgetten tlie
lo igy theu acquired concenung abort j
horn*.
OPIUM IN IOWA.
An Assertion That There Are 10,000
Victims in That State.
From the Davenport Democrat.
A newspaper paragraph ha* bt*m seen in
many of the State exchanges which states that
there are 10,000 victims of the opium habit re
ported in lowa by the State Board of Health.
Under date of Aug. 11, Secretary Kennedy wrote
to the Democrat Jiazette that tJiocurrent report
was evidently based on an investigation made
by Dr. Hull, formerl}* a member of the board.
It originated in a paper prepared by the doctor,
which was published in the last biennial report.
Secretary Kennedy says in reference to the
statement before alluded to that 10,000 cases of
the opium habit haw been rep |ted the! tht*re
is abundant reason for believing the number of
victims of the habit is far in excess of that
given. He adds that it is exceedingly difficult
to get the facts against the objection of drug
gists and the concealment of the victims. l)r.
Hull says that “opium is to-day a greater curse
than alcohol, and justly claims a greater num
ber of helpless victims which do not tall come
from the ranks of reckless men and fallen
women, but the majority of them are to be
found among the educated and the most honored
and useful members of society; and, as to sex.
we may count out the prostitutes so much given
to this vice, and still find females far ahead, so
far as numbers arc concerned. ”
A Story of Bishop Simpson.
* An incident showing his gifts is related by his
uncle. Late one Saturday night he arrived at a
town in the mountainous regions of Pennsyl
vania, where he was a total stranger. The next
morning he made his way to the Methodist
church, and accosted the pastor, telling him he
was a brotner iti the ministry. Simpson being
extremely awkward and plain in appearance,
the pastor was half inclined to omit the cour
tesv due a brother preacher, of asking him to
deliver a sermon. If he inquired of the bishop
as to his name lie must have failed to catch it,
for he certainly had no idea to whom ho was
speaking. His request for the stranger to
preach was therefore expressed in the most
formal and constrained manner. The stranger
readily agreed to ffll the pulpit, and the pastor's
chagrin wus evident, as he resigned himself to
his fate. The bishop preached one of his power
fill sermons, and everybody in the audience
whispered to his neighbor, “Who is he?” Before
he had taken his seat, the pastor had him by the
hand. “What did you say your name was?”
“Simpson.” “What! Not the bishop?” ‘ That
is what they call me.” The minister instantly
sprang to his feet and shouted, “You have just
had the privilege of listening to Bishop Simp
son. Let us sing, ‘Praise God from Whom All
Blessings Flow.’ ”
Our Quarrel.
Once we came to the end of the world,
You and I and love together;
Over us wings that flashed and whirled,
Under our feet the fading heather.
Naught beyond in the viewless void
But shadow and shadow and still a shade.
And ever behind us time destroyed
The whirling wings with his gleaming blade.
‘‘Alas!” 1 cried, “for the beautiful dream.
And the sheltering wings that love held o'er us;
Now we have choice of the blue steel's gleam,
And the sheer blade silence lying before us.”
Low laughed love, ami 1 looked in your face,
Looked and turned and laughed aloud,
Foryour smile had lighted the desolate place
And love had shattered the formless cloud.
Blre at our feet lay the summer sea,
Far behind us the whispering heather,
Alone at the end of the world were we,
You and I and love together.
So with a song we came back again,
And the bright blade over us flashed and
whirled,
But it threatened love's sheltering wings in
vain,
That failed us not at/the end of the world.
—l>. J. Kobertson.
Borrowed Plumage.
From the ('hiracto Herati.
In a small jewelry store them escaped the
solution of a sH.*ret that has puzzled many this
season. No one going to Long Braneh has failed
to observe the plenty of diamonds on ordinarily
dressed women. This jeweler's store is insig
nificant, hut he lias a good watch repairer,
whose services are often enlisted to tinker dam
aged mainsprings or fractured crystals. But if
the exhibition of goods is modest, the natty
little proprietor can take out of his pocket any
day a handful of fine diamonds. As I stood ad
vising with him relative to a mainspring that
had gone off that morning like an insane coffee
mill or a lunatic alarm clock, a dapper man
came in and handed over some cases. The new
coiner produced a note book and read: “Mrs.
.Jones wsnts that aigrette for Thursday night.”
and “Miss Smith will take a solitaire ring and
earrings for the week for $10"
“Can’t do it,” said Mr. Sparks; “not less than
$30.”
So the man wrote it down in his book. Then
he paid so much for Mrs. Jones, so much for
Miss White and Mrs. Brown.
“The Browns go to Saratoga,” he said, and
will have both those sets for week after next;
so don’t let 'em for more than this week.”
Here I got interested, and asked: “Do you let
out jewelrv?”
“T should say so,” said he. “I must have
SIOO,OOO worth of stones on hire in Long Branch
and Saratoga this season.”
“Isn't it risky?”
“Oh, bless you, I have security. The lady
who has had this set (he took one of the re
turned cases and showed a splendid pair of ear
rings and a bar pin) left a Treasury note of
SI,OOO as collateral. I have an agent in both
places to look after my interests, and I assure
you that it's a paying branch of my business. '
The Uncertainty of a Conductor's Life.
From the Chicago Mail.
“Railroads do not often reinstate a man after
he lias been bounced,” said a veteran of the rail
to me, as we were thundering along his road.
A passenger conductor is generally one who
has been promoted from the brakes. Some
times an engineer is made a conductor, but you
will find these things an exception. Companies
like to keep good engineers at the throttle.
They had rather give them more pay than to
promote them. Asa rule it is first a brake man
on a freight, then to the same place on a pas
senger, then conductor on a freight, and by and
by to the passenger train by mighty" slow
roaches. Many a passenger conductor has to
work as “an extra” for two years or more be
fore he gets a train of his own. And then,
when the coveted place is in sight, he has a
wreck, and if he hasn't a mighty good case, and
oc *a>tonally Influence, begets bounced. Then he
has to go to some other road and begin at the
bottom. 1 know a man who has wonted up in
this way for ten years. The very first run he
had with his regular train there was a smash
up. and after the investigation he was fired. He
had saved up about $1,500. He took this money
and went on the Board of Trade and lost every
dol’ar in less than a week. lie went to railroad
ing again, at the brakes on a freight, for anotli
er company, and has just been put on as eon
duotorOf a freight on a Western road that kills
about six conductors every year. Barring the
dangers of the engineer, his place is the liest on
the road. It is mighty seldom that an engineer,
if he escapes, is held to account for an Occident.
The Brotherhood of Jgicomotive Engineers is
the strongest and staunchest organization on
the fa<*e of the earth, and is the only one that a
railroad directory is afraid of. But* the place of
conductor, etqxviaUy passenger conductor, is
the most ungrateful and uncertain that a man
can hold.
A Crook Shows How a Man May be
Hoist by His Own Petard.
From the New York World.
"Luck is a queer thins,” philosophized a
Bowery crook, "and the liest of it is that it
comes upon one so unexpected. My mo.i suc
cessful schemes have been unpremeditated, and
the biggest haul I ever made was brought about
by my I icing drunk. I had been running in bad
luck tor a month, when I happened to pick up
a pocket-book containing B*>. I made up my
mind to celebrate the turn in my fortune by
getting gloriously drunk, and I was pretty far
gone when t ran across a stranger. The man
grew very friendly when he saw I bad a little
money, and nothing would do hut I must share
his room for the rest of the night. I remembered
no more until I woke up in tne morning in a
strange place. The lirst thing I saw was my
companion of the night before me going
stealthily through my pockets. I pretended to
he asleep, and the man after taking all the
money I had left removed a loose I .nek in the
fireplace and shoved It inside. He then left the
room. 1 jumped up as soon as he was out of
hearing and inode straight for the hiding place
There was nigh on to j.YX) in that little hole,
and my picket bulged out as big as my head as
I went down stairs. The man was coming out
of a saloon as 1 reaehod the street. He was
surprised to sue me Op. I told him I was anx
ious to get home, and asked him to have a drink.
" 'I must have iteen drinking pretty hard last
night," 1 said, feeling iu my empty pockets. ‘J
haven't a lieun left."
"'Yes," he replied, paying for tbo cocktails
and charitably banding me mv carfare, ‘you
was bluwln' it in like a Kentucky Major; nil if
1 hadn't brought you home the cops would linvo
run you in, sure. Drop in an' aee me whenever
you're down tills way.
"I've never been down that way since," con
eluded the crook, smiling in rernembmnoe of
lietter days.
Malaria.
bred Brown's Jamaica Dinger will relieve any
sudden stuck of malaria. Never go to a mats
nous district w ithout it.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Mrs. Grace Munson Wheeler, of New' Haven,
reached the age of 15 Sunday. She is in good
health bodily and mentally. On her birthday
she prepared breakfast with entire success for
three persons, and the day previous made some
excellent pies.
A recapitulation of the returns of the Texas
Prohibition election, as far as heard from, gives
the following result: Total Anti majority, 07,-
000; total Prohibition majority, 3.763; net Anti
majority, 04,33 G: total Anti counties, 160; total
prohibition counties. 31; total counties heard
iroin, 181.
Ex-Senator Bruce, of Mississippi, has been
lecturing for a year. “He entered the lecture
field,” says the New York Freeman (negro or
gan), “on a suggestion of the late* Henry Ward
Beecher. He found the work very congenial,
and Lis success has been all that he and his
friends could have desired.”
The Winnemucca (Ncv.) Silver State says:
“A 1 and of Shoshones arrived here a few days
ago with several hundred dollars for the purpose
of enraging in a gambling bout with the Piutes.
Usually the Bh< sbones take away more money
than they bring with them, but this time the
rule was reversed, and they lost all their coin
and blankets.”
Mrs Sadie Wilson, a widow with four little
children, went from Glemvood, Mo., to Cincin
nati. to collect $535 w hich her brother owed her,
and which was all the property she had. She
out the money in her dress pocket, and had
hardly left Cincinnati when the pocket was cut
bodily from her dress, and she was left abso
lutely penniless.
Drury Fortnum, F. S. A., has presented to
Queen Victoria the engraved signet-ring of Hen
rietta Maria. The history of the ring is w’ell
known and thoroughly authenticated. An entry
in the Privy Seal l>ooks in the Public Record
Office proves that Charles I. paid to Francis
Walw'yn L‘267 for cutting the arms of England
upon the diamond, w'hich has also the initials
of the Queen on either side.
Hkrr AooLPn Wii.brandt. who recently re
signed his position as Director of the Vienna
Burg Theatre, has received from the Intendant-
General the sum of 0.000 florins (s3,f>oo) in con
sideration of his having translated and adapted
a number of foreign plays during his director
ship without any compensation. He is not en
titled to a pension, not having in office the
requisite number of years. Herr Wilbrandt.
who is the author of several very successful
dramatic productions, will henceforth devote
himself entirely to literature.
A singular case of desertion from the army
came before an Austrian court martial recently,
A Carniolan recruit deserted the ranks in 1848.
He lived for thirty-nine years in the mountains
and forests of Carnioli and Carinthia. associ
ating only with shepherds and woodcutters, his
only shelter b*dng in huts of his own construc
tion. He contrived to make a small livelihood
by selling resin, hut, at last, as old age came on,
he got tired of his mode of existence, and in his
(53d year be surrendered to the military author
ities. They have condemned him to eight months
hard labor, which, under the circumstances,
se*ms rather a harsh sentence.
Dh. Lysaght, of the Bristol (Eng.) Royal In
firmary, sacrificed his life in an effort to save a
patient. About a fortnight ago a man was ad
mitted to the infirmary suffering from an affec
tion of the throat, supposed to lie diphtheria.
The operation of tracheotomy was performed
by Dr. Lysaght; but. the tube becoming choked,
the last chance of saving the man's life was for
someone to apply his lips to the tube and suck
the moisture. This Dr. Lysaght did, but with
out avail, for shortlv afterward the patient died
of suppressed scarlatina Dr. Lysaght caught
the disease in its worst form and died. A win
dow is to be erected in the infirmary to his
memory.
Edward Jack. wTitingabout hemlock in the
the New York Lumber Trade Journal, says that
until lately it has been abundant in Maine and
in the maritime provinces of Canada, hut px
and fire are fast exterminating it. The liability
of the tree to be blown down on account of its
bushy top causes windfalls which sometimes
cover considerable areas, over which fires rage
furiously. The lateral roots run near the sur
face to a great distance, and when the tree is
blown down they bring up large masses of
earth. In a windfall, the trunks, tops and the
clumps of earth brought up by the roots form a
tangle through which one can make only little
progress. Two days of hard workw'ere required
to get through three or four miles of a tract
Mr. Jack was once inspecting.
A Dublin correspondent of the Baltimore
Sun writes respecting the public schools in Ire
land. He says the British government expends
about $4.‘,’6\000 upon them annually, to which
sum about sl.( 0),000 more is added from pri
vate subscriptions. Tuition and books are
practically free, and the number of children on
the roll out of a population of 5.000,000 is about
1.000,000, with an average daily attendance as
high as 06 to 75 per cent There are numerous
institutions of higher grade, besides training
schools, and in all the teaching and system of
management is well designed and efficient,
“The curriculum in all grades,” the correspon
dent observes, “is fully up to, if not in advance
<>f the standard in the United States.” There
is not now a child in Ireland, it is held, who can
not read or is not being taught.
An atrocious military murder is reported from
Bangalore. India. The native adjutant of the
Twelfth Madras Infantry shot a Suhnhdar with
a revolver and then fired at a Haviklar major,
w'ho escaped. The murderer then barricaded
himself in his own quarters, where w ere his wife
and tw'o children and other female relations.
The military authorities feared that any attempt
to force an entrance might cause the death of
the women, so they telegraphed to the com
mander in-chlef for orders. The reply wap:
“Try and take the murderer alive.” Next
morning three shots were heard in th° house,
and he called out that he had shot his wife.
During the afternoon he let out the children and
his mother-in-law. and then shot himself. The
house was then forced, and the murderer and
Ids wife were both found dead. It is believed
that jealousy was the cause of the crime. Last
year a private in the same regiment shot a
Subahdar.
At Nnrrngansett Pier the bathing costumes
this season are models of beauty, of color and
of brevity. The ordinary silk tights of the hal
M are used, with the addition of a belt at the
waist ami garters jnßt above or just below the
knee, as the modesty of the wearer may sug
ge<t. I say modesty advisedly, for it is tne cus
tom (or the fashion), for this season only, for
gmtlemen to adjust the garter whenever they
become displaced by the waves, as they often
do: and fnsnion also decrees that, for modesty's
sake, tills very frequent task must lx*performed
while the garter is below the water, out of
sight of the vulgar, unbathing crowd that lines
the shore. A corset is worn, ns in ordinary
attire, and over and above this, and extending
half way to the knee, a jers *y conceals the—
well, it conceals the corset. It Is imp'rative
that the color of the tights shall be the exact
shade of the hair worn on t hat special occasion.
Tights are to be changed as often as the hair.
A tragical anoint!, which has a touch of
romance about it, has Just occurred at tho
prison of Karthnus, near Prague. A young
soldier named Kazowsky was standing guard
t here. In his early youth he hail lost his father,
not through death, but in a far more melan
choly way. His father had committed murder,
been pronounced guilty and condemned to
twenty yenrs' hard labor. The young son was
then 8 years old, and Ids father's features re
niained flnnlv Imprinted upon his memory, as
well as the whole painful Impression of the
event, which produced a severe shock upon his
youthful mind. While standing sontry before
the prison nt Kcrtluius, and seeing the convicts
led post him on their wav to the open oh 1 , in*
recognized in one of the hoary criminals his own
father. He spoke no word, neither did lie dis
cover hintself to his father, but. on being re
lieved from his post he quietly loaded his gun
mi l discharged n bullet at his head. Dying be
confesst-d to hi- comrades the horrible discovery
he had made, and which had driven him to seek
his death at tiis own hands.
Thk. inventor of the system of participating
in the drawing of lottery bonds by means of a
firnmeaxe or low-priced risk on the chance of
gaining a prize was a Viennese by the name of
Sothen. who, after having become a millionaire,
was made a baron by the Emperor. He was
murdered a few years ago by tils forester, and
so great was the contempt in which Sothen, on
account of his liard-heartodtirm, had be*m held
by the people that the Etnneror commuted the
death-sentence of his murderer, and that more
than 10,000 florins were collected for his chil
dren. Thisjhatred of Sothen, it seems, has
I teen transferred even to Ills widow, an intense
ly bigoted woman. whose castle near Vienna
has been repeatedly set on lire. Th other day,
just before a mass for the repose of Ids soul
was to tv read, tho Harmless received by mull a
package containing a crown of thorns, and tho
following lines: "Accept this wreath ns n m•-
tueiito of the death of your husband, who was
one of the Itest and most tender heart-si of
Christ intis. In the evening then- will' be fire
works. " In spite of all pns'autionn, tie* castle
was again the scene of a largo conflagration
during the night.
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FIGURED BATISTE CLOTHS.
AI7E will close otlt the remainder of our stock
* of these fine goods, formerly sold at 18c.
a yard, now reduced to 12^*.
25 pieces Figured Lawns, 33 inches wide, regu*
lar price a yard; now B^c.
75 pieces Figured Lawns, choice styles, at
60 pieces Wide Width Lawns, regular price
10c. a yard; now
One lot Crinkled Seersuckers, regula rice
15c. and 17c. a yard; now 12*4c.
One lot of Dress Ginghams, choice styles,
regular price a yard; now 10c.
36 Imported Marseilles Quilts, slightly soiled,
formerly sold at $3. We will close the lot out
at $1 85 each.
Hosiery and Underwear.
ino dozen Unbleached Black and Colored Hose,
regular price 12J.£0.; tow 9c. a pair
A mixed lot of Misses' Fine English Hose,
Ribbed, Plain and Silk Clocked, regular price of
i those goods from 25c. to 50c. We will close tho
lot out at 17e. a pair.
50 dozen ladies’ Gauze Undervests, regular
prices 25c. and 35c.; now 19c. each.
:i5 dozen Indies’ extra fine quality Gauze Un
dervests, regular prices 50c., 65c., 75e. and 85c.
We will offer the lot at the extraordinary low
price of 47c. each.
Onr SI Ufllaundried Shirts Reduced to 90c.
75 dozen Gentlemen's Unlaundried Shirts, re
inforced hack and bosoms, the best $1 Shirt
manufactured. In order to reduce our largo
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