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SATURDAY. AUGUST 27, 18*7.
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The Morning 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.” Tho
story is a comparatively short one, but it
will be well worth reading.
It looks as if the New' York Socialists are
finely estranged from tho United I>abor
party-
A cablegram announces that John Rus
kin is certainly insane. Few men have done
more good in his day or brought pure
pleasure to so many thousands. His books
are classics.
There is a movement in New York to
unite the Labor and Temperance parties.
In everyday life there is no better, stronger
coalition. How it will work in politics re
mains to be seen.
Mrs. Langtry’s mother lias gone to
England to see what can be done toward
getting Mr. Langtry out of the way in order
that Mr. Freddy Gehhardt may become
known as Mrs. Langtry's husliand. A noble
ambition is that of Mr. Oehhnrdt’s.
How public opinion overhears law was
recently curiously illustrated in a French
court. A duelist was sentenced to impris
onment, not because he had wounded his
adversary, but lx*enuse lie* parried a thrust
with his left hand while hi* stabbed with
his right. Dueling is illegal in Franco.
Chicago is much dissatisfied, because in
the programme of the President’s Western
visit she is allotted only one day while*
three are given to Bt. Louis. Is this an
outbreak of tho old jealousy, or only evi
dence that Chicago share** the pride most
of his countrymen feel in Mr. Cleveland;
Rev. Dr. Spreeher, of Euclid Avenue
Presbyterian church, Cleveland, 0., is a
minister who puts principle before salary.
He was offered Mr. Beecher’s old plnce at
Plymouth church, with a salary of 820.000,
but refused it Ixx-nuso of tho latitudinarian
doctrines of the congregation, with which
he did not care to be identified.
A lot of des{x*rate stsx’k gamblers are
said by the Philadelphia Time* to lie using
money anil every influence they can bring
to tx*ar to induce the employes of the Read
ing Railroad Company to strike, in the ho|>e
of profiting by the decline in tho stock
which would result. Men are sent to jai 1
for much smaller crimes against their fol
lows.
The recent long controversy in tho ease of
the forger Blackman, illegally arrested in
Bouth Carolina by a Richmond county offi
cer, causes the hope that the labors of tho
recent extradition conference in Now York
may result in something practical. State
sovereignty is a good thing, but it should
not shield criminals.
Sacrificing Principles for Success.
The attitude of the Republican papers of
New York with rospoet to the United Labor
party, whose ticket lias Henry George’s
name at its head, is a rather interesting sub
ject for study. They give the new party all
the encouragement they can without ac
tually supporting it. They do not criticise
its lenders or its candidates, and they im
prove every opportunity to say that it will,
in all probability, cast a large vote.
This attitude of the New York Republi
can pa)ers is due to their belief that the
new party will draw its strength chiefly
from the Democratic party, and will make
it possible for the Republican party to carry
the State at the election this fall.
But even if the new party should draw
more votes from the Democratic than the
Republican party, it is by no means certain
that the Republican party would carry tho
State. The Prohibition party is much
stronger in New York now than it has been
at any previous time in its history. Its con
vention met at Syracuse on Thursday, and
was engaged in the work of framing a plat
form nnd nominating a ticket yesterday. It
will doubtless poll about as many votes
as the new party, and they will be drawn
almost entirely from the Republican party.
The strongholds of the new party are in the
cities; those of the Prohibition party in tho
rural districts. Unless the new party polls
a phenomenal vote, like that polled by
Henry George at the municipal election in
New York city, it would not be surprising if
the Prohibition vote were larger than the
new party vote.
The Republican papers, therefore, have
excellent reasons for trying to build up the
new party. They hope to make it do tho
Democratic party more damage than the
Prohibition party will do their party.
The struggle for success causes forgetful
ness of priuciples. It seems strange, for
instance, to sec the New York ’Dribvvir, tho
leading protectionist organ of the country,
lending a helping hand to Henry George,
an avowed free trader. Tho truth of the
remark that ‘"polities make strange bed
fellows," was never more clearly illustrated
than in this case. Mr. George is not only a
freetrader, bat the land theory he teaches is
akin to the doctrines of tho Socialists. It is
true that the new party refuses to have
any association with the Socialists, but there
is reason for thinking that its course in this
matter is dictated by the belief that the So
cialists would do it more harm than
good. If the new party leaders
believed that the Socialists would
strengthen their party it is not im
probable that an alliance with them would
be formed. The Tribune , however, and
other Republican | wipers of New York have
nothing to say against Henry George’s land
theory, which has been adopted by his party.
Indeed, it is within the bounds of possibility
that the}- would advocate that theory if, by
so doing, they could insure tho success of
the Republican {tarty.
There is yet no occasion for the Demo
cratic party of Now York to be alarmed.
The new party will not make such inroads
upon the Democratic vote as the Republi
can leaders expect. The vote which Henry
George received for Mayor of New York is
not a safe basis upon which to make a cal
culation of the new party’s strength. It is
doubtful if the new- party will poll in the
whole State ns large a vote as that which
Henry Gixirgo received for Mayor. If it
does not, and the Prohibition vote isas large
as it is expected to lie, the Democrats will
carry the State by a fair majority.
Seeking a Way to Reach Criminals.
For several days our dispatches con
tained accounts of the proceedings of the in
terstate conference at New York city, which
had for its object the adoption of a uniform
system of practice for the delivery, from one
State to another, of criminals who are
fugitives from justice. Twenty-two States
and Territories were represented at the con
ference, and the prospect appears to bo that
the system agreed upon will be sat isfactory.
The method pursued in extradition cases
is quite different, in different States. In
fact, the laws of the various Stntos on the
subject an* so different that complications
arise, and criminals are permitted to escape
punishment. Not very long ago complica
tions in an extradition case arose between
this State and South Carolina, and it was
quite a long while before a satisfactory un
derstanding was arrived at.
What is needed is a simple set of regula
tions which could be quickly complied with,
and with which oflk-oraof tho law would have
no difficulty in becoming familiar. At pres
ent when a criminal escapes from one State
to another, a lawyer has to be consulted and
the extradition laws of the two States looked
up, and arrangements made to comply with
them, before any steps can lx l taken to cap
ture the fugitive. The delay thus caused,
and the difficulties which frequently arise
from the failure to follow the strict letter
of the law, often defeat the ends of justice.
If the work of this conference should
prove acceptable it is not improbable that
a conference to secure uniform divorce
laws will be called. It is doubtful if the
laws relatiflg to divorce are alike in any
two States. Asa consequenee some grove
complications arise. A person may secure
a divorce in one State which is not regarded
ns valid in another, and he is in the curious
position of being a single man in one part
of the country and a married man in an
other. If ho should marry agaiu he would
run tho risk of lining prosecuted for bigamy,
and if he should die there would be a dis
pute with respect to the division of his
property.
Congress has boon urged to take stops to
secure uniform marriage and divorce laws,
but its authority to do so is questioned. An
easy and satisfactory way to accomplish the
desired object would boa conference of the
States and Territories. Thcro certainly
could be no great opposition to such a con
ference, since there is a strong public senti
ment in favor of getttng rid of the evils
which necessarily result from inharmonious
laws.
It is to be hoped that the failure of Groves
teen & Pell, of New York, announced in
the Morning News of yesterday, will not
affect unfavorably two North Georgia
railroads, with which they are intimately
connected —tho East and West and Rome
and Decatur. Both are important lines to
the development of the mineral resources of
that portion of the State. Tho terminal
point of one of them, Pell City, a smart
nnd pretentious Alabama town, was named
for tho junior member of the firm.
There appears to be a disposition in Texas
among the Anti-Prohibitionists toread those
of tho Democratic leadeiw who assisted the
Prohibitionists at the lute prohibition elec
tion out of the party. It would be well for
them to curb that disjxwition at once. The
Prohibitionists wero defeated in Texas, but
they were not so crushed ns not to lx- reudy
to make another light for prohibition.
TIIE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, ISS7.
Sharp’s Start Toward Liberty.
The chances are that Jacob Sharp will
never become an inmate of the penitentiary.
A judge of the Supremo Court lias found
sufficient grounds, it seems, for granting n
stay in his case. The general term of the
Supreme Court does not meet until Octotx-r,
and, of course, tho exceptions taken during
the trial cannot bo passed upon until then,
unless the Governor should call an extra
session of the court. There is no proba
bility, therefore, that Sharp will have to
put on the striped suit of a convict for a
month or more, and, perhaps, he may never
have to put it on.
The grounds upon which the stay w-as
granted may lie good ones, but the general
impression will be that it would not have
been granted if Sharp were a poor man and
without influential friends.
The next move will be, of course, to get
him out on hail. It will lie said that his
surroundings are very unhealthy, and that
his health is very had. It seems, however,
that there are doubts about his being as
sick a man as ho pretends to be. Re|x>rts
have gained currency in New York that ho
is pretending to be a much sicker man than
he really is for the purpose of exciting sym
pathy. Ho is not a strong, healthy man,
of course, because he is over TO years of ago,
and it is time that he should
show some signs of failing health.
That there is anything tho matter with
him, however, of a very serious character
is doubted, it is alleged, by physicians who
are as eminent in their profession as the
one who is attending him.
If the verdict against him should be set
aside it would be extremely di<Ti*-ult to get
another satisfactory jury to try him. About
every intelligent man in th city of New
York lias niadk up liis mind with regard to
tho question of Sharp’s guilt, and a jury
would have to lie marie up of those of a
rather low order of intelligence. Tho ex
pense which tho county of New York has
already been put to in order to secure
Sharp's punishment is something enormous,
and tho expense of another trial would, in
all probability, lxi still greater. Doubtless
the taxpayers of New York hope that the
higher court will find that no mistakes were
made thnt justify anew trial.
Wrecked by an Operator.
On last Monday night two freight trains
on the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad came
into collision near Charleston, W. Ya.
Two engines and fifteen freight cars loaded
with merchandise were demolished. Imme
diately after the accident the demolished
cars caught fire and, with their contents,
were consumed. Tho total loss was about
875,000.
What was the cause of the accident?
Why, a young telegraph operator fell
asleep while on duty. The question which
presents itself is this: Was the operator
qualified for the position which ho occupied?
He may have known how to send and re
ceive messages, hut was he old enough, and
had he sufficient experience to understand
the responsibility which rested upon him?
Accidents are all tho time happening on
railroads through the carelessness and incom
petency of employes, and in these accidents
hundreds of lives are lost and thousands of
dollars worth of peoperty are destroyed
every year. Still there are railroad com
panies which continue to employ unfit men
because they can Vie obtained for small
wages. These men are put into responsible
positions nnd, foiling that they are not
adequately paid, or not realizing the respon
sibilities of their positions, they neglect
their duties and disastrous accidents are the
result.
The desire to make good dividends, and
thus please the stockholders, or to make a
handsome showing of net earnings to aid
s]x*eulntion, influences railroad managers in
too many instances to pay wages that will
secure the services of only those who have
no feeling of responsibility and no fitness
for tho discharge of the duties required of
them.
This young operator who caused a loss of
875,000 to tho Chesapeake and Ohio railroad
was clearly unfit for the responsible place
lie held. Boy-like, lie yielded to a t iced nnd
sleepy feeling, thinking porhaps that tho
clicking of his instrument would
awaken him if he were called. A
carefully selected man would never have
taken such a risk. He would have remained
awake as long as he was on duty. The pres
sure for dividends, however, js so groat that
railroad managers are often forced to put
incompetent men in responsible places,
Tho Canadian government, in attempting
to prevent tho construction of the Red
River railroad, connecting that distant
province with the great American systems
of roads, is fighting against fate in attempt
ing to divert trade fix m its natural chan
nels. If persistod in, this effort to save tho
Canadian Pacific monopoly may lead to a
serious strain upon the union of the prov
inces and greatly increase the number of
Canadians who look to annexation to the
United States as the only cure for the
economic ills which afflict the Dominion. If
they must he prisoners they may think it
bettor to have tho freedom of the whole
continent than of a thin line of jocky prov
inces on the edge of the polar wastes.
From the reports in the New York papers
the Republican Immigration Commissioners
at Castle Garden, New York, are incompe
tent and unfit for their positions, nnd the re
ports seem to be well founded. The propo
sition to remove them calls forth from the
Republican partisan ]>A|>erv tho statement
that the attacks on the commissioners are
intended only for political capital, and that
if they are removed it will lx* because their
places are wanted for some of the political
(x*ts of the administration. When was it
thnt the Republican pa{x*re ever advocated
anything because it waft right? The readi
ness with which they will cover up the
wrong-doing of Republican officials is mar
velous.
Tho discontent, caused among the anti-
Gorman Maryland Democrats by the Sen
ator's ascendency in State politic* and his
allowed control of Fisloral appointments is
likely to endanger the success of the iwrty
in the fall election. This faction, led by
John K. Cowen, a man of great wealth and
high ehaiwter, is openly pledged to tho sup
port of the Republican ticket, in tho nam
ing of which it probably hod a voice.
Tho Now York Star having ugroed to
liooin a steel pen in connection with the
Grant monument may nlso undertake to
boom someone of tho many patent medi
cines in tho same way. If it gets enough
articles to boom it may finally succeed in
raising the monument fund.
A New York Socialist accuses Henry
George of having diverted to his own use
$ll,OOO contributed by an Anarchist for a
political purjKise. Nobody will believe an
Anarchist ever had that much money.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Way to Abolish Poverty.
Erom the Phihidel phia Press (Rep.)
The price which Henry Cieonr© demands for a
lecture suggest* that his platform is: “Every
man abolish his own poverty. As lain a little
lame I will begin now."
The Politician’s Heartlessness.
Erom the Providence Evening Journal.
Was there over anything more wicked in gov
ernment than tho attempt of the Tory Ministrv
of England by unjust laws to goad the Irish
tieople into mislfobavior and violence, in the
hot>e thut they will thus alienate the sympathy
of the English voters and give the Tories anew
chance for power.
Stop Juggling* With the Tariff Issue.
/Von? the Philadelphia Record iDem.)
The Philadelphia Times says that New York,
Connecticut, New Jersey and Indiana were car
ried for Cleveland because the platform of IRB4
distinctly declared for tho protection of Ameri
can labor. If the Record should say that these
States were carried for Cleveland in spite of a
juggling declaration in regard to the tariff there
would be strong presumptive proof to back its
assertion, while tne Times hns none. In JMP> all
these States gave rousing majorities for Tilden
on a platform favoring drastic tariff reform.
Thev will give rousing Democratic majorities
again whenever the Democratic party shall rise
to the occasion and plant itself on its time
honored principles.
BRIGHT BITS.
Dude -I say, me boy, cawu't you give me a
tip?
Jockey—l would if Iliad you out in a boat.
But you wouldn't sink.
“Why not?”
“Head's too light. " -Exchange.
In* the midst of a fervent exhortation to sin
tiers a Portland revivalist, who is by business an
auctioneer, exclaim**]; “Twenty-nine I've got:
thirty, shall I have ’em? Bless the liOrd!
Twenty-nine are saved: who will come next?
Shall I have thirty?” The Earth.
Omaha man—Your section seems to be a great
place for feuds
Southerner—Oh, well, we have had feuds
there, but they are nil settled now.
"l am glad to hear that, very glad.”
“Yes, the folks are all dead.”— Exchange.
“Prisoner, you acknowledge having stolen
several bales of hay from th** gentleman.
What urged you to commit this crime?
•‘Hunger, your honor.'' Paris Gault)is.
The prisoner must l ave taken tin* Judge for a
donkey to expect him to believe that.— Neve
York Tribune.
Guest (to summer resort landlord) —What is
th^capacity of your hotel?
Limilora —That dep nds. If tho guests are
Nmv Yorkers we can take care of 1,000 com
fortably; but if they are from Boston, I wouldn't
dare strain the building with more than 500.
Hurjfcr's Bazar.
Time, 3 a. ml: Mrs. Jollyboy—Where on earth
have you been?
Mr. Jollyboy.—l cannot tell a lie. I've been at
in' offish.
Mrs. J.— I That's where we differ. I can tell a
lie—when I hear one. (Cruel silence, in w hich
something is heard to drop.)— Exchange.
A correspondent imparts the thrilling infor
mation that Mi's. Cleveland kissed a baby at
Marion the other day. The President will prob
ably not engage in such a business until—until
h* is nominated for a second term and swings
around the cirri * on an electioneering tour.
P. S. —That is, other people's babies — Norris
town Herald.
lleavtside—How do. Miss Prettypert? Why
have you taken off your hat?
Miss Prettypert- I've been bathing and I want
my hair to dry.
11. All! Now, if I were to take mine off, I
should get a fearful cold.
Miss P.—Oh. Is i ppose that's why you haven't
raised it yet.— Fun.
(Jus I saw Cholly Dusenhury at the Hoffman
to-d-n-ay. ('holly's looking flue.
Jaok—Ya-as.
Gus- By the way, d'ye know Cholly's address?
1 forgot to ask him.
Jack -Yn-as (consulting his note 1 book).
Chollv's address is s stt*en hundred and twenty
Ninth Avenue, top floor, back. Mulligan's bell;
ring twice.— Tid-Bits.
Chicago Hospitality.—Chicago Man—Wel
come. my old friend. Welcome to glorious
America.
Distinguished Foreigner—Before accepting
your hospitalit}’ itisinyduty to deliver some
messages from our chief officials to the chief
officials of Chicago.
“Well. I'll hustle around and see if any of
them are out of jail.” -Omaha World.
Waiter Anything else I can help you to,
sail?
Guest No. I think not.
Waiter Everything satisfactory, sah?
Guest Yes, it seems so.
Waiter Service all that could be desired, sah?
Guest -Good enough, I believe.
Waiter I always knows when I meets a gem
men especially, sab. a Boston geinmen. Dey
idlers has liakud heaps and fish, and dey know
when duy's sarved well, sah. No grumblin' c!nr,
sah, and dey nevaw--ah, thanks, sah.” (Gives
out.) Aside. “1 jest thought I'd fotch dat old
wenden-hoaded skinflint. I specks he gimme
dls yer quarter jes to stop my elumquence.”—
San Francisco Wusp.
PERSONAL.
Miss Anna Dickinson has so far recovered her
health as to lx* able to take short walks in the
open air at Honcsdale.
John L. Sullivan's exhibition at Nantnsket
netted exactly sl.Nk\ which is to go toward the
erection of a church at that place
Justice Field, of the United States Supreme
Court, thinks the division of California into two
States is certain to occur before long.
Thf. cities of Cleveland. Detroit, Toledo and
Sandusky will wlebraie the anniversary of Com.
Perry's victory on Lake Erie on Sept. io.
Gov. Foraker will deliver the annual address
at the gathering of the Western Reserve Pion
eer Association at North Solon, 0., Aug. 31.
Among the m songers on the steamer Um
bria. which left Liverpool for this country on
Saturday, are tho Duke of Marlborough aud
Lord Pysart.
Walt. Whitman, peremptorily refuses to re
ceive a weekly pension from the Boston Whit
man Society, lie is not a “good gray poet” for
revenue only.
(Jen. Oruki.y, of Arctic fame, was banqueted
ou Saturday by the New Bedford Board of Trade,
and made to recount his experiences in the re
gions of perpetual snow.
Harriet Bf.kciikr Stowe has written a letter
to a triend denying that she is in poor health.
She says she is able to take a long walk every
day and finds strong aud hopeful.
John DeMif.h, of Allentown, Mo., claims to
be the oldest volunteer fireman in the United
States, lie joined Relief Company No. ‘J. of
Cincinnati, 0., in He is now 80 years of
age.
Horace T. Cook. Treasurer of Cayuga county,
New York, is entitled to distinction as a tena
cious office holder. He was llrst elected to that
losition thirty-nine years ug>, and has just been
renominated for the fourteenth consecutive
time.
Talmadoe A. Lambert, a Washington lawyer,
who says In* is the sou of l>avid Igimbert, a
nc\vspui>r man in the North went years ago, has
begun proceedings to establish his claim to 478
acres of hul l on tic* shore of Lake Pbalen,
Minn., valued at $1,000,000.
Kx-Speaker Galcsea A. Grow, who secured
the passage of the homestead law. has received
a cane bearing this inscription: To the Hon.
Gal us!, aA. Grow, Speaker of Congress 1801-3.
This care grew on the first homestead in the
United States Presented by the first home
steader, I>auiel Freeman. Heat rice, Nebraska.
Murat Halstead writes that he has i>ent two
days in close examination of the battlefields
west of Met/., ami professes himself unable to
make out the Positions which he, Monctire I>.
C'onway and Von Moitke occupied seventeen
years ago. *'ln fact,*' he adds, “the lines of
battle are not what 1 had supposed them to lie
when a si>ootator, so that contemporary history
may have to I>e rewritten."
Cardinal Newman's brother. Prof. William
Newtimn, is also an octogenarian. He is anm \
of the deepest scholarly attainment and a con
firmed freethinker. For forty years he and bis
brother, the priest, were strangers, hut recently
the Prince of the Church and his atheist brother
met and embraced, and now they are theliest of
friends, and never allude to their differences of
opinion nor long years of separation.
Sam Jones told an anecdote at Hound
N. Y.: “1 can get along with an old sinner; I
can beur patiently with a poor drunkard: hut
when a church iiienl**r logins to apologize for
Ids meanness and gets mad Iteoause he is told of
ills faults, it makes me sick at my stomach. If
any of of you get mad ut whAt I am saying Just
come up like gentlemen and ask my pardon and
I’ll forgive you." Nobody ajologizod
( 'ear Alexander has found n diversion very
sMthlug to his disordered nerves. A short
time ago the complaint reached his ear that the i
carp and pike iu the isinds of Gatshina were
multiplying too fast. The Csar resolved to <x*-
cupy Ids leisure hours with fishing. While at
llrst only *|>ort to him it has now U*come a con
tinued habit. Indefatigable he sits on the hank
with a fishing rod and waits patiently for a bin*.
A White Snake in a Lump of Ice.
From the Xorristmrn Herald.
A lady purchased a lump of
crystal ice a few days ago and placed it in an
ice cooler, which was perfectly clean. She
added no water, allowing it to melt without as
sistance. Some time later she drew a glass of
the melted ice and was lifting it to her lips,
when, from the very center, a tiny snake reared
•tvs diamond head, its scintillating eyes and
glistening forked tongue causing a scream of
fright to issue from'the lady’s lips. Fortunately
sh * held on to the glass and was thus able to
prove to the incredulous friends who answered
her call the absolute truth of this strange story.
The snake was almost pure white, measured an
inch ami a half in length, was fully developed
and belongs to a species as yet unclassified.
How it came into the ice. and how it could live
and display such astonishing liveliness in liquid
of a temperature so near congelation is a mys
tery worthy the attention of our local scientists.
Old Wine in New Bottles.
From the Bcok of Judges as I road—
“ Make me a sling.” wee Robbie said.
Like those you were reading about in there,
That hit the mark to the breadth of a hair,”
“And make another for Richard, too.
Ami we'll sing as the Benjamites used to do;
And make another that baby can whirl—
A little one, mind she's only a girl.”
So I made him a sling like unto that
Swung by the men of Jehosaphat;
“May songs of victory tune your breath
Like the slitigers who smote Kir-haraseth.”
I smiled as I heard tlf exultant cry
Of the hosts of Benjamin passing by;
1 smiled in time, oh foolish man—
For I smiled no more when the fight began.
For the stones crashed through the window
pane
And rattled down on the roof like rain;
They pelted poor Sport clear out of the fray
And battered The Rectory over the way.
The air was blue with the flying stones,
And shrill with shouts and wails and groans;
For people who looked and pedple who ran,
Were pelted alike by the slinging clan.
Richard and Robert, the two mighty men,
Were slinging six ways for Sunday; but then
Baby was weeping, the sweet little maid,
For she smote herself in the shoulder blade.
Then I learned that no riglgftimded boy can
bring
A left-handed Benjamite's skijl to a sling,
For the aim of a left handed, cross-eyed man
Correct s its obliquity—none other can
Robert J. Burdette.
Romantic Love and Personal Beauty.
From the Saturday Review.
In one section of his book Mr. Finck is rather
more fortunate, though his crude transatlantic
ideas mar his work even here. He is a great
defender of flirtation against prudery on the
one hand, and Coquetry on the other, and we
approve his efforts. But even here he has not
quite risen to the full conception of the great
art—to-wit: To the idea that it is an art, and,
like all arts, has an end in itself. In general,
Mt. Finck's intentions appear to be better than
his execution—a fact perhaps not difficult to
anticipate from his having written his booK.
He does not like v r.v small waists—on which
point he is no doubt generally right, though we
are quite unable to admit with him that a small
waist is ugly in itself. It is not; but the
means taken to secure it bring about other ugli
nesses for w hich the small waist is no compen
sation. lie does not like to see ladies’ heads
loaded with dead birds and beasts, and here we
are wholly with him. He hates strong-minded
women w ith an in every sense holy hatred, and
f< >r this alone we could lx* content to forgive
him everything, except that fatal, irrational,
and, in far more than the common sense im
moral. error that romantic lore and conjugal
love are different and incompatible. The thing
is the odder because lie is a warm advocate of
marriage —that is to say, of killing the goose
(we mean no sarcasm) that lays the golden
eggs. This and his sacrilegious remarks about
Solomon and Catullus are bad,and his ignorance
of mediaeval and other matters is bad, and what
we at least suspect to be his concealment of the
real cause of that ignorance is bad. and his de
preciation of blondes is bad, and his overvalua
tion of Ovid is bad. But. as having, even if not
quite according to knowledge, stood up for the
noble and traduced art of flirtation, perchance
he may be finally saved, if so as by Are, and be
allowed to enter the paradise of lovers.
Charley’s Vision.
From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
From the northwest nurt of Macon county.
Mo., comes a wonderful 'story of the appearance
of a spirit form a few days ago. The source of
information is regarded absentiredy trustworthy.
Mr. Samuel Phillips, a well known farmer, was
at work in his field, three miles west of La
Plata, on the afternoofr of May 30. Within a
few rex Is his 11 -year-old son Charley was also at
work with a hoe. Suddenly the hoy cried out,
then ran forward a little way, and, stumbling
over his hoe, fell to tliq He continued
looking up into the air and stretched his hands
upward. The father at once ran to him and in
quired the cause of his action. The little fel
low was crying in a heartbroken manner, and
sobbed out:
“Oh, it was mamma! it was mamma!"
Not understanding what he meant, the father
asked an explanation. Charley related that
while working he had been attracted by sweet
music in the air above him, more lovely than
he had over heard b *fore. On looking up he
had soon two beautiful beings floating down
ward and coming toward him through the air.
They stretched out their arms to him and he
ran to meet thorn, being almost drawn toward
them by something he could not understand.
When befell down the music ceased and he
saw the heavenly visitants going a wav farther
and farther, until out of sight. Notwithstand
ing his father's persuasions the qhild declared
that he had seen these* forms just as he de
scribed them, and he could not be snaken in the
l>elief that one of the persons was his mother.
Over and over mii snoe tin- ocomronoe has
the hoy relateu the story, without variation,
and always seems to be greatly affected by the
memory of the vision, as he cries and trembles
violently whenever speaking of it. When
Charley was an infant his mother died, and the
little boy has not the faintest recollection of
her. An older brother also died before the
mother. Charley has always been an affection
ate, sweet-spirited and truthful child.
Why the Duke Sold the Picture.
From The Tablet.
The Duke of Westminster has got himself into
a difficulty and out of it. it came about in
this way. Some seven years ago this wealthiest
of all the peers and lords of lands and manors
innumerable, laid a last tribute of homage be
fore the shrine of the political deity lie had
spent his life in worshipping when lie paid down
2,000 guineas l’or Millais’ portait of Gladstone.
All the world remembers it. with its anxious,
pallid look, and how Mi's. Gladstone explained
t hat her husband had come to look so through
grief grief at what Lord Bnocdnsfleld had be n
doing in England. But times change, and we
with them; and though Mr. Gladstone still looks
out from the calm of the canvas just as he was
painted years ago, the Duke of West
minster meete his gaze with other eyes.
The sight of the statesman who.
in Grosvenor House, is thought* of
now chiefly as the shifty despoiler or church
hs and th henchman of l'amell. was a trouble
to the ducal digestion. Accordingly the thing
came down from the dining room wall and went
to the hammer, and brought the pribe h<* had
paid—with more than compound interest. All
the world wondered, and some thought the
Duke, and others that the buyer, had blundered.
Anyway, the Duke kuew he was happier, and
his agents told him he was richer. He was
vexed no more at bis simple breakfast table, or
across “the sullen splendor of his feasts” by the
sight of that sign upon the wall of the betrayal
and the ruin of the Liberal party. But it is the
sequel to the story that I have to tell.
Mrs. Gladstone Knew of the sale, and, woman
like, resolved to know the reason why. She had
loved that work of Millais, painted just at a
time when her husband was getting out of the
long valley of the shadow of Disraeli, and In
coming “tlirt grand old man.” And she had
boon specially glad that it had found a home in
Grosvenor House, under the guardianship of a
family lnmnd with theirs by ties of an immemo
rial itit imacy. “I ’at herine,” wheu she makes up
her mind to a thing, is a very direct person—
has a way of telling her mind, even to her lord,
in language straight and simple. This time she
wrote to her old frieud, a Cheshire neighbor,
and asked him just what she wanted to know
why hud he sold the picture he prized? It wasa
dilemma for the Duke. His young wife was
tbera to oounsel; bat tien feminine
tact saw no way out of t-ds dreadfully simple
question. ’ Why did you sell bis portrait?” The
nuke put pen to paper—but how could he tell
“Catherine” that ue found it impossible to di
gest with her husband glaring from the wall?
The Liberal-Unionist peer was hard up, very
hard up, for an excuse, or, at least, an evasive
answer, the only thing he had ever been liar l
up for in his life. At last, with the magnificent
audacity of despair, he told “Catherine”quite
simply and briefly that tne reason which had
compelled him regretfully to part with what he
had desired for an heirloom for his house was
obvious ami distressing—poverty! Whet her t he
word was written to the accompaniment of a
ducal chuckle, or what “Catherine” said, 1 know
nt. %
An article is printed with the heading. “How
Man Should Treat Man.” The best way is to
allow him to select his* own drinks. Xebratka
State Journal.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Capt. John B. Moore, known throughout
the country as a horticulturist and agriculturist,
died on Monday at Concord, Mass., w here he
was bora, in 1817, and had liver! all his life. He
is said to Lave stood almost without an equal in
the cultivation of roses.
Among the papers of the late King of
it is stated, have been found the manu
script of two light, operas on the style of Auber,
written by Richard Wagner when he was very
young. These, it is added, are now to be pub
lished under the titles the composer gave them,
“Les Fees” and “Defence d’Aimer.”
The seller of licorice sherbet is a familirr
object to all acquainted with life in the East.
He parades only through the main thorough
fares and business part of the city, clattering
incessantly the two bright brass bowls in his
right hand. The well-filled goat skin hangs sus
pended from his shoulders against his left side,
a large piece of snow at its mouth, a little of
which be scrapes into the bowl before filling it.
His trade is brisk, as this cooling, refreshing
drink costs only half a cent a bowl.
Conformably to the laws of advance and
retreat of glaciers, it is said those in the Valley
of Chamounix, Switzerland, are now beginning
to advance, The lower extremity of the Glacier
des Bossons is “not more than 3,000 feet above
the level of the sea," and is going still lower.
During the past three years tnis lower extrem
ity “has advanced at the rate of fifty yards a
year.” It is said that “a grotto cut out of the
ice in May, 1806, a quarter of a mile from the
extremity, has moved down more than sixty
yards.”
The steamship Trave, of the North German
Lloyds Line, was visited on her latest voyage to
this country by the Crown Princess of Germany,
and her daughters, the Duchess of Edinburgh,
Prince Louis of Battenlx*rg, Count Seckendorff.
an others. The Trave bad stopped at South
ampton to receive additional passengers from
London, when the Princess, who had been stop
ping at'Osborne, seized the opportunity to ex
amine a great steamship. Every portion of the
ship was shown the party, from the captain’s
bridge to the engine-room, and the Princess ex
pressed her admiration of the elegance of the
saloons. Among the passengers by the Trave
was the Chevalier de Hesse-Warburg, the geo
graphical savant and explorer, whom the Prin
cess had met before, and with whom she con
versed before her departure for the shore.
“No little annoyance is felt here,” says the
Paris correspondent of the London Times, “at
the publication in the Blue-book on Sir Drum
mond Wolff's mission of a translation of an ex
traordinary note iu Turkish, sent to the Sultan
by M. de Montebello on June 19. The Temps
says: ‘Contrary to diplomatic usages, this note,
before being inserted in the Blue-book, was not
communicated to our Ambassador at London,
who would not have failed, we are assured, to
point out certain inaccuracies/ A Radical news
paper, which daily vilifies both Germany ami
England, charges the latter with having pro
cured the note by improper means, and with
having published a document which was not its
property. If, however, the publication was in
discreet, the note it*elt was plainly much more
so. and it would be well for both sides to con
sider it unw'ritten and unpublished.”
William F. G. Shanks, who was one of Hor
ace Greeley's pets, and his trusted city editor,
puts at rest forever the unjust story that White
law Reid forced Mr. Greeley out of the Tribune.
Mr. Shanks says it was done by Samuel Sinclair,
the publisher, w ho told Greeley that the Tribune
had been taken out of the Republican party at
great loss; that it was in serious financial straits;
that it would be necessary for Horace Greeley
to retire as editor, and that the Tribune must be
sold. Then Greeley went mad and died. The
Tribune was sold by Sinclair to Orton, of the
Western Union, who had arranged to have
Schuyler Colfax editor. The Credit Mobilier
scandal was sprung on Colfax, and he could not
be editor. Mr. Reid then borrowed the mouey
from W. W. Phelps and gained control of the
paper. This is the whole story, and it is credita
ble to Mr. Reid.
Dr. I). H. Williams is the one rich colored
physician in Chicago. There are four other
colored members of the profession, but they
practice solely among their own race, and are
not possessed of any means. Williams’ patients
are as much among the whites as the colored.
His standing in his profession is so good that he
is one of the salaried staff of the South Side
City Railway Company. Dr. Dan Williams ow es
his success largely to the kind-heartedness of
the widow of the whilom “Honest John Jones.”
She picked him up when a boy and gave him a
home. He was sent to school, and, after work
ing for a doctor, studied and graduated from
one of the medical schools with much honor.
He is now the owner of more than a dozen
buildings in different parts of the city. Wil
liams is very light, but has the race lineaments.
His beard, however, is reddish, and a cursory
glance would not detect his negro blood.
While the address of the so-called Republican
party of Virginia is signed only by “William
Mahone, Chairman,” observant Virginians, re
versing the usual quotation, declare that the
hand is the hand of Mahone, but the voice is the
voice of John S. Wise, the son of the old Gov
ernor who hanged John Brown. John S. Wise
is one of the few* able lieutenants whom Mahone
enlisted in his earlier fights, who still clings to
the fortunes of that astute and wily chieftain.
He was elected Oongressman-at Large on (he
Readjuster tidal wave which carried Cameron
into the Governor’s chair and Riddleberger into
the Senate, and expects to himself elected
Governor in a similar reaction. The slashing
onslaught on Gov. Fitzhugh Lee, who defeated
him at the last election, is said to be the unmis
takable production of John S. Wise. Mahone is
an organizer, a political despot, and one of the
shrewdest of all shrewd politicians, but he has
not the literary capacity and dash which this
address evinces. •
Philadelphia has some well-dressed an*d re
markably clever men. A fashionable tailor of
that city says to the Bulletin: “A party at
tempted a neat little dodge on us the other day.
We knew him sufficiently well to take his ord€ r
for a $35 suit iff clothes without requiring a
cash deposit. Wheu the suit was made he tried
it m, and declared it did not fit him. He hail
numerous faults to find, and finally refused to
take the garments. As he insisted it was a mis
fit, we could do nothing but put the clothes
away. A week later his son came to the store
and said he would like to see the -suit made for
the father, with a view to purchasing. Ho
tried on the coat, pantal ons and waistcoat, and
expressed himself as satisfied that they fit him
well enough to wear. Then he offered us $26
for the suit, saying that inasmuch ms the suit
was thrown on our hands as a misfit we ought to
lie glad to get rid of it at that price. The dodge
was too transparent, and we declined to dispose
of the clothes for a cent less than the original
price.”
The report of the Boston Board of Health for
July shows that in that month the number of
deaths exceeded that of any previous month
since the hoard was organized. The number of
deaths in Boston was J.'llO, whereas the number
for July, 1886, was only 889. Figuring on a basis
of 400.0 CD population, the rate per 1,000 inhabi
tants for the year was 33.5? last month. The
meteorological statement accompanying the
mortality table shows that the mean tempera
ture during the month was 73°. It was 73° in
July. 1873, and 73.8° in July, 1870: but in those
years the death rate was not excessive. The
comparative humidity, however, is striking, for,
whereas in 1873 it was 60.4°, and in !576 09.4°!
this year it was 77°, showing the heat of lasi
mouth to have been the most oppressive and
fatal of any month for fifteen years, which is ns
far back as the table goes. Children, of course,
suffered severely from the weather, and more
than half of the whole number of July’s dead
were children under 5 years of age, while amost
half wen* very young infants.
Gen. Tcherniayeff, whom tho cable an
nounces as Katkoff's successor in the edit >rship
of the Moscow Gazette, Ms a well-known Pan-
Slavist agitator. He was born in 182S, educated
in the military school of Nieolayev, and served
in the Crimean war. in 1854 he was sent to
Turkestan, where he conquered Taahkeud. In
1857 he left the Russian army and entered upon
the practice of law, but was soon reinstated in
his rank as General, the Czar having taking a
liking to him. Not receiving n suitable com
mand, however, TcberniayeiT definitely resigned
in 1876 ami Iwcaixte the editor of the fit. Peters
burg h'UMkij Mir The following year he went
to Belgrade and was appointed Commander ia
Chief of the Servian army, but was disas
trously defeated by the at Alexinatz. ‘H *
took no part in the subsequent Kusso Turkish
war. In 1877 he went to Prague, whence he was
expelled by the Austrian government for incit
ing anti-German demonstrations, and he was
equally unsuccessful in attempting to organize
a Bulgarian rising in 1879, being arrested at
Adrianonle and sent back to Russia. In 188.’ he
became Governor General of Tashkend. but his
indiscreet tactics, wnich almost led to a war
with England, caused his rvnll in IHHt He
was appointed a member of the Council of War,
hut lost recently also that position, owing to his
having attacked in the newspapers (Jen. Annen
koff's management of the Central Asian
railroad.
liir. most flagrant case of professional dis
courtesy on record occurred on n Southern I
Pacific train the other day. Some highwaymen, !
after cleaning out ihe passengers of every i
dollar, wont away without giving tho sleeping i
oar porter a single cent. \
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137 BROUGHTON STREET.
FIGURED BATISTE CLOTHS.
’ K will close out tlie remainder of our stock
v V of these fine goods, formerly sold at 18c.
a yard, now reduced to 12^c.
25 pieces Figured Lawns, 33 inches wide, regu
lar price 12Vbc. a yard; now B^c.
75 pieces Figured Lawns, choice styles, at 3t£c,
50 pieces Wide Width Lawns, regular price
10c. a yard; now 6>^c.
One lot Crinkled Seersuckers, regula rice
15c. and 17c. a yard; now I2V£c- %
One lot of Dress Ginghams, choice styles,
regular price a yard; now 10c.
30 Imported Marseilles Quilts, slightly soiled,
formerly sold at $3. We will close the lot out
at Si 85 each.
Hosiery and Underwear.
V
100 dozen Unbleached Black and Colored Hose,
regular price 12>djc.: now flc. a pair.
A mixed lot of Misses’ Fine English Hose,
Ribbed, Plain and Silk Clocked, regular price of
these goods from 25c. to -50 c. We will close the
lot out at 17c. a pair.
50 dozeu Ladies’ Gauze Undervests, regular
prices 25c. and 85c.; now 19a each.
35 dozen Ladies’ extra fir ■ quality Gauze Un
dervests. regular prices 50c., dse., 75c. and 85c.
We will offer the lot at tli9 extraordinary low
price of 47c. each.
Dor $1 Unlaundried Shirts Reduced to 90c.
75 dozen Gentlemen's Unlaundried Shirts, re
inforced back and bosoms, the best $1 Shirt
manufactured. In order to reduce our large
stock we will offer them at 90c. each.
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