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4 Cfjc|ftanting Hctos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. THT RSDAY, SEPTEMBER I, 1887. RefjisitiTd at the Pont Office in Stivannah. Tbo Morning News is published uvf*ry day in fhe year, and is served to su'tmcribers m tf\* citi /, by newsdealers and earners, on their own ac count. at 25 cents a week, $1 00 a month, $3 00 for six months and $lO 00 for one year. The Morning Nsws. by mail , one month, $1 00; throe months, $2 50; six months, $5 00; ©ne year, $lO 00. The Morning News, by mail , sir times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $2 00; six months. $4 00 one year. s** 00. The Morning News. Tri-Weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, $1 25; six months. $2 50; one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail } one year. $C 00. The Weekly *News. by mail . one year. $1 25. Subscriptions pavablr in advapee. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency pent by mail at risk of senders. Tma paper is kept on file and advert jsinpr rates nay be ascertained at the office of the Ameri can Newspaper Publishers’ Association, 104 Temple Court, New York City. letters and telegrams should be addressed “Morkivo News. Ga." Advertising rates made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings-The Workman's and Trader* Loan and Building Association. Special Notices—Notice of Dissolution, ('has. Groan’s Son & Cos.; The Sitv HotneS. M. Cos.; Fine Onion Sets, Solomons &: Cos.; Notice, Jas. T. Stewart; Knights of Pythias Hall Associa tion; Notice, de Bruyn Kops A Cos. Their Praise—Lovell & Lattimore. Arc ami I ncandesi*knt Electric Lighting— Brush Electric Light and Power Cos. New Fau. Goods -K. fintman. Gheai> Column Advertisements— Help Want ed: Employment Wanted: For Rent: For Sale: Personal: Lunch; Miscellaneous. A Card —M Prager, Superintendent Savannah Steam laundry. Legal Notices—Application to Bell Real Es tate; Citations from Court of Ordinary; Motion to Establish 1/vst Deed. Auction Sale—General Auction, by D. R. Kennedy. Furniture, Etc.—A. J. Miller & Cos. Wood—R J. Stewart. HogsEsnor.R and General Blacksmith—P. Barrett. ANNUAL SPECIAL EDITION —OF THE— Savannah Morning NeWs —AND THE - Savannah Weekly News, —TO RE ISSUED ON SEPTEMBER 3d, I**7. The Annual Special Edition of the Dailt and Weekly News will be issued Sept. 8. It will contain a cpmplete and comprehensive review of the trade of (he city forthe past year, and will show the progress the city has made in everything that helps to make up its wealth and that contributes to its prosperity. The facts relating to cotton, naval stores and. the different branches of the city's wholesale trade will be so presented as to give a clear idea of the city's business for the year ending Sept. 1 The bqsiness men of Savannah cannot make a better investment than by buying copies of the Moaning News Annual Special Edition and ■ending them to their friends and correspon dents. A newspaper like this Special Edition, containing an accurate account of the business of this city, is the I test advertisement of the energy and activity of the people of Savannah, Every citizen, whether he is a capitalist, mer chant, manufacturer, mechanic or a man of lets ure, Rhould feel a pride in the progress the city is making, and in presenting to the world the Inducements which it offers to those who are seeking homes in the South. This Special Edition will be sent to all sub ■ejibers of the Daily and Weekly News, and a, large number of extra copies will be mailed,' thoroughly covering tho territory tributary to Savannah. Advertisers will find this Special Edition of great value, and spare in its columns can be ob tained upon application to the Business Office. The Philadelphia Press describes the white members of the Georgia Legislature as “chain gang barbarians; - ’ John Ruskin is making a tour of the con tinent, and it is denied emphatically that he is insane. The denial will be readily be lieved. _ It seems probable there will be no diffl- Clty in proving the guilt of the Plainfield, N. J., incendiaries. The wives of two of the men under arrest express belief in the •gailt ol their husbands. Congressman O'FVrrall has made out an interesting catalogue of Mahone's votes while in the Senate. It shows his inconsist encies jnd false pretenseg, and ought to Blake his success in the coming elections im possible. Mr. Carlisle is going to speak in the Ohio campaign. He said to a reporter that he would leave Foraker alone to rattle the dry bones of issues dead twenty year* ago, and ad drees himself to the live questions of the day—the tariff, etc. The London Times has sent a correspon dent to write up the United States. The young man has certainly undertaken a big job, which fact he seems to appreciate, as In his nrst letter he speaks of New York as the “prodigy of cities.” The Pennsylvania Democrats adopted a revenue reform platform yesterday. The next thing they will do, probably, will be to ask Mr. Randall to take a back seat, tinless he becomes a convert to the tariff doctrines of the Democratic party. “Boss” Shepherd, to whom Washington to more indebted thau to any other man for Its rapid improvement, but who left the city under a cloud, predict* a population of 1,000,000 for the national capital within twenty years, and says New York, com pared with it, is already provincial. It must be humiliating to Mr. Randall to be put on notice by the leading Republican argan of Philadelphia that, unless he con trols the Allentown convention on the tariff question, he will no longer be allowed to represent his district in Congress. There teems to be no gratitude for past services in politics. There is much complaint along the New Jersey coast and elsewhere that all edible Bsh which frequent those waters are l>eing rapidly exterminated by the many stecuners Engaged in the catching, nominally, of tnenhaden.but reallyof everything that can |et in their immense nets. When caught ihey are used to manufacture fertilizers and L RU and not for food. What the Wheeling Incident Means. Gov. Foraker in an interview about the affair at Wheeling, W. Va., says he regrets it, but there is ground for doubting his sincerity. He pretends to think that he is lipt to blame for it, and is disposed to place the responsibility upon Gov. Wilson, of W. Va. Gov. Foraker ought not only to regret the disgraceful occurrence, but he ought to bo ashamed of the part he took in it. It is true that Gov. Wilson made some hasty re marks at the serenade in the evening which immediately preceded Gov. Foraker’s bloody shirt harangue, but they went called out by questions put to him by persons in the crowd. What he said, however, was not sufficient to justify Foraker in using the offensive language which he did. Tlie fact is Gov. Foraker and other Republican speakers, in their speeches before the sere nade, discussed political matters and seemed determined to make the reunion of the West Virginia branch of tho Grand Army of the Republic the occasion for giving expression to their political views. The Grand Army professes to be a non-political organization, but lately it has shown its political bias in a very marked way. Gov. Foraker must feel that he is not sticking close to the troth when he attempts to avoid any responsibility for the Wheeling incident. The refusal of a portion of the Grand Army veterans to march under the flag stretched across tint sti-oet, which had the President's portrait upon it, was undoubtedly the result of Gov. Foraker’s teachings. He ami men like him have been very earnest in their efforts to impress upon tho Grand Army veterans that the President is their enemy because he vetoed the dependent pension bill and issued an order for the return of Confederate bat tle flags. It was not to be wondered at, therefore, that at the Wheeling reunion tho veterans hissed the portrait of tho President and refused to march under the flag upon which it appeared. Gov. Foraker undertakes to execuse the Grand Army veterans for their insult to the President by saying that it was not their purpose to show hostility to Mr. Cleve land, but to condemn the spirit which prompted the suspending of his portrait so as to compel them to march under it. But why shouldn’t the President’s portrait adorn a flair at a reunion of the Grand Army ? If the Grand Army is not a political organiza tion why should it pursue a course calcu lated to create the impression that it is 1 Mr. Cleveland, as President, is entitled to the respect of every citizen, and of every organization whether it is political in its character or not. He has not announced his purpose to be a candidate for re-election and the Grand Army veterans, therefore, offered him an indignity without even hav ing the excuse for their action t hat, he was a political opponent. That Gov. Foraker is largely res]>onsible for the spirit which con trols the Grand Army there can be no doubt. If it had not been for his presence and his teachings tho disgraceful affair at Wheeling would not have occurred. It is certain that the country is to witness another ‘‘bloody shirt” campaign. The Re publican leaders see no hope of success in a campaign of any other kind. They are getting their forces in shape for it. They are improving every opportunity to arouse sectional feeling and revive issues which were settled long ago. Their unpatriotic and selfish policy ought to insure the over whelming defeat of their party, and there is no reason to doubt that it will. The peo ple want harmony between the sections, and they are not going to permit dema gogues to introduce discord. The Lunatic Asylum. Tlie great institution which the State has gradually built up at enormous expense at Midway, near Miffed geville, away from the centres of news and politics, as it should be, has gone on with its. work of benevolent care'for the helpless so quietly for years that the average citizen might, at mast have for gotten its existence but for the addi tion to his taxes made necessary by its largo cost. The gentlemen who have been at the head of its management have stood high in their profession, and their methods of treatment have been so successful that the peiventags of cures has compared favorably with those of the best similar in stitutions in the country. For these reasons the people of the State have felt a justifiable pride in the institution, and have acquiesced cheerfully in the large grants of money made by tho legislature in recent years, to be used in extending the buildings and putting them in the best con dition for tho comfort and safety of their hundreds of inmates. It was with regret, therefore, that they heard intimations that the manage ment of tho asylum had not in all respects been good, especially when the ground upon which they were based was a resolution offered in the Legislature by a member representing tha county in which the institution is located, and himself form erly oae of its officers. The investigation now going on will no doubt bring out all the facts, and it is due the people that, if any irregularities are developed or any want of proper care for the unfortunate patients is shown, prompt and effective remedial action should, be taken. These unfor tunate people are, in a peculiar sense, the wards of the State, in their helpless condi tion appealing as strongly for help nnd pro tection as would se many infants, and these, in full measure, the State lias intended to give. If there Ims been a failure in duty on the part of any one, it should be known. On the other hand, if there is no just ground for the intimations alluded to, or if there is any reason to believe that personal feeling has actuated them, the facts should lie made perfectly plain. This is necessary to the reputation of the officials of the asylum aud to the peace of mind of those who have relatives iu their care. The opponents of the Red River railroad in Manitoba have appealed to the national feeling of the people of Canada by raising the cry of annexation through commercial union. It remains to be seen if it does not iiave an opposite effect from tiiat intended. When Canadians think about it -they may discover that there is no particular reason why they should remain a separate nation, and that their interests are t he same as those of their neighbors. It will surprise many people to learn that the amount of tonnage which )>*sse through the government canal at Suult Kte. Marie, iu Michigan, for the time which it remains open, is greater than that passing through the Suez canal, the daily average being re spectively IH,tjHO aud 10,087 tons. Frank Hurd, in an interview, frankly ad mitted his ambition to return to Congress, but said he would not again lie a candidate because of divifions in his party. In sub stituting Itomeis for her ablest reprracuta ’ Uvc Ohio did a very poor piece of business. THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1887. The State Supreme Court Vacancy. Judge Adams, of this judicial circuit is, according to our Atlanta dispatches, a can didate for the vacant place on the Supreme Is'iich. He is in every respect qualified for the position. Indeed it is doubtful if any one of the other candidates is so well qualified. Judge Adams has made for himself a splendid reputation as a jurist. Possessing a very high order of ability and being in dustrious, careful and patient his decisions have commanded the admiration nnd re spect of the bar of this dis trict, and given him a very high rank as a judge in the estimation of tho Supreme Court of the State. It has been stated that the numlrer of his decisions which have been reversed, in proportiou to the number from which appeals have been taken, is smaller than that of any other one of the circuit Judges. If this statement is correct, it is a very strong argument in his favor, and one which the Legislature, if it desires to select the best man for the vacancy, cannot af ford to ignore. Of course there will be a good deal of lobbying in behalf of the different candi dates, and strong personal appeals will lie made to the members for them by friends. The only thing that the members of the legislature should permit to influence them, however, is fitness. All the candidates, doubtless, have much to commend them. It is, perhaps, safe to say that all of them are good lawyers, but the question which the Legislature ought to consider is, which one of them promises to fill the position most acceptably ! Judge Adams has not only had a splendid judicial training, but he has a judicial mind. He does not jump at conclusions, but weighs facts carefully, and, being well grounded in the principles of tho law, he applies the principles to the facts with rare skill and judgment, and, as a rule, reaches a conclusion that cannot be successfully denied. He has the advantage of being a com paratively young man, though not too young for tho plnce he seeks. Tlie position of Supreme Judge is a very onerous one, and few men who have passed much beyond middle life are capable of performing its duties satisfactorily. If Judge Adams should be appointed he would not only meet public expectation in every respect but would, in all probability, remain an honored member of the court for many years. A Bad Policy for the Magistrates. Several of the justices of the peace of this county appear to be acting under the impression that they are carrying on a pri vate business, and that the public has no right to any information with regard to it. Is not their impression a mistaken one! Tho generally accepted idea is that the justices of the peace are public servants, and if they are tho public certainly has a right to inquire into the proceedings which take place in their courts. Grand juries in this county have made it a point to investigate the magistrates’ courts, and they may think it necessary to do so again. The public may want to know why it is that some of the Justices of the Peace are so averse to having the proceedings of their courts published. It cannot seem otherwise than strange that information respecting the disposition of important criminal cases —cases in which the whole community is interested—should be withheld when sought in a respectful way. When a police official maintains secrecy about a matter concerning which the public is entitled to the fullest information, he furnishes ground for suspicion that something has been done that will not bear tlie light. He may not have done anything wrong, and therefore, by refusing information, he does himself an injustice. The courts of Justices of the Peace should be open to the public, and any cjtizen should be given the fullest opportunity to make himself acquainted with the proceedings had in them in criminal erses. AVhen infor mation iu criminal matters is withheld it is time for the proper authority to inquire whether or net justice' is being adminis tered in accordance with the law. Details of the government concessions ob tained by Wharton Barker, of Philadelphia, in China show that tohim and his associates is entrusted the development of the re sources of that great eriipire in almost every direction. A monopoly is given them of the telegraph and telephone service, tho coining of money, and a great bank is to be established to furnish capital for railroad building, etc. It is to lie hoped that these enterprises, carried out liv American citi zens, will lead to a great increase in the trade of this country with Chinn, as would certainly be the case if we were able to sell manufactured articles at as low rates os competing nations. The Grand Army people have glorified themselves to such an extent, and lieen plied with so much adulation by tho press and politicians, that they have apparently be come convinced that a man who served in the army during the war, aud got out of it safely, could afterwards commit no crime for which he should be punished. A strik ing evidence of the existence of this belief is the petition of the Grand Army men of Il linois that Boodler McCloughran be par doned, because he was a good soldier. Some of Mr. Blaine's devoted followers appear to have more confidence in him than most people have in the Almighty fine of them, a cattle breeder out in one of the Ter ritories, whose herds hove been thinned by cold and drought, said solemnly to a reporter the other day that the cattle busi ness would not again be prosperous until Mr. Blaine, with his broad views, is * I’rcsi dent. If the gentleman really thinks so, he would be wise to sell out and retire from the business. The Republican papers do not speak of the Grand Army of the Republic ns a socie ty of barbarians. And yet its members ob ject to association with negroes, even when the negroes are comrades who faced the dangers of battle together with themselves. At an entertainment given by Brooklyn posts, negro veterans, whj were also mem bers of the Grand Army of the Republic, were allowed to attend only on condition that they should occupy the gallery. Last year tho glassworks about Pittsburg were idle about half the time on account of a strike. The glase blowers have just de manded an advance in wages and another long struggle is expected. It. is said the men at their present wages earn from ?1,500 to SII,OOO each, annually, being the liest paid workmen in the country. Russia, not satisfied witli the business she has on hand in Bulgaria and Afghanistan, is concentrating troops with tlie intention of seizing Chinese Turkestan, which is said to bv a rich aud fertile province. CURRENT COMMENT. Only a Vice Presidential Boom. From the Sew York Tribune (Rep.) Yes, that earthquake which is reported to have given Augusta. Ga., "a slight, shock,” may turn out to lie simply Grady's Vice Presidential boom in disguise. Not Able to Lie Him In. From the Boston Globe (Dem.) The Republican leaders may !w able—though we think not to cheat their Presidential candi date into the White House as in 1876. or to buy him In as in 1880. but they never will be able to lie him in. The average voter is too wide-awake for that. The "bloody shirt” shibboleth of a re vival of the civil war and its irrevocably-settled questions is nothing but an impudent, brazen, self-registering lie. Not tho Whole Story. From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, (Dem). The platform of the Ipwa Republicans declares it to lie the intention of the Southern people "to degrade the negro into a servile form of cheap labor;” but the same platform is as dumb as an oyster about the Pennsylvania coal miners, who receive about half as much as Southern negroes doing the same kind of work. Is it a tenet of Republican faith that an oppressed laborer is en titled to relief only when he wears a black skin, and ‘‘is the Caucasian played out?” BRIGHT BITS. The ballet girls have brought suit against the National Opera Company. Certainly the liallet. girls ought to have suits. — Lowell Courier. There is a man in Pittsburg named Whelan who lives on crude petroleum. He is the only rival the Standard Oil Company has not yet crushed. —Chicago Tribune. “Obliteration of time is a business neces sity.” remarks a progressive nnd enterprising banker. Mayl>e so. But we would timidly sug gest, "if time is money," what is to become of the bankers when time Is obliterated! I—Pitts burg Commercial Gazette. “Can a man open his wife's letters?” asks an exchange. After be has carried one in his pricket until it is reduced to a coffee-colored un decipherable curiosity, he might just as well-as to have those dead letter office fellows prying into family secrets. Burlington Free Press. Professor in Physics (explaining a compli cated machine to the students) —Please observe t hat the slender rod passes over to the second or smaller wheel, etc., while this (turning vig orougly) is the crank that sets the whole in motion: | laughter from the students). —New England Journal of Education. “Young liLAun is a very diverting fellow, isn’t he?” ‘‘Very, indeed, sir.” ‘‘He is a lawyer, is he not?” ‘‘Oh, yes; 1 thought you understood that. It’s his business that affords him opportunity to be diverting he's continually diverting trust funds you know.” — Yonkers Gazette. She—Charlie, that was awfully brave in you to stop the runaway team. Why, mamma might have been killed. He -Ho she might. By George! I never thought of that. She—What in the world do you mean? He—Why, only—that is I She—Good night, sir.— Omaha Journal. The old Scotch woman was dying. The storm was raging without, the wind was howling and the rain was dashing against the window panes. They were gathered around her bed. “I maun dee. doctor, I maun dee.” “Ay. ay, I’m mickle feart ye’re gaun.” “Well, well, the Lord's will be done. But it's an awful night to gaun skirlin’ through the clouds.”— San Francisco Chronicle. “Now, children.” said the Sunday school teacher, who had been impressing upon the minds of her pupils the terrors of future pun ishment, “if any of you have anything on your niinds, any trouble that you would like to ask me about, I will gladly tell you all I can.” There was no i esponse for some time. At length a little fellow on the other end of the bench raised his hand and said: "Teacher. I've got a question.” “Well, what is it?” “Ef you was me, an' had a stubbed toe, would ye tie it up In a rag with arnicer onto it, or would ye jes let it go?”— Merchant Traveler. Served ’em Both Right.- Jack Blunt once loved a maid whose hair With terra-cotta might compare. “My heart beats tint, for you,” he said, “No matter if JBjur hair is red: With me the color.has no heft.” And he got left. George Smoothly later came to woo, Said he, with passion tender, true, “I love you. and all that is you; Those locks of dainty golden hair. The sunlight kissed and lingered there— I’d give my all for one wee curl:” He got the girl. Washington Critic. PERSONAL. Stephen A. Douglas, the son of his father, is circling among the New Y’ork bon vivants. Lord Edmund Kitzmaurice, brother of Lord lan-idowne. has joined the Gladstone wing of the Liberal party. And now they say that Mme. Etelka Gerster has hopelessly ruined her voice by indulging in fits of furious anger. Frasuuelo, the bull fighter, has been offered $50,000 for four performances in the city of Mexico, and he has accepted. Announcement has been made otthe death of Mr. Henry Mayhew, of London. It was He who gave the name Punch to the famous journal. Mme. Gerster has just telegraphed from her Italian home, near Sasso, the Villa Mezzana, to a friend in London that she has signed a con tract with Messrs. Abbey and Gran for a con cert tour in America, to begin early iu Novem ber. The late Marshal Pelissier once struck his aide de-camp in one of those fits of uncontrol lable rage for which he was notorious. Tlie officer took out his pistol, pointed it at Pelissier and pressed the trigger. It. did no.t go off. "A fortnight's arrest,” calmly said Pelissier. "That will teach you not to keep your arms in such bad order.” Miss Prudence Crandall was the first woman to admit colored pupils to a private school in the North. At Canterbury. Conn., in 1838. Miss Crandall took in some colored pupils. Th? Legis lature passed an act prohibiting private schoo s for colored persons, and Miss Crandall was ar rested. convlctod and only escaped sentence upon a technicality. There is a well-founded suspicion that John L. Sullivan obtained the speech he delivered at Boston out of the "Complete Letter-Writer. ” He ended his oration ns follows: ”As you all kiu)*, I am no oratot. and as 1 am transgress ing on your time I wall now close my remarks with thanks to you all, and remain, as ever, yours most sincerely, John L. Sullivan." The Vienna operetta composers are all busy preparing for the winter season. Johann Strauss is at work in the mountains of Th iringia on his operetta Simplicius Simplicissinms:'' Suppe corrects nnd changes bis latest opus, "Bellman:'' Adolph Muller, the composer of the "Hofnarr," is setting to music a libretto of the feuilletonist Wittman and H)e dramatist Blumenthal; and Keller, llellmesberger, Genee, Zamara, not to speak of the lesser lights, have all announced forthcoming new works. W. H. Phelps, 77 years of age. a brother of Minister Phelps, who represents this country at the court of St. dames, earns his daily bread at Sioux Falls. D. TANARUS., by sewing In a tailor-shop there. He was once a successful writer on the New York Herald in the days of the elder Ben nett. Mr. Phelps has visited every State in the Union, has done business in fourteen States and in South America. He is very eccentric and has not spoken to any of the Phelps family for thirty years. The’ family is one of the most noted in Vermont, and the Sioux Falls member is a college graduate and highly educated. Prof. O. H, Fowler, the phrenologist, who died recently, was a remarkahle man. He had reduced phrenology to such a science as seems possible with that study, and in Ihe course of liis life gave remarkable verdicts from his ex aminations remarkable for their correctness in the cases of people of whom he knew noth ing. who were abnormally developed mentally in one direction or another. He was at least master of the shadowy science be professisl, and that he ranked no higher among real stu dents was the result of some element in his make up which led him to adopt the style of long hair and sleek ways. Everybody will he glad to hear that 51r. Mackay, the white prisoner of King Mwanga, in expected to return to England soon. He is the best known of the missionaries who have lived several years in Uganda. When the cruel Mwanga sent the Englishmen out of his coun try he retained Mr. Mackay because he was handy with carpenter trots, and was useful around the royal nuts. Before Mwanga began Ills bloody work Mr. Mackay hod attracted at trillion by excellent geographical services, and, Iu his little vessel Kloonor, he was pre paring to resurvev Victoria Nyanza, widen is stlllgjiiite Imperfectly outlined on our maps, when the maeewre of the Christians liegan. within a year after Mr. Kackaj had written to England inviting women missionaries to Uganda lie wus expecting day by day to tins-t a cruel death Tlie King Ims at lengt It given him permission to depart, and thus one more of the white prisoners of OMitral \frh-i has had a Uuuut issuance from bis troubles. MEN OF GENIUS. They, Too, Long for What is Far Be yond Their Reach. From the Gentlemen'* Magazine. So far from being narrow the man of genius must, one should say, be broad in the range of bis conception, and if not in that of his execu tion. Then; is a sense, indeed, in which every artist would be the gainer by liecomiug univer sal. Thus the jxvet and the painter may each profit from a full and exact study of the facts of natural science But then the artistic benefit depends on the subject being studied not as a savant would study it. merely for the sake of precise knowledge, hut for the sake of the po etical or pictorial aspects, relations and sug gestions which the facts present. Ho tme is this that one is hardly going too far in laying it down as a canon that a painter < ght not to lie a good reasoner on the causes of natural phe nomena, and that a painter ought not to be an authority in the realm, say, of purely historical and ethical discussion. The lives of great men have often shown us a strange and perverse inclination to break through the bounds of their proper domain More than one man of undoubted genius has, it is averred, expressed regret that he had not at tained distinction in some other line than his own. Wolfe, when actually engaged in his last crowning feat of generalship, is said to have de clared that, he would rather have written Gray's Elegy. Goethe, not satisfied to be the greatest of German poets, was ambitious to be come a savant as well. Such facts appear at first sight to contradict our theory that superla tive performance of any kind implies a corres ponding concent radon of impulse. Yet the cou tradiciion is only apparent. We may be sure that Wolfe—who, by the by, became a soldier soon after be was 13—was. on the whole, more passionately desirous of military t han of poetic distinction, just as we know that in Goethe the poetic impulse waa the most potent and perma nent. Such occasional roving ambitions may mean nothing more than that the great man, like the small one, is apt to overestimate what lies beyond his reach, or. perhaps, that he, more than common men. is aware of the limitations that hem him in, and is now and again disposed to rebel against them. He Knew It Would Rain. From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. “I spent the Fourth of July,” said Sergeant McComb, "in a pari of Illinois where the farm el's hadn't any rain for a month, and were pray ing for if to come. I was in the house of one of these farmers, a strong believer in the efficacy of prayer, and ho told me he thought that the Lord was sending them the drought to punish them for their wickedness After dinner I went out into the woods and lay down under a tree. Pretty soon a big dead limb dropped off a tree close to my bed. I had lived in the country long enough to know that was a good sign of approaching rain. Theu in a little while more 1 heard a tree toad chirrup. Rain sign No. 2! Then I heard a rain crow' caw, and I wit up to listen. Sign No. 81 Presently I heard a locomotive whistle and the train rumble over a track I knew was fifteen miles away. Sign No 4! I got up and went into the house and tpld my friend that I had been out praying for rain to come Ivefore night, and addl'd that 1 was confident of getting what I wanted. He looked at me mournfully and said in a hopeless way that he guessed not. It wasn’t for an irreligious man from St. Louis to come out there and outpray all the good people of that neighborhood. I took him out in the yard and showed him the clouds. 'Oh,' said he with cheerfulness, ‘that'll pass around us. We've hail that to occur lief ore.’ But I made him make everything secure, and before long there came a ram that would have drowned a man if he had been out in it. The farmer was in ecsta cies, and would have canonized me if he bad known how. 1 left while my laurels were green, and I suppose my friend hasn't yet decided whether or not 1 possessed supernatural pow ers.’’ Mrs. Cleveland Goes Shopping. FYom the Baltimore Sun. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday are shop ping days in this city, and to-day Mrs. Cleve land was among the busy and bustling throng on Pennsylvania avenue. There were hundreds of ladies on the street who were dressed more attractively than the President's wife, but there was no one who attracted as many admiring glances as she went from store to store, appar ently unconscious of the attention she was drawing from merchants as well as customers. She was attired in a plain black jersey jacket, brown hat, and a dress of brown and white dotted material. Albert Hawkins, the faithful executive coachman, with the seal browns and the Victoria, followed his young mistress from door to door as she made the round of the various stores. Mrs. Cleveland is agr at favorit; with the local dealers, and she always buys the best line of goods with 1] t pay ing fancy prices. She i< pretty well known at ail of the leading busintsi houses on F street and Pennsylvania avenue, and there is always a lively compet.t.on among the clerks for' the privilege of waiting upon her. Sometimes she enters a store where the crowd Is unusually large, but she invariably waits her turn, and make ?no effort to take precedence over the other customers. Her shopping to day was con fined principally to jewelry stores, and she was evidently looking for presents tor children, judging from the array of articles spread before her on the showcases. She is we 1 burned by the New England sun. her face is fuller, and her figure more symmetrical than before she went North. Love Me Now. From the yew York Timet. If you're ever going to love me. Love me now while I can know All the sweet and tender feelings Which from real affection flows Love now while I am living— Do not wait till I am gone. And then chisel it in marble— Warm love-words on ice-cold stone. If you’ve dear, sweet thoughts about me, Why not whisper them to me? Don't von know 'twould lnakfc me happy, As glad as glad cau be? If you wait till I am sleeping, Ne'er to waken here again. There'll he walls of earth iIC tween us, And I couldn't hear you then. If you knew someone was thirsting For a drop of water sweet, Would you lie so slow to bring it? Would you step with laggard feetf There an’ tender hearts nil round 11s Who are t hirsting for our love; Khali we begrudge to them what heaven Has kindly sent us from above? I won't need your kind caresses When the grass grows o'er my face T won't crave your love or kisses 111 my last, low, resting place. 80. if you do love me any. If it's hut a little bit. I'd rat her know it now, while I Can, living, own and treasure it. The Cars the Kaiser Travels In. From the London World. The im|>erial special train which has been userl by the. Emperor William during his recent journey* consists of three saloon carriages, which are connected with each other by a cov ered passage lighted with gas and fitted with electric Ivells and a telegraph apparatus. The day saloon is hung with blue damask, and con tains only easy chairs, sofas, and a couple of tallies. At one end ts a coupe, where the Em peror usually stands, or sits on a high chair, when passing through a large, town, or wherever there is any line scenery. A portion of the next carriage is fitted up as a study, and there is a desk and writing materials; but his majesty lias almost given up working in the train, although till last year he went through his letters and dispatches Just in the same methodical way as if he was at Berlin or Potsdam. A dressing room, which contains everything that could jxwsibly he wanted, adjoins the study. Another saloon is the bedroom, und contains the camp lied, which the Entperor always uses. There is a large saloon for the suite nnd another for the servant*. The Emperor's train has been or dered to travel at a comparatively slow rate of speed this year, and nourishing refreshment has been supplied to his majesty every two hours usually the strongest soup that can lie made, or eggs beaten up with champagne, or meat jelly- A Michigan Solomon. From the Hrand Rapid* Telegram-Herald. Justice Westfall is Assistant Police Judge. In his first charge to the jury yesterday he said; “Gentlemen of the jury, 1 guess you know about as much of i his cn*o as I do. us you have heard the testimony. If you believe what the attorney for the defense says, you will return a verdict of not guilty: if you lieheve what the attorney for the prosecution says, you will bring in a verdict of guilty: but if you are Use me and don't Is'lieve either one of them, and only believe what the evidence says, I'll be— if 1 know what your verdict will be." Housekeeping Intelligence. From Harper'* for September. Sirs. Molly Kigman, a newly-married lady, doe* not know anything about housekeeping, but she Isjsuxiou* to have her husband believe that thaw la nothing la the housekeeping line I hat she dug* not know. He happened to lie in the room when the cook came and said: “Will you please gib ine out de coffee! 1 I>e water is fieen a hilin' dls la*' half hour" “Lot the water boll, Matilda," replied Mrs. Bigutan. calmly; “the longer it boils the stronger it will be." ITEMS OF INTEREST. Sir William Armstrong’s new gun to resist torpedo attacks is a thirty-pounder, and devel ops a muzzle velocity of 1,900 feet per second. James Preston, 92 years old. is still working in a mine in Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, lie has his third wife, and is the father of an even three dozen children. The last of the Mohawk Indians are said to be Thomas Anderson, of West Haven, Conn., and his brother of Flushing, L. I. Thomas is 96 years old and vigorous. The German Fishery Union intends to set out T.OOO young salmon in the Rhine and Weser this spring.” A tiny silver plate with the num ber “18147 engraved on it will be attached to each fish. In 1877 M. Borland, of Jefferson county, Pennsylvania, planted one grain of Australian wheat obtained at the centennial exposition. The product trom it this year amounts to sixty bushels. The Proctor Coal Company, Jellico. Pa., ought to start a koumiss factory. It is said that one of its mules is regularly milked by the stable boys, and gives nearly two. gallons of milk a day. A beggars’ aoency in Paris supplies, for 2f„ the addresses of persons who are known to as sist beggars. It also supplies professors of mendicity, who sell beggars’ manuals con taining phrases calculated to soften the hard hearted. Texas is well off in dogs, or badly off, rather, for, according to the Galveston Neu-s, they cost the State $50,000,000. There are 2.500.000 of them. They cost their owners sc. a day. or $45,000,000, and they cost sheep-owners $5,000,- 000 more. There are forty -four spring localities in Michi gan, containing seventy-six individual springs, of which twenty-eight have been analyzed. Of the spring localities nineteen an' used as re sorts, and the waters of four springs are used commercially. When Farmer E. D. Higby, of Tocsin, 111., went to his well to draw a pail of water the other morning he found where the water had been nothing but a black hole, which up to date had been unfathomed. This is one of the in stances on record of the bottom dropping out of a well. In breaking the ground in a place near Kin cardine, Ont., the other day. a skeleton, which to all appearance is that of a wild boa r, wfs found. All the bones, including the tusks and teeth, were in splendid condition, though it is thought they have been lying there for 100 or 200 years. Among the many curious missions to be found in London is the “Sea Shell Mission.” Accord ing to a statement in a London paper, this mis sion has distributed over 10,000 boxes and bags of which represent over 4.00P.000 shells, to as many poor, sick and invalid children in London and elsewhere. The story comes from Salem, 111., of a flock of 150 sheep that were overtaken in their pas ture by fire. They made for a knoll in the field, and there bunched themselves, with the lambs in the middle, and began moving in a circle, treading the weeds anil grass into the dry earth until the fire was out. A lady who was resorting at Petoskey, Mich., put phosphorus on her bunion the other night and retired. In the night the husband spied t'-e glowing thing, and sizing it up for a firefly, banged it with the bootjack. She never s p -aks to him now without punching him with the crutch she has since been obliged to wear. An organization of liars and tail-tale teller has been perfected in Hastings, Neh. The mem bership is limited to the staff officers of the newspapers and a retired preacher, the latter to give it a sanctimonious coloring. Under the patronage of Duke Thompson the dull will issue a monograph on “The Nude in the Art of Lying.” The other day Patrick Shannon walked to the desk of the city editor of the St. Louis Republi can. and insisted upon giving his name and resi dence and a brief sketch of his life. He said that he was going away and was not coming back again. He kept his word, for he walked directly to a convenient place, jumped into the river and was drowned. The son of Mr. Reno, of Greenbush, N. Y., showed a great desire for a pipe when he saw his father smoke, and one day it was given to him. and he puffed away happily. Thereafter he demanded his smoke vociferously, awl the family doctor advised permitting him lo satisfy his craving for tobacco. The boy was then 2 years old. He has smoked ever since, and now, at the age of 17, is a stalwart, healthy youth. Missionary C. D. Tenney some time ago re signed his place in China under the American Board on account of his independent religious opinions. He remained in China, and now thinks that he was divinely directed to resign, because Viceroy Li Hung Chang has chosen him to be tutor to bis sons, thus giving him a mueh more influential place in respect to the develop ment of China than he could possibly have oc cupied as a missionary. Here's another thundering lightning story. It comes from Lincoln, Neb., where a young girl was dressing in her room during a thunder stoiyn. Her pug dog ran in. She clasped it to her bosom. A flash of lightning instantly killed it. She was horrified to find that an image of her dog had been photographed on her bosom. There seems to lie no way of removing the picture, which gives every shade, color, anil wrinkle of the canine form. Bravery seems to be a wholesale quality in the Bulgarian army. Early this year the Vienna Mint received an order for 60,000 silver medals, which, together with a second lot of about 4,000, were promptly dispatched to Sofia for distribu tion to the brave army. Besides these, 80,000, made of bronze, were delivered by an Austrian foundry. Within a month un additional order for 30,000 silver ones was sent to Vienna, which the Mint is now turning out as fast as it can. Fot'R weexs ago Farmer C. S. Van Horne, of Mill Point. N. Y., went home from the wheat field with a sore throat. The soreness increased, the throat swelled, and nothing, gave relief. Then the soreness disappeared from the inside, and with a Swelling appeared on the outside of the throat, and finally a few days ago the cause of all this discomfort was apparent when the swelling broke and from it came a wheat beard an inch long. Van Horne had taken It into his mouth, it had lodged in his throat, and then worked its way through. FninEßicKSßi'Ro, Va., has a big pickle fac tory that is supplied with cucumbers from the lands adjoining the city. This season the supply has reached 30.000,000 cucumbers, those engaged in their production furnishing from 200.000 to 1,000,000 each. An acre will produce 100,000. and they sell in Fredericksburg at 60c. per I.oo'. Tbe object is to get them an inch or an inch and a half long, and this requires active pick! ig before they increase this size. A boy will pick 8,(00 in a day. Picking them thus early in creases the productiveness of the vine, and, while the season lasts, others are appearing in place of those taken from the vines. The Indiana White Caps, as a baud of lawless “regulators” call thems 'lves, have lrtsly taken upon themselves the task of regulating the love affairs of Crawford country Mrs. Jennie Wil son, n grass widow, incurred their displeasure by showing, a marked predilection for William Strong, a yeung man considerable younger than she The White Caps wrote telling her to let William alone or quit the country, and added: ''You are aware of his tender years, and care nothing for him further than the fact that he is to receive a handsome allowance at the age of 21. You have been heard to make this remark, and it has caused you to lie looked upon in a light so unfavorable that the community would be better pleased if you immediately decide to leave without further warning." Tae statement contained in Rider Haggard's new novel. "Allan Quartermaln." concerning the existence of white races in the interior of Africa, has received a most remarkable confir mation from tbe mu:i who, above all others, is qualified to speak on the subject. Zehabr Pasha, the grand old slave King of Central Africa, whom the German traveler. Dr. Schwinn furth, describes 111 1871 as living in a place “where visitors were conducted through hails of state by rtchlv-ilressed and attentive slaves, aud where chained Hons guarded t lie do, r. and sol diers iu mail armor waited on bis will," is now a captive i)i the British fortress of Gibraltar, whither he was deported front Egypt soma two years ago. in consiyiuence of his sustll', 'ted com plicity in the Soudan rebelliion. Talking, the other day, to a correspondent alwiut the slave countries on the White Nile which are entirely savage, he remarked; "At Sahara and Uencbleh, In tlic very heart of the slave country, there are tribes ns white ns F.usope.ms, w ith long and silky hair. The beards or the old men some times reach down to their feet," jSebehr, In describing others of the black tribe,-, asserts that cannibalism still prevails, and that many of them eat none lint human flesh “Men and women are sold In the markets hy Ihe pound, exactly os one sells mutton nod lieef. The old and fat are preferred. Sometimes they are sold deoil and cut tip.” Milan boosts s church organ made entirely of paper. There arc lots <if political organs made entirely of paper in this country. Burl.njbM Fix* Press. BAiavti POYVJDER. WEIQ~Hr^ pSwS CREAM Used by the United Sties Government. En dorsed by the heads of tfe Great Universities as the Strongest, Purest am most Healthful. Dr. Price’s the only Baking towder that does not contain Ammonia, Lime >r Alum. Sold only in Cans. PRICE BAKINGpOWDER CO. NEW YORK. I.TO AO, ST. LOUIS. DRY' OOOljs, ETC. ——IN— AT— Hi 4 Dower’s, SUCCESSOR TO B. F. McKenna & Cos., 137 BROUGHTON STREET, FIGURED BATISTE CLOTHS. TI7E will close out the reinainier of our stock V v of these fine goods, formtrly sold at 18c. a yard, now reduced to 12!4c. 25 pieces Figured Lawros. 38 irches wide, regu lar price a ylei'll; now B^c i 5 pieces Figured Lawns, choice styles, at 3J4c. 60 pieces Wide Width Lawns, regular price 10c. a yard; now 6J^c. One lot Crinkled Seersuckers regula rioe 15c. and 17c. a yard; now lS^dc. One lot of Dress Ginghams choice styles regular price 12j£e. a vara; now JOc. 36 Imported M "‘S Quilts, slightly soiled, formerly sold at n o will close the lot out at $1 85 each. Hosiery and Underwear. 100 dozen Unbleached Block and Colored Hose, regular price 12j£c.; now 9c. a pair. A mixed lot of Misses’ Fine English Hose, Ribbed, Plain and Silk Clocked, regular price of these goods from 25c. to 50c. We will close the lot out at 17c. a pair. 50 dozen Ladies' Gauze Undervests, regular prices 25c. and 35c.; now 10c. each. 35 dozen Ladies' extra fine quality Gauze Un dervests, regular prices 80c., 66c., 75c. and 85c. We will offer the lot at the extraordinary low price of 47c. each. Dor SI Unlaondried Shirts Reduced to 90c. 75 dozen Gentlemen’s Unlaundried Shirts, re inforced back aud bosoms, the best $1 Shirt manufactured. In order to reduce our large stock we will offer them at 90c. each. CROHAN & DOOSER. >1 EDICAL. Tutfs Pills FOR TORJPID LEVER. A torpid liver deranges the wholeiy tem, and produces Sick Headache, Dyspepsia, Costiveness, Rheu matism, Sallow Skin and Piles. fhere is no better remedy fortheac •.million diseases then Tutt's Live* Pills, as ia trial will prove. Price,|M . Sold Everywhere. 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