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Meetings —DeKalb Lodae No. !>, I. O. O. F.;
Georgia Tent No. 151, I. O. R.; Chatham Artil
lery; Georgia Historical Society.
Cheap Column Advertisements— Help Want
ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale;
Miscellaneous.
Furniture and Carpet Emporium— Lindsay
& Morgan.
Steamship Schedule— General Transatlantic
Company.
Real Estate— Walthour & Rivers.
Auction Sale.—Securities, by C. H. Dorsett.
A lawyer interested iu the Ives case ex
presses the opinion that the missing books
are not concealed, but have been burned. If
this can be proved, it ought to be enough to
send the guilty party to Sing Sing.
John L. Sullivan and Pat Sheedy, his
tnauager, have quarreled and quit. John
seems to have thought his manager was ad
vertising himself too much at his expense,
taking the part of bear-leader in the show
and giving the champion that of the brute.
The Republican journals continue to print
cablegrams describing, in almost exultant
phrase, the attention paid Mr, Blaine by the
Prince of Wales at Homburg. They seem
to have forgotten for the nonce that Irish
voters in this country' have no great affection
for his royal highness.
The night watchmen of Plainfield, N. J.,
hit on a way to, make their services 1 in re
quest, but unluckily for them, it was at
tended with considerable risk. Saturday
sight a man named Johnson, employed to
proteetproperty, was discovered in the very
act of setting fire to a valuable building,
and made a confession implicating half a
dozen others.
Fred May, who once fought a mock dttel
With James Gordon Bennett, of the Herald ,
after having horsewhipped him, has just
distinguished himself at Newport, where he
burst into a gentleman’s bedroom .demolished
the furniture and drove the occupant to the
street in his fight dress to find a policeman.
And when the. officer was found he was
afraid to arrest the boisterous bully. All
this was done for fun.
It is by no means certain that Napoleon
11., lately deposed emperor of Wall street,
may not join Napoleon I. in the St. Helena
of Sing Sing. The Cinoinnati, Hamilton
and Dayton directors have applied to the
courts to declare #9,000,000 of stock of that
road issued by Ivee to be fraudulent. If the
application is successful it will be tanta
mount to a conviction of t.Ue ex-Vice Presi
dent of the-grossest kind of swindling.
Sir John McDonald, the political boas of
Canada, is angry because the British gov
ernment appointed a commission to settle
the fisheries dispute without consulting
him. HeHias probably found the quarrel a
valuable one to his party', as it engaged the
attention‘©f the people and kept them front
turningtheir attention to the extravagant
internal expenditures of his government.
He is the .Canadian Blaine, “spirited foreign
policy’ I 'and all.
If the statements of the San Francisco
Examiner are to be believed, the Federal
courts of that State need overhauling. It
says the anti-Chinese law has been practi
cally nullified by use of the habeas corpus,
the purpose being to swell the fees of the
clerks of the courts, those officials being in
one inst&noe the brother and in another the
nephew of the presiding Judge. The fees in
each case amount to #l7 50, and sometimes
aggregate #1,200 in a single day.
The examinations for promotion in the
War Department have been completed, with
the result that about 10 per cent, of the
clerks have failed. This makes room for
about 100 nominees of the Civil Service
Commission, to the improvement, no doubt,
of the service. When a man gets a place in
Washington he should be made to know
that ho will hold it only so long as he is
competent to fill it—that the examination
before appointment is only preliminary.
It is said that General Black, Pension
Commissioner, will introduce a resolution
nt the convention of the Grand Army of
the Repnblic, at St. Louis, which will prac
tically amount to the expulsion of Fairchild
and Tuttle from the order, and if it is re
jected will himself withdraw, accompanied
by many Democrats. Of recent months
the organization hus taken on such a
strongly partisan character that a protest
by Democratic members would seem to lie
•eccssary to their self-respect.
The power of the President to appoint
commissioners to meet those sent by tlie
British government to settle the fishery
question is disputed, and the partisan
jealousy of the Senate may render inef
fectual the earnest efforts of tho adminis
tration to settle this long ]>endiiig and
irritating issue. It remains to lie seen
whether the Republican Henato will allow n
Democratic administration to obtain tho
prestige which a lavorablo settlement would
give it in a jtart of the country where its
party has always been weak. It is to be
feared that It will not.
Henry Villard lias entered upon another
phase of his extraordinary career. Thurs
day he ptireliuHed $<1,000,000 of Northern
Pacific securities, carrying with them a
right to a seat in the directory nt the next
election and possibly the presidency. Three
years ago be was forced to resign that
office; his magnificent residence went into
the hands of his emitters, nnd he returned
to his native Germany a bankrupt. He
began life as a newspaper reporter in ths
West. Ho is something like cork. He bobs
up os often as be is pushed under.
The Presidency Doesn't Tempt Him
There is one man in the country who
doesn’t want to lie President. That man is
Mr. Robert T. Lincoln, ex Secretary of
War. His name is frequently mentioned in
connection with the Presidency, and if tho
colored Republicans could have their way
it is probable that he would bo the next
Presidential nominee by tho Republican
j party.
There is no doubt that Mr. Lincoln is
sincere in saying that 110 doesn’t want- to
be President. IV hen ho was Secretary of
War he never appeared to lie contented.
He took very little interest in the affairs of
the department, and the honor attached to
the office appeared to have no charm for
him. In an interview, a day or two ago,
he said that when he was a member of
President Arthur’s Cabinet he made
up his mind that when his term
expired he would bid good-bye
to official life forever. He has
an excellent law practice and good health
and is happy. No office he says is a
sufficient inducement to give up these
and become a public servant whose cares
and annoyances make life a burden. Speak
ing of the Presidential office, in the inter
view'abovc alluded to, he said; “It is but a
gilded prison. The cares and worry con
nected with it outweigh the honor which
surrounds it. All official life is infinitely
wearisome.”
Official life does not appear to be weari
some to the average citizen. Tho rush for
offices indicates that there is a widespread
willingness to participate in it, however
wearisome it may be. If Mr. Lincoln’s idea
of official life could be impressed upon the
people, more* of them would be content to
seek advancement in the private walks of life
and there would be less trouble about pub
lic patronage. There would be no need of
a civjl service law because the office would
have to seek the man, instead of the man the
office. There is not much probability, how
ever, that Mr. Lincoln’s views of office and
official lifo will, in this generation, obtain a
very strong hold on the public mind.
Mission of the Labor Party.
One of the men who has been most prom
inent in the various labor movements in
New York of late has been John McMackin,
who has generally been looked upon, to
judge frAiin his treatment by the press, as an
honest, narrow-minded man. During
Henry George’s campaign for the Mayor
alty of New York he was generally
cl/urman at public meetings, and a fre
quent and effective speaker in the cause of
that candidate. He may fairly be con
sidered to rank next after George and Mc-
Glynn in the councils of the United Labor
party,'and as chairman of its State Com
mittee is entitled to speak for it. For this
reason great interest attaches to the follow
ing extract from a letter alleged to have
been written by him to a gentleman at
Syracuse:
Would say confidentially to you that our
main object is to defeat Grover Cleveland
and the Democratic party in 1888. We
know that you are an enemy of his. We
think he is placing too many foreigners in
office, nnd, consequently, if we can draw
enough votes from the Democratic party in
New York State we can defeat Cleveland
in 1888.
The editor of the Courier states that the
letter has every appearance of being genu
ine, and was written for the purpose of ob
taining the aid of the gentleman to whom
it was addressed in organizing the United
Labor party in Onondaga county.
Mr. George, when questioned in regard to
the letter, denied its authenticity, saying
McMackin could not have written it. It is
harder probable that the letter would have
been written without Mr. George’s knowl
edge; but under the circumstances a bare
denidl is not enough. To acknowledge its
genuineness would have been political sui
cide, and a man capable of entering a con
spiracy of the kind disclosed by the letter
would not hesitate to lie in the hope of
breaking the force of its discovery.
If the letter should prove to be genuine,
it will be another proof of the desperate
means to which tho party ousted from office
by Mr. Cleveland’s election will resort, to
regain power. Backed by the great money
power of the classes who have grown rich
by the results of the war, and whose ad
vantages over the re6t of the community
in the accumulation of wealth are de
pendent upon tho maintenance of its
policy, that party is willing t® lend its aid
in the propagation of any political heresy
which promises present success to itself, no
matter if hereafter it may threaten the
prosperity and safety of the Republic.
The present attempt to seduce working
men from their allegiance to the Democratic
party looks like a repetition of the Butler
campaign of 1884. Then, without any good
reason, a formidable and almost successful
revolt was led by a great but unscrupulous
politician, supported by a powerful news
paper, which had for years before made
him the butt of the most savage abuse.
Such miracles can the money power work!
Democrats in general did not then, and do
now believe that revolt was actuated by a
sense of duty, or was made with tho hope
of direct success.
Democratic newspapers in New York
have recently spoken of the movement led
by Mr. George as a diversion intended to
insure Republican success. Most, people
have not taken this charge iu the sense that
corrupt motives in the grossest sense ac
tuated its leaders, nor does tho McMackin
letter do more than give ground for infer
ence that such is the fact, but should it be
established as authentic it will show that
they are carrying on their campaign under
false pretenses, pretending to high and
pure purposes when their real ends were low
and mean. It should be another warning
to workingmen that when they set them
selves as a class apart from the rest of their
countrymen, becoming a balance-weight
between two great parties, they are liable
to be 1 (ought as were slaves in former days,
and their services delivered without their
knowledge.
A Wrecked Life.
Stories of wrecked lives are frequently
published in the newspapers. The one pub
lished a day or two ago of the career of
Andrew Bowne, son of ex-Congressman
Rowne, of Staten Island, is both remarka
ble and sad. Andrew Bowne is now at a
hotel in Newark, N. J., with a broken leg
und not, :i cent of money. He is an educated
man, about 4,‘i years of age,and would make
a good impression in almost any society.
Ten years ago lie had a fortune of #7OO,(XX).
It was left him by his grandfather who had
accumulated It in a lifetime of hard work
and great economy. When Andrew
Browne came into possession of the
pro|ierty he acted as though he owned
the world. He spent his money at the
rate of uhout. #IOO,OOO a year, lie didn't
waste it in Wall street. He threw it away
in dissipation. lie would start out in the
morning with SI,OOO in his |>ooket, and be
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brought to his hotel some time in the early
hours of the next morning without a cent.
Of course, fortune and health both went.
Two or three years ago he was little better
than a tramp. Kind friends helped him
time and again. He would reform for a few
weeks and then fall hack into the gutter.
He is about at the end of his career. He
will probably not recover from his present
illness, and he ought not to want to. What
has he to live for? His wife deserted him
long ago, and no one cares whether he lives
or not. Doubtless a good many people
whom he is accustomed to annoy secretly
wish that death would remove him. To
think what he might have been, and
to know what he is ought to be sufficient
to crush out, what little life there is in him.
Can such a man he sane? When a man
wastes his fortune as this wretched wreck
wasted his, ought, not the iaw to provide for
appointing a guardian for him on the
ground that he is likely to liecome a public
charge? Andrew Bowne’s career ought to
be a warning to young men with fortunes,
but it isn’t. A great many of them appar
ently would rather follow Bowne’s example
than to be warned by it.
The Shakespeare Plays.
The New York World a few days ago con
tained the previously announced article by
Prof. Thomas Freeman ou Ignatius Don
nelly’s alleged discoveries fis to the real au
thorship of the plays .ascribed to William
Shakespeare, written after a visit to Mr.
Donnelly and an examination of the manu
script of his forthcoming book. He was not
taken entirely into the author’s confidence,
however, as the famous key, which is to
settle this momentous question, was only
“partially explained.’’ It is possible Mr.
Donnelly told all he knew.
Mr. Freeman’s article is taken up mostly
by a summary of the arguments used by
Mr. Donnelly, to prove that the plays could
not have been written by Shakespeare, and
must have been written by Bacon—reasons
in many cases plausible, but by no means
conclusive. As far as his book goes, he
seems to have added little to the strength of
the case made by former writers. The au
thor endeavors to show that Shakespeare
was almost, if not entirely illiterate, while
the author of the plays was deeply learned;
that no record shows that Shakespeare ever
possessed a book, while the plays draw
upon the literature of all na
tions; that Shakespeare was a man
steeped in almost every kind
of vice, an oppressor of the poor, a drunk
ard, a systematic liar—in short, of such a
character that it is impossible to conceive
of his having written these plays, “distilled
from the wisdom and learning of the world. ”
Mr. Donnelly next attempts to prove that
the real author was Bacon by showing that
in the plays are twenty-three references to
his home, St. Albans, and none to Shakes
peare’s; that the religion and politics of the
plays are the same as were Bacon’s; that
what Bacon declared his life-purpose is ex
emplified in the plays, and finally many
parallel passages, covering ns many as
seventy pages, taken from Bacon’s pub
lished works and the plays, are given.
As has already been stated, these argu
ments are not new, having been advanced
by different authors with more or less full
ness for the last thirty years, and having
very little effect on the public mind. Proof
to overthrow belief in the greatness of the
“Sweet bard of Avon” must be of the most
absolute and conclusive kind. It must
overthrow not only an ascription not suc
cessfully disputed for 260 years, but a pride
and affection that during that time have
steadily grown among those who admire all
that is beautiful and sublime in poetic
literature. Shakespeare is identified with
the work with which his name has been
associated so thoroughly that no slight
wrench will separate them, and Mr. Donnel
ly's book will hardly prove a great one.
The point upon which he claimed to have
made an advance upon the investigations of
other men who used the same theory-—that
he had discovered a secret cipher running
through the works which made [ilain the
secret of their authorship—was that in
which general interest was felt, and this he
failed to make plain to the man, who, pre
sumably at his invitation, traveled half
across the continent to examine his work.
The frequent and generally humorous
references to Mr. Donnelly’s theories in the
press for several years past have very thor
oughly advertised a man who may be an
honest though mistaken enthusiast, or it
may be he is taking advantage of a noto
riety thus thrust upon him to line his purse
beforo the public discovers the shallowness
of his pretensions. If the latter supposition
should prove to be true, as is most likely, it
is not probable that his victims will jutlge
him harshly—they will be relieved to find
him, rather than Shakespeare, a fraud.
National Banks at the South.
The Philadelphia Timex calls attention to
the fact that of'the 450 new national 1 tanks
organized between March 4, 1885, and Aug.
1, 1887, the very great majority are in the
South and Southwest. There is some reason
for calling attention to this fact, because
national banks wero not popular in the
South until within the last few years. There
were national hanks, of course, in the chief
cities and towns, but somehow or other
there was a strong leaning towards State
banks. Indeed, within the last year or
two a great deal has been published in this
State in favor of State banks, with the
view of securing the establishment of a
State banking system. The Times is of the
opinion that the securing of the
control of the government by the
Democratic party has hud much to do with
popularizing the national banking system
in the South. This opinion may be correct.
It is certain that the system has gradually
grown in favor, and the great increase in
tho number of national banks in the South
ern States within the last few years has had
a very beneficial effect. Money is easier to
obtain, and tho rate of interest in comtner
cial centres is lower. Those who
are acquainted with the national
banking system can hav.e no doubts
of its superiority to a State bank
ing system. The South is much better sup
plied with currency now than ever before,
but there is still room for more national
banks.
One of Buffalo Bill's cowboys has licen
sentenced to six months' imprisonment for
knocking down a policeman, which the Lon
don [wipers think excessively severe punish
ment.. Perhaps the poor fellow’s head was
turned by his soeial success, and he imagined
he belonged to the privileged classes.
The fascinating titles of the Duke of
Marlborough seem to grow in their h.flurnce
on the Newport people. The hero of the
English divorce courts is now the social
lion in the highest American society. At
least, the members of fhe society speak of
it as the highest.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Another Pension Candidate.
1- ron the .Vetc York Evening Post < /wf.i
j Gen. Butler has taken the field is a pension
candidate fpr the Presidency, aid it behooves
i Gov. Foraker and all other t spirants for that
| position to look out for themselves. V are
unable to so* hotv any of them can go further
j than Butler has in his platform.
Courts Tampering with Justice.
From the .Veit* York World (Dem.)
The question is frequently aske I: What pro
duces the independent labor movement and
draws divines, and professors, and thinking men
into the new party * Is not the answer in some
measure to be found in these tamperings with
justice? The feeling is growing among thous
ands of tieuking men that there is one law for
the rich and another for the poor—one kind of
justice for the influent ial and another for the
helple at.
BRIGHT BITS.
The workman cries, I must have rest,
The toper, I must have gin;
The birdlet cries, O, where’s my nest.
The grain, O, where've you bin,
—Duluth Paragrapher.
Miss A.—l am surprised that you are so cold
mid distant toward your younger brother.
Mr. 15.—You see, he is only a distant relative
of mine. Just think, there aie no less than five
brothers and sisters between 11s.— Texas Sift
ings.
A Georgia paper says that Mr. Wheeler, of
Hancock county, cut a watermelon a few days
ago, and when opened it displayed a distinctly
formed “w\ on lioth halves. This must be one
of the melons that will "w" you up.—Norristown
Herald. '
Highwayman in Pullman Palace Car—Your
money or your life
"Is you ’dressin’ dose remarks tome, sab!”
“You bet t etn. Hurry up."
“Well, I’m the potah of uis year eah,' ’
“Oh! Excuse me. How are you. comrade?”—
Washington Critic.
Old Croesus, vexed by clerical mistakes,
Delays and shabby dissipation makes
An automatic instrument designed
In office work t’ supplant the clerky mind,
Alas! Th’ invention was too like tne clerk.
’Twas sweet to look at—but it wouldn't work!
—Life.
A gentleman was accosted in the Almeda by
a sturdy beggar.
“In heaven’s name give me aid,” he ejacu
lated.
“Aren't you ashamed to beg, a great, strong
healthy fellow like you?"
“Senor, I asked you for alms, not for advice."
—Tiro Republics.
“Sir," said a gentleman in a crowd, “do you
know that you are pushing me unnecessarily?"
"Sir," said the gentlemen addressed to the
nart.v immediately behind him. “do you know
that you are pushing the gem leman ahead of
me unnecessarily?” Then he turned to the first
speaker and suiu, I've passed 11 dmvn the line.'’
—Harper's Razor.
Jack and Myra had a good nurse who taught
them to say grace before meals. Jack was a
little mischief, but on this special day was better
than usual; he said his grace properly, and then
the nurse turned to Myra, aged 3, who was sit
ting in a pensive attitude. Without raising her
head from her hand she said: “Please, God,
make Jack a good boy’."— Babyhood.
A young financier, aged 4, who was given
five cents for every mouse caught in a small
trap, finally asked leave to spend the prix'eeds.
The nurse was told to go wherever he led her,
to see what he proposed buying. He passed all
the toy and candy shops, but paused before a
hardware store, and pointing to the window,
exclaimed triumphantly: “I buy more mouse
trap, Fanny*,”— The Epoch.
“Does your watch keep good time, Mr. Gon
ever?" she asked of her caller about 11 o'clock
that night, as he consulted bis chronometer.
"Oh. dear, ye**; verv good time, Miss Weary:
very indeed. Why did you ask ?”
'*l imagined it might la* an hour or two slow,
you know." she answered, and yawned behind
uer fan
It was 11:45 before young Gonever appre
hended her meaning and acted on it.— Buffalo
Courier.
Gotham Bum—This beautiful place of yours is
a favorite resort for those noble reformers
called Socialists. I see.
Citizen Schwab—Yah, dey all koom here.
"lain a of Socialist myself; always at
tend the meetings. You are one too, I under
stand?"
“Yah."
“You believethat everything should be held
in common, of course?"
"Efryding except beer; fife zents, blease."—
Omaha World.
“Boy," exolaimed a Michigan avenue grocer,
“you've been hanging around here for half an
hour."
“Yes sir.”
“I/lotting for a chance to steal something?"
“No, sir; waiting for another boy who has
gone home after two cents.”
“Oh. and then you are going to buy some
thing?"
*’k es, sir. I agreed to wait for him here, and
when he comes we're going in next door and
buy candy "—Detroit Free Press.
Guess it, if You Can. -
My First is a flower combined with lard.
My Second eggs and milk;
Below I'm usually hard.
Above I’m soft as silk.
I hide on many a mossy mound,
I lurk neath tufts of grass!
On tempting rustic seats Pm found
Where men and maidens pass.
I wait my prey with purpose fell,
Tne youui in trousers white.
He sits on me—there comes a yell!
Great Scott! but he's a sight!
My Whole is an atrocious mess,
A sweet conundrum I,
But what I am you’ll never guess:
I am the Picnic Pie.
—Chicago Tribune.
PERSONAL.
Speaker Carlisle has grown very stout this
summer, and his face is a healthy bronze.
Prince rat Talleyrand, now in New York, an
nounces his intention of becoming an American
citizen.
Patti is now called “Queen of Wales.” Her
title to the name lies in the fact that she has
learned how to pronounce Craig-y-uos.
The painter Paul Thumann has resigned his
professorship in the Berlin Academy of Fine
Arts, in order to gain more tune for creative
work.
Robert M. McLane. United States Minister
to France, is in flue health, despite the reports
to the contrary. His leave of absence is only
for thirty days.
The London Daily News says that Mr. Glad
stone will not attend Parliament during the re
mainder of the session unless his presence is
absolutely necessary
George Vandyke is the millionaire lumber
king of New Hampshire. He is a bachelor, 3(5
years old, and started in life as a wood-chopper.
His home is in Coos county.
Ex-Gov. Thomas J. Jarvis, American Min
ister to Brazil, has been dangerously iU of mala
rial fever at Rio de Janeiro, but news of his con
valescence has been received at Raleigh, N. C.
Nelson D. Bromley, of Waterloo, Wis, trans
ferred #30,000 worth of property to Emily 1).
Arndt, a spiritualistic doctor, because the spirit
of his de.-d wife, through a medium, told him to.
New York photograph peddlers say that
Mi-s James Brown Potter is the present favor
ite, and next in order of sales come the portraits
of Mrs. [.angtry and Mary Anderson, then Ellen
Terry, Lady Mundeville and the Marchioness of
Lansdowne.
Li rut Zzi.r -ski's dynamite gtm at Fort La
favette Is n v,v nearly ready for a practical test.
The Secretary of the Navy has ordered a boat
to la* turned over to Him, and in a short time he
will try to blow it up from a distance of one and
a half miles.
Alderman William ITre. of Glasgow, a sport
iug gentleman, just arrived in New York, says
most folks were willing to wager odds on tue
Thistle, but since reading the accounts of the
Volunteer's achievements he expects "a very
close nnd pretty contest."
Dn. J. G. Gatling, of Hartford. Conn.. Is (n
New York. He is a man of medium height, fur
advanced iu years. His famous gun bus not
made hit fortune. His daughter is the wife of
th * Re*. Hugh O. Pentecost, one of Henry
George's most earnest supporters.
An officer on tju* United States flagship
Brooklyn, at Nagasaki, writes that Chaplain
John D I long less, who died of apoplexy on July
31. was In perfect health up to within an hour
of his death He had conducted the regular re
ligious services on the ship on that day His
body will be cremated and brought home, in ac
cordance with the request made by him when
president of the United Slates Cremation So
ciety.
Count Mitkikwicz. who has obtained from
the chinse government such remarkable fran
ibises, has rented In Washington the house
lately occupied by Secretary Manning The six
Chinese msndurins who ctun|s(se the embassy,
with Count Mitkiewicz. will is* quartered at tne
Ch nese legation Then men will make a
thorough study of tho American banking, coin
ago and postal systems before beginning opera
turns in Chins.
Had to Give In.
From the Kansas City Timex, Aus/. 18.
“Whoever spy* ho h a liar. ' roared a choleric
old gentleman from Defter this morning, stand
ing m frnt of th** City Hall. "These stories are
got up to play upon the credulity of country
pt** >ple. I ' fn get ting tiivd. * 1
The - had been toltl that to meet a red
haired girl on the stregt meant that a white
horse would soon come in sight, and he fairly
fumed with,rage as htvdenied the possibility of
the thing.
"IxK)k there. now," he shouted, “there's a
red headed girl; reel-headed until you can't rest.
Where's any white horse? Just as easy as
rollin' off a fog to prove th*; originator of the
fad isa liar. I don't believe there's a white
horse wrfthm a rnile/' But ehamiing to gaze in
the (linnet ion of th-* High School, a hearse was
seen, to which not one. but two, milk-white
ste iis were The Dext<*r man fainted.
September.
From St. Nich<rtat for September.
Here's a lyric for September.
Best of all months to remember:
Month when summer breezes tell,
What lias hapi>ened wood and dell,
Of the joy the year lias brought
And the changes she hss wrought,
She has turned tbe verdure red;
In the blue sky overhead
She the harvest moon fcft hung
Like a silver boat dmong
Shoals of stars —bright Jewels set-
In the earth's bhie coropet.
She has brought, the orchard's fruit
To ivplay the robin's flute
Whien has gladdened half the yea.*
With a music liquid clear:
And she makes the. meadow gra-ss
Catch the sunbeams as they pass,
Till the autumn's lloor is rolled
With a fragrant cloth of gold.
Stolen Goods Strangely Found.
Pen is Dixprteh tf> the London Standard
Mme. Klluini, who was recently robbed of a
valise while traveling by stage coach from Nice
to Leptosque, has been fortunate enough to re
cover most of her property. On Friday, a
shepherd, while attending his flock at Fourettes,
not far from the where the highway rob
bery was committed, picked up a valuable
brooch, and on searching further, came upon
other pieces of jewelry. Two laborers working
in a field near by, also found some jewelry anil
a mass of U>m papers, which turned out to be
bonds to the value of 60,W0f. Apprised of the
circumstance, the Mayor of Fourettes took
charge of the property, and instituted a system
atic search in the fir’d around. Tne result was
that nearly all the L welry and bonds were re
covered. Mme. Efluini was overjoyed at her
good fortune. She states that she has recov
ered all her property except 120,000f. worth of
jewelry and 2,000f. in gold.
Why Women Don't Snore.
From the Minneapolis Journal.
“Fergy, dear," said Mrs. Montgomery the
other morning as Mr. Montgomery came down
to breakfast looking as cross as two roads, “whv
do men snore?"
“Give it up," he replied shortly, with a suspi
cious look.
“You snore, dear,” she continued. “What do
you do tt for?"
“I don't snore at all," replied Mr, Montgom
ery, emphatically. ‘lt's that dodgasted fool in
the next house.’
“Women nevr snore," remarked Mrs. Mont
gomery reflectively, as she dropped a pinch of
salt in her husband's coffee, “I wonder why!"
“Can’t," replied Mr. Montgomery,
“Whv?"
‘ Well, you can’t snore unless your mouth is
open. A woman works her jaw so confounded
ly hard during the day that when night conies
it is so tired that she l ! has to close it up and give
it a chance to recuperate.”
A Husband's Prerogatives.
From the Willows (Cal.) Journal.
Mary I.a nr was married a year ago in Jacksor.
county, Oregon. The newly married couple
started for California. In Shasta valley they
made a stop and the husband secured a job
chopping wood. After working a short time he
proposed that his wife should assist in the work.
To enforce acquiescence he took her clothes and
burned thenj. He then furnished her with over
alls, jumper and heavy boots, and threatened
her with death if she did not obey. According
ly she commenced chopping wood. Then she
went into the hay-field as a regular hand. At
one place her sea was discovered and she was
diischargsd. They next came to Tehama
county and worked on Gallagher's machine.
Whatever money was earned the husband ap
propriated and spent in gambling and drinking.
Last Saturday they came to Germantown where
the husband secured work for both carrying
sacks. The work was tpo heavy and the wife
determined to flee from her bondage. Once be
fore, in Tehatna county, she had tried to escape
but was caught by her husband and beaten.
This time she waited till her husband wus en
gag'*! at labor, when she started out on foot for
Willows. At Hegel’s she stopped and told her
story. Joe Hegel gave her a letter to Col.
Crawford, to whom she came Through the
kindness of several ladies she was given proper
clothing and assured of protection. Monday
she started to Oregon’where her brother re
sides. The citizens purchased a ticket and sup
.plied her with necessary money and clothing
for the trip.
The Tribulations of a Clerk in the
Money Order Department.
From the JVeto York Sun.
The other day an old woman, bent with age
and the weight of a big basket, presented an
order for payment at the post office money
order department. She had shored it into every
window on the row before she came to the right
one.
“You must sign your name to this first,” said
the clerk, sliding back tbe sheet of blue paper.
“Oi can’t write, sor.” replied the old woman.
“Well, then, what's your name?”
“Biddy.”
“T mein your full name.”
“Bridget.”
due clerk began to get vexed. “My good
woman,” spid he, “can’t you tell me both your
Christian name and your surname?”
“To be shore oi can.”
“Why don’t you tell it. then?”
“Why didn't ye ax me that at first? Me name
is Bridget O’Brien.”
“That isn’t the name in my letter of advice,”
continued the clerk, looking rather puzzled
“Who sent you this money?”
“Me husband, sor.”
“And what’s your husband's name?”
“Paddy Muldoon.”
“Then your name is Bridget Muldoon?”
‘”Tis, sor: it be that be marriage."
“Where do you Jive, Mrs. Muldoon?”
“On the slcond flure, soil'.’’
A long line of people hod now formed at the
window, and the clerk gave up the old woman
as a bad case. He signed her name to the order
and then poked the handle of the pen through
the little brass bars. “Touch the peu, ma’am,”
said he.
Mrs. Muldoon had been very patient hereto
fore, but when the clerk shoved the pen at her
she thought he was trying to have a little fun at
her expense. She was vexed, especially when
she noticed the harassed young man smile pain
fully at two pretty girls hard by. “Oitaway
wid yer tricks.” she exclaimed, angrily, "an’
don't try enn.v uf yer tomfoolery wid a woman
ould enuf to be yer granny.”
How a Woman Acts Before and After
Her First Sea Bath.
from Tidßits.
This is a truthful and most accurate descrip
of how a woman acts when she first puts
on a bathing suit. At first sight of it she gig
gles cqpruliuvely and titters out:
"Oh. I never, never can let anybody see me
with that on!"
"Ob, yea, you can. l’ut ife on," cries some
hardened companion who has been in before.
"Everybody wears them."
"But I'll look so awful!"
“Who cares? JfobodyTl know you."
Then she get* into It' giggling turioiislv. "Oh,
1 just can’t go put In it."
"Yes, yon must."
"But how cnn I?"
"Boji! Nobody’ll notice you in the least."
“But 1 know I look perf<y tiy dreadful."
"Well, everybody else looks so too."
"I know, but 1 (giggle) I shall die if I see any
body I know.".
"You ready?"
“Yes. I—l--guess so: Ob, I just don’t believe
I eati go, after till. Don't l look awful?”
“Pooh! no! dome on!”
"1 can’t bnpr to. T'‘t\ hep, bee. hee!"
But she does, all the same, giggling frantic
ally until she reaches the water, when she
shrieks out:
"Oh, it's cold? Ugh' Hne, bee! I’ll look so
awful when I’m wet' O-o-o-o-h, .it'a dreadfully
cold."
And when she comes out and is dressed again
she bores everybody she knows by saying over
and over again:
“Oh, I think it's Just lovely to bathe: T'm
in every day. Isn't it fun? I just love to
r down and let the waves ran over me' I
ain’t, one bit afraid now! I was awfully fright
ened at first! I don't mind my looks'one hit
now ! I’d like to have my photograph taken in
my bathing suit! It'd be Jolly fun. wouldn't
It? I got some water in rny mouth. •:d isn't it
salty' Oh, It’s Just splendid! I'm going In
three times some days! I believe It'Tl do me
good' Ob, I'm wild over Ia hlng 1 It's just too
perfectly lovely and Jolly tor anything."
In raae* of cholera Brown'* Dinger does good
Frederick Brown, Philadelphia, lt&
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Tag Kansas poultry and egg crop is worth
$1,300,000.
Rt Bi.is are now produced chemically in great
perfection.
The head of the Sultan s harem is now a
Christian woman—beautiful, cultivated, and a
Spaniard.
Tiix “mt lograph” haslieen invented, by which
a person can improvise on a piano and have the
music recorded
The German authorities in Alsace-Lorraine
hive stopped the granting of all hunting
licenses to the French residents in the annexed
provinces.
Dr. oEß.srp, of the British Medical Associa
tion, says that the wearing of high-heeled shoes
so alters the centre of gravity as to 0:1 ,: c a re
turn to the habit of "tailless apes who walk on
their toes.
In French country houses the fashionable
sport is frog spearing. The weapon used re
sernolesa cross-bow, and the Imrbed arrows aie
attached to the bows by a silken string, so as to
haul the frog in when he is pierced.
A horse grazing on the bank of Higgin's Lake,
Mich., saw Mrs. Charles H. Pettit and her little
daughter drowning, jumped into the lake, swam
out to them, made them understand they were
to take his mauc, and then carried them safely
to the shore.
Additional, boodle on a rather extensive scale
was necessary to maintain legal defenses about
Jacob Sharp. John E. Parsons got $30,000: Al
bert Stickney, $30,000: ex-Judge William A. Ful
lerton. SIO,OOO, and Peter Mitchell and ex-Judge
Homer A. Nelson, $.3.1X10 each SOO,OOO in all.
A Vienna paper finds a direct connection be
tween the growing consumption on the part of
tlie Viennese of Hungarian goose livers and the
Carlsbad mineral water. Last year no less than
740 quintals of Hungarian goose livers, repre
senting a value of 150,000 florins, were brought
to Vienna.
Mrs. George Barnard, a wealthy lady of
Boston, went to Mattapoisett fifteen years ago
and bought the town. This is hardly a figure of
speech, for she bought all of its water-front and
several of its streets, at an average price of
SSOO per acre, including the houses. What she
has since sold has been at the rate, of $1,300 per
acre, not Including the houses.
The cost of producing Verdi's “Otello” at
Milan has been enormous. For each perform
ance Signor Tamagno received 4,500 lire ($900),
Signor Maurel 8,000 and Sjgnora Gabbi 1,500 lire.
The leader. Signor Facio, was paid 500 lire, and
the orchestra and the choir received 3,000 and
1,500 lire respectively. In addition, the com
poser’s share was 3,000 lire for every perform
ance.
Thk projected lighting of the Royal Must u us
of Berlin by electricity has been vetoed by the
Prussian Minister of Public Instruction, who
thinks that the public has ample facilities for
visiting the museums in daytime. Only the
Museum for Art Industry, which already pos
sesses the necessary appliances, will be lighted
by electricity and be accessible to the public in
the evening hours.
Miss Anna Belle Frink, of Brownsville,
Tenn.. is visiting her uncle in Jackson. The
Forked Deer Slade adds this suggestive sen
tence to a notice of the young lady’s arrival:
“A certain young man in this city is hereby in
formed that his visits to her will not be tolerated
by her friends, and any effort on bis part to
call on her will result in unpleasantness to him.
if not in bodily harm.”
In Chili, where women are horse-car con
ductors, the men who make a business of flirt
ing with the conductors are called “mosqui
toes,” because the;, swarm so thickly •around
the cars and are so great a nuisance As the
women are young ami pretty in their neat uni
forms of blue flannel and a many-poeketed
white pinafor trimmed with frills, it is not stir
prising that they attract passongera
A prominent ifterchant of Tektrttsjia, Mich.,
suffered a strange aberration of mjrtd the otrtier
day. From the tithe he arose until'afternoon he
knew absolutely “nothing that was transpiring
about him. although around the stobie and try
ing to do business.- He could not tell the prices
of the most, common articles of merchandise,
and failed to recognize people that he has known
for years. The next day he yvas all right again.
A lady has written to Mayor Hewitt, of New
York, as folloyvs: "To Mr. Hewitt, Manor of
the City of New York: Sir- Please order the
poor innocent and useful cats to l>e fed twice a
week in the city parks on fresh liver cut up in
small pieces, as they do in Paris, France. The
poor cats could in this way be enabled to live to
kill the rats on the docks and the nasty, fight
ing, numerous sparrows in the parks anil all
over.”
| Thccf is a hotel for colored people in Sara
toga which is extremely select in its way. Mr.
Broughton, the proprietor, is said to be worth
gcoo.ono Among his guests this year have been
several young colored women of wealth and
position. Two of them wore diamonds of great
value. One of these dusky beauties was con
sidered the belle of Saratoga by her race, and
her somewhat haughty manners showed that
she realized what is due to a queen of beauty.
Many people have heard of the singing beach
at Manchester, Mass., where the sand, when
driven over or stirred, gives out a peculiar and
not unmusical sound, but few, very few, people
know that near Pescadero, (’a)., a beach exists
much larger, giving out sounds in no uncertain
manner. The beach near Manchester is said to
be one fifth of a mile ill extent, but at Pescadero
an investigating parly found the sounds very
clear, though varying in loudness, for a distance
of one and a half miles along the coast line. The
sound is loudest and most distinct where the
sand is dry on top and damp beneath A light,
vehicle driven over it gives a clear, musical
sound, a footstep not quite so loud, and even the
hands or a stick stirring or lifting the sand
causes it to "sing" quite plainly.
That prolific producer of diluted sensational
ism and sentimentalism, "The Duchess,” ha*
achieved the summit of literary distinction. An
enterprising Chicago publisher has fathered (or
should it be mothered:) on hera novel of whose
perpetration she is innocent, and the work is
having a great sale in consequence. It is called
"Valerie, or Half a Truth." and narrates, in a
round half hundred chapters, the sighing* and
spooning* of a dreamy creature with a pure
creamy skin ami wondrous eye-, and masses of
rich brown hair. A year ago "Valerie" sighed
and spooned to an enchanted public in the
Young Ladies Journal, of London, as the child
of “anew author:’’ and the editor of the journal
now denies that under this half fledged t itle was
concealed the mature identity of the author of
“Molly Kawn.”
The chair of ecclesiastical law in the Univer
sity of Wurzburg became recently vacant, and
the Bishop of Wurzburg petitioned the Bavarian
government to fill the position, not an hitherto
by the appointment of a Protestant, but by that
of a Catholic professor. As the government has
so far found conai derable difficulty in finding
any on?, regardless of religion, competent to
fill the position, owing to the incumbents being
obliged to lecture, not only on Roman and Pro
testant ecclesiastical law. Imt also on commer
cial law. it has I teen decided to create an addi
tional professorship and appoint a Protestant
to the chair of Protestant Ecclesiastical Law
and Commercial Law and a Catholic to that of
Catholic Ecclesiastical Law. Dr. Karl Mayer,
who had just received a call to Strasbourg,'lias
been ap|>oiiited to the former position.
The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh are so
penurious that at times it makes them really ri
diculous, says a recent writer. 1 was told ivy a
gentleman liviftg In Sldmmith, on the Devon
shire coast, that during al l >rm the yacht with
these two members of royalty on hoard was in
great danger, and that he had gone out with a
brave crew anil rescued them from u watery
grave The only acknowledgment made to the
seamen was a mere cold "thank you " As the
cow were composed of poor men this exnrcs
sion of appreciation wa* scarcely acceptable
especially as the Duchess of Edinburgh is one
of the rc lest, women in the world, i under
stand that the Duke refuses to lend ills ood
natured elder brother or M oles morey,’ and
that jolly spendthrift is obliged to fall back
upon the amiability of Mr. Tailor and Mr Boot
maker for favors of this description
Th* queen made the run from London to
Balmoral last Friday. No European ruler ox
eept the Czar is so guarded when traveling as
the Queen. The t rain was composed of day and
night saloons. The regulations for her majes
ty’s journey filled several foolaeap pages and
provided for a pilot engine accompanied hy the
locomotive superintendent and hy a guard ’with
lamp*, flags and fog sigoals. The engine nr'-
ced -d the royal train fifteen minute* in ad
vanoe. A lookout was placed on the tender of
the engine, and. seated with hi* face toward the
carriage*, observed any signal that might be
given by the oecupants. For thirty mluutos
previous to the Queen’s coming no trala wa*
permitted to proceed upon or to erne* the main
line, the pilot engln - alone excepted Driver*
must on no account open their whistles when
pornlng her male ty' train In this manner
the Queen rode through her dominion*. The
Queen wa* provided with a special timetable i
pruned elegantly |n mauve on thick white pa- 1
per. bordered In gold and surmounted bv the
royal anna, r-
BAKING POWDER.
pfPUCE^
Used by the L'nited States Government. En.
dorsed by the hearts of the Great Universities aa
the Strongest, Purest and most Healthful. Dr.
Price's the only Baking Powder that does not
contain Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Sold only m
Cans.
PRICE BAKING POWDER CO.
NEW YORK. CHICAGO. ST. LOUIS.
DRY GOODS, ETC.
Exceptional Reductions
IN
Summer Goods
AT
Wai & Pliers,
SUCCESSORS TO
B. F. McKenna & Cos.,
137 BROUGHTON STREET.
FIGURED BATISTE CLOTHS.
YYTK will close out the remainder of our stock
* * of these fine goods, formerly sold at IN’,
a yard, now reduced to 12jeo.
23 pieces Figured Lawns, 33 inches wide, regt*
lar price 12j£c. a yard; now S^c.
75 pieces Figured Lawns, choice styles, at 3V£c.
50 pieces Wide Width Lawns, regular prM
10c. a yard; now tij^c.
Ore lot Crinkled Seersuckers, reguli rice
15c. and 17c. a yard; now 12}^jo.
One lot of Dress Oiughatns, choice styles,
regular price. a yard; now- 10c.
30 Impoi-ted Mai'seilles Quilts, slightly soiled,
formerly sold at $3. We will do: e the lot out
at $1 85 each.
Hosiery and Underwear.
v
100 dozen Unbleached Black and Colored
regular price 12We.; now 90. a pair.
A mixed lot of Misses’ Fine English Hose.
Ribbed, plain atid Silk Clocked, regular price of
these goods front 25c. to 500. Wo will close th
lot out at lie. a pair.
50 dozen Indies' Gauze Undervests, regulai
prices doc. and 35c.: now 19c. each.
35 dozen Ladies’ extra fine quality Gauze tin
dervests, regular prices 60c., 66c., 75c. and 85e.
We will offer the lot at the extraordinary low
price of -17 c. each.
Onr 81 Unlaundried Shirts Reduced to !)fta
75 dozen Gentlemen’s Unlaundried Shirts, re
inforeed back and bosoms, the best $1 Shirt
manufactured. In order to reduce our larg*
stock we w ill offer them at 90c. each.
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FOR THE TEETH
timn'lfftum Ns to Materia Is, contains no ABU
tiarit Grit, or injurious matter
It to Pubs, naruriD, Pbf.eect.
boTimm Likb It Evbb Kxowjt.
From Seuntor fosgealiall. "ItskeplMF
ureio rocommendiae Zouwelts on account of it.
efficacy end puny ”
From nir. f.en. T.ogan’a Dentist, Dr.
JF-. b. tuirnll, WaHhingtoa, I>. C7-"I have lisa
Zonwets* atmlyi 'd. It la tile most perfect dentl*
Inca 1 have ever neon "
From Hon. Clin*. P. Johnson. Ex. L*
Wav. of Mo.—"gonwets* ricunss tlieteeth tboi*
ouklily, Iz delicate, convenient, verv pleasant,ana
leaves no after Mate. Sold by all DBttooisTe.
Frige, 36 cent*.
Joliisou ft .lonxsox, 73 Cedar St., N. Y.
IT-Wnj"'.l i.Tftii |"A HKdiATf—
For sale by LIPPMAN BROS., I.ippman'l
Block, Savannah.
medical.
FOR
Indigestion,
I Sick Headache
Constipation,
Inactive Liver-
The there ha tit planning business r.eheme*;
'1 hr preacher struggling through his thetne*;
ru-dnateaman In aiwo'ubly halls:
The broker v/lld with "put* and calls,"
To roof *b• Rt o,.,i and brsc" fas m ad,
will I’ADn AVT’b rtEI.TXF.It s-te*t find
KIESLIIfo’S NURSERY,
White Bluff Road.
PLANTS. OOUQIL'fITB, DEMONS. Cft
n.OWIRS furnished to order. Leave or*
uei* im. 1.-A VIK rttU.tp, . e irqer t• —1 and
■treet*. Telrpuoue 3W