The morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, September 10, 1887, Page 4, Image 4

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4 Caponing Hctos Worning News Building, Savannah, Ga. &VTURDAY. SEPTKMIJKR 10, 1887. Keffisiered at the Post Office in Savannah. TbeMoiwiNQ Nwa to r and every day m the vear. and is served to sulscriben' in the city, |*y newsdealers* and carriers, on their own ar count, at 3T> cents a week. $1 a month, $5 <H.), for six months and $lO 00 for one year. The Morning News, by mail, one month, $1 00; three months, $2 50; ai* months, $5 U); one year, $lO 00. The Morning Nfws. by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue', three months, $2 00; six months, $4 00 one ' ear, %H 00. The Morning News. Tri weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Tburs days and Saturdays, thn*o months, $1 2b; six months. $2 50; one year. $3 00. The St'NDAY News, by mail , one year. $2 00. Wte Weekly News, by mail, one year. $1 2f. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, checlic or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. Tins paper is kept on die nml advertisinc rates may he ascertained at the office of the Ameri can Newspaper Publishers' Association, 104 Temple Court, New York City. Letters and telctrrams should bo addressed 4< Morntng News. Savannah, Ha." Advertising rates made known on n^plicat’on. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meeting* Pionet'r Brick Com pan >. Special Notices- Steamer Nicholas; Chat ham Real Estate Improvement Cos.; As to Crew of Br, Steamship Amaryllis. Cheap Column Aovebtisehents— Help Want ed: Employment Wanted: For Rent; For Sale; Personal; Lost; Miscellaneous. Educational —Emory College, Oxford, Oa. Steamship (Schedule— Ocean Steamship Cos. Auction Sale —Household and Kitchen Furni ture, R. R. Kennedy. The schedule of Ives’ individual liabilities and assets shows that the young man spent in a few months, in the pursuit of his own pleasure and eomiort, no less than $P7,450. He bought a fine steam yacht, carriages, etc. Perhaps to his extravagance in this direction, with other jieople’s money, he was indebted for a large part of the confidence in him that enabled him to fail for $17,- 000,000. __ The Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio, Thomas E. Powell, has made his opening campaign speech, and its tone would indicate that ho is willing to accept the bloody shirt and protection issues which Foraker has put forward. Mr. Powell ought to win, even in Republican Ohio, when on issues like these he can ap(>eal to all that is good and honest in his hearers, and his op ponent only to their baser passions. The Prohibition party is founded on the idea that the use of intoxicants is the greatest of curses to humanity, and that tfce question of prohibiting the sale of liquors overshadows all others in polities. This being true, it is strange that the party in Massachusetts has again made the un popular woman-suffrage resolution a part of its platform. The crank badge the Mas sachusetts Prohibitionists wear is appropri ate. The great failure of E. S. Wheeler, of New Haven, was precipitated by the ac tion of Mr. Welch, his father-in-law, presi dent of the First National Bank, who threw out his paper. Mr. Welch, who is very wealthy, it is said, will, in his private capac ity, aid Wheeler to got on his feet again, but he refused to allow the bank to take risks. Such faithfulness to an official trust is refreshing, coming after the recent dis closures in Wall street. The accidents which occurred during the oneut manoeuvres of the British fleet have caused a certain class of the English news papers to declare that as a m *ans of defense the fleet is practically useless, on account of the liability to accident of the great iron clads. They should remember that all the navies of the world arc now of the same kind, and perhaps no safer. At any rate, it is hard to see to what other means of naval defense the British, or any other nation, ean resort. The desperate recklessness developed in tnsn by a long course of crime was well illustrated in New York Wednesday. A notorious convict, named Barry, was cor nered by several policemen on the roof of a tall tenement house, and. rather than be captured, deliberately sprang off. The officers expected to find his body crushed on Ijhe sidewalk, but in his fall the man was caught by a fire escape projecting from the fifth story, and though rendered almost in sensible and badly hurt by his fall will re cover. Reports from the Connecticut river val ley, where the gathering of tobacco is about completed, show that the crop is at least 15 per cent, short of that of last year. The to bacco raised in that region is largely used for cigar wrappers. This shortage, in con nection with the much larger reduction re ported in the Southern States, would seem to indicate that the recent advance in the price of tobacco will be maintained. It will also probably lead to increased importations from Cuba and Sumatra of leaf suitable for wrappers, of which this country seems never to produce an adequate supply. Few people nowadays, if asked who was the first Governor of Illinois, would answer Patrick Henry. Yet this is the case. An act was passed by the authorities of Vir ginia, in October, 1778, creating the couuty of Illinois (in the State of Virginia), which embraced the territory now forming the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, making probably the largest county ever organized, exceeding the whole of Great Britain and Ireland; and thus the great orator of the American revolution, Patrick Henry, then Governor of Virginia, became the first Governor of Illinois, An Atlanta disjiatch to the New York World pretends to give away the secret of how Mr. G. IC. Woodward secured such an expensive outfit to print anew journal in Atlanta. It is that the money was put lip by the anti-Prohibitionists, who felt the necessity for an organ during the fierce camjvaign which has been inaugurated to secure the rejieal of the law adopted two years ago. The same dispatch tells of the lilan in regard to the negroes, which the anti-prohibitionists have adopted, which amounts to an endeavor on their part to enlist colored recruits by putting prominent men of that race in charge, in large measure, of the campaign. Emphasis is also laid on the fact that alleged promises of the Prohibi tionists to put negroes on the polion force have not been fulfill -d. The mea whb are engineering this movement will probably And Indore they are through that a daily ncws|*per is a very cormorant in the way of swallowing up money, and tliey may find, too, in mute of success, that their negro al lies will make emlmrraasing claims which they uauuul uousisteutly deny. Republican Tactics Exposed. The Republican organs show a great deal more interest in Mr. Thebe's contest for Mr. Carlisle’s seat in Congress than Mr. Carlisle does. Some of them pretend to think that because Mr. Carlisle has taken no testimony in the case he intends either to defeat the contestant by a technicality or expects that the Democratic majority will award the seat to him whether lie lias light on his side or not. The New York Tribune, for in stance, says that Mr. Carlisle will probably 'feel compelled to ask from his party an ex tension of time for taking testimony, and insinuates that he will lie forced to make the humiliating confession that he either con temptuously or ignorantly disregarded the laws for taking testimony, which Mr. Thobe, a plain workingman, so scrupulously ob served. Mr. Carlisle's reputation for honesty and square dealing is too well established to afford any foundation for the insinuations and inferences in which the Tribune in dulges. If it does not appear that he was elected by a clear and unmistakable ma jority, ho will not nsk that the contest lie decided in his favor. He will resort neither to technicalities nor delays when the time comes for considering the contest. All that Mr. Thobe will have to do in order to get. the seat will lie to prove that he has a clear right to it. Mr. Carlisle did not take any testimony for the reason, doubtless, that lie did not think it, was necessary to do so. The fact that he did not is not an. indication, as the Republican organs would have the coun try believe, that he has a weak case, but rather that he has a strong one. His course shows that he is confident that Mr. Thobe cannot prove his claim, and the result of the contest will doubtless show that he had the best of reasons for his confidence. Mr Thobe took testimony because he is the claimant, and it is necessary for him to have something to sup|x>rt his claim lieyond bis mere assertion that he was elected. No one doubts that Mr. Carlisle’s district is Democratic by a very large majority. On a full vote the majority is over 5,000. It gave Mr. Cleveland 5,000 majority over Mr. Blaine, and in the late State election the majority for the Democratic candidate for Governor was a little larger. In IRS 4, when the Republicans ran a candidate for Con grass, Mr. Carlisle’s majority was about 0,000. In the off years—that is, the years when there is neither a State nor a national ticket—the majority is smaller, and when Mr* Carlisle has had no opposition in off years his vote has been less than his major ity in an exciting contest. Last year was an off year, and Mr. Car lisle was not aware that he had any op ponent until the election was close at hand. When he discovered the fact lie was not alarmed, because, as far as he could see, no active canvass against him was lining made. Mr. Thobe, however, was making a still hunt as the workingmen’s candidate, and he confined his work almost exclusively to the two cities of Newport and Covington. Acting upon the conviction that if there were no excitement the Democratic vote would tie very light, all his movements were extremely quiet. It must lie admitted that he displayed considerable skill in the man agement of his canvass, and if some of the leading Democrats had not discovered what ho was doing, and sounded the alarm at the last moment, he might have been success ful. As it was he polled about 5,600 votes against 6,500 for Mr. Carlisle. It is pretty safe to say that Mr. Thobe will not be able to show that he got more votes than Mr. Carlisle, anil Mr. Carlisle knows he will not. What, then, is the use of Mr. Carlisle taking any testimony? The Republican organs know very well, or ought to know, that Mr. Thobe lias no ease that will command serious attention. They are trying to make out that he has, however, simply to create the impression among workingmen that the Democratic majority in the House has no regard for a working man’s rights. As the Thobe-Carlisle contest progresses it will be seen that the Republi can organs and Republican members of Congress will make the most of every op portunity to create the impression that Mr. Thobe has no chance to get his alleged rights because he is a workingman. The working men of the country are too intelligent to be deceived by tactics of this sort. Mr. Thobe is only a tool of the Republicans. Washington People Criticised The doctors attending the medical con gress at Washington don't like the way they have been entertained in tliut city. They have good reasons for complaining if tho reports concerning the sociul side of the congress which have appeared in the public prints are correct. At the reception at the White House not one-third of the members of the congress got a chance to see the President and Mrs. Cleveland on account of the presence of hundreds of people who were not expocted to be present; and at the reception at the new pension building there was such a crowd that there was neither comfort nor enjoyment for anybody. Two things appear to have contributed to bring about this unsatisfactory condition of affairs. One was the ineoinpeteney of the committee which lmd control of social mat ters, and the other was the vulgarity and cheek of a very considerable percentage of the people who visit Washington, and, also of those who reside there. In no other city in the country is it necessary to take such extraordinary precautions to prevent people from thrusting themselves into places to which they are not invited, and where they are not wanted. It is not unusual for people to re sort to all sorts of subterfuges to gain ad mittance to entertainments at private houses, and stones are not infrequently told of the appearance at private receptions of men and women who have no acquaintance whatever with the host or hostess, and no claim of any kind upon them. Tickets to one of these entertainments provided for the doctors had to lie changed in order to shut out a crowd of Washington people who had managed in some way to get hold of a large lot of the tickets of ad mission. Tho foreigners will undoubtedly carry home with them very pleasant im pressions of the beauty of Washington, but they will not recall with pleasure the aver age Washington citizen. It is announced in Now York, with some semblance of authority, that General Mas ter Workman I’owderly, tired of tho abuse to which he has been subjected by faction ists iu the Knights of Ikibor, has determined to resign. The fact, that he has expressed a purpose to visit Ireland, to take part in the home rule campaign, would, indicate that the announcement is true. It will be d lift cult for the order to find a worthy successor. Though lie has mads tniaMkos, no one has seriously questioned his honesty, his de votion to the objects of the order, or his pos zwsion of abilities of a high order. It is to be hofiel that his successor will be of like consul t utivs tendencies. THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1887. The Convict Problem. The Morning News has more than once [ suggested that the State could not make a i wiser disposition of her convicts than to j employ them in constructing good roads in the different counties. The suggestion has always been received with favor. At this time, when the investigation of alleged abuses may result in the annulment of the leases by which most of the cdnvicts are I held, it might be well for the Legislature und public to give this suggestion serious examination. It is true that the annulment of the present leases would not abro gate the law under which they were executed, but the evidence brought out in the investigation may he of such a character as to convince the legislature of the wisdom of repealing it. The suggestion in question is in effect that the State shall invest the cost of maintaining its convicts in the improvement of its roads. In this way, more cheaply than in any other, all portions of the State might ho supplied with graded and macadamized highways, rival ing in usefulness the railroads, adding vastly to the value of lands and increasing the revenue of the State. In the present condition of roads the cost of transporta tion by wagon any considerable distance, in almost any portion of the State, is very great, and in the rainy season very near impracticable. A country in such condition can hardly hope for im migration of the class which would bo most valuable to it—small, independent farmers, of the kind whose industry and thrift have aided so greatly in making the North anil West rich. Such people are too intelligent to waste time and labor in dragging the product of their farms in small bits through miles of mud or sand; so they go where such waste is not necessary. Every year in the West thousands of miles of railroad are laid, in advance of any real demand, with the idea that transpor tation facilities will induce the settlement of lands, which will make business for the roads. The same thing is true of the im provement of the highways. Easy access to markets will increase the value of lands and induce immigration. The cost of carrying out this suggestion would, of course, be largely borne by the counties in which the improvements are made, and it might be still further reduced by producing on a farm, tilled by those of the convicts not equal to the task of road making, the food supplies needed by the en tire body. Other plans for saving expense might also be devised. As for the convicts themselves, almost all of whom are from a class used to out door labor, work of the kind proposed would bo undoubtedly better than confine ment within walls. Controlled by State officers, actuated in their conduct only by a sense of duty, they could be subjected to a mild yet firm discipline that would exact the penalty imposed by law without cruelty and, as far as possible, with reformatory effect. A Burdensome Record. Qount Mitkiewicz, the principal person in the syndicate which has obtained the val uable concessions from the Chinese govern ment, is very angry with the newspapers for publishing interesting incidents of his discreditable record. Ho is reported as say ing that ho holds the winning hand, and that the newspapers cannot hurt him. It seems that the capitalists who are as sociated with him did not know anything of his early career in this country until the}’ saw accounts of it in tho public prints. They must liavo teen rather startled at finding themselves partners of a man who has been charged with having committed many dishonest acts. It was stated a day or two ago that he had been offered $250,- (XX) for his interest in the syndicate. If this statement is correct it is probable that his associates want to get rid of him, and are willing to pay a very handsome sum to induce him to sever his connection with them. The syndicate will, of course, undertake to raise money in this country to carry out its scheme in China, but it will find it rather difficult perhaps to do that if Mitkiewicz remains one of its members. Howevor great tho confidence may lie in Wharton Barker, Simon Sterne, and others of the syndicate, it will not be an easy matter to convince people who have monoy to invest that they can safely intrust it to a company tho chief member of which has tho reputa tion of being an adventurer of the worst kind. It is probable, however, that before the stock of the syndicate is offered to tho pub lic a great deal more will lie made known about its plans than is now known, and it may bo that when the time comes for business Mitkiewicz will be found to hold a much less important position than he did while negotiations were going on for the concessions. If the syndicate is successful in carrying out what is understood to lie its programme this country will be benefited to a consider able extent. The attention of China will lie directed more strongly in this direction, and our trade with her can hardly help being increased. As Mitkiewicz threatens to lie an obstacle to the syndicate’s success, lie ought to lie got rid of as quickly as pos sible. Doubtless he now regrets that his whole career has not been an honest one. There is nothing more burdensome to a man who is trying to rise in the world than a had record. The Burnside Mystery. There is no doubt that tho woman whose body was found near Burnside station was murdorod. All the testimony that has thus far been gathered point* to a cold-blooded murder. The fact that tho crime was com rnitted several weeks ago should not make the murder appear less terrible than if it were committed the day the body was found. It was thought yesterduy morning that the identity of the murdered woman had been pretty clearly established. Informa tion was obtained last evening, however, that the woman who-was thought to lie the one who was murdorod is alive. Tho identity of the murdered woman and all the circumstances connected with her murder are, therefore, still veiled in mystery. Tho community cannot afford to jiennit this crime to lie forgotten without an effort to find out who the murdered woman was and who murdered her. There are no clews now to work upon, but it may not be im posstble to find some. A shrewd detective might soon make vary important discoveries which would lead to the bringing of the murderer to justice. Tho Governor eight to In* requested to offer a reward for tlie op prehension of the murderer. It might en courage inquiries that would not otherwise be made. The Htwcbuwtbi Prohibitionists are said to Is- full of hope and enthusiasm. The i more they hare, the better for the Demo- I crate. CURRENT COMMENT. They Cannot be Conciliated. From the Washington Post (Dent.) It is now. as it at all times has been, utterly useless to attempt to conciliate members or Congress who are protectionist* for the sake of protection. This has nor been done, nor will it lie done. In all probability it could not be done. An Unfair Advantage. From the Philadelphia Record (Deni.) One advantage the George-MeGlynn Anti l’overty party his over rival organizations is in its ability to work seven days n the week instead of six. Six days in the week it is a political organization and on Sunday anew sort of religion. The President’s Tariff Bill. From the New York World ( Dem.) If, as is said, the President and Mr. Carlisle — standing, as the votes hi two Congresses have shown, for fully two-thirds of the party—are willing to agree to the abolition of the internal taxes on tobacco and on alcohol used in the arts, in consideration of securing an extension of the free list of articles essential to cheap munufac turing. and a reduction of duties on some arti cles of universal use. the faction represented by Mr. Randall ought certainly to agree to that basis fora bill. Not to do so would be to adver tise themselves as wilful obstructionists in the way of a redemption of tho party's pledges. BRIGHT BITS. A Kentucky negro made a rush in the night on what he thought was a calf. It turned out to be the back end of a mule, and the negro will always remember that it was.—Detroit Free Press. No wonder they say the Yankees exaggerate. We know one who complained to his butcher that the last piece of steak sent him was so tough that his mother could not chew the gravy. —Boston Olobe. Law Professor- -What constitutes burglary ? Student—There must be breaking. Professor—Then if a man enters your door and takes $5 from your vest pocket in the hall, would that be burglary? Student—Yes, sir, because that would break me. “I used to write a good hand," said one man to another this morning, ‘-but as I have not written a line for ten years, except when I re ceipt for my salary, 1 luive lost the knack al together. ’’ “What business are you in?’’ “1 am the editor of a Topeka daily.’’— Atchison Globe. “Do you know.” said a dignified-looking man, “that I never tasted whisky r’ “No,” was the reply; “I know lots of fellers that gulp it down quick that, way, but somehow I could always git more enjoyment out of it by lettin’ it go slow, unless it's clear pizen.’’— Washington Critic. “My dear old friend, how were you able to ac quire such an immense fortune?” “By a very simple method.” “What method is that?” “When I was poor 1 made out that I was rich, and when X w-as rich 1 made out that I was poor.”— Texas Siftings. Several ladies and gentlemen visited Central Park. New York, and they admired the animals very much, and more particularly the kangaroo. “Tnat poor animal is going to die pretty soon,” remarked Snobberly, punching it with his cane. “X don’t see anything the matter with it.” “You don’t? Weil I do. Can't you see that it is on its last legs?”— Texas Siftings. A Terrible Care. -Omaha Girl—Well, if you love each other and he is able to support a wife, why don’t you marry ? New York Girl -Don't speak of it, I beg of you. I can never marry.” “Mercy! What’s the matter?” “At every New York wedding now the bride has to wear her grandmother's pearls, and my grandmother hadn't any.” —Omaha World. The Charlestown Enterprise prints the follow ing under the caption “A Fragment from Fire wather.” If, as ti e head indicates, it is only a fragment, what must the whole business be? Mr. Kelly, Capt. .Michael, Thou who art self-styled “Boy Wonder,” Why not get a giant bean bag. Hang a lantern on each corner And a bat get from some shipyard— Bat as big as any mainmast: Then go seek some lonely pasture With your braves who can't hit east wind, And essay to learn the easy Rudiments of common base ball? Railroad Engineer— You say I am color blind because I call that red zephyr blue, do you? Great Scientist-Yes, sir; you are color blind. “I say that zephyr is blue and you say it’s red, now how- do you know it isn’t blue?” “Anyone with good sight can see that is not blue; it. is red. ” “Did your wife ever send you to the store to match zephyrs” “Y-e-s.” “Did you ever succeed, Mr. Scientist, tell me that?” “N-o.” “There, now.”— Omaha World. An Original Man—The casual visitor had dropped in to talk with the editor, and opened by saying: ”1 wonder why newspaper corn* spondenfs generally select such old, stale and hackneyed names as Veritas, Observer and Citizen ?" “I don’t know. Taxpayer is another.” “Yes, and Vox Populi. “Ynd Justitin.” “Ami Junius.” “And Withers.” “I have brought, you an article that may come in handy on a null day.” “What name did you sign ?” “More Anoa. ’’ —Lincoln Journal. PERSONAL. Bill Nyk's five colons a week in the New York World are supposed to net him I*lso. The Emperor and Empress of Brazil exppet to meet Emperor William at Baden at the end of the month. Bat Shkedy is said to have cleared something like $85,000 by his John L. Sullivan tours. Sheedy has the reputation of being a money maker. (). P. WnioHT, of Baltimore, has been the father of twenty-eight children, twenty-three of whom are living. Tho youngest child is four weeks old. Lord Rutherford, a well-known Scotch nobleman, is running a coach daily between Hamilton and Lanark, and has b ten obtaining much patronage from tourists. W. W. Conn .ran, the venerable philanthropist, has returned to liis Washington home greatly improved in health. lie will be obliged, how ever. to remain closely indoors for several months. The social life at Oak View has been very pleasant of late. Speaker and Mrs. Carlisle have proved themselves delightful guests, and their visit has been one of the pleasantest features of the year to President and Mrs. Cleveland. Mrs. Secretary Whitney paid $390 for the use of a private car on the Boston and Bar Parlor limited express when she went to Mount Desert, buying all the seats in the car at the regular passenger rates. The journey is one of nine hours. Ukohoe William Childs McCarter, son of Robert McCarter, of Newark, N.is one week old a;id is worth SI.OHO. His money is a present from George W. Childs, of Philadelphia, whose niece, Mbs Peterson, married Mr. McCarter about a year ago. Aifricii U. I’aoe. a colored waiter, is a candi date for Le ,-islative Representative on the I Jtbor ticket in Cincinnati At the nominating con vention be received the highest number of votes given for any candidate for Repi-esontative from any of the city districts. Minister Wert's brother, Lord Sackville, would not allow the public to Inspect his his torical palace at Knobs which narrowly esca|>ed tin- flames ten flays ago. Lord Keaconsllold do scribed tin- place at great length in “Lothair,’’ wherein it figures as Vauxe. SHipmuLUIR John Currier, who died ill New burypori, Muss., on Friday night, shaped many a splendid ship in his town, lie began work in that line fifty-five years ago, and since then nearly 100 craft, each of more (ban 1,00(1 ton nage capacity, have slid from his ways. Tall, and built like a young Hercules, Dan Lockwood, of Buffalo, has all the attributes that go to make up a leader of men. Ills face is full and clearly outlined, CB|>al>lc of expressing all the necessary emotions of an orator. His nose is aipiihue slid full at the nostrils, and his mouth is not ooncealod by the small block moustache he wears. Fred II Cariuth. whose humor has made the OaJcotrt Hell quoted all over the ooimtry, tuts bad to suspend its publication lieeause it failed to pay. Outside of Dakota, he says, the paper was appreciated, but Within the Territory tk - great majority of subscribers ordered the paper to he sent to them and their friends, and than refused to |>uy for it. Jcsncn William Atkono , of the United Htales Supreme Court, is fast Hearing the limit of human life In u few month* more tie will have entered upon bis eightieth year, and yet lie is as active uud h-althy m uppearauro ua hum! men who are t a only yearn younger Back in the end of tin* forties In-hiu s Democratic meuiis-r of Congreas from IVimsyJvanui. but In- fell from grace md J ibuti Die Republican party in the dais of liuchatAuu. The Ruling Passion Strong. From the Boston Budget. A youngster of some eight or ten summers wr.s balancing himself on liis stomach on tilt* top of a fence. An apple tree’s branches were barely within his reach, and the hoy was making trannc aud not altogether unsuccessful clutches at some very green promoters of colic and family disturbance, when his paternal parent, issuing in haste and wrathful moral from the door of a neighboring house, grabbed a leg of bis hopeful scion and began pulling thereat with great vigor and redundancy of epithet, and re capitulative admonition, from which we gathered that the young gentleman had been known to attempt similar violations of sauitary laws and the eighth commandment in the not remote past “You wicked boy!" exclaimed the father; “haven’t, I told you time and again to let Mr. A.’s fruit alone? 11l strap you well for this! Come down here this instant!" The boy was taken aback when he first found an at tachment put upon him, but casting a scared glance over his shoulder, and seeing by whom the same was made, culled out: “I say. pap, let up half a minute, will yer? I see a daisy big feller. Just let me git it, and then yer may wollop me all yer vant ter!" We are obliged to say that this pathetic and self-sacrificing ap peul was treated with contempt and contumely The Rebuke She Desired. Front the Boston Budget. Together they walked on a bright moonlight night, Two hearts heating quickly and eyes shining bright. He with a face that was manly and bold, She with her tresses of glimmering gold. Talking and planning what things shall be done When came the day they two shall be one; Calmly the gray moon watches them now, Softly caresses and touches each, brow. "I wonder,” she said, with innocent guile, And looked in his face with a bright, beaming smile, "If ever you’ll really be angry with me Whenever I'm hateful as hateful can be." "Be angry 1 ” no matter whatever you do, 1 never indeed could he angry with you. Although," and he looked in her face flushing red, “I'll scold, if you wish it,” he roguishly said. “I don't like scolding, especially from men; I hope you won't doit." she answered, "but then If ever I ned ft,” she lowered her head, “I liojte that you kindly will checque me in stead." A New Way to Collect Old Debts. From the Boston Budget. A neighboring blacksmith, who, by the way, is also a famous extorter among backwoods congregations, succeeded m borrowing 340 from Paul Smith, the Adirondack hotel keeper. For months and years the loan remained unpaid Every time the blacksmith would anticipate anv tendency toward dunning on the part of his creditor by Baying he ‘’ought to pay the loan, and would pay It soon; ’ but Smith seemed no nearer-reimbursed than before. Finally, in the height of the season, with his house full of guests, lie bethought himself of a scheme for getting square with the blacksmith and turning his exhortations to pecuniary account. He ar ranged quietly with the exhorter for services the following Sabbath in the little chapel near the hotel, agreeing to divide such of the pro ceeds as should remain after the old debt was cancelled. Then Paul took special pains that all his wealthy guests should become interested in the promised effort, announcing the coming event and bespeaking their attendance. The Sabbath came, and the exhorter was made huppy by the presence of a large congregation; while tne collection footed up the handsome total of SBO. Paul got his S4O as well as a profit of s2l additional, and lost no opportu nity of telling his wealthy guests how they were led into a scheme for assisting him in se curing the payment of a had debt. “Pat” Donan and His Bible. From the Pittsburg Commercial Gazette. Col. Pat Donan, the Western orator, who says’ he is going to be the priest to unite the North and South by means of marrying off a lot of pretty girls from Dixies to young men in the North, lias had many narrow escapes. He saved his life once by abstniningfrom a game of jioker and reading his Bible. A few years after the war he was a passenger on a Mississippi steam boat liouud to St. Louis from New Orleans. The Colonel was asked to take a hand in a game of draw poker that was going on in the forward part of the cabin. It was Sunday morning, and a sudden impulse seized him to read something instead of playing poker. He had nothing to read until he thought of a little Bible that a pretty young girl cousin gave him iu New Or leans, exacting a promise from him that he would sooner or later look between its leaves. In order to keep the poker players and the men who watched the game from laughing at him if they saw him reading a Bible, he went to his stateroom, situated about the middle of the cabin. He had licen reading from the Psalms of David about ten minutes when a terrific ex* plosion took place, killing .Aright, ail the poker players and the men in thwfiront part of the cabin. The Colonel was badly shaken up, but he managed to save a half-dozen ladies by fight ing a lot of deck hands and capturing a small boat. He took to the water after pushing off the little boat filled with women, ana was picked up three miles below, nearly frozen to death. She Couldn't Stand It. From the Dakota Bell. “Madam," said a tramp, as he called at the back door of a Sioux Falls residence, “gimme a bite!” “No, sir, can't do it.” “Why not. madam*” “You’re able to work sir—l don’t believe in encouraging vagrancy. Go on away, now, or I shall scream for help.” “All right, madam—don’t holler. But I called on the woman next door last evening, and she gave me a very different answer, madam.” "She was just fool enough to go and give you something, I suppose?" "Oh, no, madam, she didn't give me nothin' neither, but she gave me a much different reason. Good-bye, madam!” "Hold on just a minute. What did she say?” “She come to the door all dressed in anew yallerdress.au' seemed very much excited, madam, and whfn she opens the door I look in and sees a man in there sittin’ in a cheer, madam.” "Mercy, has it come to this with her! I wouldn't hardly believe it. Here, don’t go away-—take this, my good man.” "Thankee, madam: Baker's bread!' Yes, I geno’ally prefers it to ho'made bread, 'specially where they ain’t none too good cooks. The but ter is ies’ a little tainted, madam. Ha n't got no jell to put on it. l'spnse. Ob, you have; nil right; jell improves it powe'fuily. No, thankee, I don't keer bout any fruit cake -better throw it in the slop pan. where the children won't get it, madam. Any pie? Ah, yes, correct; that cream pie is good but this apple rather lays over it. I'll put this cold chicken in my p icket. That'll do, madam; this is ’bout all I can carry.” ■ But what w; a it that woman ■ aid to you?" "Why, she seemed excited like, 'sif she was goin’ some place, au’ she says, Please go ’way, sir. we hftin't got nothing in the house to eat "A pretty excuse to get you away! But that strange man " "He proved to lie her husband, madam. He come out an kicked me t hrough the top of a shade tree an' then chased me two blocks! He's nl/.en on tramps, madam! Good by- put ies’ a little more cream in yer rie crust au' it'll im prove it!" The Ministerial Stranger. From the Dakota Bell. It was on a Northern Pacific train the other day. A quartette of travelling meu, two from Chicago art 1 two from St. Paul, started a little game of poker. Just ns one of them finished dealing the tirst time he happened to notice that a man toward the other end of the ear was watching them with a pained expression. He was tall and very solemn looking, was dressed in faultless black with a long-tailed coat, a high hat, snowy white collar amt wore a fine black | silk cord around his neck connecting with liis watch. Evidently llie man was a minister. "1 guess we hadn't better play while he is on,” said the dealer. "Ho does looked pained about it," said an other. "I don't think there is anything wrong in card playing, said one of the Chicago men, "hut I never bk.‘ to play when it offends anyone else. I have respect for every man's feelings on any subject.” "We might play a simple game of euchre,” said one of the Bt. Paul men. "Tliat wouldn't be any better,” said the other Chicago mun, “he wouldn't know the differ ence.” “That's so. Well, let's play a little while and keep quiet and perhaps he won't care much about ft." \ They played some time in silence but could not help uoticing I bat the good man occasion ally glanced over the dark -covered bool, be was reading with a sad, melancholy expression. After a while he laid down his Imok and tlirv •’> liici Doming toward theta They threw down i heir hands and one of them began to gather up the cards "Getitl.•men.' said the tail uiau, "what's the gauic}” "We. we were playing a little game of poker, but we arc going to stop ' "Tliat is right, ' said the tali mun as be sat down on tbr anti of a dialr. gathered up the earls, run rapidly Ihrisii h Ilium and selected three Cards, "Pokrtr is s poor game You see those three cards, now 1 shuffle them up. so I brow I hem ar ound, mi. Now i'll led any one of you |3O that you uau't pick up the lack of diamond*! ” ITEMS OF INTEREST. 1 Pi.xti.vcm hag been discovered near Cli> n Mo. Missionaries have, in the last eight vU formed and reduced to writing over fortyv,. gua tea. A French decollette fashion— the back ofle d:e;s being open almost to the waist—is in gfc favor, especially among the American girls! Homburg. London has a great problem. It has 2,600,4 people unable to get into a place of worshj In Central London, with 2.000,000, there is on! accommodations for 600,000. According to parliamentary return, tie Brifj ish national debt decreased $29,199,518 during the last financial year, and $490,81;),513in the lad thirty voars. The present amount is £736,- 278,688, or $3,582,732,095. Sunflowers are used in Wyoming Teritory for fuel. The stalks when dry are as had as maplewood and make a hot fire, and the eeri heads, with the seeds in, are said to burnbtter than the best bard coal. An acre of sunfltvers will furnish fuel for one stove for a year. The attendance at Chatauqua the pnsent season has taxed the accommodations tethe utmost capacity, aud larger quarters will iwe to be provided for the growing crowds wjeli repair to the summer city by the beautiful Ice. Chautauqua is now unquestionably a well-esib lished institution. ’ 1 A San Antonio (Tex.) woman publishes Ve following card in a local paper: T want to public to distinctly understand that my husbai is no negro. My mother was a creole Freno woman and my father a Cherokee Indian, an my husband's mother was a Comanche ludiat and his father a German.” A 10-inch lizard was found in the mail from England at the New York post office on Tues day. It was directed to a place in Indiana. The little saurian had crossed the ocean in a tightly closed cigar box, but became as lively as could he when air was given him. Lizards are not mailable, so the ]>ersou to whom it is addressed has been notified of its detention. While crabbing on Sunday, in Staten Island Sound, Thomas Kilbride hooked a crab which gave him some trouble to get it into the boat. When he hauled it iu the head of a woman was found attached to the crab. The young man was horrified at the sight aßd pulled rapidly for shore. The bead was identified as that of Min nie Lowther, who was drowned in November. A DISI'ATCH to the New Orleans Pir.aifu.ne from Meridian, Miss., says that farmers from the drought-stricken regions of Illinois are propos ing to ti-ansport their hogs to Mississippi, where oorn can bo found to feed them. ‘’Fortunate ly," says the Picayune , “the com crop in mid dle Mississippi is very large and can he profita bly utilized in feeding the Illinois porkers, but it will lie anew thing in the commercial history of the American hog to fatten him on Southern corn. We await with interest the next move in the panrama of Southern development.” Four prominent members of the German East African Society recently fell victims to the deadly Congo fever. Two of them, the architect Benedict Simmerer and the customs official Schoneberg, were taken ill only a few days after their arrival at Dar-es-Salam. The government architect Wolff, who also died at that station, had arrived at Zanzibar on June 15. His mission was to superintend the con struction of railrocds in East Africa, for which he had made plans years ago. The fourth vic tim was the agriculturist Hans Rechenberg. A of a fire-proof paint was made at Rockaway Beach on Tuesday. On the line of the New York and Rockaway Beach railroad is a trestle 4*4 miles in length. At the Hummel's Station end some 200 feet had been painted with the fire-proof paint, anil to thoroughly test the efficiency of the mixture J. E. Winslow, Super intendent of Construction, caused the fire-box of an engine to be dumped on the trestle. Live coals covered the ties and lodged on the chords of the bridge and settled in between the tim bers. The burning coals grew dull and finally cooled without burning the wood work. A Vienna journalist, who lately visited Heid elburg, humorously describes the “dissected physiognomies” of the University students. He says he was sometimes seized with a sudden fear, on watching one of these scarred veterans of a hundred battle-fields at the table d'hote, that the vigorous exertion of chevying might, cause oil'- of the seams to unravel and the whole countenance to fall asunder. An old student who presided at the table looked as if the cuts across his face had been too much for hand sewing. and had kept a sewing-machine busy day and night. His left ear, he thought, had defied all attempts at stitching, and was merely fastened to the scalp with a safety-pin. Of audiences, a noted theatrical manager says: “I find in my travels that there is quite a difference not only in their tastes but in their way of manifesting them. In San Francisco the audiences resemble those in New York very much. There is a chilliness in the beginning when anew piav is presented, but if it pleases the audience they give full vent to their reelings and become heartily demonstrative. In Boston and Philadelphia the audiences are more like the English. They are warmer and more de monstrative, and show their enjoyment more. If the play is particularly light Chicago receives it very heartily, but the people there are not so demonstrative as in the other cities, though they thoroughly appreciate a good thing when they see it. Dr. James Ouvf.r says in the Lancet: “Bees and ants teach us that a life of ease and idleness is that most favorable for reproduction, w’hile a life of great activity predisposes to barrenness. That race which is physically as well as mentally idle, and which is at the same time well fed, is likely to prove more fertile than another race living under directly opposite con ditions. Kaffir women, who live chiefly upon flesh and milk, are most prolific, and give birth almost as frequently to twins as to single child ren. Taking ail the facts into consideration, there can tie no doubt that the higher educa tion of women is detrimental to the race, tend ing as it inevitably must to engender a state of sterility, or, what is worse, to produce a race with marked evidences of physical and mental enfeeblement." Rev. J. G. Wood says, in Ijongman's Maga zine: “No one would have thought, on placing an oyster and a five finger side by side, that the star-fish is a relentless foe to the oyster. Those who can remember thoir first fruitless en deavors to open an oyster may naturally won der how the star fish can achieve such a feat. As I have repeatedly seen, it proceeds ns fol lows: Clasping the oyster in its rays, it brings its mouth opposite the hinge. From the mouth it p airs a secretion which paralyzes the hinge muscle, and causes the shells to'open. It can not. like a dog-whelk, extract its prey and put it into its stomach, so it reverses the process, and puts its stomach into, or rather over, the oyster, protruding the stomach from its mouth, surrounding the oyster with its coats, digesting it. and then withdrawing the stomach into its body. The wildest fancy of Oriental legends never equaled in grotesque imagination this perfectly true history of the oyster and the starfish." M. Maxime Du Camp, in his book about the Paris Mont-de-Piete, relates the story of a pawned umbrella which was annually “re newed" for forty-seven successive years. The director of the State |>awnbrokmg establishment at Brussels seems to have many similar ex periences. For more than twenty years he has had in his keeping the diamonds atid other jewelry of a once famous prima donna who has somehow fallen into povertv. F.very year the interest is punctually paid, hut the trinkets have not once been taken out of pawn. More than once large sums have been lent by the Brussels Jlont-de-Piete upon the regalia of im pecuniouß German princes. The establishment possesses a choice assortment of barrel-organs. Despite the deposit of crown diamonds and singers' jewels, the average of the sums ad vanced seems to he very small: for last year no more than £213,000 was lent, upon over 300,000 pledges. Edward Horn, an employe of a Detroit ferry company and the saver of sixty-four lives, has related a few r of the characteristics of a drowning |>enion; “1 believe I can tell Just by the clutch how many times a drowning person hie been down. Tile first trip down they go for you with a firm decided clutch that means they still know what they are about. The second im mersion can ,"* a shake, uncertain grip, which ran lie easily broken, if you so choose. It is llu* last time down that tic grasp becomes a con vulsive, bewildered one, and but few swimmers can save a person after the unfortunate man lias descended for the third time Almost In. variably tbs drowning man on bis Dual Journey below the water will arise his tip - server liv tlm legs It w<*ma lo be a law of nu tuer and one 1 cannot in-count for It would Isi easier to save a wlmUi river full of men than one drowning woman. TV< odd I*-*#,ire of the lilt lor s struggle In the wntet in that ale will mdse your bauds 1/ eh* coo ir*i bold of one or both of Lbnni. A woman will drown quicker ilia a j Qian. Hhe op* ns her mouth from the Uti.e she I first strikes the water, and nevrr eh**.** It, ami au lores her seincii more easily, Yes I raw one I person die of Strangulation while we wen*under wilier together Ills eyes were wonderfully fascinating as he stared iielptesvfv st me You inai not believe |t, but they shorn- hhe sew bails trf lW" BAKING POWDER. WE PURE 0? puce’s CREAM Used by the United States Government. En dorsed by the heads of the Great Universities as the Strongest, Purest and most Healthful. Dr. Price’s the only Baking Powder that does not contain Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Sold only iu lans. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO. NEW YORK. CHICAGO. ST. LOUTS. DRY GOODS, ETC. Exceptional Reductions IN Sunnier Goods —AT Man t Dowier’s, 6UCCEISOR3 TO B. F. McKenna & Cos., 137 BROIGtIiON STREET. FIGURED BATISTE CLOTHS. W! will close out theremainder of our stock of these fine good!, formerly sold at 18c. a yard, now reduced to SLjc. 85 pieces Figured Lawns, 33 inches wide, regu lar price 12)j)C. a yard; jow H%c. 75 pieces Figured Lawns, choice styles, at 50 pieces Wide Widlh Lawns, regular prioa 10c. a yard; now 6)4c. One lot Crinkled Seersuckers, regula rio. 15c. and 17c. a yard; nog 12)^c. One lot of Dress G oghams, choice regular price a yard; now 10c. 36 Imported Marseilles Quilts, slight ly soiled, formerly sold at $3. We will close the lot out at $1 85 each. Hosiery 'and Underwear. 100 dozen Unbleached Bltck 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 Sc. to 50c. We will close the lot out at 17c. a pair. 50 dozen Ladles' Gauze Undervesta, regular prices 25c. and 35c.; nOTV 19c. each. 35 dozen Ladies' extra fine quality Gauze Un dervesta, regular prices 50c., 65c., 75c. and 85c. We will offer the lot at the extraordinary i price of 47c. each. Onr SI Unlanndricd Shirts Reduced to 90c. 75 dozen Gentlemen’s Unlaundried Shirts, re inforced back and bosoms, the beet $1 Shirt manufactured. In order to reduce our large stock we will offer them at 90c. each. ORPHAN & DOONER. BAKER’S COCOA. GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 187& 4| t BAKER'S ILJmffiCocoa. Warranted absolutely pure Cocoa, from which the e:\ce# *of ISk Oil ha* b eon removed. IthaflMr** ISf /} MVjJv times the strength of CocoaV.lxcd tjjJ j t Ift with Starch, Arrowroot or sVjar, AH ■ 11 ,1 Jjla auc * * 9 therefore far moreeconyn fj’l i * Ini * costing less than onecenb a ffjd . | I*) It deiicioua, nourishing Uifi i I jjj B|i strengthening, easily digested, jS£j | j I /| 111 land admirably adapted for mval \ / ' i as well as for persons In health. Sold bjr Grocers everywhere* V. BAKER & CO., Dorciip.ster, Mass, MEDICAL. - rhd„p.piu.. (r front excuss of work of inintl oi tody, drink or exposure iu Malarial Eegions, rill find Tuft's Pills the most geni it Ttiorntireevvr offered the sufferiui iivuiid. Try Them Fairly. A vigorous body, pare blood, stroni icn us mid a cheerful mlud will result SOLD EVERYWHERE. mm PILLS M^wSmtmoruu. Ij by 10.000 Awn cun * Ur■>!<•* TO ALL • THIH, * Ltm BsruNDir.. rtn t money on WoimiM NrMTMVMR TUY THlft KKMKDY YIRKT.ond tiu wilt t>4 no other AttSoCPTEI.Y INFALLIBLE, •ruuulera, Rtn'.ed, 4 cents. WILCOX SPECIFIC CO , PhU>d**bU. P*. 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