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4 CfrclHorningßftos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER l‘>, ISS7. Registered at the Post Office in SuuammA. The Morntxo News is published every hay in' Jhe year, and is served to subscribers in the city, S’newsdealers and carriers, on their own ar count at 23 cents a week, $1 t)a month, <X> for six months ami $lO 00 for one year. The Morm.no News, by mail, one month, J] 00: throe months, 00; six months, $0 00; one rear. $ 10 00. The Morn-iso News, he mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue!, three months, 2 00; six months. ?! 00 one year, ft 00. The Mormnc. News. Tri-Weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Thurs days and Saturdays, tkr** months, 51 six months. $2 50; one year. s•> 00. The Svnday News, by mail, one year. w. The Weekly News, by mail, one year. $1 Subscriptions parable in advance Remit by postal order, cheek or registered letter, t'ur renev sent bv mail at risk of senders. This paper is kept on file and ad vert lsftif rates may be ascertained at the office of the Amen can News|>a])er Publisliei's' Association, 104 Temple Court, New York City. letters nn<) telegrams should t>o addressed “Morning Nrws. Savannah, Ca.” Advertising rates made known on nnnlieatm INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings -Directors Metropolitan Savings and Loan Cos. Special Notices— The Great Southern Por trait Company; A Card, S. K. Mayers; As to Crew of British Steamship Marion. Cheap Counts Advertisements-Help Want ed ; For Rent; For Sale; Boarding: Miscellaneous. Steamship Ocean Steamship Cos. Acction Sales Horses. Wagon and Harness, by J. McLaughlin* Son; Klegant Costly Furni ture. Truck Farm, by I. D Laßoehe’s Sons. Acocsta Melons— T. P. Bond * Cos A Boston preacher complains that the Federal constitution has no religion in it. Many people think that one of its greatest merits. Lotta has made her apjicarance in a now play, “Pawn Ticket No. 210.’' It is said to afford numerous opportunities for the actress’ famous and fascinating kicks, and, of course, was well received. The practical utility of dynamite guns is to be tested in a few days. Would it not have iSoen a very good idea to have had such a test before building a $500,000 ship to be armed exclusively with them f Dr. Charles J. Simmons, who attended Samuel J. Tilden in his last illness, and for some time before, has put in a bill against the estate for $143,000, for medical services. One would think he considered himself the old man’s heir. That firms of “very high credit” find it difficult to discount their notes at. 12 per cent, in Now York shows that the piling up of millions in the treasury is threatening the busings prosjierity of the country. The tariff must be reduced. Murat Halstead, who was one of the Re publican leaden? who participated in the conferences at Hotnburg, is at home again. When interviewed by a New York reporter be displayed a painful degree of ignorance •didn’t know anything: but, perhaps, the course of his paper, Commer cial Gazette, will soon indicate what was agreed upon. The young Chicago ruffian who. to prove his skillful marksmanship, beta companion that lie could hit a woman who was seated in a moving wagon, and killed her with the first shot from Ills Winchester rifle, ought to be hung without any unnecessary delay. But promptitude is not one of the charac teristics of Illinois justice, as tho experience M the Anarchists has proved. For use in its fight against the Irish leaders, the London Timex is said to be offering large prices for letters which they may have written to friends in this country. It published some time since the fac simile •fa letter said to have been written by Par fteli, and which Mr. Parnell said was a forgery. More of the same sort can doubt less be manufactured. The Times is en gaged in a very small business. It is said the excitement caused in Mani toba by the Dominion government's at tempts to prevent the building of the Red river railroad does not lessen, anil that the people are preparing to resist by force any Interference with the work. Their attitude is very like rebellion, and may cause Cann da a great deal of trouble. It may have an influence in liberalizing the trade regula tions between this country and Canada. Mr. James Bartley, of Amsterdam, N. Y., publishes a newspaper which advocates Henry George's theories and supports him for President. Mr. Bartley also carries on the business of reai estate agent, and to induce the sale of some of the land adver tised states that it will in the future becomo business property. He evidently does not think government confiscation of land iR near enough in the future to hurt his busi ness. Mr. Benet, who has lately been engaged in a controversy with Rev. Dr. Hawthorne, of Atlanta, growing out of a charge made by him that the latter had been guilty of plagiarism, was in Atlanta for a few hours Tuesday, and though a stranger, received an ovation. The description of him, and his high qualities given by a local pai>er, might almost be called extravagant. This is clear fy a case in which Mr. Benet is loved for the enemies he has made. Tammany and the County Democracy threaten to allow Irving Hall no voice in the nomination of Democratic candidates for the numerous offices which will soon need refilling in New York. If they carry out their threat they will make it oven more difficult than it now promises to lie to elect the candidates nominated. While politics in that State are in such a chaotic condition as at present Democrats cannot afford to fight each other. Our esteemed contemporary, the Jack sonville Timr.s-Union, has a way of crawl ing out of an unplna.su.tit position instead of getting out of it in a manly fashion, although it brags of its truth-telling, square acting record. A few days ago it rnnilit the unqualified statement that Savannah's busi ness was $4.000,000 less last year than it was the year before last. The Morning News took rstcasion to draw its attention to its mistake. It replied by saying it relied upon ita memory, and by insinuating that the Mohmkii News has a reputation for feme riding. What a conclusive reply! If our esteemed contemporary will get astride the truth once in awhile, instead of riding its apparently fagged-out and unreliable mem ory no continuously, It mav succeed In re covering, partially at least, the place it s* held in Ua, oonlldence of the juvqilo of tQorida. The Co-Education Issue. Tho substitute for tho Glenn bill, which the Senate Committee on Education has re ported will, in all probability, meet with very little, if any, opposition in either branch of tho Legislature. The Glenn bill bad only two votes against it in the House, ! and the Senate, doubtless, would have passed it if it had been offered an opportunity to ! vote upon it. The substitute will accomplish the saino object that it was proposed to accomplish by means of the Glenn bill, and wdl, per haps, be less criticized outside of the State. There is not much reason to doubt, how ever, that those of the Republican papers that are always seeking opportunities to create a sentiment unfavorable to the South, for political purposes,will make it the excuse for misrepresenting the South era people. Their utterances, however, should not influence the course of the legis lature. The people of the State, and of the entire South, approve of the purpose of the Glenn bill, which is to prevent the educa tion of white and colored children in the same schools. The penalty for violating its provisions may be rather harsh,but it should not be forgotten that if it should become a law, it would not be violated ignorantly, nor by ignorant i>ersons. If violated at all it would be by those who were well in formed, and determined to defy public sen timent. However, it is probable that the substi tute will lie adopted in the place of the original bill, anil there will he no complaint if it is, as there is no desire to send to the chain gang those who insist upon teaching mixed schools. The only reason why the Glenn bill, or its substitute, is favored is to prevont the establishment of mixed schools, and the substitute will answer about as well for that purpose as the original bill. Some of the Northern journals, in dis cussing race questions, so far as they relate to the South, aim only to make party capital. Of course there is no use in telling them that they haven’t taken the trouble to get all the facts that are necessary to form an intelligent opinion They have no use for facts. What they want are opportu nities for partisan work. While tie discussion of the Glenn bill was going on a few weeks ago, they were asked to explain the numerous instances of discrimination against the colored people at the North to which their attention was called, but they made no response. No better evidonce was needed that they had a partisan purpose in view, and that they did not intend to con duct the discussion, which they had started, in a spirit of fairness. There are some Northern journals which are sincere in their condemnation of the Glenn bill, but they appear to labor under the impression that the condition of affairs at the South, so far as the races are con cerned, is alxiut the same as it is at tho North. They cannot appreciate, apparently, how great the problem is which is presented by the existence in every community of two distinct races, nearly equal in numbers, one ticing far below the other in intelligence, and which the Southern people are endeav oring to solve. If they could see the situa tion just as it is it is probable that they would criticise and condemn some of the acts of the Southern people which are con nected with this problem much less fi-eely. Legislation like that proposed in the Gleun bill, or its substitute, is absolutely necessary for the preservation of the public school system, and no one will deny that that system is essential to the improvement of the black, as well as of the white people. There are people who favor mixed schools, and they seek every opportunity to estab lish them. The establishment of such schools means the destruction of our public school system. Shall a few fanatics be per mitted to destroy that system? Is it not better to preserve the system that the chil dren of both races may be educated than that a few ill-balanced people shall have the satisfaction of carrying out their ideas? If the Legislature is wise it will do what its common sense tells it is the proper thing to do to prevent mixed schools. It will not permit itself to lie halted by the long-haired cranks of Boston. No Hope for the Bomb Throwers. The condemned Chicago Anarchists must hang. The judgment of the court which condemned them was affirmed by the Su preme Court yesterday, and the tragic event is fixed for Nov. 11. While there is no desire for anybody’s blood in this country, the decision of tho Illinois Supreme Court will give general satisfaction. There is no doubt that the condemed Anarchists are assassins. The proof that they assassinated the police with bombs and pistols at the Havmnrket meet ing in Chicago, a year ago last May, was overwhelming. They had a good jury ami a fair trial, uud it is right that they should suffer the penalty of their crime. Extraordinary efforts wore made to clear them at their trial, and it is prol>able that attempts will now be made to induce the Governor to pardon them. The Gov ernor, however, will make a grave mistake if he yields to any pressure in their behalf. If they were to escape the gallows now the Anarchists in all parts of the country would become more aggressive than ever, and would use dynamite with increasing frequency to assist them in their efforts to overturn tho existing order of things. Any leniency would be interpreted by them- to mean that those intrusted with tho administration and execution of the laws were afraid of them, and emboldened by this belief they would assume such a hostile attitude that, in all probability, other lives would have to le sacrificed to uphold the laws. Only the other day in New York, Anarchist Most, in making application for naturalization papers, defiantly asserted that he wouldn't obey the laws unless ho thought they were good ones, and that he would resist the authorities in trying to enforce them. Of course he did not gel his naturalization papers, but his assert ion t.but he would use force to resist laws which did not suit him indicated the temper and purpose of all the Anarchists. The only way to deal with them is to make them understand they must obey the laws or take the con sequences. There is not a word to be said in favor of the bomb throwers at Chicago, who are waiting for the hangman to do his duty. _____ The Boston Herald quotes n Republican member of the last Congress as saying that Mr. Carlisle was ao good a Kpoaker that the Republicans should all vote fur him. Hut they will not do anything of the kind. They would rather support the most unfit man of the Randall contingeni, should he l put up | in oppuoltion to Carlisle. The North Atlantic rtquadron will 1> on exhibition at the Philadelphia celebration, ! The ship* will illustrate the state of naval i arclutevluru Grant f live year* ago. THE MORNING NEWS; THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1887. The Constitution's Centenary. Today, in Philadelphia, begins the cele bration of the one hundredth anniversary of the adoption of the Federal Constitution, an event scarcely second in imjiortarico to that celebrated eleven years ago, in the saino city, the Declaration of Independence. The celebration will be a fitting one. The President and the Governors of many of tlie States will be present, the latter attend ed hv numerous representative citizens. A trades procession, for which preparations have been in progress for weeks, will illus trate in an impressive way the changes anil improvements of a hundred years in the industrial methods of the country. To morrow, the principal day of the celebra tion, there will be a parade of perhaps the largest body of soldiers seen together in this country since the war, reviewed by the President. In Independence Square the for mal celebration will take place. A brief address by the President will be followed by the memorial oration of Justice Miller, of tho United States Supreme Court, and the recitation of anew national hymn, com posed by F. Marion Crawford. The celebration will be continued through Saturday, and the time not taken up by the exercises mentioned will be devoted to en tertainments of various kinds. Philadel phia is a hospitable city, and is determined that her thousands of visitors shall be well entertained. Tho celebration will no doubt interest anil instruct the thousands who will be present and participate, but its effect on the millions wlio will not be present is the matter of chief importance. The American constitu tion. which the leading English statesman lias declared to be tho greatest work ever struck off at one heat by the human mind, which every citizen looks upon as the foundation law upon which nil other laws of the country rest, the bond of union anil the shield of local rights, is yet to a vast majority of citizens a thing unknown. They reverence it and lielieve in its greatness, because their fathers did, but hardly one in a score has even read it. In many private libraries, otherwise well stored, a copy of it cannot be found. If this celebration shall have a tendency to cure this ignorance of the fundamental law by arousing interest in it, then it will have done a good work. The people of the country have good cause to celebrate its adoption. It is true that it was a compromise which left open to a double interpretation the most important point which could be raised under its pro visions, the extent of a State’s rights, but had it been more definite it probably would have failed of adoption. So the wisdom of its framers was not at fault, and they could but leave to time the settlement of a question not then ripe. In every other respect the Constitution has proved equal to the demands upon it. It has made possible a strong government, which is yet thoroughly responsive to the needs of the people, while leaving to States the control of local affairs. Postal Service Irregularities. There still seems to be ground for complaining of the postal service in this section. It has some defects which should be remedied at once. Very lately there was a remarkable delay in delivering at its destination a registered letter mailed at the post office In this city, and addressed to a party in Mobile. It is probable that the delay will cause a loss of several hundred dollars to the party in this city who mailed it. As far as can be learned there was ample time for its delivery, but it was not sent by the right route. It was mailed Aug. 11, and was delivered Aug. 17. It was neces sary that it should be delivered to the party to whom it was addressed on Aug. 15, as that was the last day for filing claims in a pending case. The attention of the superintendent of the railway mail service was called to the delay in connection with this letter, and he replied that tho fault was with the Savan nah post office—that the letter had been missent. It was put in the through pouch for Macon, and from Macon was sent to Atlanta, at which place it arrived on a Sat urday night. There being no registered letter business done on Sunday the letter re mained in Atlanta until Monday. It should have been put in the through pouch for Atlanta, and then the delay of one day at Macon and two at Atlanta would not have occurred. It is somewhat remarkable that the post office regulations do not always permit the sending of registered letters by the most di rect route. A registered letter mailed here at 7coti in the morning would reach Mobile at 3:15 on the afternoon of the following day by the Savannah, Florida and Western railway and its connections. The post office regulations should bo amended. This country is getting to bo too big to be hampered by rules and regulations the purpose of which seem to be, how not to do it. Why should a registered letter be three or four days go'ng from this city to Mobile when it can be sent in less than a day and a half ? If registered letters are sent to their destinations in this locality by the longest routes is it not probable that the same thing is done in some other localities t The Postmaster General should have this registered letter business looked into, ami improved where improvements are found to bo necessary. Moving: In the Right Direction. The purchase of the Pritchard rice planta tion by the county is a very important one. It will not only ufford the county a poor farm, and thus lessen the expense/, of the county for charity, but it will give the county authorities an opportunity to carry out their system of drainage—an opportu nity they have been seeking for a long time. The draining that has already been done has greatly improved the health of the county, and especially of this city, and that which this purchase will enable the county authorities to do will still further improve it. Tile county authorities linve requested a conference with tho city authorities with the view of securing joint action in deepen ing Musgrove creek, in order to drain tho Minis swamp, and tho lowlands just beyond the southwestern suburbs of the city. Tho opening of Harmon sw amp canal lias drained the country along the Whit** Bluff road, south of the four mile post, and west ward toward the Huvaimnli, Florida and Western railway track of an immense amount of water. The prospect of the improved healthful ness of the county, which is certain to fol low the carrying out of these projected drainage schemes, is certainly very gratify ing. _ The Western Union office In New York is said to Is* making room for a large iminl r of new wire**. This is further evidence that the Baltimore and Ohio telegraph system iuu Locu ul.u; bod by Gould* great ovluyua. CUHRENT COMMENT. Mr. Rand.all and the Republicans. Fran the Jitmton Herald (Ind.) Randall is sent to Congress by the Uepubli. cans, anil is maintained there, simply liecause their purposes are better served by having him act as a block in the way of Democratic pro gress than they would be by having a Republi can elected in his place. The Democratic is the Workingman's Party. Pram the New York Star (Dem.) Tlie real purpose which underlies and sup ports trades unionism and Knights of Labor (which is not State Socialism i is to compel em ployers, and especially the factory lords, the mining lords, the iron ore lords, who are en riched by protective taxes, to yield to working men from the gross product of those indus tries the maximum which the business will justify, rather than a minimum which will keep the workingmen from starvation. In that purpose and that struggle the sympathies of the Democratic party should be. and are, with the workingmen. The Poor George and McGlynn Work For. Prom the Philadelphia Inquirer (Rep). One cannot gather figs where the thistles grow, neither should one expect the Georges and McGlyiuis to neglect their ow n interests for those of other people. As they understand it they themselves are the poor; they ore to lie dally fed. clothed and housed. It is for that that they are the sort of philanthropists they are. They enter upon their great work of abol ishing poverty from the face of the eartli by getting riches for themselves -from the poor. It is not a good way to begin, but it is the com mon way for all such self styled social re formers. BRIGHT BITS. The World shows that it is like its great namesake in its ability to revolve. Its present attitude toward the President is a complete revolution.— Life. “This is a sad and bitter world,” remarked a gentleman of Irish extraction. “We never strew flowers on a man’s grave until after he is dead.” Washington Hatchet. In tiie honeymoon -She (beaming)—What first attracted you, dear? What agreeable charac teristic did 1 possess to place me above all others in your sight anil estimation? Ponders—H'm. Oh, darling, I give it up. C’n'ious thing, dear -1 never conld guess wid dles'—London Punch. Omaha Dame (reading)—The King has just be gun a suit for divorce against bis wife. Chicago Dame—l didn't hear the first part. What king! The King of the Society Islands. O, I often wondered why they were called So ciety Islands. - Omaha World. Miss Qciller -Of course, while I am herein Chicago I must dress as the Chicagoans do, but these hats are simply outrageous. Madame Zemoud'*—Ah Mam'syl. You don't know ze genius zat I haffio bring to get ze—vat yon call ze balanze—between ze head and ze foot, here in Chicago.— Tid-Bits “What’s your husband doing now “He’s a speculator." “Indeed! What in ?” “Oh, things in general. He just sits around and puts in his time speculating about the pub lic debt and the distance of the sun, and I don’t know what all" Washington Critic. Bartender (to customer) —You are putting water in your whisky, sir. I thought you al ways drank it straight ? Customer (hastily)—Why. so I do. I forgot mvseif for the moment. Bartender—That's what I thought Well, how is the milk business, Mr. Yelloh?— New York Sun. Charley (aged S) to hiR sister Fannie's new beau—Say, Mr. Sophtly, Fannie said last night that you were not such a fool as you looked. Billy (aged 7) —Why, Charley, she didn’t say anything of the sort. Mr. Sophtly I should imagine not, Billy, what did she say ? Billy—She said you didn’t look as great a fool as you wer e.-Tid-Bits. Johnny—Needn’t think you’re so smart. We’ve got a wet cellar, and the doctor comes every day. Billy—That's nothin'; we’ve got a swill barrel at the back door that’s brought down all the rents in the block. Johnny- My pap’s a policeman and can arrest yonr'n. Billy—Ho,that's nothin’, neither; myd&d could buy him off for a cigar, an’ report him an’ git him fired— Omaha Herald A 3-year-old miss on the east side is very fond of the head of a neighboring family who has been abseut for three weeks past oh a trip up the lakes. Last evening while at his home she remarked: “lam just mail at papa . He hasn't written to me once.” “What of that ?” remarked his wife. “He has not even written to me.” “Well,” added Miss Precocity, “that’s just like these men; as soon as they get away they cease to think of ns.”— Buffalo Courier. “I don’t see why your friend Miss Smith re ferred to my moustache as ‘down,’ Maude,” said young Sissy to his pretty cousin. “There is nothing of the‘down’about it; it quite bris ties I have to shave twice a week. I assure you,” “I know it bristles. Charley." returned the girl, knitting her brows, “although not very fiercely, and I am as much perplexed as you are to understand why Clara should speak of it as down. (Sudden happy thought). Perhaps, Charley, its because it grows on a—a goose.”— New York Sun. PERSONAL. Mark Twain will be 53 years of age in Novem ber. Joy Wo is the contradictory name of a San Francisco Chinm^m. Henry Trvino advocates government super vision of popular entertainments. Lady Coi.in Campbell is earning pin money by writing for the Isvndon Saturday Rrine’r. Miss Gwynne, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt's sister has lust broken her engagement with Mr. Beatty at Xarragansett. Gen. G. W. Cvstis Lee is improving, and hopes to be able soon to resume his duties as President of the Washington and Lee Univer sity. Gen. Greely, Chief of the Signal Service, lias gone to Europe for two months. Now is the time for Wiggins to get in his fine cyclonic work. Tony Hart, the New York actor and manag er. has lasi iiis fortune since leaving Mr. Ed ward Harrlgati. He Is now seriously ill with a throat affection, the result of applying ‘'make up paints' for theatrical work. The Republicans of Roanoke. Va., have nomi nated for the State Senate C<>i. I>. F. Houston. He is a native of Pennsylvania, and ten years ago was the Republican candidate for Congress in the district so long represented by Samuel J. Randall. Now for the oldest postmaster. This time his name is Roswell Beardsley, and be licks postage stamps nt North Lansing. N. Y, He was elevated to the position of P. At. June 3K, 1838.and tie ha held it ever since under his original commission nearly sixty years. Prop. Dana, of Vale College, reached San Francisco last week from Hawaii, where he spelt* one week studying the crater ef Kilaitea. lie tffld examined the volcano forty-seven years ago. and found, on his recent visit, that it had not aged as much as lie had in the Intervening years. Mary Anderson opened her season at the Ly ceum Theatre, London, on Saturday night with an elaborate production of "A Winter's Tal*-.” in which she plays both "llermione and Pordi tn.' The cable reports say more ub >ut the sumptuous costume* than about the perform ance, which appears, however, to have .been a success. Secretary Endicott is very fond of having his picture taken. A photographer says that Mr. Endicott is one of the best oustouters among public men that he has ever known. Mr. Endl eott. It is said, orders a dozen or more pictures every two or three weeks. He is a good sub ject for thccumcru. lie |s*ses In a dignified and striking manner, and looks every inch a de scendant from Muyftower stock. Gen. Berdan, who is known in army circles as the "General of Sharpshooters," is one of the pipular clut) men in Washington Just at pres out In* is receiving congratulations upon the fact that his son In-law. F. Marlon Crawford, the novelist, has lieen the successful competitor for the position of poet laureate at the constitu tional celt ;,r.it i.,u at Philadelphia. Mr, Craw ford's poem will Is* rend from the plat form at the public exercises on 8 *pt. 17. Mr. Crawford is now at Ills home in Sorrento, Italy. The Confederate General, Longwtreet, intro duced Gen. Grant to Miss Julia I tent, who is now Gen Grant's widow Is>ngstroot s mother was a I’etit tin graduating from the Mlllltary Acad eII IV loiivsli* et was assigned to a command, amt was stationed at Jefferson Itarraeks. lielow SI. Is,ills While there he visit***! hls relatives, the Dents, on the Gravoi i road, and w hen Grant was assigned to the same regiment with Is ug street, tie* latter aismuiiMinicd him on hls first VUII lo lae lient place, and prreeuted "tie* little muii with the big epaulettes," us Grunt won aometlnwa called in ihuaa dura, tu his future wifu. THE TODDY PALM. A Western Statesman Expresses His Admiration for the Plant. From the Vein York Sim. “When I was down in Washington the other day,” remarked a Western politician at the St. James, “they showed me a wonderful Indian palm at the botanical gardens. They call it the caryota ureus, and it cuts a bigger figure in the world as an intoxicant than all the distilleries of the United States. Just in proportion as the followers of Brahma aud Buddha in India are far more numerous than the Christian popula tion of the United States, in the same propor tion does that palm tree surpass all our appli ances for making an intoxicant. It is a beauti ful tree, with a trunk something over a foot in diameter, grows to the height of about sixty feet, aud is surmounted by an elegant crown of gracefully curved leaves. The flower spikes are ten or twelve feet long, and issue from the trunk at the base of the leaves, hanging down like a horse’s tail. They are not produced until the tree basarrived at its full period of growth, and the manner in which the numerous spikes succeed each other is rather singular. The first spike issues from ihe top of the tree, and after it has done flowering another comes on below it, and so on. a flower spike lieing produced from the angle of each leaf stalk, or from the circular scar left by leaves that have fallen away from the trunk, until the process of flowering reaches the ground, when the tree is exhausted and dies. “The English in India gave it the name of Toddy Palm because they traced a kinship be tween their old home toddy aud the juice of the tree. The natives work it in this fashion: When the spikes are in the bud they cut them off, and the sap that would have flowed into the bud is caught by them in a gourd and used as a liquor. It's very powerful and produces a flue crop of delirium tremens in India. They expect this Oriental distiller} - to flower some time this fall. Yes, it’s the only Toddy Palm in this country.” The Sarcastic Observer at the Range. From the San Francisco Examiner. One of our crack militia companies amused it self all day last week h v speeding the blithe bul let at the irresponsive bullseye. Along late in the afternoon, during a break in the stream of lead, a stranger passed that way and entered into conversation with the marker, who was re pairing the target, “Mighty skillful shooting this has been," said the stranger: “it is very difficult to miss the bullseye every time in a whole day's practice.” “You talk as if they tried to miss it, ' said the marker. “What!” the stranger exclaimed, with sudden emphasis, “do you mean to say they tried to hit it?” “Certainly—why not?” A pallor overspread the visage of that strange man; in the language of the novelist, he “gasped for support.” He brandished his jaw in vain, for his tongue refused its office-there was no salary attached to the office —and was flourished in ineffectual curves. “Why not?” he at last repeated—“why not? Because that is one of my patent back-action retaliatory tar gets, designed to test courage as well as skill. When struck in the bullseye it strikes back. Sir, a man who should inadvertently put his bullet into the geometrical centre of that tar get would be shot dead! For Heaven’s sake put a stop to this perilous amusement!” The marker tranquilly consulted his watch. “Got about done now,” said he; “only two hours more allowed for shooting. Oreatly obliged to you sir, but I guess It's ail right.” And jumping into his pit, he waved his flag for the firing to proceed. No casualties. The Champion Liar. S. W. Foss in Tid-Bits. The snake liar and the fish liar, both bowed in their gray old age, Came traveling hack from their journeys wide, from their earth-w'ide pilgrimage; A tear drop stood in the snake liar's eye, and the fish liar groaned in pain, And a death like look of infinite grief came over the face of the twain. “I cannot compete w-itta the modern lie," the sad-eyed snage liar said, “In its limitless length, and breadth, and depth, and I xvish that I were dead: For I stand rebuked with a shame faced look 'neath the triumphant gaze of the eye Of the newspaper affidavit liar with his circula tion lie! “For the snake liar, and the fish liar, and the horse liar own his sway, And the easy-going liars who work by the job, and the liars w - ho work by the day; The traveling liar, old inhabitant liar, and liars of low degree, And liars who lie for the fun of the thing, and liars who lie for a fee. “The horse liar, the peach crop liar, the sea serpent liar and all. With tneir wide, untraveled wastes of cheek, and their soundless seas of gall, All bend the knee to the sceptred sway of this crowned and peerless one, And the father of lies looks tenderly down on his most accomplished son!” An Anecdote of Gladstone. From the Philadelphia Times. Perhaps it is in private life thut Mr. Gladstone's vitality and x-ersatility are most remarkable It if a great sight to watch him at dinner with a few friends He never talks for the sake of talking, but listens attentively to every one else, and is eager to draw out from his company all they can tell him. But, they feel the influence of a master mind in the smallest details. Mr. Gladstone asks a dozen searching questions in a few moments, und presents the subject In an entirely new light by some exposition that the listeners never dreamed of. He is full of reminis cences. and seems to imagine that everybody's memory ought to be as tenacious as his own. One night when he was Prime Minister he sat on the Treasury bench xvith only one col league beside him. He was apparently asleep, and the other man thought he might indulge in a doze. But presently a Tory speaker ventured upon some historical statement. Mr. Gladstone was on the alert at once. Turning to his com panion he said: “That is entirely wrong. This fellow is mixing up his facts and his dates. Don't you remember?” Then lie proceeded to explain some obscure passage of political his tory of which his unfortunate colleague was obliged to confess entire ignorance. Mr. Glad stone looked at him for a moment in pitying wonder, and as soon as he dared the hapless man slunk away. Meeting a friend he sai l ; “I'm going home; I can't stand that fiendish old man any more. Why. he actually cross-examined me about something thut happened lie fore 1 was born.” Count Von Moltke’s Parsimony. A Schweidnitz newspaper—Count von Moltke's estate, Kreisan, lies in the neighborhood of Schweidnitz—relates the following story of the great Field Marshal: A short time ago Count Moltke visited an inn not f. r from his home and called for a glass of common beer. The land lord retailed b >th this kind (einfacher. bier) and “double beer" Moppet bier), the prices being 5 pfenning and 10 pfenning respectively. Think ing common l>eer unsulted to the position of his guest, the man supplied Moltke with the best quality After drinking off the foaming glass the Field Marshal praised the brew and placed on the table a 10 pfenning piece, expecting to receive the half buck again. The landlord, how ever, approprlited t lie whole, and Moltke left without s lying a word. A few (lavs later the Count visited the same inn again, and ordered a glass of l eer as usual. Again double beer was brought. Before leaving Moltke called the landlord and said, “When I was here last I gave you P> pfenning, and as you gave me nothing (sick I was 5 pfenning to the good, so that we nis* now straight," The landlord remarked that ho had drawn double beer, which cost 10 pfenning. “Oh. hut I did not order double I leer," said the Count, and he drove away smil ing. What Truthful Bill Died Of. From the Texas Siftings. An El Paso, Tex., man iioing in Sar. Antonio, was asked by a gentleman how Bill Hart was coming on in El Paso. "lie went by the name of Truthful Dill, didn't he*" * * Yes. “ “Well, he is not •hmiug on at all. He was buried the day before 1 left El Faso." "What caused his death 1” “His death was caused by imprudence • "Perhaps Truthful Bill drank too much." "No." "Was he imprudent in changing his clothes?" “No, it wasn't that. He was imprudent in telling tlie truth He got up in a saloon pat rnnized by the elite of the town and said that tlie whole crowd present, were liars and horse thieves. The verdict of the Coroner's jury was that he died of lead-poisoning. A Circus Man's Sarcophagus. From the 'Frisco Argonaut. A certain niuiuvaer of a menagerie died and word was sent to his native village that his re mains would he brought home for interment, ami thut they would Is* accompanied by a mem ber of the Iroiuie Wh**n ihe box arrived, how ever. the friends noticed that It was very large ns large as a table and exceedingly heavy; so they thought an iuvesi igation might to be made and the)- opened the Isix. lib at was their aimuenient to discover the carcass or a huge lion. They culled to tlie man having It m charge anil asked: "How ia this? We received word that the body of t lie manager was coming, and iiixi.-ad of that we ttn<J the carcase of this great llirti." Hr answered * Well, that's just It llliii- the toiler w list at* up t-iof manager. lue manager a -mods. ' ~ ITEMS OF INTEREST. Three new studies have been added to the curriculum of the Louisville high school. They are typewriting, stenography aud cooking. The Prohibitionists have carried every county in Florida so far, but one, in which an election has been held under the new local option law. Abraham Souther, a colored man of Old Fort, N. C\, has in his possession documents which show - that lie is 101 years old. He chews and smokes, and is a devout Methodist. A poor woman in Gratiot county, Mich., who had been scrimping along on two acres of land for many years, went up to Ithica the other day. drew $3,000 back pension, and inside of an hoil blew in S3OO for dry goods. A family that recently removed from Lee, N. 11., took along a cat that soon disappeared. It has since been found at the old homestead in Lee. but how it got back is a mystery, as it must have traveled fifty miles without a guide. Winnipeg is an exception to the saying that there is no Sabbath west of Chicago. The streets ore empty and the churches fall. In deed, there is said to lie church accommoda tion for 15,000 in a population of 33,000, aud it is all utilized. AN intelligent farmer who thought that the banks xvere not safe lives in Elba, Minn. He sold a farm for $2,001 and hid the money in his house, and in a few days, while his w ife was at the spriug getting a pail of water, the money was stolen and the house set on lire and burned. A wealthy octogenarian of Cincinnati, who married a young Kentucky beauty, a few years ago, is now- suing for divorce on the ground of willful absence. He asserts that trouble prompt ly liegan on the wedding trip because he re fused to transfer $30,000 worth of property to his bride. They separated, and she refused to live with him unless he made the transfer. Honey will be high this year. The three lead ing honey producing States, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan, have absolutely no honey at all, and in many parts of these States the bees are fed on sugar to keep them from starving. Last year California sent honey to the East by the car load, this year they have scarcely enough for home consumption. A cone of burnished tin, 30 inches in height and 13 in diameter, has been placed on the sum mit of Mount Katahdin by the Bangor (Me.) Appalachian Club, in order to note the distance from which the peak can be seen. It is expect ed that the cone will reflect the sun's rays far and wide over Maine, and enable observers to determine the question. In Palestine, Tex., last Wednesday night Mr. John Rampy and a neighbor climbed a big tree to watch for wolves. About midnight the wolves appeared. The neighbor blazed away at them, and turned just in time to see Mr. Rampy drop to the ground, a dying man. It is sup posed that the ti igger of his shotgun must have caught on a twig. Anyway he had shot himself fatally. Forty-five years ago there wasn’t a postage stamp in the United States, says the Buffalo Courier-, but in the last twelve months the peo ple of this country have individually and sever ally put their tongues out 1,968,341,000 times to moisten the postage stamps for the billions of letters and millions of newspapers, periodicals, and parcels that are carried and delivered by the government. A citizen of Providence, R. 1., makes many a dollar by catching bats, which he sells to tax idermists for 50 cents apiece. He fastens a flah hook to the end of a long horsewhip, and on the hook he fastens a moth miller. Then, standing near an electric light in the evening, he waves the whip until one of the many bats which are hunting the insects that fly around the light grabs the miller, and then he yanks him in. One of the members of the Harrisburg City Grays is Private Task, who for twenty-five years has been a Sunday school scholar, and In all that time has never been absent from his class. Recently, when in camp with his company, Saturday came, and he found some difficulty in getting permission to leave, but when he pleaded that his failure to get to Harrisburg would break the record of a quarter of a century's attendance at Sunday school, the commanding officer had not the heart to refuse a request which was backed by so unusual an argument. Otto Schroefel was the son of wealthy parents in Weiselberg, Wurtemberg. They gave him a good education and he bid fair to make a reputation as an architect, but the old Adam was too much for him, and be ran away ten years ago and came to this country, Since then he has been living on husks. Three months ago he was stabbed nearly to death by a negro near Camden, and a policeman took him to the hospital There he was cared for, his life saved, and by the chance reading of an old torn news paper he learned that he was the rightful heir to a fortune, the income of which will amount to SIO,OOO a year. An important railway enterprise is announced in Turkey, a syndicate of British financiers hav ing received from the government the right to construct a grand trunk line to traverse the cen tral plateau of Asia Minor and connect Constan tinople with Bagdad, covering a distance of 1,330 miles It is said that for years past this under taking has been the goal of rival speculators. English, French, German and American com panies have ail sought to obtain the franchise. The line to Ada-Bazaar from Ismid is to be com menced forthwith and finished in two years. In four years the line is to be opened to Angora, and eight years afterward to Bagdad. It is estimated to cost some $90,000,000. The case of Joseph Garrison, of Idaho, illus trates how a capital of patriotism can be made to yield lucrative returns under the pension system. From the statement of it, which ap pears in the Hailey (Idaho) Times, it seems that he was struck by a stone thrown from a roof as the American troops were entering the Citv of Mexico. He served afterwards in the civil war as a Lieutenant in the Second California Cavalry. He filed a claim for “total disability” from the wound received in Mexico, but waived it and accepted an allowance on which he has thus far drawn a total of $!0,no(). His civil war pensions and arrearages will reach $20,000 more. Besides this the soldiers of the Mexican war re ceived warrants for 180 acres of land, and Gar rison was entitled to homestead another 160 acres free. Keeper Maest, of the Erie county almshouse, says that in his experience one of the peculiar freaks of insanity is the seeming reversal of natural tendencies. “For instance." he says, "we have in the male wards fine collections of potted plants and climbing vines, which grow so luxuriantly that they curtain the windows. Tiie men tend these carefully, pluck away the dead leaves, stir up the dirt in the pots, prune th“ vines, keep them carefully watered, and in divers other ways manifest the tenderest watch fulness. Not so with the women. Every attempt to introduce plants and vines as a feature of tlie female wards, save in tlie cottage where Die mildest eases are confined, has proved a fl it failure. The women pull out the plants by the roots, tear down the vines, and manifest other destructive tendencies entirely at variance with the nature of the sex in general." A funny sight, the other afternoon, in Spring field, Mass., was a little urchin about 10 years old, who, having sold all his papers for the day, took out of a satchel swung across his shoulder a dead blue and white shirt, which, after wash ing his face and hands and drying them on his soiled shirt, he proceeded to put on. Then he brushed his t rousers and boots, brushed his hair with a brush carried in the satchel, and. having dusted bis hat and replaced it upon ids head, he really did look much improved. Then he danced a hornpipe. He next proceeded to dine on the curbstone, spreading out thereon a niece of pajier, two bum sandwiches, a pier,, nf go ger nread and a slice of watermelon. After ttiis Hue repast he washed it down with water from the Jerry McAuley fountain. And then came to me the most remarkable part of the whole proceed ing. He actually stooped down to tlie lower basin. Intended for dogs and cuts, and proceeded to wash the soiled checkered shirt he had pre viously worn. It was duly rinsed, wrung out and bung up on Ihe iron railing surrounding the flower garden to dry. All this time 1 sat in a building directly opposite awaiting my turn to come at my dentist's, who toll! me afterward that the small boy was a daily frequenter of the fountain, and be didn't believe the lad had any other home. An AwfUl Catastrophe. From ttie /Joston Transcript. Guy Beuuclerck stood la-fob l the mirror in the great Ivory bedroom of <'liln Castle, placing upon his manly form the "arments In- was that day to wear in the iib*eooe of his monarch. Suddenly there shot from his hand a glittering disk, which, sparkling for u moment us it imsaed through a sunbeam, buried Itaelf in the obscurity of the rich Turkish carpet. With u wild shrink, a heart piercing cry, Ony Beau clerck threw himself ujion tlie floor and groveled like a groveli-r from Drovcltown. In au inslunt his wife, the Is-autiful I sidy Constance Itcaii clerck. was at his sale, title whom even ihe tib-seia-ii of royalty itaelf could not la-ntl. now Isiwed tu loving solicitudo over tin- iiroatrate form of her h'isliaiid "bisaik-i., me. tiny," she cried, "tiuy, have you lost your reason?" "bo." Is- moaned, faintly, “l Lais test uiy Miliar button. ' I BAKING POAVDER. WouTwETowr^s t— PURE ---< |ream Used by the kijted States Government. En dorsed by the y u ls of the Great Universities as the Strongest, \rest and most Healthful. Dr. Price’s the onlyjaking Powder that does not contain Ammonn Lime or Alum. Sold only in Cans. \ PRICE BA IMG POWDER CO. NEW YORE. CHICAGO. ST. LOUIS. DRY jpODS, ETC. l AT— froli 4 Hour's, SUCCESSOIS TO B. F. McKema & Cos., 137 BROUGHT!)! STREET. FIGURED BAM CLOTHS. WE will close out the reminder of our stock of these fine goods, formerly sold at 18c. a yard, now reduce! to 12!4c. 25 pieces Figured sawns, 33 nches wide, regu lar price 12)4e. a yari; now SJ^c. 75 pieces Figured lawns, choice styles, at3)<c. 50 pieces Wide Wflth Lawns, regular price 10c. a yard; now One lot Crinkled Ssersuckers, rcgula rice 15c. and 17c. a yard; nw 12^c. One lot of Dress linghams, choice styles regular price a yuxT; now 10c. 36 Imported Marseille Quilts, slightly soiled, formerly sold at $3. Wa will close the lot out at $1 85 each. Hosiery and Underwear. 100 dozen Unbleached Blacland Colored Hose, regular price 12)<c.; now 9c. tpair. A mixed lot of Misses’ File English Hose, Ribbed, Plain ana Bilk Clocked regular price of these goods from 35c. to 50c. We will close tha lot out at 17c. a pair. 50 dozen Ladies’ Gauze Undervests, regular prices 35c. and 35c.; now 19c. each 35 dozen Ladies' extra fine qualty Gauze Un dervests, regular prices 50c., 65c., ‘Sc. and 85c. We will offer the lot at the extra*rdinary low price of 47c. each. Onr SI Unlaundried Shirts Reduced to 90cl 75 dozen Gentlemen's Unlaundried Shirts, re inforced back and bosoms, the best $1 Shirt manufactured. In order to reduce our largs stock we will offer them at 90c. each. CROIIAX & DOONER. MEDICAL. I att’s Pills SAVES MONEY, r*e box of these jiills will save man] totlurs in doctor’s bills. They an pecially prepared ns a Family Medicine, i ml supplies a want long felt. They re move uii lien I ill,v accumulation* fron lie tidily, without nausea or griping kdupietl toyoimgaud old. Price. W SOU) EYEUirWUEBE. Tansy pills Xr^perr?cw^B7r^*u!^*Twir^iiYMCTuTr. Uetl to-dnj regularly by 10.S0O AbhHw* Womffn. GuiiiNTiiDf unuoß to all o Cam Kiruitntf. Don t we*te ■•off °® WomiMiMK No.tias. TRY THIS REMEDY f Ton will net? 4no ntber. ABSOLUTELY INFALLIBLE. rarticuUfij, keeled. 4 cent*. , _ WILCOX BPKCIFIOCO.. Thllidi iphl. rs. For sale by LIPPMAN BKOS., Savannah, Ga ff taken the lead In tlie vales of that cl*e of rtnieiJies. an<l hat given Almost universal satitUc ■Mk MURPHY BROS^ ©has won the Uvor of the public And now ruke AXDOitg t i- lending Medi eme> of the oiidon. A ' L ' S Hri™d. Fa. Sold by Di Moists. Train supplied by LIPPMAN BKOB. MANHOOD RESTORED. ASSShSJSS' ng Premature Decay, Nervous Debility. I-ost Manhood, etc., having tried in vain every known remedy, lias dine ivered a simple self-cure, which he will send FREE to his fellow sufferers. Ad dn-ss tJ. MASON, Poet Olffco Box dlftl, New York City. UHI US ANI) MEDICINES, Don’t Do It! Don’t Do What? WHY don’t walk our tony with fh*t ▼ v uioH div*M #r Aijjt of rlotli#** on with HtAini or (ifNMD Kjxjin In, It; wbicli (hi< Ktuimmli dual Btbrlui "dwr than u brother, M wlmni Japanese Cleansing Cream will t*kc !Uuj uit hm * iww pin. 2ftc. 4 bottle. MiMii* iHily by J. R. H ALTIW ANGER, At in* Drug tk'orMt. Broughton and UfSjUMk H WtMun and U'asaaati swta.