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4 C|ePontinglletos Morning News Building. Savannah, Ga. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 1 <. 188 7. Keyistered at the Post Office in Savannah. The Morning News is published ever)* day in the vear. and is served to sube'.ribers m the city , by newsdealers and carriers, on their own ac count at 25 cents a week. $1 t>o a month. $5 00 for six months and $lO iW ror ono year. The Morning News, try mail , one month, fl 00; three months, $2 50; cix months, $5 00; one year. $lO 00. The Morning News, by mail, Fix times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $2 00; six mouths. $4 00 one year. 00. Tire Morning News, Tri-Weekly. Mondays, Wednesdays and Friday?, or Tuesdays, 1 burs days and Saturdays, three months, $1 25; six months. $2 DO; one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail, one year. $2 00. The Weekly News, try mail , one year. $1 ‘i>- Subscriptions pAvablr in advance. Remit by postal order, check* or registered letter. Cur rency sent bv mail at risk of senders. This impel* is kept on file and advertising rates may be ascertained at the oftieo of the Ameri can Newspaper Publishers' Association, 104 Temple Court, New York City. Letters and telegrams should bo addressed “Morning News, Savannah. (a." Advertising rates made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings— Myrtle Lodge No. 6, K. of P.; Pu laski Council No. 153, R. A.; Oglethorpe Light Infantry; I,andrum I/xlge No. 48, F. and A. M. Special Notices —Opening of the New Cotton Exchange; Rosh Haschonah 5548; New Year Cards at Kuckuck & Set-man's. Cheap Column Advertisements— Help Want ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Personal; Miscellaneous. For lIOBOY. Etc.-- Steamer Pope Catlin. Steamship Schedules— Ocean Steamship Cos.; Baltimore Steamship Cos. lUii.roao Schedule— City and Suburban Railway Cos. Not Sensational —L. & B. S. M. H. Mason & Hamlin Pianos and Organs—L. & B. S. M. H. The Largest, The Most Reliable, The Cheapest- Lindsay &. Morgan. Auction Sales— Crockery, Furniture, Etc., by Marshall & McLeod. Bargains— Davis Bros. Grapes, Etc. —W. D. Simkins & Cos. The annual rejiort of starvation among the Newfoundland fishermen is in. They 'ought to emigrate. The Louisville and Nashville railroad moved fifty-one freight trains out of Bir mingham, Ala, last Saturday. That is evi dence of something better than a boom in town lots. The cattle men of the West have formed a pool to control the sale of all beeves shipped East, so that they may obtain better prices. The first thing they know farmers on this side of the Mississippi will begin to raise cattle on a larger scale. Ex-Senator Mahone is out in a caustic letter to Mr. Barbour, in which he contrasts his own so "vices to Virginia during the war with these of the latter gentleman. This goes to prove that he knows which was the only creditable pet iod in his career. The sailors on government vessels are boy cotting the tobacco furnished by the Navy Department, on the ground that it isn’t fit to chew. Secretary Whitney is probably a poor judge of navy plug, and ought to have delegated the duty of selection to an old Bait. The old King of Holland is said to be dy ing, and the Dutch fear that trouble in re gard to the succession may give Germany an opportunity to annex their country No doubt Germany would like to lengthen her restricted seaboard, but will hardly risk a war. A Galveston man is the last to invent a cotton picking machine. Like all the others its work is “perfectly satisfactory.” It is noticeable, however, that a colored man with a sack tied around him is the only machine to be seen in the fields where cotton is picked. It is said that now 50,000 miners are idle In Pennsylvania. There will probably bo an influx of Italians and Hungarians to till thoir places. There is an import tax on coal, but none on pauper lal>or. The coal belongs to the companies and the labor belongs to the men. Anarchist Most threatens to appeal to the courts to protect his “right” to become an American citizen. He should be encouraged to do so, that a rule may l>e established governing the exclusion of undesirable agi tutors of his type. There ought to be a way to rid the country of them. Congressman Crisp is us modest as he is able. He is said to have rebuffed in em phatic language the false friends who have been trying to indueo him to become a tool In their hands to defeat Mr. Carlisle for re election as Speak A-. Mr. Crisp is not the man to betray his party to advance his per sonal interests. It now appears that Frank McNeilly, the young cash clerk of the Haeo bank, who re cently ran away with #300,000 in money and bonds belonging to that institution, was working for a salary of $6 a week. The management will probably pay his successor enough to live on decently, so as not to tempt him to steal. Frenchmen, in their hatred for Germany, forget their national reputation for polite ness and gallantry. A few nights since a young German prima donna made her dobut at the Grand Opera, and on her first ap pearance lief ore the uudience wns over whelmed with hisses and cries of “Down with Germans.” Many Americans left the bouse. Judge Beckham is said to have created consternation in Fort Worth, Tex., by an nouncing from the bench that the laws must be enforced. That was a very inno cent announcement to have created such a sensation. A great many of the people who beard it doubtless forgot for the moment that Texas law doesn’t cover the whole country. Mr. Koclie, Chicago’s Republican reform Mayor, is said to lie busily engaged in put ting together a Roche machine to supplant the Carter Harrison machine. The last piece put in place is the notorious nx-Congraanian Finertv, who is given an office paving #13,- 600 a year, and is cxjiected to control the rowdy element in Roche’s favor. It seems Chicago cannot get along without a boss. Evidence of how badly the Tory British Government bus blundered in its Irish policy accumulates. The coercion bill has exas perated the great body of the people, and on account of the jiausago of the land bill the Loyal Irish Union, made up of landlonls, Is aljout to join the National League They no doubt have conic to the conclusion that they ran fare no worsa at tha bauds of a head parliament. A Typical Platform and Ticket. If anyone doubts that the Republican party has ceased to be a groat and strong organization having principles which ap peal to the judgments and hearts of the people aud guided by men having pur poses above the mere control of the offices, let him read the platform adopted by the New York Republican convention and notice the ticket which it nominated. The whole aim of both is to catch votes. The platform stales that the Republican party is in favor of honest civil service reform, and condemns the President for not en forcing the civil service law. It has not been so very many years since the Republi can party pretended to enforce a civil ser vice law, but its efforts were so feeble that the law was soon wholly ignored and for gotten. It is perfectly safe to say that if the Republican party were now in power the civil service law would soon become a dead letter. The platform also states that the Repub lican party favors such an adjustment of the tariff that the revenues will be only sufficient to meet the wants of the govern ment economically administered. It is a fact that will not be denied that the Repub licans in Congress resist every effort hi ad just tlie revenues to the needs of the gov ernment. It is the baldest kind of insincer ity, therefore, to pretend to favor any ad justment of the tariff. The Republican party don’t want the tariff disturbed because it about suits the monopolists who are as sisted by it to make immense profits from the various kinds of business in which they are engaged. They would like to have the whisky and tobacco taxes repealed, and whatever surplus there remains they want to have distributed in the Northern States in the shape of pensions. The part of the platform, however, for which there is the least reason, and which shows the sectional character of the party, is that which declares that workingmen in the South must be protected in their politi cal rights, and that they must be permitted to have a free ballot and a fair count. It is strange that the Republican leaders do not furnish some proof of their constantly reiterated charge that voters at the South are net permitted to cast their ballots as they’ please, and that ballots are not counted a? they are cast. They must think that the Northern people are easily deceived if they expect them to accept as true the bare state ment that there is not freedom in voting at the South. The fact is the Republican party has lost whatever character it had, and is simply existing upon its past reputation. Having a very low standard of morality it aims to secure a return to power by deception. In its platform it pretends to favor the sup pression of the liquor traffic, but the advo cates of temperance do not trust it. They know very well that what it wants to do is to prevent its members from' leaving it for the Prohibition party. The great mistake which politicians make is in thinking that they can deceive the people by hollow prom ises and pledges. The reason that Mr. Cleveland has such a strong hold upon the masses is that he does what he say s he will. The humblest workingman who cun read is not slow to feel whatever insincerity there is in a party platform. Col. Fred D. Giant leads theticket. Why was he chosen to that position? Was it be cause he has great ability or has rendered the Republican party great services? Not at all. It is hoped that his father’s great name will strengthen the ticket. Col. Grant is conspicuous for only one thing, and that is his business connection with that Napo leon of finance, Ferdinand Ward, who at present is serving a term in the peniten tiary. The Piedmont Exposition. The pros|ieet that the Piedmont Exposi tion at Atlanta will be well worth seeing is very promising. It will not, of course, be anything like as largo as the New Orleans Exposition was, nor will there be anywhere near the variety in the display. It would bo impossible to get up as great an exposi tion as that at New Orleans was in the very short time between the conception and opening of the Piedmont Exposition. The Piedmont Exposition, however, does not pi ojxise to make a display of articles from all the world. It aims at nothing more than showing what the resources of the South are, and what progress the South hus made aud is making. The industrial growth of the Southern States within the last few years has lieon remarkable. A statement was published in a New Orleans paper a few days ago showing the increase of the taxable wealth of twelve Southern States in the last eight years. The assessors’ books of these twelve States showed their assessed value in 1871) to be >3, 1tH,702,795, and in 1887 to lie >3,004,800,443, an increase of >300,000,000. The fact is, the resources of the South are only just lieginning to bo developed. Her forests and mines are scarcely touched yet, and the yield of her fields is bound to steadily increase. • A great crowd will be at Atlanta during the exposition. The President and Mrs. Cleveland will be the great attractions. During their three days’ stay there the sightseer aud the stranger will have a hard time to find a resting place. All the expositions which have been held in the South have done her good. They cost time and money, but they are worth all they cost. Much of the present pros perity of the South is due to her exposi tions. They have mado known to home seekers and capitalists her resources, and this information was just what was needed to give her a boom. IndianaiKilis is a great place for rows among the politicians. There is a row there now over the question of who shall enter tain the President during his visit there next month. The President accepted the Board of Trade’s invitation, but the Hen dricks Club Uuve made preparations for the President’s reception nnd entertainment. The Board of Trade say that they propose to do the reception and entertainment act themselves. Hence the row. Examination of the testimony put in by Thobe in his contest for Speaker Car lisle’s seat allows it to bo of the flimsiest character. He only attempts to show that five men voted illegally in Covington, and his other charges of irregularity are lmrdly of greater inqiortanoe. It is astonishing that the ease has been pressed as far us it has, unless the contestant hopes Congress will allow him a considerable sum for ex penses. The vast multitudes in Philadelphia, at tending the Centennial (’elebrnt ion of the Constitution, were made happy liy the up pearuiice of flue weather yesterday. The outlook is that the celebration will meet ex pectations, and that the number of people present in Philadelphia Unlay will be greater than during any one day of lira Cen tennial Exposition in 107& THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1887. A Suggestion to the Health Authori ties. The citv authorities, it seems, on the rec ommendation of the Health Officer, are con sidering the advisability of erecting a crematory for disposing of the garliage of the city, gffhis is probably a move in the right direction. Anything that promises to contribute to the improvement of the health fulness of the city ought to receive careful consideration. It is not yet known what a crematory would cost, but it is probable that the expense of disposing of the garbage by burning it would be much less than the present method of getting rid of it, and that the amount saved would soon equal the cost of a crematory. But while ways are being devised to pro mote the public health would it. not be wise to inaugurate a movement to get rid of some of the bad smelling closets, which are to be found in different parts of the city ? The health authorities have had their atten tion called to these closets quite frequently, and still nothing has been (lone towards re moving them. If the parties who are re sponsible for them will not remove them, or keep them in a condition that will not annoy’ the people of the neighborhood in which they are located, then they ought to be removed by the city for the reason that they are nuisances, and are deleterious to the public health. Nobody doubts that they are the cause of a great deal of sickness. It would not be difficult to find people who have suffered from fevers during the present summer which were directly trace able to them. Surely it is in the power of the city to abate such nuisances as these closets are. Money is being spent to drain the low places around the city, and also to give the people clear and wholesome water. It is proposed to dispose of the garbage so that it cannot affect the healthfulness of the city injuriously. Now let the health authorities see if something cannot be done to abate the bad-smelling, fever-breeding closets. Abolishing Poverty. It doesn’t seem to Occur to the average follower of Henry George and Dr. McGlynn, the apostles of the Anti-Poverty Society, that they are doing a great deal toward abolishing their own poverty. At all the Anti-Poverty meetings a collection is taken, which doubtless is well invested for future use. This money does not, of course, go into the pockets of either Dr. McGlynn or Henry George, but it is reasonable to sup pose that a part of it is appropriated to the support of Dr. McGlynn. He must have a living from some source, and as he has no private income he must be supported from the Anti-Poverty collections. Henry George doesn’t need any assistance from the collections. The notoriety which he has attained ns the leader of the new crusade has resulted in an enormous sale of his books. It is reported that he has in vested as much as $50,000 in gilt-edged secu rities since he came into prominence a year or so ago in New York city. If he' can maintain his present notoriety for awhile louger he can retire with a handsome little fortune, and can point to himself as otie whose poverty has been abolished. It is probable that Mr. George has no expectation of being elected to the office for which be has been nominated, but he doubtless does expect to be made richer than he is before the Anti Poverty Society scheme loses its popularity. He is a shrewd mau if he is a crank. Henry George and Dr. McGlynn in their success in money making are not without some resemblance to the Rev. Sain Jones, and exhorter Sam Small. The former propose to abolish pov erty, and the latter, sin —for cash. Mr. Fowderly now says he will serve to the end of his term, still more than a year off, as General Master Workman of the Knights of Labor. In his annual message to the General Assembly of the order he will advocate a government ownership of rail roads and telegraphs, and if his views are indorsed by the assembly he will see they are pressed upon Congress with all the influ ence that can be brought to boar. Mr. Pow derly is shrewd in attempting to direct the attention of the Knights from internal dis sousions to national ixjlities, but it will be a long time liefore the jieople of this country consent to add a million or so names to their pay-roll. They find it hard to manage 80,000. Henry Villard seems about to gain a greater place in railroad circlas than he held before his failure. He and his friends have secured control of the Northern Pacific, Oregon Transcontinental and Wis consin Central, giving them a line from Chicago to the Pacific coast. It is said to be Villard’s ambition to extend his railroad system entirely across the continent to New York, and his success heretofore has been so wonderful that it would excite little sur prise should ho carry out his plan. The progress of marine architecture and in the methods of applying steam to the propulsion of vessels has been so rapid of late that ships on the stocks become old fashioned before they are launched. The Boston, which made her trial trip in Long Island Sound a few’ days ago, after long delay, logged less than fourteen knots an hour. A torpedo steamer just completed in England made thirty-two and n half miles on her trial trip and twenty-four and a half knots at sea. The State bank examiners of California pounced down on the Nevada Bank the other day, without warning, and thoroughly examined the affaire of the institution. In spite of the ugly rumors connecting the hank with the recent disastrous wheat deal, its affaire were found in a first rate condi tion. This is encouraging news. The fall of so great an institution, even so far away os California, might shake confidence in business circles all over the country. Betting on the Thistle and lier American antagonist is going on at a very lively rate in New York city, and also at Glasgow. The Scotchmen are putting up their cash pretty Ivoldly on the Thistle, nnd they are finding plenty of takers on their own terms. There is more interest in the approaching race than there ever was in any of the past contests for the America’s oup. Referring to the tariff reduction bill, which it assumes wdll be the outcome of tho Oak View conference*, the Philadelphia Inquirer, a Republican jiaper, says that should public opinion fail to do it to death Mr. Randall will bo on hand to give it its quietus. It proliably has good grounds for its confidence in Mr. Ran dall. Commander-in-Chief Fairchild is not a candidate for ro-ls-tioii. In declining a second terns be is wise. In the short time he has been in office he has ( hanged the whole chara.'ti' of the Grand Army of the Republic. It is now au organization to ex tort extravagant |ieunions by playing on Use fuui s of politicians. CURRENT COMMENT. Cannot Get It If He Wants It. From the Providence Journal t Hep .) Sir. Blaine says he would not take the Presi dency as a gift, and he can be assured that it will never be offered to him. The Sentence of the Chicago Anarch ists. Prom the Richmond Whig ( Dem.) If there is any country in the world where Anarchism has no ground upon which to stand it is this republic, and the summary teaching of this lesson by the hanging of the Chicago An archist murderers will lx* most wholesome. Sectionalism Dying. From the Missouri Republican (Dem.) Sectionalism is in its last straggle. How strong it will be in its death throes the events of the next twelve months will determine. If the sins of the fathers who fought the civil war, arc not to be visited on th * cnihlren, the sec tional party will die —ith sectionalism, giving place to a party of opposition which will be national in its methods issues und votes. George’s Theory and Practice Do Not Agree. From the Philadelphia Times (Ind .) Like a good many reformers, of both ancient and modern times, Mr. George's preaching does not tally with his practice. His theory is ad vanced as a good thing for other men to prac tice, but as for him, the old-fashioned way of abolishing his own poverty seems to be very sat isfactory. If Mr. George's followers would fol low Mr. George's example they would have less poverty to complain of than they are likely to have by following bis teachings. BRIGHT BITS. Hanoino is too good for a bad painting. - Scranton Truth. Some of the best blood in the land now runs through the mosquito's vejns.— Pittsburg Chron icte. The reason drunken men seldom drown is because the whisky makes their heads swim.— bo l ut)i Paragrapher. A cow path is not as bright as the moon or stars, but it’s a "milky way” just the same.— Charlestonm Enterprise. St. Louis has 7,000 cats, aud they are all reck oned into the census because they happen to have whiskers.— Louetl Citizen. It is said that one reason why St, John is a Prohibitionist is because he can't drink without getting his moustache ill it.—Pact. Some of the milkmen hang pails of milk down the well to keep the milk cool. Some of them use too much rope —Milwaukee Sentinel. Officer—Private Schulz, why has the soldier eight buttons on the front of his coat? Private Schulz—Because there are just eight button holes. Texas Siftings. He (at States Hotel hop, Saratoga) —Are you fond of dancing. Miss Diamondbeaecked? She—O, passionately, but in this warm weather one does get so het tip. Citizen (to base ball manager)—How is the third baseman's hand getting on Manager (hopefully)—Nicely. He thinks that by the end of the week he will be able to draw his salary.— Tid - Bits. A preacher was complaining of the listless ness and inattention of his congregation, when an old deacon spoke up and said: "Hungry sheep will look up to the rack, if there is hay in it.”— Richmond Religious Herald. Not long ago a well known artist sent to a lady, whom he had met several times, one of his best pictures handsomely framed as a sou venir gift. The next ilay he received a note from the lady in which she thanked him for the picture, but begged to return the frame us she made it a rule never to accept anything valua ble as a gift from a gentleman.- .Vein York Tribune. Good minister-It is rather odd that the col lections are exactly gl less than they used to be. Minister's wife- Nothing odd about it. “We have not lost any of our congregation.” “No, but I suppose you remember that Mr. Pious never used to give less than sl." “Of course.” “Well, Mr. Pious has been elected a deacon aud he passes the plate now.”— Omaha World. A few months ago there was an addition to the family of Cot; Percy Yerger, on which occa sion Mrs. Yerger's mother, a venerable lady, spent several weeks with the family. A few (lays ago Mrs. Yerger received a letter from her mother, to the effect that she intended to make another visit. “Is grandma coinin’ again," usked little Tommy, making a disgusted face “Yes, Tommy,” “O, Lord, that means another squealing baby in the house,” sighed Tommy, thinking of the previous visit of the old lady Texas Siftings. OsELilay a “sub” in the office was seen, to ward file end of composition hours, crawling about the floor and picking up type. He was asked by the joker of the room: “What are you doing. Jack?” “I'm trying to get enough type to finish this ‘take,’ that’s what I’m doing,” said he in rather a disgusted tone. “Well, what sorts do you want; what are you short of?" “I want some h's.” “Go over under No. lfl's frame; he's an Eng lishman; he drops them," was the comforting reply.— Pittsburg Chnmicle-Telegraph. PERSONAL. In one of the Scottish military rifle contests eight first prizes were won by Miss Belle Gentle. Bans Winters, who wrote “White Wings,'' is said to have made a fortune outof that tiresome song. The Princess Louise, of Wales, assumes the title of Lady Chester during her stay at St. Moritz. Sir Henry Isaacs is the third Hebrew mer chant who has become Sheriff of London aud received knighthood from the Queen. Frederick Wolseley, brother of the English General idealizing a large fortune by tho sale of a patent in Australia for sheep shearing. Lord Ely is one of the few Irish landlords who get anything from their estates. He draws SIOO,OOO a year from his tenants with little trouble. Belle Boyd, the Confederate spy, is lecturing in Nebraska. Her subject matter is composed mainly of war reminiscences. She is almost 50 years old. Don Pedro, Enipeyor of Brazil, is living quiet ly at Baden Baden with a small family party. He will s|tend the winter in Egypt, and visit England next spring. It is said that the Duke of Marlborough has a large amount of money invested in American securities. He is fond of American eagles when they take the form of dividends. “Bright Eyes" has had great success in in teresting England iu the American Indians She goes to Scotland ou Sept. 30. She has more in vitations to lecture than she can accept. The Duke of Marlborough, according to the Liverpool Pa ill/ Post, is engaged to lie married to Mrs. Adair, of Ratbdrone, Ireland, a very wealthy woman, owning a vast estate in land. (’apt. K. W. Meade, the new commandant of the Washington navy yard, is the youngest man of his grade. He is 4!). and has been thirty-six years in the service, and at sea nearly half of the time. Miss Kate F. Kimball, whose name is a household word among the 100,000 members of the Chautauqua circles hi her capacity as score tary of the University, is a young woman still in her twenties. J. Montoomery Sears, the richest man in Boston, has fitted up his private summer resi dence at Kouthboro witli fifty electric lights, fed by storage batteries, which are charged by a hot-air engine. He iR so well pleased that he will probably tit up all his property in Boston with electric lights. Jessie Bartlett Davis, the contralto of the defunct American National Opera Company, has beeii in Baris the past summer, under the musical instruction of Lagrange. She has de veloped a talent for song writing, and one of her songs has Iteen published. She will return to America about (Jet. 1. Gov. Beaver has a double, who was at the Exchange Hotel, in Franklin, on Wednesday night while the Governor also was there A liauil senui.iilcd him, thinking he was the Gov ernor, and the young mail from Oil City stcp|ie(l out on tin* balcony and with his hand in the breast of his coat, made his best bow in acknowledgement of the music. Aftkh tils famous palsy malediction against President Cleveland on account of the latter's battle flag order, lien Fairchild wanted to see how the country received It. and accordingly sent ill his Hiihacriptioli to olje of the New York bureaus which make clippings about public men. Ilia bid for popularity evidently lulvar rled, for after IP) notices hud Iteen aent him he withdrew his Nubacrtptioii. Some nava Aim Sculptor Parks reached Indian Hfiolls from Florence. Italy, with a Lost of the late Vice I'nvddenl Hendricks When Mrs Hendricks saw the bust she said *lt la a beaut Ifni pi* ee of marble, and doubt leas a work of art, but it disat Ixß resemble Mr Hendricks." The Hendricks Monument Committee have tkel -fots asl " 1 other s uljhira topieseni <Ju sitfu* iu cumuaUUou with Uiat uf Mr. Parks. Growth of Southern Newspapers. From the Hartford Courant. There is no better evidence of Southern pros perity titan the new life exhibited by the South ern press in the wide range and thoroughness of their Dews-gathering. The representative South ern papers are abreast 'if the country in their enterprise. We cannot agree with a good deal we see in Southern newspapers, but it is a pleas ure to come in contact with their openness and prevailing sincerity. There is another noticeable point. The Southern editor has never been timid about expressing his mind, except in cer tain directions where liberty of discussion could not be allowed. At an v rate he expresses his mind now with refrcehlng candor and frankness. He is, perhaps, no more free from prejudice than the rest of us. but he seems to take pleas ure in saying what to him seems the truth. They are usually clean. They not pander in their news-gathering to the tastes of salacious reading. The Particularly Particular Dude. From the Boston Transcript. The delicate arrogance of the society youth of the period who is spoiled by excessive seek ing was perhaps never carried to a greater ex treme than it was at a recent seashore party, where the ladies were painfully in excess of the gentleman. A lady who was keeping a matronly eye upon the festivities approached a languid youth, in a very high picoadilly collar, who stood looking at nothing in pa ticular and ap parently thinking of less, and said to him: “Oh. my dear Mr. Oadley, I want to introduce you to a young lady over here.” “Ah." said he. raising his hand and toying affectionately with his moustache, “point her out, please," The lady stood silent and aghast. This very superior being proposed to insist upon an oppor tunity to scrutinize the young lady's charms be fore he consented to be introduced to her. “Oh, ah," said he finally, with a slight air of apology, observing the lady's stupefaction, “you know I’m making scarcely any acquaint ances this season.” He did not make the acquaintance of that young lady that evening, at any rate. Professional Window-Gazers. From the Philadelphia News. Two young men who spend the day and a large part of the encning on Chestnut street are paid to do so. They are noth well known figures, and generally they travel together. They are professional window-gazers. The young men, in common with everybody else, know that to attract a crowd to a window, all one has to do is to stand and gaze into that window. In a short time ten or a dozen people will be gazing with him. They were down to hard pan—on their uppers, so to speak. One of them went to the proprietor of a men s furnishing house ori Chestnut street, and told him that for so much a week he would guaran tee to attract more uttentlon to his window than all the displays that could be laid out. The pro prietor was struck with the idea and gave it a trial. Asa consequence there was a crowd at his window nearly all the time The young man would walk up to the window with his triend and stand guzing there until a crowd of a dozen or fifteen were stauding with him. To keep the crowd moving he would walk away and that started the break in the crowd. The perform ance was repeated every ten or fifteen minutes. The young man went to other stores along the street, unfolded his plan and pointed out the success of it. In a short time he had the whole street from Ninth to Broad on his beat, and he had to take his friend into partnership, and he makes plenty of money. If other window-gazers do not get on to the idea and get into the business, these two origin ators will shortly establish branches of the 'Gazers" in other cities. The Depredating Hen. From the Khan. Of all the things in nature that afflict the sons of men. There is nothing that I know of beats the depre * taring hen: If you see a wild-eyed woman firing brickbats from the shed. You can bet a hen has busted up her little flower lied. She plunders and she scratches, she cackles and she hatches. And forty thousand cow-boys couldn't keep her in a pen; She was sent on earth to fret us, to excoriate the lot turn; She's a thorough going nuisance, is the depre dating hen. 1 threw a brick and missed her, as she hustled out my beaus. But Julius Caisars statue was smashed to smith ereens, I saw her digging rifle pits where I’d put my pansies m; I fired a good-sized rock and hit my hired man on the shin. She busts all lioughs and shackles, she giggles as she cackles, She ni t kes me say some earnest things I haven’t time to pen. I never used had language, but now I'm filled with anguish, Alas; I've broke the record through that depre dating hen. But now thro' out my cabinet there floats a pleas ant smell, And the reason for that perfume isn't hard to tell. For when 1 rose this morniug, saw my cabbage bed a wreck, I caught, that depredating hen and fiercely wrung her neck; I hear her flzz and cackle, no more she’ll scratch and cackle: Or make my summer garden look like some hyena's den; She far too long has bossed me, she far too much has cost me. I'll eat at luncheon time to-day a hundred dol lar hen. The Bell’s Burning Words. From the Arkahsaw Traveler. The front door of a magnificent residence closed with a violent slain. Anthony Jenlo, muttering angrily, came down the steps. The door opened and a little boy, bright-eyed and full of mischief, came out. “Won't you bring me something?” the child called. “No, I won’t," the man harshly replied. “You are so mean that I ought never to give you anything." “I didn't mean to be bad." “Yes you did. You are getting so that there is no living in the house with you." “You don't love me then, do you?" “Nobody can love you when you are so bad." “Won't you let me kiss you?'' “No, I won't, Go back into the house.” Jenlo hurried away. He was going to a dis tant part of the State to be gone several days.” “I ought not to have spoken to the little fellow that way." he mused when he had boarded the train. He took a newspaper from his pocket, glanced at the headlines of a fearful calamity and his eyes fell upon an Item headed, “A litte hoy’s sudden death." He turned the paper over and the first thing he saw was “A child drowned!” "I ought to have kissed him," he mused. “But I was fretted," he said, in apology to him self. “A mau that's worried over business as much as I am don’t know what he's saying half the time." The first thing he heard upon stepping off the train at the end of his jonniey was the shriek of a child. He shuddered, and a little face, dearer to him than his own life, suddenly arose before him. Even while engaged in the trans action of his business, he constantly heard, in the sweet, hut troubled accents of a child, the words: "You don'tlove me. then, do you?" At night he want to the tneatre. A little boy ran out on the stage. Jenlo went to his hotel. He tried to read. "You don't love me, then, do you?” He went to bed, but could not sleep. He tossed, cold, and then feverish. A midnight hell rang out the words, "You do not love me, then, do you?’’ At last, he slept. He saw sev eral men carrying something, covered with a block shawl, on a litter. When the rae.n saw him. they put down their burden and hid their faces. He lifted the black covering and saw the mangled body of his l)oy. With a groan he awoke. “I must go home,' he said. “I will not wait until morning." He went to the sta tion. A train was just starting. He Would not suffer himself to doze. It was evening when lie reached home. As he neared his house he heard a man, in speaking to a companion, say that the hotly of the boy had not been recovered. “The little follow's father, they say, is away from home." "Yes, so I understand," Jenlo hurried along the street, “My God!" he suid. "Is that u hoarse til frout of my house? No, it's a carriage further down." Everything about the house was still. He shudd'-red as he opened the front door and enten-d the ball. Then there came a loud yell of delight, and bis toy bounded down Uie stairs "Thank tied!’’ exclaimed Jenlo, catching him In his arms: "thank God!" “What did you bring me?" “I didn't bring you anything, precious, but to morrow you may have anytblug you want." “I've had lots of fun slnee yndfve been gone," said the boy, while the father, in prayerful hap piness, Still prenaed him to his bosom ' I got a old cat up on the feoce and throw ed stones at her. and she unit at me. and said, 'Wow-os;' and Willie Katoorlc (Minched her with a stick, snd site spit at him and said. ‘Wow-cut er row ' " The quiet sleep of a thankful heart visited the fstbe. ihat nigut No midnight toll rang out liurning words A curly head rested on his arin; a face of street mischief In re|>se nestled close to his bosom "An ounce of lorvveotns! Is worth s pound of Vi* r " ' . Use Bi >wn' uiagsr. Kradsnck brown, ITiuasU. itdua. IbM. I ITEMS OP INTEREST. Six thousand singers participated in the re cent Hollandish Music Festival held in Amster dam. Minnie Hauk was one of the soloists. The Kansas druggists, who are required by law to get twenty-five women to sign their peti tions for permits to sell liquor, find that it is a hard condition. It is expected that the present session of the New Hampshire legislature will be the longest in the history of that body. Already it has lasted 102 days. As experienced hatter says one tall man buys more hats than three short men. Doors, and projections and roofs are destructive to fine hats on six-foot men. Luck has dawned on the Gloucester mack erel fleet. Last Tuesday six of them caught from 50 to 200 barrels each of what is termed the largest, mackerel ever landed at Gloucester. There is a highway crossing over the New York Central road, where 130 people have been killed in the last fourteen years, because the company was too stiugy to employ a watch man. A piece of rock was thrown 2,000 feet by a blast in shaft No. 9, Calumet & Hecla mine, in Michigan, and in coming down crashed through a house, landing at the feet of an old lady who sat knitting. * D. M. Hunter, of Mount Morris, Mich., owns a colt which has no eyes, having been born in that unfortunate condition. It is now over a year old, and rather more intelligent than the ordinary equine. All Chinamen were ordered to leave the new gold field at Clermont, in Queenland. on Aug. 1. The Chinamen are resisting with force. Several are getting good gold and decline to leave. Great trouble is anticipated, as the police are in sufficient. A carat of gold received its name from the carat seed or the seed of the Abyssinian cora flower. This was at one period made useful when gems of gold were to be weighed, and so came about the peculiar and now general use of the word. The killing of squirrels, prairie dogs, bears, mountain lions, wolves, and coyotes is quite an expensive item in the yearly budget of Mon tana. From Jan. 1 to August, 1887, that terri tory paid in bounties for the killing of the same $90,025 10. A covote in Walla Walla was attacked by an immense hawk that hit him fair on the hack of the head. The coyote would duck his head, then make a snap at the hawk, but could not reach it, and at the end of twenty minutes the coyote was trailing in the dust. The Vienna University was attended during the past summer semester by 5,456 students, 2,668 of whom were in the medical faculty, an increase of 879 over last year. The number of foreigners studying in the University shows also a steady increase, the United States furnishing 71, almost all of whom attended medical lec tures. Miss Daisy French, of Tuscola, has for some time been taking arsenic for her complexion. Her most intimate friends were not aware of it. Friday she took an overdose and was soon suf fering from the poison. She acknowledged the cause and a physician was summoned. The Erompt application of a stomach pump saved er life. An industrial canvass of 150 Maine cities and towns by the Lewiston Gazette shows that thus far this year there have been erected 1,000 houses, 25 school houses and a dozen churches, putting $5,000,000 into new buildings of all kinds; there are 50,000 persons engaged in pro ducing over $55,000,000 worth of goods, and already 145 new enterprises have been started. Two new fodder plants have been discovered in Finney county, Kansas. One is called the “branching dourra,” and is much the same in appearance as ■ the “rice corn," with which most Kansas farmers are farjiiliar. The other is the "teosint grass,” but looks more like com than grass. It comes from a small seed no bigger than a turnip seed. It is stated that the staiks or leaves from a single seed of it furnish feed enough for two cows or oxen for twenty four hours. The kingdom of Saxony is richer in railroads than any other German State, containing 165 metres of track on every square kilometre of ground, as against 54 in Prussia, 67 in Bavaria, 74 in Wurtemberg, 88 in Baden, 109 in Hesse, 105 in Saxe-Altenburg, 106 in Anhalt, 88 in Saxe- Weimar, etc. Saxony enjoys also the distinc tion of being the most saving of all German countries, 40 out of every 100 mhabitans being depositors in savings banks. In Prussia the proportion is 14 in 100, in Bavaria 8 in 100. There is now living within a mile of Kent ville, N. S., an aged colored man by the name of Elisha tourenee, who was on board the Chesapeake at the time of her encounter with the Shannon, during the American war of 1812. This individual was but an infant whose parents were cooks on board the ship, an i of course re members nothing or the fight. He nevertheless seems to think that he is entitled to some honor on account of his presence on that memorable occasion. Among the presents received by the young people at a recent Dakota wedding were the following: From groom to bride, one bull pup, one yaller dog, pair water spaniels and a pure meerschaum pipe with tobacco: from bride to groom, one good shotgun, one bowie knife, rifle and three dogs; from parents of bridegroom, one fiddle, one banjo, spotted pup and six ])ounds of tobacco: from Shotgun Club.of which the young couple were members, one English mastiff and a pair of silver mounted pistols. The oldest man in Ohio, and perhaps in the United States, was Lawrence Malloy, who died last Sunday at Sabina, Clermont county. The records show that he was bom in 1781, which made him 106 years old. He was born in Ire land, and resided there up to thirty-eight years ago, when he started for America. For the past twenty years he had been supported by his eld est daughter. He was the jrarent of ten chil dren, five of whom still live and are each over 40 years old. He retained bis faculties up to the very last. The Africans on the coast are far more in telligent than those in the interior. Just south of the Republic of Liberia there is a large swampy region which extends for hundreds of miles Into toe interior, and for many miles along the coast Whenever it is deemed necessary to penetrate this vast morass, which abounds in snakes, the natives simply rub the soles of their feet with garlic and oil. The scent of the garlic is too much for the delicate stomachs of the reptiles, and they crawl away as fast as they are able. This insures almost absolute safety. Little Maurice Bergeron was catching shrimps at Bruly landing. La., the other day, when a large alligator suddenly appeared near him and made an effort to throw him into the river with its toil. Fortunately the blow, struck with terrific force, missed its mark, and the boy turned to run for his life. .Vs he did so the monster made a savage rush at him. Coming out of the water, he seized Maurice by the leg, inflicting a slight flesh wound and tearing off a great portion of the boy's trousers Before the alligator could get a second hold ou the boy he had scrambled up the lauding and was out of danger. The weight of your signature may be ascer- laintvl by means of those delicate scales made for delicate tests in assaying. They arc adjusted to milligrnmnis. and are so sensitive and so One that an eyelash can be correctly weighed on them. You can write your name on a slip of paper with a lead pencil and then find out how much your signature weighs. The weights are the mere atoms of aluminum, not half so large as the head of a pin. The machine is so delicate that a little dust blowing in from the street might niTect its workings, and it has to lie care fully cleaned after each exposure. It is made of alunmlum. platinum, and the finest tempered steel. It costs as much as its weight in gold. From the Herman press the American Keg in ter (Vari*) gathers some particulars about the two Jernsalems in Frussiar—one near Ktargani, in i’omernnin. the other near Koenigstierg. The former dates from the time the Knights of St John and the Templars liail to abandon the Christian sovereignty in the Holy Land, and re tired to the Occident, where pious prince* offered them asylums and settlement*. Thu* it was that the Knights of 8t John went to Pomerania and built castles for the morn tiers of the venerable order, Hence also the origin of the village of Jerusalem near Htargard The statute* of the order required that each newly received kuight should make a pilgrimage to Jeruitalem, and !oce, under the altered clr oliruHtanees, a pilgrimage to the Holy Und offered great dlfflcuUle*. it 1* supposed that to carryout the letter of the statutes, the mem ber* of the order founded a place, to which they gave the name of the Holy City, and where they errected one or inure hoapi tala for the care of the *lek ami needy. The name of the aliovc named Ponieraiiiau H* tl*- t llhtgo wbtcii grew up at l iiol time remain* to thiaeday an historical retie Itiiseenco of tin' t>rd*r The assond of tliese tieruiau Jeruoalcius I* situated oo an elevation near k‘e'Uig*i<erg. and Is-long* totlie 1/jota-un-ht Hospital In that city, which was limit by a (sun meielatore of Ihi ( inter i hwmer von Anla-rg, 111 IWIi oa the otrength *4 a Vow Iliads- by him a lies, hard pi eased I* ou K ui hi* uuiuorou* last U*a in 1 BAKING POWDER. WEI GT/r'-'N, PURE pliers CREAM IJaking p QWDEP map£^ 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 Bbwder that does not contain Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Sold only in Cans. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO. NEW YORK. CHICAGO. ST. LOUIS. DRY GOODS, ETc] Exceptional Reductions IN Summer Goods AT tab & Dower’s, SUCCESSORS TO B. F. McKenna & Cos., 137 BROUGHTON STREET. FIGURED BATISTE CLOTHS. YIT'E will close out the remainder of our stock tt of these fine goods, formerly sold at 18c. a yard, now reduced to 12^c. 25 pieces Figured lawns. 33 inches wide, regu lar price 12V6c. a yard; now B>sc. 75 pieces Figured Lawns, choice styles, at3V<c. 50 pieces Wide Width Lawns, regular price 10c. a yard; now 6^c. One lot Crinkled Seersuckers, regula rice 15c. and 17c. a yard; now l*V£c. One lot of Dress Ginghams, choice styles regular price 12j$c. a yard; now 10c. 36 Imported Marseilles Quilt*, slightly soiled, formerly sold at $3. We will close the lot out at $1 85 each. Hosiery and Underwear. 100 dozen Unbleached Block and Colored Hose, regular price 12J4c.: now 9c. a pair. A mixed lot of Misses’ Fine English Hose, Ribbed, Plain and Silk Clocked, regular price of these goods from 25c. to 50c. We will close the lot out at 17c. a |>air. 50 dozen Ladies’ Gauze Undervests, regular prices 25c. and 35c.; now 19c. each. 35 dozem Ladies’ extra fine quality Gauze Un dervests, regular prices 50c., 66c., 75c. and 85c. We will offer the lot at the extraordinary low price of 47c. each. Onr Si Uolaandried Shirts Reduced to 9(k 75 dozen Gentlemen's Unlaundried Shirts, re inforced bock and bosoms, the best $1 Shirt manufactured. In order to reduce our large stock we will offer them at 90c. each. ORPHAN & DOONER. /.OYWEIS9CREAM. ZO^WE^Sa^CR^AM FOR THE TEETH Ts mole from New Materials, contains noAcMO Hard Grit, or injurious matter It is Pub*, Refined, Perfect* Kotdikg Lie* It Ever Known. From Senator Cosseshall.—“I tnkopleas ure In recommending zonwelsa on account of It* efficacy and purity.” _Fr°m Mr*. Gen. T.ogan’o Den tint, Dr, E 18. < nrroll, Washington, D. Cl— “I have bad Zonwcbi analysed. It lathe moat perfect denti frice 1 have ever Been." From Hon. f'fana. P. Johnson. Ex. I<t. Gov. of Jlo,-“Zonwelas cleanses the teeth thor* pughly. Is delicate, convenient, very pleasant, and leaves no after taste. Bold bt all dbuooist*. Price, S5 cento. Johnson & Johnson, 23 Cedar St„ N. T. For sale by LIPPMAN BROS., Llppman 1 * Block, Savannah. MKDICAL. Tlie niernhant planning business schemes, The preacher struggling through hi* them**, liu* hU teaman In u>nf*tnbly hal Ih ; Tlie liroker wild with "put* and call*." To i-ohf the [ihitel and br*/*e t he mind, W ill T \lilt % >1 b aBLTSEH safe BROU’S INJECTION. HY6IEWIC, lIiFALUBLE & PRESERVATIVE. • hire* promptly, without adoitpnisl treat lusnt, *U