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4 C|c Periling Hetos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. lAItJRDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, ISBT. Registered at the Post Office in Savannah. The W orm no N*ws is published every day in Che vear, and is served to subscribers in the city, by newsdealers ami carriers, on their own ac count, at 05 ’cents a week, $1 00 n month, $5 00 tor six months and $lO 00 for one year. The Morning News, l*y mail , one month. $1 00; three months, $0 SO; six months, $0 00; one year. $lO 00. The Morning News, ly mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue', three months, $2 00; six months. $4 00 one vear, $N 00. The Morning News. Tri weekly, Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays. Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, $1 25; mx months, $2 50; one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail , one year. $2 00. The Weekly News, bp matt, one year. $1 25. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent bv mail at risk of senders. This paper is kept on file and advertising rates may be ascertained at the office of the Ameri can Newspaper Publishers' Association, 104 Temple Court, New York City. Letters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning News. Savannah, Ga.' Advertising rates made known on application INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings—'Travelers' Protective Association. Special Notices— As to Hills Against Steam ship Elsie: as to Crews of Austrian Bark Sirena and German Bark Elena; Arcade Oyster and Chop House. T. H. Enright, Proprietor; New Shoe Store, A. S. Cohen; Grand Free Hunch, Charles Kolsbom <6 Bro.; Variety Bakery, John Derst. A Rake Opportunity—Newspaper for Sale. Steamship Schedule— Ocean Steamship Com pany. Enterprise and E.verge l.indsay & Morgan. Peanuts— C. M. Gilbert & Cos. Kippered Herring, Etc.—A. M. & C. W Weot, Auction Sales- Horses, Buggies, etc., by I. 15. Laßoehe's Sons; Furniture. Groceries, etc., 15. R. Kennedy; Elegant Household Furniture, by J. M cLaughlin & Son. OheapColumn Advertisements- Help Want ed; Epiployinont Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Personal; Miscellaneous. The governors of the New York Stock Ex change have again expelled Doremus. Ives’ partner. It won’t do for a broker to get caught twice. Chicago gamblers are betting five to three that the Anarchists will hang. They ought to be sent to jail themselves for gambling on such a chance. A banquet* tendered Gov. Hill at New- Imrg was, at his own request, a total absti nence affair. The candidate is called upon to make many sacrifices. It is said the Europeans in China stand tghast at the magnitude of the “American i oup” in that country made by Mitkeiwicz. The Americans may yet stand aghast as they contemplate their losses and the im possibility of recouping them. [Senator Ingalls says that with new issues the Republicans will win. But new issues nre just what they lack. They haven’t had any in twenty years, and no doubt would nominate the man for President who could invent a promising assortment. If all householders wero ns plucky as was Dr. Hornblower, of Jersey City, the other night, burg la is would perhaps not be so nu merous. The man with whom he had so desperate a struggle in his bed room put in his appearance at the hospital next morn ing with a bullet hole through his thigh. It is said Germany wants to exchange her wide possessions in New Guinea for the little hundred acre islet of Heligoland, al most in the mouth of the Elbe, so long held by England. But England likes to hold points of vantage over her neighbors, anil it is hardly probable that she will trade. Gen. Banks seems not to have been more successful as a bookkeeper than as a Gen eral. He has been United states Marshal of Massachusetts for several years, and his accounts are now in such a tangle that it is impossible to know how he stands with the government. His honesty is not suspected. The tire at Sanford, Fla., entailing a loss of §175,000, is a severe blow to one of the most energetic and self-reliant communities in that State. The business men of the town will no doubt go promptly to work to repair the losses which it has suffered, and they will not bo long about it, heavy as those losses are. Alabama and Tennessee are not to have all of the mineral boom to themselves. Large deposits of magnetic iron ore, es pecially suited for steel making, have been discovered near Dahlonega. Alabama and Tennessee ores are not generally suitable for steel, on account of the large proportion of phosphorus in them. Mr. Randall is talking about a letter which the President wrote to Supt. Fox, of the Philadelphia mint, on the eve f the Allentown convention, as of such a charac ter as to ruin his administration and destroy his chances for re-election if made public*. When he hears of the talk, Mr. Cleveland will doubtless give the letter to the press! Anarchist Fielden, in a speech shortly before the Haymarket tragedy, urging the people to violence, said that “the time has ootnc for men to strangle tin- law, or the law will strangle them.” The time has indeed almost come when the law will strangle him, and to that extent he was a true prophet. He has found that the law is a hard thing to strangle. If the last reports from Colorado are true, there are meaner men than Indians. It is now said Colorow was not on the warqiath at all and did nothing wrong, and that the scare was started to enable white men to steal the Indians' ponies, sheep and goats, of which they had a great number. The worst of it is that the scheme succeeded. This in formation comes from Commissioner At kins after an investigation. Miw. Pomeroy, mother of the boy con victed some yea:*s ago of soveral murders in Boston, in denying that she aided him in his rerent attempt to ew*a]ie, takes occasion to write of his goodness and her belief in his innocence. Khe is perhajMi the only person in the world who doubts his guilt, and her doubt is without reasou, yet there is some thing touching in her faitbfuluese to her child. But that is the way with women. The family Bible of tho Lees, giving their history for SOU years, was stolen from Ar lington during tiu* war. It has just lienn recovered in Maine, the widow of the sol dier who earned it away having seen an ad vertisement asking for information concern tug it. Its recovery is very fortunate, as. in addition to its own value from asaoristion and otherwise, it suppiim important lufor kutUmi which could be found now ia-ie else The Tax on Whisky. The plan upon which the proteetionisb| have apparently settled to reduce the rev enue of the government to something like, its needs is to abolish the tax on whisky and tobacco. They at one time seemed in clined to advocate n large reduction in the duty on sugar, but the fear of losing the votes of protectionist Congressmen from Louisiana seems to have caused them to abandon t hat idea. The arguments put forward in favor of abolishing the tax on whisky are that it is a war tax. ttiat it is contrary to the spirit of our institutions, and that, in its collection great hardships uro imposed U(ton the in habitants of remote mountain regions, who iind it impossible to haul the corn produced on their farms to the towns over rough roads, but who, by manufacturing it into the more compact and valuable form of whisky, can find a profitable market for it. To the first of the** arguments it is sufficient answer to say that in the vast sums appropriated for pensions and the in terest on the public debt we yet bear war burdens, and to the second that from almost the beginning of the government it has derived a portion of its income from internal taxation. It is the third argument, however, upon which the protection journals of this part of the country delight to dwell. Tiie illicit distiller is made the persecuted victim and the revenue officer who is trying to enforce the law a sneaking spy or brutal ruffian. Pathetic tales are told of the ioor moun taineer, forced by his necessities to disre gard a law which he would otherwise obey, though he regards it as a denial of his just right to turn his com into whisky, if he wishes to do so. Now, it is safe to say that no law on the statute book carrying with it such severe penalties for its violation has been adminis tered so gently as has that against, illicit distilling. Great numbers of offenders have been released on their own recognizance, and the sentences of those convicted have almost always been very light. The exceptions to this rule of kindness have been in the cases of old offenders who have shown that leniency was wasted. But even if the law had been administered as sternly as possi ble, should there bo any great sympathy for the man who violates it in the hope of safely filling his pockets! He knows the risks he takes, and deserves no sympathy if his venture turns out badly. The right to turn one’s corn into whisky is no more in herent than the right to spend one’s money where it will buy the most—that is in the cheapest market. The internal revenue law puts restraint upon the oue right and the tariff laws upon the other. In treating of the wrongs and sufferings of the hunted mountaineer who makes moonshine whisky, there is one point upon which the journals who demand the repeal of tiie whisky tax do not touch. They say he cannot haul his corn to market profitably because it is bulky and the price low, but is it not the margin made by the 90c. tax which makes it possible for him to haul whisky profitably over the same rough roads I Whisky is quoted in Chicago at $1 10 l>er gallon, of which 90c. is tax. Can the mountaineer, with his crude machinery and twenty-gallon still, make whisky, haul it over the rough roads so often insisted on, and sell it for 20c. a gallon! In all proba bility he would find it more profitable to sell the corn. It is plain enough that it is the tax which makes tiie moonshiner’s market, and he has no right to complain of a law as restraining him in the exercise of an inherent right when it is only the existence of that law which makes the exercise of the right profitable and therefore possible. A New Time Table. We acknowledge the receipt of a marked copy of The World's Advance-Thought , a newspaper published in Salem, Oregon, and devoted to Second Adventism. It is filled with articles and communications on the subject of manifestations, which, it is ar gued, show that tho second coming of the Messiah is near at hand. It is claimed that “a yvave” of such manifestations is now sweeping over the land, and is plainly dis cernible to those who lielieve in the Second Advent doctrine. It is now nearly a half century since tho Millerites set a day for the great event, and in order to be ready, many of them gave away their possessions. They* wore very sorry afterward that they had not arranged to take their possessions with them, as it was rather awkward to start life again witii only a thin ascension robe. It is probable that the Oregon cranks will have similar regret! if they do not heed the lessons taught by the experience of the Mil lerites. According to the Oregon (taper all mankind, without regard to race or creed, are called on to unite in soul-communion on the 27th of each month, and in order to have the praying done simultaneously, the pap% also prints what it calls “The World’s Soul Communion Time Table,” standard “time, 12 m., Salem, Oregon, U. S. A..” a.l gives a list of all the principal cities of the vorld, with corresponding time at tached. Savannah’s commune hour is 2:is p. m. Atlanta is not on the list, from which it would appear that it is either not one of the powerful cititios of the world or that its inhabitants just now have no time for soul communion. Mr. C. P. Huntington considers himselt a public Iwnefactor, and that ho has lieen very liadilv treated by Congress nnrl the press. Mr. Huntington forgets other things as well as what was meant when his agent wrote. “I believe 1 could pass our bill with #100:- 000." He forgets that this Congress which he reproaches has made it possible for him to accumulate a fortune of many millions in a few years. Perhaps, however, he looks upon that vast sum as honestly earned by* his own tramceudant abilities. He may be im mensely vain, as well us immensely woalt by. The leader of the Massachusetts Mug wumps. Mr. Everett, announces that lie will not vote for Lovering, the Democratic candidate for Governor, because the civil service plank in the platform does not suit him. As he doesn’t like the Republicans much, if any, better than the Democrats, and down t believe in throwing away his influence by voting for somebody with no chance of election, Mr. Everett must feel himself in an cmliarnuuingpredicament. A man can la* too nice in such matters. There is evidence of alarm in the llcpub llcaii camp in Ohio, A Chictunati fUipoKft can (siper says tbit the executive coin uiittcc in mismanaging the campaign and party intensrte are suffering grievously, Korukor in enough to leal his (tarty, with out any mismanagement, and if the He (Miblleniis have Pi struggle mi lor the weight of both, the Democrats ouglit to win witii case, even it Ohio is naturally a Republi can bluUi. THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1887. The Glenn Bill Substitute. - It is probable tliat all of the minority who voted against the substitute passed by the Senate for the Glenn bill did so lie cause they preferred the original bill, and not because they were opposed to any law preventing the co-education of the races. On that subject the white people of Georgia are a unit. The effect of the Senate’s substitute, if it is accepted by the House anil made a law, will probably be as great in preventing the evil at which it is aimed as would the Glenn bill, had it become a law. If this shall prove to be true, then the people will be satisfied with the result, and gratified that no harsher measure was necessary. The prevention of co-education of the races is what is demanded, not the punishment of anybody. It would be well, however, for those who have set their hearts on breaking down the distinction between the races, by forcing them to associate intimately as children, to learn that if mild measures prove unavailing, harsher ones will be resorted to. Indeed, however much the teaching of Republicanism, which the St. Louis Globe-Democrat seems to think part of the duty of the teacher of negroes, may be thought outside the proper curriculum of a school, it will not be interfered with where the school is supported by resources other than the State’s. The teachers may make Republicans of their pupils if they can and nobody will interfere, but they will not he allowed to pull down white children to their social level. Mr. Wright, of this district, made an aide speech in opposition to the substitute, but we think he was mistaken when be as sumed that the adoption of the substitute was in effect an abandonment of the constitutional prohibition of the co-education of the* races. The purpose of the substitute is to prevent co-eduoatior, and it is an open question, which can only be settled by experiment, whether the pen alties which it provides for its violation will not prove more effectual than would those of the Glenn bill. For some reasons it is easy to believe they will. The people who are advocating co-education are, many of them, fanatics who would jump at the chance of martyrdom on the chain-gang, but will hesitate to make a money sacrifice and shut the door to the propagation through their pupils of the leveling doctrines they teach. Even fanatics can calculate. All that Mr. Wright said as to the disas trous effects of the education of children in schools common to both races is true. To allow it would be the lieginning of the end of our civilization. There is a firm deter mination on the part of our people that such a beginning shall not be made, and the only question is as to the best means to be employed to that end. In the choice of the means, that should be selected which will be most effectual, without regard to the punishment which will be inflicted on violators of the law. It is no doubt an noying to have a lot of people among us, who consider themselves missionaries among barbarians, trying to turn the long-estab lished relations of the races topsy turvy, but it would not lie wise to allow that annoy ance to affect tho laws we make to prevent their purpose being carried into effect. Prohibition in Tennessee. The prohibition contest in Tennessee is becoming almost as bitter as that which lately took place in Texas. The politicians and the newspapers tried to keep out of it for awhile, but about all of them have now been drawn into it. The prevailing impres sion is that the Prohibitionists will be de feated. Anti-Prohibitionists are showing the mast skill in getting votes. They don’t make a great deal of noise, but they are doing a vast amount of effective work. Party lines are not drawn. Both Demo crats and Republicans are divided on the issue. As was the case in Texas the negroes, as a rule, an* against prohibition. Even their preachers, who can influence them in many things, can’t get them to vote against whisky. At the North the impression appears to be that in Texas the Republicans voted for prohibition. An analysis of the vote shows that all the counties which voted for Blaine voted against prohibition. In Tennessee the percentage of Republicans that will vote for prohibition will be much larger than that which voted for it in Texas. Tiie reason is that a larger part of the Tennessee Republicans lielongs to the better element of the people. The Tennessee Prohibitionists will doubt less come to the conclusion, after the con test is over, asthe Texas Prohibitionists did, that it was a mistake to attempt to capture the whole State at once. The Georgia plan, viz., to capture a State by districts and counties, is much the better one. Mis souri is trying the Georgia plan with every prosjiect of success. It will not be long before the Prohibitionists will have nearly every county in Georgia, and they hold the counties they capture. It is impossible to enforce a prohibitory law unless it is sup ported by public opinion. It is enforced in tiie Georgia counties because a strong ma jority of the people of the prohibition counties are in favor of it. It takes time to effect great reforms. The Tennessee Prohibitionists want to do in a day what, doubtless, it will take them years to accomplish. If they were to carry pro hibition by a narrow majority they couldn't enforce it. They will have to come back to local option, and they will be wise if they stick to it. Indian Commissioner Atkins has hope for the future of the mi men. He says that many of them are taking advantage of the law conferring lands upon them in sev eralty, acquiring the virtues as they had already many of the vices of civilization, and becoming good citizens. If the experi ment has resulted so favorably it should be extended. Leaving out the question of humanity, hunting wild Indians is a very expensive business. A Pittsfield, 111., man is said to have made a big luirrel churn on wheels. Ho goes through the country gathering the cream, and when he has secured the proper quan tity returns home. On the way home ho connects the churning gear, and as he drives along the churning goes on as the wagon goes along, and when he arrives then* is nothing to do but takeout the butter and draw off the buttermilk. The 14-year-old daughter of Absalom Buker. living in Wicomico county, Mary land, U nowin the forty -seventh day of a ft* t. Hbe lies in nn uunatural stupor, and can only be aroused by the agency of an electrid battery. Her case puzzles the physicians Our Civil Service Commission weems to have made fame abroad. British Civil N*r vice CoinmissloiMM* Sargent is in this coun try to gain infonnation for the improve ment of his own eoiiinilskion from its work I tugs. iViLijr be will loam what to avoid. CURRENT COMMENT. Burchard Not a Recent Convert. Froitl the Philadelphia Press (Rep.) These stories to the effect that the blundering Burchard hail joined the Democracy are mere passages from ancient history. Burchard was a first rate ftemocrat in 1884, and made a cele brated speech to prove it. It is Kansas, Not Georgia. 4*s*o m the St. Ismis Republican (Dem.) It is Fort Scott. Kan., and not Atlanta, Ga., which is now shutting out negro children from the public schools for whites, but the Republi can press lias wasted so much sauce on the Georgia goose t hat it . will have none left for the Kansas gander. The Real Way to Reform. Prom the New York World (Dem.) One important way to. reform is to stop the use of money at-popiitar elections: as has been done in England. That strikes at the root of till* evil. Its effect would lie felt immediately in tin* House of Representatives, the State Legis latures and soon in the Senate. BRIGHT BiTS. Hawthorne did not write his "Scarlet Letter” with red ink. It-eonthmes be read notwitli standing.—Bostirs VlulHetiiC* I '■ Like the policeman's, tiie grave digger's jot is not ,i Pappy one. In the pursuit of. grip calling lie is sure to find himself in a hohXcMßosfon Courier. “Procrastination" may be, as the poets in sists. "thief of time,” but" certain it is. it is one of the few friends that Mr. Jacob Sharp has now left. —Philadelphia Ledger. At a base ball game. "Is it a good or bad thing to lie nut, George?” "It depends entirely upon whether your mamma knows it or not,” George growled, in utter impatience. —Boston Transcript. City Hotel Man—How is the run of visitors this year? Summer Resort Man—Big. Tbe only objec tion is that so many of them run off without paying their bills.— Burlington Free Press, The New Hampshire lawmakers, like those in Massachusetts, refused to give municipal suf frage to women, but they also have just taken good care to protect mifk cans Reason why: The owners of milk cans have votes, women have none. —Boston Wamnn's Jonrna .. “Say, Watson,” said Bagley, “you know Jenks; what sort of a fellow is he? He has owed me a bill for over a year; is he honest ?” “Yes," said Watson slowly “Jenks is honest: there's no doubt about that,; but it takes him a long time to find it o>t. Boston Journal of Education. "Ah. my heart strings,” said bis landlady*, in a burst of confld -nee, seeking sympathy. “Ah, me! This is a cold, cold world I have been deceived, sadly deceived in my time.” “If you refer to that iast lot of butter,” said he gently*, “I don't wonder you feel so bad about it.” —Philadelphia News. The late Dr. Bethune once asked a morose and miserly man how he was getting along. The man replied: "What business is that of yours ?” Said the doctor: “Oh, sir, I am one of those who take an interest in even the meanest of God’s creatures.”— The Epoch. “A presidential campaign is approaching, isn’t it?" asked Mrs. McSwilligen. “Yes,” replied her husband. “Why do you ask?" 1 thought it was, for the word ‘slogan’ is making its appearance in the papers again,” said Mrs. McSwilligen, who is an observing woman. —Pittsburg Chronicle. At the Sunday School.— Teacher — William, what is the Golden Text to-day! William—Dunno. Teacher—lt is “Watch and—” what else? William—liunno. Teacher Think again. What did your papa do just before breakfast this morning? William (with animation)—Kissed mamma! How’dyou know i-Tul-Bits. “Well, Smith, I’m glad to see you out at last. You’ve had an awful long puli of it, haven’t you ?” “Yes, that’s so, and I'm grateful enough to that medical congress in Washington forgiving me a lift.” “Medical congress? Why, you haven’t been to Washington to be treated have you?” "No, but my doctor has been down there for nearly a week, and I'm feeling first-rate.’’— Springfield Union. A little dot of Duluth’s feminine humanity who had not yet learned to put all the corners" on tiie English language, went on a Sunday school picnic excursion up the liay this week At dinner she was given an adult piece of cus tard pie, and in her infantile gyrations suc ceeded in falling down and getting a plaster cast of her hand. Rising with ruffled feelings and disheveled locks, she lifted the unfortunate member to an attitude of invocation and ex claimed: '‘Mamma, take this cussed pie.— Duluth Paragrapher. PERSONAL. Mr. Gladstone has been holding forth at great length on horticulture. 51rs. Maggie Van (,'ott. who is said to have converted more than 30,000 people in the West, is now waging an unequal conflict with the sin ners in New York. Mrs. Moore, the “Sweet Singer of Michigan," now holds down a chair in a post office in the Peninsular district of that State, and appro priately twangs her tuneful lyre in praise of the Democratic administration. Mrs. Jacob Kevser, of B-tyant, Wis.. last week routed a sheriff and three deputies, who sought to arrest her husband for some petty crime. She procured a shotgun and a mule and chased the officers into anotuer county. Lady Henry Somerset, daughter-in law of the Duke of Beaufort, has created a considera ble sensation in Worcestershire with her "Gos pel Tent” and peripatetic preaching. Her lady snip’s oratorical powers are said to be of a high order. It is a French journalist, who asserts that Queen Victoria is about to publish a novel which sue has had in her desk for thirty years, anil which she lias been constantly correcting and revising. It is remarkable to what extremes French hatred of “perfidious Albion” is some times carried. Gun. Sherman has in bis possession, at his office in New York, tho original copy of the song "Sherman's March to the Sea.” It is beautifully written on the most ordinary kind of note iiapar, the verses oeiug separated by sketches, iu pen anil ink, of nags, stars and other national emblems. The daughter of ex-Mayor Harrison, of Chi cago, violated the traditions of her sex by get ting married on a Friday and wearing opals in her hair. Ladies will probably watch with much interest the fortunes of the bride, anil if she perse ceres in health and happiness a blow will bo given to a favorite superstition. Since the death of Joseph Gilley, on Saturday, Simon Cameron is the oldest surviving ex-Sena tor. lie was boru in ITIMI, ami is followed by ex- Senator James Bradbury, of Maine, born in 1805, Jefferson Davis, born in 1808, ami Hanni bal Hamlin, born iu 1809. Mr. Cameron served in the Semite with Messrs. Cilley, Bradbury, Davis and Hamlin. Mu. Blaine's two sons, who are citizens of Chicago, live at the Union Club, Of the two, Emuiuus, the elder, would attract tne most glances. Ills noariy white hail* sets off his swarthy complexion and black moustache. Ht* has the Blaine features. Both of the brothers go into society a good deal, anil Walker is essen tially ajaopuly man. 4- - ' VilrtiMV olfinCil Will I>4 offered the re fusal of dhe IlJlini Avrrtf rtoeSisiter. The Arch deacon’s present iii&rttie as canon of Westmin ster is su>, oo a j ear, ami us m la stiii in the prime of life, as well os being In some respects the most popular preacher in Loudon, Ids friends do not think he would like to make the change, unless he covets the leisure which he would obtain. I'aoK Mason, of (lie Null emu! Mil. nil), H(teak ing of the late I’rof. Hpcncer F. Baird, said: "Doyou know tout ihut great lug man. six fool and more, could not. make a speech? Even if nil its I oil to make a re. xinse to a i on of t hanks liefor.* one of our little scs ieties. v, ueiv lie knew every one, be Would tremble like a child. But take him in his private office w here he could ruck in his chair, and thru wouldn't he talk!" 51 ait v J. Holmes, the famous novelist, lives at Broekport, N. Y. .die is a woman alsuit no years of age and ehiidless. She is tall, erect and queenly in bar iM-.iring, and looks much younger limn she is in reality. She has written twenty-HiX'novels, many of wham have bad s i cry Rp. circulation. Her “ I'enif iest ami Ho a shine Mies passed through many e Hums Sin*. Holmes is u great render, bus- (raveled exo n lively ami Is fond of entertaining. Her house Al Broekport It filled wiib boons, picturea. statues, corn *iumtand brie-a-brao Ma*. John J Hadley and her daughter lllitre, Slits Cutter, of Grait 1 Haven, slid Mr* Stone, ot Poll Huron MD'ti., rein rued last week from a sixteen months' lour abroad, during which Grey visited nearly all countries and places of mterest in tourists Tletv Iravtded entirely un uitended by gentlemen, met witii no annoymice o oisiilt auywliep lu city or country, and dls covered full ladles can go about in fure|gu Ixnds al -as'Siable hours with (In- same free ftoiu as In this cot*airy, and poaaihiy with lass i hates* of ruileuM* or bsutg A and at than at hour. BORODINO AND GETTYSBURG. Modern Battles in Which a Great Number of Men Were Killed. From the Louisville Courier-Journal. It is not uninteresting to state what hare been the bloodiest battles of the last 100 years, that is, to compute the pe>centago of loss to the numbers engaged. Within the allotted time the Napoleonic battles come first. The battle of Lodi, Bonaparte's first brilliant success, was simply tbe daring passage of a brigade, and does not enter into the computation. Areola was the most sanguinary struggle of the Italian cam paign. The forces engaged numbered about 70,000, and the loss was about 25,000, or about 35 per cent. At Rivoli there were 80,000 men en gaged, and tbe loss was 40,001, but 20,000 of these consisted of Austrians who surrendered to Napoleon, so that the real loss was only 25 per cent. After Bonaparte's return from Egypt he fought tlic battle of Marengo. In its results this was one of the most momentous engagements in history, but all accounts agree that it was the worst planned and worst fought of all Bona parte’s victories. There were (10,000 men en gaged, and the loss was 17,0*10. or about 28 per cent. At the battle of Austerlitz. which by many is considered Napoleon's most brilliant victory, the French and Austro Russian armies numbered 210,000 men. and the loss was 10,000, or about 18 per cent. At Jewa-Auerstadt there were 326000 men engaged and the loss was 40.- 000, or about 12 per cent. At Borodino there were 170,000 men iu battle, ami 80,000 were tilled and wounded, amounting to more than 47 per cent, At lasipsic there were 500.000 men in the battle, which lasted three clays, and the loss was 110.000, or 22 per cent. At Waterloo 140,000 men were engaged, and the loss was 40,000, or 28 per cent. In the Crimean war there were 125,000 men at the b ttle of Inkerman. and the casualties amounted to 25,01). or 20 per cent. At Magenta there were 225,001 men: the loss was 11 per cent., or ahout ’25,000. At Solferino there were 250,000, and the loss was 40,000, or 16 per cent. At Sodowa the hostile forces numbered 425,000, and 70,000, or 1G per cant, were killed and wounded. At Gravelotte there were 450,000 men iu the encounter, of whom 35,000, v or about 8 per cent, we,re killed and wounded. At Shiloh the armies numbered 90,1X10, and the loss was 30,000, or one-third. At Fredericksburg there were 180,000, and the loss was 20.000 or 11 per cent. At Antiatam there were 150,000. and the loss was 00.0,0, or about 13 per nent.J At Chicka mauga there were 105100. and the loss was 30,- 000, or 81 per cent. At Chaneellorsville there were 150 000, and the loss was 30.000, or 29 per rent. At Gettysburg there were 160,000, and the loss amounted to 57,000, or 33 per cent. Thus the figures show that Borodino was the blood iest battle of modern times, with Gettysburg in the saoopd place. An Unsatisfactory Physician. From the Dakota Bell. Several years a young doctor named Mabee came out from the East and Settled in a small Dakota town to practice his profession. He had a diploma rroui one ot the best medical schools printed on sheepskin, which he carried around with him in a heavy block tin tube. He got but little to do. Most of the practice, was monop olized by a man named Daggett, who had been located at the place some time. Daggett did not follow any regularly recognized school of medicine, but pinned his faith to a poultice made on the “hide side of the skin of a black cat killed in the dark of the moon.” Mabee was at last himself taken sick. He got unite low and finally called in Dr. Daggett. One (lay after re had recovered he was waited on by a com mittee of the citizens, headed by the May or, who broke the ice by remarking. “Doc, we’uns have called on a little p’int which we reckon will be middlin’ interestin' to you." “All right—go ahead,” replied the young physician. “We noticed that when you got pretty sick you called in Doc Daggett to fix you up." “Why, yes, he came to see me once or twice.” “Y’-a-e-s, we seeu he did 1 Little bit skeered of your own medicines, we ’low?" "No. sir, but I was too sick to do anything for myself. That's all professional.’’ “It may be profess’nal, but it wont wash in these diggin's. young man 1 Her you been tell in’ all the time that old Doc Daggett wa'n’t no good, an’ poking at bis blaekskin po'litices, an' sayin’ that lnebby he would do rer cows and mules, but that he wa'n’t quite up to hosses an' persons yet, an’ when yer sick yerself the first thing you do is to send for him 1 Here you been pourin' yer liniment an’ condition powders an' one truck an’ "nother down us fer six months, but when you're sick yerself you're mighty glad to go hick to the good old ’ngiual catskin. Mil lions o' bottles of your stuff fer the rest of us. hut not a drop fer yerself That’s the kind of a doc you be! We’re on to your plan,and as cheer man of a committee of our leadin' cit'zens 1 want to warn you to move on! Git right out o’ town! A man what das'sn't take his own med’- cines can't dose the rest or us, not In this place!” An Isle Where Hurry Is Unknown. Xantvcket Letter to the Chieayo yews. In order to protect the Pennsylvania iron lords Congress has seen fit to kill the shipping industry of the Atlantic coast, and the, daring seameu of twenty-five years ago have been put into dry docks to rot at their leisure. Some have been obliged to turn pilots or fishermen, and others eke out a scanty living by taking summer boarders. This latter industry, the burden of which falls chiefly upon the women, is, iu fact, the principal source of revenue to the town. The ex whalers, who are all oil the shadv side of 50, enjoy as a rule a dignified leisure, smoking their pijies with much delilieration on the wharves, or in the old custom house, where they sit from morning till night sninning endless yarns of "the days that are no more." They are curiously bent and gnarled figures, with grave, weather-beaten faces, bow legged. stiff kneed, and often badly “out of plumb" by reason of rheumatism. For a con sideration of $1 an hour or $8 a day they will sail you anywhere you may like to go in their catboats, and if you are endowed with super human iwtience and a pocket-flask you may succeed in extorting from them a little of their own history and that of the island. There Is not a particle of American hurry ahout these old sea-dogs; they talk and move as if they had eternity to draw on. If time is money here, then the Nantucketers are the richest people in the world, for they have no end of it at their disposal. A Fish Yarn of Fifty Years Ago. From the Lewiston (Me.) Journal, “It was about fifty years ago," said Dr. M. Kendall, of Hnwdolnbmn. tile other day. “I was a youngster and play in von the bauk of the Kennebec 1 never shall forget it in my life how neat I saw a crane get a pickerel dinner. They were driving logs down stream. 1 watched a crane acting sort of funuy standing perched on one of the logs near the shore. I made up my mind to see what it was about, and hid iu a cltirno of bushes. The crane had a bug in his hill, and he kept dropping it into the current till it floated past him. and then grabbed it again and repeated the same performance. I couldn’t thipk what he was trying to do. He looked at me as if he was going to sleep. The old fellow kept the bug floating in front of the log for a half hour, when, all of a sudden, a big pickerel came up to the surface and made a dive for the bait. The pickerel was down the crane's throat In less than a seeond, and Mr. Crane flapped his wings and flew away. He took the bug in his bill, though. They look sleepy enough, but they know more than a good many people—how to get their bread and butter/' Strangle Suicide at Berlin. From the Chirapo News. On a recent Sunday, toward Hat night, a girl with a white pinafore, evidently a domestic set vant. walked with a young man along the canal side in the city of Berlin. Germany. The girl clinging to her companion's arm was evidently pleading with him In great agitation mid earnest ness of expression. Near a bridge the couple stopped and the man looked at Ins watch. At that moment the girl disengaged hr hand from his arm. and, with n most impetuous rush, but without t he utt ‘ranee of a single sound, jumped over the high battlement into the water. The man. apparently trying to follow her,seemed to {ret hurt ii|sm the parapet ami begun ci ving for ielp. Hundreds or people were upon the spot almost Immediately, but none of them dared to jump over the high In line Into the doep stream below, and when a boat was found und reached the spot ihe unhappy girl had sunk and th • corjise could not lie found. Her male com isuiion had taken advantage of th excitement, of the crowd and disappeared without leaving a trace. The Blacksmith. From Tut Hits. Oh, worlttnan of the brawny arm ABd the oron/od brow. Oh. say. Out of the hissing a el smitten stee What dost thou make today ? Dost thou un thin* an m (hi* time of peace To fail non the thirsty sword, Thai shall •’leave itaouurae without remorse In the I gitth* wrath abhorred Or dost thou forge, with fonts and Are, The terrible liayotn-t. Thai shall gleam at Ike frost and hear the brunt Whru the serrlnd bdw* are met ■ And I tie grs) loured workman paused In bis task. His heated brow to coal; He ebook his lipsd and "Ala* ’ Its aaid, "l tu making qfaw tar a units " ITEMS OP INTERE3T. A Hindoo wedding was a recent attraction in the Methodist church at Marion, la. I’rof. Gesei-schap will receive £25,000 for frescoing the cupola of the Berlin arsenal. A firm at Pottstown. Pa., is building an Iron bridge which will he shipped to China in sec tions. Ecrope’s population is 387,000.000, according to reports prepared for the International Sta tistical Congress. A sics horse belonging to the Sheriff's van has bean kept eleve i months by San Francisco at an expense of S!MO to the city treasury. A dog Iu Jackson, Tena., is trained to bark a chorus to a French harp awl does it to a queen's taste. He is in the habit of taking a daily bath. In a divorce case at Lafayette, Ind., one wit ness by agreement,i was sworn and gave his tes timony by telephone, being too busy to attend court in person. America now holds the championship in lawn tennis, croquet, prize-fighting, chess, base ball, yachting, trotting and several other fine arts of minor importance. An apple tree at Woodbowine, Sullivan county. N. Y., is fourteen feet five ami a half inches in circumference, fifty feet in height, and has been bearing fruit for seventy years. Within forty years the per capita consump tion of whisky in the United States has decreased 50 per cent., the consumption of wine has in creased 40 per cent., and of beer 700 per cent. Tho eightieth wedding anniversary of Manuel Barriant, of Matamoras, 111., was recently cele brated. The husband is in the best of health at 102, while the wife enjoys the same blessing at 96. D. M. Hunter, of Jit. 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 ordi nary equine. A submarine tumjel between Scotland and Ireland is again lieing discussed. The latest proposal is to run the boring from the Mull of Cantyre to Fail- Head in Antrim, about ten miles' distance. Johns Hopkins University holds 17,000 shares of Baltimore and Ohio stock, which ha* steadily yielded $136,000 in income. The institution may really be much crippled by the depreciation of this investment ' - The royal forests must go. A gentleman writes to Truth protesting against the gates of Windsor forest being locked against him, for which, as a tax payer, he pays taxes. The gates will doubtless open before long. A lady on the steamer Suevia, just in from Europe, gave birth during the voyage to twins— a sea-born, lusty boy and a pink mermaid of a girl. The lady's husband is in Hong Kong, whither she was journeying to join hiui. A violin maker in France, much of whose goods find their way to this country, says the instruments cost him 90 cents each, and that the profit he has iu selling them to the trade at the rate of $1.12 each is satisfactory to him. Chetopa, Kan., has a gentlemen's club. Each member pays $3 a month to the manager, and he buys liquor in barrels, bottles it, and al lows each member so many bottles per month. The County Attorney is now after the manager. A crazy woman, who was agent for a book on the lunatic asylums of the country, struck Vicksburg, Miss., a few days ago. She entered the telephone office, chased all the telephone girls out. and shut off telephonic communica tion for an hour. Roanoke College of Salem, Va., lias oponed with every indication of an uniLsually success ful year. Students come to Roanoke from great distances. Some are from Utah and some from Mexico, and the Choctaw delegation is to re ceive several additions. Down in Douglas county, Missouri, there are three children whose aggregate weight is 623 pounds. They are all girls, aged respectively 14, 12 and 9 years. The mother weighs 170 pounds. On each hand of tlie two younger chil dren are six fully developed fingers. A prisoner before a California court lately on a charge of murder was permitted to retire in company with a deputy sheriff to a neighbor ing saloon wbile the jury was deliberating. He is said to have returned intoxicated, and in this condition he ird the verdict of manslaughter passed upon him. The watermelon fleet is a great institution in Chesapeake Bay. It comprises about eighty vessels. The season opens about the first week in August, and for nearly two months the bay is filled with these boats loaded down with melons. They carry from 2,000 to 8,000 melons each and give employment to several hundred men. Capt. Jack Crawford. ex-United States scout, explains that among scouts and the braves to wear long hair is considered a mark of defiance to the euemy and is interpreted as meaning, "Here is my scalp, with a convenient handle to it, come and take it If you can.” A short-haired man, he says, is looked upon as a coward. O. W. Mathewson, of DeKalb, 111., has a tame maltese rabbit which will fight most anything from a mouse up to an elephant. It recently had a bone to pick with a hound. Waiting until the hound was wrapped in slumber, it quietly approached, jumped on the hound’s back, and made the fur fly in a maimer which would be a caution to rats. The day before the solar eclipse the following advertisement of a restaurant keeper appeared in the Weimar Deutschland: “I shall be on hand on the Bareuliugel early to morrow for tbe solar eclipse with a fine cut of Mocha and a •stiff grog. A delightful panorama of al 1 the surroundings, including roost sausages. If de sired, card tables will be ready." The white topaz found near Pike's Peak is almost equal in value to the diamond. Not many people know this; but St. Louis man found a topaz on the banks of the Platte river this summer and sent it to a lapidary in New York to have it cut. It weighed 828 carats, and the lapidary sent back word that he w ould give SS(H for it. The. offer was refused. There seems to be an agricultural reaction from the West, to the East predicted by judges of farming land. In proof of this the town clerk in a town near St. Albans, Vt., has re ceived a letter from an lowa farmer inquir ing for farms, and announcing his intention to sell out and return to the Green Mountain State, confident that he can better his con dition. Some of (he toriest Tories have been attempt ing to boycott Lord Kandolph Churchill aud Lords Fevershaui and I-ondesborough refused to preside ni a meeting at which Ixird Kandolph was to speak. The Tories in North Hunts boy cotted the Liberals to a degree never attempted in Ireland. Laborers who would not wear the Tory colors could not get work and a Liberal traveler couldn’t get food for his horses. In Guadabajara. Mexico, a young man, Ros endo Velez, mounted a horse in front of the door of his house. The animal reared aud threw its rider on the hard pavement. Velez carried in his breast pocket a dagger without a sheath In falling the blade of the dagger entered his breast and was driven through one of the lungs. He raised himself from the ground, pulled out, tlie weapon, and fell and died in the presence of his family. Among the valuable stage • ’proper!leg” burned in the St. l-oiiis Grand opera house flrc, was the straw crown and the sw *rd used in the crazy s tone In’ Lear.’’ It w.s the one last used by Junius Brutus Booth, and that, too, the last time ho was on the stage, at New Orleans. Such things are generally thrown away, but it had been tossed ill with Other stuff to in' loaded on the boat Mr. Booth, it will Is- remembered died on the lioat coming up the river The Prussian army list forldW contains two field marshals, the Crown I’riuce und Count Moltke; llft.v nine cavalry and Infantry gen erals, seventy six lieutenant generals and Ilf major generals. The cavalry staff consists of fifty five colonels, unity elgnt lieulruantcolonels and AH majors, and In the infantry staff there are 181 colonels, 174 lieutenant-colonels arid 7txi major . The number of officer* shows an increase of Silty-Six at compared w ith year “SAritso' concerts of opera lioutTe mtici..’ amt popular win ;s are to Isi suppivsted by sx|ioriH in New York. I’niprietorn have lawn arrested liofore, but succeeded m a* •ibg their discharge lieeanse the oflhs rt ivnild not swiwr the muele iierrormed was not sserek Now the lusistetor lui |-e •taiPn employed on (lie wink Men in the departui. il' wuo snow music, have Im-n de tailed to these places, aud no matter wltai the programtiut says. Uu-y can sweat p.iiiv. ly to a cofupowltl 111 witwu they hear It When it M considered that many of whai at* now r •garde-1 as standard saeretl . ouijioetUoiis are from op nrss by It-iwdni, Verdi, b.,„w,-u. Itclllui sod .<yrull.rH omopmsm at lUm I tells,i school, the; ham i tor drawing tnu JisktucUutts u coat as qtfd" BAKING POWDER. f-'TOU. WElOgj^s CREAM Used by the United States Government. En dorsed by the heads of the Great Universities as the Strongest. 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