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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER *5, 1887.
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Special Notices —Home Again, H, G. Ganaltl;
Notice. B. Roth well: Miss T. M. Wards School:
To the Public. Ccliat Bros ; Townsend is a Can
didate for Work.
Imported Robes. Etc — At Eckstein's
Educational— School for Boys, John A.
C’rowther. Principal.
New Goods—A. R. Altmayer A Cos.
Men's axd Boys' Clothino— Menken A Abra
hams
Read Carefi li.i —Marshall A McLeod.
Reed Oats. Etc. W. D. Simkins A Cos.
Fashionable Clothing— B. H. Levy A Bro.
Notice op Dissolution. Etc.— Mendel A Bro
('heapColumn Advertisements— Help Want
ed: Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale;
Board; Personal; Miscellaneous.
A New Departure— H. A. Dumas.
Rargains— At Platshek's.
Floral Exhibit- Savannah Floral and Art
Association.
Back in the Old Stand— Edward Lovell A
Sons.
Mixed Picki.es—Davis Bros.
New Goons—Schreiner's Music House.
Desirable Goods— J. P. Germaine.
Being asked if he favored prohibition,
Gen. Butler answered that he was willing
to “swear off" if everybody else would. The
General is nothing if not diplomatic.
Mr. Huntington says he never put any
thing in a letter in his life of which he was
ashamed, except bad spelling and bad gram
mar. This is not the first instance of
a man being proud of his sins and ashamed
of his weakness.
Gen. Butler thinks the principal part of
the revenue ought to be raised by a tax on
incomes. If a law to that effect were
passed, the hardest thing in America to find
would be an income. The increase in the
number of poor men would lie frightful.
The Republican papers during the last
few days huve had a great deal to say about
the danger of a panic in the money market.
How, since the Secretary of the Treasury
lias taken measures to' prevent such a panic,
some of them are calling him the cat’s paw
of Wall street. They are hard to satisfy.
Henry George is no more apt to capture
Democratic voters than Republican,anil the
Republican papers and politicians of New
York, who are doing everything they can to
aid hipi. may find out too late that they
have helped strengthen a dangerous politi
cal delusion, without even temporary ad
vantage to themselves.
It shows a proper state of public feeling
in Philadelphia that there is no opposition
to the re-election of four Judges, whoso
terms will soon expire. They have made
fine records, and though all Republicans,
their nomination will be indorsed by the
Democrats. This action will speak as well
for the Democrats as for the Judges.
It is now said that Foraker expressed the
opinion before he went to Philadelphia that
he would be snubbed by the President and
his wife. He was not, though he deserved
to be; but he is so hard up for a campaign
issue that he allows his friends to misrepre
sent what occurred.' His conduct is even
beneath the level of his former meanness.
Announcement is made of the approach
ing marriage of Senator Hawley, who is
getting to be quite an old man now, to Miss
Edith Hornor, of Philadelphia. Miss Hor
nor is described as a very superior lady and'
a professional nurse, having served in the
English hospital corps during the Zulu and
Egyptian campaigns. The approp riateneas
of the match is generally commented upon.
Mr. Randall is out in Illinois, associating
with the revenue reform Democrats of that
region, particularly of the Iroquois Club.
He has an opportunity to learn a groat
many things while out West, and as he is
an observant man, he may come home in a
tractable state of mind as to reduction in the
tariff. He will learn among other things
that there are a great mauy Democrats out
side of Pennsylvania.
Prohibition, or some other influence, is
causing Americans to drink less whisky.
The figures of the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue show that the quantity distillod
has gradually declined for several years, the
decrease last year amounting to about
4,000,000 gallons. The consumption of beer,
however, has increased, which is perhaps
explained by the fact that it is mostly drunk
in large towns, few of which are affected by
prohibition laws.
The threatened suit over the will of the
eccentric Peruvian Savilla, who recently
died in New York, has iieen averted, and
his relatives and the city, not the lawyers,
Will get lii.s money. The money willed to
the city is to bo used in founding
an institution for the care and edu
cation of indigent children, and amounts
to about $.500,000. Such an institution will
have a great field for usefulness, and New
York is to lie congratulated that a settle
ment of the disputed will lias been reached,
which will insure the speedy erection of the
building.
Fred Douglass lias teturnod from Europe
and when he reached his borne in Washing
ton was given u reception at wli ich 2,000
colored people were present. One of the
speakers advocated Lincoln aud Douglass
as Uie pro|>er names for the Republican
Presidential ticket next year. Douglass is
one of the distinguished men of that party,
and but for th? reason that the Republicans
are not honest In disclaiming any preju
dice against negroes, he would stand a fail
t hanes of the nuiuinatson for Vice Preei
den*. If he should lie nominated ho would
b*- deflated Am mauy itepnblioaus would
tvfuae to vote (or hint a* would Democrats i
ttbder similar cuvuiustoncc*
The Plea For the Anarchists.
The petitions to Gov. Oglesby for a par
don or a commutation of the sentence of
the Anarchists have now received many
thousand signatures, and others are being
aided every day. It is a matter of conm.oi.
knowledge that, under ordinary circum
stances, a petition is worth little as evidence
of the opinions or wishes of its.signers. This
fact has lieen made the subject of many
amusing newspaper stories, which illustrate
the good-natured carelessness with which
most men when requested to do so will affix
their names to papers of this character.
But these petitions in favor of the An
archists are not surrounded by ortlinary
circu instances, they are extraordinary, and
the signatures probably represent more
nearly thau usual the sentiment of the
signet's.
The offense for which these men are con
demned to death stands alone in the crimi
nal history of America, and its peculiar
features, instead of palliating its enormity,
as sympathizers with them contend, really
aggravate it. They are condemned for a suc
cessful conspiracy to murder,but murder was
only an incident—the real conspiracy was
against the State. It was a deliberate at
tempt to turn over to the mercies of a fu
rious mob, for pillage and rapine, one of
the largest cities of the country. The claim
that the conspirators were less culpable be
cause they attacked the existing order of
society and considered themselves fighting
for the good of the people, shows a strange
confusion of mind in the man who makes it
as to the relative duties of the citizen and
the State. By thosame method of reason
ing any crime against established authority
could be excused if its author pretended to
have a political object.
Tho point about the efforts to secure a
pardon for these murderers which im
presses the thoughtful observer, however, is
the exteilt to which their friends have suc
ceeded in convincing laboring men that the
condemned felons are representatives of
their class, and are about to die as martyrs
in their cause. That they have met with
such success is evident from the action of
several labor societies, representing thou
sands of workingmen, who have
adspted resolutions condemning the
manner of the trial and its result as
unjust, They have also contributed money
to aid in the defense. If these demonstra
tions of sympathy were confined to
foreigners, who come to this country
thoroughly embittered toward all govern
ment by the hard couditions under which
they lived in Europe, they would, perbajis,
mean very little. But it seems they are not
so confined. Many Americans have joined in
the movement, and it is made significant by
their doing so. Does it indicate that as our
society grows older and richer it is dividing
off into sharply defined classes, a member of
either of which will think of himself rather
as one of his order than as a citizen of the
country? This ig unfortunate if it be true.
If there is any man in the community
whose interests would be more injured than
another’s by the success of the Anarchists’
schemes, he is the workingman. He cannot
be prosperous without tho steady employ
ment which orderly government renders
possible. Even the fear of disorde. will les
sen his chance to sell his labo profitably,
and an actual outbreak of large proportions
would make it impossible. This
being true. and the purpose of
the Anarchists being to throw the
whole country into confusion and disorder,
the claim that Spies and his comrades
are the champions of labor is preposterous—
they are peculiarly labor’s enemies.
It is to lie hoped that Gov Oglesby will
be strong enough to ignore the clamor that
is being raisod around him, and that in re
viewing the case ho will consider only the
good of society and the evidence iu the
case.
The Situation iu Ireland.
The determination of the British govern
ment to suppress by force of arms, if neces
sary, the ugitatiou so long carried on in
Ireland, naturally attracts a great deal of
attention in this country. Emigrants from
Ireland and the descendants of emi
grants form a very large part of
our population, and from thateieinent have
arisen many of the men who have figured
most largely and most honorably in our
public life. These facts account in part for
the sympathy manifested for Ireland in tho
long struggle with English oppres
sion, and which has now reached
an acute stage. But they do
not account, for it wholly. Another reason
for that sympathy is that Americans see
that the struggle in Ireland is for the prin
ciple of home rule which they recognized as
among their own ehiofest blessings, and for
a form and spirit of government modeled
on and inspired by their own. It
is nominally a fight against excessive
rents, in tiie first place, and for the control
of exclusively Irish affairs by the Irish
people; but it is really an attempt to abolish
the last remnants of feudalism and give
every man the chance in the world to which
his industry and good conduct entitle him.
It is a question of the people’s inherent
rights against the peculiar privileges with
which certain classes have been invested.
The position in which the British govern
ment finds itself is a very trying one. It
represents the conservative, landowning
and aristocratic classes of England, who
naturally feel that concessions which will
weaken tiie same classes in Ireland will react
on themselves. They also feel that the
Protestant coionv in the north of Ireland
has never become thoroughly a pari, of the
Irish nation, and tiiat it would be oppressed
if home rule were granted. This l'ear is
probably unfounded, but it has weight, uo
doubt, with mauy voters.
On the other hand tho government must
be aware that the course it is pursuing, so
much opposed as it is to modern ideas of
government, is strengthening tiie cause
of Ireland among Englishmen, who see in
that uniiappy country a suppression of
popular rights which they would not tol
erate for a moment if practised toward
themselves. The result of recent elections
seems to indicate that tho
verdict of the last general election will be
reversed ut the next, and that, by tho aid
of English votes, Ireland will be given all
tho liberty necessary to her i>eaceful anil
prosperous development. The recent affair
at Mlteliellstown, and the harsh treatment
of Lrish leaders, cannot hut aid in the revul
sion of feeling in England against coercion
timt will tiring ultout tho acceptance of Mr.
Gladstone’s programme.
The latest argument use 1 in favor of par
doning the condemned Chicago Anarchists
is that if they are haugod til nr friends will
sack the city in revenge. The law would lie
a contemptible lh tig if it were only ex
ecute! when there was no pi Host against
It• decrees fro ii tb” criminals whom it af
farted It is the criminate who should be
afraid, not tin law-abiding.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2.5, 1887.
A Language Common to All.
It is no doubt true that the bars put up
by differences in language have had a
greater effect thau any other cause in keep
ing distinct from each other the nations of
the world. Discussion would probably
develop differences of opinion as to whether
this division into separate peoples has ad
vanced or retarded - civilization, but the
question would be purely a speculative oue,
as since history liegan the division has ex
isted.
It is true, however, that to a very great
degree a man’s sympathy is confined to
those jxwpie of the world who speak his own
language; that knowledge and useful arts
have not spread among all people so quickly
as they would lmd there been a world’s
speech, and that the absence of this speech
has contributed to those nationnl antipa
thies which periodically break out in bloody
wars. Whether the energies which have
l>een aroused by national rivalries and the
necessity for national defense have achieved
results for good to counterbalance these
evils is an open question.
What brings up the subject at this time
is the frequent appearance in the newspa
pers of references to the latest at
tempt to popularize such an universal lan
guage. It is the invention of Prof. Johann
Martin Sphleyer, of Baden, Germany, and
is called ‘‘Volapuk.” It is said to bo based
on English, as the language spoken by
the greatest number of civilized
people. to be absolutely regular,
and therefore easy to acquire. Its vocabu
lary, though not yet large, is capable of
expressing almost any thought, and the
scheme of the language is such that when
the need for anew word arises it can be
readily supplied. Another feature is that
all sounds are omitted which the people of
any European nation find difficult to pro
nounce—such as the German “eh,” the
French nasal “n,” and the English “w.”
Withal, the language is described as sono
rous and pleasing to tho ear.
Prof. Schleyer’s is not the first attempt to
construct a language tie novo w hich would
become universal, but it seems to have at
tracted more attention than any previous
effort. Volapuk is said to have already
been acquired by hundreds, if not thousands,
of persons in Europe, and several news
papers are printed in it, principally in Ger
many. Meetings have been held of those
interested, and a sustained effort may pos
sibly be made to extend its use.
But it will be wasted labor. When one
thinks of the history of languages he must
consider the attempt absurd. Men learn a
language for the business of life, and those
who are acquainted with more than one,
except in rare cases, have been forced by
their necessities or interests to undergo th
labor of acquisition. Even when one people
has been thoroughly subjugated by another,
aud the conquerors settled down among the
conquered, their language has not been lost.
Volapuk will prove an admirable toy to
amuse idle people, hut, however commend
able the idea in which it originated, it
cannot come into general use.
The Danger of Cholera.
The arrival of a cholera-infected vessel at
the New York quarantine station will
quicken into fear the uneasiness long felt
lest this dread disease should again effect a
lodgment on our shores. It lias done so
more than once, and claimed many thousand
victims. In the last two or
three years it has visited France,
Spain, Italy, Egypt and the Mediterranean
islands. It is a contagious disease, and
spreads along rivers aud highways of travel.
The strictest quarantine and sanitary meas
ures are necessary on its approach, and even
these have sometimes failed to stay its
progress. They are, however, the best
means which can be used, and cities in
this country which are at ail exposed
should resort to them in time. The New
York authorities will doubtless do all that
is necessary to prevent the spread of infec
tion from the Alesia’s passengers, but the
danger will recur with the arrival of every
vessel from Mediterranean ports. Too great
vigilance cannot be exercised.
Tiie Chicago Tribune speaks of the “dis
courtesy,” “Lai breeding,” “weakness” and
“female spite” of “Madame Cleveland” in
administering a “malicious cut” to Foraker
because of his “stalwart and manly defense
of the Hags.” It takes an immense amount
of partisan prejudice to enable a man to
honestly apply such epithets as the above to
a lady of the character an l position of Mrs.
Cleveland, especially after reading the state
ment of Committeeman Simmons, himself a
Republican, who deuied that the incident
complained of occurred. But the Republi
cans are desperately anxious to save Foraker
from the effects of his folly.
Lieut. Zalinski’s success in blowing a
schooner into splinters a few duys ago with
his new dynamite gun was so complete that
suspicious Republicans are uovv saying he
had practiced for weeks to get the exact
range of the vessel, and that the Secretary
of the Navy is in collusion with him to
udvance the interests of the gun company.
Tho Lieutenant indignantly denies lioth ac
cusations. His accusers evidently think the
Navy Department is run on the same prin
ciples it was when the head of it was a Re
publican, but they are mistaken.
Janies Hunter, a prominent business man
and brother of the Treasurer of Philadel
phia, whose forgery of the names of numer
ous friends to business pa|ior created a
grent sensation several months ago, has
been traced to Mexico. His family now
admit having had knowledge of his where
abouts all the time. It is not stated why he
preferred Mexico to Canada, where ho could
have entered a much larger and more dis
tinguished social circle.
The attempt to evade the Maine law by
importing liquors anti selling them in the
original packages will probably fail, as it
ought to do. A matt in Augusta has just
lieen convicted of “maintaining a common
nuisance” who was carrying on tho busi
ness. The case will be carried to the Federal
courts, but they will hardly interfere
with the State’s attempt to carry out its
laws by a strained interpretation of the
Federal revenue laws. The case will be
watched with interest.
A group of oil brokers standing near the
entrance of the smoking room of the Ex
change in Oil City, were much agitated the
other afternoon when a black snake drop
)h*l down among them, and several' wore
quite sure, for un instant, that they “had
'em." The snake was real, and had escaped
from the private collection of a huloou
keeper.
The iiale of the French crown jewels is
said to have netted a I newt ♦l.’ssi.isio The
historical heirloom- remaining iiiwoold. ami
remind for the Je>uvrn Museum, arcntid to
Ui worth nearly doubts that suu*.
CURRENT COMMENT.
What the People Want.
From the Boston Globe (Dem .)
Progressive Democracy is what the people
want, and they are looking to the Democratic
party for' it.
Union with the Socialists Would be
Fatal.
From the Vric York Graphic (Dem.)
It looks some as if the McGlynn-George party
would fall to pieces of internal dissensions and
its own weight; and if it makes the slightest fu
sion with the Socialists its destruction will be a
mutter of a very short time.
There is not a Fair Division.
From the St. Louis Republican (Dem.)
The chronic labor discontent In the Eastern
centres of protected industries tells its own
story. Labor does not get its share of the trib
ute exacted in its name and for its benefit. It
passes into the protected employers’ hands and
there it remains.
BRIGHT BITS.
Ticket Agent—Sonny, how old are yer?
Fifteen-year old boy Where do yer mean?
On thor railroad or ter home* —.Judge.
Colleges do the best they can for young
men. They teach them what to think and
how to think it. They furnish everything the
young man needs, except brains.
The time of the year s approaching when we
will not look upon the inventor of the gauze
undershirt with the same reverential respect
that we did a few weeks ago. -Detroit Free
Press.
Now they are forming a “beef pool,” in the
West. With this hint to guide them the dairy
men certainly ought to bet up u milk pool sooit.
They would probably put too much water in it.
however.—Cleveland Lender.
Proud Mother (haughtily)—You allowed your
self to he won altogether too easily, Edith!
Edith—l suppose I did. But as Albert is rather
bashful aud lam nearing 30, I thought it only
proper to make it as easy as possible for him.—
Harper's Bazar.
Miss Racivif.kf. Oh, uncle, which is the best
horse in this race?
Uncle- -Oh, the one that wins, my dear.
Miss Racimore—Then we’ll have a bet, and I’ll
have the best horse. My size is five and three
quarters.- Judge
Daughter (watching Die seagulls) -Do the
seagulls accompany us all the way across,
mamma?
Mother—l know two of them that do, my dear
your father and your uncle James. They are
down below now playing poker with strangers.
—Beta York Sun.
A Prof. Crocker has taught a horse to sit
down on his haunches without lying, “a feat
which is said never to have been accomplished
before.” Man still has the bulge on the horse,
however. The former can sit down without
lying, or be can lie without sitting down, or he
can sit down and lie at the same time.— A’rtrrt'*-
town Herald.
Wife-What are some of the requirements
necessary to make a successful poker player,
my dear!
Husband (thoughtfully) Well, a tnan must be
cool, calculating, crafty, deceitful, selfish,
sly and have a touch of meanness in his dis
position.
Wife (shocked) 1 shouldn't think you would
care to piay with such people.
Husband—Oh, 1 most always win.—Pttcfc.
“Are you well acquainted with Mr. Rigsby?"
"Quite well. He is employed in the same of
fice with me.”
“I think he is such an interesting young man.
lie is alwas so melancholy. He surely must
have suffered some great disappoitmeut.”
“Yes, he has."
“Oh, how romantic. How was it?”
“Why lie expected a raise of salary on the Ist
and didn't get it.”—,V ebraska State Journal.
There was a difficulty among the singers,
and, it being rumored as a settled fact that the
choir would not sing a note on the next Sab-
Isitii. the minuter c mimenced morning wor
ship by giving out tir hymn of Watts', “Come
Ye Who Love the -Lord.” After reading it
through, he looked up very emphatically at the
choir and said: "You will begin at the second
verse;
‘Let those refuse to sing
Who never knew our Lord.' ”
They saug the hymn.— Musical Herald.
All Arranged. Omaha Dame i reading) — An
Albany watchmaker, to whom a watch that
had been.dropped overboar l on a fishing excur
sion was taken, found that some of the works
were so badly rusted th.it they were useless.
If. said he, you had dropped your watch in oil
as soon as you took it out of the water, or. bet
ter yet, had dropped it into alcohol or any kind
of strong liquor, it would have cost you nothing
but the cleaning.
Husband (musingly)—Well.well! Never though;
of it.
“Never thought of wKat dear?”
‘ You know (hat during the fishing trip I am
going to take 1 might get excited while pulling
in a big fish and upset the boat."
“You can swim?”
"Yes, hittniv watch would get wet.”
“So it w ould.”
"Yes. I'll just take a jug of strong liquor
along to drop it into."— Omaha World,
PERSONAL.
St. Louts is going to have a bronze statue of
Bryan Mullanphy, the philanthropist of that
city.
Frank Jakes, the ex-bandit, is to close his
corner grocery in Texas and become a salesman
fur an Atlautu house.
A translation of Daudet's “Sappho"—a story
not hitherto welcomed by English readers—is at
last to appear in this country.
Minnie Palmer is about to return to her
native land. Stu will appear in a brand new
play and SOO,OOO worth of fresh diamonds.
ltr. Hon. W. 11. Smith will be elevated to the
peerage during the Parliamentary recess. He
will, it is said, take the title of Baron Smith.
Edmund Dwvkr Gray, M. P., for Dublin,
editor and proprietor of the Freeman's Journal,
will leave on Sept. 20 to make a tour of America.
W. K. Vanderbilt, the Duke of Norfolk and
Lady C'oliu Campbell were recently noticed as
the occupants of a restaurant table at Buxton,
Eng.
Mrs. Henry Chambers, of New Albany, Ind..
lias fallen hir to one third interest in the Featk
erlugill cusllii, in Spain, worth in pord money
si,duu,ouo.
M. Waiters, the Belgian artist, is alwmt to
marry a Print- -ss de Cuirnay. and the King of
ihe Belgians is going to give the husband the
title of Huron.
“Pittsburg Phil,” who lias become one of
the leading plungers on the American turf, is a
Istyish looking young man of 21. His name is
George E. Smith,
David Kirk claims to have discovered Duncan
S. Karus, t iie funner Butler county oil king and
founder of Karos ('ity, keeping" a saloon at
Florence, Colorado.
Billy Florence used to say that ho could re
tuemlicr titty different instances when men had
set up $5 worth of wine for him iu Older to get
a dollar pass into the theatre.
Thk late Mrs. Anna Paul Hendricks of Madi
son, la., was the wife of the first Govemoro!'
that hf ate. He was atone time United States
Senator, and she rude to Washington on horse
back with him and sat by his side in Congress.
An old school house at Dwight’s Crossing, in
Massachusetts, was burned by an incendiary on
Tuesday. It had been a place of historic inter
est from the fact that the late Henry Ward
Beecher preach**! his first sermon in it while at
tending Amherst College.
(ieoKui: Renault, grandson of the late Clem
ence Deiuionico, wid >w of Lorenzo Delnionico,
-•I New York, applied for letters of administrs
tion upon lus grind mother's estate. Alene
Renault, the dauguter of Mrs. Delmonico, has
renounced all churn r<> letters of administration,
and they will U* granted jointly to the pen
tioner an* 1 Marie Miege. The personalty is val
Ue* I at $35,000.
Mic hael Katkokk. the great Russian editor,
only a few months iiefore ids death wrote these
unkind things of France: “Away w ith a nation
that does not U iieve in the Almighty, a nation
ineap.hle of defending it seif, and which sur
renders to an enemy in hundreds of thousands.
The Frenchmen ot the present lay are a do
praved body The priNient Frenchman U con:
jtosed of nothing hut words."
Dn. Mork?a Mackbkeir has earned the
knighthood c mftrrad upon him for his service
in attending fhe Crown Prince of Hermany
H* was nearly made ill by his work on the ease,
and once while he was engaged in clearing foul
matter from the throat of his patient the latter,
through nertoiis pain, hit him *avag*lv in the
finger lie feared |sioiinif at first from this
bite, hut no s tloiih result* Lavs so far resulted.
Lii.i.ik Dkvkmacx Bi-wak was on hand at Phils
*h lpli.a as usual, and placed in th* Praai 1* tit's
hand a proles! Iroiu the National Woman * Huf
fmge Ahh.m-iiiikhi a <airut "the unjust mterpte
t lit loti of the ( oosUtot ion " The |*a j<ei reminds
I fie Tniilti||f. (lie Uuvernor* and other FadersJ
and Kfite oflleiaL Dial one half of the peopin
who otey the lm of (tie I'ulUd Mate* ale Uli
f*> I) dw* tat all phi*or |Mit In the body p.dut* j
*’*• Whs midst of i'm* pMiii# and glories <if H U |
•*** elation," says the pr-aeot, wo men *j# cot y
unlouhors. vUimsm and uuraprc—uUd. 1
UN IQUE HOSPITALITY.
A Boston Woman Who Compelled a
Caller to Take a Bath.
From the Providence Journal.
Mrs. Y. is a brilliant Boston woman of abun
dant executive ability, shrewd wit, and delight
ful hospitality. The exigencies of her hus
band's business led to the beeping up of an
establishment in the West, where Mrs. Y. passes
some months of the year, and where she enter
tains a great many people. One day there was
brought tb Mrs. Y. the oard of an English gen
tleman, accompanied by a letter of introduc
tion from friends of the Y’s abroad. The host
ess went down stairs and greeted the guest
cordially.
‘•We are so accustomed to travelers here,”
she said, "that we know just w hat to do with
them. We expect everybody to arrive travel
stained and exhausted, and' we let everybody
take a bath the first thing. I spoke to the ser
vant before coming down, and everything is all
ready.”
“But,” stammered the stranger, "I cannot
think of putting you to so much trouble. I-—”
"Oh, I know just how you feci,” interrupted
Mrs. Y. "A bath is the only thing that restores
me to my normal condition when I've been
traveling, and you have come right through
from Boston.”
The guest demurred, but Mrs. Y. was too
executive, and too truly hospitable to allow his
scruples to prevent the carrying out of her
kindly intent. The Englishman was shown tip
stairs to the bath room'where it is to be pre
sumed he combined with the progress of his
toilet, reflections upon the originality and prac
ticality of American hospitality.
In due time the guest descended again to the
pai lor, where Mrs. Y. awaited him.
"I hois; you found everything to your mind,”
she said.
"Oh yes,” he replied. “I have had a delightful
bath; and now I must bid you good afternoon,
as 1 have to catch a train."
“What?” cried his hostess aghast. “You are
not going?”
“Unfortunately 1 must. 1 only stopped over a
train to call on you.”
“Mercy!" she exclauied, in dismay. “I
thought you had come to remain. Aou cer
tainly cannot go away when I haven’t seen you
at all?”
“I really must," was the reply, but I assure
you I have had a most refreshing bath, and I
shall always remember, with sincere pleasure,
your unique hospitality.”
The story was too good to keep, and Mrs. Y.
told it at her own expense, greatly to the
entertainment of her friends, who declared that
this fashion of entertaining callers was one
which deserved to be widely introduced, as it
would solve many a perplexing question of the
proper method of disposing of guests who were
not easy to amuse.
NO BLOODLESS DUEL THIS.
A Kentucky Joke that was Very Ser
ious to George Schroll.
From the Pouisxille. Courier-Journal.
George Schroll and Peter Rohs, who work at
Senr. & Bro.’s brewery, ate next-door neigh
bors. Owing to some trouble which arose be
tween their families some time since t hey had
some words, and the hard feeling grew harder
on Scbroll’s part. Someone conceived the idea
of a sham duel, and the practical jokers, taking
Rohs into their confidence, proceeded to carry it
out- Rolls sent a challenge, which was accepted
bv Schroll, and the seconds were appointed
from among the jokers to arrange details.
Double-barrelled breech loading shotguns were
selected as the weapons, and the place and time
decided upon.
All concerned except Schroll knew that only
blank shells would be used, but he took it all in
dead earnest. He made his will and spent much
of his time in discussing the approaching event.
Before adjourning to the ground a litter was
obtained, as was also a bottle of bullock's blood.
Accompanied by t he seconds and about twen
ty friends, who went to see the fun. they re
paired to the grounds. The distance was marked
off and the guns loaded with the blank shells.
The word to fire was given, and two reports
rang out simultaneously. Schroll of course,
stood unharmed, hut was horrified to see Rohs
drop to the ground. The second immediately
ran to Rohs’ side and poured the blood con
tained in the bottle over his breast.
Schroll started to run, but was captured and
taken to the spot where Rohs lay apparently
lifeless, and weltering in his blood. Schroll
howled at the deed he supposed he had com
mitted, and begged to lie allowed to leave. His
fears were allayed somewhat by the witnesses,
who told him he could not be punished. liecause
it was a duel, but would have to submit to ar
rest.
He was then hustled off and paroled before a
policeman, who was acquainted with the na
ture of the joke, and Rons remained in hiding,
so that Schroll would think him dead. Schroll’s
first knowledge that the affair vras a practical
joke will probably l>e when he sees this paper.
Gambling Stories.
From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
“This is my forty-seventh summer in Sarato
f;a," said a Wilmington gentleman who had just
ost s3’? at roule; te in the club, "and the tamest
in the lot for gamblers. Why, I saw John Mor
rissey aDd Ben Wood play a faro game in (S3 all
night. Everybody else had gone. The town
clock Ix'gan to strike fl, and Morrissey stopped
shuffling the cards and counted. 'One, two,three,
four, five, six! This is my last deal., Wood
looked up at him with tears in his eyes.although
he was $125,000 ahead of the game, and asked:
‘John do you think it’s fair to beat a poor fellow
like me this way?
"The next day I came across Morrissey on the
old United States piazza and asked him Who the
greatest gambler in the world was. ‘Ben Wood,’
he answered."
“Oh, yes,” said Albert Spencer, "t at was
thirty years ago, but what would you think
now if you should see a man het $40,001 on the
turn of a card in baccarat? Krank Huntoon
didtlmt not two months ago in New York at the
Carlton Club. Why, they play there for the
biggest stakes in the world. Yes. ho beau them
all. and he’s a tine looking fellow, too; stands
six feet four inches, with muscles like an
athlete, bright blue eyes, brow n hair, and the
graces of a Chesterfield. But you should see
him on a lark! My, but he makes things move.
He fills the ]jockets of his overcoat with silver,
and throws it broadcast like a farmer sowing
his grain. I saw him one night in Koster &
Bial s. on Twenty-third street, treat 500 fellows
to champagne, and the next day he told me
that after paying for 200 bottles he received
another bill for 108, said to hat e been opened
the same night I’ve seen him yield to Bacchus,
and throw his money at the waiters us though
it were corn and they chickens,”
When asked about European gambling, Spell ■
cer said:
"Oh, I have seen every type. But there goes
a gentleman," pointing to ex-Sheriff O'Brien, of
New York, "whose brothel- Larry broke the
bank at Baden Baden twine in one evening. In
1873, the last year gambling was allow ed in tier
many, Baden Baden was us full of people as
Saratoga is now. Larry was a good chap; big
hearted and brave, ready to give the last cent to
any one who needed it more than he. A child
could lead him. hut a bully or fighter found him
a demon to deal with. When I saw him at the
German Spa he may have beeu 23, but looked
7. I shall never forget the look M. Blanck
gave him when he was pointed out as the
American who wanted to play an unlimited
game against the bauk. The stiin the bank put
up was $20,000, with Slid the limit. O'Brien
told Gen. Van Alen’s son, now living at New
port, that he wanted to bet without limit, and
to tell the French fellow so. Van Alen explained
the case, and presented let fry. The game com
menced, and in half an hour O'Brien broke the
bank, bis bets being $5,000 each. Lurry rolled
the $20,000 winnings into his pocket, and for ull
of fifteen minutes the proprietor sat staring at
him. At the end of thut time another $20,000
liank wus announced by the dealer, and at it
Larry bueked. It succumbed to his luck in less
time than the first had been won. M. Blanch
was dumbfounded, ami when lie emphatically
refused to open another unlimited game, the big
crowd left the house, and for many days Larry
was the lion of the town, as no such luck had
been known since a Russian, years before, had
broke up the place.’’
A Visit From the Sen
Far from the loud sea lieaches
Where he goes fishing and crying.
Here in the inland garden
Why is the sea-gull flying?
Here art* no fish to dive for;
Here is the corn anil the lea;
Here are the green trees rustling
Hie away home to seal
Fresh is the river water
Arul quiet among the rushes;
This is no home for the sea-gull.
But for the rooks aud thrushes.
I’itv the bird that has wanderedl
Pity th* sailor ashore!
Hurry him home to the ocean,
let blui come here no morn!
High on tin* nee cliff ledges
Tlie white gulls are (moping and erylng,
Here among rooks and I'Sies
Why is the sea gull flying'
- ltosKßi Ijn is Krevsxso*.
A mu, on the piopisal to adopt the Free
Urban Act In York. Kuglaud. was taken re
eeutly the restiii Is-lag ii. 016 for amt t.HJ against,
showing a majority against of S|? A |>ii was
isitMi la I*l. wht- thars was s majority of l.tMi
agoluat I pea-is of gVOnn which had baen
aui>*crti>4 toward* a free library, wiU aow be
ivttuuod tv the subscriber*.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Hemiy Ward Beecher’s statte is to be
i placed in a park not far from Plymouth church,
1 m Brooklyn.
The pay of a bull-fighter is good. Fraseuelo
gets $40,000 for killing his Spanish bulls in the
j Colon arena this winter.
The first advertisements known of in England
were in the shape of small bills affixed to the
doors of St. Paul’s Church.
The first Italian lady who sung in public in
England was Francesca Margherita de l’Epine,
who appeared in various operas in 1093.
Carriages were first introduced into Eng
land in 1380. and were for a long time used
only for the conveyance of the sick and of
ladies.
Twelve hundred birds of different kinds
dashed themselves against the light of Cape
Ray lighthouse, near St. John, N. F„ Sept. 17,
and were killed.
A California newspaper has suspended, and
its owner gives as a reason that the real estate
boom has robbed him of his entire staff, in
cluding the office boy.
Sunset Cox says the utter idleness in which
the ladies of the Turkish harem are pictured as
passing their lives has ceased, and habits of in
dustry huve invaded the harem.
After the poultry house of Willis Perryman,
near Boune Terre, Mo , had been nearly depop
ulated, he tried rat poison, and found the next
day in his hennery a dead bull snake of enor
mous size.
The first striking clock was imported into
Europe by the Persians about the year A. D.
800. It was brought as a present to Charlemagne
from Abdella. King of Persia, by two monks of
Jerusalem.
The centennial of the actual establishment of
our national government in New York occurs in
April, 1889. It will soon be in order for New
York to call upon the country for subscriptions
to celebrate it.
Vienna has granted to the neice of Mozart,
who is penniless, the princely pension of $1 25 a
menth. Evidently the country thinks a great
deal of her. and is afraid she' will emigrate if
she gets a bigger allowance.
When lightning struck Baxter Vaughan, of
Strother, Mo., it cut a hole like a bullet hole in
his hat, ran around the rim, then down his back
clear to his heels, tearing off in its entire course
a narrow strip of skin, and yet Mr. Vaughan
lives to tell his strange experience.
Two men were captured at Albuquerque, N.
M., recently, who were traveling over the coun
try with a two-horse wagon, carrying a com
plete counterfeiting outfit, and sowing spurious
gold and silver coins wherever they went. The
counterfeit S2O gold pieces bear the date of
1860.
An apple tree on the farm of Capt. T. ,T.
Williamson, in Pleasants county, Va., which has
borne fruit for a number of years, has never
been known to blossom. This year the tree is
again full of fine large apples, the strangest
thing about which is that the fruit has neither
core nor seed.
Writing recently from the Oratory, Birming
ham, to the editor of the Cambrian, Swansea,
Cardinal Newman said of his famous hymn,
“Lead, Kinaly Light," that it consists of three,
not four stanzas: and that the fourth stanza is
not authentic, but an unwarranted addendum
by another pen.
There lires in Troy. Mo., a little girl about 8
years old whose head is almost an iron gray,
and it is steadily and perceptibly growing
grayer, and the present indications are that long
before she reaches womanhood her once raven
black hait will have become snow white. Fright
caused the change in c olor.
A tall eight-day clock, formerly belonging to
Commodore Vanderbilt’s grandmother, is now
owned by Mr. Cross, of Waverly, R. I. Old
Mrs. A anderbiit used it as a savings bank, and
took from it SIOO to start young Cornelius in
business. That money was the foundation of
the \ anderbiit millions. Mr. Cross married a
daughter of the Commodore, and the old clock
was a share of the homestead furniture.
Uncle Peter Sarchett, aged 87 years, of
Brazil, Ini., was much suprised a day or two
ago to find his sight fully restored to what it
was in his prime. In the infirmities of age he
had lost it to such an extent as to lie unable to
read unless the type was large and distinct, but
on thejdav referred to he found himself able to
read from the smallest type with ease. He is
physically a fine example of temperate life and
happy age.
Da. John Vansant of the United States
Marine Hospital at St. Louis claims to be the
first to have taken photographs by the light of
fireflies. He placed twelve fireflies in a three
ounce bottle, covering its mouth with fine white
bobinet. The average duration of the flash of
pach insect was half a second, and the lumin
ous area on the abdomen was about one-eighth
of an inch square. The time of exposure was
fifty flashes.
In some parts of California the Indians gather
a certain poisonous plant in great quantities and
throw it into a pool or brook where they know
there are trout. Then they whip the water with
branches until the jnice of the plant exudes.
The result is that large numbers of trout be
come stupefied and come to the surface, where
they are easily captured. Such a proceeding as
that is calculated to make the hair of the en
thusiastic arnrier stand on end.
The centennial of Huntingdon county, Penn
sylvania, was celebrated on Sept. 20; the
borough of York wiii honor the 100th year of
its incorporation oil the 23d and 2ith. and Sus
quehanna county will in October celebrate the
centennial anniversary of the first white settler
in the territory of that courty. York became
a borough three days before Huntingdon count -
was organized, and York had the honor of being
the capital of the nation from 1777 to 1178.
In Kentucky, a few days since, a young woman
died, and when her father sought to secure bur
ial for her no undertaker in the county would
give his services, ulthougli payment was ten
dered in advance. The reason of the refusal
was that the husband of the dead woman, who
had been married but three months, had not,
paid a debt of $73 incurred in the burial of a pre
vious wife, and the Undertakers’ Protective As
sociation said that the bill must lie paid before
any or its members would take charge of the
remains.
Dr. Holur, the African explorer, after being
plundered by savage tribes, has arrived in Eng
land with ins collection. This collection—a
wreck only of what was gathered by the indus
trious explorer—fills 117 cases. In t there are
002 skins of quadrupeds ready for stuffing, of
which 70 are of animals as large as the koodoo—
an antelope heavier than the red deer; of birds
there are 2,221 specimens, of insects 27.00(1. in
cluding 21,000 beetles and 3.000 moths and bu‘-
terflles. There are are also fi,so specimen.. of
plants. There are 1.000 recorded observations
in meteorology, and more than that number of
the measurements of elevations.
ANew York photographer prints a circular
containing the following advice: “When a lady
sitting for a picture would compose her mouth
to serene character, she should, just before en
tering the room, say 'Bosom' and beep the ex
pression into which the mouth subsides. If, on
the other hand, she wishes to assume a distin
guished ami somewhat noble hearing she should
say, ‘Brush,’ the result of which is infallible
if she wishes to make her mouth look small,
she must say Flip,’ but if the mouth bo already
too small and needs enlarging, she must say
•Cabbage.’ If she wishes to look mournful, she
must say -Kerchunk;' if resigned, she must for
cibly ejaculate ’.S eat.'"
A writer about messenger boys, in the Boston
Punt, who does not believe that “the limit of
their talent has yet been reached,’’ tells the fol
lowing story: "I met one the other day lugging
a big-eyed and very much astonished baby, evi
dently not a family connection of his, which, on
questioning the hoy, 1 learned he was to deliver
at a certain bAise not far distant. For him this
was all in the regular line of his business, and
he went about It in a solemnly practical wrv
that was quite admirable. Ido not think he
loitered with this burden on his hands As for
the parent who Intrusti and the baby to this meth
od of carriage, he or she must have a confidence
In the security of the messenger service that is
nothing less than heroic. Yet I do not doubt
that the baby got there safe.’’
The lost reliable census returns, those of IHW)
and IMH!, show only four cities in Kuro|ie ami
one in America with over 1.(XV),000 Inhabitants',
They are: London. t.TM.W!; Paris, X.M'.i 0: •
Berlin, 1,1 ,JKV); Vienna I.lOH.H*i7 and New
York. 1,4*i..V.i. Besides these there are lour
cities in Asia Canton, Toklo. Pc lon and Nankin
that are ostimaind each to contain over l.fihi
ddl) inhabitants, lull the accuracy of I til* .<• nsfl
males is doubtful The area or U.tid n which
contain# the above named jsipolatlou is altoul
twenty sis mile* square A similar area In
chided in Uie city of New York Would have
glvwn II tn lean* population larger thin Hint oif
Paris The uen*u of Ittto win probably slow
that Brooklyn aid Philadelphia each ionium
more than MU i-opb . wuh ( iik-ago ebme
up to Uia' |eii#ii AI any thin* like the prwa*iii
r*<> of prugre a. liy rLv **4 ,4 me ty Imf
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