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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER SO, 1887.
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—lie Kalb Lodge No. 9, I. O. O. F.;
Workingmen's Benevolent Association; Col
anthe Lodge No. 25. K. of P.
Special Notices.--As to Crew of British
Steamship Watlington; As to Bills against Brit
ish Steamship Albania; Kindergarten; Miss
Cunningham.
Steamship Schedci.e— Ocean Steamship Cos.:
General Transatlantic Cos
Amusements—“A Heorine in Rags'' at the
Theatre.
Furniture and Carpet Emporium— A. J. Miller
Sa Cos.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Help Want
ed; For Sale; Miscellaneous.
Henry George is speaking at agricultural
fairs in New York, and the fanners cheer his
speeches lustily. Most Now York farmers
are Republicans.
Madame Otto Goldscmidt, whom Ameri
cans of a generation ago went almost crazy
Over as Jenny Lind, is said to be in almost
a dying condition. She has lived long
enough to see herself almost forgotten.
It is Mr. Huntington’s opinion that a great
many Anarchists and Socialists are in pub
lic office, and that they want to rob him.
Mr. Huntington, probably, counts a great
inany things as hisown which others do not.
In the large cities cable cars are gradually
taking the place of horse cal's. The system
is being rapidly extended in Philadelphia.
Where a large business Is done, both time
expense are saved by the use of cables
rather than horses.
Parsons, the condemned Anarchist, in
his last communication with the outside
world, says that if he lives he is bound to
bill the State. He is making it as hard for
Gov. Oglesby to show him mere/ as possi
ble. His foreign comrades* re much more
tractable.
Anew play by Mark Twain, a sort of
sequel to that in which Col. Sellers so long
made people laugh, has been produced in
New York. It is not very kindly received
by the press, one of the newspapers being
cruel enough to say that it is like the ex
planation of a joke.
Ben Butler says that though the Confed
erates threw tons of bombs at him he is
asked to embrace them. The General must
have misunderstood the invitation. We
are convinced that there is not a single
Southern white man who wants to lean
against his prominent bosom.
The ranks of naval officers are very much
crowded, and the government ought to
jump at the opportunity of thinning them
out a little by dismissing from the service
the young fellows who have been distin
guishing themselves by their antics while
drunk around Washington lately.
Henry George is very anxious to make a
joint campaign tour with Gov. Hill, but ho
will have to forego his desire. Gov. Hill is
too shrewd a politician to lend importance
to the land theorist by meeting him. Mr.
George will have to rely on his own resources.
Which seem to bo considerable, for at
tracting attention.
Dr. McGlynn was the first martyr in the
cause of land confiscation. It has proved a
liieasant sort of martyrdom, which (jays in
fame and dollars. Observing this from afar,
the Rev. Hugh Pentecost has determined to
be the second. It looks now as if he will
buve his desire, as the members of his church
ift Newark are rebelling against his devo
tion of time and energy to the Henry
George campaign, and are likely to turn
him out.
The imposture of Mrs. Ford, whose story
ef having lost three children, whom she
fninutely described, at' Jersey City, was
pointed all over the country, is certainly
one of the most remarkable on record. It
Items to be proved by the newspapers that
the woman never had any children, but the
luan whom sh accuses of having stolen
them is still in jail. 'Hie woman is proba
bly a lunatic, but it is hard that her delu
sion should cost an innocent man so dearly.
As the time draws near for the Minneapo
lis Convention it becomes more probable that
Mr. Powderly will be indorsed by a very
large majority of the 250 delegates. The
opposition manifested to him is confined ni
ftiest entirely to the large cities where the
(Socialists are strong. He has no use for
them or their doctrines, and they naturally
want to get rid of him. In the opinion of
the public, as well as of the Knights of
I/ibor, Mr. Powderly is better suited for tho
place he holds than any man in the order.
The announcement that the Macon Tele
graph will hereafter lie n hearty supporter
of the Democratic policy represented by the
President and Mr. Carlisle will be hailed
pleasure by a majority of the people
among whom it is published, and of Georgia
generally. The Democrats of the
fcitate aro for Cleveland and reve
nue reform. The success of the Telegraph
in the face of this sentiment has been re
markable. Tho conduct of the pa]>er has
heeu peculiarly aggressive and able, com
pelling respect and ‘admiration, even from
those who scouted the economic theories
hich it lias been its princi|ial business to
advocate and defend. In the retirement of
Maj. Hanson and Col. Lamar the Georgia
press loses two of its strongest
writers, The readers of the Telegraph
ire fortunate in that the faille
pen of Mr. Edwards will still minister la
their delight, and Mr. Edwards is lucky id
(giving an opportunity to plaster the wound
lie has indicted by hi* vigorous swinging of
lie protection club during the last lew
years. Not every man gets such a chance
to retrieve hie pm* l **!*"*.
Sectional Issues.
Of the hatred once existing between the
North and South, grow ing out of the war
and the long political contest preceding it,
hardly a vestige remains. In this part of
the country at least it would tie hard to
find a man who would not be ashamed to
acknowledge that any paid of it remained
in him. On the frequent public occasions
when v eterans of the old armies which op
posed each other in the field have met, the
display of friendliness has been almost as
great as if they had been comrades of one
army. This is all well and proper. It in
dicates the. state of feeling which really ex
ists, and is therefore honest.
At the reunion of the blue and gray
which took place last week at Evansville,
Ind.. the feeling manifested was the same
which has so often been shown whensnialler
numbers of the old combatants met. The
men were no longer enemies, but friends.
A number of distinguished officers of both
the Federal and Confederate armies were
present and letters were read from others,
in reply to invitations to take part in the
reunion. Two of these letters, one from Gen.
Gordon and the other from Senator Cul- j
lorn, were printed in the last issue of the
Morning News, and it is to the contrasting
sentiment of these letters that attention is
directed. Gen. Gordon writes in the hearty,
enthusiastic strain which is natural
to him. There is nothing, in his
esteem, so much to be desired as a complete
reunion of tiie once warring elements, and
that they be welded together into a “com
mon brotherhood as sacred as truth and as
enduring as time.”
Senator Cnlloni does not write in this
strain. He remembers that he is a Repub
lican office-holder, and that his party yet
relies’upon the old sectional feeling as the
main source of its strength. He is careful
to use the term “rebel” in his opening sen
tence, when the managers of the reunion,
some of them as faithful Federal soldiers as
himself, had avoided doing so. The men
to whom the epithet was applied
were probably not offended, because
it has so long been misused that
it has lost its meaning. The
Senator then goes on in a guarded and
qualified way to express his approbation of
movements to make our nation a union of
hearts and of hands, as well as of States—
provided it can be done without sacrificing
any principle for which the Union armies
fought, and with a proper display of grati
tude toward Union veterans*. Nobody can
object to the Senator’s provisos. Southern
people no longer believe they have a right
to hold slaves, nor that their States can
secede from the Union for any cause. They
know that these questions were settled irre
vocably- by the war. They are satisfied with
the settlement, and would not change it if
they could. So much for the principles for
which the Union soldiers fought.
As for gratitudp to those soldiers,
it cannot bo said that Southern jieople enter
tain any great amount of it. Really, it
can hardly be expected under the circum
stances. But they do not cherish any en
mity toward them, and recognizing the
fact that a great deal of gratitude and cash
were due them from the nation for the,
thorough performance of a very big job, in
lieu of the gratitude, they helped to vote
them the most liberal pensions the world
ever knew of. The old soldiers were proba
bly satisfied with the cash. Beiug again
a part of the nation, ex Confederates were
willing to hear their share of its burdens,
whether they got any of the benefits of the
money voted away or not.
In view of tbeso facts it must be painful
to patriotic Republicans who really- love
their whole country and not merely a part
of it, to be forced by party exigencies to
maintain a strained attitude of suspicion
and to be constantly- making preparations
to lieat off an enemy when there is no
enemy
The bitterness between the old combatants,
as has been said, lias almost disappeared,
but the Republicans, by diligent endeavors,
have kept alive enough suspicion
in the North of all things Southern
to be of very considerable influence on elec
tion days. They have, however, been
obliged to pay a heavy price for this ele
ment of strength. It has made their party-in
ideas, as in locality, a sectional party. It can
be fairly said that when tho average Re
publican says National lie means Northern,
while ill the mouth of a Democrat tho word
retains its proper meaning.
The State’s Railroad Property.
Tiie special committee of the Legislature
appointed to investigate the property of the
State road has made a very full report.
The facts which it ascertained, and the
recommendations it bases upon them, are
very interesting. The nine acres owned by
tiie State in Chattanooga and Chickamauga
are estimated to he worth $1,050,000, ami
upon this property the lessees of the State
road have paid taxes to the amount of S9O,
(idO 55. The committee recommends that
the land in Chattanooga be divided into
small lots and sold, and in the event it is
not considered wise to sell the road, that it
be leased for a jieriod of
fifty years. Another recommendation
is that a competent commission be
appointed to make an inventory of the
property of the road. Those are tho more
important points of the report.
As to the wisdom of the last recommen
dation there can hardly be any question. A
trustworthy inventory will lie absolutely
necessary when tiie final settlement with the
lessees is made, and it should lie made by
agents of the State's selection, without any
great loss of time.
If the estimated value of the real estate
in Chattanooga can be realized, such part
of it as is not necessary for the uses of the
road should be sold. The value put upon it
is large, and it is not probable that much
more would bo obtained by waitiug longer.
The State is not ill tho land speculating
business, and if the property is non-produc
tive and useless to her it hud better bo sold
aud t he proceeds applied to the debt.
The recommendation that in certain events
a lease fpr fifty years be entered into is
probably made with the idea thut a better
price can be obtained if the contract lie for
so long a poriod than would lx- possible for
a shorter time. This idea is no doubt well
founded. A long lease would also more
completely remove a disturbing element
from [tolitics, if the property should be
well managed aud the lent promptly paid.
The Legislature has manifested a disposi
tion to shift u|Kin its successor the duty of
dealing with the important question of dis
[Mising by sale or lease of tiie Htato's rail
road property, and is |M-rhaps justified in its
hesitancy by the fact that there has been
no op|M>rttliiity for the |ieoplu to declare
••heir views <>u tiie subject. YYe are inclined
to believe that if the question I* thoroughly
diwuksod lief on* the people they will decide
to sell the mail, il a price sullicienl to extin
guish the Blttte * debt can bu obtallied for
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THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2t>, 1887.
Trade ■with Central America.
In the last number of consular reports is
a short article on the trade anti resources of
Salvador, written by Mr. DuPre, United
States Consul at Kan Salvador. The general
tone of the article is hopeful, and the writer
seems to think a trado valuable to the
United States may in the future be devel
oped in the exchange of machinery and cot
ton manufactures for sugar, tobacco, cocoa,
coffee, etc. These productions are very
cheap in Salvador.
Mr. DuPre fluds, however, that the com
merce of the country is now almost wholly
in the hands of tho English and Ger
mans. and he gives the reasons in very few
lines. American goods, though much bet
ter than English or German, are so much
higher that they- cannot compete with them
for the custom of people who are poor, and
with whom ready money is scarce. They
must buy what they can pay for. In addi
tion to this, and of equal importance, is
the fact that the articles which Salvador
has for export all enter England without
paying duty, while at every American
custom house most of them are taxed
heavily. This works against the American
merchant.
In spite of these disadvantages, San Fran
cisco merchants are endeavoring to estab
lish a trade with Salvador, and to somo ex
tent have succeeded, a largo part of the
coffee crop of that country coming to San
Francisco for a market.
Tiie trade of the Central and South
American countries belongs naturally to
the United States These countries, rich
in natural resources, have not advanced in
prosperity as fast as they should, mainly tie
cause they have had no settled governments.
But they are improving in this respect, and
before many years their trade will be very
valuable. It will be our own fault if wo
dam up the natural channels of commerce
aud permit Europe to furnish tho iron for
the railroads which will be built, the imple
ments for an improved agriculture, and all
of the thousand and one articles which will
be demanded by a pooplo beginning anew
career.
Dynamite and Ironclads.
On the day of Lieut. Zalinski’s successful
public test of the [lowers of his pneumatic
dynamite gun there was launched in Eng
land the greatest war vessel yet built. She
displaces almost 12,000 tons of water, is
banded with nearly two feet of steel, and
her armament will be proportionately
powerful. It will be a singular coincidence
if it shall hereafter prove that the greatest
war ship ever constructed went into the
water on the very day of the first actual ex
periment with the instrument which is to
make her useless.
That the dynamite gun may make the
ironclad useless Is by no means improbable.
Its present range is only aliout a mile and a
half, but improvement will no doubt speedi
ly double that. Twenty-five years ago the
effective range of the powder gun was less
than four miles, while now a shell can be
thrown eight or nine. In firing at so small
an object as a ship, however, at anything
like the extreme range of her guns, a vessel
might exhaust the contents of her shot
room without hitting her, and prob
ably would do so. For this reason a vessel
armed with dynamite guns, with a range
much less than the powder guns of an ad
versary, would be at little disadvantage for
that reason, if she were swift and strongly
armored, and the superior destructive
jiower of her shells at a shorter distance
might decide the battle in her favor.
An enterprise is reported from Philadel
phia which may have far-reaching results.
A company has been organizod to buy out
one of the gas companies which is now sup
plying the city, for the purpose of putting
in operation a newly discovered procoss by
which gas can be furnished for all manu
facturing and heating purposes at one-half
tho cost of coal. It has already been tried
at the works of Disston & Sons, at Tacony,
and the fact demonstrated that gas can lie
produced at the cost narnec. If the claims
of the company prove to be well founded
their process must lead V at changes in
luauy industries. The - t advantage
Pittsburg enjoys in the posses ion of natural
gas will not then ln insurmountable by com
petition in other citiec.
Though they have no chance to elect
them, the Republicans of New York city
are putting out full local tickets, with the
purpose of trading with the George party.
All their energies will lio devoted to electing
their candidates for State offices, with the
hope of weakening the prestige of the na
tional administration, so as to defeat tho
renominatiou of Mr. Cleveland, if possible
It seems to be a settled thing that Mr.
Blaine can get the Republican nomination
if he wants it, and it may be that his con
sent to make tho race again depends upon
who his opponent will be. He probably
does not want to try conclusions again with
his successful rival.
“Bleeding Kansas” contends valiantly for
the theory of negro equality, hut only insists
that it shall be put in practice in Georgia.
Negro children have been refused admission
into the white schools nt Fort Scott, and a
break-down of the public school system is
fear<l in consequence of an attempt by the
negroes to enforce their legal rights. Per
haps tho best way to cure the extreme nc
grophilists of their folly would be to ex
port a few thousand of the colored brethren
to each of their towns. These might, either
convert the extremists or absorb them.
The head of the Socialistic Labor party in
Chicago says that within two weeks be
tween seventy and eighty unions or assem
blies of workingmen will have joined the
party, with a voting strength of several
thousand. Chicago is tho chief gathering
place of tho dangerous foreign agitators
who have of late years flocked to this coun
try, and it will be a matter of congratula
tion if they separate themselves from the
old political [mnios. Within either party
their influence was jiernicious: outside of
them they will have none.
Now York soems to bo the only place
where a man runs no considerable risk in
failiug for millions with no assets worth
sgiealcing of. E. H. Wh**cler, the New Ha
ven iron manufacturer, whose failure
created something like consternation in that,
city about two weeks ugo, has lieeu arrested
and put under heavy bonds for obtaining
money under false pretenses. 11l spite of
Ills former high character, he is said to
stand u fair chance to serve a term in the
penitentiary.
It looks mere and more as if the late lick
of money in New York wus entirely artifl
cill. The Treasury has paid out only a few
millions, yet money is reported ™,y on
Wall street It was a lock of oonfidmee,
not a lick of funds, aud, jierimps. some of
tiie bear k|tf<riil*lor on the fito'k Exchange
could gauss how iku scare cuwv about.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Where Responsibility for the Surplus
Rests.
F Vow the Poston Globe (Pern.)
By a stupendous act of folly, if not of collu
sion with the money kings of Wall street, the
Republican financiers of the refunding days at
tached to the new bonds an utterly needless
guaranty that they should not be redeemed for
twenty years. It is this guaranty that now
stands in the government's way. But for this
toe Treasury could relieve the stringency of the
money market at once by merely calling bonds
aud redeeming them at j>ar without premium
or interest for a single day after the payment.
Get Rid of the Surplus.
Prom the Mew York World I item.)
It would be a good thing if interest-saving
bond purchases could exhaust all the surplus in
the Treasury U-f.iee the meeting of Congress,
w hether in special or in regular session. If a
largo surplus shall be found when Oongre*s
meets, that body wHI lie inundated with bills to
spend it. Pensions to everybody, river and har
bor '‘improvements'' without number, national
aid to schools, obsolete coast defenses, and a
thousand other schemes for relieving “an over
flowing Treasury" will pour in from every quar
ter.
BRIGHT BITS.
The names of the members of the new Bul
garian Cabinet are published, and they are com
p ised almost exclusively of consonants.— Pruvi
deuce Journal.
The highest ambition of some people seems
to (n- to make themselves disagreeable, as for
instance, the man who asks you what time it is
when he knows you have your watch pawned.—
Lincoln Journal.
Fixjrrie.—No, dear, it was not an editor who
wrote that beautiful gem, beginning “Come
read to me a poem. Some simple und heartfelt
lay.” We don't know who wrote it, but it was
.not an editor.— Nashville American.
A Tennessee 5-year-old was taken by his
mother to witness a hop at a hotel for the first
time in his life. Noticing an elderly musician
plaj-ing on a harp the youngster looked up into
his mother's face, saying, “Mamma, is that
David ?”
There is no sadder sight than to see a fond
mother who has spent $5,000 to fit out a freckle
faced girl for the summer resorts during the
match-making season, packing her daughter’s
dresses away in camphor and sprinkling the
finery with tears of disappointment.— Boston
Globe.
Mr. Waldo (to Miss Breezy)—ls there much
excitement in Chicago, Miss Breezy, over the
Bac >n-Shakespeare controversy?
Miss Breezy- Oh, yes. a great deal. We Chi
cago people, Mr. Waldo, of course, all think
that it was Bacon who wrote Shakespeare.—
Sew York Sun.
“The convict lease system is a great question
before the people of Georgia now.” observed
the Judge. “In fact. I may say it is the most
important question.”
"Yes,” replied tiie Major, “it's queer too, that
the lease question should become the greatest.”
Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
“Good gracious :” exclaimed a lady visitor to
the sporting editor's room, us, with terror in her
eyes, she made a dart for tiie door; “is there
murder going on outside?”
"Be calm, inadame,” said the sporting editor
with a gentle smile, “it is nothing. It is only
the religions editor swearing over his proofs.—
Poston Courier.
He Wanted Proof -Female: I s-s-see th-th
that y-y-vou ad v-v-vertise f-f-for a s-s-stutter
ing female.
Newspaper Clerk Yes, ma'am.
Female—W-w-well, I s-s-stutter.
Newspaper Clerk Well, ma'am, I can't take
your won! for it; fill out this blank affidavit,
please.— Tid-Pits.
Bagley—lt is passing strange how so many
words get twisted from their original meaning.
For instance, “let” used to mean "hinder.”
Mrs. Bagley —I have a better example. “Col
lect'' used to mean "to gather."
Bagley (surprised)—That’s what it means now.
Mis. Bagley (positively)—No, it doesn't. Ask
the garbage collector —Philadelphia Call.
A fellow who is considered soft, speaking the
other day of the many inventions which have
been made by the present generation, exultingly
wound up with:
"For my part, 1 believe every generation grows
wiser; for there’s my father, he knew’d rnore’n
my grandfather, and I believe 1 know more than
my fafher did.”
“My d-air sir,” remarked a bystander, “what
a fool Jour grandfather must have been.”—
Peoria Transcript,
A passenger got off the sleeper the other
night, entered the restaurant, clutched a chick
en aud began eating. After throwing down a
bill to settle for it he said. “Raise chickens
here?”
Sleepy attendant -Yes: drummers, ministers
and railroad men forty cents: farmers and
country-trading people sixty cents; dude aud
pleasure tourists from sixty cents upward.
The customer settled under the 40c. classifi
cation.—.NVi ra login n.
PERSONAL.
Claus Spreckels, the sugar king, is said to be
worth over $30,000,000.
I)R John H. Douglass, who was Gen Grant’-:
physician until bis death, has lost his practice
through continued ill-health aud is in straitened
circumstances.
Captain James Goddard, who took the first
company of Union troops into Virginia after
the State seceded, died at Georgetown, D. C.,
on Wednesday.
Lillie Devbreux Blake's daughter, a pretty
young woman in her twenties, is in training to
lake tier mother's place as a reformer after the
latter wearies or dies.
President Grevy says of the Comte de Paris'
manifesto: "It is a well-w ritten, historic thesis,
it is thoroughly academic, but it contains not a
particle of danger to the republic."
Mrs. William Astor will not open her town
house in New York this season, it is said, be
cause the social duties imposed upon her there
are too onerous for her to discharge.
An lowa girl who was voted the handsomest
lady in the country fainted away three times
in succession when the Joyful news was
brought to her. A different man caught her
each time.
Five young laoies of Flainfield. N. J., are on
a pedestrian tour of the Catskills They started
in August and have walked 300 miles in four
weeks. If had weather sets in they will return
home by rail.
Seven hundred girls of the Louisville
Woolen mills are on a strike owing to the dis
charge of a favorite foreman. They say they
will remain out until Christmas if ineir man is
not reinstated.
Pp.ince Eugen. youngest soipof the King of
Sweden, is now 20 years old. He is the artist of
the royal Swedish family, and has studied |iaint
ing in Paris under the guidance of famous
French masters.
Mrs. Gun. Grant is contemplating a long
visit to Leavenworth. Kan., the latter part of the
present month. She has a sister in thut city
whom she lias not visited for several years. The
health of Mrs. Grant is very good.
Hannibal Hamlin, the only living ex-Vice
President of the United States, will travel all
the way from Maine to Missouri to attend the
Grand Army of the Republic encampment. Mr.
llamlin has just completed his 78th year.
-Senator Farwell, of Illinois, is developing
considerable strength as a possible candidate
for the Republican Presidential nomination in
1888. The Senator is a successful Chicago mer
chant of the old school and is worth $3,.i00,(100.
Chancellor Sims, of Syracuse University, ex
pects to have the new library building there
finished within a vear and "Sidy to reecho
the Von Ranks library. It will lie entirely
fire-proof and contain room for 130,OK) volumes.
The young Due d'Orleans, eldest son of the
Comte de Paris, will arrive nt Sun Francisco In
the spring and make u tour through the United
States. The Duke is now 18 years of age
and almost abnormally fat. His profile and
puffy checks greatly resemble portraits of Louis
XVI.
Second Assistant Secretary Aiikk. of (he
State llepaitnieiil. may succeed Gov. Porter, re
signed. Mr Adee is a young man with a ster
llng record, although his tendencies uiv some
v i,.it RepubUoM If Searetary Bund ia par
Hutted to promote Mr. Adee, it is said he will do
so with pleasure.
“The social arts by which great masses of
people mav he moved and won,' says the Phila
dolphin Heat and (lad,) “Dave avMMtly been
studied mid uuL-U rod by President Cleveland
people of Philadelphia have proudly recog
nized ill the Chief Mnglstrale of the uuliou u true
type of the American gentleman.'
< i. Davis, a wealthy fanner, on Tuesday even
ing fell usteep In his wagon while driving from
NaMlcokn. Pn ,lo Ids home. IDs head dropped
on the side of the wagon, and In turning a
cornel' I lie wheel caught his head aud severed
It trotn Ills Issiy Tin- to fives continued ou
their homeward journey with the headles*body
Nam cel UottttotON, ul indiiuiuioitl*. I* said to
be the oldool living native of Indiana Hi* |t*i •
ellta were lYiumvlv Guam, who moved lo Ken
lie ky after lin revolution. In wlittdi id* father
fianfOl gallant ly, gong ii.*>-|ie-m|y <„ m*-
I loose*" Male w l*ere a** waa born In 17PM He
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Philosophy of the Rejected.
Sir John Suckling.
“Why so pale and wan, fond lover?
Prithee, why so pale*
Will, w en looking well can't move her,
Looking ill prevail?
Prithee, why so pale?
“Why so dull and mute, young sinner?
Prithee, whv so mute?
Will, when speaking well can't win her,
Saying nothing do’t?
Prithee, why so mute?
“Quit, quit, for shame; this will not move;
This cannot take her:
If of herself she will not love
Nothing can maico her:
The d—l take her.”
Tbfe Spider’s Fatal Mistake.
Front the Albany Journal.
A small garden spider had spun his web in a
corner where a perpendicular column and a
horizontal rail met, and from the ambush of a
hidden crack awaited his dipterous prey. A
handsome yellow wasp passing that way espied
the graceful trap and made for it. Setting his
feet lightly on two or three of the meshes, he
started up a great buzzing, which shook the web
from end to end. The watchful spider ran out
a little way, stretched forth a delicate foot to
make sure of the location of the supposed lly,
and then rushed for it, alighting on the wasp
with a gleeful jump and no doubt a grin of hide
ous triumph. But Mr. Spider had reckoned
without his ho? t. Like a flash of lightning the
wasp’s six nimble legs closed upon him, the
graceful body bent, nearly double, and once,
twice, thrice, again and again, the sharp sting
pierced the luckless spider. As his struggles
grew fainter and finally ceased, the wasp, with
a spring, disentangled himself from the silken
net and bore away his spidery victim in triumph.
Han Yu and the Alligators.
From the North China Herald.
The legend of St. Patrick banishing the ver
min from Ireland has its analogue in China, ac
cording to M. Fauvel. In the works of llau
Weri-kung, who flourished something more than
1,000 yean? ago, it is mentioned that a states
man called Han Yu was banished to Kuangtung
ami appointed Governor of the semi-barbarous
district of Chao Chou. When he arrived there
the people complained to him that ttieir flocks
and nerds were being destroyed and themselves
ruined by the ravages of a quality of alligators,
Ngo, which lived in a lake not far from Cliao
yang-hwei.
Han Yu went to the lake and ordered a pig
and sheep to be thrown to the Ngo, and when
they were assembled ho made them a speech
and said: "Under former rulers you have been
allow ed to remain here, but under the reign of
our virtuous emperor you can not lie tolerated
and you must leave his empire. At the south
of this place is an immense sea, in which fishes
as large as whales, as well as those as small as
shrimps and sprats, can live in peace. You can
easily go there in a dav, but I give you from
three to seven days to go. If after that period
you are still found here, I shall be compelled to
bring w ith me some good archers with strong
bows and poisoned arrows and declare against
you a merciless war,” In the afternoon of that
day a violent storm arose, with thunder and
lightning, which lasted some days, driving the
waters sixty li eastward, so that the lake be
came dry and no alligators hare ever been seen
there since.
On the native maps of the Canton province a
small lake is marked 110 miles west of Chao
Chou, which is still called Ngo hu, i. e., Alliga
tors' Lake,
English View of the American Father
From the Life.
The American father has not yet reached that
point of civilization which recognizes the need
of settlements. He prefers keeping his cash in
bis own hands for speculation or investment,
and although he will sometimes give a hand
some allowance, he seldom will guarantee even
that. There is a well-known English nobleman
who married the daughter of a New York stock
broker, and had a valuable house in that city
settled on his wife, which for a while gave a
rental of £2,000 a year. But values fluctuate
greatly in all new countries, and the house in
question greatly depreciated before long. Again,
f remember the younger son of a peer, who had
the happiness to win the affection of the beau
tiful daughter of another New York stock
broker, but who was deterred from matrimony
for a long time, because although I‘the old man' •
offered a handsome allowance, he wouldn’t ac
tually make a settlement. As "the old man"
wasagre>t speculator, his would-be son-in-law
apprehended that a regular "bust up" might not
improbably supervene and leave him with a wife
accustomed to si>end £I.OOO a year on her dress
unendowed, He represented this strongly, but
in vain.
The fact is, that the American grudges tying
up money indefinitely at a low rate of interest.
He will often give his daughter a house, furnish
it. and send her a handsome check when a child
is born, but he holds that a man ought to keep
his wife A young lady’s splendid dress at a
watering-place and her parents' brave show
ihere an- no sort of criterion of his disposition
to "shell out” to a son-in law Very few of tne
American girls who have married Englishmen
have had fortunes, while many have had next to
nothing.
A Horse Jockey’s Reasons for Pulling
a Horse in a Place.
From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
The truth of the old adage, “Give a dog a bad
name and you might as well hang him at once,”
has never been better illustrated than in a race.
Several years ago Nick Becker. now the owner
of Glen Fisher, Hottentot. Leland. and others,
was ruled off the track at Louisville for the put
iug of his horse Mcßowling in a race over tha.
track, and the reputation that he then acquired
has since stuck to hint “like a bmder.” There
are even some people nowadays mean enough to
say that Nick isn't as straight os a string, but o
course that's ail a mistake, and his horses run
in and out for the reason that you can't always
get the same sort of oats to feed them with.
This spring, as Col. >l. Lewis Clark was enter
taining a party of turf reporters in the cozy
little club house at Louisville. he told the follow
ing story on Nick in connection with the
Mcßowling affair. After explaining how Mc-
Bowling was nulled, he said:
"I called Nick into the stand and the first
question that I asked him was:
“ 'Now, Nick, tell me the truth, how much did
you get for pulling Mcßowling*'
“.'Veil, Col. Clark, you van a goot frent of mine.
If I vin 1 only get tree huntert tollar, ef I lose I
get trie: huntert mid fefty. Vat could I do?
Say, vat vould you do?’
“The last question was almost too much for
me,” said the Colonel, “and I nearly laughed
out in bis face."
After Nick had been ruled off he said to an ac
quaintance:
“Mine frient, dis ees a funny country, ferry
Milton Young he pull a horse and he got money
enough by dot to buy a pig stock farm by Cyn
thianu. Nick Becker he pull a horse and off
goes his hat off. by shimminy. I don't like dot,
ain't it?”
Mra. Swellby’s Fly Party.
From the Boston Transcriot.
There is nothing like a woman's ready ir.ge
nuity to conquer a social dilemma The Bwellbys,
who belong to the most elegant circle out at
Brookshury, lately completed their new house,
and proposed to celebrate their return from the
seaside and t heir occupancy of their new man
sion by a little house-warming party not a
grand reception, of course, widen would have
been quite out of the question at this season -
but a cheery little dancing party to some of
their friends and nearly all of their neighbors,
including some js-ople who scarcely belong to
the grand monde of Brookshury,* and could
hardly have been Invited to a grand reception
given by such fashionable people as the Swell
bys, but whom it was well enough to conciliate
by a little social attention. There was delay in
the putting of the finishing touches upon‘the
house, as there always is, and the important de
tail of oiling and waxing the floors of the parlors
was unfortunately left to the last moment. It
wns completed only the very day of the party.
And what was the Swellhys' horror, on entering
MM room late in the afternoon, to find that, nl
though the ap)>earanee of t hese magnificent
apartments was everything that could be de
sired, it was impossible to walk in them without
sticking to the floor!
Mrs. Sweliby was in despair. “Dancing will
be utterly impossible,” said she. "What can
we do?"
She took another excursion over the sticky
floor. Presently she begun to skip about witii u
peculiar movement, wave her (winds up ami
down, and buzz loudly lietween her teeth.
"Positively," she said, laughing, “tjie only
way I can get off it Is to fly and buzz. Huzz-z-z!
Buzz z z'
Suddenly she stopped short In the middle of
her prank, dapping her hands with glee.
”1 have it t I have III" said she.
“I should think you had." said look
ing grimly from the threshold; "hut what is
ItP
“A happy thought. We'll have a flv party,
It's an entirely original Idea N'olssly ever
thought of It liefore, and it will lie capital fun
We can easily fit out each of the guests with a
pair of improvised gains* wings, and these par
lor floors will lie Ihe sticky fly paper The nov
elty of the thing will make It go immensely."
The listener was not there, hoi he hears on all
hands that Ilia Mweflliy's fly party waa (be moat
successful even! ever lioowii In Prisikshury.
“I lie to trII thr truth '* •
“Yea." Inter, opted an acquaintance, “but you
ore a very boil shot f A tm/'t lAetny Churcli.
for l ravelera It Isa tie I steel ty Ili gstiulna
thoiiua Ginger. Fredas a h isioau, lluiadsi
ptaia. KM*.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Some new umbrella handles have iu them a
match box.
Fifty thousand; elephants a year go to
make our piano keys.
The London postmen have petitioned the
Postmaster-General to be called “letter car
riers."
Anew opera house at Pittsburg has a pair of
opera glasses attached to each parquet chair by
a gilt chain.
The French war iialloou is made in four sec
tions, so that a bullet may go through it with
out dropping it.
One of the attractions of Sacramento, Cal,
is a mummy show—the remains of |>eople of the
Aztec race, it is supposed.
Tp.e Grangers in New Jersey arc niakiug an
effort to have the legal rate of interest in that
State reduced to 5 per cent.
Twenty-seven privates of a Posen regiment
have lieen attacked with trichiniasis from eating
raw pork. The German commissariat is poor.
The Punjaub promises to be the richest prov
ince of India. Petroleum has been discovered
in Rawalpindi, coal in Peshawur, and gold in
ivi:lii. up in the Himalayas.
Next May there will be an exhibition of the
work of Berlin apprentices in all the principal
industries, aud of the pupils iu the various tech
nical and trade schools of Berlin.
The seagulls don’t budge from the marine
target at which the artillery school at Fortress
Monroe plays in regulation practice. The offen
sive weapons are big smoothbores.
Paul I)u Chailuj has gone to St. Petersburg
to study some bronze ornaments lately found on
the Baltic, supposed to belong to the Vikings,
about whom M. Du C'haillu is au authority.
It is said that hawks are frequently seen fly
ing southward on the approach of winter, but
are never seen on the return flight, though found
again in the North when the w inter is past.
Cremation has so grown in favor in Berlin
that a crematorium is to be built in the principal
c metery. Hitherto Berliners desiring to cre
mate their dead have been obliged to go to
Gotha.
A Michigan veteran of the civil war pos
sesses a relic in the shape of an army biscuit
that was served in the way of rations in 1805.
It is a less ghastly relic than a bone and is just
as hard.
An electrical lamp appears to have been iu
vented which will burn for twelve hours, with
the light of two and a half candles, at a cost of
one penny. It has to be charged every twenty
live days.
George Dining committed burglary in Ken
tucky the other day, and in less than a week he
was captured, was at once indicted, tried, con
victed and sentenced, anil the licit day was
dining in the penitentiary.
An immense new locomotive has been built
for the heavy Nyack (New York) express train
on the Northern railroad, but it is so long that
neither the turn table at Jersey City nor Nyack
wiii turn it, and consequently it cannot be used.
Two young men of Garden Plain, Kan., fought
with slungshots in church to determine which
should escort a young woman to her home. One
of them had his skull fractured and he died.
The minister and his with suffered slight inju
ries.
Mrs. Eagles, an elderly woman of Campbell
county, Va., expressed the wish shortly before
her death that her gold watch be buried wit li
her. The wish was carried out, and within a
week the grave was opened in the night aud the
watch stolen,
While Sir Salar Jung, who is a Mussulman,
was visiting Droitwich for the baths he cele
brated the Mohammedan festival of Zoha. The
ceremony was’merely the slaughter of a goat by
his owu hands. The flesh was distributed
among the English poor.
A coyote in Walla Walla was attacked by an
immense hawk that hit him fair on the back of
the bead. The coyote would duck his head,
then make a snap at the hawk, but could not
reach it. and at the end of twenty minutes was
literally peckfed to death.
Woman Suffrage does not appear to increase
in popularity in Boston, where women can vote
at school elections if they desire to do so. In
that city the total number of registe red female
voters in 18S5 was 2,238, in IBSB it fell to 1,103,
and this year it has dropped to 403.
James Merritt, residing near Schenectady,
held his revolver in his hand, and, remarking
that it contained his last cartridge, asked what
he should do with it. He had scarcely asked
the question when the weapeon was discharged,
aud inflicted a wound of which Merritt died.
According to the latest returns of foreigners
residing in Japan, there are 59-t Americans. 1143
Germans, 198 Frenchmen, and 1,433 English
men. Of foreigners in government employ,
there are 37 Germain-, 17 Americans, 8 French
men, 8 Italians, 6 Dutchmen and 03 Englishmen.
Tpe real estate boom in Kansas is likely to
take a back seat on account of the salt boom.
Kingman has found a vein of it beneath her.
Ellsworth has discovered 155 feet of it, said
to be of the. very finest quality, and Wichita has
organized a company with SIOO,OOO to prepare
the article for use.
At a locomotive works in Schenectady, N. Y..
recently, a workman was injured. Two physi
cians who attended him said one of his legs
was broken. After he had spent a week in bed.
a third doctor removed the bandages, and told
him he ought tc be going about his business, as
nothing was the matter with his leg, an opinion
that proved correct.
A tract of 1,655 acres, embracing Wilmurt
Lake and part of Big Kock Lake, in Herkimer
county, has been bougut for $ >O,OOO. and a club
probably will lie organized with a membership
of about twenty to own the property. Wilmuit
liake is 3,800 feet nliove the level of the sea, is
fed by springs, and is counted one of the best
lakes in the Adirondack region for fly fishing fer
speckled trout.
Henry Clews is one of the big Wall street
men who hasn't tumbled into the fashion of
owning a big steam yacht During the summer
he went to Newport every Friday night, too. He
says the Pilgrim with its bridal chandler is good
enough for him. In fact, some of the Wall street
men speak of the Pilgrim as Mr. Clews’ yacht,
and add that where other yachts cost their
owners SIB,OOO a summer, Mr. Clews big yacht
only costs him $lB a trip.
The letters and memoirs of Mme. Saint Hu
bert}-, which were recently discovered in the
shop of a Paris antiquary, are soon to be pub
lished. Mme. Saint-Huberty was one of the
most famous Paris actresses and beauties of the
last century. Napoleon 1. addressed to her as
artillery Lieutenant the only verses he ever
made in his Lie. Her end was very sad. She
married the Count d'Entraigues, who soon be
come insane, and was murdered, together with
him, by one of her servants.
All telegraph operators boast of the grad
ual as of their business, und dream of someday
being great or rich. Among the men who be
gun by bundling the key are Andrew Carnegie-
Theodore N. Vail, of the Bell Telephone Com
pany; Gov. Bullock, of Georgia, and ex (iov
Cornell, of New York; W. .1. Johnston, the pub
lisher; E. H. Johnson, the President of the Edi
son Company; fhoinas Alva Edison, and D H*
Bates, tue President of the Baltimore and Oh o
telegraph. Five of the eight are New Yorkers.
According to the St. Petersburg Gazette, a
man who describes himself as an actor anxious
to follow the example of Rossi and Silviui has
been applying at several hospitals of that city
for permission to study “the nature or death.''
As lie seemed to Is* rational and gentlemanly in
his ways, his request was granted in several’ in
stances, and he calmly and carefully watched
the agony- of the dying. It must be said to his
credit, adds the Gazette, that in several eases
w here tlie subjects of ins study were without
means he defrayed the funeral expenses.
Aii-mit a year ago Miss Blanche Buawell,
daughter of Mrs. John G. Boswell ~f gg ( vnlrai
avenue. West Troy, went to California to visit
her sister. White then- she met ('. <l. Wnlkerly
a wealthy merchant and manufacturer The
couple were married. A short time since
Wulkerly died, leaving no relatives Inn his wife
and ills whole fortune, amounting to lietween
$8.000,(0 1 and f7.nuo.iOi, will Is- Inherited by his
wife. Wnlkerly wrs about 00 years of a.*e, and
his wife about 31 years of age’ Mrs. Wnliteriy
it is expected, will reaitm- nor residence with
her mother in West Troy shortly.
Electric hkat Indicators an- valuable means
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