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4 ClicpTorningßdus Mormntr News Building, Savannah, Ga. BATI RDAT, (KTOBKR I, 1887. Register'd at the Post Offlte in Savannah. Morning News is published every day in Che year, and is served to subscribers in the city , hr news.lff.lcr> and carriers. on their own a count at £5 cents a week. $1 00 a month, $0 oJ for six months and flO 00 for one year The Morning News, by mail, one month, fl 00: three months, $2 50; six months, $0 00; one year. <lO 00. The Morning News, by mail, six times a week (Without Sunday issue l, three months. $2 00; six months. S-l 00 one year. S'* 00. The Morning News, Tri-Weekly. Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays. Thurs day* and Saturdays, three months, f 1 25; six months. $2 50; one' year. 85 00 The Sunday News, by mail, one year. *4 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year. 81 25 Subscriptions payable in advance Remit by postal order, cheek or registered letter. Cur rency sent bv mail at risk of senders This paper" fe kept on file and advert ising rates mav be ascertained at the ,-,f the Ameri ran Newspai>*r Publishers' Association, 104 Temple Court, New York City. letters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning News. Savannah, via. ' Advertisin'- rates made known on application The Snnday Moroinf News (1 OF OCTOBER 9, Will contain the opening chapters of anew story, entitled A Romance of Richmond, By Walter M. Richmond. The serial is No. 28 of the Morning News Library Of stories written by SOUTHERN AUTHORS, and is one of intense interest. The St's day Mormho News is for sale by all twwsdealers Price, .V INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings — Burglar Alarm and District Tele graph Company; Savannah Post D, T. P. A. Special Notices. —As to Hunting on Saranac and Cotton Vale Plantations; The Oglethorpe Savrogs and Trust Company; Notice, A. Falk &• Sons; Notice to Tax Payers; Savings Depart ment Southern Bank of the State of Georgia; As to Crews of British Steamship Kate and British Brigantine Isabella: Knights of Pythias Hall Association; Pulaski House Barber Shop. Miller F. Gibson. Auction Sales.— Continued Sale of Furniture by I. P. La Roche's Sons: Commissioners Sale for Partition by C. H Dorsett; Oflle Furniture, by J. McLaughlin & Son. Steamship Schedule.— Ocean Steamship Com pany Railroad Schedule.- Coast lane Railroad. Fresh Goods. —William G. Cooper. < 'heap Column Advertisements. Help Want ed; Lost; Miscellaneous. Publication. —"A Romance of Richmond” in Weekly News of Ofct.!). The platform of the New York Demo prate is received with a shout by their brethren all over the country, ami even the Mugwump smile. Ireland is now claimed to hold the trump cards in the game of politics in Great Brit ain. and she may; but it may be a long time before she gets a chance to play them. The receipts of wheat are very small at Northwestern markets, and it is said farmers refuse to sell at present low prices. They are 1 letter off than Southern cotton planters, who are obliged to sell whether they wish to or not There are said to be 500 cases of typhoid fever in a single ward in Philadelphia, and that the epidemic is caused by defective and deficient sewerage. This is a bad record for a city which prides itself on its advantages as a place of residence and its good muni cipal government. The pastor of a fashionable Unitarian church at Newport has been forced to re sign because he had married a divorced woman. This is a somewhat remarkable manifestation of public sentiment in a com munity where divorces are so numerous and obtained for such little cause. Philadelphia can never hope to rival New York as long as her business men fail as Powel & Cos. did, with assets of $4,500,000 against liabilities of $1,500,000 —and the assets worth what they are rated at. The Columbian Bank collapse was a little after the Wall street style, but that was a small affair. It is said that Queen Victoria is learning Hindustani, in preparation for a visit to India. The report is probably untrue, as the Queen’s poor health and great age would hardly permit so long a journey, but ft recalls the fact that that great empire, the second in population in the world, has never seen one of the English sovereigns who have ruled over it so long. Mr. Shevitch has been appointed by the Socialist party of New York to challenge Henry George to a public debate. Mf. George was anxious to meet Gov. Hill on the platform, and he could not have failed to gain in importance from meeting the rep resentative of oue of the great parties. Now let’s see, when the conditions are re versed, if he will lend his own popularity, or notoriety, to the Socialist champion. Secretary Fairchild has been in consulta tion with the New York bankers as to the future course of the Treasury. A hojx'ful view of the financial outlook was expressed at the meeting, and the Secretary was praised for his recent action in buying bonds. Everybody knows that Mr. Fair child's course in consulting the bankers of the great financial centre of the country is wise and proper, but he may exiiect to hear himself snarled at as “tool of Wall street,” by the rahid opposition journals. Mr. Kandall will be one of the shakers at, the opening ceremonies of the Piedmont Exposition. The thousands of Georgians whom he will meet on that occasion will greet him heartily, for tliev will remember his great services for them when they needed friends and had not many in the national capital. While he is their guest they will forget the fears sometimes felt of late that be may lead off a faction from the jiarty which represents t heir ideas in national gov ernment, and endeavor to make him feel that he is among friends whose only solid tudi* Is that hi stay among them may be fclmsant. A Protectionist’s Argument. As long ago a- August, 1880, Col. Robert Beverly, of Virginia. President of the Farmers’ National Congress of the United States, delivered before that body an ad dress which dealt with the tariff in its rela tions to farmers. Of this Mr. F. Bassett French, of Manchester, Va., has published a pamphlet review, which is itself reviewed by the Baltimore Manufacturers' Heron I. The Record is devoted to the booming of new towns, and the printing of advertise ments for manufacturers of machinery is probably the source of the principal part of its income. It is, of course, an advocate of the theory of pro tection. The pamphlet it reviews is written ostensibly by a recent convert to that doc trine, but iu spite of the fact that the Record greedily swallows his arguments and state ments of fact, it is almost impossible not to tielieve he is a disguised free trader who wishes to make protectionist arguments ridiculous. The Record s extracts from Mr. French's review are very long, but only one or two points will tie noticed. Mr. French first objects to Col. Beverly's statement that the farmers form a majority of the voting population of the country, and resorts to the census reports and the returns of the last Presidential election to prove him wrong. His figures, and his deductions from them, lead to some peculiar results. He first learns from the census that the number of persons engaged in gainful work was 17,3!i2,099, and that of these 7,670.408 were farmers. He then finds that the total vote in the last election was 10,01*,0i1, and he parcels this vote out among the different classes as follows: Vote of farmers 2,090,03!, of other gainful workers 2,650,‘.i95, of all others 5,065,095 —majority against farm ers 8,351,425. It will lie seen that by Mr. French's method of calcu lation that rare man among us, the gentle man of leisure, is several hundred thou sand more numerous than all the far mers and workers for gain put together. He must hide himself as cunningly as a fox, and only slip out to vote for Presidents. However this may lie, the Record says these figures expose the fallacy of Col. Bev erly's statement, and it may be said of them that they are about as reliable as others em ployed to support the argument that a high tariff benefits the farmer. Mr. French next ridicules the statement that the outlook for the farming interests is gloomy, and gives figures to show that it is bright. While he was investigating, it is strange he did not stumble across the fact that the total agricultural wealth of the country increased during the decade from 1850 to 1800 101 per cent.; in that from 1800 to 1870 39 per cent., and from 1870 to 1880 only 9 per cent. Another fact he could have learned in the same connection is that the agricul tural class, which represents about half the population of the country, lias of late, years advanced in wealth only about one fourth as fast as the other half. A large part of the article, including a formidable-looking tabular statement, is de voted to proving that fanners are protected and the price of their products increased by the import duty on grain, when an immense surplus every year finds its market In Eurojie. The absurdity of this claim is ap parent, and is not made less plain by the arguments used to show the contrary. The Anti-Co-Education Bill. The two houses of the Legislature are so far apart in their ideas on the bill to pre vent the co-education of the races that it is probable nothing will be done at this session. This is to lie regretted. It is true that in the constitution the people declared against the practice, but there is no law to carry that provision into effect. That clause of the Constitution represents the unanimous sentiment of the white people of Georgia, and though the instances in which that sentiment has been offended have been very few, it would ho well enough to let the missionaries among us and the world at large know that the State's policy will be enforced. These missionaries are with out doubt in most cases good and pious men and women, but many of them are de voted to the bringing about of relations tie tween the races which cannot be tolerated. They have become so devoted to the in terests of the negro race that they no longer care fdr the integrity of their own. Their labors encourage the negro to hope that in time his race will become one with the white. It is an idlehoue, but notan unnatural one, for it is bom in a very natural desire. It is not hard to find a negro who is full of self respect, but those who respect their race are very rare. Who has not heard a negro boy or girl, angry with another, use as the phrase expressing deepest reproach and contempt: “You nigger!” This is a smal^ thing, but it indicates truly the ne gro’s opinion of his own race. This, again, is very natural. Ev erything in him or which he possesses of which he is proud has come to him from the white man; everything of which he is ashamed is derived from his black ancestors. His religion, his educa tion, his language, his name, and even the habit of wearing clothes, have been con ferred on him by the superior race; he was a slave and Is yet a menial, the grade of his intelligence is low and he is held ir smaller esteem by those whose opinion he values most, because he is a negro. It is because of this feeling that it is nec essary to adopt a measure like that pro posed. The colored man must he given to understand that though the white people among whom ho lives -wish him well and will help him to better his condition in every way they can, he must not expect to participate in their social life. This in volves no cruelty or injustice to him. Mr. Cleveland ought to skip Chicago in his Western journey, if, as it is threatened, he is to be forced to take part in a labor quarrel. A great building, to be known as the Auditorium, is being constructed, de signed for the meetings of national conven tions and like great bodies of men, and iu its construction non-union workmen are employed. It has been suggested that during the Pres, ident’s visit he lay the corner-stone. A movement is now on foot to notify him that if he consents to figure in the ceremony the different labor unions and Knights of Labor will decline to taka part in any of the wel coming ceremonies. The originators de clare their purpose to be to force the Presi dent to “take position on the labor ques tion,” intimating that if ho does not do as they wish ho will be made to suffer for it. Mr. Cleve land no doubt has an opinion on the subject and is not afraid to express it. He has nothing to do, however, with the local quar rel, and to attempt to make him a party to it would be, to say the least, a gross discour tesy to a guest of the city entitled to high est respect. THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, OCTOBER I, 1887. Ireland’s Union With England. In the last number of the Sineteenth Century, Mr. Gladstone prints what is nom inally a review of a recently published •History of the Irish Union,” but which is really an essay on that subject, written from his own standpoint. A mere outline of this review is telegraphed, but enough is told to show that it will prove very inter esting reading to those who are interested in English and Irish politics, as are most Americans. After confessing that his own knowledge of the experience of unhappy Ireland, at the time when the union was brought about, i3 only enough to make him aware that it is imperfect, he states that all records of the Irish government for more than thirty years U'fore that event are still kept secret, and that there has lieen something like “syste matic extinction” of documents by persons concerned in the dark history of that time. He contends that the methods taken to promote the union stopped the tendency toward the growth of religious harmony, replaced the Protestant clique in power, arrested the good dispositions of the Irish Parliament and reversed the Isa lance of strength of parties by transferring British and Castle influence to the union side. In order to sustain this policy religions passions were let loose, Orange ism was founded to inflame those passions and the party of United Irishmen was driven into disaffection and taught to depend ujion foreign aid. Through the continuance of this system a reign of terror was established and a por tion of the people, previously distinguished for loyalty, was driven into rebellion under I circumstances which warrant the belief that ! such rebellion was fostered by the govern ment in order to promote a system of ferocious repression. After the rebellion was repressed a system of intimidation was actively upheld by robbery, devastation, rape, torture and murder, which were prac ticed continually, the government shielding the perpetrators. This is as dark a picture as has been drawn by any of the Irish agitators, and shows that the great Liberal leader is thoroughly enlisted in the Irish cause. If it is justified by the acts of the English gov ernment which all the world could see, what stories of villainy must be concealed by the records so jealously guarded through more than two generations. It would if they could be brought to light. It is al ready known that the union was brought about against the wishes of the Irish people by the most profuse bribery. The act was never acquiesced in by the people, and has only been made effective by superior force. The jieople of England are beginning to s's: that a contented Ireland, even though semi-independent, would boa more valuable friend and safer neighbor than is the Ireland of to-day .bound to the union,but poor and unhappy. If these records should make plainer the methods by which the union was brought about, the indignation ami shame aroused among English jieople might hasten the undoing of the wrong then wrought. ‘‘The part that an apostrophe may play in history was never I letter illustrated than by the fate of Manchooria,” says the SI. ,/times (lazette. ’’Manchooria, according to a wri ter in this month’s ‘Proceedings’ of the Koynl < its .graphical Hociety as a paradise on the borders of Chinn. Though a luxurious and luxuriant land it has, however, for ages been considered a country of ice and snow, and all because its great mountain is mis spelt ‘Cha’ng-pai-shan for Ch’ang-pai-shan.’ The latter is its real name, and means ‘the long white mountain’ —the white pumice ftone being referred to. Cha'ng, however, means ‘perpetual,’ and misplacing the apos trophe, lioth Chinese and European geog raphers concluded that a land with a ‘perpet lua white mountain’ must lie cold and sterile. So they brought the top of the mountain above the snow line, and gave out to the world that this ‘Garden of Eden’ was an other Iceland. Such it has been held for ages.” The extraordinary pearl known as the “Southern Cross Pearl” is a freak of na ture which has not yet been exp'aiued. The pearl was found at Roeburn, Western Aus tralia, and consisted of nine pearls adhering together in the form of a Latin cross, seven in the shaft, and two in the arms, one on each side of the shaft, nearly opposite tlio second pearl from the top. The pearls are slightly compressed, like peas in a pod; and no trace of an artificial junction can be ob served. It has been suggested that a frag ment of seaweed may have got into the shell and formed the frame of the construc tion. The pearls are of fine quality, though slightly misshapen at parti, and the value of the gem is very high. Its character is unique, and filled the owner—an Irishman named Kelly—with superstitious awe, which led him to secreto it for some time. It seems that though the millionaire Hunt ington could not remember a great many things which he ought to have known he could yet swear to things which were not true. Mrs. Colton has replied to his state ment that the famous Colton letters were stolen from him, and an attempt afterward made to secure money for their return, in dignantly denying it. She states facts which carry the conviction with them that Mr. Huntington has prevaricated, to use a mild term. Henry George says the people who own lands hold the rest of the community as slaves. To judge from his appearance, the average landowner in this part of the country doesn't find the holding of slavos a very profitable business. His hands are hard and knotty, his clothes too often old, and his general appearance that of a man who works too hard and too long. Why does he not make his slaves work for him I Mr. George Is absurd. The Ohio people will this year have a clear opportunity to choose between Democratic and Republican policy. Gen. Powell is talking the struightest sort of Democratic doctrine, tariff and all, and no better representative of Republicanism could be found than the ranting, snub-hunting Foraker. The man who votes for either will know what lie is doing. At the convention of “Friends of the In dians, ’’ the principal evidence put in to prove that the red men were becoming good citizens was the fact that 80,000 of them now wear breeches. Evidence of that sort ought not to carry very great weight. Some of the worst citizens in the world wear breeches—even the Anarchists. An Edinburgh music teacher and author of various works on the human voice claims to have invented an instrument culled by him a “resonator,” which fits into the human palate, and is said marvelously to increase the power of the voice. . CURRENT COMMENT. V T hat Protection Means. From the Host on Herald 1 Ind.) Protection always means monopoly. When it ceases to be monopoly it c*as *s to t>e protection. To** time has come when both consumer and laborer cannot fail to see this. Glory Enough for One Year. FVom the Xew York Evening Post (Mug. • With the Democrats of New York headed in the right direction, the party in the other States will lie forced to follow, an f there will be an ad vance along the whol** hue. For the first tinie in many years we have had a convention in this State without a Istss and without a Federal officeholder to run it. and that is glory enough for reformers for one year at least. Foraker’a Aliened Snub. From the New York World < Pern.) The Republican organs in Ohio are attempt ing to make a great issue out of the alleged snubbing administered to Gov. Foraker by Mrs. Cleveland. Without regard to the truth or falsity of this allegation, it must be admitted bv gentlemen of whatever party that Gov. Foraker displayed most extraordinary assurance in voluntarily attending the s cial reception of a President to whom h** ha i publicly offered on the stump the grossest insult ever cast upon any Chief Magistrate by a public man in this country. BRIGHT BITS. Reported that the Qu**en is involuntarily growing chin whiskers. God shave the Queen. -Judge. When Mr. John I. Sullivan dies it is believed that he will provide for the endowment of a large memorial saloon at Cambridge.— Life. The Labor day parade in Chicago was very entertaining The prominent features were men decked in broodcleth suits, silk hats and gold chains, bearing banners inscribed, “We Want Bread ."—Philadelphia Call. “Oh pshaw.*’ said the Bostonian contempt uously. “everything with you New Yorkers is the almighty dollar." “And with the Bostonians everything is the omnipotent quarter," repli** 1 the New Yorker.— Life. Do you recollect tHat old motto we used to see incur copy books, L *arn to say no?'” asked Billv BJiven of a friend. “Yes, What of it!**" “Nothing: only I was just wondering whether the young woman whom I honored with my adoration hasn't had a heap of practice in it.” Mercha n t Traveler. A teacher in a l>oys* school in an adjoining county found forty big pupils out of sixty-three who had never read the Constitution of the United Statos, and were ignorant of the cause which led to its preparation. Every mother's son of them, however, could tell of the standing of each base ball club in the National league and the American Association, Xon-istuim Herald. A former foundryjnan of Rochester was in the habit of giving bis men an annual picnic at the Lake Beach, where the men enjoyed the luxury of a bath in the limpid waters. A visi tor from the West on** winter called upon an employe of the foundry, an old friend—and. after mutual greetings said: “Why, Jim, how black an J grim y you look.*’ “Yes.” replied Jim. “I missed the excursion last summer ” Rochester Union. This is Hospitality. “My father is a very genial man," she said, "an t desires that I shall extend the hospitalities of the house to every caller. Will you take something befoieyou go?" “Well, yes.* * replied the youth, “I will, with your permission, take a kiss from you.” The maid was abashe 1. but the youth was equal to the occasion, and the hospitalities were extended.— Poston Courier. Miss Browne (summer boarder of romantic proclivities, who is about to return to the city) l)o vdu know. Mr Jhisenburv, I’ve really be come attached to that phenomenal echo which has made your farm famous. I shall miss it so much. (Addressing echo): And you will miss me, too, won’t your Echo ipromptly t Darned ef I will. You ain't let up on me Tew hours since breakfast. (Tableau. y—Tid-BiU. Not Sure on the Dodo. ‘Kin 1 git a man ar rested?” uskeda colored man at the Sergeant's desk in police headquarters, yesterday. “What for?" “Fur callin’ me names." • “What names?' “Well. suh. he called me odo.” “And what is a dodo?” “I diinno, sah." “Perhaps it means a great statesman." “Mebbe it does, sab; an' so I’ll let up on his callin’ me names an’ liev him arrested fur de way he jump*d in au’ giv* me two kicks.” — De troit Free Press. The Bomb Theory.—Chicago Anarchist—Yes, you bloated aristocrats are Walt Whitman—Your pardon, friend, I am Walt Whitman, the poet. “All the same, you—” “My poems bring me in only SIOO a year, and I have to live on it.” “F.h? That's an outrage, an outrage against suffering humanity. You come with me, Herr Whitman, and i ll show you how to make dyna mite bomh*. Then you'll get rich.” “Making bombs?” “No, throwing 'em. Throw 'em at folks what won't buy your pocius."— Omaha World. More Blessed to Give than to Receive.— Mrs. De Fashion- Boo! how cold it is! Miss R** Fashion- Yes. 1 just saw the ice cart stop and it made me shiver. Jane—Please, mum. the ice has come and the refrigerator is running over and there ain't a plaee to put it. Miss De Fashion—Why not let it remain out doors, ma? Mrs. I>e Fashion—That would l>e a shameless waste. You know how high ice has been. Jane tell John to take it to the Narrow Court Mis sion. 1 don’t suppose the poor things have seen a piece this summer.— Omaha World. PERSONAL. Prince Bismarck weigh *d himself lately and found that his weight is the same as it was last year—3W pounds. Senator Ino alls is the present lion of the New York lobbies, his “clustering crown of sil very hair and his piercing eyes” coming in for especial admiration. Mrs. Ole Bull denies the rumor that she is to be married the coming season. She has taken a house in Boston and proposes to live quietly for some years to come. She has not as yet thought of casting aside her widow's weeds. Karl Compton, who lately died in England, was the eldest son of the Marquis of Northamp ton: he was .V. unmarried and heir to $500,000 |K*r annum. He was not a popular young man, the “Black Karl,” as he was nicknamed, conse quent iinon his being in an almost constant state of maudlin inebriety, Frank Pierce Clark, son of Massena Clark, of New Haven, a millionaire dealer in real estate, has married Miss Li:;zie Hughes, a variety actress. She is a New Haven girl, and her fat her now lives in Fair Haven. She was en ga • 11 1 >1 a leading role In the "Arabian Night*” this season, but gave it up to marry Mr. Clark. Miss Ellen Barton, principal of the Maine State School for Deaf Mutes, is almost idolized by her unfortunate charges, week Miss Barton's mother died an I their sympathetic sorrow for her great bereavement almost lurned the school into an institution of mourning. The school is said to be the most advanced of its class in the country. John C. Fremont is 74 years old. and is gath ering materials for a historv of b s life to be written by himself and his wife He carries his 3'ears with a step as springy and a form as straight as they were when lie carved a path way over the Rocky Mountains to the new El Dorado forty years ago. His snowy white hair and whiskers are as neatly kept as were his blonde locks in the days when he stole the heart of pretty Jess.se Benton in spite of her father's protest. Ben Bvhlkr said to a Kansas City reporter that anybody may become President, but it is not so easy to to be acceptable as a department clerk. *‘When 1 was a young man.” continued the General. “I was examined for appointment as a department clerk and failed miserably, though, though I tried to bribe the young woman who distributed the list of questions to give me easy ones. 1 remember one of the questions was: “What States and Territories would you cross in going from New York to the Pacific coast ?” I didn't know, so the answer I wrote was: “None; 1 would go round by Cape Horn.” Rev. J. F. Kershaw, vicar of St. John's Kid derminster. Eng., recently hart a large mastiff dog given to him, and he has just had a most violent encounter with the animal. The dog flow at Mr. Kershaw's housekeeper, his teeth meeting in her arm. Mr. Kershaw wrenched the animal's jaws apart and released her; but the dog immediately turned on his master and made for his chest. Mr. Kershaw seized the animal by the collar, and they fell together, Mr Kershaw tightening the collar till he thought the mastiff was exhausted. The struggle be tween the two had lasted some minutes; but directly the dog was released it again flew at Mr. Kershaw He was able to seize it by the collar again, and tins time he filing it against the wall, and rushed from the room, closing the door le -forethe dog could follow. Ultimately it was pHilled. Mr. Kctxhaw escaped without ma terial injury, but his housekeeper was badly hurt. Mistaken Identity. From the Summendlte Journal. She's as pretty as a picture in a frame. And for all i aid not even kn<*w' her name. Still I couldn't help but love h*r the same. Her iapa. I found, was net a man of rank. i He is only just a cashier in a bank. ) And to nie he seemed a little bit too frank. For when I called upon him yesterday, And asked him if a visit 1 might pay To my love—what did the fellow say? Why. he shut me up as if I were a knife! Anl I really feared that he would take my life, When h* shouted: “Why, you rascal, that's my wife !"• Sharp Practice Doesn't Always Pay. From the Dry Good* Chronicle. A clothing dealer in au interior town had oe canton to visit the city to purchase goods. While he was gone a young man entered flic store to buy a coat. A sales man waited upon the customer and showed him a coat plainly marked $7. The customer tried it on and said in a pleasant, confiding way: “I want a good article, and I can afford to pay a little more.' The salesman showed him many coats, and, finally, having removed the tag, again offered him the $r coat which had fitted him at first ami said: Here is a coat a fine article, just your fit, which I can sell you for sl*^.'’ The coat was again tried on. the young man seemed pleased, paid his money and went away. On the merchant's return the salesman, with a smile of triumph all over his countenance, rushed up to him and boasted of what he had done. Tne merchant looked grave. He only said: “Does any one know’ w’ho the customer was? * A little boy had recognize! him as a work man in a neighboring factory and remembeied his name. The merchant sent for the young man. told him of his mortification, gave him back $5, and the privilege of i-etuniirig the coat if he chose, and then said to the salesman: “Now, sir. I w ill pay you your week's salary, and I wish you to go. [f you cheat my custom ers you have not principle enough not to cheat me. If I can't have my people s*ll goods honestly, I will go out of busiuess. Good day, sir. 1 ' Hunting 1 a Prussian Spy. From the Chicooo Sews. Spy-hunting was much indulged in during the mobilization made in France the other day. and special “commissaries' 1 w*ere sent from Paris to attend to that new sport. < me of these agents with more zeal than discre tion one Sunday morning in a public square of Montanhan. on the river Tarn' noticed a tall, lean man of erect carriage, with a glass held in one eye and a long, light blonde moustache, walking leisurely in the square. “Does not that fellow look like a Herman I' 1 ejaculated the vard agent “No doubt he is a spy.'' He fol lows the tall man step by But the latter betrayed no embarrassment, or, rather, he looked supremely indifferent to the movements of the agent. With a knowing look he exam ined the military horses, the camp arrange merits, the wagons, all the time freely question ing both soldiers and inhabitants. There was no trace of German accent, but, thought the agent, that mustache cannot fail to be Ger man. Examining the different objects of the camp, the lean man now and then took off his glass and wiped it carefully. Why does he do that ?soliloquized the agent. Why, be must be a spy. And he proceeded to the nearest govern ment office, and asked some officials to lend him a hand in capturing a Prussian spy. “With all my heart,' 1 was the answer, and they walked straight up to the man. The official undertook to do the talking, and asked for the stranger's I wipers. “What papers ?” was the answer. “No evasions, please. Your papers. 1 ' A crowd quickly assembled, and they were iuforme 1. in a whisper, that it was a Prussian spy. “But,' 1 remonstrated the lean man, “1 have no papers. What makes you ask me for p:ii>ers ? * The official answered: “You refuse showing your papers?* 1 Here, policeman, take that Prussian spy into custody! 11 That made the stranger understand the situation, and ne exclaimed: “I a Prussian spy ? Are you gone crazy ? lam the Justice of the Peace, De Francaise." There was a fine “tableau. 11 A First-Class Juror. From the Kansas City Times. “Are you a citizen of Wyandotte county?' 1 asked the Hon. Bailey Waggoner of an old col ored man wbo hobbled into the jury box with the aid of a long hickory cane. “I is, sah," replied the aged darkey. “How long have you been such? 11 “I donno, sail. 11 “Have you formed or expressed an opinion, about the case? 11 “Well, I donno. I have resulted the matter considerable, and when my mind was fully rec tified I went down to de track. 1 met de Sheriff and lie told me to reappear, and I left.'' “Have you forme l an opinion that the train was wrecked by accident or design?' “Yes, sah; I think it was wrecked by 'zign.' “Are you opposed to capita! punishment?" “No, sah." “Do you know wiiat capital punishment is? 11 “No. sah ' 1 “Have you any conscientious scruples?" “No, I have not. 1 “Do you think that a man should be hanged for murder? 1 * “Yes, sah.' 1 • If the evidence in the case should show the defendant to be guilty of murder would you hesitate to find a verdict of guilty because the penalty might b * deat h?' 1 % “Yes, sah, I would." “In the trial of the case would you be con trolled by the evidence or by what you have heard?" “I would to the best of my ability." “Would the evidence control you in arriving at a verdict?" “Not if I could help it.' 1 “Are you a Knight of Labor?" “No; I never was nothin' but a missionary Baptist." “Do you know what an oath is?" “I does not.” “In the trial of the case you would feel your self bound by oath?" “I has not 'fleeted on that subject, sah." The Sunflower Chorus. From St. Si chain*. There was a church festival in Henson vale, and this is the way in which Miss B* *e Abbott introduced anew feature into the well-worn list of such entertainments. A placard was promi nently displayed at the fest ival reading: “Some thing New. Don't Fail to See It." *• U werq kept in mystery until the appointed time, when the manager, stepping before the curtaiu,spoke of the statue of Memnon in Egypt, which was accustomed to greet the rising sun with song. “More obliging than Memnon,’ he said, “certain stately American sunflowers have lx-eii found ready ami willing to sing whenever called upon. Ladies aud gentlemen," he added, “I have been fortunate enough to secure for our festival a cluster of these remarkable additions to our native flora, aud have the honor of present ing to you our Sunflower Chorus. 1 The slowly drawn curtain revealed upon a dark background thirteen large, yellow sun flowers, with leaves and stalks complete, and in the centre of each a human face. Music came from the piano near the stage, and to its accompaniment the cluster of human sunflowers sang numerous selections from familiar operas, popular songs and melodies and college glees. The Sunflower Chorus was voted a great suc cess. and those not in the secret begged Miss Abbott to tell them how it was (lone. And tins was her explanation: One foot behind the stage curtain hang another curtain of dark brown cambric, ten feet square; attach this by rings to a wire stretched nine feet from the floor; tie cords to the first and last rings, and drawing the curtain tightly, fasten these rings to the wall <>n each side. The top being now secured, let the curtain hang naturally; wrap the surplus cloth about a strip of wood twelve feet long; two inches wide and one inch thick, fasten this to the floor by two large screws and the flower screen will be tightly stretched. Group the singers in a picturesque cluster be hind the screen, with their faces pressed against the cloth, and at distances from the floor vary ing from one to eight feet; mark the position of each face, and cut. in the screen, a hole into which the face will closely tit. Going now to the front of the screen, arrange the flowers and leaves, which should le fully prepared before hand. The rays of the sunflowers may Is* cut from yellow paper, and the leaves and staiks from green paper. Paste the rays around the openings, then arrange the stalks and leaves in proper position. When the paste is dry, re move the strip of wood from trie bottom of the screen, unfasten one of the cords at the top and slide it back until needed for use, when it may b* easily put into position. In summer the natural stalks and leaves of the sunflower may be used instead of those made from paper. “The fire in Col. Doggerly's wagon factory Wednesday evening " says a Colorado paper, was largely attended. Among the prominent society people who were present we noted Judge and Mrs. W itherspoon, Senator and Mrs. Poin dexter aud daughter, Oov. Standish and Miss Van der Horek. Mrs. Senator Poindexter Ad ministered a neat and deserve*! rebuke to one of the firemen early in the proceedings. Stepping up to a hoseman she touched his shoulder and said sharply, “Play it lower down, you red headed eh’‘mp -get it down where the fire is' You fellers ain't exijectod to put it on the North Star! 1 Chicago Tribune. Timid Tourist— BarcCap'n. this boat seems very shaky; was anybody ever lost in her? Boatman Not ter my knowledge. There was three men drowned from her last Thursday, but we found them all the next high tide.—/Jm. ITEMS OF INTEREST. It cost England $5,000 to purchase a garter for the (Town Prince of Austria. James S. Wethv.red, of San Francisco, owns a snuff-box made of the first lot of gold found i . California in ISB, A 'cycler who has returned to his home in Maplewood. N.J. .after a trip through Europe and Airica on his tricycle, says he coved 12,000 miles at an exj>ense of S2OO. An Alsatian who tattooed himself all over with “Vive la France' 1 was imprisoned for six months when he came to l>e examined for ad mission to the German army. A bootblack from Boston has erected a small staud at Lincoln, and this is the way he an nounces Ids business: “The covering of your pedal extremities artistically iluminated." The divert e business in < 'ass county, Indiana, is looking up. One hundred and fifty-three women nave been freed from the bonds of matrimony within the last eighteen months. The treasurer of a church in Raleigh, N. 0.. Ijas made his annual report. Two items read as follows: “Salary promised to the rector; sls per month. Salary paid to the rector, none." A man who hail been hired to sow* some clover seed at Edniore, Mich., went through the mo tions, but kept the seed in the bag and then carried it home and sowed it upon his own land. There is one railroad in Missouri that is not making money It runs trom Kansas City to OsceMa. Jast year the receipts were less than $16,500 and the expenditures more than $33,000. The great onion district of New York, on the Walkill river and its tributaries, generally pro duces more than 000,0 X) bushels, but the crop will be cut short one-half this season by the ravages of the onion fly. The fishermen of Bergen, Sweden, have just presented to Mile. Sigrid Arnoldson, the new .Swedish singer, as a token of their appreciation of her art, aSO foot whale, which they caught on the coast the day after her first concert. She had to give four concerts in one week n Bergen, and her success else where is said to have been very great. These things are kept constantly in view, ac cording to an advertisement, along with 'the other curiosities in a Cincinnati dime museum: “Attractions which are not only amusing, but instructive as well. No features of an objection able or immoral nature. Vulgarity on the stage is constantly forbidden." And yet people are said to visit it. Two Russian young ladies bearing the name of Gortchakoff reached on Aug. 21 the highest point of Mont Blanc. They made the ascent in twenty hours, and on their return toChamounix the two sisters were received w ith great en thusiasm. Among the 1,032 persons wbo had before them ascended Mont Blanc, there was only one woman, a French woman. Louise Michel, the famous French Commu nist, iss.iid at last to have crossed the bound ay into insanity, or, at least, into aberration, iler publishers are refusing to print her books, her health is broken, and she ;s, it is said, likely 11 be Wt to starve if her pen and tongue fail her. Asa rule, except in revolutionary districts, she is now hooted at, and ill-treated, it is said, when she speaks. The Rev. Adirondack Murray, whose specialty is fish stories, crossed the line into Canada the other day and came back crestfallen. Of the lying capacity of the French Canadian he says: “There is a childish enthusiasm about it that captivates you. He smiles as he lies. Ho lays his hands on his heart: he lifts his eyes up ward; he embellishes his little lie with saintly al lusions; he lies as if he believed his own lie." A French newspaper reports that in Subiaeo, near Rome, all the inhabitants are under the influence of epilepsy or hypnotism. The curate spends his time m exorcising the evil ?-p rits, and Cardinal Blanchi bass.mt the Pope's social benediction all without avail. A troop of soldiers who were sent to the village have shown symptoms of giving way to the disease, and there is supposed to lx* something in the air affecting t he nerves. The Oregon Alpine Club has been organized in Portlind. It is proposad to collect informa tion regarding the many snow peaks of the re gion for the benefit of the members of tne club and tourists who may wish either t > ascend them or ywtss an outing around their bases, and thereby be the means of attracting to points of ml *rest in the Northwest. Among tb** officers of the club will be a historian, who will keep a record of all the successful and more interest ing ascents. At Stockport. Eng., a few days ago. a man named Johnson was hauled before a magistrate on the complaint of a woman, who said that he he was her husband who had deserted her and his baby twenty-seven years years before The baby—a buxom lass -was in court, and after the man had admitted the truth of the woman's story, he was introduced to his daughter. The man had another wife and a ltffge family at Stockport. Ho was sen ten *ed to pay ten shill ings a week to his first wife. A young gray squirrel found by a party of children at Ivoryton, Conn., was cared for until it had grown up largo enough to help itself, when it was set at liberty. The children had no idea it would ever come back, but the same night the squirrel came to the window and tapped upon the pane. It was admitted, and the next morning whisked away again. It has built two nests, using whichever it chooses in the nighttime, except when ii rains. Then it always asks for admission to the house. The “Passion Play" at Oberammergau will not be performed till 1890; but during the last month the villagers have been giving a series of dramatic representations in their theatre, and the ITince Regent of Bavaria came from his hunting lodge in the vicinity to see the perform ance of Muller's drama. “Emperor Otto the Great and His House," in which the par’ of the Emperor was taken by the carver Mayer, the Christ of the “Passion Play." The costumes and scenes, all of which were much admired, were made and painted in the village. Brigands are reported to infest the country between Bologna and Florence, Paly, to such an extent that traveling is dangerous, and the peo ple arc afraid to go about, even in daylight un less armed with revolvers, daggers, and bind gcons. A (’ountess, driving home to her coun try house with two men servants and three maids in the carriage with her, and an invalid daughter, was stopped and deprived of all her jewels and valuables, worth $1,500, while the daughter was frightened into convulsions. At a recent seance in Rochester by a medium from Brooklyn several written communica tions, purporting to come from the spirit world, were handed out from the cabinet. Six of the ih t3s in which the chirogr.iphy seemed to be the most dissimilar were submitted to experts in the matter of handwriting. Both of the ex perts agreed that not more than two persons wrote the notes, and one of them was inclined to think that all were written by the same hand A pencil drawing, purporting to lx* a portrait of Jean Jngelow, represented her as a man. Lieut. Hovc.aard, the Arctic traveler w’ao made the northeast passage with Nordenskiold, is already preparing for his expedition to East Greenland next summer. His ambitious pur |H*se is, if possible, to complete the exploration of the northeast coast, join his discoveries with those of Lockwood, and thus finally determine the outlines and extent of the great island. He also hopes to ascertain If there is any truth in the story told by East coast natives that, far north a strait runs clear across Greenland cut ting it into two islands. If there is anv truth in this report, the western end of the strait must join Melville Bay, whose shore line is very im perfectly known. Thirty or forty years ago the whole coun try was agitated upon the subject of the aboli tion of capital punishment A bill to abolish it was before the New York Legislature, and the more conservative of the members were alarmed for fear it would pass. There was one member who rarely ever took part in the debates, hut from having been a member a long time and j because of his level head he had gr<*ut influence i * n tbe body. 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