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This l >apef is kept on file and advert ising rates may be ascertained at the office of tlie_ Ameri can Newspaper Publishers’ Association, 104 Temple Couit, New York City. Tetters and telegrams should be addressed "Mornino News, Savannah, (la." Advertising rates made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS Meetings— The Merchants and Mechanics Loan Association; Pulaski Loan Association; Workingmen's Benevolent Association; Golden Kule Lodge No. 12, I. O. O. F.; German Fire Company. Special Notices—As to Crew of Br. Steam ship Abeona; Metropolitan Savings and Loan Cos.; As to Crew of Br. Steamships Scw Fell and Annie; Youths’Historical Society Enter tainment. . Railway Schedule— City and Suburban Rail way Steamship Schedules— Ocean Steamship Cos.; Baltimore Steamship Cos. Bane Statement—Merchants’ National Bank. Cheap Column Advertisements—Employ ment Wanted; For Rant; For Sale; Lost* Mis cellaneous. Auction Sales—Groceries, Furniture, Etc., by D. R. Kennedy. If the stories of suffering among the poor of London, and the rapid increase in their number, are not exaggerated, there may Vie scenes in the great metropolis which will rival those in Paris a hundred years ago. When the Virginia jails get full of State officers the people will begin to think there in not much left of State rights, and that the Supreme Court of the United States is a sort of collecting agency for foreign credit ors. The speech of Gov. Gordon introducing Mr. Randall, at the opening of the Pied mont Fair, was brief and eloquent—just the kind of a speech for the occasion—and well calculated to increase the Governor's repu tation as an orator. ♦ Mr. Powderlv has drawn in salaries $34,- 600 in eight years. This is a pretty fair average, but he will soon make it much better if he succeeds in getting into Con gress, as it is said he intends to do. He is uo doubt well satisfied with his profession. The lady to whom the Duke of Marlbor ough is to be married soon is an American, twice a widow and described as very beauti ful. It is not stated whether she is wealthy, but she almost certainly is, as the Duke is too shrewd a man to give away a title which would bring a great deal of money on this side of the ocean. He has probably sold it. A New York paper says a forty-ton yacht is being fitted out in that port presumably to capture Central America. The man who sails in her will probably have an opportu nity before long of showing with what cool ness he can stand againt a wall and look down the muzzle of a Honduranian or Costa Rican rifle at ten paces. The days of Walk er expeditions are over. A scheme is said to bo maturing to extend the Knights of Labor organization over Ireland. If the national league is sup pressed, the Knights might take its place. But what would they do about the lawyers and liquor sellers, many of whom are in the league? But then the name of the Knights’ organization would be about all the league would want. The New York papers give great promi nence to a rumor that Robert Garrett was taken from New York to his country home, near Baltimore, suffering from aberration of mind. His actions on which the rumor was based are said to have occurred princi pally about Delmonico’s, and a more rea sonable explanation, and one involving Ims serious consequences to Mr. Garrett, could probably be found. A dispatch from London says that the recent Aylesbury scandal has brought out the fact that many of the members of the House of,Lord*are themselves anxious for great changes in the constitution of that body. If this is true there ought not to be much delay in bringing about the changes necessary to convert into a useful govern mental machine what is now not much more than a clog on the wheels of progress. Even Col. Eugene Higgins Is not Insen sible to newspaper attack*. He now says he is tired of being berated by the Republi can and Mugwump press, and wishes to re sign the office of Appointment Clerk. But tsrfor# the Colonel turns loose he wants to find out his chances for a vindication by being elected Doorkeeper of the House. They are probably small, though the Colonel, as he describes himself, is a "hust ler,” and there is no telling what he can do. It is now charged that a gveat ring of wool manufacturers, in collusion with New York and Boston custom house officers, has been for several months Importing great quantities of Australian wool, gross under valuation being permitted In order that such importation might be possible. The story is almost, certainly false, If It should be true, however, the parties implicated ought, to be severely punished for violating the law; liut one could qot help remember ing in such a case that the orlnio mads possible cheaper clothing to poor men, The results of crime ought not to tie public blessings, Col, Fred Grant evidently thinks well of himself, In a recent speech he told his hearers that if elected Secretary of State of New York he would try to show that ho hail inherited the ability of his father, The General never gave evidence of any ability to perform duties of the character which attach to the office of Secretary of State, perhaps from the lack of opportunity, and it is difficult to understand how Col, Grant will have a cUa ua to display In that office the qualities which won Ids father fame, The General was a great man, but bis soo innst be a very smalt one when he ojieniy asks for voles for no other reason than that he is hia father's sob. Mr. Po* rderly and the Anarchists. If at an time there existed a doubt about Mr. Powderly’s position with respect to the condemned Chicago Anarchists the bold stand which he took against the Quinn reso lution in the Minneapolis convention on Monday dissipated it. He doesn’t believe that the Knights of Labor, as ail organiza tion, would consult their own interests by taking any action with regard to the con demned Anarchists. He holds, and rightly, that no true Knight can be an Anarchist or have any sympathy with those who are advocates of Anarchist doctrines. The con vention agreed with him, and the Quinn re solution, expressing sorrow for the doomed Anarchists in Chicago and asking fora com mutation of their sentences to imprison ment, was consigned to the waste basket by a very handsome majority. The Knights of Labor are under great ob ligations to Mr. Powderly for leading them in the right direction in this matter. If the convention hud adopteil the Quinn resolu tion the Knights would doubtless have been asked to take other and more aggressive steps in behalf of the Chicago bomb throw ers. In a little while their organization would have been disturbed by questions which would have been forced upon it by the Anarchists, and the chances are that it would not have escaped serious damage. The Knights of Labor organization lias certain purposes to accomplish, the chief of which is the improvement of the material condition of workingmen. As long as it keeps these purposes in view, to the exclu sion of others of Jess importance, the prob abilities are that it will be of some benefit to its members. If, however, it undertakes to fight the battles of Anarchists and Social ists, it will soon find itself growing weaker, and its influence disappearing. The only way in which it can hope to be of any benefit to its members is by attending strictly to those things which are its excuse for its existence. The Anarchists would be very glad in deed to get a controlling interest in the or ganization, but thus far they have not suc ceeded in their object, and as long as Mr. Powderly remains the recognized head of it they are not likely to. All classes of people are interested in having the Anarchists in this country suppressed. They are inimi cal to every interest, and are as dangerous to the workingman as to the capitalist. Mr. Randall at Atlanta. It was expected, of course, that Mr. Ran dall would have something to say about the benefits of protective tariff in his sjieech opening the fair at Atlanta, but it is doubt ful if his remarks convinced any farmer in Georgia that a tariff of that sort is a good thing for him. If Mr. Randall would only go into particulars and show the farmers how the payment of a tax on their cotton ties, agricultural machinery and imple ments, and on about all the necessaries of life is a good thing for them, they would listen to him with real pleasure. His glittering generalities and bold and un supported assertions, however, can have but very little interest for them. Mr. Randall will see at the fair the prod ucts of the Georgia cotton mills, and doubt less he will congratulate himself that, although the Georgia farmers are not over enthusiastic about the advantages of pro tection, he can number the Georgia manu facturers, at least, among the admirers of the doctrine of which ho is a shining apostle. But it will not do for him to take it for granted that the manufacturers of Georgia are protectionists. If he will go to the trouble of talking with them he will be surprised to find how many there are who favor tariff reform—the kind of tariff re form that Mr. Carlisle and the Mornino News teach. It is probable that the Pres ident of the greatest cotton mill in Georgia will tell him that what the cotton manufacturing interests of the South most need is a tariff for reve nue only. Of course this will not be grati fying to Mr. Randall, but as he said in his speech opening the exposition, that ‘‘the search after truth has exposed the fallacies of science as well as falsehood in history,” his search after the truth relative to the protective sentiment in Georgia, will show him that much that appears in Georgia prints about the growth of that sentiment in this State is based upon a mighty shaky founda tion. Cool Heads Needed. There is need of cool heads amAng those in charge of the police of New York during the present campaign in that city. There came very near being a riot there on last Saturday night on account of a blunder of the police. There was a big meeting of Socialists, and the police, without any ex cuse ♦’r their action, broke it up by attack ing the crowd with their clubs, and quite severely injured a number of citizens. The captain in charge of the police at the scene of disturbance admitted that a grave blunder had been committed. There is no doubt that the police captain had not intended that his men should nt tack the crowd, but that fact is not ac cepted by those who were participants in the meeting as a satisfactory excuse for what they call a police outrage. The Socialists do not, of course, want any explanation of the affair. They are rather glad, doubtless, that the mistake oc curred, as it affords them an opportunity to denounce the authorities and excite sym pathy for themselves. They talk about sueing the city and in trying in other ways to get satisfaction for the attack. It is certain that they will make as much capital out of the affair as they can. There aro certain to be lively times in New York during the next few weeks. The various tickets will be pressed upon the attention of the public with all the skill and vigor that their respective supporters can command. If grave disturbances are to be avoided the police cannot afford to make any more blunders. Eighteen hundred men struck in the col lieries in Durham county, England, because the proprietors had recovered nominal damages In an action against several men who had quit work without notice on ac count of somo dispute In one of the mines. The mon would not pay, and six of them were sent to Jail In default, The strikers refused to go to work until their comrades were released. One night somo stranger went to the Jail and paid tho fines of tin meti, who were at once set free, Th# men held a meeting next day and decided to go Imek to work, Crimes committed by tho military have beoomo so frequent In India that the Com mander-In-Chief of tho armies lias i*iued an order that tile ammunition of both British and native soldiers shall be kept under look and key, in charge of an officer, and none issued except in case of necessity, Wall street was never so full of reports of railroad prosperity, but somehow the public doesn't buy stocks, Is the pub lie broke, or only grown wiserf' THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1887. Emma Abbott’s Defense. The prompt anil spirited reply of Emma Abbott to the attack of the Rev. W. A. Candler, of the McKendree Methodist church at Nashville, upon the members of the theatrical profession and the theatre, last Sunday morning, is exciting considerable comment. Now and then, in different parts of the country, a man rises in a con gregation and replies to something the preacher has said which does not accord with his ideas of justice and right, but it is extremely seldom that a woman does any thing of that kind. It is clear that Emma Abbott did not take the step she did for the purpose of ad vertising herself. She was simply indig nant that the people of the theatrical pro fession w'ere spoken of so slightingly, and the theatre condemned so sweepingly. It was a bold act upon her part, but that her conduct was excusable, and even justifiable under the circumstances, is shown by the applause with which her remarks were re ceived. There are some ministers of the gospel who feel that they must condemn every thing connected with the theatre. Their aim is not to produce sensational effects, but to discharge what they believe to be their duty. The mistake they make is in refusing to admit that there is anything in nocent and harmless connected with the theatre, or that there are members of the theatrical profession who live correct lives. In fact, the theatre is something about which a majority of them, perhaps, know' little or nothing, and consequently they cannot speak of it intelligently. There are good and bad people among actors and actresses and there are objection able features to the theatre, but it can be said with equal truth that there are bad men In the ministry and there are things done in churches which are open to con demnation. Words spoken from the pulpit carry great weight with them, as they should, and for that reason, as well as others, ministers should not only be careful to be just, but should spare no pains to get at the truth of the matters with which they deal. Proposed Pension Laws. The principal business of the recent en campment of the Grand Army of the Re public at St. Louis was to agree upon meas ures to recommend to Congress for the re lief of men who served in the Federal armies during the late war. The pro gramme agreed upon was quite an extensive one, and though it has been given in sub stance in the Associated Press dispatches it may be well to repeat it in compact form, which will be more readily understood. The demands of the Grand Army are as follows: The dependent pension bill, amended so as to make it more sweeping. Removal of the arrears limit. Equalization of bounties. A pension of sl3 a month to all widows of honorably discharged soldiers and sailors. Increased pensions for the severer disabili ties. Increased pensions for the loss of eyesight or hearing. Pensions for all who were confined in Con federate prisons. Increase and equalization of pensions for special disabilities. Bound tog itiier by a sen timent of brother hood, which had its origin in common par ticipation in the dangers and privations of the greatest events of their lives, the mem bers of the order seem not to realize the immense burden which they are trying to impose upon the country. In seeking to make comfortable the lives of themselves and their comrades, they forget their duties as citizens. The political influence of the Grand Army is thought to be great, and it may be that they will force upon Congress, through the fears of politicians, the ad mission of some of their demands. What those demands really mean, a few figures will show. The pension list now costs about $80,000,000 annually, and is in creasing under the operation of laws now in force. Of the new demands, the depen dent pension bill, it is thought, would add to the co6t between $50,000,000 and $75,000,- (XX) a year; the removal of the pension arrears limit would cost, by tie Pension Commissioner’s estimate, $333,308,100, to be paid as fast as claims could be adjusted; the equalization of bounties would cost, as esti mated by Paymaster General Alvord, $163, - 000,000. The sums necessary to meet the other demands would be large, but no statistics are at hand. Enough is shown, however, to make it plain that were the government to undertake to ]iay such claims as those al ready put forward the present surplus iii the Treasury would not only be exhausted, but new Federal taxes would have to be laid. This country has manifested its gratitude toward the veterans of its armies to a degree never seen before, and it has done enough. It may be well to remedy in equalities of pensions and make other changes of like character, but tho sum dis bursed is as large as it ought to be. The one consoling thought about the whole matter is, that had the demands been more moderate they would have stood a better chance of being attended to by Con gress. They are so extravagant that Con gress and the people must revolt against them. The San Francisco Examiner says that the emigration of the Metiakatla Indians from their city of the same name in British Columbia has been accomplished. The city is deserted and most of the houses are torn down. It is not long since the Queen and her husband, a strapping big Indian, were in supreme command. Ther word was law, and often disobedience to their wishes was punished by death. Now the Queen is in very humble circumstances at Fort Simp son with her husband, who is a common day laborer on the wharf. Fred Douglass calls the hill for the equal education of negro and white children, and he would doubtless deny that such education could be equal if negroes were forbidden to attend white schools. Equal facilities for education would not satisfy him. And it is the fact that Doug lass fairly represents most of tho Northern supporters of the Blair bill which makes tho Southern people so chary of accepting aid from the government, which might carry with It wine right to control the policy of the schools. There Is a movement on foot In South Carolina to pension, at a low rate, disabled and indigent Confederate soldiers and tho widows and children of soldiers who are In need, This movement ought to extend all over the Southern States, Though the States aro poor ami in debt, they should meet, in the greaiest measure they oan, the obligation t:iey owe the men who suffered ill th dr defense. CURRENT COMMENT. More Reform Wanted. From tire Philadelphia Timex (Dent.) It may strengthen the President’s hands to see hoiv many people there are. even in a limited section of this country, who don't want offices, and who approve of all the administrative re form that he has given them, and want more of it. Utah Must Not be Admitted. From the Chicago Mail iPep.) Utah is hard enough to manage at best. The laws that have been enacted for the suppression of polygamy within its boundaries are none too strong. Indeed, they fall short of accomplish ing what Congress intended, if anything. If Uncle Sam knows his business he will keep the gentle Mormons down, now that they are down and partially subdued. Good Policy to Buy More Bonds. FVom the Men> York .Sun (Dem.) The plain and simple question for the Secre tary to decide is whether he will continue to pay interest on millions of dollars of the public debt more (ban is necessary, and at the same time distress the entire commercial community for the sake of locking up money in the Treasury; or whether he will let out the raopey, stop the running of interest, and relieve the necessities of the people. The latter is so evidently the proper course for him to take, that we wonder he hesitates about it. BRIGHT BITS. “Po look at that beautiful woman standing on the shore!’’ exclaimed Mrs. Popinjay, who was spending a fortnight at one of the popular resorts on the Jersey coast. "She fairly has a halo around her head, like a pictured saint.” "Nonsense, my dear,” exclaimed Mr. Pop injay, “That’s mosquitoes.” —Burlington Free Press. The editor of an esteemed contemporary wonders how he will get hia clothes on over his w ings when he gets to heaven. Don’t worry, dear brother, on that score, You may some time find difficulty in getting your boots on over your cloven ‘hoofs or making your hat cover your horns, but don't you bother about the wings.— Minneapolis Tribune. "George, dear," said Naomi, “I am afraid you are too industrious in your efforts to win enough money to obtain papa's consent. Your heaitq will break uuder it. "Too industrious? Why I don’t work very hard." "Oh yes, you do.” "How do you know?" "Why, I heard jiajia say to-day that you were carrying an awful load last night.”-—Lincoln Journal. Knowledge is Wealth: Accident Insurance Agent—How many insurance tickets did you dispose of to day? Railroad Ticket Man -Only one. A. 1. A.—Only one? What fools travelers are!" K. T. 3L—I should say so. A. I. A. -Only one accident ticket sold to-day, eh? Well, well! Who bought that? U. T. >L- The superintendent of construction. Till-Hits. Why She Was Cold.— " Darling," he muttered hoarsely, "I reformed for your sake: because you asked me i have forsworn the saloon and its pleasures. Still you avoid me and keep me at a distance.” "I am sure. Charlie, you were quite heroic in doing so much for me. ’ "Then w hy do you draw haughtily aw'ay from me?” “Because I uan't bear the smell of cloves.”— Lincoln Journal. Capturing a Town — First Tramp—Hello, Jim, where you been so long? Second Tramp—ln Kansas City. "What doin'?" “Visitin’ the Mayor and other big bugs. Had a bully time." “I sh’d say so. How did yer git in with them ?” "I told ’em I’d tramped all over the world, and Kansas City was bigger’n London an' Paris put together."— Omaha World. First American No, sir; we don't want any daddyism or son of his father business in this country. If you fellows nominate young Grant. I’ll work against him. Second American -O, the Grant we were talking about is not the son of Gen. Grant. "O, some other family, eh?" "Yes; he’s the. son of the Grant who was hung." "Well, that’s different. I was afraid he was a great man’s World. Great Statesman- 1 want you to stop refer ring to Queen Victoria in such a flippant man ner, sir. Editor of Party Organ -Why, I thought you liked that. Iu tact, you told me to give Eng land a kick every chance I got. "Times have changed, sir, and you ought to have sense enough to know it. Remember that England is the mother country, sir, and Her Majesty Victoria is the reigning Queen, sir." "Well: well: What’S happened?" “English Americans are getting naturalized by the thousand." —Omaha World. PERSONAL. Ex-President Hayes is a happy grandfather, owing to the fact that his son, B. A. Hayes, of Toledo, was blessed with a son and heir last Sunday. This is the first grandchild of the ex- Presideut. Miss Bessie Cleveland, on- of the leading members of a Western comic opera company now playing in Ohio cities, claims to be a niece of the President. She is good looking, and has a sweet alto voice. Mrs. L. C. Peckbax, of Middletown, Conn., is thought to be the comiug soprano of New Eng land. She is at pre-ent in tue choir of a Hart ford church, and her beautiful voice senes to till the edifice every Sunday. Sir Robert Ball, the Irish astronomer, is on a tour of America. He thinks the Canadian skies far superior to Old World ones for ob servation purposes. He tnay tarry some months in the Rocky mountain system. Prof. E. N. Horsford, of Harva rd College, has made a fortune out of his famous acid phosphates, lie is a peculiar mail in appear ance lias a heavy, stooping figure, an English face and gray slue-whiskers and beard. J. H. Dkmlf.r, one of the oldest German resi dents of Pittsburg, lias given eight acres of laud, on which are situated two large frame houses, stables and other necessary frame build ings, to found a German orphan asylum. Mr. Trenholm, Comptroller of the Currency, has returned to Washington from a month’s vacation in New England. Ho said he will not be aide to attend the bankers’ convention to day because of the pressure of official business. Capt. Beriben, the fillibuster. is reported to be alive and well. He and his command, lmm liering several hundred mounted men, are hid den in the mountains of Cuba, and are said to be growing fat on a diet composed of wild pigs and potatoes. Marion Leonard is the champion woman liti gant of Chicago. During the past three years she lias figured in over sixty law cases. On Monday Mi. -a Leonard sued the city for SIO,OOO damages because she was denied access to cer tain paiiers in one of its departments. Gounod, being asked to load the orchestra at the five hundredth performance of his ‘‘Faust," which took place on ins fete day, replied that he would prefer to lead "Don Giovanni.’’ It is one of the evidences of Gounod’s greatness that he never forgets the greatness of Mozart. Abbf, Tanouay, of Ottawa, will shortly go to Romo to examine the archives of the Propa ganda regarding the first settlers in Canada wi.h a view to preparing a series of volumes on that subject. He may likely hear the jubilee address to the Pope from the Ottawa archdio cese. Mtss Amorita M. Beecher, of Boston, is the latest champion of female suffrage Bhe has prepared a lecture on the ' Rights of Man" and intends to deliver it in fifty of the principal cities of the country between now and March 1. Miss Bejcher is said to be an enthusiastic worker. Rev. H, M. Keck Is tinder arrest at Xenia. 0., for stealing a fiat-iron from a hardware store. He protested against being locked up, and said that the habit, of taking small articles of value hint lieen brought him by the excessive use of morphine to quiet pain, and that he was not re sponsible for his actions. Senator Rawvkii, of Wisconsin, says he Is not seeking the Presidency, and does not believe that high office ts seeking him. He Is content to remain in tho Senate looking after pensions and the like. Tito Senator is of the opinion that Blaine will receive the Republican nomination without serious opposition. Rvrus Maork, our Minister to Norway and Sweden, has given the Indiana Ststo University, la which lie was once a student, a oopy of a imip made in ’ i6~ and 14H0, showing the geographer s Idea of the world at that period, The original was found In an old Russian library by Baron Nordenaklold, the Arctic explorer, aiid the only other oopy in this country Is owned by Harvard University, Miss .ilinotß Mohoan, the live took reporter, has been building a house on Staten Island for the last five years, and it ts still unfinished. Nothing could lie more eoeeutrlo Mian this brlc.k atructure, There are iron h ire at all the first story windows, and the largest room in Die bouse is given ever to *, plunge both, ir the place is ever finished Miss Morgan expects to live there with her lister Jane, who is an artist. Whitman a Wonder. From the Omaha World. , Omaha Girl—l can't understand why people should rave over Walt Whitman. Eastern Man—l suppose uot. You never lived where he does. ‘What difference can that make?” “A great deal of difference. Walt Whitman lives in ('a in den, N. J., and everybody who has been therosregards Whitman as a wonder.” •Why, they are not even rhymed and they haven't a particle of rhythm.” ‘ Nevertheless they are marvels, considering that, they were written in a place where the poet iiad to stop between every word to fight mos quitoes.” New York’s Champion Story Teller. From the New York Sun. Mr. Lawrence Jerome stands alone in New York as a story teller and wit. He can literally tell funny stories by the hour, and the peculiar ity of his case is. that it does not matter in the least what company he is in, he is equally happy. He has been known to amuse a party of ladies, a crowd of workmen, and a cluo of practiced wits, all in one day. As for children, tney think no one understands how to please them so well as he. He told a story at the Chamberlain din ner night, before last, of a dude running for Congress in a down-town district, and saying to a lot of longshoremen that he had never been in that locality before. This incensed them to a strange degree. “Low eality? Low eality, is it?” said one of the angry men. “Fwbat d'ye mane by insulting dacent jieople that way? If this is a low eality I'd like to know where vou'll find a high eality.” A Tariff Primer. From the Louisville Courier-Journal. “Will you tell me what the tariff is?” ‘ The tariff, my son, is a plan for taking ship loads of money from the people for the purpose of adding it to the first cost of merchandise at shops and factories, in order that when these goods are distribured and the people buy them, they may have the privilege of paying that much more for them, say $1 50 for #1 worth of g<x>ds. See? And then it has another purpose. It gathers together these shiploads of money from all kinds of people, who could lend it at 7 to 15 per cent, to their neighbors, and gathers it all at Washington and holds millions and mil lions of it there to lend to the rich men of the East at. 3 per cent. See?” “Hut why do the people want to pay their moqey to make goods nigh, and why do the people want to give up their own good money to be lent so cheaply to the rich men in the East, as you say?” “The iieople are mighty foolish about many things, my son.” Does Not Know He Has Married a Mulatto. From the Parkersburg Journal. Among the people at the circus to day were a young married couple from Ohio, of whom the wife is of the negro race and the husband of the Caucasian. The very p*culiar features of the case* is that the husband does not kno\v that his wife has colored blood in her veins. They are both quite young, and have been married less than a year The girl formerly lived in this city, where she was employed as a domestic, but came here originally from out the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, somewhere in the neighborhood of Clarksburg. She is a good looking brunette, and shows but little trace of her African blood, notwithstanding the fact that her mother was of the darkest ebony, as is well known by plenty of people in this city The young man is the son of a well-to-do farmer in Ohio. He met the girl here, became attached to her, and about a year ago they w ere married. It is said tbut he has never had the slightest intimation or suspicion of the fact that his bride has a drop of colored blood in her veins, as she has l>een very careful to conceal the fact from him. They live happily together, his case illustrating the old adage that where ignorance is bliss ’tis a good deal worse than folly to know’ some things that your neighbors know. Economy in China. From the London Daily News. Since the late Emperor of China, T'ung Che, died, or “became a guest in heaven,” as the Celestial periphrasis puts it. happiness has not reigned in the imperial family. There is par ticularly a craze f.r economy on the part of one of the elder Princes, and this is as trying to the Empress Dowager as Lord Randolph's sacrifice of a Chancellor of the Exchequer on the altar of economy has been to Lord G. Hamilton and Mr. Stanhope. She has been pushing on extensive work on the Nan Hai pleasure grounds, but if on pleasure bent she has not been of frugal mind, for these seem to have involved a policy of contracting foreign loans. In this country a mistaken policy is not easily checked or re versed, anti the economical Prince might whistle for a change of policy if he w ere here. He would have to get the votes of the ma jority before he could affect the responsible Governors. In China, however, by means of a spring which touches the emotions of the most exalted personages, and which we wonder hits never attracted the attention of Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan, wonders can l>e worked. This spring is the intense veneration of the Chinese for the memory of their ancestors. The austere Fifth Prince played upon this theme, pointed to more economical reigns, and urged her majesty to “betnink herself of the memory of our fore fathers.” The memorialist added that, “w’hile prostrate.” he “submitted these thoughts in tears.” This, in vulgar parlance, “worked the oracle.” Ifer majesty, “recalling to mind the memory of her son. the lamented T'ung Che, wept bitterly,” and forthwith “directed that the works of Nan-Hai and Pei-Hai be stopped, ex cept such as ar,‘ already near completion.” My Boy Still. from the Indianapolis News. ®o you think I've forgotten the day I carried him at my breast? Many fair children I've loved since then, But I think that I loved him best. For he was our tirst-born child. John, And I have not the heart or will To love him less; whatever may come He’s my boy still. I remember when he was a little lad, How he used to climb on my knee; How proud we were of his beauty, Of his wit and his mimicry, And I know quite well he's a man now, With a wiki and stubborn will; But whatever he is to you, John, He’s my bov still! He was just like sunshine about the house. In the days of his happy youth: You know we said that with ail bis faults He had courage, and love and truth. And though he lias wandered far away, I’d rather you’d say no ill; He is sure to come hack to his mother; He's my boy still! I know there was never a kinder heart, And I can remember to day How often he went with me apart And knelt at my knee to pray. And the man will do as the boy did. Sooner or later he will; The Bible is warrant for that; so He’s my boy still' A mother can feel where she can't see. She is wiser than any sage; My boy was trained in the good old way, I shall certainly get my wage. And though he has wandered far away. And followed his wayward will, I know whatever, wherever he is, He's my boy still l How Cleveland Sold His Knife. tYorn the Chicago News (Pern.) The story comes from Holland Patent that one dav when President Cleveland was a small boy in Lennox somebody (rave him a beautiful top and a neat little pocket knife. Soon after ward he was showing these toys to a group of admiring youngsters, with whom he wasat play on the village green. One of the largest boys in the group offered to give little Grover sc. for the top. “Show me your money." said the embryotic President, ready for a swap. The larger boy held up a little silver half dime between his finger and thumb, and Grover promptly nut the top into his hand. The larger lad looked the toy over very carefully and, without giving Grover the half dime, said: “1 believe Pd rather have the knife than the top." “All right," said the good-natured little fel low, “I’ll trade with you.” So the trade was made the knife given for the top. But the big boy did not hand over the silver piece. “Give me the money." said little Grover. "What money) l '' asked the big hoy in well feigned astonishment. “Why, the money you wore going to pay me for the knife." "1 wasn't going to pay you money for the knife," said the big boy. “I traded the top to you for the knife. “Yes, but you haven't paid me for the top.” “Of course not. I haven't got the top. You've got It youmelf," Little Grover couldn't answer this login. He said to himself; "Of course he ought not to pay for a top that he didn't take, and of course he did pav for the knife with the top." So he went home con vinced but not satisfied, It Is said that the samo boy applied to Presi dent Cleveland for an office soon after the In auguration, but that the President, on looking up the record of his later years, found that s a mull ho was about as running and about tv un scrupulous os when s boy. It Is needless to say t hat the man still enjoys the blessed privileges of orlvnt.l llf ITEMS OF INTEREST. A stuffed hen, loaded with dynamite, guards a Flint, Mich., roost from thieves. It isn't often that two full moons come in one month, but that is the case this October. The faith-cure disciples in Jersey City are about to build a tabernacle, as tbe gift of a wealthy convert. A man stole a *2O bill at Albuquerque, N. M., didn’t find out that it was counterfeit until he was arrested for attempting to pass it. The billiard match between Mr. Schaefer, the American, and M. Viguaux, the French cham pion, which was to come off this month, is de clared to be off, owing to the latter's declining to play. A number of Boston women, it is stated, pro pose bringing suit against the Police Commis sion to compel them to appoint police matrons, as ordered by the last session or the Massachu setts Legislature. Rifaat Bey and Mehemed Ali Bey, two Turk ish diplomats at Constantinople, have just been decorated with the Order of l’ius IX. by the Pope. These are the first two Turks who have ever received an honor of this kind. The manager of a burlesque troupe playing at Louisville. Ky., was married on the stage to an actress in his company on Monday night, and about the time they got home from the per formance he was arrested on a bail writ for un paid board and sent to jail for the night. A covered farm wagon, eastward bound, passed through a Nebraska town a few days ago, containing the owner of the outfit, his wife and live children, a live buffalo, an antelope, a pair of wolves, a pair of swifts or prairie foxes, and a box of white rats, besides a considerable store of provisions. t Kingston, N. Y., has suffered much from cat oipi liars this fall. They came in millions, cov ered trees, vines and shrubbery, stripped them of leaves, and in many cases destroyed them. They dropped upon the hats and bonnets of pedestrians, crawled up trousers and petticoats, and made themselves very unpleasant generally. At Washington, Ind., twenty miles east of Vincennes, Friday last, robbers boldly entered the Washington National Bank of that place at noon, while the clerks w ere at dinner, by cut ting out a panel in the rear door, and secured over SSOO in cash which was lying loose upon the counter. The thieves got away, leaving no traces. The son of a well-known Louisville physician went to California and engaged in the tomb stone business. In a letter to his father he writes: “There are but four physicians here, and I think you would do well in San Jose. I know that with you nearer to me I w r ould be more encouraged in my effort to build up a pay ing business.'' Queen Victoria is said to have given way to her inclination to melancholy at the death of Miss Skerrett, her old nurse as a child, as well as the attendant of all her children. It is a curious fact that her majesty forms more ar dent attachments for her servants than for her ladies in waiting, against whom she has been known to conceive most unwarranted preju dices. Miss Skerrett had been in the service of the wife of George 111., aud was over ‘JO years old. The common aphis or plant louse is so pro lific and breeds with such amazing rapidity, that if nothing prevented its propagation, the pro geny of a single aphis in ten broods would weigh as much as one third the human imputa tion of the globe. Unchecked in one year they would destroy every patch of vegetables in the world and create a wide spread famine. This will explain what a plague was in Egypt when the very dust was changed into lice. Three prospectors in Texas came upon a herd of 300 cattle the other day just as eight big gray wolves cut out a cow and calf and pitched upon them. The cow bellowed, and at once with a rush the herd gathered and drove away the wolves. The latter soon discovered another cow and calf, and made a dash for them, and, in spite of the frantic efforts of the mother, got tl • calf down: but again the herd came to the rescue, and this time chased the wolves until they gave up the contest and disappeared. The patent ballot boxes adopted by the leg islature last winter are making trouble in parts of New Jersey. One or two counties have re fused outright to purchase them, w hile iu others there is a difference between the county and city authorities, the former contending that the cities ought to purchase boxes for their own use. The Trenton Gazette is of the opinion that the cities have the better of the tight, inasmuch as but one of them—Newark—will hold an elec tion until after the regular fall elections in the counties. An Amercan gentleman who has recently traveled through Japan says that the Japanese will in a few years be the greatest railroad builders of the world. As yet there are only 370 miles of railroad in Japan, hut many new roods are projected. The Japanese are good railroad patrons, for even when they have no business to transact they will ride back and forth on the railroad until they have spent their last cent. And the l*eggai*s in the targe towns nearly always spend the money which they get on a railroad trip. George N. Gross, of Norwich, Conn., has what he calls a bearded pebble. It came from Crab Ledge, near Nantucket, is about as targe as a hen's egg, and on its smooth surface is a mass of filaments that resemble nothing *o much as hair. The stone has been out of the water for nearly two years, aud yet the hairs, which are over an inch long, look vigorous and lifelike. It is said that a Massachusetts col lector has one of these stones that has been out of the water forty years, in which time the hairs have doubled in length. The new’ theatre which has just been com pleted in Odessa will soon be opened to the public. No less than 1,800,000 rubles were spent in its construction, and both inside and out the fittings and decorations are of the most sump tuous kind. The theatre, which has a seating capacity of 2.000, is exceptionally rich in statues, lapis lazuli, marble pillars, mosaic, and gilding. A- the monthly receipts cannot exceed 00.000 rubles, and as anew opera cannot be put on the stage for less than 40,u00 roubles, or a drama under 20,000 rubles, the theatre will cost the Odessa municipality some 100,000 rubles a year, exclusive of the cost of scenery, costumes and lighting, which will be by electricity. At West Troy, N. Y., Tuesday night last, as Mr. Richard P. Boring, a young man. was walk ing rapidly along toward his home after haviug spent most of the night at the bedside of a sick friend, be was called upon to halt by a inan in citizen's clothes. Young Boring, fancying that he was about being attacked by a footpad, in creased his stride, w hen his challenger, who proved to Ik* a private watchman, deliberately fired two shots at him. One of the bullets struck Boring in the back, from the effects of which he died two days afterward. The officer is under arrest, charged with manslaughter. The deceased was a most exemplary young man, but the officer has served a term in prison for an assault on a little girl. Boring, when he fell, was within a few feet of his own doorstep. The Paris vendors of discarded cigar and cigarette ends have attained to the privilege of holding a market of their own in a public place. This latter place is the evil-smelling Place Mau bert, and the tobacco "merchants" are general ly busy from morning to night in selling packets of lahac gros and tahne fin to needy smokers. The tabae gros, or thickly-cut weed, is the re siduum of cast-away cigars, while the finely cut comes from the cigarettes. The at fresco tobac co sellers do a considerable trade, their princi pal customers being men out of work and the keepers of wine shops in poor neighborhoods, who retail the stuff tuus purchased to their own customers. The tobacco is sometimes sold at the rate of Is. a pound, small packets worth 5c., or S4d., being always on hand for the most des titute of the patrons of these narcotic concoc tions. In cases where customers raise disputes about the weight of packets, the tobacco seller, if he does not happen to have a pair of scales] applies to a friendly costermonger near his “pitch" for his, and the dispute is thus prompt ly adjusted, to the satisfaction of all concerned. PniNCK Bismarck is paying his usual autumnal visit to Friedrichsruhe, the splendid domain presented to him by tho Kaiser after the war of 1870. Wherever the Chancellor may chance to be, his manner of life is always simple, but at Friedrichsruhe his simplicity becomes almost Spartan. He sees hardly any society and spends a great deal of time in walking about the forest. The Sohloss is exceedingly unpre tending, and might, indeed, fairly he described as bare and uncomfortable. It was originally a hotel, and stands quite close to the railway sta tion. Much of tho furniture that was In the Gasthof has boon retained, and the long corri dors are full of numbered doors of rooms which contain only tbe plainest and simplest furniture j cane-seated chair* and painted washstands The walls of these primitive bedchambers are adorned with chromna that probably cost about 18 pence a pair. In the chancellor s study is s portrait of M. Thiers cut. from a French” illus trated [tatter, and near-by stands the table upon which the preliminaries of peace were signed in 1871, Neither within nor without has any endeavor beeu made to embellish the home. There Is no garden, and the forest commences almost at the door*. BAKING POWDER. . pRpRICE’s CREAM tag MAP^ Its superior excellence proven in millions of homes for more than a quarter of a century. It is used by the United States Government. In dorsed by the heads of the Great Universities a. the Strongest. 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In this department you will find a dazzling array of elegance and stvie, and any lady who buys a Hat or Bonnet before living ours an inspection will regret it most thoroughly. OUR Dress Goods and Sills will also be a great feature. This line was se lected with great care.and every novelty out this season can be found in our stock. Our Combina tions especially will l>e found a thing of beauty. Tbey will be tastily displayed for your inspec* tiou, and CLOAKS! We have a world of Cloaks, of every style and texture, and eve”. size made. We can fit any lady in tbe State, from the smallest Miss to the stateliest Matron. Every other department la equally replete with new things; in fact, every Stock in the house is FULL TO OVERFLOWING ! We have by far the largest stock ever hrought to Savannah, and we are going to sell it cheaper than ever before. We extend a cordial invitation to EVERY ONE, but especially the LADIES, to call and witness this grand display. 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