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4 f k HUrningdlclus Morning; News Building, Savannah, Ga. FRIDAY, OCTOBER U, IMT. Registered at the Post Office in Savannah. The Morning News is published every day in fbe year, and is served to subscribers in the city , by newsdealers ami carriers, on their own ac count, at 25 cents a week. $1 (X) a month, $5 00 for s ix months and $lO 00 for one year The Morning News, by mail . one month. tl 00; three months, $2 50; Bix months, $5 00; one year. $-10 00. The Morning News, by mail, six ftmes a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $2 00; six months, $4 00 one year. $h on. The Morning News, Tn Weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three mouths, $1 2f>; six months, $2 50; one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail, one year. $2 00. The Weekly News, by mail , one year. $1 25. Subscriptions payable in advance. "Remit by postal orueifc check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. This paper is kept on file and advertising rates may be ascertained at the office of the Ameri can Newspaper Publishers' Association, 104 Temple Court., New York City. Letters and telegrams be addressed “Marking News, Savannah, Ga.” Advertising rates made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS Meetings —Jasper Mutual Loan Association; forest City Clerks' Association; Greenwich Park Association; AUstine Comtnandery, No. 7, K. P.; Georgia Historical Society. Special Notices— Bills against Br. Steamships Georgia and Hawanlen; Notice as to Smoking on Wharves, etc.; Confederate Veterans’ Asso ciation. Stkamsu i> Schedule— Ocean Steamship Cos. Official— Liquor Licenses. Medical— P. I’. P. A Household Necessity— Tetterine. J. T. Bhuptrine * Bro. Cheap Column Advertisements -Help Want ed ; Employment Wanted; Lost; Miscellaneous. For Doboy, Darien, Etc.—Steamer Pope Cat ttn. Legal Sales— City Marshal s Sale. Fall Stoce— A. Falk & Sons. Auction Sales— Sundries, by I. D. Laßocbe's Sons: Administrators Sale of Personal Property, C. H. Dorsett. Furniture and Carpets— A. J. Miller & Cos. Stoles— Peter Olliff. Bricklayers are earning £7 a day in South ern California, and they are no more pro tected by tariff laws than those of Savan nah, but they are scarce. Senator Gorman, in saying that he never knew a mau in public life who thought the people dishonest who was not himself a ras cal, only expressed an old idea in new words, but it is not the less true for being old. The man always full of suspicion invites dis trust. Mr. Blaine leads even Henry George in the ballot at the Anti-Poverty fair for the presidency The Republican leaders are cultivating this lield very assiduously, but they may find out after a time that they have succeeded only too well and converted many of their owu followers into Henry George Socialists. The New York Evening World evidently knows that the newsboys are valuable friends. It has just chartered a theatre one night for their benefit—and its own inci dentally—and 3,247 of them were in attend ance. What with base ball benefits, theatre benefits, etc., the newsboy’s lot must lie a happy one to the average urchin. Prince Ferdinand seems to have had bet ter knowledge of the situation than those who criticised his “folly” in going into Bulgaria. His position seems to grow stronger every day, and his throne may be come as stable as that of his great neighbor, the Czar; and he has the advantage of knowing that none of his subjects want to blow him up with dynamite. The Indiana Civil Service Reform Asso ciation has been in session in Indianapolis lately, and seems to have converted itself into a grand inquest on the doings of the State and Federal administrations. But it overdid its (tart a little. Affecting to lie non-partisan, its resolutions read like those of the most Democrat-hating Republican convention, and that is about what the meeting amounted to. A London correspondent gives a long list of fashionable people, mostly ladies, and members of noble families, who have gone into trade. In many cases, no doubt, this step is made necessary by the failure of Irish rents. It would be a curious result of the agitation in Ireland if it should make M Expectable for a British aristocrat to go to work like other people, and it would not be one of its worst results. The Baltimore Sun, which is a very re liable paper, prints its estimate of the lying capacity of the various New York journals. It ranks them in the following order; World, Times, Tribune, Post. Mr. Pulitzer ■will doubtless feel gratified that his paper is given the first place; he claims that it is first in everything else. It will be observed that the Sun is omitted. Perhaps its Balti more namesake was too modest to under take an estimate of its capacity. The great interest felt in the election in New York, though no very important officers are to be voted for, is shown by the fact that in New York and Brooklyn the registration is almost equal to that in 1884, and much larger than any year since. The two great parties look upon the election as the first skirmish of the great struggle next year, and Henry George’s active campaign has also aroused great interest. All in all, the election is a very important event. It doesn’t give a high idea of our civiliza tion to learn that a young girl, accidentally separated from her companions in a country outing, was chased into the houseof a stran ger by twelve or fifteen roughs, and that some days later an attempt was made by one of the villains to murder the man who defended her when she claimed his protec tion. These things happened in New Jersey, and as Jersey justice has a reputation to sustain, the penitentiary will probably soon acquire a number of now citizens. The examinations for promotion in the New York custom house last week disclose B state of affairs which needs explanation. Of the several hundred persons examined more than half failed to come up to the miuimum requirements of the civil service rules, and will have to bo dismissed. The question naturally raised by this result is whether these men are really in competent to the duties for the perform ance of which they have been paid, or is the civil service examination of such a character that it does not settle the question of their fitness. If the public should become convinced that the latter is the true reason for such a large percentage of failures, the damage done to the present plan of civil ser vice reform would be great. It might be useful to make kuown a specimen examina ii*o. The Tampa Epidemic. The situation at Tampa is not. very serious so far as the fever is concerned. New cases do not occur rapidly and the per centage of deaths among those attacked is exceedingly small, showing that the disease is of a very mild type. If the fever continues for any consider nblc length of time there may be some suf fering among the people. It seems that about all of those who had the means to leave the city departed on the first announcement of the presents* of the disease. Business is therefore, at a standstill, and many people who depend upon their daily labor for bread may soon be in want of the necessa ries of life. I)r. Wall, the leading physician, and the one who first asserted that the disease was yellow fover, is of the opinion that although the germs of it wore brought into tiie city, they were not imported by the Plant steamers, or any other vessels arriving at Tampa. He ulso lielieves that if the old part of the city had been in as good condition as the new there would not have been au epidemic. If this belief is well founded it is apparent that the necessi ty, in this section of the South at least, for keeping the towns in a good sanitary con dition is an important one. A few hundred dollars spent in keeping Tampa clean would have saved perhaps a number of valuable lives and prevented a loss of many thou sands of dollars which the city is certain to sustain from the cessation of business. It is retnarkuble that in so few towns which are liable to epidemics is there suffl eient importance attached to cleanliness. The health authorities, while pretending to do everything that is necessary to be done to protect their respective towns against dis eases of au infectious or contagious charac ter, actually do very little. It. is not until danger is at hand that their neglect of duty becomes apparent. When it is too late they set to work with feverish haste to get rid of the disease-breeding filth and to purify the places which provide the condi tions which are necessary to propagate the disease germs. liarly last summer Tampa was warned that she occupied an exposed place, and that if the yellow fever found entrance into the towns of the mainland of Florida it would be through her doors. The fact that she was in constant communication with Havana and Key West, at both of which places the fever existed, was regarded as a reason why she should take extraordi nary precautions for her protection. It was announced time and time again by Tampa that she would see to it that the fever should not invade Florida through any fault of hers. How well site has kept her pledge is shown by the statement of Dr. Wall. The fact is that Florida ought to have a State Board of Health clothed with au thority to take such precautions against the introduction of diseases into any of her ports as the experience of the wisest physi cians and best sanitarians show to be neces sary. The board should have an ample fund placed at its disposal by the State. As the whole State is deeply interested in pre serving the public health the means to enforce health regulations should come from the State Treasury. As long as dependence is placed alone upon the health authorities of towns and coun ties frequent alarms and occasional epidem ics may be expected. In the present condi tion of affairs two or three years of immu nity from yellow fever is pretty certain to be followed in most of the towns by a very general disregard of rules for the preserva tion of the public health. To insure com parative safety from yellow fover it is necessary that there shall be no relaxation of means that are considered necessary to secure immunity from it. A Satisfactory Finding. There is no doubt that the finding of the Coroner's jury in the case of S. M. Pritchard meets with public approval. Mr. Pritchard had every reason to believe when he shot Guest that he was in imminent dan ger of being killed himself. Two men had broken into the house at which he was stopping, and, having terrorized about all the other inmates, were engaged in beating him with sticks, and one of them made a motion as if to draw a pistol, at the same time threatening to “fix” him. Although it does not appear that Elliott and Guest, the two men who broke into the house, intended to commit any serious crime, they were engaged in unlawful acts. It is doubtful if Mr. Pritchard would not have been held guiltless of any wrong doing if he had killed both, even if uo threat hail been made to kill him. The fact that Guest and Elliott were drunk is no excuse for their conduct. They were not too drunk to know what they were doing, but were drunk enough to engage in any sort of malicious mischief which sug gested itself to them Elliott got off rather easy. The acting Mayor doubtless imposed as heavy a punish ment upon him as he could. If, however, there is any way in which ho can be still further punishod, it should be adopted. There ought to be no leniency shown him. He ought to be given a lesson that he will not soon forget, and that will serve as a warning to others who are disposed to in dulge their wicked inclinations when under the influence of liquor. Homeward Bound. The Thistle is expected to start on her homeward voyage to-day. She will not carry the cup back with her, but her owners say frankly that they have been very fairly and handsomely treated, and that while they regret their failure, the sting of defeat is rendered less painful by the kindness and courtesy they have received on every hand. The Glasgow Herald , in streaking of the contest between the Thistle and Volunteer, says that it is evident that the Thistle was beaten on her merits. That journal, how ever, believes in trying for the cup again, but it does not feel sure of success. “Even if we could get an improved Thistle,” it says, “the probability is that the Americans could get an improved Volunteer.” That is ! very true, but if the Scotchmen want to try again there is nothing to prevent them. They will las admired for their pluck and persistence even if they arc beaten. Senator Everts sneers at the alarm mani fested on account of the annual $100,000,000 surplus. “Why that is only $1 (Ki a head, and that is only :>e. a week." The Senator did not remind his hearers that at the rate of Bc. a week for each person the Treasury would soon have all the money in the coun try. As long as the present laws remain in force a large part of the taxes paid is not re turned to the people, but locked up, so that taxation is a double burden on the prosperi ty of the country—it takes a portion of everybody's earnings, and it shortens the supply of money at the same time, crippling trade and lessening employment. THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1887. Protecting the State Road. The House is determined that, the lessees of the State road shall not wreck that prop erly if there is any possible way to prevent them from doing so. It is not known, of course, that they propose to do anything of the kind, but the claim of Senator Brown for betterments has created a suspicion that they propose to have what they claim even if they have to retain a part of the rolling stock of the road after the expira tion of their lease. The resolution pro viding for the protection of the entire property, which the House adopted on Wednesday, is a pretty strong one, and shows that that body does not in tend to submit to any dictation from the lessees. The indications are that there will be a rather troublesome controversy between the lessees and the State with regal’d to the question which Senator Brown has raised, and as the Legislature to he elected next fall will have the question to settle, it is prob able that the State road will t>e an issue in the campaign preceding that election. It the people were cal led uj>on to decide whether the road should be sold or not they could hardly avoid deciding in favor of sell ing it. They cannot help seeing that a rail road is not the kind of property for the State to own; that it is liable to become the source of corruption and dissensions, and that it would not be contrary to human ex perience if it were to be so manipulated by shrewd politicians as to ultimately deprive the jteople of it without paying them a fair compensation for it. There is no doubt that it can be sold for a handsome sum now, and if the advice of the Mo ft xn to News is taken it will be sold at the earliast possible moment, and the money applied to the liquidation of the State debt. Henry George’s Theories. An unknown quantity in New York poli tics is the extent of the influence of the land theories of Mr. Henry George, the candidate of the United Labor party for Secretary of State. A very brief outline of those theo ries, drawn from a recent publication of his, may prove interesting. Mr. George’s first assumption is that all men have an equal right to the use and en joyment of the elements provided by nature, and that land is one of those elements. He contends that, under whatever claim indi viduals may hold land, the real title rests in the jteople at large—that is. In the gov ernment, which represents the people. He holds that each matt has an exclusive right to the use and enjoyment of what is produced by his own labor, and when that labor has been in vested in the improvement of land the re sult still belongs to him, though the bare land itself does not. The land belonging to the government, it is nothing but right that the occupier should pay rent for its use, and the amount of rent should be fixed by the cireumstancee surrounding each holding. The value of land is greater or less as the jxipulation is dense or sparse. The increased value resulting from a dense population is not a result of the labor of the occupier, and therefore belongs to the jieojtle—or the government. The present tax on land is in reality rent, and it should be increased until it reaches the full renting value, while the present tax on personal projierty and capital is an appropriation from the results or wages of labor, and should be abolished. When the tax lias reached the full renting value of land, no man will hold more than he can use, and will relinquish to the next comer any in excess of that amount which he may now occupy. The result would be practi cally a confiscation of all lauds to the use of the government, and the destruction of thejr value, as the rent would exactly cover that. It will be observed that Mr. George does not propose an equal division of land, but only that every citizen shall have an equal share in its value. The good results which ho claims would follow the adoption of his theory of taxa tion are as follows: In the first place, the tax on labor or the use of capital would be abolished. Every one would be free to make and save wealth and to do any of those things which add to the stock of human comfort and national wealth. All taxes which add to the price of things as they pass from hand to hand would disappear. In the second place, by the increase of population tiie fund to be devoted to com mon uses would constantly increase. Finally, the sfteculative value of land would l>o destroyed, and it would always be open to the use of labor. So long as any unused land in a community remained, it could be obtained by those who wished to use it, not only without the payment of a purchase price, but without the payment of tax or rent, until the tailing uj> of less ad vantageous laud showed that it had a rent ing value. The above is a very brief but, as far as it goes, fair outline of the theories which Mr. George is advocating with a great deal of clever and jilausible argument; but, how ever clever the argument, he will find it hard to convince farmers that his plan of taxation would not add to their burdens, and the people at large that the government having once sold the exclusive use of land to individuals can honestly confiscate it, di rectly or indirectly. A man who happened to be tho only wit ness to a murder, with which he itad noth ing whatever to do, at Lancaster, Pa., was confined in jail 21)8 days for fear lie would go away without giving his testimony. When the trial was finally ended he was charged $2 a week for his board in jail, and paid $1 for each week day, so that he got less than SIOO for his long detention. Some man may have been subjected somewhere in the world to meaner treatment than this, but wo never heard of it. His case is woVthy of sjiecial attention by tho Legislature. The Philadelphia Record takes the trouble to trace back the history of a part of the Western Union stock. It selects that rep resenting the lines from tho Missouri river to Salt Lake City. These wires were put up under an extravagantly uigli-priced con tract for $147,000. A million dollars in stock was issue! to represent this outlay, and this has since been watered until it is now $(1,000,000. A 0 per cent, dividend on this stock moans that the jieople are every year paying more titan twice the cost of the plant for telegraphic service. A box of jewels valued at $5,000, belong, ing to Henry Wilson, a wealthy New York broker, who arrived from Eurojie on July j 3, was mailed at Hoboken and has not since been heard from, although the ease has been investigated. Jacksonville ts one steji m advance of Savannah. The Hoard of Trade has passes! n resolution to adopt standard time, the City Council will do the same; and the double tune nuisance will be done away with. CURRENT COMMENT. Tho Republicans Without Issues. From the St. Lom* Republican (Dein.) The Republican party must lie very hard pressed indeed, when the municipal politics of Baltimore is elevated to a national issue. The time was when the Republican party grappled with great Questions, out now that the party lias been subsidized by the tariff barons, the leaders are coniine 1 to the commonplace and ar.’R practically precluded from discussing national affairs. Taev can assert but must not discuss. The Parties Contrasted. From the New York Herald (Ind.) The Democratic party has nothing to fear in the contest, of next year. It is The party of peace, order and union; it is the national party, and the only one. The Republicans, always a sectional party, have stupidly chosen to remain so. Their appeal is to sectional suspicion and hatred. Under the Democratic rule the whole country lias become unprecedentedly prosper ous, liecau.se the Democratic policy fs national and not sectional, patriotic and not selfish. The Mugwump Described by Hia Enemy. From the New York Tribune (Rep.) Scientifically defined, the Mugwump is a per son who thinks his personal judgments of men infallible, and vastly more important than even the gravest differences between parties in prill ciples or ten lencies. Tiie candidate of a party in tiie last degree dangerous in its tendencies and beliefs this person will support with frantic /■eal, because bis judgment is that personally the cand.dale is ago >d man. In essence. Mug - wumpery is inflated vanity applied to politics. BRIGHT BITS. Miss De Peyton Yes, 1 admit De Smith's quotations are very amusing, but they are not quite fitted for our circle. His saws usually have reference to common people. Mr. Jones—Ob ? I see. His saws are not of your set . Boston Courier. ‘ Rut yon look young and vigorous." “< )t course I am," replied the mendicant. "If I wasn't do you suppose I could go hobbling about with my back doubled tin in this fashion? Without youth and vigor a man couldn't stand it half a uay."— jj-.s on Transcript. "What caused the fall of Adam?" said the Sunday school teacher to Timothy, who had signed the pledge tiie day previously. "Drink and baccy, inarm, " replied the 6-year old child, as he turned up liis pale-blue eyes toward the good lady * care worn visage. That lad was not given a ticket for the school treat. Fun Like the Hiies of the field —"I have always admired young Sniderly, he is so trim and neat. His clothes always fit him, an l he looks as though he had just emerged from a bandbox." "Well, it wont be Jong before he will look as slovenly as the rest of us." "Why?" "He was married two weeks ago."— Lincoln Journal. A Poser— " Yes," said old Mr. Jones, "the doctors are getting mighty smart nowadays; why, they've got instruments and things made so that they can see clean through you." "Humph!" replied old Mrs. Jones, "I don't see anything particularly smart in that. I've been married to you for thirty years, but I saw through you in two weeks after the bridal.*’ Mr. Jones rubbed his bald head fora moment and thoughtfully resumed his reading.— Boston Courier. ‘Parson Jinglejaw, why is it that your pul pit facilities are of so crude a nature? (’au't your congregation afford you anything better than a barrel to preach from?" "Dat affair am jus’ a pruff ob de meanness er some prefessers er de gospel. Parson Wide mouf ax me t’other day ef I wouldn't egsehange pulpits wid ’ini. 1 wanter 'comerdate 'im, an' so I sont my jan'tor down with my pulpit on a wheelbarrer ter make de change- an 1 wanter say dat rny pulpit war oner dese whitewash ’frigeraters—an’ blame me ef he didn't sen' back dat bar'l. Tell yer now some krischins is jes’ too scaiflous mean ter live.’’— Yonkers Gazette. Chicago Editor (furiously)—See here, sir. I've been looking over the editorial proofs and I’m shocked, disgusted, sir. at the utter lack of patriotism siiown by this staff. Chief Assistant Really, sir, I thought the matter particularly good to-day. "It's vile. Every line is written with an utter disregard of the grave crisis which is upon us! Look at it, sir..; J-b *s and jokes on all sorts of topics as if tiie world were bathing in sunshine. Don't you know, sir, that everything is going to the dogs, and your articles, instead of rollicking in levity, should wear a solemn aspect lie-fitting the occasion? Did you see the dispatch which just came in. sir?" "No, I did not." "It says the Chicago club has been beaten again."— Omaha World. A gentlemen who had a little daughter of a very inquisitive turn of mind invited a friend to uine with him. It chanced that the friend had just been divorced from his wife, and little Annie, who hail heard something about it, was curious to know more. "Why didn't you bring your wife with you, Mr. Todd?" asked Annie, when they were all seated at the table. The guest blushed and stammered, and said that he hadn't any now. Then Annie, in spite of admonitory scowls from papa and mamma, continued: "What did you get divorced from her for?" "Well. Annie, don't you think it is better." asked Mr. Todd, "when two people can't live happily together that they should separate?" "No. I don't." arjs.vered the child, "I think it is better to tight it out; that's the way my papa and mamma do."— Boston Journal. PERSONAL.. Mas. James Brown Potter, before leaving Paris, completed a course in fencing under the teacher of Mrs. I.nngtry. Dr. Howard Crosby lays it down as a part of his temperance platform that the drunkard I should be punished, as well as the rumseller. Mrs. Kissenoer, a former belle of New Al bany. lod., lias eloped with a peddler who bears the reputation of being the homeliest man in the Hoosier State. Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood has left Washington for an extensive West rn tour. Sho hopes to be able to strengthen a few waning female suffrage lodges in lowa and Nebraska. Rev. Y. Hiraiwa a native Japanese Methodist minister, has been brought to this country by tile missionary authorities. He will spend the autumn and whiter in attending missionary meetings throughout Canada. Senator Hawkey, who is called “Governor” in Connecticut, “Senator' at Washington, "Gen eral" in military circles and "Joe" by the old soldiers who served under him during the war, is said to prize the last title the most. Miss Drexri, and her sister, the two Philadel phia heiresses, who are so deeply interested in charitable work, are visiting all the Catholic Indian missions. It is said that they have given SIOU.OOO lor the extension of these missions. Miss Nej.i.ik Kino is the crack detective of Minneapolis, hhe is only JO years old, but slie has achieved distinction as a thief-taker. She recently went out to Frankfort, Dak., and w orked out one of the biggest land cases of the year. Piiof. Spencer F. Baird, whose will has been filed, bequeathed alibis property to his widow during her life, and then to Ins daughter during her lifetime. Should both di" without heirs, tvhat remains is to revert to the Smithsonian Institution. Mrs. J. W. Cooudoe, of Framingham, Mass., recently made tile journey to the summit of Mount Monaduock. As the lady is KM years old and hundreds of young w omen have attempted to make the ascent and failed, she is the heroine of the hour in her neighborhood. Miss Ei.kanor Everest is the most popular young woman in Philadelphia's amateur musi eal circles. She is just out of her teens, is good looking, and has a well-nigh perfect soprano voice. A music house lias named a collection of songs “Eleanor Everest’s Album'' in her honor. John Logan Chipman, who succeeds William C. Maybury in Congress from Detroit, is one of the ablest of the many able Michigan lawyers. If his constituents do not foolishly rotate hitn out of Congress before he is fairly warm in his seat he is certain to come to the front in that body. Archbishop Waksh, Archbishop Oroke, all the leading prelates of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, nnd the Archbishops of Irish birtn from other ]uiris of the British Em pire, have arranged to visit Rome early in Jan uary, when conferences will lie held, and a foundation stone of a cathedral in honor of St> Patrick will lie laid. * Princess Irene of Hesse, who is about to marry her first cousin, Prince Henry of Prussia, is prettier than most of Queen Victoria's grand daughters. She lias a spirited face, beautiful hair and a very graceful figure. The young couple will receive from the provincial Diet of Schleswig a magnificent wedding gift—seven painted windows lor their palace at Kiel. Denis Kearny, having arrived at New York, says he is looking around to see bow par ties stand before he begins to talk on tile Chi ueae question. Denis is a thrifty orator anil is probably waiting to see which party pays the highest for windy speakers. If they should ail conclude that his name was Denis what a dis appointment it would prove to the sand-lot speechmaker, to be sure. SHE HAD BUT FIFTY CENTS. An Independent Connecticut Girl Abashes a Lavish New Yorker. From the New York Sun. A young New Yorker who likes good clothes and wears 'em, and who particularly enjoyed taking young ladies to the theatre and to a lit tle luncheon in Delmonico’s or the Brunswick afterward, has become engaged to a Connecti cut girl. • lie took his sweetheart to the Danbury Fair and wanted to treat her in royal New York style. A girl friend of bis sweetheart tagged on, and there was no recourse fov the young New Yorker but to invite her to dinner along with his girl. He plunged into the bill of fare and ordered a dinner that would make $lO look misty, but through every course the “new*’ girl repeatedly remarked, as she saw the choice food brought on: “I haven't got but 50c." She ding dunged the fact that she hadn't but 50c.. mortifying the young man’s sweetheart until her face was as red as a peony. The young man? Well, he felt like a prince thrown into the mud and hungry for somebody to come along and drive him in deei>ei\ Now, She Can Make a Speech. From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat While the throng was held at bay. Col. David Caruth, as President of the Hendricks Associa tion, was admitted t hrough a side door, and he approached Mrs. Cleveland with nerve that sug gested the sensitive plant and a complexion that rivaled the jacqueminot, and presented her with a beautiful Horal offering upon Ijehalt of the as soci.ition in the following words: “Mrs. Cleveland: The pleasing act of pre senting to you, the uncrowned Queen of Ameri ca, this basket of flowers, ha $ been delegated lo to me by the Hendricks Democratic Association of St. Louis. The memliers of the association feel and appreciate the compliment of your visit to the city, and desire that you accept this flonl offering with their kindest regards and best wishes." As the Colonel closed his little speech he breathed a great sigh of relief, and an immacu late handkerchief passed onceover his head and was wet enough to hang out on the line. Mrs. Cleveland took the basket and said: “1 am sure that my husband is as grateful to the gentlemen of your association for these beautiful flowers as lam. There is nothing 1 love so much ns flowers, and were I making a speech in this place. 1 would say that, coming from an organization that has done so much, and all that, for our common country—but, seriously. Col. Caruth, let me thank you and the gentlemen you represent for this courtesy. I hope to see you again." The Colonel retired with a memory of Mrs. Cleveland's bewitching smile, and as he passed his friend Bannennan he said: “There is no use talking, Jim, he is a dandy; but she, why, she is a daisy and a thoroughbred." The Colonel then wont down stairs, and to every friend he met he repeated his eulogy in terms that were n re or less indicative of his Kentucky birth ana breeding. Thirsty Citizens. From the Washington Star. All sorts of expedients are employed to secure liquor at authorized agencies in Maine. An old Kennebeeker, when every other method had failed to connect his mouth with the much coveted long-necked bottle, started out from home with a two-gallon jug in his hand, in which he had put before starting a gallon of water. He marched up to an agency and ordered a gallon of rum put in his jug, saying that he started from the upper agency with it full, but one of his friends had urged him so hard that he gave him half of it. The agent, thinking he had picked up a stray dollar somewhere, filled his Jug. ••You'll have to charge this, I guess: I haven’t got auy change just now," said the owner of the jug. preparing to leave. “On no, you don't." replied the agent. "You’ll have to turn it back, then.’’ This was done, and then the fellow walked off with a half gallon of rum and a half gallon of water. A shrewd cit izen named David Sanborn called at the Norway Agency and wanted to get a pint of alcohol. Agent Noyes told him he couldn’t have it. “I want it," said Sanl>orn, "to soak some roots in for a medicine." Thinking it was right, Noy. • iet him have the alcohol. "What roots are you going to soak .*’’ he asked, as San born thrust the bottle in his pocket. He moved to the door, and, placing his hand upon the latch, turned and replied: ‘‘The roots of my tongue." How the Pop© Blessed Com. Gerry’s Little Boy. From the Tablet , London , Sept. 24. On Monday. Sept. 12, the Right Reverend rec tor of the North American College, in private audience, laid at the feet of his holiness 30,523 lire, jubilee offering from the diocese of Hart ford, United States, as homage to the Pope,who expressed his sincere gratitude and specially blessed t tie new cathedral of that see. Mgr. O’Connell likewise presuited a handsomely bound copy of “A Handbook of Christian Sym bols and Lives of the Saints, as Illustrated in Art," by Mrs. Clement and Miss Conway, to both of whom Lhe Holy Father sent a blessing on their labors. Finally the rector handed to his holiness the photograph of a little boy of Byears of age, Peter Gerry, son of Mr. Elbridge T. Gerry, of New York., who had sent his picture to the Pope in token of gratitude for the au dience and blessing granted to him on April 2, 1887. Upon hearing the tale the Hoiy Father exclaimed, “Bravo, Pietruccio!" (Little Peter), and anew blessed the child, placing his hand meanwhile on the photograph. as Peter's proxy, and then conversed at length with Mgr. O’Con nell on the affairs of fhe church in America, especially relative to the projected university at Washington. October. Frank Dempster Sherman in St. Nicholas October is the month that seems All woven with midsummer dreams; She brings for us the golden days That fill the air with smoky haze, She brings for us the lisping breeze And wakes the gossip in the trees, Who whisper near the vacant nest Forsaken by its feathered guest. Now half the birds forget to sing, And half of them have taken wing, Before their pathway shall be lost Beneath the gossamer of frost; Now one by one the gay leaves fly Zigzag across the yellow sky; They rustle here and flutter there Until the bough hangs chill and bare What joy for us—what happiness Shall cheer the day- the n;ght shall bless! Tis Hallow-e’en. the very last Shall keep for us remembrance fast, When every child shall duck the head To find the precious pippin red. Practice. From Texas Siftings. A Texas parent had a son who took piano lessons at Prof. Zwelbeer’s house, but was sup posed to do his practicing on the piano at home. The parent had a suspicion that the youth did not practice much. One day he said: "Tommy, do you practice regularly on the piano when I am down tom?" "Yes, pa." “Every day?” "Yes, pa.” “How long did you practice yesterday?' “Two hours.” "And to-day?” “Three hours.” "I am glad to hear that you practice so regu larly.” "Yes, pa." "And next time you practice be sure you un lock the piano. Here is the key. I locked the piano and put the key in my pocket a week ago.” Opportunities in the West. From the Chicago Herald. The following letter was picked up in the Palmer House by a North Side Union Club bachelor, wiio tries to struggle along singly on SSO a week because he doesn't feel that he ought to ask any girl to share his troubles: Chicago, Sept. 25, 1887. My Own Precious Da a UNO: No doubt you will be surprised to learn I am in Chicago, but nevertheless it is a tact, i left Boston lust Mon day. and made up my mind to go West. Now if I can't get a joli here tor at least $4 per week I will go farther West, and if I should he lucky enough to get a position I will write for you and the baby, for 1 think we can manage to live comfortable on $4 per week, as I ean get two ro ans here for $1 per month, and you ean cook the meals, which ought not to cost ovor lttc. per day. Now I don't see why wo can't just live here in immense style. Hoping you and baby are well 1 remain your loving husband, Geo. V A Colt That Picks His Own Fruit. From the Hartford Cottranf. A gentleman who keeps a 2-year-old eolt in a lot where there is fruit bus been particular of late to have all the fruit that fell during the night gathered before the coll was turned out in the morning, thinking the fellow would get nil his system required if he ate what fell dur ing the day. Yesterday afternoon one of the family heard a ;*■ ir tree raitle, and. slipping to the window to see if the tree was being molest ed, she saw the colt rubbing against it; directly a iieur was started and the eolt made for it’. Then be repeated the rubbing operation till another fell, which he secured and ate. He had been seen nibbing against the tree before, but bis movements wore not watched, but his owner has no doubt that he lias so ured his share of i the fruit, and didn't take up windfalls, either. I ITEMS OF INTEREST. a junk man at Bushnell found two boys play ing with a cast-iron globe about the size of a base ball. It proved to be an unexploded canis ter bomb. Isaac Jeans, a Philadelphia Quaker, w*ho has made a fortune of sß,ooo,oooas a fruit importer, began his bus! ness by selling oranges and apples at retail. The art of paper making has reached a point where a growing tree may be cut down, made into paper, and turned out as a newspaper, all within thirty-six hours. The Chinese have struck anew industry ou the San Joachin river, California. They gather heaps of mussels, and find a few small pearls in tne sand where the mussels are left to decay. Berlin is unusually full of Americans this season, although the university is not yet open and musical work is scarcely begun. The city is becoming more and more a resort for Ameri cans. Two Americans, James Lynch and John Ayaya, have discovered rich gold fields on the banks of the river Cielo Aguina, in the Songo district. Bolivia, so papers from that section an nounce. Verdi is credited with the intention of com posing an opera, having for title "Romeo and Juliet." which is to lx* first performed in 1889, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the representation of his first work. The formation of a wealthy tea shipping com pany is reported by Japan papers to be under consideration in that country. The idea is to export tea in large quantities to the United States and Europe, and to open up branch offices or agencies in both countries. In the eight months from Dec. 1, 1886, to Aug. 1, 1887, the United States Supreme Court and the highest appellate courts of all the States and Territories together rendered 8,325 decisions, in most of which opinions were written. A Sicilian has invented a method by which cremation is accomplished by means of electric ity. It requires a dynamo like those employed for arc lights. It is stated that the effect of the intense heat is to vaporize the entire body. Sir Charles Mordacnt shot thirty stags in five successive days in Glenfeshie forest, lnver nesshire, and in Mar Direst, which "marches" with Glenfeshie. Lord Fife shot ten in one day. In Gruinard forest, Rosshire, Miss Baring shot a stag of seventeen stone, which she got by fair stailting. Dr Snonck Hurgronje, a Dutch adventurer, has not only visited Mecca, but stayed in the Holy City six months, remaining there after the pilgrims had left, lie traveled on foot as a Mohammedan offendi and would have escaped detection but for the indiscretion of the French Vice Consul at Jeddah. The English army nominally consists of 211,- 474 officers and men, but it is said that only oue army corps can actually be put in the field, and that only by frantic makeshift, of the 71,810 officers and men stationed in England, it is al leged that 15,000 are boys under 19, and that 10,000 more are under 20. In 1882 Georgia had twelve national banks and twenty-six State banks, with a total capital of $12,855,000. Besides these there were thirty eight private banks in the State. Now Georgia has twenty national banks and twenty-eight State banks, with an aggregate capital of $19,031,600. There are now forty-nine private banks in Georgia. A Philadelphia bridal dress is of cream satin, the back a straight long train, kept up by deft arrangement of petticoats and thick ruches of silk. The front is covered with a fine lace scarf, the two ends narallel with th** edge of the skirt and the double portion at the top being carried on to the Ixmice, the whole making a soft and graceful drapery. Lieut. Hovgaard. the Arctic traveler who made the Northeast passage with Nordensk jold, is already preparing for his expedition to East Greenland next summer. His ambitious purpose is, if possible, to complete the explora tion of the northeast coast, join his discoveries with those of Lockwood, and thus finally de termine the outlines and extent of the great island. Twenty years ago the Great Architect of the Universe was erased from the statutes of the French Freemasons. A grand convocation is now in session in Paris debating whether it should not be restored, inasmuch as its omission has the effect of isolating the (fraud Orient from the brethren of other countries, and with drawing it from the universal church of Free masonry. The Czar, according to an English corre spondent who has jest seen him at Fredensborg, is looking wonderfully well, and is in excellent spirits, having quite recovered from his recent rheumatic attack. The Czarina, however, seems far from well, her sister s continued illness and the perpetual anxiety respecting the Czar’s life havmg given her a careworn and restless ap pearance. An animal with the head and tail of an allga tor and the back and claws of a tortoise is on exhibition at the store of George Hulse, a Liv erjiool importer of turtles. It is called an alli gator tortoise, and was captured by an English sailor in the swamps near New Orleans. The English naturalists have never seen anything like it before, and are trying to buy it for a pub lic museum. Wodehouse Lech, member Parliament, going on an excursion to the Monastery of Rilo near Samakoff, Bulgaria, strolled a little distance awav from the buildings and was captured by brigands, who stole all he had and demanded a ransom for his life. He pretended the deepest distress because he was the servant of a stingy master, who would rather have him shot than pay anything for his life, and the brigands let him go. While the manager of an electric-lighting station was showing some visitors about the station anew man passed on the other side of a dynamo with a dust pan full of sweepings. Suddenly, with a dexterous turn of the wrist, he threw the contents over the party, and as the honest German laborer threw up his hands iu astonishment the magnetic attraction com pleted its work, drawing the dust pan com pletely out of his hands, and it became trans fixed to the field magnets. Lorin A. Uathrop. United States Consul at Bristol, has been trying to get a statement of the material wealth of the United Kingdom, and finds it given in the Treasury reports at $45,800,000,000, but thinks that so fiir as the real estate is concerned, the estimates are greatly overdrawn. The estimate of the personal prop erty is more accurate, as the Income Tax Col lectors ascertain the amounts pretty closely. The returns from investments in foreign and colonial stocks amount to $810,025,000 a year, and Consul (utthrop remarks that these returns show how the big balance of trade against Eng land annually is corrected. The English Registrar General has made a comparison . between healthy and unhealthy occupations. Assuming the normal average death rate of the community as the unit of com parison. aud calling it l,oiio, the most healthy occupation appears to be that of ministers of religion, whose rate is 556. The most unhealthy occupations are the trades connected with the liquor traffic and hotel service, with which the death rate is 2,205 After the trades concerned with alcohol, the highest rates arc furnished by occupations that involve the breathing of dust —other than coal dust—and exposure to lead poisoning. The death rate among butchers is also high, 1,170. A correspondent, after picturing the sim plicity of the life at Balmoral during the Queen’s stay there, describes the breakfast served one day last week: Scotch porridge, cold rump-steak pie, hot rump steak, cold gammon of bacon, boiled eggs, Scotch scones, brown bread, butter, honey, tea, coffee and a ki id of cocoa specially prepared for the Queen. The porridge was placed on the sideboard and was served to each guest in blue and white china basins. These basins were filled by the atten dants. whether porridge was wanted or not The Queen cannot toll rite the smell of game the first thing lu the morning, and only allows it at tho later meals out ot deference to the tastes of others. It is claimed that Socialism is being practi cally experimented with in New South Wales, Australia. There is no State Church, and no he red tary aristocracy; suffrage is free, and there is no property qualification for mcmliers of Parliament. “Eight hours," said Lord Car rington, the Governor, in u recent s|*-ech, ‘ are considered long enough working hours, public houses are shut on Sundays, and museums are opened; the sale and transfer of laud is made veiy easy by statutory enactment; men unable to find employment are provided with work by the government, and education is practically free. In fact, if we leave out the demand for a free daily me .1 for each child attending school, and a proposal that Steps he taken to organize labor under skill's! direction on uncultivated lands, we find a state of things exactly similar to that suggested in a memorial presented lost year to Lord Salisbury by the English Social Democratic Federation, who In Europe gener ally would be considered generally us dangerous and half crazy visionaries. 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