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4 ©Renting Ildus Morning News Building, Savannah. Ga. MONDAY, OCTOBER 31. ISS7. Registered at the Post Office m Savannah. Th>- Morning News Is published every day in the year, and k served to subscribers in the city, bj newsdealers and carriers, on their own ac count, at 25 cents a week, $1 00 a month, $5 00 for six months and $lO OU for one year. Tho Morning News, bv mail , one month, f J 00; three months, $2 o 0; six months, Du; one year. $lO 00. The Morning News, fn/ mail, six time* a week (without Sunday issue), three months, 00; six months. $4 00 one year, $ s 00. The Mornino Nr.we. Tri-Weekly. Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, $1 *£>: *ix months, $2 60; one year. $T 00. The Sunday News, by mail . one year. $2 00. The Weekly New*. by mail, one year. $1 Subscriptions payable in advance. Kemit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. This paper is kept on die and advertising rates may lie ascertained at the office of the Amen can Newspaper Ihiblishers Association, 104 Temple Court, New York City. Letters and telegrams should be address** i "Mornins News. Savannah, (la. Advertising rates mad** known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Mkicting— DeKalb Ixxige No 9, I 0.0. F. Special Notice —Bills against British Steam ship Abeona. Steamship Schedules —Ocean Steamship Cos.; General Transatlantic Cos. Mackjmel—C. M tlllbert & Cos. A Touching Story—Lindsay & Morgan. Sea Island Route—Steamer St. Nicholas. Circulars Nos. 94 and 95-Kailroad Commis sion of Georgia. Index to Dohsett's Offerings— At the Court House Tuesday, Nov. 1; Furniture, etc., at auc tion. Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Want ed; Employment Wanted; Miscellaneous. Auction Sales— lnterest in a I-Ot of hand, by I. D. Laßoclie's Sons. The interminable litigation over the Stew nrt estate has begun again, after what once looked like a final settlement. This time a niece wants the will of Mm. Stewart re voked. _ Booth and Barrett have entered into an agreement to act together for another Year. Their extraordinary success this season has probably shown them that more money can be made in that way than if each starred on his own account. Jacob Sharp’s appeal to the New York Court of ApjM-als will not he argued befor Nov. 39. If the decision of that court is unfavorable, an appeal will be taken to the Federal courts. It is apparent that the great briber will not go to Sing Sing this year. London’s Trafalgar square paraders have suddenly dropped their demand for work. Now they want an equal distribution of the land and wealth ot thecountry. There will not be so much sympathy for them now that they show themselves Socialists, pure and simple. Two Baltimore policemen w T ere in Wash ington a day or l wo since, and one was robbed and the other arrested for profanity If they were fair samples of the whole force, there may have been good ground for the recent attempt to overthrow the party re sponsible for their appointment. Canadians are so inconvenienced by the way Maine juts into their territory that they want to acquire about half the State. The land they want isn’t worth much, but the United States is not in the habit of selling. The inconvenience complained of might be remedied in another way—say by commercial or political union. Mr. Jay Cooke, who, it will be remem bered, cut quite a ligure in the financial world in 1873, thinks the surplus a blessing, as it enables the government to “flush the channels of trade with money at will." Does not Mr. Cooke make a mistake of one word! He evidently means Wall street, and should have said the sewers of trade. The City Council of Philadelphia has de termined to seine the poles, wires and other property of the defunct Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Company in that city to satisfy certain claims. The Western Union proba bly cares very little, as in the trade with the rival telegraph company the principal purpose was to buy off opposition. Wires are cheap. Banker Drexel, of New York, hus been traveling in the West, and has come to the conclusion that the prosperity of tliecouutry is on a firm basis. He thinks there will lie' no jianic, and there will be money enough to meet all probable needs of business. Mr. Drexel’s opinion is, probably, worth as much as that of any business man in the country, and that it is of so favorable a char acter will add to the general confidence. William Walter Phelps, who is a candi date for the United States Senate, seems to have declared for the Robeson wing and against the Sewell wing of New Jersey Re publicans. It is beginning to lie plain whom Gen. Sewell meant when bespoke of “vin dictive and virulent’’ Republican leaders. New Jersey Democrats, wh.it time they are not pulling each others’ hair, can watch the fight among their enemies with great com placency. An inquiry into the condition of the poor of Vienna led to the discovery that upward of 4,000 little children attended school while suffering the pangs of hunger, some of them being on the verge of actual starva tion. The discovery caused a great out burst of popular sympathy, and now the little ones are well clothed and fed. Popu lar sympathy is fickle, however, and doubt less before long most of the children will have sunk to a condition even more miser able than before. Mexicans catch on to American ways in an encouraging way. A syndicate of City I of Mexico bankers has recently been trying, to corner the wheat market, has pushed up the price 50 per cent., and has a tremendous stock on hand. And they are likely, too, to meet with the average American luck, as it is said the corner Is almost sure to burst and swamp the speculators. Then a few banks will probably close, and their officers, still following the American plan, emigrate to Canada. It is always Canada which suf fers. The New York Tribune calls the Demo cratic districts of New York city the “boodle" districts, and tho o which usually give Republican majorities the “brown •tono" districts. It will hardly make con verts by the insinuation that Democrats are thieves and Republicans rich. It is probably true that more Republicans than Democrats are rich, but it is because they have been dividing up among themselves for years the immense amount of boodle taken from the people under the forms of law. Republi cans are “pcotectioniats” and “hoodlum.” The Negro Vote. A few week- ago nn article from tho !>en j of Senator Colqu 'l on l> prohibit! >• dues I tion appeared in 1 i>r‘k A air rich P ■ '• view, which ult ra re.; reii atteniicr. u 1 | favorable criticism, io .he current mini I tier of the /'n.•uni the s . a;o- writes u]>-ia | subject ol even greater contemno/accon-'po ! litic.il interest —the position an 1 condition of • negroes in the South. An effort is made to ( show —and to unprejudiced minds it I must appear to bo successful —that | the white people of the South in ! their policy toward the weaker ! race are restrained and directed by a sense |of religious and moral responsibility. He jis confident that an overwhelming j public opinion in Georgia, at leu.st, is in favor of affording every I possible facility for the education of negroes, as such a policy is believed to be wise and resting on principles of justice. The Senator thinks that, considering tho tremendous hindrances and obstructions which have lieen in tho way of the people of the South, the success with which they have met the obligations resting upon them have been more tiian creditable. He gives some figures to show the difficulties with which Georgia has strug gled and the measure of success which has attended her efforts to overcome them and fulfill her duty to the negro. It is shown that in lS'll, the year the war began, the value of property in Geor gia was $072,000,000, while in 1805 it was $191,000,000 This comparison will show the dire poverty caused by the ravages of war. Values, however, have since steadily risen, and as they increased more and more has been done for negro education. In 1871, the number of colored children in the schools was only 0,004; in 18s5, 119, .48 attended the schools, and the number is now probably 140,000. Senator Colquitt is one of the best known in the North of the statesmen representing the South in Congress. His high moral character and con nection with the temperance move ment will give force to his words. He is recognized as a man who represents the sentiment of the |>eoplo rather than a polit ical machine. Occupying so advantageous a position, he can engage in no work more profitable to bis constituents than that in which he is now employed The*|fc'Wer of sectional issues at the North is always a threatening danger to the South. It makes enemies of those who should be friends. It rests on the belief prevalent among Northern people of humanitarian instincts that Southern win to people are the enemies of Southern negroes, and deter mined to koep them in a state of ignorance and serfdom. Nothing could be further from the truth, and if Senator Colquitt can disabuse their minds of this belief he will do the South as good service as be will have opportunity to render in his seat in the Sen ate. The House Drainage Question. The communication of Dr. Fallignut, pub lished in another column, criticising the privy drainage ordinance of Dr. Duncan, is worthy of the attention of every resident of this city, whether a property owner or not, and it ought to he carefully considered by the city authorities, as it presents facts which show that the good work proposed by Dr. Duncan’s ordinance can be more satis factorily and more economically accom plished by adopting the house drainage sys tem which is authorized by an act of the Legislature. One of the objects of Dr. Duncan’s ordinance is to get rid of the foul and abominable privy system which still exists in parts of the city, and everybody will lie glad when that system w holly dis appears. There does not seem to lie any doubt, however, that the house drainage plan, explained in Dr. Falligant’s commu nication, is preferable to that embodied in Dr. Duncan’s ordinance. During the past summer the Morning News several times called attention to foul smelling vaults which, there is every reason to believe, were the cause of considerable sickness, and it is gratifying that it is now proposed to get rid of them. The city authorities will fail in their duty to the public if they neglect to remove these nuisances before warm weather returns. In settling upon a plan for their removal, however, and for draining houses generally, care should be taken to adopt that which promises the best results, and at the same time will put as light a burden as possible upon the property holders. A careful and candid consideration of the two plans pro posed can hardly fail to result in a decision favorable to that advocated by Dr. Falli gant. Dr. Duncan’s ordinance gives house own ers until March, 1889, to connect their privies with sewers. They should be re quired to make the connections at once, that is, as soon as the city can put down the pipes in accordance with the requirements of the law. There certainly should be no de lay in removing the disease breeding vaults. It might be -advisable to enforce Dr. Dun can’s ordinance immediately, so far as it re lates to the removal of the vaults, but using the drainage system to w hich Dr. Falligant calls attention in doing so. Ail parties are aiming at the same object, viz., the promo tion of the health of the city. They differ only with respect to the way of attaining that object. That must have been an impressive spec tacle in the New Hampshire capital the other day, when two members of the legis lature presented gold watches to two of the best known lobbyists, in “recognition of their services.” Haiti services were proba bly rendered in pushing the railroad bill recently vetoed by Gov. Sawyer, through both houses of tho Legislature, and the members who benefited by their “lobby ing,” naturally sympathize with men who have gone to so much trouble ami expense, f all to no purpose, because of the foolish scru ples of the old Governor about bribery. The)' will no doubt see to it that ho is not re-elected. It is said the Pope is anxious to act in all things concerning Ireland to the satisfac tion of England, and still not wound the susceptibilities of tho Irish Nationalists. His holiness has undertaken a course of con duct which even his well-known diplomatic astuteness will haiilly be able to bring to a satisfactory conclusion. It is hardly possi ble to please both parties to a controversy involving such great questions and so much animosity. Spies, who, perhaps, indulged in the most violent language of any of 'the condemned Anarchists, is said to be almost crazed by the fear of death. He treats the foolish woman who calls herself his wife with the' coldest indifference, and is sunk in sullen despair. He Is not the first talker of brave woi-ds who has shown himself a cowani l when he had to face death THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1887. Armed hurope. Europe has cause for more anzirty. The i . .'cciiug between Jtu -in and Germany has reached such a pitch that the Czai cannot inept hi- gland nacre, ;noGeiman Emperor, and the frontic" fortni; ions of Ixitb na tion. are neing strengthened, it h not a. all probable that there will lie war, thougn, of course, the bad feeling spoken of makes such a calamity possible, because Germany doesn’t want to fight, aid Russia is nearly bankrupt. The Czar’s cmlit with European money lenders has been eon slautly sinking for years, and of late the German government is supposed to have done its best to injure it. The Russian debt grows many millions larger every year in a time of peace, though internal taxes are high and those collected at the custom house-, next to prohibitory. This is a bad state of affairs for Russia, but a fortunate one for nations who have cause to fear her, as it forces her to keep the peace. Though there may be no war, the strained relations of the two countries serve to call yet more anxious attention to the immense preparations for it made by every nation in Europe and the growing antipathy between nations. They only wait for favorable op portunities to tear each other to pieces. The rules fixed by religion and civiliza tion for the guidance of individuals do not seem to apply to nations. The average Ger man or Frenchman may be the very pink am! flower of civilization, nn amiuble, po lite person, devoted to good works, but the nations made up of Germans and French men, in their relations with each other and other countries, stand about on a level with the individual Apache Indian. Full of hatred, suspicious, and armed to the teeth, each watches for an opportunity to take the other's scalp. And they are no worse than other civilized nations. There is an opening for some man who thinks he knows it all to tell why individuals have become gentle, while nations remain savage. The Chinese Concessions. It is denied from Philadelphia, presuma bly on authority of Mr. Barker, that the banking and telephone concessions made by the Chinese government to the syndicate represented by him have been annulled, as has been reported from London, or that there is any hitch in the negotiations neces sary to settle the details of the great enter prise. The continuance of Ma Iviet Chang, the high Chinese official who represents his government in the matter, in Philadelphia, would seem to strengthen this denial. There are other reasons for believing that the concessions are real, and will lead to a great development of American enterprise in China. For many years Chinese con servatism has doggedly resisted the advance of European ideas beyond the treaty ports opened to commerce by force of arm.. The time may now have come, in the judgment of Chinese statesmen, when t lie safety of the empire demands that the policy be changed. With all its wealth and teeming millions of people it is almost lieipiess against the attacks of greedy province hunting European powers. The last war with France not only cost millions ,n money, but severed from the empire a great stretch of country which had from time immemorial acknowledged the suzer ainty of tile Chinese Emperor. On the north the all-conquering Russian is pressing down. If the Chinese feel their helpless ness. caused principally by tho lack of means of transportation and a modern system of finance, it is natural that they should turn to Americans to help them de velop them. We are the only one of the great civilized nations which wants nothing of China but her trade, which would be mutually advantageous. England has already a lodgment on her coast at Hong Kong, France impinges on the west and Russia on the north, while the colonial policy lately adopted by Germany is not of a kind to inspire confidence in a nation so little capable of self-defense as is China. It is safest to deal with Americans. The opportunity for increasing American trade and influence is a great one, and if a wise home policy is adopted by our own government, ihe great commerce of Eastern Asia may centre on our Pacific coast, and (low across to Europe. The Overproduction Problem Some of the advocates of protection are beginning to be alarmed at the signs of overproduction. They understand that overproduction means stagnation in busi ness, disaster and distress. They have a plan, however, for getting rid of our surplus products. It is a rather attractive plan, but it doesn’t bear investi gation. It is to use the surplus money in the Treasury to establish steamship lines to South American ports, and use them to carry our surplus products to South Ameri can markets. It is true that we ought to have the greater part of the trade of South America. Asa matter of fact, however, we have only' a very small part of it. Would we have much more of it if we were to subsidize steamship lines* A little more, perhaps, hut the increase would be in those articles which we now manufacture cheaper than they are manufactured elsewhere. But there is no danger of overproduction in these articles. They find a market all over the world. Overproduction is threatened in those things which we do not manufac ture as cheaply as they are manufactured in other countries. If we should subsidize steamship lines, therefore, we would not got rid of our surplus productions. Our true policy is not to subsidize steam ship lines but to reduce our tariff so that our goods can be manufactured as cheaply as they are manufactured elsewhere. We might also amend our navigation laws so that we might own the ships that are neces sary to do our carrying trade. If the lithographic stone, of which a de posit has been found in Floyd bounty, lias all the good qualities claimed for it, it will prove no inconsiderable addition to the mineral resources of the State. The best stone now comes from Bavaria, and is very expensive, though some of an inferior qual ity is quarried in Canada and other countries. If, when com pared in actual use, the Floyd county stone proves equal in the various. needful good qualities to the imported Bava rian article, a fortune awaits the lucky holder* of the Georgia quarry. The big farms in Northern Dakota are suffering from the effects of the decision in the Northern Pacific indemnity cases. .Squatters have taken advantage of the doubt as to whether they are within the certified limit to sprinkle their claims and shanties all over the farms. If the farms are without the limit there will be quantities of law suits, and the sums invested will be lost. One of the large owners is ex-Henator Windom. who has 10.000 acres. CURRENT COMMENT. The Lambs and Goo?© Have a. Cfc Mce. Froiti th t '>?/! YfitJc World (Item ) While .la? Gould #*>•* - abroad *to gel *£•. h© lambs that he has shear* i aad the gees** tu t* he has plucked .vi!l h;*v * a <•! ance ro xrmv :i i vw crop of wool an-1 feauu*:>. And perkayo me public can put on a lilt) /at. too. The Pyramids Are Safe. From the Chicago Tribune {Rep.) Jay Gould talks of v siting Egypt before lie returns from his European trip. The Khedive is taking no steps to provide additional anchor age for the Pyramids. He probably considers the English mortgage on his country heavy enough to hold them do.rn. Foraker’a Opportunity. From the Phdaderflhia Record (Dem.) The reuppeava no'* of Mr. Jeffersou Du vis on a public occasion and his beany ’>*ceptini by the Georgians is • verv titnelv oevi von <1 for Gov. Foraker, He will i.nv shake the bio *,ly shirt with redoubled energy. Tie spectacle of the feeble old man kistmu' the tattered Confederate flag is calculated to turn the gentle Foraker*s loyal blood iuto boiling vinegar. Besrinniny to Appreciate the Mug wumps. From the Philadelphia Times (Dem.) The Presidential year is so close at hand that the friends of Lincoln. Allison and Hiseock are beginning to argue that they would Is* accepta ble to the Mugwumps. It seems to lie recognized th.it voters who have been abused like pick pockets for three years are not to l>e won over by mere taffy and that they want clean men to vote for. BRIGHT BITS. The women's pockutbooks are getting larger and larger, and it til by one who pretends to know -though, of course, the fellow is uttering a libel—-that the bigger the poeketbook the less it has in it.— Boston Transcript. One of the things better left unsaid* Mrs. Moyonage How well you’re looking, Mr. Niladmirari: Really. Europe has done wonders for you. You look made over. Mr. Niladmirari Yes, indeed I am. You ought to go to Europe.- Boston Herald. The following testimonial from a lady has been left at this office for sale by a dealer in patent medicines; “pear Doctor- I will say that while suffering from a severe backache 1 took my purse lu my hand and went out to buy one of your plasters. I met a street thief on the ihe corner, and was relieved at once. You can use this for w hat it is worth.’’— Burlington Fiee Press. Brown—Have you seen Durnley lately, Robin son? Robinson—Yes. only a few moments ago. He invited me to have a drink with him. Brown- -Hid he have anything in particular to say ? itobiDson—Well, yes. He said if I would pay l or the drinks, he'd lix it up with me some other time. -Ttd-Bits. Tramp—Madam, you see before you a hungry man: in fact, I'm starving. Housewife—Got nothing in the house but baker’s bread. Tramp—baker’s bread! Saved! Madam, here is a bunk of home-made bread your neighbor on the left gave me. 1 will gladly exchange it for a variety I can eat. Thank you. ma'am. You can use this for i stooping stone. Good day, ma'ain.— Omaha Herald. Mary was Bent away from the dinner table because she misbehaved, and told to go up stairs and tell nurse to put her to bed. The family coming in from dinner a half hour later, found her threading her wav among the parlor chairs and tables in most complicated figures. “Mary!" exclaimed lier mother, “didn't I tell you to go upstairs?" Mary looked up placidly: “Yes’m. I’m go ing: I'm on my way now ."—Harper's Bazar. A poor little fellow was observed the other day sobbing on a Boston street - orner, and a kind hearten gentleman accosted him with, "Saw my little man. what is the matter?" “Fadder and mudder be dead, and dey ain’t got miffin to eat," “But, my clnld," continued his questioner, "they have little need -f anything to eat if they are dead. What put such an idea into your little head." “Bat s what tky told me to say," tearfully ex claimed the youth: and mendicant, unwittingly exposing the fact licit lie had been sent out on his supplicating mission, and had got the appeal he was to make ridiculously mixed up.— Boston Budget. “Have you seen papa's new dog, Carlo?" she asked as they sat in the parlor, "Yes, ’ he replied uneasily, “I have had the pleasure of meeting the dog. 1 “Isn't lie splendid? Hods so affectionate." “I noticed that he was very demonstrative," returned he as he moved uneasily in his chair. “He is very playful, too. 1 never saw a more plu\ fill animal in my life." "I am glad to hear you say that." “Why?" “Because I was a little bit afraid that when he bit that piece out of me the other evening he was in earnest. Rut if he was only in piay of course it's all right. lean take fun as well as anybody."— Merchant Traveller. There was a certain character in one of our country towns, who was noted more for the va rious means t*> w hich he resorted to earn a liv ing than for his veracity. Atone time it hap pened he was peddling fish, and his cry sum moned a very part icular old lady to the side of the wagon. “Are these fish fresh?" she asked, viewing the finny representatives with suspicion. “Yes'in; caught this very mornin', ' was the reply. “Are you sure,” she continued, giving the load sundry pokes. “They all seem to lx* dead.” “Dead?" echoed the vender—"dead? Yee’m they arc dead. They were so lively when I left home that I had ter kill e'm to keep 'em from jumpin' outer ther wagon— Harper's Bazar. PERSONAL.. The President has decided not to resume his midday receptions to the public until after Con gress meets. The happiest suggestion yet made to the Post office Department, says the Albany Jrgwi, is that of putting Mrs. Cleveland’s portrait on a new postage stamp. (jI'ES. Victoria and the Prince of Wales are the only ones in the future to be given special steamers between England and the continent at the expense of the English taxpayers. Mas Maoham.xe Boons, of Milton, Indiana, will soon celebrate her 104th birthday. Her health is excellent, but her sight has failed, and she has only one tooth left. She finds no diffi culty in eating meat. Cot. Jerome Bonaparte, of Washington, is a thorough horseman aud a good reinsman, and when he has charge of a spirited team many persons fancy the expression on his face is very suggestive of that which some of the pictures of his great uncle Napoleon have. Mr. and Mrs. Prkvoht, and Mr. and Mrs. Ray mond, recently celebrated their golden well dings, they having been married on the same day, fifty years ago. Their eighteen children, with their descendants and friends, attended the double reunion which was lield at High Ridge. Ct. Mr. Barncm’s only partner in the ‘show busi ness,” as Arteraus Ward called it, is J. A. Baily, who retired from the firm on account of illness some years ago, aud now re-enters it in restored health. Mr. Hutchinson, one of the retiring members, has made upward of? 1,000,000, which lie now proposes to enjoy. Thomas Hast and Dr. Norvin Green are among the leading members of the Lenox Club, which has reclamed the rooms of the old Carle ton Club, on West Twenty-fifth street, New York, and will henceforth make its home there. John Chamberlin, who has a proprietary inter est in the building, will have general charge of the cuisine. Probajbly the oldest person in the world who is taking the Chautauqua literary course is Mrs. B. Needham, of Bristol, Vt. She is now 9*4 years old. and expects to receive her diploma certify ing to the completion of her four years course in I sail. She seems to feel the weight of her ninny years but lightly, and is in better health than most people at 00. She lives all alone and has for years done her own work, Including her own dressmaking. Ex-Gov. Proctor Knott, of Kentucky, writes to Sunset Cox: ‘ My official life closed on Aug. HO, 1* m,, and since then I have been resting at this quiet little country home, with an occasion al episode in tbe way of a brief speech or a visit of u few days’ duration among my good, faithful old friends. What I shall do hereafter Ido not know; possibly resume the practice of my profession, inayba go at something else that will enable me to turn an honest penny with greater celerity and les* trouble.” Gov. Bob Tavuor. of Tennessee. says that hr is careful of champagne and apple jack, and this is the why of the apple-jack* **vv*> j was a boy one cold, frosty night we were out oa a lark in the Tennessee mountains, and drank an abundance of apple-jack. The cold prevented Us taking effect, But when I came into mother's warm room it floored me. I had sense enough not to talk and groaned how sick,. I was. and knowing she wouid smell the brandy I said I had stopped bV aunt's and got some hrardy, but' it had not helped my stomach ache a bit. She t hen put uie to bed and spread a groat big mustard plaster on me. and I could not walk for three weeks. I have the marks of it on me yet. ’’ The House’s Darling. O sweet, shv girl. with rose'* in her heart, And love-iijrlit in her face, l.ke those upgrown, I-’.. 1 of still dreams and thoughts t hat, dream like, start From tits of solitude when nor a.one! Clay dancer over thresholds of bright days. Tears quick to her eyes as laughter to her lips: A game of bide-and >eek with Time she plays, Time hiding his eyes t oin hers iu bright eclipse. O gentle-Noiiled’—how dear and good she is, Blessed by soit dews of happiness and love; Cradled in ieinterest arms! Her mother's kiss Seals all hex good night prayers. Her father's smile Brightens her mornings. Through tho earth shall move Her child-sweet soul, not far from heaven the while! John James Piatt. The First Law Which Must Bo Repealed. From Puck. Labor Reformer—Oh, we're getting along finely. All we want is more laws! American Philosopher --More laws, eh? L. U.—Yes, sir. We want laws to regulate the relations between capital and lal>or. A. P.—That's not very definite. L. R.—So a capitalist will have to pay big wages, you know. A. P.—And thus increase the cost of bis prod ucts. L. R.—Oh, we've gol that nil figured out. We re going to have laws to fix the price of the products, too! A. P.—Not leave him any margin, eh? L. R.—Don't care w hether he has any margin or not. A. P.~ Suppose men with money won't in vent it in enterprises under those' laws, what then? L. R.—We'll repeal all laws which give them any chance to live on the interest. You see, there’s a great principle at stake. A. P.—Perhaps; but lie can live very com fortably on ins principal. Can you live on yours ? 1.. R. If we can't we'll repeal more laws. A. P. -That will be very necessary. Shall 1 tell you which law you will have to repeal fifst ? L. R.—T wish you would. A. P.—The law of supply and demand. Legal Practice in Montana. From the Chicago Tribune A man was up before a Montana Judge for preliminary examination. .Several witnesses swore that he had blazed away at a man with a big revolver at close range and subsequently ex tracted SSO from his pocket while he was dis abled. “This is evidently a ease of highway rob bery," said the Judge, and perhaps attempt to kill. I’ll bure to hold the prisoner without bail.” “If your honor will give me a chance to say a word." remarked the prisoner, “I think I can explain the matter. lam a lawyer " ‘'Well, go on." replied the .fudge “1 had an account of SSO against this man, which had been placed in mv hands for collec tion. I went about it, closely following the usual practice in our Territory and got the money." “Oh, well, 1 ' replied the court, “if it was a legal matter like that, why of course I'll have to discharge you. By the way. do you find the self-cocking six-shooter as much better for col lections as the resolutions of the Montana Bar Association would seem to indicate? I have a son who is coming out here to practice before long, and I want to get all the points for him I can. My son already has a library consisting of two double?-barreled shotguns, a repeating ritle. and a pair of brass knuckles. I think he will do well.'' Joke on a Judge. From the Pittsburg Post. Ex-Judge William P. Jenks, of Brookville, has been in the city all the week attending the Su preme Court. A goo<V*t<>ry is told of him while he was on the bench of Jefferson county. One day, a few years ago, he was trying a case in which his brother. Solicitor General George A,. Jenks, was counsel. The story goes that George's client would have got the worst of it if the case had been decided by the jury according to law. But George was determined to win if it was in th-* wood, and made one of his eloquent speeches to the jury, which was composed of woodchop pers from the back districtsof the county. After he had concluded the Judge said: "Well, George, you have explained your side of the case to the jury; I will now give them the law." The Judge, after explaining the law, points to the twelve “good men and true," instructed them to return a verdict against his brother's client. The jury retired, and in a brief time returned with a verdict for George's client. The Judge was dumfounded, but accepted the find ing. After the jurors had been disciiarged one of them was asked why they ha t returned a verdict contrary to t he Judge’s instructions. “Well," he replied, "you see. George is a bet ter lawyer than Bill, and tie told us we must bring in a verdict for his client. We did so." That is one reason why the present Solicitor General of the United States was so successful as a lawyer in his native county. The people believed everything he said. She Got the Cloak. From the Minneapolis Journal. When Mr. Montgomery came home the other night he found Mrs. Montgomery weeping. Great, salty tears chased one auother down her fair cheek. "What is the matter, dear?" ho asked, as he placed anew clove in his mouth and prepared to kiss her. "Oh, everything is the matter," she sobbed as she placed one arm about his neck and laid her head down on his shoulder. “I want to die." "Oh no, you don't, dear." be remonstrated. “Tell me what is the matter. Noav do." "Fergy," she questioned, "do you love me as much as you did when you married me?" “Why, of course I do. What put such a ques tion in your head?" “Are you sure that you do?" What do you mean, Ellen? You know that I love you as much as I ever difl, and more if any thing." “Don't be silly, Fergy. How am Ito know’it? The minister was here to-dav and said that a loving husband was continually showiug his de votion for his wife. He always bought her everything that she wanted, and did everything that she asked him to do.' "Yes. What are you driving at ?" “It pained me when I heard that, and I have be<*n crying all day." “Have I been unkind to you ?" “No-o o, but then the minister went from here over to that hateful Mrs. Brown's, and I just know that he said the same thing to her." • Well, what of it ?" “Nothing: only Mrs. Brown is going to have anew sealskin cloak, and she will go around and tell what the minister said. Then she will tell how much her husband loves her and hint that you and 1 are goir.g to separate.’* Mr. Montgomery ordered the new cloak the next morning, and incidentally put out a story shout the minister having lost a great many friends, and that he had better look for a differ ent field. Saw His Dyi-g Brother’s Ghost. l'yitn the Punmutawney (Pa.) Spirit. “I don’t believe in ghosts," remained a promi nent citizen of this pines the other day, "hut I saw something one night while going through a dark woods on the IteynoldHville road that 1 have never been aide to account for. I was riding along'on horseback, when, just a few feet in front of tne. I saw a man tn the road. I turned tny horse to one side in order to let him pass, and at that moment he stumbled and fell in the middle of the road. The thought at once occurred to me that it was a drunken man, and as the night was intensely cold—being in the wintertime—l was afraid he would lie there and freeze to death, so I concluded to help him up and see that lie reached a place of safety, with this purpose in view, I said: ‘Hello, stranger, what are you doing here?’ “But there was no resjxinse. I spoke louder and louder, but still he would not answer. This convinced me that he had fallen into a drunken sleep and would inevitably perish if not taken care of. I therefore dismounted, lighted a match and bent over the figure to see if I could recog nize his features, when, to my utter astonish ment, the object dissolved from view, and there was not the least indication that there hail been anything in the snow before me. I tried to con vince myself that it was an illusion, but I was in such complete possession of my faculties and my thoughts had been running in such a widelv different channel that, I could not believe I had been deceived. And what tended more firmly to convince me tha! 1 was not dreaming was the fact that my horse shied and pawed and snuffed the air, and seemed to be in such terror of the object that I could scarcely hold it. “I went on home, but in spite of the most vig orons mental efforts, was haunted all-night by strange forebodings of evil, and the next day I received a dispatch to the effect that my brother, who was living in Dakota, had been naught in a iiiiziand the previous night, and was frozen to death Subsequent inquiry develeped the fact that bis death occurred at the same moment, allowing for difference of time, that MJie apparitian appeared to me. Since that me I have been slightly tinged with supersti tion " "You sav, Mr. Smith," said the g®tinalow, thoughtful, this-is-a serious matter sort of tone, “that yon have loved me for five years and huve never dared to tell me so until to-night’’’ ‘'Yes." he replied. "Well, I cannot be your wife. A man who has no more courage than that would feign to he asleep whUoVhurgiar stole his baby’s shoes. —Jar JSuouA. ITEMS OF INTEREST. hhere let s a 100 yards toot race ai Helena, Mont., til,! other day. between Fred Stone of P.ii’adelpbla. and Billy Barker a> Australian tsprint'*!. Stone is report• i to nave won In yw Be on!?. Ten the use ml dulars c muged hands. DcnixotUe high .voter of last week Santa Anita and Ixtacaleo in Mexico abounded in “floating islands ' truly The houses were float ing, the dogs and pigs' were floating around oil flatboats; there was even a large floating popu lation. Sunday's Tacoma Ledf/er says: “On Oct. 15 there died at C. ('ampbell’s hop-yard an Indian child, which the Indians packed in salt, as they would meat, and buried. Yesterday the hotly was exhumed and the Indians started for Victo ria with it.” , Coldwatkr, Mich., has a school girl of 14 who is quite a trapper. She lias a dozen traps set, and has already sold one or two flue mink skins. She lias also toyed with a revolver enough to send one bullet through her finger and another Into the calf of her leg. Attorney General Blair, of New Brunswii k, is the latest Canadian of note to come out for Erastus Wiman's project for commercial union. The distinguished convert is of the opinion that the United States and Canada have too much in common to be kept apart. A wild Northwest show has been organized and w ill soon appear in Chicago. It is composed of native Indians from Alaska anil will endeavor to give the elTete region east of the Mississippi an idea of the customs and manners of the peo ple of what was once known as Russian America. In a bundle of old papers recently discovered in Portland is ah extra issued by the Eastern Aryns, announcing the news of Gen. Jackson's victory at New Orleans. The victory' was w'on on Jan. 8, 1815. This bulletin was issued on Feb. 10. It took a month for news to reach Portland. A set of salad dishes, recently imported from Italy, represents the various sized leaves of a cabbage, the centre piece or bowl being a whole cabbage, with projecting leaves as handles. This set is as original and appropriate in design as one may desire, but is rather an expensive indulgence. A remarkablp accident recently occurred at Chapultepec. A youthful student named Con treras was about to cast in bronze a small statue representing the Aztec Emperor Cuauhtemoc in torture, when the vessel containing the molten metal burst and let it fall on his feet, producing horrible bums similar to those inflicted on the tortured emperor. Prince Bismarck’s paper mill near Varzin, which was burnt last year, has been rebuilt with every modern improvement, and may now fairly claim to be the largest of its kind in Germany. The two machines alone cost $50,0)0, and the outlay on the whole establishment is stated to be upward of $280,000. It is lighted with elec tricity throughout, and its daily production is from fourteen to fifteen tons. A “parcels carrier" between Chester and Hawarden, Eng., an old lady known as ‘'Lady Margaret Hughes." lias held the position for thirty years. lately Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone stopiied at her cottage and accepted her invita tion to take tea with her, “sitting, with‘Lady Margaret* at the head of the table, for nearly an hour chatting with the old lady about past times and scenes at Hawarden. *’ Sundown is sixteen miles from Big Indian, and Big Indian is somewhere in or near the Catskills. In Sundown, at this season, the sun doesn't rise until 9 o’clock, and it sots when about three hours past the meridian. Four mountains nearly surround the settlement The people are gene y healthy, ami those who have lived there for a long time have an owl-like faculty of seeing in the gloom. A New York jeweler ha*; a curious clock which was imported from Paris. It is a bronze medal of a steam boiler, and h*> a steam gauge, safety valve and sj>eed regulator, while a ther mometer occupies the place of the water gauge. The dial of the clock is on the furnace door, and above it is a barometer. When the clock is run ning the pendant twills of the speed regulator do the work of the ordinary pendulum, There is no service to which a horse can be put that wears him out so quickly’ as drawing a sleigh. He is used to the resistance of a buggy’B weight, and when he tinds that he has nothing, so to speak. behind him. he runs through him self. People suppose that because a liveryman charges $5 an hour for a sleigh during the few days of the sleighing season he is paying him self for storage of the cutter during the rest of the year. That is not the case. The Cuban authorities have published regula tions permitting American citizens to arrive at or depart from Cuban ports without being obliged to present a passport or other docu ments signed by a Spanish consul A simple certificate from the American consul at the port of entry’will enable any citizen of the United States to travel all over Cuba, to remain on the island as long as he pleases, and to leave when ever he wishes, without molestation. At lake Hopatacong a few day’s ago Albert D. Winfield noticed a large fish apparently in great trouble swimming on the surface of the water. He passed a net under the fish, and it proved to he a black bass of B*4 pounds. The fish had chased a sunflsh and caught it. hut the sunflsh had erected its dorsal fins and positively refused to be swallowed, and the fins fastened In the jaws of the bass. The sunflsh could not extricate itself, nor could the bass eject it. At the penitentiary in Trenton, N. J., Sunday last, sixty-two convicts, including three women, were confirmed. The rite was administered by Rt. Rev. Bishop Michael J. O'Farrell, in the presence of Vicar General Smith, of the Trenton Diocese, Rev. Father Fidelis, twenty-five or thirty spectators and .‘5OO prisoners. The con victs thus received into the church wore white shirts, but otherwise were appareled as usual. The three women were in their ordinary prison attire. There is a great scarcity of seamen just now in the port of Philadelphia, and no little diffi culty is had in manning vessels for sea. Thirty dollars a mouth is being paid in the New Eng land trade, and a commission of $5 each for procuring the men. Tt is much easier, says the Record, to find men willing to go South, owing to the milder weather and the opportunities to desert and work on shore in Southern ports as longshoremen until spring. In New York the situation is as bad as in Philadelphia, with few men available and the wages advancing. The consumption of coffee in Great Britain shows a steady decrease, while that of tea is in creasing The consumption per head of coffee is at present .86! pounds, against .961 in 1877. The total consumption in 18S6 was 81,608,804 pounds, against 43,386,010 in 1887 On the other hand the tea consumption per head is now 4.87 pounds, against 4.53 pounds in 1877. The total consumption in 1886 was 178.909.881 pounds, against 151.374,853 pounds in 1877. The changes which have occurred in the course of Great Britain's tea supply are instructive. In 1876. 84 per cent, of the British supply came from China and Hong Kong, and only 15 nor cent, came from India and Ceylon. In 1886, >r ten years later.the former supplied only 63 per cent.of tiie total, and India aim Ceylon supplied 35 percent. An inscribed rock has lately been found about 100 yards distant from the well-known SUabbaz Ctarhi rock, one of the five famous rocks which bear inscribed on them the edicts of King Asoka. The upper corner of the in scription was lately laid bare by heavy rains eroding the hill side; and having been noticed by some villagers and reported to civil authori ties, steps were taken to excavate the face of the stone, which was found to bear an inscrip tion written in the same character as that found on the welt known rock close by. The inscrip tion is about five feet long by three feet wide; it is in an excellent slate of preservation, and consists of about ten lines or writing. These are the earliest Indian inscriptions which have yet lieen discovered, the edicts having been promulgated about 334 H. ('. Some are written on rocks, and some on pillars, and some (n caves. The inscription on the newly-discovered stone is being deciphered from impressions and photographs, and it will he Interesting to know what, if any, further information it will con tribute to our scanty knowledge of the times of the first Buddhist king. The capture of four Englishmen near Smyrna has again called attention to the prevalence of brigandage throughout Turkey. Scarcely a day passes in which the local papers do not mention new captures, In Macedonia and along the shores of Asia Minor to within twenty miles of the capital brigands are everywhere The want of railways and other meaus of communication makes thisir . scape easy Many of them are be lieved f be in league with the polled, who are i usually unpaid, and in case of the brigands being Turkish are believed to be unwilling to attempt a capture even when bribed. A notorious scoun drel), the captain of a band within forty miles of the capital, boasts of having killed twenty-seven with his own hand. 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