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4 f|c'||lflriunglJrlus Morning News Building, Savannah. Ga. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER I<>. 1887. Registered at the Pott Office in Savannah. The Morning News (s p-iblisbed every (lay n the ye**", mid is served to subscribers in the city, by newsdealers and earners, on their own ft. count, at 25 cents a week, $1 00 a month, $S uO tor six moaths and $lO 00 for one year The Morning Mews, bu mail, one month, $1 00; three months, $2 50; six mouths, $5 00; one year, $lO 00. The Morning News, ty mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $2 00; six months. $4 00 one year. $8 00. The Morxino News, Tri weekly. Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, $! tu; six months. $2 50: one year. $5 00 The Sunday New*, by -nail, one year St 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year. SI 25 Subscriptions payable in advance Remit by postal order, check or rejristered letter Cur rency sent bv mail at risk of senders Tiiis paper is kept on file and advert itinerates may he asrerteiaed at the office of the Ameri can Newspaper Publishers* Association, 104 Temple Court, New York City. Letters and telegrams should be addressed "Mobnino News. Savannah. Oa." Advertising rates made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings—Savannah Mutual Loan Associa tion; Zerubbabel Lodge, No. 15, F. A* A. M.; Sa vannah Cotton Exchange. Special Notices—As to Crews of Br. Ship Ceylon, and Ger. Bark Ludwig; As to Bids against Br. Steamships Wetherby and Anjer Head: As to Br. Steamship Resolute and Her Cargo. Amusements —Grand Wrestliug Match at The atre. Economy or Money, Fuel. Etc.—Cornwell &. Chipmau. Drives This Week--At Cohen's. Fob Sale— C. H. Dorsett. Cheap Column Advertisements— Help Want ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Miscellaneous. The adhesion of Great Britain to the Cen tral European alliance is a further guaran tee of peace for the present. Hanlan, the ex-ehampion oarsman, was received very eoolly in Australia, where he has gone to row Beach. It is only the champion oarsman or slugger who is a hero. Comic opera in Hebrew mast strike some men about as it would to hear a love ditty sung to the tune of “Old Hundred.*’ But they are having opera of that kind in a New York theatre. Snapper Garrison, the jockey, has won fame this season, and he is jiayiug the pen alty promptly, suffering with violent hem orrhages. As George Fordham’s tomb stone says, “It is the pace that kills,” and Garrison has ridden fast. “I thank you white men and I thank you colored gentlemen for your attention,” is the way a Republican orator wound up his re marks at a Richmond political meeting. He was perhaps thoroughly acquainted with the standing of those whom he addressed. The editor of the Cleveland Leader thinks it necessary to deny having apolo gized to Gov. Gordon for the brutal slanders upon him printed in that paper. It will readily be believed that this editor is incapable of such gentlemanly conduct as apologizing for a wrong done. Steve Elkin* says Blaine can have the Re publican nomination if he wants it, but he will not accept it unless he feels perfectly sure of success. If this be true, then Mr. Blaine will not be a candidate; but Mr. Elkins probably means Blaine will run if not perfectly sure of defeat. Parsons’ successor as editor of the Alarm says the people are afraid to hang the Anarchists. This is not the proper tone for the Anarchist organ to adopt if it wants mercy shown the condemned men. The penile are in no humor to put up with in solence, and they aie not afraid to do any thing they think proper. It has cost 1100,000 less to do a greater amount of work than was ever turned out by the government printing office the last year. Reform of the sort Public Printer Benedict is enforcing is what the people want, as the saving comes from good man agement and not from scrimping the earn ings of employes, which have been larger than ever before. The Washington correspondent of the Chicago News telegraphs that it may be considered Rettled that should Mr. Lamar be nominated for the Supreme Court bench he will be rejected by the Senate. This means that the Republicans are determined that in one of the three co-ordin branches Of the government the South shall have no representative. It has had none for many years, but that only deepens the injustice. The late Justice Woods, though credited to Georgia, was in no proper sense a Southern man. Senator Morgan has returned to Mont gomery after a speaking tour, and is in a cheerful frame of mind. Any attempt to Mahonize the State on the tariff issue will fail, he is certain, as Democrats who are in clined to protection will not desert the party. Gen. Morgan is an earnest advocate of tariff reform and one of the strongest men in Congress from the South. His re election is assured, in spite of the timid op position of certain journals in the upper part of the State who want the present tax abuses to continue. The new repeating rifle bad hardly been put in the hands of the German soldiors when it was discovered to be so greatly in ferior to that adopted by other nations, that another change was decided upon. Now the gun factories are working night and day to i-earm the troops as soon as possible. The new rifle is said to compare favorably with the French Lebel. The rivalry be tween European nations must at no distant day break out in war, which may involve most of the civilized world, and in the mean time, in the search for the most perfect death-inflicting appliances, they are loading themselves with debt. The condition of affairs is a reproach to civilization. The Federated Trade and Labor Uniou of New York have issued a call for a great meeting of workingmen in Union Square Thursday night. The opening sentence of the call says that “seven of your best breth ren will be murdered.” Other language in keeping with this is indulged in. These men in former struggles for better . wages and to right wrongs under which they suf fered, liave almost uniformly had the sym pathy of the press and public, but they will get little of it hereafter. They have taken a distinct stand against law and order and in favor of anarcliisin. The idea that the •even Chicago murderers represent Ameri can workingmen is prepxfterout. Arguing: With the Commission. The railroads of Florida are very much dissatisfied with the passenger and freight rates which the Railroad Commission of that State has published. Against the pas senger rate of three cents a mile they enter a very strong protest. In support of their protest they urge that threeeentsamile will j leave them no margin of profit, and in the 1 cases of some, if not most of them the rate ! is not sufficient to meet actual expenses. The commission, doubtless, is anxious to do what is fair between the railroads and the people, but in endeavoring to the people as many' benefits as possible under the railroad commission law, it s ould not forget to bo just to the railroads. It will hardly be denied that the railroads are much 1 letter acquainted with their business than the commission can possibly lie. They know what their receipts and expenses are, and they can form a very fair estimate of what increase in business they can depend upon. When they say emphatically, there fore, that if they are permitted to charge no more than three cents a mile they will either have to run their trains at a loss or give the people an inferior service, the commission should hesitate about insisting upon that rate. Before the commission de cides upon a rate finally it should satisfy itself beyond a reasonable donbt that it is not only ample for all purposes of expenses, but will afford n fair profit. There is no part of Florida that is verv thickly settled, and most of the State is sparsely populated. It will be several years, even if the growth of the State in wealth and population continues to be remarkably rapid, before the railroa’ds even in the most favored sections can be operated profitably at the passenger and freight rates which prevail in the thickly populated States. The railroads have 'lone more for Florida than any other agency. They have penetra ted the wilderness where it didn’t pay them to do so. They were influenced, how ever. by the hope of rewards in the near fu ture, but not in every case lias this hope been realized. Asa matter of fact none of the roads of the State has become rich from its earnings. One of the most important of them is now in a receiver's hands, and will soon be sold to the highest bidder. The railroads ought not, of course, to be permitted to charge excessive rates, but it cannot be determined what are excessive rates from a comparison of the rates of the roads of the State with those of the roads of States in which the passenger and freight traffic is greater. What are fair rates can only be determined from a knowledge of the receipts and expenses of the roads of the State. In his remarks before the commission at Tallahassee, the other day. Col. Owens, of the Savannah, Florida and Western rail way, called attention to something that had doubtless escaped the attention of the com mission, if, indeed, it ever knew of it. He pointed out that railroad ties and bridges in Florida last only three years. It is doubt ful if there is any other locality in this country where they decay so quickly. In these two items the Florida roads have a heavy expense, which the roads of other States escape. The commission cannot afford to fix the rates arbitrarily. It must not only take into consideration the business of the roads and their expenses, but also the effect that the rates it finally fixes will have upon rail road building. To take from the roads all chance of making anything upon their in vestments will check railroad enterprises, interfere with immigration and give the State a set back from which it will not quickly recover. Cabinet Rumors. Washington is now quite full of rumors relative to the successor of Secretary Lamar, who, it is understood, will take the vacant place on the Supreme Bench about Dec. 1. The impression appears to be pretty strong that Postmaster General Vilas will become the head of the Interior Department, and that Hon. Don M. Dickinson, a Michigan politician and lawyer, will be made Post master General. The reasons given for transferring Mr. Vilas to the Interior Department are rather interesting. They are, in the main, that the President, if he is to be re-nominated, would like to have Mr. Vilas nominated for Vice President. He thinks that there should be an ex-soldier on the ticket, and has selected Mr. Vilas as the most available one for the position. Mr. Vilas was a very good soldier, but not a remarkable one. He apjiears to have made himself very popular with the President, who evidently intends to do all he can to advance his polit ical fortunes. It might be asked why he cannot lie nominated for Vice President while filling the office of Postmaster Gen eral. as well as if he were Secretary of the Interior. The reason given is that the Post Office Department has about 1,000,000 em ployes, and it wouldn’t look well for a Cabinet officer, having so many govern ment employes under his control, to seek an office to which his employes would feel under obligations to assist him. Mr. Dickson, spoken of as the successor of Mr. Vilas in the Post Office Department, is about 41 years of age. From the frequency of his visits to the White House and the number of appointments it is alleged he has controlled it is safe to to assuino that he is a shrewd politician. He seems to have been heard of outside of his own State ouiy since Mr. Cleveland’s election. A Good Example. Mr. H. C. Hanson hus set an ex-ample in reducing the Columbus Enquirer-Sun from an eight to a four-page paper which might be followed with advantage by a number of other news|>aper proprietors. It re quired some nerve to make the reduction, but it showed good business sense. A city of 15,000 to 35,000 people can't support a paper of the same size and class as one of from 40,000 to 60,000. A newspaper can’t live on the desire of some of the people of the town in which it is published to have a "big paper and all the news,” to support which they contribute little or nothing. The people of Columbus and the owners of the Enquirer-Sun will lose noth ing by the change which has been made in that paper. The grandchildren of Horace Greeley are said to be in want and in danger of being turned out of doors. Their mother married a man for his good looks, and he proved to have no other good quality. Gen. Roger A. Pryor says he has “not the least particle of doubt” that the ( lives of the Anarchists will be saved. The condemned men would lit a great deal happier if they had even a small share of his confidence. Newport seems to be now a winter as well as a summer resort. New York papers still print “society notes” from that gather ing place of New York aristocracy. THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1887. Civil Service Testa. The Civil Service Commissioners have found that their system of examinations for promotion in the departments answers so well in the War Department, where they have given it a pretty thorough test, that they have determined to put it in force in the Treasury Department. Of course it will be much more difficult to adapt it to the Treasury than it was to the War Depart ment, for the reason that there are about ten times ns many employes in the former department, who are subject to the juri-die tion of the Civil Service Commissioners, as there is in the latter. The examining of employes for promotion greatly increases the duties of the commis sioners and their assistants. The em ployes in the Treasury Department, for instance, are divided into quite a number of grades, and not only will different questions have to lie prepared for each grade, but they will have to be changed for each examination. It is not possible to keep the nature of the questions a secret, and If the questions were not changed all the employes would soon be come familiar with them, and the conse quence would be thnt the unscrupulous and good-for-nothing ones would pass the best examinations and stand the best chance for promotion. There is some ground for saying that the questions provided by the Civil Service Commission, whether for appointment or promotion, are not calculated to discover the fitness of the applicant for the place he seeks. They do nothing more than show how much of what be learned in his school days he remembers. A man or a woman may be well posted in grammar, geography and arithmetic and yet have no special fitness for the performance of the duties of any position in the civil service. The examina tions, particularly for promotion, should have a strong bearing u£on the duties of the position that is sought. It seems that the Secretary of the Treas ury inaugurated a system of examinations for promotion several months ago. The public, however, has known nothing about the matter, and it may be would have known nothing of it but for the movement to apply these tests for promotion to the Treasury Department. In view of the lack of judgment in admin istering the civil service law, and also the great difficulties in the way of civil service reform, it will be rather remarkable if suc cess finally attends the efforts to place the reform upon a firm basis. Sullivan's London Reception. According to the cable dispatches the re ception which the Boston slugger, John L. Sullivan, received on his arrival in London was far greater than that received by Gen. Grant when ho made his celebrated tour around the world, or that which was given to any one of the members of the royal fami lies of Europe on the occasion of the Queen’s jubilee celebration. The great depot at the station was so crowded with people that it was impossible, for quite a long time, for the members of the Sullivan party to get out of their car. The crowd was good na tured but enthusiastic. The police tried to force the people out of the depot, or at least to open a way for pas sengers to get to and from the trains, but they found it impossible to do so. Sullivan himself had to undertake to force a passage for his party from his cat* to his carriage, and he succeeded in doing so only afttr a long struggle. The people followed him to his hotel and blocked up the street in front of it. The only way the police could get the street cleared for traffic was to beg Sul livan to make his appearance at the window of his room and request the people to go away. Jay Gould has attracted comparatively little attention abroad. With all of his millions he is a far less important person in the eyes of a vast majority of Englishmen than the famous slugger. He has moved about just as he pleased, without being dis turbed either by an enthusiastic or a gaping crowd. Of course the great majority of those who express such admiration for Sullivan in England are the lower classes, but not a few of them belong to the most cultivated and exclusive class. Is it Sullivan’s strength they admire, or his skill as a prize tighter! Englishmen are very great admirers of pluck and strength and Sullivan has both. It seams rather remarkable, however, in this day of advanced civilization that a prize fighter should command more atten tion in the largest city of the world than the greatest soldier, statesman, or scientist. There was no great desire among the masses to see Blaine, although he has been a famous man for nearly twenty years, and it is doubtful if the President were to at>- pear suddenly in London there would be anywhere near the crowd to greet and wel come him as there was to cheer Sullivan. New Railway Mileage. Two months ago the Morning News re printed figures from the Railway Age show ing the great activity in railroad construc tion during the earlier months of the year. The last number of that periodical, just received, brings down the account to Nov. 1. In ten months 9,408 miles have been built, a record surpassing even that of the remark able year 1883 when for twelve months the construction was 11,568 miles. This indi cates that during 1887 at least 12,000 miles of new road will be put in operation, an expansion greater by more than 2,000 miles than in any previous year, except 1882. One remarkable fact connected with this great activity is that so large a proportion of the building is induced by the fierce rivalry four great railway sys tems in the far West.no less than 3,400 miles of new road having been constructed by four companies whoso lines extend west of the Missouri river, while more tlian half of all laid was in Kansas, Nebraska, Texas and Colorado —4,798 miles. Some of the Southern States,however, show also a very considerable activity. In Ala liama 377 miles of new road were built, in Georgia 219, and in Florida 84. The indiea tioas are that the present rapid rate of con struction will continue next year, but that will of course depend in a large meas ure upon the continued prosperity of the country and the state of the money market. The effort to oust John J. O’Brien, the New York Republican boss, from his posi tion of Chief of the Bureau of Elections, seems likely to fail, as Judge Donohue has decided that he does not come under the State civil service law. He was in office when the law was passed, and the clause ex empting office-holders from examination is hold to protect him and render him eligible for re-appointment. It is only fair to add that he voluntarily underwent the exami nation, and stood at the bead of the class. The question now is: Is there any legal way •f getting rid of him! CURRENT COMMENT. Ben Butler's Conscience. From the Chicago Tribune (Rep.) The ganglionic mass in Ben Butler's anatomy that serves him in lieu of a conscience is pre stunably satisfied with the manner in which he has discharged his duty to his $250-per day clients, and if the clients themselves are satis fied nobody else has any business to complain. A Platform for Blaine. Chicago NewsiDem.) Congressman Buchanan, of New York, nomi nate* Mr. Blaine and Mr. Phelps, of New Jersey, for the next Republican ticket. An excellent platform for this seaside combination would lie the f Rowing: “Resolved tlint Mrs. Partington did sweep back the ocean with her broom after all.” When Petitions Will Do No Good. From the St. Louis Republican (Dem.) The Chicago citizens who are now so unani mously petitioning the Governor not to hang the Anarchists will lie equally of one mind in petitioning the Anarchists not to touch off dynamite bombs the next time an odious capi talistic system of society may seem to require reforming. Sentiment Better than Cankering Hate From the Boston Herald ( Ind .) Gen. Jackson, who ma le the "lost cause” speech in Georgia, is said to be a |>oet. His sympathies were touched and his heart over flowed with tender memories in the presence of Jefferson Davis, and he gave utterance to many of them, including some exploded theories of government. We may well believe this, and we may also feel that such a manifestation is not a matter to make a great fuss about. It is far better, in fact, than to have a heart into which the canker of hate is eating, or a soul so small as to see in these effusions of sentiment nothing but material for party capital. Tuttle and For aker and Murat llalstead arc not poets. BRIGHT BITS. “ What's the matter with the baby. John?" “Dunno, Mariah: but I think it must be the yeller fever. Washington Critic. "Ikey” said Oliver Sweat to his only son, at dinner the other day, "what have you in the shape of pie.” “Pie plates,” promptly responded Ikey.— Stoughton Sentinel. Philadelphia Man—Do you mean to say your street care are not heated in winter? Omaha Man—Not at all. “What in creation do you do to keep warm?” “Talk politics.”— F.xchange. In olden times the sound of brass, it was thought, had power to put spirits to flight. Well, it has now. We have often seen a proud spirit take a tumble when a brass band was playing in the neighborhood.— Yonkers States man. Don’t be a clam, my son; but if an old friend comes to you and asks for the loan of $5 until Saturday night, just close your shell for repairs It may look rude, but under some circumstances it is better to leave than to be left .—Burlington Free Press. Southerner (in Glasgow, to friend)—By the way, do you know MeScrew? Northerner—lien MeScrew? 00, fine! A grand man, MeScrew! Keeps the Sawbath—an’ everything else he can lay his hands onl.—Lon don Punch. “Mabel, I have something to say that I think will astonish you,” “What is it?” “I am going away.” “Oh, Harry; You are always getting up some nice surprise for me. ’’ — iferchant Trav- There is an uncanny sort of a man in Mis souri. w ho claims that he can tell what a woman is thinking about by the way she winks. We have seen this thing successfully tried in the case of a man. hut, curiously enough, every mother’s son of them was thinking about the same thing.— Burlington Free Press. Omaha Dame (to applicant for domestic ser vice) —You do not look very strong. Applicant—lndeed I am mam. The last woman I worked for said she believed I walked ten miles every morning. "Walked ten miles every morning? Why, what were you doing?" “Getting breakfast, mum.”— Omaha World. "Look here, my friend,” said a well-dressed man to a Washington policeman last .Sunday, “I want a drink very badly. Can't you help me out ?” "I can. sop," rejoined the guardian of the peace who was of Hibernian extraction. “Ah, thanks. Here's something for you, by the wav. Where did you say I could get a little drink? ’ •'Right around the corner to your lift, sor; yeze'll foind a poomp an' dipper. $— Exchange. “What flavor?" inquired the waiter of the ice cream saloon, as the bridal couple sat down in all the pride of their Skowhegan youth and beauty. “What’s yourn, Mari?" the bridegroom asked; “mine's plain vemeller.” “Verneller!” said the bride, with a little touch of nasal asperity in her tones. “Reub, I don't somehow s'pose you'll ever get reel refined— some varnt el flavor for me, young man, with jist a spoonful of strawb on the side.”— Puck. Eastern Financier—Yes, sir; greatest scheme yet. We are going to organize anew telegraph company in opposition to Jay Gould. Want to join? Omaha Capitalist—Jay Gould is going to Europe I hear. “Yes." “Will he stay there?” “Oh, no. He’il back in a few months.” “He will?” “Yes." “Well, I'll buy stock in your new company if you'll agree to take the poles and wires in at night.”— Omaha World. PERSONAL. Oen. Grf.kly is again in the Signal office. Secretary Endicott is on a tour of inspection in the West. Gen. Boulanger's mother was a Welshwoman named Griffiths. Rev. Hiram Gee, of Ithaca, has given $.'10,000 to Syracuse University for the establishment of a chair of social ethics. Mrs. Zach. Chandler is in Germany with her daughter, Mrs. Senator Hale, and her three grandchildren, who are pursuing their studies there. Miss Jeannie Youmans has succeeded her brother. Prof. Edward L. Youmans, in the edi torship of the Popular Science Monthly. Miss Youmans has always been her brother's assist ant and companion in his studies. Ex-Secretary George S. Boctwell's first work, which he has entitled “The Lawyer, the Statesman and the Soldier,” is a volume of essays discussing Lincoln. Grant, Rufus Choate, Daniel Webster and other famous Amer icans. The Pope has already received many jubilee gifts, including a ring from the Sultan, a splendid Sevres vase and inkstand from M. Jules Ferry, vases from Marshal MacMahon, and SIOO,OOO from the Prior General of the Car thusians. Henry Ward Beecher never smoked tobacco himself, but often presented his friends with a pipe. He had a great fancy for amber, that beautiful mineral so highly prized by smokers, and never failed to buy a fine specimen when ever he saw it. “My parents," says Ristori, “were middling comedians. They thought, it only natural to introduce me to their 'ait,' and I was not yet three months old when I made my first debut. They were playing a little piece iu which a grandfather had to he reconciled to his daughter y the sight of her infant child. I was put into a basket filled with flowers and carried on the stage, but lam sorry to say that I howled so dreadfully that I was carried back to my mother. Next day I was replaced by a splendid baby doll, which jtorformed the part far better than 1 had done.” John M. Kapkna. whose death is annouced in the latest news budget from the Sandwich Islands, was a full-blooded Hawaiian who had tieen prominent in public life for many years. From 1870 to 18H0 he was the Governor of the Island of Maui. Then he went as Minister to Japan, and on his return was made Prime Minis ter. He remained at the. head of the govern ment for two years, served subsequently as Postmaster General, and was Finance Minister in the Gibson Cabinet which was overthrown last July. Mr. Kapena accompanied KingKala kaua on his visit to this country in 1874, and again made a tour of the United States two years ago. The Rev. Morgan Dix completed on Sunday his twenty-fifth vearus rector of Trinity church. New York. Of the nine clergymen connected with the parish in IW2. all but one are dead, and the number of the parish clergy has increased to eighteen, serving at seven churches and chap els. Of these, three have beeu built during Dr. Dix's rectorship. St. Cornelius', St. Chrysostom's and St. Augustine's chapels. There have also Iteen, built the Parish Hospital, new school houses at Trinity and St. John’s, and the new office building at Church. Fulton and Yesey streets. In the same period the communicants of the parish have Increased from 1 ,227 to 6,585, and the children in the schools from 2,570 to 7,071, mid the contributions of the parish from $22,000 to $91,000. A CRUEL POLICEMAN. A Vacancy Undsr Official Buttons Where a Heart Ought to Be. From the Detroit Tribune. It was long past midnight, and the Rtillness was broken only by the measured troad of a policeman in the distance. Occasionally there would boa pause in the steD. and the sharp rat tle of somebody's door would sound forth evi dence that the faithful guardian of the peace was keeping a faithful watch over the locks aud bolts which protect the law-abiding citizens within from the prowling marauder. The step advanced, and presently the stalwart figure of the blue coat emerged from the shadow into the glare of an electric light. He paused and gazed earnestly up the street, for it was time to expect the roundsman on his tour of inspection. Ah, there is a sudden blaze of light in an up stairs window across the way. A small hand holds back the curtain and an anxious female face peers out. Presently it disappears, and the officer walks leisurely across the street and takes up a position under the windows. Again the curtain flies back and the flush face reap pears. "Ah, Charley, I thought you'd never come," came down from the window in a loud whisper. ■‘l—l'm alius on deck,” responded the police man. “I thought you’d overslept yourself. Look out for the satchel," and a dark object suspended on a cord twirlod toward the ground. Presently the voice in the window whispered, "Charley!" “Well?” “Look the other way." "What fer?" “Why, you ninny, I'm coming down the rope." The policeman then moved out of the shadow. "See here, young woman, you’d better yank that grip sack up there liefore I ring the bell and put your pa on to your caper. If that Char ley o’ yours shows up on this corner I’ll run him into the box.” The curtain dropped and the window was sud denly engulfed in gloom, and the poi iceman re sumed his beat in the happy consciousness that an elopement had been frustrated. A Malingerer. From the Manchester Guardian. “Malingering,” or the imitation of disease or disability for the purpose, of evading work or obtaining money, is a not uncommon form of roguery. Sometimes the deception is so clever as to be very difficult of detection, but usually, it may be hoped, the resources of modern science are sufficient to baffle the malingerer. At Metz a short time ago there happened one of those accidents which are said to occur occa sionally even in the best regulated workshops. A hammerman, whilst forging, let the tool slip from his grasp, and it struck bis assistant near the left eye. The injury was of course duly at tended to, and in a few days the doctors de clared the man to be completely cured. The man. however, would not admit the correctness of their statement, hut insisted that he had lost the power to see with the injured eye. Special ists examined him aud declared that the organ of flight was uninjured, but the man steadily maintained that they were wrong. Various experiments were tried without decisive re sults. Finally, one of the experts, basing him self upon M. Chevreul’s investigations as to the laws of the contrast of colors, made a fresh trial. After writing some words in green ink upon a black screen, he placed on the nose of the malingerer a pair of spectacles having a red glass for the right eye and a white glass for the left eye. "Now read what I have written," said the doctor, and without the least difficulty the man read the words. “Did you read that with your right eye?" was the next question. “Certainly; for I oannot see with the left eye at all." “You are mis taken; you have read this with the left eye. Y'ou cannot have read green characters upon a black ground because of the red glass, for red is a complementary color of green, and the let ters are lost and effaced in the black ground of the screen. It is therefore with the left eye and through the white glass only that you have read w hat I have wrote.” When the case came before the tribunal the reasoning of the special ist was approved, and the malingerer was defeated in his endeavor to obtain compensa tion for the imaginary loss of sight in an eye with which he could still read. The Farmer’s Seventy Years, From the Hartford Times. Ah! there he is, lad, at the plow; He beats the boys for work, And whatsoe'er the task might be, None ever saw him shirk. And he can laugh, too, till his eyes Run o'er with mirthful tears, And sing full many an old-time song, In spite of seventy years. ‘ Good morning, friends! 'tis twelve o’clock; Time for a half hour's rest," And farmer John took out his lunch And ate it with a zest. “A harder task it is," said he. "Than following up these steers, Or mending fences, far, for me To feel my seventy years, “You ask me why I feel so young; I'm sure, friends, I can't tell. But think it is my good wife's fault, Who kept me up so well; For women such as she are scarce In this poor vale of tears; She’s given me love, and hope and strength, For more than forty years. ‘‘And then my boys have all done weil. As far as they have gone. And that thing warms an old man's blood, And helps him up and on; My girls have never caused a pang, Or raised up anxious fears; \ Then wonder not that I feel young And hale at seventy years. “Why don’t my good boys do my work And let me sit and rest? Ah! friends, that wouldn’t do for me; I like my own way best. They have their duty; I have mine, And till the end appears, I mean to smell the soil, my friends," Said the man of seventy years. In Search of a Jewsharp. From the Cincinnati Enquirer. Cal Thomas, who always has a good story to tell, has this one on Platt Evans, a stuttering joker, who was one of the early pioneers of Cincinnati: “In early days,” says Cal. “it used to be thought capital fun to send a countryman from store to store inquiring for the things he would be certain not to find at the places to which he was sent. One day a fellow came as he had been directed to Platt's store to buy a jewsharp. Platt was a merchant tailor. He was busy with a customer as the man appeared, but, observing that several of the ‘boys' had dropped in at the door just to see what Platt would do, he ‘caught on’ at once, and responded to the in quiry for the musical instrument, ‘W-w-walt a minute.' Having served his customer, he picked up a pair of glove-stretchers and approached the rural melodist with ‘L-l-let me m measure your m m-mouth,'and introducing the stretch ers, manipulated them so as to transform the aperture into a horizontal yawn, awful to see, and capacious enough to hold a dozen jews harps. Removing the apparatus, he examined it carefully and deliberately, as one might scrut inize a thermometer or pocket compass, ami then dismissed the unsuccessful hunter for jewsharps, as he said in a tone of well-feigned disappointment, ‘W-w-we hain't g-g -got any your s-size.’ ” Hugo Anecdotes That Are Plausible. From the Pall Mall Gazette. In spite of M. Sareey’s denial, there is a good deal of priori likelihood in one of the anecdotes of vector Hugo publishod in M Pavlosky’s reminiscences of TurgeniolT. Hugo is said to have declared ‘‘Wallenstein” to be Goethe's greatest work, and, when corrected by Turge niefT, to have replied that he had read neither Goethe nor Schiller, but knew them better than those who had their works by heart. This so much resembles other dealings of the master with both literary and political history, that it is difficult to doubt it: and Mr. Swinburne would probably defend his hero by explaining that it does not in the least matter who wrote this or that in so barbarous a tongue as German. M. Pavlosky’s second anecdote we may fairly disbelieve. It is to the effect that when some Ilugolatcr suggested that the street in which he lived should be called by his name, another out bade him by crying: "Not a street alone, but all Paris should bo callocl after him;" whereupon the master remarked: "That will come in time.” We do not require M. Sarcey’s aid to find a touch of exaggeration in this legend. The Result of a Dream. Banian Correspondence Providence Journal. The story is being told at the clubs how Mr. Endicott invented the rough-backed playing cards which are just making their appearance. Mr Endicott is a member of various well-known clubs, and at one of them he had passed an evening playing cards, when in the nlgnt he had a dream. He dreamed that he was playing poker and made a misdeal. One of hisconq>an ions who had an excellent hand reproached him for making him lose the benefit of it. "Very well,” said Endicott in his dream, “if you had had rough-bucked cards it wouldn't nave happened. It isn’t my fault.” When lie awoke in the morning he remem bered his dream, and the idea of rough-hocked cards seemed to him a good one. He reflected, experimented, perfected his improvement, patented it in three or four countries, und is now likely to make a fortune out of his clever and fortunate dreuu. ITEMS OF INTEREST. A Chesterfield (Mich.) man has a hog 38 months old that is the mother of fifty-nine pigs. A report comes from Akron, 0., that the coal fields in the Massillon district of the Tusca rawas Valley are giving out. The new- iron railroad bridge across the Mis souri river, a few miles below Kansas City, is 7,3(13 feet long and weighs 31,275 tons. Gen. Grant's old war horse, Claiborne, has been presented to the members of the National Military Home Kansas, by Capt. Campbell, of Fort Leavenworth. The island of Grand Matian is the home of cut-and-dried monopoly that would be hard to match. Grand Manan puts up annually more than a million boxes of smoked herring, and controls the market. The Supreme Court of Ohio has decided that the act providing for the laying of a tax to raise funds for the building of a monument to Gen. William H. Harrison. President of the United States, is valid, and the monument will there fore be built at an early day. Corea recently broke down her ancient bar riers so far as to send an envoy to Japan, but the government was so poor that it could not suppo’thim. and. soon coming to the end of his resources, had to ask aid of the Japanese government to avoid being put in desperate straits. Miss Lavra Winllkr. of lowa, is one of the most successful temperence workers in the State. The fact that she is totally blind seems no bar to her vigorous work in her favorite field, the workshop, where she makes strong and personal appeals for men to give up liquor drinking. A small Scotch terrier dog in Little Rock steals his way on the street cars regularly four times a day, to and from his master's place of business. Whether his muster is along or not he waits for the car at the crossing and hops on behind and alights with gentlemanly ease when it arrives in front of his master's store or resi dence. Mrs. Isaac Armagost, of Crawford county, Pennsylvania, was ill, and her son started out with his gun to*kill a pheasant for her. He re turned, after a long hunt, without any game, but shortly after he had entered the house a crash of window glass was heard in the parlor, and a plump pheasant was found cn the floor with its neck broken. The leading newspaper man in Japan Is Mr. Murayama. Nine years ago he started Asahi Shimbun (which, being interpreted, is Rising Sun .Yen's), at Osaka. It now-has a circulation of 36,000, aud an agent of the editor and pro prietor is inthis country to buy improved presses for the Asahi Shimbun. It is partly illustrated, and sells for four-fifths of lc. Twenty-one large wagons have been shipped to South America by an Indianapolis maker on which to haul as much as can be loaded on them. Each weighs about 2,800 pounds, and each wheel weighs 288 pounds. The tires are 4 inches wide and 1 inch thick. The axles are of hickory, the hubs of black birch, and the re mainder of the wagon is of oak. John Irwin, of Cuba, lost his voioe last sum mer, and regained it in a singular manner. He started to the St. Louis Exposition with his family, and the cars being crowded, the conduc tor sent him back to a sleeper. The porter ordered him out. and a heated discussion fol lowed, during which Mr. Irwin warmed up till his feeble whisper gradually developed into his natural tone of voice. The restoration appears to be permanent. In China all the roads except the Imperial highways are tracks over private land. The owner does all he can to restrict them. When the soil washes down into the road—the road is always deeper than the laud—the owmer digs out the road, to get back his soil with interest. This makes the roads in the rainy- season succes sions of deep puddles, and over all Northern China traffic is suspended for four or five mouths every year, ou account of the impassabilitv of the roads. . Mr Edison, the electrician, has again brought to notice the subject of distant signaling by means of throwing the rays from the electric light upon the clouds, and by a combination of short and long flashes, somewhat similar to the Morse telegraph code, communicate from one station to another some twenty miles away. To demonstrate the practicability of this scheme it is proposed that it should be tried aboard any of the government vessels fitted with the electric search light. A blue-blazer is made with two silver or plated mugs. Take one small teaspoonful of powdered white sugar dissolved in one wine glass of boiling water, one w iueglass of Scotch whisky. Put the whisky and the boiling water in one mug, ignite the liquid with tire, and, while blazing, mix both ingredients by pouring them several times from one mug to another. If well done this will have the apperanco of a continued stream of liquid fire. In practicing the making of this beverage the novice should use cold water to avoid scalding himself. A citizen of Copenhagen, Denmark, recently wrote to the St. Louis Chief of Police, asking for an appointment on the police force of that city. He inclosed his photograph and said that he was 6 feet 4 inches in height, weighed 220 pounds, and could out-run and out walk any man of his size in the country. He also stated that he was not lacking in courage and coolness. His photograph was returned by the chief, who informed him that there were already over 200 hundred applicants ahead of him, 'and that every one of them resided in St. Louis. Maooie Arlinoton, an actress, who died in New York on Sunday, was born in Lawrence, Mass., in 1853, and began her career in St. Louis in 1872. Her real name was Margaret Ryerson. She subsequently married a nephew of Admiral Jouett, by whom she had one child, a son. but the two separated on account of the husband's refusal to permit her to remain on the stage. While leaning over the dumb waiter shaft at her residence Sept. 13 last, she slipped and fell a distance of 85 feet, breaking both legs and an arm, besides injuring herself internally. Oneda Cavalho, the last of the Humboldt In dians, died in San Francisco the other day. She was only 32 years old, and was undoubtedly the last of her tribe, which was nearly wiped out of existence twenty-seven years ago, when the Modoes. with whom the Humboldts bad long been at war. surprised them and killed over 600 men, women and children. Oneda s father was killed, and the mother escaped with the 5-year old child, whom she sold to a steamboat captain. The captain reared the little girl until she was 17, when she went to five w ith the family in whose house she died. One day last week George Wilk and his wife, living near Scottsburg, Indiana, went to town, leaving their two boys, aged 7 and 8 years, with their grandparents During the day the chil dren amused themselves by plaving with a pet squirrel. Finally the oldest found an old twenty-two calibre revolver upon a shelf in a closet, and. while the squirrel was lying upon his little brothers arm, he point'd the dangerous weapon at the animal and pulled the trigger The weapon being discharged, the ball killed the squirrel and penetrated the arm of the youngest boy, causing a serious wound. Fire drill in theatres has been tried in Algiers at the National Theatre. During a full-dress rehearsal of anew piece the house was filled with spectators, an alarm of fire was given, and the garrißon firemen speedily arrived on the scene to rescue the audience. In ten minutes time the firemen had emptied the theatre, bringing out the spectators from the upper galleries by means of ropes and ladders. The drill was well and quickly done, hut as the audience knew that it was only a false alarm there was none of the panic likely to com plicate matters in the event of a real disaster and so the value of the experiment is not very great. About six years ago tho expeiiment of stock ing Oregon with Chinese pheasants was tried. A number of these beautiful birds tvas imported from China, and they were turned out in Land county. At the same time a law was passed protecting foreign game for a term of t en years Ihe (unless of the venture now appears to he unprecedented. The hen birds raise two big broods every year, and never iose a chick The result has been that the birds have increased to marvelous numbers. It is said that there are thousands of them in Willamette valley and that t hey destroy so much wheat t hat the fat m ers will attempt to have the protective laws re pealed this winter. The fanners sav that one pheasant will destroy more wheat than four lively wild geese. Indians on the Pacific coast in times of scarcity of food sometimes eat pine bark. Around many of the watering-places in the pine forests of Oregon and California the trees mav be seen stopped of their hark for the space df three or four feet near the base of the trunk This ha* been accomplished by cutting with a hatchet a line around the tree as high as one could conveniently reach, and another lower down, so that the hark, severed above and be low, could be removed in stri|>s. At certain seasons of the year a mucilaginous film separ the bark from the wood of tin* trunk. Part of this film adheres to ©aeh surface and inav 1 scra,,ed off The resulting mixture of mucifage cells and halt formed wood is nutritious and not unpalsiable. so that, as a Inst resort, it mav be used as a tlelejjse agaitjst stai vaUyu. 1 BAKING POWDER. w*EiGi7?^s CREAM Its superior excellence proven In millions of homes for tnore than a quarter of a century It is used by the United States Government. 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