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SATURDAY* NOVEMBER *6, IBBT.
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INDEX TO SEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings— Solomon's Lodge No. 1, F. and A.
M.; Haupt Lodge No. 58,1. O. O, F.
Special Notices—As to Bills Against British
Bteamship Naples; Notice in Regard to Ground
Rent Lots; As to Winner at Doyle’s Driving
Bark: As to Crew of Norwegian Hark Flora;
North Carolina AVhite Seed Rice, W. W. Gordon
& Cos.; To the Public, J. R. Haitiwanger, M. D.;
O. T. Shaffer.
Annual Record—List of Prizes as Drawn in
Louisiana State Lottery.
Warhen-Scharf Asphalt Paving Company
Jl4 Jones Street, New York.
Steamship Schedule— Ocean Steamship Cos.
Monday's Auction Sale—C. H. Dorsett.
ChAeap Column Advertisements—Help Want
ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale;
Ix>st; Miscellaneous.
Agent for Hazard Powder Cos —A. B Hull.
Yellow fever having about disappeared
from Tampa, the quarantine against that
place will doubtless soon he raised.
The impression gained from our country
exchanges is that the interior towns are en
joying a very satisfactory degree of pros
perity. This is certainly gratifying.
The present is a very good time to plant
trees in this city. There are many places
where trees could "be planted with benefit to
property owners as well as to the city gen
erally.
The stock of the cotton compresses in this
city this year is very good stock to own.
Those who own it will feel able next year to
spend the hot months at Newport, Saratoga
or the White Sulphur Spring, of Virginia.
Constable Wetherhorn received a dis
patch last night from one of the lessees of
the convicts that he would send for the es
caped convict, Bragg Walker. Attention
is called in another column to the delay in
answering the constable’s dispatches in this
case.
The business of this city this season will
undoubtedly be much larger than that of
any previous season in its history. There is
neither foreign nor coastwise vessels enough
to carry away the products of the farms
Rnd forests, with which the city’s wharves
are crowded.
The Methodist clergymen who passed the
resolution requesting Dr. D. C. Kelley, of
Nashville, to resign on account of the posi
tion he took in the controversy between
Emma Abbott and Dr. Candler, unwit
tingly gave the fair actress the greatest ad
vertisement she has yet received.
Had John Spellman, the jockey, who died
this week, ended his days in England in
stead of in this country, he would have been
praised and puffed to the skies by obituary
writers on the other side. There are few
men in England wh > are more highly es
teemed than jockeys—when they are dead.
Calvin S. Brice, who is prominently con
nected with the Richmond Terminal and
the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
roads, expresses the opinion that the com
ing year will be a big one for Southern
railroads. Mr. Brice could make his re
marks more interesting by making them less
general.
Dyer D. Lum, who has bobbed up in
Chicago as editor of the Alarm, Parsons’
anarchistic sheet, was Washington corres
pondent for the Irish World during the
Presidential canvass, and was discharged
because of his alleged connection with a
ring, organized it was said to sell out the
Greenback ticket which the Irish World
was supporting.
The Republican papers are beginning to
show signs of uneasiness on account of the
prominence some of the party leaders are
giving to the fact that Blaine's strength lies
in his Irish following, and many of them
think the Irish vote may prove too heavy for
him, as there are many Republicans who do
not wish to identify themselves with the Irish
in politics. It is not the number of voters
but the quality that some of these states
men are considering.
At Philadelphia the other day the Law
and Order Society received a set back in its
attempt to keep the Quakers from drinking
beer on Sunday. Since the movement to
enforce the Sunday laws in that city has
been started the citizens have been buying
their beer on Saturday and having it placed
in bottles in which it could be kept for Sun
day use. The Law and Order Society en
deavored to prevent this, but the court held
that the law did not apply to such cases.
While all good Americans were enjoying
their annual Thanksgiving dinner and dis
cussing the merits of the turkey and the
pumpkin pie, the people of Germany were
being consoled by the announcement in the
annual speech from the throne that the
pride of every true German, the army, was
never before iu such good condition. We
have no great standing array to eat up our
substance, and we don’t want any. We are
willing that other nations shall enjoy that
luxury. We are willing to take the tur
key, and leave the armies to our European
friends.
Anthony Comstock says he has known of
the existence of establishments for the man
ufacture and sale of implements to be used
in cheating and swindling at games of
chance, but there is no law to break up such
establishments. The penal code of the State
of New York provides for the punishment
of any “owner” or “agent” of “any device
or apparatus for gambling,” and again for
the sale of “any article or instrument of in
decent or immoral use.” These provisions
have always been supposed to cover cases of
these kinds and convictions have been se
cured under them.
Atlanta’s Prohibition Contest.
At lanta will settle a question today which
is a very important one to her. It is whether
barrooms shall lie again opened within her
limits. For two years they have been closed,
and this condition of affairs has given great
satisfaction to a very huge percentage of
her citizens, if not to a majority of them.
It is certain that it has the approval of a
very largo majority of the law and order
element.
Both the Prohibitionists and the Anti-Pro
hibitionists are apparently confident of suc
cess. For more than a month a very earnest
and enthusiastic campaign lias been in
progress. The opposing factions have pre
sented their arguments fully, and it is
doubtful if anything for or against prohi
bition has been left unsaid.
The Prohibitionists have undoubtedly
made out a stronger case against the re-in
troduction inta the town of saloons
than the liquor advocates have in favor
of their re-introduction. The attempt to
show that the closing of the saloons has in
jured the city from a business point of view
has failed, and there is no doubt that the
morals of the city have shown a steady im
provement ever since prohibition went into
effect. The testimony of retail merchants
is that their business lias been better during
the last two years than ever before, and
there is no doubt that workingmen have
had more of the comforts, and even
luxuries, of life, because they have spent
their earnings for things calculated to make
their homes cheerful and their families
happy instead of for whisky.
It is asserted of course by the Anti-
ProUibitionists that whisky was sold not
withstanding the law against its sale, and
that there was more drunkenness than if
liquor hud been openly sold. The facts,
however, do not bear out this assertion—at
least the facts which the Prohibionists pre
sent do not. According to their showing
drunkenness and all kinds of crimes have
steadily decreased. What the exact truth
is it is impossible probably to find out with
any satisfactory degree of accuracy.
It may be assumed as certain that if the
Prohibitionists are successful to-day whisky
as a beverage will almost wholly disapjiear
from Atlanta. It is charged, and with
some reason, that during the whole two
years that the law has been in force, there
has been a persistent effort on the part of the
Anti-Prohibitionists to show that the law is
a failure. They were doubtless looking for
ward to another contest at the polls and were
doing what they could to prejudice the peo
ple against prohibition. If they could make
it evident that the prohibitory law
did not prohibit, they believed, no doubt,
that they would be able to secure its repeal
at the end of the two years for which it had
been adopted. Some of them, therefore,
have left no means untried to se 1 surrepti
tiously as much whisky as they could. If
whisky is voted out again, however, there is
every reason for thinking that Atlanta will
become permanently a prohibition town.
There is enough inornl backbone there to see
that the prohibitory law is enforced.
It is true that in Maine cities there is
a great deal of whisky drinking, although
all of them are under the prohibitory law.
The reason is that the moral sentiment of
the people of that State with regard to
whisky is not ns strong as it ought to be,
and the officers, therefore, whose duty it is
to arrest those engaged in violating the law,
have become comjiaratively indifferent
about the matter. If the Prohibitionists in
Atlanta, however, are victorious to-day
they will see to it that whisky is not sold,
either openly or surreptitiously, in their
town. Prohibition is a success in nearly 100
counties in Georgia, and it can be made a
success in Atlanta.
A Republican Programme.
The Philadelphia Press says that it is the
purpose of the Republican party to come
“into the South and contend for votes for
its distinctive principles.” That is just what
it ought to do. If it has any principles that
are distinctive, it ought to let the people in
all parts of the country know what they
are. John Sherman visited the South a few
months ago and made a speech at Nashville
which attracted some attention. It was a
little different from tho speech which he
subsequently made at his homo in Mansfield,
O. At Nashville he did not charge that the
negro vote was suppressed, but at Mansfield
that charge was the feature of his speech.
The South has no objection to the pro
gramme which, according to the Philadel
phia Press, the Republican party has de
cided upon. It will listen to all that the
Republican orators have to say. The Re
publican party will make much more prog
ress toward gaining votes in the South, as
suming that it can make any. by an open,
manly canvass for them ttttn by shouting
at long range that old worn out falsehood
that there is not n free ballot and a fair
count in the South. Let Senator Allison,
Mr. Blaine, Senator Hawley and
other distinguished Republicans make
a tour through the South de
livering speeches explanatory of the
“distinctive principles” of their party. It
would trouble them, probably, to tell what
“distinctive principles” their party lias. It
is true that it believes in a high protective
tariff and in the spoils system, but what
else? Let tho Republican orators come by
all means, and let the Philadelphia lVcss
send a member of its staff along in order
that its readers may be informed how they
are treated.
Mayor Hewitt, who, it is well known,
is anxious to receive the Democratic
nomination for President next year, is of
the opinion that President Cleveland lias
already won the race. According to the
New York Times, “Friends of Mr. Hewitt
say that he has believed himself to be in the
direct line of the Presidential succession
until now. He looked upon his election as
Mayor as having saved New York from
Henry Georgeism, and the reduction of the
Labor vote this fall as implying a further
indorsement of his course, and expected
with some confidence, until the Cleveland
boom overtook him, that in gratitude for
these services New York would present his
name to tbo national convention. Upon
authority of a prominent New Yorker and
a friend of Hewitt, it is stated
as a fact that the President,
on reconsideration, telegraphed ex-Mayor
Cooper not to publish the text of his letter
indorsing Mr. Hewitt's manifesto. When
the dispatch was received Mr. Cooper and
Mayor Hewitt were dining together. A ro
ply was telegraphed to the White House
that the letter was deemed so important it
had already been given to the press.”
There is a report that Mr. Robert Garrett
is anxious to he re-elected President of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad. The proba
bilities are that Mr. Garrett is out of the
Presidency of that road to stay. The
stockholders in it have had all of his nun
ligament that they want.
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1887.
Are Not More Fines Necessary?
j The Governor may have an opportunity
soon to investigate other charges against
the lessees of the convicts. The Morning
News and other journals of the State have
several times lately called attention to the
uuinber of convicts who escape from the
camps, and to the indi (Terence which the
lessees appear to show with respect to their
capture.
It is not improbable that the Governor
| will be asked to make a searching inquiry
Into the circumstances of the escape from
tho camp near Augusta of Walsh, a life
convict, who was sent to the penitentiary
from this county. Indeed, tho Governor
would not lie doing any more than his duty
if he were to order an investigation of tho
Walsh case without any charges being pre
ferred. The fact of the escape has been
brought to his attention, and he would add
new laurels to those which he gained when
he imposed fines amounting to $5,000 upon
two convict companies for a failure to com
ply with their contracts with the State.
There is no desire to persecute tho leasees of
the convicts, but there is a growing de
termination that they shall live up to their
contracts and obey faithfully the laws
under which they hold the convicts.
That the bosses are apparently indifferent
about securing the return of escaped con
victs except where it is profitable for
them to do so, is shown by the fol
lowing facts: Some days ago Constable
Wetherhorn, of this city, arrested and
lodged in jail an escaped convict. HLs name
is Bragg Walker, and he was sent to the
penitentiary from Warren county, for thir
teen years. On Aug. lfi, 1886, he escaped
from the convict camp near Augusta, after
he had been there only a few months. Im
mediately after his capture Constable
Wetherhom telegraphed the fact to the
convict lessees and to the keeper of the
penitentiary. Up to the present time he
has received no acknowledgement of the re
ceipt of his messages. It can hardly be pos
sible that they were not received. If they
were received, why have they not been
answered? Is the convict not wanted by
tho leasees? Is Constable Wetherhorn to
release the convict, or are the county au
thorities to understand that this county is to
be at the expense of keeping him until the
lessees get ready to send for him? Certainly
some explanation is needed, and that, too,
very soon. Constable Wetherhom says
that lie has information of the whereabouts
of several escaped convicts, but that there
is no use arresting them, as nobody seems
to care whether they are in prison or not.
Is not this a pretty state of affairs?
A Chance for a Big Discussion.
The Emma Abbott incident at Nashville
promises to become much more prominent
and important than anybody had any idea
of when it occurred. The request of the
North Alabama Conference of the Southern
Methodist church for the resignation of Dr.
D. C. Kelley as Missionary Secretary of the
General Conference, because of his defense
of Emma Abbott and the theatre, will
naturally provoke a great deal of discussion.
The question will, doubtless, be raised
also whether the Alabama Conference
had the right to request Dr.
Kelley’s resignation as he holds his office by
an election of the General Conference. He
will hardly submit to be condemned with
out a hearing, and in the summary way in
which the Alabama Conference proposes to
condemn him. If the question of Dr. Kel
ley’s right to say what he did with regard
to the Emma Abbott incident gets into the
General Conference a very lively discussion
may be provoked, not only with regard to
the influence which the theatre exerts upon
society, but also, whether members of the
Methodist church ought not to be strongly
advised agaiust patronizing the theatre.
A discussion of the theatre begun by the
Methodist church may be participated in by
other churches, and by the press. Such a
discussion, if conducted in the right spirit,
could hardly fail to be interesting.
In tliis connection some remarks made by
Col. Robert Ingersoll at a dinner on
Tuesday night in New York are
calculated to attract attention. Among
other things Col. Ingersoll said:
“I believe in the medicine of mirth, and
what I might call the longevity of laughter.
Every man in this world who lias caused
real, true, honest mirth has been a bene
factor of the human race. I like the stago
liecause the greatest man that ever touched
this grain of sand that you call the world
wrote for the stage, and poured out a very
Mississippi of philosophy, and pathos, and
humor, and everything calculated to
raise and enoble the human race.
I like to see the stage honored, because
actors are the ministers, the apostles of tho
greatest man that ever lived, and because
they put flesh and blood and passion upon
the greatest characters that the greatest man
drew. That is the reason I like the stage.
It makes us human. A rascal never gained
applause on tho stage. A hypocrite never
commanded admiration, except for the
naturalness of the acting. No one has
ever yet seen any play in which, in his
heart, he did not applaud honesty, hero
ism, sincerity, fidelity, courage and self
denial. Never. And no man ever heard a
great play that did not get up a better and
wiser and more human man.”
Of course there is much to be said against
the theatre as well as much for it. But take
it all in ail cannot more be said for than
against it?
Dr. McGlynn seems bound to keep him
self conspicuously before the public. It was
thought that the poor showing of the United
Labor Party ip the recent elections would
have a tendency to place him in the back
ground, and that for a time lie anil his
theories would take a rest. But such is not
the cose, for the ex-priest brought himself
into prominence again on the twentieth an
niversary of tlie execution of the “Manches
ter martyrs” by making a violent speech in
New York in which he advocated a resort
to force to secure Ireland’s rights. The
doctor is becoming a greater crank than
Anarchist Most.
The Board of Health of Philadelphia
does not intend to permit cholera to find a
lodgement in that city if it can help it.
Stringent resolutions relative to tho admis
sion into that city of immigrants from the
cholera-infected ports of Italy nave been
adopted. The wisest thing that could lie
done in this matter would he to prohibit
the landing in this country of immigrants
from plac where the cholera is known to
exist. _ _
John Bright, the once Radical leader in
the House of Commons, lias of late been
catering to the Tories, and now he comes
out fiatfooted against Gladstone, on whom
he says rests the blame for the division in
the Liberal party. He calls the Home Rulers
rebels, and otherwise shows the effect age
and riches kayo had upon him.
CURRENT COMMENT.
R
A Picturesque Ticket.
Prom the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Dem.)
A harmonious anil congenial Presidential
t ieket could be made up of Foraker and Herr
Most. Such a ticket, on a platform of Wood
and wind, would at least stand for something.
Duty of Democratic Congressmen.
Prom the Pew York Graphic (Devi.)
If the Democratic majority lose themselves
in wrangling; if no serious attempt is made to
reliev.i industry of the incubus of overtaxation,
the Democratic certainty of to-day will be
turned to doubt, with the balance hanging
evenly between the two parties at the polls.
No, Sherman Would be Distanced.
Prom the Baltimore Herald (Rep.)
Gen. Gordon, of Georgia, is accused by the
Atlanta Constitution of having kissed 500 girls
in one day. If the gallant Gordon could be
matched against Gen. Shermau for the Presi
dential race next year and women were invested
with the franchise, it would be nip and tuck be
tween these distinguished oscillators, and they
would certainly distance all competitors.
They Will Not Be “Flungf Overboard.”
Prom Harper's Weekly (Rep).
It is assumed that the President lias thrown
them (the Mugwumps) overboard, and is now
bent on strengthening his part)’ relations. But
it should be remembered that, in the sense in
tended, the President could not throw over the
Independents. * * That there have been re
gret and disappointment among Independent
voters, arising from the course of the Executive,
is obvious. * * But it does not show that the
Independent vote will be cast against Mr. Cleve
land.
BRIGHT BITS.
A rolling pin gathers a good deal of dough.—
Somerville Journal.
Oh, why don't more men put an enemy into
their brains to steal away their mouths.— Puck.
A Messenger boy’s diary—“ Monday hired;
Tuesday tired; Wednesday fired."— Newark
Sunday Call.
“That puts a different face on it!” as the
small boy said when his ball struck the clock
dial. - Texas Siftings.
A hen out West has just laid an egg “as big as
a bowl.” First time we ever heard of a bowl
egged hen.— Cleveland Sun.
It is strange that Nina Van Zarnlt, feels so
much worse now that, the felon has been takeu
off her hands. New York World.
When the stove is clogged up with clinkers, is
it any wonder that the troubled housewife ex
claims: “Grates caught?"- Chicago Sun.
The cable report of Russia's coolness toward
Germany is exceedingly probable. Russia has
been borrowing money from Germany.—Boston
Globe. %
Mrs. Charlotte Tubbs, of Caroline county,
Maryland, gave birth to four babies the other
night. Mr. Tubbs turned pail when he heard
the news.— Minneapolis Tribune. •
First young lapy— l see that Mr. Buffalo
Bill s profits in London amounted to £70,000.
Second young lady—Yes, and think, too, of
his position in society.— Tid-Bits.
“Waiter, take away this beer, it's muddy.”
The waiter (without stirring)—“You are de
ceived, sir. It is the glass which is dirty; the
beer is excellent. Taste it."— Judge.
A policeman at Norfolk froze to death on an
exposed street corner because he heard a photo
graph was to be taken of it, and he wanted to
be in the picture. —.Yen; York Graphic.
A physician, a few weeks since, giving us an
account of the decline of a church in ms town,
said it, had died of the "foot-and-mouth dis
case.” Being asked what he meant, he said
that the people spent their time “running
around talking about each other.”— Christian
Advance.
Manager—How many acts did you say your
play had?
Playwright—Nine, sir. It will please the men
greatly.
“The men? How?"
“So many chances to get out, you know."—
Chicago News.
A young lady who had been married a little
over a year wrote to her matter-of-fact old
father in this city sayiny: “We have the dearest
little cottage in the world: ornamented with the
most charming creepers you ever saw.” The
old man read the letter and exclaimed: “Twins,
by thunder:’' -Greenville Herald.
“How beautiful," said she, “to-night
Appear the heavenly orbs so bright.”
Quoth he, "Two orbs divine I see
Are brighter than the stars to me.”
And soft and low the evening breeze
Moaned round them through the chestnut trees.
—Oil City Blizzard.
Piiotographeb— You spoke in the business
notice about my being a follower of Daguerre.
Newspaper Man—Yes. that's all right.
Photographer—Well, it isn't all right. I want
you to understand that I'm a follower of no
body. I'm the great original Jenks, and I don’t
propose to pay for any business notice that puffs
a rival.— Tid-Bits.
De watermillion vines am shrinkled up by de
ole Jack Pros’;
Dat mos’ entrancin’ fruit am gittin’ hahd ter
come ercross.
But neither mind; dough wintah win’s may
make er fuss an’ roh,
De chicken coop will blossom jes’ ez charmin’
ez befob. — Washington Critic.
Young Mr. Sissy (who has been at the piano
for over an hour, to hostess)—Have you seen
Miss Twillingham, my dear Mrs. Hobson; I
have searched both parlors and the conserva
tory?
Hostess—Yes, Air. Sissy, I saw her just as you
finished your last sympheny; she Complained of
a sudden severe headache, and begged to be ex
cused.— Epoch.
“Yes," said Airs. Bascom to her neighbor.
Airs Ponsonby. “I always admire Deacon Sam
uels. He is the most dignified looking man
when lie’s asleep that I ever saw.— Burlington
Pree Press.
Chicago Citizen —Hello, Jones! how is busi
ness?
Jones—Quiet.
“You don't look as bright and cheerful as
you used to. 11
“No. l'in afraid I ain't as popular as I used
to be."
“What makes you think so?"
“I hain't received an infernal machine this
week."— St. Paul Globe.
PERSONAL*.
Frince Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, is lying awake
nights wondering w hat the Ozar of Russia said
to the Prime Minister of Germany.
Lord Wolverton's honors are now inherited
by his nephew, the son of the Admiral Glyn,
who was so beloved by Adelaide Neilson, the
actress.
Ellen Terry's daughter is very English in
her modest, retiring way. She hasn't the
amouuf of conversation in her that an Ameri
can girl has.
By the marriage of Senator Hawley the num
her of widowers in the upper house of Congress
is reduced to three. They are Senators Gibson,
Voorhees and Beck.
Lord Justice Bowen, of England, has trails
luted Virgil into an English verse, which is said
to be an ingenious modification of the hexame
ter, and his work is about being published.
Miss Ethel Sprague, granddaughter of chief
Justice Chase and daughter of Mrs. Kate Chase
Sprague, is tall, slender, distinguished, with a
remarkably fine carriage and a dark, expressive
face. Miss Sprague is 1!) years old and is pre
paring to go on the stage.
Mrs. Charles Dickens, who is visiting this
country with her husband, is described as a
motherly, sweet-faced, little English matron of
the tme British type, even to the bit of lace
that answers for a cap And rests on the bands
of smooth hair that is brushed so carefully off
her pleasant, face -a tpye of woman so dis
tinctly different from the American matron.
President Cleveland and his wife were so
much impressed by Richard Mansfield's per
formance of “Dr. Jeky 11 and Mr. Hyde'' that
they invited the actor to call at the White House.
When he presented his card at the Executive
Mansion Mr. Cleveland was at a Cabinet meet
ing, so Mrs. Cleveland received the visitor. Mr.
Mansfield, like all who meet her, was charmed
with her beauty and cordial manner.
Tall, brawny, broad-shouldered ex-Senator
Henry G. Davis, of West Virginia, is a man
wortli looking at. Not because he happens to
have svi.o(*o,ooo to $80,000,000 lielonging to him.
but for the reason that ho is tlie type or the men
who deserve the wealth they have made and
know’ how to use it fairly. He is a sturdy man,
with a jaw that under its closely clipped gray
whisker might easily be of iron, so clean cut
and firm is the make of his resolute hut kindly
face.
JCx-Uov. John Lee Carroll, of Maryland, is
in apjwarance, manner and general carriage a
thorough-going aristocrat. He belongs to a
class of men who are rapidly getting beyond
the reach of ordinary American influences. One
of his daughters is married to a Baron I
another took as husband the Count de Kergn
lay, and now his niece. Miss Alice O'Donnell, is
to le married next month to a French Viscount
with a long name and nothing to support it but
the beggarly salary of a Lieutenant in the
Cuirassiers.
A GENERAL. SALUTATION.
The New Texas Editor Gives His Read
ers Timely Warning.
From the Texas Siftings.
The Texas journalist, who had been tummpr
fallowing himself on a stock ranch for a couple
of years, suddenly assumed control of a coun
try weekly, and in the fii-st issue after he struck
the quarter deck he published a small and un
pretentious card, in which he said:
"The former editor of this sheet is practically
and politically dead, but the Sausage still sur
vives. It is just as well though, and a mighty
sight better, as I am a boss at editin’ and sling
one of the most caustic and fluentest quills
West of the lted Kiver. I hafte a record behind
me which doesn't need anew coat of white
wash every spring, like that other editor which
recently peyunked and drawed out of the game.
"At gitteh up obituaries I'm a tossel top, and
if there's any hitch in the program 1 can gener
ally furnish a fresh corpse on short notice, and
at the usual slight advance on cost of insertion.
I merely throw this out as a feeler to theopposi
shun, which I hear is a massing its forces agin
me and my paper, and by the freckled-faced,
bow-legged, cock-eyed gods of war there'll be
a power of high-priced opera music floating in
the air if any of them try t. climb me.
“If there is ennv corte house ring in this
sweet-scented locality, I’ll get on to it, sure as
you're a foot high. If there is to be any mun
kying with the free-born, untrammeled country
delegates to the next county convention, I'll be
there with my face washed and my hair combed
back of my ears.
"I’ve, licked many a good man, and I’ve been
licked once or twice in my variegated career,
but I’ve always noticed that them fellers who
whipped me were not the same man afterward,
and drooped along for awhile like a sun-struck
tomato vine, and finally dropped into the grave
with a dull thud, having kinder outlived their
usefulness.
“I want it distinctly remembered that I'm in
from the back counties, and ain’t up to the cote
etiket of the straw lierry blonde or the pulpy
dude. If I make any misoues it will be more an
error of the head than the heart; but, for all
that, I propose to run a jam-up, sizzlng hot,
nifty little jiaper, and move along with the liest
kind of harmony. But if harmony bucks, and
tries to do any dirt on me, harmony will have to
git off the track and leave me glide right inter
the confidence of the public.
"If this journal says anything out of the way
and grieves any mottle-raced tender-foot, re
member I’m the man he wonts to see about it 1
There ain't no liack stairs or back windows to
this sanctum sanctorlum. I’m always in. I’m
ever on the tripod, and non' with those few
brief remarks I cordially invite everybody’s co
operation and subscriptions. The tone of the
paper will be pure in sentiment, chaste in ex
pression and typographically bang up and de
lirious.”
All or Nothing’.
From the Boston Herald.
You write to me, O Isabel!
Just as the sad year ends.
When autumn to the wintertime
Her hapless head low bends.
You write to me. O Isabel,
To say “we may be friends!"
We may be friends and something more,
We may be something less.
Oh, not for me a chilly smile,
Who long for your caress!
’Tis all or nothing. You were bor
To ban me or to bless.
O Isabel, my beautiful,
%'ou are as w holly mine
Forevermore, or you are nought!
As moonshine to sunshine.
Your friendship to your love, or as
Pale water to red wine.
0 Isabel, my beautiful,
Is’t thus our romance ends?
I read my answer in the words
A faithless woman sends.
O bitterest of all bitter words
Are these—“We may be friends!”
Secretary Bayard’s . ailing Health.
Washington Cor. Philadelphia Telegraph.
Secretary Bayard shows the wear and tear of
official life very perceptibly. He had the ap
pearance of being one of the younger Senators
when he accepted the Secretaryship of State;
now he looks like an old man. Domestic grief
has had much to do with this change, of course,
but the various worries of his present office
much more. The Keiley trouble, the Jacks,,n-
Sedgwiok-Cutting episode, and, above all, the
Canadian and Behring Sea fisheries complica
tions, have tended to perplex his formerly se
rene mind and acidulate his temper. He has
become very brusque, even toward his best
friends. People avoid the State Department
now as much as they can; even the hardened
cheek of the chronic interviewer turns pale on
approaching the Secretary. On occasion he
resumes his former self. For instance, his ad
dress of welcome to the International Medical
Association here last summer was a most charm
ing thing, worthy of Oliver Wendell Holmes,
and delivered with a mixture of grace, dignity
and good nature delightful to witness. Almost
always the first thing anyone says when Bay
aril s name comes up for discussion is. "What a
pity it was for him to leave the Senate 1”
“Your Son George Is In That Tiger.”
From Voltaire.
The son of a London merchant started six
months ago to find a long-lost uncle in India.
When he had been gone for some time, a letter
came saying that he had found the missing rel
ative, who had most kindly received him. A
few weeks later came a missive from the uncle
himself, announcing the premature death of his
nephew, and adding that he would have the
body sent home to England by the next mail,
So the next Indian steamer was met on its
arrival in London, and on board sure enough
was an enormous case, which was addressed to
the sorrowing parents. Imagine their disgust
and surprise on opening the case, to find that it
contained only the body of a splendid Bengal
tiger. The father at once cabled to the uncle,
saying:
“You have been deceived; the corpse of our
son has not been sent. The case sent by jou
contained only a tiger.”
A few hours later the following answer was
received:
“There has been no mistake. There is a tiger
in the box, I know, and your poor son George is
in that tiger.”
New England Hospitality.
From a Boston Letter.
I shall never again say that Massachusetts
people are not hospitable. A day or two ago I
was driving along a country road, just outside
of Boston, and chanced to stop at a farm house
to inquire my way. An old woman came to
the door, and, having given me the information
I desired, po itely asked me in, to have, so she
expressed it, “a drink and a rock,” By a
“drink” I rather supposed she meant a glass of
milk. The “rock” was a luxury the nature of
which was beyond imagining. Satisfied, how
ever, that it was something inviting, I ac
cepted the offer with thanks, and, having ti xi
my horse, went inside. My hostess, thereupon
requested me to be seated in her best rocking
chair and poured me out a glass of water.
“Now," she said, you can have a drink and a
rock, and rest yourself as long as you like!”
Certainly this is the most, inexpensive form of
entertainment I have ever heard of. It beats
the 5 o'clock tea all hollow.
A Japanese Vice Admiral.
Fi om the Nash vide American.
Vice Admiral Viscount Kilayma, of the Japa
nese navy, and four other picturesque natives of
the same land who arc members of his staff, are
in New York. One would take the Admiral at
first view for a brawny, dark featured Spaniard,
made up as to his dress in the most approved
American fashion, and adding to it a veritable
Knglisn single eyeglass, that n% manages with
all the fashionable dexterity of the most expo
rienced London cockney. He is a burly, stout
and stalwart lookiug gentleman of middle age,
and his regard for modern fashions in garments
und modes of life arises from the foot that most
of his early career was passed on board a ship
of the British navy, where his education as a
sailor was liegun and perfected. His ship, one
of the three ironclads that Japan owns, reached
Ban Francisco about two weeks ago, and is the
second war vessel of that nation that ever
visited this country.
Perfumed Chest Protectors for Dudes.
From a Society Journal.
It is going to lie simply delightful for a girl to
plant her chin on the diamond stud of the so
ciety man in the mazes of the dafiee this winter.
Alphonse's chest has developed since he dis
ported in the water at Newport last summer.
One of the girls mentioned it to him. He turned
it off by saying that he hod been rowing with
the boys a good deal lately, and nothing threw
out a man's chest like that—except the landlady
of a sailor's boarding house. He did not dis
close that the boys who wear dress suits this
winter have all bought beautiful little chest pro
tectors of pale blue silk, stuffed with cotton
and steeped in sachet powder They give a
noble frontage to the rather fiat young man of
the period. At all events, it is a custom honored
in the observance now, and it will make the ball
rooms pleasant if all the young men wear
sachet powder-stuffed pads with dress suits this
winter.
“No," said Mrs. Magoffin, “my husband isn't
what you would call a learned man, but he is
very ambitious to acquire an education. Why,
he attends primaries almost every night.”—
Boston Traivscriot. , i
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Thk authorities at Vienna, Austria, are pro
posing to tax bachelors for the benefit of the
schools.
A kejlinink termination for usher will soon
be wanted, as a Louisville (Ky.) theatrical man
ager contemplates employing young women in
that capacity.
For the first ten months of the year the pas
sengers who arrived at San Francisco by rail
numbered 58,105; by sea, 21.723. Of these about
20,000 remained in California.
Chico, Cal., is anxious that her Chinese resi
dents locate beyond the tow n limits, and, with
that end in view, has offered them free ground
and water and 40,000 feet of lumber.
It is said that the first campaign badge for
1888 is out in Maine. It is a pasteboard card
bearing in big letters the words. “Blaine—1888."
Mr. Blaine’s friends wear them inside their hats.
Miss Mary 1,. Seymour, w'ho lias a type
writing and stenographic establishment in New
York, says that women make better type
writers than men and quite as good stenog
raphers.
Eighty corn-canning factories have been in
operation this year in Maine, and over 11,000,000
cans of sweet corn have been put up, besides
large quantities of apples, beaus, tomatoes and
other vegetables and fruits.
The Santa Cruz Surf tells of an ammense sea
turtle v'hich was caught near Capitola the other
day. It measured 8 feet from the tip of its nose
to the tip of its tail, and its weight is guessed
by a local guesser to be about 1,000 pounds.
N. G. Yocum, of l’assadena, Cal., a wealthy
young man, suddenly disappeared two months
ago. It has been ascertained that he is insane,
and believing that he is very poor he has been
working in a shingle mill in the interior of the
State.
A Belmont county, Onto, farmer rejoices in a
heterogeneous collection of freaks, consisting of
a pig whosee feet are split so as to give it the
appearance of having toes, another with three
ears, a cat with one ear grow ing wrong side
out, and a boy with three thumbs.
The Santa Rosa Republican tells of an in
dulgent mother in that town whose 14-year-old
son is confined in the county jail, and who sent
him a Bible, a buuch of cigarettes, a piece of
bologna sausage, and a copy of the Police Ga
zette, in order to hew off the ragged edges of
prison life.
A veteran of 1849. who lately died in Califor
nia, passed the latter years of his life ill a room
over a stable, but he left, in addition to two
brothers, $2,000,000 to keep them from the ne
cessity of boarding around among horses un
less, as was the case with him, they should pre
fer to do so.
An elk, pronounced one of the last of the
immense herds which roamed the plains of Cen
' tral and Southern California thirty-five years
ago, was recently killed by a professional hunter
on a ranch near Sumner, Kern county. It
weighed 500 pounds and had a pair of magnifi
cent antlers.
The exhibition of some human heads taken
from Indian graves in Ecuador, enlivened the
proceedings at a recent meeting of the San
Francisco Academy of Sciences, tty a “finished
method of scalping,” these heads had been re
duced to the size of a moderately large orange,
although the features were still visible.
A child was recently born on Staten Island,
N. Y„ whose mouth ran at right angles to the
place where the mouth should be. The lips were
perfetly formed, and the upper end of the mouth
split the nose between the nostrils. A surgical
operation was recently performed, the child is
doing well, and it is believed that it will be but
slightly disfigured.
The Southern California Motor Road Company
will run a road up to tho Bear valley reservoir,
which is 6,000 feet above the sea and w'here snow
falls and ice forms in winter. Skating parties
are to be taken up, trains running on moonlight
nights only. They will leave Sail Bernardino - at
6 p. m., making the run in two hours, and after
three hours of sport, start on the return at 11
o'clock.
The dynamic value of one pound of good
steam coal has been estimated by Prof. W. D.
Rogers as equivalent to the work of one man
one day, while three tons would represent his
work for twenty years, counting 300 working
days in a year. He has further estimated that a
four-foot seam would yield one ton of good coal
to the square yard, and that one square mile in
area would represent the labor of over 1,000,000
men for twenty years.
At the blind school at Lansing, Mich., is a boy
who presents a parallel case to that of the cele
brated Laura Bridgeman. His name is Reuben
Ainsley He is 16 years of age. has been blind,
deaf and dumb from infancy, and when brought
to the institution from Mackinaw three years
ago wasconsidered entirely unsusceptible of in
struction. However, a glove was provided which
could be supplied with raised letters, and the
work of enlightenment liegan. Progress was
discouragingly slow at first, but continued
efforts w'ere rewarded, and the lad has attained
a great degree of intelligence.
Orthodox Christians will watch with inter
est and perhaps alarm the new missionary
movement in Germany. So-called advanced
theologians have a weff-oganized society,
whose object is to make use of the elements of
culture and morality that are found in educated
heathen nations, and on this basis build up a
Christian culture according to advanced ideas.
This society thinks that, the old methods fail in
that they do not interest the thinkers among
educated non-Christian people. It has 7,750
members in Switzerland and Germany, and lias
a few men at work in Japan and China.
The war cloak of the royal family of Honolu
lu is a complete semicircle made on a founda
tion of network woven of the fibre of a tree.
The features are sewed in with a twine made of
the same material. It is soft and even as plush,
of a beautiful golden orange, shading to silver
gray. The feathers were taken from the 00.
But two feathers are used from each bird. It is
said to have been generations in making, the
feathers and work costing over $1,000,000. The
feathers were paid for in pieces of nankeen, four
feathers for a piece valued at $l5O. As the
feathers are not over two inches long, some idea
may be formed of the number required for
a garment of this size. When Kalakaua was
crowned in 1883 he wore this robe for his coro
nation, making the ninth king who has been so
adorned.
There is a story that is going around in the
French papers about the Czar. While ho was
stopping recently in the Castle of Fredensburg,
he was fond of taking little walks in the neigh
borhood. One day he was accosted by a beggar
woman with a child in her arms. In pure Dan
ish. and in the roughest maimer possible, he
told her to go aivay. and to be pretty quick
about it. The poor woman, terrified, started off.
but was followed by an officer. “Here, my go id
woman, said the officer, as he put some 'pieces
of gold into her hand, “it is the Czar who sends
you this, and he hopes you will forgive his ap
parent rudeness of a moment ago. The fact is
he has just returned from a visit to his children,
who have the scarletina, and he was afraid that
he might bring the contagion to vour child if
he allowed you to approach his person.
Lord Wolseley has been recently lecturing
his people about the various deficiencies in a
branch of the English government in which he
has peculiarly thorough means of information—
the military, Ho says the engineering imple
ments, etc., are simply worthless, as they
have been not only for years, but for genera
tions, the axes, for instance, heing so softrthat
they are chopiied by the tlmlier instead of chop
ping It. He says that the German service in
this department is infinitely more honest and
greatly cheaper, one important reason for
which is the practice of economy to the utmost
limit , as, for instance. Prince Bismarck is paid
$7,500 a year and the English Secretary of State
$25,000. He says that circumlocution is both
laborious and at the same time as expensive as
it is offensive. He instances a man who, in or
der to get a half crown due him front the War
Office, had to sign his name nineteen different
times. Tho most noticeable feature of Wolse
ley’s talK is its chime with the common senti
ment of the day that Germany is getting ahead
of her Britannic majesty.
Practical Journalism.
From the New York Graphic.
How many, however, of the 500,000 men en
trenched in palatial brown stones, cominandimr
big revenues, would exchange places with any
of these prosperous journalists? There is not
a place in ordinary journalism that a rational
man would covet. The same talents In any other
field would bring 1.000,000 fold higher reward
1 he very best place in the profession is slavery'
No sooner is the work of one day done than tile
needs for the next begin. There is no social life
for the majority of these men on the daily press
No engagements can be made in advance, for an
unexpected event may interpose to pre\ ent its
keeping If the half satirical, half contemptu
ous publicity the journalist receives is a grati
fication to the few it is no pleasure to the many,
ihe men who do the really fine work on the
press are rarely ever heard of; they do not
mingle in the convivial gatherings of actors or
politicians; they are never seen in clubs' their
very names are unknown outside their Miswal
writing l ooms. •
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