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4 C|t learning Tlcfos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. SATURDAY* NOVEMBER *6, IBBT. Registered at the rost. Office in Savannah. The Morning News Is published every day in the year, and is served to subscribers in the city, by newsdealers and earner*, on their own ac count, at 26 cents; a week, $1 00 a month, $5 00 for six months and $lO 00 for one year. The Morning News, by mail , one month, f i 00; three months, $2 50; aix months, $5 00; one year, $lO 00. The Morning News, by matt, sir times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $2 00; six months, $4 Cfc) one year. $8 00. The Morning News. Tri-weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, $1 2d; six months, $2 50; one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail, one year, f 00. The Weekly News, by mail , one year, $1 25. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, cheer or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. This paper is kept on file and advertising rates may be ascertained at the office of the Ameri can Newspaper Publishers" Association, 104 Temple Court, New York City. Letters and telegrams should be addressed "Morning News. Savannah, Ga.” Advertising rates made known on application. 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. 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