The morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, November 28, 1887, Page 4, Image 4

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4 Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. MONDAY. NOYE.MIIKR ‘J, 1887. Registered at the Post Office n SoranimA. "~The Mornino News Is published every day in rhe year, and Is nerved to subscribers in the city , by newsdealers and earners, on their own ac count, at 26 cents a week, $1 00 a month, 86 00 for six months and $lO 00 for one year. The Morning News, by mail, one month, $1 00; three months, $2 60; six months, $5 00; one year, $lO Oft The Morning News, by mail, six times a week- (without Sunday issue!, three months, $2 00; six months, $4 00 one year, $8 00. The Morning News, Tri-Weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three mouths, $1 25; six months, $2 60; one year. B' l 00. The Sunday News, by mail, one year, $2 no. The Weekly News, by mail, one year, $1 2V Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. This paper is kept on tile 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 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings— DeKalb Lodge No. 9. I. O. O. F.; Oalanthe Lodge No. 28, K. of P.; Georgia Tent No. 181,1. O. R.; Ancient Landmark Lodge No. 231, F. and A. M: Special Notices— Election Notice: As to Bills agsinst British Steamship Fern Holme and British Bark Memlo; As to Crew of German Bark Medusa, and Norwegian Bark Stanley; to Shippers Savannah, Florida and Western rail- way. Clothing, Etc.—Appel & Schaul. Steamship Schedules —General Transatlantic Company; Ocean Steamship Company. Al-ctionSales— Jerseys, Sacques, etc., Cigars, by J. McLaughlin A Son; A First-class Vessel, by D. R. Kennedy. Yocr Wants Supplied at Once— At LaFar's. Prcnes, Evaporated Apples, Etc.—C. M. Gilbert & Cos. Cheap Column Advertisements— Help Want ed: Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Personal; Miscellaneous. Has Indian summer come again? The im pression that it has prevailed in this city yesterday. Mr. Randall is not proposing any plan to reduce the revenues. He is an opposer, not a proposer. The Prohibitionists of Atlanta are not good politicians. They are better at mak ing a noise than in getting votes. Secretary Whitney has given up all idea of going to the Bermudas this winter. The new navy requires all his time in Washing ton. It was understood that when Dr. Parker, of England, delivered his lecture on Beecher that it was a work of love. It turns out, however, that it was work for cash. The prohibition contest in Atlanta being over our esteemed contemporary in that city can got down from its perch on the fence without fear of treading upon any body’s toes. Probably the men who moved away from Atlanta when the city voted for prohibition two years ago will now move back. If they had been blessed with patience they would have saved themselves a double moving. Max O’Rell called upon the President on Friday, and after the visit expressed “sur prise at the President's ease of manner and grace of action.” What sort of an opinion did this foreigner entertain of the President, anyway? Secretary Vilas’ annual report makes a very good showing for the Post Office De partment, It also makes a very good show ing for Mr. Vilas, who is, perhnps, better informed about the affairs of the depart ment than any other Postmaster General for many years. There is one man who is an employe of the New York State government, who has not been examined by the Civil Service Commis sion of that State. His name is Charles F. Hto well, and his duty is to examine railroad and other bridges. AVheh he was appointed it was admitted that lie was too well in formed for the civil service examiners to tackle. They were afraid of hitn, and have never bothered him. Cincinnati is stirred up pretty thoroughly just now over the disclosures made in the police investigation which is in progress. It appears from evidence presAited thus far that the night policemen have been in the habit of dividing their time between sleep ing and dancing while they were supposed to be on their beats. Many cases of drunk enness have been reported, and one officer who had served two terms in the peniten tiary was convicted of blackmail and dis missed. The Cincinnati policfc~force as at present constituted, it would appear, is a corrupt department and probably in need of a good shaking up. “Blinky” Morgan whose career promises to be cut short Dec. Hi, is one of the most noto rious crooks in the country. He has just been sentenced to be hanged for murdering Detective Hulligan while rescuing a pris oner whom that officer had in charge. The murder was one of the most cold blooded affairs in the criminal history of this coun try, and for a long time it was thought the murderer would escape. As the murder was committed in a passenger coach in the presence of at least fifty men, the prisoner rescued and the train stopped by the despe rado without any opposition, the case ex cited more than ordinary interest. More over, Morgan was known from one end of the country to the other and has many friends among the gamblers and criminals of every State in the Union. It is thought he received assistance from these crooks in biding from the police. The story is going the rounds of the press that thousands of pearl button makers at Newark are thrown out of work on account of the introduction into this country of a cheaper article manufactured in Austria. Nothing could better illustrate the absurdity of the high protective tariff system under which we are now stumbling along. It was supposed that the duty on buttons was high enough to keep outf foreign competition, but suddenly, after a vast amount of money has been expended in establishing this busi ness, it is found that even the high tariff will not protect tho American manufac turer from his foreign rivals, and Congress must raise the duty on buttons that the in dustry may be followed here. The fact that we are establishing our, business on a false and unsubstantial basis makes it necessary for us to constantly watch foreign markets, not that we may compete with foreign rivals in a fair fight, but that we may take the alarm and run to Congress to bolster up cur business. A Notable Faction Fight. The bitterest faction fight that has oc curred in anState for years is now in progress in Louisiana. There have been two factions in the Democratic party there ever since the Republicans were driven from power in the State. In 1877, when Hayes was declared elected President with the help of the electoral vote of Louisiana, Gen. Nicholls, the Democratic candidate for Governor, was recognized as Governor by the government at Washington. He had a majority of about 8,000, and Mr. Tilden's majority was about as large. How the State was given to Hayes while Gen. Nich , oils was recognized as Governor, is one of those things that the future historian will have to explain. Gen. Nicholls is an honest man and a very conservative one. He made an excellent Governor, and at the expiration of his term returned to the practice of the law honored and respected by the best element of the Democratic party of the State. He was succeeded by the present Governor, Samuel D. McEnery, who is charged with being something of a bulldozer, and who, it is alleged, is the head of a ring which proposes to keep control of the State for the sake of power and the offices. Gov. McEnery is a candidate for a third term, and Gen. Nicholls has been put forward by the conservative element of the party for the Gubernatorial nomination. The contest for the nomination has been in progress for months, and it has now de veloped a phase that is calculated to do the State a great deal of harm. Not long ago in a speech Gov. McEnery asserted that Gen. Nicholls could not lie trusted to deal with the race question in a way that would be satisfactory to the white people of the State. It was not exactly clear what he meant, but statements in subsequent speeches left no doubt in the minds of his political opponents that his purpose was to create the impression that if Gen. Nicholls were elected Governor the way would be opened for the colored politicians to obtain control of the State again. But how was such an impression to be created ! Why by the suggestion that Gen. Nicholls would see to it that the colored people had alt their political rights, while Gov. McEnery would not. If Gov. McEnery is not incorrectly reported he has put himself in a position of which he has no reason to be proud. For the sake of success he has done his party outside of his State incalculable damage. The colored people of Louisiana have all their political rights. They had them when Gen. Nicholls was Governor and they have hail them ever since. Gov. McEnery would like to make the white people believe that they owe the supremacy of the Democratic party in the State to him, and that he has maintained that supremacy by methods which he has never disclosed, and now only hints at. It is doubtful if his scheme will succeed. It is much more likely to do him harm than good. There are plenty of men connected with his faction who would not support him if they thought he would delib erately deny to the colored people any rights to which they are entitled. Speculation, Poverty and Crime. Gen. A. Brinkerhoff, of Mansfield, 0., who is deeply interested in the work of prison reform, and lias given much atten tion to study of prison reform has writ ten an article in which he expresses the be lief that the rapid increase in poverty and crime in this country is due in a large meas ure to speculation. Ho points to the fact that the great army of defaulters which is increasing so rapidly is composed largoly of speculators. Of course there is a vast differ ence between men who buy stocks, bonds, etc., and lock them up in their safes and men who bet that the price of them will ad vance or decline. The former is legitimate business, the latter gambling, and has been so decided by a jury in New York. That this gambling or speculation, as it is politely termed, is a fruitful cause of poverty ami crime, and is one of the greatest evils society has to contend against is evident when we consider that nearly every bank and business failure is due to the fact that someone interested in the defunct in stitution has been speculating. Only the other day tho failure of O. S. Hatch, Presi dent of the New York Stock Exchange, was announced, and it was explained that Mr. Hatch had been speculating on his own ac count. and had been caught on the wrong side of the market. The greed of gain is at the bottom of this speculation, and very many of those who engage in it end their careers in the poor houses, insane asylums and penitentiaries. It is an evil that is growing upon the American people, and it threatens to undermine the moral founda tion of their whole social system. The effects of these failures caused by sjieoulation are feit, moreover, in many cases by pi sir work ingmen, whose earnings are used by bank officials to carry on their operations. Busi ness is also affected, and, worse than ail, it has a bad effect upon the morals of the community. St. Louis has decided to abolish the study of German in public schools, despite tho vig orous protests of the German element of tho population of that city. Naturally German citizens wish to educate their children in the German language, that they may hear them speak it. But the same argument might lie presented by every other nation ality. There is no reason why the public schools should be utilized to perpetuate this sentiment but there are many reasons why German or any other foreign language should not be tuught in public schools. The time allotted the average child in the public schools is not enough to warrant the pur suit of a course of study in the Gorman lan guage. A mere smattering alone could be obtained at best, and this would be utterly worthless. More than that it would lie valua ble time lost, for the average public school pupil is scandalously ill-taught in that necessary acquirement reading plain English correctly. Again, it has ever been held that the principal object of our public school system is to develop American insti tutions and American ideas. The public school is the best weapon that can be used in fighting European distinctions, anarchy and socialism, for nothing will so strengthen these foes of American liberty as communi ties of dissimilar languages and clashing ideas. It Is announced that Mgr. Persieo, the lin pal envoy to Ireland has mode his report on the cause of that country, but the an nouncement does not come from official sources, and the summary of his alleged re port would indicate that tho announcement is purely a matter of speculation. The most important statement of this alleged report is that Mgr. Persieo says the country is not ripe for home rule, and that the Irish prel ates will soon receive instructions as to their future political attitude. THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1887. Commercial Union With Canada. A considerable proportion of the Canadian j press is in favor of settling the long-pending ; fisheries dispute with the United States by a commercial union between the two coun tries. and the idea is not unfavorably received in the North, where it has at tracted some attention from the news papers. The conditions of production and development in tho Dominion being so nearly the same as in a largo jiart of our own country, it is not probablo that com mercial union would meet with determined opposition from any large class on tho American side of the line. At the same time the prospective advantages of such a union affect a comparatively small class, so that as a whole, whore the mere commercial question is concerned, the people are almost indifferent. Tho articles which Canada lias for export are almost exclusively agricultural, and as the price for them is fixed by the demand in Europe the abolition of the customs line would not affect anybody. The free ad mission of Canadian lumber would perhaps make house building cheaper in Chicago and other lake cities, and fish would be cheaper in Northern markets. Commercial union would of course mean identical tariff rates, and here the real diffi culty in carrying the scheme into effect arises. If Canada remains politically dis tinct, all changes of the tariff rates would necessarily be reached by mutual agree ment between the two governments, either having the power of veto on the action of the other, or else one must surrender entire con trol of the matter to the other. In this ease Canada, as the smaller and weaker, would have to make the surrender, and this would of course be very offensive to the national sentiment of her people. It would be put ting in the hands of a foreign power the right to fix the rate of taxation, which is certainly the highest prerogative of govern ment. It cannot be believed that Canada would surrender a power so yital to self government, nor that the United States would adopt the ridiculous attitude of allow ing their little neighbor a veto on their tax levy. So, leaving Great Britain, Canada’s suzerain, out of the question altogether, there is little chance of an agreement on a scheme of commercial union, and with England’s influence thrown against it there may be said to be none at all. The connection between England and Canada is not very strong, the appointment of the nominal head of tho government, who really has no power, and the control of its foreign relations being the only vestiges re maining of the mother country’s authority over the colony. The latter has built a tariff fence around itself which excludes British goods to the same extent that it does those of other nations, and if, tired of its own little pen, it breaks down the cross fence between it and the United States and so becomes a port of the big American pen, all real connection with England will cease. Avery long step will have been taken to ward political annexation. It is the hope of the Canadians, or at least of a large number of them, that this subject will lie considered at the conference soon to begin at Washington, but it is not at all probable that the British representa tives will consent to make it a subject of negotiation. A Row Among the Bosses. Republicans throughout the country are figuring New York State as Republican in the next Presidential campaign, though the party managers there have no hope of swinging the Empire State into line. At present they are wrangling over the result of the State election recently held. Senator Hiscock had promised to elect Fred Grant Secretary of State, and thus pave tho way for Republican victory next year under the leadership of Mr. Blaine, but Boss Platt had a little scheme of his own which differed materially from that of Boss Hiscock, and Platt as usual came out on top, though he had a narrow escape. Platt sacrificed what ever chance the party had of carrying the State in order to secure a Republican Senate that would block Gov. Hill’s at tempt to remove him from office. Blaine’s ambition is buried, and what makes the de feat the more galling is that it was brought aliout by Platt, who spent the money con tributed for the purpose of electing tho State ticket, to elect Republican Senators in Dem ocratic districts. After six years of watch ing and waiting, with a patience that was truly commendable, Platt has practically retired to private life Mr. Blaine, who, in 1881, retired Platt to private life by causing liis defeat in the memorable Senatorial struggle. While the Republicans are fight ing among themselves the Democrats are making hay It is stated that Mrs. Clement C. Clay, of Huntsville, Ala., will be married to Mr. David Clopton, in that city to-morrow. Mrs. Clay is one of the most noted society belles of the past. She went to Washington before the war as the wife of one of the most noted men Alabama has ever sent to the United States Senate. She was highly edu cated, very beautiful, and during the Oh ehnnnn administration was one of the brightest and most courted women in Wash ington. When Clement C. Clay withdrew from the United States Senate in 1861, she went South with him, and she was a strong friend of the South during the late unpleas antness. She was with her husband when he was arrested in 18(15, and she was one of the party of Jefferson Davis, Alexander H. Stephens and Clement C. Clay, who, with their families, were taken North to prison. Tho ladies, of course, were not imprisoned, but Mrs. Clay's husband was for a time in Fortress Monroe with Jefferson Davis. During this time, Mrs. Clay beseiged An drew Johnson for his release, and her story of her trouble in securing this is one of the most graphic tales yet untold in our his tory. Senator Clay died in 188 J. He must havo been much older than Mrs. Clay, for she was a leading figure of Washington society last winter. She is tall, fine-look ing, and apparently just in her prime. She is a brilliant talker, and she was the centre of nearly every circle in which she moved during the past season. Sarah Ulrich Kelly, the bard of Shanty Hill, has begufrau active campaign for the Presidency, and hopes to make a bettor showing than Belva Lockwood did in the last contest. Sarah formerly was plain Sarah Ann, but since she entered politics she lias changed her name, and considers the substitution of Ulrich an improvement. She hopes to catch the “Yankee"’ vote with Sarah, the German with Ulrich, and the Irish with Kelly, but it is feared that the dear creature will have all her trouble for nothing. Is the New York Sun proposing to be come an organ? The tunes it is now grind ing out sound very much like organ tuues. CURRENT COMMENT. He Would, Indeed. From the Philadelphia Times (/rid.) What a whooping President of the French re public James U. Blaine would make! Yes, Pin Your Faith to Him. From the Detroit three Press, (Dem.) When you see a man who has no confidence in himself, my son. pin your faith to him; and get him to indorse your checks. Oh! What a Whopper! From the Detroit Tribune (Rep.) It Is an absolute fact that the South is to-day, and has been for over twenty years, waving more square yards of bloody shirt than the en tire North has ever waved inches. About to Move Into the White House. From the .Vein York Graphic i Dem.) Col. Ajax McClure, of the Philadelphia Times, has begun writing from Washington again. It is believed the Times' branch office there will shortly be moved into the White House. Let the Big Injuns Have a Talk. thorn the New York World (Dem.) Mr. Carlisle expresses a willingness to meet Mr. Randall and talk over tariff matters with him before the assembling of Congress. An exchange of views between these distinguished men would seem to be in order. Very Puzzling Indeed. From the New York Times, (Mug.) The story of the Czar being imposed upon and utterly misled as to Germany’s foreign pol icy by a forged letter purporting to come from Prince Bismarck is either the flimsiest of yarns or else the most extraordinary of recent revela tions In diplomacy. BRIGHT BITS. The waves of old ocean are by no means ready to sleep when t hey put their white caps on .—New Orleans Picayune. It is suggested as a shrewd guess that the first mention of playing cards is in the Bible. It was when Neb euehered Nezzar.— Boston Trans ciipt. Paris is to have a three-story crematory. It is supposed the upper classes will insist upon being cremated in the upper story.— Norristown Herald. When coffins can be bought in New York for 40c. apiece it is hard to excuse Johann Most for his criminal negligence in continuing to live.— Chicago News. Thu agricultural fair of the present opens with a speech by a lawyer and closes with a horse race. Agriculture takes a back seat.— New Orleans Picayune. Mv son, if a strange dog stops you in the street amt inquires after the health of your calf, lell him that he is suffering from pleuro-pneu monia.—Burlington Free Press. Sister Clara (entertaining young Mr. Feath erly)—Why do you ask me Bobby, if I was at the market yesterday? You know very well that I was not. Bobby—l heard Mr. Featherly say something about your being in the market.— New York Sun. "What is the size of that shoe?" y "That is a No. 2, madam." “I thought so. It tits perfectly." The clerk looks again. "Excuse me, madam; it is a No 4.” “A 4! Dear me, it is two sizes too big. Take it right off."— Chicago News. With all due respect to Ella Wheeler Wilcox, her recent drop from poetry to cosmetics is not becoming to her. It is like painting Pegasus and trying to pass the animal off for r white elephant. Wildly passionate poetry, not pearl powder, is Ella s most striking aud effective specialty.— Chicago Tribune. “My young friend," said the solemn passen ger, as the young man wiped his lips and re turned the imttle to his valise, “it is beyond my comprehension how any one can And pleasure or gratification in a drink of whisky, such as you have just imbibed.” "Yes, sir, responded the young man, “and there are thousands like you. A single drink is no good; they want a load. But I believe in moderation.’’—New York Sun. "Father,” said the young man to his Ken tucky sire. “I thought I would die this morning, I was so sick." “How was that, Henry?” “Why, 1 took a drink of milk about 8 o’clock, and a short time after a drink of whisky. The mixture curled me up like a bed-spring." “Well, it selves vou exactly right.” “Why?” “A man of your age ought to know better than to drink milk."— Nebraska State Journal. Have you heard the very latest— How the nose that nature sent To each grow n up infant might have Been esthetically tout? Yes! no more shall misfit noses Make the race of mortals sore. Turn-up, turn-down, crooked noses We shall suffer no more 1 Says a very learned doctor "Take the infunt of a week. When the cartilage is plastic, Like a baby-chicken s beak— Grasp its nose with thumb and finger. Fix a pattern in your mind. Mould vom 1 retrousse, your Grecian, Or whatever you’re inclined 1” Just as simple! -Just as easy! Strange we never thought before What a slight manipulation Would have done for our Lenore, With a lovely, piquant feature. Such as beauty's code demands, We might now- have a son-in- Law and twins upon our hands! —Burlington Free Press. PERSONAL. Max O'Rell is looking at the sights in Wash ington. Henry Georoe has been prospecting in St. Louis, but doesn't think it will pay to settle then'. Charles J. Bonaparte, of Baltimore, bears not the slightest resemblance to the famous Cor-ican family of that name to which he is re lated. Numerous New York friends of Count Ferdi nand de Lesseps sent their congratulations to the veteran canal cutter on his Hid birthday an niversary last Saturday. On Jenny Lind’s coffin was placed by Mr. Goldschmidt a wreath of myrtle made from a tree planted years ago by the great singer her self in t he shape of a tiny twig plucked from her wedding wreath. Folydore de Keyser, the new Lord Mayor of London, is a Roman Catholic, a Freemason and a I.ibsral-Unionist. Ho is a Belgian and speaks fluently English. German, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch and French. Before going to Oak View to dine Thanksgiv ing (lav Mrs. Cleveland directed the sending of flowers from the White House Conservatory to the Central Union Mission and to several churches and charitable institutions. A New Haven paper says a warrant has been issued for the arrest of James Malley, one of the brothel's charged with the murder of Jennie Cramer, for complicity in the case of Maud Davis, at Wyoming, near Wilkesbarre, Pa. Gov. Hill said to a Yale student Thursday night that he would rather lie captain of the Yale foot-ball team than Governor of New York State. And .vet tie is aide to do a good deal of useful and brilliant kicking in his pres ent position. Peter Haldeman Burnett, the first American Govern, r of California, bus lately completed his HOth year. He lives in San Francisco and enjoys capital health. Senor l’io Pico, the last Spanish Governor, is still living In Isis Angeles county. He is nearly 90 years old. Fears that Nina Van Zandt would eventually give way mentally and physically under the strain of her recent bereavement have been al layed. She purchased anew bonnet a few days ago a sure sign that she is returning to a nor mal condition of mind and body. Milwaukee has a howling club of eighteen fair damsels who practice religiously seven times a week and have become strong and robust from the exercise. They are very expert at the game and confidently expect to vanquish any club of gentlemen that may challenge them. Representative Martin, of Texas, who suc ceeds Senator Reagan in the Lower House, blew the gas out in his room at Willard's Hotel, Washington, a few nights ago. He was almost suffocated. It is not often that a newly elected Representative is overcome by gas before Con gress assembles. Whiles dancing party was in progress at Port Huron. Mich., the janitor of the hall mounted a stenladder with a poker in his hand and attempted to adjust an electric light. The poker came in contact with an exposed section of wire and the shock threw him to the floor, injuring him severely. Citizen Georok Francis Train has ipnc opinion of Maine. He delivered three lectures on his way to St. John. His total receipts were sls and his expenses SJO. He had to pawn iiis watch in order to reach St. John because the hotel man in Bangor would not lend him s:>. For this reason Citizen Train writes the epitaph for Maine. The State, he says, is dead. THE POOR ACTOR’S GREAT DAY. Everybody Else'a Thanlrsgfivinsf is His Harvest Time—A Reminiscence. From the New York lYorld. This is the day of days among the less fortu nate members of the theatrical profession. He must, indeed, be an unlucky actor who is out of an engagement on Thanksgiving day. Yester day was the busiest in some time on the Rialto. There was a hurrying to and fro, hasty visits to agents' offices and the usual hurry of members of theatrical troupes about to start out. Quite a number of “Thanksgiving snaps,” as they are technically called, left the city last evening. It is safe to state that there are few towns within a radius of seventy-five miles of the metropolis, making the slightest pretensions to being a show-town, that will not have an entertainment of some kind in its opera house, lyceum or acad emy of music to-day, The "Thanksgiving snap” actor allows nothing to discourage him. His stock of good nature is inexhaustible, as a rule, and the confidence he has in himself and his ability to perform any part In the drama, from “Hamlet” to “Uncle Tom,” is something won derful. He will undertake to play any part in tragedy, comedy, farce, burlesque or comic opera on a half hour's notice. The reporter met one of the most Klistin guished veterans of this class of professionals yesterday, and, after a few words about the weathef, asked him if he had secured an en gagement, “Oh, yes!" he answered cheerily, “engaged for the season." "That’s good. Glad to hear it." “Yes. Engaged for the Thanksgiving season —one matinee and a night.” “Oh!" “Sure thing. We play on a certainty.” “Ear out of towny'' “Two dollars, home and back. Return tickets. Pasteboards in my pocket. There are eight of us in the cotni>any. Of course we double. Com monwealth plan of management. We play ‘Robert Macaire' at the matinee and 'Tim, the Penman’ at night.” “You mean ‘Jim, the Penman," don't you?" “No. ‘Tim, the Penman.’ Another manager has ‘Jim,' and we don’t want to infringe ou his rights. Most of the yieople are up in the parts," he added complacently. “You have played it before, then?” “Of course, last Thanksgiving day in Jersey. Did I never tell you that story of iny last Thanksgiving snap? No. Well, I never think of it that 1 don't have to laugh. We played down in Monmouth county. The owner of the opera house, not the manager, mind you, runs the hotel adjoining the theatre. Our advance man made an arrangement at the hotel for the whole company to get lodged for sls. I.ong before the mat. commenced the landlord of the hotel tackled the treasurer for four seats. The treas urer suggested that he write a letter asking me for the seats. He did so. I indorsed his appli cation. He got the seats. The thing worked so well the landlord tried it on again later in the day several times until he had fifteen tickotsi all choice seats, for the evening performance. In the evening I passed in a few friends for him. Ever*thing passed oft all right. Big houses— i6 t in the afternoon, $lB5 at night. Great enthusiasm. The ‘Penman’ was pro nounced a daisy. We had a pleasant time after the show, and most of the company remained over until next day. In the morning, bright and early, I* was up. So was the landlord. After breakfast I accompanied him to what he was pleased to call his office to settle up our ac count. He presented me with a bill for sl7 60— sls as per agreement and $2 60 for extras. After I studied his bill for a minute I put my hand in my pocket and pulled out my bill against him for fifteen reserved seats at $1 each and six admissions at 50c. each, in ail slB— due me 40c. Well, yon never saw a more astonished jay in all your life. He kicked like a steer, pronounced the bill a swindle, and declared he would not recognize it; but when I produced my vouchers, iu the shape of the re quests for seats in his own handwriting, he ad mitted I had the bulge on him and caved. I never cross over to .Jersey now that I don't think of that 'B6 snap." "NERVE FOODo” FOR WOMEN. How the Bromidia Habit Fixes Itself Upon the Ladies of Boston. Boston Letter to Chicago Tribune. The extent to which the mania for indulgence in so-called “nerve soothing” drugs is spread ing may well excite alarm. An apothecary was asked the other day for a small quantity of some sleep-producing mixture. He handed over an ounce bottle of a brownish solution, which he poured from a huge jar that he took from the topmost shelf. “Harmless, I suppose?” the customer said. “Quite so,” was the reply. “Fifty cents, if you please.” “Do you mind telling me just what the pre scription is?” “Certainly not. I have the formula here in my book”—turning over the leaves rapidly. “We keep it ready made in quantities, because there is such frequent call for it. Yes, I have it now. 'For each fluid drachm fifteen grains bromide of iiotassium, fifteen grains chloral, one-eighth of a grain of hasheesh and one eighth of a grain of henbane.’ ” “But those ingredients are all poisons." “Yes, they are,” admitted the apothecary, re luctantly; “but so long as you don’t take too much of them they are not at all dangerous.” Perhaps not. But this stuff—it is known as “bromidia”—may be purchased by the quart at any chemist’s. Its formula is one of the most valuable with which medical science is acquaint ed. For the treatment of certain nervous affec tions it is unequalled. But, unfortunately, the bromidia habit is as readily acquired as it is dif ficult to relinquish, and, the taste for it once ob tained, its victim soon becomes a hopeless slave. Plenty of such mixtures are exposed with invit ing labels upon every apothecary's counter. Oh, yes; they feed the nerves. Nothing like them to put people to sleep—in the coffin. Plenty of women who are regarded as hopeless invalids by their unsuspecting friends are simply slaves to the nerve food vice. A drowsy, helpless, and progressive laziness is the marked symptom of this highly artificial complaint. “Poor Mrs. Simkinsl” sighs a sympathetic ac quaintance, “she is such a sufferer. Nearly all her time is spent on the sofa, and her nerves are so weak that she has to take no end of medicine to strengthen them.” Asa matter of fact Mrs. Simkins deserves lit tle commiseration. She would enjoy vetty fair health did she not keep herself constantly under the influence of poisons. Take her medicine bottle away and she might be well again. There is a preparation called “avena sativa,” a drop or two of which is an almost certain remedy for nervous headache. It is exceedingly powerful; yet there is a lady in Boston who takes it by the pint. She would die without it, the says, and it is very likely. Women buy hogsheads of such stuff. They even feed it to the babies. His Predicament. fYotit the Somerville Journal. Her witching bonnet trimmed with lace, The sweetness of her upturned face, * Enchant me. Her figure trim, modish, petite, Her slender hands, her dainty feet, They haunt me! I dream of her the long night through, And vow that I will bravely woo And win her. I know she’s good and kind and true— I love her better than I do My dinner. I love her fondly—yet I know I’d never dare to tell her so Or pet her. And while I’m waiting, I'm afraid. Some other chap will court the maid, And get her. Illogical, Maybe, Yet Lovely. From the San Franeisco Report. A woman lumps on a chair, holds her petti coats around her legs and yells like a small cyclone at the sight of a mouse. But she runs up three flights of stairs in a burning building to rescue another woman’s baby. She’s afraid of a book agent in broad daylight, yet pistol in hand follows up a burglar at midnight She cowers when the furniture creaks, and is a lioness if a drunken man assaults the front door. She tells tales out of school, yet is the first to do a kindness to the woman she’s talked about. She steals a car ride with a crystal conscience, If the conductor forgets her fare, and then opens her purse to its widest to help a man out of a tight corner. She haggles at the remnant counter for herself, and then triples tho money on flannels for her washerwoman’s sick boy. Secretary Whitney’s Health. From a Washington Special. Secretary Whitney considers himself to be in “good form’’ just now, and laughingly says that it was more doctors than sickness that occasion ed his temporary absence from the department. The Secretary, however, is evidently somewhat mistaken as to his condition. His face wears an cheerful expression, but there is that about his general appearance which suggests the tired man. He does not move with his old time energy. He walks with a slow, measured tread, as though it were effort. The Secretary has courageously resumed his work, although Com modore Harmony is still signing the mail. “You have remarkably soft bands, Mr. Sea cook ; do you use glycerine?” “No." "I wish ray bands were white like yours: they are so white and small a lady might envy them. What business are you in?” “I am organizing anew labor party. c oln J udae. ITEMS OF INTEREST. An Indian woman, the last of the Humboldt tribe, recently died at Oakland, D. T. “An, rights reserved” now appears on the upper right-hand corner of the English official consular reports. A herd of 1,900 cattle in Indian Territory were so frightened at the approach of a railroad train that they “bunched upon each other,” killing forty-one head. Board was only $1 75 a week and base bal was unknown when Longfellow attended Bow doiti College Under these circumstances a boy could afford to waste some time on poetry.— Boston Globe. lain Foster, of Scottsville, Ky., stole a watch last Friday evening, and before 11 o’clock Saturday morning he had been arrested, in dicted, tried, convicted, sentenced and sent on his way to the penitentiary. A cow in DodgeviUe, Wto., fell to the bottom of an abandoned mining shaft, a distance of fifty feet, A rope, with a lasso attached, was thrown down the shaft and the animal was drawn up by the horns uninjured. The constitution of Rhode Island makes it neeesary to elect anew State government every year. That is the reason why half the people from that little State arc either ex-Governors or ex-occupants of some other State office. Thomas Bedford (colored), who died in Ches ter, Pa., a few days ago, is said to have been 107 years of age. He was born in Havre de Grace, Md., and was a resident of Philadelphia for more than forty years. He remained in posses sion of his faculties until death. The Society of Physicians of Vienna was in high feather when the announcement was made that Dr. Costa-Alvarenga had bequeathed it a legacy of 3.500.000 Portuguese rets. The joy was much modified when it was explained that tho money value of all the millions was about $4,500. Bv the bursting of a water main at New Haven, Conn., last week, a deep sewer excava tion was undermined, and two laborers working there were caught by the falling timbers and jsand. One of the men would probably have teen drowned had not workmen succeeded in tunneling under the debris and drawing off the water. James Wilkins, of Laurel county, Kentuky, became drunk a few days ago, and placing him self on the railroad track he defied an approach ing train, calling out that “he was afraid of nothing in the world.” As the train came up be seized hold of the pilot as if to wrench it off, but was thrown down with great violence and his neck broken. Jim Stanley started out from Heppner, Ore., for the mines on horseback, leadings pack mule loaded with giant pow der. In passing through a forest the mule stumbled against a tree, the powder exploded and the animal was utterly ‘ annihilated. Several trees were torn up by the roots front the force of the explosion, out Jim himself was not injured. Some of the farmers of Michigan are doing their corn husking this fall with a common threshing machine. The concave is low ered and the concern thrown wide open, so to speak, the corn being fed into it stalks and all. The grain comes out shelled, and the stalks are cut into chow der so that cattle will eat them, root and branch, and cry for more. A stranger called at a drug store in Quincy, 111., one evening recently and asked for a mix ture of nitric and carbolic acids in equal quanti ties. Although not a practical chemist, Mr. Oehlman suspected that something was wrong and refused to compound the preparation. He afterwards mixed minute quantities of the acids and narrowly escaped injury from the explosion which followed. Postmaster English, of New Haven, Conn., recently received a letter addressed “to the most beautiful and intelligent lady in New Haven of from 18 to 24 years of age.” Not feeling competent to make the decision Mr. English consulted the pest 111 authorities at Washington and has just been directed to send the epistle to the Dead Letter Office. How little romance there is about a government bureau! The increased attendance at a recent public meeting of the Anarchists’ Club, in Boston, is referred to by one of the newspapers of the “Huh” as showing that anarchy is beginning to have a hold on certain citizens of that metropo lis. “But the class of people who are converted at these meetings,” it adds, “are usually the same ones who have been In the ranks of labor agitations, and are ready now to become An archists if only for the sake of the novelty of the thing.” Mr. Blaine has been having his portrait painted in Paris by the famous artist Healy, who has placed on canvas the faces of a great many modern European celebrities. Some weeks ago Mr. Healy called on Mr. Blaine and asked the Maine statesman to grant him a few sittings. Mr. Blaine consented and the*portrait will soon be finished. Healy says that Mr. Blaine has a nose especially fit ted for caricature, and the most peculiar drooping of the mouth he has ever seen. During midsummer in Northern Alaska, ac cording to an Arctic traveler, the sun shines twenty-two hours out of the twenty-four, and on the high mouutain peaks for a period of sev eral days in June it is not entirely out of sight during the twenty-four hours. In July and August the w eather becomes very warm. After this time the days gradually shorten until the sun shines but four hours out of the twenty four, but at this period the aurora is exceeding ly intense and helps materially in dispelling the darkness. A colored citizen of Xenia, 0., has sued the local School Board for refusing to allow’ his daughter to receive instruction in the Central High School of that city. It is claimed for the Board that it nlone has the right to assign pupils to the different buildings, and that the girl in question passed other school houses and left the High School devoted to colored children, which was nearer her home, and entered the Central High School building without having been as signed to it by any one in authority. The pros ecution admits these facts, but claim that the girl was denied instruction solely on account of color. The explorer Holub, who two years ago, on his wedding day, started with his bride for Cen tral Africa, has returned to Vienna. He says he would have been killed a dozen times in the little-known region north of the Zambosi if his wife had not been with him. The natives had never seen anybody before w’bo w’ore skirts, nor anybody who wore long hair, and they regarded Mrs. Holub as a supernatural being, who had the white man under her sreeial protection. One of the tribes proclaimed her as their queen and begged hard that she remain with them’ The expedition was very unfortunate, but Mrs. Holub sustained all his fatigues and dangers with fortitude, aud returned home in good health. A traveler, who has been visiting Hakodadi, in the Island of Hokaida, Japan, writes home that even there he was not free from the inter rogatories of the newspaper interviewer. “I had not been in Hakodadi over one day,” he says, “before a scholarly gentleman approached me and addressed my interpreter. He had the honor of representing the Hakodadi newspaper he said, and would like to ask me some ques tions. I consented, and he wanted to know my full name, residence, occupation, number of people employed, object in coming to Japan and many other matters connected with iiiy visit and business, all of which with my replies he committed to paper in the most advanced repoi torial style.’’ John Rook, a hod carrier employed on a house in course of erection in Detroit, Mich., while going up the ladder a few days ago accidentally dropped a brick, which descending struck a car penter who happened at the moment to put his head out of a window on the first floor Look ing up and nibbing his head vigorously lie* saw Rook laughing at him, whereupon he started up the ladder. Kook tried to explain that it was an accident, and, becoming frightened when he saw the carpenter getting close to him he jumped out of the second-story window break ing his leg in the fall. An ambulance took him to the Sanitarium, w. ere his leg was set, and then to his home. The neighbors began to he appre hensive when they saw Rook in the ambulance and one of them called to Mrs. Kook who was at a neighbor’s house, that her husband was dead. In her haste to get out of the neighbor’s house she tipped over the stove. She seemed to think it is said, that Boyd, the ambuknce a® tendant, was in some way to blame, and danced around him, shouting and frightening the horse 1 y° u |>K man who was with Boyd was alarmed and took to his heels, leaving the latter to get Uie injured nmn in the home as best he could Boyd came out just in time to see the horse run away and collide with a coupe, throwing off the driver, who had his leg sprained. The upset partim'-m''' SStat< *and tll “ cal'lug out of the flrede- Samuei. Washinoton, of Cincinnati” O is a colored inan who deals in coal in small quanti ties'. His wife, however, employs the wlmie'ale sj stem as regards her babies. 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