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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS^
Meetings —Chatham Mutual Loan Associa
tion; Hibernian Society.
Special Notice—Tas per Festival.
Homs—Morrison House.
Reduced Rates for the Holidays— S., F. A
W. R’y.
Astonishing—L. &B. S. 51. H.
Auction Sales—Pianos, etc., by I. D. I-a-
Roche's Sous; Valuable Suburban Propeity, by
C. H. Dorsett.
Jugs—A. Enrlich & Bro.
(’HIpKKRING, THE STANDARD OK THE WORLD—
L. A B. S. M. H.
Hats, Shirts and Neckwear- At LaFar's.
Cheap Column Advertisements— Helo Want
ed Employment Wunted; For Rent ; For Sale:
Found; Miscellaneous.
It may be best for the Mexican mission to
go to a Kentuckian. The Mexican drinks
are better suited to Kentuckians than to
Georgians.
Gen. Booth intends sending a detachment
of the Salvation Army to Zululand. The
question is, b ow large a force is he going to
leave here?
The Michigan Congressmen say the por
trait of Mr. Dickinson, which appeared in
Harpers Weekly, is the only one which
resembles the newly-nominated Postmaster
General.
If the manufacturers thought the Presi
dent’s tariff reform talk meant a reduction
of laborers’ wages, they would unvote the
Democratic ticket, and urge their employes
to do likewise.
In his latest interview Mr. Blaine reverts
to cold winters in this country. He says
the coldest day in his experience was Nov.
4, 1884, and he anticipates a return of the
f rigid wave four years from that date.
With the report to-day that he is fast ap
proaching the end, and the report to-morrow
that he is in a fair way to live a long time,
the Crown Prince of Germany must be
kept by his physicians in a state of mental
uncertainty that is not conducive to health.
A dramatic performance in Richmond
this winter, for the benefit of the Confeder
ate Boldiers’ Home, will be managed by
tiov. Lee, and the leading society people
will come before the footlights. The play
will probably be selected by Lawrence
Barrett.
When Senator Chandler offers that reso
lution for the investigation of the Navy
Department it is hoped that he will extend
the investigation back to the days of John
Roach and of Secretary Robeson. He might
as well, for if he doesn’t some Democratic
Senator will be pretty certain to offer an
amendment to that effect.
Cranks do not bother the President as
much as they formerly did. A correspon
dent attributes this to the publication of
their antics, but the cranks are more apt to
be pleased with the notoriety thus afforded.
It must be owing to some other cause.
People uow pass in line and shake the Presi
dent’s hand, but do not go beyond the con
ventional greeting.
The ladies of a church in Philadelphia
at a festival filled a bottle with
beans and offered a prize to the person
guessing nearest the number. The pastor
opposed the scheme as a species of gambling,
nud the differences growing out of it have
resulted in Ills resignation. The church
triumphed, but the pastor can say he would
rather be right than pastor.
Henator Plumb believes that the railroads
are not respecting the law with regard to
passes, and he has introduced an amendment
to the.interstate law which provides a penal
ty of six months imprisonment or SSOO, or
both, for offering a pass to an officer or em
ploye of the government. The same penalty
is imposed upon an officer or employe of the
government for accepting a pass.
The next Democratic candidate for Vice
President will probably come from Indiaua,
as has been the case for some time past.
That State, however, is equal to the demand.
Gov. Gray, Senator Voorhees, Representa
tive Holman, and a host of others, are good
material from which to make a selection,
but it is doubtful if any one can be named
who could equal Mr. Hendricks in captur
ing votes.
“He is an enemy of the Democracy who
now says or does anything to create disturb
ance in the ranks,” says tho New York Sun.
This can be applied to Mr. Kandall. Tho
vast majority of the |>arty favors a reduc
tion of taxes on the necessaries of life. Mr.
Kandali wants the tax taken off the luxu
ries. He is opposing the will of the majority,
and, according to the Sun, is “an enemy of
the Democracy.”
Three of the most powerful factors in the
last Presidential election, so far as New
York was concerned, were the New York
Times, the Evening Post, and Harper's
Weekly. Each advocated Cleveland’s elec
tion, aud had a strong “Mugwump” follow
ing. These papers are as friendly to Mr.
Cleveland now as they were then, and they
give assurance that the Mugwumps will ad
here to him next year.
Mr. George W. Childs, while fully appre
ciating tho honor sought to be thrust upon
him by his friends, positively declines to
have his name used in connection with the
Republican nomination for President. Mr.
• 'Hilda is a great and good man, and his re
fusal to hear any distinct rumblings for
himself when he puts bis ear tA the ground
is another evidence of hi. good judgment.
There are feveral Republicans who ought
to take lessons In politics from Mr. Childs.
The Blair Bill.
Senator Blair, of New Hampshire, is still
j pressing his educational bill upon the atten
* tion of Congress. The bill starts off well
j * his session. The Senate Committee on
| Education has made a unanimous report in
; its favor. There is not much, if any, doubt
j that it will be passed by the Senate. There
, is some doubt, however, aliout its fate in
j the House. Two or three other bills of
I about the same character are pretty certain
| to lie introduced into that branch of Con
j gress. and the efforts in behalf of the dif-
I ferent bills may prevent a vote upon any
| one of them.
It is about eight years since Senator
Blair introduced his bill, and it is doubtful
whether it is more popular with the people
now than it was then. The New H ampshire
Legislature at its last session indorsed it,
which indorsement Senator Blair regards
as an indorsement of himself. He is a man
who seldom lets go of anything ot which he
takes hold, and it is safe to say that he will
urge the bill until it is passed, or as long as
he remains in Congress.
In the South sentiment is probably
rather in favor of it. It was more
popular in the South, however, when
it was first introduced than it is
now. The tendency of it is clearly to
ward centralization, and, as the South is
States rights to the backbone, it is a ques
tion whether on a popular vote it could get
much of a majority.
The South realizes that a large percentage
of its population is illiterate, and that its
educational facilities are not as great as they
ought to be, though they are as great as it
can at present afford. The greater part of
the money provided by the Blair bill would
be distributed in the South. The bill
would make the South richer by
several millions annually, and would
go a long way toward providing better
schools and school houses. As the people of
every county in this and every other South
era State are directly interested in the bill,
would it not be well for them to meet to
gether and discuss it? In that way they
could help their Congressmen to determine
the proper course to pursue with regard to
it. There is much to be said for and against
the bill. It has been explained so often that
the people are acquainted with all of its
leading features.
Some Changes in Maine.
When Mr. Blaine returns to his homo in
Augusta, Me., he will not find that bis pop
ularity has increased in his own State in
his absence. Gov. Bodwell, who died a day
or two ago, was Mr. Blaine’s personal and
political friend. The man who is now
Governor is not an admirer of Mr. Blaine
and will do all he can to defeat liis political
ambition. Occupying, as he does, a very
influential position, he will make it quite
difficult for Mr. Blaine to get a delegation
from that State to the national convention
favorable to himself.
There is another thing in Maino that will
surprise Mr. Blaine on his return home, and
may cause him a little uneasiness. It is
that a good many Republicans of that State
have expressed their approval of the Presi
dent’s message. They find that the high
protective tariff which Mr. Blaine advocates
so earnestly is of no benefit to them. In
deed, they have good reason to think that it
is a positive injury Mr. Blaine’s com
ments on the President’s message elicited no
expressions of approval from them.
They believe that some of the
burdens can be removed from
the necessaries of life with benefit
to the people and to all industrial
interests, and in future they may be ex
pected to be found on the side of tariff re
form. Borne of them are talking of Mr.
Blaine’s eloquent appeal in behalf of the
quid of tobacco as a very fair illustration
of his ideas of statesmanship. In future,
therefore, Maine may not be a source of so
much satisfaction to Mr. Blaine as it has
been in the past.
Gen. Chalmers, the Mississippi an who
made himself conspicuous in politics some
years ago, has again appeared in the politi
cal field. He was originally a Democrat,
but joined the Independent movement, and
then became an avowed Republican, as most
Independent-Democrats do. He is now
posing as the friend of American labor.
Gen. Chalmers has been somewhat unfortu
nate since he left the Democratic party’.
He has managed to affiliate with different
organizations just as they were losing their
grip, so to sjieak, on the voters, and the con
sequence is that he has not been fed from the
public crib as largely as he would wish.
His identification with the Labor Party is
in koeping with his two former moves, ex
cept that he stands less chance than ever of
getting office. The man who quits tho Dem
ocratic party because there are not
enough offices to go around, is pretty apt
to find the same deficiency existing in other
parties.
A Newark man has found a way of
stopping young boys from smoking arsenic
lilled coffin nails, known as cigarettes. Re
turning home one night, he caught his young
hopeful in the act of puffing away at the
villainous compound. He did not take him
in the cellar and lay him across his knee, as
might have been expected, but together they
went to the study, where he solemnly said:
“My son, I you smoking a cigarette I
was very much surprised, not that you
should sm<4ie, but that you should smoke
cigarettes. When I was your age, I was
only half as big as you are now, but I was
man enough to smoke cigars. My little sis
ter smoked cigarettes. Hero is a box of
Havanas which I bought for myself. I
would be proud if you learned their use.”
The youngster was cured, but the plan would
not work every time, and the shingle is still
very handy in most cases.
Mr. Joseph Chamberlain made a short
visit to Baltimore Saturday, and was re
ceived with all the consideration that is due
a distinguished representative of the British
government. His stated that the proposed
grand reception to him on his arrival in
Ottawa has been abandoned. The ostensi
ble reason is that Mr. Chamberlain is too
pronounced in bis opposition to Home Rule,
but the real cause has been tVacecl to a
prejudice against receiving the heavy gold
rimmed spectacles and the two private sec
retaries whom Mr. Chamberlain takes with
him.
Now that Berry Wall is teamed he will,
of course, have to abdicate the throne as
king of dudes, and a lively strife for the
succession may be exjieoted. The leading
candidates are said to be Bobby Hilliard
and Freddy Gebhard. If Mr. Wall has
been as particular in the selection of a wife
as he was in the selection of his clothes, he
has done well in getting married, and it
would be a good idea to leave the throne
vacant. The dude, as a general thing,
doesn’t seem to be a success, and can very
[ w ell be spared.
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1887,
The European War Scare.
There does not appear to be any very
good reason fdr thinking that war on the
continent of Europe is imminent. The
great continental powers are pretty cer
tain to engage in a struggle with each other
in the near future, but the marshaling of
forces may be delayed a year, or several
years. No one of the powers has
any serious complaint to make against
another power, and just at pres
ent there is no cause for war
t hat would be accepted as sufficient by think
ing men. There is, of course, a great deal
of jealousy, and if any one of the powers
felt certain of being able to punish the
power against which it has a grudge, with
out buffering too severely itself, it would
not hesitate to begin war at once. Franco,
for instance, would like to punish Germany,
but it is afraid that it would receive a worse
punishment than it could inflict. It is not
likely, therefore, to attack Germany unless
it has assurances of assistance.
The present war talk grows out of the
war spirit which the continual and exten
sive prejiarations for war provokes. One
power makes a move in one direction, de
fensive rather than offensive in its char
acter, and at once another power, which
thinks it is menaced, takes precautionary
steps for protection. These movements
give rise to sensational speculations which
find their way info the newspapers, and the
impression is created that a great war is
imminent. Doubtless conscienceless specu
lators are largely instrumental ffi starting
sensational reports respecting-*arV They
know that the public mind is in a very ex
cited condition, and that a threatened dis
turbance of the peace of the continent is
certain to affect, the stock market and de
press the prices of stocks. .
Of course if war was not expected the
sensational rumors which get afloat would
do no damage whatever, because the rumors
would not be believed, but the knowledge
that all the powers are ready for war, and
that all of them are strengthening them
selves in every wav they can, makes it pos
sible for every war rumor to cause more or
less excitement. The war talk of the latter
part of last week caused the holders of cer
tain kinds of securities to sell their property
at a sacrifice of many millions of dollars,
and yet it seems to have had no more foun
dation than an article in a Russian news
paper. It is true that it is believed that the
article was inspired by the Russian war
office, but the purpose of it may ha v s been
quite different from what it was interpreted
to be. Doubtless there will be several more
war scares before war is actually begun.
There have been several already. No ono
of the powers is quite ready to make the
sacrifices which a war would render neces
sary.
A Level-Headed Negro.
The American Minister to Liberia, C. H.
J. Taylor, who is in this country on a leave
of absence, is in Savannah, and has arranged
to give the negroes a lecture on Liberia.
He proposes to resign and devote his time
and talents to work among the people of his
race in this country. He is a man of fine
intelligence and good education. He wants
it distinctly understood that he is proud of
his race, and, therefore, very properly
speaks of himself as a negro and not as a
colored man. ,
He is a Democrat, and has been one from
the time he was old enough to cast his first
ballot. He has a good many things to say
to the people of his race, and is prepared to
say them strongly, intelligently and enter
tainingly. He desires to show them that
they are making a mistake in blindly ad
hering to a party that has no interest in
them beyond the votes they have,
ar.d that it is for their interest to
lie in harmony with the people among
whom they live rather than accept the
advice of those they never see and with
whom they never come into contact.
He has also some good advice to give the
people of his race on social questions. Those
of them who have heard him are willing to
adrnit that he has a very level head.
An Interesting: Work.
The “Central South Advertising Medi
ums” is the title of an interesting book just
issued by the Edwin Aldeti Cos. ,the well,
known advertising firm of Cincinnati. It
differs from most publications of its class in
this respect—that in place of being a
ponderous, heavy and unwieldy volume the
outside of which fatigues a person to even
look nt, it confines itself to the four import
ant States of Georgia. Alabama, Missis
sippi, and Tennessee. Any person would bo
deeply interested in reading it. Its pages
fairly bristle with descriptive articles,
pointing out the great extent and prosperity
of the South and the energy of its citizens.
The book is liqerally illustrated, and will
be found from beginning to end to contain
valuable information for all, but particu
larly for advertisers, and we venture to say
that an advertiser having once seen and ex
amined this book will have more satisfac
tion in spending monoy in tho columns of
the several newspapers published in these
States than ever before.
The name of Edwin Alden has been a
familiar one to publishers and advertisers
for twenty years past, and we heartily com
mend to the advertising public both "Cen
tral South Advertising Mediums” and The
Edwin Alden Cos., of Cincinnati.
Henry George denies having said that he
will not be a Presidential candidate on the
Labor ticket next year. The interview, ho
says, was bogus. It makes little difference
w hether it was bogus or not, for the auti-
George-McGlynn-Barnes faction of the Labor
party seems to be getting the upper hand in
its affaire, and in that event Mr. George
could not, if he would, be the Labor candi
date. It is not improbable tliatthe rank and
file of the workingmen will vote the Demo
cratic ticket next year.
Capt. William Kimble, after an absence
of sixteen years, has returned to his family
in New Jersey. He was a sea Captain, and
in his wanderings lost all interest in home
affaire. He recently took a notion to hunt
up his family. At this point the reader, no
doubt, expects Capt. Kemble to be trans
formed into another Enoch Arden, but tho
transformation can’t take place, for tbe
Captain was warmly welcomed by his wife
and family, who had found ifcnard to keep
the wolf from the door.
A Brooklyn man who has voted the full
Republican ticket twenty successive years,
and is able to influence a number of voters,
says he does not know’ a siugle Mugwump
who w’ould vote for Mr. Blaine next year.
It seems more thau likely that the Indepen
dent vote will stand by Mr. Cleveland
again, and it is strange that the Republi
cans should allow themselves to be trupjied
into nominating a man, as they eventually
will lie, who cannot command the united
support of his own party or draw from tho
Democrats.
The Army and Its Courts.
The standing army of the United States
consists of 24,1530 enlisted men and 2,200 offi
cers, and during the year ending last June
there were 11,198 trials by court-martial.
This was a decrease from 1886 of about
1,000, and from 1885 of about 2,000, but tbe
improved record does not, to any very ap
preciable degree, mitigate the fact that one
of the principal occupations of the service
is that of trying offenders. That there is
imperative necessity for these trials is .shown
by the statement that 11,280 of them re
sulted in convictions. Many of them
were of course for trifling offenses, and a
vast majority was heard before garrison
and regimental, or inferior, courts, the
trials by general court martial numbering
only 1,640, a steady falling off for the past
two years. Some offenders were up several
times, but about 6,000 different enlisted men
were tried during the year. These figures,
while they show an improvement by com
pr.rison, are far from presenting a state of
affairs complimentary to the conduct of the
men composing the army, and suggest that
there is something radically wrong in the
laws governing the service. The Acting
Judge Advocate General virtually admits
as much, when he says that he will submit
for the consideration of tbe proper Congres
sional committee the drafts of amendments
to these laws.
The report of this officer also shows that
there is a good deal of dissatisfaction among
the men because similar offenses,tried by dif
ferent courts, met with widely different pun
ishments. In cases which on the record do
not appear materially different, one court
will sentence to imprisonment for five
years, while another will sentence for only
two, and the men complain that a degree of
prejudice is allowed to creep into the trials.
An effort will be made to have punishments
carefully graded, and very evidently some
thing of the kind is needed.
Another recommendation contained in
the report is that regarding pay of officers
who serve on general courts-martial. Com
pensation was provided from the time of
Washington’s administration to July, 1870,
but at that time anew schedule of officers’
pay was arranged, and, though a specific ap
propriation was made, it was held to pro
hibit such allowances, and since then the
detail of an officer from his post to serve on
a court is a tax on the officer, and a consid
erable one when the court sits in a city and
for any length of time. The Judge Advo
cate Genet al recommends that provision be
made for the reasonable compensation of
these officers, and the matter will no doubt
have proper attention.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Something Better Wanted.
From, the New York Herald (Ind.)
Anew invention by which cigars can be kept
fresh! That is well enough, but if someone
will invent a way to keep a large supply on hand
he will satisfy a long felt want.
He Ia Both.
From the Cleveland Plain Deader (Dem.)
Grover Cleveland would rather be right than
be President. James G. Blaine would rather be
President than he right. Ibis is the difference
between a statesman and a politician.
Don’t Omit Ohio.
From the St. Louis Republican (Dem.)
The Republican idea of a campaign on prin
ciples is to shriek free trade in Pennsylvania
and New Jersey and to fight the war over
again in Minnesota, Wisconsin, lowa and Michi
gan.
The Republican Clubs’ Convention.
From the-New York Graphic (Ind.)
There was a little mist occasionally, but
through It could readily be seen the form of the
Plumed Knight all equipped for the fray. It is
well that this is true, because if simplifies the
contest and leaves nothing in doubt. The two
Presidential candidates will be Cleveland and
Blaine. It will be the same fight over again,
with the same results. This convention of Re
publican clubs has fixed the deal.
BRIGHT BIT3.
A small Presidential boom for Gen. Lew
Wallace is being developed in the West. Its
voice has already Ben Hur-d in ludiana.— Ohio
State Journal.
•‘Hello, Brown, have you any new factories
going up at Hellebore this fall;’’
“Yes, our powder factory went up last week.”
—Burlington Free Press.
“Music,” said old Dr. Johnson, “is the least
disagreeable of all noises.”. But then the piano
practicer was not so prevalent in Johnson's day
as she is now.— Pittsburg Chronicle.
Procrastination is the thief of time. The
last time old Cris was seen he was sitting in a
Montreal hotel corridor pitching pennies with
Billy Maloney.— New York Journal.
First Tramp— Run, run Jake!
Second Tramp—Eh? Has that farmer got a
gun?
“No, he’s got a wood pile."— Omaha World.
Mistress ok the House—What is this blotch
on the wall paper, Bridget?
Bridget - That's an ile painting, m‘em. Tbe
stopper Kim out of the can.—Burlington Free
Press.
Everybody knows what a bee-line is. It runs
in a circle around clover patches and finally
makes its way to a hollow tree in the swamp,
where the honey is deposited.— New Or.eans
Picayune.
“How it all comes back to me.” murmured
the poet sadly as with practiced fingers he esti
mated the thickness of the portly package of
MRS. which he had just taken from the post
office. —Exchange.
In New Jersey there has been some illness in
a family, and an inquisitive neighbor asked lit
tle Johnny, the youngest son of the family, who
had been sick, and he answered:
“Oh, it's my brother, that's all.”
“What’s the matter wit b him?”
“Nufflu', only he was just sick.”
“I know; but what ailed him?”
“Oh, ldunno.’\
“What did he have?"
‘‘He had the doctor."— Troy Times.
PERSONAL.
On March 10 next the Prince of Wales and his
wife celebrate their silver wedding.
Mme. Candelaria, of San Antonio, Tex., is
living in extreme poverty at the age of one
hundred. She is the sole adult survivor of the
famous Fort Alamo massacre.
H. Rider Haggard says that, next to the
Bible, Shakes peace's works and those of Cer
vautes and John Bunyan are the Ivst for a
young man just entering upon active life.
Of the thirty-eight widows of Revolutionary
soldiers now on the pension list Nancy A Green,
of Versailles. Ind.. is the youngest. She was
born in 1818. The Revolutionary war ended
in 1788. Assuming that her husband was
twenty-one when be was mustered out, he would
have been fifty-six when his bride was born. If
he ban married her when she was eighteen, lie
would have been a venerable bridegroom of
seventy-four.
Miss Adkle Grant divides the attention of
society with Mrs. Charles Carroll, lately Miss
Susanne Bancroft. The sudden and secret wed
ding of the latter a few weeks before she was to
have been publicly wedded to uuother man lias
l>eeii mure talked about than anything that has
happened In Washington since Cleveland was
inaugurated. Society has apparently settled
down to the belief that blood Inis told again;
that such a sud.ien and surprising change of
mind was, after all. not to be wondered at in the
child of a Freftch woman, even if she was the
grandchild of a New England historian. “Su
saiino is Susanne" is tbe only explanation. So.
dismissing all Ihoughts of the brilliant wedding
it was looking forward to at the Bancrofts,
society turns to look at Min Grant. She has
ouly appeared at one entertainment, a little
party at the British Legation. But she can lm
seen any fair afternoon taking a constitutional
on Connecticut avenue, always attended by her
younger brother. She is a tall, straight, stylish
girl, perfectly dressed, with small, well-cut fea
tures and a cream while complexion. Her ex
pression is composed and her carriage haughty.
She knows all her strong (mints, appreciates her
beauty, money and social prestige at home and
abroad, and propose* to make tbe most of them.
Her mother has taken a house on 1 street, near
Faring-it square, and will entertain a great deal
this Winter.
A PECULIAR POSTMASTER.
The Queer Old Man Discovered by an
Illinois Inspector.
from the Unite/l .$ trite* Mail.
A traveling post office inspector went up into
Scott county a few *1 ivs ago for the purpose of
investigating certain reported crookedness. One
afternoon he reached a small cabin situated
near a lonely road. He stopped, intending to
get a drink of water, and as he drew near the
house was astonished at seeing a signboard
bearing the follow ing inscription: •'Poostofts.
An old fellow w.th a grizzly beard and a hairy
chest—displayed, as his shirt was unbuttoned—
came out and, merely nodding to the inspector,
sat down on a stump.
“How are you?" said the inspector.
“Tol'ble.”
“Have vou any fresh water handy?”
“Plenty uv it down tbar in the branch. One
uv the boys shot my bucket all tef pieces, an’
sence then 1 hafter go ter ther branch w'en I
wanter drink.”
Just then a man mounted on a mule, rode
up and asked: "Mr. Plummer, got any letters
forme?”
"Yes. thar's one here, Bill Patterson, but you
kaiu't get it. Go on away frum here, or I’ll
make you trash you hadn’t come.”
"Wush you would give it ter me.”
"Yes. aiid ther nigger wusbed that ther coon
would come down outer ther tree, but ho didn't
come ”
‘Say, Mr. Plummer—”
"Shut tour mouth an' say nothin’, an’
ntor'n that, you’d better mosey away frum
here.”
The man rode away, and the inspector, ad
dressing the postmaster, asked:
• Why didn t you give that man his letter?"
“Kase he worked agin me when I run for Jes
tice uv the Peace.”
“Yes, but the government doesn’t care any
thing for that."
“Reckon not, but I do.”
"But you were appointed to serve the people.”
"Yas, an’ I sarve 'em, too—sarve some uv
them like old Nick.”
“My friend, I am a traveling post office In
spector and—”
All right, then, travel.”
"If I report you to the Post Office Depart
ment. which I shall be very apt to do, you'll
travel.”
"Reckon not. This establishment b'longster
me an’nobody’s got a right ter tell me ter git
out." -
"How long have you had this office?”
“Ever sense I built it.”
“I mean, how long have you been postmaster?”
“ Bout a year, 1 reckon.”
At this juncture an old fellow, cautiously
picking his way among the bushes, approached
the postmaster, who upon seeing him sprang to
his teet and exclaimed:
"Whut in thunder do you want here, Abe
Smith?”
“Pome after that paper.”
"Didn’t I tell yer that yer kain't git it?”
“Y es, but I Towed that yer rnout change yer
mind.”
"Wall. I hain't, ’When yer refused ter lend
me yer slide ari’ hosw t’other week I told yer
that yer couldn’t git nothin’ else outen this
office.”
I'm ergoin’ to git that paper. ’
“Not lessen yer a better man than I be.”
“An' that's aboflk what I think.”
"Wall, help yerse’f.”
With agility surprising for such old men, they
grappled each other and began a desperate
struggle. Abe Smith succeeded in throwing the
postmaster.
“Now," said Smith, as he began to phoke old
Plummer, “goin’ ter let me have that paper?”
A gurgled "Yes” came from the postmaster’s
throat. Smith released his hold and suffered
Plummer to get up.
"Wall,” said tne Postmaster, as he stood
brushing fragments of leaves and bark from
his beard, “I reckon I wuz sorter mistaken in
yer. I didn't know that yer wuz such a nice
man. Come in, Abe, an’ git yer paper, fur yer
have earned it like a white man ”
"Ain’t that a letter fur me, too?”
"Yas.”
"Wall, I want It.”
‘ Kain’t git it, Abie. Yer fit fur ther paper an’
not fur ther letter.”
“Got ter have it, Plummer.”
“Not lessen yer whip me ergain.”
"B l'eve I ken do it.
"All right, Abie.”
They went at it again, pranced around,
striking at each other. Finally Plummer struck
Abe a heavy blow and felled him: then, seating
himself on the prostrate man, he said;
’ Don't want ther letter, do yer, Abie?”
“Reckon not, Plummer.”
"All right: come erhead an’ git yer paper.”
When Abe had gone the Postmaster turned to
to the inspector and said:
•Want anything outen me?”
“No, I believe not.”
“Kf yer bad er letter here an’ I didn't want
yer ter have It yer wouldn’t argy ther pHnt.
would yer?”
"I don't think that I would.”
"Don’t want no truck with me?”
‘None.”
“Wall, then, good-by. Got ter go in now an’
make up ther mail.”
The Two Spirits.
From the Boston Globs .
I know a little girl, her name
Is—well, that doesn’t matter:
Her hair is—pshaw! if 1 would tell
That much you'd know er very wel
But in her eyes two spirits dwell
I see them looking at her.
She likes to—there I go again;
You'd have it all compactly
If 1 go on to tell how she
Asks things which puzzle her—and me|
It won’t he long before you see
Just w ho she is, exactly.
But these two spirits in her eyes,
I’ll speak of them securely;
For every little girl I know,
With glances shadow’ed or aglow.
These spirits wain will ever show.
Which tell their fancies, surely.
This little girl sometimes has not
Had everything she wanted,
Then on her lips there comes a pout
That puts their sweetness all to rout.
And from her eyes a glance peeps out
By sullen spir.t haunted.
But O! when she starts into play.
My romance-making powers,
And I delight her childish mind.
Then peeping from her eyes I find
A spirit beautiful, combined
Of sunshine, birds and flowei'S.
And in her frolic moods or sad.
In tears or laughing ga.vly;
In hours of happiness or pain.
In sunny smile, m tearful rain,
I ever see these spirits twain,
A conflict waging daily.
When one avails the other yields,
Retreats as it advances;
But bless each bright or dismal mood,
I wouldn't change her if I could,
For I am sure I see the good
More often in her glances.
A Lady in a Wheelbarrow.
From the Harrisburg Telegraph.
The Catholic church of St. Paul, in Phila
delphia, on Christian street, above Ninth, is a
very large parish, and •. over some
years ago by Father Si a deceased.
Now, the good father, wb. aider-heart ed
man as ever lived, was very n. in his man
ner and usually < ailed things uy their right
names. It was his invariable custom, when ad
dressing the female portion of his congrega
tion, to speak of them as ‘‘women.” Some of
them went to Hi -top Wood, who is also dead,
but who at that time was the Bishop of Phila
delphia, and complained that Father Sheridan
always called them ' women” when he spoke to
or or them. Some time afterwards Father
Sheridan paid the Bishop a visit, and the Bishop
took occasion tp mention the matter of the
“ladies” having called on him, saving to the
good father that it would lie as well for him to
humor them in the matter, at the same time re
minding him tiiat a little politeness eost noth
ing. and so on. Some weeks after this Father
Sheridan called on the Bishop again on some
parochial business, ml when customary greets
ingx had passed, suid the Bishop:
“Well, Father Sheridan, how are the people
of your parish: how are the good ladies getting
on
"Some of them are getting on very well,”
said the father, “for I saw a policeman wheel
ing one of them to the station house in a wheel
harrow when I was on my way up here.”
Fortunate Clerks.
I-'rom New York Sun.
Senator Stanford, of California, the new chair
man of the Committee on Public Buildings and
( iro nds, to-day appointed his own secretary as
cleyk of the committee, in place of Butler Ms
hone, son of Senaior Mnhone, of Virginia, who
has :ieid t lie place for two years, and who, it is
understood, was a candidate for reappointment.
Senator Stanford and Gen. Mahoue are warm
friends personally, and it was thought that his
son would lie allowed to remain on the Senate
roll. Stanford's secretary, who was formerly a
newspaper correspondent in Wasnington now
draws i he entire salary of the Senator i $5,000)
in addition to the $H per day during the ses
sion allowed for the committee clerk. Sena
tor Stoekbridge is the only other Senator who
turns over his entire salary to his secretary.
Stoekbridge is worth #2, 000.000, and thinks his
secretary is entitled to all he can get, so he
allows him ids Senatorial salary, and also that
which he draws as Clerk of the Committee on
Fisheries.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Silver is reported to have been found on a
farm in West Rutland, Vt.
The citizens of Cisco are preparing to or
ganize an exposition for Northwest Texas.
A Boston railway company has drawn the
line on the dog. and will no longer permit it to
ride on any but their open cars.
It is stated that not a single oil refinery now
remains on the Atlantic coast that is not directly
or indirectly controlled by the Standard Oil
monopoly.
The biggest tree in California—and it is a
monster, indeed—is the "Keystone State,” in
the Calaveras Grove. It is 325 feet high, and
45 feet in circumference.
Treasure searchers are at work on tl e
Orange county (N. Y.) Poorbouse farm digging
fur several thousand dollars in specie which they
claim were buried in the ground almost half a
century ago.
The Mexicans have recently introduced anew
wrinkle in bull fighting, which is to dot the
arena witli electric lights. It is said that the
brilliant lights make the tamest bull wild with
rage and terror.
Christmas presents are being sent this year
in large numbers by foreigners in this country
to friends and relatives on the other side. One
firm alone in New York estimates it will trans
mit in Christmas gifts almost §500,000.
Three petrified toads were found in a bucket
in the cellar of the Cumberland Valley Railroad
station at Chambersburg, Pa., recently. The
bucket was placed in the cellar last summer,
when the toads are supposed to have hopped
into it.
Some would-be jokers of Birmingham, Migh.,
overloaded a gun and gave it to a boy to shoot.
He pulled the trigger and the gun burst, and the
lad received fatal injuries. The jokers (led, and
he lay bleeding for several horns before assist
ance came.
A manufacturer in New York State is en
gaged in drafting a design for a car to be made
entirely of wood pulp. It will be light, cheap,
and indestructible by Are or collision. If it
should be thrown off the track it would simply
bound into the air aud settle down into its place.
The raid on deer forests on the island of
Lewis, Scotland, was made by 2,(XX) cotters,
headed by pipers. The killing of the deer
may have been excusable, but there was no
warrant for terrifying the poor animals with
bagpipes first. Mr. Bergh ought, to go to Scot-
An attempt to apply the civil service reform
idea to the city government was made in Chi
cago on Monday night by the Board of Aider
men. It failed by two votes. Letters favoring
the proposed move were read from a number of
the largest mercantile and manufacturing Arms
in Chicago.
Edwin D. Hilton, a Paterson machinist, has
completed a silk loom which occupies less space
than a typewriter and weaves silk handker
chiefs of pretty pattern, four inches square. A
child can operate it. Silk manufacturers of
Paterson say it is the smallest working loom
ever made.
Philadelphia, next to New York, receives
more fruit from across the ocean than any other
port. When the regular season begins two or
three steamers arrive every week, each contain
ing from 20 000 to 30,000 boxes of oranges and
lemons, making an average of 60,000 boxes of
fruit received weekly.
It is announced that paper bottles are to be
manufactured on a very extensive scale; their
weight is less than those of glass or stoneware,
and they are less liable to breakage; paper be
ing also an excellent non-conductor, fluids
stored in air-tight paper bottles will withstand
a more intense degree of heat or cold than when
put ia ordinary bottles.
Dr. O. P. Forbush, a Montpelier. Vt., den
tist, had a narrow escape from death by the
bursting, on Monday, of his vulcanizer, at a
pressure of 316 pounds to the square inch. The
brass cap struck the ceiling, and glancing,
passed within two inches of his head, and
through a window behind him. The apparatus
itself wa6 twisted out of shape and the oil stove
benShth was blown to fragments.
A monkey exhibited in a museum at Taeubava.
in Mexico, was condemned to be shot, under ju
dicial sentence. It seems that the animal bit a
man, who died from the results of the bite. The
family of the deceased brought complaint be
fore a Judge, who was foolish enough to insti
tute criminal proceedings against the monkey,
and sentenced him to be shot. Luckily the
manager of the museum brought influence to
bear and suceeeded in obtaining a change of
tne sentence to perpetual imprisonment. The
monkey is now enduring the punishment of hi*
crime behind the bars of an iron cage at the
museum.
The fastest voyage on record between Eng
land and Australia has just been accomplished
by the huge steamer Ormuz, of the Orient
line. She left Suez Oct. 27, and arrived at King
George's sound eighteen days later. Nov. 14, and
landed the mails and passengers in t he unprece
dented time of twenty-four days from London.
Throughout the voyage, from the bead of the
Red Sea to the extreme southwestern corner of
the Australian continent, the vessel traveled at
an average speed of more, than eighteen miles
an hour—a rate considerably in advance of
anything yet accomplished on the voyage to
Australia.
Two bad sons of Farmer Peck, who lives on
the Upper Hornet creek, Idaho, went hunting
on a recent Sunday. They found a bear cub and
shot it. Then they came upon a full grown cin
namon bear, and tired at aud missed it. The
bear started for the boys, and the oldest, aged
16, stood his ground, and. with a second shot,
broke brain’s leg. The animal didn’t stop. The
boy clubbed his gun and tried to strike the bear,
who knocked the gun from his hands and caught
his arm in his mouth. Then the younger boy,
aged i2, rati up, and, putting his gun to the
bear's head, blew out his brains and saved his
brother's life.
It has often been asked how long it would
take to refill the Lake of Geneva (Lake Lemau)
if it wpre emptied. The lake covers an area of
577,860,000 square metres (223 square miles). Its
greatest depth is 312 meters (nearly 1,021 feet),
and its average depth may t herefore, be assumed
to be 150 meters (nearly 490 feet). In accord
ance with this supposition the lake contains 9)
milliards of cubic metres (close upon 20.000 md
lairds of gallons) of water. The average inflow
from the Rhone per second is 2? cubic metres
(5,943 gallons.) or 2,332,800 cubic metres (513,425,-
972 gallons) in twenty four hours. To fill the
basin of the liiUp, therefore, the Rhone would
require 106 years.
Shortly before the forenoon service began in
Stoekbridge Free church, Edinburgh. Canada,
on Sunday, Nov. 13, a young man named James
Fairbairu came quietly in at the church door,
and as soon as he baa got inside he rushed with
outstretched arms along the passage and up
into the pulpit. Coming to the I ront. he cried
out ia a loud voice: “I am Elijah, the prophet.”
This caused much commotion among those of
the congregation already assembled. Several at
tempts were made to remove the intruder, and
at length force had to be used. It seems Fair
bairn is liable to meutal derangement. His
family is connected with the church.
Miss G back Dodos, who has been a member
of the New York Board of Education for the
last year, made her first speech before that
august body a few days ago. The occasion was
the appointment of a certain teacher as princi
pal of a grammar school. There were two can
didates, and Miss Dodge did not hesitate to say
t hat one who was highly commended was not
fitted for the position. Miss Dodge had visited
her school and found that she was devoid of
discipline, and did not command the respect of
her pupils. The other she did not know, but as
her record was excellent she felt const raim-cUn
vote for her. AU this was said in the fewest
words possible, and Miss Dodge's earnest disin
terestedness carried conviction with it.
In answer to the offer of the government of
Now South Wales to give a prize of $125,000 to
the discoverer ot a means of killing the rabbits
that are now devastating that colony, M.
Eastern- has written a letter which is highly sug
gestive. Hitherto mineral poison has been em
ployed to destroy the animals, tint they increase
wit,ii such frightful rapidity that poison has
proved an Insuffloi nt means ol' meeting the
plague. M. Pasteur says that what is wanted is
a poison endowed, like the animal themselves
with hie- and multiplying with similar rapidity,
lie thinks that an attempt should be made to
introduce a disease among the rabbits which
w-onld become an epidemic, and adds
that what is known as hen choleia,
which lias been carefully studied in his
la Moratory, might serve the purpose. This
disease does not attack four-footed domestic
am nals, and as fowls do not live in the op*n
country, there would be no great risk of do
stroyhig them. But if the rabbits in New South
"ales could become contaminated, as they
easily could be. through the tainting of food,
they would spread the disease themselves, anil
in tins way insure, in a Huort spaoe of time, par
tial. if not complete relief front the living
plague. If the complaint Is sufficiently serious
to warrant the government of luc colony ~i
ottering the large reward, it would seem to jus
tify the authorities in running the risk Involved
m inis prupeaeu uieUivU of extermination.
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