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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—Zerubbaße! Lodge No. 15, F. and
A Si.; Stockholm .' Central Railroad and Hank
ing Company of s . orgia.
Special Notices - vis olution, J. Rawls & Cos.;
To All Good livers, H. Logan, City .Market;
Reward, Lindsay A Morgan; Dressed Turkeys,
John Lyons & Cos.
Avction Salk- Brig for Sale, by J. McLaugh
lin & Son.
Lecttok—Od Pope Leo XTII. at the Theatre.
Come in the Morning—L. &B.S.M. H.
Merry Christmas—M. Prager, Proprietor
Savannah Steam Laundry.
Silver Plated Knives, Spoons, Etc.—Lovell
& Lattimore.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Want
ed: Employment Wanted: For Rent; For Sale;
Lost; Photography; Miscellaneous.
By the way, has Gov. Hill, of New York,
ever been heard from on the President’s
message? If not, he should speak right out.
Prize fighting is brutal, but if there must
be prize fighting, it Is some satisfaction
that America is the home of the champion
•lugger.
Speaker Carlisle will deliver an address in
New York this week, and Mr. Blaine will
have another opportunity cf interviewing
himself in the Tribune.
Gov. Foraker and Senators Shernian and
Chandler are contesting tor the champion
ship belt in the matter of stirring up sec
tional strife. Senator Chnndler is now
having his turn, but Foraker still maintains
the lead.
Stories written by children are being pub-
I shed by a good many papers now-a-days.
With the Assistance of their parents,
brothers and sisters, together with the aid
of the blue pencil of the editor, some of the
children manage to write very fair stories.
Representative Adams, of Illinois, wants
to place in the President’s hands a great
responsibility—that of seizing and sending
out of the country every avowed Anarchist,
The object, of the bill is all right, but the
method is objectionable. Besides, there
appears to be plenty of law for getting rid
of too-enthusiastic Anarchists.
Ex-Congre-sm in Lynch, of Mississippi,
a rather smart negro, has a very fertile
imagination. He imagines that Mr. Cleve
land was defeated in 1884, and the Republi
can sheets say he expresses his imaginings
most eloquently. Lynch is the man Blaine,
Foraker & Cos. are looking for. Ho ought
to be hired at once.
Prof. Swing, of Chicago, is coining into
notice as the probable successor of Mr.
Beecher in Plymouth church. Prof. Swing
is said to be independent in his views, and
is now preaching on his own platform from
a creed formulated by himself. Plymouth
seems to have forgotten that Mr. Beecher
bad a brother, Thomas K. Beecher, who has
gained considerable reputation as a preach
er. Why doesn't Plymouth invite him to
fill the vacant pulpitf
One of the things Mr. Joseph ('hatnber
laiu has not been able to comprehend is that
the two great political parties in this coun
try are quarreling over what shall 1* done
with the surplus, while in England the
strife is always to explain away the deficit.
Mr. Chamberlain no doubt agrees with Col.
Frederick Grant in the opinion that a sur
plus is ea ter to handle than a deficit. In
England the handling of a surplus would
be considered a small matter.
Senator Sherman has not a very high
opinion of Florida. He says it is the least
promising of all the Southern States.
Florida’s electoral vote served Mr. Sher
man’s party agood turn in 1876, and be
should not be ungrateful. It is true the
vote was stolen, and Mr. Sherman was
powerfully glad to have his part3 r receive
the stolen goods. Florida should have the
Senator indicted for libel, as well as for
acting as an accessory to a crime.
The Scheme of the Mormons.
In his tilt with Senator Edmunds a day or
two ago ou the question of printing in the
Congressional Record the memorial of the
Constitutional Convention of Utah, Senator
Call, of Florida, is reported to have said
that he understood, from statements which
he regarded as reliable, that not more than
5 per cent, of the peoplo of Utah favored
polygamy. If it bo' true that so small a
portion of the jieople of that Territory up
hold polygamy, it, seems strange that it has
been impossible to suppress it. If one
twentieth of the people are able to continue
an institution to which nineteen-twentieths
object, the bulk of the population of the
Territory must be woefully lacking in in
telligence and force of character. Those
who compose the one-twentieth must have
all the brains and wealth, and their in
fluence must be all-powerful. The truth
probably is that about all the Mormons be
lieve in polygamy. They think that it is a
divine institution, and though they are not
for various reasons polygamists in fact,
they are ready to uphold it. The Mormon
who has only one wife is about as wiling
probably to make sacrifices for polygamy
as the one who lias a dozen.
Monnonism sanctions polygamy and
every believer in Monnonism, therefore, be
lieves in it. If the number of the believers
in it were as small as Senator Call seems to
think, it would have disappeared from
Utah long ago. Notwiths anding the fight
that has been waged against it for many
years, it is as firmly rooted in Utah as it
was a quarter of a century ago.
The Mormons are now making extraor
dinary efforts to have Utah admitted into
the Union. They want to got beyond the
jurisdiction of the Edmunds law. That
law is a thorn in their sides, as it were, and
if it is vigorously enforced, will eventually
put an end to polygamy. The only hope
the Mormons have of saving polygamy is
in getting into the Union, where they will
be free from Congressional interference and
will have charge of their own affairs.
They have adopted a c institution which
is apparently hostile to polygamy, but there
is nothing to prevent them from changing
it as soon as Utah beoomes a State. Their
plan, doubtless, is to get into the Union with !
an anti-polygamy constitution and then t
change their organic law to suit thein
se’ves.
It will lie a serious mistake to admit Utah
until polygamy is dead beyond resurrection.
It has already given the country a vast
amount of trouble, and it would be the
height of folly to give the Mormons the
power to remove all restraints from it and
to encourago its growth.
It is reported that there is now a strong
Mormon lobby at Washington, and. that it
has almost unlimited means at its com
mand. This report may or may not l>e well
founded. It is certain, however, that the
Mormons are malting extraordinary efforts
to have Utah admitted, and that they are
giving a great many pledges to accomplish
that object. There is no party advantage
that could be gained by yielding to their
wish that would be a sufficient compensa
tion for the admission of Utah with power
to perpetuate polygamy.
Checking the Coal Companies.
The coal mine owners say that they want
coal protected mainly for the benefit of the
laborers who dig it. They are in continual
trouble with their laborers, however, be
cause they want to pay them wages far
below what the prices of coal justfly. A
strike has been in progress in the Lehigh
coal region for a long time. The differences
between the coal companies and the miners
are not great, but the companies refuse to
agree to an arbitration because they believe
they can force the miners to come to their
terms.
In the House on Tuesday, a Pennsylvania
member offered a resolution reciting that
the Lehigh coal companies avera about to
import '2.000 Belgian miners, and asking the
Secretary of the Treasury to see that the
law against the importation of contract la
bor was strictly enforced. This does not
look as if the coal companies were so very
deeply interested in the welfare of the coal
miners. The law against the importation
of contract labor was passed to protect
American workingmen, and it was believed
to be a necessary law. Not only coal com
panies, but manufacturers, had begun to
sond to Europe for operatives, because they
could get them a fow cents a day cheaper
than they could American operatives.
It is a mistake to supjose that the high
protective tariff is intended to benefit work
ingmen. It is intended for the benefit of
wealthy corporations and monopolists.
They are the ones who demand it, and they
pay out their money freely for publications
to convince workingmen that it is for their
benefit. These monopolists and rich corpo
rations, however, never mill an opportunity
to reduce the wages of workingmen, and
if the law didn’t prevent them they would
import labor whenever they could save a
few dollars by doing so. American work
ingmen will get their eyes open sufficiently
after awhile to see the iniquities of the pro
tective system.
Maj. Merritt, representing the Grand
Army of the Republic, is in Washington
taking a preliminary view of the field be
fore having introduced another pension bill.
The bill said to have been agreed on by the
Grand Army is to be called the disability
pension bill, and will differ in some respects
from the dependent pension bill. It will
provide a pension of sl:2 a month for parents
of dead or disabled soldiers who have no
sufficient means of support. These Grand
Army patriots profess to be greatly con
cerned for the disabled soldiers and their
families. Probably they are; but they will
not object to making a little political capi
tal for the Republicaus. If the wrong kind
of pension bill comes before Mr. Cleveland
he will be very apt to veto it, and the coun
try will sustain him.
There is a good deal of talk in Washing
ton about vacant houses there. A leading
real estate agent says not less than .1,000 are
now vacant, with slim prospects of renting
them. This is regarded as an exaggeration,
but the number is unusually large, owing to
two causes: First, when the Democrats
came into power a building boom swept
over the city, and a large nuinl>er of avail
able lots were bought for building pur)>oses
and, second, many of the smaller houses in
Washington are said to be owned by gov
ernment employes, who have lost their
j positions since 1884.
Secretary Lamar and ox-Commissioner
Sparks did not speak when they met face
to face the other day. These gentlemen can
afford to be magnanimous and forgive each
other. Mr. Ixnnar is about to be given a
life position on the Supremo bench, and
] Gen. Sparks ia spoken of for high offices in
j his State and for Vice President. Their
t views in future need uot come in conflict.
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1887,
Tariff Reduction More Promising.
It is announced that, leading tariff reform
ers of the House are busily engaged in per
fecting a tariff reduction bill and that the
| Ways and Means Committee will be able to
j report it to the House soon after the holiday
j recess. There ought to be as little delay as
possible in reporting it, since the business
interests of the country are suffering from
tho accumulation of the surplus in the
Treasury. There appears to be a very hope
ful feeling among the tariff reformers.
Doubtless they have good reasons for think
ing that there will be loss trouble in getting
the House to agree upon a tax reduction
measure than was anticipated.
There is considerable doubt whether Mr.
Randall will actively oppose a bill that is
satisfactory to the tariff reformers. The
impression prevails that there is a sort of
tacit understanding between him and
Speaker Carlisle that while he will not
assist in passing a tariff reduction bill, ho
will not seek to defeat it by the obstructive
tactics which he employed to kill the Morri
son and other similar bills. Tho Speaker, it
is understood, had several conferences with
him immediately prior to the convening of
Congress, and the fact that he has ex
pressed his intention of making him
chairman of the second committee
in importance, and has made him a member
of the Committee on Rules, would seem to
indicate that he has reason to expect that
he will show more consideration for the
wishes of his party in tariff matters than be
has heretofore.
Mr. liandall doubtless sees how important
it is to tlie country and the Democratic
I tarty that the revenues shall be reduced,
and he must bo convinced by this time that
there is no probability that his party will
adopt his plan for reducing them. If they
are reduced, therefore, ho and his few fol
lowers must permit the wishes of their party
to prevail. A few weeks probably wdll
show what may be expected from Mr. Ran
dall in this revenue reduction matter.
The Wail of the Anarchists
The telegraphic accounts of the burial,
Sunday, of the executed Chicago Anarchists
in Waldheim cemetery, where the bodies
had leen temporarily interred, are rather
conflicting. In somo of the reports the
scenes are described as having been very
tame. In fact, the burial is spoken of as an
occasion on which a good deal of enjoy
ment was seasoned with a sprinkling of re
gret for the fate of the bomb throwers, and
on which 800 men were gathered together
simply because they had no other place to
go to amuse themselves. Fuller accounts
show the scenes enacted in quite a different
light, omitting all reference to hilarity, and
presenting some occurrences that call for
more serious thought. There were 2,000 or
more people present, nearly every one pro
fessing to be a firm believer in anarchism.
Sullen wrath was depicted in their fares,
and fierce denunciations of the police and
press were heard on every hand. There
was no indication that time was healing
the wounds of those who think the bomb
throwers were "judicially murdered.” The
speeches were of a most incendiary charac
ter. Capt. Black, ex-counsel for the An
archists, made a comparison between Christ
and the dead men, saying that they had
alike sought to bring about a universal
brotherhood by breaking down the barriers
between the people, and had been sent to
the gibbet for their work. Paul Grottkau,
a Wisconsin Anurehist, made an inflamma
tory harangue, in which he exhort and the
crowd to stand firm and be ready to avenge
their comrades’ death, which, he said,
would not be the last in the cause of an
archism, and which were the signal for an
uprising all over the world. The crowd
followed him with loud cheers and cries of
rage, and when he closed by calling on
them to continue the work “so fiendishly
begun by the minions of the law,” 2,000
voices shouted, “We will,” and followed the
shout with groans and curses.
While these demonstrations are cause for
sober reflection, and indicate that anarch
ism is not buried with the five bomb
throwers, there is no cause for apprehension
of trouble. Seditious speeches delivered
over dead men do not amount to much, and
there is a vast difference between making
threats and vows and carrying them into
execution. It is possible that the Anar
chists will content themselves, for some
time to come, with threats, vows and
speeches. The warning they received when
their comrades swung from the gallows was
one that is not likely to be soon forgotten.
Nevada has in Mr. Stewart a United
States Senator who will attend to the duties
of his office. Senator Jones is rarely in the
Senate, and it is fortunate for Nevada that
her other Senator has some conception of
his official obligations. Senator Stewart is
described as a man of talent, and a good
debater. He was in the Senate from Ne
vada a dozen years ago, but dropped out,
aud was re-elected only last year. While
he is a Republican, it is an open secret that
his personal relations with the President are
intimate, and he will probably side with
Mr. Cleveland in the evont of un issue be
tween the Senate and tho administration.
The advertising methods adopted in
Cleveland, 0., by the evangelists, Munhall
and Towner, have not commended them
selves to the approval of the people, who
declare them to be too much like those
which the Salvation Army has made fa
miliar. These enterprising evangelists prob
ably think Cleveland is old-fusaioned in her
religious notions, and the people of Cleve
land very likely think Hi's. Munhall and
Towner are altogether too new-fashioned.
The cause of religion is not benefited to any
great, extent by circus methods of advertis
ing or seasationa! performances that border
on the blasphemous.
Ex-Congressman Nypher. _of Louisiana,
has ciphered out that there will be an in
vasion of protection canvassers in every
doubtful Southern State next year. There
are no Southern States that can be termed
strictly doubtful. The protection can
vassers arc welcome to’oome South,though.
They will be kindly treated, but they won’t
do much for protection.
A Washington scribe writ os to his paper
in Pittsburg that in two months’ time Presi
dent Cleveland’s chances for renomination
will be gone, and the nomination will go
a-begging. The Democratic party contains
a number of men who would fill the Presi
dent's chair honestly and ably, hut Mr.
Cleveland will no doubt continue to give
satisfaction.
The statement is made that thirty-eight
widows of soliliers of the revolution are on
tho pension lists. As the revolutionary
war ended over 100 years ago, aud as the de
ceased husbands of these |tensioners must
have been at least 20 years old when they
were killed, there are evidently thirty
eight very old widows iu the United Status.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Getting at the Reason.
from the Louisville. Courier Journal (Dem.)
It is hardly to be supposed that a Republican
Senate can love a man who has restored 20,000,-
000 acres of laud to the people,
The Grave Yawns for More.
From the New York World (Dem.)
The Chicago agitators proclaim that “no grave
holds anarchy.” But the grave holds the bodies
of (he Anarchists who attempted to put their
theories into practice, and it yawns for any who
may follow their example
Mr. Evarts Nominated.
From the, Brooklyn Fogle I Dem.)
The Fugle nominates Mr. William M. Evarts
to he E. Berry Wall's successor as king of the
dudes. The intellectual quality of his last politi
cal speech is exactly down to the E. Berry
Wall calibre, and the rest is a mere matter of
clothes.
A Gloomy Outlook.
From the Chicago News (Dem.)
A gentleman named Smith is to take Hig
gins’ place as appointment elerk in Washing
ton. He will lay himself liable to the charge of
nepot sin If he puts into office any persons of
the same name as himself. The outlook for Mr.
Smith is gloomy.
Very Likely He Could.
From the Chicago Tribune (Rep.)
‘ The trouble with the finances,” said States
man Lawler to a friend in Washington the other
evening, ' is that, there hasn’t no practical busi
ness men got hold of 'em. If I could get at that
surplus.” he continued, argunientativelv. as he
inspected the label on the liottlc and called for
a little more sugar: "I could make it look mighty
sick before next spring.”
BRIGHT BITS.
The Canadian papers are calling Mr. Cham
berlain a Jonah. He ought, then, to be able to
get ou the inside of the fish question.— Boston
Pont.
Presence or mind is all well enough in some
cases, hut when a man finds himself in danger
of freezing to death he shouldn’t try to keep
too cool. —The Enoch.
Lawyer (in court)—Little boy. do you know
the nature of an oath?
Little Boy—Yes, sir: it's something my pa
uses to put up stovepipes with.— Boston Trans
cript.
In the ihou school of 1900: Principal—Who
was first in war, first in peace, and first ip the
hearts of his countrymen? Chorus bv the en
tire school, standing and with uncovered heads
John Lawrence Sullivan!— Boston Post.
She-Why. where have you been?
He—At the (hie) club.
Sue But surely you didn’t get your hat
smashed in at the club. What club was it?
He—The (hie) policeman's club. —Detroit Free
Press.
K Street Lady to Mrs. Rongwerd -There's a
cold wave coming.
Mrs. Rongwerd—ls that so?
K Street I-ady—Yes; 1 saw the signal flag
flying.
Mrs. Rongwerd—Well, these weather predica
ments of Gen. Greely are really wonderful.—
Critic.
“My sister Clara.” said Bobby to young Sir.
Sissy, "was talking to ma about your leaving so
early last night.”
“Did she say she was sorry, Bobby?” whis
pered young Sissy.
“No: she said she s'posed you went home so
early iiecanse very likely vour mamma wouldn’t
let you carry a night key .'—The Epoch.
“For heaven’s sake, look at the nose of that
man over there."
“Yes. that's Jim Blngley.”
"He must he a terrible soak.”
“He used to be, but he reformed two weeks
ago.”
"Reformed? He's full now.”
“Yes, I know. He signed the pledge two
weeks ago. and he feels so proud and happy
about it that he’s been drank ever since.”—Ne
braska State Journal.
‘ Here you fellows, what you doin' here?”
shrieked a country woman to a'party of railroad
surveyors who were driving stakes on a corner
of her farm.
"We re surveying for a railroad,” replied the
chief engineer of the party.
“What, one o' them steam ingtne things I’ve
beern tell on?”
“Yes. that’s it.”
“Well, you git right off 'n this ground."
“You will be well paid for all damage done to
your land ”
"Pay? There ain't money enough on top o’
this created earth to pay me for bein’ skeered
to death a dozen times a day by a thing like
that. I've heern how them ingiue bilers bust
an’ blow up whoie farms. Now, jest as sure as
you lay that track hyar. I’ll take the cord
from my bedstead an’ lie it over the track an’
trip your blamed old ingine up every time. You
see if I don’t '."-—Tid Bits.
PERSONAL.
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland is reported
to have won both popularity and substantial
success as a school teacher.
Robert Louis Stevenson has lost the hag
gard look his face wore before he left
for the Adirondack®. There is nothing haggard
about his recent literary productions either.
A Sherman enthusiast who attended the con
vention of the Republican Clubs in New York
was asked if he had seen “Elaine.” “No,” be
answered testily, “but I have seen altogether
too much Blaine since I came to New York.’’
Senator McPherson, of New Jersey, gave a
dinner Saturday night at his residence on Ver
mont avenue, Washington, to Messrs. Esmonde
and O’Connor. Among the other guests were
Secretary Whitney. Speaker Carlisle, Senator
Ingalls, Senator Beck, Senator Vance, Senator
Hawley, Senator Kenna, Mr. Randall, Col.
lAtmont. A. W. Lyman, Stilson Hutchins, Mr.
Breckinridge, of Kentucky; Mr. Collins, of
Massachusetts; Mr. MeAdoo and Mr. Springer.
Mas. Cleveland has been doing a good deal of
Christmas shopping of late. It is said that she
has spent niucn time in examining side-saddles
and fishing tackle. It cannot be that she in
tends to present the President w ilh a side saddle.
Mr. Cleveland is not in the habit of straddling
public questions, but he will doubtless straddle
Ills English horse when it reaches Washington.
Perhaps Mrs. Cleveland intends the side saddle
for herself, and the fishing tackle for her hus
band.
E. Berry Wall performed the most sensible
act of his life when he took the vows of matri
mony. “The ex-kiug of the dudes" is naturally
a bright, good-natured young mail, and by no
means the brainless thing he is sometimes said
to be. With a wife to turn his mind from the
nonsense to which he has devoted himself he
may make a useful and clever man. But he is
no longer “king of the dudes.” The real dude
never marries. "It's bad form, don't chew
knowah.”
The famous Philadelphia orator, Daniel
Dougherty, registered Saturday at the Bruns
wick. in New fork. His sort, Charles A. Dough
erty, who registers from Rome, Italy, and who
has just returned front an extended trip abroad,
accompanies him. Mr. Dougherty very serious! y
contemplate-; establishing himself in the prac
tice of law iu New York. The reputation he
made in the trial of boodle Alderman Cleary, in
which tho jury disagreed, is one of the causes
that induces him to that end.
S. 8. Marble. President of the Maine Senate,
who succeeded the late Guv. Bodwell, is an anti-
Blaine Republican. A canvasser for Illaines
book approached Mr. Marble at his home in
Waldeboro some time ago and asked him to
subscribe. "What book did you sav?" asked
Marble. “Blaine's'Tw enty Years of Congress,”’
was the answer “Blaine s ‘Twenty Years of
Congress'bedashed!” exclaimed Mr. Marble.
"I know too much about hint now. Bring me a
book that's good for something aud I'll sub
scribe.”
Congressman Glover, of St. Louis, has at
leugth given the date of his birth to the Con
gressional directory. Hitherto the following
mysterious statement has ams-ared iu his Con
gressional autobiography: Jtorn in St. Louis
>lo.. June tKI, im-5.” This was very unsatisfac
tory to those who wished to know'his age In
writing his biography for the directory of the
Fiftieth Congress, however. Mr. Glover lias
solved the mystery by inserting the date of his
birth in full, namely, “June 2?, IMS.” It is said
in Washington that now that be is married the
St. Louis Congressman does not care how many
people know his age.
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland v.as tho
lady of houor hi a pleasaut theatre party at the
Madison Square, New York last Friday night,
under the escort of Mr. Tracy Robinson, of
Panama, and as the guest of Mrs. E. C. Sled
man Mr Robinson lust been a lifelong friend
of the Stedmans, and is cordially received in
most of New York’s literary coteries He has
special claims to distinction in tho world of
letters us having been for a time editor or that
remarkable journal, the Panama Shir and
Herald, w hich is shut down now periodically by
the tyrannous government of the United states
of Colombia, and is lined $?0tl for each issue
during the proscribed period. Things used to
lie different when Panama was u lndc|Mnde:it
Htate. iustead of being, as now, a province,
paying tribute to Bogota, which is all mil.-s
lrom the sea. Asa poet, man of business,
mend of Payn. the “Arabian Nights" man and
millionaire litterateur, Mr. Tracy Robinson is
an equally desirable companion.
A Matter of Importance.
From Puck.
“Can 1 see your father for a few momenta be
fore I go, Mias Hendricks?” he asked. “I want
to speak to him upon a matter of important*.”
"Certainly, Mr. Sampson,” replied the girl
with a blush.
After Mr. Sampson hod taken his departure
with a happy smile upon his face Miss Hen
dricks found her way to her father's shoulder,
and, stealing one arm about his neck, whis
pered:
"What did he want, papa?”
“He is agent for a patent gas-burner." said
the old man, “and I've agreed to give it a trial.”
A Man of Experience.
Frcil Carruth in the Chicago Tribune.
‘ ‘Did I understand you to say that you had
bad considerable experience with the Indians in
the West?” inquired a man on an Eastern train
of a tall stranger.
“Yes, I suppose I have.”
"What do you consider the outlook for their
civilization ?”
“Poor, very poor. They don’t seem to learn
anything. Why. sir. fluty last week I traded
one of the most intelligent of them an old horse,
blind in both eyes and all clipped up generally,
for tw-o good ponies, and he never knew lit; was
cheated. I can’t understand why it is the Indian
doesn’t improve more.”
“Well, that looks bad for them, sure enough.
I suppose you have a ranch near one of their
reservations?”
"Oh, no. I’m no rancher,” replied (he stranger,
as he threw his leg over the arm of the seat:
"no I’m a missionary. I was sent out by the
William Penn Missionary Society, of liiiladel
phia, and have been laboring among the red
brethren fo- the last twenty years.”
Cost of a “Coming Out’’ Dress.
From Clara Belle's Xew York Letter.
Next to the bridal dress of a young girl her
"coming tint” costume is the crucial test of
task and income. .M i-s Morris' "sweet sim
plicity" of costume wusan example. The foun
dation was a low-necked, do sleeved slip of
what one would call rose white. If yellow white,
be ivory, or cream, then pink white is rose
white. The material w-as corded silk, heavy
and lustrous. About the walking-length skirt
was a box-plaited row of Valenciennes four
inehes deep at $6 a yard. In each plait of the
lace hung pendent an artificial half blown blush
rose, lip one side like a panel went row after
row of lace and buds. Draped over the silk was
a mass of ethereal silk gauze, with satin striDes
in pure white. Opposite the panel, on the right
side was a big pocket arrangement, made of
satin folds interlaced like basket-work, and
springing out of the top was a splendid cluster
of blush roses, half-blown and buds. The girlish
chest of the debutante admitted of the upper
half the corsage being made of overlapping rows
of valencionoes and intermingling buds, and a
hip corset, of satin, laced behind, showing the
slender w aist. There were certainly fifty yards
of lace on the dress and 500 roses. The maUMial
that formed the overdress was SIOO for five
yards, the slip cost SSO, the roses and the ntak
ing were slit>, and so tin- simple rosebud dress
of a miss in her teens, without any jewelry or
display, cost SSOO.
A Nuisance.
From the Somerville, Journal.
Of all the pestilential bores
That make this life a state
Of constant torment most I dread
The man who's always late.
He never keeps his word but lets
His friends anticipate
His coming for a weary while,
The man who's always late.
He says he'll come at half past six,
You wait till long past eight,
And haven’t seen a sigu of him,
The man who's always late.
With stale excuses glibly made,
He tries to palliate
His tardiness, but you don’t lovo
The man who’s always late.
He never cares for others’ p ans.
“Oh, hang them, let them wait!”
He says aloud or to himself.
The man who’s always late.
But some day punishment will fall
Ou him as sure as Kate,
And he'll be sorry that he is
The man who's always late.
When he comes up all out of breath.
To old St. Peter’s gate.
St. Peter 'llaay: “You can't come in,
This time you're much too late.”
An Instructive Tale.
From Tid-Bits.
There were once two Boys named William and
Henry. William was a real Story-book Boy,
and never bought Prize Packages or tied tin
cans to the tales of helpless Qnad-ru-peds, or
in-dul-ged in any other ee-cen-oric-i-ties of this
Nature. Henry, on the eon-tra-ry. was Bold
and Bad. What he was after was Fun, and he
Got it. True, he spelled ne-ces-si-ty without a
”c,” but he was Always the first under the tent
when the Circus came to town.
'l’de two Boys had the Hard Luck to grow to
ad-o-les cent manhood. They en-ter-ed College
t >-g“th-er. Henry soon lecaine a prom i nent
member of the Base Ball Club, and gained great
Pop-u-lar-i-ty. But William did not care a Con
tinen-ta! for Base Ball, and, therefore, re
main-ed in com-par-ative ob-scu-ri-ty, busy-ing
himself with his studies, and planning to be a
Great and Good man. How absurd, was it Not?
Time passed, and William was grad-u-a ted w ith
high honors. Henry was Not, hut he Got there
Just the same.
When they left the College, each found him
self called upon to Choose a pro-fes-sion. Wil
liam de cid ed to become a Lawyer Did Henry
do the same? Not pre-cise-ly. lie was too fly,
to quote from the Classics. He became a “run
ner-in” for the largest and most elegant gam
bling establishment in the West, and is now in
Receipt of a salary of $8.7'50 per annum. Is
William making 38,750 per annum? I guess
Not. He is making about $7 50 per week, and
he wears a cel-lu-loiu collar and a £>is-eour-a-ged
ex-pres-sion of coun-teu-anee.
What is tile Moral of this Little Tale, anyway,
Children? F. M Stearx.
“Extending Books.”
From the Nashville American.
A St. Louis paper tells about the practice of
“extending boots," which means illustrating
or emtiellishing without the aid of some artist,
by placing bet ween the pages of a book pictures
of objects therein described, portraits of the
author and personages mentioned in the text,
and illustrations of subjects referred to. This
may sound simple enough at first reading, but
in reality the task gives a collector a life-work
and may cost a fortune. There are works
originally of 100 pages which have been thus
extended Air 4,000 pages. The collector begins
simply blathering a few pictures illustrating
the salient points of the book in hand
at trifling expense. That does uot sat
isfy him any more than a few stamps
do in the ease of a philaletist. The further
illustration of his book becomes a mania. As
soon as his volume becomes bulky he tears
away the binding and divides it into two or more
voln mes. After that he haunts the book st auds,
looks through every illustrated book or paper
at auction sales, and will buy a set of hooks, if
necessary, to illustrate souie subject in his hook.
An idea of this labor can well be given when it
is stated that one lady has been engaged for six
years illustrating a volume of Byron's works,
and has nearly thirty different portraits of the
poet, and various noted places mentioned iu the
“Childe Harold." No picture, however badly
soiled, escapes her. and she lavs etchings, en
gravings and photog aphs without number.
Autograph letters of persons mentioned in the
book have lx eu obtained, and from a small vol
ume of poems it has become an album of art
and literature.
A Very Quiet Ball.
From a New York Letter.
There was a curious ball Riven in New York
on Wednesday night. Two hundred people
were on the dancing floor, but not a sound was
heard except the music of the band. In almost
every ball room thero is a hum of conversation
that mils of the enjoyment of the dancers as
t hey move about the floor. It is not very loud,
and you rather feel it more than hear it, but at
this ball all was still as death. It was a fancy
dress bail given by the deaf mules, and they
had a grand time, if one may judge from the
way their tlogei-s reeled off what their lips could
not suy. IMs one of tlm queer things aho-it
deafness that those so affected can feel sounds,
and these dancers could "eel the amisic of the
baud, and they could feel it so distinctly that
they were able to dance in jterfeot time to it I
should think that the. sign language would be
rather hard on flirtations. As ail talking
except that expressed by the eyes is
done with the Ungers, it can l>e
re id as easily by a prison sitting across the
room as by the one fo • whom it is intended: hut
I suppose that the flirtatiously inclined have in
vented some means by which they can express
their thoughts out of sight of all but themselves.
Here the ran could play an important part in
flirtation, fori i elieve they make the most of
their signs with one hand, so they could easily
hold a fan and talk from behind it I can im
ogiue nothing but blindness that would be a
greater affliction than to lie (leaf and dumb, and
yet these deaf mutes must lie a happy lot.
f hanks to Dr. Hallaudet, they are not deprived
of the usual social enjoyment* that fall jo the
jot of their more favored brothers and sisters.
The wife of the present Dr. Oallaudot is a deaf
mute, a very handsome and intelligent woman,
by the way. but uonc of her children were born
with her affliction, nor nouo of their children so
far.
ITEM3 OP INTEREST.
That wicked French playwright, Sardou, is
the last impetuous individual to take up the
cudgels and batter the memory of Shakespeare.
Saraou is out in a screed in which lie says that
the w riting of the play “Hamlet” ought not to
be considered a credit to Anyone, because there
are so many absurdities in tt.
About twenty of the richest residents of the
City of Mexico have been fined under the law
forbidding religious ceremonies and observances
in the streets, they having on Monday placed
small altars with lighted candles on the bal
conies of their houses ou the occasion of the
feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
The promoters of the Manchester Ship Canal
are said to have already expended $1,<50.000 in
furthering their schema, and the first sod is yet
to be turned. In the preliminary expense sheet
there is said to be a fee of $30,00i I paid the late
James B. Eads for a professional opinion, prob
ably the largest professional single fee ever
paid to an American engineer.
Griggs Countv, Dakota, contains room
enough to seat the entire population of the
globe In arm-chairs within its limits, allowing
eacli person a space of thirteen square feet.
The county has an area of 720 square miles, or
over 110,000,000,000 square feet, and the world's
population is about 1,500,000.000. The actual
population of the county is 3,000.
A collector of old pottery and similar
curiosities, on a recent trip in Sweden and Nor
way. secured many valuable sjjocimens of
Oriental art. They had lieen brought to the
country by the old Swedish hast India Company
over 100 years ago, and drifted Into the homes
of the peasantry and to other places, where
they had been handed down from one genera
tion to another.
England in October imported 61,041 hundred
weight of beef, of which 59.573 hundredweight
came from the United States. The imports of
mutton in the same month were 78,680 hundred
weight. of which none came from this country,
but 43.831 hundredweight from New Eealand,
and 31.9(11 hundredweight from the Argentine
Republic. Of 116,838 hundredweight of butter,
the United States furnished only 3,077 hundred
weight.
One of Boston's queer characters ts a man
who can’t for the life of him talk correctly, and
who often acts very much as be talks—queerly.
When he talked about the last big yacht race he
spoke of the “Voluntary” and the “Fizzle.” He
left his office the other day. having first put out
thissignt “Been gone ten minutes.” Once, out
gunniug with a friend, he came to a creek. His
friend persuaded him to try and jump it. He
tried, landed squarely in the middle of the
brook, whence he shouted: "You knew I
couldn't do it. I knew I couldn’t do it.”
Walter Long, a Conservative memlier of
Parliament, proposed that a delegation of Lib
erals should go for a forty-eight hours’ trip to
villages in the west of Ireland, and expe rienee
a little of the tyranny of the league. He guar
antee that they would come hack Conserva
tives and coercionists. He was thereupon chal
lenged by .1. W. Phillips to let the Liberals
choose a delegation and make the trip, and if
they came back coereionists the challenger
agreed to bear all the expenses of the journey,
while if they came back home rulers the trip
should be paid for by Mr. Long, M. P. The
challenge was not accepted.
The Prince Regent of Bavaria is reported to
have been recently bitten in the hand by a dog
which was supposed to be mad. Should the
popular fears on the subject be realized the
matter will become somewhat serious for
Bavaria. What with a King wdjo is mad as a
March hare, and who imagines Himself to lie a
bird, flapping his arms in lieu of wings and col
lecting sticks and straws to build a the
one hand, and a Regpnt suffering from hydro
phobia and barking like a dog on the other, the
Cabinet Ministers wilt have still greater dif -
ficiilty in transacting the necessary business of
State with the ruler than during the reign of
mad King Ludwig, or that of his predecessor
who married Lola Montez.
After Gambetta’s death surprise was ex
pressed at the fact that his brain was found to
weigh only 1,100 grammes, while the normal
weight of a man’s brain is 1,400. This seemed
to conflict with the general experience that
great men have abnormally heavy brains. But
Dr. Duval points out that Gambetta’s brain was
not weighed at once, but after it had lost some
of its weight through desiccation. He estimates
that its real weight was 1.341 grammes. Besides,
it must be borne iu mind that anatomists esti
mate intelligence not so much by the absolute
weight of the brain as by the number and ex
tent of the cerebral furrows and convolutions,
which multiply the number of gray cells that
Constitute the centres of intelligence. The part
Of the brain which presides over speech was es
pecially developed in Gambetta's case.
A Russian Jew who had been divorced from
his wife left his home forty years ago and emi
grated to the United States, leaving his two
children with their mother: He settled down in
New York and married there a lady with a little
money, enough to start him In the fishery busi
ness in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. At his
death, four years ago. be left a large fortune to
his second wife and her three chiidreu. His
first wife died two years ago, and her two chil
dren, who were now grown up and married,
emigrated to Canada and settled down, one in
Montreal and the other in Quebec. Hearing a
few days ago of their father's death they insti
tuted an action to recover the fortune left "by
him. alleging that their mother had [lersistently
refused to sign certain papers which were nec
essary to make the divorce valid according to
the Hebrew law.
A careful estimate made by an English
chemist of the contents, or constituents, of a
ton of coal presents some interesting facts not
familiar certainly to unscientific minds. It is
found that. besides gas, a ton of ordinary gas
coal will yield 1,500 pounds of coke, 30 gallons
of ammonia w ater ami 140 pounds of coal tar.
Now, destructive distillation of this amoimt of
coal tar gives about 70 pounds of pitch, 17
pounds of creosote, 14 pounds of heavy oils,
about 9U pounds of naphtha yellow, 6 3-10
pounds of naphthaline, 4% pounds of naphtho],
3.35 pounds of alizarine, 3.4 pounds of solvent
naphtha. 1.5 pounds of phenol. 1.3 pounds of
aurine, 1.1 pounds of aniline, 0.77 pound of tolu
dine, 0.46 pound of authractne ana 0.9 pound of
toluene—from the last named substance being
obtained the new product saccharine, said to be
230 times as sweet as the best cane sugar.
An Enoush undertaker was arraigned in
cohrt for having created an unseemly disturb
ance at a funeral in the chapel in Croydon
Cemetery. The clergyman who was officiating
swore that the undertal:er%:ame into the build
ing and in a loud voice told him that his time
was up. In a short time the undertaker returned,
ana when the clergyman said, “I will conclude
with prayer,” he ejaculated “Well, let it be a
short one, then!”and finally said, "I won t wait
another minute!” and talked of throwing the
minister out. The undertaker's story was that
he was in charge of the funeral that was to fol
low tbeone aliegod to have been interrupted,
and that the clergyman took an unconscionably
long time about his sermon, so that the under
taker’s engagements for the whole day were
being put out. He affirmed that lie had only
courteously insisted that the clergyman was
taking up a great deal more time than lielonged
to him. and was discommoding other persons.
The undertaker was fined, nevertheless.
Some investigations made by German chem
ists, in regard to the injury to fish by sewage
and waste waters, show that the chloride of
lime, in the proportion of 0 4 to 0.005 per cent,
has an immediate deadly action upon toneh,
while trout and salmon perish in presence
of 0.0008 [ier cent, of chlorine. Sulphurous acid
has the same action as chlorine, and is still
more hurtful If another acid is simultaneously
present; sulphites are harmless. Hydrochloric
acid. I percent., kills tench and trout. In sul
phuric acid of 0.1 per cent, trout turned on their
sides in two to six hours, while tench were not
affected in eighteen hours. Tannin at 0.1 per
cent, is harmless: ammonia exerts no action at
0.01 per cent. Poda at 1 per cent, is fatal to
trout on prolonged exposure. Manganese
chloride at 5 per cent, had no action on tench in
twenty four hours, and a trout sustained 1 per
cent, for five hours. Iron acts as a specific
poison upon fishes, but only in the state of a
ferrous salt. Alum has the same injurious ac
tion as the salts of iron; and the solution of
caustic lime has an exceedingly violent action
upon fishes.
Baron Vorwarts has near Stavonhagen. in
Mecklenburg, an estate of about 5,000 acres. It
is chiefly devoted to wheat and beetroot, and is
worked by its owner on a form of co-operation;
and although the times are had, he is still able
to make a good profit on the capital value of
his estate. Ho is his own farmer. He pays very
small wages in money, hut the laborer is pro
vided with a house, a supply of corn, a piece of
grazing land, the means of education, and other
advantages which enable him to live in comfort
'! he Baron is content with per cent, interest as
his own share: and once in ten years lie divides
the remainder of the profits in equitable propor
tions among the peasantry. At tun lost division
which took place iu 1884, as much as SK) to
jaso fell to the share or a single family. This
excellent landlord lives among his people, and
bass,) completely Identified himself with their
well-being flint the peasants do not speak of
tile Baron's wheat or horses,' - but of “our
wheat” and “our horses.” The Baron believes
that so far a* agriculture is concerned he lias
discovered the means of harmonizing the in
terests of capital w ith those of labor.
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Fancy Plush Albums, Autograph and
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Combination Plush Wliiskbroom Holders,
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Imitation Russia leather Glove and
Handkerchief Boxes, satin lined, complete
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Francy Brass Vases $5 98; cheap at $lO.
Antique Brass Umbrella Stands, plain,
ornamental and hand-painted, $> 50 to si>.
Brass Whiskbroom Holders
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Artificial Flowers, with Majolica Pot,
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Combination Screen, Card and Chess
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Papier Mache Collar and Cuff Boxes, set
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