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4 Ckgperningllcfos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. THURSDAY, DECKMBEH 11. 1887. Registered at the Fast Office in Savannah. The Morning News is published every day in the year, and is served to subscribers in the city, fcv newsdealers and carriers, on their own ac count, at 25 cents a week, ft 00 a month, $5 00 for six months and $lO 00 for one year. The Morning News, by mail, one month. $1 00: throe months, $2 50; six mouths, $5 00; one year. $lO 00. The Morning News, hy matt, si* times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, %2 00; six months, $4 00 one year. $s 00. The Morning News, Tri-Weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Friday*, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three mouths, $1 25; slx months. $2 50; one year. $5 00, Tli* Sunday News, by mail t one year. $2 00. The Wekki.y News, by mail, one year. $1 25. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, cheek or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. 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None but competent carriers will be employed, and every attention will be given to make the delivery satisfactory to the readeiv. of the Morning News in whatever part of the City they may fcside. The terms for the Daily, delivered every day, in any part of the City, are as follows: For one week 2Se For two weeks 50c For one month $ 1 00 For three months 2 50 For six months 5 00 For twelve months 10 00 All subscriptions payable in advance, and no paper will be delivered beyond the time paid for. Special attention will be given to Weekly mid Monthly Subscriptions, and subscribers can make arrangements, if they desire, to pay subscriptions at their resi dences. avoiding the inconvenience of call ing at the Business Office. 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. BAKING POWDER. _ WEIGHT^ jj?PR!CE^ CBESH Its superior excellence proven fn mfPTons of homes for more than a quarter of a century. It iv "Bed bv the United States Government. In terned by the heads of the Great Universities aa be Strongest, Purest and most Healthful. Dr. Tice's the only Baking Powder that does not ontain Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Sold only in ans. PRICE BAKING TOWDER CO. VFW YORK. CHICAGO. ST. Lm-TS. A. R. ALTM.VYER CO. A. R. Altmayer k Cos. Misses’ $2 Kid aod Pebble Goat Spring Heel Shoes Si 50 Ibis week at ALTMAYEITS. ALTMAYER’S! Gents’ Finest French Calf Hand- Sewed Shoes $5 this week at ALT MAYER’S. 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We would especially call your attention to our extensive line of Gentlemen s Toilet Slippers, our Misses’ and Children’s Spring Heel Shoes, our Boys’ and Youths’ School and Dress Shoes, and our Ladies’ and Gen tlemen’s Dress and Walking Boots. 25c. to $2 saved on every pair Shoes purchased of us. Mail orders receive careful and prompt attention. Store Open This Week Until 8 P. M. __ CHIMNEYS. Thisis theTopoftheGENUiNj Pearl Top Lamp Chimney. All others, similar are imitation Insist upon the Exact*Label FDR Sue Everywhere. Made chlv by GEO. A, MACBETH & CO., Pittsburgh, Pa MEDICAL. Tutt’s Pills To pnrge flic bowels does not ninh them regular but ten vent them In flr J condition Hum before. TllO 111 cr f the the scat ol trouble, anti THE REMEDY must act on it. Tntt** Liver PiHM'J ilirerlly on lliat oi'iCKiie canning air® flow or bile, without which, the els are aluuj constipated. Price, Sold Everywhere. 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