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MONDAY, DECEMBER 31. 1889.
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS^
Meetings—DeKalb Lodge No. 9, I. O. O. F.;
Calanthe Lodge No. 28, K. P. ; Savannah Rifle
Association.
Special Notices— Annual Election for Direc
tors of Augusta and Savannah Railroad; As to
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est Coupons on Bonds of First Volunteer Regi
ment of Georgia.
Steamship Schedule—Ocean Steamship Com
pany.
Amusements— Running, Trotting and Foot
Races at Thunderbolt; Grand Concert by the
Rutgers College Glee Club Quartette.
Auction Sale—Clothing, Furniture, Grocer
ies, etc., by C. H. Dorsett.
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MOO US.
liWi-r ! ■
The south made a splendid industrial
record in 1888, and there seems to be :.o
reason why she should not make one still
better in 1889.
If Gen. Harrison is coming to Georgia for
a cabinet member, he might do worse than
to select Gen. Liongstrest, who, no doubt,
would make a successful and conservative
member.
Congressman Timothy Campbell, of New
York, thinks President Cleveland would
Bnd it profitable to enter into a law partner
ship with him after March 4, but the Presi
dent is understood to be not enthusiastic
over the suggestion.
The Cleveland Leader went to the trouble
of announcing, yesterday, “on tbs highest
authority,” that ex-President Hayes would
not be a member of Gen. Harrison’s cabinet.
That was not news. Vsry few people be
lieved Gen. Harrison would make a selec
tion so notoriously bad.
Mr. Blaine has been appointed by the
governor of Maine as a commissioner from
that state to attend the centennial celebra
tion of Washington’s inauguration, but it is
probable that be will attend as a represent
ative of the Harrison cabinet, rather than
as a commissioner from Maine.
New York’s latest sensation is a rumor
that Postmaster Pearson has resignod.
This is not the ilrst time the rumor has lieeu
circulated. Heretofore, after it had been
thoroughly discussed, Mr. Pearson was
found to be attending to bis duties just as'
usual, a dto know last than any one else
shout his alleged resignation.
Geu. Hearer, who will have charge of
the procession at the inauguration of Gen
Harrison, has intimated that Im* will invite
•x-onufadaratss to a place in the ltna Gen
Mahons grata that 5, you ei-confederate.
" l 4 * l '* l tn line, hut it hi doubtful if that
Mituber of uld In meurw). Of ouurw, lieu.
and Gen. 'd shout* refer to es-oon
*V4st wlm bars Uaha* ln *uhUcaea.
Alaska Profitable.
When Alaska was purchased from Russia
by the United States it was thought by
many that the money paid for it was wasted.
The price paid was $7,500,000. Verry little
was known'about Alaska at that time, and
not a great deal is known know. Enough
is known, however, to justify the statement
that the United States got a bargain.
The Alaska seal fisheries are very profit
able. Up to the present time the United
States has received trom them directly
about $7,000,000, and indirectly about
$3,000,000 more. They are the most val
uable seal fisheries in the world, and if
properly guarded they will continue to bs
profitable for many years.
Alaska is also nch in minerals of one kind
and another, and portions of it are well
adapted to agriculture and stock raising.
The gold mines which have been opened are
yielding well, and the prospect is that
within a comparatively few years Alaska
will have a large mining population.
Alaska was purchased for diplomatic
reasons. There was not much thought at
the time of its seal fisheries and mineral
resources. It is turning out, however, to
be a very valuable possession, and in time
much greater attention will be given to its
development.
The Opium Habit.
A prominent Chicago physician says the
opium habit is increasing at an alarming
rate in that city. He describes a state of
affairs which'!* really appalling, but there*
is no reason to believe that he has over
drawn the picture. That would be some
what difficult to do.
What is true of Chicago In this respect is
true probably of nearly every other Ameri
can city of any size. Opium, one of the
most valuable of medicines when used
properly, has become one of the most
general and effectual means of destroying
human life, and it is a question whether it
does not accomplish more harm than good.
If a list of its victims in any county in
Georgia, or any other stato, were to be
made public, people would be amazed at its
length, and they would find in it the names
of persons whom they had not suspected of
being addicted to the opium habit. Drug
gists and physicians understand better than
others what a strong foothold the drug has
obtained, and bow rapidly its improper use
is increasing.
Its victims are chiefly women, for the
reason that men largely use other stimu
lants. Frequently the opium habit is con
tracted in illness, when the necessities of
the case seem to demand that a narcotic be
administered to alleviate pain. Generally,
however, it is contracted deliberately. In
either instance the victim is an object of
pity.
The suffering and misery wrought by
opium is hardly less than that wrought by
whisky. Thousands of homes all over the
country have been wrecked by it.
In this state, as in others, there are pri
vate institutions where victims of the habit
may be treated, but a commission ap
pointed by the legislature of 1886, recom
mended recently that a public institution
be built and equipped at some healthy point
outside of any city, where unfortunate peo
ple who have contracted the whisky and
opium habits could receive treatment. The
recommendation is in the interest of happy
homes, and it should be very carefully
considered by the present legislature. The
commission stated that the necessary build
ing could be erected and equipped for $50,-
000, and that probably it would be self-sup
porting.
Somethin? New in Cotton.
Mr. C, A. Alexander, of Washington
county, Georgia, is the discoverer of anew
variety of cotton, which the Financial
Chronicle thinks may prove to be of great
advantage to cotton growers. The dis
covery was made quite by accident, and in
this respect, at least, it is not unlike numer
ous great discoveries. One day Mr. Alex
ander was inspecting a field of cotton on
his farm, when he noticed a single stalk,
the leaves of which possessed a peculiarity,
in that, instead of being solid, as those of
the well-known varieties of the plant, they
were’ divided into what may be termed
partitions. In their full growth they were
five-fingered. Mr. Alexander was suffi
ciently impressed with the peculiarity to
save up and plant the seeds during three or
four seasons, and now his observation and
experience have convinced him that the
variety possesses very superior qualities, all
owing to the unusual formation of the
leaves.
The advantages claimed for it are that
the leaves admit the air and sunlight quite
freely, thus giving tbe plaut a healthier
and more rapid growth, and causes t e bolls
to open earlier; that the increased air and
sunlight prevent mildew and rot; aud, what
will interest farmers of some sections more
than anything else, that the plant thus
fur has not been attacked by caterpil
lars. The exemption may not continue,
but it is contended, and there appears to be
some ground for the claim, that tbe cater
pillar can not thrive when exposed to sun
light and air. It is known that
the caterpillar’s eggs are deposited
on the underside of the cotton leaves,where
they are affonded shelter, and that shade
and dampness promote the propagation of
the pests. If the shade and dampness are
wanting in a considerable degree, it does
not seom too much to assert that the cater
pillars will be at least scarce.
Mr. Alexander ought to subject his cot
ton to a thorough test, so as to ascertain
whether or u>t it is proof against cater
pillars. If it should be fouud)to possess
this merit, in nddition to its others, it would
be the variety for which many cotton
growers have been wishing a long time.
The New York Trihunt states at this late
day that Chairman Bc.' uum aud Senator
Gorman never sympathized with Col.
Brice’s management of the democratic
campaign. It represents Mr. Uarnutn as
having said to a friend a day or two before
the election: “If I am found dead on
Wednesday morning, and Cleveland is de
tested, for heaven's sake don’t think that I
died of grief." Why didn’t the Tribune
manufacture that during tbe onnipaign'
It would have boen much more effective.
It appears that Senator Carr, a labor
man, bolds tbe balance of power in the
West Virginia legislature, and the republi
cans boast openly that they will be able to
“persuade” him to vote for their candidate
for United States Senator. Mr. Carr, how
ever, is represented as saying that be can
not be bought, aud that he will vote for
Senator Kudos, unless a bettor man is pre
sented, and that tut would not vote for Mr.
Goff under any circumstance*.
Titers Is no mors danger of contracting
yellow {jtver in Florida now than tlmre la
of contracting It In New York. I M the
w.utur travel to Florid* begin i* earnest.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. DECEMBER 31, 1888.
. The Primary System.
It is quite a common thing for the repub
lican organs to talk about the alleged in
timidation practiced by southern democrats,
organs might put their space
to better ule by ex jiosing and checking the
frauds practiced by northern republicans;
but it was hardly to lie expected that they
would find fault with the primary system
for nominating candidates which has been
adopted in many counties in Georgia. A
Macon correspondent of the New York
Tribune says: “Of these primary elections
it can only be said that a more copious
fountain of all the intrigue, fraud and cor
ruption that can pervade a popular elec
tion was never yet opened up. Being held
altogether outside of the law, neither the
candidates and their supporters, nor the
voters at tnem, are under any of its sanc
tions nor restrained by any of its penalties.
And yet these mock elections are the ones
that invariably fix the candidates and de
cide the contest. The regular elections
which follow are tame affairs compared
with them.”
The correspondent would be utterly un
able to show wherein intrigue, fraud and
corruption entered into the primaries as
conducted in Georgia, and doubtless it was
for that reason that he did not make the
attempt. The system was adopted because
it commended itself to the people as being
the best. It is democratic, because it gives
to every democratic voter the chance of ex
pressing his preference of candidates. It is
more satisfactory than the mass meeting,
for the same reason, and for the additional
reason that it does away with packed con
ventions. It is a convenient method, as it
does not require that voters in many in
stances ride a considerable distance and
lose a considerable tisie to vote. The
voting places are almost at their doors.
The voting is conducted openly, and
doubtless honestly. In primaries for nomi
nating legislative candidates, for instance,
the polls are opened at very nearly every
voting precinct in the county, and all demo
crats who would be qualified to vote at the
election are given timely notice of the
primary. The votes at each precinct are
counted and sent to the county seat, where
they are consolidated by the county demo
cratic executive committee, and where the
candidate found to have received the
highest number of votes is declared the
party nominee. Almost uniformly the
result is satisfactory.
Probably the Tribune's correspondent is
displeased with the system because it ad
mits of the least possible disaffection among
democrats.
The Search for Tascott.
The search for William B. Tascott, the
supposed murderer of Millionaire Soell, of
Chicago, has been kept up for ten months.
Descriptive circulars have been sent to
every postoffico in the United States, and
have been translated into every European
language and scattered over the civilized
world; nearly $16,000 have been spent in
printing and postage; a reward of $35,000.
which lately was increased to $50,000, has
been offered for the murderer’s arrest, de
tectives and other officers of the law all
over this country and others have been on
the lookout for him; and yet his hiding
place remains unknown.
The reward for his capture is the greatest
known to have been offered for any crim
inal, and perhaps never before was such
general search made for any man.
Is Tascott dead? Mrs. Snell, her son-in
law, Mr. Stone, and Inspector Bonfleld say
he isn’t, but some of the best detectives in
the country believe he Is. He is known to
have remained in Chicago several days
after having committed the murder, and
then he was tracked to St. Paul. Subse
quently the dead body of a man, said to
resemble Tascott, was found a short dis
tance from St. Paul, and it is supposed by
some that the murderer, despairing of
escape, committed suicide. A Chicago de
tective, who accepts this theory, says Tas
cott was the sort of man to make way with
himself; that the murder was the first he
had committed, and that he was half crazed
by it, and put an end to his troubles in the
way indicated.
Another theory is that Tascott is alive
and well, and that he is in Chicago. Such a
thing is not imp >ssible. It would seem that
his best chance of escape was to disguise
himself and to remain in some city of
800,000 or 1,000,000 inhabitants.
Tasoott’s case is an extraordinary one.
If he is dead, it is very surprising that his
body was never identified, and if he is
alive, it is equally surprising that he has
not been captured.
The American girl has been the subject
of much recent discussion by the English
press, owing.no doubt, to the fact that a
number of Englishmen havo preferred
American to English women for wives. The
criticism has net been uncomplimentary to
the American girl. The London [Telegraph,
for instance, said the other day: /‘lf in the
future the slender American belle is hidden
behind the ampler beauty of the English
matron, we may still hear from her lips the
w.t and shrewdness, the acute accent, the
intelligent questions, and the rapid repartee
that proclaim her original nationality.” The
American girls are all right. What is
needed is for England and other foreign
countries to furnish better husbands for
them than they have been furnishing for
some time.
It has begun to spread at last, the desire
among women to become expert whistlers.
When Mrs. Shaw became a professional
whistler, it was feared that something of
this sort would result. The girls controlled
their ambition for quite a while, however,
but now Miss Blanche Weber, of Kaiisas
City, has announced that she will emulate
Mrs. Shaw, and a small army of imitators
may be expected to follow. Probably
Private Secretary Halford would become
wealthy much more rapidly if he would
give up his job under Gen. Harrison, and
would establish a whistling school for girls.
Col. Logan H. Roots, an Arkansas repub
lican, and a delegate to the recent immigra
tion convention in Montgomery, thinks im
migration will settle the southern question.
Perhaps Col. Root< idea is that iu time im
migrants will turn the southern *tata over
to the republicans. If so, he will find him
self mistaken. They will give the south in
creased representation, and that will help
the democrats. All the immigrants are not
republicans, and a good many who nro re-
I iiMlcaiui when they come south nre very
likely to lie converted into very good demo
crats before many years.
New York has a “big four," and so has
Texas. The big four of Texas is composed
Df Henator Coke and Representative* Kll
gore, Culberson and Abbott, each ut whom
is over six feet high and whose aggregate
weight is about 1,000 pouuds. New York
| uau bat dly beat that.
CURRENT COMMENT.
A Hint for Harrison.
From the St. Louie Post-Dispatch (Dem.)
If Gen. Harrison will avoid reading the Chi
cago platform of his party, we venture to as
sure him that he will make his task easier and
the result better.
You Admit It, Do You?
From the Philadelphia Press (Rep.)
The White Cap outrages in Ohio have not en
tirely ceased, Gov. Foraker’s proclamation to
the contrary notwithstanding. Asa matter of
fact it will be found that a sheriff’s posse is
much more effective than an executive procla
mation in suppressing the lawless night-riders.
Wood Pavements and the Fever.
From the Memphis Avalanche (Dem.)
The efforts of scientists to drag the yellow
fever nidus from Its lair in the human system
have not yet shown that it originates in wood
pavements. There is no end of reports about
kidneys, tissues and bacilli, but so far not a
word as to the “absorbent” cedar block.
An Inspiring Letter.
From the New York Times (Ind.)
President Cleveland’s letter, read at tile tariff
reform banquet in Boston, shows that he is no
wise cast down by the result of the election.
His confidence iu the speedy triumph of the
cause of tariff reform is unshaken, because he
has faith in the intelligence of the people and
the possibility of freeing it from darkness and
delusion.
BRIGHT BITS.
Never mind the young man who says he
moves in the best society. He may be obliged
to move as soon as he gets in.—Acte Orleans
Picayune.
In the Tailor’s Shop.—“l am looking for a
fashionable overcoat ”
“All right, sir. Will you have it too short or
too long?” —Fliegende Blatter.
“You are a highwayman.” exclaimed an irate
citizen to a short coal dealer.
“Oh, no I’m not, ” was the pleasant reply,
“I’m a low-weign man.”— Washington Post.
A Protest.—Little Boston girl (as the hair
brush is reached for) —Mamina, the consecutive
ness and the prevalency of these interminable
castigations are slowly sapping my very life.—
Time.
She—What have you there. George?
He—Oh, it’s the new adjustable engagement
ring—fits any finger. I have found it a neat
thing, I assure you. Will you try it on.—Ritr
lington Free Press.
Miss Dk Pert (unfeelingly)—This is, perhaps,
the first refusal you have received, Mr. De
Tom?
Mr. De T. (sarcastically)—And, perhaps, the
first you have ever given. Miss Mauve. - Toum
Topics.
A Family Trait.—Bloodgood—You never
knew my cousin, did you?
Jarvis—No.
Bloodgood—Well, he was a tough one!
Bloodgood (meditatively)—Yes. I should
infer so.— Burlington Free Press.
“There’s a fine looking man over there.
What’s his business?”
“Kerning a periodical store."
“Statiouer, eh?”
“No; clothing. He bursts up and reopens
periodically. ’’ — Terre Haute Gazette.
The rector (who has spun out a long bless
ing)—Consolation is hard to express sometimes.
Johnny (who is hungry)—l know where to
look for it.
Gratidma—Where, my dear?
Johnny (promptly)—ln the soup.—Time.
Proud father (showing off his boy before
company)—Mv son, which would you rather be,
Shakespeare or Edison?
Little son (after meditation) —I’d rather be
Edison.
Yes. Why?
’Cause he ain't dead. —New York Weekly.
He was lying in front of the store door when
the merchant came out, and, stirring him up
with the toe of his boot, said:
“Are you drunk?”
“You bet.”
“Then you move off from here."
“Are you drunk?” queried the inebriate.
“No, I am sober.” was the indignant re
sponse.
“Then you can move-off here a (hie) sight
easier than I can.”— Texas Siftings.
An Inconsistency in Rank.—“ Please don’t
forget, my boy, that you are to be a future
general in the army of the United States of
America,” said an old officer to his son during
a West Point call.
“I’ll try not to, father,” was the reply. “By
the way, who was that old gentleman you spoke
to on the parade this afternoon ?”
‘•Oh’that was Second Lieutenant Hoggsby.
retired. He graduate 1 a class ahead of me, l
believe.” And the boy began to think.— Time.
An Interesting Controversy.—Bobby—They
were talking about you last night, Mr. Feath
erly.
Mr. Featherly—ls that so, Bobby?
Bobby—Yes; about your being homely enough
to stop a clock.
Mr. Featherly (anxiously)—Who said I was,
Bobby?
Bobby—Ma.
Mr. Featherly (much relieved)—Oh, your ma!
And what did your sister Clara say ?
Bobby—She didn't think so.
Mr. Featherly—Bless her—h’m—er—did she
think I was handsome?
Bobby (hesitatingly)—Well— er—n —no; she
said she didn’t think you could stop a clock, but
she thought you might make it lose time very
fast.— Harper's Bazar.
PERSON Alb
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria is called
"the Man of Steel” by his subjects.
No man living to-day has had so many pleas
ant death notices as Henry M. Stanley.
The fund for Matthew Arnold is now
$400,000, enough for a comfortable annuity.
Sarah Bernhardt’s earnings in Constantino
ple are South American in size. She is having
enormous success there.
Montoomkry James, a cosmopolitan of En
glish parentage, is living in Philadelphia, He
accompanied Henry M. Stanley on his third ex
pedition to tue Congo country in 1883. Mr.
James believes that Stanley is dead. James
was a captain in tbe ilnglish Royal cavalry
and did service during the Zulu war. He was
Intimately acquainted with Prince Louis Napo
leon ami says that that unlucky young’man was
as mad as a March hare. He assert* "that the
prince was even Ignoraut of the command to
which he belonged, and ilia only thought was of
glory. He expected to be Emperor of France.
The death of Miss Lucinda Washburn, a
wealthy and aged lady ot Sacramento. Cal., re
calls tbe fact that Miss Wash burn wan among the
persons selected by Troy Dye end his gang to
murder. Troy Dye was public administrator of
Sacramento, and he thought he could Kill cer
tain rich men and women who liad no relatives,
administer upon their estates and jincket tin
proceeds. Tue gang started business by mur
deriDg an old farmer named Tullis, for which
crime Troy and others were lutnged. On the
trial it was shown that the gang had a large
number of rich spinsters and bachelors on its
black list.
Mgr. lc Comte Antoine Pierre de Poleozic
Pohoski is the name of a distinguished priest
and linguist who is the guest of the Catholic
clergy in Waterbury, Conn., for a few days.
The reverend gentleman speaks several lan
guages fluently, but knows scarcely a word of
English. He comes from Rome on a special
mission directed by Pope Leo’s vicar at the
propaganda, the object of which is to look after
the spiritual welfare ot the Russian, Polish,
Italian and Hungarian children of the church
in this country whose ignorance of the English
language is a serious drawback. Mgr le Comte
l’oboski wears a beard and his clerical garb is
purple.
Mayor Eitler of Philadelphia has refused to
allow the Amateur Athletic Union of the United
State* to hold an exhibition at the Quaker City
Academy of Music. The mayor takes this step
because he has a prejudice arain-d sparring. He
claims that no line can lie drawn between aina
teur and professional boxing. He does not ob
ject to w restling, but cousiders sparring brutal,
as blood ia sometimes drawn. This is what may
he called the aesthetic opinion of athletics. A
Mian whose nose is rap|>ed by a padded glove
presents a more shocking signt to an audience
I turn a wrestler whose arm is broken by a fall.
There is a good deal of nonaeaso about Mayor
Euler's position in this matter.
The Princess or Wages preserves her good
looks in a most astonishing way, considering
the fact that she is 41 years old. Despite ihi so
years in the shaded light of an opera box i r
when anayed In full court dress la lolUd which
she wears with mlnillo grace), she does not look
a day over 3d. It seems miposaihle dial li e
lovely lady can Is- the mother of her two tell
sons, to say nothing of the two plain girls. 1 i r
eldest daughters, with whom the Is seen n
Imlillc. Ilereldest son, Prtno* Albert Victor,
looks S good deni like her. but it is a re-cli -
blam-e of usrtua' ure Hta onuiileiiaiioe re pro
ducat that of his m idler, with an added elemtnt
of heaviness and stupidity. Only., ns of lie
three sisp-r* iatiretty an t ibsl is the y. uiiget i,
the Princess Maud Tue r-al lesiity of Ilia
family Ithe eacuiid sou, i rime m-orge, who *
a fresh-Ooltild** lone ]. blond beaided jruui g
fellow, a tyMcal Kngitah youth, full of gayety
aud epiGhiWtts. hit (akin* worn slier ha
father t lauiiiy thou slier his hssutiful leethei.
Not a Criterion.
From the Chicago Tribune.
Visitor (deferentially)—Twenty thousand of
vou voted at the late election, it is said, and yet
it was one of the quietest ever held in the city.
That surely affords an indication that the
American woman can safely be trusted with the
ballot.
boston Lady (majestically)—T must protest,
sir. against the assunsption 'that any doubt has
ever existed concerning the fitness of Boston
women for voting.
Visitor (humbly)—Of course. What I meant
to say was that their acknowledged capacity for
the exercise of the right of suffrage shows that
the American woman in general
Boston Lady (still more majestically)—Sir, I
must protest against the women of Boston
being confounded with American women in
general 1
Visitor (hopelessly crushed) —Yes’m.
Broken Hearts.
John Ernest McCann in New York Mercury.
There are broken hearts in the world to-day,
Though smiling faces hide them;
They pass and repast on the old highway.
With stifled grief beside them
The wan, white face of the woman who knows
That she must wander apart
From the soul where not even pity glows,
With a proud but broken heart.
There are broken hearts in the world to-day.
Beneath warm furs and laces;
Bluak December gnaws at those hearts, though
May
Smiles in the dauntless faces.
The resolute eye of the man we see
By day in the busy mart;
Looks down in the nightlthrough his soul,and he
Looks into a broken heart.
There are broken hearts in the world to-day.
For all the cynic's laughter;
The warm hearts that were red and growing
„ tf r *r.
Hope fled and youth went after.
But the sun comes up and the world goes round
And all of us play our parts,
But oyer as well as under the ground
There are dead and broken hearts.
At a Boston Dinner Party.
Boston letter to the New Orleans Picayune.
There were two children in the family, a girl
and a boy of 10 and 11 years respectively. Very
naturally they were not given seats at the table,
but they were present none the less. The
cherults stood at either end of the festive board
throughout the long repast, the boy leaning
upon his mother’s shoulder and the girl reclining
gracefully upon that of her father. The atti
tude of each was studied—evidently the result
of drill—and at intervals they joined in the
general conversation, somewhat as follows:
The hostess would introduce the discussion of
Browning's poetry, and after each one of the
guests had expressed an opinion, favorable or
otherwise, concerning that gentleman's verses,
she would refer the matter laughingly to her
“little daughter,” and the latter, being primed
with an appropriate speech beforehand, would
spring the same with charming naivete upon
the assembled company. Of course the infan
tile bon mot would elicit applause, whereat the
artless ingenue would hide a modest blush upoc
tier papa’s bosom. Next came the boy’s turn
to utter au impromptu witticism—received with
such expressions as “Doocid clever, by Jove!”
etc., etc.—and so on until the ladies took their
departure, when the kindergarten was retired
to the nursery and the men, with a sigh of re
lief, betook themselves to their cigars.
“The Hidden Hand.”
From the St. Louis Republic.
The last time Oov. Curtin was in Washington
he amused the Mississippian exceedingly by re
lating a peculiar experience that an actor named
Thorne once had at .Memphis, Tenn. This man
named Tiiornc, it seems, was from Decatur, in
the Keystone State, and was related to the well
known actor of the same name who used to
play in tue “Black Flag.” Thorne belonged to
a company that was playing "The Hidden
Hard at one-night stands principally. He had
given instructions to have Memphis billed
heavily. Wren he got off the train at Memphis
he was extremely anxious to And out how well
his play had been advertised there. The first
-man ..e approached near the depot was an old
negro, ot whom he inquired, “Do you live
here?”
“Yes, salt,” responded the old negro, “I bin
livin' here since ’fo’ de wah.”
"Have you heard anything of the play, ’The
Hidden Hand?’ ”
“ Well, I guess I has. I was dar when it was
played. 1 seen it played. ”
This was indeed news to Thorne, for he
imagined that his play had never been given in
Memphis. He then asked the negro who played
it.
“I foegit de name uv de gemman,” answered
the negro, ‘‘but dey called him de ‘nash’nal
man.’ 1 waited on de gemman, but I din’t hab
nuthin’ to do wid de game. I seed de ‘nash’nal
man’ slip two jacks in his boot, an’ etter while,
when dar was a big jack pot up, de ’nash’nai
man’ drawed fo’ jacks; en our Mr. Brown, what
iibs here in Memphis, he drawed a 6 shooter
and de ’nash’nal man’ he ief’; but, fo’ de Lawd.
stranger, a hid ban’ ain’t biu played in Memphis
sence dat night.”
He Felt Bad.
From the Arkansaw Traveler.
An old no (fro stood near the roadside, leaning
in a deeply thoughtful manner, against a tree.
A white man, whose attention wa attracted by
the old fellow's sorrowing appearance, stopped
and inquired the cause or his seeming trouble.
“Er klamity has fell on de ole man’s house
hol', sab.”
"I am very sorry. I ”
‘‘Yes, sab, so’s 1.”
‘‘Wife dead';”
“No, sah.”
“S >n"‘
“No.”
“Daughter, then, I suppose?”
"No, sah. Dog a dead.”
“What! is that such a calamity?”
The old negro gazed lialf-contemptuously at
the white man. “You dldu' know dat animal
like I did, sab. Ho wasalmos’ de s’port o’ my
fam’ly, sah. Wheneber dar wuz any hog meat
hangin' ’roun’ in de neighborhood he knowed
whar it wuz an’ he'd go an’ git it. Ketch
chickens, he would, too. Hadenter bin fur him
i couldenter preached ter deze yere niggers fur
ha’f price. Had sense, dat dog did. He neber
'sturbed ligious wussmp by barkin’. W’enhe'd
come home wider j’int o’ meat lie’ tuck outen
somebody's smoke house be wouldn't rush right
in ef we wuz holdin' pra'rs, but would wait till
we got through. He saved me er mighty heap
o’ trouble, sah, he did.”
“What was the matter with him when be
died?"
"Nothin’ de matter wid him den. sah, ’cept
dat he wuz dead. It wuz ’fo’ he died dat
suthiu' ailed him. Trainin’ scounul olieryeie
in de bottoms pizoned him. Come put some
stricknine on er ham an' put It in de smoke
house right in dat dog’s way. Well, sah,de dog
loun' de meat an' tuck It in his mouf an’ come
on home wid it, but time he got dar hewn/,
powerful sick, an’ ez l sorter ’spected smilin' 1
didn’ eat de meat. W'y. sah, dat man mouter
pizoned my whole fam’ly, actin’ daler way.
bar oughter beer law in dis yere neighborhood
agin er mau projickln' dat way.”
Rachel.
From the Detroit Free Press.
A sleepy land, shut in by purple hills. A
white road creeps down the valley, crosses the
river at the brawling ford and winds on—out
into the world again.
She was born here and yet ft seems no one
ever remembered that she was young. She was
only Rachel, with her gentle, care-worn face,
her busy bands and quiet ways.
Years before she had sat in a pew of the old
church and the gray haired pastor had preached
the Resurrection and the Life. And at the
grave of her mother she had taken up her life
burden.
There were many little ones in the humble
household; she did what her hands found to do,
and kept the home together. She had her
dreams, but her own heart yearnings had whis
pered—wait.
But the years went by, and somebody grew
tired of waiting. “He’ll come back someday,”
she said, but her eyes were misty, and the turn
in I tie road from w hich she hud waved farewell
was blurred through bur tears.
The children grew up about her. So many
little mouths to feed, so many little garment*
to mend, so many little cares to weigh her down.
But "sister” never complained.
When 1 knew her first there were crows' feet
about her eyes and sud lines around the piti
fully patient mouth. In her coming and going
I grew to waluh for tne frail, womanly little
figure, with her patient, wistful face; but there
came a day when I missed her.
"Net sick,” she told them, “only tired—so
tired.”
“Not sick,” repeated the children. Death
might smite other uouscholds themselves, even
—hut it seouied at if "sister" must be always
there.
But there came a day when the windows of
the little cottage were darkened aud a hush
termed fallen upon the village. The weujr
heart was done with lie throbbing and aching—
the tired feet had strayed Into a restful beaten.
As they h'.issi over the died sister luotln r
they wondered that there should be grsy npt n
tier templet., and t seemed In llioso deep' in and
lines in her meagre face that death nau tgi and
her a dozen years
t ii,tidied Aud Ilia toll worn hands which led
gi aiH*d only the til "ins of iifs, lay clasping s
whit* rots. > initios! for “Hsgi vsUi hisbeiosi and
Ann now wiiiis Herman savant has dlscovsnd
that plants can think Onions, tor instance,
certainly ha vs solus sesuu,- tern JJtuti Aa
yrm. j
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
During the months of September and October
the number of immigrants coming from England
and Scotland was nearly three times as large as
the number from Ireland.
Accordi.no to the gossip of the bar, the Par
nell Commission costs precisely three guineas
a minute. This calculation includes the whole
expenditure of all the parties concerned, the
state included.
A large number of Austrian kreutzers are
being circulated in Chicago. They closely re
semble cents, but are less in value. The pro
jectors of the scheme are making quite a good
sum off their venture.
A Maine historian says that in old times the
fine ladies of Eastport, then a very gay, flour
ishing town, used to acquire beautiful complex
ions by sleeping with their heads out of the
windows in foggy weather,
A Montreal man is astonished. He writes to
the papers that his wife, while pouring out the
milk the other morning, poured out a small
minnow, which jumped about in a lively man
ner, as if in its native element.
Lawrence Leaver of New Bemville, Union
county, Pennsylvania, fell through the ice
while skating and his life was saved by his dog,
which crept carefully to the edge of the ice and
dragged Leaver to the surface.
It is a curious thing in New York local politics
that undertakers have been singularly success
ful in that line within the last few years. With
in the last three years six undertakers have
been elected aldermen in New York city.
J. R. Bass, now in New York, Is known as the
“ossified man.” He is 58 years of age, blind,
and a living skeleton, weighing but 70 pounds.
His limbs are so ossified that he is perfectly
helpless, and all his body seems to be slowly
turning to bone.
Edward Bolduc of Darby, Pa., bought a bull
pup ten days ago, and neither throats nor coax
ing will induce it to eat or drink. It never
sleeps. Despite its fast it maintains its cheer
ful demeanor and loses no flesh. Crowds are
viewing the animal.
A young man of Cleburne, Tex., went behind
the target in a shooting gallery in that town and
put his mouth to the bull’s-eye. A man was
just in the act of shooting, and as he could not
seethe young man. he blazed away and struck
the center, the ball entering his mouth, knock
ing out several teeth and cutting au ugly and
dangerous wound.
Official Massachusetts statistics just out
show that last year 401 pairs of twins and six
sets of triplets were born in that justly famous
commonwealth. The total number of plural
births is one less than that recorded in 1886,
and, with the exception of that year, the largest
since the state began to keep vital statistics.
Within the year, seventeen persons died at the
age of 100 or more. The age of the oldest was
Hi.
According to a parliamentary paper, there
were in England and Wales during the three
years 1885-87, 442,736 convictions for drunken
ness or offenses arising therefrom, and of these
40,384 offences were committed on Sunday. In
the Metropolitan Police District the number of
convictions fell from 10,758 in 1885 to 14,886 in
1887 (and this was in spite of a rise to 18.578 in
the intervening year), while Sunday convictions
fell from 1,389 to 1,217 in the same interval.
A Nova Scotia paper gives an account of
Malcolm McMillan of Catolone, C. 8., who is
said to be 101 years of age. All his senses are
Hood, and a few months ago he cut and sewed a
pair of mill-cloth trousers for himself. Last
autumn he mowed hay on the same field with
his son, his grandson and his great-grandson,
and his day’s work, it is said, was equal to any
of them. He has never lost a tooth and does
not know what a headache or a toothache is.
A number of German citizens of Covington
have purchased an immense tract of laud in
Eastern Kentucky, containing a small town,
saw and grist mills, coal mines, salt works,
natural gas and a large varioty of timber, and
are paying for it on the building association
lilan. Their company is to be known as the
Beehive Land Association. The intention is to
colonize the property, incorporate the town,
and offer free land, timber ana gas to manufact
urers.
The slot device for ensnaring pennies, nick
els, quarters and dimes, originated in England,
and was imported to t’is country by the ever
enterprising Erastus Wiman, who, it is said,
owns the American rights of the invention. Tae
patent is au extremely broad one, covering
every possible application of the principle in
volved, The new automatic opera glass at
tachment in theaters puts a royalty in Mr.
Wiman * capacious pocket, just as the weigh
ing machines, lung testers and so forth do.
A peddler who put up for the night at Ma
quoketa, la,, was so frightened at the threats
and boisterous talk of some men who were
stopping at the same house that, he fled in his
stocking feet, hatless, coatless and clothed only
in shirt and pants. For two nights and two
days he remained in the woods, when he ven
tured to return. His feet were frozen and he
was almost de ad from cold and exhaustion.
The man who had frightened him so was under
the influence of liquor and left to go home as
soon as the peddler ran away.
As illustrating the restlessness of the clergy
nowadays, it is stated by a correspondent of the
New York Observer, that a church in a village
not far from New York, whose pulpit has been
vacant only a few weeks, has had 120 applica
tions, and mo; e are constantly coming. Yet,
probably, this church will do as other churches
do in similar circunistances—ignore the men
.visa have presented their claims, either person
ally or through friends, and choose some man
who didn't seek the position at all.
Thf, “chestnut,” as a slang phrase, is done
with, frost-bitten, quite, and an equally mean
ingless word has been substituted. It is “dusty.”
Do you admire anything, from a stylish toilet
io a dainty dish, you are privileged so say:
“There is nothing‘dusty’about that.” On the
whole, when one takes time to consider, there is
more sense in dusty than in most fashionable
slang. A dusty object suggests one whose
freshness is despoiled. Just how the “chestnut”
was ever significant no one has yet clearly de
fined.
Liverpool, England, needed an additional
water supply, and the government went into
Wales, seventy miles away, and bought a large
valley, including the village of Llanwyddyn.
This valley is now lining filled with a body of
water five miles long and eighty-four feet deep,
it is understood that all the bouse i, the church,
two chapels, tavern and post office remain as
i hey were, and are gradually being submerged
under the collecting water that pours into the
valley Anew village has been built near by,
and all the Llanwyddyans have removed to it.
Sheep raisers In Lincoln county, Nev., have
been much troubled this fall by wildcats. They
appeared in the vicinity of Pioche and Bristol
several week sago in droves, and before the I arm
era thoufiht or any organized resistance, did
great damage. One man lost sixty five head
of sheop, another fifty, and another seventy
five. There seem to he two kinds of cats, one
small and gray, the other large and yellow and
white. They are hard to get a shot at. do their
work in the night, and It takes a mighty’good
dog to kill one. The farmers are using poiaon
with conside ruble success.
Maj. Gen. Sir Francis Wallace Grenpill,
K. C. 8., who is in command of the British
force at Suakim, has had large experience in
African warfare. He served in the Griqua
land expedition of 187.1, and against the
Kaffirs and Galekas in following years. He was
also present at the battle of Ulundl. aud was
very favorably mentioned in dispatches. More
recently Qon. Grenfell served on Lord Wolse
ley’s stair in the Tel-el-Kebir campaign, and
again in the Nile expedition. He is -if years old,
a man of handsome presence, literary tastes aud
very popular in the service.
A Montreal paper, comparing the growth
of population of the two largest Canadian cities
with that of eleven leading cities in the Uuited
States, finds that the Canadian centers of com
rnerce hold their own pretty well. It claims
that the population of Montreal has increased
from 140,000 In 1881 to 805,000 in 1888, or 46 per
cent, lu seven years, anil that Toronto can re
port an increasH of !I8 per cent, for the same pe
riod, while the most rapidly growing American
cities, Baltimore and Chicago, show an Increase
of only 68 per cent, and 48 per cent, respect
ively for the period of 1880-88.
A New Lonmin, Conn., citizen suspected that
mice were visiting hie canary bird cage, which
dungled at the end of a chain six feet from the
fi'sir, above a stand of tail, slender plants, anil
he set a six lioled trap on the bottom of the
cage Koinething hail eateu the seeds In the
bird's tiny vessels each night for a week, anil
though it was hard to believe that vermin could
seal# the lofiy |tcli. it was still more unrea
s ushlt to eiMiMvi ally oilier pilferer, fl.c nan
aaa a feint in ilie dark. <lii the morning tof
lowing tbe selling ol I lie trap Iha gent ■ma
cleverness was re asm! and with ft au and si none
lu it. Ihe thieves hod react el tbe cage by
i lliolnug the swaying plants, laeplng f. in t a
(•eidaiil tips to ils boliofn, and lion sp’ . zl g
Inartr liodias ts-tweeu the wires Tbs stand f
plants ana removed, ami thereofUn *l canal y
group tea warn safe.
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