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Morning News Building. Savannah, Ga.
TIF.-DAY. APRIL 88. 1889.
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENT?
Meetings—Oglethorpe Lodge No. 1,1. O. O. F.;
Chatham Light Infantry.
Special Notices—City Taxes, Robert J.Wade,
City Marshal; Still at the Old Place, Savannah
Bteam Laundry; State and County Tax Re
turns
Celebration or the Centennial of the In-
Augration of Washington—S., P. & W. Rail
way.
Amuses, rs—Bell's Original Royal Mari
onettes.
New Stock—At Lindsay A Morgan's.
Sum-'er Resorts—Mountain Sunset House,
Werne vville. Pa
Auction Salk—Sundries, by I. D. Laßoche A
Bon; Ten Lots on the I‘remises, by C. H.
Dorset t.
Railway Schedule—Savannah, Florida and
Western Railway.
Pianos and Orc.ans—Davis Bros.
Cheap Column Advert; rents Help
Wanted; Employment Want k 'or Rent; For
Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscella^jous.
The Philadelphia News asks, "Where is
the fool killer ?" Ha seems to be trying to
induce people to go over Niagara Falls in a
barrel, or something or other.
The colored preachers of Alabama are
becoming stirred up over the President’s
effort to exclude the colors'! people from
the offices. When the colored parsons of
the south "pass the word" down the line
something is going to happen, and don’t
you forget it!
Gen. Boulanger is about to go to London.
He gradually gets nearer to America. Per
haps he will come here after a while. Why
shouldn’t he have come over to witness the
centennial celebration in New York, since
be professes to be so partial to a republican
form of government?
To marry in Lent is not considered in
good form by New Yorkers, and to marry
in May is considered unlucky. As there are
a great many engaged couples iu that city
who do not care to postpone their wedded
bliss until June, marriages will be very
frequent from now until May 1, and the
preachers will be in clover.
Some of the republican organs say that
Mr. Blaine is feeling very small; that bo
isn’t running this administration. Mr.
Blaine is not the kind of man who would
consent to play second Addle, and if he
remains in the President’s cabinet four
years, it will probably be because he was
allowed to lead the orchestra.
A contemporary remarks that the num
ber of young people who wear glasses has
become a serious subject of remark. Just
o. Some wear them because they have
•bused their eyes, some wear them because
they think them becoming, arid some wear
them because it’s the fashion. It is not very
difficult to pick out the peoplo who have
no good reason for wearing them.
Mrs. Mona Caird, the young woman who
start and the discussion of the question, “Is
mart i ego a failure!” has written a book
bearing on the subject. It is called "The
Wing of Ezreal,” and is iu press. The inau
whom she married no doubt found marriage
• failure. A woman who is hard-hearted
enough to try to revive the discussion of
that question would not make a good wife.
Mr. Cleveland said to a reporter the other
day that there had never been a more ex
haustive, instructive and learned discussion
of any subject than that of the tariff by
the lower house of the last congress. Prob
ably he is right. Both democrats and re
publicans put forward their strongest
debaters, and it must be admitted that the
democrats came out first best in the discus
sion.
The full account of the rescue of the pas
sengers and crew of the Danmark is told in
our dispatches this morning. The steam
ship Missouri overtook the Danmark when
she was in a disa tiled condition and, the
captains of both vessels, believing that the
Danmark win still seaworthy, she under
took to tow her into a harbor. It
was soon discovered, however, that
the Danmark was badly damaged,
and would not remain ufloat long enough to
reach a port. A portion of the cargo of the
Missouri was then thrown overboard aud
the Daumark’s passengers and crew were
taken on board. The Azure, was
reached and a part of the pas
sengers and crew landed there, and
the others wore brought to this country.
There was groat uneasiness about the fnto
of the passengers and crew of the Danmark
until they were heard from, although the
belief in shipping circles was strong that
they had been rescued aud taken to the
Azores. The sequel proved they were
right. Immediately after the accident on
the Danmark there must have lxwn a great
alarm among the large number of immi
grants on board of her.
Paralyzed by the Office Seekers.
The President took occasion to say a day
or two ago that he did not think it was jnst
to base an opinion of his administration
upon what it has thus far accomplished.
This remark indicates that he is conscious
that he has not yet done anything that is
worthy of attention, and that the unfavor
able comments upon his failure to indicate
a policy with respect to any important mat
ter irritates him. When Be asked a sus
pension of judgment he said that he had
been so overrun with oflice seekers that ho
had had no time to give to questions
concerning which it is necessary to adopt a
clearly deflned policy.
There is no doubt that tho office-seekers
have given the President a good deal of
trouble. They have harassed him from
early morning until late at night, and they
have boen accompanied by men to whom
admittance could not very well be denied.
[Senators and representatives have insisted
upon a hearing for their friends, and have
not been satisfied when their requests have
been denied. When they have failed to get
what they wanted they have indulged in
threats against the administration.
The two senators who have given the
President the most trouble are Mr. Quay
and Mr. Sherman. The former, because he
conducted the presidential campaign to a
successful issue, thinks that he ought to
have places for all his friends, and the lat
ter, because he is a defeated preside atial
candidate, and also because of bis influence
in the Senate, insists tliat bis friends shall
have whatever they want. The President,
has apparently tried to satisfy both of them.
He has not succeeded, an 1 the two senators
are now making faces at each other because
one of them got for a friend of his an office
which had been half-way promised to a
friend of the other.
Some of tho senators aud representatives
have said within the last week or two that
they never before had been very much in
favor of civil service reform, but now they
hoped the civil service rules would lie ex
tended to every office below the grade of
those of the very first importance. They
are heartily tired of hunting places aud
making appeals for men who, in many
instances, have no political influence, and
are little, if any, better than political dead
beats.
The President has bean in office nearly
two months, and confreses that he has had
to give all his time to the office seekers. It
will be several months more before he will
be able to give much attention to matters
pertaining to the administration of the
government. Senators and representatives
are complaining that they have been forced
to drop their dignity and become beggars
for a share of the spoils. The administra
tion has not been able to agree upon a
policy with regard to anything because the
dividing of the spoils has occupied about all
its time. Does not this condition of affairs
present a strong argument in favor of civil
service r' torm!
This c utry is getting too big to permit
of a general change in the offices whenever
there is anew administration. The con
fession of President Harrißon that no ad
ministration can get through with the rush
of office seekers inside of six months, and
that, therefore no opinion of the merits of a
new administration should be formed within
that time, is an admission that it is. And
yet, although the President has tilled hun
dreds of oilieos, the two civil service com
missionerships are still vacant. Is the
President as sincere a man as he would like
the country to belieTe!
The County Hoada.
The Morning News has frequently
called attention to the necessity for better
roads in this county, and it has pointed out
that Savannah is greatly interested in hav
ing them, as better roads leadiug into and
out of the city would mean more farms and
more suburban residences, and conse
quently more business for our merchants.
They would also bring about a saving of
expense to the people generally.
The county commissioners, iu response to
an expressed desire on the part of grand
juriss aud of th© people generally for road
improvements, put in the tax budget for
this year $50,000 for public road purposes.
It was not supposed that the entire amount,
or, in fact, more than the half of it, would
be approved by the grand jury. It seems
that the jury has cut down the amount to
$5,000, and that it has rei>orted the county
roads as being in bad condition, and has
called upon the commissioners to hare
them improved by the county forces.
The gr&ud jury doubtless failed to give
the subject the attention it deserved. Many
of the roads, it might l>o said all of the
more important ones, require rebuilding.
Throwing soft dirt from the ditches into
tho center of the roads may constitute road
building in some localities, but, as a rule, it
does not in this county. For miles out of
the city the public roads iu this immediate
section require to bo hardened, aud that
can be done only with shells or rocks, and a
liberal appropriation is needed to carry on
the work. If the grand jury wants good
roads, it will have to approve appropria
tions sufficient for building them.
The late Frederick Marquand gave $‘350,-
000 for the erection of a Young Mon’s
Christian Association building in Brooklyn,
and James Jermaine gave $65,000 for the
erection of one in Albany, N. Y. Two
women in Wheeling, W. Y'a., united to
erect a handsome Y. M. C. A. building in
that city. Those buildings stand as m mu
ments to the generosity and philanthropy
of the persons named. The 8 * van nan
branch of the Y. M. C. A. proposes to
make an effort to raise money fir a build
ing in this city. Why shouldn't someone
of our citizens who is financially able put
the ball iu motion with a go lerous subscrip
tion? The people of Savannah ought to
oncou.age this movement. The Atlinta
branch of tho association has au SBI,OOO
building, the Richmond bra ich has one
valued at $50,000, the Norfolk branch has
one valuod at $40,000, the Selma branch ha*
one value i at SOO,OOO, and ooti in tho town
of Norwood, Ga., with 3,000 inhabitants,
there is a $3,000 Young Men's Christian
Association building. By all means the
Savannah branch should own a baud Homo
building —one that would refl >ct credit
upou the generosity of, and bo au ornament
to, the city.
'Die Athens (Tenn.) /osf, which, accord
ing to republican organs, was “the oldest
democratic newspaper in Tennessee,” his
“flopped.” It has gone over to the repub
lican*, alleging several things to justify its
course, but it is not candi 1 enough to admit
that a possible government position was the
chief allurement. A democrat here ami
there deserts his party for Gen, Harrison’*
southern Republican party, aud nobody it
going to complain. Those who desert can
be spared, aud the democrat-) will CJiitiuuo
to livid the fort in the south.
THE MORNING NEWS.- TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1889.
Give Him His Due.
The effort to make Postmaster General
Wanam-ikcT responsible for the circular
sent to postmasters throughout the country
by Wanamaker & Brown, of Philadelphia,
asking them to and ‘voto a part of their time
to selling clothing for Wanamaker &
Brown, is hardly jus t. It is explained that
the Postmaster General is interested in the
firm only to the extent of a few thousand
dollars of the firm’s stock and has no part
whatever in its managemont. It seems
that he did not even know that the circular
in question was to be sent to postmasters.
The first kuowled'e he had of the matter
he received through the public prints.
It is charged by some of the newspapers
that he was trying to use the postmasters to
advance his private business. If he had had
any such purpose be would have sought th e
aid of the postmasters for his own trousers
factory. His factory in Philadelphia is
about as extensive as that of Wanamaker
& Brown. The fact tbat he did not attempt
to influence the postmasters in his own
behalf, is pretty conclusive evidence that he
had nothing to do with the circular which
has been the meaus of starting a very in
teresting scandal.
A public officer should be closely watched
by the public aud should be called to ac
count for aly wrong doing, or for any
thing that does not look like straightfor
ward and honorable conduct, but it is not
fair to attempt to bring hiui into disrepute
without a reasonable cause. It is not im
probable that Wanamakor & Brown ex
pected that the name of Wanamaker iu
thoir circulars would induce the postmasters
to lie anxious to go into the clothing busi
ness, and their conduct is, therefore, to be
condemned. As honorable merchants they
ought to have stated that Wahainaker, of
Wanamaker & Brown, was not the Post
master General.
If Postmaster General Wanamaker gives
the country a good Dost&l servioe he will
not be held responsible for the acts of
Wanamaker & Brown. The scandals he
has to fear are those which may grow out
of his management of the postoffice depart
ment, and not those which are based on
efforts of others to trade on his name.
A Good Suggestion.
In his report of the Samoan disaster
Admiral Kimberly makes a suggestion that
ought to be acted upon favorably by this
government. It is that those of the Samo
ans who did all that it was possible for them
to do to save the lives of those on the
wrecked vessels should be rewarded in a
substantial manner. It may be that tho
brave fellows who risked their lives to save
those of others do not expect any reward,
but that is no reason that one should not be
offered them.
No doubt Germany will join this country
in recogniziug the assistance which the Sa
moans rendered Ge -nans luring the dis
astrous storm. Notv ithsta. 1 ig the fact
that the Samoans regarded the Germans as
their enemies they exerted themselves to
the utmost to save the lives of those of them
who were in peril. Mataafa, who is by this
country recognized as the king of Samoa,
but whom the Germans have refused to
recognize, came himself to the beach dur
ing the storm and directed the operations
for saving life. After the storm both
Americans and Germans were cared for by
the Samoans to the best of their ability.
They offered to give up their houses to the
shipwrecked people, and they brought to
them such articles of food as thoir island
produces.
Of course the administration can do very
little in the way of showing an appreciation
of the kindness of the Samaons, but it cau
call the attention of congress to the matter
and urge that they shall receive some com
pensation for the services which they ren
dered. Germany has especial causa for
being grateful to the Samoans, because she
had no reason to look for exhibitions of
kindness from them. Her ships were in
Samoau waters for the purpose of forcing
the Samoans to yield to her will. Perhaps
the course of the Samoans on the occasion
of the disaster will cause Germany to be
more ready to concede to them their rights.
Make the Appropriation.
It is quite safe to say that if the Florida
legislature appropriates the to,ooo asked for
to maintain the Florida exhibit at the Paris
exposition it will not make a mistake. The
sum is not large, and there is no doubt that
the exhibit will do the state a groat deal of
good.
Florida owes much of her prosperity
to the liberality with which she has
advertised her advantages. Thousands of
people have sought homes within her limits,
and other thousands have invested in her
towns aud lands, because their attention
was attracted to her by the enterprise
which she showed in making known tho
sources of her wealth and the magnitude of
her resources.
Of course it is understood that tho appro
priation is not wanted to collect articles for
an exhibit. Tho exhibit is already collected,
ami is now in Paris. The commissioners
who wore appointed months ago have done
their work faithfully and well, Ttiey took
the best there was at the different exhibi
tions winch have been held in Florida lately,
and shaped them into an exhibit which is
said to be one of which any Floridian would
be proud.
It will cost somethiug to put this exhibit
in place aud look after it duriug the exposi
tion. There are alio some additions to be
made to it. After all the expenses are inet,
the balance of the appropriation can be re
turned to the treasury. The amouut asked
for, however, is so small that there is not
much probability that there will be a bal
ance. Florida caunot well afford to miss
this chance of showing the world how grunt
her natural wealth Is.
A London cablegram says that the re
cently increased immigration to this coun
try is due mainly to the collapse of th)
South American emigration boom. Hun
dreds of people left South America daily,
saying that they could not live in that ojui
try, and many of them have come to the
United States, and their statements have
caused others to coma h ire lnste i 1 of going
to South America. The opening to set
tlement of the Oklahoma country is
sail also to have iuducod quite a
number of people to coins here. Of
course when they arrivod, and found tnat
the inte .ded settlers already numbered
many thousand* more than could secure
‘•claims,” they realised that they had made
a mistake.
Ex-Postmaster General James is tho not
ing postmaster of New York, aid will be
until Mr. Van Cott assumes the duties of
the position. If President Harrison hal
cared a* much übout tilling the office with
an efficient suceossor to Mr. Pearaou a* ho
did about tilling it with machine politi
cian, Mr. James might have gotten the
appointment that Mr. Van Cott secured.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Some of the Disappointed.
From the Bosfo t Globe ( Dem .)
The colored republicans of the south and the
German republicans of the west are pretty
nearly unanimous in voting this administration
a failure. Neither class has so much as had a
smell of anything in the shape of an office.
Southern Mllla Won’t Shut Down.
From the Boston Herald (fnd.)
Either people must use more cotton goods or
some of tne factories in the country must shut
down. It is said that the state of Georgia alone
has fl'ty-flve cotton milts, and that the city of
Augusta contains thirteen cotton manufacturing
plants, which represent five aud a half millions
of capital.
The Sly Boodler.
From the New York World (Dem.)
It was claimed when John Wanamaker
bought and received a cabinet place that he
would use it as a "business man’* in promoting
his private interest. The circular of Wana
maker A Brown to postmasters is a clear indi
cation of the view taken of the postmaster gen
eralship by other representatives of this strictly
business family.
Let Us Alone, Won't You?
From the New Orleans Picayune iDem A
The southern problem must be left to its own
people to work out according to the best lights
before them and as the obvious necessities
which may appear at each 6tage of the develop
ment shall demand. The mariner must battle
with the wind and waves as they come and meet
each emergency as it occurs, acting always
upon his judgment as to woat Is best to be
done, and having constantly uppermost in his
mind the safety of his ship and the interests of
its owners. This in tho condition in which the
Leak men of the southern states find themselves.
They must be left unshackled to do the work of
developing the moral and material health and
prosperity of their people.
BRIGHT BIT3.
A Desperate Extremity. —"What the deuce
makes Oldbore continually talk to himself?"
“Can't get any one else to lrsten to him, I
suppose.”
Feeling His Way.—Hennepekke (who has
rung the bell of hi.- own house;—ls my mother
in-law in or out. Bridget?
Bridget—Out, sir.
He enters.
At the Club.—Bylk—Funny what queer
dreams a fellow has, isn't it?
Sukker—Why, have you dreamt that you paid
me what you owed me?
Bylk—No, dreamt you lent me more.
The Secret Opt.—“lt always did puzzle me
to see how these astronomers can foretell
eclipses sq long before thev happen."
“Bure, that's aisy enough. All they have to
do is to borry somebody's almanac. '—Chicago
lYibune.
No Shamming There.— Bagley—l understand
your wife is sick.
Bailey—Yes, she hasn't spoken a word for
three days.
Bagley—By gracious! She must be a pretty
sick woman.— The Epoch.
Time Brings Wisdom.— Jack Borrowit (furi
ously)—To think of it! There's Twitcbell. my
friend of five years, refused me a paltry $lO loan
this morning.
Lambrequin—Maybe that's because he's
known.you for five years.— Life.
It Was Time to Pay Tlis Bills. —Goldsmith—
Mr. SAiart, why arc you like a large caliber can
non when you leave my store?
Smart—l don’t know. I give it up.
Goldsmith—Because you always go off with a
heavy char ge.—Jewelers' Weekly.
A Case in Point.—Uncle Tom—Got anything
to do to-morrow, Jack?
Jack —Yes; I've got to go downtown to try a
case.
Uncle Tom- Then you've got a client at last?
Jack—Oh. this cas > isn't in court; it's at a
wine merchant's.—Life.
Just before his death, a inan in New Haven
ordered a sum of money to be laid out in beer
for the mourners at his funeral, thus departing
from life and the usual order of things at the
same time. Generally the bier is laid out for
the corpse, but in this case the corpse was laid
out for the beer.— Baltimore American.
An Escaped Lunatic.- A Kentucky gentle
maa awoke one night to find a masked burglar
with a loaded pistol standing at his bedside “I
want money or your life.''
“Idiot! Do you suppose I’d be here if I had
money? Don't you know I’d be at the Gently
Dreaming saloon enjoying myself if I had
money? Go back to the asylum!’’— Texas Sift
ings.
Husband—My dear, these trousers are frayed
at the bottom.
Wife—They are the best you've got, John,
except your dress trousers.
Husband—Well, give them to me. I have an
important interview on hand to-day, in which 1
expect to be at different times proud, haughty,
indifferent, dignified, and perhaps a trifle
disdainful. A inau can’t be all that successfully
with fringe on tho bottoms of his trousers,—
Harper's Bazar.
There Is a disposition on the part of a few
few mudsills to magnify the little incident
which occurred at the postoffice last Tuesday
evening. Last week we referred to Col.
Crocker as a thief. We were wrong. He was
arrested in Illinois for arson and jumped his
bail. He met us in the postoffice and knocked
us down. While down, we explained that we
were in error, and he apologized and helped
brush the dirt off our clothes. That's all there
was to it—one of the trifling incidents of
every-day life—and that class who are seeking
to exaggerate the facts will make nothing by
it. When we call an incendiary a thief—a
robber, an absconder—a bigamist, au embez
zler, we shall apologize every time. There is
no reason why an editor shouldn’t also be a
gentleman. —Arizona Kicker.
PERSONAL.
John F. Swift, the new minister to Japan,
will leave San Fraucisco for his post to-day.
Col. Hugh McCalmont is the most experi
enced cavalry officer in the British service. He
has served iu eight campaigns.
Chauncey M. Depew never writes a speech,
but usually spends a few moments iu reflecting
on his subject, jotting down a few headings iu
tho process.
Ethel Griggs, a Gorman woman, says she
can whistle Mrs. Shaw into a shameful silence
iu exactly thirty minutes, and she threatens to
come over before long and do it. She is a hand
some woman, althoug i of a ponderous build,
and she has been warbling ever siuce she was a
child.
S. C. Footf.. a wealthy mine owner of Lake
City, Col., while suffering from alcoholic delir
ium, wandered into the mountains April 27,
1883. A reward of $.*>,00.) was offered for his re
covery, but he was never heard of till one day
last week, when his skeleton was found in .i
lonely sj>ot on the summit of an unfrequented
mountain.
Senator Ingalls is extremely careful in his
attire. Ills black frock coat is always tightly
buttoned, an 1 from his breast pocket a silk
handkerchief of brilliant hue may usually lie
seen peeping. Ingalls ha* a passion for bright
colors, and has been heard to lam * :t the disap
pearance of brocaded and embroidered ar
moots from tho masculine wardrolie.
Georgs William Curtis, although still con
fined to his home at Lexingtnu. S. 1 . by bis dis
abled leg, is so much improved t bat he expects
to be able to resume walking within a mont h.
Mr. (’urtis sprained his left leg while playing
teunlM last, summer. The accident was followed
by a serious a faction of tLe knee joint. Since
then he ha* not been to New York city once.
Charles Savahy, who was once known as "the
mathematician of Wall street," died from pntm*
m >nta at Bangor. Me.,on Wednee lay The title
was bestowed upon him because of his dexterity
with figure* mid the fact that he could ivali/. i
immense profits on paper from nnv
he conceived. Years ago be was worth a million,
but he lost it all. Since his failure bo has lived
a secluded life at Bangor.
Maria. Marchion •** of .\llenhttry, who has
jim celebrated her Ttttli birth.iay. married tho
first marquis as hi* second wife in is:j s. and is
the first or an almost, if uof quite, unique trio
in the peerage of widows, as the widows of the
second and third holders of the title are still
living. "Lady A," as she is familiarly ad
dressed in society, is on** of the most jsipulnr
women in the "court set,' and ts invariably mie
of thosi invited to meet royal guests at a
country house. She is a typical example of
the grande da neoft.be earlier school, whoa
society was not so easily opened to the success
ful adventurer or the piquant© actress. To
dignified maimers she adds tho attraction of
leing a brilliant and amusing talker. She is a
uotlcealve figure in any assemble re. for ii* t
only i* ah.* v ry tall aud erect, carrying herself
wii \ an ease am! grace that many a woman a
third her age might envy, but she wears a
quantity of fair brown hair dressed at the aide*
of tier head in a fashion peculiarly her own.
She is the possessor of *om splendid emeralds
and drosses very effectively. iMwplte her age,
she i*. when stay mg In the country, au energetic
walker.
Ladies nre greatly benefited by the use
of Angostura Hitter*, tho South American
tonic of Ur. J. G. B. Siegort & Sons. As k
your druggist.
WASHINGTON’S “WISHING TREE.”
Blushing Maidens Touch It aDd Whis
per Their Fondest Hopes.
From the New Yarn World.
Washington, April 2\ —A beautiful young
girl, evidently from a distance, walked timidly
into the vestibule of the white house yesterday
and blush ingly put this question to the usher:
•‘Please, sir. can you tell me where the Wishing
Tree is situated?"
For an instant the usher was in a quandary,
but in the course of a brief conversation ascer
tained that the visitor was in earnest. Some
one had told her that there was a tree in a direct
line from the white house, and in front of Jack
son's statue, which susceptible maidens were in
the habit of touching and making a wish as they
did so.
Close scrutiny of the neighborhood shows
that such a tree exists. The meridian of Wash
ington runs through the center of the white
bouse, and in the grounds near the Washington
monument there was until a comparatively
recent period an old sandstone column, proba
bly three feet in hight, known as the rneri lian
st >ne. The Washington tree stands directly
oc the meridian line in front of Jackson's horse,
which is so conspicuous an object as one looks
north from the white house windows. Accord
ing to the young lady, if the wish is a proper
one it is sure to be granted after the magic tree
is touched, and the bark shows evidence of nu
merous visits by the fair sex who desire to
tempt fate.
| Probably this tree will become popular with
the sterner sex, now that its properties are
known and its location determined, especially
with many weary patriots seeking official dis
tinction at the hands of the President and Sec
retary Blaine. The secret is out. and pilgrims
will now come and touch that tree as they go to
KBlarney to kiss the blarney stone.
The Masked Ball in Nice.
Prom the Philadelphia Timex.
Thursday night we went to the veglione, or
masked ball, at the Municipal theater, and it
was decidedly gay. Everybody was there, from
royalty down, and having pretty lively times,
secure from recognition in mask and domino.
It is not every day one can lose one's person
ality, so when a golden opportunity like this
presents itself one must be stupid indeed not to
make the most of it. Pray don't fancy for a
moment that the ball was not perfectly correct:
it was, it was—there were yards upon yards of
titles; isn't that proof conclusive’/ The toilettes
were simply gorgeous—what difference does it
make i p some of them seemed designed to reveal
not conceal ‘‘the human form divine"—what
signify the embraces that were not timed to
music—the couples surprised in interesting tete
a-tete on the stair s or those who did not seek
even that much seclusion, but took their kisses
ojienly in the ball-room—mere nothings, airy
trifles, my dear. I assure you this bail was con
sidered quite the correct thing to go to, and
everybody went, English and Americans in
cluded, and they did not go only to look on,
either, much as they would have you think so.
it really is funny to hear the two Misses B ,
who are invariably wall flowers at ordinary
parties where they don't wear masks, tell of the
“perfectly lovely times" they have at these
balls, of which they don't miss a single one. I
guess the poor things never had so much run
before in all their lives. You know wall flowers
are not even possibilities at these entertain
ments, for the simple reason that if the men do
not invite the girls to dance, the girls ask them,
or jig about merrily alone. There was one
quadrille danced by o party dressed as clowns,
who turned somersaults and danced altogetner
quite as much on their heads as on their heels.
We loft soon after that, but I hear that the ball
lasted till daylight, and the}’ do Bay that Lord
S had his hat picked off toward 5 o'clock in
the morning. Ideally, you know, my curiosity
is aroused to know what the masked balis that
are not correct are like?
A Country School.
From the Omaha Herald.
Pretty and pale and tired
She sits in her stiff-backed chair,
While the blazing summer sun
Shines in on her soft brown hair,
And the tiny brook without.
To at she hears through the open door,
Mocks with its murmur cool
Hard bench and dusty floor,
It seems such an endless round—
Grammar and A, B, C,
The black boa. J and the sums,
Tne stupid geography:
When from teacher to little Jem
Not one of them cares a straw,
When “.John'’ is in any "case,"
Or Kansas in < )inaha.
But Jemmie s bare brown feet
Are aching to wade in the stream,
Where the trout to his luring bait
Shall leap with a quick bright gleam;
And his teacher's blue eyes stray
To the flowers or. the desk hard by,
Till her thoughts have followed her eyes
With a half unconscious sigh.
Her heart outruns the clock,
A6 she smells their faint sweet scent;
But when have time and heart
Their measure in unison bent?
For time will haste or lag,
Like your shadow on the grass.
That lingers far behind,
Or flies when you fain would pass.
Have patience, restless Jem,
Theßtream and the flsh will wait;
And patience, tirei blue eyes—
Down the winding road by the gate,
Under the willow shade,
Stands someone with fresher flowers;
80 turn to your books again,
And keep love for the after hours.
An Unfortunate Mistake.
From the Youth's Companion.
A laughable but embarrassiug case of mis
taken identity occurred here the othe other day
in one of Boston's largest retail stores. A gen
tleman who is a little too fond of joking, en
tered the store for the purpose of meeting his
wife at a certain counter. Sure enough there
stood a lady dressed, to his eye. at least, just
like the woman he was after.
Her back was turned, and no one was near
her, so he quietly approached, took her by the
arm and said in a voice of simulated severity:
“ Well, here you are. spending my moneyas
usual, eh?"
The face turned quickly toward him was not
his wife's; it was that of an acrid, ungry, keen
eyed woman of about 50 years, w'bo attracted
the attention of everybody in that part of the
store by saying, in a loud, shrill voice:
“No, I ain’t spending your money, or no
other man's money, and I'll—"
"I beg .your pardon, madam," cried the con
fused gentlemau. "I supposed you were my
wife, and—"
"Well. I just ain't your wife, nor no other
man's wife, thank fortune, to be jawed at every
time 1 buy a yard of ribbon! I pity your wife
if you go round shaking her like you did me.
If I was her I'd—"
The chagrined joker waited to hear no more,
but made his way out of the shop amid the
titters uti l sly chuckles of those who had wit
nessed Ins contusion.
Finest Cigars liver Made.
Fro o the New York World.
The trouble over the superb lot of cigars
which Ward McAllister ordered from Havana,
and which were destined for the centennial ban
quet, has be n satisfactorily adjusted. In other
words, the whole thing will ena in smoke. The
cigars were to have b *e iI,6H) in number and
w ore to have been tlio tinest ever manufactured.
The cigars manufactured for W. K. Vanderbilt,
ami known as the Alba, were the model. Two
thusaud were gotten up instead of 1,600,
and it is related by returning travelers
from (Yuba who have inspected the Cuban
cigar manufactures during the | wist t wo mouths
that thu lot of cigars was exhibited to every
visitor as something worth seeing, and as des
tined for the great American centennial. The
lull for the 1.000 dears was SOOO, and when the
trouble arose inside the entertainment commit
tee the chairman of that committee was in
clined to repudiate the contract. As soon as
the situation was understood by home of the
c* ii'ioiss*urs among cigar smokers in the city
numerous offers to take the cigars off the com
mittee's hands w ere made several offers at an
advance over the contract price and the
natural and human result was that the commit
tee grabbed the entire 2.0(H) and said there were
none to soil.
It Had No Terrors for Him.
From the Chicago Tribune ,
"So this is my claim. Is it f* mused the new
comer. "My good man. I don't wish to put
you to any trouble, but you're on my patob of
gr mud."
"I am. hey?" said the fierce looking Okln
homa squatter. ‘My friend, d'ye see that iu
closure off thar the other side of tne cabin?
Well, that's my private huryin' ground, an it's
full o' fell *rs that thought they ned a claim on
this ranch. '
“ I see it," replied the visitor, carelessly,
"and it doesn't scare me any. I umpired ten
base hull games in Detroit last year.’’ he added,
with a capacious yawn.
For heaveu's sa-ie. mister'" exclaimed the
squatter, his face turning frightfully pale and
his kneoa knocking together, "give me five
minutes to pack up my traps and light out."
"Cau’t oat a thing.” Hood’s Narsaprilla
is a wonderful medicine for creating an ap
petite, regulating digestion, and giving
, strength.
ITEMS OF INTERE3T.
A weather prophft of Somerset county an
nounce* that there will be a snow storm in May
and several heavy frosts in June.
A low, broad shoe HEEL is best, for children's
wear, in the opinion of the Shoe and Leather
Reporter. Spring heels flatten and lengthen
the foot, and mothers are awakening to that
fact.
John Shane had his red mustache dyed a
beautiful black in a Cincinnati barber shop two
months ago, but now he has none at all. His
lips were poisoned and are being slowly eaten
away.
Mr. Boher and Miss Casenius had a license
and were nearing a Dreacher's house in Bedford,
Pa . a few nights since, when the lady's heart
failed her, she dropped his arm, and took flight
for her home.
Isaac Keim of Reading has the fur of the
largest fox ever killed on the Blue mountains.
The length, with tail, is over four feet. The fur
shows that the animal was a cross between the
red and gray foxes.
A bull doo which was sent out to find a child
that had wandered from its home, near Reno,
Nevada, proved successful in th- search. The
little one was discovered some miles from town,
in a dense thicket of sage brush.
Edward E. Littell of Cass county, Michigan,
is 100 years old, has been thres times a widower,
is the father of twenty-three, and counts his
descendants by the hundred. He is as hearty
and as active as a man of 00. He served in the
war of 1812.
The annual brass band contest in the north
ern counties of England is about to b gin.
Hundreds of brass bands will compete. The
workingmen of Yorkshire and Lancashire prac
tice steadily during their leisure hours, and
make immense efforts to win the prizes.
A young man living near Sharonville, 0., who
tried to frighten a companion by "dressing up
as a ghost" only got his face damaged for his
pains. The youtu whom he had intended to
scare took up a large stone on seeing the spirit
approach, and struck the latter full in the nose.
The oldest war house is not dead, after all.
It is alive at the age of 34, and is owned by A.
W. Barrett of Stewartsville, lud. This animal
is a mare, known as "Old Fly." She went into
the war in July, lßt>l, and served until Septem
ber, 1864. She was in several big battles and
numerous skirmishes.
It is related that at a recent meeting in
Vermont of a pension examining board, twin
brothers from Castletou presented themselves
for examination. The claims were original and
for ti e same disability, the brothers were the
same hight and weight, and were enlisted in
the same company ami regiment. This was the
first instance of the kind in the history of the
board.
An Indian woman who w’as twice divorced
from one man disappeared after the second
separation, and he heard nothing from her
until this week, when she appeared at his home
iu Peru and asked permission to be married in
his parlor to a man who accompanied her.
Consent, was given, and the couple were united
with husband No. 1 and his second wife as wit
nesses.
While Farmer Van Dyke, of Muncy Hills,
near Williamsport, w r as plowing n few days ago
ho dropped his pocketbook containing S6OO. It
fell into the furrow, and on the next trip he
made around the field It was plowed under.
Since the discovery of his loss the distracted
farmer has been replowing the field over and
over in the hope bf turning up his lost property,
but up to the present time he has not been suc
cessful.
A curious discovery, says an English ex
change, has been made at the Cathays yard of
the Taff Vale Railway Company. A large elm
tree, grown in Gloucestershire, was being cut
up into timber when right in the very heart a
cavity measuring 8 feet long by 7>£ inches in
diameter was discovered almost completely
filled with the comb of the honey bee, together
with a squirrel's skull. No means of access to
the hollow was discoverable.
A personal friend of Tamberlik, the famous
tenor, sends to a London newspap* r the fol
lowing story of an incident whic h 1 appened at
Madrid, where the artist lived for t ie last 12
or 13 years: "One morning we were walking
through the bird market, when suddenly lie
drew a bank note for a thousand francs from
his pocket, bought up all the little creatures,
opened the cages, and shouted laughingly as
the birds flew up into the air, ‘Go and be tree,
my brothers!’’ "
Another gras&: opper scourge is feared by
farmers around Firgus Falls, Minn. A. C.
Hatch of Battle Lake, who took an active part
last year iu fighting the pests, has been making
investigations, and says that, “While rna iy
fields are free from the eggs, others contain
enough to destroy everything." Gov. Merriam
has been notified, and he has requested Oapt.
Chase, chairman of the Otter T;-il county com
missioners, to goto St. Paul and see what can
be done to prevent the hoppers from spreading.
Dennysville, way down on the Eastern
Maine coast, is one of those ‘‘old towns with a
history." The town has no debt; the village
has not had a d.veiling house, barn, store,
church or school house destroyed by fire for
more than eighty years, and at the late town
meeting Peter E. Vose, Esq., was re-elected
selectman and treasurer, after a service of
twenty-seven years in the former and twenty
three years in the latter position. During all
these years no jierson but Mr. Vose had ever
written a word or made a figure in any town
boo* (excepting the town clerk s book) or drawn
an order.
An old man, whose hair was as white as snow,
and who looked as if he had been personally
acquainted with George Washington, accom
panied by a blooming female companion who
had seen 62 winters pass over her heod, walked
up to Esquire I*. N. Rountree at Nashville, 111.,
and asked nim if he were a justice of the peace.
Upon his answering in the affirmative, he said
they wanted to get spliced, and they wanted the
job dune immediately, which was promptly
done. The groom was Mr. William A. Aldrich,
aged 70, and the blushing bride was Mrs. Cath
arine Ilartiine, who is just 62. They were as
happy as two young ducks, when the ceremony
was concluded, and went their way rejoicing,
Their home is in Ashley.
Much credit, writes a Madrid correspondent,
is due to the liberal government for a hill which
the minister of the interior will submit to par
liament this session. Its object is to suppress
several flagrant abuses connected with the em
ployment of children of both sexes in mills,
factories and mines. The bill further enacts
that no child under 9 years of age shall be em
ployed at all and no child under 13 in mines,
mills or factories of explosives, and that all
children under 17 years admitted in anv em
ployment are to lie vaccinated The maximum
of work fixed b}’ the bill for children from 9 to
13 years old is five hours daily, and for children
from 13 t<_> 17 eight hours, but nevermore than
four hours at a time. The bill absolutely pro
hibits the employment of jiersoiiß under 17
years of age in any public mertainments or in
acrobatic shows and circuses. Provision is
made in the bill for forcing parents and em
ployers to send children to school and to even
ing classes.
The troubles of the Crook family of restau
rant keejiers are talked of by thousaudg of New
Yorkers, says the New York Sun. Samuel fl.
Crook, sometimes called "the governor." is the
oldest survivor of the family, and as he is con
siderably over .0 years of age. and somewhat
feeble, the business and domestic troubles of
his family are te.ling upon him. Gov. Crook
lost his wife many years ago, but his hoart went
out to "young Sam." The old man kept a fa
mous restaurant in Chatham street. It was by
long od Is tne neatest, clanost, and handsomest
restaurant in the street. It eclipsed many
establishments i*i Broadway. ‘‘Young Banr’
Inscame the husband of a young woman who
had earned her own living, and in the peaceful
enjoyments of the annual celebration of Gov.
Crook's b.rthday Police Inspect >r Ale xander S.
Williams and Police Oiptain William H. Ciinchv
met the young ladies whom they afterward
married. The governor was a widower. Ho
fell in love with a young girl. Then grief had
its sway in the family. Business was neg
lected. the restaurant was sold, the young
wife of tne governor seemed to have disap
peartd. and the governor turned over his pos
sessions to "young Sam." A saloon was opened
in Center st reet. Young Sam became the vic
tim of consumption and died in the south. The
governor tried to recover the saloon from young
Sam’s widow. There was much litigation and
the widow hold the fort. A few weeks ago the
widow died, leaving a son 13 years ol ago. He
was a fair haired, beautiful little b<>v when the
governor kept tne restaurant in Chatham street.
After his mother's death her father had him
sent to tue Catholic protectory, saying that he
wnsa wicked lad. Theb -y had fallen heir to
the property which his mother claimed to own.
Almost at the same time that the governor be
gan proceeilings to havo his grandchild lib
erated frofh the Catholic protectory his brother,
John 11. Crook, once the partner of John Duff,
who was carried to the grave a few days a
died <>f coiauraptlon lat kindly, goner U
old Gov. Crook has had his share of trouble
nobody who knows him will deny.
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